Without Disclosing My True Identity
judgment for others? What if they had sought only to become a people of equality, of Zion—
of one heart and mind with no poor among them?
Had they not “looked beyond the mark,” they would not have stumbled and the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with its power and its priesthoods would not be
in existence today. However, if this church and the many others like it did not exist, then
the purpose of our mortality to experience an opposition of our eternal natures would be
frustrated, causing those who placed us here to intervene and discontinue mortality,
because it would no longer be necessary to enrich our development as human beings.
What a divine conundrum! We act as mortals so that we can learn from
mortality. While here, we are given the chance to transcend our mortality and be
redeemed, at least emotionally, to our former state of glory—through the power of our
mind, which is the true “Holy Spirit.”
This is the mystery of life that, once understood, relieves us of the guilt of living
in mortality. This is what Joseph Smith, Jr. could not disclose. By not disclosing his true
identity as an equal to our mutual Christ, as well as to all other advanced humans living
throughout the Universe, Joseph made us equal to him, so that we might understand the
equality we share with THEM.
He died with the secret, but now lives with the answers.