So it seems like we're not seeing the full picture, and we still don't know what's the biggest contributing book to the Book of Mormon.

This is the First Book of Napoleon, nobody here has heard about it. It's amazing. . . .

We tried to trace the origins of this book, and it's, we can't figure it out. This is the First Book of Napoleon. Can I have somebody from the audience that wants to read the first verse of this book? . . .

It goes on and on like that, pattern after pattern after pattern, matching the Book of Mormon language and content and many of the lessons in the Book of Mormon. It's a really mysterious book though because the guy who wrote it, as far as we can tell, this is really, really crazy, he was fourteen. We don't know for sure though, because it was a long time ago, but his name was Modeste Gruau, and this is the Book of Napoleon, he was writing about Napoleon at the time who was, this is, Napoleon was alive during Joseph Smith's lifetime, going around conquering Europe and everything, and this guy hated Napoleon for it. So he wrote this book, basically, as an attack against Napoleon, but sharing the lessons of how God would protect the righteous. And he always would refer to the Albions, the land of the north, the Britains, and they were the righteous ones. So, the French were the Gauls, and, anyway, it goes on and on, I mean, there's a lot of significance.

Now does the First Book of Napoleon have chiasmus? So here's a fourteen paired-deep chiasmus from the book of Napoleon. It's really weird, eh? But, it gets better. Here's a twenty-one-paired deep chiasmus. I had a hard time fitting it on the page, this is just a lot of chiasmus going on. . . .

When I read the Book of Napoleon, I started reading it, it ruined my childhood. I invested a lot of time reading the Book of Mormon, and when I saw those phrases in the Book of Napoleon, I felt like I just wasted a lot of my childhood. . . . The Bible is obviously the biggest contributor to the Book of Mormon, we filtered that out to try and find the other influences. The Bible is super significant.

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So here is, I think, the most significant book [The Late War]. . . . You can't ask for anything better, this book is perfect. This is the book, this is The Late War Between United States and Britain, it was published in 1816, yeah, 1816. Written in the scriptural style, this is a war, this is the second war of independence, it's a small war with Britain that happened between 1812 and 1815 in Joseph Smith's lifetime. THis is a war that he'd been hearing about his whole life, from childhood on to teenage years, everybody would've been talking about this war. This is like us talking about 9/11, we were all there, we remember the day. This is the war for him. This is Joseph Smith's war, that he lived through. He would've been there everyday hearing the news, as each piece of the war progressed. So, 1812 to 1815, that's the second war. They wrote this in scriptural style, per reason, because they wanted people to read the Bible, so they wrote it for students in school in New York so that people could be encouraged to read the Bible, and secondly, get an understanding of what it means to be American. To win the war against Britain, the lessons that were learned in that war.

How did they win that war? Well, Moroni is [Andrew] Jackson. Jackson won the war by riling up the troops to fortify the city of New York. And because the city of New York was fortified, they lost almost no troops in that war, in that last battle, and Britain gave up because they couldn't get through because of the fortifications that they had dug up, and built up around the city of New York in Joseph Smith's lifetime. They did that, and it's written in this book, in the ancient historical style.

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This is the big picture, here are the influences on the Book of Mormon [see image 2]. You can trace it back, you can trace back the books that influenced the Book of Mormon and then trace back those books, and so on, until you've run out of data. So, every book is being influenced by the book that preceded it, to a degree, and of course every book has a parallel to every other book, but we need to know the significance, and that's what we've done with the big data. . . . The Late War Between seems to be one of the most significant books, if you include the Bible of course the Bible is the most significant book, but turns out Joseph Smith of course read the Apocrypha, there's tons of connections in the Apocrypha to the Book of Mormon, it's statistically significant, as well as Nephi, like I said, Nephi comes from the Apocrypha. So that is highly significant.

Turns out the Quran was probably one of the books that Joseph Smith read, a lot of the Quran shows up in the Book of Mormon. A certain edition of the Quran, other editions not, but one editions particularly shows up in the Book of Mormon, so you can see, and that's the 1822 Holy Quran showing up. . . . Joanna Southcott, I don't know if anybody knows about her, I had no idea she even existed until I read her stuff, it's the Doctrine and Covenants, it sounds like. . . . so she influenced Joseph Smith somehow. . . . There's [Solomon Spaulding's] Manuscript Found . . . . The Book of Napoleon is about sixty times more significant, sixty times more significant than Solomon Spaulding.