Answers to Questions, between circa 4 and circa 20 March 1832, as Recorded in Richards, Notebook [D&C 77]
Source Note
Answers to Questions, [, Portage Co., OH, ca. Mar. 1832]. Version copied between [ca. 19 Nov. 1842 and ca. 19 May 1846] in Samuel W. Richards, Notebook, ca. 1844–1845, pp. [27]–[36]; handwriting of Samuel W. Richards; Samuel W. Richards, Papers, CHL.
1 What are we to understand by the 4 beasts spoken of, 4th. Chap.?
A— They are figurative expressions used by the revelator in describeing Heaven the Paradise of God The happiness of men & of beasts & of fowls & of creeping things.
That which are spiritual being in likeness of that which is temporal & that which is temporal is the likeness of that which is Spiritual
The Spirit of a man is the likeness of his person as also the Spirit of Beasts and every other creature that God has made. [p. [27]]