This morning it seemed pressed upon me that I need to contemplate
more on the one state of existence that has never really been expounded upon.
Our state as intelligences. This is the state we existed in prior to receiving spiritual
bodies. We really don’t know much of
this state or how we made the transition from intelligences to having spirit
bodies.
It brought to my mind how it is that we become spiritually
reborn as children of Christ. Was our spiritual birth that took us from being intelligences
to spirit children a similar process. I
think we often relate our birth as spirits to our physical birth but that might
just not be comparable. I simply don't know.
If we look at what we know of the pre-existence and what we
know of our spiritual rebirth and our progression to move into the next estate
I think we can see patterns that might directly relate to this pre pre-existence.
We know in the pre-existence we received lessons, and were
given blessings and ordinations that were contingent on our worthiness during
mortality. We also experience the same process of blessings and ordinations in
the temple in preparation for the ‘finial’ estate that are contingent on our
worthiness.
In the Temple there is a difference between Men and Women
regarding washing ones garment clean of the blood and sins of this generation.
Men receive it on condition, yet women receive it without condition.
This makes me wonder if in the pre-existence women had a
special role or mandate that washed their garments clean of the spirit and
transgressions of our spirit generation. Perhaps it was in bringing intelligences
into spirit bodies. Think of the symmetry and hidden equality that would imply, if true.
Intelligences depended on the efforts of women to gain
spirit bodies and the importance of men was marginalized and then together
spirit children grew together to come into this life where it was the role of
men that would transition from this state of mortality to a state of eternal
life. The role men play is in the grand schema basically administrative and
perhaps the same was true for women who aided in the transition to spirit
children. There might well be a female Christ figure that took the real weight
of the burden I don’t really know. Perhaps the female Christ figure’s burden is
spread around much more evenly in this mortal state, or something else I’ve
just never complicated. It has never been revealed as doctrine but it has been
suggested or eluded to.
