Nietzsche writes in, The Antichrist, Paragraph 57:
The order of castes, the highest, the dominating law, is merely the ratification of an order of nature, of a natural law of the first rank, over which no arbitrary fiat, no "modern idea," can exert any influence. ... The order of castes, the order of rank, simply formulates the supreme law of life itself ...
A comment on an LDS forum says it well:
Although [Mormonism] derives from Christianity it is certainly distinct.
The thought I had is that, in Mormonism, the divine is manifest in the authority and structure of the Hierarchy.
This doctrine is most clear in the endowment ceremony. It shows the hierarchical nature of heaven where instructions are handed down, executed, and reported back up the chain. Combine this with the “as man now is god once was, as god is now man may become” notion, and that effectively moves the divinity away from any one individual into the structure itself.
We can then combine this with Joseph Smith telling Nancy Rigdon the following (footnotes from The Joseph Smith Papers are in brackets):
... That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said thou shalt not kill,—[See Exodus 20:13] at another time he said thou shalt utterly destroy.[See Deuteronomy 20:17] This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted—by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire.
As I see it, Joseph was indirectly formulating a new theology very much in line with Nietzsche's lifeward philosophy; only Joseph was doing so by turning to the Hebrew Bible itself: wherein, as I see it, the Hebrews interpreted God in the Old Testament more in line with Nature itself and it's combination of cruelty and compassion, egalitarian principles and rank ordered hierarchy. The time when God commanded his People to achieve rank ordered Will to Power and God's People embraced the sensual procreative body as good and holy. Joseph sought to restore all of these original principles found in God's original holy book, the Hebrew Bible, through his claim to recieve revelations which was a clever power move putting him at the top of the hiearchy among clergyman. He took on the mantle of the same role as the Apostle Paul, a modern-day revelator and thus corrected for some of the errors in the Bible as far as it was not "translated correctly." In doing so, he formed a more Body Affirming, Rank Affirming, version of Christianity.
