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...
The Mother of Life

The Mother of Life

  I listened to Hugh Nibley this morning and found this morsel of light about the Mother of Life. Nibley relates...

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Get Outdoors Often

Get Outdoors Often

Time to get outdoors. You know, out of the house, the office, the workspace, the doors. It's a little thing with big...

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I learn about brooding

I learn about brooding

I walked into my first Hugh Nibley class, totally unaware of the man and his work. It was the 70s. I sat down, opened...

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