Teachings of the Doctrine of Eternal Lives

Teachings of the Doctrine of Eternal Lives speaks in a language that will not necessarily ring with a common note of familiarity to most modern inquirers, though prior generations of Latter-day Saints would have heard these words with greater frequency. Our earliest pioneer forebearers would have been intimately acquainted with the teachings of these doctrines as espoused by that generation of apostles and prophets. Our modern Mormon compendium lacks a great deal of the initial restorative and declarative truths founded and established in the early years of the Restoration. Though lost from contemporary Mormon erudition, these greater salvational doctrines are collected from scripture and teachings of the earlier Restoration prophets and presented here to the reader, as a view into the world which the first adherents of Mormonism embraced with fervor and alacrity. Not insignificantly, as astute an observer as Hugh Nibley noted and taught these wondrous doctrines often through his illus