To Know the Truth

1. Jesus Christ is the truth. Our Savior is a God of truth. He speaks only the truth and all he does is based on truth. He received a fulness of truth, grace upon grace, from his Father, and thus became a God. His mission is to administer truth and power to men.
2. The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Truth. The Holy Ghost is the unseen messenger representative of our Godhead. He witnesses of the Father and of the Son to the inhabitants of the earth and teaches all men what the Savior would have them know and do.
3. Man is dependent upon Jesus Christ to know any truth. The Savior lightens the mind and quickens the intelligence of every man upon the earth, for in him we live and move and have our being. We perceive, think and act by his power and are successful in any venture we undertake according to the leave he gives.
4. The Gods give all men enough truth to enable men to defy them or to obey them. The plan of the Gods as now unfolding is that all men should have both truth and power given to them by Jesus Christ during their probation. Each is given enough truth and power to think, to perceive, and to act in relation to their physical, social and spiritual environment. Those who receive that truth and power on earth can pursue the acts to perceive, experiment, act, build, destroy, etc., according to their own desires. It might be said that they are at least intelligent animals, able to feed, clothe and amuse themselves. They are thus agents unto themselves. If they choose to defy God, they usually can yet feed, clothe and amuse themselves. If they hearken to God’s spiritual influence, they must initially yet feed, clothe and amuse themselves by the same basic processes used by those who defy the Gods.
5. Men who defy the Gods are and will be damned. Men who defy the Gods may be or become ever so clever at feeding, clothing and amusing themselves, but each is damned or stopped on his animal plane. They can have no sure knowledge of the unseen world nor any claim upon eternity. They live from day to day, having no real hope for the future. They imagine the nature of the unseen universe according to their own desires, and thus encapsulate their mortal lives in gross error. And thus are they damned. As long as they are healthy, and socially and temporally successful, they do not know they are damned. Yet they are helpless and even terrified before two things: physical death and supernatural power.
6. Men who obey the Gods cease to be men. Those who obey the Gods (who yield to the enticings of the Holy Spirit) die as to the natural, carnal man and are born again. As newly reborn persons they are called saints. Should they come to the maturity this rebirth affords, each will have become a god. Though saints must feed, clothe and amuse themselves much as men do initially, they become progressively different as they grow spiritually. They begin to differ from the world in dress, speech, attitudes, actions, and the more they grow the more different they become and the less dependent are they on any worldly institution, person, or idea. Death loses any terror it might have had and the use of supernatural power becomes the basis of their lives. They are not damned, but are able to lay hold of every good thing.
7. Saints have access to the knowledge of the Gods in the degree of their spiritual development. As saints hearken to the voice of God, He unfolds to them those things hidden from the world. These hidden things are the mysteries, about which a saint is not to speak (except by direct command through revelation), but which it is his heritage to receive in full (by direct revelation). By this means a saint can come to know anything about the unseen world (past, present or future existence not presently available to him through the physical senses) or about what is good and right. The life of a saint is thus encapsulated in truth.
8. Saints who reject the way of the Gods become more perverse than those who never accepted the Gods. To accept the Gods is to accept their way (their discipline or morality). Some who embark upon the way of the Gods find that it grows too strait and too narrow. There are some other things (sins) they would rather do. So they reject the way of the Gods, usually first by pretending the way is not strait and narrow. In this they try to convince their fellow saints that some form of sin is actually righteousness. Perceptive fellow-saints resist this perversion and the rejector feels uncomfortable and begins to stand apart from the saints (he apostatizes). Then, angry that he could not justify nor get company in his sin, he turns to fight the people and the order of the Gods, since their mere existence condemns him in his own conscience as unclean. Being fully delivered to the power of Satan such a one finds satisfaction only in the destruction of that which he once knew to be true and good. Being fully delivered, such are worse than ordinary men with whom the Holy Spirit yet strives. They propound evil and error with vehemence and scorn and persecute those who know and live the truth.
9. The key to knowledge is morality. True morality is the discipline or the way of the Gods. Those who know this way and follow it are able to learn anything they desire. Some suppose that knowledge is the key to morality, that when one knows enough, he will not sin. But knowledge is only the possibility of morality. Only when a man knows what is the will of the Gods can he obey and thus be moral. Many who know that do not obey.
         He that knows what the Gods desire and who does that willingly is moral. He is a disciple of Christ. Having thus disciplined himself he will not abuse any power or truth given to him, but will only use it to bless others. This is morality, the key to knowledge and to supernatural power.
10. Those who are most moral will produce the greatest achievements. The purpose of the gods is to bless men, and to do this through saints whenever possible. Saints are sent into the earth to rescue souls and to create a sanctuary, a heaven on earth. This sanctuary, Zion, is to be a light to the world, showing forth the truth and goodness of the Gods in every righteous manner. The saint is thus a problem-oriented person. His objective is to accomplish his specific assigned tasks in bearing witness to the world and in establishing Zion. The more righteous the person is, the more significant will be the problems he is able to solve in establishing heaven on earth. His inventions, organizations, productions, artistic creations, social persuasions or whatever his task will be clearly superior to the world in morality and in technical excellence. No worldly power will or can deter the righteous saint in fulfilling his mission.
11. Those saints who achieve great things may not always be known for elucidating truth. The saint has an unlimited source of truth and power, though an access limited by his own personal righteousness. But he knows that his access is given to him to perform, to solve problems, not to become a revelator unto the world unless thus appointed. It is normal in the world to seek fame by propounding some new thing. The saint does not seek fame nor does he want to become a light unto the world for any reward. He gives the glory to Christ. The saint will be powerful in accomplishment, which may bring him some renown. But he will usually always know far more than he is willing to tell others. He speaks the truth he knows of the unseen world only as commanded by God. Thus he may well forego the reputation of being a great thinker or writer which publication might bring. He is simply content to do the will of Christ.
12. The ultimate knowledge is to know the Savior. Of all things a saint seeks to know, it is to come to know the Savior personally, for that is life eternal. Failing in that, all other knowledge is relatively fruitless. Succeeding in that, there is a harvest of souls and worlds available that surpasses the comprehension of man. To know Him, the Truth, is to be free. This is what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is all about.

Conclusion: Any collection of saints who wanted could readily have the acknowledged greatest university in the world. But greatness will be more apparent in what they do rather than in what they say.