05-19-2017, 11:20 PM
I was recently marveling over the crazy beliefs of other religions and started thinking about Mormonism and how I thought a lot of the beliefs were crazy.
In usual karmic fashion I realized, with absurd clarity, that their beliefs weren't that much stranger or different than our own. You can take any religion and pick it apart of course but really, the core tenets of their religion are very similar to what we believe: for example, they believe that if you become spiritually pure enough you eventually become a creator god who goes on to create planets and civilizations. They also believe that "Kolob" is the star nearest to God. I thought about how we might view the "great central sun" and its relationship to the Logos. These are just a few minor examples, but more and more I'm seeing similarities among different beliefs rather than differences.
Anyway, I think this is a really beautiful hymn created by Mormons.
The lyrics are hard to pick up in this version and occur quite late in the song but I think they are also quite beautiful, perhaps you can see why:
"1. If you could hie to Kolob In the twinkling of an eye,
And then continue onward With that same speed to fly,
Do you think that you could ever, Through all eternity,
Find out the generation Where Gods began to be?
2. Or see the grand beginning, Where space did not extend?
Or view the last creation, Where Gods and matter end?
Me thinks the Spirit whispers, “No man has found ‘pure space,’
Nor seen the outside curtains, Where nothing has a place.”
3. The works of God continue, And worlds and lives abound;
Improvement and progression Have one eternal round.
There is no end to matter; There is no end to space;
There is no end to spirit; There is no end to race.
4. There is no end to virtue; There is no end to might;
There is no end to wisdom; There is no end to light.
There is no end to union; There is no end to youth;
There is no end to priesthood; There is no end to truth.
5. There is no end to glory; There is no end to love;
There is no end to being; There is no death above.
There is no end to glory; There is no end to love;
There is no end to being; There is no death above."