THE BOOK OF THE HIGH PLACE

1Elohim Heavenly Mother: Ponder the deep, Elohim. Is it not a great question?

2Elohim Heavenly Father: Look out into the deep, Elohim, and tell Me what You see.

3Elohim Heavenly Mother: I see space there – space to fill, space to build, space to do a great thing. Long have I pondered the deep and wondered why it remains so dark and empty. Should it not be filled with light? Should it not be filled with wonder and beauty? Where We are, there is light and truth. Our own parents provided this for Us and We rose up by line and by precept to become like them. Why do We look out upon the deep and see emptiness? It is a thing that should not be.

4Elohim Heavenly Father: We look upon where We are and see what is real. Out yonder there is no one to see Us. Indeed there is no one to see at all. What need then, has the deep of light, and wonder, and beauty? Our work is for the world in which We find Ourselves. Why should We ask for more than what is?

5Elohim Heavenly Mother: I am not “no one,” Elohim. I look upon the deep and I would see what I would see.

6Elohim Heavenly Father: That is right, Elohim. Now, because someone sees the deep, I perceive that there is substance there which fills the expanse and the emptiness. It is matter but it has no order.

7Elohim Heavenly Mother: It is the same as the world in which We now labor except that, unto the matter with which We do Our labor, someone has given order. Therefore, the question still exists – why should the deep remain so? What ought to be done with the matter? Why should not We venture to do the same there as has been done heretofore? Or shall We remain always here to act upon another’s work?

8Elohim Heavenly Father: To act upon what has always been is not a bad work, Elohim. Indeed, it has brought Us to exaltation. In this way all spirit children do arise, line upon line and precept on precept, even unto the state and stature of their parents. This is the Everlasting Covenant. Do You think to rashly abandon that which We have learned from Our own experience?

9Elohim Heavenly Mother: I do not wish to abandon anything, Elohim. But let Us cause light and truth to expand and grow. Else, why should We be endowed with power at all?

10Elohim Heavenly Father: It is right, Elohim Heavenly Mother. Let Us leave that which We now know by virtue of another’s work and make works of Our own.

11Narrator: Then Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother separated Themselves from each other for a season and set about the work of 10 organizing matter. Elohim Heavenly Father found the task easier than Elohim Heavenly Mother, for His endowment was to create by combining matter into organized unions. He made stars, worlds, moons, and other astral bodies. He caused all of these to coalesce into great swirling formations and clouds. He experienced all this creation first hand by placing Himself within the creation – giving of His own substance by way of pattern and form, and the deep matter willingly obeyed. Then He stood back and observed His work and pondered it.

12Narrator: Elohim Heavenly Mother found creation more difficult, for Her endowment was in becoming a wellspring of life unto matter. She caused the deep matter to recognize itself as a living soul, and taught it to seek patterns of order, and the matter did live; but, without experience, it could do nothing but ponder itself. Then She too stood back and observed Her work and pondered it.

13Elohim Heavenly Father: See, Elohim, that I have been able to cause the matter to become organized. I have made moons, worlds, and stars, such as We have heretofore seen. But the bodies have no life. Organization alone brings no real order to the matter.

14Elohim Heavenly Mother: It is so, Elohim. Look how I have given self knowledge to the deep matter and it does seek patterns of order. But the matter does only ponder itself and is confused. Life and existence alone brings no real order to the matter.

15Elohim Heavenly Father: Our work alone does not accomplish anything. Our previous work was fruitful because there was organization and life brought together by fathers and mothers. When one is without the other, the matter remains in chaos.

16Elohim Heavenly Mother: Why should We work thus alone? Why should We not combine Our work together?

17Elohim Heavenly Father: It is right, Elohim. I shall work by the endowment of My power to bring together the deep matter and organize it into all the astral bodies We have heretofore seen, and I shall consecrate all that obey Me unto the endowment of Your power.

18Elohim Heavenly Mother: I shall work by the endowment of My power to give Your organizations self knowledge and they shall become living beings capable of perception.

19Elohim Heavenly Father: I do covenant with You, Elohim, to share all My creative works with You, that the endowment of My power may be combined with the endowment of Your power.

20Elohim Heavenly Mother: I do covenant with You, Elohim, to share all My creative works with You, that the endowment of My power may also be combined with the endowment of Your power.

21Elohim Heavenly Mother: Then were Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother bound by Their covenant one to another, and They 11 became one in heart, one in mind, and one in purpose. This is the first covenant made by our Heavenly Parents. We desire that all do likewise. All arise.

22Elohim Heavenly Mother: Each of you do solemnly covenant to share your work in this life and in the life hereafter with your own spouse. Each of you bow your head and say “Yes.”

23Elohim Heavenly Mother: It is enough. That will do. You may be seated. things of the Father and of the Mother, and all things were one.

26Elohim Heavenly Father: Elohim, behold My relations!

27Elohim Heavenly Mother: Elohim, behold My relations!

28Narrator: And They stood back and observed Their creation and saw that a portion of the deep was now filled with light and beauty in abundance, and They rejoiced in Their accomplishment. _(The participants now pause in their re-telling or re-enactment in order to receive instruction from the Peli about the nature of the covenant and bond between men and women in this creation.)_

24Narrator: Then did Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother become truly united, essentially bringing into being living things in the deep that could both perceive and be perceived, beings that could act and be acted upon - the Father, by causing deep matter to coalesce into astral bodies such as He had theretofore seen, and the Mother, by giving the bodies life. Thus, they were bodies indeed because of the Truth bestowed by the Father, and they were bodies indeed because of the Light bestowed by the Mother.

25Narrator: The Father placed His own matter in the bodies so that all things became His. The Mother placed Her own understanding in the bodies so that all things became Hers. Therefore, were all

29Narrator: Then the Father and the Mother begot spirit children after Their own kind and They did populate Their creation and They did begin to teach them to become like unto Themselves by line and by precept. From the smallest particle to the largest astral system, the Father and the Mother taught Their children to learn and to grow by participating in the creation personally. They bestowed upon Their own children portions of Their own endowment of power, that they also might create worlds and thereby progress toward the state and stature of their Parents.

30Narrator: And when they had received these great gifts, and when they had each undertaken the work of creation, the children no longer enjoyed the presence of the Father and the Mother. For, they had all entered into the Everlasting Covenant and the matter of their creations could not abide the presence of Beings until those creations had progressed into that glory. Should any of them come into the presence of a Celestial Being before such progression had taken place, their matter would 12 disintegrate and they must begin that portion of creation again. Therefore, the Father and the Mother refrained from making Their presence known unto them, but waited upon the plan to bring them together once again. Notwithstanding, They could still observe from a distance the creations and works of Their children without disrupting them.

31Elohim Heavenly Mother: Each of you created worlds in the pre-earth life. In the creation of these worlds, you participated in every step of development.

32Elohim Heavenly Father: When the first atoms combined to form the clouds of matter from which worlds were made, each of you lived in that creation. Your matter was part of it, and it was part of you. Because of this, in the face of great faith, the atoms respond and miracles take place. They know you, for they are your relations.

33Elohim Heavenly Mother: When the first atoms combined into molecules, each of you lived in that creation. Your matter was part of it, and it was part of you. Because of this, in the face of great faith, the molecules respond and miracles take place. They know you, for they are your relations.

34Elohim Heavenly Father: When the first molecules combined into cells, each of you lived in that creation. Your matter was part of it, and it was part of you. Because of this, in the face of great faith, the cells respond and healing takes place. They know you, for they are your relations.

35Elohim Heavenly Mother: When the first cells formed into tissues, each of you lived in that creation. Your matter was part of it, and it was part of you. Because of this, in the face of great faith, the tissues respond and rejuvenation takes place. They know you, for they are your relations. In every stage and step of development – from mineral, to plant, to animal, to human being, each of you lived in that creation. And, in every advancement in development, your matter was part of it, and it was part of you - particles, and worlds without end - lives and deaths without end - joy and sorrow without end - light and darkness without end. All this because the Father gave organization to the matter of creation, and because the Mother gave thought to the organized matter. Because of this, an atom may recognize itself as well as that part of you in it. Because of this, all the matter of creation may recognize itself and that part of you in it.

36Elohim Heavenly Father: This is the continuation of the deaths and the Everlasting Covenant, for through it all things become subject unto they who transcended from the matter into the fullness of light. And ages and ages of lives of men, even eternities, are consumed in this everlasting progression. And immense is the joy, and also the suffering. Nevertheless, eternal life is finally attained in this way, line upon line, precept on precept.

37Narrator: And the Father and the Mother knew that Their work was good, for it is by this Everlasting Covenant that They attained to Their stature and to the endowment of Their power. 13

38Narrator: And Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother were not alone in the bosom of eternity. There were others like Them, as well as Their own Spirit Children. But a time came when all Their children were occupied in making their own creation and following the path of the Universe. It was in that time that Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother took counsel with each other:

39Elohim Heavenly Mother: It is long since I have traveled about and observed the many creations of Our children. I know that We will not be able to speak with any of them personally, lest We destroy their work because of Our own glory, but would it not be interesting to go and watch them in their labors?

40Elohim Heavenly Father: It would be interesting.

41Elohim Heavenly Mother: Perchance, We may see something different.

42Narrator: Then Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother traveled for a long time observing the development of Their children and of the new worlds they were building. This gave Them much joy in the knowledge that each creation was one of Their children in the process of becoming like Them.

43Narrator: After a very long journey and much observation, They came to a place where They did not expect to find people (for They knew the creation, and were acquainted with the nature of things), but They were surprised and delighted to find a small group of people living next to a river. The people had built rude huts of the sticks and of the reeds that grew along the edge of the river, and they were subsisting on fish and mussels from the river and on roots and tubers from the river banks.

44Narrator: As They watched these surprising people, They saw a curious thing. Moving about among them was a Being that the people evidently could not see. From one person to another, this one darted, whispering in their ears. Then one of the men of this small family group took down his hut and moved it to higher ground. He also began gathering edible tubers and planted them extensively along the shoreline of the river and in the swampy places. As They watched, Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother noticed that most of the people began to do the same thing. When the river flooded, only a few of the people who were left on the river bank lost their homes and belongings. This They found very curious. For, They knew that the people were developing well ahead of that rate of development They had heretofore seen.

45Narrator: On another occasion, and on another world, They observed two opposing armies readying for battle. The defiant people were all on horseback and arrayed for war, each believing themselves justified, each ready to face death to prove it. Then once again, a Shadowy Figure, visible only to Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother, moved from the one great leader to the other, whispering something to them. 14

46Narrator: Suddenly, one of the leaders rode out into the middle of the field of battle accompanied by two of his companions. They stood there like statues until the leader of the opposing army rode out with a small party of his men. After a lengthy discussion, the stern faced warriors turned and rejoined their ranks. Then all at once the two hosts began to break up and go in opposite directions. The discipline gone and with it all need to justify their position. The conflict was over.

47Narrator: Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother decided to follow this Shadowy Being as It moved from one project to another. It looked here and looked there and They followed It. They called the being Holy Ghost and for a long, long time They watched Him change and influence all of the men and women who would listen to His whisperings. They began to notice that it was only at crucial points of emergence that Holy Ghost intervened, and that His actions had the effect of reducing the time it took for societies to move into that point where self-mastery and discipline is attained. Not once did Holy Ghost speak to the children of the Father and the Mother while they were yet in states of development in lesser kingdoms. Never did Holy Ghost suggest to the stone that it change its position. Never did Holy Ghost suggest to the willow that it alter its course. Never did Holy Ghost whisper to the lion, the bear, the horse, or any other being other than a man or a woman. It was only in the final stages of development that Holy Ghost sought to alter the course of progression.

48Narrator: Finally, Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother decided the time had come to make some kind of contact with Holy Ghost.

49Elohim Heavenly Father: This is a thing not seen anywhere in the Everlasting Covenant.

50Elohim Heavenly Mother: Surely, this is a new and a curious thing.

51Narrator: As They thus counseled together, They realized the impact Their discovery would have on all aspects of human existence and progress. Surely, if one knew an unknown thing could exist, could not many? The cosmos is a place of immenseness and, although such a thing might not overturn all things as they stood at that time, was this not an indication that alternatives do exist? That a thing had always been done one way no longer required that it must always be done in that way. Such a thing does not unmake the Universe, but it does remake it, in terms of the infinite possibilities and alternatives to action.

52Narrator: So, They approached Holy Ghost and spoke to Him.

53Elohim Heavenly Father: Lo, Shadowing One. We are the creators of these with whom You meddle. What are You and where do You come from?

54Holy Ghost: I greet You. I am as You see, and I am just as You, from this very place.

55Elohim Heavenly Mother: Look, Elohim, this One is intelligent. Tell Me, Shadowy One, who of Us created You and sent You? 15

56Holy Ghost: I am not made by any such as You, but I am.

57Elohim Heavenly Father: Elohim, this One is not as We are, but I perceive that He is a personage of Spirit. Observe how He does interact with Our children, yet He disrupts them not in their progress. This thing surely is new in all the world.

58Elohim Heavenly Mother: That is right, Elohim. This is a new being, indeed, and fortunate are We that we may hold concourse with Him.

59Holy Ghost: I am. Neither new, nor old am I. But My kind is many and we have always been.

60Narrator: Holy Ghost was not surprised by Elohim Heavenly Father’s and Elohim Heavenly Mother’s curiosity. He had also been curious about Them, but it was not His way to openly address anyone. His way was one of more gentle influence. But once the Three began to counsel together, Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother realized that there was a great deal yet to be learned about the cosmos and that there was much that needed to be done about it.

61Holy Ghost: Your children have I always loved. For, of all the physical creations, they are capable of sensing My influence. I know that not all unto whom I whisper will respond. Nevertheless, I have learned that the men and women, although they are alike to the other creations in their corporality, yet they seem to posses a more refined center than their physical bodies alone. Should they be moved upon to exercise it, they do expand and grow until that center can be made to fill their whole creation. I have seen this produce such a transformation in them that they become easy to influence to do good one to another. Behold, I have made this My own work.

62Elohim Heavenly Mother: These, Our children, are striving, through almost endless toil, to become like unto Us. They are passing through their creative works utilizing a portion of the endowment of power within Us. Indeed, this is the nature of our race. We are all engaged in it until we progress to that point wherein we may command matter, of our own selves. This is Exaltation. All people like unto Us are so engaged.

63Elohim Heavenly Father: Thus has it always been unto us, even to act and to be acted upon in the body, but striving to gain that glory wherein we may act and be not acted upon only. Thus we pass from one state into another. Yea, thus we emerge into the exalted state, after worlds without end.

64Elohim Heavenly Mother: Tell Us of Yourself, Shadowy One. Who are You, and of what kind of being are You? Are You an unfinished being, like unto Our children before they begin their creative work? For, they are born in Spirit and have no ponderable matter until We loan it to them of Our creation. Thus are they placed upon the road that leads them to the acquisition of their own matter. Are You like unto them before they took upon them Our matter? 16

65Elohim Heavenly Father: Nay, Elohim, I think the body of Holy Ghost is discernible only to those of us whose spirits are bound to their bodies. Our children cannot see Him. He is, I perceive, like Us, and yet unlike.

66Holy Ghost: My people are able to act upon matter in certain ways, but we are unable to organize it or give life unto it. We can cause Your children to act upon their power to create, but we have no creative power of our own.

67Elohim Heavenly Father: You do cause Our children to learn and grow at a remarkable pace.

68Elohim Heavenly Mother: You cause them to advance in their progress. This is something different, Elohim Heavenly Father. Let Us stay with Holy Ghost and have joy in watching Our children grow.

69Holy Ghost: Why do You not do as I do?

70Elohim Heavenly Mother: We cannot interfere without great risk to the bodies of Our children. Should We interfere when they are not prepared, their bodies cannot withstand Our glory, and they disintegrate. They then must begin again and even more time is required for them to become like Us.

71Holy Ghost: The Law of Restoration is a cosmic verity. No matter whether your nature be ponderable or spiritual, that which is begun anywhere has physical consequences everywhere. It is probable that the process of progression You have described to Me originates much discord and disharmony in the cosmos. For every singularity of harmony and order, how many singularities of discord, disorder and disharmony are created as your children struggle for eons through the process of emergence?

72Elohim Heavenly Father: In consequence of the Everlasting Covenant, a great many errors are made which, eventually, lead to one singularity of truth.

73Holy Ghost: It is a way that attains the desired end. That much is proven in abundance, if only by the fact of Your own existence. But consider, You were unaware of Me and of my kind. That You knew not of Me is no commentary upon Your intelligence. It cannot be forgotten however, that I did nonetheless exist, even though You had no knowledge of Me. You speak of things that have always been thus and so. And you speak of a plan that causes much suffering. I tell You that this suffering is what caused Me to come from the place of My abode even out into the deep to ascertain the source of it. It is this suffering that I strive to relieve.

74Elohim Heavenly Father: The Everlasting Covenant is the Way of Heaven. It has always been and shall always be. If it causes much suffering, We are comforted in the knowledge that, in the end, Our children do emerge out of the suffering to become like Us.

75Holy Ghost: I am not convinced that because this Everlasting Covenant has always created vast amounts of suffering, but in the end Eternal Life, that it must 17 necessarily signify that there is no other way to attain Eternal Life.

76Elohim Heavenly Mother: What has always been is changed. What We knew to be true of a surety was true. But here is a truth We knew not of, but is also assuredly true.

77Elohim Heavenly Father: The World is a very big place.

78Holy Ghost: Let us make an experiment. I am always alert to the opportunity to meddle for good. Look at Me, Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother, I am not corporeal in the same sense that You are. I have often, as You have Yourselves witnessed, made My sort of contact with Your children without any ill effect to their bodies.

79Elohim Heavenly Mother: Indeed no. We have witnessed the contrary. Your influence has only been for the good in all that We have observed.

80Holy Ghost: Let Me whisper what counsel You might have to whichever of Your children You might choose. Let Us observe conditions as a result of that personal interference. It may be that We can work together to fulfill the Everlasting Covenant and, at the same time, overcome some of the disorder it causes in the cosmos.

81Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well. Our Firstborn Son is very near to finishing His work already. We will take You to where He is laboring. If such interference harms Him, less of His creative work might be affected.

82Elohim Heavenly Mother: This is the World of Our Firstborn, who has progressed almost to the end of the mortal cycle. Everything in this creation will become part of Him. The very elements which We have loaned Him for a season obey His voice because He is in them, He having descended through them all. At each crucial point where evolutionary change has taken place, He has been there in the life of the entity making the change. In this way, the Creator becomes part of the Creation. It is the only way that the Natural Man may be subdued and the Spiritual Man, or Man of Holiness, arises out of corrupt matter and becomes master of it. In the final phase, the Firstborn will take on mortality one last time to overcome it. In the last of the Lives and the Deaths, He will become exalted with all of His Creation. Then shall all of this matter become His.

83Holy Ghost: Now is My understanding made clear. This does fill Me with sadness. Nay, I repent of the experiment that I first proposed. You have shown Me a hard thing. To become like You, countless many lives end miserably without hope. In all the cosmos, I have never encountered an end so good require means so bad. Do You not see that this is the very beginning of misery? In this beginning is misery made immense. For, as it proceeds out into the deep, it gathers and gains until it returns again unto its own, manifold greater. It is doubtful that what little help Our experiment might provide will prove any great difference in this constellation of pain. 18

84Holy Ghost: You have shown Me much about You and Your kind. Now, come with Me. I will show You my people.

85Narrator: Then Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother went with Holy Ghost to the place where the Holy Ghost People dwelt. There They found an innumerable host of Holy Ghost People.

86Narrator: Now Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother observed that these were not corporeal beings. They had no flesh and bones, as Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother have, but were personages of spirit. Each of them had a recognizable form, but, though their presence could be discerned, their substance was not physically ponderable. They could only be seen by the spiritual eyes. Nevertheless, Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother could feel their proximity in every particle of their tangible bodies.

87Narrator: They remained with the Holy Ghost People for a long, long time, for they were fascinating and complex beings. They discovered that each had the ability to enter into very close association with matter, even dwell within and around the ponderable matter of corporeal beings. Thus, their presence could be discerned by the very matter itself. In this way, Holy Ghost was able to be such a great influence in the progress and development of the children of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother. Nevertheless, they were unable to command matter and take on physicality themselves.

88Narrator: Because of this close association, many of the Holy Ghost People grew to love Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother, and some began to desire to experience physicality.

89Holy Ghost Elders: Elohim Heavenly Father, we would that You might take of matter and make a physical world wherein we might experience physicality.

90Elohim Heavenly Father: I shall take of the matter of the Deep and make a world wherein you may dwell for a season. I shall put in this world all manner of life and command it to fulfill the measure of its creation. This is all part of the world which Elohim Heavenly Mother and I did create in the beginning. I give it unto you for your own experience. Yea, I shall cause the elements of this new world to allow the Holy Ghost People to enter into the bodies and dwell therein for a time.

91Elohim Heavenly Father: Look, Elohim, at what We may learn from the Holy Ghost People in this way.

92Elohim Heavenly Mother: Yes, We do learn intimately of them. I perceive all there is to know of the individual when one of the Holy Ghost People enters into one of Our creations. All that they are becomes part of Me through that matter which obeys My will. All that they are becomes part of You through that matter which obeys Your will. 19

93Elohim Heavenly Father: That is correct. A great measure of the past, as well as the present experiences of that person are imprinted upon the matter of the corporeal body which We have loaned unto him. Since that matter belongs to Us, all these experiences become Ours also.

94Elohim Heavenly Mother: Through this association, Elohim, We are greatly enlarged, having gained many of the experiences of countless finished and complete beings who have lived perhaps even longer than We have.

95Elohim Heavenly Father: The Holy Ghost People are also enlarged by the experience of corporality, for they take upon themselves experience that can only be obtained through the body. They also gain a measure of Our experience by that same imprinting whereby We gain a measure of their experiences. All are greatly enlarged.

96Elohim Heavenly Mother: This is a good thing, and yet I am troubled in My heart.

97Elohim Heavenly Father: It is true. I, too, am troubled. This thing must cause Us to pause and to ponder the Everlasting Covenant and all that it entails. I feel the suffering and disharmony that the covenant causes in the Cosmos.

98Elohim Heavenly Mother: Surely, the lives and deaths of Our children, as they labor through the almost endless process of exaltation, causes immeasurable disharmony and even destruction throughout the cosmos because of the Universal Law of Restoration. The Holy Ghost People felt this disharmony and sent Holy Ghost to investigate it. What one sets loose upon the cosmos, be it even the smallest thing, for good or for ill, traverses the Universe and is amplified by it so that it returns to its origin magnified for good or evil. This is a Universal Law.

99Narrator: The Holy Ghost People who participated in the world Elohim Heavenly Father made for them also gained from Him an understanding of the Everlasting Covenant and of the manner in which the children of Elohim become exalted. They became more aware of the suffering caused by the plan. After that fewer and fewer of the Holy Ghost People came to participate with Elohim Heavenly Father in the world He had created for them and His heart was downcast. The elders of the Holy Ghost People dissuaded their people from it.

100Elohim Heavenly Father: I have pondered the Everlasting Covenant. Holy Ghost is right. The process of exaltation for Our children’s sake brings about great suffering.

101Elohim Heavenly Mother: It is evidently true. To bring about the transition of man from spirit to Exalted Being, from natural to spiritual man, causes the creation of evil and pain. Opposition must be overcome so that transition may be made. It is the way it has always been.

102Elohim Heavenly Father: Yes, You are right. But, We must ask again, does it follow that because a thing has always been, that it is the only true way that it can be? We have found things in the 20 cosmos that We never knew existed. This contrasts with what has always been. The Holy Ghost People have taught Us this. Because Holy Ghost brought Us to meet His people, and they have experimented upon physicality through us, I see the way to a New and Everlasting Covenant. I see a way to bring about the immortality and eternal life of man without the creation of endless torment in the cosmos.

103Elohim Heavenly Mother: What is it that You propose, Elohim?

104Elohim Heavenly Father: The endowment of power that We have attained – to organize matter and to give it life and perception may be combined with Holy Ghost’s ability to influence the actions and development of Our children without disturbing their bodies. When We allowed some of the Holy Ghost People to occupy the bodies We created for them, a measure of our experiences was added unto theirs. All that we know has been imprinted upon them, worlds without end. All that they know has been imprinted upon us, lives without end. Do you begin to see the endowment of power of the Holy Ghost People?

105Elohim Heavenly Mother: I do see it. Let Us speak to Holy Ghost and see if He will not covenant with Us to assist Our children.

106Elohim Heavenly Father: Holy Ghost, I have learned that when You whispered into the ears of My children Your influence was imprinted upon the very matter of their bodies. They do not so much hear the whisperings but the influence became part of their being, felt in every fiber, undeniable.

107Holy Ghost: That is true.

108Elohim Heavenly Father: I have also learned that My own life’s experience, everything I learned through the Everlasting Covenant, was imprinted upon the souls of the Holy Ghost People who participated with Me in the world I created for them.

109Holy Ghost: That is also true. Though we may not be creators without corporality, yet the light and truth which motivates each individual was added to that provided by the Creator. The Holy Ghost People gained experience thereby which they could never have expected to gain. Because the elements are part of their Creator and obey His will, those Holy Ghost People who participated in the experiment with You gained some insight into the relationship You have with Your children. They have learned to desire the ability to create. It is because of this that the Elders of the Holy Ghost People begin to dissuade many from participating in the world You created for them.

110Elohim Heavenly Father: It is not well. For I love all of the Holy Ghost People and despair that I might have caused them grief. The desire to create without the ability will bring hardship and sadness to the Holy Ghost People.

111Holy Ghost: You speak the truth. Now those who became part of Your creation, as well as those who still wish to, are sundered from the rest of the Holy Ghost People. Some only desire to 21 experience physicality. These would not shun participating in what might be learned in Your creation, but they are satisfied to remain as they are. Others desire to become like You. They are no longer satisfied, as I am, to be the complete being which they already are. They wish to become Your children. Thus, my people are divided into three groups; those who are satisfied with who they are, those who want to experience physicality but desire to remain incorporeal, and those who wish to become Your children. All may be satisfied, if You wish it.

112Elohim Heavenly Father: Tell Us how it might be accomplished.

113Holy Ghost: One who has finished the Everlasting Covenant may do it. Then, having completed the work, if that One were to receive Me prior to the ending of one last creation, I would receive all the experience necessary for Your children to overcome the natural man. Then, unto those of Your children who receive Me, I will imprint that knowledge in the same way Your experiences were imprinted upon My people who participated with You in the world You created for them. Let a covenant be made between Us such that every person who receives that Chosen One and the Holy Ghost might through this atonement be made perfect like You through the transference of experience like that which You have seen take place in the world You created for the Holy Ghost People. But, the Chosen One must allow this transference to take place before that last death. Then, because of this great gift, it may be possible for many of Your children to attain to Your stature in but one lifetime. But One so chosen must make the sacrifice freely. It is the only way that all of the experiences may be brought together.

114Elohim Heavenly Father: This is the thing about which We desired to take counsel with You, Holy Ghost.

115Elohim Heavenly Mother: If this thing were possible, it would prevent eternities of suffering.

116Holy Ghost: There are many of my People who wish to become like You. You have given them a taste of a new way and they see dimly a new path. I will be for Your children an Holy Ghost. Be You for My people who wish it a Creator, even a Father and Mother.

117Elohim Heavenly Mother: We cannot. Once exaltation has been attained, the exalted one may never die again.

118Elohim Heavenly Father: That is right, Elohim. We will present this New and Everlasting Covenant to all of Our children and, if they choose this plan, We will appoint one from among them to be their Savior and Redeemer.

119Narrator: Then did Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother and Holy Ghost summon all the people together into one Great Council. And this interference suspended all the progress each of the sons and daughters of God had made in the life in which they were laboring when they were summoned. Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother called all of 22 Their children out of their creations, and Holy Ghost called all of the Holy Ghost People from their place of habitation, and then Elohim Heavenly Father presented the Plan to them.

120Elohim Heavenly Father: Behold, you are all aware that the Everlasting Covenant requires that Our children must pass through all things living and gain an understanding of all things before you may attain to that endowment of power which makes of the matter that We have loaned unto you your own substance to command as you will. This is exaltation, and We do desire all of Our children to attain to it. We have become aware also that, because in order to do this, you must experience both the life, joy and happiness, but also the death, pain and suffering of each of those lives, in accordance with the Universal Law of Restoration, the suffering created by Everlasting Covenant does move outward into the deep and is magnified by that movement. When it reaches other beings, it is greater than when you experience it in your creative work, causing others to experience disharmony and commotion.

121Elohim Heavenly Father: This commotion has reached a people of whom we knew not, a people who are not corporeal as we are, a people of spirit. We have learned from them a new plan whereby you may gain all of the experience needed to attain to exaltation, without causing universal suffering and strife. We will call this plan the New and Everlasting Covenant. This covenant requires that one of you, who is near unto completing the Telestial cycle, shall take upon you the combined experience of all of Our children who wish to participate and that you take upon you one more life in the Telestial sphere. Before you give up this last life, you must render unto the Holy Ghost the combined experience of your creative work, as well as all that which you have taken up from Our children. You must be left entirely alone and return again even to the beginning of your work for a moment. Then the Holy Ghost will once again reveal all things to your remembrance and you will attain to that exaltation to which you would have ascended. You must do this of your own free will, without any compulsion at all.

122Elohim Heavenly Father: There are those of the Holy Ghost People who wish to participate in this covenant and thereby gain the experiences that can only be attained through corporality. I will command the elements to accept these into the bodies that are created, except those of men and women. There are those who wish to become Our children and gain exaltation. I will adopt them into Our family and they will have the same opportunity as Our true children.

123Narrator: The Holy Ghost People then separated themselves and held Council together. Some of them wanted to become like Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother. Others were satisfied with who they were and only wished to experience physicality. Still others were satisfied to remain as they are. Holy Ghost went back to Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother to counsel with Them and told Them of the wishes of His people. 23

124Elohim Heavenly Mother: The Spirit of the Creator is the very energy through which corporeal elements are organized. Let those of the Holy Ghost People who wish only to experience physicality submit their wills to the will of the Creator. There are many physical bodies in the Creation.

125Elohim Heavenly Father: This is well. They must submit only to the will of the Creator. Their bodies will be quickened by the Spirit of the Creator. They will gain in experience but that experience is not sufficient to make them like Us. For those who wish to progress and become a new thing in the cosmos, I shall become their Father and they shall be numbered among My children. And if it so be that their spirit is able to expand and grow so that the natural man may begin to be overcome, even as Our own children do begin to overcome the natural man, then We will judge them worthy, and through the power of the Holy Ghost they shall receive all things pertaining to exaltation. But if their spirit is not able to expand, then they shall return unto that manner of being that they are now.

126Narrator: Then Holy Ghost returned to His own people and, when He had repeated to them all the counsel of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother, they rejoiced, for the covenant was a miracle to them. _Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother council together, Lucifer rebels against them, Jehovah, the Firstborn, is chosen as Savior._

127Narrator: And all the children of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother were assembled into the Great Council. Now some had just begun their labors and others were very much under way. Some few were very near to finishing, but there were few indeed who had but one life left to live. One of these was the Firstborn of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother and he was mighty indeed.

128Elohim Heavenly Father: My children. You have heard the plan which We propose, that each of you shall take of your creations and consecrate it unto a New and Everlasting Covenant. This shall greatly foreshorten the time your labors will take to accomplish and it will do away with eternities of suffering. This is according to the Universal Law of Restoration. This new thing will bring the necessary experience together for all to receive exaltation in as little as one life more.

129Elohim Heavenly Mother: It is true. In this New and Everlasting Covenant, all of the creative experience can be drawn together into one life. Every individual, through the organizational power of the Creator, the instrumentality of the Chosen One, and the peculiar power of the Holy Ghost, and through the atonement of the lives, can attain the Celestial Glory – even that glory possessed by Us, your Heavenly Parents.

130Elohim Heavenly Father: Each of you must subdue your own desire for eminence for one lifetime and set self aside, submitting to the will of Elohim Heavenly Father, Elohim Heavenly Mother, the Chosen One and the Holy 24 Ghost. Each of you must give up all that you have already created and become as one just starting out, a little child at the beginning of the long and arduous labors. Nevertheless, though you shall be as one only just embarking on the journey, because of the New and Everlasting Covenant, you may be blessed with all that I and your Mother in Heaven have.

131Elohim Heavenly Mother: One of you will be required to take upon you all of the consecrated experience and descend to the very beginning, to condescend to give up all that you have already accomplished, to accept the aggregate of all the creative experiences into one, and then to sacrifice it all for the good of all. The result of this consecration, sacrifice and atonement will bring about a new thing in the cosmos, a new order, a New and Everlasting Covenant. Through it, all who are willing will become like Us, even Your Heavenly Parents.

132Holy Ghost: Therefore now are my people become one part of the Hosts of Heaven who rejoice and do consecrate to the work. For even the Elders of my people see that the intentions of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother are good. And see! The greater portion of the children of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother also rejoice, and they became a second part of the Hosts of Heaven and they consecrate to the work.

133Narrator: But there was a lesser portion of the children of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother, and among this third part was one who wished to attain the Celestial Glory without subduing his own will to that of any other. And some few joined with him and were of like mind. They counseled against the New and Everlasting Covenant. He was one like unto the Firstborn of Elohim, having nearly completed his work and was known to all as a child of light, even Lucifer.

134Lucifer: If the Holy Ghost People wish to become like us, let Holy Ghost perform His function as a gift. We need not submit to anyone. Let our Father use His power with the Holy Ghost people, as He has heretofore done, and then let this Holy Ghost imprint the aggregate upon us. Let Holy Ghost write this glory upon me. If the Everlasting Covenant is to be discarded, then let the glory of the Father be imprinted upon me and be it thus for all people, or let us withhold ponderable matter from these lesser beings.

135Narrator: Then the Firstborn of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother came forward.

136Jehovah: Nay, let it be as Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother wish it. For, we do nothing but what we receive of Them. Even our own creative works and experiences depend upon that portion of Their endowment of power that They may loan unto us for that purpose. Therefore, let us be grateful unto Them and have joy in the new thing that we shall bring to pass because of Them. 25

137Narrator: And He was chosen to be the Creator and Savior for the Hosts of Heaven.

138Narrator: Then Lucifer rebelled against the Hosts of Heaven and Elohim Heavenly Father Himself and vowed to frustrate the work, and to force the Hosts to return to what had always been. And then was Elohim Heavenly Mother grieved by the wickedness of Her child, for She knew that he might not ever be able to subdue self-will enough to gain exaltation in either the Everlasting or the New and Everlasting Covenant. This grief was added upon as She reflected upon the third part of the Host of Heaven who had been drawn away by the rebellion of Lucifer. So great was Her grief in the knowledge of the great suffering his rebellion would cause that She withdrew from the Council and seldom would return to it. From that time Elohim Heavenly Mother only met in council with those who would be mothers in order to give them that power which men never have and to ordain them to the fullness of the priesthood. _Elohim Heavenly Father, Elohim Heavenly Mother, Jehovah, and Michael create the earth._

139Narrator: Then did Michael stand forward and speak for the Hosts of Heaven.

140Michael: Lucifer has rebelled against You. He has not simply disagreed in Council, which would have been his right, but he has vowed in his arrogance and jealousy to destroy the atonement of the lives, and to draw as many back unto their own as he can. Therefore, Elohim Heavenly Father, withhold from him and to all those who follow him, the power to organize matter, lest they do something to our great hurt. And surely You can do it, for You are our Father and we must make our way within Your creation. Wherefore, all matter that pertains to us obeys Your will, being Yours. Withhold it from them who would destroy your work.

141Elohim Heavenly Father: You are a mighty man and valiant and I call your name, Michael. But Lucifer may easily leave My creation and seek some other part of the cosmos. Howbeit, he may find someone who will give him the power to create. It is better that we strive with Lucifer here in our own vineyard, if only to prevent his taking his rebellion away. I shall send you, therefore, to do battle with him. You shall subdue him and the elements will obey you and forsake him. Then shall he be restrained here with us. Yea, we shall restrain him here with us for a season.

142Elohim Heavenly Father: The rebellion of Lucifer will provide opposition upon which faith may take form. Go therefore, my Chosen One, whom I call Jehovah, take Michael and all those who wish to take part in the New and Everlasting Covenant, and the power of creation will be with you. Take of ponderable matter, yea, matter upon which both I and Elohim Heavenly Mother have worked in Our endowment of power, and make a world as has been done so many times before. Subdue Lucifer and consign him to that world. Then I will command the matter around that world and limit it so that one may go 26 to and from it only by the peculiar power of the Holy Ghost upon the Way. I will seal this section of My creation so that none may travel to and from it unless they be sealed up unto Jehovah by the peculiar power of the Holy Ghost. Lucifer desired power without cost and cause without effect. Now let Us use Lucifer to test My children.

143Jehovah: Elohim, we will go down and do as You say.

144Michael: It will be a good world and the good will overcome the evil of Lucifer.

145Elohim Heavenly Father: Look! There is matter unorganized. Go you down and create a world such as we have heretofore created. Divide the night from the day and bring Me word.

146Jehovah: We will go down.

147Michael: We will go down.

148Narrator: Then all the true Sons and Daughters of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother, who had not rebelled and followed Lucifer, submitted their own will to the Father and consecrated with a covenant all that they had made and learned in the Everlasting Covenant unto the Son. These are they for whom Michael speaks. Each of you made this great sacrifice, consecrating all that you had received through the endowment of power of the Father and of the Mother, and of the matter given you, from the beginning even unto the moment you made the covenant. And the Holy Ghost took the accumulated experience and caused it to be given unto Jehovah.

149Narrator: Then Elohim Heavenly Father endowed Jehovah with His own power and Jehovah, Michael, and all the True Sons and Daughters of Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother went out into the creation of Elohim, and the Father commanded it to obey the voice of Jehovah, and they made a world.

150Jehovah: Michael, here is matter that the Father and the Mother have brought together for our use. The Father organized it and the Mother gave it life, but it is yet unused and unorganized according to that organization we have heretofore seen. Let us make a world of this matter such as the worlds we have heretofore created. We shall divide the light from the darkness. The light we shall call day and the dark we shall call night. Then we shall return and report our labors.

152Narrator: Then the dust of creation gathered and suns and planets and moons and other astral bodies formed. And the light was divided from the darkness, for the bodies that formed could discern themselves from the deep. And the morning and the evening were the first measured time, for the morning and the evening marked the passing of the first day of creation.

153Jehovah: Look, Michael! We have made a world like unto the worlds we have heretofore created. There are suns, planets, moons and all manner of astral 27 bodies. Matter is organized and the light shines in the deep. The light we shall call day and the darkness we shall call night. Let us return and report.

155Jehovah: Elohim, we have been down as You commanded and formed a world like the worlds we have heretofore created. There are suns, planets, moons and all matter of astral bodies. We have divided the light from the darkness even as You commanded us to do. This is our report.

156Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well. Go down to the world we have created and cause astral bodies to be organized in systems and to have order. Set the Sun to rule the day and the Moon and other lesser lights to rule the night. Divide the waters from the waters. Cause the mists to rise up and form the first firmament. Cause the dry land to appear and the great waters to gather. Make rivers and small streams, valleys and mountains, and the lakes to appear, to give variety and beautify the Earth. Then return and report.

157Jehovah: We will go down and do all that You command, Elohim.

159Jehovah: Michael, we will cause these planets to gather around this star which we will call the Sun, and we shall also do likewise with all the astral bodies found in the world we have created. The Sun shall rule the day for the planets that belong to them and shall also be stars for the planets which belong to others. We will cause many of these planets to have moons. The Moon and the Stars shall rule the night.

160Jehovah: We will cause the waters from above to divide themselves from the waters from below so that there may be a firmament of air between the Earth that we have made and the Firmament of Heaven wherein the Sun, Moon, and Stars dwell. We shall cause the dry land to appear and the waters to flow. We shall make great rivers and small streams, lakes and seas. We shall cause mountains, hills and valleys to form to beautify and give variety to the earth. Then we shall return and report our labors to Elohim Heavenly Father.

162Narrator: Then, the matter that had formed into a world, and had gathered together into stars, planets, moons, and other astral bodies were gathered together into systems and they had order in their creation. And as the dust of creation settled, the sun shown through and the heat of the sun caused the mists to rise up and a firmament was made between the earth and the heavens. As the waters of the earth divided from the waters of the air, dry land appeared and the great oceans formed. Great rivers and small streams began to flow from the earth into the seas. As the waters rolled forth upon the land, valleys formed and the Moon caused changes within the earth that raised up the mountains. The waters deposited soil in layers upon layers and many forms of topography were made that beautified and gave 28 variety to the earth. And the morning and the evening were the second measured time, for the morning and the evening marked the passing of the second day.

163Jehovah: Look, Michael! The commotion of creation has settled so that the light of the Sun may penetrate to the Earth. And the energy of the Sun has moved upon the Earth and the waters have divided themselves, as we have devised, to form a firmament of air between the Heavens, and the waters that cover the earth. And this division has caused the dry land to appear and the streams to flow and valleys, plains and prairies to be created. Lakes and seas have appeared. And the pull of the Moon has caused great changes to take place within the Earth and hills and mountains have risen up. Already the Earth is a place of beauty and majesty.

164Michael: It is so Jehovah, it is so.

165Jehovah: Let us return and report.

166Michael: We will return and report our labors of the second day, Jehovah.

167Jehovah: Elohim, we have been down to the new world You commanded us to make. We have set the astral bodies in their order and have caused the waters to divide themselves and the dry land to appear. Now there are great rivers and small steams, lakes and seas, hills and valleys and mountains. All this we have done according to Your command.

168Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well. Jehovah, go down to the new world we have created. Plant seeds of every kind in the waters and in the land, and command

169Jehovah: We will go down and do as You command, Elohim.

171Jehovah: Michael, let us place seeds in the waters that they may grow and multiply after their own kind. And let us plant seeds in the earth that they also may grow and multiply in accordance with the power in them of the Father to bring together and organize the matter of creation, and also according to the power in them of the Mother that quickens the matter and gives it life. This they shall do each after the manner of their own kind. Let us command them all to multiply in their own sphere that they might have joy in their creation.

172Michael: We shall do all these things, Jehovah.

173Narrator: Then did the plants begin to grow in the waters and they breathed out into the first firmament and the air changed because of them. Then did the plants also grow upon the dry earth and all the land began also to change. And the morning and the evening were the third measured time, for the morning and the evening marked the passing of the third day.

174Jehovah: Look, Michael! The seeds that we have planted in the waters and in the earth sprout and prosper. Let us return and report our labors.

175Michael: We will return and report, Jehovah. 29

176Jehovah: Elohim, we have gone down unto the new world and have placed seeds of every kind in the waters and in the earth. We have commanded them to grow and multiply in their own sphere, that they might have joy in their creation.

177Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well. Jehovah, go down to the new world that we have created and place water creatures of every kind in the waters. Place animals of every kind to walk upon the earth and flying creatures of every kind to fly amid the winds. Command them to multiply in their own sphere and have joy in their creation. Then return and bring Me word.

178Jehovah: We will go and do all that You command, Elohim Heavenly Father. Come, Michael, let us go down.

180Jehovah: Michael, we will place water creatures of every kind in the waters that they may ply the waves. We will place animals of every kind that they may walk to and fro upon the earth, and we will place flying creatures also, that they may fly amid the winds. We will command them to bring together and organize the matter of creation according to the power given them of the Father, and also according to the power given them of the Mother that quickens and brings life to the matter. This they shall do in the manner of their own kind and in their own sphere that they might have joy in their creation. Then we will return and report.

182Narrator: Then the water creatures appeared – the great whales, the fish and all manner of creatures that live in the water - and they prospered in the seas, in the lakes, in the rivers and in the streams. Animals of all kinds began to walk to and fro upon the Earth – the elephant, the horse, the lion, the tiger, the bear and all manner of animals that walk upon the Earth. And flying creatures did begin to fly amid the winds – the eagle, the swan, the sparrow and all manner of birds and flying creatures. And the morning and the evening were the fourth measured time, for the morning and the evening marked the passing of the fourth day.

183Michael: Look, Jehovah! There are water creatures of every kind in the waters, animals of every kind upon the land, and flying creatures of every kind in the skies. They begin to multiply and prosper.

184Jehovah: There are, Michael. Let us return and report.

185Michael: We will return and report our labors of the fourth day, Jehovah.

186Jehovah: Elohim, we have gone down to the new world and done all that You commanded us to do.

187Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well. Jehovah, take Michael and go down again to the world we have created. Command all the Spirits of the Holy Ghost People who wish to participate in this New and Everlasting Covenant to possess for a season the bodies we have created. Surely they shall quicken all things, and all things shall have their spirit. And behold, we shall prove them 30 herewith, whether they will be obedient to the commandments We shall give them. If they do, then shall they receive the true intents of their hearts. Take also all My children who did not rebel against Us and make war upon Lucifer and his followers. Subdue him and all of my children who follow him and consign them for a season to the planet upon which You will finish Your own work. I will cause the elements to obey the voice of faith so that Lucifer and his followers may witness this New and Everlasting Covenant, but have no part in it. In this, they may see and understand. When We are finished with Our work, they shall be released unto that glory they would abide from the beginning. Yea, they shall return unto their own even according to My word. Go down and accomplish these things, then return and bring Me word.

188Jehovah: It shall be done, Elohim.

189Michael: We will go down, Elohim.

190Jehovah: Michael, we will command now the Spirits of the Holy Ghost People to come down from their habitation and dwell in the corporeal bodies we have created. Behold, this is not as in the worlds we have heretofore created, for it is a new thing. But, through the endowment of power of the Father and the Mother, they shall have joy in their creation.

191Michael: It shall be done, Jehovah.

192Narrator: The Spirits of the Holy Ghost People possess the bodies of the astral bodies, as well as the plants, animals, and other mundane bodies in

193Jehovah: Michael, we will now contend against Lucifer and the third part of the Host of Heaven that follow after him. Take all the children of our Heavenly Parents and lead them against our common enemy. Behold, the Father has commanded the elements that they will obey us and not Lucifer. Therefore, go now and consign him to the earth we have created. Yea, they shall remain to observe and witness the great plan of our Father before they may be permitted to return unto their own, even outer darkness.

194Michael: It shall be done, Jehovah. _Michael and the Hosts of Heaven battle Lucifer and his hosts, Lucifer and his followers are cast out of Heaven to the earth_

195Narrator: Then there was a great conflict in Heaven and Michael commanded the children of the Father and the Mother against Lucifer and his people, and Michael prevailed. Yea, then there was a contention in the heavens and Michael prevailed against Lucifer and cast him down into the Earth which the Council had made. Elohim commanded the elements and they obeyed. From that time, Lucifer and his people have been restrained to the Earth, a physical world within the world, worlds without end, and being without form and void, they have been miserable seekers of evil ever since. Only through those who have ponderable matter can Lucifer and his people accomplish their rebellious design. Lucifer was cast out of the 31 Heavens and made his habitation, with all of his people, in the Earth. He ruled over his people and was chief among them, and they moved freely upon the face of earth. _Elohim Heavenly Father, Elohim Heavenly Mother, Jehovah, and Michael continue to create the earth, Michael as spirit is placed into his body as Adam, the First Man._

196Narrator: And the morning and the evening were the fifth measured time, for the morning and the evening marked the passing of the fifth day.

197Jehovah: Michael, we have done all that the Father has commanded.

198Michael: Yes, Jehovah. Now that there are mountains, hills and valleys, rivers, streams, lakes and seas and also now that the waters, earth and skies are filled with creatures of all kinds, multiplying in their own spheres and now that the living things have within them the Spirits of the Holy Ghost People and also now that Lucifer is bound, the earth is glorious and beautiful.

199Jehovah: It is, Michael. Let us return and report.

200Michael: We will return and report our labors of the fifth day, Jehovah.

201Jehovah: Elohim, a new World has been created, and we have populated it with worlds of its own order. There are plants of all kinds and animals of all kinds upon the Earth, and the Spirits of the Holy Ghost People possess the bodies of all living things for a stewardship, worlds without end. Lucifer is bound to the Earth that we have created and cannot leave it. We have done all that you have commanded us. This is our report.

202Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well. Jehovah. Is man found on the Earth?

203Jehovah: Man is not found on the Earth.

204Elohim Heavenly Father: Elohim, Jehovah, We will go down and We will take of the matter that We have organized and We will form a body like unto Our own body. And We will put into this body the Spirit of Michael. And man shall become a living soul.

205Jehovah: We will go down, Elohim.

206Elohim Heavenly Father: Look, Jehovah! This is the Earth, even the world where You will finish Your own work, the work that will bring together all the work of My children into one. It is also the place where you have consigned the spirits of my children who followed Lucifer. We will take now out of the stuff of this earth, the same which has been endowed with some of My power and also of the power of the Mother, and fashion a body like unto the body which You see that I have. Make it of ponderable matter. We shall give the body a head and in it place the seat of understanding. We shall give the body a neck to join it to the head. We shall give the body a left side with arm, torso and leg. We shall give the body a right side with arm, torso and leg. In all ways, We shall make the body of the man like unto the pattern of My body as You know it to be. Let its organs mirror My organs, only we shall make that which is vital to the 32 life of the body in this creation be in accordance with the matter of the world. We shall do all this, in accordance with the last of the creations which You were about to make, even that final creation that would have caused You to become alike unto Us. This shall be the body of man and it will be for his good that he receive it.

207Narrator: Then Jehovah took of the clay and made a body for Man. But, because Michael had been so valiant in defending the right of choice when Lucifer rebelled against the New and Everlasting Covenant, Elohim and Jehovah gathered and commanded more particularly that part of the creative matter that Michael had consecrated and this constituted the more part of the body of First Man. And Elohim breathed in him the Breath of Life, or in other words, the body, having been organized according to the Power of the Father, was quickened according to the Power of the Mother, and Michael did possess the body as his own.

208Narrator: Then Elohim Heavenly Mother came once again to speak to the Council.

209Elohim Heavenly Mother: The cosmos is about to change forever. We have learned that all things are not static, that the cosmos must progress, and when it does, that which We knew to be true does cease to be for Us. In the past our people followed a path that created much evil and suffering for the sake of just a little good, and in the orthodoxy of our own self-interest we were for an unfathomable period of time, entirely insensible of other people that are like us, yet not like us. Let this be instructive to us all. When we become orthodox, let us seek for alternatives.

210Elohim Heavenly Father: This is right, Elohim Heavenly Mother. Lucifer was not wrong in his desire to remain in the Everlasting Covenant, for that was his right. His error was in trying to take away the freedom to choose from our children, and in trying to enslave the Holy Ghost People. Let all choose the way they wish to follow. Should Our children choose the New and Everlasting Covenant, let the Holy Ghost imprint upon the very matter of their soul the continuation of the lives. Should they choose the Everlasting Covenant, we will allow them to return to that labor with all those that follow Lucifer after Our work is finished.

211Narrator: Then Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother spoke to the Man.

212Elohim Heavenly Mother: Adam, you are a living soul.

213Elohim Heavenly Father: Adam, awake and arise.

Michael, now Adam, awakes as a living soul of spirit and body, Elohim Heavenly Mother forms Eve as a wife, counsel, and help meet for Adam, and places her spirit into her body.

1Elohim Heavenly Father: Adam, look around you. What do you see? 33

2Narrator: Then the Man looked in the Four Sacred Directions. First, he looked to the East and he beheld the rising sun. Then he looked to the South, as the sun arose in the sky, and beheld the green mantle of the earth. It was then that Adam stretched out his hands in front of him and perceived his own body. Then he cast his eyes more fully upon the world about him and looked to the West, as the sun set in the sky, and perceived the wide world and all of its wonders. Finally, he looked to the North and perceived a star whose course never wavered or faltered. When he did this, the Holy Ghost whispered to his spirit and prompted him to give thanks in his heart for the life he had been given. And the man wept and did give thanks.

3Elohim Heavenly Father: Surely, this is the First Man of the New and Everlasting Covenant.

4Narrator: Then Elohim Heavenly Mother also looked upon the new world that had been created. She saw how well made, how wondrous and beautiful it was. She also saw Lucifer and his people hiding, waiting to attack the man.

5Elohim Heavenly Mother: This cannot be. Lucifer and his people are like the Holy Ghost to this man. Their voices will drown the still voice of the Spirit and all men will choose the evil over the good. Man will not subdue the self in this way. He is a builder by his nature and he will use up the good of the earth.

6Elohim Heavenly Father: I see that what you speak is true. Jehovah, is it good for man to be alone?

7Jehovah: It is not good for man to be alone, Elohim.

8Narrator: Then Elohim Heavenly Mother caused the Man to sleep and from his substance Elohim Heavenly Father and Elohim Heavenly Mother formed the body of woman. And Elohim Heavenly Mother commanded that substance that it should bring forth fruit after its own kind and no other. Then the Woman received her spirit in the same manner as the Man. Yea, then _Mi-Ahrah_ , who was great among the Daughters of Elohim Heavenly Mother and among they unto whom She had given Her endowment of power, did possess the body of the Woman, even as Michael, who was great in the Father’s Council, had possessed the body of the Man.

9Narrator: But this is not all. Elohim Heavenly Mother laid Her hands on the Woman and ordained her to a holy calling, and gave her substance the injunction to nurture all living things, but most especially, her children. Then Elohim Heavenly Mother gave to the Woman Her own name and called her name, “Mother.”

10Elohim Heavenly Father: The gift you have given mankind is the key to the sealing. Woman has inherent in her creation the drive to sacrifice for her children. She will provide the man with a right model to live by. She is a helpmeet for him, for he has not that within him which draws one to subdue the self. His own nature alone is enough to thwart our work because of Lucifer. If he will look to his wife, their experience together will teach Man the fundamental steps toward 34 subduing his nature. Then shall the Holy Ghost be able to speak to him. In this way shall the man and the woman be sealed with that same quickening that associates us all together. Then, if they remain true to the counsel we give them through the Holy Ghost, they will have power to overcome Lucifer and his people.

11Elohim Heavenly Mother: It is well. Now I can rest My mind.

12Elohim Heavenly Father: Jehovah, We will make a garden valley, eastward in Eden and place the Man and the Woman in it.

13Jehovah: It shall be done, Elohim.

14Narrator: Then Adam and Eve awake and arise.

15Elohim Heavenly Father: Adam is your name and We give unto you this world. You shall have stewardship over all that is living. You must give names to all the living things and be a husbandman unto them. We have also created this woman and she is to be your wife and help mete. And we give you this commandment, that your desire shall be only unto her, and that you keep yourself faithful to her and cleave unto her, for without her you are not complete. Observe to keep this commandment – that you shall remain faithful to your own wife and enter into no form of intimacy with any other woman than her. If you will do this, then your seed shall be potent and shall fill the earth with people.

16Elohim Heavenly Mother: We give unto you this Man, and this world. You shall nurture them. And We give you this commandment, that your desire shall be only to your husband, that you keep yourself faithful to him and cleave unto him, for without him you are not complete. Observe to keep this commandment, that you shall remain faithful to your own husband and enter into no form of intimacy with any other man than him. If you observe to keep this commandment, then shall your womb be fruitful and you shall fill the earth with people.

17Elohim Heavenly Father: Adam, behold your wife. What will you call her?

18Adam: I will call her, “Eve.”

19Elohim Heavenly Father: Why will you call her “Eve?”

20Adam: Because she is the Mother of all living.

21Elohim Heavenly Mother: That is right, Adam. She is the Mother of all living.

22Narrator: Then Elohim Heavenly Mother left the council and went about Her own business for a season.

23Elohim Heavenly Father: Here is a hallowed valley for you to live in. Of all the trees and plants of this valley you may eat without fear of consequence. But of the tree whose name is Good and Evil, you may not eat. For the fruit of that tree contains the seeds of death and if you eat of it, those seeds shall pass from generation to generation. Surely, if you eat of it, you shall bring death to all living. Nevertheless, it is also freely given to you to eat or not to eat. But 35 remember, I forbid it. For, in the time that you eat of it, you shall surely die. Now, go to. Steward this valley. Take good care of it. Hurt no thing unduly and without cause or justification. If you are hungry, then eat. But hurt nothing except to provide for your own needs. Take good care of this Holy Place. Be fruitful and multiply, that Our work in this World may be accomplished.

24Narrator: Then Eve set out to familiarize herself with all the plants and animals of the valley. She learned their natures and brought them to Adam. He gave names to all of the living things and had stewardship over all; because in one word, he could reveal everything about them.

25Narrator: Eve delighted in all that the plants and animals did, and learned all of their natures. Adam called her “Mother” because she nurtured all living things in the Valley, and because the works of her hands were so many and so beautiful.

26Narrator: Adam delighted in what the plants and the animals were and he made a language whereby they might be called, commanded and governed. Great and powerful was the language he made. _Adam and Eve dwell together in the garden and are tempted by Satan to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Eve wisely partakes of the fruit to understand the difference between good and evil, Adam partakes to remain with Eve and to gain understanding as well, they are naked and cover themselves with an apron._

27Narrator: Then Lucifer approached Adam in the garden.

28Lucifer: Adam, look at the fruit of this tree. Of all the fruit of all the trees of this garden you should pay the most attention to this one. It is most delicious to the taste and more desirable for food than any other.

29Adam: That is the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Father commanded me that of every tree of the garden I may freely eat, except that one. For, it contains the seeds of death and in the day that I eat of it I shall die, and all my posterity.

30Lucifer: That is ridiculous! You shall not die in a day, no, nor in a thousand days. Father needs you to be fruitful and fill the earth with people. Has He not promised that this would be so? How can you say that this one fruit, among all the fruits in the garden, will kill you? Look. There is not one other bad fruit in this garden. Why, there is not one bad fruit in this whole valley. Indeed, would Father place even one bad fruit in the whole world? Eat this fruit, for evidently you need knowledge, and it is knowledge that will make you as the Gods.

31Adam: I will not eat of that fruit.

32Lucifer: Oh, you will not. Well, we shall see.

33Narrator: After Adam had departed from the presence of the tempter, Lucifer sought out Eve to tempt her also.

34Lucifer: Eve, here is the fruit of that tree. It is delicious to the taste and very desirable. 36

35Eve: It is the tree from which I know I must not eat, for it contains the seeds of death. Father commanded me not to eat of the fruit of that tree – that in the day that I eat of it, I shall surely die.

36Lucifer: Do you know the difference between good and evil?

37Eve: I know that there is good and evil, for the tree is so named.

38Lucifer: To know the difference between them, and why the Creator commanded that you should stay away from it, you have to eat it.

39Eve: It is forbidden. Besides, why should I know the good from the evil. Look at everything around you. Things just do what they do. To know that there is good and evil is enough for me. Why should I not leave the differences to the Creator?

40Lucifer: Do you wish to become like the Creator?

41Eve: I accept such a thing as possible.

42Lucifer: Of course it is! The Creator has commanded you to take care of this Valley and to make many people. You have observed the animals and how they procreate, bear young and care for them. These are great gifts that the animals have been given. To create young is a power such as only a Creator may possess. Surely, this means that the Creator of all wants you to be like Him.

43Eve: I have observed their doing.

44Lucifer: Do you do as they do?

45Eve: I do not.

46Lucifer: To become like the Creator, you must create after the manner of your kind. I tell you, that to be able to create, you must eat of this fruit.

47Eve: Is this the only way it can be done?

48Lucifer: Look around yourself. Do you see any other way? I tell you, there is no other way.

49Eve: What must I do?

50Lucifer: You have been given freedom to choose. The Creator gave you all the good things of the earth. He also gave all the bad things. You may receive them or reject them. To become like the Creator, you must be able to learn from your experience and choose the path you will walk. You must choose to eat of the Tree called Good and Evil so that you may learn the good from the evil. That is the way Father gained his knowledge.

51Narrator: Through Lucifer, Eve learned that only by choosing to partake of the deadly elements of the forbidden tree could she learn to know the good from the evil. She also learned that there is a very real reason to know such things. Now, we cannot know whether Lucifer spoke the truth to Eve or whether he spoke lies. For, although most of us believe he was truthful, and that there was no other way for her to progress in knowledge, we are never actually informed of it.

52Narrator: Eve was beguiled by Lucifer. She knew the tree contained the seeds of death, for she had been forewarned. She had not been forewarned 37 of what difference eating of the fruit of the tree would make to her knowledge. There had been no instruction on that aspect, except that inference one might gain from the name of the tree. She believed Lucifer, that there was no other way.

53Eve: I will take of the fruit of the Tree called Good and Evil and eat it up.

54Lucifer: That is good. Your eyes will be opened and you will be wise. To know the good from the evil, and also by way of the deaths, is how the Creator got His wisdom. You will become like Him now.

55Narrator: Eve takes a piece of the fruit and eats it. Then, suddenly knowing the good from the evil, she knew that she must convince Adam to eat some of it too. She took the fruit and presented it to Adam, just as she had taken every other living thing to him.

56Adam: This fruit already has a name, Eve. The Creator named the tree which makes this fruit, Good and Evil. It is one of two trees that He named Himself.

57Eve: I know that, Adam. I have not brought you the fruit to name it. I have brought it to you to eat.

58Adam: The Tree called Good and Evil has the power to kill. I cannot eat it. It is not food for me.

59Eve: Look at me. I have eaten of this fruit. I know the good from the evil. I may now choose good and reject evil. Can you make that claim, Adam?

60Adam: Is this so important?

61Eve: I don’t know. Perhaps you can tell me. Do you love the Creator?

62Adam: Why, yes, I do love Him.

63Eve: Why? How do you know that He is not telling you to do a bad thing?

64Adam: I trust Him. I follow His commandments.

65Eve: But declare to me what you know about Him. I can tell you of a surety that He is good. I can tell you that what He commands you to do is good and that if you follow Him, no bad thing will come of all your works. Can you declare these things, Adam ?

66Adam: I cannot. I know that there is good and evil, for I know that the Creator so named a certain tree. But I do not know what the name means. He commanded me not to eat of it, and since you say you know that He will not command me wrongly, I will trust you also, and I will not eat it.

67Eve: Then you and I must part, Adam. For I cannot stay with a man who does not know the Creator within him.

68Adam: What do you mean?

69Eve: The Creator could command us to do this and do that. But we could not become like Him merely by His commanding it. Only in knowing why a thing is good or why a thing is bad may we be like Him. This is wisdom, and I would have a wise husband.

70Adam: Where will you go?

71Eve: I must someday die. Some natural or supernatural thing will 38 overtake me, and because I have taken into me the seeds of death, those seeds will grow and my body will break down and disappear. When that happens, you will be all alone, for there will be no children between you and me.

72Adam: Why is that?

73Eve: Because you would have to raise them and nurture them. I would have to know that they too would be raised in rightness and in truth. Can you do that, Adam?

74Adam: I do not know.

75Eve: That is right, Adam. You do not know. I will not leave children to be raised in such a manner.

76Adam: But how can we be together this way?

77Eve: We cannot. I must go to another place, for I have grown to love you and I do not wish to see you unhappy. But I know the good from the evil, Adam, and you do not. This must always separate us.

78Adam: I, too, love you, Eve, and the Creator commanded also that you and I should always be together. He also gave us this Valley to care for together and He commanded that we should create many people. How can all this be, if we must be separated? I see that this cannot be. Give me the fruit and I will eat. You and I may die, but perhaps we might still have time to do the other things He commanded us to do.

79Narrator: Then Adam took the fruit and ate it. Then he, too, could declare the good from the evil. The Man and the Woman were committed to the same program and they rejoiced that they could continue to be together.

80Lucifer: This is all very good. Now that you know the good from the evil, you can become as the spirits and the deities of heaven. You can create and command all things.

81Eve: I know who you are. You are he who rebelled against our Father and was cast out of His presence.

82Lucifer: See, the eyes of your understanding are beginning to open. You see more clearly now.

83Eve: Why do you come appearing so wise and old? You must have known that we would recognize you after our eyes were opened.

84Lucifer: I am the god and lord of this earth. I may appear as I wish. I am wise and my age is a symbol of my wisdom. I have traveled to and fro all over this whole planet. You have learned much in the Valley, but you have taken on the seeds of death and you will not have time in your lives to see all the things of the world. Therefore, I will be your counselor now and I will help guide your understanding. You will learn wisdom as you follow my advice. Now, go. You are naked. Make some protection for yourself, for you know not what dangers to your bodies there are in the world.

85Elohim Heavenly Father: Adam! Eve!

86Lucifer: I hear the voice of Father! He will see you in your nakedness and be angry with you. Run, hide! 39

87Narrator: Then did the Man and the Woman put on the Natural Man and almost immediately began to speak and act in terms of self-interest and self-preservation. When the Creator approached, calling the names of the Man and the Woman, they thought first of their naked or natural state, and tried to hide themselves from him. They made crude coverings to mask their natures. Their focus was instantly upon themselves and their own needs. _Adam and Eve speak with Elohim Heavenly Father, He asks them why they realize they are naked, He rebukes Satan, Jehovah makes coats of skins for Adam and Eve, they covenant with God to seek His face._

88Elohim Heavenly Father: Adam! Adam, where are you?

89Adam: I heard Your voice and hid myself, because I was naked.

90Elohim Heavenly Father: What do you know of nakedness? Have you eaten of the Tree called Good and Evil?

91Adam: Yes, I did eat of it.

92Elohim Heavenly Father: Do you not remember that I commanded that you should not eat of it – that in the day that you did, you shall bear the seeds of death within you?

93Narrator: Having considered their own needs prior to responding to the Creator, Adam and Eve then proceeded to give reasons for their disobedience.

94Adam: Did You not command me that Eve should stay with me always? And did You not command me that we should together take care of the Valley and create many people? Without knowing the good from the evil, it was difficult for me to discern which of Your commandments was of more weight than others. Furthermore, I could not know the consequences of my choices. I did eat the fruit that Eve brought to me so that I could gain understanding of things.

95Elohim Heavenly Father: Eve. What is this that you have done unto your husband?

96Eve: The Tempter persuaded me saying that there was but one way to become like unto the Creator, and that was to partake of the fruit. I believed him, and I did eat. Is it not better to know the good from the evil, even if it means that we must suffer and die because of it? I would rather be able to say that I know that the Creator lives and is good, and that His commands satisfy a good purpose, than to be ignorant of such things and live forever.

97Elohim Heavenly Father: It is not good that you have chosen disobedience. Now you have the ability to know the good from the evil, but that does not mean that you already know all things. Lucifer neglected to tell you that. You will learn the good from the evil through your experiences, and there is nothing that guarantees that you will make right choices. Still, there is much good that comes from choice and that is why I gave you the freedom to choose, even from the very beginning. Each of you now has within you the seeds of death. If you will choose now to be obedient and follow the 40 instruction which I shall give you, either by My voice or by those whom I shall send to you, then you will be preserved in physical health and many children will be born to you. Notwithstanding your health will be preserved for a long time because of your faithfulness, you will eventually die and that which you have taken upon you will transform your physical bodies back into the elemental materials from which they were created. If you will call upon Me often, giving thanks for all that you now experience, I will counsel with you from time to time and, if you remain faithful in this thanksgiving way, I will cause that you will be able to return to a state of unity with Me once again.

98Elohim Heavenly Father: Lucifer! What have you been doing here?

99Lucifer: To all other living things in all the worlds of this creation, you have given the key of knowledge without calling it good or evil. I have given that key to these people, proving to them who their real God ought to be. Look at me. I reveal all and withhold nothing. They know in whom they may place their trust in this world. They will worship me because of what I have given them. Those spirits that follow me will take up the bodies you have made for this people and possess them.

100Elohim Heavenly Father: The Mother has placed enmity between you and the seed of the Woman. You may have power to hurt the man, to drive him here and there, to tempt him and cause him to leave the path of righteousness, but the woman has in her the power to overcome all that you can do to thwart his progression. She will have enmity for all that threatens her family.

101Lucifer: Then with that enmity, I will cause the heart of the man to be filled up with the things of the world. Combined with his drive to husband and control, this very enmity will burn in him and he will build. There will be nothing in this earth that will not become lucre to him, and I shall be able to buy any thing and any person with it. Because of this enmity, I will reign with blood and terror on this earth!

102Elohim Heavenly Father: Depart out of My presence!

103Narrator: Then Lucifer slinks away.

104Elohim Heavenly Father: Jehovah. Because the Man and the Woman have chosen disobedience, they must leave Our presence. Cast them out of this beautiful valley into the lonely world. Place a Veil in the Man and the Woman as wards to guard the valley so that they may not come back into it and eat the fruit of the Tree of Life and live forever in this fallen state. Provide a way for them to return again into that state of being capable of withstanding and sharing the glory of Our countenance. We will provide a Savior for them, in accordance with the atonement to which We covenanted before the world was made. If they choose obedience and strive with their might to rise up again from their fallen state, we will bring them upon the Way and instruct them. If they remain faithful and do good continually, they will finish their work. 41

105Jehovah: I will do all that you have commanded, Elohim Heavenly Father. I will take up the valley We set apart for the Man and the Woman and I will make of it a Way to which they may attain only if their intentions and their hearts prove to be good and faithful. Upon this Way they may be instructed by their grandfathers and also by My own presence.

106Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well. Jehovah, make coats of skins and place them upon the Man and the Woman. Cause them to understand that this will be a protection for them and a symbol of their devotion one to another. They shall show not their nakedness unto any other than their own spouse and this will be a help and a protection for them.

107Jehovah: It shall be done.

108Narrator: Each of you have covered your nakedness with clothing. See to it that this clothing is always modest and it will serve to protect you from the temptation that Lucifer places in the hearts of men that leads to the corruption of the gift of procreation. The evil one will use any means to corrupt the work of the Father. Always remember this and cover your nakedness accordingly.

110Jehovah: Adam. Because you chose to listen to the voice of Lucifer instead of that of the Father, you are cursed to live in the lonely world. By the sweat of your face you must earn your living, for you have chosen the natural Man and, if you remain in that choice, dust you shall be.

111Jehovah: Eve. Because you chose to listen to the voice of Lucifer over that of the Father, you are cursed also. In suffering shall you bring forth children. Nevertheless, it is by this gift that mankind is saved.

112Jehovah: Adam. If you will covenant with Me that you will seek My face and obey My will, I will teach you the Law of Obedience and the Gospel. Through this Thanksgiving Way, you may overcome your fallen state.

114Jehovah: Eve, if you will covenant with Me that you will seek My face and obey My will, even as the Man has done, I will make you Husband and Wife, and I shall teach you the Law of Obedience and the Gospel. Through this Thanksgiving Way, you may overcome your fallen state.

115Eve: Jehovah, I now covenant with You that I will join with my husband and seek Your face and obey Your will even as my husband has covenanted.

and the world, Peter, James and John visit Adam and Eve, eventually they cast out Satan, they teach them the Law of Obedience and the Gospel, and ordain Adam to the Levitical or Aaronic Priesthood.

1Narrator: It is at this point in the ordinance of the High Place that marriages may be solemnized. This is the earthly marriage and begins the covenant of marriage entered into by the man and the woman. It is part of the Law of Obedience and the Gospel, but is only made eternal by the power of the Holy Spirit of Promise, the token of which is the second anointing.

2Jehovah: We desire all to receive this Law and this Way. All arise. Each of you covenant, as this Man and this Woman have done, to seek My face and obey My will, in whatever form I may choose to give in the generations of your lives. Each of you bow your head and say, Yes.

3Jehovah: It is enough. That will do. Because of the pure intent of your hearts, you shall be instructed in all that you must do to regain the state from which you have fallen. You shall learn how faith and commitment to the Thanksgiving Way makes it possible for the suffering of one to make up for that which you cannot change. Now go forth into the lonely world. Build a home and an Altar. Offer your oblations unto Me and I shall send messengers to you from time to time. You shall know them to be messengers from the Father because they will teach of four Sacred Directions. This shall be a token by which you may know them when they come. Now, you must go out of this Valley which I created for you and live in the wide world and I must place between us a barrier, or Veil, which shall separate you from the place where I may dwell with you for a time. You must be apart from My face and My presence until you have proven worthy to once again be one with Me. When you come again unto Me and have been instructed and prepared, I will cause the Veil to be taken up and I will take you back into the presence of Father.

4Adam: I will follow this Thanksgiving Way.

5Eve: I, too, will follow this Path. For I know that, though it may prove to be strait, the Path of the Creator is a good road.

6Narrator: Adam and Eve emerged up out of the sheltered place where they had spent their spiritual infancy into the Telestial World and they called it a lone and dreary world, a world that was filled with wonders and also dangers, and a world where they could not daily walk and talk with all things living. A barrier was placed in their minds between them and the place where the Creator walks and they were left alone. Then Adam and Eve began to explore their new world and discovered that it was filled with the same plants and animals that they recognized from their previous home. They studied them and learned what was good for food and what was not, what could be used for clothing and for shelter. They found that their new home was not sheltered and was filled with danger. 43

7Narrator: They also found that it was beautiful and filled with wonders.

8Narrator: The Man and the Woman are seen to walk about conversing and gesturing to the many plants and animals around them.

9Adam: Let us do as we were commanded and seek the face of the Creator. We will take of this world, limbs, skins and stones, and we will build a place wherein we may seek His face.

10Eve: It is good that we act upon the commandments we have been given.

11Narrator: Adam took tree limbs, animal skins and stones and built a place where he and Eve could pray. And when they went down into the place and offered up their thanks for everything that they had learned, they began to be visited by spirit beings. Every day they were visited by different instructors. And Adam built an altar and offered an oblation to the Lord.

12Adam: Oh God! Hear the words of my mouth! Oh Father! Hear the words that I am praying! Oh Lord! Can You hear the words of my prayer?

13Angel of the Lord: Why do you offer sacrifice at this altar?

14Adam: I know not, save that I was commanded to do so.

15Angel of the Lord: That which you shall do in this place and upon this altar is in accordance with the Law of the Gospel. You shall offer sacrifice here that shall be in the likeness and similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten Son of the Father. It is good that you are obedient to the commands of your Lord.

16Narrator: And when Adam offered his oblation unto the Lord, Satan was also attracted by the commotion. He appears as a wise old man.

17Satan: What is wanted?

18Adam: I am praying for messengers from my Father.

19Satan: Oh, you want religion. What you need is good, sound religion. I will have preachers come and teach religion to you by and by. Listen to them, for they are wise like me.

20Narrator: The old man stayed with Adam and Eve for many years and he taught them all of the ways of men.

21Satan: Adam, you must listen to me. You must believe that I tell you the truth. Women are weaker than you. You cannot have failed to have noticed this.

22Adam: No, I know that they are weaker than men.

23Satan: That is good. Your eyes are open and you see clearly the truth of what I teach you. Now listen to me and I will tell you why women are weaker than men. When Father made you out of the dust of this Earth, you were alone in the valley which He made for you. Then He asked the powers of Heaven if it was good for you to be alone and They answered, “No.” So, They made you give a rib of your own body up so that They could make the woman. Now, she is part of you, even a part of your own body. Does it not sound reasonable that you 44 should have stewardship over your own body?

24Adam: I believe that Father gave me my body that I might learn to steward it.

25Satan: That is right, Adam. And when you stretch forth your hand to fell a tree, that you might use it in building a house, do you not have complete control over the faculties of your arm and of your hand?

27Satan: Then listen to me, Adam, and I will teach a great thing that will be useful to you in all your days. The woman is made of you. She is bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh. Therefore, she is your property, just as your arm, or your hand belongs to you. She is weaker because she is only a part of you and has not the use of all of your strength. Therefore, keep her always in check. Do not let her lead you in any thing. If you do, you have lost control of your own body and you have brought disorder and chaos to the creation.

28Adam: Father taught me that I should cleave unto her and she will be a help mete for me.

29Satan: That is right. But never forget that she comes from your own body. And also remember that she brought the fruit of the forbidden tree to you and caused you to be cast out of the sacred place. Left to herself, she is capable of great mischief. Therefore, keep her in check, Adam. This is my advice and my counsel.

30Satan: Now, you are the first created of all the men of this Earth. You are strong in the body and your eyes are open. You will fill the earth with people. But all men are not made the same. There will be strong and there will be weak among you. Indeed, most people are weak. That is why it is important for you to rule this people, for the weak must not rule the people. Make only the strong among you the Chiefs of the People. This is a true and right principle. The Creator gives the strong natural abilities that makes it only right that they should make subjects of the weak and to dominate them.

31Satan: Look, Adam. Many of the children you have got from that Woman love me and reverence my counsel to them. They know that I am wise. You should take heed to what I teach you even as they do.

32Adam: I will not judge these things. I will continue in the Thanksgiving Way given to me by the Creator.

33Satan: Listen to me, all you children of Men. I am the god of this world. I reign from one end of it to the other. The people respect and worship me.

34Narrator: Then the evil one took counsel in his heart.

35Satan: Now are all things prepared and the bodies of these shall belong to me and to mine. All things shall be as they were and every man shall return unto his own.

36Narrator: Adam once again cries unto the Lord at the altar he has erected. 45

37Satan: What is it that you want?

38Eve: Who are you that we should follow your counsel? Who are your parents, your grandparents?

39Satan: Keep quiet, Woman! It is because of your foolishness, stupid one, that the Man must seek his own counsel! Men may take counsel, and women may hold their peace. Adam, I will teach you and you will know all of the ways of this world, for there is only one true way. Have no confidence in anything but what I tell you, for as you can see, I am old and I have learned all that the world has to teach. Stay in the way that I reveal to you and you, too, will know what I know. But, above all else, listen only to me, for no one has lived on this world longer than I. I will teach you and what I teach you, you must believe and follow.

40Adam: You are a changeable thing, nameless one. A snake of many colors are you, which tempts the eyes and flatters with beauty. You are like the coral snake whose looks are pleasing but whose bite kills the mind and cripples the body. Get away from us! We are seeking the Grandfathers!

41Preacher: Now, now! What is all this commotion about?

42Satan: Good afternoon. Are you an ordained minister of religion, and have you been trained in the ministry?

43Preacher: One may not preach without having the proper authority, and what can one teach without the proper training?

44Satan: And do you teach the orthodox religion?

45Preacher: Yes, that is what I teach.

46Satan: That is good. I want you to teach this man.

47Preacher: Good afternoon. I understand you are inquiring after religion.

48Adam: I am looking for messengers from my Father. Are you one of His messengers?

49Preacher: I am glad that you are looking for messengers from Father. Do you believe in a god without body, parts, or passions? Who sits on the top of a topless throne, whose substance is everywhere but whose circumference is nowhere? Who fills the expanse of space and yet is so small that He may dwell in your heart? Do you believe in this great Being?

50Adam: I do not believe in any such person.

51Preacher: You do not? Perhaps you do not believe in the Devil! He is a dragon with the teeth of a lion and claws of a bear! And perhaps you do not believe in the finality of this life. Perhaps you do not believe in that lake of fire called hell where all the wicked go after this life. It is a terrible place where the wicked must spend all eternity in a lake of fire. They will burn there, but they are never burned up. Can you imagine it? They burn with an all-consuming fire, but their bodies are never consumed. 46

52Adam: I believe in the adversary, for I have been taught of him. But I do not believe what you teach.

53Preacher: Well, I am sorry for you.

54Satan: I am very sorry for you as well. I understood you to want religion, but obviously you want something entirely different.

55Adam: I am looking for messengers from my Father.

56Elohim Heavenly Father: Jehovah, send down Peter, James and John, in hidden form, along with those angels who guard the four curtains of Heaven, to the Man and the Woman in the world we have created. They shall teach them about the Gospel and the Thanksgiving Way. We shall soon confer upon the Man a preparatory priesthood and teach him to place the Robe of the Priesthood on the right shoulder, preparatory to officiating in the ordinances, oblations and performances that We will command of him. See how they are doing generally and see if Satan, our common enemy, is there. Then have them return and report all that they have seen and heard.

57Jehovah: Peter, James and John, go down to the man Adam. Peter, go as the Buffalo Spirit. James, go as the Thunder Spirit. John, go as the Lightning Spirit. Take these forms and teach the Man and the Woman. See if they are ready to receive greater knowledge, for I would that they receive a preparatory priesthood and that they be taught their duty in it. Give them a token whereby they may recognize you when you appear to them. Observe conditions generally. See if Satan is there. Ascertain the progress of the people. Then, return and bring Us word.

58Peter: It shall be done, Jehovah.

59Peter: Come, James and John. We will take with us the Guardian Spirits. Let us go down.

60James: We will go down.

61John: We will go down.

62Narrator: Adam and Eve begin to have visions and dream dreams.

63Narrator: The Eagle Spirit and his people taught them to look at the night sky and discern the seasons. The Eagle taught them when to come and when to go and in this manner the Creator gave them the gift of the Sees Far People by revelation.

64Narrator: The Mouse Spirit and his people taught them to make coats of skin to cloth themselves that they might more fully control the desire they had one for another, and to set aside seeds, roots, and fruits of all kinds for medicines and food against times of illness, hardship and scarcity. The Creator gave them the gift of the Looks Within People by revelation.

65Narrator: The Buffalo Spirit and his people taught them how to manufacture useful tools and other items. The Creator gave them the gift of the Seeks Council People by revelation.

66Narrator: To recognize these great gifts, Adam and Eve built up a Hearth of stones within the lodge they had built, 47 and sang their thanks to the Creator in these words:

67Adam: Hear me, Grandfather, for I have much thanksgiving in my heart.

68Eve: Hear me, Grandfather, for my body sings with thanksgiving.

69Adam: Hear me, Grandfather, for my whole soul is filled with thanksgiving.

70Peter: Good day to you, sir.

71Preacher: Good day to you.

72Peter: What are you doing here?

73Preacher: We are teaching religion to this people. They are learning how to get along in the world

74Peter: And how is your teaching received by them.

75Preacher: Very well! The people receive it with great enthusiasm. Excepting this man and woman.

76Satan: That is right. Except for these few who follow the strange teachings of this man and this woman, our instructors get on very well with all the people.

77Peter: You do not like the teaching of these men? strength and power and compulsion. I find no love or compassion in their teaching. To me, it is a doctrine filled with lust and desire, but nothing that elevates men from the beasts. To me it is a mass of confusion. I have been taught to call upon Father. This brings peace to my mind. That is what I am looking for. That is why I am waiting for messengers from my Father.

81Peter: Are these two men the only instructors who have come to you?

82Adam: No, we have seen visions and dreamed dreams. These have been more beneficial than all of the instructors this one has provided. I know that Father will send messengers to me.

83Peter: How will you know the messengers of the Father when they come to you? Have you any tokens or signs?

84Satan: You can have all the tokens and signs you want. If you have enough stuff, you can buy anything in the world.

85Peter: Do you trade for stuff the things you have learned?

86Adam: I do not! I teach them freely to all who will listen. I hold them sacred, and do not sell them.

78Adam: I do not.

79Peter: Can you tell me a little of it?

80Adam: They teach of a god who sits on the top of a topless throne and who is everywhere but nowhere. And they teach of a monster who throws men and women into a lake of eternal burning. I do not understand it. They teach of

87Peter: That is right. We commend you for your good faith and integrity. We will probably visit you again.

88Narrator: The three depart and Satan again takes counsel in his heart.

89Satan: Now is the time of my great power. I am the authority over this earth. 48 I rule from one end of it to another. If there are any who try to hurt or make afraid, I shall punish them. All men obey my will and all men follow me.

90Peter: Jehovah, we have been down to the man Adam and the woman Eve, as You commanded. Satan is there with his ministers. He is teaching all manner of false doctrine and trying to lead the posterity of Adam astray. But the Man and the Woman have been faithful to the things they have been given and walk in a sacred manner. They do not bend to the wind of popular opinion or to convention and convenience. They are true to the revelations, visions, and teachings they have been given.

91Jehovah: Elohim Heavenly Father, Peter, James, and John have been down as You commanded. They found Satan there trying to lead the posterity of Adam astray. But he has remained true to all that he has been given thus far. This is their report.

92Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well, Jehovah. Send down Peter, James and John in their true character as apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ to the man Adam and the woman Eve. For, they have been faithful in the Law of Obedience and of the Gospel. Cast Satan out of their midst. Have them confer upon the man Adam a preparatory priesthood and instruct him to wear the robe on the right shoulder. Have them remind the woman Eve that she has received the priesthood from Elohim Heavenly Mother and that she has a duty to serve the Lord with her husband and to be a helpmeet for him. Give them the Law of Sacrifice by

93Jehovah: It shall be done, Elohim Heavenly Father.

94Jehovah: Peter, James and John, go down again to the man Adam and the woman Eve. Cast Satan out of their midst. Confer upon the man Adam that priesthood which pertains only to the preparation of the living. Instruct him to place the robe on the right shoulder and set him at the door of the High Place and teach him his duty therein. Remind the woman Eve that she received the priesthood from Mother. Let her place the robe on both shoulders and instruct her that she is to be a helpmeet for her husband. Teach them the Law of Sacrifice and have them receive it by covenant. Teach them to officiate in the priesthood you have given them.

95Peter: It shall be done, Jehovah.

96James: We will go down.

97John: We will go down.

98Peter: Good day to you, sir. I am Peter.

99James: I am James.

100John: I am John.

101Satan: Yes, I thought I recognized you. So you have looked around and seen my great power. Do you also see how easy it is to corrupt the hearts of these men and women? You will surely see more, for I will not cease my work. You may have these few, for what do I care for a tiny minority? They will be 49 swallowed up by my will in the end. But I do have a word to say to all of them. If you do not keep all the covenants you make in this Holy Place this day, I shall have power over you to do with you as I will. Then you will beg me for mercy and I will give you justice! My judgments will be harsh, but you will thank me for them someday.

102Satan: Now what will you do?

103Peter: We will dismiss you without further argument.

104Satan: By what authority?

105Peter: In the name of Jesus Christ our Master, and by His commission.

106Narrator: Then Satan shook with rage, but left the Thanksgiving Lodge. Nevertheless, he stayed in the village, for the people still thought him wise. He continued to teach them even though Adam and Eve would not listen to his words.

107Peter: Adam, we are true messengers from the Father.

108Adam: How may I know that you are true messengers?

109Peter: You shall know by our giving you the token you received before you were driven into this lonely place and which have been confirmed to you by revelation. This is the token, along with its name.

110Peter: Oh! Wah-hiay-kin Oug! Oh! Wah-hiay-kin Nemenhimen Hay-min-ay! Oh! Wah-hiay-kin Mayn-ish-tay-nah! Oh Wah-hiay-kin So-hil-stay-nah! There is no other token or sign by which you may know it, and even my giving it to you in this way must be subjected to the confirmation of the Holy Ghost. Go now with your wife and pray earnestly to the Father if we are not His messengers. The Holy Ghost will tell you what to do.

111Narrator: Adam and Eve went a little way off and they prayed to the Father. When they returned they were certain that the angels before them were true messengers of the Father.

112Adam: I know who you are now, for the Spirit bore record to me of the truthfulness of your words.

113Eve: I also felt the power of the Holy Ghost. You truly are messengers sent from Father.

114Peter: You do well, Adam and Eve. Adam, we have been sent to confer upon you a preparatory priesthood and to instruct you in your duty in it. Will you submit to it?

115Adam: I will submit.

116Peter: It is well.

117Narrator: Peter motions for Adam to kneel upon the ground. Peter, James and John place their hands upon Adam’s head and confer upon him the Priesthood after the Order of Levi.

118Peter: Adam, by the authority of Jesus Christ which He has given us, and by His commission which we have received of Him, and by the power of the Holy Ghost which makes this possible, we lay our hands upon your head and confer upon you that priesthood which 50 has to do with the preparation of the living to see the face of their God. Stand now at the door and knock. Amen. Peli. We will now teach you the manner in which you shall sacrifice.

120Peter: Adam, you have received the priesthood which will be called the Priesthood after the Order of Levi, or the Levitical Priesthood. This order gives you authority to prepare the mind and soul of men and women to come up to the High Place, to receive instruction from angels and the spirits of just men and women made perfect by the atonement. You will be instructed in certain ordinances, which will change from time to time according to the needs of your posterity. Place a robe over your right shoulder whenever you are officiating in the ordinances of this priesthood.

121Peter: Eve, you have already received the priesthood from Mother. You will be instructed and reminded of your duty in the priesthood in the same manner as your husband. Place a robe over both shoulders whenever you are officiating in the ordinances of the priesthood, and be at all times a helpmeet for your husband in all that he is called to do.

122Peter: We will now teach you the Law of Sacrifice which you must receive by covenant. It is that each of you will submit yourselves to the will of the Father through His son Jesus Christ, offering that sacrifice which He asks of you. The manner of this sacrifice may change from time to time depending upon that which the Lord sees you need. In these ordinances, you shall be called _(It is appropriate to break at this point and discuss the ordinance of the Itsipi or “Purification of the Ammonites. See Appendix One.”)_

The Token for the Levitical Priesthood is given, Adam and Eve receive the Law of Sacrifice, they receive instruction on the Sacred Pipe, Sacred Directions, and the Sacred Plants, they receive the tokens of the Melchizedek Priesthood, Adam is ordained to the Melchizedek Priesthood, Eve reminded of the priesthood she received from Elohim Heavenly Mother.

1Narrator: The assembly is now instructed as to the purpose of the preparatory priesthood. The Speaker asks if any man has not had this priesthood conferred on them. If any man says he has not, he is taken aside and the priesthood is conferred. The men receive a token or symbol of the preparatory priesthood. They are instructed in the Sacred Directions of the Pipe Ceremony.

2Narrator: This is the name and token of the preparatory priesthood, or Levitical Priesthood. The person giving the token raises the right hand above the head, with his arm to the square and thumb extended, and says the words, “Oh! Wah-hiay-kin Oug! Oh! Wah-hiay-kin Nemenhimen Hay-min-ay! 51 Oh! Wah hiay-kin Mayn-ish-tay-nah! Oh Wah-hiay-kin So-hil-stay-nah!” Which words, being interpreted, mean, “Oh Spirit, guide me to the good things of the earth! Oh Spirit guide me into the presence of Heavenly Beings! Oh Spirit, I would be able to See Afar Off! Oh Spirit, I would be able to Look Within!”

3Narrator: The women receive the token also, in remembrance of the priesthood they received of the Mother.

4Narrator: The ordinances of the preparatory priesthood are explained. These ordinances include the manner in which sacred smoke and the incense of the temple is administered, the manner in which a family altar is erected, the sweat purification, fasting and prayer, baptism and the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper.

5Narrator: All the participants adjourn to a place where the Law of Sacrifice is discussed. The man representing Peter leads the discussion.

6Peter: This is the Sacred Pipe. It is a gift from the Creator. The smoke of the pipe is a symbol of the prayers and the songs of the Thanksgiving Way. You should give thanks for all the gifts of the Creator and then present the pipe in a Sacred Manner to the Seven Sacred Directions. The first Sacred Direction is the Sky. Offer the pipe to the Father in thanksgiving for all that you have received, all that you do now receive and all that you shall ever receive, and also as a token that you do honor all spiritual things. The second Sacred Direction is the Earth. Offer the pipe to the Mother in thanksgiving for all that you have, do and shall receive, and as a token that you honor Her and remember Her, and that you do honor all living things. The third Sacred Direction is the West. This is the Seeks Council Habitation and represents all that this life may teach you. The fourth Sacred Direction is the North. This is the Spirit Habitation and represents all that you may receive from Heavenly Beings. The fifth Sacred Direction is the East. This is the Sees Far Habitation and represents all that you may receive from your Grandfathers and from other Heavenly Messengers. The sixth Sacred Direction is the South. It is the Looks Within Habitation and must remind you that all that may be learned in mortality must be carefully analyzed and internalized or it is of no use or validity, and that you must have the courage and the commitment to make those changes that need to be made. The Seventh Sacred Direction is toward your own Heart. Offer the pipe to yourself in token of your sacred commitment to the Thanksgiving Way.

7James: There are Sacred Plants which ought to be smoked in the pipe. They are the Willow, the Sage, the Cedar, Kous, Sweetgrass, Dogwood, and so forth. These herbs prepare the mind, the body and the spirit. Break the herbs up very small and place them in the bowl.

8John: Light the herbs and draw the smoke up the stem with your mouth. Do not inhale the smoke of the pipe directly into your lungs, unless your lungs are sick, but expel it from your mouth. Let the smoke mix liberally with elements of the air. Then it may be taken into the lungs blended with the air. 52

9Adam: Why are the herbs destroyed in this manner?

10James: In this sacred manner the spirit of the Sacred Herbs is first given up as it is taken up with the pipe by all the participants. So also will one of the Sons of Elohim Heavenly Father, the greatest of all, come as a man and He will give up His life for all living. So that they may understand this greatest of sacrifices, we have taught your children to sacrifice.

11John: Then, just as the smoke of the dead herbs is taken into the bodies of the participants and the mind, body and spirit of all those who partake of it are renewed by it together, so also shall this Man take up His body again and be renewed. In Him shall all living also be renewed.

12Narrator: At that moment, a furious wind blew through the village and into the Thanksgiving Lodge. This, the Guides told him, was the Holy Ghost, come to them from the presence of God. Through the power of this Spirit, every new thing would be made known to Adam and Eve.

13Peter: Since it is not required that all people should participate in the purification of the Ammonites after the manner of the Itsipi, another method whereby a man and a woman may offer a mete sacrifice unto the Lord is through fasting and sincere prayer. This is the sacred manner in which fasting and prayer are done: Fasting is the abstaining from food and drink for a designated period of time. The abstaining from food and drink places the body in very real danger and constitutes a breaking of the heart. Fasting and Prayer is more than merely abstaining from food and drink, it involves the Lord directly in the sacrifice. The individual invites the Lord and the Holy Ghost into the sacrifice by beginning the fast with sincere prayer. This constitutes a broken heart and a contrite spirit.

14James: Baptism is an earthly ordinance that is used as a token of repentance, change and emergence. Every time a man or a woman among the household of faith makes a covenant that involves a change over their previous behaviors or beliefs, the covenant is betokened by baptism. The manner of this baptism may be in the purification of the Ammonites, or in the manner of the Lord’s baptism, for both are covenant tokens that He has deemed acceptable. The purification of the Ammonites has already been explained to you. The ordinance of Baptism is administered in the following manner:

15John: _(Begin Oug 2:23-29)_ Behold, thou whom My servant has anointed, shall take hold of them and lead them into the water and stand in the water with them, and when thou art down in the water thou shalt call them by name and say: Having been commanded and set apart by Jesus Christ I baptize you in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

16John: And this shall you have for doctrine. For all that I teach thee shall testify of the Father and lead thee to the Father. Wherefore, whoso believeth in Me believeth in the Father also. Wherefore, the Holy Ghost, by whom We 53 are one, shall enter into the heart of the believer and shall baptize even with Fire.

17John: Verily I say unto you, ye must be baptized by water and this by immersion. For even so did I to fulfill righteousness and to become an ensample unto you. This is the covenant of the body, the beginning of the testament, even the door that opens onto the strait and narrow path which leads unto life eternal.

18John: Wherefore, whoso believeth and is baptized by water shall begin upon the road that gives onto the Way.

19John: Now, after that you have baptized them thou shalt lay thine hands upon them and bless them and sharply exhort them to receive the Holy Ghost. And if they offer unto Me a sacrifice mete for repentance, even a contrite and humble spirit, My Father will bestow upon them the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Wherefore, the baptism of water is your declaration of the covenant and the baptism of fire is My Father's declaration that they shall endure to the finishing of the work and become even as He is.

20John: Behold, this is My doctrine, and I shall show other doctrine to those who come unto Me. Yea, whoso cometh unto Me shall speak with the tongues of angels for they shall see and converse with angels and shall speak to them as one man speaks to another. Yea, this is My doctrine and there shall be no other doctrine of baptism given except to those with whom, in my own time, I do make My abode. ( _End Oug 2:23-29_ )

21John: The sacrament of the Lord’s supper is an important ordinance in the preparatory priesthood. Both men and women whom the Lord has called and set apart through the administration of the Holy Ghost may officiate in the performing of this ordinance for other people. Mothers and Fathers perform this ordinance in the home. The Peli direct this ordinance and men and women of the household of faith administer it to the congregation. The manner in which it should be administered is found in the Record of Oug.

22John: ( _Oug 3:24-29)_ Then Jesus asked us to bring bread and wine to Him. And He broke the bread and blessed it and passed it to us to partake, saying:

23John: Ye who take up the bread to bless it shall break the bread in this manner and give it to the people. And when ye bless the bread ye shall lift up your voice, saying:

24John: O God, the Eternal Father, we ask Thee, in Jesus’ name, to bless this bread and sanctify it unto us who partake of it. That we may eat it in remembrance of the body of Thy Son, whose heart was broken because of His own, Who was pierced for the sins of all the world; that we may witness unto Thee, oh Father, that we desire to take His name unto ourselves, and remember Him, and follow His teachings which we have received of Him, that we may be worthy of the baptism of His Spirit and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

25John: And He commanded the Twelve and myself to go and do likewise. 54 Then, when we had returned, he took the wine and poured it and blessed it saying:

26John: Ye who take up the wine to bless it shall pour the wine in this manner and give it to the people. And when ye bless the wine you shall lift up your voice, saying:

27John: O God, the Eternal Father, we ask Thee in Jesus’ name, to bless this wine and sanctify it unto us who drink of it. That we may drink it in remembrance of the blood of Thy Son, which flowed from every pore when He took upon Himself all things, and which spilled out from Him when He hung upon the tree; that we do witness unto Thee, oh Father, that we do remember Him and have taken His name. Pour down the Unquenchable Fire to be in us! Amen! _(End Oug 3:24-29)_

28Peter: We now admonish you to go and meditate upon the things you have learned and to seek the confirmation of the Holy Ghost regarding the instruction.

29Narrator: Again Adam and Eve kneel at the altar they have erected to sing thanksgiving to the Creator. While they were thus employed, Satan, disguised in the form of a wise old counselor, scratched upon the lodge flap. Adam opened the flap and the old one greeted him. Thinking him to be a visiting teacher, they courteously invite him into the Thanksgiving Lodge.

30Satan: What do you want? You sang to the Grandfathers and I am answering.

31Adam: We have received gifts and sang our thanks.

32Eve: The Sacred Animals have spoken to us and now we seek the Creator.

33Satan: Look at what your sons and daughters do. The stronger men gather all the young women, their sisters, daughters, and granddaughters, to their own lodges to make wives of them.

34Narrator: Then Adam counseled with his sons.

35Adam: This thing is not right unless the Creator Himself commands it. You men have not sought the presence of the Creator. From whom, then, have you received this practice?

36Mob: The Old One is wise. He has taught us this wise thing.

37Adam: Satan has flattered you. This thing is not wise. You do it only to gratify yourselves so that you do not have to control your passions. No good can come of it. Do you not see that God has given us a pattern. We call His name Elohim Heavenly Father and the Mother we call Elohim Heavenly Mother. It is not Elohim Heavenly Father and many mothers.

38Mob: You are foolish, and follow a foolish path. Soon you will not be strong and you will lose your place among us. The Old One has shown us how the strong survive and you should also listen to him and obey his counsel. He has taught us that there is only one truth and only one way. By following this way in strict obedience to the voice of the Old One, we will be strong, and we will rule the Earth. 55

39Adam: You will bring suffering upon all the people. If this is strength and wisdom, then let me remain forever weak and stupid.

40Narrator: Then many saw the error of the thing that Satan had taught them and they turned to the Lodge of Adam and Eve and began again to give thanks at the Sacred Hearth. But the majority followed the way of the world.

41Narrator: Then did many of the younger men become angry because there were not enough women for all to take to wife, because of the wickedness of the way of Satan , and they separated themselves from among the people. After that every young man who could not find a wife because they were all given in marriage to the stronger men, joined the lodge of the young men and lived apart from the people. They also listened to Satan and he was often seen scurrying back and forth between the lodges of the mighty men and of the young men. The young men began to accuse Satan because they were alone and they found fault with him.

42Satan: You are foolish, you young men. The strong are made to dominate the weak. You know this is the truth. You stronger men ought to satisfy yourselves as befitting the strong and you weaker men ought to submit yourselves as do women.

43Narrator: Then the lodge of the Young Men became a place of evil and even Satan ceased to visit there. After some time, following the wicked counsel of Satan, many of the young men began to sicken and many died. Those that remained were very angry and they rose up in one body and made war upon the lodges of the mighty. Because they were many and the mighty were caught alone with their wives, the angry young men came through them like a strong wind through willows and they killed the mighty men and took their wives to themselves. And all the children of the mighty they made their slaves to labor for them.

44Satan: See. It is exactly as I taught you. Only the strong may rule.

45Narrator: And they made Satan their Chief and called their lodge the Snake Lodge. But, in all these things Adam and Eve kept aloof with all of their people and, because Adam was not considered a mighty man, the Snake Lodge People did not assail them. But all others did they torment until all of the mighty men were destroyed from off the face of the earth.

46Elohim Heavenly Father: Jehovah, send Peter, James and John down once again to the man Adam and the woman Eve. Teach them the Law of Chastity and have them receive it by covenant. Instruct them to place the Robe of the Priesthood on the left shoulder preparatory to officiating in the ordinances of the higher order. Teach them the ordinances of the Priesthood after the Order of the Son of God. Give them the token whereby they may be reminded of the sacrifice of my Son. Then have them return and bring me word.

47Jehovah: It shall be done, Elohim 56 Heavenly Father. Peter, James and John, go down again to the Man and the Woman in the world we have created. Teach them the Law of Chastity and have them receive it by covenant. Instruct them to place the Robe of the Priesthood on the left shoulder preparatory to officiating in the ordinances of higher order. Teach them the ordinances of the Priesthood after the Order of the Son of God. Give them the token whereby they may be reminded of the sacrifice of my Son. Then return and bring Us word.

48Peter: We will go down, Jehovah.

49Peter: Adam, we are true messengers of the Father.

50Adam: How may I know that you are true messengers? For, the old man you see running away told us that he was the oldest of this world and he has corrupted many souls with his teachings. How may we know that you are not the same as he?

51Peter: You shall know by the things that we teach you. If the things that we teach bring about great good, and if the Holy Ghost testifies of the truthfulness of them to your heart, then you will know of a surety that we are true messengers from the Father. This is the token we gave you when we visited you before.

52Narrator: Peter prays to the Sacred Directions.

53Adam: That is right. These are true messengers of the Father. I exhort you to be instructed by them, and they will teach you the Thanksgiving Way. If you hear them and consider their words, subjecting all of them to the confirmation of the Holy Ghost, they will lead you in the ways of truth and righteousness.

54Peter: Adam, you have been taught the Law of Sacrifice. Tell us your understanding of it.

55Adam: Through much suffering, Eve does bear the children. Through her suffering our children do replenish the earth. She sacrifices not for her own sake, but for the sake of all living. This is the sacrifice that the Son of God will make for all people.

56Peter: That is right. She by the gift of the Mother does magnify her calling, and she is greatly blessed with the gifts of the Spirit because of her sacrifice for the sake of all living. For this reason, you did call her the Mother of all Living. For, she is after the similitude of your Mother which is in Heaven. The Law of Sacrifice is designed to teach you that you must learn to sacrifice as she does in order to progress in light and truth as she does.

57Adam: It is hard for men to understand that they may sacrifice in the way of women, seeing that they may not bear children.

58Peter: It is true that you may not bear children. But you may sacrifice still. The oblation you give upon the altar is like unto the sacrifice that the Creator will make for all people. You may also give of yourself in this manner and, with much prayer and fasting, become like Him. This is the Law of Sacrifice.

59Adam: It is a good thing that we have been taught. Surely, we are blessed for 57 having covenanted to obey this law. For, I cannot see any evil in becoming like the Creator. Neither can I see any evil in learning to give freely of myself, even as Eve does sacrifice her own body for the sake of all living.

60Peter: It is good. If you and your posterity will always look to God for guidance, He will send messengers that will teach every generation the manner in which they may make this sacrifice. And if you and your posterity wish to become like the Creator, He will give you power and authority to do all those things that He would do, were He here to do them. And by learning to live this law, you shall progress from point to point by the sacrifice that you make for your neighbor. Yes, Adam, order upon order, line upon line, precept on precept, you shall learn and grow. You and Eve have covenanted to keep this law, and you have proven faithful in that covenant. We will now confer upon you the Priesthood after the Order of the Son of God. This priesthood has to do with the work which the Lord will ask you to do for all those who have progressed to that point where they may be admitted upon the Way. With it, you shall work for the benefit of the living as well as the dead. Will you submit to this ordination?

61Adam: I will submit myself to it.

62Narrator: Please kneel.

63Peter: Adam, by the authority given to me by Jesus Christ, and by the commission I have received of Him, I confer upon you the Priesthood after the Order of the Son of God. By this priesthood you may say and do all those things which He would do were He here to do them. By this priesthood, He will make a marvelous work and a wonder through you and through your posterity. I do this in His name, for I am His servant. Amen.

64Peter: Adam, you have received the priesthood which will be called the Priesthood after the Order of the Son of God, or the “Melchizedek Priesthood.” This order gives you authority to serve and prepare all those men and women who have progressed to that point where they may enter upon the Way and receive instruction from angels and the spirits of just men and women made perfect by the atonement. You will be instructed in certain ordinances, which will change from time to time according to the needs of your posterity. Place a robe over your left shoulder whenever you are officiating in the ordinances of this priesthood . At a certain time that will be shown to you hereafter, when you have learned all that you must through officiating in the ordinances of the priesthood, you will be instructed to place the robe on both shoulders.

65Peter: Eve, you have already received the Priesthood in its wholeness and have no need of the conferring of the Orders of the Priesthood. Place the Robe of the Priesthood upon both shoulders whenever you officiate in the ordinances and oblations of this Order. Officiate in this priesthood with your husband and be a helpmeet for him.

66Peter: We give you both the first token of the higher priesthood. This token will serve to remind you of the 58 great sacrifice that the Son of God will make for the good of all living. You shall keep this token sacred and only use it in a time and manner that will be shown you.

67Peter: We are also instructed to teach to you the Law of Chastity. Adam, for you and all the men of your posterity, this law means that you so dedicate yourselves to your wife that you covenant to have no sexual relations except with the woman whom God has given you to wed. Eve, for you and all the women of your posterity, this law means that you so dedicate yourselves to your husband that you covenant to have no sexual relations except with the husband whom God has given you.

68Adam: I do now covenant, before God, angels, and these witnesses, that I will obey the Law of Chastity and have no sexual relations with any woman except the wife whom God has given me to wed.

69Eve: I do now covenant, before God, angels, and these witnesses, that I will obey the Law of Chastity and have no sexual relations with any man except with the husband whom God has given me to wed.

70Peter: That will do well enough.

71Peter: All men present in this assembly should have received the High Priesthood by ordination. If there are any who have not had this priesthood conferred on them, you should adjourn now to another place and those who have the commission to do so will confer it upon you. Then you may continue.

72Peter: We will now demonstrate the First Token of the High Priesthood. This is the token. The right hand is offered with fingers together and thumb extended. The token is given by taking the extended hand with the thumb on the outside of the hand and the index finger on the inside of the hand in the center of the palm. This is the Sign of the Nail and is intended to cause the giver of the token, as also the receiver, to contemplate the sacrifice of the Son of God, Who was hung upon the tree.

73Peter: When Jesus was crucified, nails were driven through the center of the palm. This is the sign and the token. This token is to be kept sacred until a time and place specified hereafter, or in that instance in which the Holy Ghost prompts that it be utilized.

74Peter: We desire all to receive it, all arise.

75Peter: The ordinances of the High Priesthood include the administration of the Gift of the Holy Ghost, the ordinance of Marriage, and the ordinances of the High Place.

76Peter: We will now take time to consider the Law of Chastity. Each of you should meditate upon the things you have learned and to seek the confirmation of the Holy Ghost regarding the instruction. Break for Instruction 59

Adam and Eve covenant to the Law of Chastity, they receive the Law of Consecration, Satan is cast out of Adam’s and Eve’s midst, they receive the second token of the Melchizedek Priesthood.

1Peter: Each of you covenant to obey the Law of Chastity, whereby you understand that you shall have no sexual relations with anyone but the spouse whom the Lord has given you to wed. Each of you bow you head and say, Yes.

2Peter: That will do. We will now return and report.

3Peter: Jehovah, we have been down to the Man and the Woman in the world which we have created together. We have conferred upon the Man the Higher Priesthood and we have reminded the Woman of the priesthood she has already received of the Mother. We instructed the Man to place the robe on the left shoulder when administering the ordinances of the Higher Priesthood, and we have given the man and the Woman the token associated with it. We have taught them the Law of Chastity, which they have received by covenant. This is our report.

4Jehovah: It is well. Elohim Heavenly Father, Your messengers have been down to the Man and the Woman in the world we have created together, and have done all that You commanded. The Man has received the Higher Priesthood and the Woman has remembered it. They have received the Law of Chastity by covenant. They have been true and faithful in all that We command them to do.

5Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well. The woman is a right model for the man and they are ready to progress further.

6Elohim Heavenly Father: Jehovah, send My messengers, Peter, James and John, again down to the Man and the Woman in the world we have created together. Give them gifts of the Spirit, for they have remained faithful to the Laws and commandments We have given them. Teach them the Law of Consecration and have them receive it by covenant. Give them the second token of the Higher Priesthood. Introduce them into the Terrestrial World upon the Way. Then have them return and report.

7Jehovah: It shall be done.

8Jehovah: Peter, take James and John and go down to the Man and the Woman in the world which we have created together. Teach them the Law of Consecration and have them both receive it by covenant. Give them gifts of the Spirit and introduce them into the Terrestrial World upon the Way, where they may be instructed more fully and in safety.

9Peter: It shall be done, Jehovah. Come, James and John.

10James: We will go down.

11John: Yes, let us go down.

12Peter: Adam, what is the meaning of these war sounds?

13Adam: These things come of the teachings of Satan. We do not teach these things in the Thanksgiving Lodge, but the world bows at the feet of Satan. 60

14Narrator: Now, Satan was always very near whenever any visitors came to the Thanksgiving Lodge and this day was no exception. The three visitors had only to go back out the lodge flap to bump into him, the snooper.

15Peter: What have you been teaching this people?

16Satan: I have been teaching them the World Way.

17Peter: And how do they like what you have taught them?

18Satan: Many like it very much. Only the strongest rule and the weak serve them. It is just as it is with the Buffalo herd. The strong bulls dominate and the young wait their turn.

19Peter: Not so, evil one. In the great herds the strong protect the young and the weak. You have perverted the ways of the beasts and made men beastly.

20Peter: Do you believe what Lucifer teaches?

21Adam: I know that there are strong and there are weak, but I believe that we should bear each other’s burdens. The teachings of Satan turn in the hand. They sometimes seem right at first, but then they cause misery.

22Satan: I teach the lessons of nature!

23Adam: This is true. In nature, the strong survive and the weak perish. One need only observe the animals and plants to know that he speaks some truth. Even the perverse solutions he provides are seen in nature.

24Satan: That is right. My wisdom is proven by the test of time. What has always been, shall always be.

25Peter: Your words seem confused, Adam. How do you know which path to follow?

26Adam: The Creator taught me the Thanksgiving Way. He promised to teach me more if I stay in His Path.

27Peter: That is right, Adam, if you continue in this Path, you will learn to overcome even the natural man and become like Father.

28Adam: Satan, I will teach the people to avoid you and your counsel.

29Satan: See how powerful I am? I am the Chief of the Snake Lodge. My people will come and kill you and your weak ones. There is no one who can threaten us. My young men are strong and well trained and I am their teacher, not you, Adam.

30Satan: Now, Peter, James and John, what do you think you can do?

31Peter: I am Buffalo Spirit and these, my companions, are the Thunder Twins. These stones that I wear are the Earth Medicine. The lightning pattern on their cloaks is the Sky and the Wind Medicine. I will cause the earth to burn you when you expose yourself to the Sky. Hide yourself, you old serpent, or by the strength of the elements will your weakness be made known to man.

32Satan: How dare you threaten me? You may have power in the Thanksgiving Lodge, but my words are 61 my medicine, and my medicine is great in the Council! You banish me to the shadowy places, yet my words shall break the back of the earth! Yes, my young men will harness and control the power of the wind and the sky, and the more powerful they become, the greater will be my influence over them. You cannot imprison me, Peter, for I will cause man to cover the world in a mist of darkness. Then your strong medicine will have no power over me. Man’s nature will never change in this world and as long as that is so, I will be Chief over men!

33Peter: As we have cast you out from the midst of the Thanksgiving Lodge and from the door of the High Place, now we do cast you out from open communion with the children of men. Depart, Satan! From this day forever you shall have no more voice in the Council. Be gone!

34Satan: It is man who takes counsel. You cannot remove me or my voice! Nature governs men and nature will always speak!

35Peter: We are servants of the Creator!

36Narrator: Then Lucifer knew he was beaten, for all Nature obeys the voice of Him that created it. Slowly, he retreated into the rocks, but his words have echoed in every generation of time. Beware always that you do not take them up in your hearts.

37Adam: The words that Satan has spoken are true. Man will always have his nature and, even without the counsel of Satan himself, man will always be drawn to dominate and to enslave. How shall we overcome it?

38Peter: Eve has not the nature of Man. The Creator will provide guidance and a Way for man to learn to overcome his nature. You have both covenanted to obey the Law of Chastity and you have been faithful to that covenant. By the Holy Spirit of Promise, which is the Holy Ghost, your covenant one with another is sealed up unto Christ. It is made eternal.

39Peter: Adam, through the ways of your wife, you shall learn to nurture the weak and comfort the sick and the feeble. The Mother works for the benefit of the whole family. Her gift is an example of the sacrifice of the Son. This is the Plan of the Creator – that one shall take upon himself all things according to the consecration of all living. So that they may understand the consecration and atonement of the New and Everlasting Covenant, we have taught you and you must teach your children to consecrate their substance one to another. This ought to be an example to you in all areas of life. If you will consecrate all with which the Lord has blessed you, all with which He does now bless you, and all with which He will yet see fit to bless you, to the good of all His children, then the Creator will be your Teacher and He will provide you with counsel from your Grandfathers. By these things shall man learn to protect the weak rather than to enslave them. Be faithful in this teaching and you will receive all things.

40Adam: I now covenant before God, angels, and these witnesses, that I do consecrate all with which the Lord has 62 blessed me, all with which He does now bless me, and all with which He will yet bless me, to the good of all His children. I covenant that I will consider prayerfully that stewardship which the Lord has given me to determine the surplus of it by the promptings of the Holy Ghost, and that I will give freely of that surplus to the needy, to the unfortunate, and to the building up of the Lord’s Kingdom here on earth.

41Eve: I now covenant before God, angels, and these witnesses, that I do support and sustain my husband, and I do join with him in consecrating all with which the Lord has blessed me, all with which He does now bless me, and all with which He will yet bless me, to the good of all His children. I covenant that I will consider prayerfully that stewardship which the Lord has given me to determine the surplus of it by the promptings of the Holy Ghost, and that I will give freely of that surplus to the needy, to the unfortunate, and to the building up of the Lord’s Kingdom here on earth.

42Peter: That is enough. Yes, that will do.

43Peter: Adam, we are instructed to give unto you the gifts of the Spirit. Will you submit to this ordinance?

44Adam: I will submit to it.

45Peter: Adam, by the authority given us of Jesus Christ, and by the commission which we have received of Him, we set you apart from among all men, and we bestow upon you an endowment of power. By this endowment, you shall walk upon the Way and converse in the tongues of angels, for you shall be instructed by them. We give you the keys of the Priesthood and of the gifts of the Spirit. Seek now the face of your God! Amen.

46Peter: Eve, will you submit to this ordinance?

47Eve: I will submit to it.

48Peter: Eve, by the authority given us of Jesus Christ, and by the commission which we have received of Him, we set you apart from among all men, and we bestow upon you an endowment of power. By this endowment, you shall walk upon the Way and converse in the tongues of angels, for you shall be instructed by them. We give you the keys of the Priesthood and of the gifts of the Spirit. Seek now the face of your God! Amen.

49Peter: It is well. Although we have set you apart and given you the gifts of the Spirit by the laying on of hands, this is only the promise or the opportunity to receive them. The realization of this endowment depends entirely upon your faithfulness in seeking the face of God. Principle among these gifts is the gift of healing. The power of the Healer is in the hands. Its tokens are the many things on this earth that Elohim Heavenly Mother has provided for the healing of the body and the spirit. The sign of this gift is given by the Father so that you will always remember that the gifts of God work best when they are linked together, just as the health of the body is determined by the proper functioning of all the organs, and disease is defined by 63 the dysfunction of the organs, one or all. To remind you of this token, you shall always wear a continuous green thread around your waist, either in the form of an apron or sewn directly into your garments.

50Peter: We are instructed to give unto you the second token of the higher priesthood. It is the Sign of the Healer, the Patriarchal Grip or Sure Sign of the Nail. It has a name, but it will not be given to you until a time and place which shall be given to you hereafter. _(The assembly is now instructed as to the purpose of the Law of Consecration. The Law of Consecration is discussed. The men and the women receive it by covenant, along with the second token of the Higher Priesthood. The man representing Peter recites the Revelation on Consecration from the Book of Discipleship, which has been added to the Book of the High Place for this generation. The Way is discussed, as are the gifts of the Spirit.)_

Adam and Eve covenant to obey the Law of Consecration, they are introduced to the Terrestrial World, they are instructed in the Right Order of Prayer, the Veil is explained, they are instructed in the process of the ordinance of the Second Anointing.

1Peter: All of you covenant to obey the Law of Consecration, whereby, you consecrate all that you have received from the Lord, all that you do now receive from the Lord, and all that you will yet receive, unto the Lord for His purposes. You will utilize the gifts of God for your own maintenance and with the surplus you covenant to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, lift up the hands that hang down, and to shoulder each other’s burdens. All of you, bow your heads and say, Yes.

2Peter: That will do. We will now demonstrate the token of the Higher Priesthood. This is the token of the Higher Priesthood: The giver and the receiver of the token grasp each other by the right hands, interlocking the little finger and the index finger pressing against the inside of the wrist. This is the Sure Sign of the Nail, or, the Nail in the Sure Place, and is intended to cause the giver of the token, as also the receiver, to contemplate the surety of the sacrifice of the Son of God, who was hung upon the tree and that all things created are linked together by the atonement of the Son. When Jesus was crucified, nails were driven through the center of the palm, and, to prevent the nail from pulling through the flesh of the hand, other nails were driven through the wrist. This is the sign and the token. This token is to be kept sacred until a time and place specified hereafter, or until that instance in which the Holy Ghost prompts that it be utilized.

3Peter: We desire all to receive it. All arise. 64

5Peter: Adam and Eve, we have been instructed to introduce you into the Terrestrial World upon the Way which the Creator has made for this purpose. You will recall that before you were driven into the lonely world, you lived in constant contact with the Creator. He desires that you come once again into His presence. He has created a place which He calls the Way, upon which you may walk. In this place you will come into contact with angels, the spirits of just men and women made perfect, and even with Jesus Himself, to be instructed in all that you need to do to come once again into the presence of the Father and the Mother.

6Adam: How can this be? Can a mortal man stand in the presence of Heavenly Beings?

7Peter: You may not stand in the presence of Heavenly Beings and live in the mortal flesh. But in your spirit you may walk the Way and be instructed by Heavenly Beings while your flesh is preserved and safeguarded. For, you have been true and faithful in all that the Lord has seen fit to command you. Because of this, He will make a change in your spiritual substance, such that, should you come into contact with exalted men and women, your flesh shall be preserved. The Holy Ghost shall make this change upon you, and you shall be sealed up unto Christ, being His. Will you come with us upon this Way?

8Adam: I will come upon this Way with you. Yes, I would truly seek the face of my God!

9Eve: I, too, would seek my Savior’s face. I will come with you upon this Way.

10Peter: Come, James and John. Let us introduce Adam and Eve into the Terrestrial World so that they may walk upon the Way with their ancestors.

11Peter: We will now return and report.

12Peter: Jehovah, we have been down to the man Adam and the woman Eve. We have done all that You commanded us. They have received all that You would have them receive, and they do walk upon the Way. This is our report.

13Jehovah: It is well, Peter, James and John.

14Jehovah: Elohim Heavenly Father. Peter, James and John have been down to the world which we have created together, as You commanded. They have done all that we have commanded them to do. The Man and the Woman have received all that You would give them and have taken upon themselves the Law of Consecration by covenant. They have been introduced into the Terrestrial World upon the Way. This is their report.

15Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well, Jehovah. Go now with Peter, James and John, and visit Adam and Eve upon the Way We have provided for them. Have Peter instruct them in the Right Order of Prayer. Then instruct them as to the Veil and its symbols. When they have been prepared in all things, by receiving instruction upon the Way, even from those messengers and guides whom I will send to them, and even by Your own 65 mouth, introduce them at the Veil and I will converse with them there.

16Jehovah: It shall be done, Elohim Heavenly Father. Come, Peter, James and John, let us go to Adam and Eve upon the Way.

17Jehovah: Adam and Eve, I am Jesus Christ who will come, the Son of the Living God. You have received My word by the mouths of these messengers whom the Father has sent you, and who have brought you here upon the Way. If you are true and faithful, you shall also be brought to the Veil of Heaven to converse with the Father, here upon the Way.

18Jehovah: Peter, instruct Adam and Eve concerning the Right Order of Prayer upon the Way. Spirit you have received, especially the sign of the Gift of Healing, for it represents the power given you of the Father and the Mother whereby you are given health in the navel, marrow in the bones, strength in the loins and in the sinews. Verily, the gifts of the Spirit bestow the power of the Lord’s priesthood upon you and all your posterity, through all generations of time, and throughout all eternity. When you have done these things, you shall call upon the Lord three times, as you have been taught to do, and you shall offer prayer unto the Lord, not forgetting the sick and the needy. If you do this with faith and pure intent, the Lord will answer your prayer.

21Peter: Let us now gather in the Right Order of Prayer.

19Peter: It shall be done, Jehovah.

20Peter: Adam, the Way is provided to all those whose intentions have proved good and faithful. Because of this, you may come to this sacred and safe place to receive more instruction, to pray, to meditate and to seek the face of the Lord. When you come upon the Way, you will often be invited to pray in counsel with others who have also come here. This is the order of prayer when you offer this oblation in counsel. You shall stand together in a circle, for all truth may be circumscribed into one eternal round, or great hoop, and what you send out into the Universe shall surely come back to you. You shall recite all the tokens and signs that you have been given, for this denotes attention and exactness in following the counsels of God. You shall also make the signs of the gifts of the

22Peter: Each of you make the signs of the High Place as you have been instructed to do.

23Peter: That will do. Now, let each man take the woman or man at his left by the right hand with the Sure Sign of the Nail and raise his left arm up to heaven. Let the elbow of his left arm rest upon the right shoulder of the person to his left. In this way the circle is completed and the prayer is carried up into heaven with the combined energy of all the participants. We are one heart and one mind, and we have all prayer and supplication in common.

25Jehovah: It is well, Peter. I will now explain the Veil of Heaven. There is a Veil of Forgetfulness that separates you 66 from Father. This Veil is within you. As you walk upon the Way and receive instruction from angels, the spirits of just men and women made perfect, and from Myself, this Veil of Forgetfulness will become thin. However, you cannot come into the presence of the Father and the Mother, except through intervention, either by Me or by the Holy Ghost. When you come upon the Way, you do receive that intervention, and I may introduce you at the very Veil of Heaven to converse with the Father. When you have received this endowment of power, you shall make symbols to wear that will remind you to come upon the Way often to converse with Heavenly Beings. These symbols should include a triangle pointing heavenward, representing your own attempt to communicate with God. You should also include a triangle pointing earthward, representing God’s attempt to communicate with you. When these symbols are combined, they shall remind you of the Way, for the combination of your attempt to communicate with God and God’s attempt to communicate with you, is a right understanding of the very real need for personal and continuous revelation. Wear this symbol whenever you engage in the ordinances of the High Place, to remind you of your responsibility upon the Way. When you have overcome the Natural Man, you shall have become Mine indeed. In that moment, the Veil will be taken away and shall no longer exist in you.

26Jehovah: It is well, Peter, James and John. Adam and Eve have been true and faithful in all that we have taught them. Let us now return and report our labors.

27Jehovah: Elohim Heavenly Father, we have been to the Way and visited with Adam and Eve. We have instructed them as You did command and they have remained true and faithful to all that You have given them.

28Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well, Jehovah. Go again to Adam and Eve and teach them the second anointing. Stand with them and make their calling and election sure, preparatory to introducing them at the Veil of Heaven to converse with Me.

29Jehovah: It shall be done, Elohim Heavenly Father.

30Jehovah: Adam and Eve. I will now instruct you as to the ordinance of the second anointing, preparatory to introducing you at the Veil of Heaven to converse with Father. This is an ordinance which cannot be performed except by a husband and wife, and myself. Therefore, when you return again into the Telestial World wherein your bodies continue to reside, take each other aside into a sacred place, and this may be in your own home or you may go up to the High Place to do it, and each of you wash and anoint the other’s feet, palms and crown of the head. Use clean water of the font and pure oil of the vine. Eve, take the Robe of the Priesthood off the left shoulder of your husband and place it upon both of his shoulders, just as you wear the robe on both shoulders. Each of you place your hands upon the shoulders of the other and bow your heads. In this posture shall you wait upon Me. I will 67 come unto you and place My hands upon your heads, and with this laying on of hands, I shall make your calling and election sure and administer unto you the second anointing. Upon receiving this More Sure Word of Prophecy, you shall have the administration of the Holy Ghost at all times and you shall have access to the gifts of the Spirit at all times, and you shall also have the administration of the surety of My love and My presence at all times. Now, return again from off of the Way, into the Telestial World and do all that you have been commanded. I shall return unto the Father and report.

31Adam: We will do all that You say, Jehovah.

33Jehovah: Elohim Heavenly Father, I have been to visit with Adam and Eve upon the Way. I have instructed them in all that You commanded Me and they are true and faithful to Your commands.

34Elohim Heavenly Father: It is well, Jehovah. When Adam and Eve perform the ordinance of the Second Endowment, go to them in the Telestial World and make their calling and election sure. Then bring them again upon the Way and introduce them at the Veil. I will converse with them there.

35Jehovah: It shall be done, Elohim Heavenly Father. _Place for instruction, for the final ordinance may only be performed by the husband and the wife. Those who have come up to the high place with their companions, now adjourn to private rooms to perform the washing and anointing and to continue the ordinance of the High Place, if they wish to do so in the High Place. Otherwise, they now adjourn to perform the ordinance in their homes.)_

(The ordinances are now adjourned for all those who have come up to the High

1Jehovah: It is well. Now, Adam and Eve, here upon the Way, you may build and create the image of things so that your mind can conceive of eternal things. Conceive now of a Veil that separates you from the Father.

3Jehovah: Adam (Eve), having been true and faithful in all that You have 68 given them, wishes now to converse with the Father through the Veil .

4Elohim Heavenly Father: Present him (her) at the Veil and his (her) request will be granted. _(Elohim Heavenly Father extends His hand through the Veil and takes the hand of Adam (Eve) in the Sign of the Nail.)_

5Elohim Heavenly Father: What is that?

6Adam (Eve): It is the first token of the Higher Priesthood.

7Elohim Heavenly Father: What does it signify?

8Adam (Eve): It represents the sacrifice of the Son.

14Elohim Heavenly Father: That will do. _(Elohim Heavenly Father retracts His hand through the Veil .)_ _(Jehovah claps His hands three times.)_

15Elohim Heavenly Father: What is wanted?

16Jehovah: Adam (Eve), having been true and faithful in all the commands of the Father, wishes to come into His presence.

17Elohim Heavenly Father: The Veil is undone in him (her). Nothing can prevent such a one. Let him (her) enter. _(Two workers come forward and roll up the Veil. The participants walk into the presence of the Father.) The session is now adjourned._ do. _(Elohim Heavenly Father takes the hand of Adam (Eve) in the Sure Sign of the Nail.)_ that?

11Adam (Eve): The second token of the Higher Priesthood, or Sure Sign of the Nail. it signify?

13Adam (Eve): It represents the surety of the atonement that the Son makes for all living. 69