Start with a Topic.
Open one of 304 accepted Topics and see the scriptures connected to it in one place.
Topic discovery
A topical guide that can reach beyond exact words.
A printed index works best when you already know its heading. Cultivate keeps the historical headings and references, then adds a second discovery layer that can find passages with related meaning even when the wording is different.
Read the passage.
Every reference opens in the reader, so the Guide stays connected to the scripture text instead of becoming a separate commentary system.
Keep following the subject.
Move among related Topics, historical cross-references, scripture passages, and Guide Index entries as your study expands.
Meaning-aware discovery
Scripture does not always use the words you would search for.
Historical indexes, modern readers, and scripture itself can use different vocabulary for the same idea. Cultivate uses semantic mapping to find strong candidate connections by meaning, then publishes only the relationships that pass the project's acceptance process.
The result is a larger scripture discovery layer without rewriting the historical source record.
THE DISCOVERY PROBLEM
Your wordsHow would I describe this idea today?
Historical headingWhat did the index call it?
Scripture languageHow does the canon express it?
Semantic retrieval helps bridge those vocabulary differences.
Browse Categories
You do not need to know the Topic name first.
Browse Categories give you 18 broad ways into the Guide. They are navigation, not doctrinal definitions, and a Topic can remain unassigned when a confident placement is not available.
Guide Index
Some useful entries are not Topics at all.
People, places, events, groups, and objects can be useful starting points for study. Cultivate keeps those entries in a separate Guide Index instead of forcing them into doctrinal categories.
Find scripture references and connected study entries around a named person.
Use locations as another route into passages and related records.
Open a named event as a discovery entry rather than treating it as a doctrinal Topic.
Groups and objects stay discoverable while remaining separate from the topical taxonomy.
Current production scale
Built to make a large scripture corpus easier to move through.
The accepted Guide combines historical relationships with carefully selected semantic relationships, all packaged as ordinary application data.
Historical foundation
It starts with actual indexes, not a generated list of religious topics.
Cultivate reconstructed its historical topical foundation from four frozen Latter-day Saint sources published from 1917 through 1921. The pipeline preserves headings, references, aliases, cross-references, quoted context, and source provenance wherever the source supports them.
Those source-attested relationships remain distinct internally from later semantic relationships. New discovery does not rewrite what the historical sources actually indexed.
What gets published
Discovery is broad. Publication is selective.
A similarity score can find a promising passage. It is not enough by itself to publish that passage under a Topic. Cultivate keeps candidate discovery separate from the accepted data that ships in the app.
4,863 historical relationships
These Topic to verse links come from the frozen historical source corpus and retain their provenance.
9,844 accepted high-confidence relationships
These are derived connections that passed the accepted enrichment process. They are not presented internally as something a historical source printed.
The app does not invent Topic links while you read.
Accepted relationships are generated and reviewed upstream, committed to a versioned dataset, and shipped to the app as normal data. There is no live vector database deciding what belongs under a Topic.
Across the standard works
One discovery system across five scripture collections.
The canonical search universe spans the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price.
Old TestamentNew TestamentBook of MormonDoctrine and CovenantsPearl of Great Price
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Start with a topic. End up somewhere you did not expect.
The Topical Guide is built to make it easier to follow an idea through scripture while keeping the text itself one tap away.