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When the devil and his followers were cast out of heaven in premortal times they lost the opportunity to receive a physical body. “Lucifer and his legions rebelled over the choice of the Christ, and were cast down,” said Orson F. Whitney. “Failing to keep their first estate, they could not be ‘added upon.’ This was their punishment—that they should not have bodies, by means of which spirits become souls [see D&C 88:15], capable of eternal progression. All the rest—two-thirds of the population of the spirit world—were given bodies as a reward for keeping their first estate, and were promised a glorious resurrection after death, as a further reward, if they succeeded in keeping their second estate.”Share
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