OP says that the Lord created the spirits of both animals and vegetables.

Date
Feb 1853
Type
Periodical
Source
Orson Pratt
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Orson Pratt, "The Pre-Existence of Man," The Seer 1, no. 2 (February 1853): 23

Scribe/Publisher
Orson Pratt
People
Orson Pratt
Audience
Reading Public, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Transcription

"And out of the ground I, the Lord God, formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and commanded that they should he brought unto Adam, to see what he would call them : and they were also living souls, and it was breathed into them the breath of life." (Gen. 2nd chap. Inspired Translation, by JOSEPH SMITH, the prophet.) Here we learn, that every vegetable and animal, as well as man, was first created spiritually, in Heaven, and afterwards made naturally upon the earth. The succession of events in the spiritual creation was different from that in the natural creation ; hence, arises the two different descriptions.

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