Thirty-Five (1840)Sidney Rigdon, who had been released from the Liberty Jail before Joseph and
the others, lost no time confronting the Twelve on the misuse of their authority over the
people, especially the fact that many of them were using the practice of “spiritual
wifery” as a means to entice women into their power. (See Appendix 2: “Mormon
Polygamy—The Truth Revealed!”) Rigdon reported the abuse of power to Joseph, which
had led to the March 1839 letter in which Joseph wrote, in part:
Behold, there are many called, but few are chosen. And why are they not
chosen? Because their hearts are set so much upon the things of this
world, and aspire to the honors of men, that they do not learn this one
lesson—That the rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with
the powers of heaven, and that the powers of heaven cannot be controlled
nor handled only upon the principles of righteousness. That they may be
conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover our sins, or
to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion
or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of
unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of
the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or
the authority of that man. Behold, ere he is aware, he is left unto himself,
to kick against the pricks, to persecute the saints, and to fight against God.
We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of
almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they
will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion. Hence many are
called, but few are chosen.^8The inhabitants of the world “needed to see what happens when men use
authority, “as they suppose,” over the free will of others. What kind of laws would they
make? What kind of leaders would they be? Would they enact and enforce laws that
created equality and protected free will, or would they create situations where free-
willed beings were not allowed to choose for themselves?
As explained, the overall purpose for allowing the LDS/Mormon experiment in
mortality was to show what happens when humans are allowed the opportunity to exercise
dominion over others. The humans that needed the proof of their inability to do the right
thing with their free will needed a mortal situation in which they could be placed to prove
themselves unworthy of a creator’s rights. This perfect situation was set up by our advanced
monitors and encouraged through the establishment of the LDS Church within the land of
the United States of America, which was mutually established for this purpose. Joseph
Smith was their fully mortal front man. Those of our more obstinate siblings belonging to
this solar system, who needed the extra experience, would now have the opportunity as
mortals to be placed in American, LDS/Mormon homes.
From Brigham Young of the nineteenth century to Mitt Romney of the twenty-
first, the LDS Church has proven its basic purpose for being supported and encouraged
to come into existence by advanced monitors. It was meant to be the perfect example and
model of individual and institutionalized “unrighteous dominion.”^9 A recent example of
the LDS Church’s lack of humanity occurred in 2009, when the LDS Church “exercise[d]
[its] unrighteous dominion” in prohibiting the free will of humans who chose to love
and marry others of the same sex,^10 something not prohibited in the “fullness of the