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Show 270 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. worlds are and were created; and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God." Notice this last expression, " the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God," (meaning the different worlds that have been created and made). Notice, this does not say, that God, whom we serve and worship, was actually the Father Himself, in His own person, of all these sons and daughters of the different worlds; but they " are begotten sons and daughters unto God;" that, is, begotten by those who are made like Him, after His image, and in His likeness ; they begat sons and daughters, and begat them unto God, to inhabit these different worlds we have been speaking of. But more of this, if we have time, before we get through. We now come to the second division of our subject, or the entrance of th^se spirits upon their second estate, or their birth and existence in mortal tabernacles. We are told that among this great family of spirits, some were more noble and great than others, having more intelligence. Where do you read that ? says one. Out of the Book of Abraham, translated from the Egyptian papyrus by the Prophet Joseph Smith. Among the great and numerous family of spirits-" the begotten sons and daughters of God"-there are some more intelligent than others; and the Lord showed unto Abraham " the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones." And God said to Abraham, "thou art one of them, thou wast chosen before thou wast born." Abraham was chosen before he was born. Here then, is knowledge, if we had time to notice it, upon the doc- |
