Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Lorin C. Woolley's Expansions to D&C 132


In the minutes of his School of the Prophets, Lorin C. Wooley, the spiritual grandfather of Mormon Fundamentalist movements gave the following expansion to D&C 132 (I am reproducing it as some might find it interesting; it also shows the nature of the revelations one finds from Woolley and other like-individuals and groups):

As a continuation of the revelation (D&C 132), the Lord revealed:

“A man dishonoring his Priesthood and his marriage covenants forfeits his wives and children; the wives, being released by the same authority that sealed them, are free to marry other worthy men, their children automatically going to their new husbands without an adoption ceremony. Children follow their mother and her sealing to a husband takes the children with her. Should she remain unmarried after her separation from her unworthy husband, and her father is worthy and living the Gospel, she and her children become his.

Christ’s statement (Matt 5:31-32) indicating fornication and adultery [are] the only grounds for divorce has been modified to mean that a man may become unworthy of his wife and yet not be an adulterer, yet she is justified in leaving him and marrying another, under proper authority.

It is also a part of the revelation that while a man might take ten virgins under a vow of marriage as concubines, yet he is under obligation to have them sealed to him at the first opportunity. Hagar was thus sealed to Abraham after his son was born and she had left Abraham’s tent. Melchizedek came to Abraham and instructed him to send for Hagar and have her sealed to him. Abraham inquired if such was necessary for his exaltation along with that of the woman. The answer being, “Yes,” Abraham compiled and Hagar became his real wife the same as Sarah. (Lorin C. Woolley’s School of the Prophets: Minutes from 1932-1941, ed. Drew Briney [Hindsight Publications, 2019], 25-26)