Why True Messengers Do Not Reveal the Real Truth Appendix 3“mysteries of the kingdom of heaven” as he did privately to his few disciples, the people
would not have given any of his words due consideration.
Christ knew, as all true messengers know, that when the mortal human mind is
infected with preconceived notions of truth and reality, it automatically shuts down when
anything contrary to these preconceived notions is considered. But, if one can relate new
truth and reality to one’s own current “truth and reality,” that person may be prepared to
consider and ponder on the new information, without shutting it out and denying it from
the outset. Thus, Christ kept the mysteries of real truth from the people, just as true
messengers before him did, but delivered as much truth as the people could receive in the
religious format that they were accustomed to receiving.
In Christ’s day, most of the people rejected his message, just as most rejected the
message of the true messengers before him, for
the Jews were a stiffnecked people; and they despised the words of plainness,
and killed the prophets, and sought for things that they could not
understand. Wherefore, because of their blindness, which blindness came by
looking beyond the mark, they must needs fall; for God hath taken away his
plainness from them, and delivered unto them many things which they
cannot understand, because they desired it. And because they desired it God
hath done it, that they may stumble.^5Joseph Smith taught the people in his day, as other true messengers did before
him—without disclosing his true identity. He and his message were rejected by the people,
as was the case with all those true messengers before him. Therefore, under the mandate he
was given by advanced human beings, as set forth in the scripture above, Joseph took away
the plainness of his message and delivered to the people many things that they could not
understand according to their desires and the propensities of their vain imaginations. The
people themselves were tailor-fitted by true messengers with whatever “precept, doctrine,
revelation, commandment, opinion, or mandate” best suited their desires and vain
imaginations concerning religion, thus leaving the people with a glowing illusion of piety
and self-righteousness. In this way, Joseph allowed the people to stumble, because they
desired to look beyond the mark of the simple gospel of the Christ.^6 Under this mandate,
Joseph not only withheld real truth, but, as explained above, also gave the people many
things that were not real truth.
It was not until toward the end of his life, however, that he finally prevailed in
revealing the real truth to the people in his “Magnum opus”—the LDS Temple
Endowment—although it was hidden in figurative expressions and symbolism.^7 Among
many things, the endowment reveals how true messengers, and even the advanced human
beings who give them instructions, hide the real truth from humankind, giving the people
of the world many things that are not real truth—for the sake of human beings. In fact, it
may even be said that they have given the world lies^8 for the profit and learning of the
children of men. Consider, for example, the following parts of Joseph’s endowment:
In the endowment, we find that the very first person to lie was not Eve; it wasn’t
even Lucifer; it was ELOHIM, the God of all Gods. In fact, Lucifer was the one telling the
truth. Here, then, is symbolic proof that God lied and Lucifer did not; for Lucifer confronted
God for lying, and was the only one who told the real truth: