Hugh Nibley Articles

Hugh Nibley quote about liars

"...the great evil of the deception by the word is that Satan was a liar from the beginning. He is the one who loves and makes a lie. If I start telling you what my universe is, you have no right to contradict me. If I tell you what I see, what I hear, and what I...

Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift

Hugh Nibley gave a commencement speech at BYU on Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift. It's one of my favorites. (It's the one where he refers to the black robes of the false priesthood: Twenty-three years ago today, if you will cast your minds back, on this same...

Entering the Lord’s presence

The Book of Mormon is definitely a paradigm leading us to enter the Lord's presence. The temple, of course, provides some particular tools. The Doctrine and Covenants talk about when Lucifer appeared as an angel of light on the banks of the Susquehanna and was...

The Mother of Life

  I listened to Hugh Nibley this morning and found this morsel of light about the Mother of Life. Nibley relates the story of The Pearl, a Syriac text, found in 1906 by Rendel Harris, east of the Tigris River and dated between 50 and 70 A.D. This could be the...
Message in a Dream

Message in a Dream

Dreams are one way we sort through the mischief of the day. Other times, our dreams connect us to the spirit world....

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Learning to learn

Learning to learn

No one should be bored when sitting in a class. Especially if you want to learn. I've been studying about learning...

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