Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher: A DiscourseRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher: A Discourse
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Apologetic works; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
One other reflection on this definition. Note the words in it:
"Knowledge of things * * * as they are to come." This presents a view
of Truth seldom if ever met with. It gives the idea of movement. Truth
is not a stagnant pool, but a living fountain; not a Dead Sea without
tides or currents; on the contrary it is an ocean, immeasurably great,
vast, co-extensive with the Universe--it is the Universe--
bright-heaving, boundless, endless and sublime! Moving in majestic
currents, uplifted by tides in ceaseless ebb and flow; variant but
orderly; taking on new forms from ever-changing combinations; new
adjustments; new relations--multiplying itself in ten thousand times
ten thousand ways; ever reflecting the intelligence of the Infinite;
and declaring alike in its whispers and in its thunders, the hived
wisdom of the ages--of God!
AS TO THINGS--EXISTENCES: We are next to consider the universe in
which men, angels, archangels and Gods--Intelligences all--live.
"There are many kingdoms * * * and there is no space in the which
there is no kingdom; and there is no kingdom in the which there is no
space."
This was said by Joseph Smith in 1832. The context of the passage
makes it clear that "kingdoms" here are not groups of men or nations
over which a monarch reigns; but substance, matter, worlds and systems
of worlds, under the dominion of law, and Intelligences. It is the
doctrine of the eternal and everywhere existence of matter and space.
It is a description of the universe as far as it is describable. But
let us think of the passage a moment; for it requires thought to
rightly apprehend it.
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