17th President Young preached this afternoon & spoke
upon the Law of consecration & had an interesting
conversation in our prayer circle the subject of
of Elder Orson Pratt publishing the Seer & the doctrin it
contained was brought up in conversation President Young
said He ought not to have published the marriage cerimony
it was sacred & one of the last cerimonies attended to in the
Endowments & ought not to have been given to the world Brother
Pratt said that He thought it was no harm as the Plurality
of wives & its doctrins was to be published to the world
He said He should not have done it if He had thought ther
had been the least harm in it President Young said He
was satisfied that ^He^ entended no wrong in it He said that
the doctrin tought in the Seer that God had arived at that
state whareby He could not advans any further in knowledge
power & Glory was a fals doctrin & not true, that thare
never will be a time to all Eternity but when all the Gods
of Eternity will sceace advancing in power knowledge
experience & Glory for if this was the case Eternity would
scease to be & the glory of God would come to an end but all
of celestial beings will continue to advance in knowlede
& power worlds without end Joseph would always be a hed
of us we should never ketch up with him in all Eterni[ty]
nor He with his leaders Brother Pratt Also thought tohat
Adam was made of the dust of the Earth could nobt believe
that Adam was our God or the Father of Jesus Christ
President Young said that He was that He came from another
world & made this brought Eve with him partook of the
fruits of the Earth begat children & they were Earthly &
& had mortal bodies & if we were Faithful we should
become Gods as He was. He told Brother Pratt to lay aside his
Philosofical reasoning & get revelation from God to Govern
him & enlighten his mind more & it would be a great
Blessing to him to lay aside his books & go into the canyons as
some of the rest of us was doing & it would be better for him
He said his Phylosophy injured him in a measure many good
things wer said by President Young that we should grow up
in Revelation so that principle would goven evry act of our
lives. He had never found any difficulty in leading this
principle people since Josephs death
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