Gratitude for modern temples

“We know now that there are three worlds: the telestial, in which we live; the celestial, to which we aspire; and in between them another world, called the terrestrial. It is of neither the celestial nor the telestial. According to the ancients, this world is represented by the temple, the in-between world where the rites of passage take place.”

Hugh W. Nibley

On this trip, we’ve been privileged to visit three modern temples.  We did a session in the reconstructed Nauvoo Illinois Temple.  We visited the temple in Kirtland, Ohio — the first temple of this modern dispensation — which is now in the hands of the Community of Christ but in which mighty things were seen, and which, as Karl Anderson reminded us, has never actually been “undedicated.”  Finally, tonight, we were able to do a session in the Palmyra New York Temple, overlooking the Sacred Grove — some actually think that the temple stands in the real grove of the First Vision — which was dedicated, significantly, on 6 April 2000.

Posted from Victor, New York