6. That Intelligences can perceive the existence of certain a priori principles that are incontrovertible—necessary truths—which form a basis of knowledge;
7. That Intelligences as known through men possess a power of imagination or imaginative memory by which they hold pictures of sense perceptions before the mind and may form from them new combinations of thought and consciousness;
8. That Intelligences have power to reason (ratiocination), to deliberate, to form judgments;
9. That Intelligences have volition, physical, mental and moral, within certain limitations—a power both to will and to do; in other words they are free, or free agents.
It should be understood that these brief remarks respecting Intelligence and Intelligences are in no sense a treatise, even brief and cursory, on psychology; they are made merely to indicate some of the chief qualities that are inseparably connected with Intelligence and Intelligences so that when the words are used in this treatise, some definite idea may be had as to what is meant.
LESSON II.
(Scripture Reading Exercise.)
ETERNITY OF INTELLIGENCES.
ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
I. Eternal Existence of the Word—the Christ. | Doc. & Cov., Sec. 93; Seventy's Year Book II, Lesson i and iv; Book of Abraham, Ch. iii; Joseph Smith, "King Follett's Sermon," Improvement Era, Jan. 1909; Art. "Immortality," Ibid., April, 1907. |
II. Eternal Existence of All Intelligences. | |
III. Proofs of Eternity. 1. Book of Abraham. 2. Joseph Smith's Writings. | |
IV. Of Words Used Interchangeably. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be." (Doc. & Cov., Sec. 93:29.)