| Sufjan Stevens – The Seer's Tower Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Joseph Smith. The Seer. We've heard quite a bit about him this last year(his 200th birthday.) He's the Prophet who founded what's now the LDS, 'Mormon' Church. He, and all the Saints, moved to Illinois, chased by their countrymen, hunted, murdered, and worse. They raised a Temple in Kirtland and then Nauvoo, both in Illinois, but Joseph never got to see the final Temple in Nauvoo, before he was gunned down, in Carthage Illinois. He was a visionary, and more. A man FAR beyond his time. The believers consider him a Prophet, no less so than Moses or Abraham, and today many more regard him as thus. He saw the end, wrote about where this life started, and where it would end, the truth of man's relationship with God, and wondered why He and 'the Saints' were persecuted and driven, betrayed, BY THEIR OWN COUNTRY, out of the states and into the far territories. The Religion he shared, both then and now, has oft been the cause of separation of brother from brother. Betrayed by their country, at the time, but as they felt, honored and held by God, Heavenly Father, as those of they faith refer to God. Joseph the Seer. In 2004 the State of Illinois issued an official apology to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's very much a part of their History, and a powerful part of the history of the LDS Church. I see it fitting, and clear, among other things, that he included such a long-reaching, though relatively unseen, both inspirational and tragic, moment of the United States History. | |
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