Adam-ondi-Ahman.--Says Joseph the Seer: "I saw Adam in the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman. He called together his children and blessed them with a patriarchal blessing." [12] The vision was of course retrospective, having reference to the time when Adam dwelt on earth. The same event is more fully set forth as follows: "Three years previous to the death of Adam, he called Seth Enos Cainan Mahalaleel Jared Enoch and Methuselah, who were all High Priests, with the residue of his posterity who were righteous, into the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and there bestowed upon them his last blessing. "And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the Prince, the Archangel. "And the Lord administered comfort unto Adam, and said unto him, I have set thee to be at the head--a multitude of nations shall come of thee, and thou art a prince over them forever. "And Adam stood up in the midst of the congregation, and notwithstanding he was bowed down with age, being full of the Holy Ghost, predicted whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation." [13] Ancient of Days.--But Adam is to come again--is to come as the Ancient of Days, fulfilling the prophecy of Daniel. [14] And he will come to the very place where, bowed with the weight of more than nine centuries, [15] he blessed his posterity before the ending of his earthy career. In the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman [16] will sit the Ancient of Days, counseling his children--all who are worthy of that high privilege--and preparing them for the coming of the Son of God. A Close Relationship.--I have said that the Gospel dispensations are inter-related. It need only be added that the mighty patriarchal blessing--the mightiest ever given--in which Father Adam forecast the history of the human race, taken in connection with his prospective advent into the midst of his righteous descendants, upon the precise spot where he bestowed his farewell benediction and uttered his wonderful world-covering prophecy, indicates a very close relationship between the First and the Final dispensations of the Gospel. Footnotes 1. Hist. Ch. Vol 4, pp. 208, 209. In this connection we are told that Adam's son Abel holds "the keys of his dispensation;" that is to say, of the First Dispensation, the one in which Abel figured (D. and C. 84:16). And yet it is called the Adamic Dispensation, for Adam also figured therein. 2. Moses 5:4-8. 3. Gen. 4:4. 4. Ib. 4:5; Heb. 11:4. 5. Hist. Ch. Vol. 4, pp. 208, 209. 6. Moses 6:64-66. 7. Ib. 5:58,59. 8. Alma 40:8.