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AND the brother of Jared did see the beginning of the family of God upon the earth and he saw Zaiton's dominion grow up beside the family of God; for behold the family of God is a patriarchal order which is perfect harmony, for God is its head, and it belongeth to the oneness of the Godhead; and whosoever loved not the God of heaven did separate themselves from the Order and did follow Cain over into the land of Nod; and they did introduce all manner of abominations which were contrary to the Holy Order of God.
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And one such abomination was a system of weights and measures which system had no place in God's Holy Order. For behold the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. And the fullness thereof must not be measured unto man for a penny, for it belongeth not unto mankind, but unto God; and whomsoever measures it out unto his fellow offends the God whose it is. Verily, he cannot be a partaker in God's abundance if he measures and sells of that abundance to his fellow beings.
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And thus did Zaiton grow up east of Eden, for Eden was where the Holy Order of God lived; and the laws that pertained unto the oneness of God's order were violated in Nod, for all manner of sin was introduced and all such things are an abomination to God's Holy Order. Behold they are too numerous, indeed, to mention; but ye are born into Zaiton and they are all about you, and ye must forsake them if ye will bring back again the harmony that was lost from God's Holy Order.
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Behold Eden was a place of perfect peace and harmony which existed because of all its people adhering strictly to the laws of oneness and union which produced that peace and harmony; for as I told you before (and ye did not receive it then but you must receive it now), Iton is a condition of joy, peace, love, light, truth, and exaltation which belongeth to the Gods who adhered in their daily walk to those laws which produced Iton;
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And Satan (who is Cain and his name was changed to Zaiton) perverted those laws and principles in the hearts of the Sons of God, and they followed Cain into the land of Nod and brought on the condition of Za-Iton which is opposite to the Edenic state.
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Thus, Zaiton (never Eden) arose side by side with Eden and perpetuated itself upon the fall of the whole earth, causing the Holy Ones to leave the earth; and the garden of Eden disappeared because the laws and order which produced the Edenic state were no longer lived.
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And my beloved John did describe these things that grew up in Zaiton, saying, a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
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And ye must forsake these things if ye are to return to Eden; for ye inherited them from your fathers and they belong to Zaiton and have a place in the Edenic state.
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Forsake those things, O ye little ones, for only in the doing so can ye bring again that Edenic state which was lost unto you. And it is for this reason that I have given you the laws of consecration and the united order wherein ye do covenant with one another to bear each others burdens and to suffer deprivation with one another until ye do reverse the situation which grew up in Zaiton.
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Can ye not see that the abundance which was the Edenic state was because God is the source of all goodness and life and that abundance and life sprang forth in Eden because the Sons of God did give freely of themselves and their substance, withholding nothing from one another?
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And, therefore, the earth withheld nothing from man; for man was the Lord of Creation and all created things responded with gladness for the joy of their lord. but when the Sons of God did separate themselves from the Holy Order of God and did withhold, the abundance ceased; and the earth, responding to the law mankind did subject it to, did cease to bring forth abundantly and it did groan, as did all lower forms of life, under the curse that went forth upon its face.
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O ye Sons of God, how long will ye choose to remain in Zaiton's dominion? How long will ye serve and struggle in bondage to the laws of a fallen and cursed order?
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Behold, the way is prepared and the pathway marked. Behold your Lord and your God did die for you to lift you out of the bondage that ye were born into. Yea, I say unto you that your Lord and your God did suffer upon the cross for you to lift you out of all the forms of death that you did inherit from your fathers.
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Behold will ye choose death over life? Will ye choose bondage rather than freedom? Will ye everlastingly remain in that order of things which will perpetuate Satan's dominion and power over you?
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Behold, I speak to those of you who have started to come unto Christ and begun to see that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Come ye all the way. Come ye into the fullness of the laws which did cause Eden to be a watered garden and the earth to spring forth abundantly for the joy of its God.
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Come, O ye little ones who have partaken of the first fruits of redemption, which are the beginnings of the law of Christ. For behold, the law of Christ, if ye will obey it in its fullness, will bring you all the way back into Eden from whence your fathers left and to which you will never return unless you abide by the laws which will bring you back.
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And behold those laws are not hard, for Satan hath deceived you into thinking that they are hard; therefore, ye receive not the grace that would make them easy. For behold, Christ hath overcome all the deaths that came into the world by Zaiton in order that ye might receive the grace that the tables might be turned to return you to that Edenic condition.
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Behold, if ye will let go of the false security which holdeth you in Zaiton and learn to walk by faith in Jesus Christ, even as I, Moroni, and some few of my people did, ye shall be sustained;
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And behold we did not learn it until our world around us had been totally shaken and destroyed, for we knew not the full power of redemption which was in Christ Jesus until we had been decimated as a nation under Satan's power; and only then did we abide the laws which gave us the grace to come up to a higher order of things so that we could be preserved upon the land which was once Eden, but had turned and become Zaiton by the corruption of God's Holy Laws.
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And now, O ye little ones who are striving towards God's Holy Order: receive in your hearts the grace that will make it easy to live the law of Christ. In all humility, and forgiveness, and lowliness of heart receive the grace that will help you to abide those laws; for behold they are the laws of celestial plural marriage with all that it entails, leaving off not one jot or one tittle what will refine you in the fire.
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And behold, ye are given the laws of consecration and the united order whereby ye do forsake all the false security of your fallen condition and throw yourselves totally on the abundance of God's grace. And only then can you reverse the conditions which grew up by disobedience to the laws of God's Holy Order.
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Only then will the mountains flow down with new wine and the earth spring forth abundantly for your sakes. Only then will the bonds of Zaiton be broken to bring you again into the Edenic state. Only then will you receive the full redemption that is in Christ Jesus to lift you up into the order of the Gods, which ye call exaltation.