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depiction of the first vision of Joseph Smith, Jr., completed in 1913 by
an unknown artist (Museum of Church History and Art).]]
The First Vision (also called the grove experience) is an event within the
Latter Day Saint movement (commonly called Mormonism) described as the
appearance of God the Father and Jesus Christ?a theophany?to the
fourteen-year-old Joseph Smith, Jr., that occurred in a wooded area (now
called the Sacred Grove) early in the spring of 1820.
Interpretations of the event vary among Latter Day Saint denominations,
but most teach that the vision inaugurated the Latter Day Saint movement
and laid a foundation for the restoration of the lost doctrines and
authority of primitive Christianity, thus ending the Great Apostasy. The
vision also serves modern members of the LDS Church as the basis for
distinctive theological concepts such as the belief that the Father and the
Son are separate beings,
