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Do you think the Brother of Jared et al met with the Hindu Rishi's/founders as they traveled the Silk Road from the Tower of Babel to northern China, where they built barges, assuming Nibley's theory on that is correct? Since they both practiced animal sacrifice by fire, perhaps they discussed other similarities, like the belief in multiple deities, belief that God (Male and Female) never had hte poer to create Themselves out of immaterial, belief in eternal progression in vairous stages/forms of existence, fasting, pilgrimage as required by divine decree, etc.? I think they would have since there weren't many people travelling the ancient Silk Road and since, if you met some other group of people at an oasis, you woudl rest there for a few days, talk to them, trade supplies/tools, etc. What are your speculative ideas, opinions? -- A Council of the Gods In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted [prepared] a plan to create the world and people it. When we begin to learn this way, we begin to learn the only true God, and what kind of a being we have got to worship. Having a knowledge of God, we begin to know how to approach Him, and how to ask so as to receive an answer. When we understand the character of God, and know how to come to Him, he begins to unfold the heavens to us, and to tell us all about it. When we are ready to come to him, he is ready to come to us. Now, I ask all who hear me, why the learned men who are preaching salvation, say that God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing? The reason is, that they are unlearned in the things of God, and have not the gift of the Holy Ghost; they account it blasphemy in any one to contradict their idea. If you tell them that God made the world out of something, they will call you a fool. But I am learned, and know more than all the world put together. The Holy Ghost does, anyhow, and he is within me, and comprehends more than all the world; and I will associate myself with him. Meaning of the Word Create 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. (To be concluded) Joseph Smith Jr., “The King Follett Sermon,” Ensign, May 1971, 13 [illustrations] Art by Richard D. Hull