Signs

I'm aware that the section on signs is somewhat obtuse, so I'll try to add a little clarity here.

There are four actions indicated by the various signs.  They are:

1.  Seeking attention.
2.  Receiving something.
3.  Giving something.
4.  Reaching from above and bringing to below.

Now, if you know the signs, then I would ask you:

Which side of the body is being represented for that action?
How does that action represent the stage you are completing?

I hope this helps.

Anonymity

Anonymity

Although I've addressed this a bit in the previous post, I thought to add some insight into why I currently choose anonymity.

I realize that I will not be able to maintain my anonymity forever, in fact the first to view this blog will probably be friends who know me.  However, I feel it is important that my ideas have a chance to stand on their own merit, and not on any preconceptions around who I am and what titles I may, or may not have.

With that said, Lets add some musings to the previous ones:

For those interested in pursuing the penalties that are no longer in the endowment, I would suggest the following names be used to try and understand their meaning and relation to the story being told.  Consider them as representing things you reject by rejecting the covenants:

1. Breath of LIfe.

2. Milk of Mercy.

3. Without Seed.

Now, onto the Washings and Annointings:

Here, like the endowment itself, you will find four stages.  These parallel the Endowment and add detail and meaning.

You start in a room. Consider this the Garden of Eden, From there you proceed to a different room where you are washed/baptized.  Next is another room where you receive your annointings/endowment.  Then is another room where you receive your new garment/resurrected body.  From there you return to the room representing the Garden of Eden/Celestial realms.

The Endowment

The following is a recent work, having it's genesis about 4 years ago, and will differ in some respects to my previous post.  My wife was instrumental in it's final form (pictures, section on types and various re-wordings), which concluded last year.  It's subject is the endowment, with some other random musings included.  Format is .pdf.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0huOBplms1BU0hiMFNVa0Ywd2s

A Simple Synopsis of the Gospel

The following is a post I made to an internet chat room in 1997.  It remains unaltered.



As I look at the Gospel I seem to see the following:

I began by being born spiritually to my Heavenly Father.  I then lived with Him in a state of innocence that is approximated by the Garden of Eden experience of Adam and Eve.

Through my second birth, through the lineage of the Fathers, even unto Adam/Michael, I was able to partake of the knowledge of the fruits of both good and evil.  Here in this lone and dreary (Telestial) world, I gain the opportunity to experience parenthood.  In this way I can be a little like my Heavenly Father.

Next, through the blood of the atonement and the waters of baptism I am born (a third time) unto Christ and receive his surname (Christ’s Son – Christian). Here, through the grace of the covenant of Baptism, I become a son to my Father Christ and to my mother the Church.  Through the companionship of the Holy Ghost, which I am offered as a reward for entering into this covenant, I leave the loneliness and dreariness of the Telestial world and enter into a Terrestrial one.

As a child of Elohim I was able to partake of His spiritual heritage.  As a child of Adam I am able to partake of his mortal heritage. And as a child of Christ I can partake of His heritage, which is resurrection unto eternal life.

If I am true and faithful to the example of my Fathers, I can progress into the first stage of the Celestial Kingdom by accepting the oath and covenant of the Melchizedek Priesthood. With this priesthood I can now serve with my angelic brethren in administering the bounties of God’s love to His children. If I continue, I can enter the second degree of the Celestial Kingdom by accepting the endowments offered in God’s Holy House. Finally I can attain to “all that my Father has” by entering into the New and Everlasting Covenant of Eternal Marriage.

If I am true and faithful to these covenants, that are offered to me through the Grace of Christ; and I do not recant, then God has promised that He will honor these covenants in the eternities, Luckily He has provided many opportunities to repent and be forgiven for falling short of my covenantal commitments and responsibilities. Until He calls me to His presence and confirms the Words of Eternal Life upon me, I wait on Him in faith and hope.

Ready or not, I'm here.

Due to requests from several friends, I'm finally creating a blog.