Israel's God calls The Magician's Apprentice
Well if you've gone through the page titled restoring a Stairway to Heaven then you have an understanding of the reasoning behind the need for the god of Israel to restore his church and kingdom on the Earth, including authority to perform necessary ordinances for salvation such as baptism and Gift of the Holy Ghost, as well as what we discussed relative to the Temple Endowment, Sealing husbands and wives together in Celestial Marriage along with their progeny.
So if we decide that now was the time,then the next question is who shall the Isrealite God call upon for this extremely important task of reestablishing God's Kingdom on the Earth?
Of course we know that the answer was Joseph Smith Jr.
But what were the reasons for God to call Joseph Smith Jr. other than he knew him from the pre-mortal existence as his Spirit child and he was obviously preparing him for this magnificent calling.
So let's take a look at Joe's preparation, because it's pretty interesting for God to be calling The Magician's Apprentice to be the prophet of the restoration.
Yes even lds.org now admits that after all these years since they began to suppress the magical history of the Scryer using the Seer Stone like unto a Crystal Ball as a treasure hunter in the night they now have published a picture of one of his Seer stones in fact the one he supposedly not only hunted treasure with with his Necromancer friends who with him Sacrificed animals to Pirate Ghosts and Demons guarding ancient treasure but also channel do the words for the Book of Mormon without so much as looking at any gold plates.
In case that's a shock to you let me repeat the church has published photographs and admitted Joseph Smith used it as the magical implement it was intended for and it's right on lds.org.
Since Crystal gazing, scrying or being a treasure Seer or glass looker is no different really from being one who gazes into a Crystal Ball rather than a Magic Stone in a hat as Joseph did or a Dark Mirror or using a Ouija board for Revelation from the Spiritual world or even Divining Rods such as Joseph Smith's father and Oliver Cowdery were noted for even in the book of Commandments for Oliver but that got changed so that we wouldn't have to see too much magical practices and it just said the gift of Aaron after Joseph Smith decided Jesus said something different in numerous revelations in the book of Commandments and published The Book of Doctrine and Covenants in its place with the revamped Revelations, we might find that a bit odd since the Book of Mormon and the Bible both condemn Witchcraft and Magic however that is the case and the church has been hiding it for over a hundred years.
There are many accounts of Joseph Smith's activities along with his father and brothers in magical practices long before he published The Book of Mormon and founded the Church in 1820.
We know that some apologists love to quickly call everything uncomplimentary to the narrative that an All-Knowing, Unchanging, Virtuous God guides the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, nasty sounding things like Anti Mormons or Apostates, but the fact is, many of these accounts come long before Mormonism even existed.
Not only that, But his own mother Lucy Mack is one who also testified of her magician son's activities right along with his storytelling about those Nephites and Lamanites or whatever he may have called them at that point, long before any Book of Mormon was published, or possession of golden plates.
We also learn that seeking for hidden pirate treasures especially from Captain Kidd was not a practice exclusive to the Smith family but was rather rampant in areas of Vermont and New York at the time along with various magical practices such as the use of Seer Stones Consecrated and Dedicated through Witchcraft as well as Dowsing Rods to locate possible Treasures hidden within the Earth.
We have had many lessons in church talking about religious revivals in Upstate New York but not too much about the nature of the Spiritualist and Adventist teachings and the magic practices incantations gifts of the Spirit and general promiscuity for which these revivals were often noted.
We haven't heard a great deal about the culture and the practice of magic as part of religion in that time nor do many Christians realize that MaJicK and the Mystery School religions long predating the Freemasonry and other Societies through which they have come to our day all seem to be Blended together with Alchemy in science long long ago despite the Jewish Old Testament in the Christian New Testament seek to form separation between the Bible God's and the
spiritual gifts attributed to Christianity versus those attributed to the Magi of the Mystery Religions.
Here you will find some videos that go in-depth on some of these magical practices with references noted and photographs of magical implements used in that day including by founding members of the LDS church such as Joseph Smith Oliver Cowdery. Hyrum Smith, Hiram page and Brigham Young.