Another Way to Look at
Women in the Priesthood
The Rev. Robert S. Jungé
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s a rational revelation the Writings are not only Divine in regard to the
content, but also Divine in the very format in which that content is
organized and presented. The very structure of the Writings reflects step-bystep reasoning, beginning from first principles, the chief of which is the Lord
Himself.
The following list of paragraph headings from Conjugial Love is selected
to demonstrate that its very format reveals the truth that conjugial love makes
one more perfectly in proportion as the partners who enter into it are distinct
from one another and yet are united. For simplicity’s sake the entries have
been selected to carry this thread. But the order has been retained to reflect the
Divinely inspired logical progression. Those who wish can check the full list in
the table of contents. The hope is to let the line of reasoning that the Lord has
provided speak for itself.
1. “Man lives as a man after death.” (28)
2. “A male is then a male and a female a female.” (32)
3. “None come into this love, and can be in it but those who come to the
Lord and love the truths and do the goods of the church.” (70)
4. “Good and truth are the universals of creation, and thence they are in
all created things; but they are in created subjects according to the form
of each.” (84)
5. “There is no solitary good, nor solitary truth, but that everywhere they
are conjoined.” (87)
6. “In the subjects of the animal kingdom the truth of good, or truth from
good is the masculine; and the good of truth from that, or good from
that truth is feminine.” (90)
7. “From the influx of good and truth from the Lord there is the love of
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