[Joseph Smith Diary] ... After supper Gen[eral] Law asked why the Sun was masculine and /Moon/ feminine? /Joseph/ [said], "The root of Masculine is stronger and of feminine weaker. [The] Sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun and is less or weaker &c.
"Let the Government of M[iss]o[uri] redress the wrongs she has don[e] to the Mormons or let the curse follow them from generation to generation till they do. ...
[Source: Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1842-43, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries]
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