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PLAN OF SALVATION  CAVEAT: This is an overview ( for missionaries ) of the Plan of Salvation in great detail.  This is  far more  than should be taught to the investigator, but is given to you so that you can begin to get an idea of some of the fundamental parts of the overall plan.  As stated in PMG at page 50 “When first teaching this doctrine, do not teach everything you know about it. Explain (it) very simply…”  This is to be understood by the spirit and according to your level of understanding at this time.  As you learn more, you will understand your divine nature and the teaching in Abraham 3:26  which states:  “And they who keep their  first estate  (pre earth life)  shall be added upon…and they who keep their  second estate (earth life)  shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.”
1/3 of the spirit children were expelled from the presence of God Veil  EARTH Death Paradise and spirit Prison CELESTIAL  GLORY-The Glory of the Sun The Glory of the Moon or Terrestrial Kingdom The Glory of the Stars of Telestial Kingdom  Pre-Mortal Life in our Heavenly Parents  Celestial Kingdom The Pre-existence ,[object Object],[object Object],PLAN OF ETERNAL PROGRESSION Resurrection
Pre-Mortal Life in our Heavenly Parents Celestial Kingdom The Pre-existence PLAN OF ETERNAL PROGRESSION WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THIS PLACE? 1.  We are the offspring, spiritually born, of a heavenly father and a heavenly mother. 2.  We lived in their heavenly home, the celestial kingdom, from the time we were born spiritually until the time we came to earth. 3.  There was no evil initially in their celestial kingdom. 4.  Lucifer, the Son of the Morning, originally a good guy, made choices that eventually turned out really bad for him and a 1/3 rd  of the spiritual children of our Heavenly Parents. Let’s get more specific about what the Pre-Mortal Life was like. D & C 76:25:  And thus we saw also, and bear record,  that an angel of God who was in authority in the presence of God, who rebelled  against the Only Begotten Son whom the Father loved and who was in the bosom of the Father, was thrust down from the presence of God and the Son, (26)  And was called Perdition, for the heavens wept over him—he was Lucifer, a son of the morning.
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The DEVELOPMENT of TALENTS During the long expanse of life which then was, an infinite variety of talents and abilities came into being.  As the ages rolled, no two spirits remained alike.  Mozart   became a musician;  Einstein  centered his interest in mathematics;  Michelangelo  turned his attention to painting.  Cain , was a liar, a schemer, a rebel who maintained a close affinity to Lucifer.  Abraham and Moses  and all of the prophets sought and obtained the talent for spirituality.  Mary and Eve were two of the greatest of all the spirit daughters of the Father . The whole  house of Israel,  known and segregated out from their fellows, was inclined toward spiritual things. And so it went through all the hosts of heaven,  each individual developing such talents and abilities as his soul desired  (McConkie Mortal Messiah)
Origins of Man-First Presidency ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Were there Ordinances Performed in  the Preexistence? ,[object Object]
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Priesthood in the Preexistence ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Faith & Repentance in the Preexistence ? ,[object Object],[object Object]
Atonement Applies to the Preexistence? ,[object Object],[object Object]
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Little Children Who Die Before the Age of Accountability are saved without further test in the Celestial Kingdom ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Celestial Spirit World Earth TWO GROUPS OF NOBLE AND GREAT ONES in the  Pre EXISTENCE LITTLE CHILDRED (who die before 8)  are tested and trained in the Celestial Kingdom and are briefly sent to earth to gain a body and then to the  SPIRIT WORLD to form a great MISSIONARY FORCE. ( YOU) the NOBLE and GREAT ELDERS of this dispensation are tested and trained in the Celestial Kingdom and are sent to the EARTH to form a great MISSIONARY FORCE 1/3 of children lost This earth is filled with terrestial and telestial people that have to be taught and redeemed by us….. This spirit world  is filled with terrestial and telestial people that have to be taught and redeemed by us….. There are so many of God’s children in both places that he has to have a way to work in both places
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We come to EARTH through a VEIL that  requires us  to listen to Prophets and exercise faith to know WHO WE ARE and WHO WE WERE IN THE PRE EXISTENCE: Pres Joseph Fielding Smith:  “Our Eternal Father was not experimenting when this world came into existence.  It did not come by chance.  It is not the first of his creations.  Millions and millions  of worlds such as this had rolled into existence  before our earth was born .  Every step taken was according to the divine plan, and that plan was an eternal one, which had been followed in the construction of other worlds without number unto man.  In other words the plan of salvation had been given.  Here we are enacting familiar scenes; scenes which are new to all mortal men, but which are well known to the Father and also to the Son.”  (The Way to Perfection pp 35-36) Elder Kospischke, president of Area, says:  “We just want you to remember who you once were.”
FIRST ESTATE and THEN SECOND ESTATE President Harold B. Lee:  “ Those born to the lineage of Jacob, who was later called to be Israel, as his posterity, who were known as the children of Israel,  were born into the most illustrious lineage  of any of those that came upon the earth as mortal beings.  All these rewards were seemingly promised, or foreordained, before the world was.  Surely  these matters must have been determined by the kind of lives we had lived in that premortal spirit world  …Isn’t it just as reasonable  to believe that what we have received here in this earth (life )  was given to each of us according to the merits of our conduct before we came here. ”  CR 1973 Oct. 7-8 NOW ON TO THE SECOND ESTATE
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],What is the purpose of Earth life? Neal A. Maxwell But does not God know beforehand if we can endure? Yes, perfectly.  But we need to know, firsthand, about our capacity.  So much of life well lived consists of coming to know what God knows already.
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WE ALL DIE.  Our Bodies are Separated from our Spirits for a Time
OUR  SPIRITS GO TO EITHER : Paradise  is a state of peace and rest. PMG 57 We are part of a great missionary force to those in the Spirit Prison ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],OR
BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD--  The Great Principal of Fairness for All of God’s children ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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CELESTIAL  GLORY-The Glory of the Sun The Glory of the Moon or the Terrestrial Kingdom The Glory of the Stars of the Telestial Kingdom  THE THREE DEGREES OF GLORY These are the Principal Choices to which men on EARTH aspire.  Each is a kingdom of Glory.  And thus we saw…the glory of the Telestial, which surpasseth all comprehension.  D C 76:89
HOWEVER WE PRINCIPALLY ASPIRE TO THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM
The Celestial  Kingdom In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees, and in order to obtain the highest, a man must enter into this order of the priesthood (meaning the new and everlasting covenant of marriage).  And if he does not, he cannot obtain it.  He may enter into the other, but that is the end of his kingdom;  he cannot have an increase. Sec 131 THIS ISSUE OF INCREASE BECOMES A DEFINING DIFFERENCE in GODHOOD
The Celestial Kingdom “ a continuation of the seeds” forever means increase or children… D & C 132: 19 …and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their exaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness  and a continuation of the seeds forever  and ever.  20.  Then shall they be gods, because they have no end ; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting,  because they continue ; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them.  Then shall they be gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject unto them. Dallin H. Oaks: “The power to create mortal life is the  most exalted power  God has given his children.  The use of this creative power was mandated by the first commandment, to “be fruitful, and multiply” Gen 1:28.  Other important commandments forbade its misuse (“Thou shalt not commit adultery” Ex 20:14 and “Abstain from fornication” 1 Thes. 4:3)  The emphasis we place on these expressions of the  law of chastity  is  explained by our understanding of the purpose of our procreative powers  in the accomplishment of God’s Plan.” Seminar for Mission Pres. 2010
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Bible Dictionary page 700:  FOR SPIRITS IN SPIRIT PRISON: “It is between death and the resurrection, and persons who receive the telestial glory will abide there until the last resurrection (D & C 76: 84-85, 106)  at which time they will go to the telestial glory. Hell as thus defined, will have an end, when all the captive spirits have paid the price of their sins and enter into a degree of glory after their resurrection. Statements about an everlasting hell must be interpreted in their proper context in light of D & C 19:4-12, which defines eternal and endless punishment.  FOR SATAN, THE 1/3 rd  and SONS OF PERDITION:  “… are assigned to a place spoken of as a lake of fire—a figure of eternal anguish.  This kind of hell, which is after the resurrection and judgment, is exclusively for the devil and his angels, and is not the same as that consisting only of the period between death and resurrection.  These receive no glory.  They continue in spiritual darkness.
RE-CAP
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YOU HAVE ALREADY PASSED THE FIRST TEST AND WERE VALIANT You are well on your way in the SECOND TEST (SECOND ESTATE) as you have: FAITH, REPENTENCE, BAPTISM, GIFT of the HOLY GHOST and are now missionaries. You have received the ORDINANCES OF THE TEMPLE which endow you with POWER. You now must ENDURE TO THE END, serving as missionaries in the Armies of the Lord to help the Savior “bring to pass the immortality and eternal life” of OTHERS.
LIFE IS SHORT ETERNITY IS FOREVER PASS THE TEST OF LIFE
The ORIGEN of MAN Elder Boyd K. Packer at the Book of Mormon Symposium BYU 30 Oct 1988 Summed it all up this way: “ By His almighty power  He organized the earth , and all that it contains, from Spirit and element, which exist co-eternally with Himself.  He formed every plant that grows, and every animal that breathes, each after its own kind, spiritually and temporally—”that which is spiritual being in the likeness of that which is temporal, and that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual.”  He made the tadpole and the ape, the lion and the elephant but  He did not make them in His own image, nor endow them with Godlike reason and intelligence .  Nevertheless, the whole animal creation will be perfected and perpetuated in the Hereafter, each class in its “distinct order or sphere,” and will enjoy “eternal felicity.”  That fact has been made plain in this dispensation (D & C 77:3)  Man is the child of God, formed in the divine image and endowed with divine attributes, and even as the infant son of an earthly father and mother is capable in due time of becoming a man, so the undeveloped offspring of celestial parentage is capable, by experience through ages and aeons, of evolving into a god.
TALENTS FROM PRE EARTH LIFE? During the long expanse of life which then was, an infinite variety of talents and abilities came into being.  As the ages rolled, no two spirits remained alike. Mozart  became a musician;  Einstein  centered his interest in mathematics;  Michelangelo  turned his attention to painting.  Cain , was a liar, a schemer, a rebel who maintained a close affinity to Lucifer.  Abraham and Moses  and all of the prophets sought and obtained the talent for spirituality.  Mary and Eve were two of the greatest of all the spirit daughters of the Father . The whole house of Israel, known and segregated out from their fellows, was inclined toward spiritual things. And so it went through all the hosts of heaven,  each individual developing such talents and abilities as his soul desired  (McConkie Mortal Messiah)
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LEARN TO BE GOD Thus Joseph Smith said, " You have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves , and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely, by  going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one ; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings, and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power." ( Teachings , pp. 346-47.) Christ our Lord has so obtained, thus enabling him to say to the faithful: "Ye shall be even as I am, and I am even as the Father." ( 3 Ne. 28:10 ) Joseph Smith the Prophet thus gave the   supreme definition of eternal life :  " Here, then, is eternal life-to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you
AGE OF THE ELEMENTS “ The scriptural accounts of the creation  deal only with the organization of the earth in preparation for the time when Adam, Eve , and the lower forms of life were placed upon it.  Prior to that time, the elements of which the earth was composed had an eternal existence . In a letter dated Christmas day, 1844, William W. Phelps wrote to William Smith, the Prophet's brother, "that Jesus Christ, whose goings forth, as the prophets said, have been from of old, from eternity; and that eternity, agreeable to the records found in the catacombs of Egypt [i.e., an unpublished portion of the ancient records from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Abraham], has been going on in this system (not this world), almost two thousand five hundred and fifty five millions of years."  12  The importance of this statement is that it seems to have its basis in something Joseph Smith may have translated but did not publish in the writings of Abraham or the patriarch Joseph.  If eternity has been going on in the "system"  13  with which the earth is now associated for 2,555,000,000 years, the materials from which the earth was created at a much more recent date may bear evidence of at least this degree of antiquity.  14  But even then it should be remembered that the elements are eternal in their duration  (McConkie)
THE EARTH WAS IN A DIFFERENT ROTATION This earthly ball, this little opake [opaque] substance  thrown off into space,  is only a speck in the great universe; and when it is celestialized  it will go back into the presence of God, where it was first framed.  All belongs to God, and those who keep his celestial law will return to him.  67 Such statements as those expressed above appear to be commentaries on Abraham's explanation that in the creation and placement of life upon the earth the Gods were operating on Kolob's time and, even after life had been placed upon the earth, they "had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning."  68  Such statements were first expressed at the time Joseph Smith was translating the Book of Abraham and preparing it for publication, and they appear to have their origin in explanations which the Prophet made to his associates.  69   All these statements indicate that the earth was in a different state of existence when it was first created than it is in now. Evidently a different law then governed it; it had a different relationship to other bodies in space than it has now, including our sun and the planets in our solar system; and its reckoning of time was the same as that of Kolob, which indicates that the earth was rotating according to the same law and program as that which pertains to Kolob.
AS MAN IS GOD ONCE WAS By opening the veil and revealing the nature and kind of being God is, Joseph the Prophet thereby made known in concurrent fashion what the nature and kind of being man is.  Man is of the same species as God, and as such has the capacity, through extended righteousness and faith, to rise to the station of a god . Our God is not possessive of god-hood, but is an exalted Father who pleads with his posterity with tender regard to follow the path he has already trod, a path which leads not only to the ultimate in joy and happiness, but also to a complete realization of all it was intended for man to become. The cup with its draught of possibilities beyond the grave runneth over, a cup extended to the obedient. The beckoning call of the Lord is, "Drink, then, the heavenly draught, and live
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At the end of the Millennium, the earth will pass through a veil and enter the celestial presence By and by, when each of these creations [worlds] has fulfilled the measure and bounds set and the times given for its continuance in a temporal state, it and its inhabitants who are worthy will be made celestial and glorified together. Then, from that time henceforth and forever,  there will be no intervening veil between God and His people who are sanctified and glorified, and He will not be under the necessity of withdrawing from one to go and visit another, because they will all be in His presence.  It matters not how far in space these creations may be located form any special celestial kingdom where the Lord our God shall dwell.  They will be able to see Him at all times. Why? Because it is only the fall, and the veil that has been shut down over this creation that keeps us from the presence of God.  Let the veil be removed, which now hinders us from beholding the glory of God and the celestial kingdom, [and we shall be in His presence].  5 Orson Pratt,  March 14, 1875, Salt Lake City, 16th Ward, reported by David W. Evans
NUMBER OF STARS IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY Inside our wheel-shaped galaxy  there exists between  100 and 200 billion stars.  This figure is an estimate, for no astronomer has counted them or ever seen them all.  Many stand in the line of sight of a closer star, and many more are hidden behind veils of dust.  Even if we could see them all, it would take 4,500 years to count them at a rate of one per second, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. If you were Noah and had lived from the flood until the present, and used all your time counting, you would just now be completing the task. This number is only the stars, how many more worlds and moons are there? Well could the number of Heavenly Father’s creations be described as “innumerable to man”.
W.W. Phelps was such a close confidant of the Prophet Joseph Smith that he was asked by Joseph’s family to preach at Joseph’s funeral. Six months later, Brother Phelps wrote a letter to William Smith, the prophet’s brother, to explain what was going on in Nauvoo. In this letter, published in the Church newspaper in 1845, Brother Phelps gives information apparently from the Prophet, but is published in no other source. Phelps shows that Christ, the Creator, has been about His Father’s business for over two and a half billion years! He wrote:  Well, now, Brother William, when the house of Israel begins to come into the glorious mysteries of the kingdom, and find Jesus Christ, whose going forth, as the prophets said, have been from of old, from eternity: and that eternity, agreeably to the records found in the catacombs of Egypt, has been going on in this system, (not this world) almost two thousand five hundred and fifty-five millions of years: . . . it almost tempts the flesh to fly to God, or muster faith like Enoch to be translated and see and know as we are seen and known!35 An eternity, according to Brother Phelps, is two billion, five hundred, fifty-five million  (2,555,000,000) years. Assuming these are earth years, we can convert them to God’s time. Since there are 1000 earth years in a day to the Lord, (Abraham Facsimile 1:1) there would be 365,000 earth years in one of God’s years. Therefore this two and one-half billion earth years expressed in God’s years is a neat 7000! An eternity = 2,555,000,000 earth years = 7,000 God years 365,000 earth-years
Latter-day Saints should be impressed with the above whole, round number; for  7,000 exactly matches in earth years the duration of the earth’s temporal or probationary period  (Doctrine and Covenants 77:6). Likewise, 7,000 God years is the duration of an eternity.  But saying he was from eternity (2.5 billion years ago) to eternity (perhaps another 2.5 billion years) gives us a way to understand him better.  Perhaps these numbers give us an exact meaning for the Savior coming in the “meridian” of time. (Moses 5:57)  The term “elder brother” hardly tells the great antiquity of this “first born among many brethren.” These facts should increase our love and admiration, if not astonishment, for Him, our Jehovah, the Lord Omnipotent. PHD Lynn Hilton from the Kolob Theorem
BOUNDS SET TO THE HEAVENS The idea that there may be a boundary or a limit to God’s works is hinted at in the revelation given to Joseph Smith at Liberty Jail: A time to come in the which nothing shall be withheld,  whether there be one God, or many gods , they shall be manifest. All thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, shall be revealed and set forth upon all who have endured valiantly for the gospel of Jesus Christ. And also if there be bounds set to the heavens or to the seas, or to the dry land, or to the sun, moon, or stars . . . All the times of their revolutions, all the appointed days, months, and years, and all the days of their days, months, and years, and all their glories, laws, and set times,  shall be revealed  in the days of the dispensation of the fullness of times. (Doctrine and  Covenants 121:28-31; emphasis added ).
SPEED OF THOUGHT Elder Melvin J. Ballard expressed the idea that the  three Nephites could move with the speed of thought.  He said “they had power over the elements of earth, power over the law of gravitation, by which they could move over the face of the earth, in the speed of their own thoughts”  61 Melvin J. Ballard,  The Path to Celestial Happiness, Deseret News, Oct 31, 1925 Brigham Young spoke concerning other worlds saying, “Worlds will continue to be made, formed and organized, and messengers from this earth will be sent to others . . . We shall make our home here [on the celestialized earth], and go on our missions as we do now, but at a greater than-railroad speed”.62  Brigham Young,  Journal of Discourses, Vol 8 page 200 What profound understatement, that such inter-world messengers would travel faster than a railroad train! Another illustration of this principle is the angel  Gabriel  who was “caused to fly swiftly”.  While the Prophet Daniel was praying, God commanded the angel to fly to earth and give him a message  . When he arrived , Daniel  was yet praying and the angel had to touch him to get his attention (Daniel 9:19-23).  The entire journey of Gabriel from the presence of God to Daniel on the earth took place in less time than Daniel’s prayer.  He must have traveled at the speed of thought.
CHRIST’S REVEALS HIMSELF TO THE BROTHER OF JARED The Lord stretched forth his  hand  and touched the stones one by one with his  finger . And the veil was taken from off the eyes of the Brother of Jared, and he saw the finger of the Lord . . . . And the Lord said unto him; Because of thy faith thou hast seen that I shall take upon me flesh and blood . . . .  Behold the Lord showed himself unto him and said . .  .I am he who was prepared from the foundation of the world to redeem my people, Behold, I am Jesus Christ . . .  this body which ye now behold is the body of my spirit;  and man have I created after the body of my spirit, and even as I appear unto thee to be in the spirit will I appear unto my people in the flesh” (Ether 3:6-16).
CONTINUE TO PROGRESS Joseph Smith said: When you  climb up a ladder , your must begin at the bottom, and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and  so it is with the principles of the gospel —you must begin with the first and go until you learn all the principles of exaltation.  But it will be a great while after you have passed through the veil before you will have learned them .  It is not all to be comprehended in this world: it will be a great work to learn our salvation and exaltation even beyond the grave.65  Joseph Smith, Quoted in the Contributor, October 1882 – September 1883, page 255-256, emphasis added
PARENTAGE OF ADAMS Joseph F. Smith explains:  God is a being with body, parts, and passions and …His Son is in His own likeness, and…man is created in the image of God.  The Son, Jesus Christ, grew and developed into manhood the same as you or I, as likewise did God, His Father grow and develop to the Supreme Being that He now is.  Man was born of woman; Christ, the Saviour, was born of woman and God, the Father, was born of woman.  Adam, our earthly parent, was also born of woman into this world, the same as Jesus and you and I.  (Deseret Evening News Dec. 27, 1913 Sec. III page 7) Elder Parley P. Pratt explains the loss of this knowledge: In after years, when Paradise was lost by sin; when man was driven from the face of his heavenly Father, to toil, and droop, and die, when heaven was veiled form view; and with few exceptions, man was no longer counted worthy to retain the knowledge of his heavenly origin; then, darkness veiled the past and future from the heathen mind; man neither knew himself, from whence he came, nor whither he bound.  At length a Moses came, who knew his god, and would fain have led mankind to know Him too, and see Him face to face.  But they could not receive His heavenly laws, or bide His presence.
CREATION OF ADAM Thus the holy man Moses was forced again to view the past in mystery, and, in the beginning of his history, assign to man an earthly origin.  Man, moulded from the earth, as a brick!  A woman, manufactured from a rib!  Thus parents still would fain conceal from budding manhood the mysteries of procreation, or the source of life’s ever flowing river, by relating some childish tale of new born life, engendered in the hollow trunk of some old tree, or springing with spontaneous growth, like mushrooms, from out of the heaps of rubbish.  O man! When wilt thou cease to be a child in knowledge.  (Pratt Key to Theology pp 49-50)
CONCEPTION OF ADAM From Elder Pratt’s explanation, it is evident that there are now hidden elements within the creation story: The scripture states that Adam was created “from the dust of the ground.” (Abra. 5:7, Moses 3:7 and Gene 2:7)  But this need not imply that he was formed by bringing the elements of the earth together arbitrarily, as man would to form a brick.  So also did each of Adam’s children become, by physical birth, “of dust a living soul.” (Moses 6:59)  Conception and birth constituted the process by which they were thus organized.  The same was true of Adam, although he was not a mortal being when he was placed in the garden.

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  • 1. PLAN OF SALVATION CAVEAT: This is an overview ( for missionaries ) of the Plan of Salvation in great detail. This is far more than should be taught to the investigator, but is given to you so that you can begin to get an idea of some of the fundamental parts of the overall plan. As stated in PMG at page 50 “When first teaching this doctrine, do not teach everything you know about it. Explain (it) very simply…” This is to be understood by the spirit and according to your level of understanding at this time. As you learn more, you will understand your divine nature and the teaching in Abraham 3:26 which states: “And they who keep their first estate (pre earth life) shall be added upon…and they who keep their second estate (earth life) shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.”
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  • 3. Pre-Mortal Life in our Heavenly Parents Celestial Kingdom The Pre-existence PLAN OF ETERNAL PROGRESSION WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THIS PLACE? 1. We are the offspring, spiritually born, of a heavenly father and a heavenly mother. 2. We lived in their heavenly home, the celestial kingdom, from the time we were born spiritually until the time we came to earth. 3. There was no evil initially in their celestial kingdom. 4. Lucifer, the Son of the Morning, originally a good guy, made choices that eventually turned out really bad for him and a 1/3 rd of the spiritual children of our Heavenly Parents. Let’s get more specific about what the Pre-Mortal Life was like. D & C 76:25: And thus we saw also, and bear record, that an angel of God who was in authority in the presence of God, who rebelled against the Only Begotten Son whom the Father loved and who was in the bosom of the Father, was thrust down from the presence of God and the Son, (26) And was called Perdition, for the heavens wept over him—he was Lucifer, a son of the morning.
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  • 5. The DEVELOPMENT of TALENTS During the long expanse of life which then was, an infinite variety of talents and abilities came into being. As the ages rolled, no two spirits remained alike. Mozart became a musician; Einstein centered his interest in mathematics; Michelangelo turned his attention to painting. Cain , was a liar, a schemer, a rebel who maintained a close affinity to Lucifer. Abraham and Moses and all of the prophets sought and obtained the talent for spirituality. Mary and Eve were two of the greatest of all the spirit daughters of the Father . The whole house of Israel, known and segregated out from their fellows, was inclined toward spiritual things. And so it went through all the hosts of heaven, each individual developing such talents and abilities as his soul desired (McConkie Mortal Messiah)
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  • 19. Celestial Spirit World Earth TWO GROUPS OF NOBLE AND GREAT ONES in the Pre EXISTENCE LITTLE CHILDRED (who die before 8) are tested and trained in the Celestial Kingdom and are briefly sent to earth to gain a body and then to the SPIRIT WORLD to form a great MISSIONARY FORCE. ( YOU) the NOBLE and GREAT ELDERS of this dispensation are tested and trained in the Celestial Kingdom and are sent to the EARTH to form a great MISSIONARY FORCE 1/3 of children lost This earth is filled with terrestial and telestial people that have to be taught and redeemed by us….. This spirit world is filled with terrestial and telestial people that have to be taught and redeemed by us….. There are so many of God’s children in both places that he has to have a way to work in both places
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  • 23. We come to EARTH through a VEIL that requires us to listen to Prophets and exercise faith to know WHO WE ARE and WHO WE WERE IN THE PRE EXISTENCE: Pres Joseph Fielding Smith: “Our Eternal Father was not experimenting when this world came into existence. It did not come by chance. It is not the first of his creations. Millions and millions of worlds such as this had rolled into existence before our earth was born . Every step taken was according to the divine plan, and that plan was an eternal one, which had been followed in the construction of other worlds without number unto man. In other words the plan of salvation had been given. Here we are enacting familiar scenes; scenes which are new to all mortal men, but which are well known to the Father and also to the Son.” (The Way to Perfection pp 35-36) Elder Kospischke, president of Area, says: “We just want you to remember who you once were.”
  • 24. FIRST ESTATE and THEN SECOND ESTATE President Harold B. Lee: “ Those born to the lineage of Jacob, who was later called to be Israel, as his posterity, who were known as the children of Israel, were born into the most illustrious lineage of any of those that came upon the earth as mortal beings. All these rewards were seemingly promised, or foreordained, before the world was. Surely these matters must have been determined by the kind of lives we had lived in that premortal spirit world …Isn’t it just as reasonable to believe that what we have received here in this earth (life ) was given to each of us according to the merits of our conduct before we came here. ” CR 1973 Oct. 7-8 NOW ON TO THE SECOND ESTATE
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  • 32. CELESTIAL GLORY-The Glory of the Sun The Glory of the Moon or the Terrestrial Kingdom The Glory of the Stars of the Telestial Kingdom THE THREE DEGREES OF GLORY These are the Principal Choices to which men on EARTH aspire. Each is a kingdom of Glory. And thus we saw…the glory of the Telestial, which surpasseth all comprehension. D C 76:89
  • 33. HOWEVER WE PRINCIPALLY ASPIRE TO THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM
  • 34. The Celestial Kingdom In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees, and in order to obtain the highest, a man must enter into this order of the priesthood (meaning the new and everlasting covenant of marriage). And if he does not, he cannot obtain it. He may enter into the other, but that is the end of his kingdom; he cannot have an increase. Sec 131 THIS ISSUE OF INCREASE BECOMES A DEFINING DIFFERENCE in GODHOOD
  • 35. The Celestial Kingdom “ a continuation of the seeds” forever means increase or children… D & C 132: 19 …and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their exaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the seeds forever and ever. 20. Then shall they be gods, because they have no end ; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting, because they continue ; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject unto them. Dallin H. Oaks: “The power to create mortal life is the most exalted power God has given his children. The use of this creative power was mandated by the first commandment, to “be fruitful, and multiply” Gen 1:28. Other important commandments forbade its misuse (“Thou shalt not commit adultery” Ex 20:14 and “Abstain from fornication” 1 Thes. 4:3) The emphasis we place on these expressions of the law of chastity is explained by our understanding of the purpose of our procreative powers in the accomplishment of God’s Plan.” Seminar for Mission Pres. 2010
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  • 38. Bible Dictionary page 700: FOR SPIRITS IN SPIRIT PRISON: “It is between death and the resurrection, and persons who receive the telestial glory will abide there until the last resurrection (D & C 76: 84-85, 106) at which time they will go to the telestial glory. Hell as thus defined, will have an end, when all the captive spirits have paid the price of their sins and enter into a degree of glory after their resurrection. Statements about an everlasting hell must be interpreted in their proper context in light of D & C 19:4-12, which defines eternal and endless punishment. FOR SATAN, THE 1/3 rd and SONS OF PERDITION: “… are assigned to a place spoken of as a lake of fire—a figure of eternal anguish. This kind of hell, which is after the resurrection and judgment, is exclusively for the devil and his angels, and is not the same as that consisting only of the period between death and resurrection. These receive no glory. They continue in spiritual darkness.
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  • 41. YOU HAVE ALREADY PASSED THE FIRST TEST AND WERE VALIANT You are well on your way in the SECOND TEST (SECOND ESTATE) as you have: FAITH, REPENTENCE, BAPTISM, GIFT of the HOLY GHOST and are now missionaries. You have received the ORDINANCES OF THE TEMPLE which endow you with POWER. You now must ENDURE TO THE END, serving as missionaries in the Armies of the Lord to help the Savior “bring to pass the immortality and eternal life” of OTHERS.
  • 42. LIFE IS SHORT ETERNITY IS FOREVER PASS THE TEST OF LIFE
  • 43. The ORIGEN of MAN Elder Boyd K. Packer at the Book of Mormon Symposium BYU 30 Oct 1988 Summed it all up this way: “ By His almighty power He organized the earth , and all that it contains, from Spirit and element, which exist co-eternally with Himself. He formed every plant that grows, and every animal that breathes, each after its own kind, spiritually and temporally—”that which is spiritual being in the likeness of that which is temporal, and that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual.” He made the tadpole and the ape, the lion and the elephant but He did not make them in His own image, nor endow them with Godlike reason and intelligence . Nevertheless, the whole animal creation will be perfected and perpetuated in the Hereafter, each class in its “distinct order or sphere,” and will enjoy “eternal felicity.” That fact has been made plain in this dispensation (D & C 77:3) Man is the child of God, formed in the divine image and endowed with divine attributes, and even as the infant son of an earthly father and mother is capable in due time of becoming a man, so the undeveloped offspring of celestial parentage is capable, by experience through ages and aeons, of evolving into a god.
  • 44. TALENTS FROM PRE EARTH LIFE? During the long expanse of life which then was, an infinite variety of talents and abilities came into being. As the ages rolled, no two spirits remained alike. Mozart became a musician; Einstein centered his interest in mathematics; Michelangelo turned his attention to painting. Cain , was a liar, a schemer, a rebel who maintained a close affinity to Lucifer. Abraham and Moses and all of the prophets sought and obtained the talent for spirituality. Mary and Eve were two of the greatest of all the spirit daughters of the Father . The whole house of Israel, known and segregated out from their fellows, was inclined toward spiritual things. And so it went through all the hosts of heaven, each individual developing such talents and abilities as his soul desired (McConkie Mortal Messiah)
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  • 46. LEARN TO BE GOD Thus Joseph Smith said, " You have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves , and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one ; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings, and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power." ( Teachings , pp. 346-47.) Christ our Lord has so obtained, thus enabling him to say to the faithful: "Ye shall be even as I am, and I am even as the Father." ( 3 Ne. 28:10 ) Joseph Smith the Prophet thus gave the supreme definition of eternal life : " Here, then, is eternal life-to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you
  • 47. AGE OF THE ELEMENTS “ The scriptural accounts of the creation deal only with the organization of the earth in preparation for the time when Adam, Eve , and the lower forms of life were placed upon it. Prior to that time, the elements of which the earth was composed had an eternal existence . In a letter dated Christmas day, 1844, William W. Phelps wrote to William Smith, the Prophet's brother, "that Jesus Christ, whose goings forth, as the prophets said, have been from of old, from eternity; and that eternity, agreeable to the records found in the catacombs of Egypt [i.e., an unpublished portion of the ancient records from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Abraham], has been going on in this system (not this world), almost two thousand five hundred and fifty five millions of years." 12 The importance of this statement is that it seems to have its basis in something Joseph Smith may have translated but did not publish in the writings of Abraham or the patriarch Joseph. If eternity has been going on in the "system" 13 with which the earth is now associated for 2,555,000,000 years, the materials from which the earth was created at a much more recent date may bear evidence of at least this degree of antiquity. 14 But even then it should be remembered that the elements are eternal in their duration (McConkie)
  • 48. THE EARTH WAS IN A DIFFERENT ROTATION This earthly ball, this little opake [opaque] substance thrown off into space, is only a speck in the great universe; and when it is celestialized it will go back into the presence of God, where it was first framed. All belongs to God, and those who keep his celestial law will return to him. 67 Such statements as those expressed above appear to be commentaries on Abraham's explanation that in the creation and placement of life upon the earth the Gods were operating on Kolob's time and, even after life had been placed upon the earth, they "had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning." 68 Such statements were first expressed at the time Joseph Smith was translating the Book of Abraham and preparing it for publication, and they appear to have their origin in explanations which the Prophet made to his associates. 69 All these statements indicate that the earth was in a different state of existence when it was first created than it is in now. Evidently a different law then governed it; it had a different relationship to other bodies in space than it has now, including our sun and the planets in our solar system; and its reckoning of time was the same as that of Kolob, which indicates that the earth was rotating according to the same law and program as that which pertains to Kolob.
  • 49. AS MAN IS GOD ONCE WAS By opening the veil and revealing the nature and kind of being God is, Joseph the Prophet thereby made known in concurrent fashion what the nature and kind of being man is. Man is of the same species as God, and as such has the capacity, through extended righteousness and faith, to rise to the station of a god . Our God is not possessive of god-hood, but is an exalted Father who pleads with his posterity with tender regard to follow the path he has already trod, a path which leads not only to the ultimate in joy and happiness, but also to a complete realization of all it was intended for man to become. The cup with its draught of possibilities beyond the grave runneth over, a cup extended to the obedient. The beckoning call of the Lord is, "Drink, then, the heavenly draught, and live
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  • 57. At the end of the Millennium, the earth will pass through a veil and enter the celestial presence By and by, when each of these creations [worlds] has fulfilled the measure and bounds set and the times given for its continuance in a temporal state, it and its inhabitants who are worthy will be made celestial and glorified together. Then, from that time henceforth and forever, there will be no intervening veil between God and His people who are sanctified and glorified, and He will not be under the necessity of withdrawing from one to go and visit another, because they will all be in His presence. It matters not how far in space these creations may be located form any special celestial kingdom where the Lord our God shall dwell. They will be able to see Him at all times. Why? Because it is only the fall, and the veil that has been shut down over this creation that keeps us from the presence of God. Let the veil be removed, which now hinders us from beholding the glory of God and the celestial kingdom, [and we shall be in His presence]. 5 Orson Pratt, March 14, 1875, Salt Lake City, 16th Ward, reported by David W. Evans
  • 58. NUMBER OF STARS IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY Inside our wheel-shaped galaxy there exists between 100 and 200 billion stars. This figure is an estimate, for no astronomer has counted them or ever seen them all. Many stand in the line of sight of a closer star, and many more are hidden behind veils of dust. Even if we could see them all, it would take 4,500 years to count them at a rate of one per second, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. If you were Noah and had lived from the flood until the present, and used all your time counting, you would just now be completing the task. This number is only the stars, how many more worlds and moons are there? Well could the number of Heavenly Father’s creations be described as “innumerable to man”.
  • 59. W.W. Phelps was such a close confidant of the Prophet Joseph Smith that he was asked by Joseph’s family to preach at Joseph’s funeral. Six months later, Brother Phelps wrote a letter to William Smith, the prophet’s brother, to explain what was going on in Nauvoo. In this letter, published in the Church newspaper in 1845, Brother Phelps gives information apparently from the Prophet, but is published in no other source. Phelps shows that Christ, the Creator, has been about His Father’s business for over two and a half billion years! He wrote: Well, now, Brother William, when the house of Israel begins to come into the glorious mysteries of the kingdom, and find Jesus Christ, whose going forth, as the prophets said, have been from of old, from eternity: and that eternity, agreeably to the records found in the catacombs of Egypt, has been going on in this system, (not this world) almost two thousand five hundred and fifty-five millions of years: . . . it almost tempts the flesh to fly to God, or muster faith like Enoch to be translated and see and know as we are seen and known!35 An eternity, according to Brother Phelps, is two billion, five hundred, fifty-five million (2,555,000,000) years. Assuming these are earth years, we can convert them to God’s time. Since there are 1000 earth years in a day to the Lord, (Abraham Facsimile 1:1) there would be 365,000 earth years in one of God’s years. Therefore this two and one-half billion earth years expressed in God’s years is a neat 7000! An eternity = 2,555,000,000 earth years = 7,000 God years 365,000 earth-years
  • 60. Latter-day Saints should be impressed with the above whole, round number; for 7,000 exactly matches in earth years the duration of the earth’s temporal or probationary period (Doctrine and Covenants 77:6). Likewise, 7,000 God years is the duration of an eternity. But saying he was from eternity (2.5 billion years ago) to eternity (perhaps another 2.5 billion years) gives us a way to understand him better. Perhaps these numbers give us an exact meaning for the Savior coming in the “meridian” of time. (Moses 5:57) The term “elder brother” hardly tells the great antiquity of this “first born among many brethren.” These facts should increase our love and admiration, if not astonishment, for Him, our Jehovah, the Lord Omnipotent. PHD Lynn Hilton from the Kolob Theorem
  • 61. BOUNDS SET TO THE HEAVENS The idea that there may be a boundary or a limit to God’s works is hinted at in the revelation given to Joseph Smith at Liberty Jail: A time to come in the which nothing shall be withheld, whether there be one God, or many gods , they shall be manifest. All thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, shall be revealed and set forth upon all who have endured valiantly for the gospel of Jesus Christ. And also if there be bounds set to the heavens or to the seas, or to the dry land, or to the sun, moon, or stars . . . All the times of their revolutions, all the appointed days, months, and years, and all the days of their days, months, and years, and all their glories, laws, and set times, shall be revealed in the days of the dispensation of the fullness of times. (Doctrine and Covenants 121:28-31; emphasis added ).
  • 62. SPEED OF THOUGHT Elder Melvin J. Ballard expressed the idea that the three Nephites could move with the speed of thought. He said “they had power over the elements of earth, power over the law of gravitation, by which they could move over the face of the earth, in the speed of their own thoughts” 61 Melvin J. Ballard, The Path to Celestial Happiness, Deseret News, Oct 31, 1925 Brigham Young spoke concerning other worlds saying, “Worlds will continue to be made, formed and organized, and messengers from this earth will be sent to others . . . We shall make our home here [on the celestialized earth], and go on our missions as we do now, but at a greater than-railroad speed”.62 Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol 8 page 200 What profound understatement, that such inter-world messengers would travel faster than a railroad train! Another illustration of this principle is the angel Gabriel who was “caused to fly swiftly”. While the Prophet Daniel was praying, God commanded the angel to fly to earth and give him a message . When he arrived , Daniel was yet praying and the angel had to touch him to get his attention (Daniel 9:19-23). The entire journey of Gabriel from the presence of God to Daniel on the earth took place in less time than Daniel’s prayer. He must have traveled at the speed of thought.
  • 63. CHRIST’S REVEALS HIMSELF TO THE BROTHER OF JARED The Lord stretched forth his hand and touched the stones one by one with his finger . And the veil was taken from off the eyes of the Brother of Jared, and he saw the finger of the Lord . . . . And the Lord said unto him; Because of thy faith thou hast seen that I shall take upon me flesh and blood . . . . Behold the Lord showed himself unto him and said . . .I am he who was prepared from the foundation of the world to redeem my people, Behold, I am Jesus Christ . . . this body which ye now behold is the body of my spirit; and man have I created after the body of my spirit, and even as I appear unto thee to be in the spirit will I appear unto my people in the flesh” (Ether 3:6-16).
  • 64. CONTINUE TO PROGRESS Joseph Smith said: When you climb up a ladder , your must begin at the bottom, and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and so it is with the principles of the gospel —you must begin with the first and go until you learn all the principles of exaltation. But it will be a great while after you have passed through the veil before you will have learned them . It is not all to be comprehended in this world: it will be a great work to learn our salvation and exaltation even beyond the grave.65 Joseph Smith, Quoted in the Contributor, October 1882 – September 1883, page 255-256, emphasis added
  • 65. PARENTAGE OF ADAMS Joseph F. Smith explains: God is a being with body, parts, and passions and …His Son is in His own likeness, and…man is created in the image of God. The Son, Jesus Christ, grew and developed into manhood the same as you or I, as likewise did God, His Father grow and develop to the Supreme Being that He now is. Man was born of woman; Christ, the Saviour, was born of woman and God, the Father, was born of woman. Adam, our earthly parent, was also born of woman into this world, the same as Jesus and you and I. (Deseret Evening News Dec. 27, 1913 Sec. III page 7) Elder Parley P. Pratt explains the loss of this knowledge: In after years, when Paradise was lost by sin; when man was driven from the face of his heavenly Father, to toil, and droop, and die, when heaven was veiled form view; and with few exceptions, man was no longer counted worthy to retain the knowledge of his heavenly origin; then, darkness veiled the past and future from the heathen mind; man neither knew himself, from whence he came, nor whither he bound. At length a Moses came, who knew his god, and would fain have led mankind to know Him too, and see Him face to face. But they could not receive His heavenly laws, or bide His presence.
  • 66. CREATION OF ADAM Thus the holy man Moses was forced again to view the past in mystery, and, in the beginning of his history, assign to man an earthly origin. Man, moulded from the earth, as a brick! A woman, manufactured from a rib! Thus parents still would fain conceal from budding manhood the mysteries of procreation, or the source of life’s ever flowing river, by relating some childish tale of new born life, engendered in the hollow trunk of some old tree, or springing with spontaneous growth, like mushrooms, from out of the heaps of rubbish. O man! When wilt thou cease to be a child in knowledge. (Pratt Key to Theology pp 49-50)
  • 67. CONCEPTION OF ADAM From Elder Pratt’s explanation, it is evident that there are now hidden elements within the creation story: The scripture states that Adam was created “from the dust of the ground.” (Abra. 5:7, Moses 3:7 and Gene 2:7) But this need not imply that he was formed by bringing the elements of the earth together arbitrarily, as man would to form a brick. So also did each of Adam’s children become, by physical birth, “of dust a living soul.” (Moses 6:59) Conception and birth constituted the process by which they were thus organized. The same was true of Adam, although he was not a mortal being when he was placed in the garden.