Joseph Smith Biography

Epilogue

Mortals are unconsciously compelled by their subconscious knowledge to

pursue and find what they once knew. Once found, there is no more longing

and the constant yearning subsides and permits the mind to rise once again

to its eternal and universal state of equality.

When our Christ visited me as a young boy, he taught me of this eternal

equality. He was not the Christ that the world accepted and imagined at the

time. I was instructed in his true nature at this time. By this nature, I

learned of our mutual equality. I learned that his purpose was to ensure this

equality by overseeing the existence of the mortals who belong to this earth,

who will one day exist as he does, equal to him in eternal glory. I learned

that mortality was an experience of inequality that provided us with the

opportunity to gain an appreciation of our eternal state.

My commission under Christ was to work with others, similarly assigned, to

provide mortals with a chance to find the power of their minds that would

redeem them to their original state of equality. They did not easily discover

the things hidden in their minds because of the inequality that exists in their

mortality. I was to dwell among them sharing equal imperfections of a fallen

nature but with nothing hidden in my mind. I had a perfect recollection of

the eternal nature of all things.

I was taught and aided by others in how to exist among them without

disclosing the differences and inequalities of our minds. Everything we did

was for their benefit, that their minds might become equal again with ours. If

I were allowed to reveal the things that had been hid from them, then they

would not understand our mutual equality. I would be above them, not by

my own will, but by their desire.

In hope that they would discover the answers on their own, we provided

clues for them. But they did not perceive the clues, choosing instead to

continue the inequality of their minds, an inequality patterned after their

mortal state, unaffected by the immortal yearnings of their souls. But in this,

they did not fail. They proved the need for a Christ, who is and shall always

be, the great equalizer of humankind, making all equal with him, redeeming

all from their fallen state.

The fullness of the everlasting Gospel is the idea of equality in all things.

Mortals reject this idealistic concept because of the fallen state in which they

exist. But they once accepted it, and will once again after they have

experienced a trial of their existence without it.

We can only imagine what might have happened if Joseph’s family, Martin Harris,
Oliver Cowdery, the Whitmers, the Pratts, and the many other early converts to the Book of
Mormon had grasped its true message and lived according to its true precepts. What if they
had lived by the tenets of the “fullness of the everlasting Gospel as delivered by the Savior”?
What if they had loved their enemies, turned the other cheek, and set no measure of