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summer
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Date: July 22, 2014 07:33PM
The first written account was given twelve years after the First Vision allegedly took place. In this account, Joseph mentions a visitation by only one personage.
"As far as Mormon literature is concerned, there was apparently no reference to Joseph Smith's First Vision in any published material in the 1830's, it was left out of the first publication of the Church's history written by Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. It was also left out of the Book of Commandments (the precursor to the Doctrine & Covenants) and the general church membership did not receive information about the First Vision until the 1840's and even then, the story did not hold the prominent place in Mormon thought that it does today."
http://www.mormonthink.com/firstvisionweb.htm