The Priesthood is an everlasting principle, and existed with God from eternity, and will to eternity, without beginning of days or end of years … and is the channel through which all knowledge, doctrine, the plan of salvation and every important matter is revealed from heaven … It is the channel through which the Almighty commenced revealing His glory at the beginning of the creation of this earth, and through which He has continued to revel Himself to the children of men to the present time, and through which He will make known His purposes to the end of time … whenever there has been a righteous man on earth unto whom God revealed His word and gave power and authority to administer in His name. And where there is a priest of God—a minister who has power and authority from God to administer in the ordinances of the gospel and officiate in the priesthood of God—there is the kingdom of God.