Book of Abraham (Pearl of Great Price) | “Super-Identities of Spirits and God(s)? Abraham 3:22” by grego

Book of Abraham (Pearl of Great Price) | “Super-Identities of Spirits and God(s)? Abraham 3:22” by grego (c) grego

Super-identities are lower individual units centered around one master unit. Some of the animal kingdom is set up this way: ants, termites, bees, lion prides, etc. In these groups, the master governs all the others; each lower unit has their own duty, all to serve the master. Even though they are separate, they work as one. Then there are things like jellyfish, where one unit is made of three different sub-units to successfully survive. Where is the dividing point of one vs. many?

Actually, each human is like that, too. There is a primary, governing cell that orders and controls lots of other grouped and ordered cells, each with their own purposes and duties, to make up a larger being, a person.

I could say I am my governing cell; or, I could say I am my governing cell with all of my cells; but I couldn’t say I am all my cells without my governing cell.

When I have many more cells, can I do more, and be more?

In Abraham 3:22, Abraham says “Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones”. Does ‘order’ mean “put in order” or “command”, or is there much difference in definition? Cutting edge consciousness research talks about how we are made up of at least 13 units of consciousness, which are called “brains”; I wondered, could these be intelligences?? Is the grouping and organizing of intelligences what makes up a spirit??!

**Is this related to godhood?**

We have one Heavenly Father. Eternal life is to become like him, which includes His purpose of bringing others to eternal life, in a never-ending cycle, where we are ordered under Him, our spirit children ordered under us under Him, etc. I wonder if we make up one great “body” in the universe.

Book of Mormon: “’Carnal, Sensual, and Devilish’ in the Book of Moses and the Book of Mormon, but not in the Holy Bible” by grego

Book of Mormon: “’Carnal, Sensual, and Devilish’ in the Book of Moses and the Book of Mormon, but not in the Holy Bible” by grego (c) grego

I read the phrase “carnal, sensual, and devilish” a few weeks ago and knew I had heard it before, so I checked, and yes, I had. It occurs twice in the Book of Moses, and twice in the Book of Mormon:

Book of Moses (in the Pearl of Great Price):

Moses 5:13 And Satan came among them, saying: I am also a son of God; and he commanded them, saying: Believe it not; and they believed it not, and they loved Satan more than God. And men began from that time forth to be carnal, sensual, and devilish.

Moses 6:49 Behold Satan hath come among the children of men, and tempteth them to worship him; and men have become carnal, sensual, and devilish, and are shut out from the presence of God.

Book of Mormon:

Mosiah 16:3 For they are carnal and devilish, and the devil has power over them; yea, even that old serpent that did beguile our first parents, which was the cause of their fall; which was the cause of all mankind becoming carnal, sensual, devilish, knowing evil from good, subjecting themselves to the devil.

Alma 42:10 Therefore, as they had become carnal, sensual, and devilish, by nature, this probationary state became a state for them to prepare; it became a preparatory state.

This phrase “carnal, sensual, (and) devilish” is not found in the Holy Bible (Old Testament or New Testament). I’m guessing the brass plates had more about Moses than just Genesis, along the line of the Book of Moses, and that is where the Book of Mormon speakers got the phrase.