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CHAPTER IV

rise progress decline and loss of the science of th

theology
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light by
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PREFACE
AOE

the present
p re isnfagqoirf progress
progres change Kof rapid
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& of wonderful revo
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the very foundations of society social

soci
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mercial moral and religions
mighty earthquake from
fromcentre
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tocircunu
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things tremble creation groans j the world isisintravail
in travali
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A new era has dawned upon our planet and is
is advancing
with accelerated force with giant strides
mc
the rail roads and the steam
railroads steamboats
boats with their pro-
gressive improvements in speed safety and convenience are
gressive
extending and multiplying the mean
meanss of travel of trade
of association and intercommunication between
countries
whose inhabitants have been comparatively unknown to
or estranged from each other
xii PBEFACE
PREFACE

but as if even these means were too slow for the god-
like aspirations the mighty throes of human thoughts
thought and
its struggles for light and expansion man seizes the
ybduesit
lightning tames and dubue
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land
band and makes it the bearer
of his thoughts anddespatches
and despatches
dispatches
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while these things are
in progress by one portionof
portion of mankind another learns to
seize and control a sunbeam
sunbeam in a manner subservient to
the progress
r of the fine arts and by which means a
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while every science everyailoilbeing

everyvartsgi being developed
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tosnewlhbught
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windows of heaven are opened asl
asi were andtheprofound
asitwere and the profound
depths of human intellect arestirr6d
are stirred moved from the
religion knowledge seems
foundation on all other subjects religious sems
at a stand still ni 1

the creeds of the fathers seem to have been cast

ofiotkeri a gesto
in the mould ofiotlferaages ie adapted to a more
ao be
ofjntollectiial
narrow sphere offdntellectual development and to be com-
intellectual
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least not sufficiently elastic to expand with the expansion
of mind to grow with the growth and advance with the
progressive principles of the age
 PREFACE sill
thesdrea
for thesdrea
theodrea
these sdnsiperh4
reasons oi6tlian
perhaps m ore any Oothei
iii
than dri thee
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the mas-
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the age are breaking loose from the old moor-
ings
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withdrawing from established and venerated
systems whiba means go
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161

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wi a nucleus by w hi hich to concentrate
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immutable truth instead
insteadof of numberless systems founded on
XIV PREFACE

uncertainty opinion mere human impression or con-

jecture

can anything short of such a standard unite society

enlighten the world establishh real peace brotherhood
and fellowship and put a finai
final end to all religious
ignorance superstition jargon or discord Is not a dif-
ference of opinion or a disagreement on any given subject
a proof positive of existing ignorance or want of light
or information on the part of the parties disagreeing
if so the present age is certainly in the dark or in a
great measure ignorant on religious subjects A knowledge
of the truth can alone bring the desired union and bid
discord cease if the scriptures be true it is not religious
inan which will cover the earth and universally pervade
inwn
opinion
op
every bosom but it is a KNOWLEDGE the knowledge of
god godis tath to know him is to know the truth
bodis truth

the present volume aims to embody in a concise and

somewhat original manner and style a general view of the
science of theology as gathered from revelation history
prophecy reason and analogy

if the work proves an introductory key to some of the

princi
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plei
 PREFACE XV

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facts of the past the present and the future if it leads to
investigation and inquiry and calls public attention to the
greater and more particular truths which have been or are
about to be revealed as a standard by which to unite the
people of all nations and of all religions upon the rock
the sure foundation of divine eternal uncreated infinite
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CHAPTER 1I
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THEOLOGY
TIIEOLOGY ITS definition historical illustrations

1ciencel I1 who would fathom thee

eternal science thief
must launch his
las shrell ss
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thy knowledge yet shall overwhelm
overwhe
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and man immortal still shall own thy sway
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first THEOLOGY is the science of communication

or of correspondence between god angels spirits
and men by means of visions dreams interpreta-
tions conversations inspirations or the spirit
sT irit of
prophecy and reve latim
revelation
second it is the science by which worlds are
organized sustained and directed and the elements
controlled
third it is the science of knowledge andtho
and the
key and power thereof by which the heaven rare
heaventare
Tare
are
opened and lawful access is obtained to the treasures
of wisdom and intelligence inexhaustible infinite
embracing the past the present and the future
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fourth it is the science of life endless and

eternal by which the living are changed or translated
and the dead raised
fifth it is the science of faith reformation
and remission of sins whereby a fallen race of
mortals may be justified cleansed and restored to
the communion and fellowship of that holy spirit
which is the light of the world and of every
intelligence therein 1I

sixth it is the science of spiritual gifts by

which the blind see the deaf hear the lame walk
the sick are healed and demons are expelled from
the human system
seventh it is the science of all other sciences and
useful arts being in fact the very fountain from which
they emanate it includes philosophy astronomy
history mathematics geography
ged graphy languages the
science of letters 5 and blends the knowledge
of all m matters of fact in every branch of art or of
research it includes also all the scientific dis-
co ari
veries and inventions agriculture
coveries arl culture tlle
the mechanical
tile
arts architecture shipbuilding the properties and
mariners compass navigatio
applications of the marinero
mariners navi gatio n
navigation
and music all that is useful great and good all
that is calculated to sustain comfort instruct edify
purify
purity refine or exalt intelligences originated by
this science and this science alone all other
sciences being but branches growing out of tris this
theriol
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some of the facts stated in the foregoing
are beautifully illustrated in theological history
of which the following is an imperfect summary
god spake and the worlds were framed by his
word
he spake darkness dispersed an
and light
dlight prevailed
he commanded and the elements water and earth
separated and assumed their proper bounds
he comcommanded
M anded and the earth brought forth
vegetable and animal life in countless variety
he commanded and man male and female
took upon them a tabernacle of flesh and pre-
pared to multiply and perpetuate their species in
thenew
shenew
the new creation
the lord god planted a garden and thus
introduced agriculture
he made coats of skins hence the tailors art
the lord god commanded and gave pattern
for noahs
moahs ark thus introducing the art of ship-
building
he revealed the patterns for the tabernacle in
the wil derne sa
wilberne
wilderne
wll
wilderness
s6 with all its arrangements and furni-
ture and afterwards developed the entire plan and
alithe
ail the designs of that most stupendous of all works
ali
all
of ann
art the great temple of solomon with all its
arn
furniture thus developing and improving the art art of
drt
architecture
the lord god wrote with his own finger on
the tables of stone on mount sinai thus
4 KEY TO THEOLOGY

showing that the science of letters was cultivated

and used by the highest intelligence of the eternal
heavens
the lord goa
god hasha revealed by ezekiel the
prophet a plan for the survey and division of
palestine to the twelve tribes of israel on their
return to the land ok 01 their fathers also sor
dbr
dor
laying out the new city of jerusalem with lis its
squares blocks public grounds and suburbsa
its temple
suburb sa
suburbs and
suburbia na

thus theology includes the surveyors art and

the planning of cities as well as temples ana ani
and
shows that these arts are arecultivated
cultivated in heaven and
that the very highest intelligence of the heavenof
heaven of
heavenor
heavens stoops or condescends to grace these arts
by his own particular attention and example
in the revelation of john the apostle on the
isle of patmos we have a specimen a masterpiece
a climax of uil
ill that is great and grand in design
ail
ali
all
and splendid and glorious in execution in cities
thrones palaces streets pavements out ontgrounds
gates walks squares fountains rivulets gardens
fruits groves specimens of dress poetry song
music marriage bridal dress feasting books bookil
literature public worship prophesying prayer and
praise as existing in and around the palaces of
the new jerusalem the capital of heaven the seat
of government of the eternal king
the very gates of the city are numbered and
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 5
namedtogether
named with
ivith the particular names of the
together avith
precious stones forming the foundations thereof 5
the gold which composed the pavement pav emefif of the
streets all are portrayed in the description
and what is still more marvellous
marvellous all this
marcellous
i
surpassing grandeur of degl gn and stupendous
design
dedi agn
wisdom and display in execution were explored
and described by a poor
comprehended anddescribed poo illiterate
fisherman by the aid of the science and arg arts of
theology
having reviewed some of the works of the
great head the president or first teacher in the
school of theology we will still continue the historic
illustrations of this wonderful science as developed
and exemplified by the most eminent students and
professors of the same
by this science adam obtained from his father
the
tlle
tile promise of the eternal dominion over the
planet on which he was placed
by this science enoch overcame death and
ascended to a higher sphere of immortality and
eternal life without even being separated from his
fleshly tabernacle
by tills
tilis science noali foretold the flood
this
eventtand
eventand
prepared to meet the even and with liis
ills family
ilis ifiamily
survived the sarlie
same and became the greatest landed
sarile
proprietor since adam
by the perversion and unlawful use of this science
king nimrod built the stupendous tower of babel
6 KEY TO THEOLOGY

but was frustrated and ana his works were dest destroyed
royed
royeA
before their completion
by this science various tongues and languages
were instituted and colonies the germs of nations
planted be yond the seas and in all the earth
beyond
by this science abraham escaped the idolatry
and prieste raft of the egyptians and of the world
priestcraft
around him obtained a good land secured to him
and his seed by an immutable oath covenant and
an everlasting unchangeable title titie
by this science he conversed with angels and
favour
was favoureded with a personal interview with the
great head and founder of the science who whobecame
became
his guest and after eating and drinking with him M1
b
blessed him and his wife promised them an heir
in their old age and finally on par parling
parting
fing told him
his desi-
design neighbourho
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neighbour hood
hood
by this science lot escaped the flames of sodom
the knowledge being communicated by two angels
by this science isaac and jacob also obtained
promises and conversed with angels i

by it joseph was exalted from a dungeon to a

palace for the salvation
salvat ion froin famine ofa nation
lon from
and of his fathers house
by this science moses performed his wonders twonders
red sea and in the wilde
in egypt in the eed i
wilderness
rfiess
ruiess
by the perversion and unlawful use ofaissciene
of this selence
sciencee
the magicians of egypt withstood mos moses for a timp
oor
es fow time
and performed their enchantments
enchant ments
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 7

by this science joshua controlled the motions of

the earth and lengthened out the day by a simple
command
by this science thetile walls of jericho were levelled
tlle level
bevelled
led
with the earth and the tile city was taken
tlle
by this science the jordan river was divided
while a nation crossed dry shod to take possession
of the
tile and
tlle promised 1Iland
by this science elijah controlled the heavens
that it rained not for three years and six months
in palestine and by it lie ile called forth and restored
he
lle
rain
by it he overthrew the tile priests of baal and
tlle
the kin 1zom of ahab put an end to the royal
kingdom
tilis idolatrous king and placed jehu on
family of tills
this
the throne
by it he rose like enoch to a higher sphere
without returning to dust
by this science samuel prophesied raised up
a mighty king and nation and afterwards dethroner dethroned
saul and exalted an obscure shepherd boy to the
throne of Is
israel
rael
by this science isaiah jeremiah ezekiel daniel
and others foretold the fate of babylon egypt
tyre jerusalem and other cities and nations and
the exact career and final doom of nebuchadnezzar
beite sh azzar cyrus and other great and important
belteshazzar
belte shaszar
shazzar
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personages who wilo were destined in turn to influence
wiio
and decidwthe
decide1 the fate ofila
decided of nations
ofilation
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by this science the furnace of fire was overcome

and the mouths of lions were closed that no harm
should befall the holy men of god
by this science zachariah elizabeth john the
baptist simeon anna joseph mary the wise men
from the east and the shepherds of judea enjoyed
visions communion with angels and the spirit
of prophecy so as to understand and welcome with
joy the events of the birth and approaching ministry
of jesus christ when as yet all those not versed
in this science were in darkness on the subject and
as liable to reject the saviour as to receive him
dreams and visions enjoyed by means of this
science led and protected the son of god in all his
career of mortal life
finally by this same power a mighty angel
frighten
descended shook the earth frightenedthe the roman
edthe
frightened
1Iawards rolled away the great stone broke the seal
of the tomb and called to life the sleeping body of
jesus christ
by this power the risen jesus eating drinking
and conversing with his disciples after his resurrec-
tion commissioned and instructed them in the same
science ordained them to act in thetile same and to
tlle
impart its power to others in all the world with
signs following them that believed 1

by this science he ascended to the father and

lives for ever in the flesh to shed forth the gifts
and powers of the same science according to his own
I1
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 9

will and the

thet will
ntiltof als father to reign henceforth
ais
of his
until he descends to the earth conquers death
in a last great conflict and puts all enemies under
his feet
by this same power his apostles being clothed
with the full powers of the same on the day of
pentecost ministered the powers and knowledge
nowledge
of this science to others loth both jew and gentile
insomuch that the hind saw
tile sick were healed the mind
tiie blind
the dumb spake the deaf heard the lame walked
tile
tiie
devils were cast out and the dead were raised
while everywhere dreams visions the ministering
of angels rpd papfophecy were enjoyed
and the gift
giftbfjjprophecy
Js f
i

I
1 l
itt
lirtt W r s

t f ssu
swy

t t i f f

r
t
tamim t i i

fc&
fco I1 t
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II
CHAPTER 11

declineand
DECLINE AND LOSS 0fti1is
toss OF whis
THIS ABIONG THE JEWS
SCIENCE AMONG

0 horrid 1I awful 1I melancholy si

right
sightt I1
anation
adnation
A nation wont to soar mid realms off light
degraded
deq ed failen
der
dea unk in dark despair
fallen sunk
the hiss the scorn the bye byettw ord everywhere
it ord
no eye to pity and no arm to save
tili
till wearied nature finds an exiles grave
tillwearied

it now becomes our painful task tasoto

tasktotoatrace
tod race the
tile
tiie
decline of the science of theology and andits
andeits
4its powers
aits

among the nations and to review the tile awful

tlle
consequences of suciu
such decline
we will commence with the jewish jewislination
nation
the science of theology as we have just
reviewed was enjoyed and its powers were wonder-
fully developed under tlle the several dispensations
tile
called patriarchal imosaic
mosaic and jewish
there had however
ilowever been a great decline at
llo
lio
retrogression of the powers and knowledge of tlle the
tile
same previous to their restoration by john njohn the
baptist and jesus christ
this was owing to the general prevalence of
sectarian principles divisions precepts command-
ments sand
mentsandand doctrines ofm
saud ellbby whicllthplawand
ofmellb
of men thg law and
which ehg
the prophets
Propliets were made void and a veil was thrown
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 11

thern or over the hearts of men by which

over them
means they were misunderstood or rat rather
iler not
iier
lier
understood at all
it therefore became the duty of jesus christ
and
an & his apostles and elders as well as of his fore-
runner to reprove those sects denounce their
doctrines and traditions and restore that which was
lost in this great science
this restoration was at first confined strictly to
tile nation of the jews but seeing they turned
the
tlle
from it and judged themselves unw orthy of eternal
unworthy
nnw
life preferring their own powerless forms and
doctrines to the tile science of revelation miracles
tlle
visions and prophecy which had ever illuminated
the pathway
pat liway of their more ancient fathers the
apostles turned from them by the commandment of
the loid
lold andtranslated
lord and translated this science with its keys kes
and legitimate powers to the tile gentiles
tlle
the nation had llad rejected and slain the Messi messiah ali
ail
all
stoned tile
the
tlle propliets
Prop liets and imprisoned and even
prophets
murdered many of the tile apostles and elders
tlle and
jesus had already in tears of anguish announced
their doom
jerusalem
0 Jerusa lenz jerusalem
lanz thatz that gillest
thou
deritsale7n chatz tle
killest lthc
the
tho
ltha
pro peets
plets and stonest
phets
prophets tient which ate
soonest them are
arc sent unto thee
low often mould
lom
how
hozo 1I have
late
ihave
would chave bate gathered thy children together
ever as a hen gather
even
euen gatbereth
hereth
gatherethetli her chickens under her icings
gatheretli
and ye ifould
icoidd not
icould behold your house oss is left unto
iff
off

de solite
you desolate ryor
for 1I say unto yonyeyou ye shall not seefed me
bonye sed inc
ino
J12 KEY TO THEOLOGY

saj blessed is he that co

henceforth till ye shall sayr
say meti
meth
cometh
in the name of the lord
again on another occasion the messiah uttered
his voice saying nere
kete
kere
there shall he
be great distress in
the lang
land
landy and wrath upon this people and they shall
sword and shall he
fall by the edge of the swordy be led away
captive into all nations and jerusalem shall he be
trodden down of the gentiles until the times 0of the
gentiles he fulfilled
again he spake concerning the temple saying
ax
tjiere
ti thiere
7x ere te left here one stone upon another
ete shall not be
ote
be thrown down
that shall not he
all these things foretold by the science of
theology were fulfilled in that generation and
jerusalem has been destroyed trodden down by
the gentiles and the jews have have remained in
captivity among the nations until now
our readers will readily discern th tire loss
entire
the on
the
of tile tliqqlo among this
tlle science and powers of theology
nation the time circumstances and ana reasons
sops
sors of its
decline and the time or circumstaii
circumstances which ich will
restore it unto theme
them
they lost it when by the hand of ah apostles
th&apostles
e
it was taken from them and given to theo thegwiles
theG miles
Wiles
gentiles
the result was the destruction OX of their city and
temple and of their national existence
cxistcndc 4
their temple priesthood and offerings were no
its outward forms
longer attended by divine power itsbutward
were therefore of no possible use
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 13

from that very time to the present one thousand

eight hundred arid
and fifty one of the christian era
arnd
annd
the voice of a prophet has not been heard among
the jews
angels have not ministered unto them
there has been no vision from the lord
no dream or interpretation
no answer by prim or thummim
Thummim
no prophet
no voice
no sound
no reproof
no comforting whisper
whisper
all is silence stillness solemn
4olemn blackness of
despair
all
ali
ail is as the similitude and shadow of death
AR
oh the weariness the he painful suspense the
watchings the wanderings the anxieties the ahe
dhe pains
and sorrows of eighteen centuries oh the mist of
ages which has shrouded a nation as it were in
the gloom of an endless night I1

when 0 when will their day dawn and the

day star of their ancient science appear above the
horizon disperse the cloud and usher in themoming
them oming
the morning
of a brighter day 7 I1

then the times

when unies of the gentiles are
qrefuvlled
afe fulfilled
when they shall welcome a wesen ge r in tho
messenger
mesen
name of the lord
14 KEY TO THEOLOGY

ni
CHAPTER HL

ogress
rn
oGnEss
PROGRESS AND FINAL
DECLINE FINALLOSS
LO SS OF THE SCIENCE OF
GENTILES foreshadowings
THEOLOGY AMONG THE 6extilesw foresiiadowings
FORESHADOW INGS OF ITS
restorationFOR THE U sli
sii
U811 ering1iI N OF T HE millennium
SHERING

oh mystic babel long has been thy reign I1

what direful evils follow in thy train I1
the veil is rent thy mystery revealed
wol1I and god thy doom has sealed
angels cry wo
the nations from thy long and dreary night
are waking now to everlasting light

returning to0 the gentile church we find the

tile
tlle
science of theology with all its miraculous
powers of visions dreams angels revelations
prophecy healings &c ac ever ywhere enjoyed
everywhere it
had abated none of its powers in its transition
from jew to gentile the wild branches being
grafted
engrafted
ungrafted
en into the good old stoel
stock 2 immediately
partook of the root and fatness of the tame olive
tree and thus was produced the natural fruit
but paul the great apostle of the gentiles in
his writings to the romans cautioned them to
beware lest they should fall away after the same
example as the
tlle jews had done before them
tile jews
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 15
said he II
11
tf god spar
if spat not tien
sparednot
ednot
spared then tr
anches
the natural branches
take heed lest he also spare not thee
jqhn
john the apostle also predicted the rise and
universal sway of a certain mystical power a
babel of spiritual or religious confusion in short
lvl
evl
mystery babylon the great the mother of harlots
the earth v
and abominations of theearth
theearta
this power should bear rule among all nations
the icings
kings and rulers of the earth should be drunken
with the wine of her fornication the merchants
of the earth should become rich through the
abundance of her delicacies
this power should according to the prophet
daniel and the apostle john wear out the saints
of the most high P change times and laws tc be

drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood
of the martyrs of jesus c
destroy the might
mightyy and
the holy people tylt17 .17
make war with the saints and
overcome them until a set time
all these predictions and many others foretell
the doom of the gentile church its destruction
from the earth and the consequent decline and
cessatio
satio n of the science of theology and of its
cessation
ces
powers and blessings in the gentile world
connected with these predictions we have the
most positive prophetic declarations of holy writ
concerning the overthrow and entire destruction of
this same mystical power which had made war W ir
with the saints
16 KEY TO THEOLOGY
TUEOLOOY

its judgments are set forth as far more Aer

terrible
aerrible
der ribie
rible
than those which befell jerusalem plague pestilence
sword earthquake and the flame of devak ring fire
devouring
devau
will cause her to cease to be
then will usher in the kimi dom of our
kingdom
god and the power of his christ then will
the saints of the most high take the kingdom and
the greatness of the kingdom under the whole
heaven
thus are to be revived the ancient powers and
blessings the knowledge and wisdom of the science
of theology
in the fulfillment
fulfilment of the foregoing predictions
the science of theology declined andpand assed away
andapassed
from among the gentiles just in pro artio n as the
p ortio
proportion
church or the saints of the Mos
Mo sHigh
moshigh
mosthigh
tHigh were warred
moshiah
against and overcome
for years centuries ages there has been no
voice from heaven among the gentiles any more
than among the jews they have fallen ander afier the
after
adder
same example of unbelief 2 notwithstanding the
caution of their great apostle &
no gentile prophet has ansen
arisen a nha
d uttered his
voice
no kind angel has ministered toothei theip
sheip
oshei
no
NS vision from the kord
lord
lora
lord
no answer
no inspired dream
no voice
 THEOLOGl
KEY TO THEOLOGY 17

no sound
soundfrom
from the heavens
no revelation lias
NTO has burst upon the
ilas silence of
midnight darkness which has brooded
blooded
bro oded over the
nations
or if such voice such vision such prophet has
occasionally burst forth with the testimony of jesus
the spirit of prophecy his testimony has been
unheeded by the mass of the people called christians
christian
his volce
voice silenced in death or himself and his
followers have been banished from society to wander
in the mountains forests caves or deserts of the
earth or oron on the other hand compelled to drag out
efi tence
edi
edd
an existence
M ige
inr
the solitude of the dungeon
ages cent have passed and oh what
urles nave
uries
centuries
1
suffin
suffdn ng what torture what rivers of tears what
suffering
oceans of blood L what groanings
groan ings what strong
groenings
crying and tears gonn the earth what prayers in
heaven
li eaven
how long 0 lord holy and true dost thou not
i
judge and avengee our blood on them that dwell
on the earth
the fire consumed
the sword devoured
hells artillery bellowed
devils hugely grinned
widows and orphans mourned
heaven wept
saints prayed
justice stood aghast
C
19
18 KEY TO THEOLOGY

mercy retiring drop

dropped ca tear of blood
pediA
angeli starting half drew their glittering
angels
swords i

and the gods in solemn council decreed

decreta
decretal a just
vengeance fes
awa
amt
protest upon protest regor
reforms
ins and
ims r
reforms
etertions of every kind of
revolutions struggles exertions
mere human invention have been tried and tried
valn the science of theology
ilvain
invain
in vain oftheolugy with all its
keys and powers once lost could never consistent
with the ancient prophetic testimony be restored
elther jew orgentileuntil
tocitherjew
to either timelho
or gentile until the full time uld
should
arrive 11 the times
ardive tinte of restitution
restitutioekof all things
j of allqhings
nkof
which god hath stoken r
all
ail
ali his holy
poken by the mouth of oll
oil
since the world regan
singe
prophets sin6e
sinae fegan
degan
began
the time
tinie for a mighty angel to tW fayy in the midst
fly
aay

of heaven having the everlastingtgos

everlasting gospeel to upreach
preach
kpreach to
r

them who dwell on the earth to every nation Jc

tient indred
kindred
and people
tongue andpeople johns rey
see johnsrev rev ewi6ii
revelation
the tune
time of judgment for hysterybabylon
mystery babylon
the times of the falness
fulness of the gentiles
the times for the grafting in agam
again of the jews
francin
and all the natural brancho
franches
branches of israel
then and not till then could the tho science the
keys the powers of theology be res restored
tored to man
no individual or combined human action could
obtain or restore again these keys this science
A mighty angel held the keys key of this science
for the last days A mighty angel was to restore
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 19

the keys of the ancleancient

ancie iii priesthood
priie
ift pribe
fit istho od A
ischo v64stleship
apostlesliip
power and blessings A voice from heaven lieavenwfts
was to
reveal the sena
ibe time and send
s6ndforth
forth the cry come
caine
colne out
of R
tier my
gly people that ye ie par takers of ber
be not partakers
pdrtakers
pat fer
her gis
sis
hr sins
and that ye receive not of her pzvues
aeed plagues for her
ber sig
sins
siv
sikns
hat
bat reached unto hearen
bab
have
bave learen ane
heaven
heaveni
heavens od god hath
and haa remembered
baa
bati
hati kemem beed
remem b&ed
her iniquities
iftiquities
iniauities
all the darkness of the middle ages all the
prieste raat
priestcraft
raft or eing
rafa hing
king daft of ev
kingcraft ay
every
&y age sincesi n cc the
slaughter of the apostles al ali thee oppressions
ail
all oppress ions
persecutions or abuses of power hll allthe
alithe extrava
kii
kil
aalthe 6xtravac
gancies
fancies and idleness on the one hand and all the
sufferings and
andmiseries
miseries of the toiling millions for
want of the comforts of life on the other all
the ignorance superstitions errors divisions and
tha
contentions which have transpired in the name of
Christi anit I down to the present time have been
christianit
christiania
christianity 1

the results of the decline and loss of the keys and

powers of the science of theology
theolog
thcologT or for want of
attention to them when existing on the earth
nor will the 11 chi
christian
Cli
ahi ristian world ever attain to any
considerable degree of knowledge power or union
in religious progress until they discover their loss
of this science become sensible of the need of its
restoration and humble themselves as in the dust
and welcome a messenger who comes in the name
of the lord with a commission from heaven an
with keys committed by the angels of god
a new apostolic commission ai restoration of the
20 ker
KET TO THEOLOGY
KEY

kingdom an andd church and power and gifts of

god a new dispensation universally proclaimed
in all the world with power and signs following
and the whole consummated by the glorious glorio
us
restoration of israel and judah to their own owh
land and nationality and to the true fold of god
together with the second adve
adae nt of messiah and all
advent
his saints with him to overthrow mystery
babylon and reign on the earth
such are the events sucli
suchis
lucli
buchisis the remedy
remedy for the
past and
andpresent
present evils r
r
ri i
tl n
ai
t yr

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qy
au
4u f s

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ab
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1

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11

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 KEY TO THEOLOGY 21

CHAPTEI
CHAPTER IV
RISE PEOGRESS
PROGRESS DECLINE or
AND LOSS OF THE SCIENCE OF
THEOLOGY ON THE WESTERN hemisphere AS 13BROUGHT
ROUGHT
TO LIGHT BY THE LATE Dis covery OF ANCIEN
covEny
DISCOVERY ANCIENTt4american
AMERICAN
EECORDS
RECORDS r
j jiif
jkeer
iff
heer

the spirit world is moved the silenced

silence broken y
the ancientseers
ancient seers from out the ground have spoken
tle appointed
tie
the pointed
p years on times fleetvwings
fleet gs have fled
and voices whisper from the ancient dead
volumes of truth the sacred archives yield
the past the glorious
1 orious
future stand revealed
reveled

we are now of necessity carried

carried back in our
carrle baan
bahn
research to the cradle of nations the tower of
babel in order to trace the history of this wonderful
science from the first emigration of a colony to
the
western hemisphere till its final decline and over-
throw for the knowledge of which we- weare
are indebted
to many ancient records written by the fathers
or
ancient students and professors of this science on
the estern
vi
western hemisphere
among these we will make honourable
honour able mention of
the prophets jared ether lehi nephi mosiah
alma abinadi mormon and moroni who wrote
and prophesied in the western hemisphere during
the several ages intervening between the time of
the dispersion at babel and the fifth century of the
christian
christiancra
cra
era
22 KEY TO THEOLOGY

by the
science of theology jared and his brother
led a colony from the great tower to the sea coast
conversing with the lord and walking by the light
of his revelations on the way
by this science they were instructed in the build-
ing of eight barges similar to the ark of noah
by this science their leader saw god face to face
and talked with him in plain humility as one man
talks with another thus obtaining a knowledge of
his future coming and king kingdom
kine 49m and of the great
events of all ages and generations
by this science they were preserved on the great
waters three hundred and forty4ourrour days and were
forty four
then landed with their eight barges in the western
hemisphere together with their women children
cattle and seeds of every kind
by this science they became a great nation
peopling the entire continent and enjoying all the
blessings of civilization and heavenly light
by the abuse and neglect of it they were at
leng
ieng
length
til exterminated in the days of their prophet
tii
ili
ether who lived about six hundred years before
christ came in the flesh
by this science the prophets lehi and nephi
came out with a colony from jerusalem in the days
of jeremiah the he prophet
prqphetandand after wandering for
eight years in the wilderness of arabia came to the
sea coast built a vessel obtained from the lord a
compass to guide them on the way and finally

4
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 23

thel coast of what is

saf6ty on thei
landed in t safety isnov
now called
bisnov
chili in south america
by this science they also aiso
alst
also beca me a great nation
aist became
enjoyed many visions had the ministering of angels
and of many prophets by which means they knew
ofthe
of jhc
odthe
the resurrection
thc coming birth ministry death resurrections
and ascension of jesus christ
andaseension
by this science they also enjoyed a personal visit
of the risen deemer
redeemer
Ee who descended from heaven
in their presence taught them his gospel chose and
ordained twelve of their number as apostles and
prophesied many things
by this science these twelve and others established
B
the gospel church and ordinances of god through-
out the
tlle
tile entire western hemisphere
by this science their sick were healed demons were
expelled the lame walked the blind saw sawi the dumb
spake the deaf heard and their dead were wereraised
werd raised
by this science three of those apostles having a
change wrought upon them tilem tarried in the flesh upon
the earth ministered the gospel and its blessings
nearly four hundred years and then withdrew from
the people because of their iniquity took away the
keys of apostleship and of the gospel and its
powers sealed up the records and ccaused xue athe
xueathe
vue
lue the work
of healing and of gifts and miracle cease from
tdcease
miracles j td
the people because of iniquity bloodshed
imong thepeople
among
and persecution
24 KEY TO THEOLOGY

by this science they yettive

yetlive
yet live in the flesh upon the
flash
fl6sh
earth holding keys of apostleship
apostleshipand and power upon
the western hemisphere being now about one
thousand eight hundred years old
by this science being held in reserve above the
powers of mystery babylon they will soon go forth
prophesying preachingthe
preaching the gospel and doing mighty
signs and wonders in the midst of all nations in
order to complete and mature the gentile fulness ful ness
falness
and restore the tribes of israel nor is this all
john the beloved disciple among the jews is
yet alive in the flesh and is held in reserve to
46
prophesy again he
f are
ate many peo
ote
lefore
before
and tongues and kings as it is written
yles
ples and nations
peoples
feo

but to re
return
turAto
to our history of the western hemis-
phere after the science of theology had ceased to
be cultivated and enjoyed among this branch of
israel terrible wars and bloodshed ensued govern-
ments and civilization were broken up cities and
countries were overthrown all records and vestiges
of truth were diligently sought and destroyed as
far as obtained
and finally the whole face of the country was
soaked as it were in blood and strewed strewer with the
dead and dying
the wild beasts of the forest and fowls011eaven
fowls of heaven
devoured their flesh and their bones were left to
moulder unburied
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 25

in other instances bodies were heaped up and

covered with mounds of earth
all government became extinct and the countries
overrun by tribes and bands of robbers at way war with
each other
in this situation the records of moroni leave them
in the fifth century of the christian era and much
in the same situation with some exceptions the
europeans found them after the lapse of another
thousand years
oh who can contemplate the disgusting deformity
the dark features the filthy habits the idleness the
cruelty the nakedness the poverty the misery the
sufferings the ignorance of the descendants of this
favour
once favoureded branch of the royal blood of abraham
and joseph and not weep for very anguish while
his bosom yearns and the fountains the flie depths of
his inmost soul are stirred and moved within him
reader all these things have come upon them thom
thomi on
tiomi
themi
account of the abuses the consequent didine and final
decline andfinal
powers
p6wers of the science of neology
loss of the keys and powers theology
fowers
heartt theiirede
but comfort your heart
hearty mptioii is at
their redemption
the door
26 KEY TO THEOLOGY

a 1 u r
rm u l
ff t t Y
hater
t
CHAPTER V

xrtsof
KEYS OF THE MYSTERIES
MYSTEEIES OF godue11
bf THE GODHEAD

i t 7
eternal father being
beins without end
veins I1
thy
thi glorious fulness who6i
falness who can compre hendl1I
comprehend
thine own infinitude alongis
aloneisis f raught
alone a t
with attributes to swell a human thought
to grasp th
thyy1nowl thy nature
edge or thik
knowledge i
ean
can
scan i
ft4erof
father
As eather of the endless race act of man
04
fct
ett
inam
swak

X 5

11
this
is life eternal totb taze hily
tie
know tte onig
hill
0 nly true and
ofill
s
gd dJesus antl pers
isss 1
isas
ders
and jesus andt wluffh lie
t
living gody anajesus
andjesus
an tidth sent
lle eidth
llo
since the decline of the scienceof theg
science of theblogy
theology
TheB logy a
mystery dark and deep has shrouded the human
mind in regard to the person and andnature
nature of the
eternal father and of jesus christ his son
councils of the fathers and wise men of
kcouncils
1

christendom have assembled again and again aain

aaen in
order to solve the mystery of godlinband an d fix eand
P 14 8 might
some standard or creed upon which all p 141
arties
1

rest and be agreed

this however was not in their power it
is impossible for the world by its wisdom to find
out god ai1i neither knoweth any man
outgod nian the father save
vian
wion
mion soever the son will reveal hini
the son and he to whomsoever
whon
whonsoever
whoinsoever bim
him
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 27

the key to the science of theology is the key

of divine revelation without this key no man no
assemblage of men ever did or ever will know the
eternal father or jesus christ
3yhen
nyhen
11rhen the key of revelation was vas lost to man
mani the
knowledge of god was lost and as ilfe
lifer eternal
life
pended on the knowledge of god of course the
aepended
depended
Ae
key of eternal life was also lost
oh the mysteries the absurdities the contentions
the quarrels the bloodshed the infidelity the
senseless and conflicting theories which have grown
and multiplied among nectaries aries on this subject
sectaries
sect
among these theories we will notice one which
is perhaps more extensively received by different
sects than any other the language runs thus
there is one only living and true god without
hodyparts
hodg
boby
hody
body parts or passions consisting of three persons
the father son and holy ghost
it is painful to the human mind to be compelled
to admit that such wonderful inconsistencies of
language or ideas have ever found place in any
human creed yet so it is
it is butanother
but another way of saying that there is a
god who does not exist a god who is composed
of nonentity who is the negative of all existence
who occupies no sp ace who exists in no time avilo
space who
is composed of no substance known or unknown
and who has no powers or properties in commd comid
common h
thing or being known to exist or which
with any ahing
28 KEY TO THEOLOGY

can possibly be bd co nceivedof

conceived of as asexisting
existing either in
the heavens or on the earth
such a god could never be seen seena
seenI eard or felt
seenieard
heard
by any being in the universe
there never has been a visible idol worshipped
wor shipped
among men which was so powerless as this 11 god
without body
body parts or passions
tody
hod
the god of egypt the crocodile couig could destroy
the images of different nations 6could
ould be felt and
ouid
seen
the peruvian god the sun could diffuse its
genial warmth light and influence
but not so with the god without body parts or
passions
that which has-hasno
no parts hag
has ap
np whole
has4no
beings which have no passions have no ssoui oul
oui
oul
before we can introduce the keys and powers of
practical theology to the understanding of men in
this age we must of df necessity place within their
comprehension some correct ideas oftheof the true god
odthe
it is written
ten that without faith it is impossible to
withoutfaith
arnt
please aint
hint
him those who do not please him can
never partake of the powers and gifts of the science
of theology because the keys and powers of this
science emanate from him as a free gift but they are
never given to those with whom he is not well pleased
the individual who would partakeof
partake of this power must
therefore have faith in him but how can he believe
in a being of whom he has no correct idea
 KEYTO
KEY TO THEOLOGY 29
so vague so foreign from the simple plain truth
are the ideas of the present age so be clouded is the
modem mind with mysticism spiritual nonentity
or immateriality in nearly all of its ideas
ide as of the person
or persons of the deity that we are constrained
to use the language of an ancient apostle as ad-
dressed to the learned of athens t whom therefore
ye ignorantly ivorsh
ivorsh
worshijj him declare 1I unto you
although there are facts in our own existence
which are beyond our present comprehension or
capacity which is true in a higher sense in relation
to the godhead still the limited knowledge we are
tothe
able to comprehend in relation to ourselves may
jeast
at beast
least be rational and be as clearly conveyed
and understood asa asany
abany
as4 any other subject so with
our
aur knowledge of deity although there are facts
qur
beyond our reach in relation to his existence
attributes and power yet that which we may know
and comprehend or express of him sho uld be
should
divested of all mystery and should be as asclearly
clearly
conceived expressed and conveyed as any other
item of truth or of science
jesus christ a little babe like all the rest of us
llave
have been grew to be a man was filled with a
divine substance or fluid called the holy spirit
by which behe comprehended and spake the truth in
power and authority and by which lie controlled
the elements and imparted health and life to those
who were prepared to partake of the same
30 KEY TO THEOLOGY

this man died being put to death by wicked

men
he arose from the dead the third day and
appeared to his disciples thesedisciplt
these disciples 6on seeing
eeing
being
him supposed him to be a spirit only
they may have possessed some of the va gu 6
vague
modern times in regard to hil
ideas of men in more modem an
hll
immaterial existence beyond the grave an e xistence
unconnected with any real or tangible matter pr or
substance
but their risen lord
lona adopted the most simple
lond
means of dispersing their mysticism their spi spiritus
spiritua
epirituall
spiritual 11

vagaries or immaterialityy he called upon them to

handle him and see 11 for said lihe a spirit jiatlt
haib
balb
hath
dones as ye see msfhave
not flesh and bones
dories in tave
lare
lavo
they accordingly handled him examined the
nalis in his hands and feet and
prints of the nails
nalls alla the
alia
mark of the spear in his side but as if this wa wass
not enough in order to familiarize them still maid m6id
more
with the facts of a material or tangible immortality
he ate and drank with them partaking of a broiled
fish and an honeycomb
honey comb
in short he was with them for forty days in
which he walked talked ate drank taught
prophesied commanded commissioned reh reasoned
red soned
with and blessed them thus familiarizing to the themin
thatimmortality
that immortality and ete rnallif
eternal life which he wished
ilfe
them to teach in all the
tile world
tlle
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 31

he then as cen ded up in their presence

ascended Presen cel toward
cei
that planet
pianet where dwelt his father and their father
his god and their god
while he was yet in sight in the open firmament
and they stoodgazing
stood gazing upward behold two men
stood by them in white raiment and sald said
ye men qof galilee why stand ye gabing gaming up into
gassing
heaven Ms samedesus
this same jesus
desus which is taken upfrom you
into heaven shall so come in eee elc m
uke
like
ieee manner as ye have
seen lim
lent go into heaven
hint
him
here then we have a sample of an immortal
god a god who is often declared in the scriptures
to b e6 like his father 11 being
c
frigh tn ess of
brg
bri
belig the brightness lory
h is g
ofhis
ochis lory
and the
tid expressumage
tle
fle express yihae of his person and possessing
thei
them
it
shis
the same attributes aphis
alhis
chis
a father in all their fulfiess
falness
fulness
fui
ful ness
fiess
niess
a god not only posspossessing
pofs essing
ossing body and parts but flesh
and bones and sinews and all the attributes organs
senses and affections of a perfect man
he
ite differs in nothing from his father except in
ap
ageana
band authority the fath
ageand
g 7and eath
father
eather
er having the seniority
and consequently the right according to the patri-
archal laws of eternal priesthood to preside over
him and overall his dominions for ever and ever
while on the one hand this god claims affinity
and equality as it were with his father he claims on
the other hand affinity and equality with his brethren
on the earth with this difference however that his
person is a specimen of divine eternal humanity
immortalized and with attributes perfected while
 32 KEY TO THEOLOGY

his brbrethren who dwell in mortal fleslij alth6flg

flesh although
children of the same royal parent in the heavens
7

lieaven
lihaven
are not yet immortalized as it regards their fleshly
tabernacles and are not perfected in their attributes
and although joint heirs are younger he idin being9
born among many brethren in the spiritual
the first bom
world they are therefore subject to him
but every man who is eventually made perfect
raised from the dead and filled or quickened with a
ill become like them in
will
fulness of celestial glory dil
falness
every respect physically and in intellect attributes
or powers
the very germs of these godlike
godlikeattributes
attributes being
engendered in man the offspring delty only need
Wdeity
offspringffcdeity
cultivating improving deveze ing ana
developing aand
nd advancing
by means of a series of pr ressive changes in
progressive
dessive
order to arrive at the fountain kead
bead
headf the standard
headd
the climax of divine humanity
the didifference between jesus christ and his
father is this one is subordinate to the other
does nothing of himself independently of the father
but does all things in the name and by the authority
tlle father being of the same mind in all things
of tile
the
the difference between jesus christ and another
immortal and celestial man is this the man is
subordinate to jesus christ does nothing in and of
seif but does all things in the name of christ
himself
liim self
and by his authority being of tllethe same mind and
tile anad
ascribing all the glory to him and ilia ather
F
his father
eather
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 33

on account of the double relationship of jesus

christ with god the father on one hand and with
man on the other many have adopted the creed that
two whole and perfect natures were blended
in the person of jesus christ that he was every
way a Q godd and every way a man as if god and
man were two distinct species this error came
jeason of not knowing ourselves for just
byjeason
reason
by weason ust in
proportion as we comprehend ourselves in our true
light and our relationships and affinities with the
past present and future with time and eternity
p4ptpresent
with gods angels spirits and men who have
gone before u slana and
iana
land d who will come after us so
in proportiq
proportiorg er maynlay be able to benefit by the
ML d
keys of th
words to nai
his father
nov
noiea
thentenes
thenMy tenes flff the
e3alf
friesl
eriesl t
nqivj an Cco prehend
knaandcomprehend
rmt
AMW
pst
put
amt
godhead or in other
rehend jesus christ and

gods angels and men are all of one species one obe
race one great family widely diffused among the
planetary systems as col coi ontes kingdoms nations &c
onies
colonies ac
the great distinguishing difference between one
portion of this race and another consists in the
varied grades of intelligence and purityand purityand
purity and also
in the variety of spheres occupied by each in
the series of of progressive being
an Jm
mortal ma
immortal mann possessing a perfect organiza-
tion of spirit flesh and andbonesand perfected in
bones and perfected
his attribute sin
attributes falness of celestial glory is
in all the fulness
attributesin
called a god
D
34 KEY TO THEOLOGY
THEOLOM
an immortal man I in progress of perfection or
1

quickened with a lesser degree of glory is called

an angel
an immortal spirit of man not united with a
fleshly tabernacle is called a spirit
an immortal man clothed with a mortal taber-
nacle is called a man
it may then consistently enough be kaldy sald that
said
saidy
kaldi
there are in a subordinate sense a plurality of
gods or rather of the sons of god although
there is one supreme head who is over all
and through all and in all his sons by the power
of his spirit
jesus christ and ills
hi s father arcy
liis xan
xtn
OR
o l persons
arettwo persons in
arey
aid
areT two
same sense as john andpeteare
4
thesame
the ann j erg tet
ter
elg
elt are
af two persons
e awe
each of them has an organize
organm3in&ividual
I1 z vii
inn i vla
via
vie leai
vid leal tabernacle
embodied in material form 0 rm and composed of
material substance in the likeness of m mana n and
possessing every organ limb and physical part
that man possesses
there is no more mystery connected with their
oneness than there is in the oneness of enoch and
ad silas
elijah or of paul and
their oneness consists of a oneness of spirit
intelligence attributes knowledge or power
if enoch elijah Ab raham peter
abraham
raYam teter paul and
millions of others ever attain to the immortal life
and their fleshly tabernacles be quickened b y a
falness
fulness of celestial life and light intelligence and
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 35

power then it can be said of them they are 0 ne

I1

as thefdther and son are one

J
dwelis eil
ell
dwells
could then be
4ltcould
eli all the fulness
ie said of each of them in him
falness odtheofthe pow ers
erd and attributes of
powers
lih
ithe fE ternal god or in other words he possesses
ternai
peternal
eternal
feternal
endless life I to
1 toe e ther with all intelligence knowledge
together
light and power he therefore has the same mind
assailalithe thers 4is in communication and in per
the 0others
tfelt
feet union
tfect tinion with each and all of them
ei jall
tail these are gods or sons of god they are the
bt gali
gall
taii
JAII
Kings princes priests and nobles of ete
4eings eternity
mity
but over them all there is a presidency or grand
head who is the father of all and next unto him
isjesus
is Jesus
gidjj
gidej cling the eldest bom and first heir of all
esus christ
th e realms ofnik
e40erealms nget
ugyt
upyt
ile
lle
lie lfta
as
afta
4s
TIK
nid
every persok
lift hEvery pel
peistonnolby
swon oi
persoknolby ow
V
r
y
eelk
isby io n that intelligence
reflectio
reflect
reflection
may
imay be imparted without diminishing the store
tmay
possessed by the giver therefore it doi Iol
dol lows that
follows
millions of individual beings may each receive all
the
ther attributes of eternal life and light and
then
power
again it follows that in the usefof useof
use of this power by
consent and authority of the head any one of these
e
gods may create organize people govern control y
exalt glorify and enjoy worlds on worlds and the
inhabitants thereof 3y or in other words each of them
canfindtoom
canifindroom in the infinitude of space and unoccu-
pied chaotic elements in the boundless storehouse of
eternal riches with which to erect for himself thrones
30
36 KEY TO THEOLOGY

principalities and po powers over which to

wersovdrwhich ao reign in
still increasing might majesty and dominion for
ever and ever
all these are kingdoms which together with withtheir
their
kings are in subordination to the great head thead
and father of all and to jes jesus
Us christphe
christ the first
christthe firstborn
born
andifirst
and
andI first heir among the sons of god
all these kingdoms with withallail their intelligences
ali
all
are so many acquisitions to his dominion who wh0 is lord
of lords and king of kings and of who whomm it is
written by the prophet isaiah t of the increase of
his qing
kingdom
aingdom
Aing thereshall
there
dom the reshall
shail be no end
shali
shall
all these are so many colonies of our race
144
multiplied extended transplanted
transplantedfand
transplant e d pand
fand
and existing
e

for ever and ever as occupants zj4the atthe

ftthe numberless
planetary systems which whichjjinqxist
5 ab
nb aist
xist or which
will roll into order and be peo leq
led by the operations
peopled
of theholy
the holy spirit in obedience to the mandates
of the sons of god
these kingdoms present every variety and degree
in the progress of the great science of life from the
lowest degradation amid the realms of death or
the rudimental stages of elementary existence up-
tile
tlle
i
ward through all the ascending scale or all the
degrees of progress in the science of eternal life and
light until some of them in turn arise to thrones
of eternal power I1
1
w

each of the S e gods including

these jesus
including0 rosus
includin 4osus christ and
liis father being in possession of not merely rn
his
ilis
ills nn
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 37
organized spirit but a glorious immortal body oft off
flesh and bones is subject to the laws which governi
i
of n ecassity
sity even the most refined order of
cessity
ofsnecessity
ces 0f physical
existence
existefice
fice
existe hice
all physical element however embodied quick-
ened or refined is subject to the general
gen eral laws neces-
sary to all existence
some
soine of these laws are as follows
yirst
first each atom or embodiment of atoms
birst
necessarily 0occcupies
ples a certain amount of space
cupies
eSe condd no atom or embodiment ofatoms
fse&on
esecond of atoms can
occupy the identical space occupied by other atoms
or bodies t
third each individual organized intelligence
must possess theithe power of self motion to a greater
thel greated
greatek
degree ijlslfc
orless degrce4ma&t
fourth all voluntary motion motlon implies an inherent
will
lvillj to originate and direct such motion
motlon
fifth motion of necessityi implies thata that a certain7

amot of time is necessary in passing from on

amount i
one
portion of space to another
these laws are absolute and unchangeable in their
nature and apply to all intelligentagencies
intelligent agencies which
which1odo
oilcan exist
I1

they
therefore apply with equal force to thefgreat
iheref6re7apply the great
sup teme eternal father of the heavens and
supreme kna of the
earthia
earth ana
nd to his meanest subjects
and
earthiand
it is therefore an absolute impossibility for god
38 KEY TO THEOLOGY

jesu christ to be everywhere person-

the father or jesus
i

ally present
the omnipresence of god must therefore he be un
under
deru
derm
stood in some other way than of his bodil yor
bodilyor
bodily OD
personal presence
this leads to the investigation of that substance
called the holy spirit
As the mind passes the boundaries of the visible
world and enters upon the confines of the more re-
fined and subtle elements it finds itself associated
with certain substances in themsel veg
themselves
ves invisible to
our gross organs but clearly manifested to our intel
lect by their tangible operations and effects
elect
the very air we breathe although invisible to our
sight is clearly manifested to our sense of feeling
its c om
omponent befanalyzedq nay more
ponent parts may bqjdhalze
the human system itself is an apparatuswhich
apparatus which per-
forms a chemical process upon that element it is
received into the system by the act of respiration and
there immediately un aer
detgoes
der
deTgoes the separation of bits
undergoes its
tits
component parts c

the one part retained and incorporated in the

animal system diffuses life and animation by supply-
ing
in the necessary animal heat &c ac while the other
part not adapted to the system is discharged from the
lungs to mingle with its native element
there are several of these subtle invisible suh sub
subaa
stances but little understood as yet by man and
effee
their existence is only demonstrated by their effectsfg
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 39
some of them are recognized under the several
terms electricity galvanism magnetism 4nimaf animal
ctism spiritual magnetism essence spirit &c
chism
magnetism
in ac
the purest most refined and subtle of all these
isubstances and the one least understood or even
recognized by the less informed among mankind is
that substance called the holy spirit
this substance like all others is one of the elements
of material or physical existence and therefore subject
aq
to the necessary laws which govern all ma
1q tile
tiie itter as
matter
before enumerated
like the other elements its whole is composed
of individual particles like them each particle
cupies space possesses the power of motion re-
occupies
0 capies
quires time to move from one part of space to
gother
another and cani canimno
cag
can in no wise occupy two spaces at ance
mmo
caniano bnce
res p eds it differs
in all these respects diners nothing from all other
matter
this substance is widely diffused among the
elements
SLemen
slements
clements ts of space this holy spirit under the
control of the great eloheim
control Eloheim is the grand moving
elvheim
cause of all intelligences and by which they act
this is the great positive controlling element of
whis
al
ali
all other elements it is omnipresent by reason of
ailiother
lother
the infinitude of its particles and it comprehends all
things
it i ss the controlling agent or executive whicii which
organizes and puts in motion all ali
ail worlds and which
allworlds
rby the mandate of the almighty or of any of his
dby
40 KEY TO THEOLOGY

commissio
commissionednedaagents
ents per
ants performs ail the mighty wonders
ali
all
formsallthemiglitywo aders
nders
signs and miracles ever manifested in ahe the name of
dhe
the lord the turnin
curnin of the earth bbackward
turning ackward on its
axis the dividing of them the sea the removing of a
thel
mountain the raising of thedeadthedeas
the dead or the healing of
the sick
it penetrates the pore
poress of the most solid substances
pierces the human system to its most inward recesses
discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart it
has power to move through space with an inconceiv inconceiv-
able velocity far exceeding the tardy motions of
electricity or of physicallight
physical light
it comprehends the past present and fu tuie
tule in all
future
their ful
falness
fulness
ness its inherent properties embrace all 4

the attributes of intelligence and affects

affection
affecti on
it is endowed with knowledge
knowledgeiwisdom
wisdom truth love lve
ive
iove
charity justice and mercy in all their ramifications
in short it is the attributes of the eternal power
and godhead
those beings who receive of its fulness
falness are called
lea
iea
led
sons of god because they are perfected in all its
attrib
attributes
utes and powers and being in c ommunication
with it can by its use
nse perform all things
thinks
those beings who receive not a fulnes bulnes
fui
ful
falness
fulness
nesss but a
measure of it can know and perform some things
but not all
this is the true light which in s6m6
some measure illu-
minatess all men wis
minate kis
it is in its less refined particles
the physical light which
whleh reflects
whie reflectsfrom
from the sun moan
sim moon
mo6n
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 41

and stars and other substances and by reflection

eye makes visible the truths of the outward
on the eve
world
it is also in its higher degrees the intellectual
light of our
oar inward and spiritual organs by which we
reason discern judge compare comprehend and
remember the subjects within our reach
its inspiration constitutes instinct
stindt
in in animal life
reason in man vision in the prophets and is con-
tinually flowing from the godhead throughout all
his creatures
godh
such is the godhead
bodh ead as manifested in his words
and in his works he dwells in his own eternal
palaces of precious stones and gold in the royal
city of the heavenly jerusalem
he sits enthroned lnin the midst of all his creations
adin
enthroneain
enthronedin
and is filled and encircled with light unapproachable
by those of the lower spheres
he associates with myriads of his own begotten
sons and daughters who by translation or resurrection
solis
hiie
hike
have triumphed over death
his ministers are sent forth from his presence to all
parts of his dominions
his holy spirit centres
bentres in his presence anandd com-
muni
munic ates with and extends to the utmost verge of
municates
cates
his dominions comprehending and controlling all
things under the immediate dir ection of his own
direction
action owh will
and the will of all those in com M unication
ubication
communication with him
catlon withhim
in worlds without end
42 rey
ket
RET
KEY TIIEOLOGT
TO THEOLOGY

VI
CHAPTER ITI
OHAPTER

M
ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE v

4 i

boundless
boundless infinitude of time and sp
Round space
apace
ace
aee
ana
ank
and dieme
eieme nA s eter
elements nali nmo
nall
nail
eternal nno
amo
who can trace
r
eirthjrith
wit hits treasures heaven with its spheres
earth withits
times revolutions eternitys years
but what are all these when measured by oy thee
butt marks ononti4
ontie thi keal
thy dial or motes on thy
th sea

WE
ak vk rr
the lae
ideaa of a god without vod voa
ody parts or
bod
passions is not more absurd or inconsistent than
modem popular doctrine that all things were
that modern
created from none ntity or in other words that some-
nonentity
entity
thing originated from nothing
it is a self evident truth which will not admit of
argument that nothing remains nothing nonentity
is the negative of all existence this negative pos-
sesses no property or element upon which tlle the
tile
energies of creative power can operate
this mysticism must therefore share the fate of the
other mysteries of false theology and philosophy
which have for ages shrouded the world in the sable
iong and dreary night
curtains of a long it must
evaporate and disappear as a mere creation of fancy
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 43
gin
gln introduced thejbllow ing self
ltd place are introclueedthefollqiking
oin itd
wluleftdirits
while telo
relo
seio
selo
evident and incontrovertible facts
Eirst there lias
first ilas always existed a boundless i nfini-
has
tude ofofspace
space
second intermingled with this space there exists
ait the varieties of the elements properties or
ali
alt
all
things of which intelligence takes cognizance which
things
elements or things taken altogether compose what is
called the universe
third the elements of all these properties or
things are eternal uncreated self existing not one
particle can he be added to them by creative power
neither can oneoone particle he
be dimi
almi
aimi nislied or annihilated
nisliet
diminished
fourth these eternal self existing elements
possess in themselves certain inherent properties or
attributes in a greater or less degree or in other
words they possess intelligence adapted to their
several spheres
these elements have been separated by philoso-
phers into two grand divisions viz
phersjinto
CPHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL
PHYSICAL
to a mind matured falness of
or quickened with a fulness
intelligence so as to be conversant with all the ele-
ments of nature there is no use for the distinction
implied in such terms
to speak more philosophically all the elements are
spiritual all are physical all are material tangible
realities spirit is matter and matter is full of spirit
44 KEY TO THEOLOGY

because ali all thin

ail
ali
ail hingsS which doex
boex iist areet6malreii1ities
do exist
aist are eternal realities
in their elementary exi exl stege e
existence
stene
stenc
who then cab can define the precise p oint loint in the scale
boint
of elementary existence which divides between the
physical and spiritual kingdoms there are eyes
which can discern the most refined particles particles of elemen-
tary existence there are hands and fingers to wh whose
oids
refined touch all things are tangible f

in the capacity of mortals however some of thei the

elements are tangi lile or visible and others invisible
tangible
tangl
those which are tangible to our senses senseswe
senseswe we call phy
ph- i
steal
sical those which aro are more subtle and refined we wc
wel I
wei
call spiritual
spirit is intelligence or the lightof lighton
light of truth whiwhich ch
etil
etli all things
filleti
filleth
fill
filletli y
its several emotions or affections iove joy
love
affectionsi such as lovei
ac are but so many actions or motions of these
&c theseeleele-
eie
ments as they opera tein
operatein
operate in their several spheres
by these actions or emotions the elements manifest
their eternal energies attributes or inherent powers owera
in contemplating the works wolks of creation then the
student must not conceive the idea that space or br
time or element or intelligence was originated but hut
but
rather that these are eternal and that they constitute
the energies which act and the things acted upon
including the place and time of action
the whoie
whole vast structure of universal organized
whole
existente pre
existence sente undeniableenidfice
sents
presents ndeniable evidence of three
facts viz
A
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 45
first the eternal existence
eiistence of the
ofthe
odthe elements
clements of
which it is composed
second
Sedo fid the eternal exis
fed
eed a fence
eexistence
xisfence 01f theittributes
fenee of
ol the attributes
if
ofiriielligence
oflifitelligence and wisdom to design
third the eternal existence of power to operate
f

upon and controlcon troi

frol these eternal elements so as to
carry
carryl out the plans of thei the designer i

it will be recollected that the last chapterrecog

chapter recog
lecog
jni
1
ani zes a family of gods or in othe
cizes
nizes otherr words a species of
jbe
iblings
ibeings
ibe
abe ings who have physical tabernacles 0off flesh and
Abones
on es in the form of man but so constructed as to be
2

capable of eternal ilfe life thatt

thata
that these
liese
ilese tabernacles are
thattliese
quickened or animated by a fulness falness of that holiest
hollest
ot
otall
of
offali
odall all elements which is called the holy spirit
ail
ali
taii
tail
falI
which element or spirit when organizedin organized
organi zedinin in
fc dividual formyform and clothed upon with fl eshand
flesh and bones
i
in the
1I iiii
abe highest possible refinement contains in itself
ahe
a fulness
falness of the attributes of light intelligence wis-
dom love an
i 401117 andd power also that there are vast
quantities
qua anis spirit or element not organized
nifties of this organiz
organic ed in
1bbodily
ab dlly forms but widely diffused amongthe
dily among the other
elements of space
A general assembly7 quorum or grand council
of the gods with their president at their head
constitute the designing and creatingpower
creating power
the motive power which moves to action mis his
this
mls
grand creative power is wisdom which discovers a
use for all these riches and inspires the thecarrying
carrying out
46 KEY TO THEOLOGY

of all the
tile designs in an infinite variety of utility and
tlle aud
adaptation
wisdom inspires the gods to multiply their species
and to lay the foundation for all the forms of lifeilfe to
increase in numbers and for each to enjoy him-
self in the sphere to which he is adapted and
in the possession and use of that portion of the ele-
ments necessary to his ills existence and happiness
liis
in order to multiply organized bodies composed of
spiritual element worlds and mansions composed of
spiritual element would be necessary as a home
adapted to their existence ani and enjoyment As these
spiritual bodies increased in numbers other spiritual
spirt tual
tuai
worlds would be necessary on which to transplant
them
again in order to enable these organized spirits
take upon them a fleshly tabernacle phy
iak
to take physical
sidal
worlds with all their variety and fulnessfalness would be
necessary for their homes food clothing &cj aci that
they might be begotten sustained and bom born that
they might live die and rise again to receive their
inheritances on their respective earths y
hence teethe
tire great work of regeneration of worlds or
tiie
the renovation and adaptation of the elements to the
resurrection and eternal state of man would also be
endless or eternally progressive
through every form of life and birth and change
and resurrection and every form ofa of progress in in
knowledge and experience the candidates for eternal
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 47
must 100
life must166kupon the elements as their home hence
loo kupon tlidelements
lookupon
the elan
el6nheats
hents
hehts upon the principle of adaptation must
elements
keep
kee place
keeppace
pl&ce
pace with the possessors who use them ill in all
iii
twe
tne degrees of progressive refinement
ane
while room is found in infinite space
while there are particles of unorganized element
in natures storehouse
while the trees of paradise yieldtheir
yield their fruits or
the moun
boun tain of life its river
fountain
Youn
mountain
y while the bosoms of the gods glow with affection

while eternal charity endures or eternity itself

rolls its successive ages the heavens will multiply
anil
antl new worlds and more people ie
anti nev be added to the
eln
ein
kin gdoms of the fathers
kingdoms
gadoms
thus in the progress of events unnumbered
millions of worlds and of systems of worlds will
necessarily be called into requisition and be filled by
mangand
man
manfand and beast and fowl and tree and all the vast
vari
varl
varieties
eties of beings and things which ever budded and
blossomed in eden or thronged
thronger
thron ged the hills and valleys
0 the celestial paradise
of
when
wilen in the endless progression of events the full
time had arrived for infinite wisdom to organize and
people this globe lobe
iobe which we inhabit the chaotic
elements were arranged in order it appears at the
commencement of this grand work that the elements
which are now BO so beautifully arranged and adapted to
vegetable and animal life were found lna inaa state of
in
chaos entirely unadapted to the uses they now serve
48 KEY TO THEOLOGY

there wasono
wisiqnq yast
tast mixture of el
casono vast elements
emerts earth
watejsoil
water soil atmosphere in short the entire elements
of which this mass was composed seemjoseem to have lomIPP
been
lem
completely comcompounded
pounded or mingled into one vast
chaos and the whole overwhelmed with a dar darkness
kneAs so
dense as to obscure the light of heaven
let us turn from the contemplation of scenes so
sublimely fearful suffice it to say the mandate came
darkness fled the veil was lifted light pierc piere edthe
piereedthe
pierced the
gloom and chaos was made visible oh what a sceno scene
A world without landscape without vegetation
without animal life without man or animated beings being
no sound broke on the stillness save the voice ofthe odthe
of the
moaning winds and of dashing foaming waters
again a voice comes booming over the abyss and
echoing amid the wastes the mass of matter hears and
trembles and lo 10 tle muddy shape-
the sea retires the
less mass lifts its head above the waters
ioie
molehilly
Iole hills to mountains grow huge islands next
iolehills
molehills
moie
Mole
appear and continents at length expand to yiewview with
hill and vale in one wide dreary waste unmeasured
and untrodden
the surface warmed and dried by the cheering rays
of the now resplendent sun is prepared for thi the first
seeds of vegetation
eoyal planter now descends from yonder world
royal
A coyal
of older date and bearing in his hand the choice sseedse Os
of the older paradise he plants them in the virginsoil
virgin soil
bob earth they grow
of our new bom
born row and flourish tl me
there
er
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 49
beariglsee
and bearing
bearingseed
seedd replant themselves and thus clothe
arth with scenes of beauty and the air with
arah
the naked eearth
oraey
fraly
oraly rant incense Ei
fragrant pening fruits and herbs at length
ripening
abound when 10 lo from yonder world is trans-
ferred
fer re d every species of animal life male and female
they come with blessings on their heads and a voice
is mara
mard
heard again 11 befiruitful
be fruitful and multiply 11

earth its mineral ve etable and animal wealth

vegetable
eatable
i ts paradise prepared down comes from yonder
w6rld on high a son of god with his beloved spouse
world
and
AM thus a colony from heaven it may be from the
sling
sun is transplanted on our soil the blessings
bies sins of their
bles
father are upon them and the first great law of heaven
and earth is again repeated llbefruitfulandmultiply
befruqul and multiply
hence the nations which have swarmed our
earth
in after years
yearb when paradise waslost
was lost by sin when
man WCs ws driven from the face of his heavenly father
was
to toil and droop and die when heaven was veiled
from view and with few exceptions man was no longer
ccounted worthy to retain the knowledge of his heavenly
origin then darkness veiled the past and future from
the heathen mind 5 man neither knew himself from
whence
whe fice he came nor whither he was bound at length
hice

a moses came who knew his god and would fain

have led mankind to know him too and see him face
face but they could not receive his heavenly laws
toface
tofake
to
or bide his presence
E
B
50 KEY TO THEOLOGY

thus the holy man

thusllieholyman agaid loveil
was f6rqeaagaip
forced agaip toveil
to veil
veli the past
vell
in mystery ad
mysteryi and iu ginning of jil
in the bc
beginning hi history assign
to man an earthly origin
man
ilan
nian moulded from the earth ag
dian as a brick
A woman manufactured from a rihl rib
rih
thus parents still
stillwould
would fain conceal from budding
manhood the mysteries of procreation or the sources
of lifes ever flowing river by relating some childish
tale of new bob bom
born life engendered in the hollow
trunk of some old tree or springing with spontaneous
growth like mushrooms from out them the heaps of rub-
thei
bish 0 man when wilt thou cease toap to1p
to be a child in
knowledge
man
iian aa
dlan as we have
llave said is the offspring of bf deity
the entire mystery of the past and future with
regard to his existence is not yet solved by mortals
we first recognise
recognize him as an organized individual
or intelligence dwelling with his father in the eternal
mansions this organized spirit we call a body
because although composed of the spiritual elements it
possesses every organ after the pattern andinand in the like-
ness or similitude of the outward or fleshly taber-
nacle it is destined eventually to inhabit its organs
of thought speech sight hearing tasting smelling
feeling &cac all
allexist
ail
ali exist in their order as in the physical
body theone
the one being the exact similituaoib
ft
similitude of the other
this individual spiritual body wa was begotten by
tlle heavenly father in his own likeness find
the
tile ana
anu image
tind
and by the laws of procreation
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 51

it was bomm
horn
boi4i and matured in the heavenly mansions
boici
borm
trained in theschool
the school of love in thefamily clide and
elide
the family circle
circie
amid the most tender emam embm dds of pre
embraces
embraced ntaland
nealand
parental and fra-
af
fiction
ternal affection
in this pri
primeval
nieVa 1 pfbba itibfi in itd
icib
probation its
ltd heavenly home
livedand
it livedand
lived moved asa
and move as a free and rational intelligence
acting
actingupon
upon its own agency and like all intelligence
independent in its it own sphere etwas it
itwas
was placed under
certain laws and was ras vasresponsible
vas responsible to its great patri-
archal head
this has been cailed
called a first estate
cabled and ititisis
intimated that of the spirits thus placed upon their
agency one third failed to keep their first estate and
were thrust down and reserved in chains of darkness
for future judgment As these are not permitted to
multiply their species or to move forward in the scale
of progressive being while in this state of bondage
and condemnation we will trace them no further as
their final destiny is not revealed to mortals
the spirits which kept their first estate were per- jr
mitted todescend
to descend below and to obtain atabem atabek
a tabernacle
adia
adi6
of flesh in the rudimental existence in which we find
them in our present world band and which we will call a
tand
second estate
in passing the veil which sseparates epaiate1dween
between the
first and second estates ihi man
ibi ribe
becomes 66scious
eomeit unconscious
emmeit
awake
and on awakeiii
awakeriingin his second
iii ngliwliigjgec
fil estate Ad
bftdj69tat
secondestate a elili
eiiis
elili wisely
eidis
veilis
beilis
r
thrown over all thep thepift
the ift
past
thebrast
in his mortal tabernacle he remembers not the scenes
52 KEY TO THEOLOGY

the endea
endearing
ring associations of his first primeval child-
hood in the heavenly mansions he therefore com-
mences anew in the lessons of experience in order to
start on a level with the new bom tabernacle and to
developed his intellectual faculties in a progressive
re develope
series which keep pace with the development of the
organs and faculties of the outward tabernacle e

during his progress in the flesh the holy sp11 pirit

cirit
may gradually awaken his faculties and in a dream
or vision or by th espirit of prophecy reveal or rather
awaken the memory to a partial vision or to a dim
and half defined recollection of the intelligence ocho
onho
oflthe
past he sees in part and he knows in part but
never while tabernacled in mortal flesh will lie fu fully
awake to the intelligence of his former estate it sur-
passes his comprehension is unspeakable and even
unlawful to be uttered
having kept his second estate and filled tfiermea
the mea-
passesth
sure of his responsibilities in the flesh he pasa
pass 1
jki
eesth
eaki
akie
veil of death and
aud probational
probationar
add enters a third estate or probation
probationary
argw
angwill
ana
sphere this is called the world of spirits andwill
and will
be treated on more fully under its appropriate head
filling the measure of his responsibilities in the
world of spirits he passes by means of the resurrection
of the body into his fourth estate or sphere of human
existence in this sphere hefinds clothe4
he finds himself clothed
upon with an eternal body of fleshy and bones with
fl eshand vith
every sense and every organ restored ana ani
and
ana adapted to
their proper use
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 53

is tils
L
he thus prepared with organs aataculties
and faculties
adapted to thetee enjoyme
tile possession and enjoyment
tlle nt of every
element of the physical or spiritual worlds which
can gratify the senses or conduce to the happiness of
intelligences he associates converses loves thinks
acts moves sees hears tastes smells eats drinks
and possesses
in short all the elements necessary to his happiness
being purified exalted and adapted tothe ere in
to the s phere
placed6 within his lawful reach
which he exists are placeda
i i iifc rtiiasj liigaii6 ii f i i

s6s&vieriftleto0 atohis use

and made subservient
ul tt fto 1

jis
JIT
jt 4
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54 KEY TO THEOLOGY

f
I r
1

p
4 0

yri
R VHP
GHAPXEEVH
I
1 77 s

deti YQF
DESTINY OF mre
MIE
THE UNIVERSE
VN 1

ne
tfr pysicfu
ter
tar
tee mystle future
mystic futura
ure t h its ddepths
with
w pth7 P
profound
rorr ages
for aes counted
0 as forbidden ground pr
lz
now afta
hfta its teil pen6trite
tell that man may penetratff
it veil
teiqetp
riieeretspiagrsf3gs the mysteries
fags to of fate y
offatt
offate
know whence he lsi and whitter
is ind
isi whither he is bound
exig
ebig
and why the spheres eifiona
ei fonn
eifona tri
trl
tel
fona their ampie
ample
ampie 10
ample roand
round

tim grand council havhi

THE having developed the vast
hanhi
structure of the heavens and the earth edthodth all their
with
ful ness with the evident design of utility and adap-
falness
fulness
tation to certain definite uses it well becomes us to
watch their progress and to st
vatch udy with diligence
ady
study
their future and final destiny
from a general traditional belief in an immaterial
hereafter many have concluded that the earth and all
tiee annihilated as mere tempo-
material things would lye
iye
rary structures that the material body and the
planets it occupies make no part of eternal life and
being in short that god angels and men become
at last so lost dissolved or merged in spirituality or
immateriality as to lose all adaptation to the uses of
the physical elements that they will absolutely need
no footstool habitation possession mansion home
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 55

athi ng that
furniture food or clothing ahat the whole vast
i ma
b aiaifdfd16 designs 6fit
af m6 cr
7

works antlanti beautiful

and hy visible
6f ehg
thg vlsi
visi creatlon
creation
r y

kid6f
are a kind af
6f naces
necessary
n6ces ell or clog bivthe
eil
s d ry evil bWirthe
the spiritual
life and are of no possible use except to serve herve for the
being for the home and siistehftilmof
time bein sustenance of beinsbein
beings9
in their grosser or rudlinettat
lil
ill rudimentawf ate
what a doleful picture With withnhat
withwhatwhat
Nhat gloom and
melancholy must intelligences c ontemplate the vast
structure as viewed in this light
what a vastness of design 1

what a display of wisdom

what a field of labour hi in et&utidn
execution idlodo the works
dio
410

cohtemplafiii mind
of creation present to the contemplative 1

yet all this wisdom of design sii sil ahls

ail
ali
all this labour of
servin a momentary purpose to be
execution after serving
thrown away aa as an incumbrance to real existence
and happiness
all these 11 spiritual immdt6rlal
immaterial vagaries have
no foundation in truth
the earth and other systems aretoundergoareto
are to undergo a
variety of changes in their pro rress towards per-
progress
aress
fection
fec tion water firelire and other elements are the
agents of these changes but it is an eternal
unchangeable fact a fixed law of nature easily
demonstrated and illustrated by chemical experiment
that neither fire ifnor
or any other element can annihil ate
annihilate
particle
a particleof
parti af
6f matter to say nothing of a whole globe
partlcleOf gibbe
A new heaven and a now new
nom earth arg
hewearth are promised by the
sacred writers or in other words the planetary
50
56 KEY TO THEOLOGY

systems are to be changed purified refined exalted

and glorified i12jhe
nuthe similitude of the resurrection
buthe
wuthe
by which means all physical evil or imperfection will
be done away
he
in their present state they are adapted to the
rudimental state of man they are as it were
the nurseries for mans physical embryo formation
their elements afford the means of nourishing
and sustaining the tabernacle and of engendering
and strengthening the organ of thought and mind
wherein are conceived and generated thoughts and
affections which can only be matured and consum-
mated in a higher sphere thoughts pregnant with
eternal life and love
cnlarge the aspirations of an eternal
As the mind enlarge
enlarges
honour
being once ennobled and honoured ed in the councils
of heaven among the sons of god reach forth too
high and broad and deep to be longer adapted to
the narrow sphere of mortal life his body is
imprisoned chained to the earth while his mind
would soar aloft and grasp the intelligence wisdom
and riches of the boundless infinite
his rudimental body must therefore pass away and
be changed so as to be adapted to a wider and more
glorious sphere of locomotion research action and
enjoyment
olen
oien
ohen
mien the planet on which he dwells has conceived
when
brought forth and nourished the number of taber-
nacles assigned to it in its rudimental state by
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 57
infinite wisdom it must needs lle
infinitewisdom lie acted upon by a
be
ile
chemical process the purifying elements for instance
firej ff must needs be
fire
farej lie employed to bring it through an
tie
ordeal a refinement a purification a change commen-
surate with that which had before taken place in the
physical tabernacle of its inhabitants thus reno-
vated it is adapted to resurrected man
when hen man and the planet on which he lives with
all its fulness
ful
falness
ness shall have
llave completed all their series of
progressive changes so as to be adapted to the highest
glories of which their several characters and species
ar e ccapable then the
are thewholewill
whoie will beannexedto
whole be annexed to or
number
numberedwith
numbered edwith li eavenssl angwill
with the eternal heaven and will there
andwill
fulfil their eternal rounds being another acquisition
fulfill
to the mansions or eternally increasing dominions of
the great creator and redeemer
worlds are mansions for the home of intelligences
intelligences exist in order to enjoy
joy in its fulness
ful ness depends on certain principles
falness
viz r
life eternal love eternal peace eternal
wealth eternal &c ac
without the first enjoyment lacks durability
without the second it can hardly be said to exist
without the third it would not be secure
without the fourth it must be limited &c ac
eternal life in its fulness
falness implies a spiritual intel-
li
ligence
gence embodied in the likeness of its own species
and clothed upon with an outa ard tabernacle of
outward
outw
58
5 KEY TO THEOLOGY

eternal irw6rruptiblc&8h
incdrruptible bones thiis
andrones
andbones
incorruptible flesh and
aud
aila whi state of thi
thl
existen&can
existence can only b& toy thel resurrection
ba attained loy
tile body aand
of the
tlle na
nd its eternal teunion
reunion
re
r union
ii i 6na with thee
n4 W
s

spirit 1
FT r

atdiftad
thus attal
eternal life bilus attai
attaifaed
a faed hn andd emow
em&w
endowed etli
itli dhe
c with the
lne
eternatattr
eternal ibut6sd
attributes of intblligd n 6 6 and
intelligence eold never
doid
dold
IWM could
and16v
exercise or derl iljoymentryronflth affections of
the latter unless anocia
associated sith 6thaibmfgs
vith
Wd I1sath
with dtllqp bol rigs baab
boirigs
boi bnab W ed
endowed
r r
with the same attributes
hence the object6bject or necessity of eternal kindred
1 1

ties associations and affectionssl eor hor

bor
exorcised
exercised
c lied as tile
the
tiie
tlle
attributes of that charity which n&ver naver ends
r r
the third proposition vizi
eternal peace couldn6ver
could never
neved hesecm use cunda
cundd ed without the thi3
thl
development of eternal ilawand gofernment government
gofern ment which
would possess in itself the atlributesdfmnmte truth
itselfthe
and power
goodness andlpowtk
r r
T r
j
a1I ny govenfm6nt ho ft af
goveriiftiofit short 6f this could never
of
guarantea eternal peace rt would be liable to be
guarantee
overthrown bj by the lack of truth to discern disposi-
r
tion to execute or power to enforce the measums measun
mealun s
necessary to insure peace
r4o4if in
the fourth proposition 1

of necessity consist of an
eternal wealthy must ofnecessity it
everlasting inheritance dbr title eti1l6 ddn
ilenned aha ld
aba
abu 1
liff secured
g6vemmfent w
4 I1
1
thig
by this eternal g6vernmentj I1
topdrtton
pditi6h .66 of the
organized 61emdnt9 in their
elements i in iwtur pure iht0h
r
uptible at1
ar
uptable ata
incorruptible ati 1
eternal A state
ate
ute 1 m
in order to be wealthy eternal nan man must possess posses
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 59

a Cer tainTjortqnbf
certain
certainty
certaint oitionbfthv the surface ofldiriletemalplanet
eternalplanet
oflsdmd eternal pianet
planet
adapted to hisbis brder
arder or sphere of bf existence
this inheritance incorruptible eternal iii in the
lri
heavens must be sufficiently extensive for his
accommodation withall with all
2
ail his family dependencies
ali
it must also comprise a variety of elements adapted
to his useand
use and convenience eternal gold silver
precious stories ather
stoiid and dthcr
stolid dther precious materials would
be useful in1i ai thi 1I 1I ii and furnishing
erection
ti i erec
arec famishing of man-
sions anuand qof public and pnvate develling divelling
dwellingss or
r
edifices
these edifices combined or a n ge ciiii
rranged
dk a it liii
in wisdom
would constitute eeae 4e vit
kit
ala
ternal
im al1 cities
ies
les hardens
ar ens groves
walks rivulets to untal
fountains flowers andad fruitsts evouwould
ivou d
adornAho
beautify and adornaho
adorn
adornato
nabothe landscape please the eye dye the
taste the lsibell
smeil and thifat6iltribiito
smell illu ldiiigfto
allu S contribute gladness to the
heart of man
silks linensi
linew I 1
other suitable materials ould
or otliersuitablerhatqt11j
I1
ouid
would
yso
yio
FIT be
necessary to adom and t&jumish and
adorn his person andaw1urnish
beautify his mansions
in short eternal man in possession 816ri of eternal
worlds in ali a ll
ail
11
their
h vyariety and falness wi will1I eat
eonv0rs6i a88pdia
drink think converse associatetq assemble disperse
aq 1

got come
go
901 comey
comel pos
posgtz2
possliss
stiss
sliss 1
improve lotu and enjoy 41e he will
increase in riches lii6vrodge power powen might majesty maiestv
4
and domi
dominion
ni on in worl1 it out
without
oui end
every speciesof
speciesof
species of tliaaiiimalicrqttioneverorganized
tha animalcreation
tho creation ever organized
animal creatlon
by creative goodness w liafc ever felt the
zi itliat pangs
paings of
dhe uings
death or uttered a groan while subject to the tile king of
tlle
60 KEY TO THEOLOGY

terrors or exulted in the joys of life and Ssympathy

Ym pathy
5

and longed for the redemption of the body will wiil

x ill
lil
lii have
part in the resurrection and will live for ever in their
own spheres in the possession of peace and a fulness falness
of joy adapted to their several capacities
0 child of earth con elyea in corruption I
eevea
eivea
elved
conceived 1

brought forth in pain and sorrow 1I sojourning

sojo urning
in a world of mourning mia mid sighs and tears
ana
and groans and awaiting in sadness thy home
in the gloomy grave as food for worms
lift up thy head cast thine eyes around thee
behold yon countless hosts of shining orbsarbs
yon worlds of light and life then turn to earth
survey the solid globe its mineral wealth
its gems its precious stones its gold its prinspri
springs
prin n
its gardens forests fruits and flowers
its countless myriads
mariada of breathing life
myriada
31 ote to man through all the varied scale
note
from mote scalo
of animated being
visit the gloomy caverns of the dead
the ancient sepulchre where een the worm
of death himself has died for want ofed
of&d
of food
and bones disjointed are crumbled fine and
mingled with the dust
nay deeper still descend the fathomless
abyss of souls condemned in darknes
darknesss cha
darloiess oha inea
chained
ined
or thrust in gloomy dungeons of despair
merc
merey
mere
mercyy of hope
morc
where the very names of morey
ana
and of deaths conqueror remain unknown
observe with care the whole indulge
indulgeinin tears
tear
ily
ha dwiy
but hope believe and clothed with 8charity
neti
which never
nevier fails thine eyes enlightened
thy person clad in light ethereal
time fades and opens on eternity
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 61
again review the scene beheld before
you
youstartle
tou startle
startie seemsurprisedl lperwblmed
seem surprised confused oerwhelmed
overwhelmed
death is conquered corruption Is is no more
all Is kf and the word ETERNITY
ETERNITY
Is inscribed in characters indelible
on every particle and form of life
socrates plato confucius and many other philoso-
phers and divines havellave written largely on the immor-
tality of the soul or spirit of man
some of these have suffered with joy and cheer-
ful ness imprisonment torture and even death with
fulness
only tills
this
tilis limited view of eternal existence
could these martyrs to a portion of truth so limited
and yet so full of hope and consolation have handled
immortal flesh and bones in tiie the persons of enoch or
tile
elijah translated or of jesus raised from the dead
could they have learned from their sacred lips and
realized the full import of that joyful sentence
t behold 1I make all things new
could they have contemplated eternal worlds of
matter in all its elements and forms of animal life
indissoluble and everlasting could they have beheld
eternal man moving in the majesty of a god amid
the planetary systems grasping the knowledge of
universal nature and with an intellect enlightened by
the experience and observations of thousands and
even millions of years could they have had a glimpse
of all this ana
nd heard the promise
and
there shall ie
he no more death
62 KEY TO THEOLOGY

issuing from the fountain of truth prompted by in-

finite bene
benevolence ana
6volehee arid
and chai
anid
annd ity re
charity
ohai ie echoing amid the
racli yibvib r g with
rmcli down teartliyibrating
starry worlds reaching
a thrill of joy all the myriad af animated nature
myrl adssi 6f
myri
penetrating the gloomy vaults of death and the
prisons of the spirit world with a ray of hope and
causing to spring afre afresh the well
sh tbewellweli lifland
weil springs of lifeand
tuewell and
ilfe ana
life
joy and love even in the lonely dungeons of despair despal
despai
0 how would their bosoms have reverberatedwith
reverberated
revcrberatedwith with
unutterable joy and triumph in view of changing
worlds L
i
could theltulers
thdxuldrs
theLT ulers of this world have beheld or evven en
c6ncetion of such riches such nobility 2
formed a conception
such an eternal and exceeding weig
etemalcand weight
would have accounted the wealthipleisures
tof
oh bof gir
of glory y th
they
dy
wealth pleasures hono ho nours
honours
urs
hondours
tities dignities glories thrones principalities and
titles
titlesj
crowns of thisworld
this world as mere toys the play playthings
things
thingy
of a day dross not worth the strife and toil of
acquiring or the trouble of maintaining except as a
troublesome responsibility
duty or ortroublesom6
with this view of the subjo qtr
subject
subjq ama
tma n so base
whatman
atr 71ig
so gro velling so blind to hia
grovelling hi own interests aag
his
hla as to
neglect those auti duti
dutiesj
es self deniais sacrifices
seif deniakis ac ri ficu
dicu which
are nec sa in order 10
necessary to
lo asecure
qc a ppar
arfcmfthe
dar inf the verst
resurrection and a jar fir more exceeding and eternal
far
weight 04 of g lory in thailifeyhich
that verenda
lle
ile
Tie ra ds
tieverenda
 KEY
KE Y TO THEOLOGY 63

uay
uhm s
oi j I
1 rn ia.44 1
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1 A
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CHATTS
0fjI1 1 icff
1.
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aattbrnil ti t 1

kry OF KNOWLEDGE POWERAND

HEY
KEY POWER AND government
govermienr
govehnment
i r j y

lleavfns tobutt
iieavena nobillty
nobility
tobuit wwhom0m vvo
am worlds
ivo aspey
dspey
fifyii t r
i vww&ti ba
cluwiflet b& e s so veemo
tnm2et ero hiday
eroalday
emm hidas
Alday 1 i A
4.4 edtenwdes
4 anth
to
enth ne
10 whpnl
w ae
the unaf
4f
uni ts incense hingst
yerse ais
uniyerse
universe bingstI
L
1
lis
Ael
aelnim nim stieanyt&ronei
the stores of indpi
infinjtudeyaallltswnfi
indri pi
HJ

ri kf
l
tf 1 l
1

J 1I u 1

having gwen a gigralvjq of the tho

th powers
operations and effects of tjheqlpgtj1qq1qg0 jdveloped
eloped
amongst thei
thej nation jftf antjo
thea t m
anajo
njq111yj tj
pe ali
th teries of
allmysteries
berles
herles
the godhead the layr jaw ofr nature and the
latr of
cofr thd origin
mhd
and destiny of the universe the subject next in
order is the KEY
KFY of kn orledge
owledge
ow ledge power and govern-
knowledge
ment as developed in the heavens and on the
earth for the organization order peace happiness
education improvement and exaltation of intelli-
gences in the image of god his sons and daughters
the great family of m mancqinprising bing the inhab-
sing
hing
itants of unnumqrq
unnumeremillqngisofi
mill worlds in every
variety and d egree
ser iqq of progress cqjisist
ghr inq q4psisf olf X div
fiv
fivee prin-
sphar
cipal sphqr
spheres orr grand iv sians in thi scale
ivisions
siqns caie of
cale to
progressive being
belne viz
beine
first the oo 00
godsyds composed of embodied spirits
who inhabit tabernacles of immortal flesh and bones
64 KEY TO THEOLOGY

in their most refined state and who are perfected in

all the attributes of intelligence an&power
and power
second thetle angels who are also composed of
tho
spirits and immortal flesh and bones less refined and
endowed with vast intelligence and power but but not a
lut
falness
fulness
ful ness
third embodied spirits without a tabernacle of
flesh and bones these are they who have passed the
veil of death and are awaiting a resurrection
fourth embodied spirits with mortal taber-
nacles as in the present world
fifth embodied spirits who have not yet des-
cended to be clothed upon with mortality but who
rire candidates for the same
are
tire
ture
there is also a sixth division but of those we need
not speak as they are not as yet included iA n the
scale of progressive being not having kept their first
estate
the spirits of
cfall
ofall
ali
all their primeval states
ail men in theirprimeval
were intelligent but among these intelligences
some were more noble that is to say more intelligent
than others
I
and god said these will 1 make rulers in my
kingdoms upon this principle was manifested the
election before the foundation of the world of
certain individuals to certain offices as written in
the scriptures
see book of abraham translated from6m papyrus lately tak
tat en
taken
Cata combs of thebes in egypt
from the catacombs
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 65

in otiierwonas certain individuals moreintelli

otner words certaln more intelli
gent than head to
ihan the others were chosen by the beadi
headi
telch instruct edify improve govern andminister
each
teach and minister
truth and salvation to others and to hoiathe
hola the dele-
hoid
hold
gated powers or keys of government in the several
spheres of progressive being
these were not only chosen but set apart by a
holy ordinance in the eternal worlds as embassadors
ambassadors
Alini sters priests kings apostles &c
foreign ministers ac to
fillthe
fill the various stations in the vast empire of the
sovereign of all
jesus christ being the first apos apostle
tie thus com-
tle
missioned and the president of all the powers thus
2

aele
dele gated is lord of lords and king of kings in the
delegated
li eavens and on the earth hence this priesthood is
lieavens
heavens
davens
called the thepriesthood goa
priesthood after the order of the son of pod
god
it holas
holds the keys of all the true principles of govern-
itholds
ent in all worlds being withoutbeginning
rment without beginning of days
or end of life it was held by adam seth enoch
noah shem melchisedec and others abraham
obtained this priesthood and an election of the same
in his seed after him to all generations the decree
thin
forthin
went dorthin
forth
for in an everlasting covenant that in abra-
ham and his seed all the nations anaalid kindreds of the
and
aila
alla
earth should be blessed
of this lineage according to the flesh were the
prophets john the baptist jesus christ and tili tileI
tilo 1

jewish apostles since the covenant and andelection this

election thus
manifested the keys of revelation government aarid 1I
rdd
66 ney
ner
iley
ilet
KEY TO THEOLOGY
THEOLOGM

miraculous powers on earth haveb een held exclusively

have been
habeb
bby
y the literal descendants of this noble
nobie and royal house
house
the gentiles could partake of a portion of theme
blessit
blessings but this could only he be done through their
ministry and by adoption into th the same family
this election or covenant with the house of israel
will continue for ever inthe great restoration of all
forever
things this lineage will hold the keys of priesthood
sal vation and government for all nations As saith
salvation
bai
bal
the prophet isaiah 91thetie
the nation and kingdom that
will not serve thee shall perish yea those nations
wili
shall be
he utterly wasted
and again cye lye
te shall be the
tle priests of
thepriests lord
the nord
oftie
f
men shall call you the ministers 0of our god but
strangers shall build your walls and the soros sorts of the
sons
sonos
alien shall be your
youn plough men and your
yourpzoughmenandyour
ploughman
ploughmen yout vine dressers
this priesthood including that of the aaronic
holds the keys of revelation of the oracles of god
to man upon the earth the power and right to give
and commandments to individuals churches
laws band
tand
rulers nations and the world to appoint ordain and
establish constitutions and kingdoms to appoint
kings presidents governors or judges and to ordain
kingspresidents
or anoint them to their several holy callings also to
instruct warn or reprove them by the word of the
lord
it
also holds the keys of the administration of
ordinances for the remission of sins and for thegift
the gift of
holyspirit
the holy Spirit toheal
todeal the sick cast out demons or
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 67

work miracles in the name ofthe odthe lord in finel

ofth6 gine
fine to
bind vor or doose on
jor
dor dn eaith tind in hm
earth and
find heavenefi for the
erdige of
exercise aich
df all which
hich powers
powersthe rudent of theology
the student
will fijid
fln& abundant pr
viiliill filid eln the sa
cements fin
e cedents
precedents in
ein crkl script
brkl
sacred ures
scriptures
man holding the keys of the priesthood andapostle tie
tle
ship after the orar
iship order of the son of god are his rere bere
senta tives or embassadors
sentatives ambassadors to man eind
klad
mankind
kiAd to receive
ahem to obey their instructions
them instructioiis to feed clothe or aid
them
the m
themiris is counted the same in the final judgment
yris
miris jud fient
nient as ds
if all hadben
ail
ali
ifiall habben
had been done to the ison of god in person on
theson
th6son
tho
theother
the other hand to rejedtthem reject them or thedr then testimony or
theu
their
message or the word of god throup through 1 them in any
matter is countedthe
counted
count the same as if done to jesus christ
edthe
in his own person indeed such embassadors ambassadors will be
the final judges of the persons rulers cities or
jnations to whom they are sent
although the chosen instruments to hold thekeys theieys
the keys
thekeos
of this priesthood must bethe be the literal lineage of israel
yet thatlin
that lineage
thadlin eage are not all thus commissioned norr
aage nor
horr
indeed are any of them priests merely because theyl they
areof
areofthe
areef the chosen seed such an aninstrument instrument must be
revealed and his ordination which he had before the
wbrld began be renewed and confirmed upon his
world
fleshly tabernacle or he cannot be a priest on earth
one who already holds the authority or keys of df
priesthood can rave reveal
r6ve al by the word of the lord and
ordain and anoint oth ers to similar callings and
others
drs
through these ordinances fill them with the holy hoit
spirit as a qualification for their holy calling
68 KEY TO THEOLOGY

by this means
md ans joshua succeeded moses ellsha
elisha
succeeded elijah &cac and by this means
means thegr6at
the great
apostle of the father chose and ordained the twelve
apostles of the jews and gave the keys or presidency
of the kingdom to peter
there have however been times when by ly a
general martyrdom or apostacy
apo stacy the keys of thispower
apostasy this power
have been taken from the earth see chapters 2 3 44.
in such case there would be no longer visions revela-
tions or miraculous gifts from the lord manifested
manifest ea
among men because the priesthood is the channel
and the ordinances are the means through which such
blessings are enjoyed by man in the absence ofthese
offices and powers darkness ignorance superstition
prieste raat
priestcraft
rafa raft idolatry and every species
raft and kingcraft
kingeraht
of abuse would fill the earth and usurp the place of
the true government of the kingdom of god
i
the most remarkable and long continued instanceins tance
of this kind which perhaps ever transpired in our
world commenced with the destruction of the apostles
and saints who immediately succeeded the lord
jesus christ and continued until the present century
producing in its consequences all the human butcheries
but cheries
oppress ions mis
wars oppressions mls rale
raie ignorance superstitions
ruie
misrule
kinge raft priestcraft and misery which have visited
kingcraft
in the false name of christianity
the world iiithe
ilithe
on the western hemisphere the apostleship
oracles miracles and gifts of the spirit ceased efro
2
from
1fro lii
ili
ila
among the people in the fou rtli century
fourth
bourth
etli
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 69

the precise time of the discontinuance of these

powers pnah6
on the eastern conti hents or inthe roman
continents boman
nyqtldis
worldiis not known suffice it to say the last of the
twelve apostles predicted in his vision on the isle of
patmos the reign of a certain power which should
make war with the saints overcome them be drunken
with their blood and bear rule over all nations
witk
and by thy sorceries
sor ceries said he 11 were all nations
kqek
deceiyed
keek yed
deceived
ved 7
if these predictions have had their fulfill
falfil
fulfil
iqatthen
pfent
nfent then it is the height of inconsistency ror for
one to contend that rome or any nation has
any- oneto
perpetuated the priesthood apostleship or church
this would be the same as to say the saints were
destroyed and yet perpetuated all nations were
deceived and yet had the truth
could a universal or catholic power at once destroy
the saints and perpetuate them could the same
p6wef at the same time be the conservator and pro-
power
mul
mulgator
gator of a system of universal salvation and of
universal deception
but leaving the prediction and the reasoning on
this subject what are the facts which present
themselves for our own inspection clearly visible to
all men
do we not find the world for many ages and up to
the present time destitute of those manifestations
visions powers and keys of knowledge and govern-
mentwbich
ment which would enlighten purify ani and exalt the
race and establish permanent righteousness and peace
70 KEY TO THEOLOGY

in short he
have tthe
depowers
hepowers of
powers odthethe eternal priesthood
ofthe P
as described and exemplified ins in the holy scripture
ini scriptures 115

and in this work been mani tested for the government

manifested
of the catholic or protestant world or any nation
thereof since the destruction of the ancient saints
and apostles
if we answer this lalast
st questions
question in the negative then
we verify the truth of the prediction by the last of
the twelve if in the affirmative we deny both the
truth of the prediction and the facts which clearly
present themselves in the past history and present
circumstances of the world called l christian
1

when there is no longer a commissioned priesthood

Prist hood
perpetuated on themthe earth it becomes necessary IM
ther in
order to restore the government of god for the man
or men last holding therthe keys of such power to return
thee
tlle earth as ministering angels and to select lys
the
to tile by
lyt
bys
the word of the lord and ordain certain individuals
individual
i

of the royal lineage of israel to holdthe

hoid the
hold heys
keys of si
th&keys such
icar
ichr
priesthood and to ordain others and thusrest6re
thus restore ani
and
organize
reorganize
re the government of goa ri
god or his kingdom
upon the earth
after the destruction ofthe th e apostles and saints
who succeeded jesus christ there is but one dispen-
sationw or
bor
hor
satiowor
bation or restoration predicted by the prophets
that dispensation will fulwil fulfil the times of the
fulfili
gentiles complete their ful ness restore the kingd
fulness
falness kinga
kingdomonf
conf
to israel gather home their twelve tribes organize
them into a theocratic government that is a govern govera
 KEY TO THEOLOGT 71
ment founded and guided by prophets priesthood
visions and revelations it will in fact not only
restore to them the ministration of angels but
hut receive
its final consummation by the resurrection of the
ancient saints and their return to the earth accom-
paniedd by the son of god in his own proper person
pan
to this dispensation all nations must submit
all merely human religious or political institutions
all republics states kingdoms empires must lie
dissolved the dross of ignorance and falsehood be
separated and the golden principles of unalloyed
truth be preserved and blended for ever in the one
consolidated universal eternal government of the
saints of the 2fost4ighi
ofthe
odthe most high andall
andali
and ail
ali
all nations shall serve
hima
and obey him
hlma h 1

A 2 t

II
11

i j AC J mt
it ur4ulja
4 t 1
A
72 KEY TO THEOLOGY

CHAPTER
C IX

REVIVAL OR restoration OF THE SCIENCE OF THEOLOGY IK

IN
prisentagrl
THE PRESENT AGE

A modern prophet yes a ml ajr

ujr seer
mighty beer I1
from is aels
israels
uels royal line must next app
aop eal
eai
appear
clad in the spirit of ETi
btijahs
etijaha
elijaha
ebijahs
ebljaha power
to prune the vineyard in tw th eleventh hour
to light the dawn of that effulgent da
day
dwy
when king messiah shall his
bi sceptresway
sceptrciviay

THE nineteenth century opened upon the world with

far more favourable
favour able auspices than any other age since
the destruction of the people of the saints and the
reign of universal mystery that spirit of freedom
and independence of thought of speech and of action
which a few centuries before had germinated in
europe and which after a stunted growth amid
thistles of kinge
the thorns and whistles
thistles kingcraft
raft the tares of
priestcraft and the weeds of superstition in the old
world transplanted itself and obtained a more
vigorous growth in the new world had now grown to
a degree of maturity andbecome
and become consolidated opening
resources for all nations under the inestimable
guarantee of constitutional liberty
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 73

to thigfandard
this standard the most enterprising intelligent
thiiiking of every nation in europe hadcommen
and thinking had commen-
t6gather like a flowing stream here far separated
ced to gather
from the practical influence the false glare the empty
sho ir or even the senseless name and titles of a self
show
styled or imaginary nobility their minds enlarged
their energies had full scope and their intellectual
faculties unfettered and free and surrounded with
inexhaustible stores of unoccupied elementary riches
sao
soon
s6o n opened and developed new channels of thought
of action of enterprise and improvement the results
of which have revolutionized the world in regard
to geographical knowledge commerce intercom-
munication transportation travel transmission of
news and mutual acquaintance and interchange of
thought
the triumphs of steam over earth and sea the
extension of railroads and above all the lightning
powers of the telegraph are already gradually but
rapidly
rabidly developing concentrating and consolidating
the energies andinterests
and interests of all nations preparatory to
the universal development of knowledge neighbourly
neighbourly
kindness and mutual brotherhood
physically speaking there seems to need but the
physicallyspeaking
consummation of two great enterprises more in order
to complete the preparations necessary for the fulfill fulfil
ment of isaiah and other prophets in regard to the
iio n of is
allo
lio
restoration
restor rael to palestine from the four
lael
israel
quarters of the earth and the annual reunion union of all
ie unionbf
re
74 KEY TO THEOLOGY

holy shrines and temples

nations to the new standards hqlyshrines
of zion and jerusalem under the auspices of that
great univ eisai and permanent theocracy which is
universal
etsal
eisal
to succeed the long reign of mystery
one of these is the great eastern railway from
europe to india and china with its branches
and accompanying telegraphic wires centering at
jerusalem
the other is the great western
Te stern hallwaywith
Railway i with its
Hallway
branches and accompanyin from
accompany in g telegraphic lines from
accompanying
the atlantic to the pacific
politically speaking some barriers yet remain to
be removed and some conquests0be
conquests to be achieved such
as the subjugation of japan and the tile triumph of
tiie
constitutional liberty among certain nations where
mind and thought and religion are still prescribed
by law
these things achieved even the most incredulous
in regard to the truth of scripture prophecy will be
acknow
constrained to acknowledge led e that physically and
acknowled
politically speaking there is nothing impossible or
even improbable in the belief that the twelve
tribes of israel will be concentrated from all na nations
tions
eions
in their own land that jerusalem will become the
capitol of political government the seat of knowledge
and the shrine of worship for the yearly resort of
all the nations and countries included in the world
known to the prophets of old while the western
hemisphere separated aa as it is by two great oceans
 kex TO THEOLOGY
XEY
KEY 75

theold
from thea oid world will naturally forn1jits
old form its own
central capitol its zion or new jerusalem to
which all its tribes and nations may perform their
annual
annil
annii al visits for instruction devotion and mutual
interchange of thought of fellowship and affection
can the student of prophecy contemplate all these
preparations clearly predicted thousands of years
ago dud now bursting upon the world with seemingly
ag0 and
aud
preconcerted connexion and exactness revolutionizing
all things in a single age and not be struck with the
reflection that the hand of god must be in all this
and that moral energy and spiritual light must be
arid
awd
awid
forthcoming from the heavens commensurate with
the physical and political preparations for a new era
the same prophets who have contemplated and
dean
deknebed the ddevelopment of national freedom
described
universal intercourse mutual peace knowledge union
of worship reunion of the tribes of israel that have
described highways trains of cars flying as it were
with a cloud ocean steamers ships litters and swift
beasts as the instruments of restoration have also
predicted that in connexion with all these prepara-
tions a new dispensation should be manifested a
new covenant established 11a A standard for the
nation an ensign for the people in short
swift messengers teachers prophets would
be commissioned revelations be manifested and a
new organization be developed fitted to the times
and with principles and laws adapted to the re rc
76 KEY TO THEOLOGY

organization i order and government of a renovated

world r

where and when should we look for the t grain

of mustard seed the germ the nucleus of such
organization of course in a land of free institutions
where such organization could be legally developed
and claim constitutional protection until sufficiently
matured to defend itself against the convulsions
the death struggles the agonizing throes which
precede the dissolution of the long reign of mystic
tyranny and at a time when modern freedom had
been consolidated nationalized and its standard
recognized among the nations
such an organization should also he be looked for in
its first development as cotemporary with the first
dawn or development of the physical and political
means provided forthe
for the same result
the beginning of the present century gave birth to
those chosen instruments who were destined to hold
the keys of restoration for the renovation of the world
the united states of america was the favouredfavoured
nation raised up with institutions adapted to the
protection and free development of the necessary
truths and their practical results and that great
prophet apostle and martyr
JOSEPH SMITH
SMITHI
elias the restorer the presiding3lessenger
was theelias
the ellas
eilas presiding messenger
holding the keys of the dispensation tle
idispensa6on of tho
the
thefitiness
falness of
fulness
times
 ae

KEY TO THEOLOGY 77
yes that extraordinary man whose innocent blood
were from the h ands
is now dripping fresh as it were2jrom an ds of
in the united states
assassins and their accessories inthe
honour
was the chosen vessel honoured ed of god and ordained
by a ngels to ordain other apostles and elders to
restore the church and kingdom of god the gifts of
the holy spirit and to be a messenger in the spirit
thdholy
and power of elijah to prepare ae tne way of the lord
ane
for behold he will suddenlycome
adri
edri
fdri suddenly come to his temple
tempie
like john who filled a similar mission preparatory
to the first advent ofthe son of god he baptized with
water unto repentance for the remission of sins like
him he was imprisoned and like him min his life was
taken from the earth and finally like all other true
messengers his message is being demonstrated by its
fulfilment the powers gifts and signs
progressive fulfillment
following the administration of his message in all the
world and every minute particular of his predictions
fulfi
fulci iling in the order of events as the wheels of
fulfilling
ailing
time bring them due
but in one important point his message differs from
all former messages the science of theology
revived by him will never decline nor its keys
be taken from the earth they are committed to man
for the last time their consummation will restore the
tribes of israel and judah overthrow all corrupt
institutions usher in the reign of universal peace
and knowledge introduce to the earth her lawful lawfia
lawsia
eternal king the crucified nazarene there
and eternalkin the resur
sur
 8

78 KEY TO THEOLOGY

rected messiah
erected banish darkness and death sorrow
mourning and tears from the face of our globe and ana
crown our race with the laurels of victory and eternal
life
ages yet unborn will rise up and caltham
calthim
cail him blessed
cali
call
s

A thousand generations of countless my myriads vill

riads will
reads
laud his praise and recount his deeds while unnum-
bered nations baskin
bask in the light and enjoy the benefit
benefitss
of the institution founded by his instrumentality
his kindred the nation that gave him birth and
exulted at his death nay his very im1rderers
murderers and
bending unto him and
their posterity will yet come benclingunto
seek his forgiveness and the benefits of his labours7
labours
laboure
but oh the pain the dark despair the torments
guilty conscience the blackness of darkness in
of a aguilty
the lower hell which the guilty wretches will experi-
ence before that happy day of deliverance
oh the countless myriads of the offspring of inno-
honour able men who will walk the earth
cent and honourable
tread on the ashes or plow and reap over the bones
and dust of those miserable murderers and their
accomplices who have consented to the sheddingqf
shedding of
innocent blood 1 ere the final trump shall sound
which calls up their sleeping dust from its long slum-
tomb and their spirits from the prison of
bers in the bombi
tombi
the damned
and even when this to them almost interminable
tolled away and they rise from the dead
period has rolled
periodhas
instead of a welcome exaltationn tothe
welcomeexaltatio to the presence and
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 79

robis ofgod
lof the sons
society of of god an malban
etemalban ishment
ish ment
eternal banishment
tin ete ashment
awaits them ndver can come where god and
they never
adver
christdwell
Christ
chrisfcdwell
dwell but will be thedominions of
servants in the dominions
beservahts
the saints their former victims
this extraordinary personage was bom in sharon
windsor county vermont united states december
23rdi1805
23rd 1805
hate
He
heremoved
hetemoved
HeTe removed with hisfather
moved his father during childhood and
misfather
settled near wayne county new york
neat palmyra in waynecounty ork
amid
amidhese hese forest wilds he was reared a farmer and
these
inured to ali
inuredto ail
all
aili the hardships toils and privations of a
fill
aill
newly settled country his education
edutationwas therefor every
thereforevery
was therefore very
limited when when about seventeen years of age he had
several open visions in which a holy angel ministered
to him admonished him for his sins taught him re-
pentance and faith in the crucified
crucifiedand
and risen messiah
opened to him the scriptures of the prophets unfold-
ing the field of prophecy pertaining to the latter iatter day
glory
gio
glo ry and the doctrines of christ and his ancient
apostles
on the 22nd sept 1827ahe the angel directed him to
182 7dhe
1827 Ahe
a hill a few miles distant called anciently
ancientlycumorah
ancientlycum6rah
Cumorah
around this hill in the fifth century of the Chri christian
tian
era had ral liedthe
ralliedthe
rai
rallied the last remnant of a once powerful
and highly polished nation called the Nephites
nephites
nephitds
here two hundred and thirty thousand men women
and children marshalled themselves for a last defence
in legions of ten thousand each under their respective
commanders at whose head was ahe the renowned mor
80 KEY TO THEOLOGY

mon the general of a hundred ba ttlei and here

tattles
battles
batties
talei
theyreceived
they received the enemy in untold numbers and
meit
melt e d away before them till none remained except a
melted
few that fled to the southward and a few that fell
wounded and were left by the ene my among the un-
enemy
buried dead
among these latter were general mormon and his
son and second in command general moroni
these were the last prophets of a nation now no
more they held the sacred records compiled and
transmitted from their fathers from the remotest
antiquity they held the tjrim
urim and thummim
arim Thum mim and the
compass of lehi which had been prepared by provi-
dence to guide a colony from jerusalem to america
in the hill cumorah they deposited all these things
here they lay concealed for fourteen hundred years
and here did the angel moroni directthe
direetthe
direct the young joseph
to behold these sacred things in their sacred deposef
and to receive from these long silent and gloomygloo y
archives an abridged record of the whole and wih
it the urim
arim and thummim
Thum mim
the abridged record thus obtained was engraved
in egyptian characters on gold plates by the hands
of the two prophets and generals mormon and
moroni by the instructions ofthe angel and the use
urim and thummim
ttrim
of the arim Thum mim theyouthful
the youthful joseph now
a prophet and seer was enabled to translate the
abridgment or rather the unsealed portion which
was destined for the present age
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 81
dop
this done
doppalle
the angel of the lord appearedto
pAlle appearedta
appearedta
to three
other persons called
called31artin eow
cow
martin harris oliver cowdery
Gow dery
and david whitmer showed them the golden plates
and the engravings thereon bore core
dore testimony of their
correct translation by the prophet joseph and com-
bandeddi them to bear a faithful testimony of the same
manded
two of these were respectafctle
respeetqbjiarmq
farmers and the other
was a school
schoolmaster
master
early in 1830 jh jelus with thepie
jtlusi translation with picfaccom-
Le com
panying test1mq
testimony
p72r was published
p upsi in
lri english in
upji 9494 iri
the united states unger der the tit
under
den titie
title of thebook
leof
fitleof
fit chebook
the BOOK OF
MORMON r

it is now 153translated
153 translated and published
u53anslated pulishedjn m nearly
all european languages
this book more deeply interests the world and
every intelligent accountable being therein than any
other book save the jewish scriptures which is now
extant its history penetrates the otherwise dark ob-
livion of the past as it regards america through the
remote ages of antiquity follows up the stream of
the generations of man till arriving at the great foun-
tain the distributor of nations tribes and tongues
the tower of babel it ceases or is lost in and
sweetly blended with that one great undivided
adamic river whosesource
whose source is in paradise the cradle
of man whose springs issue from beneath the throne
v oq secret fountains comprise
of the eternal and wjhose
pne the boundless
expne
the infinite ex
exene
expansci u4410 ss ocean of intellect
fact and historic truth as recorded in the archives of
r
F
82 KEY TO THEOLOGY

eternity its prophetic vision opens the events of

unborn time the fate of nations the restoration of
judah and israel the downfall of corrupt churches
and institutions the end of superstition and misrule
the universal prevalence of peace truth light and
knowledge the awful wars which precede those
happy times the glorious coming of jesus christ as
king the resurrection of the saints to reign upon
the earth the great grand rest of a thousand years
the jubilee of universal nature upon gur
our planet
pianet are
all predicted in that book the time and means of
their fulfillment
fulfilment are pointed out with clearness show-
ing the present age more pregnant with events than
all the ages of adams race which have gone begore
before it
before
its doctrines are developed in such plainness and
simplicity and with such clearness and precision
that no man can mistake them they are there as
they flowed from the mouth of a risen redeemer M i
2in
the liquid eloquence of love mingled with immortal
tears of joy and compassion and were written by men
whose tears of overwhelmingaffection
overwhelming affection and gratitude
bathed his immortal feet
it was ascertained by revelation bypeans
by means of the
arim and thummim
urim thummimthat
Thum mim that the youthful prophet joseph
was of the house of israel of the tribe of joseph
he continued to receive visions revelations and
the ministry of angels by whom he was at length
ordained to the apostleship or high priesthood after
Melchize
the order of melchizedec
deci to hold the keys of flie
decy the
tile
tlle
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 83

kingdom of god the dispensation of the fulness

falness of
times
thus qualified he proceeded on the 6thath of april
AD
A-D 1830 to organize the church of the saints
which then consisted of six members the gifts of
healing of prophecy of visions and miracles began to
be manifested among the belibelieyers
beil evers thus confirming
eyers
believers
his testimony with signs following
jn this same year the principles restored by him
inicis
inihis
w ere proclaimed and branches of the church were
penn-
organized in various parts of his own state in lenn
sylvania ohio and elsewhere 5 and the number of his
sciples increased from six members to upwards of
aisciples
Ai
disciples
one thousand
tj during the three following years hundreds of
fr

ministers ordained by him were sent out in all

directions through the country and branches of the
church were organized in most of the states of the
american union
in eighteen hundred and thirty five he ordained
by commandment of the lord a quorum of twelve
apostles and several quorums of seventy as a travel
ling nministry
in thirty six a temple was completed and
quorums
dedicated in kirtland ohio in which these quorums
and the priesthood in general were assembled in a
school of the prophets and were instructed and
anointed to their holy calling in this same year
some of the apostles visited upper canada and spread
84 KEY TO THEOLOGY x

the falness
fulness of the gospel in toronto ancil andl
ands all the
region round gathering several branches of the
church
in I thirty seven a mission
1
mision was
wasi sent to england
wash
samopowersyand
which was attended with the same powers and with
remarkable success
eightau
in thirty eight the state Missouri
ofmissouri
istaid of misso uri
url undertook
the extermination of the church from its borders
murdered many men women and children and finally
succeeded in the forcible expulsion of about ten
thousand people and the seizure of their lands and
property
in eighteen hundred and forty the quorum of the
twelve apostles visited england gathered great
numbers into the church and published the book of
morm
mormon on and several other works among which was
a periodical called the millennial star which now in
1853 has a circulation of nearly eighteen thousand
copies weekly
between the years forty and forty four our
youthful prophet gathered about him many thousands
of his disciples erected the great city of nauvoo on
the banks of the mississippi commenced the erection
of one of the most splendid temples in the world and
organized a legion of citizen soldiers for its defence
this legion comprised nearly six thousand men
sixthousand men7 and
mena
was commanded by bythe
the young prophet joseph who
held a government commission as lieutenant
general
1
KEY TO THEOLOGY 85
from this centre ofsqiencq
of science and heavenly light
emanatetl rays by the
there emanated nid of a foreign ministry
ald
aid
ahe laid
prnetratingafar
penetrating afar and lighting up the dawn of that
effjgent daywhich
eff11gent day which is isdepfined
destined tobreak vae
to break over all ene
the
fae
earth and shinerforavqr
higa priests elders coun
apostles high
hig4 qounsellors
ilors and
alors
of everyy degree he
ministers lofever
ofever heree thronged
thronger
thron ged our youthful
ithronged
aitilim
prophet aitilia
and hero and were taught in this great
7

mlo yaud
mi mio
school of theologyaud
Theolog
010 7andspiritual
yand spiritual philosophy while
a hundred thousand disoiples
disciples in the nation and
beyond the seas looked to this gentre
centre for light and
instruction
such was the progressor
progressof
progress of thesoience
the science of theology
oftheology
revived inthe
in the present age such the repult telula of fourteen
result
resuit
years of the ministry of an unlettered youth crying
in the wilderness the proclamation 0of aq rq
repentance
pentance
baptizing for the remission of sins and holding the
i
keys of this diva
divi
divinene eternal power
his punpa
unpa ralle lpd
unparalleledlad suc cess ana
success
1
and
lnclstill
still increasing
grasing in-
in erasing in
fluence now alarmed hisformerhis former persecutors and
raised their jealousy and envy tothe higher pitch of
theirjqalojisy
frenzy and madness
several counties of illinois combined withilie the former
withhilie
wit
enemies who had robbed and destroyed the saints
in missouri and calling public meetings passed
resolutions to destroy thothe city of nauvoo and to force
the saints
saintsonco to
once more loabandon
onco lo abandon their homes and
farms to the possession of the land pirates they
also entered into covenant to take the life of the
young joseph
86 KEY TO THEOLOGY

to resistthis
resist this overwhelming storm our hero and
prophet maiaalled
M arshalled his legion of six
sik
sim thousand men
in his beloved city of nauvoo prepared for the most
vigorous defence and awaited the onset the cowardly
enemy soon discovered the impropriety of an open
attack and resolved on stratagem they caused a
magistrate of their own number to issue a writ and
sent a constable to bring the person of joseph into
the midst of those who had sworn to kill him to
iose his life to
yield to this mockery would be to lose
fose
resist it would be construed into treason and would
bring on him the whole forces of the state
this stratagem suc sue ceedee nauvoo
succeeded
ceeded its legion
and its general were declared in rebellion his
excellency thomas ford governor of the state of
niin ols mustered an army marched to the scene of
illinois
Dlin ois
conflict took sides with the enemy and in fact incor-
ltire
1I

porated their altire

entire forces with his own troops
with this formidable force he marched to carthage
foni nauvoo hethen
town eighteen miles from
a small towneighteen he then sent
aethen
a captain named singleton to take command of the
nauvoo legion and demanded its lieutenant general
to repair to carthage and place himself in the hands
of those who had publicly combined to take his life
sooner than have submitted to thes thesee insults and
humiliating demands the legion would have joyfully
marched to carthage and cut to pieces this cowardly
band of rebels against american institutions and all
the rights of man
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 87

but the saints were located between two powerful

states who were now combined against the laws con-
stitutions and liberties of their country to destroy
one army or even resist its most extravagant demands
would be to draw upon themselves and families the
yould
overwhelming forces of the ferocious ignorant and
worse than savage beings who had long thirsted for
their plunder and their blood
the young prop prophet
het had no confidence in the
governors pledge to protect his person he felt the
hour had come when his own blood alone could
houn
appease the enemy and preserve the lives of his flock
he
hd restrained the arbour
ardour of the legion called upon
them by the love they had ever borne to him as a
prophet and apostle and conjured them by the respect
ani confidence they had shown him as their general
and Geheral
to
tq submit to the extravagant demands of his excel-
aq
ency and leave the event with god he now took
lency
1I

ectionate leave of his beloved lc

an aff
affectionate i on who were
legion
dissolved in tears tore himself from the embraces of
hisis aged and widowed mother and fi antic wife and
frantic
children and repaired to carthage he was accom-
2

panied by his brother hy hyrum and the two of the

twelve that were not abroad on foreign missions who
would not forsake him on the way he was cheerful
but solemn he spoke little but observed to those
about him jam I 1lam
am going tike
ilke a lamb to the slaughter
like
but 1I am calm as a summers morning 1I have a con-
science void of of fence towards god and towards ali
gence
genco ail
all
allmen
men
oilmen
88 KEY TO THEOLOGY

1I shall die ibn

innocent
ihn dcew
decewanait
anditit adllyet
ard
arb
and sadil yet be saidqf
sadli
snail said of
saidof me
he was infold
murdered incold
in cold b7ood
bloof
bloo3
arriving at carthagee he
hb delivered himself to his
1

enemies answered to the charge in the 0on gi n 1 writ to

riginal
i

governors
enforce which all the goyer
GoTer nors forces had been
mustered and was then committed to prisorito to answer
sorito
prison
pri
the charge of treason
in this dungeon he was still accompanied by the
two apostles and his brother hyrum who were
determined to todie
todle
dle with him
die
here as the four friends sat in inthe
the upper room
singing hymns on the afternoon of the 27th day of
june 1844 the prison was suddenly surrounded with
juney
demons in the flesh armed with muskets and bayonets
and their faces as black as cain gain the original
murderer these commenced filing firing through the doors
and windows of the prison while a portion assaulted
and broke open the door hyrum suddenly fell and
died without a groan being pierced with four balls
taylor fle
fledd wounded and bleeding to the window
and was about to throw himself out when a ball
aimed at his heart hit his watch in his vest yest pocket
vest
vegt
and threw him back into the room the other
richards stood and parried
elch
apostle willard richards
Eich a m66d the guns
with his hand staff receiving slight injury
in the midst of all this scene the pr
prphets
6hct s presence
prophets
not forsake him ha
of mind did hotforgake E gaw
h6 saw his brother
hyrum fall stiffen and die he then
hen ei claimed
exclaimed
in the anguish of his soul 21 0 my brother and
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 89
ror vindoiviamid
bor thewindow
sprang fo
for the window shoo
amid shoe
shower sof ball
showersof hail as thick
hali
as hali he instantly threw himself from the upper
ashall
hail
hall
story into the midst of th61iistling
the bristling bayonets of the
enemy and on alighting was pierced with a shower
of balls and irisfiditlydied
instantly died without a struggle or a
groan
his presence of mind antiprompthcfion
and prompt action in thus
throwing himself among thel the enemy 1I drew them
dison in tinie to save thblive4
from the pison
prison
mison the ave
hve of the two
apostles which was WA 110 no doubt the objectof
lio
llo object of this the
objector
objedtof
gloriousglhdf
last gloriou
gloriod ofhis
ochis
laci of iiis ilfe
hiis life
thus ended the mortaldarder youth
adouth who had
darder of a ayouth
mortal career
revealed theancient history of a continent 5 restored
the ancient historyof
the bays and powerslof
to man thekbyg Powerslof
powers stofof the divine science of
theology organized the chtirdh church and kingdom of
god and revealed abid anclle
afid
anclreestablished
fedstablished those principles
which will eventuallyprevail brevall a ndd govern
eventually prevail g6vem the sons of
earth in countless ages yob yy
yotett unbornorn the good
shepherd said jesus t lay e th down his life for the
layeth
labeth
sheep
when the news of df this horrid tragedy spread
abroad the fear of vengeance from the nauvoo
legion seized the goverrior
tb6gov&ifor hig his trcopi and the whole
dopi
troops
gang of pirates allfred
1
allfled
ail
ali
all fled and levenlhdeven the inhabitants of
the guilty villages in the vacated their
dhe vicinity evacuated
ahe
bitations
citations ahdfled
habitations
ha fled in terror and dismay
and flea
As the news reached
ieach6efmuv nauvoo 00 a thrill bf horror
oo
and of afigliighaintitterable
anguish unutterable rab rah ag
ran as with electricity
through every pulse the legion sprang to arms
90 KEY TO THEOLOGY

and would have desolated the whole rebel counties

now left unprotected had not theirjudgments
their judgments balanced
the burning attribute of justice which swelled their
bosoms
As it was they smothered their resentment
resentment2 and
2

prepared for the burial of the illustrious dead the

bodies of the two martyrs were borne to the city citi
being met by the entire populace bowed with sorrow
bathed in tears and aheir
ameir heaved with a
their bosoms upheaven
upheaved
up
sense of sorrow and outraged humanity such as
perhaps an entire populace at once never felt since
man was doomed to mourn
the twelve who were abroad soon returned
2

soothed and comforted the sheep and exhorted them

to union and perseverance the work on thetemple
the temple
tempie
was resumed and finally completed at an expense
of many hundred thousand dollars in this holy
edifice after its dedication to the lord a portion of
the priesthood received those holy washings anoint
ings keys ordinances oracles and instructions which
were yet wanting to perfect them in the fulness
falness of
the priesthood
in the autumn of 1845 the enemy again rallied
and commenced to desolate the borders of the nauvoo
settlements by fire and sword
wearied with long continued vexation and persecu-
tion the council of the apostles now determined to
seek peace for the saints amid the far off and almost
unexplored deserts and mountains of the interior
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 91
s
in february 1846 this emigration was com-
menced headed by the apostles and their families
9on the 24th of july 1847 the first pioneers of
by the president of ahe
this vast emigration headed toy
loy the
whole church brigham young entered the valley of
whoie
whole
great salt lake
in the meantime the beautiful nauvoo and its
surrounding farms and villas fell a prey to the
enemy after a vigorous defence its temple the pride
and glory of america was laid in ashes its last
remnant plundered robbed of their all sick destitute
wounded bleeding dying at length disappeared
beyond the horizon of the illimitable plains of the
west and for a moment the curtain of oblivion
closed over this strange drama and the kingdom of
goa
god seemed lost to mortal view
again it rises and what do we behold
the banner of freedom unfurled a thousand miles
from the frontiers of the persecuting foe its waving
folds amid the snow clad peaks of the rocky moun-
f6lds2amid
tains inviting to liberty and light the oppressed of
every clime 5 and a free and sovereign state rising in
fastnesses of
majesty and smiling splendour amid the fastnesses
natures eternal ramparts while the exhaustless
treasures of the golden mountains of california
revealed by the providence guiding keys of modern
theology are poured like a flowing stream into the
Theolo
7
treasury of the lord to aid in the gathering and
subsistence of the saints
92 KEY TO THEOLOGY

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jur n i

m a- a i i
giyhti
iaz
laz
ii
tx n y w

K
1 bli am
bil xm
t fei tsr
jhee
ifee
hee fsr
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 93

vu 4 s r r
t
T
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OHABTBR
CHAPTBRM X f

keys
keta
KEYA iy psaotigaitueolqgt
keyhpr ixittlof ay
j L 1

istflisesfe
acan didatocateiiisiiystenft f
in444
7 rua
ru7
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f &

jiayi aappioatlitheffateandenterjn
jinyi
be asha tj
ashd
asad
rt
ulci4
ulcie
ana
and
g
cleans d
P
from ali
ail
all
faf1
lyiiaer
my
4 T
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former sin
f
f
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wi banta theip9 er v nee

iseenwdntlspttiffanpartakdthpowerti
a barta ufa
ufc
of I1 fr oths
vlo1fkf gad
his900
gpd
goo hour
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1I t f 1
t V ft
the stu
student r
of th
this M deerly
R y mferesting
deeply
r tilfor fifi c science
selence
f i s

who has trgracea

tracea
z
a c e with th ilstis th
lis the 1hrillin
thrilling
thrill ing &iaenis of its
ins incidents
thrillins
r
history on earth iiii till he finds
tiii ands it restored in all its
lea
beauties
bea nties and its powero
aties pogero
powers
powors
1I
taking root in the erthy
earth to
c l y T 1
tear
bear eternal fruit will ddubtless u
doubtless el a desire to be
reel
feel
instructed in the firs firstt prin principles
1 f 1I ylj1
thee o0ta
t4rdinances
1 nin ce s 0or
v

bychich personallypita
faltfvltit Z

means bywhich
by which he may personal pifa
partakee of its
benefits and exercise its gifts
there are certain qualifications or personal prepara-
tions indispensably necessary without which no person
can be a proper candidate for forblqsings blessings so divine
first ifehempst
He
hemust ii
musj
mustu9fA b
i uff
f
eaiie q in jesus
believe sus christ and in
i f s s t r
the testimony af 6ff the appghe
6 iji
lil psal
aiji
lii eqmmjisio
or commissioned n 4 officer
to whom ke looks go kS fqrjhe
mathe administration of these
mxthe
blessings
94 KEY TO THEOLOGY

secondly he must forsake a sinful course of life

must deny himself of every impure or unlawunlawful
fuli
full
indulgence must do right with his fellow creatures
and determine to keep the commandments of jesus
christ
with these qualifications he comes to the apostle
elder or priest of the church of the saints who
after a covenant on the part of the candidate to for-
thecandidate
sake his sins and keep the commandments of jesus
christ gdes
ades down into the water with him and
goes
there buries him in the name of the father son and
holy spirit for remission of sins and then raises
him from his watery grave
this ordinance is to represent the death burial and
resurrection of jesus christ and is called baptism
having passed through this ordinance the hands
authorised priesthood
of some one or more of the authorized
are next laid upon the head of the candidate in the
same sacred names and the gift of the holy spirit
confirmed upon him this baptism of water and
is confided
confimed
of the spirit is called a new birth and it is in reality
a repetition of the natural birth or entrance into the
elements of a new existence
to realise
nealise this the student must be indoctrinated
in the philosophy of his natural birth which involves
ne
three principles 5 viz t thetle spirit the water and tim
tiie
bood
uood
olood1
the embryo formation of the human bodylbody issccom-
menced and sustained by blood and spirit in the
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 95
womb of nature where until the period of birth it
floats in the element of water at birth then it is
bob
literally born
bom of water that is it emerges from that
element in which it has been so long immersed into
element
adifferent
cdifferent element called the atmosphere which then
becomes a necessary element of existence
to be bom a gain
aln then is to enter into the same
ain
element suspend the breath in the watery womb and
emerge from that element into the atmosphere and
again gasp the first breath in the new creation while
atthe
atthesame
z&lhe same time the blood of atonement is applied
to6 the individual for remission of sins and is followed
by the outpouring of the holy spirit of promise As
it is written tear
there are three that fear
feat
beat record an
bear on the
earth the spirit the water and the blood
the things of this visible creation are the patterns
1

of things in the invisible world and are so arranged

I
1

as to exactly correspond the one answering to the

29
other as face to face in a mirror
the immersion in water in the name of the father
son and holy spirit for remission of sins and the
baptism of the holy spirit which follows according
to promise by the laying on of the hands of the holy
pn
anestwood
priesthood
esthood were instituted from before the foundation
athe
dlhe
dahe the world as a pattern of the birth death resur-
of theworld
rectionn and new life of man
the candidate isisnowinitiatedinto
now initiated into the first principles
nowinitiated
of the science of divine theology his mind is
quickened his intellectual faculties are aroused to in
96 KEY TO THEOLOGY

ho
ito is as it wqrqjjljuminated
tense activity tio
fio illuminated he learns
wereilluminated
were
wore
mote of divined truth in a few aayp4an
more davs than he could have
days
learned in Aa life timo
tim in
m the best merel
merelyY human in-
merei
merol
stitutions in the world
his affections are also purified ex altepa and in-
exalt lne
ine
creased in proportion he lovea loves his heave
heavenly uly father
wiy
and jesus christ with a perfect love he also loyes loves
lovei
the members of the church or them the
thebody
body of christ as
thebodo
thea
he loves his own soul while his bosom swells with
ten derest sympathies and emotions of goodwill
the tenderest
kenderest g6odwill
good will
and benevolence for all mankind he would make
any sacrifice which might be expedient to do good
he woul
woula lay down his life most cheerfully without
one moments hesitation or regret if required of him
by the cause of truth
he also feels the spirit of prayer and watchfulness
continually and pours out his goul oul in the same and
qui
aoul i

finds he is answered in all things which are expe-

dient he is now in a fit capacity to aker aier
eier
exercise
cise some
one or more of the spiritual gifts
he may perhaps speak in power in the word of
wisdom in the knowledge in pr
fhe word of ofknowledge po precy
p4ecy or in
prophecy
other tongues he maybeemay see a vision dream an in-
may4ee
spired dream or possess the gift to lhea
io b e rhea led or to
healed
lhealed
heal others by the laying on of hands inthe in the name of
jesus christ
holybprit
to impart a portion of the hqly3pjritby
by the touch
layin on
or by the kayin
laying oii of hands or to impart a portion
I1

the element of life from one animal body to another

of tile
tlle
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 97
an authorized agent who acts in the namey
by anauthorized
unauthorized name of
god
godl and who is filled therewith is as much in
godi
accordance with the laws of nature as for water to
seek its own level 5 air its equilibrium or heat and
electricity their own mediums of conveyance
this law of spiritual fluid its communicative
properties and the channel by which it is imparted
from one person to another bear some resemblance or
analogy to the laws and operations of electricity
like electricity it is imparted by the contact of two
bodies through the channel of the nerves
but the two fluids differ very widely the one is
11 property nearly allied to the grosser elements of
.a

matteri not extensively endowed with the attri-

mattery
matter
butes of intelligence wisdom affection or moral
discrimination it can therefore be imparted from
one animal body to another irrespective of the
intellectual or moral qualities of the subject or
recipient the other is a substance endowed with the
attributes of intelligence affection moral discrimi-
nation love charity and benevolence pure as the
emotions which swell the bosom thrill the nerves or
vibrate the pulse of the father of all
an agent filled with this heavenly fluid cannot
impart of the same to another unless that other is
justified washed cleansed from all his impurities of
hibits or practices by the blood of
heart affections habits
atoner4ent which is generally applied in connexion
atonement
with the baptism of remission
G
98 KEY TO THEOLOGY

A mefi
man who continues lri
mdfi in his sins an
iii
iri ablo
andawlo
who has no
living faith in the son of god cannot receive the
gift of the holy spirit through the m ini stration of
inistration
any agent however holy he may be the impure
de m ent
spirit of such a one will repulse the pure element
upon the natural laws of sympathetic affinity or of
attraction and repulsion
an intelligent being in the image of god possesses
every organ attribute sense sympathy affection of
will wisdom love power and gift which is posses possessed
secl
by god himself
but these are possessed by man in his rudimental
state in a subordinate sense of the word or in
other words these attributes are in embryo and are
to be gradually developed they resemble a bud
a germ which giadtiadually
bally dev
gradually elopes into bloom and
develope
developed
developes
elopes
then by progres
proeres
progresss produces the mature fhiit
fruit after its
own kind
the gift of the holy spirit adapts itself to all
these organs or attributes it quickens all the
intellectual fc
faculties
ultiesl increases enlarges expands
and purifies all the natural passions and affections
and adapts them by the gift of wisdom to their
lawful use it inspires developed
dev elopes cultivates and
developes
matures all the fine toned sympathies joys tastes
kindred feelings and affections of ou ourr nature
it inspires virtue kindness goodness tenderness
gentleness and charity it developed
developes beauty of
person form and features it tends to health vigour
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 99

imation
himation
animation
an and social feeling it deve
dev lopez and
developes
developez
elopes
developers
invigorates all the faculties of the physical and
intellectual man it strengthens invigorates and
gives tone to the nerves in short it isy is as it were
marrow to the bone joy to the heart light to the
eyes music to the ears and life to the whole being
in the presence of such persons one feels to enjoy
the light of their countenances
countenancer as the genial rays of
a sunbeam their very atmosphere diffuses a
thrill a warm glow of pure gladness and sympathy
to the heart and nerves of others who have kindred
feelings or sympathy of spirit no ko matter if the
parties are strangers entirely unknown to each other
inperson
in person or character no matter if they have never
inverson
spoken to each other each will be apt to remark in
his own mind and perhaps exclaim when rel erring
referring
to the interview 40 0 what aan atmosphere encircles
strangers
that strangerf
stranger how my heart thrilled with pure and
hoi
hol
holy y feelings in his presence what confidence and
sympathy he inspired his countenance and spirit
gave me more assurance than a thousand written
recommendations or introductory letters such is
the gift of the holy spirit and such bare iare
ihre
are its
operations when received through the lawful
lawfulchannel
annei
annel
channel
cb
the divine eternal priesthood
tiie divin4efeinal
100 KEY TO THEOLOGY

CHAPTER XI

philosophy OF miraclei
miracles
MIR ACLEi
MIRACLES

trembling with awe and fear quires

inquires
lear the mind ln
M
what master spirit now the bard
aba
1ba inspires
bardins ire
lre
what bold philosophy shall dare assign
A law to govern miracles divine
tell how effects transpire without a cause
and how kind nature breaks iae
treats kind natures aae
laswgli
la egl
lae

among the popular errors of modem times an

opinion prevails that miracles are events which
transpire contrary to the laws of nature that they
are effects without a cause
if such is the fact then there never hasbeen
has been a
hasteen
miracle and there never will hebe one the laws of
nature are the laws of truth truth is unchangeable
and independent in its own sphere A law of
nature never has been broken and it is an
absolute impossibility that such law ever should be
broken
that which at first sight appears to be contrary
to the known laws of nature will always be found
on investigation to be in perfect accordance with
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 101

those laws for instance had a sailor of the lait

thosd4aws last
century been running before the wind and met with
vessel running at a good rate of speed directly in
avesser
a avessel
opposition to the wind and current this sight would
have presented to his understanding a miracle in
the highest possible sense of the term that is an
event entirely contrary to the laws of nature as
known to him or if a train of cars loaded with
hundreds of passengers or scores of tons of freight
had been seen passing over the surface of the earth
at the rate of sixty miles per hour and propelled
seemingly by its own inherent powers of locomotion
our fathers would have beheld a miracle an event
which would have appeared to them to break those
very laws of nature with which they were the
most familiar
if the last generation had witnessed the conveyance
of news from london to paris in an instants
instant while
9
they knew nothing of the late invention of the
electric telegraph they would have testified in all
candour and with the utmost assurance thata that a
miracle had been performed in m open violation of the
well known laws of nature and contrary to all human
knowledge of cause and effect
but once familiar with the arts of the living age
all those miracles cease to be such and the laws of
nature and of cause and effect arc are found to be still
moving unimpaired in all the harmony of primeval
existence and operation
102 KEY TO THEOLOGY

the same views will apply withwithequal

equal force to
all the spiritual phenomena of the universe
iracle and mystery must become
the terms miracle
in
obsolete and finally disappear from the vocabulary
of intelligences as they advance in the higher spheres
of intellectual consistency even now they should
be used only in a relative or limited sense as
applicable to those things which are not yet within
reach of our powers or means of comprehension 1

we will here remind the student of two principles

or laws of existence developed in a folmer
former chapter of
this work which will account for all the mirac
miraculous
mirad ulous
powers of the universe all ail the mighty works ever
ali
manifested by god or by his servants
first all the elements of the material universe
are eternal
second there is a divine substance fluid or
spiet
splet widely diffused among these
called spirit
essence callel
ballel
eternal elements
this spiritual substance is the most refined subtle
and powerful element in the universe it is endowed
with all wisdom all knowledge all intelligence and
power in short it is the light life ilfe power and
principle of all things by which they move and of
all intelligences by which they think
this divine element or spirit is the immediate
active or controlling agent in all holy miraculous
powers
angels andana all holy men perform all their miracles
 rex
kex
REY
KEY TO THEOLOGY 103

simply to to use a modern magnetic term by being

in liit communication with this divine substance
two beings or two millions any number thus
placed in communication all possess one mind
the mind of the one is the mind of the other the
will of the one is the will of the other the word of
the one is the word of the other and the holy fluid
orspirit
or spirit being in communication with them all goes
forth to control the elements and to execute all their
mandates which are legally issued and in accordance
with the mind and wisdom of the great elvheim oheim
eloheim
El
god the father is the head the mandates of
christ
jesus 6hrist
christ must be in the name of the father
the mandates of angels or of holy men in order
to be legal or of due force and power must be is issued
sued
in the name of jesus christ or of the three who vh 0
compose the headread council and must be in accordance
with their united mind and will the holy spirit then
goes forth and executes their mAnda
mandatestet
tei this agency
being invisible and tiie
the effect visible the act performed
tile
appears to those who are unacquainted with spiritual
agency as a miracle or an ejfectefert without a cause
efect
when jesus christ was clothed upon with a mortal
tabernacle
tabernaclehe he had not the fulness
falness of this divinegub
divine sub-
stance at the first but grew and increased in the same
till being raised from the dead ile he received a fulne4s
lle
lie falness
fulness
and therefore had all power in heaven and on earth
his apostles received a portion of this spirit but
not a ful fulne
aulne
fui
falness
fulness
nesss while they were
wero mortal therefore
104 KEY TO THEOLOGY

they could know and perform some things but not

all
the members of the church also
aiso
alao
aido partook of this
spirit through the ministry of the apostles by
which
whi ch miraculous gifts were imparted unto them
some to one and some to another some to speak in
tongues some to interpret or translate from one
language into another some to prophecy
prophesy see visions
or converse with angels 5 and others to control or
cast out devils or heal the sick and others again
to teach and edify the church or the world by the
word of wisdom and by the word of knowledge
all these gifts and miracles were the workings of
that one and the self same spirit given to the
members of the church of the saints while the
world did not partake of a sufficient measure of the
spirit to possess these gifts the reason of this isy is
that they did not repent and believe in jesus christ
baptized in his name and receive the gift of
and be baptized
the holy spirit by the laying on of the hands of
the priesthood these duties and ordinances being
the legal or appointed channel by which the gift of the
holy spirit was imparted the reason why these gifts
lages
of the spirit have not been enjoyed in allagas
allages
al
all
ali
ail ages of the
so called 11
christian church is because it is not
the true church nor is the true ministry or apostle-
ship to be found amonamong the church or churches
where these gifts are denied every minister and
member of such institutions have need to repent and
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 105
i
be baptized iM n the name of jesus christ for remission
sw and to receive the gift of the holy spirit by
of sins14and
the jayin
jabin
laying on of hands of those who have authority
bider to enter into the kingdom of god
in order
these ordinances ministered by a legal priesthood
being divinely appointed are the only legitimate
means by which man may receive and exercise these
divine powers or in other words they are the
means ordained of god by which one being may
communicate or impart a portion of this divine
substance to another so as to place that other in
communication with the father son and holy spirit
and with angels and the spirits of just men in the
world of spirits and with the members of the true
church on the earth
1
to heal a person by the touch or by the laying on of
hands in the name of jesus christ or to impart the
holy spirit by the laying on of hands is as much in
accarda nee with the laws of nature as for water to
accordance
accorda nce
seek its own level an apple to fall to the ground
when ioos
loos ened from the tree where it grew quick-
ioosened
loosened
silver to attract its own affinities or the magnet to
obey its own laws
As the electric fluid obeys its own laws upon the
wire so also does the spiritual or holy fluid convey
itself
itsdfi through certain channels from one body to
another in accordance with certain legitimate
laws
the usual channel for all spiritual fluids whether
106 KEY TO THEOLOGY

holy or impure in their operations upon the human

system or in their passage from one animal bodytody to
another is the nerves
A person commissioned of jesus christ
chrit and filled
with this spiritual substance can impart of the same
to another provided there is a preparation of heart
and faith on the part of the receiver or if as in
cases of healing casting out devils ac &c it happens
that the receiver has no command of his own mind
as in cases of little children persons swooned fainted
deranged or dead then the faith of the adminis-
trator alone or in connexion with other friends and
agents in his behalf is sufficient 2 in many cases to
perform the work
however the touch or laying on of hands is not
the only means of communicating the gift of healing
A word spoken a mandate issued or even a hand-
kerchief apron or other garment worn or ftouched by
a person full off this spirit and conveyed to another
has according to sacred history and also the expe-
rience of the present age proved sufficient to com-
muni cate the spiritual fluid between minds of strong
municate
and mutual faith so well acquainted was the
prophet elisha
ellsha with this principle that he sent
his servant to lay his staff upon a dead child in
order to raise it from the dead hutbut in this instance
the undertaking failed the prophet could only
resuscitate the child by placing face on face eye to
eye mouth to mouth hand to hand &c ac so as tqgive
togive
tolive
 ney
XEY
KEY TO THEOLOGY 107
the gre
greatespossible
04 possibly
possiblg effect to the imparting
mp arting of the
spirit of life
F
for
or the holy and divine fluid or spiritual element
to control all other elements agreeable to its own
will and tile
the will of others who are in communication
tlle
in perfect unison with itself is just as natural as
or inperfect
unperfect
for the greater to control the less or the strong the
weak it is upon the same principle that a higher
intelligence is Ajie
istl
isil jle
isilble comprehe
le to comp
ble rehe nd circumscribe and
comprehend
instruct that which is less
hence
olen
alencowhen
Alen when the worlds were framed god spake
cowhen
and this divine fluid went forth and executed the
mandate by controlling the elements in accordance
with the will
ivill pattern or design formed in the mind
of him that spake and it that executed wisdom
pf11im
pandered the pattern of all created things weighed
pqndered
their properties attributes and uses in the balance of
mature intellect every minute portionand portionand
portion and member
of the several departments of ilfe
r life and being every
adaptation to their natural use was clearly conceived
formed in the mind and matured ere the mandate
was issued and the whole was executed in exact
vith
with the pattern matured in the divine
accordance mith
mind
by this divine spirit all things were designed
and formed by this divine substance all things
and have a being by this agency moses
live move andhave
controlled the sea joshuaJos liua the motions of the earth
paniel thmouths
daniel ththe mouths of thelious
the lions and hisbrethreni
thelions his brethren the
108 KEY TO THEOLOGY

flames by this the heavens were opened and were

shut the rain or the dearth prevailed armies were sub-
dued the sick healed or the dead raised and all in
accordance with the laws of nature it being perfectly
natural for the subordinate elements to obey the th e
supreme all controlling all pervading element which
contains in itself the innate anaand anainalienable
inalienable control-
ling power
the modem world called 11t christian
christiana claims to
have perpetuated the system called 11 christianity
while at the same time it declares that the miraculous
gifts of the spirit have ceased
with as much propriety it might be contended that
the magnet had been perpetuated but had lost its
magnetic properties that water was perpetuated with
all its virtue
virtuessj but had kostits
virtuesj iostits
lost its power to quench thirst
or seek its own level that fire was still fire but had
lost its heat
how we inquire can christianity have been per-
petuated while its virtues its legitimate powers its
distinguishing features its very life ana
anaessence
and essence have
ceased from among men or of what possible use
is it if it does exist Is a compass of use when its
needle has lost its magnetic attraction Is water of
use when it no longer seeks its level or quenches
thirst Is fire of use when it loses its heat isaa
Is
alai of use in a dark and cloudy day or a watch
sundial
sun dial
without a mainspring
or arearc the mere forms and ceremonies of any
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 109
system of use when the divine or legitimate powers
for which such forms were instituted are withdrawn
0 man be no longer deceived by solemn mockeries
mockeries
of ofthings
things sacred or by great and holy names applied
to corrupt and degenerate systems
when the miracles and gifts of the divine spirit
ceased from among men christianity ceased the
christian ministry ceased the church of christ ceased
that ministry which sets aside modem inspiration
revelation prophecy angels visions healings &c ac is
not ordained of god but is antichristian
anti christian in spirit
in short it is that spirit of prieste
priestcraft
raft and kinge
kingcraft
raft
by which the world for many ages has been ruled
as with a rod of iron
as
the sooner the present generation lose all reverence
and rrespect for modem 11 christianity with all its
powerless forms and solemn mock mockeries
eries the sooner
they will be prepared to receive the kingdom of god
the sooner the treasuries of nations and the purses
of individuals are relieved from the support of priest-
craft and superstitions so much sooner will they be
able and willing to devote their means and influence
to print and publish the glad tidings of the fulness
falness of
the gospel restored in this age to assist in the gather-
ing of the house of israel and in the building of the
cities and temples of zion and jerusalem
110 KEY TO THEOLOGY

5aiiy
kejty
jr t
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yil
yll
i i P i t W Y aaa5
1
OHAPTER XIL

in6e
inae
inbe
akfiels
LS AND IMTS
ANW SPIRITS

ass
dss not your lightning wires
boast rireatojbearjthe
to bearnth
bearjth news
isuch
hsuch aidtm6ifiile smnts
19u c h tardmsanaitne sants woal
woul
ain s wo
aln deter
dever
woaldever hooser
hoosen
hoose7
i2tter choo
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Topiqnx
oolojouflaidantooehortyourwireg
our aau ia n ioojsorv 0 wi re
oun aiu
fiu r
t
forr heaveni
30 heavenly co
heavens converse su suchhaslovqinsiqs
auch as iove
love inspires
citift mani-would
dit v fain
fiincommune
suy
commune wilh worlds api
vpiabove
taie
t6ie i

an
xn 1tr ans portice
angelsrarisport
g el atr portihethe ne yangipf love
on
Ns tiititlngarfet
news iove i I iHi 1

1
tfiMiilli
fimiiiii iiii yff war
waf i

are they not all minister figwtstt forth to 6

ministeipt ha jhb
1nnsterfoirtjlem mdlt te
shell
shdll
whb malt wbb
iihf
lizrs
liars
b&h af
6f iation
alva
blua
bation
adlva
bah
tion
heb iw
reb i 14 1
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i- t i

angels are of the same race as men they are m

th6ydri iii
lri
iri
fact men who have passed from the rudimenlallstate
mdi mental state
mdimental
to the higher spheres of progressive being they
have died and risen again to life and are consequently
havedied
possessed of a divine human body of flesh and bones
immortal and eternal they eat drink sing and
converse like other men some of them hold the
keys of apostleship and priesthood byvhich
bychich
by which they
teach instruct bless and perform miracles ana
andmany
and many
mighty works translated men like enoch elijah
john the apostle and three of the apostles of the
western hemisphere are also like the angeangels
ls
 KEY TO THEOLOGY ill
lil
lii
angels arre&niin i sters bo
ministers th to men upon the earth
both
tothe
and to world of spirits theypass
the worldon
worldof one
they pass from owe
worl&af6another
world to another with more ease and in less time
tmiawe
tlfan we pass from one city to another they
alfan they have
h ave
riota
diota single attribute which man has not but their
attributes are more matured or more developed than
the attributes of men in this present sphere of
existence
whenever the keys of priesthood or in other
words
0f4ahe the keys of the science of theology are enjoyed
byman
by man on the earth the people dhus thus privileged fre
ahus are
efitifle
entitledd to the ministering of angels whose business
ithmer
ithmen
with men on the earth is to restore the keys of the
apostleship when lost to ordain men to the
apostleship
apbstleship
ly
1111
.11
b tl6ship when there has been no apostolic suc sue
session to commit the keys of a anew new dispensation to5

rieveal the mysteries of history the facts of present or

past times and to unfold the events of a future time
pd9t
tkeyare
they
Tk eyare
are sometimes commissioned also to execute
judgments upon individuals cities 6or nations they
dn
ean be
can 16 present in their glory or they can come in
the form and appearance of other men they
can also be present with without
out being visible to
mortals
when they come as other men they will perli aps
perhaps
peril
perll
eat and drink and wash their feet and lodge with
theirfriends
their friends hence it is written be notyorge
forge
forgetful
trU
to entertain strangers for thereby some have enter-
tained angels unai
una cares
zeares
unaicares FT
112 KEY TO THEOLOGY
TIIEOLOGY

their business is also to comfort and instruct

instructin
instruction
in
dividual members of the church of the saints to heal
them by the laying on of hands in the name of jesus
christ or to tell them what means to use in order to
get well 5 to teach them good things to sing them
a good song to warn them of approaching danger
or to deliver them from prison or from death
these blessings have always been enjoyed by the
people or church of the saints whenever such church
has existed on our planet they are not peculiar to
one dispensation more than another
they were busy in the patriarchal dispensation
the mosaic and in the gospel dispensations they
in theilosaic
delivered lot and destroyed sodom
they were busy with moses and the prophets
they foretold to zechariah the birth of john
they predicted to mary her conception and the
birth of jesus christ they informed joseph her
husband of her situation they announced the
birth of jesus to the shepherds of judea and sang an
anthem of peace on earth and good will to man to
hail him welcome they attended on his footsteps
in all his sojourn on the earth in fact an angel was
the instrument to open the gloomy prison of the
sepulchre and to call forth the sleeping body of the
messiah the first to exclaim he is not here but
is risen two angels in white raiment were the
first to announce his second advent while he ascended
up in the presence of his disciples thus being
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 113

from the personal attendance on their mas-

delivere&fronl
delivered
ter on the earth they turned their attention to the
apostles opened the way for their ministry among
yew
dew and gentile delivering them from prisonand
44wandgentile pri sonand
prison and
from danger and revealing the mysteries which god
saw fit to make known to the saints of that age and
aaen
iaen
imen all the other apostles had fallen asleep and the
when
apostle john had been banished to dig in the coal
mines ofthe lone isle of patmos they still were faithful
to their charge they followed him there and there
fcrlheir
unfolded to him the events of all ages and generations
the darkness of the middle ages the corruptions
corrupt ions
anti
antl chhist
efanti
6fanti
of antichrist under the name of christianity the
christ under
rivers of blood and the oceans of tears which would
eivers
hevers
flow during eighteen centuries of error the
mighty angel who should again commit the gospel
ao
to the earth for every nation kindred tongue and
people the judgments of god in the downfall of error
error
i

and mystery the restitution or restoration of the

church of the saints their final triumph and domi-
nion over the earth the descent of jesus christ to
reign over all kingdoms the resurrection of the saints
and their reign over the earth the end of death and
sorrowr and tears and weeping were all all foretold
sorfo
dorfo
by
liy the angel to the last of the twelve
again in the present age have angels restored the
gospel again have they committed the keys of
apostleship again have they opened some of the
events of thepas
the pastt present and future
chepas
114 KEY TO THEOLOGY

again have they attended upon the footsteps of

apostles prophets and holy martyrs from the cra-
dle to the grave again have they aided in the
ministry and assisted to deliver from prisons and
from persecutions and death the saints of the most
high and again are they about to execute ven-
geance on great and notable cities and nations of the
earth
0 what an unspeakable blessing is the ministry
of angels to mortal man what a pleasing thought
that many who minister to us and watch over us
are our near kindred our fathers who have died and
risen again in former ages and who watch over their
descendants with all the parental care and solicitude
which characterize affectionate fathers and mothers on
the earth
thrice happy are they who have lawful claim on
their guardianship and whose conduct does not grieve
constrain them to depart from their precious
them and constrainthem
charge
SPIRITS are those who have departed this life and
have not yet been raised from the dead
these are of two kinds viz good and evil
these two kinds also include many grades of good
and evil
the good spirits in the superlative sense of the
word are they who in this life partook of the holy
priesthood and ofthe
of the fulness
odthe falness of the gospel
tins class of spirits minister to the heirs of salva
 KEY TO THEOLOGY lla
lia
113
115

loth in this world and in tho

tion both tho world of spirits
the
jho
they cacanra appear unto men when permitted 5 taut but not
laut
having a flechl
fleshl
fleshlyy tabernacle they cannot hide their
&jq ry
jglory
oglory lence an unembodied spir
hence i t if it be a holy
spirit
onagej wiill be surrounded with a halo of resple-
r onager
personage
pp
ap
dent glory or brightness above the brightness of the
dentglory
ndent
sun
whereas spirits not worthy to be glorified will
appearwithout
appear without this b rilliant haloandl and
andl although they
haio j andy
halo
ofsei attempt to pass as
oftei
often as angels of iightthere
light there is
more
mome
momm
mqfeor or less of darkness about them
many spirits of the departed who are unhappy
linger in lonely wretchedness about the earth and in
the air and especially about their ancient home-
steads and dhe the places rendereddear
ahe rendered dear to them by the
tothem
bothem
memory of former scenes the more wicked of these
are the kind spoken of in scripture as foul spirits
gre
C
unclean s pirits 11 spirits who afflict persons in the
flesh and engender various diseases in the human
system they will sometimes enter human bodies
and will distract them throw them into fits
cast them into the water into themire
the eire
fere &c
fire
thefire ac theywill
they will
trouble them with dreams nightmare hysterics fever
ac they will also deform them in body and in
&c
featur
featurees by convulsions cramps contortions &c
features ac
ana
and
an awill sometimes compel them to utter blasphemies
will sometimescompel
horrible curses and even words of oth otherer la ngu ages
languages
nguages
if permitted they will often cause cause death some
of these spirits are adulterous and suggest to the
116 KEY TO THEOLOGY

mind all manner of lasciviousness all kinds of evil

thoughts and temptations
A person on looking another in the eye who is
possessed of an evil spirit will feel a shock a nervous
feeling which will as it were make his hair stand on
end in short a shock resembling that produced in
a nervous system byly the sight of a serpent
some of these foul spirits when possessing a person
will cause a disagreeable smell about the person thus
possessed which will be plainly manifest to the
senses of those about him even though the person
thus afflicted should be washed and change his clothes
every few minutes
there are in fact most awful instances of the spirit
spirlt
spiri
of lust and of bawdy and abominable words and
actions inspired and uttered by persons possessed oi of
such spirits even though the persons were virtuous and
modest so long as they possessed their own agency
some of these spirits cause deafness others dumb-
ness ac
&c
we can suggest no remedy for these multiplied
evils to which poor human nature is sub act except
ect
subject
a good life while we are in possession of our faculties
stings
prayers and fa
fastings
bastings of good and holy men and the
ministry of those who have powepowerr given them to
rebuke evil spirits and cast out devils in the name of
jesus christ
among the diversified spirits abroad in the world
here are many religious spirits which are notof
lotof go3
not of goa
603 4
god
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 117
but which deceive those who have not the keys of
apostleship and priesthood or in other words the
kv6f the science of theology to guide them some
keysof
kelsof
t ese spirits are manifested in the camp meetings of
of these
certain sects and in nearly all the exciteexcitements
ments and
confusions in religious meetings falsely called
cc
revivals all the strange extacles
extacles swoonings
swoon ings
reamings
remmings
scream
reamings
screamings
se ings sh outings dancings
danc ings jumpings
jumpings and a
thousand other ridiculous and unseemly manifes-
tations which neither edify nor instruct are the fruits
tations
of these deceptive spirits
ve must however pity rather than ridicule or
we
despise
d spi se the subjects or advocates of these deceptions
many of them are honest but they have no apostles
ngn pther
nqfqther
ather officers nor gifts to detect evil or to keep
them from being led by every delusive spirit
iliemfrom
real visions or inspirations which would edify and
instruct they are taught to deny should peter or
paul or an angel from heaven come among them
they would denounce him as an impostor with the
assertion that apostles and angels were no longer
needed
there is still another class of unholy spirits at work
ilithe
inithe world spirits diverse from all these far more
intelligent and if possible still more dangerous
these
T h ese are the spi ritof
spiritof
spirit
spiritos of di i
divination
vi nation vision I foretelling
1
familiar spirits animal ivagnetism
11
siagnetism t mesmerism
11

ae
&e
&c which reveal many and great truths mixed with
the greatest errors and also display much intelligence
118 XEY TO THEOLOGY
KEY

but have no tthe

notathe keys ott
the 16 ottlids
lidsscience
i

of the fi enca
enc6 o0 f theology
the holy pries
priesthood
fries thool
chool
these spirits ge nerall ah
generally
berall &h
deny they divinity of christ
offfid
ffid
and the great truths of the atonement and of the tha
resurrection of the body of such are the shakers of
the united states and their revelations they deny
the resurrection of the body from this source are
the revelations of emmanuel swedenborg which also
deny the resurrection from tins this source also are
the revelations of andrew jackson davis of pough-
ke epsie new york which deny the resurrection and
keepsie
the atonement from this source are all the revela-
tions which deny the ordinances of the gospel and
the keys and gifts of the holy apostleship
last of all these are they who climb up in some
other way besides the door into the sheepfold and
thesheepfold
who prophesy or work in their own name and not nor
notin
in
the name of jesus christ
no man can do a miracle in bename 6ename
the name andind by the
authority of jesus christ eexcep i
xceptt lihee be a good man
scep
and authorized bylim
by him
balim
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 119
f
u
f f
A

chaptbrx11l
CHAPTER XIII
i
w 1

4
DREAMS
k W

mysttrious
mysterious
ri an
power whence 0 p e ethe
&n c e hope ethereal
ethereals
reals prin gif
springs 1
t

Sief heave
siefheave
sweet gis
heavenly
ris
fre cofe
relicf
relice ternal
ternai things
of eternal
cafe 1I
thiilws 44
1

lna
ins
Ina pyM
inapym deep thought oj mes
deer
the past the present and nd tief
the fu
MJS dipne
au
6u
futurere thine
fff
aff
dapne
7
tha
th1 reintmicencea
cen ces ransport
transport the soul
to memory parade
44e71itsure
insure roal
goal

W
for gob
god
6627 ab e aWA once
speajceth
sb bncef yea wzcqyyeoman
sea twicet
twicer man per
jer
pef
ier
ceivet it
ceimet
ceiveth i t not in a dream in a Vi t
d vision of he
tle night
the
when deep sleep falleth
waen
maen fdleth upon men in slumberings
slumber ings upon
upon
the oed
bed then he openeth cars of men andsealeth
aceneth the oars
apeneth ears and sealeth
seaneth
their instruction 11 job xxxiii 14 155 16
s i 1I

IN all ages and dispensations god haar

hasr
has reye
rese aled many
resealed
important instructions and warnings to medby
mepby
men by means
of dreams
when the outward organs of thought and percep-
tion are released from their activity the nerves un-
strung and the whole of mortal humanity lies hushed
in quiet slumbers in order to renew its strength and
vigour it is then that the spiritual organs are at
liberty in a certain degree to assume their wonted
functions to recall some faint outlines some confused
120 KEY TO THEOLOGY

and half defined recollections of that heavenly world

and those endearing scenes of their former estate from
which they have descended in order to obtain and
mature a tabernacle of flesh their kindred spirits
their guardian angels then hover about them with
the fondest affection the most anxious solicitude
spirit communes with spirit thought meets thought
soul blends with soul in all the raptures of mutual
pure and eternal love
in this situation the spiritual organs are susceptible
of converse with deity or of communion with angels
and the spirits of just men made perfect
in tills
tilis situation we frequently hold communica-
this
tion with our departed father mother brother sister
son or daughter or with the former husband or wife
of our bosom whose affection for us being rooted and
grounded in the eternal elements or issuing from
under the sanctuary of loves eternal fountain can
never be lessened or diminished by death distance of
space or length of years
we
ave
vve may perhaps have had a friend of the other
sex whose pulse beat in unison with our own whose
every thought was big with the aspirations the hopes
of a bright future in union with our own whose hap-
piness in time or in eternity would pever never be tally
fully
ummated
consummated
cons with out that union such a one snatched
unmated without
from time in the very bloom of youth lives in the
other sphere with the same bright hope watching
our every footstep in our meanderings through the
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 121

rugged path of life with longing desiresfor

desires for our
eternal happiness and eager for our safe arrival in
eternatlidppiness
the same sphere
avith what tenderne
tenderee
ten derne ss of love with what solicitude
tenderness
of affection will theywatch
they watch over our slumbers hang
aAbout
out our pillow and seek by means of the spiritual
fluid to communicate with our spirits to warn us of
dangers or temptation to comfort and soothe our sor-
rol
roi or to ward off the ills which might befall us or
row
perchance to give us some kind token of remembrance
or undying love
it is the pure in heart the lovers of truth andvirtue
and virtue
that will appreciate these remarks for they know by
at least a small degree of experience that these things
are so
those who are habitually given to vlcej vice immor-
ality and abomination those who walk in the daily
ailt
allt
alit daliy
dally
indulgence of unlawful lust those who neither
believe in jesus christ nor seek to pray to him and
keep his commandments those who do not cultivate
the pure refined and holy joys of innocent and
heavenly affection but who would sacrifice every finery
finer
finen
winerd

feeling at the shrine of lawless pleasure and brutal

des ires those persons will not understand and ap-7
aes
desires
ate these views because their good angels their
preciate
preci
kindred spirits have long since departed and ceased
to attend them being grieved and disgusted with
their conduct
tlle spirit of the lord has also been grieved and
the
tile
122 KEY TO THEOLOGY

has left them to themselves to pt ruggle

struggle alone amid
the dangers and sorrows of life or tobe the associates
of demons and impure spirits such persons
dream of adultery gluttony debauchery and crimes
of every kind such persons have the foreshadow
ings of a doleful death and of darkness and the
buffe rings of fiends and malicious spirits
buffetings
but blessed are they who forfeit not their claims
to the watchful care and protection of and commu-
nion with the heavenly powers and pure and lovely
spirits
we can only advise the other classes of mankind
and entreat them by the joys of love by all the
desires of life by all the dread of death darkness and
a dreary hereafter yea by the blood of him who died
by the victory of him who rose in triumph from the
grave by their regard for those kindred spirits which
would gladly love them in worlds without end to turn
from their sinful course of life to obey the ordinances
and commandments of jesus christ that the spirit of
go may return to them and their good angels and
goo
goj
spirits again return to their sacred charge
0 what a comfort it is in this dreary world to be
joved
loved and cared for by all powerful warmhearted
coved warm hearted
and lovely friends
A dream 1

what have not dreams accomplished

dreams and their interpretation brought the
beloved son of jac
jacob
ob from his dungeon made 1
him
im I
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 123
miiiister of egypt and the saviour of a nation
prime minister
and of his fathers house
dreams and the interpretation of dreams raised a
daniel from slavery or degrading captivity in baby-
lon to wear a royal chain of gold and to teach royalty
how to rule whilst himself presided over the gover-
nors and presidents of more than a hundred provinces
dreams and the interpretation of dreams have
opened the future pointed out the course of empire
through all the troublous times of successive ages till
saints alone shall rule and immortality alone endure
oh what a doleful situation was saul the king of
israel plac edin
placed in when the army of the philistines
stood in battle array against him and the lord
answered him not either by dream by prophet by
vision or by urim
arim and thummim
he sought the unlawful gift of familiar spirits or
magnetism he there learned his doom and rushed
to battle with the desperation of hopeless despair
himself his sans
s6ns and the hosts of israel fell in
s5ns
battle in that awful day while david to whom these
gifts had been transferred by the ordination and holy
anointing of samuel arose by their use to the throne
of israel
A dream announced to joseph that his virgin wife
should have a son A dream forewarned him to flee
into egypt with the young child and his mother A
dream announced to him in egypt egypi the death of
herod and warned him to return to his native land
124 KEY TO THEOLOGY

dream warned the wise men from the east to return

A dreaiiiwarned
home another way and not return to herod to betray
the young child
dreams and visions warned paul and the apostles
and the saints of his day of various dangers ship-
wrecks persecutions and deaths and pointed out the
means of escape v
dreams and visions attended and guidedI1 them
visionskttirded teem more
or less in tjiqi
thein i oolert ministry and
their wholert
w nd so
sojourn on the
earth i f ir

t 1

su T
r A

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4
f t T f 1

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1 v T 1 l
ra
r1 t r f
ft f ft
tn f t
r f r h
r A ra
r1 f
frn 2

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f f

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rne
rke
s
5 i n t

pn JE
an
jt r t ony
uny
onh as
fs ery
ero
A r

1 v
ir
if
sit
iffitf
sif
NM k
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 125

chape R XIV
CHAPTER

0 thenq
theng
thena rib6p
THE WORLD hibits
SIRITS
OP SPIRITS

ye worlds of Hlight
ht and life beyond our
oar sphere
mysterious
mystenouscountry
c6untry let yourlight
country your light appe
appear
ye angels lift the vali
tali
taii
vall the truth unfold
rail
vail
and give our seers a glimpse of that bright world
tell
teil iacre
teli ihcre ye live and what are your
where our employ
lour
your present blessing and your future joy
say hate
kate
have
have you learnd the name and tund the lyre
i i

andlymnd
hymna the praise of him the great me
and hymnd messiahis iahl
aahl1
have loves emotions kindld
kinald in your bre stj
breast
bstj
and hope enrapture
enrapt urd lewd
enraptued
enrapturd sewd the promise
seizd promisd rest I1
or wait
orwait
norwait
walt ye still the resurrection day
that higher promise of millennial sway 1I
when saints and angels come to earth again
and in the flesh with king messiah reign V I1
the spirits answered as they soard away 7
1

were happy now but wait a greater day

in sin and death and hell shall conquers
when
N conque
conquerd rd be
and earth with heaven enjoy the Tic tory 11
victory

THE spirit of man consists of an organization or

embodiment of the elements of spiritual matter in
the likeness and after the pattern of the fleshly taber-
nacle it possesses in fact all the organs and parts
exactly corresponding to the outward tabernacle
the entrance of this spirit into its embryo taber-
nacle of flesh is called quickening the infallible
evidence of its presence is voluntary motion which
126 KEY TO THEOLOGY

implies a degree of independent agency or inherent

will which individual identity alone possesses
when this spirit departs the outward tabernacle is
said to be dead that is the individual who quickened
and imparted voluntary motion to the said tabernacle
is no longer there this individual on departing from
its earthly house repasses the dark yalevale of forgetful-
vaie
ness and awakes in the spirit world
the spirit world is not the heaven where jesus
christ his father and other beings dwell who have
by resurrection or translation ascended to eternal
mansions and been crowned and seated on thrones
of power nutbut it is an intermediate state a probation
a place of preparation improvement instruction or
education where spirits are chasteney
chast
chastened
ened and improved
and where if found worthy they may be taught
a knowledge 0of the gospel in short it is a place
whe
whererethe
wherethethe gospel is preached and where faith repen-
tance hope and charity may be exercised a place
of waiting for the resurrection or redemption of the
body while to those who deserve it it is a place of
punishment a apurgatory
purgatory or hell where ispirits
spirits are
buffet ted till the day of redemption
buffetted
As to its location it is here on the very planet
where we were born bob
bom or in otherwords
otherwards
other words the earth and
other planets of alike
a like
ilke sphere have theirinward
their inward or
spiritual spheres as well as their outward or
temporal the one is peopled by temporal taber-
nacles and the other by spirits A vail is drawn
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 127

other whereby all

the one sphere and the otherl
between thebnesphere
objectsin
the objectsin
objects in the spiritual sphere are rendered invi-
sible to those in the temporal
to discern beings or things in the spirit world a
person in the flesh must be quickened by spiritual
element the vail must be withdrawn or the organs
of sight or of hearing must be transformed so as to
be adapted to the spiritual sphere this state is
called vision trance second sight clairvoyance &c ac
the elements and beings in the spirit world are as
realand
real and tangible to spiritual organs as things and
i
beings
bem gs of the temporal world are to beings of a tem-
poral state
in this spirit world there are all the varieties and
grades of intellectual being which exist in the
present world eor for instance jesus christ and the
wor
thief on the cross both went to the same place and
found themselves associated in the spirit world
but the one was there in all the intelligence hap-
piness benevolence and charity which characterized
a teacher a messenger anointed to preach glad
tidingsto
tidings to the meek to bind up the brokenhearted
broken hearted to
comfort those who mourned to preach deliverance
to the captive and open the prison to those who were
bound or in other words to P reach the gos
preach pel
gospel
fel
fei
in prison that they migit
inprison
to the spirits unprison might heie judged
according to aiesi while the other was there
men in the plesh
tomen faesi
flesh
as a thief who had expired on the crossfor for crimp
cross ror crime and
chime
whowag guilty ignorant uncultivated and andunprepared
who was guiftyignorant unprepared
128 KEY TO THEOLOGY

for resurrection having need of remission of sins and

to be instructed in the science of salvation
the former ibid
bid farewell to the world of spirits on
tild
the third day and returned to his tabernacle of flesh
in which he ascended to thrones principalities
and powers while the latter is no doubt improving in
the spirit world and waiting believing hoping for
the redemption of the body
in the world of spirits there are apostles prophets
elders and members of the church of the saints hold-
ing keys of priesthood and power to teach comfort
instruct and proclaim the gospelgopel to their fellow
spirits after the pattern of jesus christ
in the same world there are also the spirits of
catholics and protestants of every sect who have all
need 40to be taught and to come to the knowledge of
the true unchangeable gospel in its fulness falness and
simplicity that they may be judged the same as if
they had been privileged with the same in the
flesh
there is also the jew the mahometan
I ahometan the infidel
laho
Taho
tahometan
1M
mahometano
who did not believe in christ while in the flesh all
these must be taught must come to the knowledge
of the crucified and risen redeemer and hear the
glad tidings of the gospel
there are also all the varieties of the heathen
spirits the noble and anil refined philosopher poet
patriot or statesman of rome home or greece the en-
lightened socrates plato and their like together
 ely
elt
KET
KE TIIEOLOGT
Y TO THEOLOGY 129

with every grade of spirits down to the most

uncultivatedd of the say
uncultivate
uncultivatc savage world
sav
all these must be taught e nlightened and must
bow the knee tp the king for the decree hath
tho eternal eing
kingi
thatinto
forth tha
gone fortht4 ginto dpn very
Tinto hpn eq shall bow
imee
every aimee how and
every ton9mpcqnfis
tongtt& confessff
1
0 what a tei tel
ael
field d of ia 197iof
labour benevolence
of
ofbenevolence of mis-
sionary elite
enterprise naw opens to fhe
ti sa nqw the apostles and
of the gjiurqh afpf
elders efah
ofah p f the saint As this
a saints th s field
opens th orfwwill
they iil begin to realize mqro maro fully the
extent of their d ivine mission on and the meaning of
borgm an dto
the great corgm
conutiandqn ato preach
t o treaca
c
treack the gospel to every
creature
vat gaj
yat
in this yat gqj
field of labour the priesthood are in a
great measure occupied during
4 ilaring their sqj
aheir
blaring ameir saj oub in the
sojourn
oum
world of spirspirits
its whilo awal awaiting the resurr
awai action of
ection
resurrection
resura
the body ahalt the same time they tem
and at theiam6tipapthy
aaalt selves are
themselves
imp royed and greatly advanced and matured
edified improved
in the sci0jiqppf
science of divine thqo1 theology
07
0.7
07
intlictiseofthekeys
in the use of the keys heys of this science by then1tv them
administered and in connexion with the min istrati on
ministrati
ministration
of certain ordinances by the priesthood in this
mortal life for and in behalf of those whoare whobre
who are dead
the doors of the prisons of the spirit world are opened
and their gloomy dungeons made radiant with light
hope then springs fresh afresh joy and gladness
swell th abc uj m 4 to anguish and smiles
th&ibosom accustomed
acc
assume jikpjqqerof tears fears while songs of triumph
and the voice of melody and thanksgiving mccu occu py
occupy
K
130 KEY
KE Y TO THEOLOGY

the hearts and flow from the lips of those who have
the region and shadow
long dwelt in darkness and in them
tho
ther
of death
the times of sojourn of a spirit in the world of
spirits and also its privileges and degrees of enjoy-
ment or of suffering while there depend much on its
preparations while in the flesh
for instance the people swept off by the flood of
noah were imprisoned in the world of spirits in a
kind of hell without justification without priesthoo
priesthood
Pries thoo d
or gospel without the true knowledge of god or a
hope of resurrection during those long ages which
intervened between the flood and the death of christ
it was only by the personal ministry of the spirit of
jesus christ during his sojourn in the spirit world
that they were at length privileged to hear the
gospel and to act upon their own agency the same
as men in the flesh whereas if they had repented at
the preaching of noah they might have been justified
and filled with the hope and knowledge of the resur-
rection while in the flesh
when jesus christ had returned from his mission
in the spirit world had triumphed over the grave and
entered his fleshly tabernacle then the saints who
reentered
re
had obey ed the gospel while in the flesh and had slept
obeyed
in death or finished their sojourn in the spirit world
were called forth to reen
re en
reenter
ter their bodies and to
enter
reeh
riih
wiih him to mansions and thrones of eternal
ascend with
power while the residue of the spirits remained in
the world of spirits to await another call
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 131
thoseviuy iimiv
thosevho oobeyedeye the gospel on the ear
O
th after
earth
0

this first
firstr&surrection will algo
alsqjbe
also
aiso be called from their
sojourn in the spirit world and reunited
re- united with their
tabernacles of flesh at the sounding of the next trump
and will reign on the earth in the flesh one thousand
years while those who rejected reiectedlhegbspel
reiected tir gosp
VANI
gqsp el will
w
remain in the spirit world wit with6ui
withouta
houtaa resurrection till teprrpt
after the thousand years y
again those who obqtyq
eja
eba lri
thgolin1hpresent
gopelinthp
0 1 ap
np
present
age
arye
acye
acre
0 will rise fro if
fionl1fii
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ra
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lei
lew

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mana
man9
id
mand om the
from
grave and reigni
iiii
gli
sii
gig
reigns bonss
onss thew&
then eeartlidunng
r vla si ailo
iiatiring
via
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thousand y ears wnilltnfft6mhir
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in condemnationin
condemnation
condemnitionia t
in ethein ithein
etorla
eworla without a
resurrect i 6 n till
resurrection 01
i thlast
thrast
as remd rumd elal slal
sl al sound and
sh111
siai
sial i

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death anclhell
and heli
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132 KEY TO THEOLOGY

charter
RX
CHAPTER XV s

resurrection
nesurrection
nE
SURRECTION ITSTIMI
ITS TIMES AMD DEGREES
AND fili
finst
FIRST SECOND
hilma
nilma
nii
hil
nil
MA OR
iiijt D HEAVENS
AND THIRD tii
til
oil THE TELESTIAL terrestrial
AND CELESTIAL kingd6119
celistial KINGDOMS

4
it the graveland
gray
grav
grave and death and hell
grayeerand
gravevand
evand heli BO
heii
heil
bell no more lietain
etain
raquicaptives
their lawful iirth
captives kirth fields its ilag
earth yields ilai
slain
elain
the raging ocean
oce lo wly bed
from its lowly
at michaels call delivers up its deadleaa
lead
comes thejudgment
thencomes
then bomes finildooni
final doom
the judgment and the finai
01 man bib
oiinan his
hib
vib detilzbeyotid
bib dertifllejondthe the tomb

there generay
elay
elai resurrections revealed to
thiee general
are three gen
genelay
eraY
man on the earth 5 one of these is past and the other
two are future
the first general resurrection tookplace
took place in con-
nexion with the resurrection of jesus christ this
included the saints and prophets of both hemispheres
adam down to john the baptist or in other
from adain
words all thoe who died in christ before his
resurrection
the second will takeplace
tako place in afew
take a few years from the
present time and will thelie
tie aiatoly succeeded by
immediately
be imme anatoly
the coming of j6s js
U christin
jesus porter
christ in porier and
nnd great glory
pgveruhd
with all his saints and angels this resurrection
tile former and latter day saints all
will include the
tlle
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 133
those who have
havereceivedthe
received the gospel since the former
resurrection
the third and last resur rection will take place
resurrection
more than a thousanuyears
thousand years afterwards and will
embrace all the human family not included in the
former resurrections or translations
after man is raised from the dead he will be
judged according to his works angwill
andwill
and will receive the
reward and be consigned to the sphere exactly
corresponding to his former deeds and the thepreparations
preparations
or qualifications which he possesses
in the former resurrection those raised left the
earth and ascended or were transplanted far on high
with the risen jesus to the glorified mansions of his
father or to some planetary system already
redeemed and glorified the reason
reasonss for thus
leaving the earth are obvious our planet was still
in its rudimental state and therefore subject to the
rule of sin and death it was necessary that it should
continue thus until the full time of redemption
shouldarrive
arrive it was therefore entirely unfitted for
should ardive
the residence of immortal man
but in the resurrection which now approaches and
in connexion with the glorious coming of jesus
christ the earth will undergo a change in its physi-
cal features climate soil productions and in its
political moral and spiritual government
its mountains will be bevelled
levelled its valleys exalted
levelled
its swamps and sickly places will be drained
134 KEY TO THEOLOGY

and become healt healthy

iiy2 while djs deser
its burning0 deserts tsy
tsi
and its frigid polar regions will he be redeemed and
become temperate and fruitful
kingcraft
Kinge raat
raft and priestcraft tyranny
rafa tyran nyi oppre sion and
oppression
ston
slon
idolatry will he be at an end
cud darkness anci and
ancl ignorance
vill
wiil pass away war will cease
will
miil cease and the rule asin and
sorrow
orrow and death will
I1

ivill eel
glye
give
ini
eni ve pl 4 cc jo
place to the reign of
peace and truth and righteousness
for this reason and to fulfill
fulfil certain promises made
fo
to the fathers the jformer im andijlatter
and rattek day saints
thetfo
included in thetwo resurrectionginna
resurrectionsang
kna
the two resurrectionsandsand all those trans-
lated will then receive
receive an inheritance on the earth
and will build upon and improve the same for a
thousand years
the heathen nations also will then be redeemed
and will be exalted to the privilege of serving the
saints of the most high they will be the plough
men the vine dressers the gardeners builders etc
but the saints will be the ownbrapf owners of the soil the
estate and other precious
proprietors of all real estate
things and the kings governors and adjudges
nd judges of the
ndjudges
earth
As the children of man multiply in those peaceful
times a careful and wise system of agriculture will
be rapidly developed and extended over the face of ot
the whole earth its entire surface will at length
become like the garden of eden the thetrees
arees
trees
drees of life
being cultivated and their fruits enjo yed
enjoyed
enio
science and the useful and ornamental arts will
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 135

the fine
also be greatly extended and cultivated thefinetoned
rine toned
instrument of many strings the melodious organs of
voice will then be tuned to poetry and
the human volce
sentiments equally pure and refined and will pour
forth melodies and strains of holy joy calculated to
purify and melt every heart in love and fill every
soul with mutual sympathy and extasy of heavenly
union i

geographical knowledge history astronomy

mathematics and navigation will be greatly extended
rall
and matured railroads
Eail roaas and telegraphic lines of
rali roads
communication will be universally extended and the
powers of steam or other means of locomotion
brought to the highest state of perfection
associateddin
thus all nations will be associatedin
associate in one great
brotherhood A universal theocracy will cement
the whole body politic one king will rule one
holy city will compose the capitol one templetempie will
be the centre of worship in short there will be
one lord one faith one baptism and one spirit
one equable just and useful commercial interest
founded on the necessity and convenience of mutual
exchange of products will also form another
important bond of union
mineralogy will also be greata
greatly improved and
greatly
its knowledge extended its hidden treasures
will be developed and gold silver and the
most precious and beautiful stones will be the
building materials in most common use and
136 KEY TO THEOLOGY

nl 0 se th
compose
will co i
he6 ilutensilrnu1 furniture of
iteiisliajifitliftifniturd bf the habita
habata
tions of man
eions
the earth and man thus ihus restored aneeamtxalted
ande
andesalted
salted will
not yet be perfect in the celestial sense whe
i4doahe word
but will be considered in tulight tU light opiwinity
the oietenuty as
r
occupying all an
ail
ali intermediate and still progressive
position amid the varieties of nature
the flesh bones sinews nerves all the organs
all the particles of the cceldstial elestial body must be
quickened filled surrounded with th at divine and
that
holy element which is pu rei moreintelligent
purer
iee
leb more intelligent more
imi&intelligent
refined and active fuller 0of light lighi aantl
nntt 14
A li than any
other substance in the universe 1

every or gan must

organ mus t be0 restored and adapted to
a ifdp
its natural arid eifect use
eifel
perfect us 6 in the
ase th ecel
celestial
estial body
ecelestial

the greekph
greek philosophers immortal mind
again with flesh andboneand
and bone
hone and nerve combined
immortal brain and heart immortal
r4mmortal whole
will make as at first a living soul
A the filisi
fiisi

tauS adapted
man thus
t4u adap t e a to hil the en
alltne
allane
all
hii t s of life and
ments
enjoyments
enjoy
coymen
joymen
love will possess
posess the means of gratifying his organs
of sight liearingast
hearing taste &c ac anda n dwill posess improve
will possess
adwill
and enjoy the riches of the eternal elements the
palace the city the garden the vineyard the fruits
of the earth the goldace
goldahe
goi
gol
gold dAhe
the silver the precious stones
the servants the chariots horses and horsemen are for
his use also thrones and dominions principalities and
powers might majesty and an eternal increase in creage
creade ofbr
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 137

riches hbjibur
richest
riches7 silm
siim mortality nand eternal life are his
iortality and
lidfr6mimmortality land
is2 im d
he isisa i6bordiiia
a subordinate te ksense
na god or in other
agod
n8 62 a
atod
one of theionsofg6it
words boned
2oned bons of god all thin
the sons thingsgs are his
and he is Christ
christs8 anac hiisiisg6118
andcchrist
and
ande is gods
such is the great 3eilbnni
millennium
and suchig
suchia
such is caksmal7dian
celestial eilan in hig progress towards
inhw
eelan inow
perfection
besides the 16 peculiar glory of the celetialy auly there
celet ialy
are in the thqkesuft6ction
resurrection an anda fifinai
nattre
kattre
final rewardd of mantman
many subbrdiriafe spheres many d6gibdild degrees of reward
adapted to analmok infinite variety 6of circumstances
an almost iiifinitevaried cirduffistances
conditions dee def
degrees i4rovement knowledge ac-
frees of improvement
count
countability idcon&ct
ability and conduct
the final state or of man though tai ying in almost
varying
vai
tal
infinite gradations and rewards adapted to his quali-
ficat ions and deserts ana
fications and meted out in the sdale seale of
scale
exact justice and mercy may be conceived or expres-
sed under three grand heads or principal sphere spheressi
viz
first the telestial or least heaven typified by
starson
the starsof
stars of khe manolt
the fir
firmament
secondly the terrestrial or intermediatein heaven
typified by themthe moon oon
thirdly th606f6iial
the celestial or third third heaven of which
the sun of the firmament is typ cyp rai
ral
kal
typical
the qualifications which fit an anddprepare
prepare intelligences
the
theseseal
sedi
sedl
for thesedi
there different sphere sor re
fferent spheresor
sphed64or rewards in all im-
dsilaarre6 an
war asila
1

portant consideration anndd well worthy of the sincere

attention of all people
138 XEY TO THEOLOGY
KEY

these several kingdoms or degrees and their com-

tive happiness and what characters are candi-
parative
para
dates for each degree are revealed in a most concise
clear lucid and beautiful manner in one of th
thee visions
of our great prophet and founder we will therefore
complete this chapter by the insertion of said
11
VISION
hear 0 ye heavens and give ear 0 earth and
rejoice ye inhabitants thereof for the lord is god
and beside him there is no saviour great is his wis-
marv ellous are his ways and the extent of his
dom marvellous
marcellous
doings none can find out his purposes fail not neither
are there any who can stay his hand from eternity to
eternity he is the same and his years never fail
11t
for thus saith the lord 1I the lord am merci-
ful and gracious unto those who fear me ana and delight
to honour those who serve me in righteousness and
in truth unto the end great shall be their reward and
eternal shall be their glory and to them will 1I reveal
all mysteries yea all the hidden mysteries of my
kingdom from days of old and foragesfor ages to come will
1I make known unto them the good pleasure of my
will concerning all things pertaining to my kingdom
yea even the wonders of etemitelemit
eternityy shall they know
and things to come will 1I show them even the things
of many generations and their wisdom shall be great
and their understanding reach to heaven and before
them the wisdom of the wise shall perish and the
ptdeat shall come to naught
understanding of the prudent
 REY TO THEOLOGY
KEY 139
for by my spirit will 1I enlighten them and by my
t

I
power will 1 make known unto them the secrets of my
billj yea even those things which eye has not seen
will
willj
nor ear heard nor yet entered into the heart of man
we joseph smith jun and sidney rigdon
being in the spirit on the sixteenth of february in
the year of our lord one thous anel eight hundred and
thousand
anci
ancl
thirty two by the power of the spirit our eyes were
opened and our understandings were enlightened so
as to see and understand the things of god even
those t1iings
tilings which were from the beginning before
bilings
the world was which were ordained of the father
through his only begotten son who was in the bosom
of the father even from the beginning of whom we
bear record and the record which we bear is the ful
ness of the gospel of jesus christ who is the son
whom we saw and with whom we conversed in the
heavenly vision for while we were doing the work
of translation which the lord had appointed unto us
we came to the twenty ninth verse of the fifth chapter
john which
of johnwhich
whick was given unto us as follows speaking
of the resurrection of the dead concerning those who
shall hear the voice of the son of man and shall
come forth they who have done good in the resur-
rection of the just and they who have done evil vii
vil in
the resurrection of the njust
unjust
ti now this caused us
to marvel for it was given
div en unto us of the spirit and
giv
while we meditated upon these things the lord touch-
ed the eyes of our understandings and they were
140 KEY TO THEOLOGY

opened and the glorydthe

glory of the lord shone
shonb round about
behold the glory of thek
and we beheld tho son
the ison on the right
hand of the father and received ochis ofhis
of hig falness
his fulness
ful ness and
saw the holy angels and they who are sanctified before beford
shipping
his throne worshipping
wor god and the lamb who wor-
ship him for ever and ever and now after the many
testimonies which have been given of him this is the
testimony last of all which we give of him that he
lives for we saw him even on the right hand of god
and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the
only begotten of the father that by him and through
him and of him the worlds are gre and were created and
the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters
unto god and this 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 be-
gotten 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 and was called perdi-
tion for the heavens wept over him he was lucifer
of the morning and we beheld
a son ofthe
odthe behold and 10 lo he is
fallen is fallen even a son of the morning and
while we were yet in the spirit the lord commanded
us that we should write the vision for we beheld behold
satan that old serpent even the devil who rebel-
led against god and sought to take the kingdom of
our gos
goa
god and his christ wherefore he maketh mabeth war
with ththe6 Ssaints d god and encompasses tthem
a i nts of hem round
about and we saw a vision of the sufferings of those
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 141
with choya
whojn
whoya h&
h6 war
ha made warandand overcame for thus came
aarand
the voice of the lord unto us Is
k
thus saith the lord conc eming all those who
concerning
know my power and haye par takers
have been made partakers
thereof and suffered themselves through the power of
the devil to be overcome and to deny the truth and
bqqyercome
defy my power they are they wilo who are the sons of
perdition of whom 1I say that it had been better for
them neverto
never
heverto born for they are vessels of
to have been bom
wrath doomed to suffer the wrath of god with the
devil and his angels in eternity concerning whom 1I
have said there is no forgiveness in this world nor in
the world to come having denied the holy spirit
after having received ityit and having denied the only
r ather having
begotten son of the father ha ving crucified him
unto themselves and put him to an open shame
these are they who shall go away into the lake of ot
fire and brimstone with the devil and his angels and
iones on whom the second death shall have
the only ones
lones
any power yea verily the only oqiy ones who shall not
be redeemed in the due time of the lord after the
sufferings of his wrath for all the rest shall be
forth by the resurrection of the dead through
forthby
brought northby
the triumph and the glory of the lamb who
was slain who was in the bosom of the father
1

before the worlds were made and this is the

tho glad tidings which the voice out of the
the
gospel them
thei
vorp record unto us that ho
ovrccord
heavens borp
vora
barp he came into the
v- irld even jesus to be crucified for the world and to
virid
142 kley
KEY
XCEY TO THEOLOGY

bear tho
the sins of the
thdw6rld
world and to sanctify the wo ad
world
and to cleanse it from all unrighteousness that
through him all might be saved whom the father had
put into his power and made by him who glorifies the
father and saves all the works of his hands except
those sons of perdition who deny the son after the
father has revealed him wherefore he saves all ex-
cept them they shall go away into everlasting
punishment which is endless punishment which id is
eternal punishment to reign with the devil and his
angels in eternity where their worm dieth not and we the
fire is not quenchedwhich
quenched which is their torment and the end
thereof neither the place thereof nor their torments
torment
tormenti
no man knows neither was it revealed neither is
neither will be revealed unto man except to them
who are made partakers
par takers thereof nevertheless 1I the
lord show it by vision unto many but straightway
shut it up again wherefore the end the width the ta
t6
height the depth and the misery thereof they under-
stand not neither any man except them who areor are or-
arbor
dained unto this condemnation and we heard the
voice saying write the vision for 10 lo this is the
end of the vision of the sufferings of the ungodly 1
and again we bear record for we saw and heard
and this is the testimony of the gospel of christ ebli con-
cerning them who come forth in the resurrectionof
resurrection of
the just they are they who received the testimony
of jesus and believed on his jaalalaala6 and were baptized
name baptizer
ptized
after the manner of his burial being buried in the
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 143
water in his name and this accordi
3 ng tothecommand
according to the command-
ment which ile lle has given that by keeping the com-
he
lie
mand ments they might he
mandments be washed and cleansed fromflom
all their sins and receive the holy spirit by the lay-
ing on of the hands of him who is ordained and sealed
unto this power and who overcome by faith and are
sealed by the holy spirit of promise which the father
sheds forth upon all those who are just and true they
are they who are the church of the first bom bob they
born
are they into whose hands the father has given all
things they are they who are aie priests and kings who
llave ful ness and of his glory and are
have received of his fulness
falness
priests of the most high after the order of melchisde
melchise
dek which was after the order of enoch which was
after the order of the only begotten son wherefore
as it is written they are gods even the sons of god
wherefore all things are theirs whether life or death
or things present or things to come all are theirs and
chhist is gods and they shall
they are christs and christis
christ
overcome all things wherefore let no man glory in
man but rather let him glory in god who shall sub-
due all enemies under his feet these shall dwell in
the presence of god and his christ for ever and ever
tile
tlle
these are they whom he shall bring with him when wilen
he shall come in the clouds of heaven to reign on the
carth over his people these are they who shall
earth shail have
shali
part in the first resurrection these are theywho they who
shali comefwh
slallcote
shail
shall 6ahintheresurre cti6n of the just the
in the resurrection these se
are they who are come unto mount zion and unto the th
 144
114
ild
14
1144 KEY TO THEOLOGY

ofe sg
city qlaa
alaa e S god
gadi
godi the hea
I1 T
ve 1v place iq
I pie
heavenly
who haye
tho holiest
the hollest
of all tlies&are they t4qwho have
havccomecome to an annu innu
mera
meral1j& C p4ny gof angels
pany
cqompany mt q s to tiitil
to6eneral erol assembly
eral
and church o
0 f enoch and of the fira st
fust
fina
firm
fu 1laoni these
those
ps I 11 I 1 V
are they wjipse
wbs6 names ano are written in heaven
ane beav whre
where
feav en whore
044
god and christ ane anthe
are the jjudge of all these those are they th y
whoarejivtn
who are just men made aq perpq
jaerfecfc through jesus 13esus the
mediator ofjhe
of the pow
ofshe new coye
now
pov covenant
cove ntwwho6 wrought out this
naatw
atutnpaent through the
perfect atqt
atonement tho eneidi
sn edding of his o0 wn
eneddi
blood
whosq
ts
t4shese9 aro are lne
awe
awo
whose glory is that of the biln
they
the y who
whose 5c bodies are celestial
ac
sun eyen
siln eventhe
even the glory of god
ma
the highest
m4 0of aali
ail
ll1 whoseIs alory
glory ehg
the
tho sun pf
af
of the firma-
1
ment isS written of jbeing typjb
as wng
ang typical
ar
1r
aja
and again we saw ohp
ald
aid thp
the terrestrial world and
ndlq
behold ttand iq hesp are they yil yll are of the terrestrial
whop gre
t
glpry hdiffers
glory
whosee g1pry OTS from that of the church of the
1ffors

9p7
first bborn ohpwhp pyave
have rece
piave tved
received falness of the father
ived the fulness
even althal
asthal
a4ihaf
thal of the moon differs rom
asthat te
irom t sun in the
firmameht
firma behold
firmamentii4h6ld thare
ehold these are aro they who ged god
ood without
ardaaas h 0 aret
7

law and aals they

also9 vla
via py who arel
are theh e spirits pt pimen
ra on kept in
pfmen
prison w hom the sqn ia
i6 rqn
son 1visited and preached the gos-
115ite d ana

pel lutito
uptcf
utito tl thatat fheythey imight e judged junta according
to meni
men in the f lesh w h
n ibb hoq receiver notum not the te stimon y
testimony
ofjesu
of jesus ihi in the flesh bhut but a fterwards receive
I1
receivedd it
these are n they who
ahoy hb hiare h oui able mai
our
honour
onourable m6i
men of the earth
in aa
6adJay the craftiness of men these are
I1
were blindedjay
who wero
wexo blinde
they who receive of 1his Is 9 1ory butnbt
glory but 4
hut n of his fulness falness
fulness
these are they wjqre iveot
4re theywioreceiveofthe ivert presence nee 0of the son
pres ence
but not of the falness of the father wherefore they
tile fulness
tlle
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 145
are bodies terrestrial and not bodies celestial and
diff
differ
erin
evin
diffevin in glory as the moon differs from the sun these
ar6ithey who are not valiant in the testimony of
areithey bf jesus
i
whir
wh6r efore they obtained not the crown over thek
wherefore
afore the king
ing
domo
domofour
dom our god and now this is the end of the
ofour
vision which we saw of the terrestrial that the
lord commanded us to write while we were yet in
tile spirit
ane
tne
tiie
and again we saw the glory of the telestial which
gidry is that of the lesser even as the glory of the
glory
stars
sfa rs differs from that of the moon in the fir-
mament these arethay
in arethey
are they who received not the gospel
of christ neither the testimony of jesus these
are they who deny not the holy spirit these are
they who are thrust down to hell these are they
who shall not be redeemed from the devil until the
last resurrection until the lord even christ the lamb
shall have finished his work these are they who
ishall
receive not of his fulness
falness in the eternal world but of0f
the holy spirit through the ministration of the ter-
restrial
re and the terrestrial through the ministration
of the celestial and also the telestial receive it of the
administering of angels who are appointed to minis-
ter forthem
fortham
for them or who are appointed to be ministering
spirits for them for they shall be heirs of sal-
vation and thus we savr sair in the heavenly vision
saw
the glory of the telestial which surpasses all under-
standing and ani no man knows it except him to
whom god has revealed it and thus we saw the th
i
146 KEY TO THEOLOGY

glory ofituaerre striallwhich

ofstie terrestrial
ofsthe excels in
which excelsin all
aki things the
inaki
akl
glory of ofthe
the idl
odthe idi estial even in glory and in p ower
telestial
and in might and in dominion and thus wesaw we saw
tile glory of the celestial which excels in all things
the
tlle
where god even the father reigns upon his throne
eier and ever before whose throne all things bow
ever
for even how
i
in humble reverence and give him glory for ever and
tlley who dwell in his presence are the church
they
ever tiley
of the first born and they see as they are seenan seen anaandd
know as they are known having received of his ful
ness and of his grace 5 anque and he makes them equaiinequal in
power and in might and in dominion An ardithe
and
andithe
althe
dithethe
glory ofthe
glory of the celestial is one even as the glory6f4he odthe
suni
sunisone one and the glory of theterrestrialis
sun issone the terrestrial is onecven
cven
even
one even
is one and the gloryof
isone
the glory of the moon bisone
as tile
tiie glory of
the telestial is one even as the glory of the stars is
o0 ne for as one star differs from another star inglory
1

in glory
unglory
even so differs one from another in glory in the t6les tales
teles-
tial world for these are they
tialworld tildy who are of paul and
of apoi iosi and of cephas these are they who say
apollos
Apol losi
they are some of one and some of another some of
christ and some of john and some of moses and
some of elias and some of esaias
ofelias
eilas
ellas esaia8 and some of
isaiah and some of enoch but
islah
isiah hut received not the
gospel neither the testimony of jesus neither the
prophets neither the everlasting covenant last of
all these all are they who will not be gathered with
the saints to he
tile
tiie be caught up unto the church oftheof the first
odthe
boinn and received into the cloud these are they
lorn
born
boi
bol
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 147
who are ares liars and sorcerers and adulterers and
aresliars
whoremong
q

remonggers and whosoever loves and makes a lie

whoremongers
who
these are they who suffer the wrath of god on the
earth these are they who suffer stiffer the vengeance of
eternal fire these are they who are cast down to
hell and suffer the wrath of almighty god until tlle the
tile
falness of times when christ shall have subdued all
fulness
enemies under his feet and shall have perfected
work when he shall deliver up the kingdom
his wonk
vork
and present itunto sayin
it unto the father spotless saying
1I have overcome and have trodden the win press
alone even the wine press of the fierceness of the
wrath of almighty god then shall lle be crowned
he he
lie
ile
ivith the crown of his glory to sit on the throne of
avit
with
his p ower to reign for ever and ever but behold
and 10 lo we saw the glory and the inhabitants of the
telestial world that they were as innumerable as the
stars in the firmament of heaven or as the sand upon
the sea shore and heard the voice of the lord saying
these all shall bow the knee and every tongue
shall confess to him who sits upon the throne for ever
and ever for they shall be bejudged
judged accordin
accordia
according to their
works and every man shall receive according to his
own works hisllis own dominion in the mansions which
ate prepared and they shall be servants of the most
are
high but where god and christ dwell they cannot
come worlds without end this is the end of tile the
tiie
vision which we saw which we were commanded to
tile spirit
write while we were yet in the
tlle
148 KEY TO THEOLOGY

but gr eat and marvellous

great the works of the
marcellous are thewbrks
lord and the mysteries of his kingdom which he
showed unto us whichsurpasses
which surpasses all understanding in
ali allunderstanding
ail
glory and in might and in dominion which he com-
manded us we should not write while we we re yet
were
inthe
in the spirit and are not lawful for man to utter
neither is man capable to m ake them known for they
are only to be seen and understood by the power of
the holy spirit which god bestons
bestows on those who
iove him and purify themselves before him 5 to whom
lovehim
love
he grants this privilege of seeing and knowing for
themselves that through the power and manifes-
tation of the spirit while in the flesh they may be
able to bear his presence in the world of glory and
to god and the lamb be glory and honour and
nd ever amen
dominion for ever a naeter
ititkj i a p s

apy
far
aff
wff f ts
ffrakorf
mf t4s
fi ASO
f
rf f
r
i
K
f

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I1
T
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f rg r r f
lsi
ssi f 1 flilssw t i
t k
i i
r
jut
jui 41kv f t s

f4t
fat

i
4
ir
i

it t
tri
tyk
iii
ifitn
t t
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 149

VI
CHAPTER XVI
r

FURTHER REMARKS ON MANS PHYSICAL AND intellectual

FURTHED
PROGRESS philosophy OF WILL AS originating DIRECT-
ING ind
AND controlling ALL VOLUNTARY ANIMAL MO motlon
MOTION
TION
astounding FACTS IN RELATION TO THE SPEED OR VELOCITY
OF MOTION AS attainable BY PHYSICAL MAN interc03kl
intercom-
carion OF THE
carlon
munication
MUNI CATION inhabitants OF DIFFERENT AND
DISTANT PLANETS

wide and more wide the kindling bosom swells

aa
As love inspires and truth its wonders tells
the soul
aoul enraptured tunes the sacred lyre
soui
boul
and bids a worm of earth to heaven aspire
mid solar systems numberless to soar
the depths of love and science toexplore
to explore

As 1I have before remarked man is a candidate for

a series of progressive changes all tending to develop
his intellectual and physical faculties to expand his
hisintellectual
mind and to enlarge his sphere of action and conse-
quent usefulness and happiness
he begins his physical or rudimental fleshly
career by descending below all things he has at
hisA birth less power of locomotion or even instinct
hi
than other animals
his powers of motion are BOso very limited that for
several months he is entirely unable to change llishis
ills
locality wherever he is placed there he must re- re
main until removed by the agency of others he
150 XEY TO THEOLOGY
KEY

can hardly be said to have a will or at least it is

so undeveloped as scarcely to manifest itself by any
effort beyond the movement of some portion of his
membersJ while heremains
he remains in this state of mental
inability and physical helplessness a casual observer
entirely unacquainted with his progress and destiny
might very naturally conclude that this was the
climax of his maturity the natural sphere of his eternal
existence
A few months however develop a marked change
he begins to learn the use and put forth the powers
of his will the body developed in a commensurate
degree is able to obey that vm will thus commence
commencess
locomotion the child crawls or creeps about the
floor explores the little world that is to say the
room where he resides or the adjoining apartment
mes familiar with its dimensions bearings and
becomes
13

con tents and recognize

contents recognizess his associates or fallo
fellow
f6llo w
citizens of the same little world then he ile becomes
lle
lie
familiar with the science of geography and of history
if 1I may so call it in his little world
prompted by curiosity he may perhaps cast an
occasional glance beyond the limits of his own abode
hc may
he ii ay contemplate a building or landscape on the
other side of the street or field but with much of the
same beling
feeling as a man more matured casts his eyes
castshis ey es to
the distant planets he concludes that these distant
objects are
a re entirely beyond the reach of his powelg
powers ot
lococo tion
locomotion
locomo
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 151

in a shoruime
sliorltim6j however his faculties i still expand-
develop new and increasing energies cecon
ingdevelop
ing ha con-
hecon
ce 031 ug
ceives
ives
cely big thoughts he even thinks of dispensing
with his plodding creeping manner of locomotion and
of trying to stand upright and even make a first step
towards walking it is a great undertaking he
hesitates doubts fears hopes till finally being
cheered or wara
orward
ward in his career by his parents or his
onward
onward
nurse he makes the attempt after several falls
failures and disappointments he at length succeeds
walking two or three steps 0 what a triumph in
unwalking
in
inwalking
his powers of locomotion he is cheered embraced
overwhelmed by those who haye hate been watching his
hare hi
progress and encouraging him until overcome and
ecstasy of transport he falls
estasy
carried away by an extasy
blushing smiling and exulting into the arms held out
ion
lon
for his reception he dreams not of a higher attain-
fon
ment he is now in his own estimation at the very VW
highest pinnacle of human development
improving in his new mode of oflocomotion
locomotion he soon
runs about the yard along the street through the
field makes new discoveries sees new habitationspn7
habitations en-
larges his geographical knowledge and begins to
conceive the probability that his views have been too tog
top
narrow and that there may
n4rrow maybe be a bigger world more
pi e and more buildings than were dreamed of in
people
peo
philosophy
his
hisphilosophy
in a few
fewyears may become familiar with the
years he maybecome
maybecomq
and history of the island or continent on
geography andhistory
152 KEY TO THEOLOGY

which he lives he may even begin to aspire after

the knowledge of other climes and to conceive or
conjecture that beyond the limits of the almost
infinite expanse of waters things and beings may
exist after the similitude of his own sphere he
longs to overcome the phy siedl barriers which con-
physical
fine him in so limited a sphere and thus enlarge hiss
acquaintance his social feelings his friendship his
affections and his scientific knowledge
so boundless and varied is the field so complicated
are the obstacles to be surmounted BO so vastthe
vast the pre-
parations improvements and inventions to be brou
parations brought
94t
into requisition that after ages and generations have
exhausted their energies much is still left to be
done much which can only bedone
done be done by the progress
modem triumphs ofa
and extension of those modern of art
rt by
which the elements the fire the wind the water the
lightning submit to the control of man and become
iii charlot
hijlchariot patches by these means
chariot his bearer of dispatches
des
despatches m eans
th globe we occupy will soon be explor
tlitlglobe explore
explored
ed the limits
boundaries and resources of every dark corner cober be
comer
comen
clearly defined and understood
man already moves over the surface of the earthat
earth at
earthal
the rate of fifty sixty and even ninety miles per
hou and still he aspires he contemplates making
hourr andstill
the air his chariot and hafting
wafting himself through the
open firmament at the rate of perhaps a thousand
miles per hour suppose lie attains to this what
thent
then will the great the infinite principle within
chent
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 153

him be satisfied no he lifts his eyes eydi to theaon

eyei thecon
the con
templaiion
templationof0 f tho shlning orason
se myriads of shining
thosa
those shi arbs on high
orbson
orbs
he cknows
knows by actual admeasurement that some of
them are much larger than the planet he occupies
he also knows by analogy that eternal riches are
th thatt a boundless store of element and
ere rtha
there etha
resources is there that they are treasured there for
the use comfort convenience and enjoyment of
f
intellectual and physical be ing s beings for au
beings aught
ght
aht
he knows of his own species and connect
z
connectededwith
connectedwith
with
him by kindred
kindrea ties or by the law of universal
sympathy ane ff affection he has reason to believe
and
T
theriris
that the riris golda
there is goldand
goldana
goi
gol dandv d silver that there are precious
stonas and houses iani
stones
ston6s kani cities and gardens
amhcities that
there are walks ofapleasure and fountains forests
fed eeight
rivers 0ofyd
bio
blo
brooks iivers
oks and bivers
fraught with life ana
1I1
anu
an r
oulu
ora
ola light that there are bosoms
I joy and swelling with all the
tender sensibilities of a pure holy and never ending
affection
why then should his aspirations not reach
forth his mind expand his bosom swell with love
and his heart beat with the boundless fathomless
infinitude of thought of feeling and of love why
not be noble and boundless in charity like the god
whom he calls his father why does he not rise
frow
from
fromhis
his groveling sphere in this small island which
floats in the ocean of space as a small black speck
4
amid the numberless shining orbs arbs the reason is
obvious itismot the want of noble aspiration
forthe
it is not for aspirationssf
154 KEY TO THEOLOGY

it is mothr
not ror
nothr
for the want of grand conceptions itjsnqtoy
it isnotrfor
5

the lack of will it is because the body is chained

chainedi
imprisoned confined here by the operation or at-
traction of surrounding elements which man canhas
manhas has not
yet discovered the means to control it may be said
that the powers of earth enslave himhimi and chain him
himy
down beyond the possibility or hope of escape
reader in order to illustrate this subject try an
header
experiment on your own physical and mental powers
eor
for instance will your arm to move and it will
forinstance
instantly obey you will your body to go gathree
gothree
three
miles and it will obey you as jast itth
east as ditth
fast it can perhaps
in one hour it will have accomplished thai the
thel journey
thei
assigned to it by your will
but tie your hand behind you and then miil will it
wilt
tomove
to move up and down forwar
komove forward
cl and backward
backwardand ana
and it
yonut
youut cannot because
will make the effort to obey you7but
it is confined chain your body in a dungeonbolt
dungeon bolt boit
and bar the door and will it to go to a certain place
and it will not obey you because it is physically
incapable
unchain this body provide the means of convey-
ance at the rate of a mile per minute the body at the
awill
mwill
bidding of the miil
will will then gothe
go the three miles in three
minutes
now if it were possible to overcome
overcomethethe resisting
elements so as to increase the speed of conveyanpefigr
conveyance for
your
jour body that is if there were no resisting
element to be overcome your will might dictate and
elements
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 155

move through actual space with the

your body would 4mov6
speed of light or electricity there is no apparent
linlibito
limia fo the speed attainable by the body
limib bodywhen
lody when
unch
un6h din
kin ed set free from the elements
hin
unchained elemenfs which now
enslave it and dictated by the will
s
the lightning on its wiry way would lag behind
sunray
the sunray
son
sun ray drag its slow length along

this immense velocity of locomotion as applied

to a body of flesh and bones or of material elements
may at first thought strike the mind as being
contrary to the known laws of physical motion
but let it be recollected that the vast earth on
which we dwell with all its weight and bulkjts
buik its
bulk
cities animals andandt intelligences moves through
actual space at the astonishing velocity of eighteen
miles per
pet second onethousand
on0thousand
one thousand and eighty miles per
minute or sixty four thousand eight hundred miles
per hour
jf
if so vast a bulk of gross and in a great measure
inanimate matter can move through space at a rate
of speed so inconceivably great how easily we can
conceive the probability of vastly increased powers of
locomotion on the part of animate bodies released
from their earthly prison quickened by superior and
celestial element dictated by an independent inherent
principle called the will and urged onward by the
promptings of the eternal infinite mind and affections
in their aspirations for knowledge and enjoyment
A corporeal human body raised from the dead
156 KEY TO THEOLOGY

and quickened by elements so refined so full of life

and motion so pure and so free from the influences
control or attractions of more gross elements will
like the risen jesus ascend and descend at will and
with a speed nearly instantaneous
let us pause and contemplate for a moment such
a being taking leave of the confines of the earth and
sea and clouds and air with all their dark and gloomy
shadows behold him as he speeds his way 0on the
upper deep and launches forth in the clear and bound-
less expanse spangled
bespangled
be with millions of resplendent
arbs
orbs
he calculates his distance and regulates his cc6ourse
urs e
by observing the relative position of those most
familiar to him and soaring upwards still his bosom
swells withan
with an unutterable and overwhelming sensa-
tion of the infinitude of his own eternal being and
of all around above below him till unable to
contain his gratitude and joy and exultation he
breaks forth in the language of a celebrated british
poet and sings as he flies
heavens broad day hath oer me broken
far above earths span of sky I
1

T am 1
fam I dead 1I nay by this token
know that I1ibave
have ceased to die V
1I

planets will be visited messages communicated

acquaintances and friendships formed and the sciences
vastly extended and cultivated T

the science of geography will then be extended

 KEY TO THEOLOGY 157
millions
to milli olas of worlds and will embrace a knowledge
ojas
olis
thei
thetr physical features and bboundaries
of their darles their
0 undaries
resources mineral and vegetable their rivers lakes
seas continents and islands the attainments of their
inhabitants in the science of government 5 their pro-
gress in revealed religion their employments dress
manners customs &c ac the science of astronomy
will also be enlarged in proportion to the means of
knowledge system after system will rise to view
idahl
in the vast field of research and exploration
idahe vast
vaems
daems of suns and their attendant worlds on which
systems
the eyes of adams ra ce in their rudimental sphere
race
have never gazed will then be contemplated circum-circum
scri bed weighed in the balance of human though
scribed thoughtti
their
thein circumference and diameter be ascertained their
relative distances understood their motions and
revolutions their times and laws their hours daysi days
weeks sab sabbatis
sabbaths
baths months years jubil
jubilees
ees centuries
millenniums and eternities will all be told in the
volumes of science
the science of history will embrace the vast
ta
t4
univerccelum of the past and present it will in
its vast compilations embrace and include all nations
all ages and all generations all the planetary systems
in all their varied progress and changes in all their
0
productions and attributes
it will trace our race in all its successive emigra
emiera
tions
eions colonies states kingdoms and empires from
their first existence on the great central governing
 0

158 KEY TO THEOLOGY

or sun called kolob

arsun
pianet orsun
planet
pianeti dolob until they are increased
niimber2 and widely dispersed and fians
without number trans-
planted from one planet to another until occupying
the very confines of infinitude the mind of immortal 2

eternal man is absorbed overwhelmed wearied with

the vastness the boundless expanse of historic fact
and compelled to return and retire within itself for sor
refreshment rest and renewed vigour
next in order will be
bethe
the field of prophetic science
the spirit of prophecy will be poured upon the
immortal mind till from seeing in part andknowing
and knowing
part man will be able to gaze upon a boundless
in partman
prospective a future of still increasing glory know-
ledge light love might majesty power and dominion
in which the sons of god the kings and priests of
heaven and earth and of the heaven of heavens and
ali
all retinueof
ail their retinue subjectsswill
of kingdoms and subjectswill
subject will find
ample room for boundless increase and andimprovement
improvement
worlds without end
worldswithout nd amen
M W 1 1
J

j 1 1 r t

4kil
kis
ud
jxt
t zi
1111.
11 S 4 n

axt
il t
5t
at
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 159
S fc
i i i tj 4 jl
ri &

A A fefc
fefa i

CHAPTF SWK
OIMPTER 1 l

s A i iti
iii
ili vfta
JA
afta
4 4 fa
JA

ail ith t
lan
lah i i 1

1laws0p31arr1ageand
LAWS ofiariiiaoe andpkocreatio
P ATIOX

jax
jtx 1l fa
f4
ij Ali
A h i 01
.01
ye kindred
li spirits filled with mutual love
j
pure
piiiebd
as the dews descending from above 1 rtj j3
ail
ali
all
al hail I1 for you the sacred keys are given
to
irro eake
make you one on tarth
niake
biake earth and one in heavenj
be fruitful then and let your race extend
fill earth the stars and world neyer end
that never
worlds thatnever X

the great
thegreat science of life consists in the knowledge
of ourselves the laws of our existence the relations
we sustain to each other to things and beings around
us to our ancestry to our posterity to time to eternity
to our heavenly father and to the universe
to understand these laws and regulate
re ulate our actions
them is the whole duty of intelligences it
by themy
should therefore comprise our whole study
this science comprises the fountain of wisdom
the well springs of life the boundless ocean of know-
ledge the infinitude of light and truth and love it
penetrates the depths soars to the li eights
heights and
circumscribes the broad expanse of eternity
its pursuit leads to exaltation glory immortality
and to an eternity of life light purity and unity of
fellowship with kindred spirits
160 KEY TO THEOLOGY

to contemplate man in his true light we must

as it were forget that death is in his path 5 we must
look upon him as an eternal eve everr living being pos-
sessing spirit flesh and bones with all the mental and
physical organs and all the affections and sympathies
charac terise him in this world or rather all
which characterism
characterise
his natural affections and sympathies will be purified 2

exalted and immeasurably increased

let the candidate for celestial glory forget for a
moment the groveling sphere of his present existence
and make the effort to contemplate himself in the light
of eternity in the higher spheres of his progressive
existence beyond the grave a pure spirit free from
sin and guile
gnile enlightened in the school of heaven
by observation and experience and association with
the highest order of intelligences for thousands of
years and clothed with immortal flesh in all the
vi
vigour
gour freshness and beauty of eternal youth 5 alike
free from pain disease death and the corroding effers effeds
effects
of time looking back through the vista of far distant
vears and contemplating
years bontem pi ating
contem abing his former seisojourn
sej
soi ourn amid the
sorrows and pains of mortal life his passage through
the dark valley of death and his sojourn in the spirit
world as we now contemplate a transient dream or a
night of sleep from which we have awakened renewed
and refreshed to enter again upon the realities of life
let us contemplate for a moment such a being
clothed in the finest robes of linen pure and white
adorned with precious stones and gold a countenance
 theolooy
KEY TO THEO logy
Looy
THEOLOGY 161

radiant
radi
radl antwi
radiantwi th the effulgence of light intelligence
with ititelligenecandand
love a bosom glowing with all the confidence of
conscious
conf cious
cons
cobs palacesofs
clous innocence dwelling in palace
palaces sofyf
of precious
stones and gold bathing in the crystal waters of life ilfe
piomenading or sitting neath the evergreen bowers
promenading
and trees of eden inhaling tlle the health
tile healthfulfal breezes
ful
fui
perfumed with odours wafted wafred from the roses and
paradise or assembled with the countless
pinks of paradises
myriads of heavens nobility to join in songs of
praise and adoration to the great parent of every
good to tune the immortal lyre in strains celestial
or move with grace immortal to the soul inspiring
measure of music flowing from a thousand instru-
ments blending in harmonious numbers with
voices2 in heavenly song or mingling in
celestial voices
graceful circles with joyous thousands immersed in
the same spirit and moving in unison and harmony
of motion as if one heart one pulse one thrill of
ilea
liea
iloa venly melody inspired the whole
heavenly
0 candidates for celestial glory would your joys
be full in the countless years of eternity witliout without
forming the connexions
connex ions the relationship the kindred
ties which concentrate in the domestic circle and
branch forth and bud and blossom and bear the
eternal increase
fruits of eternatincrease
would
W ouid that eternal emotion of charity andriene
ould andrbene
and bene-
volence which swells
swellsyour
your bosoms be satisfied to
enjoy in it single blessedness without an increase of
posterity those exhaustless stores of neverrending ending
never rending
162 KEY TO THEOLOGY

riche sand enjoyments

richerand
richesand enjoy ments
tiches1an&enjoyftic1its or
ortyould
OrTyould
would you iikevoiir
ilke your
like
heavenly father
eather prompted tay yctetnal
lay eternal benebenevolence
vkmeq
and charity wish to ill
andcharity ili
iii countless millions of worlds
nii
nil
tour begotten sons and daughters anajo
witliyour
with your and to bring
them through all the gradations of progressive being
to inherit immortal bodies and eternal mansionsjil mansions
mansions in
jil
your several dominions j
if such be your aspir arpir actions re
ations
aspirations in ember that this
remember
present probation is tile the world of preparation jorjqys
tlle forjoya
eternal this lstlicplaco
tlle placo wllerefamilyorganizatioti
is tile where family organization
is first formed for eternity and where alle the kindred
nile
v
sympathies relationships and affections aake take toot
dake
spring forth shoot upward bud blossom and bear
fruit to ripen and mature in eternal ages
hefe in the holy temples and sanctuaries of our
bere
here
bizel
beret
god0 must the everlasting covenants b& be revealed
ba
ratified sealed bound and re corded
recorded in the holy
records and guarded and preserved in tile the archives of
tilc
gods kingdom by those who hold the keys pf of eternal
af
apostleship wa whol
w1 io have power p6wer to bind on earth arth that
which shall be bound in liheaven eaven and to re
caven cord on
record
recorded in the archives of
earth that which shall be berecorded
earth1hat
lambs
leave il in the Lari
heaven lbs book of
ibs oflife
ollife
life
ilfe
here in the holy sanctuary must be revealed
ordained and anointed thea the kings
ing and 4 jueenspf
etell
etele lip
lif
eternity r

all vows covenacovenants contracts

fits conti acts r
marriages afpf qf
unions not fo rmedby
formed by revelation sealelfor jime
evelation land udswe4fbr time
ard
raud
saud
band and recorded jiitheliolyarchivcs
and all eternity tand4recofded inahqjiqly 6rehives
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 103
163

of eart hand heaven bythe

carthand F

tile ministration of the1oly

by tlle the lioly
bioly
and eternal priesthood will be dissolved by death
andeternatpriestrood
and pill
angwill
ana
andrpill
andwill
andi
andr will not be ecognised by the eternal authorities
rrecognized
bc ecognised
erthe
after
aft
afterthe
aften
abt
aht have entered through ghe
the parties havdent&td the vail
vali
vall
vailrinto
rinto
the eternal world
this is heavens eternal law as revealed to the
antients of all ages who held the keys of eternal
ancients
priesthood after the order of the son of god and as
restored withitil the priesthood
theppriesthood samits of this age
mts
riesthood of the saints
again etwas
it was a law of the ancient priesthood and
itwas
isagain
is again restored thatathat a man who is faithful in .01 01
all
ail
ali
mi

things may bythe wora

worlof
by the woraof
woid lad
word of the lord through the
administration of one holding the keys leys to bind on
heys
earth and heaven receive and secure to himself for
time and all eternity MOEE THAN ONE oxe WIFE i
thus did abrahamABrah hm isaac jacob jiicob moses2
moses the
mosess
patriarchs andprophets
and prophets of old
the principal object contemplqted
theprincipal laniis
contemplated by this lawiis
cohtempl4ted law is
the multiplication of the children of good and worthy
gathers
fathers
fatherswhowho will teachthem
teach them the truth and train
them in the holy principles of salvation thesis thisis
this is far
preferable to sending them into the world ini in the
7
i

lineage of an unworthy or ignorant parentage to be

educated in error folly ignorance and crime
the peculiar characteristics of the blessings in-
cluded in the Everk sting coyo
everlasting cove
covenant
CovO nant made with
abraham isaae jaob
jamb and their lineage was
isaac jacob As the
multiplicity of their speedseed and dhe
saeed the perpetuity of the
ahe
royallpriestly
royal
royall priestly and kinglypbiveriii
kingly power in theirlineagepvq
their lineage 1
164 KEY TO THEOLOGY

po
to assisting
r
assistin
assistin
assis inf carrying out and fulfilling this cove
t ini
nant g6 odan
nanti good
ga andd virtuous
v women were given to their
faithful prophets rulers and wise and virtuous
men and a s it was said of the tile four wives oi
tiie of jacob
these did build the house of israel
while peculiar blessings and encouragements were
given to a good and faithful man and to his wives
and children 5 while they were honouredhonoured of god and
respected by all who knew them while the tile father
tlle ath6rof of
a hundred children was had in greater honour than
hero of a hundred
the liero hu ndred
adred battles adultery fornication
lawful intercourse was strictly prohibited
wi
and all unlawful
i
and even punished
punl5hea by the strictest laws the penaltypenalty
of which
whichiv was
as death i

A daughter of israel who by y prostitution was

rendered unworthy or unqualified for the duties of a
virtuous wife and mother was considered unfit to
live while the male who would thus trifle with the tile
tiie
i
fountain of life and contribute to render a female fema le
unworthy to answer the tile end of her creation was also
tlle aiso
condemned to death
strict laws were also given and diligently taught
to both sexes regulating the intercourse betge betwe
between tn
ilusband and wife all intercourse
lius
husband in tercourse
ter course peculiar to the
war strictly prohibited at certain seasons wl
sexes was which
lich
ilch
were untimely nor were the bonds of wedlock and an d
hield from condemnation where the parties by
sshield byuun- n
timely union excess or voluntary act prevented
propagation i or injured the life or health of thems
rhems gives
themselves
dives
or their offspring
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 165
the object of the union of the sexes asahe
isahe
isrthepropa
propa
kropa
gation of their species or procreation also for mutual
gatlon
gation
affectionand
affection and the cultivation of those eternal principles
ofinever ending charity ana
ofnever benevolence which are
and
andbenevolence
inspired by the eternal spirit also for mutual gom
formutual com
com-
dom
fort and assistance in this world of toil and sorrow
and for mutual duties towards their offspring I
1

marriage
marrian
marriam and its duties are therefore not da mere
matter of choice or of convenience or of pleasure
tothe parties but to marry and multiply is a posi
tive mana
tivecommand
com
command
eom
almighty god binding on all
mand ofalmighty
of
persons of both sexes who are circumstanced and
fulfil the same to marrypropagate
conditioned to fulfill marry propagate
our
owr species do our duty to them and to educate them
inthe
imthe light of truth are among the chief objects of
our existence on the earth to neglect these duties
anthe
onthe
is to fail to answer the end of our creations loni and is a
creation
creatlon
creat
creationi
ioni
a very great sin
while to pervert our natures and to prostitute
ourselves and our strength to mere pleasures orto dr ao
drao
unlawful communion of the sexes is alike subversive
of health of pure holy and lasting affection of moral
and social order and of the laws of g6dand god and iianature
ila
ria ture
turd
if
kwewe except mu rde ry there is scarcely a more
murder
damning sin on the earth than the prostitution of
female virtue or chastity at attha
atthd
the shiine
shline of pleasure or
shrine
brutal lust or that promiscuous and lawlessihter
lawless lilter
course which chills and corrodes the heart perverts
coursbwhiciv
and &destroys
mrbys thepure
mobys th epure affection
t1fepure bankers and destroys
affectionss cankers
166 totheology
KEY TO THEOLOGY

rethe
as it we
werethe
merethethe well
weil aprin
weli 9 mthqfountain
springs
sprin 1 the
fountains br or issues
of life
aman
A man ii I1 x ri

fh&ordinafieies of i god andisi

m6n who obeys the ordinances
without blemish or deform ity who has s ound healtha
deformity health
healths
and mature age and enjoys li bertya and
liberty
i
nd access to tiithei
til d
lifes
elements of lifeis
life is designed to be the head 6of a w
ilfe oman
woman
a father and a guide of the weaker sex and of those
of tender age to mansions of eternal life and salvation salvati 6n
A woman under similar circumstances is de sigried
designed
tobe giory of some man in the lord
glor
to e the glory io rid 5 to be
led and governed by him as ller ier head in all things
her
tier
lier thin esy
9sy
even as christ is the head of the man to Iio llo
lio nour
honour
obey love serve comfort and help him in all things
tobe
to be a happy wife and if blessed with offspring
a faithful and n d affectionate mother devoting dev otin
oiin her ier
ilfe to the joys cares ana
life 16 and duties of her domestic
ancl
anci adi cstiw
sphere r

it frequently happens in the course of human

events that there is in a community a majority of
females in such cases human hu man laws have no aright right
to interfere with the divine eternal laws of maturey
tw nature
naturey
or of natures god by su frering
suffering females to be pro pros
tituted to minister to the wanton pleasures of them the
tho
thel
lawless to become the tee
theunlawful
unlawful dishonoured mistress
th e illegitimate mother or the wi
the wretched
etched outcast of
shame disease and crime nor yet yeti on the other
s

hand have human laws the right to doom a portion iortioii

heavens
ofheavens
of fair daughters to single wretchedness 1
loneliness and gloom without the lawful privilegeof privilege of
honour
becoming honoured ed wives and mothers
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 167

law of god
aswisedegislation or the ladof
lawof w6uld punish
godf would
jysf severity the crimes of adultery or fornica-
just
with jysk
tion and wouldmot
would mot the confirmed
not suffer the idiot ithecolifirnied
irie6laima
irreclaimablebie drunkard the man
ble maii of hereditary4is6d8c
mall
mali hereditary disease
or of vicious habits to poss Voss ess
possess br retain a wife
css or
while at the sd me time it would provide for
same forav goo
900 1I
good
honour ably receive and maintain
and capable manto honourably
mbr&wivs
more wives thann than one indeed it should bethe be the
privilege of every virtuous female who hag haa the
has
rquisitetapacitydndqualific irions for matrimony
itions
requisite capacity and qualifications
to demand either of individuals or government the
privi
privilege
iego honour
lego of becoming an honoured ed and legal wife
necds&vry for her to be
and mother even if it were necessary
alid
married to a man who lias has several wives or as
ilas
jesus said in the parable to take tako the one talent from
the
tile unimproved
tlle place where it remains neglected or orunimproved
an I1 giveit
and givert to him who haslen
giveitto hasten
has ten talents 1I

thee
thetalse
thefalse
TheT
The alse and corrupt institutions and still more
aise
faise
false
corrupt practices of l Christ
1
christendom
eidom have liad- a
downward tendency in the generations of man for
many centuries oar physical organization health
our
vigour strength of body intellectual faculties incli-
nations &c ac are influenced very much by parentage
hereditary disease idiocy weakness of mind or of
constitution deformity tendency to violent and
ungovernable pag pas sions vicious appetites and desires
passions
are engendered by parents and are bequeathed as a
heritage from generation to generation man
becomes a murderer thief an adulterer a drunkard
murdtrer a thicfj
 168 KEY TO THEOLOGY

a lover of tobacco opium br

7

or 0 tiler nauseous
ngu
nau se 0 ns or poison-
ous drugs by nieahs means of the predia predisposition
predii sposition
sposi tion and
inclinations engendered by byparentage
parentage
the people befo
bafo r e the flood and also
before iso
aiso the sodomites
sod6mites
Sod omites
sodomitess
and canaanitess
canaanites
Canaan ites
tes had
bad carried these corruptions
corrupt ions and de
fir that god in mercy destroyed them
generacies so far
and thus put an end to the procreation of race racesS so dege-
nerate ani
and abominable while noah abraham abrahama2 mel
abraham2
chesidech
dech and others who were taught in the true laws
ch6sidech
chesl
chesi
procreation cc were perfect in their generation and
of ofprocreation nd
trained their children in the same laws i
the overthrow of those ancient degenerate iices cices
races
is a type of that which now awaits the nations called
cit
cir
chr istian or in other words no
christian the
che
cho great whore
whole of
allthe
aalthe earth for her her
ier is
ber sins
s have reached unto heaven
and god hath remembered her iniquities
where is the nation called christian christiana fhatdoes
that does
not uphold or permit prostitution fornication and adul-
tery with all their debasing demoralizing degenerat-
ing and corroding effects with all their tendencies to
disease and crime to operate unchecked and to leaven
corrode all classes of society 9
and edrrode
where is tiletlle t christian nation that does not
the 4

prohibit the law of god as given to abraham and

thehncients
the ancients in relation to marriage
whe
wiirre
wiiere re is the christian nation that thai
thal punishes
the crime of adulteryahd
adultery and fornicatio
fornication with
atlo ii IV th death or
other heavy penalties
where are institutio
arc the institution
institutions
ns which prohibit the
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 169

marriage
mairidgeof persons disqualified
of all persons dis qu alifiedbby nature ar
y inatureir 6r ty
or by
vicious habits and practices to answer the ends en di of an
institution so holy and pure
where are the institutions which whiclvwoiil&
would protect
encourage and honour the patriarch jacob withlii thhi
ohhi s
four wives and their children
where is the community wilo theni
them-
who would feel atheni
honour
selves9 honoured ed in associating with much rueh a family
ruch
sueh
such
although all corrupt practices would be frowned
down and all persons aced who under
discountenancer
disco un tena nced
arso ns discountenanced
perso
the name of gentility nobility or royalty glory in
their conquests and victories over the pr principles and
practices of virtue and innocence
echo answers where unless we look to tiie the
tile
far off mountains and distant vales of deseret a land
peopled by the latter day saints and governed by
the law of god the ille eternal priesthood
tile keys of tlle
tlle tile
and organized in the new and everlasting covenant
amid these eternal mountains shall shali be reared the
shail
holy temple of our god and all nations shall flow
unto it in o0 rder to be taught in his ways and jo to
walk in his patlis
paths for out of zion has goneforthahe
gone forth tlle
tile
law as predicted by the prophet isaiah
tills law those distant communities live there
by tilis
this
the patriarch of a hundred children is had in rever-
ence and lio nour his virtuouss and honourabl
honour
ilo abi
abl
honourable wives
abiee vives
are consider
considered ed as mothers in israel the daughters
dalighters of

ee the law of god on marriage revealed for the

see thu government
sainta firgt
of the saints fitpt published at great salt city deseret 11852
first
fir 852
.852
852
170 KEY TO THEOLOGY

Sarahand
sarahand
saraband
abraham and sarah orthy to be
iand worthy he 1II numbered 1

holy women of old and there the

with the holywomen thedaugh
daugh-
prostitutes with impunity
ters of israel are not prostituted
theretha
therethe mication are seldom
The rethe crimes of adultery and fb
fornication
mentioned or known to exist there no virtuous
female is doomed by law or custom to dragout dragott
drag outa 1a aa

cloist
useless life in the loneliness of the cloisterthe erthe
cloister the
monotonous and sinful pleasures of the harem the
lonel
lonelyyand
haunts of vice and crime i or in the lonelyand
ionel and heart-
rending gloom and solitude of a single life
Tthere
thore
here in the holy chambers of the sanctuary are
revealed and ministered those sacred ordinances
ordinancesj
covenants and sea lings which lay the foundation of
sealings
dealings
kindred sympathies associations and family ties in- 4
dissoluble and eternal ties which arc
dissdlubleand are stronger than
death more durable than the ramparts of their snow
clad mountains and which will never be dissolved

ilfe or thought or being lasts

while life
WN
1
or immortality endures

the restoration of these pure laws and pr act

practices
artices
actices
ices
has commenced to improve or regenerate arace
a race AA AA

holy and temperate life pure morals and manners

mannera
faith hope charity cheerfulness gentleness inte-
grity intellectual development pure truth and
knowledge and above all the operations of the divine
spirit will produce a race more beautiful in form and
features stronger and more vigorous in constitution
happler in temperament and disposition more
happier
 rey
ehy
RHY
KEY TO THEOLOGY 171
intellectual less vicious and better prepared for long
life and good days in their mortal soj
sojourn
ourn i

each succeeding generationigovernedby

generation governed by the same
principles will stillimprove
still improve till malel
male
malc
maler jem
maie and nem
female
aie
ale 1

may live and multiplyfor ror a hundredyears

multiply for hundred years upon
pon the
earth i
i
h
i
f

1 t 11 pap4 anner
and afterdeath
afner sphe7q
after death in distant spheres
the union still renew

the eter na I union of the sex

eternal esy i h
sexes nand
n and
and after the
aftcr
resurrection is mainly for th the6 purpose of renewing
i

and continuing the work of procreation in our

procrea tio ri iii dur
present or of rudimental state our offspring are in our
own image and partake of our natures in which are aie
thee seeds of death in like manner will the offsprin prin g
offspring
offs
ofes
t
of immortal and celestial beings be in the likeness
and partake of the nature of their divine parentage
andliartake
iten
lien
hence ce such offspring will be pure holy incorruptible
and eternal they will in no wise be subject unto
laih except by descending to partake of the grosser
lath
death
mants in which are the iiii
16 m6nts
elements iiih
inherent
erent properties of dis-
solution
dold fiori or death
diori
to descend thus and to be made subject to sorrow
pain
palil and death is the only road to the resurrection
and to the higher degrees of immortality and etem eternalI1
eteo
I1

life it is bycontrast
by contrast that intelligences app recrate
reciate
appreciate
ande
and enjoy ajoy hoivshall
pjo how shall
shail the sweetbe
shali sweetee
sweet be known without
the bitter how sila ll joy be appreciated w
shali
shail
shall
11 without
sorro
sorrow
borrow ir orl or liow
ori ilow mar
how man
shall life bo
AAR be valued or its etereternal ll
n a11
172 KEY TO THEOLOGY

duration appreciated without a contact with vith its mor-

tal antagonist deatle death
deatli 1 0
hence the tile highest degrees of eternal
tiie etemal
etemad felicity are
approached by the straight gate and the narrow
approaclicd nakrolv
path whicli leads through the dark valley of death
patluwhicli
to eternal mansions in the realms of endless life this
has been trodden by the eternal father by his
path lias
ilas
son jesus christ and by all the sons and daughters
of god who are exalted to a fulness falness of joys celestial
has
As lias
ilas been before remarked the tile union of the sexes
tiie
in the eternal world in the holy covenant of celestial
matrimony is peculiar to the ordinances and minis-
trat ions of the apostleship or priesthood after the
trations tile
tiie
order of the son of god or after the order of
ifelchisedee
melchisedec
melchiscdec the aaronic priesthood or the
institutions peculiar to the tile law of moses seemed to
tiie
llave
have reco nized no such ordinances or eternal cove-
nihed
recognized
nants hence the jewish ordinances of matrimony
come to end by death
nor did the tile sects of thepbarisecs
tlle the pharisees
Pharis ees sadducces
sadducees or
others of that nation conceive conceive of anything more
lasting than this life in the covenants of matrimony
hence tlle the son of god in answer to0 the
tile tile sadducces
tlle sadducees
referred to tllethe order of the angels in tl
tile the
le resurrection
instead of the order of the gods
but tile
tiie apostles holding the
the tile keys 0otf the eternal
tlle
mysteries of gods kingdom to seal both ont on s gith
z
alth
earth
arth
and in heaven understood and testified that thit the
1

man is not without the tile woman jjqrjc4woman

tlle nor the woman
without the mib the jord
mab in tile
min
man tiie lord
tord
 KEY TO THEOLOGY 173

all persons who attain to the

tile resurrection and to
tlle
salvation without aliese
these eternal ordinances or sealing
tliese
covenants will remain in a single state in their saved
condition to all eternity without the joys of eternal
union with the other ses sex and consequently without
ait crown without a kingdom without the power to
increase
hence they are angels and axe are not gods and
are ministering spirits or servants in the employ and
under the direction of THE tin rotal
tim ROYAL
EOYAL FAMILY OF
tue
tudila
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