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Six steps through the shape of the whole thing

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The fastest way to get the architecture in your head. One doctrinal topic to frame it, two lessons that carry the weight, a diagram, a chain, and a word study — so that by the end you have used every kind of thing the library contains.

Who this is for

You have opened the library and want to know where to begin, rather than reading a course front to back.

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  1. TopicThe Plan of SalvationThe architecture everything else sits insideThe frame everything else sits inside. Read this and the rest of the library has somewhere to go.25 min
  2. FigureThe plan of salvationAbraham 3:24–26; Alma 40–42; D&C 76The same thing as a picture. Worth a minute even if the article was clear.3 min
  3. LessonOpposition, Agency, and the Fall2 Nephi 2The densest chapter of doctrine in the Book of Mormon, and the one that explains why mortality is like this.50 min
  4. LessonFaith as an ExperimentAlma 32–33The most careful description of how faith actually works anywhere in scripture — framed as a procedure, not a mood.45 min
  5. ChainWhat the Atonement actually accomplishes8 passagesEight passages in an order, so the Atonement stops being a word and becomes a sequence of specific claims.10 min
  6. Wordḥesed — covenant loyalty; steadfast loveחֶסֶדOne Hebrew word, to see what the apparatus is for. The King James needs six English words to render it and still misses.6 min

Paths do not contain anything the library does not already have — they are an order to read it in. Nothing is locked, and you can leave one at any point.