LESSON III.

SCRIPTURE READING EXERCISE.

(A) THE BOOK OF DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS.

ANALYSIS.	REFERENCES.
I. The Great Doctrinal Revelations.^[1] 1. Doctrines in Relation to God, to Christ and the Atonement. (a) In Relation to God, and the God-head. (b) In Relation to God, the Son. (c) The Atonement, Redemption, and Resurrection.	Doc. & Cov., Sec. xciii: 21, 23, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Sec. xxix: 34, 35, 39; lvii: 26-38; xciii: 29-32; xxix: 43; civ: 17-18. Doc. & Cov., Sec. lxxvi, and Sec. lxxxviii: 14-35. Doc. & Cov., Sec. xxix; Sec. cxxxii.
2. Doctrines in Relation to Man and His Earth Mission. (a) The Nature of Man, and Relationship to God. (b) The Agency of Man and Purpose of Earth Life. (c) The Future of Man in varying degrees of his development, of Glory. (d) The Eternity of the Marriage Relation. (e) The Nature of Angels and Ministering Spirits.	Sec. cxxxi: 1-4, 21, 23, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35. Sec. cxxx. Doc. & Cov., xiv: 9, 31, 32. Sec. lxxv: 23, 24; xciii: 8-10; lxx: 1, 6-15; lxxxviii: 17-26. lxxxviii: 36-62, and the foot notes of Elder Orson Pratt.
3. Doctrines in Relation to Things. (a) Creation of the Earth, the Mission of, the Future of. (b) The Existence of Other Planetary Systems Than Ours, that are the Habitat of Intelligencies--the Children of God. (c) The Doctrine of Parallel Existences--of Limitless Extension (space), and Everywhereness of matter. (d) The Definition of Truth. (e) The Iminence of God in the Universe.	Doc. & Cov., Sec. lxxxviii: 36, 37. Ibid, 37; xciii: 33-35; also Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, also Book of Moses, Chap. i. New Witness for God, Chaps, xxviii-xxx. Doc. & Cov., Sec. xciii; also Y. M. M. I. Manual (No. 9), Chap. vii, p. 393. Doc. & Cov., Sec. lxxxviii: 7-13, 45, et seq. Sec. xciii: 35.

SPECIAL TEXT: "Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be." All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also, otherwise there is no existence."—THE LORD TO JOSEPH SMITH.