Paradigms or “Pair-of-nickels”?

Warning: Graphic paradigm changing content below. When finished reading both parts of this blog your paradigm may have changed to a pair-of-nickels or a pair-of-quarters.

Mine changed to a pair-of-half-dollars.

Let’s all participate in the same vision: In the pre-mortal world for this earth or this mortal existence, we are witnessing a group of people standing around talking. They are discussing previous mortalities on other earths, other cycles of creation, and what they had learned. As you know the scriptures talk about how we have done this, worlds without number. We discussed this in detail in the “Understandings” chapter in I See….Arise! It discusses a critical piece of understanding that we have been doing this for many cycles of creation. We even quoted Snuffer in it:

“God has been at this a long time. Christ has been involved in many repeated cycles of creation. Moses was told: ‘by the word of my power have I created them, which is mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth. And worlds without number have I created; and I also create them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten.’ (Moses 1:32-33) It is endless and it is cyclical. ‘For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away by the world of my power. And there are many that now stand, and innumerable are they unto man but all things are numbered unto me, for they are mine and I know them.'” (Moses 1:35)

Snuffer put it this way: ‘This round of creation is only part of the cycle. We are part of endless cycles. This is God’s great work. It has been going through cycles of creation, fall, redemption, judgment and recreation forever. It is endless. Many unnumbered worlds have been, now are, and will yet be.’ Continuing with what Denver wrote: ‘Before this world was organized from an already existing and previously used creation, the condition was ‘spiritual.’ But it fell and became the temporal place as present; though patterned after the earlier world where we used to live in a spiritual state. Its present condition will be destroyed and it will return again to a spiritual state. It will be ‘quickened’ and no longer the cold, lone and dreary place of today.’ We do this over and over, cycles without end until we become redeemed and then keep ascending the ladder until we attain the resurrection ourselves. In order to progress and become like the gods, it requires us to descend into a ‘mortal’ state, take upon us flesh in order to perfect ourselves, to learn our lessons we were taught from the spiritual realms. We then transition and do it all over again.” (P. 183-184) (Snuffer’s words are in italics.)

Roy Mills in his book, The Soul’s Remembrance: Earth is Not Our Home, talks about how he doesn’t have a veil of the premortal world. He mentions that before coming here we spent time with what he describes as counselors, guides or what we call angels that talk about what we might want to learn about here in this mortality. His counselor showed him a list of all kinds of experiences Roy could choose from. He chose all of them. His guide suggested that might be a bit much and suggested he temper it down a bit. He did. One of the things he chose was to come here and be abandoned by his mother. He wanted to know what that was like. Later, while in mortality, his mother actually took him door to door trying to sell him.

The concept is we choose much of what we desire to experience in this and other mortalities in order to learn and gain understanding. Or if we lack a trait like patience, we can ask to be put into circumstances in mortality where we will learn such. It will then be arranged in mortality for us to have experiences where we learn patience. We come to mortalities, yes mortalities—plural—to learn to overcome our weaknesses and become stronger for it.

What if this group of people that I mentioned at first desired to learn a very hard concept? Let’s say that they just couldn’t understand how someone that had been violated could get through the experience and be okay. Or even forgive the perpetrator. They just couldn’t understand or conceive how people could go through this and come out okay on the other side of it. They desired to learn more about compassion. As good as some classrooms are, there is nothing like being in the lab.

After discussing it for quite a length of time, such as it exists there, they decided they wanted to come to this mortality and experience being violated and learn to overcome the feelings and all that goes along with it, learning forgiveness and like concepts. They knew they would come out stronger for the experience and learn much. But they wondered just how it could be accomplished. They didn’t quite know how the Gods of Light could execute such an idea. They took their idea to the Council of the Gods. After hearing what they desired, the Gods of Light put out a call for those that might be interested in helping out.

A meeting was held to explain what these women and men desired to learn and how a “perpetrator” was needed for this mission. Those desiring to help or even just the curious attended the meeting.

After hearing what was needed, a man stepped forward, volunteering to help. He did have the stipulation that after the mission was completed, he would have help in returning to the level of light he had obtained. It was granted and provisions made for that to happen. When it was time to go to mortality for this mission, Father took away the man’s light, enabling him to become dark and evil in order to fulfill the mission. This man was of great light, much more than those he had offered to help to gain understanding and knowledge of being a victim and coming out of it, thereby obtaining compassion and wisdom.

The man came to morality. He married and had children. He violated many family members. He was finally exposed and faces many felony counts against him. He will most likely go away for the rest of his mortal time here.

So, is he evil, wicked and deserves his prison time?

What about after he transitions? Will he go directly to Hell and not collect two hundred dollars? But seriously, don’t you think he deserves time in Hell? He has fallen quite a long ways from where he was in the premortal life and carries much darkness.

Next we’ll discuss a man that was the pillar of his community, a former bishop, stake president, and business owner that helped many people.

Now where are those pair of dimes?

Part two is next……