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Well................... SELECTIONS FROM THE
BOOK OF MOSES

CHAPTER 4
(June—October 1830)

How Satan became the devil—He tempts Eve—Adam and Eve fall and death enters the world.

AND I, the ^aLord^• God, spake unto Moses, saying: That ^bSatan^•, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the ^cbeginning^•, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will ^dredeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely ^eI^• will do it; wherefore ^fgive me thine honor.

But, behold, my Beloved ^aSon, which was my Beloved and ^bChosen^• from the beginning, said unto me—^cFather, thy ^dwill^• be done, and the ^eglory^• be thine forever.

Wherefore, because that ^aSatan ^brebelled^• against me, and sought to destroy the ^cagency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be ^dcast^• down;

And he became ^aSatan^•, yea, even the ^bdevil, the father of all ^clies^•, to ^ddeceive^• and to blind men, and to lead them ^ecaptive at his will, even as many as would not ^fhearken unto my voice.

And now the serpent was more ^asubtle^• than any beast of the field which I, the Lord God, had made.

THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM
TRANSLATED FROM THE PAPYRUS, BY JOSEPH SMITH

CHAPTER 3

Abraham learns about the sun, moon, and stars by means of the Urim and Thummim—The Lord reveals to him the eternal nature of spirits—He learns of pre-earth life, foreordination, the creation, the choosing of a Redeemer, and the second estate of man.

AND I, Abraham, had the ^aUrim^• and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given unto me, in Ur of the Chaldees;

And I saw the ^astars^•, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it;

And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is ^aKolob^•, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.

And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its ^atimes^• and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a ^bday^• unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand ^cyears^• according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord’s ^dtime, according to the reckoning of Kolob.

And the Lord said unto me: The planet which is the lesser light, lesser than that which is to rule the day, even the night, is above or ^agreater^• than that upon which thou standest in point of reckoning, for it moveth in order more slow; this is in order because it standeth above the earth upon which thou standest, therefore the reckoning of its time is not so many as to its number of days, and of months, and of years.

And the Lord said unto me: Now, Abraham, these ^atwo^• facts exist, behold thine eyes see it; it is given unto thee to know the times of reckoning, and the set time, yea, the set time of the earth upon which thou standest, and the set time of the greater light which is set to rule the day, and the set time of the lesser light which is set to rule the night.

Now the set time of the lesser light is a longer time as to its reckoning than the reckoning of the time of the earth upon which thou standest.

And where these two facts exist, there shall be another fact above them, that is, there shall be another planet whose reckoning of time shall be longer still;

And thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of one ^aplanet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord’s time; which Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets which belong to the same ^border^• as that upon which thou standest.

And it is given unto thee to know the set time of all the stars that are set to give light, until thou come near unto the throne of God.

And they who ^akeep their first ^bestate^• shall be added upon; and they who keep not their first estate shall not have glory in the same kingdom with those who keep their first estate; and they who keep their second ^cestate shall have ^dglory^• added upon their heads for ever and ever.

And the ^aLord said: Whom shall I ^bsend^•? And one answered like unto the Son of Man: Here am I, send me. And ^canother^• answered and said: Here am I, send me. And the Lord said: I will ^dsend the first.

And the ^asecond was angry, and kept not his first ^bestate; and, at that day, many followed after him.

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