Ancient of Days in the Mexican Calendar
Our heavenly Father delights in his good children, he delights
continually to bless them, yea, "He maketh his sun to rise on the
evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the
unjust." All are equally his children. We are all the children of
our common Father, who has placed us on the earth to prove
ourselves, to govern, control, educate and sanctify ourselves,
body and spirit, unto him, according to his will and pleasure.
When all that class of spirits designed to take bodies upon this
earth have done so, then will cometh winding-up scene of this
particular department of the works of God on this earth. It is
his will that we should prepare ourselves to build up his
kingdom, gather the house of Israel, redeem and build up Zion and
Jerusalem, revolutionize the world, and bring back that which has
been lost through the fall. Page 2 Volume 10 September 28, 1862
~Brigham Young
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BIG PICTURE |
SMALL PICTURE |
RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN |
LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN |
COMMON FATHER |
COMMON FATHER |
Worlds without number reckoning |
This Earth only reckoning |
The "Brigham Young" version of the explanation of Adam's role |
The "Orson Pratt/Joseph F. Smith" version of the explanation of Adam's role |
First: based upon the theology of Joseph Smith Jr. and Brigham Young; |
First: based upon the Scriptures; |
"Paul says there are Gods many and Lords many,
I want to set forth in a plain and simple manner; but to us there is but one God--that is pertaining to us; and he is in all and through all.
But if Joseph Smith says there are Gods many and Lords many, they cry, "Away with him! Crucify him!"
Mankind verily say that the Scriptures are with them. Search the Scriptures, for they testify of things that these apostates would gravely pronounce blasphemy.
Paul, if Joseph Smith is a blasphemer, you are.
I say there are Gods many and Lords many, but us only one, and we are to be in subjection to that one, and no man can limit the bounds or the eternal existence of eternal time.
Hath he beheld the eternal world, and is he authorized to say that, "there is only one God?"
He makes himself a fool if he thinks or says so, and there is an end of his career or progress in knowledge.
He cannot obtain all knowledge, for he has sealed up the gate to it.
Some say I do not interpret the Scripture the same as they do.
They say it means the heathen's gods.
Paul says there are Gods many and Lords many; and that makes a plurality of Gods, in spite of the whims of all men. Without a revelation, I am not going to give them the knowledge of the God of heaven.
You know and I testify that Paul had no allusion to the heathen gods.
I have it from God, and get over it if you can. I have a witness of the Holy Ghost, and a testimony that Paul had no allusion to the heathen gods in the text."
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REPEATING AGAIN:
"God is God. Christ is Christ. The Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost. That should be enough for you and me to know. If we want to know any more, wait till we get where God is in person."~Wilford Woodruff 1895
(Stay Small Picture) |
The Brigham Young version is like a movie
with many frames, or many still shots presented in a flowing sequence.
Adam is the common denominator of all the flowing frames.
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(Insight) of Light |
The Joseph F. Smith version is like a
still snap shot of just one frame by which all the dynamics of eternity
must be seen in one suspended frame. There is no sequence presented.
└ (Intuition) of Truth |
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What is shared by both versions is the the concept of "common Father." ~reference Volume 6 Journal of Discourses page 348 and Volume 10 page
Volume 6 Journal of Discourses Brigham Young proclaims Common Father the Father of Jesus
Volume 10 Journal of Discourses Brigham Young proclaims Common Father the Father of Jesus
What differs concerning the common father is the identity of the common Father; though, in both versions there is the concept of "common Father."
Proxy work is the means by which these two views can be married together and/or viewed together at once for full mental development. (DMP) * see below
The tri-perspective third component is that we are Adam or a Michael ourselves, or ones to "become such," The Corpus Callosum of thinking, if we learn to THINK as in the following mystery: REPEATING AGAIN Brigham Young: "The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay."
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REPEATING AGAIN:
The Adam God Theory is disruptive to education that has been obtained
through classic study. There is much less logical disturbance in learning it,
if the learner is self-educated or self-taught. Creative thinking methods
are required to understand the dual-perspective/tri-perspective thinking
system embedded in the theory or doctrine as it were. Brigham Young and
Joseph Smith Jr. were self-taught and self-educated to a greater degree.
The principles learned through their type of self-teaching will be required
to understand their point of view in this subject. Right Brain thinking is
required along with Left Brain thinking. Understanding comes with the
linking Corpus Callosum thinking--metaphorically speaking. Current
modern education specializes in Left Brain thinking, typical of Orson Pratt/Joseph F. Smith.
Education gained through formal method aside from self-teaching, setup
the confounding of the mind with the Adam God Proposition, because classic
formal education is externally conditioned learning.
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*The Meaning of DMP is taken from FUTURLOGICS © 2014 page 23.
THE
MIND AS PERCEIVER The
mind is the receiver of perception, since it accepts and registers
the stimuli sent by all the other senses. We can use common
expressions to illustrate this: i.g. that "beauty is in the eye
of the beholder," "music is in the heart," and "seeing
is believing." The mind adds quality to perceptions of the
sense organs. With out these additions to sensory contacts, we would
be at the basic stimulus reaction of the lowest forms of life.
Action would be merely reflexive. Many
of us need a place to meditate. Remember the last time the radio or
the television was on in the next room, while you were trying to read
or concentrate? In such a din we say, "I can't even hear my own
thoughts." Thinkers, writers, and students seek a place where
they are able to tune into their own thoughts. It
is common practice to avoid stimulus and perception, mostly for
beneficial reasons, contributing to study habits. But what else do
we block out, or shield from consciousness? Do we put out of mind
other things as easily, such as the perceptions of the mind itself?
Can the mind receive on its own, directly from the environment? Does
a direct mental perception occur, bypassing the regular channels?
Perhaps we ignore more than we realize. Can we be conscious of more
than our own thoughts? Does the mind learn by direct means?
DUAL
DEFINITION OF DMP At
this point in our discussion a conceptual idea fundamental to
FUTURLOGICS a System of Prospective Thinking , must be introduced. Direct Mental Process
and Direct Mind Perception, (DMP), both
refer to a mental operation necessary to self-teaching and learning
the future. The mind as a "perceptual organ" itself, is an
idea that opens to view the world beyond the five senses. The future
is intuitively known and the concept of Direct Mental
Process and/or Direct Mind Perception
takes on special meaning, offering answers (perhaps to easily and
temptingly) we seek. However, DMP is basic to this study.
(Or to researching the unknown in general. The future can be a one
word metaphor for all that is to be researched or yet learned.) And
DMP is a very useful tool. DMP
is a duplex acronym of both (D)irect (M)ind
(P)erception and (D)irect (M)ental (P)rocess.
The definition of DMP must be left purposely ambiguous to
draw in simultaneously both dimensional features of mental
consciousness. The rational and intuitive nature of thought are both
necessary to prospective thinking. Because DMP contact with
the future is left loosely defined, personal input into the subject
is unavoidable. Rather than being a problem, such bias is an aid (if
we keep an open mind). As we shall see, as the theory develops, DMP
can only be a matter of self-discovery and intuition, after we
develop insights into
FUTURLOGICS . DMP
may be creativity, meditation, intuitive insight or a process yet
undefined. At this point we cannot make a strict definition. The
definition of DMP is a matter of continual self discovery. If
we say what it IS, we also say what it IS NOT, and the mind is not
left free to make its own discoveries and experiences, necessary to
FUTURLOGICS
and to self-teaching. It is offered as a temporary
concession that, since we now know that a future exists, we must have
come to this knowledge by a purely mental process or perception.
What that is, is DMP! If you know there is a future, then it
came through DMP. Before
DMP is apparent by self-discovery, we experience hunches,
insights, precognition and similar phenomena which reflect(s) one
form of bias; conversely, training and schooling in logic and
reasoning and philosophy-related experience, might ascribe to DMP
the reasoning processes necessary to handle abstract thought. Either
view or input is constructive to an understanding of
FUTURLOGICS and
DMP. If an open mind is maintained, these inputs will be
unavoidable with an open definition, but this should not affect the
study of FUTURLOGICS. Diversity of this nature should enhance the
learning effect, when principles of
FUTURLOGICS are discussed with
others, who look both at the concept of the future and the future
itself with interest. No
matter what DMP means to the reader, the general concept is a
tool in studying the future. The minimum limits however for a
working definition, is that the future or the temporal environment
can only be mentally considered or perceived. DMP offers a
quick reference to such demands upon higher thought processes
(metacognition.) DMP is also the intuitive process of hunches
and insights that bode of the future. Finally, it is a shortened
description of all the means of learning exclusive of the five
senses. Seeing
is believing, but what we believe directs our eyes toward what we
see. Without DMP we would not learn even with the five
senses. As
we study the six modes/models of
FUTURLOGICS, we shall see how nicely
the three modes that relate to the time continuum equate to DIRECT
MENTAL PROCESS namely past, present, future; and how
appropriate the other three modes relate to DIRECT MIND
PERCEPTION because of the principles of intelligence they
represent namely imagination, assumption/waiting, creativity. This
form of parallel thought streaming in DMP become(s)
foundation(s) to the holistic mind. DMP is plural and
singular at once.
FUTURLOGICS
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Let the white snake/fish in the TAO represent right brain thinking in DMP or Insight |
Let the black snake/fish in the TAO represent left brain thinking in DMP or Intuition |
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black eye dominates --- white eye dominates
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black snake/fish dominates --- white snake/fish dominates
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Perception of Light |
Process of Truth |
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2 Nephi 2:11 11 For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things.
If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad.
Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one;
Our heavenly Father delights in his good children, he delights
continually to bless them, yea, "He maketh his sun to rise on the
evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the
unjust." All are equally his children. We are all the children of
our common Father, who has placed us on the earth to prove
ourselves, to govern, control, educate and sanctify ourselves,
body and spirit, unto him, according to his will and pleasure.
When all that class of spirits designed to take bodies upon this
earth have done so, then will cometh winding-up scene of this
particular department of the works of God on this earth. It is
his will that we should prepare ourselves to build up his
kingdom, gather the house of Israel, redeem and build up Zion and
Jerusalem, revolutionize the world, and bring back that which has
been lost through the fall. Page 2 Volume 10 September 28, 1862
~Brigham Young