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15Abrahamic

Latter-day Saint Tradition

Eternal or preexistent elements/intelligences; God organizes creation.

Architecture

Eternal intelligences, organized worlds

Open the circuit

Preexistent intelligences and elements. God organizes. Premortal human → mortality → spirit world → resurrection. Vast inhabited creation. Not saṃsāra.

  1. 01

    Eternal elements / intelligences

    Not created from absolute nothing.

  2. 02

    God organizes creation

    A vast inhabited creation, multiple degrees/worlds.

  3. 03

    Angels and divine beings

    A populated, administered cosmos.

  4. 04

    Premortal human

    Divine potential. The slot starts before birth.

  5. 05

    Spirit world → resurrection

    Not ordinary reincarnation. Judgment and renewal.

Time
Linear sacred history of judgment and renewal, inside a very large inhabited map.
Agents
God, angels, divine beings; prophetic authority as knowing-path.
Human slot
A premortal intelligence with divine potential, passing through mortality.
Break
Opposition belongs to the moral world. The chart’s own lines emphasize potential, judgment, renewal.

Recorded claims

An evidence label is shown only where the kind of source is already established. No label means unclassified. A label is not a judgment. Source Needed means no source is attached yet. It does not mean the claim is false, weak, or disproven.

  1. Origin / Reality

    Eternal or preexistent elements/intelligences; God organizes creation.

    Source Needed

  2. Human Nature

    Humans have premortal existence and divine potential.

    Source Needed

  3. Death / Afterlife

    Spirit world followed by resurrection.

    Source Needed

  4. Rebirth

    Not ordinary reincarnation.

    Source Needed

  5. Other Beings

    Angels and divine beings.

    Source Needed

  6. Other Realms

    Multiple degrees/worlds.

    Source Needed

  7. World Structure / Axis

    Vast inhabited creation.

    Source Needed

  8. Destruction / Reset

    Judgment and renewal.

    Source Needed

  9. How Truth Is Known

    Revelation, scripture, prophetic authority.

    Source Needed
Sources & EvidenceShowNo source is attached yet. Source Needed is a research gap, not a judgment.

The tradition or source

What that source says. Not a scholar’s retelling, and not a SCARCE inference.

None attached.

A modern researcher

What a scholar or other modern writer says about the source. Not the source’s own words.

None attached.

SCARCE

What this project infers or sets beside the records. Not what the source said.

None attached.

Central sources

How we know

Where the evidence comes from, and how far it is from the people it describes. The labels are not a score. They do not rank traditions. A manuscript year, a tradition’s own claim, and a date from the ground are kept apart on the timeline.

The Book of Mormon was published in 1830. Parts of the original manuscript and the printer’s manuscript survive. Doctrine and Covenants and Joseph Smith’s papers are likewise 19th-century documents of the movement.

The tradition says the book was translated from ancient plates. Those plates are not available to read or to date. The evidence in hand is the 1830 publication and the manuscripts behind it, not an ancient artifact on a shelf. Later church teaching is a further layer. The ancient claim and the surviving book must not be written as if they were the same object.

Original evidence → transmission / copy → translation / documentation → modern interpretation

  1. 01

    Original evidence

    Contemporary primary text

    The published book, the dictation manuscripts, and Smith’s revelations are primary sources for what the 19th-century movement produced and claimed.

  2. 02

    Transmission / copy

    Unknown / insufficient surviving evidence

    There is no public ancient copy to transmit. Later editions of the Book of Mormon are copies of the English book, not of plates.

  3. 03

    Translation / documentation

    Contemporary primary text

    The text we can document is English from the start of that publication history. It is not a translation scholars can set beside a source manuscript.

  4. 04

    Modern interpretation

    Modern scholarly reconstruction

    Historical study of the translation claim, and the church’s own reading of the book as ancient scripture, are different interpretations. Neither turns the absent plates into an inspected artifact. This chart does not rule on the plates.

The twenty-one questions

Asked of every system. Gaps are recorded as gaps. Nothing here is filled in to make a pattern prettier.

  1. 01

    Where are we?

    In a vast inhabited creation organized by God from eternal or preexistent elements.

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  2. 02

    What is reality made of?

    Eternal or preexistent elements and intelligences. God organizes creation rather than producing it from absolute nothing.

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  3. 03

    What is a human being?

    A being with premortal existence and divine potential.

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  4. 04

    What is consciousness?

    Tied to premortal existence and divine potential. Intelligence/spirit is treated as real before mortal embodiment, not as a byproduct of the body alone.

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  5. 05

    Where did humanity come from?

    Premortal existence. God organizes creation from eternal or preexistent elements/intelligences.

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  6. 06

    What happens at death?

    A spirit world followed by resurrection.

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  7. 07

    Does consciousness return to embodiment?

    Not ordinary reincarnation. Premortal existence and resurrection are the frame.

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  8. 08

    Where is consciousness between lives?

    Spirit world, then resurrection. This is not ordinary reincarnation, so “between lives” is the wrong frame.

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  9. 09

    Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?

    Yes. Angels and divine beings.

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  10. 10

    Can those beings become human or appear human?

    Angels and divine beings are recorded. Humans have premortal existence and divine potential — a different claim from nonhuman beings becoming human.

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  11. 11

    Are there multiple realms or worlds?

    Multiple degrees/worlds in a vast inhabited creation.

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  12. 12

    Is there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?

    Vast inhabited creation. A single terrestrial world-axis is not the governing image here.

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  13. 13

    Is the world itself alive?

    Vast inhabited creation organized by God. Aliveness of countless beings is claimed; the universe as one organism is not the doctrine recorded here.

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  14. 14

    Has civilization or the world been destroyed or reset before?

    Judgment and renewal.

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  15. 15

    Does history operate linearly or cyclically?

    Judgment and renewal inside a vast inhabited creation — linear sacred history, not reincarnation cycles.

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  16. 16

    Is there an opposing positive/negative force?

    Opposition is part of the moral world (including adversarial figures in the wider teaching). The chart’s own lines emphasize divine potential, judgment, and renewal.

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  17. 17

    What is humanity supposed to become?

    Divine potential. Humans have premortal existence and are not a one-life accident.

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  18. 18

    Is reincarnation a destination, punishment, school, growth process, or something else?

    Not ordinary reincarnation. Premortal existence plus resurrection is a different architecture.

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  19. 19

    What lies beyond the visible world?

    Spirit world, multiple degrees/worlds, angels and divine beings, vast inhabited creation.

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  20. 20

    How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?

    Revelation, scripture, prophetic authority.

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  21. 21

    Does the structure or motion of the heavens correspond to events, conditions, or consciousness within the human realm?

    Vast inhabited creation. Astronomy as inhabited worlds is not the same as astrological correspondence to personality or events.

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  22. 22

    Why did humanity forget?

    Not recorded in this chart.

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Structures where this record appears