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Depending on the particular religious movement involved, after receiving a spiritual confirmation,

and regardless of previous civil marital bonds,

its history in Europe among various Christian

primitivistic movements has been well documented. The followers of Jacob Cochrane as early as

1818 used spiritual wifery to describe their religious doctrine of free love. Often confused

with polygamy, spiritual wifery among the Cochranets was the practice in which

communal mates were temporarily assigned and reassigned, either by personal preference or religious

authority. The term was later introduced the latter-day saint movement by John C. Bennett,

who openly applied it to the doctrine of plural marriage.

According to Helen Mar Whitney, at the time spiritual wife was the title by which every woman

who entered into this order was called, for it was taught and practiced as a spiritual order.

I am Ryan McKnight. I'm Kara Santa Maria. I am Christopher Smith.

Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.

This is Naked Mormonism.

The Serial Mormon History Podcast.

All eyes turned towards the kingdom on the Mississippi.

July 8, 1842, something which altered Mormon history forever happened.

The first of Reckett's expose letters was published in the Singamo Journal.

Bennett left the church and office of mayor in Navu.

That happened in late May of 1842, and he spent most of June exchanging letters and collecting statements from people in Navu.

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