Without Disclosing My True Identity
Religion is an Abomination
Everything Christ told the young Joseph made perfect sense to him. His “common
sense” and his emotional reasoning were developing. Consequently, this provided the
perfect foundation on which the advanced humans could firmly establish the correct
“prejudices” within Joseph’s cognitive paradigms so that he would act the way he needed to
act in order to accomplish what was expected of him.^23
The Christ did not mince words when he explained that all the religions of the world
“were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: ‘they draw near
to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the
commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.’”^24
However, in 1820, these were not the words that Christ used to teach the young teenage
Joseph during the six hours of that First Visitation. He spoke as one person speaks to another,
in a way that a teenager would relate to, and not in flowery Bible prose. It took nearly 20 more
years of practice before Joseph was able to put into the religious verbiage of his day what he
was originally taught by Christ, but forbidden to reveal in its entirety at that time.
Until he published the official account of the First Vision in 1842, Joseph was not sure
how he was going to let the world know that religion has been, is, and always will be, the
bane of human existence. His dilemma and potential undoing lay in the fact that, if the people
were really listening, his own (Joseph’s) words would stand in condemnation against him.
Why? Because at the time he first published the final account of the event, he was the prophet,
president, seer, and revelator of a RELIGION—the very thing he was told (as a teenager) was
an “abomination.” Would the people see the apparent hypocrisy of his position? Would it
become further grounds for belief among proud leaders that he was a fallen prophet? It was
not until December 23, 2004, that the resurrected Joseph gave a general overview of everything
he was told as a teenager; but, again, it was presented with a religious overtone meant for
those who were used to reading “God’s word” in a religious context.^25
Intervening While Leaving Free Will Intact
Joseph learned from Christ that, instead of revealing themselves to mortals and
telling them the real truth, advanced humans allow mortals to invent and act upon
whatever their free will directs. Then, without violating this free will, advanced human
monitors, in turn, exploit these mortal, free-willed conceptual inventions. It is then when
they subtly intervene and manipulate what has been done in ways that offer a person an
option out of the problems created. They do this by utilizing that in which mortals believe
for their own purpose.
As stated, the Bible was just such an invention of humans exercising their free will;
and the Book of Mormon was introduced to counter this invention. The Sealed Portion of the
Book of Mormon was presented to add further insight until the “common sense” of the
individual—of their own free will and choice—could break down the foundationalized
prejudices distilled within their mind from all other mortal sources. With a uniquely human
humorous application of skill in using their “craft” for our benefit, well it might be said that
there are no beings in the Universe with the same adroit guile or cunning as the advanced
humans who watch over the mortal stage of human development. Their perfect guile is
necessitated by the imperfect craftiness of our human nature.