George Q. Cannon, addressing Brigham Young's teachings on origin of our spirit and physical body: Brigham means that man's origin, both physical and spiritual, to be heavenly.

Date
Oct 12, 1861
Type
Periodical
Source
George Q. Cannon
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

George Q. Cannon, "Origin of Man," The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 23, no. 41 (October 12, 1861): 654

Scribe/Publisher
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star
People
Brigham Young, George Q. Cannon
Audience
Latter-day Saints
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Transcription

President Young, in the foregoing passages, while substantiating the fact of the union of man's pre-existing spirit with a bodily produce of the "dust of the ground," enters more particularly into the modus operandi of that union. He unmistakably declares man's origin to be altogether of a celestial character—that not only is his spirit of heavenly descent, but his bodily organization too,—that the latter is not taken from the lower animals, but from the originally celestial body of the great Father of humanity.

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