Without Disclosing My True Identity
And the second part of the Royal Law is like unto the first:Value and treat your fellow human beings as the Gods that they are. Treat
them as if they are Gods like you are a God. If they are Gods, then how can
you tell them what they should do, what they should think, what they can
do, what they have to do? How can you judge a God? How can you set a
measure for a God? How can YOU command a God, except for the God who
you are?This is the message. There is no other message. It is the message that the true messenger
known as Jesus, the Christ, tried to explain to the people, and in the process, usurped the
religious doctrines and authority of his day.^47
Without affecting free will and somehow getting the people to understand the
importance of this message,^48 what are true messengers supposed to do? How can they
teach the people that no mortal above another receives any special “inspiration,”
“revelation,” or any other type of “-ation” from any source outside of THE ONLY TRUE
GOD (i.e. human individual) that exists in the “kingdom within”?^49
How can they get the message across that everything one thinks, everything one
does, everything one is, everything one desires, is from exercising one’s own free will?^50
How can they explain that there has never been, nor will there ever be, another God (human
being) that will have power to tell a free-willed human what to do? How can they explain
that it is okay for one to do what one wants to do as long as the action does not affect the
ability of another free-willed human to do what they want to do?
The answers to these questions are found by understanding how true messengers are
placed in various stages of mortality and prepared to assist the people in each stage,
according to the established mindset at the time. Understanding this placement and
preparation of the true messenger will explain, for example, why Joseph Smith was
instructed to do what he did to try to help the people of his day.
Joseph was Prepared to Fulfill his Role
Joseph Smith, Jr. was one of our siblings in our perfect pre-mortal world, who
volunteered (was “foreordained”) to be a true messenger true messenger for the
inhabitants of our solar system. The emphasis of volunteerism would be outlined in how
John the Beloved^51 and the “Three Nephite” apostles^52 volunteered to remain alive to help
the rest of us understand the message.
The way in which Joseph was prepared to fulfill his mission is important to
understand. How could a young man without any formal training in secular or religious
studies present a message to a world that only valued the opinions of those who were
“learned”? How would one be received by a world that believed, “A man cannot preach
unless he has been trained for the ministry?”^53 What would it take to prepare a young boy
for such an important task without impeding upon his free agency, while giving him all of
the tools needed to accomplish it?
Until this book, the real truth behind exactly how Joseph was prepared to deliver this
message to the world has been missing, leaving blank pages in the notebook that accounts for