Synopsis Īccording to the Book of Mormon, the prophet Lehi received this vision in a dream during his exile in the Arabian wilderness sometime after 600 B.C. Other apologetic scholars, such as Hugh Nibley, postulate that Lehi and Smith Sr. Smith Sr.'s dream was first recorded by his wife Lucy Mack Smith after publication of the Book of Mormon, and some Latter-day Saint scholars suggest that the text of the Book of Mormon may have influenced Lucy's account, rather than vice versa. Because of the similarity, secular church scholars postulate that Smith Sr.'s dream is the source for the tree of life vision. contained a rope rather than an iron rod, and there were other minor differences. contained a tree with delicious fruit, a path, and a large building where the wicked looked down in scorn of the righteous however, the vision of Smith Sr. prior to publication of the Book of Mormon. The vision is similar to the second vision recounted by Smith's father Joseph Smith Sr. A Latter-day Saint commentator reflected a common belief of church members that the vision is "one of the richest, most flexible, and far-reaching pieces of symbolic prophecy contained in the standard works. The vision is said to symbolize the spiritual plight of humanity, and is a well known and cited story among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The vision also includes a large building wherein the wicked look down at the righteous and mock them.
The vision includes a path leading to a tree symbolizing salvation, with an iron rod along the path whereby followers of Jesus may hold to the rod and avoid wandering off the path into pits or waters symbolizing the ways of sin. In the Book of Mormon, the vision was received in a dream by the prophet Lehi, and later in vision by his son Nephi, who wrote about it in the First Book of Nephi. The tree of life vision is a vision discussed in the Book of Mormon, one of the scriptures of Latter Day Saint movement, published by Joseph Smith in 1830. A depiction of the vision in the Hill Cumorah Pageant
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