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There Is Always Egypt

October 25, 1985 by • Abraham, Adolf Erman, Albright, annihilation, apocalyptic writings, Bible, Book of Mormon, Book of the Dead, Breasted, charity, Clement of Rome, cosmology, Egypt, Egyptian religion, Egyptian Wisdom Literature, Egyptian(s), Egyptology, eternity, family, fear, Gardiner, God, Greeks, Hermetic, hypocephali, Joseph Smith, Mesopotamia, Mormonism, obelisk Ramses II, Rome, temple(s), The Terrible Questions, wisdom

Address given on 25 October 1985.

Gifts

March 14, 1983 by • Adam, Akish, angel(s), apocryphal works writings, apostles, attributes, authority, Bible, Book of Mormon, Cain, character, church work, darkness, debate, defense, definitive answer, earth, economy, eternal life, farming, free, freemen, Gadianton(s), Gadianton(s) robbers, gain, garden, gifts, gifts of God, God, good and evil, handbook, Heavenly Scribe visitors, Helaman, Holy Ghost, honest heart, idol(s), independent, instruct, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., judges, King Benjamin, king-men, knowledge, Korihor, Lamanite(s), Lamech, Last Dispensation, lawyer(s), light, Living God, Living Lord, love, manna, Master Mahan, money, Moroni, murder(s), mysteries, Nephites, nobility, Old Testament, Pahoran, political science, post-war boom, praise, pride, prophecies, prosperity, prosperous nation, qualities, rank, reality, rejoicing, repent, resentment, resurrection, riches, ruin, sacred, Satan, scripture(s), security, snobs, spiritual, spiritual gifts, study, survival, teaching, temporal, text(s), the Gospel, The LORD, the Son of God, tools, vain things, vicious, violence, war, wealth, wisdom, written record(s), Zoramites

CWHN 9:84-117

Zeal without Knowledge

July 1, 1978 by • boredom, brain, character, darkness, eternities, evil, expansion, gifts, God, Holy Ghost, information, intellect, intelligence, Joseph Smith, knowledge, probation, revelation(s), riches, Satan, sin, speculating, testing, The LORD, the mind, the Spirit, the Universe, thinking, trust, truth, under-performance, wisdom, world(s), zeal

Academic Awareness lecture, June 26, 1975. Original manuscript in mimeographed form. Reprinted in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 11:2 (Summer 1978): 101-112; in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Religious Studies Center, 1978): 261-277; in Readings for Intensive Writers, compiled by Susan T. Laing (Provo: Honors Intensive Writing, 1977) 185-194; and in CWHN …

More Brigham Young on Education

March 11, 1976 by • accumulation, Brigham Young, character, computers, customs and fashions, degree, Dialogue, discipline, economy, education, eternal progression, eternity, experience, false doctrine, false ideas, fashion(s), glory of God, god of this world, Holy Spirit, honest heart, ignorance, intelligence, Joseph Smith, kingdom(s), kitsch, knowledge, ladder, learning, light, mediocre, message, moral(s) quality, perishable objects, practical knowledge, principles, real work, revelation(s), rhetoric, riches, security, sensibility, Shakespeare, success, talents, taste, teaching, the Gospel, the mind, the Spirit, truth, vision, wisdom, work

Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo: BYU Press, 1976): 2-20. A talk given on March 11, 1976 at the Joseph Smith Auditorium at Brigham Young University; CWHN 13: 346-379. Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found at BYU Speeches.

We Will Still Weep for Zion

January 2, 1975 by • affluence, Analiza Brigham Young, Babylon, Brigham Young, business, celestial law, consecrate, corrupt, Covenant People, covenant(s), covetousness, dishonest men, economy, environment, equal, eternity, evil, faithfulness, Far West, gain, generosity, Gentiles, God, Heber C. Kimball, idolatry, independence, integrity, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, land, Lord's, luxuries, money, Nauvoo, obedient, pride, property, repent, revelation(s), riches, sacrifice, Satan, self-justification, selfishness, Sophistry, speculation, test, the Church, the Gospel, the Law of Consecration, The LORD, the Prophet, the Saints, transgression, Two Ways, United Order, wisdom, world(s), Zion

CWHN 9:341-377

Brigham Young as an Educator

June 9, 1967 by • computers, education, glory, health, intelligence, knowledge, learning, mechanism, power(s), principles of improvement, truth, weaknesses, wisdom

15 pp., typescript of an addressed delivered on June 9, 1967. For a more refined version of Nibley’s treatment of Brigham Young’s views on education, see his “Educating the Saints,” in CWHN 13:306-345. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found …

A House of Glory

February 2, 1967 by • angel(s), anointing, apostles, binding, binding link, celestial, chastity, consecrated, covenant(s), earth ends of, education, eternal, eternity, exaltation, faith, Father, feeling(s), fulness, Gentiles, house boat faith, house boat fasting, house boat glory, house boat God, house boat learning, House of Fasting, immortality, intelligence, Israel, Israel gathering of, Jacob, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jews, Joseph Smith, judgment(s), Kirtland dedicatory prayer, Kirtland Temple, Lamanite(s), Last Days, learning House of, Manti, meeting place, order, pollution, power(s), prayer, prayer House of, repent, resurrection, righteous, rites of passage, salvation, sanctified, school, sealing, seek, self-discipline, Solemn Assembly, space, study, symbolic, Terrestrial, the Law of Consecration, the Law of God, the Law of sacrifice, the Law of the Gospel, The LORD, the Most High, time, training, tribulation, wisdom, world(s), worship, Zion

A House of Glory. In Temples of the Ancient World, edited by Donald W. Parry, 29–47. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1994.

How to Have a Quiet Campus, Antique Style

February 18, 1966 by • ancient world, Apollodorus, Athens, Augustus Caesar, blackmail, Christianity, disciples, education, Egypt, Greeks, idleness, imposing appendix, John Chrysostom, Palaemon, pseudo-wisemen, rhetoric, Rome, Seven Sages, Socrates, Sophists, Symmachus, teachers, the University of Athens, tyrant(s), underachievement, upper-class, wisdom

BYU Studies 9:4 (Summer 1969): 440-452; CWHN 10: 287-302. Nibley traces some interesting parallels in educational matters and especially in campus unrest in the decade after 1960 with the medieval world. — Midgley