Thirdly, that if we be the children of God; if it be true, as we have sung, and as I doubt not, that in the heavens parents are not single, but that we have a Mother as well as a Father there, then it follows that we, as the sons and daughters of God, bear within us the embryotic germs of Deity, and are capable of advancement, by progression, of becoming like our Father and our Mother in heaven; that it is possible, in other words, for man to have become God, and if this be true, it teaches that there was a time when that being whom we now worship—that our eternal Father and Mother were once man and woman in mortality.