Brother Job, where wast thou? Joseph answered the Lord when the Masonic question of the Gods was put to him:
"Father, I was with thee; one of the 'morning stars' then; one of the archangels of thy presence."
'Twas a divinely bold answer. But Joseph was divinely daring.
The genius of Mormonism had come down from the empyrean; it hesitated not to assert its origin among the Gods.
This is no fanciful treatment—no mere flight to the realm of ideals. The Mormons have literally answered the Lord, their Father, the question which he put to their brother, Job, and have made that answer a part of their theology.
But where was woman "when the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy?"
Where was Zion? Where the bride? Where was woman?
"Not yet created; taken afterwards from the rib of Adam; of the earth, not of heaven; created for Adam's glory, that he might rule over her."
So said not Joseph.
It was the young East who thus declared. The aged West had kept the book of remembrance.