Adam & Eve

In Light of Adam-God Teachings

The purpose of this section of bonus materials is not to further explain Adam-God teachings; hopefully this purpose has been accomplished in the printed volume. However, this material is, to some extent, unprecedented. Although previous authors have teased these subjects somewhat in their treatments of Adam-God teachings, no one has made any effort to compile a fairly thorough representation of Adamic materials that further expound upon what Adam's life on this earth was like - in context of Adam-God teachings. Some comments of the early brethren, some scriptures,1 and some Adamic lore texts are particularly interesting and insightful in light of the Adam-God teachings outlined in Understanding Adam-God Teachings. It is in this context that the following materials ought to be considered. The following chapters are an effort to begin filling in the holes of this largely untouched area of scholarship. I am fully aware that these materials will fall miserably short of the research and studies that could be done but I hope that this information will stimulate further research by other individuals and that the few materials found herein will be of some lasting value to the average reader. Lastly, the reader may note that my citations are not as thorough and/or as accurate as those found within the written volume. While some of these statements are especially interesting in light of Adam-God teachings, I have not devoted the necessary time to verify my sources in this CD-ROM so these materials ought to be scrutinized a little more thoroughly than the materials found in the written volume before they are relied upon.

All canonical scriptures are included in the first subsection the reader may decide which ones are of value in this section.

Scriptures: Adam & Eve

Ogden Kraut Kraut, 61 Chapter One of Genesis can apply only to the pre-existence, wherein Adam and Eve were told to "be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over every living thing upon the earth." Eve was given the commandment to "replenish" the earth; therefore, she must have had children first in the spirit world in order to "replenish" the world. To plenish is to "stock up", and to replenish is to fill up again. Eve plenished the spirit world with spirit children and then replenished the physical world with them once more as mortals. SCRIPTURES: ADAM Genesis 2:19-23 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Genesis 3:8-21 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he

shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. Genesis 5:1-5 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. Deuteronomy 32:8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel Joshua 3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. 1 Chronicles 1:1 Adam, Sheth, Enosh, Job 31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: Adam Luke 3:38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam,

which was the son of God. Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Timothy 2:13-14 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 1 Nephi 5:11 And he beheld that they did contain the five books of Moses, which gave an account of the creation of the world, and also of Adam and Eve, who were our first parents; 2 Nephi 2:19-25 And after Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit they were driven out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth. And they have brought forth children; yea, even the family of all the earth. And the days of the children of men were prolonged, according to the will of God, that they might repent while in the flesh; wherefore, their state became a state of probation, and their time was lengthened, according to the commandments which the Lord God gave unto the children of men. For he gave commandment that all men must repent; for he showed unto all men that they were lost, because of the transgression of their parents. And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end. And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin. But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things. Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy. 2 Nephi 9:21 And he cometh into the world that he may save all men if they will hearken unto his voice; for behold, he suffereth the pains of all men, yea, the pains of every living creature, both men, women, and children, who belong to the family of Adam. Mosiah 3:11-19 For behold, and also his blood atoneth for the sins of those who have fallen by the

transgression of Adam, who have died not knowing the will of God concerning them, or who have ignorantly sinned. But wo, wo unto him who knoweth that he rebelleth against God! For salvation cometh to none such except it be through repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord God hath sent his holy prophets among all the children of men, to declare these things to every kindred, nation, and tongue, that thereby whosoever should believe that Christ should come, the same might receive remission of their sins, and rejoice with exceedingly great joy, even as though he had already come among them. Yet the Lord God saw that his people were a stiffnecked people, and he appointed unto them a law, even the law of Moses. And many signs, and wonders, and types, and shadows showed he unto them, concerning his coming; and also holy prophets spake unto them concerning his coming; and yet they hardened their hearts, and understood not that the law of Moses availeth nothing except it were through the atonement of his blood. And even if it were possible that little children could sin they could not be saved; but I say unto you they are blessed; for behold, as in Adam, or by nature, they fall, even so the blood of Christ atoneth for their sins. And moreover, I say unto you, that there shall be no other name given nor any other way nor means whereby salvation can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent. For behold he judgeth, and his judgment is just; and the infant perisheth not that dieth in his infancy; but men drink damnation to their own souls except they humble themselves and become as little children, and believe that salvation was, and is, and is to come, in and through the atoning blood of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent. For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, Mosiah 4:7 I say, that this is the man who receiveth salvation, through the atonement which was prepared from the foundation of the world for all mankind, which ever were since the fall of Adam, or who are, or who ever shall be, even unto the end of the world. Mosiah 28:17 Now after Mosiah had finished translating these records, behold, it gave an account of the people who were destroyed, from the time that they were destroyed back to the building of the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people and they were scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth, yea, and even from that time back until the creation of Adam. Alma 12:22-23 Now Alma said unto him: This is the thing which I was about to explain. Now we see that Adam did fall by the partaking of the forbidden fruit, according to the word of God; and thus we see, that by his fall, all mankind became a lost and fallen people. And now behold, I say unto you that if it had been possible for Adam to have partaken of the fruit of the tree of life at that time, there would have been no death, and the word would have been void, making God a liar, for he said: If thou eat thou shalt surely die. Alma 18:36 Now when Ammon had said these words, he began at the creation of the world, and

also the creation of Adam, and told him all the things concerning the fall of man, and rehearsed and laid before him the records and the holy scriptures of the people, which had been spoken by the prophets, even down to the time that their father, Lehi, left Jerusalem. Alma 22:12-13 And it came to pass that when Aaron saw that the king would believe his words, he began from the creation of Adam, reading the scriptures unto the king-how God created man after his own image, and that God gave him commandments, and that because of transgression, man had fallen. And Aaron did expound unto him the scriptures from the creation of Adam, laying the fall of man before him, and their carnal state and also the plan of redemption, which was prepared from the foundation of the world, through Christ, for all whosoever would believe on his name. Alma 40:18 Behold, I say unto you, Nay; but it meaneth the reuniting of the soul with the body, of those from the days of Adam down to the resurrection of Christ Alma 42:5 For behold, if Adam had put forth his hand immediately, and partaken of the tree of life, he would have lived forever, according to the word of God, having no space for repentance; yea, and also the word of God would have been void, and the great plan of salvation would have been frustrated. Helaman 14:16 Yea, behold, this death bringeth to pass the resurrection, and redeemeth all mankind from the first death-that spiritual death; for all mankind, by the fall of Adam being cut off from the presence of the Lord, are considered as dead, both as to things temporal and to things spiritual. Mormon 3:20 And these things doth the Spirit manifest unto me; therefore I write unto you all. And for this cause I write unto you, that ye may know that ye must all stand before the judgment-seat of Christ, yea, every soul who belongs to the whole human family of Adam; and ye must stand to be judged of your works, whether they be good or evil; Mormon 9:12 Behold, he created Adam, and by Adam came the fall of man. And because of the fall of man came Jesus Christ, even the Father and the Son; and because of Jesus Christ came the redemption of man. Ether 1:3 And as I suppose that the first part of this record, which speaks concerning the creation of the world, and also of Adam, and an account from that time even to the great tower, and whatsoever things transpired among the children of men until that time, is had among the Jews- Therefore I do not write those things which transpired from the days

of Adam until that time; but they are had upon the plates; and whoso findeth them, the same will have power that he may get the full account. Moroni 8:8 Listen to the words of Christ, your Redeemer, your Lord and your God. Behold, I came into the world not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance; the whole need no physician, but they that are sick; wherefore, little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin; wherefore the curse of Adam is taken from them in me, that it hath no power over them; and the law of circumcision is done away in me. Moroni 10:3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts. D&C 27:11 And also with Michael, or Adam, the father of all, the prince of all, the ancient of days; D&C 29:34-42 Wherefore, verily I say unto you that all things unto me are spiritual, and not at any time have I given unto you a law which was temporal; neither any man, nor the children of men; neither Adam, your father, whom I created. Behold, I gave unto him that he should be an agent unto himself; and I gave unto him commandment, but no temporal commandment gave I unto him, for my commandments are spiritual; they are not natural nor temporal, neither carnal nor sensual. And it came to pass that Adam, being tempted of the devil-for, behold, the devil was before Adam, for he rebelled against me, saying, Give me thine honor, which is my power; and also a third part of the hosts of heaven turned he away from me because of their agency; And they were thrust down, and thus came the devil and his angels; And, behold, there is a place prepared for them from the beginning, which place is hell. And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweetWherefore, it came to pass that the devil tempted Adam, and he partook of the forbidden fruit and transgressed the commandment, wherein he became subject to the will of the devil, because he yielded unto temptation. Wherefore, I, the Lord God, caused that he should be cast out from the Garden of Eden, from my presence, because of his transgression, wherein he became spiritually dead, which is the first death, even that same death which is the last death, which is spiritual, which shall be pronounced upon the wicked when I shall say: Depart, ye cursed. But, behold, I say unto you that I, the Lord God, gave unto Adam and unto his seed, that they should not die as to the temporal death, until I, the Lord God, should send forth angels to declare unto them repentance and redemption, through faith on the name of mine Only Begotten Son. D&C 78:15 That you may come up unto the crown prepared for you, and be made rulers over

many kingdoms, saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Zion, who hath established the foundations of Adam-ondi-Ahman; D&C 84:16 And from Enoch to Abel, who was slain by the conspiracy of his brother, who received the priesthood by the commandments of God, by the hand of his father Adam, who was the first manD&C 107:41-56 This order was instituted in the days of Adam, and came down by lineage in the following manner: From Adam to Seth, who was ordained by Adam at the age of sixtynine years, and was blessed by him three years previous to his (Adam's) death, and received the promise of God by his father, that his posterity should be the chosen of the Lord, and that they should be preserved unto the end of the earth; Because he (Seth) was a perfect man, and his likeness was the express likeness of his father, insomuch that he seemed to be like unto his father in all things, and could be distinguished from him only by his age. Enos was ordained at the age of one hundred and thirty-four years and four months, by the hand of Adam. God called upon Cainan in the wilderness in the fortieth year of his age; and he met Adam in journeying to the place Shedolamak. He was eighty-seven years old when he received his ordination. Mahalaleel was four hundred and ninety-six years and seven days old when he was ordained by the hand of Adam, who also blessed him. Jared was two hundred years old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam, who also blessed him. Enoch was twenty-five years old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam; and he was sixty-five and Adam blessed him. And he saw the Lord, and he walked with him, and was before his face continually; and he walked with God three hundred and sixty-five years, making him four hundred and thirty years old when he was translated. Methuselah was one hundred years old when he was ordained under the hand of Adam. Lamech was thirty-two years old when he was ordained under the hand of Seth. Noah was ten years old when he was ordained under the hand of Methuselah. Three years previous to the death of Adam, he called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah, who were all high priests, with the residue of his posterity who were righteous, into the valley of Adamondi-Ahman, and there bestowed upon them his last blessing. And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the prince, the archangel. And the Lord administered comfort unto Adam, and said unto him: I have set thee to be at the head; a multitude of nations shall come of thee, and thou art a prince over them forever. And Adam stood up in the midst of the congregation; and, notwithstanding he was bowed down with age, being full of the Holy Ghost, predicted whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation. D&C 116:1 Spring Hill is named by the Lord Adam-ondi-Ahman, because, said he, it is the place where Adam shall come to visit his people, or the Ancient of Days shall sit, as spoken of by Daniel the prophet. D&C 128:18-20

I might have rendered a plainer translation to this, but it is sufficiently plain to suit my purpose as it stands. It is sufficient to know, in this case, that the earth will be smitten with a curse unless there is a welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the children, upon some subject or other-and behold what is that subject? It is the baptism for the dead. For we without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect. Neither can they nor we be made perfect without those who have died in the gospel also; for it is necessary in the ushering in of the dispensation of the fulness of times, which dispensation is now beginning to usher in, that a whole and complete and perfect union, and welding together of dispensations, and keys, and powers, and glories should take place, and be revealed from the days of Adam even to the present time. And not only this, but those things which never have been revealed from the foundation of the world, but have been kept hid from the wise and prudent, shall be revealed unto babes and sucklings in this, the dispensation of the fulness of times. Now, what do we hear in the gospel which we have received? A voice of gladness! A voice of mercy from heaven; and a voice of truth out of the earth; glad tidings for the dead; a voice of gladness for the living and the dead; glad tidings of great joy. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those that bring glad tidings of good things, and that say unto Zion: Behold, thy God reigneth! As the dews of Carmel, so shall the knowledge of God descend upon them! And again, what do we hear? Glad tidings from Cumorah! Moroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the fulfilment of the prophets-the book to be revealed. A voice of the Lord in the wilderness of Fayette, Seneca county, declaring the three witnesses to bear record of the book! The voice of Michael on the banks of the Susquehanna, detecting the devil when he appeared as an angel of light! The voice of Peter, James, and John in the wilderness between Harmony, Susquehanna county, and Colesville, Broome county, on the Susquehanna river, declaring themselves as possessing the keys of the kingdom, and of the dispensation of the fulness of times! And again, the voice of God in the chamber of old Father Whitmer, in Fayette, Seneca county, and at sundry times, and in divers places through all the travels and tribulations of this Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! And the voice of Michael, the archangel; the voice of Gabriel, and of Raphael, and of divers angels, from Michael or Adam down to the present time, all declaring their dispensation, their rights, their keys, their honors, their majesty and glory, and the power of their priesthood; giving line upon line, precept upon precept; here a little, and there a little; giving us consolation by holding forth that which is to come, confirming our hope! D&C 136:37 Therefore, marvel not at these things, for ye are not yet pure; ye can not yet bear my glory; but ye shall behold it if ye are faithful in keeping all my words that I have given you, from the days of Adam to Abraham, from Abraham to Moses, from Moses to Jesus and his apostles, and from Jesus and his apostles to Joseph Smith, whom I did call upon by mine angels, my ministering servants, and by mine own voice out of the heavens, to bring forth my work; D&C 137:5 I saw Father Adam and Abraham; and my father and my mother; my brother Alvin, that has long since slept;

D&C 138:38-40 Among the great and mighty ones who were assembled in this vast congregation of the righteous were Father Adam, the Ancient of Days and father of all, And our glorious Mother Eve, with many of her faithful daughters who had lived through the ages and worshiped the true and living God. Abel, the first martyr, was there, and his brother Seth, one of the mighty ones, who was in the express image of his father, Adam. Moses 1:34 And the first man of all men have I called Adam, which is many. Moses 3:19-23 And out of the ground I, the Lord God, formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and commanded that they should come unto Adam, to see what he would call them; and they were also living souls; for I, God, breathed into them the breath of life, and commanded that whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that should be the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, there was not found an help meet for him. And I, the Lord God, caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and he slept, and I took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in the stead thereof; And the rib which I, the Lord God, had taken from man, made I a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said: This I know now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. Moses 4:14-27 And they heard the voice of the Lord God, as they were walking in the garden, in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife went to hide themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And I, the Lord God, called unto Adam, and said unto him: Where goest thou? And he said: I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I beheld that I was naked, and I hid myself. And I, the Lord God, said unto Adam: Who told thee thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, if so thou shouldst surely die? And the man said: The woman thou gavest me, and commandest that she should remain with me, she gave me of the fruit of the tree and I did eat. And I, the Lord God, said unto the woman: What is this thing which thou hast done? And the woman said: The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And I, the Lord God, said unto the serpent: Because thou hast done this thou shalt be cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life; And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed; and he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman, I, the Lord God, said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam, I, the Lord God, said: Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the fruit of the tree of which I commanded thee,

saying-Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also, and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou shalt return unto the ground-for thou shalt surely die-for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou wast, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living; for thus have I, the Lord God, called the first of all women, which are many. Unto Adam, and also unto his wife, did I, the Lord God, make coats of skins, and clothed them. Moses 5:1-27 And it came to pass that after I, the Lord God, had driven them out, that Adam began to till the earth, and to have dominion over all the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, as I the Lord had commanded him. And Eve, also, his wife, did labor with him. And Adam knew his wife, and she bare unto him sons and daughters, and they began to multiply and to replenish the earth. And from that time forth, the sons and daughters of Adam began to divide two and two in the land, and to till the land, and to tend flocks, and they also begat sons and daughters. And Adam and Eve, his wife, called upon the name of the Lord, and they heard the voice of the Lord from the way toward the Garden of Eden, speaking unto them, and they saw him not; for they were shut out from his presence. And he gave unto them commandments, that they should worship the Lord their God, and should offer the firstlings of their flocks, for an offering unto the Lord. And Adam was obedient unto the commandments of the Lord. And after many days an angel of the Lord appeared unto Adam, saying: Why dost thou offer sacrifices unto the Lord? And Adam said unto him: I know not, save the Lord commanded me. And then the angel spake, saying: This thing is a similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace and truth. Wherefore, thou shalt do all that thou doest in the name of the Son, and thou shalt repent and call upon God in the name of the Son forevermore. And in that day the Holy Ghost fell upon Adam, which beareth record of the Father and the Son, saying: I am the Only Begotten of the Father from the beginning, henceforth and forever, that as thou hast fallen thou mayest be redeemed, and all mankind, even as many as will. And in that day Adam blessed God and was filled, and began to prophesy concerning all the families of the earth, saying: Blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God. And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient. And Adam and Eve blessed the name of God, and they made all things known unto their sons and their daughters. And Satan came among them, saying: I am also a son of God; and he commanded them, saying: Believe it not; and they believed it not, and they loved Satan more than God. And men began from that time forth to be carnal, sensual, and devilish. And the Lord God called upon men by the Holy Ghost everywhere and commanded them that they should repent; And as many as believed in the Son, and repented of their sins, should be saved; and as many as believed not and repented not, should be damned; and the words went forth out of the mouth of God in a firm decree; wherefore they must be fulfilled. And Adam and Eve, his wife, ceased not to call upon God. And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived

and bare Cain, and said: I have gotten a man from the Lord; wherefore he may not reject his words. But behold, Cain hearkened not, saying: Who is the Lord that I should know him? And she again conceived and bare his brother Abel. And Abel hearkened unto the voice of the Lord. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And Cain loved Satan more than God. And Satan commanded him, saying: Make an offering unto the Lord. And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering; But unto Cain, and to his offering, he had not respect. Now Satan knew this, and it pleased him. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain: Why art thou wroth? Why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, thou shalt be accepted. And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, and Satan desireth to have thee; and except thou shalt hearken unto my commandments, I will deliver thee up, and it shall be unto thee according to his desire. And thou shalt rule over him; For from this time forth thou shalt be the father of his lies; thou shalt be called Perdition; for thou wast also before the world. And it shall be said in time to come-That these abominations were had from Cain; for he rejected the greater counsel which was had from God; and this is a cursing which I will put upon thee, except thou repent. And Cain was wroth, and listened not any more to the voice of the Lord, neither to Abel, his brother, who walked in holiness before the Lord. And Adam and his wife mourned before the Lord, because of Cain and his brethren Moses 6:1-12 And Adam hearkened unto the voice of God, and called upon his sons to repent. And Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son, and he called his name Seth. And Adam glorified the name of God; for he said: God hath appointed me another seed, instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And God revealed himself unto Seth, and he rebelled not, but offered an acceptable sacrifice, like unto his brother Abel. And to him also was born a son, and he called his name Enos. And then began these men to call upon the name of the Lord, and the Lord blessed them; And a book of remembrance was kept, in the which was recorded, in the language of Adam, for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write by the spirit of inspiration; And by them their children were taught to read and write, having a language which was pure and undefiled. Now this same Priesthood, which was in the beginning, shall be in the end of the world also. Now this prophecy Adam spake, as he was moved upon by the Holy Ghost, and a genealogy was kept of the children of God. And this was the book of the generations of Adam, saying: In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; In the image of his own body, male and female, created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created and became living souls in the land upon the footstool of God. And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his own image, and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he begat many sons and daughters; And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. Moses 6:22 And this is the genealogy of the sons of Adam, who was the son of God, with whom

God, himself, conversed. Moses 6:28 And for these many generations, ever since the day that I created them, have they gone astray, and have denied me, and have sought their own counsels in the dark; and in their own abominations have they devised murder, and have not kept the commandments, which I gave unto their father, Adam. Moses 6:45-64 And death hath come upon our fathers; nevertheless we know them, and cannot deny, and even the first of all we know, even Adam. For a book of remembrance we have written among us, according to the pattern given by the finger of God; and it is given in our own language. And as Enoch spake forth the words of God, the people trembled, and could not stand in his presence. And he said unto them: Because that Adam fell, we are; and by his fall came death; and we are made partakers of misery and woe. Behold Satan hath come among the children of men, and tempteth them to worship him; and men have become carnal, sensual, and devilish, and are shut out from the presence of God. But God hath made known unto our fathers that all men must repent. And he called upon our father Adam by his own voice, saying: I am God; I made the world, and men before they were in the flesh. And he also said unto him: If thou wilt turn unto me, and hearken unto my voice, and believe, and repent of all thy transgressions, and be baptized, even in water, in the name of mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth, which is Jesus Christ, the only name which shall be given under heaven, whereby salvation shall come unto the children of men, ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, asking all things in his name, and whatsoever ye shall ask, it shall be given you. And our father Adam spake unto the Lord, and said: Why is it that men must repent and be baptized in water? And the Lord said unto Adam: Behold I have forgiven thee thy transgression in the Garden of Eden. Hence came the saying abroad among the people, that the Son of God hath atoned for original guilt, wherein the sins of the parents cannot be answered upon the heads of the children, for they are whole from the foundation of the world. And the Lord spake unto Adam, saying: Inasmuch as thy children are conceived in sin, even so when they begin to grow up, sin conceiveth in their hearts, and they taste the bitter, that they may know to prize the good. And it is given unto them to know good from evil; wherefore they are agents unto themselves, and I have given unto you another law and commandment. Wherefore teach it unto your children, that all men, everywhere, must repent, or they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God, for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in his presence; for, in the language of Adam, Man of Holiness is his name, and the name of his Only Begotten is the Son of Man, even Jesus Christ, a righteous Judge, who shall come in the meridian of time. Therefore I give unto you a commandment, to teach these things freely unto your children, saying: That by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water, and blood, and the spirit, which I have made, and so became of dust a living soul, even so ye must be born again into the kingdom of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit, and be cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only Begotten; that ye might be sanctified from all sin, and enjoy the words of eternal life in this world, and eternal life in the world to come, even immortal glory; For by the water ye keep the

commandment; by the Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are sanctified; Therefore it is given to abide in you; the record of heaven; the Comforter; the peaceable things of immortal glory; the truth of all things; that which quickeneth all things, which maketh alive all things; that which knoweth all things, and hath all power according to wisdom, mercy, truth, justice, and judgment. And now, behold, I say unto you: This is the plan of salvation unto all men, through the blood of mine Only Begotten, who shall come in the meridian of time. And behold, all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me. And it came to pass, when the Lord had spoken with Adam, our father, that Adam cried unto the Lord, and he was caught away by the Spirit of the Lord, and was carried down into the water, and was laid under the water, and was brought forth out of the water. Moses 7:1_ And it came to pass that Enoch continued his speech, saying: Behold, our father Adam taught these things, and many have believed and become the sons of God, and many have believed not, and have perished in their sins, and are looking forth with fear, in torment, for the fiery indignation of the wrath of God to be poured out upon them._ Moses 7:22_ And Enoch also beheld the residue of the people which were the sons of Adam; and they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them._ Abraham 1:3 It was conferred upon me from the fathers; it came down from the fathers, from the beginning of time, yea, even from the beginning, or before the foundation of the earth, down to the present time, even the right of the firstborn, or the first man, who is Adam, or first father, through the fathers unto me. Abraham 1:26 Pharaoh, being a righteous man, established his kingdom and judged his people wisely and justly all his days, seeking earnestly to imitate that order established by the fathers in the first generations, in the days of the first patriarchal reign, even in the reign of Adam, and also of Noah, his father, who blessed him with the blessings of the earth, and with the blessings of wisdom, but cursed him as pertaining to the Priesthood. Abraham 5:13-21 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the time that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Now I, Abraham, saw that it was after the Lord's time, which was after the time of Kolob; for as yet the Gods had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning. And the Gods said: Let us make an help meet for the man, for it is not good that the man should be alone, therefore we will form an help meet for him. And the Gods caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and he slept, and

they took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in the stead thereof; And of the rib which the Gods had taken from man, formed they a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said: This was bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; now she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man; Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. And out of the ground the Gods formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that should be the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, to the fowl of the air, to every beast of the field; and for Adam, there was found an help meet for him. Book of Abraham Facsimile No. 2, Fig. 3. Is made to represent God, sitting upon his throne, clothed with power and authority; with a crown of eternal light upon his head; representing also the grand Key-words of the Holy Priesthood, as revealed to Adam in the Garden of Eden, as also to Seth, Noah, Melchizedek, Abraham, and all to whom the Priesthood was revealed. SCRIPTURES: EVE Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. 2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 1 Timothy 2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 1 Nephi 5:11 And he beheld that they did contain the five books of Moses, which gave an account of the creation of the world, and also of Adam and Eve, who were our first parents; 2 Nephi 2:18-19 And because he had fallen from heaven, and had become miserable forever, he sought also the misery of all mankind. Wherefore, he said unto Eve, yea, even that old serpent, who is the devil, who is the father of all lies, wherefore he said: Partake of the forbidden fruit, and ye shall not die, but ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. And after Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit they were driven out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth.

D&C 138:39 And our glorious Mother Eve, with many of her faithful daughters who had lived through the ages and worshiped the true and living God. Moses 4:6 And Satan put it into the heart of the serpent, (for he had drawn away many after him,) and he sought also to beguile Eve, for he knew not the mind of God, wherefore he sought to destroy the world. Moses 5:1-16 And it came to pass that after I, the Lord God, had driven them out, that Adam began to till the earth, and to have dominion over all the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, as I the Lord had commanded him. And Eve, also, his wife, did labor with him. And Adam knew his wife, and she bare unto him sons and daughters, and they began to multiply and to replenish the earth. And from that time forth, the sons and daughters of Adam began to divide two and two in the land, and to till the land, and to tend flocks, and they also begat sons and daughters. And Adam and Eve, his wife, called upon the name of the Lord, and they heard the voice of the Lord from the way toward the Garden of Eden, speaking unto them, and they saw him not; for they were shut out from his presence. And he gave unto them commandments, that they should worship the Lord their God, and should offer the firstlings of their flocks, for an offering unto the Lord. And Adam was obedient unto the commandments of the Lord. And after many days an angel of the Lord appeared unto Adam, saying: Why dost thou offer sacrifices unto the Lord? And Adam said unto him: I know not, save the Lord commanded me. And then the angel spake, saying: This thing is a similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace and truth. Wherefore, thou shalt do all that thou doest in the name of the Son, and thou shalt repent and call upon God in the name of the Son forevermore. And in that day the Holy Ghost fell upon Adam, which beareth record of the Father and the Son, saying: I am the Only Begotten of the Father from the beginning, henceforth and forever, that as thou hast fallen thou mayest be redeemed, and all mankind, even as many as will. And in that day Adam blessed God and was filled, and began to prophesy concerning all the families of the earth, saying: Blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God. And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient. And Adam and Eve blessed the name of God, and they made all things known unto their sons and their daughters. And Satan came among them, saying: I am also a son of God; and he commanded them, saying: Believe it not; and they believed it not, and they loved Satan more than God. And men began from that time forth to be carnal, sensual, and devilish. And the Lord God called upon men by the Holy Ghost everywhere and commanded them that they should repent; And as many as believed in the Son, and repented of their sins, should be saved; and as many as believed not and repented not, should be damned; and the words went forth out of the mouth of God in a firm decree; wherefore they must be fulfilled. And Adam and Eve,

his wife, ceased not to call upon God. And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain, and said: I have gotten a man from the Lord; wherefore he may not reject his words. But behold, Cain hearkened not, saying: Who is the Lord that I should know him? Luke 3:38; Moses 6:22 Adam is son of God: Gospel of Philip, 119:1ff Adam was begotten again, again became a son, again was anointed, again was ransomed, and again paid the price.

Adam-ondiAdam-ondi-Ahman
Daniel 7:13-14; Psalms 2:6-7, JD 18:342-43 D&C 95:17; Eph. 3:14-15 - cf JD 2:342 UR 2: 146 par. 3 The Presidency viz. Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith and Sidney Rigdon believing that Caldwell County was too limited for the reception of the multitude of converts that would be flocking to Missouri, directed their attention to Daviess County lying immediately north of Caldwell, in which they with others of the society made numerous claims on Congress land selected a site and laid out a city, the third "stake of Zion" and named it Adam-ondi-Ahman informing their followers that it was the place to which Adam fled when driven from the garden of Eden in Jackson County and that Far West was the spot where Cain Killed Abel. UR 2:153 par. 1,8-20 The land where Adam dwelt. The site of the Garden of Eden. The place where the Ancient of Days shall sit, and the God of heaven shall again visit His people. As saith the prophet Daniel: ... Here, in this most ancient region, where, parallel with the stream of Time, the great river of mortal life arose, had pitched their tents the Saints of latter days. Here dwelt Adam and Eve in the world's infancy; here they tasted of the fruit forbidden, and were driven forth from Eden, their fall predestined that mortal man might be. Here the great sire of mankind built altars unto God, offering sacrifice unto the Father in commemoration of the atonement of the Son. Here fell the first martyr; here righteous Abel's blood was spilt; here burst the awful thunders of heaven's awakened wrath upon the guilty head of earth's first murderer. Here Adam, bowed with age, blessed the righteous residue of his seed, and predicted whatsoever should befall his posterity to the latest generation. ... Here, in the times of restitution, when all things in Christ are gathered in one, Adam, Michael, the great Prince, Ancient of Days, is to come in power and glory, revisiting the scenes of his earthly pilgrimage. America, the old world, not the new! Cradle of man, mother of nations, grave of empires! Unto Missouri, land of promise; the ancient, the chosen, the favored above all other lands, had the Lord's Prophet, Joseph, led His covenant people Spring Hill, Daviess County, Missouri, one of the settlements of the Saints in this region, had been renamed by revelation, Adam-ondi-Ahman, because, said the Lord, it is the place where Adam shall come to visit his people, or the Ancient of Days shall sit, as spoken of by Daniel the Prophet." Verily were the Saints of the Most High being driven toward their destiny. The "horn" that made war with them and "prevailed against them," was surely pushing them on to final victory. Was it not destiny, too, that they should thus retrace the steps of their great ancestor, who, driven forth from Eden, dwelt in Adam-ondi-Ahman?

Be Not Deceived, 88-89 claims that Adam-Ondi-Ahman means "the place where Adam was in the presence of God." John Corrill Brief History of the Latter-day Saints, Ms., Corrill, 28 The interpretation in English is 'the valley of God in which Adam blessed his children,' Orson Pratt JD 2:342 There is one revelation that this people [i.e. the Latter-day Saints] are not generally acquainted with. I think it has never been published, but probably it will be in the Church History. It is given in questions and answers. The first question is: "What is the name of God in the pure language?" The answer says: "Ahman." "What is the name of the Son of God?" Answer, "Son Ahman, the greatest of all the parts of God, excepting Ahman." "What is the name of men?" "Sons Ahman," is the answer. "What is the name of angels in the pure language?" "Anglo-man." This revelation goes on to say that "Sons Ahman" are the greatest of all the parts of God excepting "Son Ahman," and "Ahman;" and that "Anglo-man" are the greatest of all the parts of God excepting "Sons Ahman," "Son Ahman," and "Ahman." D&C 78:20-21 Wherefore, do the things which I have commanded you, saith your Redeemer, even the Son Ahman, who prepareth all things before he taketh you; For ye are the church of the Firstborn, and he will take you up in a cloud, and appoint every man his portion. D&C 95:17 And let the higher part of the inner court be dedicated unto me for the school of mine apostles, saith Son Ahman; MCD,122 The term "Adam-ondi-Ahman" has special and specific meaning: "Adam," the first man--father of all living; "ondi," according to modern lexicography, means "one says," "they say," "it is said," a "current rumor"; "Ahman," as before noted means God. Here, then, is the sacred historic valley where Adam ("it is said") was proclaimed Ahman or God. In the midst of the seven Great High Priests--the Presidency of earth under Adam-and Adam's righteous posterity (note, "the righteous," for the occasion was sacred and an all-important one) the great progenitor of the race of man bestowed upon his worthy children "his last blessing"; and the Lord (Jehovah) appeared to them, and they rose up and blessed Adam (their father) and, doubtless, under the direction of the Lord, for the first time, called him "Michael," meaning "one who is like God"; the "Prince," meaning "taking the first place"; "the Archangel," meaning "the Chief Angel," or, according to Jewish history, "one high in the celestial hierarchy," "And the Lord administered comfort unto Adam, and said unto him, `I have set thee at the head-

a multitude of nations shall come of thee, and thou art a Prince (a ruler--Ahman or God) over them forever.'" Here the Monarch of earth received the royal crown; the first and greatest of all coronations took place midst his righteous posterity, headed by his ruling High Priests. The seal of the Gods was placed upon the act, after which "Our Father and our God" stood in the midst of the congregation and predicted what should befall his posterity unto the latest generation"; and all this in the beautiful "valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman," near Spring Hill, in Daviess County, Missouri. [May] 13 Sunday ...A.O. Smoot told W. Woodruff that He and Alanson Ripley while surveying out of Adam Ondi Ahman about 22 Miles North of Jackson County Missouri they Came across a Stone wall in the midst of a dense forest & underbrush. The wall was 30 feet long 3 feet thick, and about 4 feet high above the ground and laid in mortar or Cement. When Joseph Smith the Prophet visited the place and Examined the wall He said it was the remains of an Altar Built By Father Adam whare he offered Sacrafice after he was driven from the Garden of Eden which was located in Jackson County Missouri. The whole town which was laid out and named Adam Ondi Ahman was in the midst of a thick & heavy forest of timber and the place named after Adams Altar. The Prophet Joseph said it was upon this Altar whare Adam blessed his sons and Posterity Before his death. Let Historians of the Church note this. Joseph E. Taylor March, 1885 Contributor 6:231 # 6 When the purposes of God as pertaining to this creation shall be fully made manifest there will be found a most beautiful harmony from first to last; a necessity for all that has been, and is, or will be until the final winding up scene. This was understood by the ancient worthies who labored diligently in their turn and time to accomplish all they possibly could to bring to pass the purposes of Jehovah: for the labor commenced with father Adam has been continued until to-day and will not be consummated until the final appearance of the "Holy One who hath established the foundations of Adam-ondiAhman," and who will finally present this earth with its inhabitants to the Father as worthy of a place in the celestial group of earths and worlds redeemed. W. W. Phelps Sacred Hymns, 80 #65 There they shunned the power of Satan And observed celestial laws; For in Adam-ondi-Ahman Zion rose where Eden was. When beyond the power of evil. So that none could covet wealth, One continual feast of blessings Crowned their days with peace and health. 1912

Then the towersof Zion glittered Like the sun in yonder skies, And the wicked stood and trembled, Filled with wonder and surprise: Then their faith and works were perfect Lo, they followed theri great Head; So the city went to heavne, And the world said Zion's fled! When the Lord returns with Zion, And we hear the watchman cry, Then we'll surely be united, And we'll mingle with the angels, And the Lord will bless His own; Then the earth will be as Eden, And we'll know as we are known.

Adamic Mythology & Lore

Much of the following material is not directly related to Adam-God teachings. Although some of the this material does suggest that other religious sects did at one time worship Adam as god, none of this is overly convincing as proof of Adam-God teachings generally. However, previous published authors and many unpublished fundamentalist texts on Adam-God teachings shows that there is a substantial interest in exploring Adamic mythology and lore in connection with AdamGod teachings - not because these materials prove or explain Adam-God teachings, but because they are particularly enlightening and/or interesting in light of Adam-God teachings. To this purpose, I have compiled and written the following sections of this volume.

MS 41:66 Adam and Eve, Noah and Tamer, Ham, Mizraim and Phut were all deified there [in Egypt], while the supreme God was incontrovertibly known; and the sun was only a symbol and the supposed abode of Adam. MS 41:66 Adam and Eve, Noah and Tamer, Ham, Mizraim and Phut were all deified there (Egypt), while the supreme God was incontrovertibly known; and the sun was only a symbol and the supposed abode of Adam. Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 49:16 Shem and Seth were glorified among men; and above every living thing in creation is Adam. Culley Christensen AGM, 161-163 And Abraham saw two ways, the one way narrow and compressed, and the other broad and spacious; and there also he saw two gates, one gate broad on the broad way, and one gate narrow on the narrow way. And outside the two gates there I saw a man seated upon a golden throne, and the appearance of that man was terrible, like unto that of the Lord. And I saw many souls being driven by angels and led in through the broad gate; and other souls I saw, few in number, that were being borne by angels through the narrow gate. And when the marvelous being who sat upon the Golden throne saw few entering in through the narrow gate, but many entering in through the broad gate, straightway that marvelous man did pluck the hairs of his head . . . and hurled himself on the ground from his throne, weeping and wailing. And when he saw many souls entering through the narrow gate, then he arose from the ground and sat upon his throne, rejoicing and exulting with great jubilation. Then Abraham asked the chief-captain: My Lord, who is this all-marvelous man, who is in such majesty, and

sometimes weeps and wails, and sometimes rejoices and exults? The (bodiless one) said: This is Adam, the first created man, who is in such majesty, and he beholds the world, for all are sprung from him (Testament of Abraham, XI). The relationship between Elohim and Adam can be extrapolated from the relationship between the Germanic god Twisto and his son. Twisto gave rise to a son Mannus who became the "originator" or procreator of the human race (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1969, vol. 10, p. 214). In the same way Michael, having come forth from Elohim became known (received the new name) as Mannus--man or Adam. God, as the physical procreator of the human race, is found in an old Babylonian myth of Atrahasis where it is said that the first man came into existence when a God "who has understanding" mixed his blood with clay (Botterweck and Ringgren, Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, vol. 1, p. 76). In ancient lore Michael (Atum) is the one who provides sustenance for mankind. He is the viceroy of Heaven, the warrior of God, the slayer of the dragon, the arbitrator of justice and the Prince of Light. Adam's exalted position in Egyptian lore has only recently been appreciated. He is styled as both demiurge and hypostasis. He was the father of the gods in the heavenly council at the creation (The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri, p. 131). ... In the The Egyptian Coffin Texts Adam declares himself to be a god. It was the council's decision that the creation should be expressly for Adam and his posterity. I am Atum [Adam] ... I have received and entered into my kingdom.... I advanced on my feet, I stretched forth my two arms; heaven was perfect for me. The Divine Council was satisfied. They granted that I should reunite with them. So my family, my children, my brothers and my sisters and my dear friends everywhere were included (The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri, p. 230). ...Adam's status as a primal god is extended as God and Father of the Savior. According to the The Egyptian Coffin Texts, the Savior, when introduced to the great assembly, said: "I am ... the seed of Atum [Adam], the issue of him who gave names in the days when Atum discussed it with the Gods" (The Egyptian Coffin Texts, 1, 167, Spell. 39). (For the identification of Atum with Adam see E. Lefebure, in Bibliotheque Egyptoligique, xxxv, 1913, pp. 16-21; also The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri, p. 133.) Regarding Adam as His Father, the Savior further said: Culley Christensen AGM, 166 At Heliopolis, Atum (Adam) was in fact recognized as one of the greatest of gods. "I am Atum who created the Great Ones.... I am he for whom the heavenly hosts were assembled, upon whom divine authority was bestowed," Atum's dual personality is unique as one who is God, the Creator, yet human. He is at home in heaven as well as on earth. He is God come

down to earth (The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri, pp. 132-33). See also Ascension of Isaiah Book of Enoch Deuteronomy Rabbah Gospel of Philip Jubilees Manual of Disciple Palestinian Targum Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ The Shepherd of Hermas Vision The Testament of Abraham War Scroll MS 27:770-771 Deseret News XV, 5 (October 12, 1865) "Journal History", 9 October 1865 "Doct. Hist.", p. 924

Jewish Adamic Lore

MCD, 110 There are many traditions, however, in both Hebrew and Christian writings which indicate that the Adam theistic concepts of Mormonism were anciently held by the pious; indeed, it is actually recorded that a sect called after Melchisedec worshipped Adam! The Talmud, for instance, records that Adam was already created when he was placed in Eden, having been placed there from Heaven by the Lord. It is also recorded that while Adam was yet in Heaven a command was given that the angels should worship God, whereupon they all bowed before Adam. [He omits the detail that this was in error - they could not tell the difference between Adam and the God who created Adam.] The Jewish Talmud tells us that Adam fell a little in order to advance higher. Louis Ginzberg The Legends of the Jews, 384-88 JACOB WRESTLES WITH THE ANGEL The servants of Jacob went before him with the present for Esau, and he followed with his wives and his children. As he was about to pass over the ford of Jabbok, he observed a shepherd, who likewise had sheep and camels. The stranger approached Jacob and proposed that they should ford the stream together, and help each other move their cattle over, and Jacob assented, on the condition that his possessions should be put across first. In the twinkling of an eye Jacob's sheep were transferred to the other side of the stream by the shepherd. Then the flocks of the shepherd were to be moved by Jacob, but no matter how many he took over to the opposite bank, always there remained some on the hither shore. There was no end to the cattle, though Jacob labored all the night through. At last he lost patience, and he fell upon the shepherd and caught him by the throat, crying out, " O thou wizard, thou wizard, at night no enchantment succeeds! " The angel thought, " Very well, let him know once for all with whom he has had dealings," and with his finger he touched the earth, whence fire burst forth. But Jacob said, " What ! thou thinkest thus to affright me, who am made wholly of fire ? " The shepherd was no less a personage than the archangel Michael, and in his

combat with Jacob he was assisted by the whole host of angels under his command. He was on the point of inflicting a dangerous wound upon Jacob, when God appeared, and all the angels, even Michael himself, felt their strength ooze away. Seeing that he could not prevail against Jacob, the archangel touched the hollow of his thigh, and injured him, and God rebuked him, saying, " Dost thou act as is seemly, when thou causest a blemish in My priest Jacob? " Michael said in astonishment, " Why, it is I who am Thy priest! " But God said, " Thou art My priest in heaven, and he is My priest on earth." Thereupon Michael summoned the archangel Raphael, saying, " My comrade, I pray thee, help me out of my distress, for thou art charged with the healing of all disease," and Raphael cured Jacob of the injury Michael had inflicted. The Lord continued to reproach Michael, saying, " Why didst thou do harm unto My first-born son? " and the archangel answered, " I did it only to glorify Thee," and then God appointed Michael as the guardian angel of Jacob and his seed unto the end of all generations, with these words: " Thou art a fire, and so is Jacob a fire; thou art the head of the angels, and he is the head of the nations thou art supreme over all the angels, and he is supreme over all the peoples. Therefore he who is supreme over all the angels shall be appointed unto him who is supreme over all the peoples, that he may entreat mercy for him from the Supreme One over all." Then Michael said unto Jacob, " How is it possible that thou who couldst prevail against me, the most distinguished of the angels, art afraid of Esau ? " When the day broke, Michael said to Jacob, " Let me go, for the day breaketh," but Jacob held him back, saying, " Art thou a thief, or a gambler with dice, that thou fearest the daylight? " At that moment appeared many different hosts of angels, and they called unto Michael: " Ascend, O Michael, the time of song hath come, and if thou art not in heaven to lead the choir, none will sing." And Michael entreated Jacob with supplications to let him go, for he feared the angels of 'Arabot would consume him with fire, if he were not there to start the songs of praise at the proper time. Jacob said, " I will not let thee go, except thou bless me," whereto Michael made reply: "Who is greater, the servant or the son ? I am the servant, and thou art the son. Why, then, cravest thou my blessing?" Jacob urged as an argument, "The angels that visited Abraham did not leave without blessing him," but Michael held, " They were sent by God for that very purpose, and I was not." Yet Jacob insisted upon his demand, and Michael pleaded with him, saying, " The angels that betrayed a heavenly secret were banished from their place for one hundred and thirtyeight years. Dost thou desire that I should acquaint thee with what would cause my banishment likewise? " In the end the angel nevertheless had to yield; Jacob could not be moved, and Michael took counsel with himself thus: " I will reveal a secret to him, and if God demands to know why I revealed it, I will make answer, Thy children stand upon their wishes with Thee, and Thou dost yield to them. How, then, could I have left Jacob's wish unfulfilled ? "

Then Michael spoke to Jacob, saying: " A day will come when God will reveal Himself unto thee, and He will change thy name, and I shall be present when He changeth it. Thy name shall be called no more .Jacob, but Israel, for happy thou, of woman born, who didst enter the heavenly palace, and didst escape thence with thy life." And Michael blessed Jacob with the words, " May it be the will of God that thy descendants be as pious as thou art." At the same time the archangel reminded Jacob that he had promised to give a tithe of his possessions unto God, and at once Jacob separated five hundred and fifty head of cattle from his herds, which counted fifty-five hundred. Then Michael went on, " But thou hast sons, and of them thou hast not set apart the tenth." Jacob proceeded to pass his sons in review: Reuben, Joseph, Dan, and Gad being the first-born, each of his mother, were exempt, and there remained but eight sons, and when he had named them, down to Benjamin, he had to go back and begin over again with Simon, the ninth, and finish with Levi as the tenth. Michael took Levi with him into heaven, and presented him before God, saying, " O Lord of the world, this one is Thy lot, and the tenth belonging unto Thee," and God stretched forth His hand and blessed Levi with the blessing that his children should be the servants of God on earth as the angels were His servants on high. Michael spoke again, " Doth not a king provide for the sustenance of his servants? " whereupon God appointed for the Levites all that was holy unto the Lord. Then Jacob spoke to the angel: " My father conferred the blessing upon me that was intended for Esau, and now I desire to know whether thou wilt acknowledge the blessing as mine, or wilt bring charges against me on account of it." And the angel said: "I acknowledge the blessing to be thine by right. Thou didst not gain it by craft and cunning, and I and all the heavenly powers recognize it to be valid, for thou hast shown thyself master over the mighty powers of the heavens as over Esau and his legions." And even then Jacob would not let the angel depart, he had to reveal his name to him first, and the angel made known to him that it was Israel, the same name that Jacob would once bear. At last the ange1 departed, after Jacob had blessed him and Jacob called the place of wrestling Penuel, the same place to which before he had given the name Mahanaim, for both words have but one meaning, the place of encounter with angels. Louis Ginzberg The Legends of the Jews, 305-308 BR 77. 2-3- Shir 3. 5. These sources add that it was Esau's guardian angel (comp. the following note and note 273) who, at the command of God, undertook

to wrestle with Jacob. God said to the angel: "Jacob has five charms to protect him: his own merits and those of his parents and grandparents; now measure thy strength against his." The angel tried, and soon discovered that Jacob was no match for him. The words put into Jacob's mouth ("this night no enchantment prevails") wish to convey that, although ordinarily the darkness of the night is very propitious for such and similar operations (comp. Index, s. v. "Night", and Fraser, Folk-Lore in the Old Testament, II, 411), Jacob was not afraid of the angel's machinations. -Hullin 91a points out that the pious take great care not to lose or squander their possessions; hence Jacob, after having forded the river with all his belongings, returned to fetch a small pot which he had forgotten on the other side of the Jabbok. Abkir in Yalkut I, 132; according to this source, the angel appeared to make Jacob bold for his meeting with Esau. See also Zerubbabel (Jellinek's edition, 5. 5), which reads: " I am Metatron, the angel who wrestled with Jacob at the ford of Jabbok," while in Wertheimer 's edition. . . [hebrew caracters] . . . is corrupted to . . . [hebrew caracters] . . . Since in many sources Metatron is identical with Michael (comp. Index, s. v. "Metatron"), it follows that, according to this passage, the angel who wrestled with Jacob was sent to his assistance. In Wertheimer's edition (versions 1 and 2) this angel described himself as Metatron=Michael, i.e., as the guardian angel of Israel. The antiquity of this view which identifies this angel with Michael, or rather Metatron, may be inferred from the statementof the Church Fathers, according to whom this angel was the Holy Ghost, or Jesus; comp. e. g., Clemens Alexandrinus, Instructor, 1. 7. It has already been observed that Christian authors often transferred to Jesus, or rather the Holy Ghost, those functions which in Jewish legends are ascribed to Michael. It should be noted here that Abkir in its present form consists of three different parts, which are introduced by: . . . [hebrew characters] . . . in Gabai. Comp. further below.-Michael was appointed the guardian angel of Israel on the day of his visit to Abraham to announce to him the birth of Isaac; see Ziyyoni, Mishpatim (end), quoting Galya Raza, and comp. note 91 on vol. I, p. 181, as well as the following note. The angel was in a hurry, as he had to be present at the morning song of the celestial beings; comp. BR 78. 1-2; Hullin 91b-92a; Shir 3. 5; comp. vol. I, pp. 17-18. A fragment of a legend, according to which several angels fought against Jacob, is found in Yelammedenu quoted in Yalkut II, 758 on Ps. 39; comp. also vol. II, p. 8- note 199. On the view that the powers of the angels vanished in the presence of God, comp. Philo, De Somnfis, 1. 13. For a correct text of Abkir comp. Yalkut Reubeni, Gen. 32. 25, and Gabai, 'Abodat ha-Kodesh, 3. 7, who quotes a considerable portion of this Abkir passage from Sode Raze. It is to be observed that towards the end . . . [hebrew characters] . . . is to be read. The identity of this angel with Michael is also found in Tan. B. I, 165 comp. the following note. BR 78. 2. The name of the angel is not given here, and the question is left open whether it was Michael or Gabriel. But inasmuch as Gabriel is one of the two angels who were punished for divulging a heavenly secret (comp. vol. I,

pp. 241 and 350-351), which punishment is given as an excuse by the angel for his reluctance to fulfil Jacob's wish, it follows that only Michael is meant here. According to BR, loc. cit., as well as the sources cited in the preceding note, the angel finally fulfilled Jacob's wish, for otherwise he would not have been in heaven in time to chant the praise of God. Opposed to this view is the one in PRE 37, according to which the angel had to chant his hymn on earth, and when the angels heard him sing they knew that Jacob prevented him from returning to heaven. Comp. also ps.-Philo, 18A, who likewise maintains that it was the heavenly band-master who wrestled with Jacob.-Jacob had adjured the angel not to move without his permission; but he doubted whether his adjuring was effective as he did not know the name of the angel; hence he was anxious to learn his name; comp. Ziyyoni, Gen. 32. 27. Abkir in Yalkut I, 132. This legend assumes that the wrestling between Jacob and the angel took place in heaven; comp. also vol. I, pp. 388-389. PRE 27; Targum Yerushalmi Gen. 32. 25. There can be no doubt that according to this view it was Michael who wrestled with Jacob, in order to remind him of his promise concerning the tithes. This view is also shared by Ephraim, I, 181B, who also knows the other explanation given in note 248 for the appearance of the angel. According to one view, Jacob, in separating the tithes of his sons, started with the youngest of them (in the eyes of the Lord the small are more precious than the great, Yelammedenu 16=BHM VI, 80), and therefore Levi was the tenth. See Jubilee. 32. 3; Sifre D., 355 (for the explanation of this passage see Brull, Jahrbucher, IV, 130, and Epstein, Mikkadmoniyyot, 97-98); Midrash Tannaim 220; PRE, loc. cit. (the reason given here for starting from the youngest is not clear); Da'at and Iladar on Gen. 28. 22. Tan. is given as a source in Hadar, whereas Da'at refers to BR as its authority. But neither of these two Midrashim has this Haggadah. See Epstein, Mosheh ha-Darshan, 16; vol. II, p. 134, note 364. On Levi being taken into heaven, see vol. I, 363 and II, 194. On Jacob as the first to set aside the tithes, comp. notes 144 and 245. Zohar III, 45a (based on Tan. B. 1, 127, or a source related to Tan.). PRE 47. The mystics of the geonic period speak of a heavenly being (. . . [hebrew characters]. . ., named Israel, on whose forehead this name is engraved. The function of this angel is to call the hosts of angels to chant God 's praise. He addresses them with these words: "Bless ye the Lord who is to be blessed." Whereupon they praise God, saying: " Blessed is the Lord who is to be blessed for ever and ever." See Hekalot 4, 29, Zohar II, 4b; Baer's Siddur, 126. Raziel, 6b, makes the assumption probable that this heavenly being was identified with the "Jacob's countenance" in the throne of glory; comp. notes 35 and 134.-The Haggadah knows of a number of explanations of the name Israel: It stands for . . . [hebrew characters] . . . "the man who saw God" (angel?); comp. ER 27, 138-139; Philo, Conf. Ling., 16 and 20; Migrat. Abr., 18, 36, 39 (end); Quis Rer. Div. Haeres Sit, 15; De Cong. Quaer. Erud. Causa, 10; De Profugis, 25 and 38; Mut. nominum, 12; De Somniis, 2. 4, 6, 26; De Sacrificiis Abelis, 36; De

Abrahomo, 12; De prsemiis et poenis, 8. From Philo, in whose writings this etymology occurs very frequently, besides in the passages just cited, it was taken over by the Church Fathers; comp. Siegfried, Philo, Index, s. v. "Israel". In Philo's opinion "the man who saw God" is identical with the Iogos, hence Israel = Christ in the writings of the Church Fathers. See Justin Martyr, Dialogue, 75; Clemens Alexandrinus, Stromata, 2. 5; Cyril, De Trivit., 19. Comp. note 428. The name Israel is also explained as "trying to sing instead of the angels" (= . . . [hebrew characters] . . . ), or "joyful like the angels at the time of their singing"; see Tan. B. I, 127, and Haserot in Batte Midrashot, III, 4. As to Jacob's singing instead of the angels, comp. BR 78. 2. Other etymologies are: "the remnant of God" ( . . .[hebrew characters] . . . ), or "he who walks straight with the Lord ( . . . [hebrew characters . . . ); Yalkut Reubeni, Gen. 232. 29, and comp. note 273. Similar to the last etymology is the one given by Nahmanides, Deut. 2. 10 of Jeshurun, which signifies "one who walks straight", in contrast to Jacob, "he who walks crookedly". Comp. Nestle, Zeitschrift f. Alt. Wiss., XXXII, 17-20. MHG I, 513. Louis Ginzberg The Legends of the Jews 1:240-245 THE VISIT OF THE ANGELS On the third day after his circumcision, when Abraham was suffering dire pain,127 God spoke to the angels, saying, " Go to, let us pay a visit to the sick." The angels refused, and said: "What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that Thou visitest him? And Thou desirest to betake Thyself to a place of uncleanness, a place of blood and filth ? " But God replied unto them, " Thus do ye speak. As ye live, the savor of this blood is sweeter to me than myrrh and incense, and if you do not desire to visit Abraham, I will go alone." The day whereon God visited him was exceedingly hot, for He had bored a hole in hell, so that its heat might reach as far as the earth, and no wayfarer venture abroad on the highways, and Abraham be left undisturbed in his pain. But the absence of strangers caused Abraham great vexation, and he sent his servant Eliezer forth to keep a lookout for travellers. When the servant returned from his fruitless search, Abraham himself, in spite of his illness and the scorching heat, prepared to go forth on the highway and see whether he would not succeed where failure had attended Eliezer, whom he did not wholly trust at any rate, bearing in mind the well-known saying, " No truth among slaves." At this moment God appeared to him, surrounded by the angels. Quickly Abraham attempted to rise from his seat, but God checked every demonstration of respect, and when Abraham protested that it was unbecoming to sit in the presence of the Lord, God said, " As thou livest, thy descendants at the age of four and five will sit in days to come in the schools and in the synagogues while I reside therein.

Meantime Abraham beheld three men. They were the angels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. They had assumed the form of human beings to fulfil his wish for guests toward whom to exercise hospitality. Each of them had been charged by God with a special mission, besides, to be executed on earth. Raphael was to heal the wound of Abraham, Michael was to bring Sarah the glad tidings that she would bear a son, and Gabriel was to deal destruction to Sodom and Gomorrah. Arrived at the tent of Abraham, the three angels noticed that he was occupied in nursing himself, and they withdrew. Abraham, however, hastened after them through another door of the tent, which had wide open entrances on all sides. He considered the duty of hospitality more important than the duty of receiving the Shekinah. Turning to God, he said, " O Lord, may it please Thee not to leave Thy servant while he provides for the entertainment of his guests." Then he addressed himself to the stranger walking in the middle between the other two, whom by this token he considered the most distinguished,- it was the archangel Michael-and he bade him and his companions turn aside into his tent. The manner of his guests, who treated one another politely, made a good impression upon Abraham. He was assured that they were men of worth whom he was entertaining. But as they appeared outwardly like Arabs, and the people worshipped the dust of their feet, he bade them first wash their feet, that they might not defile his tent. He did not depend upon his own judgment in reading the character of his guests. By his tent a tree was planted, which spread its branches out over all who believed in God, and afforded them shade. But if idolaters went under the tree, the branches turned upward, and cast no shade upon the ground. Whenever Abraham saw this sign, he would at once set about the task of converting the worshippers of the false gods. And as the tree made a distinction between the pious and the impious, so also between the clean and the unclean. Its shade was denied them as long as they refrained from taking the prescribed ritual bath in the spring that flowed out from its roots, the waters of which rose at once for those whose uncleanness was of a venial character and could be removed forthwith, while others had to wait seven days for the water to come up. Accordingly, Abraham bade the three men lean against the trunk of the tree. Thus he would soon learn their worth or their unworthiness." Being of the truly pious, " who promise little, but perform much," Abraham said only: " I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your heart, seeing that ye chanced to pass my tent at dinner time. Then, after ye have given thanks to God, ye may pass on." But when the meal was served to the guests, it was a royal banquet, exceeding Solomon's at the time of his most splendid magnificence. Abraham himself ran unto the herd, to fetch cattle for meat. He slaughtered three calves, that he might be able to set a "tongue with mustard" before each of his guests. In order to accustom Ishmael to God-pleasing deeds, he had him dress the calves, and he bade Sarah bake the bread. But as he knew that women are apt to treat guests niggardly, he was explicit in his request to her. He said, " Make ready quickly three measures of meal, yea, fine meal." As it

happened, the bread was not brought to the table, because it had accidentally become unclean, and our father Abraham was accustomed to eat his daily bread only in a clean state. Abraham himself served his guests, and it appeared to him that the three men ate. But this was an illusion. In reality the angels did not eat, only Abraham, his three friends, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, and his son Ishmael partook of the banquet, and the portions set before the angels were devoured by a heavenly fire. Although the angels remained angels even in their human disguise, nevertheless the personality of Abraham was so exalted that in his presence the archangels felt insignificant. After the meal the angels asked after Sarah, though they knew that she was in retirement in her tent, but it was proper for them to pay their respects to the lady of the house and send her the cup of wine over which the blessing had been said. Michael, the greatest of the angels, thereupon announced the birth of Isaac. He drew a line upon the wall, saying, " When the sun crosses this point, Sarah will be with child, and when he crosses the next point, she will give birth to a child." This communication, which was intended for Sarah and not for Abraham, to whom the promise had been revealed long before, the angels made at the entrance to her tent, but Ishmael stood between the angel and Sarah, for it would not have been seemly to deliver the message in secret, with none other by. Yet, so radiant was the beauty of Sarah that a beam of it struck the angel, and made him look up. In the act of turning toward her, he heard her laugh within herself: "Is it possible that these bowels can yet bring forth a child, these shrivelled breasts give suck? And though I should be able to bear, yet is not my lord Abraham old ? " And the Lord said unto Abraham: " Am I too old to do wonders? And wherefore doth Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old ?" The reproach made by God was directed against Abraham as well as against Sarah, for he, too, had showed himself of little faith when he was told that a son would be born unto him. But God mentioned only Sarah's incredulity, leaving Abraham to become conscious of his defect himself. Regardful of the peace of their family life, God had not repeated Sarah's words accurately to Abraham. Abraham might have taken amiss what his wife had said about his advanced years, and so precious is the peace between husband and wife that even the Holy One, blessed be He, preserved it at the expense of truth. After Abraham had entertained his guests, he went with them to bring them on their way, for, important as the duty of hospitality is, the duty of speeding the parting guest is even more important. Their way lay in the direction of Sodom, whither two of the angels were going, the one to destroy it, and the second to save Lot, while the third, his errand to Abraham fulfilled. returned to heaven.

Louis Ginzberg The Legends of fhe Jews 5:234-237 PRE 29; Targum Yerushalmi Gen. 18. 1; Tan. Wa-Yera 2Baba Mezi'a 86b. Tan. B. 1, 85; Tan. Wa-Yera 2; Aggadat Bereshit 19; Tan. Baba Mezi'a 86b; BR 48. 8; Tan. B. I, 85- Tan. Wa-Yera 3PRE 29. Baba Mezi'a 86b; BR 48. 8, 9. Abraham feared lest travellers should no longer make use of his hospitality because he had separated himself from the rest of the world through the sign of the covenant. Tan. Wa-Yera 2 and Ki-Tissa 15; Tan. B. I, 86 and 177 BR 48. 1; ShR 41. 4; Aggadat Bereshit 19. 39- Tehillim 18, 156. An allusion to this legend is to be found in the remark of Yerushalmi Rosh ha-Shanah I, 57a, (top): God said: I was the first to observe the command of standing up before an old man (Lev. 19. 32), the old man is Abraham. Comp. also PR 15, 72a. In PRE 29 it is said that as long as Abraham was uncircumcised he was unable to stand erect in the presence of the divine Glory; comp. note 43 on vol. IV p. 146. Baba Mezi'a 86b; BR 50. 2; Yerushalmi Targumim Gen. 18. 2. Justin Martyr, Dialogue, 56, also refers to this Haggadah; comp. also Kallah 6, 13b. Josephus, Antiqui., 1, 11. 2, speaks of the three angels who appeared to Abraham, but he does not give their names. BR 48. 9; comp. vol. I, p. 270. Shabbat 127a. MHG 1, 267, quotes the following passage from an unknown Midrash: He who receives his fellow-man kindly is regarded as though he had received the Shekinah, and accordingly in Mekilta Yitro 1, 59a, we ought to read . . . [hebrew characters] . . . with MS. instead of . . . [hebrew characters] . . . of the editions. The Church Fathers quote an almost identical proverb from the Bible! Comp. Tertullian, De Oratione, 26. BR 48. 9-10; DE. 4; Philo, De Abrahamo, 22 and 25. Baba Mezi'a 86b, with the additional remark that because Abraham suspected the strangers in this manner, his descendants the Ishmaelites (~the Arabs), as a punishment, practice this kind of idolatry. BR 48. 9: One of the angels appeared disguised as a Saracen, the second as a Nabatean, and the third as an Arab. Zohar I, 102b, and thence by Sabba, Wa-Yera, 18b, without giving his source. The tamarisk of Abraham (Gen. 21. 33) came to him from paradise; see Ba'al ha-Turim, Gen. 9. 20. The oak (?) of Abraham formed a subject for popular fancy as early as the time of Josephus (comp. BeU. IV, 9. 7, and Antiqui. 1. 10), the

belief having been prevalent that it was created at the beginning of the world. Yerahmeel 35. 5 quotes from Josippon that the oak of Abraham in the plain of Mamre existed until the reign of Theodosius, when it withered. Yet even then whoever took of its wood did not experience illness until the day of his death. Comp. also Jepp, Jerusalem und das heilige Land, I, 611-622, as well as Palestine Exploration Fund (Quarterly Statement, 1899, 39, 40). Baba Mezi'a 87a- Nedarim 21b; Tan. Wa-Yera 4; ARN 13, 57. In these Midrashim, as well as in BR 48. 10, it is shown in detail how God 's kind acts towards Abraham 's descendants corresponded exactly to Abraham's kind acts towards the three travellers. "Measure for measure" (comp. note 44 on vol. I, p. 163, and vol. II, p. 341 seq.) is God's guiding rule for reward and punishment; comp. 2 ARN 23, 47; ER 12, 59, 60, and Tosefta Sotah 4 (end). Targum Yerushalmi, Gen. 18. 5; comp. I, 211. Baba Mezi'a 86b; BR 48. 12-14; ARN 13, 57; Tan. WaYera 4. Philo, Qusestiones, Gen. 4. 10, likewise dwells upon the lavish hospitality of Abraham, who, though possessing many slaves, prepared the meal himself for his guests. The old sources admit that, though Abraham observed the Torah before it had been revealed (comp. note 275), he nevertheless served meat and milk to the travellers, despite the later prohibition of this kind of food. Later, when the angels protested against the presentation of the Torah to Israel, requesting God to give it to them, (comp. vol. III, pp. 109-114, and note 248 appertaining to them) they had to admit that as Abraham's guests they partook of the forbidden food. Comp. PR 25, 128a-128b; Tehillim 8. 75. Later authorities maintain, on the contrary, that Abraham, in strict conformity to the commandments of the Torah, served first milk and then meat; comp. Da'at and Sekel Tob on Gen. 18. 8. Ziyyoni, Exod. 24. 21, quotes from the Midrash a statement bearing upon this point which is not found in the extant midrashic literature; comp. also Yashar Wa-Yera, 35b. BR 48. 13; ARN 13, 57. Baba Mezi'a 87a; BR 48. 14; PRE 26; Tan. Wa-Yera 13. The defilement of the bread was caused by Sarah (comp. Gen. 18. 12) who busied herself with the kneading of the dough. Astruc (Midreshe ha-Torah, 25) quotes from an unknown Midrash the statement that instead of the fresh bread prepared by Sarah stale bread was served. On the uncomplimentary remark about the niggardliness of women, see also vol. IV, p. 242. Baba Mezi'a 86b; BR 48. 11 and 14 (paraphrased in MHG I, 269); Josephus, Antiqui, I, 11. 2; Philo, De Abrahamo, 23; Targum Yerushalmi, Gen. 18. 8; Justin Martyr, Dialogue, 57; Theodoretus, Gen loc. cit., and many other Church Fathers. Comp. Ginzberg, Haggadah bei den Kirchenv. 108. The old view was that angels may sometimes par. take of food, and that they subsist on manna; comp. R. Akiba's explanation (Yoma 75b) of Ps. 78. 85, which agrees with the Septuagint, where . . . [hebrew characters] . . . is rendered by . . . [greek characters] . .

. Tobit 12. 19 (comp. Muller, Beitrage, ad loc.); ER 12, 59 and the legends, vol. III, p. 142 and vol. IV, p. 147, as well as Zohar I, 102a, 104a, and 144a. Sa'adya in his Polemic against Hiwi 70, is very severe on those who maintain that angels partake of food. The omission of the visit of the angels is Jubilee. is very likely due to the strong anthropomorphic coloring of the biblical narrative in Gen. 18. 1-10. In many rabbinic passages the statement occurs that the angels subsist on the glory of the Shekinah; comp. PK 6, 57a (also with regard to Moses during his stay in heaven, 18, 173b); PR 16, 80a; Tan. Pinehas 12; BaR 21. 16. The last-mentioned source 10. 5 reads: The angels who visited Abraham partook of the food offered to them; but not the one who visited Manoah. Koran 11. 73 gives a clumsy representation of the view prevalent in Jewish sources concerning these three angels. MHG 1, 272; Da'at and Ziyyoni Gen. 18. 8; comp. also the extract from Testament of Abraham, given in vol. 1, p. 303, where it is likewise said that a fire devoured the food; this view is very likely shared by Sa'adya in the passages quoted in the preceding note. Jud. 13. 16 probably gave rise to this view; comp. preceding note towards the end. BR 48. 19 Baba Mezi'a 87a; with reference to the dots over . . . [hebrew characters] . . . (Gen. 18. 9), comp. BR 48. 15, and the numerous parallel passages given by Theodor. Baba Mezi'a 86b (comp. note 132); MHG I, 274; Tan. B. 1, 107; Tan. Wa-Yera 13; PR 6, 24b, and the numerous parallel passages given by Friedmann, ad loc. The angel's promise to return (Gen. 18. 10) refers to his presence at the 'Akedah; see Pardes 22d. BR 48. 16; Yerushalmi Targumim, Gen. 18. 10. Tan. Shofetim 18; comp. also BR 48. 17. BR 48. 17. These words were spoken by God Himself, and not by the angels who know not the thoughts of man; see Sekel Tob 27. Zohar I, 101b limits the knowledge of angels still more, and from this point of view explains the question of the angels about Sarah; comp. Gen. 198. 9. See also the sources referred to in note 146. MHG 1, 276; a different view is given by Philo, Quaestiones, Gen. 4. 17: Abraham rejoiced over the good tidings (he thus renders . . . [hebrew characters] . . . Gen. 17. 17), whereas Sarah laughed at them because she did not believe them. As a punishment for her lack of faith in the message brought by the angels concerning the birth of Isaac, her death was caused by the message that

Isaac was sacrificed by his father (comp. vol. I, p. 287); see Hasidim, 80. Women are disqualified from appearing in court as witnesses (Baba Kamma 1. 3; Josephus, Antwui., IV, 8. 15; Evangel of Nicodemus 7), because they are of a mendacious nature, for even one of the best of them, Sarah, attempted to tell an untruth; see Yelammedenu in supplement to Yalkut=BHM VI, 80 and MHG 1, 276. BR 48. 18; Sifre N. 42; Yerushalmi Peah 1, 16a; Yebamot 65b; WR 9. 9; BaR 11. 7; Tan. B. III, 6. 18; Tan. Zaw 7 and Shofetim 18; Perek ha-Shalom. MHG 1, 276; comp. Schechter, ad loc. BR 50. 2; Baba Mezi'a 86b; Tan. B. 1, 96. An angel attends to one task only, and accordingly three angels had to be sent: Michael to bring the glad tidings of Isaac's birth, Gabriel to destroy the sinful cities, and Raphael to save lot. Philo, De Abrahamo, 28, is acquainted with a similar Haggadah; comp vol. I, p. 241, and the sources referred to in note 132. <We can tell from the above that the Jews considered Jehovah and Michael to be the same person and to be the god of the Jews. We can also see that there is a lot crap that is remembered as part of the story.> Louis Ginzberg The Legends of the Jews 1:303-304 THE BURNING THORN-BUSH When Moses drew near to Mount Horeb, he was aware at once that it was a holy place, for he noticed that passing birds did not alight upon it. At his approach the mountain began to move, as though to go forward and meet him, and it settled back into quietude only when his foot rested upon it.114 The first thing Moses noticed was the wonderful burning bush, the upper part of which was a blazing flame, neither consuming the bush, nor preventing it from bearing blossoms as it burnt, for the celestial fire has three peculiar qualities: it produces blossoms, it does not consume the object around which it plays, and it is black of color. The fire that Moses saw in the bush was the appearance of the angel Michael, who had descended as the forerunner of the Shekinah herself to come down presently. It was the wish of God to hold converse with Moses, who, however, was not inclined to permit any interruption of the work under his charge. Therefore God startled him with the wonderful phenomenon of the burning thornbush. That brought Moses to a stop, and then God spoke with him. There were good reasons for selecting the thorn-bush as the vessel for a Divine vision. It was "clean," for the heathen could not use it to make idols. God's choosing to dwell in the stunted thorn-bush conveyed the knowledge to Moses that He suffers along with Israel. Furthermore, Moses was taught that there is nothing in nature, not even the insignificant thorn-bush, that can exist without

the presence of the Shekinah. Besides, the thorn-bush may be taken as the symbol for Israel in several respects. As the thornbush is the lowliest of all species of trees, so the condition of Israel in the exile is the lowliest as compared with that of all the other nations, but as the thorn-bush releases no bird that alights upon it without lacerating its wings, so the nations that subjugate Israel will be punished. Also, as a garden hedge is made of the thorn-bush, so Israel forms the hedge for the world, the garden of God, for without Israel the world could not endure. Furthermore, as the thornbush bears thorns and roses alike, so Israel has pious and impious members, and as the thorn-bush requires ample water for its growth, so Israel can prosper only through the Torah, the celestial water. And the thorn-bush, the leaf of which consists of five leaflets, was to indicate to Moses that God had resolved to redeem Israel only for the sake of the merits of five pious men, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Aaron, and Moses. The numbers represented by the letters composing the Hebrew word for thorn-bush, Seneh, add up to one hundred and twenty, to convey that Moses would reach the age of one hundred and twenty years, and that the Shekinah would rest on Mount Horeb for one hundred and twenty days. Finally, in order to give Moses an illustration of His modesty, God descended from the exalted heavens and spake to him from a lowly thorn-bush instead of the summit of a lofty mountain or the top of a stately cedar tree. Louis Ginzberg The Legends of the Jaws 5:415-416. Zohar II, 21a (as a magnet draws iron, even so did the holy mount draw Moses) which is very likely the source for Shu'aib, Shemot, 25b, whereas the somewhat different version in Recanati, Exod. 3. 1, is independent of Zohar. There are mountains, and Horeb is one of them, upon which neither man nor beast can set foot without immediately causing thunder-storms to come down at the first sound made by them, and only complete silence will stop these thunderstorms; Hasidim 426. ShR 2. 5; Tan. Shemot 14-15. As to the peculiarities of the heavenly fire, see Yolea 21b; Darmesteter, R.E.J., I, 187, seq.; note 60 on vol. I, p. 16. The angel who appeared to Moses was the archangel Gabriel, according to ShR, loc. cit., whereas Aggadat Bereshit 32, 64, maintains that it was Michael, who from this moment until the worship of the golden calf watched over Moses and Israel. The appearance of Gabriel or Michael served the purpose to indicate the presence of the Shekinah, for it was God Himself, and not the angels, who spoke to Moses; see ShR, loc. cit., and 32. 9; 8R 97.3 Trypho, in Justin's Dialoguee, 20 and 128. See Index, s. v. "Angels". As to the symbolic significance of the bush, see Tan. B. II, 8; Lekah Exod. 3. 1; PRE 40; Sabba, Shemot 66d and 67a; Al-Barceloni, 134;Tehillim 37, 223; PK 1, 2b; Emunah u-Bittahon 18; the vast collection of material dealing with this point in MHG II, 25, and the parallel passages cited by Hoffmann, ad loc. Philo, Ttita Mosis, 1. 12, in agreement with many of the Rabbis, sees in the bush a symbol of Israel, and in the fire that could not consume it a symbol of Israel's enemies. The symbolic explanations of the

bush given by Ephraim I, 102 and Theodoretus Exod. 3. 1, are also found in the Midrash. On the "lowly" bush, see Shabbat 67a; Sotah 5a; vol. III, p. 83; on the "purity" of the bush, see vol. III, p. 84. On the conception that God suffers when Israel is in distress, see note 4 on vol. II, pp. 183-184, and vol. III, p. 63. Joshua 5:13-6:2: Notice that Moses was told to take his shoes off and worship. Josuah was told to take his shoes off and worship. But when the angel appeared to John the Revelator he was told: <<Revelation 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See [thou do it] not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. >> > Louis Ginzberg The Legends of the Jews Joshua 4:7 As soon as the people were under the necessity of providing for their daily wants, they grew negligent in the study of the Torah. Therefore the angel admonished Joshua to loose his shoes from off his feet, for he was to mourn over the decline of the study of the Torah, and bare feet are a sign of mourning. The angel reproached Joshua in particular with having allowed the preparations for war to interfere with the study of the Torah and with the ritual service. Neglect of the latter might be a venial sin, but neglect of the former is worthy of condign punishment. At the same time the angel assured Joshua that he had come to aid him, and he entreated Joshua not to draw back from him, like Moses, who had refused the good offices of the angel. He who spoke to Joshua was none other than the archangel Michael. Louis Ginzberg The Legends of the Jews 6:173-174. ER 18, 101-102. 'Erubin 63b, and parallel passages on the margin; Aggadat Esther 80. In these sources Joshua is further reproached for having kept the warriors in camp (separated from their wives) when there was no need for it. Comp. note 526On vol. III, p. 273; Yerushalmi Ketubot 5, 30a-30b. Joshua is also blamed for having married Rahab (comp. vol. IV, p. 5), and for not having prayed to God on entering the Holy Land to have the "evil inclination removed from Israel"; see Pa'aneah, Haazinu (end). Comp. Index, s. v. "Joshua". BR 97.3; Tan. B. II, 87; Tan. Mishpatim 18; Aggadat Bereshit 32, 64-65. On the view that Moses refused the help of an angel and insisted on God's direct guidance for Israel, see also Midrash Tannaim 222; ShR 32.3-8; Tehiliim 90,390;

Philo, Quaestlones, Exod. II, 13; vol. III;pp. 131-132 and 347. Aggadat Bereshit 32.64; Zerubbabel (Jellinek's edition, 55; Wertheimer's edition, 10); R. Hananel as quoted by R.Bahya, Exod. 23.20; Lekah and Midrash Aggada on Exod. Ioc. cit.; BR 97.3, where the text is to be emended in accordance with ShR 2.5. That the angel who appeared to Joshua was Michael is also asserted by Aphraates, 57. In Tan. B. I. 17, Michael is declared to be the " angel of the face ", whereas in Sanhedrin 38b the angel whose services Moses refused, and who is none other than the "angel of the face" (comp. Tan. Mishpatim 18), is identified with Metatron. The identity of Michael with Metatron in Zerubbabel, loc. cit., is due to an attempt at harmonization. Comp. Index, s. v. "Angel of the Face", "Michael", "Metatron".

Jewish Who Wrote Jewish Christian Adamic Texts?

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Other Adamic Mythologies

The Koran, J.M. Rodwell, trans. Ivy Books, April 1993, Sura II, p.3 [Garden of Eden scene] And when We [those involved in the creation] said to the angels, "Bow down and worship Adam," then worshipped they all, save Eblis. He refused and swelled with pride, and became one of the unbelievers. James W. LeSueur Indian Legends, 83 Two great Beings made the world.... When this was done, the Elder Creator went up to Heaven and left his younger brother alone on the earth. Merle H. Graffam Fall 1982 Adam - An Egyptian Connection? Dialogue, Vol.15, No.3, p.4 ... I found one further link which no one to my knowledge has previously explored in the "Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language" attributed by many to Joseph Smith, Jr. The document consists of a series of lists of glyphs (not really hieroglyphs) which were purportedly the working sheets Joseph Smith used in his translation of the papyrus found on mummies in his possession. The glyphs appear in the left column, followed by lines of explanation to the right, supposedly translations of the strange markings. If one checks the list it will be found that one glyph appears to be a kind of checkmark stroke written backwards. In the several lists the explanatory note appears similar but with more information as the lists develop. For this glyph the notes give the following information: (glyph represented) = Phah-eh: the first man-Adam, first father (glyph represented) =Ah lish: the first being clothed with supreme glory (supreme power) (glyph represented) =Ah lish: the first being - supreme intelligence; supreme power; supreme glory - supreme justice; supreme mercy without beginning of life or end of life; comprehending all things, seeing all things - the invisible and eternal godhead. All of these notes occur after the same glyph represented in each list. It can be seen that the glyph representing Adam also represents the eternal godhead and the first being, supreme intelligence. It must be said, also, however that another glyph also represents "Adam or the first man, or first king." This document needs, however, to be further studied in light of the question of whether Joseph and Brigham taught the same doctrine (however secretly) about Adam

being God. Photocopies of the "Egyptian Grammar" are, of course, obtainable at some Salt Lake City bookstores. Merle H. Graffam, Palm Desert, California The Shepherd of Hermas Parable 8, Chapter 3 And the great, glorious angel is Michael, who has authority over this people and guides them, for it is he who puts the law into the hearts of those who believe. So he observes those to whom he has given the law, to see whether they have kept it. Halder The Notion of the Desert in Sumero-Accadian and West Semitic Religions, 5, 7-9, 14, 25, 26, 68 In the beginning we meet with the `steppe' flourishing with verdure being the pasture of the herds. Then, the enemies from the desert enter the god's field, destroy it, and make it a desert; at this moment the god descends to the Nether World. Then the change occurs, and finally, the god's triumph over his enemies and his return to life are celebrated, the field again becoming the flourishing dwelling place of the cattle. Burrows The War of the Sons of Light, 14(17:5-8); The Dead Sea Scrolls, 399 Today is his appointed time to lay low and make to fall the [136] prince of the dominion of wickedness; and he will send eternal help to the lot he has redeemed by the power of the angel he has made glorious for rule, Michael, in eternal light, to give light in joy to all Israel, peace and blessing to the lot of God, to exalt among the gods the rule of Michael and the dominion of Israel over all flesh. The Primitive God, 263 In nearly every separate area of the primitive culture the First Father plays an important part, especially in the initiation ceremonies; originally he and the First Mother were the parents of the race. Owing to the latter influence of the matrilineal cultures, he develops a lunar character, is brought into connection with the moon and not uncommonly obscures the Supreme Being or blends with him. The Shepherd of Hermas, Parable 8, Chapter 3, Verse 3; The Apostolic Fathers, Goodspeed Translation, 165 And the great, glorious angel is Michael, who has authority over this people and guides them, for it is he who puts the law into the hearts of those who believe. So he observes those to whom he has given the law, to see whether they have kept it. The Bibles and Beliefs of Mankind, 14, 16b Praise to Amen-Ra [Adam], the good God beloved, the ancient of heavens, the oldest of

earth, Lord of Eternity, Maker Everlasting. He is the causer of pleasure and light, maker of grass for the cattle and of fruitful trees for man, causing the fish to live in the river and the birds to fill the air, lying awake when all men sleep to seek out the good of his creatures. We worship thy spirit who alone hast made us; we, whom thou hast made, thank thee that thou has given us birth; we give thee praises for Thy mercy to us.

Interesting Quotes About Adam & Eve

Joseph Smith 5/17/1843 TPJS, 301 The 7th verse of 2nd chapter of Genesis ought to read - God breathed into Adam his spirit (i.e. Adam's spirit) or breath of life; but when the word "rauch" applies to Eve, it should be translated "lives." Heber C. Kimball UR 2:153 par. 40-42, 41 The Prophet Joseph called upon Brother Brigham, myself and others, saying, "Brethren, come go along with me, and I will show you something,' He led us a short distance to a place where were the ruins of three altars built of stone, one above the other, and one standing a little back of the other, like unto the pulpits in the Kirtland temple, representing the order of three grades of Priesthood; 'There,' said Joseph, 'is the place where Adam offered up sacrifice after he was cast out of the garden.' The altar stood at the highest point of the bluff. I went and examined the place several times while I remained there." Vilate M. Kimball 1836 [Vilate gives the date of March, 1836; Rodney Turner suggests it may have been January 1836] There Father Adam stood and opened the gate to them, and as they entered he embraced them one by one, and kissed them. He then led them to the throne of God, and then the Savior embraced each of them in the presence of God. He saw that they all had beautiful heads on hair and all looked alike. The impression this vision left on Brother Joseph's mind was of so acute a nature, that he never could refrain from weeping while rehearsing it. Joseph Smith 7/--/1839 MFP 1:113 I saw Adam in the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman. He called together his children and blessed them with a patriarchal blessing. The Lord appeared in their midst, and he (Adam) blessed them all, and foretold what should befall them to the latest generation. Joseph Smith TPJS, 157; MS 17:310; HC 3:386, 387; JD 6:237, 238 The Priesthood was first given to Adam; he obtained the First Presidency, and held the keys of it from generation to generation. He obtained it in the Creation, before the world was formed, as in Genesis 1:26, 27, 28. He had dominion given him over every living creature [including Christ]. He is Michael the Archangel, spoken of in the Scriptures. Then to Noah, who is Gabriel; he stands next in authority to Adam in the

Priesthood; he was called of God to this office, and was the father of all living in this day, and to him was given the dominion. These men held keys first on earth, and then in heaven. Joseph Smith TPJS, 167 Adam ... is Michael ... to whom was made known the plan of ordinances for the salvation of his posterity unto the end, and to whom Christ was first revealed, and through whom Christ has been revealed from heaven, and will continue to be revealed from henceforth Joseph Smith TPJS, 168 And again, God purposed in Himself that there should not be an eternal fullness until every dispensation should be fulfilled and gathered together in one, and that all things whatsoever that should be gathered together in one in those dispensations unto the same fullness and eternal glory, should be in Christ Jesus; therefore He set the ordinances to be the same forever and ever, and set Adam to watch over them, to reveal them from heaven to man, or to send angels to reveal them. "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" (Hebrews 1:14.) These angels [fn: Jesus is one - TPJS, 191] are under the direction of Michael or Adam, who acts under the direction of the Lord. Joseph Smith TPJS, 169 This, then, is the nature of the Priesthood; every man holding the presidency of his dispensation, and one man holding the presidency of them all [including Christ's dispensation], even Adam; and Adam receiving his presidency and authority from the Lord but cannot receive a fullness until Christ shall present the Kingdom to the Father, which shall be at the end of the last dispensation. This is a special manuscript which was not a regular part of Joseph's journal. Joseph Smith 5/16/1841 TPJS, 190 Everlasting covenant was made between three personages before the organization of this earth, and relates to their dispensation of things to men on the earth; these personages, according to Abraham's record, are called God the first, the Creator; God the second, the Redeemer; and God the third, the Witness or Testator. Parley P. Pratt 1845 The Elders Journal 4:96 His most gracious and venerable majesty, King Adam, with his royal consort, Queen Eve, will appear at the head of the whole great family of the redeemed, and will be crowned in their midst as a king and priest forever after the Son of God. They will then

be arrayed in garments white as snow and will take their seats on the throne, in the midst of the paradise of God on the earth, to reign forever and ever ... . This venerable patriarch and sovereign will hold lawful jurisdiction over Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, ... Saints of all ages and dispensations, who will all reverenced and obey him as their venerable father and lawful sovereign ... Adam and all the patriarchs, kings, and prophets will be subject unto Christ, because He was in the eternal world, there first born of every creature, and the beginning of the creation of God. Hence in the patriarchal order, He rules by right of birth. Brigham Young 2/16/1847 Journal of Wilford Woodruff I have a request to make of my family & that is that they, especially old people omit calling me their Father. Call me Brother Brigham - I shall feel better when you do for I do not consider that I am worthy of that appellation - Father in the Priesthood implies the great head, the term would be proper to Father Adam. Jesus had reference to the same thing when he told his disciples not to call any man Father on earth for their Father was in heaven. Brigham Young JD 3:80-81 Christ is the author of this Gospel, of this earth, of men and women, of all the posterity of Adam and Eve, and of every living creature that lives upon the face of the earth, that flies in the heavens, that swims in the waters, or dwells in the field. Christ is the author of salvation to all this creation, to all things pertaining to this terrestrial globe we occupy.... When he [Christ] has raised up this kingdom, and finished his work which the Father gave him to do, and presents it to his Father saying: "I have done the work, I have finished it; I have not only created the world, but I have redeemed it; I have watched over it, and I have given to those intelligent beings that you created by me, their agency, and it has been held with perfection to every creature of intelligence, to every grade of mankind. Brigham Young 8/8/1852 JD 3:90 There is only one gospel sermon, recollect, brethren and sisters, and the time that is required to preach it is from the day of the fall, or from the day when Adam and his wife Eve came here upon this planet, and from that time until Jesus Christ has subdued the last enemy, which is death, and put all things under his feet, and wound up all things pertaining to this earth. Then the gospel will have been preached, and brought up and presented, and the effects thereof, to the Father. Brigham Young 10/23/1853 JD 2:6 Look for instance at Adam. Listen, ye Latter-day Saints! Supposing that Adam was formed actually out of clay, out of the same kind of material from which bricks are formed; that with this matter God made the pattern of a man, and breathed into it the breath of life, and left it there, in that state of supposed perfection, he would have been

an adobe to this day. He would not have known anything. Some of you may doubt the truth of what I now say, and argue that the Lord could teach him. This is a mistake. The Lord could not have taught him in any other way than in the way in which He did teach him. You believe Adam was made of the dust of this earth. This I do not believe, though it is supposed that it is so written in the Bible; but it is not, to my understanding. ... I do not believe that portion of the Bible as the Christian world do. I never did, and I never want to. What is the reason I do not? Because I have come to understanding, and banished from my mind all the baby stories my mother taught me when I was a child. Orson Pratt 3/--/1850 MS 12:69 The universal redemption of the posterity of Adam from the fall will be fully accomplished after the earth has been filled with its measure of inhabitants, and all men have been redeemed from the grave to immortality, and the earth itself has been changed and made entirely new. Heber C. Kimball 6/7/1857 JD 9:41 This brings to my mind the vision that Joseph Smith had, when he saw Adam open the gate of the Celestial City and admit the people one by one. He then saw father Adam conduct them to the throne one by one, when they were crowned Kings and Priests of God. Orson Pratt 7/18/1880 JD 21:290-91 Adam very well knew that his wife Eve, after she had partaken of the forbidden fruit, having transgressed the law of God, must die. He knew this; he knew that she would have to be cast out of the garden of Eden, from the presence of her husband; she could no longer be permitted to dwell with him. Hence, inasmuch as there was a great separation threatened between husband and wife - the wife having transgressed - he concluded that he would not be separated from the woman, and hence he was not deceived, but the woman was deceived; he partook of the forbidden fruit to prevent a separation between the two, and fell, even as the woman fell, and both were cast out together. If one only had transgressed and been cast out, the great command that had been given prior to that time - to multipy and replenish the earth - could not have been fulfilled, because of the separation. In order, therefore, that the command first given might be fulfilled, Adam, though not deceived, partook of the forbidden fruit, was cast out with Eve, and hence began, as far as possible, to fulfil the command, and to multiply his species upon this earth. Brigham Young 2/8/1857 JD 4:215-16 I desire to pursue some of the ideas that brother Cummings has just laid before you ... even to the advancement of the Saints at a "snail gallop." The items that have been advanced are principles of real doctrine, whether you consider them so or not. It is one

of the first principles of the doctrine of salvation to become acquainted with our Father and our God. The scriptures teach that this is eternal life, to "know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent;" this is as much as to say that no man can enjoy or be prepared for eternal life without that knowledge. You hear a great deal of preaching upon this subject; and when people repent of their sins, they will get together, and pray and exhort each other, and try to get the spirit of revelation, try to have God their Father revealed to them, that they may know Him and become acquainted with Him. Brigham Young 12/27/1857 JD 6:145 Before the gospel revealed the introduction of sin to this planet, it was a great marvel even to the most learned, and they would ask, "Why was it so?- is it not strange?" and would rest with the expression, "It was suffered to be so." While reasoning or familiarly conversing with one another, let the question be asked, "Why was Eve suffered to partake of the forbidden fruit?" and the invariable reply was, "I cannot answer that question: it seems that it was so, and it appears to be a great pity." That is all the knowledge there is in the world on that point. The starting point they have not learned, that no intelligent being could be exalted with the Gods without being subjected to the temptation of sin, that he might know and understand the power of the adversary, the opposite to goodness; for it is written that "there must needs be an opposition in all things." The world have not yet learned that simple truth. Orson Pratt JD 7:257 Adam, before he fell, was in the presence of God, and could behold the face of his maker, hear his voice, look upon his glory, behold his angels, and associate with those pure and holy beings. JD 8:174 The greatest desire in the bosom of our Father Adam, or of his faithful children who are coworkers with God, our Father in Heaven, is to save the inhabitants of this earth. W.W. Phelps and Brigham Young 10/8/1861 James Beck Journal Joseph Smith said that Eve had twenty-eight sons and twenty-eight daughters, and that Adam had many wives - Brother Brigham then got into the stand and stated the same thing. He then gave some instructions in relation to sealing He said that there were many men & women who after having been sealed to each other for time & all Eternity-came to him for a Bill of Divorce. & for the sum of 10 Dollors he gave them a Bill Because the Lord permitted it but it was of no use to them. They might just as well tear off a Peice of their shirt tail or have a Peice of Blank Paper for a Divorce. But on account of the hardness of their hearts, the Lord permitted it, as it was in the days of Moses. But there was a way in which a woman could leave a man lawfully. When a woman becomes alienated in her feelings & affections from her husband-it is then his

duty to give her a Bill & set her free which would be fornication for the man to cohabit with his wife after she had thus become alienated from him. The children begotten of such a woman would be Bastards in the true Scriptural term of the word Fornication, for the crime of adultry a woman (& also men) would be stoned to Death & then come up in the morning of the Resurection & Claim all of her rights & Privledges in the marriage covenant. Also there was another way in which a woman could leave a man-if the woman Preferred--another man higher in authority & he is willing to take her, & her husband gives her up-there is no Bill of divorce required in the case it is right in the sight of God. But if he ever after has any connexion with her, he is then guilty of committing a very great sin & will be Punished accordingly. If a Man is faithfull & should his wife leave him & be married to another without his consent there is no Power in heaven or on Earth that can Prevent him from claiming her in the Resurrection. Heber C. Kimball 6/7/1857 JD 9:41 If we do not unite our efforts in this direction, we shall never pass through the strait gate that is spoken of in the Scriptures, or what I will call the narrow gate. It is the gate that will only admit one man at a time. We are not going in all in confusion, as the sectarians suppose. This brings to my mind the vision that Joseph Smith had, when he saw Adam open the gate of the Celestial City and admit the people one by one. He then saw father Adam conduct them to the throne one by one, when they were crowned Kings and Priests of God. Brigham Young 1/12/1862 JD 9:148 How has it transpired that theological truth is thus so widely disseminated? It is because God was once known on the earth among his children of mankind, as we know one another. Adam was as conversant with his Father who placed him upon this earth as we are conversant with our earthly parents. The Father frequently came to visit his son Adam, and talked and walked with him; and the children of Adam were more or less acquainted with their Grandfather, and their children were more or less acquainted with their Great-Grandfather; and the things that pertain to God and to heaven were as familiar among mankind, in the first ages of their existence on the earth, as these mountains are to our mountain boys. ...Things were first created spiritually; the Father actually begot the spirits and they were brought forth and lived with Him. Then He commenced the work of creating earthly tabrnacles, precisely as He had been created in this flesh Himself, by partaking of the couarse material that was organized and composed this earth, until his system was charged with it, consequently the tabernacles of His children were organized from the coarse materials of this earth. Brigham Young 4-5/--/1863 JD 10:222 . . . the land where our heavenly Father made his appearance and planted the Garden of Eden. This land is choice above all other lands upon the face of the earth.

John Taylor 12/31/1876 JD 18:326 If you were to ask Joseph what sort of a looking man Adam was, he would tell you at once; he would tell you his size and appearance and all about him. Letter to President Brigham Young from W. W. Phelps. President Young, or Brother Young just as pleases you best. Judge Phelps or rather brother Phelps wishes to say that he has discovered the following "old revelation" "Lead thy people, with thy support, the flock of thine estate, living in a lone wild, in the midst of the garden; let them be lead from the mountains like the days of old. According to the forty years of the going out of Egypt, our Lion will become terrible. The nations shall behold, and become ashamed of their power; They shall put their hand upon their mouth, and stop their ears. They shall lick dust like the serpent: like the snakes of the earth. They shall quake, shutting themselves up on account of the Almighty: the Lord our God; They will tremble and fear because of thee."--The Lion of the Lord--so much for Zion: eight years more will complete the "forty"--and then the Temple up, Israel will want "Room;"--and there will be plenty in the "United States" that once was! Hussa! for Deseret. As I am nearly the oldest member of the "Council of fifty," when the state of Deseret is officered I wish to be remembered. When Zion is to be built up no more to be thrown down, I shall be in my place by revelation. To end the whole matter, we must be heared by the Gods; fearing: and, according to the commandments, watch,--for this sustained Adam our Father, who is the Almighty before mentioned. When Israel was in the Wilderness, they kept the word of wisdom, as died like Achan for stealing, god and garments. My voice is Virtue and Victory. Amen! W. W. Phelps P S Keep this letter, as have not copied it. Jan. 20th, 1862 March 6, 1862 JD 9:243 Brigham Young The Lord knows all things; man should know all things pertaining to this life, and to obtain this knowledge it is right that he should use every feasible means; and I do not hesitate to say that the stage can, in a great degree, be made to subserve this end. It is written, "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." Brigham Young April/May 1863 JD 10:221 The Lord could impart this information (how to raise corn) in a special revelation, the same as he instructed Adam and Eve how to cover their nakedness. He showed them how to make aprons of leaves and then coats of skins, and instructed Adam in extracting the metals from their ores, the same as one man instructs another.

July 8, 1863 JD 10:230-31 Brigham Young We believe in God the Father and in Jesus Christ our elder brother. We believe that God is a person of tabernacle, possessing in an infinitely higher degree all the perfections and qualifications of his mortal children. We believe that he made Adam after his own image and likeness, as Moses testifies; and in this belief we differ from the professedly Christian world, who declare that "His center is everywhere, but his circumference is nowhere." Their God has no body nor parts; our God possesses a body and parts, and was heard by Adam and Eve "Walking in the garden in the cool of the day." 7/8/1863 JD 10:230-31 We believe in God the Father and in Jesus Christ our elder brother. We believe that God is a person of tabernacle, possessing in an infinitely higher degree all the perfections and qualifications of his mortal children. We believe that he made Adam after his own image and likeness, as Moses testifies; and in this belief we differ from the professedly Christian world, who declare that "His center is everywhere, but his circumference is nowhere." Their God has no body nor parts; our God possesses a body and parts, and was heard by Adam and Eve "Walking in the garden in the cool of the day." 1/8/1865 JD 11:41 No mortal man has ever seen God in His glory at any time and lived. We may have seen the Lord and angels many times, and did not know it. I will be satisfied with seeing and associating with His children whom I now behold, for there is not a son or daughter of Adam and Eve before me today but what is the offspring of that God we worship. He is our Heavenly Father; He is also our God, and the Maker and upholder of all things in heaven and on earth. 6/18/1865 JD 11:121-22 We believe in a Deity who is incorporated---who is a Being of tabernacle, through which the great attributes of His nature are made manifest. It is supposed by a certain celebrated philosopher that the most minute particles of matter ... possess a portion of divinity, a portion of infinite power, knowledge, goodness and truth, and that these qualities are God, and should be worshipped wherever found. I am an infidel to this doctrine. ... Elder Orson Pratt has written extensively on the doctrines of this church, and upon this particular doctrine. When he writes and speaks upon subjects with which he is acquainted and understands, he is a very sound reasoner; but when he has written upon matters of which he knows nothing---his own philosophy, which I call vain philosophy---he is wild, uncertain, and contradictory. ... He (God) created man, as we create our children; for there is no other process of creation in heaven, on the earth, in the earth, or under the earth, or in all the

eternities, that is, that were, or that ever will be. October 1865 Conference Report, Semi-Annual General Conference FD Richards Monday 10 a.m.10/9/1865 He [Elder Richards] dwelt at length on some of the principles of theology, showing that duties of a temporal nature were the first that were enjoined upon our first parents when they were placed in the garden of Eden ... May 6, 1867 Letter from W. W. Phelps to President Brigham Young; Great Salt Lake City. Pres. Young. If I correctly understood your meaning yesterday afternoon in the Tabernacle, "you did not know whether, the man, I mentioned, as spoken of in the book of Doc. & Cov. Sec. 101 Pat. 3. page 292 English Ed. meant you or not." Now as that Revelation was given more than 28 years ago, and before we were driven from Missouri, or Illinois, and even before the prophet Joseph was martyred, I still have a very easy notion in my heart that, as you lead the "Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter day Saints," over Plains and mountains to these waste places of Zion, to these chambers of the High places of Jehovah, even these "Holy places," where we, as a people, are free from the confusion, and utter abolishment that has already begun to be poured out upon Babylon, that you are the man likened unto Moses, in the revelation, and will, at the end of 40 years, like the Lion mentioned by Micah, become Terrible, and lead the armies of Israel back to Jackson County, Missouri, where, according to your first "anointing in the Lord's House at Kirtland, you, as well as myself, had the sealed blessing of the prophet upon our heads "to live to be as old as Moses," which will bring us both into the resurrection far enough to be changed in the twinkling of an eye. The Revelations on stewardships, in the Doc. & Cov. commencing on page 165. Sec 26, shows to you and I as well as brothers Kimball and Wells, that the Lord had the same thing in view, when he made us "stewards" over the Revelations:--the fourth paragraph, in particular, with that "whatsoever circumstances," and thus, "whithersoever I the Lord shall send them"-sounds to me as if the Lord knew what you and I would do and need--as to the revelation, which Morris and Cook, are trambooming on up at the Weber, it reads: "And it shall come to pass, that I the Lord God will send one mighty and strong, holding the sceptre of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering; whose mouth shall utter words, eternal words, while his laurels shall be a fountain of truth: -to set in order the house of God, and to arrange by lot the inheritance of the saints, etc. etc. while that man who was called of God, and appointed that put forth his hand to steady the Ark of God, shall fall by the shaft of death"--etc. now this revelation was sent to me in Zion, and has reference to the time when Adam our father and God, comes at the beginning of our Eternal Lot of inheritance,--according as our names are found in the Law of the Lord, while the fools that received the priesthood, like the fool that took his "one Talent" and hit it;--or reached out to steady the ark, will find themselves where the rich man did --in hell, with plenty of fire--but no water. Love begets lives eternal; our grace begets glory, but sin seeks secession, where goats and skunks can enjoy the lower room fog of a more dismal prison, than the nether room of Noah's Ark. Now should I be wrong in my belief as to these quotations:--please let me

have your views, for I am for God, light and life as his "steward" yours etc. W. W. Phelps Brigham Young Sunday 4/17/1870 JD 13:311 The world may in vain ask the question, "Who are we?" But the Gospel tells us that we are the sons and daughters of that God whom we serve. Some say, "We are the children of Adam and Eve." So we are, and they are the children of our Heavenly Father. We are all the children of Adam and Eve, and they and we are the offspring of Him who dwells in the heavens, the highest Intelligence that dwells anywhere that we have any knowledge of. BY3/30/1873 Journal of Wilford Woodruff When Adam left the garden, he went 40 miles to Adam-ondi-Ahman and built an alter and that alter remains today. Brigham Young March 30, 1873 Journal of Wilford Woodruff When Adam left the garden, he went 40 miles to Adam-ondi-Ahman and built an alter and that alter remains today. OP5/18/1873 JD 16:48 Adam-ondi-Ahman, the Valley of God, where Adam dwelt, was located about fifty miles north of Jackson County, in the State of Missouri. John Taylor JD 17:372 Why, Adam, before he left the earth, gathered his people together in the Valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and the curtain of eternity unfolded before him, and he gazed upon all events pertaining to his descendants, which should transpire in every subsequent period of time, and he prophesied to them. 14 May 1876 Charles L. Walker "Journal", 95-6 Pleasant At Conference again large attendance after singing by the Cedar choir Br Brigham junior offered up the Dedicatory Prayer dedicating the House to the Lord and to his worship. Br Brigham spoke on the Philosophy of our religion said that all true science emanated from God drew a striking contrast between the religion of Men and the Reveled will of God to his servants. Said that the Father of Jesus Christ's spirit, was the same that begat him in the Flesh. Showed that had be been all human He would not have had power to make the atonement and Redeem the world. showed that by throwing away evil and error and adopting goodness an truth and thro the sanctifying influences of the Holy Ghost we should soon be able to receive visits from Angels, and where ever we lived and the surrounding would partake of the influences and become

Holy even a Heaven, spoke of the vast creations of God and the Millions of worlds that had and would be redeemed said that the Sun was inhabited and God dwelt in the midst of eternal burnings doubted whether the Angels comprehended the vast infinitude of Space Said that the world would not receive the truth when they heard it and loved darkness rather than light and herein they lie under condemnation. Lecture at the Veil Tuesday 2/7/1877 L. John Nuttall Journal When this earth was organized by Elohim, Jehovah and Michael who is Adam our common father, Adam and Eve had the privilege to continue the work of progression. Consequently came to this earth and commenced the great work of forming tabernacles for those spirits to dwell in. Orson Pratt Sunday p.m. 2/25/1877 JD 18:342-43 This place, Spring Hill, is alluded to by the Lord, in this revelation, as being anciently called Adam-ondi-Ahman, because it is the place where Adam shall come to visit his children, or the place where the Ancient of Days shall sit. ... We have then an understanding that it was the place where Adam dwelt. Perhaps you may be anxious to know what "Ondi-Ahman" means. It means the place where Adam dwelt. "Ahman" signifies God. The whole term means Valley of God, where Adam dwelt. It is in the original language spoken by Adam, as revealed to the Prophet Joseph. John Taylor 1/13/1880 L. John Nuttal Papers Pres Taylor said I heard Joseph Smith says that Adam was the Ancient of Days spoken of by Daniel. You cannot get blessings only through the organized priesthood and when there was not an organized Church on the earth there was not priesthood & this power referred to the conferring the power of Elijah's priesthood to Elisha./ Joseph traced the Priesthood from Adam to Peter, Ja & John - they to Joseph & all who have held a portion of the priesthood would have to give an account of their stewardship or Priesthood to the one from whom they received it - rendering up an account of your stewardship to the one that preceded you - but you do not give up your priesthood Adam heard the voice of the Lord walking in the garden. Adam had a God then... Cain heard the voice of the Lord who enquired after Abel - referred to Peter Jas & John conferring the Mel Prt on Jos Smith Moses who conferred the spirit of gathering Elijah the sealing of the fathers & when we get to God our Father we are told to approach him in the name of Jesus Adam is the father of our bodies who is to say he is not the Father of our spirits. Present Pres Taylor CCR. F. D. R. & W L Johnson Jr. John L. Little 4/16/1882 Journal of Charles L. Walker, 39 (St. George). Father Jno L. Lytle gave a very interesting account of his early experiences in the church, his travels with the Prophet Joseph and of his telling them how Father Adam chased the game and outstripped them and caught them, and his knee

was never brought to the ground so great was his strength, and also showed the spot where Adam offered up sacrifice in Adam-ondi-Ahman. Helen Mar Whitney 9/20/1882 Plural Marriage, As Taught by the Prophet Joseph, 30, 36-37 Brigham Young did not happen to be the author of this doctrine [Adam-God], and to prove the truth of my assertion, I will produce some of the Prophet's teachings, given May 16, 1841 [she is apparently referring to HC, July 1839]. These were written, together with other things, by his clerk, William Clayton, as they were spoken, and as I had the privilege of reading them when quite a young woman, I took the liberty of copying them. The copy I have retained, and, this is what the prophet said upon this subject, commencing with the Priesthood: "The Priesthood was first given to Adam he obtained the First Presidency and held the keys of it from generation to generation. He obtained it in the Creation, before the word was formed. ... He had dominion given him over every living creature; he is Michael, the Archangel spoken of in the Scriptures. Then Noah who is Gabriel - he stands next in authority to Adam in the Priesthood. He was called of God to this office, and was the father of all living in his day, and to him was given the dominion. These men held keys first on earth and then in heaven. The Priesthood is an everlasting principle, and existed with God from eternity, and will to eternity, without beginning of days or end of years. When the keys have to be brought from heaven - it is by Adam's authoriy. ..." [TPJS, 175] [replying to Joseph Smith III's statement: Ponder it well. Are not those who teach and those who endorse Brigham Young's Adam God doctrine guilty of damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that brought them?] Now if he feels that it is his duty to proclaim against this people and deny the doctrines which his father felt authorized of God to teach as revelation from on high, I shall regret it for his own and his father's sake. 4/16/1882 Journal of Charles L. Walker, 39 Father Jno L. Lytle gave a very interesting account of his early experiences in the church, his travels with the Prophet Joseph and of his telling them how Father Adam chased the game and outstripped them and caught them, and his knee was never brought to the ground so great was his strength,... Joseph Smith et al. 5/7/1834 Salt Lake School of the Prophets, Minutes, 69-70 [recorded in records that date around 1883] Once after returning from a mission, he [Zebedee Coltrin] met Bro. Joseph in Kirtland, who asked him if he did not wish to go with him to a conference at New Portage. The party consisted of Prests. Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, Oliver Cowdery and myself. Next morning at New Portage, he noticed that Joseph seemed to have a far off look in his eyes, or was looking at a distance, and presently he, Joseph, stepped between Brothers Cowdery, and Coltrin and taking them by the arm, said, "lets take a walk." They went to a place where there was some beautiful grass, and grapevines and swampbeech interlaced. President Joseph Smith then said, "Let us pray." They all

three prayed in turn--Joseph, Oliver and Zebedee. Bro. Joseph then said, "now brethren we will see some visions." Joseph lay down on the ground on his back and stretched out his arms and the two brethren lay on them. The heavens gradually opened, and they saw a golden throne, on a circular foundation, something like a light house, and on the throne were two aged personages, having white hair, and clothed in white garments. They were the two most beautiful and perfect specimens of mankind he ever saw. Joseph said, They are our first parents, Adam and Eve. Adam was a large broad shouldered man, and Eve as a woman, was as large in proportion. Oct 11, 1883 Journal of Abraham H. Cannon, 13:89; August 25th, 1890; Richfield, Utah. The following account took place on 7 May 1834 at New Portage, Ohio which is about 50 miles from Kirtland, Ohio. Pres. Peterson told of an incident which he often heard Zebedee Coltrin relate. One day the Prophet Joseph asked him and Sidney Rigdon to accompany him into the woods to pray. When they had reached a secluded spot, Joseph laid down on his back and stretched out his arms. He told the brethren to lie one on each arm, and then shut their eyes. After they had prayed he told them to open their eyes. They did so and saw a brilliant light surrounding a pedestal which seemed to rest on the earth. They closed their eyes and again prayed. They then saw, on opening them, the Father seated upon a throne; they prayed again and on looking saw the Mother also; after praying and looking the fourth time they saw the Savior added to the group. He had ______ brown, rather long, wavy hair and appeared quite young. John Taylor April, 1885 Epistle to the Church. Who are women? The mothers of the whole human family. They are the mothers of the whole human family. Adam was the first flesh upon the earth, and it is an office in the Priesthood. Eve was the first woman, and it is also an office in the Priesthood and should be translated "eternal lives." Wilford W. Woodruff 3/3/1889 DN 38:389 THE POSITION OF ADAM AND NOAH IN THE PRIESTHOOD The Prophet Joseph taught us that father Adam was the first man on the earth to whom God gave the keys of the everlasting priesthood. He held the keys of the presidency, and was the first man who did hold them. Noah stood next to him, he being the father of all living in his day, as Adam was in his day. THESE TWO MEN WERE THE FIRST WHO RECEIVED THE PRIESTHOOD IN THE ETERNAL WORLDS, BEFORE THE WORLDS WERE FORMED. They were the first who received the everlasting priesthood or presidency on the earth. Father Adam stands at the head, so far as this world is concerned. Of course, Jesus Christ is the Great High Priest of the salvation of the human family. But Adam holds those keys in the world today; he will hold them to the endless ages of eternity. And Noah, and every man who has ever held or will hold the keys of presidency of the kingdom of God, from that day until the scene is wound up, will have to stand before Father Adam and give an account unto the lord, of the

principles that we have received when our work is done in the flesh. Wilford W. Woodruff circa 1892 St. George High Council Minutes President Wilford Woodruff said Adam stood ahead of this world and Jesus was born long after. Now this is the key to the whole matter. Jan. 9th, 1897 Letter to the Honorable A. Saxey, Provo, Utah from Joseph F. Smith; d1325/Bk4/fd 1. Hon. A. Saxey - Provo. Dear Brother: your esteemed favor of Dec. 31st came to hand safely. Sickness in my family and consequent increased pressure upon my time have prevented an earlier reply. And even now I cannot attempt more than a cursory reply to your enquiries. I may say I submitted your letter to President Woodruff, and he partially outlined what I should say in answer to your questions. To know this might be more satisfactory to you than to suppose my statements were simply my own. I am happy to know that he and I are in accord on the subject. With reference to Prest. B. Youngs remarks, in a discourse delivered in 1852. with reference to "Adam being the only God with whom we have to do" &c. I will say:--Prest. Young no doubt expressed his personal opinion or views upon the subject. What he said was not given as a revelation or commandment from the Lord. The Doctrine was never submitted to the Councils of the Priesthood nor to the Church for approval or ratification [p.2] and was never formally or otherwise accepted by the Church. It is therefore in no sense binding upon the Church nor upon the consciences of any of the members thereof, except perhaps only so far as some may have confidence in President Young, believing that he had light on the subject which was not given in connection with his public mention thereof. It is thought, even if there is truth in it, that the bare mention made my Prest. Young, with out indubitable evidence and authority being given of its truth, was unfortunate to say the least. But the sure test is to be found in "the law and the Testimony" and revealed truth. Whatsoever is not in accordance with these must fall. No scripture being of any private interpretation &c. but open to the understanding of every man who possesses the Holy Ghost, anyone thus endowed may apply the tests by the light of the good spirit. While I am not authorized to sit in judgment upon Prest. Young, I am at liberty to test the truth of his words or utterances by the Revealed and accepted word of God. Anything uttered by man which is contrary to the Divine law must fall, while that only [p.3] which is in harmony with it can remain, or stand. Generally--when the Lord speaks through his approved channel, he speaks with no uncertain sound. Yet many there be who cannot see the truth no matter how plain to the mind of the Spirit. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned, (1 Cor. 2:9-11-16.) but carnal things by the natural senses. When the inspired head, speaks by the power of the spirit & he is backed up by "thus saith the Lord"-, it becomes a serious matter to reject, or lightly pass it by. There is no such responsibility attached to this statement, made by Prest. Young. With reference to the "Manifesto" prohibiting plural marriages, I scarcely need to say more than that you expressed yourself on that matter Strictly in accord with my own views, and in harmony with the views of President Woodruff-and the facts. The doctrine is not

repealed, the truth is not annulled, the law is right and just now as ever, but the observance of it is stopped. And as to the future--no man knows, only as it may be revealed to him, and no one is authorized to foretell. We may have opinions, but it may not be wise to express them for by doing so antagonism might be engendered [p.4] Altho our belief would necessarily come within the realm of conjecture only. I am willing to let the matter rest with God for I feel I have done my whole duty, as an individual, in regard to that matter. Of course this is not germane to your question, but I trust you will pardon the digression. I certainly believe fully in the Revelation and I know the principle is sound and right. I believe those who entered into it, are as sacredly obligated today to fulfill their covenants as they ever were. The Manifesto stopped further pl. marriages in time, but it did not divorce a single wife--nor relieve a man who had entered into the Covenant, or a single responsibility. The operation of the law--as to further pl. marriages was suspended--or stopped: but the obligations already incurred were not touched. I hope you will excuse the hasty and crude form of this letter. and that you will digest it, together with what is not said in it at your leisure. I have not had a nights sleep since last Sunday on account of sickness in my family. With very Kind regards, I am &c. /s/ Jos. F. Smith Dec. 16th 1897 John Henry Smith "Journal", 47; University of Utah Library, Special CollectionsManuscripts Ogden City. Utah. I returned to the City and Met with Presidents Wilford Woodruff. Geo. Q. Cannon, & Jos. F. Smith. Lorenzo Snow. Franklin D. Richards. Brigham Young. Geo Teasdale. Heber J. Grant. Anton H. Lund. and Myself with G F Gibbs as clerk in the Temple. It was agreed by all present the sealings done outside of the Temple should stand and children born after these sealings should be held as born under the Covenant. If persons so sealed visited the Temple to get their endowments their sealings might be reviewed over the Alter. Dec 18, 1897 Letter of Franklin D. Richards, Richards Family Collection, Franklin Dewey Richards Letterbook; Ms/f/318/reel 11; S.L. City President E. H. Nye, 915 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. Dear Brother On receipt of your letter of the 4th inst., I conferred with Prest. Joseph F. Smith, and we concluded to present the matter to the Council of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles. Both your letters to me, and the Article to the Fresno Republican, were read. Each of the Presidency and several of the Apostles expressed themselves well pleased with your article, that it evinced skill and valor for the Truth, and they did not see how it could be much improved. The Council did not deem it wise to lay out any line of procedure in which to deal with the subject, but felt that it is best to avoid bringing it up, and to do the best we can and as the Spirit may suggest when it is thrust upon us. Your having got so many of the Josephites was received with marks of particular pleasure. This, like many other points of more advanced doctrine, is too precious a pearl to be cast before swine. But when the swine get hold of them, let us rescue them by the help of the Spirit as best we can. Thinking it may be convenient to you to have

President Youngs sayings on that subject, I enclose a copy from his sermon in the first Volume of the Journal of Discourses. We have been getting quite a streak of winter weather. . . Wednesday February 23, 1898 Journal of Wilford Woodruff; Church Historical Department, Ms/f/115 Drove to the Office, feeling well. I thought it for the best to write my views and feelings on the matter which has been made quite clear to me in regard to the Godhead and of which I hope to be able to speak at [sic] the coming Conference so that I can submit the same to Bros Cannon & Smith. March 8, 1898 Franklin Dewey Richards Letterbooks, Richards Family Collection; Church Historical Department, Ms/f/318/Reel #11/p. 418 Salt lake City, Utah, March 8, 1898 Dear Brother and Sister Nye: It has been a long time since I had anything from you. The last I recollect was a piece in the paper that you replied to a Mr. Reverend Somebody. I read it to Bro. Jos. F. Smith and he like it so well that we tried to see if the News would reprint it, but they declined and Brother Parry said he would print it in his paper. (five unrelated paragraphs) /s/ F. D. Richards 28 July 1901 W. H. Smart Diary, 1901-1902 Bk, 94 At Wasatch Stake MIA Conference, remarks of Sister and President Joseph F. Smith: "Sister Smith bore a very strong testimony to the divinity of the principle of plural marriage. Pres. Smith endorsed it. He said it was taken away from the people--like the law of consecration--because the saints rejected it, and neither would be restored until there is a people prepared to live them. Anyone should beware that casts slurs upon the birth of those born under this covenant. Also that men who will not appreciate their wives and children and provide for them will lose them." Joseph Fielding Smith Answers to Gospel Questions 2:138 Satan, from the beginning, was determined to destroy the whole human family. No doubt he felt, after he had induced Adam and Eve to take a course which brought upon them banishment from the presence of God, and the mortal death, that he had accomplished his purpose. To him death meant that the spirits of all men would become subject to him forever. The atonement of Jesus Christ released all creatures subject to death from Satan's grasp. Therefore the resurrection of the dead shall be as infinite as is the fall.

Journal of Oliver B. Huntington, 207 Joseph Smith said that our old Father Adam was such a perfect man great and stout, that he never stumbled or fell a joint to the ground. This was said in the hearing of Dimick Huntington. Charles W. Penrose 9/--/1881 Contributor 2:363 #12 That which was lost in Adam is to be regained in Christ. Through the commission of crime, death came into the world. Satan gained dominion. The earth trembled under the curse. Eden bloomed no more upon its face. The tree of life was removed. Thorns and briers and noxious weeds came up in the place of the flowers and fruits of paradise. Deity was hidden from the sight of man. Sorrow and pain and toil and travail became the heritage of mortals. Enmity arose between man and beast. Venom entered the serpent's fangs, and rage the hearts of brute and fowl and aqueous creature. Strife dwelt in the very elements and death brooded over the face of the smitten globe. What, then, was lost? The immortality of man; the blessed tree of life; communion with Jehovah; the companionship of angels; the purity of paradise; man's dominion over inferior creatures; freedom from Satanic influence; exemption from toil and pain; earth's affinity with perfected realms on high. See also JD 15:164 - Adam paid tithing

Lucifer, Satan, & Dissolution

Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 2 Nephi 24:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! Art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! Joseph Smith TPJS, 217 As far as we degenerate from God, we descend to the devil and lose knowledge, and without knowledge we cannot be saved. Joseph Smith 2/--/1843 MS 3:166-67 #10; LF We ask, then, where is the prototype? or where is the saved being? We conclude ... that it is in Christ. ... And if we should continue our interrogation, and ask how it is that he is saved, the answer would be, because he is a just and holy being; and if he were any thing different from what he is, he would not be saved, for his salvation depends on his being precisely what he is and nothing else; for if it were possible for him to change in the least degree, so sure he would fail of salvation and lose all his dominion, power, authority, and glory, which constitutes salvation; for salvation consists in the glory, authority, majesty, power, and dominion which Jehovah possesses, and in nothing else; and no being can possess it but himself or one like him. JD 21:18 Satan before the days of the flood obtained the ascendancy over many men and brought them under his rule and dominion. He started in with Cain and made a murderer of him the very first thing he did and taught him many principles of evil, and he was called the great Master Mahon. Under the influence and power of Satan he operated to thwart the designs of God and to stop the purposes of Jehovah. JD 1:117 When I came to the door of the tabernacle, this morning, I heard brother Rich telling about one third part of the heavenly host revolting from the government of Jehovah. This was their curse-to never have tabernacles to dwell in. They now exist in Spirit, but

shall never have a body, nor be exalted; they shall have no further addition to their existence; whilst those who did not rebel, could have tabernacles, and, through the resurrection, become personages of tabernacle in the eternal world. There it is, on the one hand, and on the other. You can now see the benefit, the propriety of obeying the principles which lead to eternal lives, exaltations, and increase; and why it is that Jesus Christ has so much more power than Satan. The power of the evil one is beyond the conception of man; his cunning craft, and winning ways to insinuate and introduce himself into a community, an individual. This is to obtain, if possible, a tabernacle, which, although a borrowed one, yet increases his power, so long as he can wield it to suit his purposes; and if he fails in this, and in enticing unto evil, then, his object is to decompose, to destroy, that the good power, the good influence, may, like himself, become bereft of the power pertaining to an embodied spirit. Brigham Young 7/10/1853 JD 1:350-51 If a man could ever arrive at the point that would put an end to the accumulation of lifethe point at which he could increase no more, and advance no further, we should naturally say he commenced to decrease at the same point. Again, when he has gained the zenith of knowledge, wisdom, and power, it is the point at which he begins to retrograde; his natural abilities will begin to contract, and so he will continue to decrease, until all he knew is lost in the chaos of forgetfulness. As we understand naturally, this is the conclusion we must come to, if a termination to the increase of life and the acquisition of knowledge is true. ... To me life would signify an extension. I have the privilege of spreading abroad, of enlarging my borders, of increasing in endless knowledge, wisdom and power, and in every gift of God. To live as I am, without progress, is not life, in fact we may say that is impossible. There is no such principle in existence, neither can there be. All organized existence is in progress, either to an endless advancement in eternal perfections, or back to dissolution. You may explore all the eternities that have been, were it possible, then come to that which we now understand according to the principles of natural philosophy, and where is there an element, an individual living thing, an organized body, of whatever nature, that continues as it is? It cannot be found. All things that have come within the bounds of man's limited knowledge - the things he naturally understands, teach him, that there is no period, in all the eternities, wherein organized existence will become stationary, that it cannot advance in knowledge, wisdom, power, and glory. ... There is no such thing as principle, power, wisdom, knowledge, life, position, or anything that can be imagined, that remains stationary - they must increase or decrease. ... Nothing less than the privilege of increasing eternally, in every sense of the word, can satisfy the immortal spirit. If the endless stream of knowledge from the eternal fountain could all be drunk in by organized intelligences, so sure immortality would come to an end, and all eternity be thrown upon the retrograde path. JD 2:14 There is another main thread connected with this, that I have not brought out. You know in fishing with the hook and line, if you draw out suddenly on the line when you have got a large trout, you may break your line; you must therefore angle a little, and

manage your prize carefully. I would ask you if Jehovah has not in all ages tried His people by the power of Lucifer and his associates; and on the other hand, has He not tried them and proved them by His Prophets? Brigham Young 6/3/1855

For instance, let a man or woman who has received much of the power of God, visions and revelations, turn away from the holy commandments of the Lord, and it seems that their senses are taken from them, their understanding and judgment in righteousness are taken away, they go into darkness, and become like a blind person who gropes by the wall. Many of you witness this almost daily. Such will continue to go on the retrograde path until they are decomposed; while those who are faithful will continue to increase, and this is the great blessing the Lord has given to, or placed within the reach of, the children of man, even to be capable of receiving eternal lives. D&C 76:26 And was called Perdition, for the heavens wept over him-he was Lucifer, a son of the morning. Joseph Smith TPJS, 181 All beings who have bodies have power over those who have not. Joseph Smith TPJS, 24; HC 1:364-368 Say to the brothers Hulet and to all the others, that the Lord never authorized them to say that the devil, his angels, or the sons of perdition, should ever be restored; for their state of destiny was not revealed to man, is not revealed, nor ever shall be revealed, save to those who are made partakers thereof: consequently those who teach this doctrine have not received it of the Spirit of the Lord. Truly Brother Oliver declared it to be the doctrine of devils. We, therefore, command that this doctrine be taught no more in Zion. We sanction the decision of the bishop and his council, in relation to this doctrine being a bar to communion. 7/2/1833

Joseph Smith circa 1844 Scott Isaac; BYU Studies 18:218 Joseph says there are Gods above the God of this Universe as far as he is above us, and if He should transgress the law given to Him by those above Him, He would be hurled from his throne to hell. Brigham Young JD 4:133 [All resurrected beings] have control over matter as well as spirit.

W. W. Phelps et al. a.m. 10/8/1861 James Beck Journal If faithfull a Man will attain to an Adam & the Wife to be an Eve & begat Millions of Spirits who will come forth & receive their Tabernacles upon an earth like this &c - The glory of the Man is the woman, And the glory of the woman is her Virginity - Men are the Lords of Creation & the Responsibility rests upon the man & not upon the woman - all women will be saved after they have sufferred & atoned for their sins & thus satisfied the ends of Justice they will not become angels to the Devil. Franklin D. Richards 3/31/1855 MS 17:194 This great chain, or succession of Priesthood, has been extended from the celestial worlds down to man in his low estate, that he may also be exalted in like manner as those who have gone before him. The ordinances of the Priesthood have been taught to men in various periods of time, and have been as variously esteemed, profited by, or rejected. Some have perverted them and gone down to perdition, while others, through obedience, have received the keys of the resurrection, and entered into their glory. Franklin D. Richards 12/15/1855 MS 17:785-86 Not only do the Old and New Testament, and other ancient and modern revelations through the Holy Priesthood assert the fact but mankind of every grade, condition, and religion, whether Christian, Jew, Mohamedan, or Pagan, all believe in leading personages or influences which are the sources of good and evil. One of these is God the Father, Michael or Adam, from whose loins the earth is peopled, and who is now laboring for the redemption of his children. The great captain of evil is Satan, formerly Lucifer, but now a fallen "Son of the Morning" who with his followers are diligently laboring to destroy the works of God by reducing them to a like condition with themselves. Franklin D. Richards Saturday 12/15/1855 MS 17:787 We read in Jude 9: "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee." Before leaving this part of our subject, we will add, that in reviewing it, it is evident that the mission of Satan on the earth is a necessary one, that he has been especially raised up to fill the place which he now occupies, that the great plan of redemption and exaltation of man could not have existed according to the order of creation without him, and that he is one of the dignitaries against whom men should not bring a railing accusation, lest they partake of his spirit. Brigham Young JD 14:71-72 But the fact exists that the Father, the Divine Father, whom we serve, the God of the Universe, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Father of our spirits, provided this sacrifice and sent his Son to die for us; and it is also a great fact that the Son came to do the will of the Father, and he has paid the debt, in fulfillment of the

Scripture which says, `He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.' Is it so on any other earth? On every earth. ... Sin is upon every earth that was ever created. ... Consequently every earth has its redeemer, and every earth has its tempter; and every earth, and the people thereof, in their turn and time, receive all that we receive, and pass through all the ordeals that we are passing through. Brigham Young Sunday p.m. 6/18/1873 DN 22:308 Now for mother Eve. The evil principle always has and always will exist. Well, a certain character came along, and said to Mother Eve, `The Lord has told you that you must not do so and so, for if you do you shall surely die. But I tell you that if you do not do this you will never know good from evil, your eyes will never be opened, and you may live on the earth forever and ever, and you will never know what the Gods know.' The devil told the truth, what is the mystery about it? He is doing it today. He is telling one or two truths and mixing them with a thousand errors to get the people to swallow them. I do not blame Mother Eve, I would not have had her miss eating the forbidden fruit for anything in the world. I would not give a groat if I could not understand light from darkness. I can understand the bitter from the sweet, so can you. Here is intelligence, but bind it up and make machines of its possessors, and where is the glory or exaltation? There is none. JD 12:135-36 That which is good tends to exalt us and to increase in us knowledge, power, understanding, and everything worth possessing, while that which is evil tends to destruction, and if its practice be persisted in it will lead to dissolution and even the loss of our own identity. This is the reward of the wicked; as the prophet has said, "The wicked will come to a full stop," but the blessing of the righteous is the same as that pronounced upon Abraham-to their increase there will be no end. This is the blessing conferred upon the Saints in their ordinations and endowments under the authority of the Holy Priesthood of the Son of God - the Melchizedek Priesthood, which is without beginning of years or end of days, without father, without mother, without descent, eternal, in the Heavens. That authority and priesthood have been again restored to the earth, and men are once more empowered to administer in the ordinances of the holy gospel. Brigham Young 10/9/1859 JD 7:287 Every principle, act, and portion of the lives of the children of men that does not tend to [obedience] will lead to an eternal dissolution of the identity of the person. "Why," some say, "we thought that the wicked were to be sent to hell to dwell with eternal burnings for evermore." They go to hell and will stay there until the anger of the Almighty consumes them and they become disorganized, as the elements of the fuel we burn are disorganized by the action of fire and thrown back again to their native element. The wicked will endure the wrath of God and be "turned into hell, with all the nations that forget God." What will be done with them there? Those who did not persecute the Son of God in the flesh

while acting for themselves and following the direction of their own will - those who did not persecute the holy Priesthood of the Son of God - those who did not consent to the shedding of innocent blood - those who did not seek to obliterate the kingdom of God from the earth, will, by-and-by, be sought after. Moses Thatcher 9/--/1880 Contributor 1:266-67 #12 While planning to dethrone Jehovah and to crush, with false accusations, his brethren, no doubt he claimed to be the most abused person of all those surrounding the throne of God. Cast out from heaven, his purpose unmasked, treachery made bare - rebellion defeated; hear the song of angels turned to lamentation as the envious, self-condemned, fallen deceiver, crawls in serpent form to the portals of Eden's happy garden; revenge, his purpose; to corrupt man's allegiance to heaven's law, the mode; to destroy God's gift of "peace on earth and good will to man," the end. Wilford W. Woodruff & George Q. Cannon 6/11/1892 Diary of Charles Lowell Walker, 2:740-41 And after this Mortal tabernacle had crumbled to dust in the grave that God would in the time of the resurrection by his Matchless Power would bring together again in the form of a glorified and an imortal [sic] to the Righteous to dwell with Him for ever. Also that those that were not righteous would also be resurrected, but not with a glorified body. See also: JD 1:114-118, 219, 257, 269, 270, 274-76, 284, 288, 330, 349-51 2:124, 128 3:93, 103, 203, 256, 277, 373 4:28, 31, 54, 135 5:54, 95, 113 6:146 7:57, 130, 174, 202, 209, 255, 276, 277, 287 8:123, 240, 257, 27-28, 206 9:130, 149 10:251 12:135, 184 (shows use of term) 13:9, 317 14:93 18:234 19:272-75, 317 20:127 23:171 WJS 361

Analysis & Observations

Lucifer presents himself to Eve as her brother in the temple endowment. If she is a resurrected, immortal being and Lucifer is her brother, that makes Lucifer a resurrected, immortal being as well - unless he is using the term loosely (that is, he is a spirit child of Adam and she was a physical child of Adam on another world [like Mary is a child of Adam; but she will be an Eve on another world]. If Lucifer had a body, this could explain why Lucifer had so much persuasive power in the war in heaven - he could explain to all of the spirits that he had been through mortality too - just like their spiritual father - and he had overcome all of the temptations of the flesh - just like their spiritual father - but he [Lucifer] had a better plan whereby he could save all of the spirits - not just some of them. This approach seems to be more convincing than the approach of a charismatic spirit who thinks that he knows more than his spiritual father who had not only gone through mortality, but who had created worlds without number, etc. However, this item of doctrine remains hotly contested among fundamentalists and there has been very little revealed on this issue. Nevertheless, consider the following (especially the last observation): 2/--/1843 MS 3:166-67 #10 We ask, then, where is the prototype? or where is the saved being? We conclude, as to the answer of this question, there will be no dispute among those who believe the bible, that it is in Christ; all will agree in this that he is the prototype or standard of salvation, or, in other words, that he is a saved being. And if we should continue our interrogation, and ask how it is that he is saved, the answer would be, because he is a just and holy being; and if he were any thing different from what he is, he would not be saved, for his salvation depends on his being precisely what he is and nothing else; for if it were possible for him to change in the least degree, so sure he would fail of salvation and lose all his dominion, power, authority, and glory, which constitutes salvation; for salvation consists in the glory, authority, majesty, power, and dominion which Jehovah possesses, and in nothing else; and no being can possess it but himself or one like him.