* 1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.

The Book of Alma () is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Alma is the longest of all the books of the Book of Mormon, consisting of 63 chapters.

* The Book of Mormon: The Book of Alma

It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

The Book of Mormon has a number of original and distinctive doctrinal discussions on subjects such as the fall of Adam and Eve, the nature of the Atonement, eschatology, redemption from physical and spiritual death, and the organization of the latter-day church.

The Book of Mormon is the earliest of the unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement, the denominations of which typically regard the text not only as scripture but also as a historical record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.

The Book of Mormon is divided into smaller books, titled after the individuals named as primary authors and, in most versions, divided into chapters and verses.

The church has an open canon which includes four scriptural texts: the Bible ( both Old and New Testaments ), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.

* The Book of Mormon, subtitled since 1981 " Another Testament of Jesus Christ "

* April 6, 1830-When the church was organized, the Bible and Book of Mormon were unanimously accepted as scripture.

" The church teaches that " he most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations ".

Cover page of The Book of Mormon from an original 1830 edition, by Joseph Smith, Jr. ( Image from the U. S. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Latter-day Saints consider The Book of Mormon as a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible.

Segments of the Book of Mormon provide an account of the culture, religious teachings and civilizations of groups who immigrated to the New World.

The crowning event recorded in the Book of Mormon is the personal ministry of Jesus Christ among Nephites soon after his resurrection.

The latter segments of the Book of Mormon details the destruction of these civilizations, as all were destroyed except the Lamanites.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

But the most fundamental objection he has to poets appears in the Tenth Book, and it is derived from his doctrine of ideal forms.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Danishnama-i ' Alai is called " the Book of Knowledge for ' Ala ad-Daulah ".

It should be noted that the Book of Enoch is considered apocryphal by most denominations of Christianity and all denominations of Judaism.

* There is also mention of the Analytical Engine ( or the Clockwork Ouroboros as it is also known there ) in The Book of the War, a Faction Paradox anthology edited by Lawrence Miles.

The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri.

In the Book of Samuel, Abner ( Hebrew אבנר " Avner " meaning " father of is a light "), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army ( 1 Samuel 14: 50, 20: 25 ).

Akkad is mentioned once in the Tanakh — Book of Genesis 10: 10: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ( KJV ).

In Book 7, Ajax is chosen by lot to meet Hector in a duel which lasts most of a whole day.

In Book 15, Hector is restored to his strength by Apollo and returns to attack the ships.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

The Book of Amos is set in a time when the people of Israel have reached a low point in their devotion to the God of Israel-the people have become greedy and have stopped following and adhering to their values.

In the Book of Exodus, Amram () Arabic عمران Imran, is the father of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam and the husband of Jochebed.

It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

* 1857 – " The Spirits Book " by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.

Using the biblical Book of Revelation as a point of departure, Caesar Antichrist presents a parallel world of extreme formal symbolism in which Christ is resurrected not as an agent of spirituality but as an agent of the Roman Empire that seeks to dominate spirituality.

Since Luke-Acts was originally a single work, it is important to note that the purpose of Acts is normally examined in conjunction with the Book of Luke.

Besides the New Testament, it has been alleged that Cathar sacred texts include The Gospel of the Secret Supper, or John's Interrogation and The Book of the Two Principles.

:" Anyone who studies Bahá ' ísm learns very soon of the volume sacred to those who profess this religion and known as " The Most Holy Book ... Yet, strange to say, although the teachings of Bahá have been widely proclaimed in Great Britain and America, only fragments of al-Kitab al-Aqdas have been translated previously into English.

Among the earliest Kurdish religious texts is the Yazidi Black Book, the sacred book of Yazidi faith.

Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.

This sacred subject carved on early Christian tombs, where the sepulchral carvings have a deeply important formal symbolic purpose, a faithful wish for immortality, " with the victory of the cock and his supporting genius analogous to the hope of resurrection, the victory of the soul over death ", with further understanding as to that of the gallantry of cocks being taken in the context of a religious instilling vessel of " a girt one of the loins "( Young's Literal Translation ) that which is " stately in his stride " and " move with stately bearing " within the Book of Proverbs 30: 29-31.

The Acaranga Sutra, or Book of Good Conduct, is a sacred book in Jainism that discusses the ascetic code of conduct.

Some commentators have linked the symbol to the Nehushtan, a sacred object consisting of a serpent wrapped around a pole mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Numbers ( Numbers 21: 6-9 ).

Some of the Slavic neopagans use the Book of Veles as their sacred text, and consequently, insist that the document is authentic.

The Kitáb-i-Íqán ( " The Book of Certitude ") is one of many books held sacred by followers of the Bahá ' í Faith ; it is their primary theological work.

The description of the clothing of the Hebrew high priest in the Book of Exodus portrays the Urim and Thummim as being put into the sacred breastplate, worn by the high priest over the Ephod.

) As Prophet, Seer and Revelator, the Prophet – President is the Community of Christ's spiritual leader and can present revelations to the church to be added to the Doctrine and Covenants — an open canon of scripture, which stands with the Bible and the Book of Mormon as sacred text.

Now, having used up much of the footage originally intended for Lucifer Rising for Invocation of My Demon Brother, Anger again set about to create " Lucifer Rising ", a symbolic analogy of the coming Aeon of Horus as prophesied in the Thelemic sacred text, The Book of the Law.

For example, the Ancient Egyptian sacred text called Book of Gates identifies four ethnic categories that are now conventionally labeled " Egyptians ", " Asiatics ", " Libyans ", and " Nubians " ( see Ancient Egypt and race ), but such distinctions tended to conflate differences as defined by physical features such as skin tone, with tribal and national identity.

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates ( also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden Bible ) are the source from which Joseph Smith, Jr. said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.

The Acaranga Sutra, or Book of Good Conduct, is a sacred book within Jainism that discusses the ascetic code of conduct.

Upon his death, the charge of keeping the sacred records of the Book of Mormon was passed to his brother Jacob.

The Book of Mormon is revered by members of various Latter Day Saint churches as sacred scripture.

Beginning with Nephi, various people in the Book of Mormon were charged with keeping a record of the secular and sacred history of the Nephites.

Mormon () is believed by followers of Mormonism to have been the narrator of much of the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which describes him as a prophet-historian and a member of a tribe of indigenous Americans known as the Nephites.

Strang explained that the Book of the Law ( as it is often called — not to be confused with Aleister Crowley's book of the same title ) was " kept in the ark of the covenant, and was held too sacred to go into the hands of strangers.

A bishop blesses with both hands ( unless he is holding some sacred object such as a blessing cross, chalice, Gospel Book, icon, etc.

The Bahir contains commentaries explaining the mystical significance of Biblical verses ; the mystical significance of the shapes of the Hebrew letters ; the mystical significance of the cantillation signs and vowel points on the letters ; the mystical significance of statements in the Sefer Yetzirah (" Book of Creation "); and the use of sacred names in magic.

* Book of Mormon, one of the sacred books of Mormonism

Noted Yale critic of secular and sacred literature Harold Bloom, who classes these the book of Moses and the Book of Abraham among the “ more surprising ” and “ neglected ” works of LDS scripture, is intrigued by the fact that many of their themes are “ strikingly akin to ancient suggestions ” that essentially restate “ the archaic or original Jewish religion, a Judaism that preceded even the Yahwist .” While expressing “ no judgment, one way or the other, upon the authenticity ” of LDS scripture, he finds “ enormous validity ” in the way these writings “ recapture … crucial elements in the archaic Jewish religion .… that had ceased to be available either to normative Judaism or to Christianity, and that survived only in esoteric traditions unlikely to have touched Smith directly.