Merry Magdalene	Re: Anyone read Oahspe, A New Bible in the Words of Jehovih? What did you think
	Thanks, blueviceroy! Likewise, I'm sure Following is pretty much what my mother told me about the Book of Mormon (she studied Mormonism when she was young so that she could argue religion with her Mormon boyfriend): Although the Mormon Church denies it, The Book of Mormon actually was plagiarized from an unpublished novel, i.e., a fictional work, titled Manuscript Found, written by a retired Congregational (Protestant) minister named Solomon Spalding, who died in 1816.  Large parts are also plagiarized from the King James Version of the Bible.  http://www.godonthe.net/evidence/mormon.htm But apparently there are no known copies of Spaulding's "Manuscript Found." So it's a bit hard to prove. But the story my mother was familiar with, as I remember it, is told here: http://solomonspalding.com/Lib/hob1946a.htm So I am curious about the claim that it was a product of automatic writing. As to Oahspe, when I read the title of this thread, I was expecting to see a distillation of all the words in the Old Testament that were purported to have been spoken by YHWH, not a product 19th century automatic writing. But this has lead to a mildly interesting exploration of the phenomena within that time period, and the reminder that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a spiritualist (something I had forgotten). ~Merry
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