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Re: The Divine Brotherhood of the Universe [message #426 is a reply to message #418] Tue, 29 May 2012 14:16 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
SirExcedrin is currently offline  SirExcedrin
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Shocked wow! Is there someone here that could help further unfold my understanding provided by that amazing quote from BHR above? It brings to mind a thought I've had lately stemming from:

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Unto whom I have committed the keys of my kingdom, and a dispensation of the gospel for the last times; and for the fulness of times, in the which I will gather together in one all things, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; D&C 27:13

I've wondered about all the crazy emphasis going on getting everything sealed together and why the keys to the kingdom were specifically given for and described as a binding power - for everything in heaven and earth. I mean, we're out there furiously doing genealogy and sealings and turning hearts to father & sons and building more and more temples. Wouldn't it just be crazy if it turns out that there is in reality just one thing and we are temporarily literally the offspring from the ONE, so that we can have this experience: for what reason? Because we wanted to better understand ourself, and that's hard to do without creating and interacting with points of reference outside of ourself (ie. us the offspring, as independent individuals). Maybe that's why:
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All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence. D&C 93:30

There would be no existence because if there was only one thing contemplating itself, then like Lehi talked about in 2 Nephi 2:11, it would all just disappear into a lifeless compound in one, because if there was only one thing then it would be everything, and if it was everything then it becomes no-thing because there would be nothing else to observe it. So when I read about the great commandment being:
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36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
matthew 22:36-40

How can I possibly love God and my neighbor and you, some poor guy reading this crazy post, all as myself? I suspect we can because we are all in reality ONE. So I can stop worrying that you are getting more stuff than me, or becoming more successful, or seemingly more popular than me or whatever. Why? Simply because in reality you are not only my brother, but in fact we are ONE; that you are in me and I am in you and we are in the Father through the Son. (Kind of sounds like an old Beatles song I recall) So my desire grows, to help uplift you however I can, the more that I grow in my understanding of that infinite connection we have as ONE. (well! I certainly didn't mean to write all that....)

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