[Footnote A: The Three Personagess. "Everlasting covenants was made between three personages before the organization of this earth, and relates to their dispensation of things to men on the earth: these personages, according to Abraham's record, are called God the first, the Creator; God the second, the Redeemer; and God the third, the Witness or Testator."--Little & Richards' Compendium--Gems from the Prophet's Teachings--p. 289.] [Footnote B: Doc. & Cov., Sec. xciii:26-35. Book of Moses, Pearl of Great Price, ch. iii., II Nephi ch. ii; also New Witnesses for God, Vol III, ch xl. where the matter is discussed at great length.] Jesus himself taught that he and his Father were one,[A] that whosoever had seen him had seen the Father also;[B] that it was part of his mission to reveal God, the Father, through his own personality; for as was the Son, so too was the Father;[C] hence Jesus was God manifested in the flesh, a revelation of God to the world;[D] a revelation not only of the being of God, but of the kind of being God is. [Footnote A: John x:30; xvii:11-22.] [Footnote B: John xiv:9.] [Footnote C: John xiv:1-9; John 1:8.] [Footnote D: I Tim. iii:16.] [Footnote: Eph iii:14-19.] Jesus also prayed--and in so doing showed in what the oneness of himself and the Father consisted--that the disciples might be one with him, and also with each other, as he and the Father were one. Not one in person, not all merged into one individual, and all distinctions of personality lost; but one in mind, in knowledge, in love, in will; one by reason of the indwelling in all of the one spirit, even as the mind and will of God, the Father, was also in Jesus Christ.[A] [Footnote A: John xiv:10, 11, 19, 20.] _2. The Separate Individual Existence of the Father:_ The existence of God, the Father, both Jesus and the Apostles accepted as a reality. Jesus nowhere attempts to prove God's existence. He assumes that and proceeds from that basis with his doctrine. He declares the fact that God was his Father and frequently calls himself the Son of God, and prays to the Father in that capacity: "As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father. * * * Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life for the sheep. * * * This commandment have I received of my Father. * * * The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. * * * For which of those do ye stone me? The Jews answered him. * * * Because that that thou being a man makest thyself God. * * * Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not."[A] [Footnote A: St. John x.] The statement of Jesus when instituting the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper: "I will not drink hence forth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom."[A] [Footnote A: Matt xxvi:29.]