Ep 181 – Green Mountain Masons

On this episode, times are tough in Nauvoo. From fights against the anti-Mormons in Carthage to financial strain pressuring everybody in the Kingdom on the Mississippi, Mormon leadership is looking for possible solutions to increasing debt crushing Jo and the whole community. They decided the Nauvoo Temple was the most financially viable solution to return initial investment causes, which pushed all other city projects back years. Joseph Smith decides to call on the Green Mountain Boys militia to help the Nauvoo Legion in a campaign to make Missouri answer for her crimes.

Check out the Smith-entheogen paper in Journal of Psychedelic Studies here: https://www.academia.edu/40786304/The_entheogenic_origins_of_Mormonism_A_working_hypothesis

Links:

Letter to Green Mountain Boys http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sign1844.htm

Yelrom settlement http://mormonhistoricsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/NJ11.1_Historic-Sites.pdf

Isaac Morley https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/isaac-morley

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