Joseph taught that “God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man.” He had increased in skill and wisdom until He had come to govern myriads of worlds peopled by spirits of His own procreation. Ahead of every man there stretched this same boundless opportunity for progression throughout eternity. The rate of his spiritual growth would accelerate in direct proportion to the speed with which he accepted God’s laws and performed God’s rituals. Lorenzo Snow caught the essence of this philosophy in a terse and provocative line: “As man is, God once was; and as God is, man may become.”
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