New Look

If you are a returning visitor to this site, you may not recognize this as the Heavenly Ascents you are familiar with.  I have completely changed the look of the site, although none of the previous content has been lost.  I will miss the antique, maroon and tan theme the blog has had over the past year since I first started it — I think it gave a certain character to the site that may be missed by some.  For those of you who subscribe by RSS feed, blog reader, or by email, you shouldn’t notice much difference.  The main purpose for the changes were to make the website brighter, less cluttered, and thus easier to read and to add new features.

New Content

I hope to continue providing quality content and plan to add new helpful features to the site in the near future.  As I have been promising for the past couple of months, I will very soon commence an extended series of posts on the topic of the Orphic Gold Tablets, a number of small gold plates that have been discovered buried with the bodies of presumed Orphic (an ancient mystery religion) initiates, containing written “instructions for the Netherworld.” The importance of this discovery is significant for the LDS audience, as the inscriptions found are on thin plates of gold (similar to Joseph Smith’s description of the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon is derived) and give specific instructions for what the initiate is to do when they reach the Afterlife, including meeting a number of guardians who will ask them questions and to whom they must give certain passwords.  There are many other details of interest to LDS readers, and, I hope, to many others, as well.

I hope the new look and features of the site will be helpful to all visitors here. If you really miss the old look or can’t stand the new, please let me know by emailing me at david@heavenlyascents.com or by so stating in the comment area below this post.  Thank you for your interest, time, and support!