Without Disclosing My True Identity
Summary
It is impossible for a mortal man to exercise the power of an advanced human being.
Mortals do not have the intelligence or the body to do so. Except for individual natural
defects, all human mortal bodies are of equal capacity. It has to be this way so that we can
honestly conclude that mortality is a fair demonstration of how we use our free will.
Anyone who would pretend to such an authority or power over another violates the very
core of our human nature—free will and equality.
Men will be men as they have always been men. Their egos are part of their
mortal nature.
The natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam,
and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy
Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the
atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek,
humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord
seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.^222No child would ever wear an apron that represents an emblem of “power and
priesthoods.” Only a natural man would. Only “an enemy to God” would. The natural
man was finally revealed through the symbolism of the temple endowment Joseph
prepared for the people as their final stumbling block. The natural man is “Lucifer,” who
wears his apron proudly.
Differing Mormon sects sprang up after Joseph’s death; a few even began while he
was still alive. But how did they come to differ so much on the principle of priesthood
authority, a seemingly vital part of Mormon theology? The confusion began because of the
uncertainty of its origin, its actual meaning, and who was and is entitled to it.
Mormon dogma and legends have developed over many years of uncertainty about
the beginnings of their own faith. The doctrine, covenants, principles, and beliefs of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the rest of the varying Mormon sects
continue to develop as men who believe they have the ability to act in the name of God
through priesthood power and authority receive “continued revelation.” It is very difficult
to track how the development of Mormon theology started because there are so many things
that have changed over the years.
But somehow, somewhere, Mormons heard something from Joseph Smith that
caused them to take his words and make their own form of doctrine. From priesthood
authority to people living on the moon, Mormons have created their own sense of reality,
based not on what Joseph actually said and did, but on what they desired him to do. Their
“desires” became their reality regardless of the real truth.
For one of many examples of this, although Joseph never said anything of the sort,
Oliver B. Huntington published the following in 1892:
Nearly all the great discoveries of men in the last half century have, in one way or
another, either directly or indirectly, contributed to prove Joseph Smith to be a
Prophet. As far back as 1837, I know that [Joseph] said the moon was inhabited by
men and women the same as this earth, and that they lived to a greater age than we