Anglo-Norse "Word" Made Flesh?

 

In LDS Scripture, the Word(s) of Christ are now enfleshed in and through the Anglo-American Joseph Smith, as we read in D&C 1:24-38 (emphasis added):

24 Behold, I am God and have spoken it; these commandments [which is the current D&C] are of me, and were given unto my servants [i.e. Joseph Smith] in their weakness, after the manner of their language [the Norse-influenced English language and 19th century American vernacular], that they [the majority Anglo-Norse LDS members in the 1800s who were receiving these revealed commandments/directives] might come to understanding. …

… 29 And after having received the record of the Nephites, yea, even my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., might have power to translate through the mercy of God, by the power of God, the Book of Mormon. ... 30 And also those [19th century Anglo-American Mormons] to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church [Ephraimite tribe], and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church [gathered group of saints] upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased, speaking unto the church collectively and not individually. …

 

38 What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants [i.e. my servant Joseph Smith], it is the same.

For more details see pages 190-195 of Charisma Under Pressure by Dan Vogel, where some of the early leaders were reluctant to endorse the revelations (that became the Doctrine & Covenants) because they knew how Smith spoke and they were questioning whether how much of his own words and ideas were in the revelations; and in response, Smith challenged them to produce their own revelation which they were unable to do. Thus, we see that the revelations are very much the language of the Anglo-Saxon Joseph Smith as his contemporaries were aware of. Rather than a bug I see this as a feature of Mormonism as an Norse-Positive Americanized gospel.

The Word is often presented as a metaphor for the Kingdom, with Gentiles recieving seed of Jesus so that they are adopted into Israel as Male-Brides. In contrast, in Mormonism, LDS Christians in the D&C are Israelites as Ephraimites and instead of the Old Testament made flesh through Paul's midrash, Mormon Scripture is Norse-Americanism made flesh through Joseph Smith's midrash. Joseph's writes as Jesus which is filtered through his Anglosized culture and psyche, so that Jesus through the vitality if Smith does not promote celibacy (as in Mathew 19:12) but condemns any Christians who forbid marriage (see D&C 49). In the essay Plural Marriage & The Parable of the Talents (2020), on page 18 the author explains that The Happiness Letter, a letter Smith writes to Nancy Rigdon, it is about “[God's] law, which is [His] word” (D&C 132:19). The law is plural marriage, meaning the seeding of “eternal lives.” So in this context, Joseph Smith is those word(s)/law made flesh in that he practiced plural marriage as a flesh and bone man. 

My theory is simple, when the New Testament speaks of the “word/logos made flesh,” what that means is the Old Testament scriptures were embodied in Jesus’ life and death through Paul’s midrash: where Jesus is the embodiment of all of the Torah or the Hebrew Bible, fulfilled in his life and teachings. So this paradigm of the Torah-as-Jesus is in turn shadowed as a type when a similar concept happens when Joseph Smith filters Jesus new word/law through his ethnolinguistic Anglo-Saxon nature.  You see, the Apostle Paul had his own personal faults and foibles, his own personality type and temperament and potential mental illness. We see a clear anti-body ideology in Paul's midrash. From this perspective, I see the Anglo-Norse tradition made flesh in Joseph Smith through his own scriptures as revelation where he revealed new “word(s)” of Christ, wherein cruciformity (poverty, docility and celibacy) are not the ideal anymore; and now Mormons are not seeded male-brides but instead Joseph's midrash sees the Christ (Messiah) as a married polygamist and the Parable of the Talents is about the male LDS member planting his seed in brides and thus compounding his Anglo-Norse DNA in order to "raise up,seed (Jacob 2) and grow the tribe of Ephraim on the American continent. 

So that instead of a church of celibate docile martyrs like a seed planted and growing to form a spiritual kingdom, Joseph Smith's American Zionism (a term used by Dan Vogel), instead posits a literal physical Kingdom of priests and kings and queens as polygamists in the 1800s: growing a physical Kingdom of God, a literal implanting of the seed of Ephraim, in order to literally grow and spawn a Peoplehood. As Brigham Young puts it in the 1800s during the formation of the first Mormons as mostly all the tribe of Ephraim:

We are now gathering the children of Abraham who have come through the loins of Joseph and his sons, more especially through Ephraim, whose children are mixed among all the nations of the earth. The sons of Ephraim are wild and uncultivated, unruly, ungovernable. The spirit in them is turbulent and resolute; they are the Anglo-Saxon race, and they are upon the face of the whole earth, bearing the spirit of rule and dictation, to go forth from conquering to conquer. They search wide creation and scan every nook and corner of this earth to find out what is upon and within it. I see a congregation of them before me today. No hardship will discourage these men; they will penetrate the deepest wilds and overcome almost insurmountable difficulties to develop the treasures of the earth, to further their indomitable spirit for adventure.

 

~ Journal of Discourses Vol. 10, Discourse 40