Thirty-Nine (1844)up an experience that would help us learn to accept Christ as the one to whom we must
submit our free will.
We needed to learn during mortality that none of us—NOT ONE—could be trusted
to use our free will properly at all times and in all situations according to the eternal laws
that govern free agency—EXCEPT OUR CHRIST. We needed to learn the importance of a
Christ. To learn this lesson, it was necessary that we be provided with the choice between
the eternal laws and our manmade laws. We invented many laws throughout our history
upon earth. However, throughout this history, it was important that we were also given the
eternal laws so that we could see which ones we would choose. Thus was the purpose for
true messengers such as Joseph Smith throughout the earth’s history. These were chosen for
the purpose of exposing these eternal laws to mortals.
True Messengers Try To Help Us Discover Our Humanity Within
The primary purpose of all true prophets/chosen messengers is to teach the people
the eternal laws that govern free agency throughout the Universe. These laws define how
we treat each other and ourselves as humans with free will. These laws are based on two
basic principles of humanity—how we treat ourselves, and how we treat each other. The
scope of these laws encompasses the simple idea that we should love ourselves—and others
like we do ourselves.^16
Prophets taught the people as plainly as they could. The people, for the most
part, already believed in “God”—according to the culture or religion in which they were
reared—as a source of inspiration and comfort coming from outside of themselves;
when, actually, all personal inspiration and comfort comes from within. The prophets,
preying on man’s false paradigms of “God,” taught the people to not listen to anyone
but the only true God—which they secretly knew to be within—knowing that the people
would be intuitively using their own free will to answer their own prayers and give
themselves comfort anyway. In this way, the prophets deceived mortals^17 in using their
own paradigms of God (outside of themselves)—all the while hoping we would find the
real God, within—our true self. The motives of the prophets were rooted in the
knowledge that each of us had the potential within our subconscious to feel the
emotional effects of the humanity that was instilled in us by our eternal mothers when
we were foundationalized by them in their perfect world.
But when given the choice, most people do not trust their “Spirit;” they trust other
people outside of themselves to tell them what they need to do, consistent with the
dependency they experienced as newly created humans.^18 Mortals are always more
comfortable acting consistent with their foundationalization.
Our creators expected us to fail as mortals. They wanted us to experience the
effects of submission to another rule of law diametrically opposed to that by which they
live. We needed the opportunity to have the choice and the chance to prove all things to
ourselves; and invariably, as mortals, we have all chosen to disregard the principles of
humanity and stumble.
The Mormon Experiment Led to the Death of a Prophet
The Mormon experiment was one of the last attempts our creators prepared to give us
the chance to see which we would choose (“good or “evil”). Joseph was chosen to