"The residence of God or the gods whose interests have to do with our planet and humanity, is a star named Kolob, probably unknown to science, but apparently well known to Joseph Smith, as he states that it is situated near the throne of God, and that it revolves on its axis once in a thousand years. (Literal rendering of the Scriptural statement that a thousand years are with the Lord as one day.) Here the gods beget and bear the spirits that are to take possession of earthly forms and become men in due time. Our destiny is finally to return, and not only to rejoin the company of these gods, but to become gods ourselves. All this is generally believed by the Mormon people, but it is not stated in Article I of the creed."