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The Refiner's Fire

The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844

by John L. Brooke

Brooke argues that early Mormon theology drew on a radical tradition of hermeticism, alchemy and sectarian Christianity that reached back to the English Revolution. Critics questioned the links he proposed. It remains a stimulating study of Mormonism and Western esotericism.

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