Exploring Theories on the Mormon Godhead (Blog Series)

> Introduction: The Four Main Godhead Theories

 > Why Bother Understanding the More Origional LDS Godhead theories? 

The Pratt-Hyde Godhead Theory:

• Excerpts from "Great First Cause" by Orson Pratt: The Philosophy of Self-Moving Powers as Intelligent Atoms & The Holy Spirit as the Governing Mind and Ultimate Self-Moving Intelligent Substance (that forms all Forms and Personages)

• Excerpts from Orson Pratt's Absurdities of Immaterialism on the Holy Spirit as basically "spirit-atoms" (or mini intelligences)

• A Summary & Excerpts from "Orson Pratt and the Expansion of the Doctrine and Covenants" by Brian C. Passantino (2020). Here we learn how Orson Pratt practically canonized his theology in the new editions of the D&C and how he likely added new scripture to try and block Brigham Young's authoritarianism and his Adam-is-god dogma.

• Orson Pratt on The Oneness of God, the Great First Cause or Supreme Omnipresent Power of Lecture on Faith #2

• The Will to Knowledge as Power & Life Affirmation: Excerpts from "Toward a Mormon Metaphysics" by Andrew Miles

• Nietzsche's Will to Power in the Theological Language of the LDS Supreme Power of Lecture #2 & Elect Mormons Growing from Exaltation to Exaltation

• Problem-solving 'intelligence' in cells & Molecular intelligence as Agential Material: A Case for Cells to Atoms to Quarks to Spirit Matter

• The Coporate Godhead vs. The Smith-Pratt Godhead: How the Godhead Affects the LDS Trinity, Grace, Atonement, Leadership, Purity and Worthiness, etc.

The Twin-Genome Godhead Theory:

> Short Summary & Overview of  The Twin-Genome Mormon Godhead

> Jesus as a Duplicate Seal (Facsimile) of Jehovah, the Only Monogene of the Father, & Christians as a New Species Seeded by the Sperm/Genus of Christ

> Orson Hyde Confirms Father and Son "[resemble] each other exactly in features and stature."

> Ethan Smith on the Trinity & Christ in the Old Testament as a "Medium" (Form of "Appearance")

> The "Mind" of Lectures on Faith (Part 1): The Meaning of the Mind in the Fifth Lecture on Faith

> The "Mind" of the Lectures on Faith (Part 2): Lecture 3,4, 6 and 7

> The "father" of God the Father Explained (Part 1): The Lectures on Faith as the Authoritative Interpretative Lens of Joseph Smith's 1844 Sermons

> The "father" of God the Father Explained (Part 2): The 3 Main Types of Fathers in Mormon Scripture

The "father" of God the Father Explained (Part 3):  How the Deity of The Lectures on Faith generated ("fathered") a Prototype (Progenitor) as a "Personage of nooma (Jevohah's form)" as Part of the Deity's Pre-Earth "Spiritual” Creation  

The "father" of God the Father Explained (Part 4):  The Book of Ether and the Panoptic Vision of the Brother of Jared and God's Prescient Mind of Philonic Forms

> The "father of God the Father Explained (Part 5): The "father" of Jesus' Father" as the Sun-like Supreme Power of all Starry Personages & How "The Angel of the Lord" is a Medium of Jesus of Nazareth

> The "father of God the Father Explained (Part 6): Holy "Fathers and Sons" as Seeds to generate the  Seeded Garden (Kin[g]dom) of the Deity 

> The "father" of God the Father Explained (Part 7): The Seventh Lecture on Faith on how the Father is the great prototype

Neutral Theology Affirming All Godhead Theories:

> Noomatic Gene Therapy by Matthew Thiessen

> A Summary of How God's "Seed" (Sperma) Produces A New Holy Spieces like a Bright Garden of Glowing Fruit

> The LDS Godhead: Sophia as a Heavenly Mother Figure? The Feminine Creative Side of the Divine Nature

> Nietzsche's Will to Power and Joseph's Spirit of Intelligence

> Orson Hyde's Diagram of the Kingdom of God & A Chain of Belonging as Tribal Psychology & Familial Will to Power

> Nauvoo Polygamy as Nietzschean-like Selective Breeding of Supercouples toward Creating a separate People (a Peoplehood as The Kingdom of God)

> The Chain of Belonging and "God" as The Eternal Compound in One - One Eternal Round of Divine Species (Star-like Ones); A Genealogical Family of Supercouples: The Deity as Ahman (God and His Monogene) & the Intelligences as Parts of the Supreme Deity; As the Sun is to lesser Stars, the "Father of lights" is the Supreme Source of all Celestial Bodies (Planets and Supercouples as Gods)