Show ORIGIN OBJECT DESTINY OF WOMEN the following is taken from the mor mons published in new york city the late president john taylor of august 29 S the paper containing it being furnished fumi shed us by robert maw of plain cit city ae the lavi lat erday er t day saints have often been ridiculed on account of their be lief in the pre existence of spirits and in ia marrying lor for time and for all eternity both being bible doctrines we have often been requested to 10 give our views in in relation to these prin principles I 1 les but considered the things of them the kingdom kingdom be longed to the children of the kingdom therefore not meet to give them to those without but being very politely requested by a lady a few days since a member of the church to answer the following questions we could not con refuse viz where did I 1 come from what is my origin what am I 1 doat doing g here whither am I 1 going and what wa i is my destiny after bavm having obeyed the truth if faithful to the enda end for her benefit and all others con corned we will endeavor to answer the questions in brief as we understand them the reason will be apparent for our belief in the pre existence of spirits spid a and nd in in marrying tor for time and for all ete eternity mity Lady whence thou thine origin what art thou doing here whither art thou going and what is thy destiny 1 declare unto me if thou dast understanding thou not that thou art a spark of deity struck from the fire of his eternal blaze and brought forth in the midst of eternal burnings burning st thou not that eternities am ago thy spirit pure and holy dwelt in thy heavenly fathers bosom and in hu his presence and with thy mother one of the queens of heaven surrounded N by thy brother and sister spirits in the world among the gods that admy as tny spirit beheld the scenes transpiring there and thou growing in intelligence thou cawest worlds upon worlds organized and peopled with thy kindred spirits took upon them tabernacles died were resurrected and received their ex altion on the redeemed worlds they once dwelt upon thou being willing and anxious to imitate them waiting and desirous to obtain a body a resurrection and exalta tion also and having obtained permission thou made a covenant with one ot oi thy kindred spirits to be thy guardian angel while in mortality also with two others male and female spirits that thou thoa come and take a tabernacle through their lineage and become one ot of their offspring you also choose a kindred spirit whom you loved in the spirit world and had permission to come to this planet and take a taber nacle to ue e your head stay husband and protection on the earth and to exalt you in the eternal worlds all the thee were arranged likewise the spirits that should tabernacle through your lineage thou longed thou sighed and thou prayed to thy father in heaven tor for the time to arrive when thou coulst come to this earth which had fled and fell from where it was first organized near the planet dolob leave thy father and mothers bosoms and all thy kindred spirits come to earth take a ta tabernacle bernad and imitate the deeds of those you had seen exalted before you at length the time arrived and ahm heard the voice of thy father saying go daughter to yonder lower world and take upon thee a tabernacle and work out thy probation with fear and trembling and rise to exaltation but daughter remember r F m em b e r you go on this condition that is you are to forget all things you ever saw or knew to be transacted in the pint world you are not member anything concerning the same that you have beheld transpire here but you must go and become one ot of the most helpless of all beings that I 1 have created while in your infancy py subject to sickness pain tears mourning sorrow and death but when truth shall touch the cords ot of your heart they will vibrate then intelligence shall illuminate your mind and shed its lustre in your soul and you shall begin to understand the things you once knew but which bad gone irom from you you shall then begin to understand and know the object of your creation daughter go and be faithful in your second estate keep it as faithful is as thou bast thy first estate thy spirit filled with joy and thanksgiving 1 1 vin rejoiced in thy father and rendered d ere praise to his holy name and the spirit world re sounded in anthems of praise and rejoicing to the father of spirits 9 dimits thou tho u bade father mother and all 31 fi farewell arwell a and nd alonz alon with thy guardian angel ali thou came on this globe the spirits thou had chosen to come and tabernacle through their lineage and your head having left the spirit irit world some years previous thou came e a spirit pure and holy thou hast bast taken aken upon thee a tabernacle thou hast bast obeyed the truth and thy guardian angel nAni ministers unto thee and watches over thee thou hast bast chosen him you loved in the spirit world to be thy companion now crowns thrones exaltations and dominions are in reserve for thee in the eternal worlds and the way is opened for thee to return back into the presence of thy heavenly father it if thou wilt only abide by and walk in a celestial law ful fil al the designs of thy creation and hold out to the end that when mortality is laid in the tomb you may go down to your yau grave in m peace arise anse in glory and receive re your everlasting reward in inthe the resurrection of the just along with thy head bead and husband thou wilt be permitted to pass by the gods aril and angels who veto guard the gates and onward upward to thy exaltation in a celestial world among the gods to be a priestess queen unto thy heavenly father and a glory to thy husband and offs offspring priD 3 to bear the souls of men to deop people other worlds as thou bear their tabernacles in mortality while ebern eternity y gom goes and e ernita come and if you W will I 1 it lady this is eternal life and herein is the saying of the apostle paul fulfilled that the man is not without the woman in the lord neither is the woman without the man in the lord that man is the head bead of the woman and the glory to of the man mans is the woman hence C mine origin the object of thy creation and th thy ultimate destiny it faithful lady the cup is within thy reach drink then the it the heavenly draught and live |