Sometimes intelligence is used as an invisible matter or substance, a noun, an element a kin to light with both wave and particle properties. I've imagined it like a photon or some other subatomic particle which cannot be seen. (The opposite of Anti-matter.) It is visible only by its effect on something else. Able to pass through darkness or some other substance and not be perceived. This intelligence or matter is also similar to energy which can also give life or motion to other physical matter. This intelligence has always existed and is independent from other forms of matter.
"Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be.
All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence. D&C 93:29,30
Children of God
Intelligences may also refer to the spirit children of God. As a spirits, we and the angles lived independent of God in a sphere or world separate and different from this one. This idea allows man to be co-eternal with God and presupposes that we live with Him before our birth We are children because we are still learning to control this life giving substance. God is Father because he can control all matter.
In Mormon scripture, Abraham is given a vision of the spirits that lived with God before birth. He discovers that he is among the noble and great ones. He also learns that all his seed would be blessed. See Abr. 3:19-23
In another use of intelligence, it is a splendid type of knowledge or information which can be acquired. It is associated with truth. Truth being those things that do not change; the same yesterday, today and forever. A truth not situational or limited to our perceptions of time and space.
- The glory of God is intelligence, D&C 93:36–37
- Intelligence acquired in this life rises with us in the resurrection, D&C 130:18–19
Sincerely your friend,
Roger
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