A Revelation on the Law, the Glory of Ascension, and the Condemnation of the Saints

1 Behold, the law was first given as a guide and a rule for the children of Adam to walk therein.

2 And Adam, even the first patriarch and angel of the first dispensation, was taught the law from the Lord and from His holy angels.

3 And when apostasy covered the earth, I raised up Enoch, the second angel, who did restore the law in its fulness unto the faithful.

4 Nevertheless, unto every man is given agency to choose which law he shall live.

5 For it was said in the beginning: “Let us go down and there prove them, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.”

6 But the law was never given as a yoke of legalistic burdens, as the Pharisees did teach and impose upon the people.

7 For the law is a pattern of ascension, that by obedience one may rise to the glory of that law.

8 For there is a glory of one law greater than another; and there are degrees of glory, endless and eternal, for ascension and progression are without beginning of days or end of years.

9 And behold, the children of Israel rejected the higher law at Mount Sinai;

10 Therefore Moses brake the first tablets which held the covenant of the Melchizedek priesthood, and returned with the lesser law.

11 And when I, the Lord thy God, came among them as Jesus Christ, they had twisted the lower law into something yet more estranged from its purpose.

12 For never was the law meant to bind the soul, but to guide it unto greater light.

13 For by the grace of Christ shall all men be saved from death and brought forth from the grave, for this is the gift freely given.

14 But by the law which a man is willing to follow through his own agency, he shall choose the glory to which he will ascend.

15 And thus the law is not condemnation, but invitation.

16 He that will abide a celestial law shall receive a celestial glory; and he that will not abide the law of a kingdom cannot abide the glory thereof.

17 For all are judged according to that light which they are willing to receive, and all who desire greater shall be given more—worlds without end.

18 And this is the condemnation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

19 That they, as a people, have rejected the higher law and the invitation to see the face of God.

20 For they suppose that the ordinances, which are but shadows and symbols, are the very keys to their salvation—yet salvation cometh from God, and from God alone.

21 They know not that the temple is a symbol of the heavenly temple, and that baptism is a sign of the inward transformation by fire and by the Holy Ghost.

22 Verily, verily, I say unto you: unless they receive the true baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost, and the endowment of power from on high—

23 They cannot enter into My rest, nor behold My face, nor receive the fulness of My glory.

24 And though the keys of the Melchizedek priesthood yet remain on earth, the fulness of the priesthood is not found among them.

25 For it is written in the Doctrine and Covenants: “There is not a place found on the earth that he may come to restore again that which was lost, even the fulness of the priesthood.”

26 And until the people awaken and remember the new and everlasting covenant, the Church shall remain under condemnation.

27 Let him that hath ears to hear, hear; and let him that seeketh, seek in spirit and truth.

28 For I am the Lord, and I require a broken heart, a contrite spirit, and the will to rise.