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Heber C. Kimball on Theosis

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Heber C. Kimball

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We shall go back to our Father and God, who is connected with one who is still farther back; and this Father is connected with one still farther back, and so on.

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Journal of Discourses 5, 19
Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, Liverpool, England, 1858, speech

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