Joseph Smith Biography

(Grace) #1

Without Disclosing My True Identity


mortalities. Again, true messengers become the mortal “mouth,” “ears” and “eyes” of our
creators in order to “return and bring [our creators] word” of “conditions generally.”^13


True Messengers’ Free Will Impeded by Their Own Choice


In the last chapter, we discussed how important the Book of Mormon is to all of the
inhabitants of the earth as we continue to go through this mortal stage of our eternal
development. Just as important as the Book of Mormon and its purpose, is the person who
was responsible for bringing it to the world. As just discussed, as well as in chapter one, this
individual was chosen before the foundation of this world; or better, he chose the role
himself and was supported in his choice; i.e., “chosen by us.” Upon being chosen, this
person agreed to the stipulations and requirements of such a responsibility.
One of the stipulations agreed to was that this person had to authorize the
advanced humans (those who would be responsible for and monitoring mortal
development) to intercede in that person’s mortal life, thus impeding that person’s free
will and, at times, overriding it altogether.
Nothing is more important to the universal human race than free will. It is the key
component that differentiates our existence from all other matter in the Universe. We get to
do what we want to according to our desires and ability to determine what actions will
bring us the greatest amount of joy.^14 The only restrictions to this are when, 1) our free will
violates or impedes upon the free will of another, or 2) we agree, of our own free will, to
allow that will to be impeded or overridden for the sake of others.
The person who would bring forth the Book of Mormon had to agree to do whatever
was required to accomplish the task. Although the current world knows him as Joseph
Smith, Jr., before this world and its solar system were created for our batch of siblings, this
person was just a person like us, equal in every way. This “person” wasn’t even a he or a
she, because the newly created human hadn’t yet exercised free will in the choice of gender.
Free will applies to humans in everything that they are—including gender and physical
looks. We learned in the beginning—and it will be so in the end—who we want to be, not
who anyone else (including our creators) expects us to be!


Choosing Who We Are


To make a long and detailed series of events short and to the point, the reader needs
to understand how each of us chose, by our free will during our “foundationalization” in
the world of our creators, to be who we wanted to be—both during our mortality and,
eventually, forever throughout eternity. We were created as advanced human beings and,
subsequent to a vast amount of time and during the state of innocence in which we were
foundationalized, we chose who we wanted to be.
Once we made that choice, then we got to choose what kind of “eternal home” we
wanted for ourselves. We based our choices on observing what other humans, who lived in
other parts of the Universe, had chosen for themselves.^15 We lived as “newly created,”
advanced human beings for about as long (in mortal years) as it took our earth to develop—
over tens of millions of years—to be prepared for mortal occupancy.^16 During this time, we
gathered voluminous information about the types of existence available to us once we were
ready to be placed in our final state as advanced human beings. This came from observing
other solar systems set up throughout the Universe. From this information, we chose our

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