Thread by @LeilandTanner

What is desire? Belief?
What is pondering in the heart?

Why does the angel ask so much after Nephi's desires?

How are DESIRE and BELIEF and the HEART directly connected to SEEING?

This is my favorite doctrinal topic. No sunday school answers. Deep we go. Stay tuned.
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Be patient please - I will make this a long thread over the week.

After the Atonement of Jesus Christ, no longer was the shedding of BLOOD required for remission of sin.

What is the requirement according to the new Covenant?

A BROKEN HEART for one. Remind yourself.
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But when did the shedding of blood as sacrificial offerings begin and WHY?

It was a similitude of the purifed and perfect sacrificial blood that Jesus Christ would freely give for all who would choose to repent and follow Him, Be LIKE Him, CONSUME HIM. Of Light.
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It began in the beginning AFTER Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden.

When their bodies were physically changed having CONSUMED the fruit of KNOWLEDGE. It changed their animating force to BLOOD.

I'll qualify this. But what were they changed FROM?
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"Instead of spirit fluid, which had made them not subject to death, there had now come another element. The life of the body is the blood, and in the bloodstream there were to be found the seeds that were to bring about their mortal death."

-Harold B. Lee
scottwoodward.org/fall_blood.html

Why? Because Adam was LITERALLY a Son of the Father.

The Father is a Perfect Man. Perfection cannot beget imperfection - thus the Adam was created a Celestial Body on a Celestial Host [mayhaps Kolob- the first creation] and then placed in Eden - where the test could begin

Additional quotes regarding the Creation of Adam and Eve.

How else can there be a Fall lest there was a Height to be re-deemed, re-stored to? And Christ and Michael [Adam] have the AUTHORITY and POWER to do so.

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scottwoodward.org/creation_adamb…

Blood is the corruptible element of our body, the reason we die naturally, the difference between mortal and immortal bodies of heavy element is in the fluid - it gives shape and form and health, and strength and breath and life.

Blood is formed in the marrow of the bones ❤

Blood is the glory[Light] of the body. Is it ironic that iron is the metal of the Rod, the Word of God - that should be written upon our HEARTS?

*Worthwhile Tangent: flowing iron[metal] in a body creates a magnetic field
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We are what we consume. In meat and drink do we have sustenance for the body, yet still there is more - a connection to the Spiritual body.

We are spirit bodies currently bound to natural bodies of flesh & blood by birth.

Blood holds that spirit, the HEART is the seat.

Through Baptism my immersion we imitate death - and are reborn to a spiritual body - a similitude of the Resurrection when we WILL NOT HAVE BLOOD in the body - so we are given the gift of the Holy Ghost and an Endowment to purify our Hearts and our blood
scottwoodward.org/resurrection_b…

So if there is no BLOOD in the resurrection... what then of the bloody heart? The CORNERSTONE of the body?

[It is the first organ formed - like the first STONE of a Temple]

A pattern I offer:

For behold - this is my WORK [Body] and my GLORY [Light], to bring to pass the IMMORTALITY [Body] and ETERNAL LIFE [Celestial Glory] of Man.
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Spirit body | Intelligence
Work | Glory
Natural body | Spirit
Immortality | Eternal Life 
Flesh & Bones | Blood

Bread | Wine 
Cakes | Oil 
Manna | Water
Bread | Water 
Meat | Drink 
Hidden Manna | WHITE STONE. 
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White stone..
White stone?

Here are my slides.
Who is he who overcomes?

== Eternal Life / Celestial Glory
They who reach the highest degree

Next - what is the Hidden Manna?

== Immortality/incorruptibility of the Flesh and the physical presence and companionship of Jesus and his perfected body.

So following the pattern we should find close by the Blood/Spirit element. And we do.

The white stone. [A]
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Following footnotes we see the next connection
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The Urim and Thummim [B]
Physical devices that SEERS possessed.
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Now we see [A] becomes or will be equal to [B]

Now full circuit - we find in the Lord's instructions to Moses and Aaron that the Urim and Thummim were placed BEHIND the ephod over the HEART.
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The Heart [C]
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If [A] = [B]
And [B] = [C]
Then [A] = [C]

We know generally what the Urim and Thummim looked like from those closest to Joseph. Lucy described them as 2 triangular diamonds sealed in a silver bow - like folding spectacles.

Here are 1830s folding spectacles for comparison. That doesn't really matter.
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Remember how Moses gave water to the Israelites? It was a rock. Along with the manna.

We use crystals/stones in our ELECTronics today - they transmit... light. Glory. Spirit. Intelligence.

Curious how this changes what a "hardened heart" might really mean right?

Do we not call the central energy for the home - the HEARThSTONE?

What was Peter's name given by Jesus? Cephas. The seeing stone. The Cornerstone of the Church, which Church?

Why does Peter present us at the PEARLy gates?

So what is in your heart?

So where do your DESIRES live? Where does your INTENT come from?

To me it seems obvious it is the heart. The eternal soul of man - the antennae we tune our eye single to the Glory with.

Are we not commanded to SEE with the Heart?

So now what do desire, belief, and pondering in a pure heart have to do with Seeing?

Everything.

Hope you enjoyed this and it made you ponder in your heart about how much you desire to SEE and KNOW for yourself that JESUS IS THE CHRIST. The Rock of Salvation
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Obligatory plug - most of my pearls are hidden in my lyrics.

Haters and those who follow the false traditions of their fathers can hate. As for me and my house - we serve the Lord.



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