A Temporary Abode.—Thus we see that the Spirit World is not Heaven, except in a relative sense, and then only in part. It is a temporary abode for God's children, while undergoing processes of purification and development, as a preparation for better things beyond. Heaven, on the other hand—heaven in the highest degree—is the permanent home of the perfected and glorified.
Footnotes
[1]. Key to Theology. Chapt. 14.
[2]. Gen. 2:4, 5.
[3]. Moses 3:5, 7.
[4]. D. & C. 88:15; Moses 3:9.
[5]. Hist. Ch. Vol. 6, p. 52.
[6]. Ib. Vol. 5, p. 425.
[7]. Luke 23:43.
[8]. Hist. Ch. Vol. 5, pp. 424, 425.