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Young, tlie Latter-Da^_Saints, and then the Gentile world
generally. It is the chief employment of gods, angels, and
spirits to manufacture and people worlds. Adam was the
son,
the representative son, of the god who made this earth.
Accordingly, he is its ruling spirit. All the " righteous in
Zion " will create, people, and govern worlds for their own
glory. Morally speaking, they commence the nuclei of their
future kingdoms now, present wives and children becoming
hereafter their subjects. Spirit-begetting, world-building,
and star-engineering in the future world, — these are heavenly
employments in the eyes of Mormons. For spirits, remember,
having created worlds, and established laws for their
government, run them mechanically through space, something
as engineers run their trains, or schoolboys roll their
hoops.
If a Pleiad fade, or planet disappear, may it not be owing
to the careless sky-engineering of a neophyte, — some
thoughtless spirit, who failed to whistle in season,
with the brakes " ?
STRANGE THEORIES.
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Exercise of the procreative functions in the realms of
immortality, as Mormons teach, naturally necessitates organic
bodies, — not the "spiritual body" mentioned by
Paul, but the resurrection of the veritable physical body,
as originally taught in the decline of Egypt's greatness.
Not only will the literal " body come up," say these religionists,
but the very garments also in which it was buried.
As Adam was first made, then Eve, so the man is first
raised, then the wife, — ^'•the wife " whom the saint most
loved. After this they are " called up" — resurrected— in
the order of the sealing. With the " saints," marriage is a
sacrament, and for eternity.
If not sacramentally sealed, the
marriage ends at death. Each family is a clan, and the
father the chief. President Young has fourteen or fifteen
wives, and some forty or more children.
Family worship is