@J @amerika @une @7666 @arcana @toiletpaper > Mormon "rediscoveries" are actually just them being influenced by Renaissance-Hermetic ideas that were already back in the public consciousness via occult movements, which were especially popular in early America.

I am familiar with it but my impression is they desperately try to hide connections to all the esoteric shit smith was into (and he was into everything) I am actually fascinated how such a person could have such a breadth of knowledge of this stuff but of course that's not remotely impossible just surprising.