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The other day a friend of mine asked me to send him a link to a timeline I had posted on Mormon convert David Alexander's religious peregrinations during his purported " 47 years in evangelical Christianity " before becoming a Mormon on 20 March 2023. My friend responded back with one line: "Thanks! This guy is a regular Martin Harris." This was not the first time I had heard the comparison made between Harris and Alexander in the month or so since Alexander popped up on my radar. One person put the question like this: "Is Alexander a fraud or is he a Martin Harris?" As to the former, the idea that Alexander might be a fraud, was not without warrant. For one thing he did not sound like an evangelical. He did not obviously share their emphases or beliefs. If one asks an evangelical, "What is the most important thing for me to know?" His answer would be the same as was given by the Moravian August Gottlieb Spangenberg to the very zealous but

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Psychedelics and Spirituality: Exploring the Intersection at Psychedelic Science 2023 - Lions Roar Symbolism of Fruit in Christian Art --Aleteia Paris Psalter BnF grec 139   10th century Henry Mayr-Harting Ottonian Book Illumination: An Historical Study   BnF, Smith-Lesouëf 3 (11th cent)    Codex Vindobonensis, ÖNB Cod. 2554   Jerome Xavier's Biography of Jesus.  Public Domain Images from the Cleveland Museum  Jerome Xavier's Biography of Jesus   Karlsruhe. Badische Landesbibliothek, Bruchsal 1 1   2   Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram  BSB Clm 14000 Floreffa Bible Vol. 1 ( Add MS 17737 ) , Vol. 2 ( Add MS 17738 ) Vatican Bible Moralisee   French Bible moralisee Later BL Royal MS 19 D III, fol 3r (1411) St Gall Library Manuscripts .  Amazing collection British Library Add MS 38116 canterburyhttps://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_38116_fs001r Luttrell Psalter British Library   British Library, Royal 19 D II 1350-5 British Library Royal 19 D III, 1411 and here Harley