[Mormons and Evolution] 1/07/2006 09:13:13 AM

Apparently my memory doesn't serve me as well as I thought. Though he was a strong advocate of reincarnation, the only reference to A-G that I can find is pretty indirect. Of course this is really the latest reference one can find any reference at all in official literature since by this time the church was trying pretty hard to distance itself from Brigham's teachings. Here is the Hymn which Orson wrote in his "Elias An Epic of the Ages" pg. 18, 76, 77; c. 1914:

"Father!" - The voice like music fell,
Clear as the murmuring flow
Of mountain streamlet, trickling down
From the heights of virgin snow-

"Father," it said, "since one must die
Thy children to redeem,
Whilst Earth - as yet unformed and void -
with pulsing life shall teem;

"And thou, great Michael, foremost fall
That mortal man may be,
And chosen Savior yet must send,
Lo, here am I, send me!

I ask - I seek no recompense,
Save that which then were mine;
Mine be the willing sacrifice,
The endless glory - thine!

*****

"The sealing of the sexes, male to mate,
Earnest of exaltation's lofty state,
Where evermore they reign as queens and kings,
And endless union endless increase brings;
While serve as angels the unwedded ones,
Abandoning their right to royal thrones.

"One are the human twain, as sheath and sword-
Woman and man, the lady and the Lord;
Each pairthe Eve and Adam of some world,
Perchance unborn, or into space unhurled...

"Earth a celestial law hath magnified,
And by that law shall she be sanctified,
And by the same shall she be glorified;
By fire refined, the gold from dross set free,
Shining forever as a crystal sea,
Celestial seer-stone, making manifest
All things below to souls upon her breast-

Chosen, omniscient, children of the Sun,
Offspring of Adam, Michael, Ancient One,
Who comes anon his fiery throne to rear,
His council summoning from far and near.
Ten thousand times ten thousand bow the knee,
And "Father" hail him, "King," eternally."



As I said, pretty indirect.

 

Posted by Jeffrey Giliam

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Posted by Jeffrey D. Giliam to Mormons and Evolution at 1/07/2006 09:13:13 AM