Brigham Young teaches that when Adam and Eve became mortal they could produce bodies; prior to that, they could produce spirits; Brigham mentions the Heavenly Father of Adam.

Date
Aug 25, 1867
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Brigham Young
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reprint
Reference

"Brigham Young, 1867 August 25," Church History Department Pitman Shorthand transcriptions, 2013-2021, CR 100 912, Church History Library

Scribe/Publisher
George D. Watt, LaJean Purcell Carruth
People
Eve, Brigham Young, Orson Pratt, Adam
Audience
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Transcription

. . . while Brother Orson telling you a great deal about this holy great wedding first ever celebrated Father Adam one that helped to make the world he helped to organize this earth and it was organized expressly for him and he is the king and the lord of this earth and when he came here he came with an understanding that he would do just as you and I do . . . on this earth and Father and Adam and Mother Eve ate of the fruit until their systems were changed from the dust of this earth and they was prepared to form a body they were prepared to form a spirit long before they were prepared to prepare a body from the food they ate to form the body for the spirit to rest in and not until then these things Adam forgot a great deal but he knew it all before hand] and the wedding nothing more less his father came to him there is a wife you have had for so many years you have had one you are going to have one wife to go to that earth and if your wives eer giong to earth it will be another not that one she is called Eve because she is the mother of all living and that is the title given to every woman and if any other wives Eve she be the queen of the earth we have Adam to be the lord of the earth and the father of all living on this earth and Mother Eve to the mother of all living . . .

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