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God (Father and Mother) begat spirit children

            Who loved with and served under Father and Mother

                        And learned obedience unto righteousness

                                    That they might be proved in heart and clothed in flesh

                                                In a fallen and mortal existence.

                                                So Adam fell that men might be

                                    Able to choose good and evil and overcome the flesh

                        By denying selfishness and learning to love

            Yearning to return to be again with Father and Mother

To claim the inheritance due their noble birth.

Atonement: At-one-ment. To become one with Father.

The Great Commandment: Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all of thy heart, might, mind and strength; and in the name of Jesus Christ shalt thou serve him. (D&C 59:5)

One mission of Christ is to bring about the great at-one-ment.

•             He teaches us how to stop sinning (faith and repentance).
•             He suffered so he could forgive us if we stop sinning.
•             He sacrificed his life so that all men would live again.

Only through faith in Jesus Christ is it possible to fulfill the great commandment, which is to become perfect, even as Christ is perfect. Then we can be one with Father, even as Christ is.

Satan	Satan promotes	Man	Faith in Christ	Christ’s merits
Lies	Falsehood	Mind	Truth (D&C 93:28)	All truth
Selfish	Evil desires	Heart	Purity (Moroni 7:48)	Wholly good
No body	Weakness, death	Strength	Health, resurrects (Alma 11:42)	Died for us
Evil deeds	Sin	Might	Righteousness (Ether 12:28)	Suffered for our sins

Wherefore, do the things which I have told you I have seen that your Lord and your Redeemer should do; for, for this cause have they been shown unto me, that ye might know the gate by which ye should enter. For the gate by which ye should enter is repentance and baptism by water; and then cometh a remission of your sins by fire and the Holy Ghost. And then are ye in this strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life; yea, ye have entered in by the gate; ye have done according to the commandments of the father and the son, unto the fulfilling of the promise which he hath made, that if ye entered in by the way ye should receive.

And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ, with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save.

Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life. (2 Nephi 31:17–20, emphasis added)

Individual Freedom vs. Social Constraint

Only individuals exist. Societies are conveniences of mind for understanding the relationships of individuals to one another.

“A society” is not a sufficiently precise term to use in any definitive way. “Society” is a collective term for groups. Groups are collections of people who influence one another.

Benefits from group membership: The functions of the ideal group are essentially summed in the idea of supplying the needs of the individual. (Cell and body example). A first-approximation list of such needs might be:

1. Existence: being born
2. Nurture: being supplied with the physical necessities of life
3. Culture: being supplied with the products of the arts of communication.
4. Education: assistance in forming mental constructs, attitudes, and skills to be able to adapt actively to one’s environment.
5. Opportunity: the chance to produce benefits for other members of the group, to find fulfillment through contribution.

In the ideal group, the opportunity to contribute to it is its greatest benefit.

Problems to the ideal group are principally two:

1. Inefficiency inherent in the human situation.
2. Exploitation by other individuals.

1.   Inefficiency inherent in the situation in necessitated by three factors:

• a.   Presence of non-productive members of the group.
• b.   Law of entropy; loss of benefit in transmitting benefits from the producer to the consumer.
• c.   Lack of knowledge and power to solve certain problems.

2.   Exploitation by other individuals is the tendency of some men deliberately to take more from the group than they are willing to give and could give.

Because of the factors of the human situation that create inefficiency, the benefits of society that men are able to imagine usually are greater than what the society can produce for everyone. This gives rise to exploitation.

Exploitation occurs when some individuals of the group contribute less than what they could, thus producing further inefficiency, or forcibly constrain members of the group so that they benefit from group production more than their needs justify relative to the needs of other members of the group. These tendencies are variously known as laziness, feather-bedding, gold-bricking when one produces less, and as tyranny, graft, excess profit when one forcibly takes more than his share.

Individual freedom may now be defined as the opportunity to participate willingly in a group that suffers from no inefficiency or exploitation. This indeed would be fulfillment.

How has history treated human beings? We note an interesting relationship between efficiency and exploitation.

1. The Australian aborigine, remarkably free from exploitation, is cursed with extreme inefficiency.
2. Groups inhabiting fertile lands of the earth where efficiency is relatively high have traditionally been the most exploited peoples.
3. Islanders in tropical climes where nature is benevolent have until recently been little exploited, but have suffered from lack of cultural progress due to their isolation.

In sum, few individuals in recorded history have enjoyed any marked degree of individual freedom, and most of that has been freedom from material want by exploitation of others. Our own national experiment is one of the greatest achievements known to the world. But most men in this or any other age have suffered terribly from inefficiency and exploitation.

What are the possible solutions to overcome inefficiency and exploitation?

The Worldly Solution

1. Science as the cure for inefficiency
2. Balance exploitation through law

Why the worldly solution won’t work.

1.   While it is true that science is doing wonders to subdue the earth, it is inherently incapable of solving value problems or of assuring us of just how we ought to solve an individual problem.
Examples.
Science is the god of the modern world. But it is a god that knows only the past and that only partly, whose stony face turns only to material, to animal problems, and whose high priests are continually rationalizing its failures to hear and answer prayers. But this is not fault of science. Science is a wonderful and exciting way to approach the unknown aspects of the material universe. But it is not God.

2.   The attempt to balance exploitation through re-exploitation by law suffers similar difficulties. It supposes now that men are omniscient and can pass equitable laws to redistribute the benefits of society equably. But history again gives the lie to this arrogance. Human law never can catch up with exploitation; it would take an infinity of laws to do so. Historically judged, most lawmakers themselves have suffered from the disease they try to cure: exploitation.

The Lord’s Solution

The mission of Jesus Christ is to make men free so that they might live more abundantly. How does He achieve this?

He overcomes inefficiency through divine omniscience, and through omnipotent power over the laws of nature. Whatever the problems of men, He has the solutions and dispenses aid as fast as men can stand it. The principal reason men can’t stand more is that they put their trust in false Gods.

He overcomes exploitation by freeing men who wish to be free from the power of Satan, from avarice, greed, cruelty, and laziness. He helps them to realize that to give is more blessed than to receive, and that true happiness comes only in helping others to have real benefits.

We must belong to a group. There are two essential choices; join Mammon to exploit and be exploited, or to serve the Lord who exploits no one and blesses all far more than we can possibly repay. May we choose this day to have freedom and eternal life before the curtains of time consign us forever with the exploiters.

Vision 1	Vision 2
Goal	Provide for the wants and needs of every human being. Make the world safe for each person. Save everyone.	Assist all who so desire to attain the character of Christ. Make each person safe for the world. Save those who want to be saved.
Means	Concentrate power in the intelligencia (smartest humans) so they can create heaven on earth.	Give each person the knowledge and power to become like Christ. Then establish Zion.
Strategy	Control education, media and governments to impose an “enlightened” mind-set on each person.	Empower every person to become like Christ through the laws and ordinances of the Restored Gospel.
Tactics	Use propaganda and force to control everything centrally and spoil the rich.	Preach the Restored Gospel to every human creature so that all can become unselfish.
Opposition	All theistic religions with their beliefs, traditions and scruples.	Selfishness of persons, temptations of Satan.
Religion	Glorify the human mind and treat human leaders as if they were gods.	Glorify the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost and their righteousness.
Theology	Only physical matter exists and all nature is governed by chance. Man evolved from primates, ceases to exist at death.	All things physical are controlled by an unseen spiritual universe controlled by the Gods. Humans are children of the Gods.
Morality	Obey your political leaders, break traditional moral scruples, there is no sin.	Be honest, true to your covenants, chaste and benevolent, do good to all men.
Rituals	Worship science, government leaders.	Pray to God, repent, partake of ordinances.
Church	Universities, public schools, the legal system.	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Vestments	Cap and gown.	Garments, temple robes.
Results	This system has never fully succeeded but its adherents will keep trying to implement Satan’s plan that was rejected in the war in heaven.	This system has often succeeded but not yet in this dispensation.

The bottom line: We are nearly to the point where there will be only two churches. Then the end will come. The engine for producing full righteousness and preparing the world for the Second Coming is the Holy Temple. We need to do all we can to promote the Cause of Christ in the earth. The greatest thing we can do to promote the Cause of Christ is to establish Zion. The greatest help to establish Zion is the Holy Temples of Christ.

“Force and compulsion can never establish peace on earth. Men’s hearts must be changed.”
— President David O. McKay

The problem: We deal with many worlds.

• World 1: The construct universe in our minds.
• World 2: The world we see (sense). (Appearances)
• World 3: The reality of the world we see (sense). (Reality)
• World 4: The unseen world which is back of the seen world.
• World 5: The world(s) other persons believe in.
• World 6: The world(s) of the past.
• World 7: The world(s) of the future.
• World 8: The true world as seen by God and the prophets.

The challenge: To reduce the number of worlds by making some of them identical.

• Worldly solution: On the authority of some small group of people (ignoring other persons) make worlds 1, 3, 4, 5 (past) 6, and 7 the same, tolerating 2 and ignoring 8.
• Gospel solution: Bring 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 into unity with 8, by discounting world 5 and using world 2 as a test.

Historic devices to unify and simplify these worlds:

• Apostate religion (take the word of the priest).
• Scholarship (dig it out of the records, then imagine it).
• Philosophy (invent it out of whole cloth)
• Science (invent it under strict rules)
• True religion (come to know God, then ask and have Him reveal the truth to you).
• Art has wavered between trying to capture one of these worlds to make it real, and inventing another world to escape the problems and the challenges (temporarily, at least).
• Metaphysics: Philosophic inquiry into the possible general features of the unseen world.

Basic questions:

1.   Is the universe made of matter or ideas?

• Materialism: Belief that the real universe is matter in motion.
• Idealism: Belief that the real world is ideas (matter non-existent or secondary).

2.   Is the universe made of one, two, or more basic substances?           

• Monism: Belief that the universe is made of one kind of substance. (mind or matter, for example.)
• Dualism: Belief that the universe is made of two kinds of things (e.g., mind and matter; or, spirit and matter.)
• Pluralism: Belief that the universe is made of three or more basic kinds of things.

3.   Is the universe made of classes or of individuals?

• Nominalism: Belief that reality in the universe is all individual, that all classes are just more or less convenient fictions of man’s mind.
• Realism: Belief that the reality of the universe is in universals (classes), that all individuals have any reality only in relation to those universals.

4.   Is the universe regular, orderly, or is everything a matter of chance?

• Determinism: Belief that the universe is orderly, subject to law.
• Causation: Things believed to be regular, law-like, which impart regularity and order to the universe.
• Tychism: Belief that all things are uncaused, fortuitous, that apparent order and regularity is either accident or appearance.

5.   Is the universe natural or does it also have a supernatural component?

• Naturalism: Belief that the universe is all the same and that this “same” includes no spirits, demons, gods, but (usually) only matter in motion.
• Supernaturalism: Belief that the universe has in it, besides the natural realm, another realm which is not part of nor subject to the natural realm.

6.   What are space and time?

• Space: The possibility of existence.
• Personal space: the place where I am changing values from my body outward.
• Mathematical space:
              Euclidean: One Cartesian coordinate for the whole universe.
              Non-Euclidean: Space of positive or negative curvature.
• Time: The possibility of change.
• Psychological time: Finite present, directional.
• Mathematical time: Infinitesimal present, bi-directional.

7.   Is the universe Being or Becoming or both?

• Being: The essence of something which characterizes something at a given time. E.g. a seed.
• Becoming: The change process which characterizes some cycle of nature. E.g. life cycle of a seed.

8.   Is the reality of the universe its permanence or its change?

• Permanence: The eternal verities.
• Change: The only thing constant is change.

What is the nature of man?

1.   Is man a free agent or is freedom only an illusion?

• Freedom: Relative to some goal or attainment, man is free to attain it if he so chooses, but need not do so.
• Illusion of freedom: Man’s actions are pre-determined by the initial conditions and by the laws of the universe. Freedom is the illusion of making a choice. The reality is           that the choice is already made.

2.   Which is more important or prior, man’s essence or his existence?

• Essence: Man is a type. Individuality is all accidental. It is the type which should be fostered, not the accidents.
• Existence: Each man’s existence precedes his essence: what he is as a unique person is more important than whatever he has in common with other persons. Therefore, each person should find (create) his own best way of life.

3.   Is man’s knowledge all a posterini or is some of it a priori? (which enables him to solve metaphysical problems).

• A posterini view: All of man’s knowledge arises out of and after the beginning of his empirical experience. Therefore man cannot solve metaphysical questions.
• A priori view: Man knows some things prior to experience. These are the metaphysical categories he needs to understand his experience of the world.

4.   Is man’s knowledge objective or solipsistic?

• Objective: Man’s ways of knowing can and do give him true knowledge of the real world.
• Solipsism: Each individual “knows” only his own thoughts. Everything else, the universe, including all other people, are only figments of each individual’s imagination.

5.   What is man’s reality? Is he natural or divine? Is he a body only, or is he body plus mind, or body plus spirit? Did man’s body evolve from some lower form of life or was it transplanted or was it created?

• Natural: Man is an animal among animals, like them in every respect, but more intelligent.
• Divine: Man is a child of God, of the race of the gods, and each person may become a god.
• Body only: Man is only a complicated machine.
• Mind only: Man is only the ideas he is conscious of having.
• Mind and body: Man is a body plus a mind which is made of different “stuff.”
• Spirit and body: Man has a spirit body which is the pattern after which his physical body was formed.
• Evolved: Mankind was created by chance in an entirely natural way.
• Transplanted: Mankind was brought to this earth from some other planet.
• Created: Mankind was created on this earth by a superior intelligent power.

6.   What is the nature of God? Is God natural or divine? Corporal or spiritual? Personal or impersonal?

• Natural: God is the law and order in the universe.
• Divine: God is supernatural, the power which governs the natural universe.
• Corporeal: God is a physical, tangible being limited to one place in time and space for a given moment.
• Spiritual: God is a spiritual essence which is in, around, and through all material things.
• Personal: God is a real person, a father, with emotions, likes, dislikes, etc.
• Impersonal: God is a being that takes no notice of humans as persons, but deals with them categorically.

7.   Arguments for the existence of God:

• Authoritarian: The prophets say he exists.
• Rational:
• Ontological: He is the greatest idea, He must exist.
• Cosmological: Only God could cause the universe.
• Teleological: Only God could cause the order in the universe.
• Moral: God must exist to punish the wicked and reward the righteous.
• Empirical: I see Him.
• Statistical: Percentage of people claiming to have seen him is statistically significant.
• Critical: God is a useful idea in any case.
• Skeptical:
• Mystic: God is pure feeling.
• Revelatory: One comes to know God first by knowing and obeying the Holy Ghost, then by seeing, knowing and obeying Jesus Christ.

8.   Arguments against the existence of God.

• Authoritarian: The more educated people deny His existence.
• Rational:
• Parsimony: Nature can be accounted for without God.
• Naturalism: All that exists is natural.
• Monism: Only the universe exists. To call it God is foolish.
• Empirical: I don’t see Him.
• Statistical: So few claim to have seen him, so that the claim is negligible.
• Critical: God is not a useful idea.
• Skeptical: All accounts are mythological.
• Mystic:
• Revelatory: A demonic messenger says there is no God.

The Original Covenant	The New and Everlasting Covenant
And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them. (Abraham 3:25)	And the Lord spake unto Adam, saying: Inasmuch as thy children are conceived in sin, even so when they begin to grow up, sin conceiveth in their hearts, and they taste the bitter, that they may know to prize the good. And it is given unto them to know good from evil; wherefore they are agents unto themselves, and I have given unto you another law and commandment. Wherefore teach it unto your children, that all men, everywhere, must repent, or they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God, for no unclean thing can dwell there. … For by the water ye keep the commandment; by the Spirit ye are justified, and by the blood ye are sanctified; (Moses 6:55–60)
End Goal To be perfect in keeping the commandments of God under the pressure of fallen mortality.	End Goal To become perfect in keeping the commandments of God under the pressure of fallen mortality.
Means to the end: Never to sin during mortality by always obeying God.	Means to the end: 1. After sinning by following Satan, accept Jesus Christ as one’s Savior in baptism. 2. Receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, then follow the commandments of God. 3. Completely repent of ever following Satan by hungering and thirsting after righteousness unto complete obedience to God. 4. Receive forgiveness of past sins through the Atonement of Christ. 5. Never again sin during mortality by always obeying God.
Result: A perfect person who can be exalted.	Result: A perfected person who can be exalted.

Problem: Is technology more helpful to good or to evil (LDS frame)?

(Hypo) Thesis: Technology fosters evil more than good.

Definitions:

• Good: The work of righteousness through Jesus Christ.
• Righteousness: Ministering to the needs of others.
• Evil: Anything not as good as it should and could be.
• Power: The ability to accomplish what one needs (desires) to accomplish.
• Technology: Power to cause change in (on) matter by the application of physical force.
• Priesthood: Power to cause change in (on) matter by the application of spiritual force.

Argument:

1. Jesus Christ gives men technology and priesthood.
2. Jesus Christ wants men to be able to use both technology and priesthood in solving problems, and to act according to His instructions at the time in using each. To act in faith (obedience to His instructions at the time) is the only way to please Him.
3. The use of priesthood depends upon faith (righteousness).
4. Not everyone knows Jesus Christ well enough to enjoy having the priesthood power.
5. Most men are ignorant of Jesus Christ, or are unrighteous, or both, so must depend upon technology to solve their problems.
6. Technology is always limited so that men will see the need for more power.
7. Men inclined to righteousness will welcome the opportunity to gain additional power through the priesthood.
8. As technical power grows, most men feel less need for priesthood power (carnal security).
9. A person who has priesthood power can survive and prosper at any level of technology (stone age to the future) because he can fully accomplish his mission by using the combination of the two authorized by Jesus Christ.
10. An increase of technical power increases the power of unrighteous and ignorant persons to fulfill their desires, but does not always increase the opportunity for righteous persons to fill their missions.

Therefore: An increase of technical power is more helpful to evil than to righteousness in many cases.

(Is this why technical power has been allowed to flourish only just before the world is about to be destroyed?)

1.   Common observation in the Church shows that a very high percentage of inactive families in the Church are headed by men who have the following attributes:

• a.   Little understanding of the Gospel and the Church.
• b.   Inferior command of language skills.
• c.   Marginal vocational capability.
• d.   Ancestry having characteristics I—1, 2, 3.
• e.   Posterity having the characteristics I—1, 2, 3.

Conclusion: Inferior family traditions immobilize many members of the Church.

2.   We might assume the following principles in connection with this subject:

• a.   Persons having characteristics I—1, 2, 3, do not make strong, dependable Latter-day Saints.
• b.   The role of those in authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to stand as foster fathers in assisting every member of the Church to become a strong, dependable Latter-day Saint.
• c.   New programs may be initiated by the ward and stake authorities of the Church to accomplish I—1, 2, 3.

Conclusion: Church authorities should specifically prepare programs to assist persons with characteristics I—1, 2, 3.

3.   Comments on the program of the Church to assist inactive families to understand the Gospel and the Church.

• a.   The ministering program is the principal link the church has with inactive families.
• b.   As a rule, ministering brothers concentrate on fellowshipping and on relating inactive families to the local ward.
• c.   Some ministering brothers do not themselves understand the Gospel very well.

Conclusion: Fellowshipping is a great good, but there is at present no effective general program for assisting inactive families to understand the Gospel and the Church. [The Church has now introduced the Come Follow Me program to meet this need.]

4.   Comments on the problem of inferior language skills (Language skills: reading, writing, speaking, thinking).

• a.   Though some individuals in the church assist others in this problem, the Church has no program to upgrade skills for inactive families.
• b.   The public schools in general do a mediocre to poor job of upgrading the language skills of persons who come from homes with inferior traditions in this area.
• c.   Persons with inferior language skills tend to do poorly in school and are shunted into channels leading to minimum vocational ability.
• d.   Persons with inferior language skills tend to have difficulty relating to the Church which poses the constant threat of being called on to pray, speak, read, and teach.
• e.   Persons with inferior language skills tend to have difficulty in discovering the Gospel since that demands careful reading, listening and thinking on the part of every individual to piece it together.

Conclusion: Inferior language skills form a formidable barrier to spiritual advancement. Few surmount this barrier and there is no program in the Church or out which is noticeably remedying this problem.

5.   Comments on the problem of marginal vocational capability.

• a.   Persons having marginal vocational capability are frequently economic liabilities to society.
• b.   Persons having marginal vocational capability do little to support freedom (Historically, people on welfare do not make good soldiers).
• c.   Persons having marginal vocational capability have great difficulty living the Gospel since they seldom have any surplus over their own needs with which to bless others.
• d.   Many institutions are available for upgrading vocational capability (Help from these institutions usually depends on language skills, however).
• e.   Public schools do vocational counseling but not with a Gospel perspective.

Conclusion: Vocational counseling from a Gospel perspective is a great service to young people. This counseling could be given on a regular basis by wards and stakes and could provide a most important means of strengthening these young people spiritually.

I. The word “pure.”

1.   Definition: from Latin purus = clean, pure, unmixed

2.   As applied to:

• a.   material: pure gold (no dross)
• b.   motives: unselfish
• c.   morals: chaste, not sensual
• d.   morality: free from blame
• e.   colors: unmixed
• f.    spirituality: pure love of (and for) the Savior

II. Related words and concepts

1.   Purify: to make pure (Latin purus, pure + facio, to make)

2.   Purge: to make pure (Latin purus, pure + ago, to make, to do)

3.   Holy: Anglo-Saxon halig, from hal, whole, complete
To be holy is to have impurities purged and to become completely like the Savior.

4.   Charity: Latin caritas, love, to care about someone unselfishly, purely

5.   Perfect: Latin perfectus, complete
To become perfect is to be purged of sin and to be remade whole (wholly) in the image of the Savior.

6.   Enduring to the end: to become like Him, to be purified even as He is pure. (Moroni 9:48)

III. Contrast of impure and pure states

Problems of impurity	Blessings of purity
1.   Try to serve two masters (Matthew 6:24)	Eye single to the glory of God. (D&C 82:19)
2.   Confusion (melting together) of thought (D&C 123:7)	Understanding reaches to heaven (D&C 76:5–10)
3.   Confounded (poured with unbelievers) (1 Nephi 22:5)	Gathered out of all nations to serve God. (2 Nephi 6:11)
4.   Poor judgment (1 Corinthians 3:19)	Wisdom (Luke 21:15)
5.   Weakness (1 Corinthians 11:30)	Strength in the Lord (Psalms 27:1)
6.   Ineffective prayers (Isaiah 1:15)	Effectual fervent prayers (James 5:16)
7.   Self-serving (2 Peter 2:10)	Great blessing to fellow man (Mosiah 8:18)

IV. How to become pure:

If people are honest and humble they can be made pure. (D&C 97:8)

No one can make himself pure. (D&C 18:23–24)

We can be saved from impurity only by faith in Jesus Christ. (3 Nephi 27:19)

If we put our trust in the Savior, He will guide us to stop sinning and will forgive our previous sins. (Moses 6:60)

We must pray to become pure, to have the pure love, with all the energy of our heart, (Moroni 7:48), yielding our hearts to the Savior. (Helaman 3:35)

It is the atonement of the Savior which makes it possible for us to become pure. (2 Nephi 9:7; Moroni 10:33)

V. Why we need to be pure:

When our hearts are not pure, we have neither the judgment nor the power to bless those around us maximally. (D&C 121:36–37)

VI. Special helps to become pure:

1.   Get rid of ego involvement. (become as a little child: Mosiah 3:19)

2.   Subdue the desire of the flesh. (2 Nephi 2:28–29)

3.   Learn to do things which take great discipline and sacrifice. (D&C 97:8)

4.   Learn might prayer. (Alma 34:17–28)

VII. The tests of purity

1.   Look upon sin with abhorrence.

2.   Complete obedience: Faith in Jesus Christ

3.   Chastity: Unspotted from the world

4.   Consecration: Serve the Lord in blessing the needy with all we have

5.   Sacrifice: Be ready to give up anything and everything to serve our God of righteousness.

VIII. Selected additional scriptures on purity.

1.   Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart. (Psalms 24:3–4)

2.   Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. (Matthew 5:8)

3.   The pure can have anything they ask for. (D&C 50:28–30)

4.   The pure in heart feast upon His love forever. (Jacob 3:2)

5.   Charity is the pure love of Christ. (Moroni 7:47)

6.   See that ye love one another with a pure love. (1 Peter 2:22–23)

7.   The words of the pure are pleasant. (Proverbs 15:26)

8.   Unto the pure let all things be pure (I.V. Titus 1:15)

9.   Pure religion and undefiled. (James 1:27)

IX. What are the marks of purity?

They are the same as those of charity. (1 Cor. 13)

Suffereth long	Rejoiceth not in iniquity
Envieth not	Rejoiceth in the truth
Vaunteth not itself	Beareth all things
Not puffed up	Believeth all things
Does not behave unseemly	Hopeth all things
Seeketh not her own	Endureth all things
Is not easily provoked	Seeketh everything which is virtuous, lovely, of good report or praiseworthy.
Thinketh no evil