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While attending a patriarchal blessing meeting in 1836, young Lorenzo Snow was told by Joseph Smith Sr., “You will become as great as you can possibly wish—even as great as God, and you cannot wish to be greater.” In the spring of 1840 Elder Lorenzo Snow had a singular spiritual experience. He writes: “The Spirit of the Lord rested mightily upon me—the eyes of my understanding were opened, and I saw as clear as the sun at noonday, with wonder and astonishment, the pathway of God and man. I formed the following couplet which expresses the revelation, as it was shown me, and explains Father Smith’s dark saying to me at a blessing meeting in the Kirtland Temple, prior to my baptism.” The couplet was recorded as follows: “As man now is, God once was; As God now is, man may be.” After the Prophet Joseph Smith’s Follett Sermon, Lorenzo felt he could then teach the doctrine publicly … Who is there among mortal men that can fully grasp these transcendent verities? Man may become as God himself! Let those who disagree howl as they may! Such is within the reach of all who will pay the price. This marvelous accomplishment—the ability to be even as our exalted Sire—is the consummation of that process of spiritual development which begins in premortality, continues with an accelerated pace while in the flesh, and moves on to realization in the worlds beyond the grave.Share
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