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Celestial Glory, Kingdom
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Counselor in the First Presidency Our Eternal Father has prepared three great kingdoms into which the souls of men will go. It is not the purpose here to discuss these kingdoms. In passing, it is only necessary to say that in the telestial will go all those who have not been true: those who have professed and who have not performed the liars, sorcerers, adulterers and all who refuse to walk in ways of truth. Into the terrestrial will go all those who are honorable, who have been morally clean, but who would not receive the gospel; also those who die without law. To enter the celestial and obtain exaltation, it is necessary that the whole law be kept. The word of the Lord is as follows: "Therefore, it must needs be sanctified from all unrighteousness, that it may be prepared for the celestial glory . . . "And they who are not sanctified through the law which I have given unto you, even the law of Christ, must inherit another kingdom, even that of a terrestrial kingdom, or that of a telestial kingdom" To become sanctified, there are certain definite covenants we must keep in faithfulness, living by "every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God". "They are they who received the testimony of Jesus, and believed on his name and were baptized after the manner of his burial . . . "That by keeping the commandments they might be washed and cleansed from all their sins, and receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the hands of him who is ordained and sealed unto this power; "And who overcome by faith, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, which the Father sheds forth upon all those who are just and true". And they who are not scaled by the Holy Spirit of promise and who are not just and true need not expect these great blessings.
President Joseph Fielding Smith
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Of the Seventy
Elder Sterling W. Sill
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