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inspired had marrying on the brain. We are, however, in this copious revelation, given an insight into the Mormon heaven, and the importance of the Mormon priesthood. Their heaven is a place with an inner and outer court. The inner court is the place of eternal joys, the fulness of which will consist in associations in the celestial marriage relation, and in the propogation of their seeds, and thus increasing the number in the families of the god!! This place will be guarded by Mormons who have developed into gods and higher angels. By these none can pass except those who have honored the new and everlasting covenant, as it is revealed in this revelation. The key of the priesthood, we are assured, is especially designed to govern this covenant.

"7. Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject unto them.

"8. Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye abide my law, ye cannot attain to this glory; for strait is the gate and narrow the way that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the lives, and few there be that find it, because ye receive me not in the world, neither do ye know me. But if ye receive me in the world, then ye shall know me, and shall receive your exaltation, that where I am, ye shall be also. This is eternal lives, to know the only wise and true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent. I am He. Receive ye, therefore, my law. Broad is the gate and wide is the way that leadeth to the death; and many there are that go in thereat; because they receive me not, neither do they abide in my law.

"9. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man marry a wife according to my word, and they are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, according to mine appointment, and he or she shall commit any sin or transgression of the new and everlasting covenant whatever, and all manner of blasphemies, and if they