Show us this new temple of theology in which the sisters had worshipped.
Open the book of themes which constitute the grand system of Mormonism.
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The disciples of the prophet believed in the Book of Mormon; but nearly all their themes, and that vast system of theology which Joseph conceived, as the crowning religion for a world, were derived from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament of Christ, and modern revelation.
New revelation is the signature of Mormonism.
The themes begin with Abraham, rather than with Christ; but they go back to Adam, and to the long "eternities" ere this world was.
Before Adam, was Mormonism!
There are generations of worlds. The Genesis of the Gods was before the Genesis of Man.
The Genesis of the Gods is the first book of the Mormon iliad.
"Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 'Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
"'Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding.
"'Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it?
"'Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof:
"'When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?'"