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6th page Council of Gods Organize the World, and an Infinite Changing Universe

These discussions commemorate the passing of Professor Stephen William Hawking, age 76, on ‘pi day’ 2018, late of Cambridge, England. They are extracts of a letter sent in 2003 to the Professor reviewing portions of his book, A Brief History of Time.

John Choate, Connecticut

January, 2003

Stephen Hawking, Professor

c/o Centre for Mathematical Sciences

University of Cambridge

Wilberforce Road

Cambridge CB30WA England

<s.w.hawking@damtp.cam.ac.uk

A Brief History of Time, 1988 Bantam Books, Dell

Professor Hawking,

This principle of ORGANIZATION was more particularly described, circa 1844, as follows: Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 349-352:

“In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it. . . If you tell [learned doctors] that GOD MADE the WORLD out of SOMETHING, they will call you a fool. .     “You ask the learned doctors why they say the world was made out of nothing: and they will answer, “Doesn’t the Bible say He created the world?” And they infer, from the word create, that it must have been made out of nothing. Now, the word create came from the word baurau which does not mean to create out of nothing; it means to organize; the same as a man would organize materials and build a ship. Hence we infer that GOD had MATERIALS TO ORGANIZE the WORLD out of CHAOS – chaotic matter, which is ELEMENT, and in which dwells all the glory.

Element had an EXISTENCE from the time he had. The pure principles of element are principles which can never be destroyed; they may be ORGANIZED and re-organized, but not destroyed. They had NO BEGINNING, and can have NO END.

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  1. 371: “Paul says there are Gods many and Lords many; and that makes a plurality of Gods . . . An unlearned boy must give you a little Hebrew. ‘Berosheit baurau Eloheim ait aushamayeen vehau auraits,’ rendered by King James’ translators, “In the   beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” I want to analyze the word Berosheit. Rosh, the head: Sheit, a grammatical termination; the Baith was not originally put there when the inspired man wrote it, but it has been since added by an old Jew. Baurau signifies to bring forth; Eloheim is from the word Eloi, God, in the singular number; and by adding the word heim, it renders in Gods. It read first,     “In the beginning the head of the Gods brought forth the Gods,” or as others have translated it, “The head of the Gods called the Gods together,” …

The HEAD GOD ORGANIZED the heavens and the earth. I defy all the world to refute me. In the beginning the heads of the gods organized the heavens and the earth. Now the learned priests and the people rage, and the heathen imagine a vain thing. If we pursue the Hebrew text further, it reads, “Berosheit baurau Eloheim ait aushamayeen vahau auraits.” “The head one of the Gods said, Let us make a man in our own image.” I once asked a learned Jew, “If the Hebrew language compels us to render all words ending in HEIM in the PLURAL, why not render thefirst Eloheim plural?” He replied, “That is the rule with few exceptions, but in this case it would ruin the Bible.” He acknowledged I was right. I came here to investigate these things precisely as I believe them. Hear and judge for yourselves;    and if you go away satisfied, well and good.”

6th page INFINITE CHANGING UNIVERSE

You observed (page 6) that before the Twentieth century, no one suggested the Universe was expanding, in that the existing thought was that 1) the Universe, existing forever, was unchanging, or 2) was created at a finite time in the past as seen today. Circa 20th century B.C., Abraham’s explanation of the Universe is consistent with the description that the Universe is infinite and in process of organizing, i.e. it is changing (i.e. not static).

About four millennia ago, the prophet Abraham wrote:    3:1-4 “And I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given me, in Ur of the Chaldees; And I saw theSTARS, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it; And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is NEAR UNTO ME, for I am the Lord thy God: I have SET THIS ONE to GOVERN all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest. And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord,according to its TIMES and seasons in the REVOLUTIONS thereof: that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of RECKONING, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord’s time, according to the reckoning of Kolob. . .

3:22 “Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were ORGANIZED BEFORE THE WORLD WAS; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones; . . .

3:24 “And there stood one among them that was like unto God, and he said unto those who were with him: We will go down, for there is space there, and we will TAKE of these MATERIALS, and WE will MAKE an EARTH whereon these may dwell . . .”

These verses indicate (to me) Kolob and intelligences existed before this world was, which world was organized from already existing materials.

Circa 1836, Joseph Smith explained at different times, the Universe continues to be organized, See Doctrine and Covenants, [published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]herein “D&C” by section:

14:9, “Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, who CREATED the heavens and the earth, a light which cannot be hid in darkness;

20:17, “By these things we know that there is a God in heaven, who is INFINITE and eternal, from everlasting the same unchangeable God, the FRAMER of heaven and earth, and all things

which are in them; . . .

88:19-20, “For after [the world] hath filled the measure of its creation, it shall be crowned with glory, even with the presence of God the Father; That bodies who are of the celestial kingdom may possess it forever and ever; for, for this intent was [the world] MADE and CREATED, and for the intent are they sanctified.

130:7-8, “But they reside in the presence of God, on a globe like a sea of glass and fire, where all things for their glory are manifest, PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE, and are continually before the Lord. The place where God resides is a great Urim and Thummim.

49:17, “And that it might be filled with the measure of man, according to his CREATION BEFORE the world was MADE.

76:24, 112: “That by him, and through him and of him, the worlds ARE and WERE CREATED, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters of God. . . . And they shall be servants of the Most High; but where God and Christ dwell they cannot come, WORLDS WITHOUT END.

93:9-10, “The light and the Redeemer of the world; the Spirit of truth, who came into the world, because the WORLD was MADE by him, and in him was the life of men and the light ofmen. The WORLDS were MADE by him; MEN were MADE by him; ALL THINGS were MADE by him, and through him, and of him.”

Also, Moses was told the creations were innumerable to man.   Moses 1:35, “But only an account of THIS EARTH, and the inhabitants thereof, give I unto you. For behold, there are many that now stand, and INNUMERABLE are they unto man; but all things are NUMBERED unto me, for they are mine and I know them.”

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7th  Page ONE ETERNAL ROUND

You observe (pg. 7) that since the time of the Greeks, philosophers considered if the universe was finite, with a beginning.

Two millennia ago, a prophet by the name of Nephi was told “the course of the Lord is one eternal round.” (One Nephi chapter 10, verse 19). See also the prophet Alma 7:20, and 37:12, wherein [Jehovah or Jesus Christ] repeats “his course is one eternal round, ”   and the hymn, ‘If You Could Hie to Kolob,’ previously noted.

About 1828 this was repeated to Joseph Smith, as recorded in D&C 3:2, and 35:1:     “Listen to the voice of the Lord your God, even Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, whose course is one eternal round, the same today as yesterday, and    forever.”

An implication of “eternal round” as to the Universe, might be, as with a ring, that there is neither beginning nor end.

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Professor Hawking’s mother was Scottish. His grandfather was James Walker born Glasgow and son of Archibald Walker Jr. and Janet Audrey Margaret Morris. Archibald was the son of Archibald Walker Sr. and Isobel McIntyre Ewing. Janet was the daughter of William John Morris and Margaret McGregor.

Hawking’s mother’s mother was Elisabeth Agnes “Nancy” Stevenson Law, born Glasgow, and daughter of Andrew Law and Agnes Stevenson. Agnes was the daughter of Robert Stevenson who was married 6 August 1852 in Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland to Isabella Hyslop.

Stephen William Hawking, born 8 January, 1942 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, U.K. Deceased: 14 March, 2018 ‘pi day, 3.14,’ in Cambridge, England, U.K.

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