George Laub’s content audit of Follett (GL1) put it this way: “How came the spirits? Why they are and were self existing as all eternity.” If JS’ sermon took his 1843 revelation text into account, the revelation’s passage suggests that “continuation of the seeds” meant carrying on God’s work by adopting souls into the divine family and JS’s revelations may be though of as writing “seeds” for “posterity” in any number of senses. Others who knew the (at the time) secret revelation on polygamy saw the clear implications that would fully flower in Utah: peopling new worlds by creating Adams and Eves, Eliza Snow’s poem revised JS: the Gods propagated the Seeds by sex in heaven, with divine females birthing spirits, not adopting them. As a metaphysical justification of polygamy, this reinterpretation would surpass a variety of competing stories.