The Seventy's Course in Theology, Second Year: Outline History of the Dispensations of the GospelRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Seventy's Course in Theology, Second Year: Outline History of the Dispensations of the Gospel
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
What do we learn from all this? First, let it be re-called that
according to the express word of God "intelligences" are not created,
neither indeed can they be. Now, with the above revelation from the
Book of Mormon concerning the spirit-body of Jesus, before us, we
are face to face with a something that was begotten, and in that
sense a "creation," a spirit, the "first born of many brethren;" the
"beginning of the creations of God." The spirit is in human form--for
we are told that as Christ's spirit-body looked to Jared's brother, so
would the Christ look to men when he came among them in the flesh; the
body of flesh conforming to the appearance of the spirit, the earthly
to the heavenly. "This body which ye now behold is the body of my
spirit"--the house, the tenement of that uncreated intelligence which
had been begotten of the Father a spirit, as later that spirit-body
with the intelligent, uncreated entity inhabiting it, will be begotten
a man. "This body which you now behold is the body of my spirit,"
or spirit-body. There can be no doubt but what here "spirit," as in
the Book of Abraham, is used interchangeably with "intelligence,"
and refers to the uncreated entity; as if the passage stood; "This
is the body inhabited by an intelligence." The intelligent entity
inhabiting a spirit-body make up the spiritual personage. It is this
spirit life we have so often thought about, and sang about. In this
state of existence occurred the spirit's "primeval childhood;" here
spirits were "nurtured" near the side of the heavenly Father, in his
"high and glorious place;" thence spirits were sent to earth to unite
spirit-elements with earth-elements--in some way essential to a fulness
of glory and happiness (Doc. & Cov. Sec. xciii:32-35)--and to learn
the lessons earth-life had to teach. The half awakened recollections
of the human mind may be chiefly engaged with scenes, incidents
and impressions of that spirit life; but that does not argue the
non-existence of the uncreated intelligences who preceded the begotten
spiritual personage as so plainly set forth in the revelations of God.
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