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The Mormon Doctrine of Materiality July 30, 2008 By Sharon Lindbloom On May 21, 1845 an article on the nature of God, man, and angels appeared in the LDS publication the “Prophet.” Understood to have been written by the editor, LDS Apostle Parley P. Pratt, the article was reprinted in the 1903 book Mormon Doctrine of Deity by B. H. Roberts. Mr. Roberts identified this article, titled “Materiality,” as one of “A Collection of Authoritative Mormon Utterances on the Being and Nature of God” which he included in Mormon Doctrine of Deity. As a Seventy “noted for his doctrinal...

June 6, 2004 The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Psalm: Sunday 26 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Reading II Gospel Reading IPrv 8:22-31 Thus says the wisdom of God: "The LORD possessed me, the beginning of his ways, the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago; from of old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water; before the mountains were settled into place, before the hills, I was brought forth; while as yet the earth and fields were...

The Triune Brain illustration from The three units of the human Brain -Júlio Rocha do Amaral, & Jorge Martins de Oliveira (image somewhat degraded to speed up download) Paul MacLean discovery of the The Triune Brain The Reptilian Brian The Limbic System (Paleomammalian brain) The Neocortex (Neomammalian brain) Links The neurologist Paul MacLean has proposed that our skull holds not one brain, but three, each representing a distinct evolutionary stratum that has formed upon the older layer before it, like an archaeological site :He calls it the "triune brain."  MacLean, now the director of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and...