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The things of God are of deep import;
and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts
can only find them out.
(Joseph Smith, Teachings, p.137)
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Reading the experience of others, or the revelation given to them,
can never give us a comprehensive view of our condition and true relation to God.
Knowledge of these things can only be obtained by experience
through the ordinances of God set forth for that purpose.
(Joseph Smith, HC 6:324)
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But be assured, brethren,
there are but few, very few of the Elders of Israel, now on earth,
who know the meaning of the word endowment.
To know, they must experience; and to experience, a Temple must be built.
(Brigham Young, JD 2:31)
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We live in a world of symbols.
No man or woman can come out of the temple endowed as he or she should be,
unless he has seen, beyond the symbol, the mighty realities for which the symbols stand.
No man can reveal to another the sublime, deep inner meaning of those symbols…
for it is an individual matter, and every man or woman must seek and obtain it for himself…
(John A. Widstoe)
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Remember that which cometh from above is sacred,
and must be spoken with care, and by constraint of the Spirit.
(D&C 63:64)
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