Orson Pratt offers premortal explanation of race and ban.

Date
Apr 1853
Type
Periodical
Source
Orson Pratt
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Orson Pratt, "The Pre-Existence of Man," The Seer, 1, no. 4 (April 1853), 56

Scribe/Publisher
The Seer
People
Orson Pratt
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Some spirits take bodies in the lineage of the chosen seed, through whom of the chosen seed, through whom the priesthood is transferred. others receive bodies among the African negroes or in the lineage of Canaan whose descendants were cursed, pertaining to the priesthood. Now if all the spirits were equally faithful in the first estate in keeping the laws thereof, why are they placed in such dissimilar circumstances in their second estate?

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