Day of Renewing

Occurrences: 2

First Reference: 4th Endowment 13:48

Let us, therefore, give to those who would inherit a place in this Telestial Kingdom, the Day of Renewing; for in that day when a child should view their life with a tired and weary heart, then shall they stand themselves before the very winds of Heaven.

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Summary: During the early creation stages of the Telestial Kingdom of Heaven, God set about the means whereby a child of telestial glory would be protected against mediocrity while living their immortal life. The protective mechanism is referred to as the “Day of Renewing”.

When a Telestial citizen begins to “view their life with a tired and weary heart” (4:13:48), a process is initiated in which the spirit of the child is released from their physical body, to be born again in some other life (4:13:46-49; 4:14:12-20). The Day of Renewing seems to be a form of reincarnation for those experiencing an immortal life and are not susceptible to physical death. It is not known whether or not this process occurs for citizens of the Terrestrial Kingdom.

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Now seeing that we would make even the least of our kingdoms a place of life and joy, let us take measures to protect our children against the touch of such mediocrity as would make the lives of our children to appear as tiresome and filled with weariness;

Causing that even all who live should despair of their life and purpose in the kingdoms of the lesser light; to have the meaning of their life and glory stripped away through some endless repetition.

And in that moment shall the body of their flesh begin to glow in a bright and glorious state, and in an instant shall the spirit be released of the body to be born again anew in some other life filled with bright and happy expectations; for the flesh of their previous body shall drift away as star dust upon the winds of Heaven.

4th Endowment 13:46-49

12. For as we have done for the first estate, so shall we do for this estate, and still furthermore shall we add; for likewise in the second principality shall even all our children possess bodies of flesh and bone whereby they might establish between themselves the boundaries of all their love for each the other;

13. Becoming between men and women as lovers and friends, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers; then shall come the sons and daughters of the second estate, to likewise become as their fathers and mothers before them, and this forever and anon.

14. And if perchance in the living of this immortal life, they should become weary of all their years; then shall we give to them the Day of Renewing also, causing that they might be released from the tabernacle of the flesh to set the spirit free whereby it might be born again.

15. Only let us permit that in this second principality if the spirit should desire for a season to remain as spirit only, then may the spirit of a man or a woman remain as incorporeal within the realms of the metaphysical;

16. To move as they will among the kingdoms of the first and second principality whereby they might view as one the workings of our hands;

17. To drift themselves among the stars, being constantly attended by the Cherubim of the Pensieye, or to move with subtle grace throughout the five dimensions of the second estate, becoming, as they desire, more fully spiritual in the mansions of the heart, creating within the vastness of their soul that urgent need to press still closer unto God.

18. And when the season is past, then must the spirit be born again into a body of flesh and bone, to live again the telestial life; for the body is the tabernacle which would give to every man and every woman that small domain wherein they might strengthen the spirit for still some greater glory, if it so be that they desire.

4th Endowment 14:12-18

David (Son of)

Deborah