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Essays

Essays

Reflections on the book, on love, and on the work of gathering.

Wheat and Tares

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The tares are lies, not people — sown into the field of the heart while we sleep, and growing up tangled with the wheat. These essays learn to read a seed by the way the soul moves when it lands, to hear the counterfeit’s accent, and to trust the two-edged word that can part a lie from the soul it grew in without wounding the heart that held it.

The Fulness of the Gospel

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The new and everlasting covenant is the fulness of the gospel — and the fulness turns out to be a marriage. These essays follow the whole arc: the vessel made at the font and filled with fire, the covenant wine guarded from staleness and counterfeit, the wedding revealed, the promises borne through the children, and the daily work of living it faithfully inside imperfect religion.

Rending the Veil

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The veil is a condition of the seer, not a barrier of the seen — and it was rent from the top before any of us began to walk. Reading Revelation’s seven letters as a single ascent, these essays climb the stations of an approach — first love, myrrh, the new name, the morning star, the garment, the open door, the knock — to the wedding day, where the veil is not removed but glorified.

One Heart and One Mind

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Zion is defined in a single verse — of one heart and one mind, dwelling in righteousness, with no poor among them — and these essays read it as anatomy rather than aspiration. They trace how the many become one: the stone heart made flesh, the body with one circulation and one Head, the loaf broken so its grains can join, hearts knit loop to loop, each soul tuned to Christ rather than to the neighbor beside it — until the two Zions, approaching one another since Enoch, fall at last on each other’s necks.

The Order of the City

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The Doctrine and Covenants read as Zion's floor plan: the church's ordinary architecture — stakes and wards, offices and watches, blueprint and charter — as the civic body of a city being built to descend, where the vacant offices are receivable goods waiting on the body, not the podium.

The Plan of Salvation

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The plan told as one story: the council where a beautiful counterfeit offered compulsion in the shape of safety, the Atonement where Truth answered the sum of all lies through two presses, and the mortal probation whose lengthened days are the conservatory where knowing is welded into flesh.

One Fold, One Shepherd

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The fulness surveyed as it survives in fragments across the world's traditions — theosis, the phantom city, the field of seeds, the Word sown in every soil — under one Sower's charter to seed every field and one Shepherd's promise of one fold, gathered together in one.

The Things That Rise With Us

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What passes through death? These essays weigh the estate that transfers — truth as the only building material that lasts, and attained intelligence sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise into forgetting creatures — the storm at the end auditing materials, not punishing.

The Divine Feminine

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The feminine register of the divine — named in scripture's own grammar and welded always to the masculine it completes: Wisdom setting her table in Section 89, the Spirit brooding over the deep, the hen's gathering wing, Eve preaching the first human sermon, the earth crying out as the mother of men, Ruth the one certified woman of valor. Truth is the bone, grace the marrow, charity the living body. Where scripture speaks, these essays expound at full depth; where it keeps silence — above all concerning our Mother in Heaven — they point at the door and describe nothing, demonstrating her register rather than drafting her biography.

Zion

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Zion is the Lord’s own name for a city of refuge. These essays stand in its courtroom, where the same mouth can be accuser or advocate, and recover the mercy the law built for the manslayer: that righteous judgment reads seeds while unrighteous judgment harvests souls — and that judgment belongs to the wounded.

The Priesthood

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The priesthood was never lost — only the remembering was. Beginning with the sons of Habaiah, whose lineage was real but unprovable, these essays trace authority as the re-synchronizing of earth’s torn record with heaven’s intact one: rights exercised through rites, the ratifying seal of the Holy Spirit of Promise, the seer’s stone, and the long grinding that shapes a lens.

The New and Everlasting Covenant

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How does an external law become internal life? This essay traces the migration — softening before inscription, every ordinance a Liahona still in the hand yet already powered from within, the buried swords of a people who wrote their covenant into the ground because their hearts had wholly received it: form as the trellis a living vine climbs, never the vine itself.

Plain and Precious

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The Book of Mormon's own claim — the restoration of “the plain and most precious parts of the gospel of the Lamb” that were kept back and taken away (1 Nephi 13) — taken at full seriousness and demonstrated truth by truth. Each essay walks one doctrine from the Bible's standing field to the Book of Mormon's plain harvest in four movements: the truth stated, the standing grain of the Old and New Testaments, the plain harvest of the Book of Mormon, and the truth at the table. Companion to the Plain and Precious podcast; the field was white already.

The Three Trees

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A triptych: the biography of one tree across the whole plan of salvation — the tree in the garden where the family fell, the tree on the hill where the Redeemer was lifted, and the tree in the city whose leaves heal the nations. The adversary's whole story is told by where the serpent stands relative to the tree — coiled on it in the garden, displayed on it at the cross, bound away from it in the city — until the clasp at the last tree: “And there shall be no more curse.”

Revelation

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The book of Revelation unsealed through its own patterns, with the divine feminine at the center: Revelation 12's woman read as the plan of salvation, the sevens and their stations, the candlesticks of the seven churches, Jezebel and the two mothers of Thyatira, and the arithmetic of 666 — the man never without the woman, the two who are one.

The Order of God

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A trilogy on the sequence God's covenants keep — obedience before understanding, sacrifice before explanation, the Spirit after the offering: what Cain got wrong, what the fire actually does, the rock the Lord builds on, and what makes a place holy.

The Rest

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The Sabbath as more than a day set aside — the seventh day as a wedding, the marriage of the masculine and feminine, and the yoke that turns out to be rest: “Take my yoke upon you… and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”

Generating Faith and Hope

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What it means to pass away, and what passes on — “this generation shall not pass” read as covenant, how the two priesthoods inherit through lineage and likeness, and death itself as a condescension: saviours on Mount Zion, the font beneath the floor, and the ministry to the dead.

Restoration Cosmology

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The Restoration's material vision of spirit and matter — there is no immaterial matter; all spirit is substance, and light cleaveth unto light — and what that remakes about God, glory, and the physics of holiness.

The Words of the Covenant

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The Ten Commandments read as what the text twice calls them — the covenant itself: a marriage document with a ring called Sabbath, deposited under the mercy seat beneath the wings, re-mediated from stone to heart and folded into the beatitudes. Keeping the covenant is not a transaction but the portrait of the Bridegroom worn as a state of the soul — and the terms open onto proximity: the presence, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and the gathering home under the wings.