Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Heavenly Mother (Mormonism)" in English language version.
Inasmuch as God was the first husband to her, it may be that He only gave her to be the wife of Joseph while in this mortal state, and that He intended after the resurrection to again take her as one of his wives to raise up immortal spirits in eternity. ... We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity by whom He begat our spirits as well as the spirit of Jesus His First Born, and another being upon the earth by whom He begat the tabernacle of Jesus.
Oh my Mother, thou that dwellest / In thy mansions up on high, / Oft methinks I still remember / How you bade your child goodbye; / How you clasped me to your bosom, / Bade me a true son to be / E're I left my / Father's mansion, / To dwell in mortality. / How you gave me words of counsel / To guide aright my straying feet; / How you taught by true example / All of Father's laws to keep; / While I strive in this probation, / How to learn the gospel truth, / May I merit your approval / As I did in early youth. / Tis recorded in your journal / How you stood by Father's side, / When by pow'rs that are eternal / Thou wast sealed His goddess bride. / How by love and truth and virtue, / E'en in time thou did'st become, / Through your high exalted station, / Mother of the souls of men. / When of evil I've repented, / And my work on earth is done, / Kindest Father, loving Mother, / Pray forgive your erring son. / When my pilgrimage is ended, / And the victor's wreath I've won, / Dearest Mother, to your bosom / Will you welcome home your son?
Inasmuch as God was the first husband to her, it may be that He only gave her to be the wife of Joseph while in this mortal state, and that He intended after the resurrection to again take her as one of his wives to raise up immortal spirits in eternity. ... We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity by whom He begat our spirits as well as the spirit of Jesus His First Born, and another being upon the earth by whom He begat the tabernacle of Jesus.
Dr. William E. Phipps noted that the belief that 'Jesus married, and married often!' was used to encourage and promote the doctrine of polygamy amongst timid Latter-Day Saints ... By the late-1850s the idea that more than one woman was married to Jesus was widely accepted among Mormon circles. ... As if the concept of Christ's polygamy was not unsettling enough, Mormonism even taught in the nineteenth century that God the Father had a plurality of wives as well.
An LDS Seminaries and Institutes student manual also hints at the possibility of multiple heavenly mothers. In a diagram entitled 'Becoming a Spirit Child of Heavenly Parents,' an individual (male) [12] is depicted with upward lines to his heavenly parents, the one parent labeled 'Heavenly Father' (caps), the other labeled 'a heavenly mother' (lower case). Book of Mormon Student Manual, 2 vols. (Salt Lake City: Church Educational System, 1976), 1:218
A heaven that mirrored earthly process and form required God to have a heavenly female partner to procreate the offspring of God. But polygamy rewrote God as a polygamist, who required multiple partners (thence the meme of Mothers in Heaven) to create His human family. ... With the end of polygamy, any theology on Heavenly Mothers, never as popular as the singular Mother, largely disappeared from official discourse.
During the era of polygamy some suggested that she is only one of many mothers in heaven. They reasoned that procreation of spirit children could be accomplished more efficiently if Heavenly Father could impregnate many heavenly mothers, just as exalted mortals' procreation of spirit children could be accomplished more efficiently if exalted mortal males could impregnate many wives.
Those involved in plural marriages after 1904 were excommunicated; and those married between 1890 and 1904 were not to have church callings where other members would have to sustain them. Although the Mormon church officially prohibited new plural marriages after 1904, many plural husbands and wives continued to cohabit until their deaths in the 1940s and 1950s.
Those involved in plural marriages after 1904 were excommunicated; and those married between 1890 and 1904 were not to have church callings where other members would have to sustain them. Although the Mormon church officially prohibited new plural marriages after 1904, many plural husbands and wives continued to cohabit until their deaths in the 1940s and 1950s.
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