This was an amazing passage from the Nemenhah that I read this morning:
20) Behold, the Pillar of Knowledge and the Pillar
of Sacrifice go hand in hand and there is no teaching
one without the other.
21) For, behold even the Sahnhehmpeht (Savior) teaches
unto all of obedience by demonstration of His
obedience to the Father. And how does He teach of
sacrifice if not by and through His own? This is the
reason that we do diligently teach our children to
seek Him and follow His ways.
22) Behold, without the attaining of these two
Laws and the covenant that we make to abide by
them all the days of our lives, there is nothing else
that we might learn by observance of the ordinances
of the Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn (Temple).
23) Without knowledge of the Peacemaker and
without the setting aside of our own needs and
desires, there is no understanding of fidelity nor of
community. Wherefore, it is good that the
Peacemaker did teach our first parents these things
first of all.
24) And the relation of First Man and First
Woman are given that we may take of them that
teaching that will most abundantly instruct us to
serve our fellow man even if such service may appear
unto some to despite our own needs.
25) For, what do we to distinguish ourselves
from cattle, if we set not aside the natural man? Or
what do we that differs so greatly from the dog? If
we emulate the dog, then who is the Peacemaker? If
we emulate the cattle, then do we not worship the
calf?
26) Nay, but the Peacemaker’s ways are
wonderful and they are greater than the greatest
thing that we may do in all the days of our probation.
Wherefore, if it be so that we may see the works of
the Peacemaker and hear the words of the Creator,
and these may become our works and our words
also, wherein might we not prosper by aspiring unto
every work and every word that may be?
27) Behold, we live because we are creators, also.
Then by all means, let us emulate not the cattle nor
the dog, but He who is mighty to save.
28) But how might we best accomplish it? Can
we by listening to the wisest of men come to know
the Peacemaker better than by hearing Him and
speaking with Him as one man does even unto
another?
29) Can the wise old man tell us ought better
than the Creator Himself? Wherein might we
prosper in any instruction better than that we
receive it from the very author of all wisdom and
knowledge? Or shall I do more with my own child
than that the Creator of the world should become his
tutor?
30) I do wish my son to learn and to know all that
I have learned and do know. But behold, I would not
that he should believe me in anything because it
comes of me. I would that he take of all knowledge
and confirm it by the Holy Spirit of Promise. For, it is
by that Spirit that all things might be brought unto
his own remembrance.
31) And how unto his own remembrance, being a
thing wholly his own. Yea, I do say all things may be
brought unto him as a thing of his own experiencing.
And this great thing may be unto him even as the
Creator has promised by and through the
Haymehnay, the Holy Spirit of Promise.
32) Wherefore, my children, hearken unto my
words, yea, my words which shall come unto you as
if out of the dust. Behold, I speak unto you out of the
past and my words are sure.