George Albert Smith, Celestial Plural Marriage and the Law of Consecration

Posting this for future reference, not my own but found it through research!

At HD’s request I here add President George Albert Smith’s teachings and vision:

He told me that the first real key was that we would have a president of different extraction than the normal northern European ancestry that we had had up to that point. However, Pres. Smith did counsel me to look specifically for the day when the American dollar was so worthless that no other country would allow payment in dollars, for that would signal the beginning of such a severe depression that only LDS people who had their food supplies and clothing supplies and whatever they needed for heat and to cook with would be able to survive. Then he stopped for a moment as though he was going inside himself, and then said that there would be other survivors, but they would only survive because they were the honest in heart whom the Lord would miraculously bring to the Saints to teach and nurture, and that their survival would be something truly spiritual to those of us who were prepared for the calamities that would befall the LDS people who were not prepared, and the unprepared LDS would be affected the worst and die the more agonizing deaths because they had been warned, and yet rejected those warnings to prepare every needful thing.

1. Weapons would be taken from the populace (I was advised to have weapons and ammo stashed where it would be unobservable but which could be gotten to in a moments notice)

2. Russia would appear to fall from it’s mighty position, but that would only be a ruse, because they would continue to only grow stronger because they would not then have to support all of the poor countries they had taken over.

3. The US would give up it’s strategic power base, and become the scourge of the world because of the abuse of power they would leverage against all other lesser countries, and the other world powers would force the US to take their bombs out of Europe. (Doesn’t remember anything being said about whether bombs were nuclear or not)

4. Missiles would be hidden in grain silos – didn’t say anything about them being the buried silos we all know.

5. Nations would move huge battle tanks around to where they needed them on trucks that are bigger than any you have ever seen up till now (194

6. Then a terrible war would break out that would pit the powerful nations of the world against the US, and that the US would find out what it was like to have war waged in their backyards, and America would find out that WW2 had merely been a training exercise.

7. The worst time in the depression would look like a picnic in comparison.

He then reiterated to me that I needed to put away guns and ammo where it could not be confiscated so that I could protect my family until I could get them to one of the refuge’s that the Lord would provide his worthy Saints. After I got to the refuges I would not need those weapons, but that perhaps my children and grandchildren would, to go fight for the constitution. GAS then quit talking, and refused to give any further clarifications.

After recording what I could remember, I felt like I had left something important out, and was concerned, so since Pres. Smith was still in residence, I went back to him and had him read what I had written. President Smith told me that I had all that needed to be recorded, and that he now felt he had overstepped his bounds in telling me all that he had, and prayed that the Lord would forgive him, and that I should only record and tell his family the elements that needed to be kept sacred in his journal until I was inspired to share it only with selected people.

I think that it is the last two items that Pres. Smith was worried about “letting the cat out of the bag” so to speak, and why he was worried that perhaps the Lord would be angry with him. What I wrote down was that the Saints who would go to the refuges would be tried to such an extent that there would be a great apostasy because the Lord would require all who were there to live the full Celestial Priesthood Law which includes 1) the Law of Consecration, and 2) the law of Celestial Plural Marriage.

He stated that Father governs his people by the law of common consent while in mortal probation so that they may have their agency, and when plural marriage was given away it was not by any revelation, but was by the machinations of such men high within the church who thought to play the devils game with him to gain a little season before it would be re-instituted after becoming a State, but in the meantime, the people grabbed hold of the press release that is now called Official Declaration 1 so hard that it was quite impossible to go back to the way that things had been because of the 'common consent' of the church membership.

He also stated that when people shall come to where the light of the Lord is, it will mostly be women, and that the law of Celestial Plural Marriage will have to be lived, since it would be improper to put a women and possibly the children with her under the charge of a priesthood holder without making that woman one of his wives. He then quoted the scripture from 2 Nephi 14:1 “And in that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach.”

He then counseled me to always judge the prophets and always and make it a matter of prayer if the counsel of the prophet is of God since the current membership would cry foul if a prophet were to get up and say “Thus sayeth the Lord” since the brethren have left that behind since they no longer are able to receive direct revelation since the fullness of the gospel has been given away. I then asked him why, if that were so, had he received a vision of the last days that he was telling me about? He said that in that particular case he had received nothing more than what any member of the church could receive for themselves if they draw close to the Lord through the spirit, and quoted me the prophecy in Joel about everyone having dreams and visions in the last days.

Summary of my side conversation Q&A later in the day after I had written the vision...

Question by me: From what you have told me, what is the fullness? A long discourse developed which I will summarize to the best of my understanding here.

GAS defined United Order and Celestial Plural Marriage as the main principles given away which diluted the fullness of the Gospel to something less than what Father desired, that we properly had when the gospel was restored. He also stated that there were also other principles such as re-baptism unto repentance for those repenting of their sins. He then quoted the scripture from Isaiah where it says that when the ordinances are changed the Priesthood is changed. You can look that up since I am not writing a scholarly treatise here such that I need to include the exact scripture... I am not going to get into all of the re-baptism and other smaller changes here because it is all well defined in the BOM, but is nonetheless part of the fullness.

Me: Why are those principles considered the fullness?

GAS: Because CPM is designed to test the women and humble them sufficiently to be able to live and love sufficiently for inclusion in the Celestial Kingdom, and the United Order is the principle necessary to similarly humble men under the eternal Law of the Priesthood.

Me: So why don’t you restore the fullness?

GAS: Because the people would never understand and grasp the fullness at this time. They are only conditioned to receive the milk of the Gospel right now. Father will reveal the time when that setting in order is to occur so that it will strengthen and purify those who will accept, because the revelation reinstating the meat of the Gospel, which are those principles, will cause the great apostasy prior to the second coming prophesied in the scriptures.

Now our father grew up in a polygamous household, but his mother hated the principle of CPM so badly that she preached incessantly against it. From everything recorded in any of the journals we have, grandma was a very selfish and haughty woman. Thus dad had that same spirit in rejecting divine revelation, and thus when he heard President Smith reviewing my journal out loud, he became extremely riled and told Pres. Smith he had no business teaching his (dad's) young son who doesn't even have the priesthood yet such doctrine. President Smith lowered both barrels and came down on dad so hard that it almost ruined their friendship. In essence what was said was recorded as best as I could remember it after they had finished, and I recorded it as GAS saying that he was proud that I desired to know the truth, and then said something along the lines of “Luther, it is never improper to teach the truth's of Gods Priesthood Law, regardless of age, regardless of whether we now practice it or not, for in order for a man to be exalted, he must live the same laws that are lived in the Kingdom he aspires to, and Celestial Plural Marriage is the only marriage system that is recognized where God lives. Men may think they are attaining to the New and Everlasting covenant by marrying one woman in the temple and living in monogamy, but that is only the initial step; just as you are anointed “to become” in your initiatory anointings, marriage to one woman is just the initial step. So dad shut up, but he was steaming, and they did not get much accomplished the rest of that day, and President Smith had to leave to go to a California appointment the next day.

One of the things G. A. Smith was particularly harsh about the day before he left was how Heber J. Grant seemed to worship the world, and all of the bankers, politicians, and anyone who was held in high regard in Babylon. Pres. Smith taught me about the conspiracy of the international bankers who were backing communism, socialism, and fascism, who he stated were angels of Satan. Yet Heber J. Grant repeatedly gushed praises in conference for them. President G. A. Smith here stated that there had been no other president of the church who has darkened the minds of the Saints so much as HJG did. He told me that when a man calling himself a prophet starts denigrating and setting at naught the revealed teachings of former prophets that he declared himself an enemy of God, and the people should put that man out of his place, and make the Quorum of 12 do their job and put in a man under the inspiration of Heaven who will lead the people in the narrow paths of righteousness, not in the wide paths of Babylon. I asked him if he was not doing just what he was telling me was improper, and he told me that HJG could not fit that mold because he was just a placeholder who had set aside many revealed principles of the restored gospel. Even so, he counseled me to stay close to the gospel and the church and do the best I could until the setting in order occurs. He then explained to me that the gospel and the church are two different entities and that I would do well in my life to come to know and understand why they are separate. GAS was almost white while he was saying these things, and I thought that I myself would be changed so that I could endure the force by which GAS was speaking, because I knew that it was by the power of God.

GAS told me that if I ever expected to have the full blessing of the temple when I got my endowments I should never wear anything other than the revealed garment, which had sleeves down to the wrist, legs down to the ankle, three ties holding them shut which represent the 3 offices of the Holy Priesthood, and having the collar which represented the Mantle of Christ that we must put on if we are to be exalted. He said that he had seen in vision that all of these things would eventually be outlawed by subsequent prophets who didn’t understand what all of those things meant to the power and fullness of the priesthood because they would not be able to rise above the “milk” or darkness which had been allowed to infiltrate the church since the Law of the Priesthood and the Law of Consecration had been given away. He then quoted to me a scripture that says that when the ordinances are changed, priesthood is changed. I think that is the Isaiah scripture he referred to earlier, but GAS said it different than what is contained in Isaiah as I remember it.

I think that if dad had not interjected himself in the conversation that Pres. Smith would have gone far deeper into what he had been saying. But he clammed up, and my personal tutoring from a prophet of God was over forever more.

As he was leaving the next day I questioned him as to why he told me all of this, and Pres. Smith responded that I was of an age that I would likely live to see the events that had been described, and Pres. Smith wanted to have men who fully believed in the Law of the Priesthood and were already prepared to live it when required to do so, rather than there having to be a huge missionary effort just among those calling themselves Saints to get them to adopt the necessary Celestial Laws. He told me to always remember that God’s ways are not man’s ways, and that man’s ways are not God’s ways. Again when I asked him why he did not just restore all of this himself. he told me that he could not preach this across the pulpit because most of the Saints were milk babies. He told me that he had perceived that I was a straight thinker, even though I was young enough that I did not yet cherish the blessings that the words of a Prophet of God would bring into my life.

He was accurate on that count because I did not get my testimony of prophets until I was on my mission to the Hopi Indians.