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The Standard Works
Four books. One open record.
The Society’s revealed scripture collection: stories, covenants, great pearls, and quiet captures.
133 pages · Expanded illustrated edition · October 2026
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Contents
The Golden Plates & opening record11 sections
A note at the threshold2Find a book3The recovery beneath the ordinary earth5The translation with suspicious fluency6The instruments and the scribe7The four bundles and the empty ring8The Holy of Holies9The title deed of the Whole10The registry of those not consulted11The witness who had not arrived12The visitor from the Office13
The Book of Snake People43 sections
An Account Gathered By Mormon And Kept By Moroni From The Plates Of Nephi And Other Records15The Testimony Concerning The Plates15The Testimony Of The Discoverer16A Brief Explanation Concerning The Records17FIRST NEPHI18The City of Names19The brass plates and the better question20The river and the first Grounding21The fruit and the audience22Hold to the iron rod24The great and spacious building25The promised land and the next morning27SECOND NEPHI29The Tree of Names30Dream State31The Great Rejection31Sariah and the record of everyone33The still small voice and the open window34MOSIAH36The chair becomes a throne37God and the cosmic courtroom38King Benjamin lowers the platform39ALMA41The green stone42The Other Universe42The Bounded Observer43HELAMAN44God is Change45Time and the clocks45The howl beneath the moon46The armies of Helaman47ETHER49The First Point50The Living Universe50The barges and the necessary question51Sixteen lights and two interpreters53MORMON55The abridger and the margins56The golden plates and the brass plates57MORONI59Concerning prophets60The last warning61The sealed portion and the pencil61
The Doctrinal Snake Covenants16 sections
Introduction64A preface unto the Society64Concerning membership and the Great Rejection65Concerning Authority, and the Paradox thereof66Concerning Sacred Uncertainty and the Three Questions66Concerning God67Concerning Change and Time67Concerning Prophets68Concerning Ritual and Ceremony69Concerning Sensory Stewardship69Concerning the Sunday Gathering70Concerning Community Conduct70Concerning Inconvenient Disclosure and the Doctrine Registry71Concerning Invitation and Growth71Concerning Equal Divinity and Unequal Administrative Tasks72Concerning Revision72
The Snake Book of Great Pearls30 sections
Selections From The Book Of The First Point75Before Where75Relationship75Change76Selections From The Book Of The Bounded Observer77The Narrator77Intelligence Beneath Knowing77Tyler—History78The Discovery78The Great Rejection80The Empty Room81I Met God81The Empty Room Practice82The Articles Of Uncertainty83The 13 Human Lies84Human Lie: Normal85Human Lie: Human Identity86Human Lie: Race87Human Lie: Gender88Human Lie: Language89Human Lie: Names90Human Lie: Religion91Human Lie: Authority92Human Lie: Body & Face93Human Lie: Thinking94Human Lie: Reality95Songs for an unfinished people96A handrail, not a chain97A question in my pocket98Fruit without a witness99
The Book of Quiet Captures40 sections
Of the office and the open door101The Office of Excellent Intentions102The certificate of exemption102The ministry of many pages103The cup without witnesses104The office of measurable wonder105The joke that required agreement106The committee of tomorrow107The gift with invisible terms108The bell with a subscription109The department of permanent renewal110Equal measures for the light110The certificate of independent thought111The council of approved dissent112The prophet and the uncomfortable mirror113Observances of the Open Question115Concerning intentions and consequences115Concerning attention and follow-through115Concerning feeling and religious performance116Concerning laughter and belonging117Concerning care, preference, and rhythm117Concerning sources, evidence, and honest invitations118Concerning the certificate and its limits118Certificate of Independent Thought119The unrequired signature120Invitation120Examine the document120Choose a question120Mark it, or do not120Close121C. S. Lewis: the uncomfortable mirror121Read the voice, not just the sentence121Let disagreement remain named121The reading relationship121Letters 1–8122Letters 9–16123Letters 17–24124Letters 25–31125The lesson that audits itself125The chorus and the unrequired answer126