I, Potter, received the title of
Christ, on the 15th day of August, 1856, on my outward bound voyage to
Australia, sent there by the Mormon authorities, to preach the Gospel.
. . .
I now return to the subject of my
immortal change. Suffice it to say, I lost every drop of my mortal blood, yet I
did not die—my Resurection [sic] Angel (Christ) entered my body as fast as my
mortal blood left. This angel is the spirit called in Scripture the Holy Ghost;
the same spirit that quickened Jesus body, [1 Peter, III, 18]. This spirit was
what made Jesus the Christ, by quickening him. This spirit also done the same
by me, So this quickening revealed to me that I was [5] the very person Paul
calls the last Adam, [I Coe- XV, 45-49]. Then, being the last Adam—q quickening
spirit—I traced my spirit lineage back through TWENTY-TWO mortal bodies, to the
first Adam, in Eden’s Garden. Then I saw plainly, according to Paul, I held the
title Christ, the Lord from Heaven—being a quickened spirit.
. . .
Then comes the celebrated
Marriage of the Lamb. The Bride, the Lambs wife, the Two Hundred and Eighty-eight
Thousand are then clothed in white robes and crowned with Celestial Crowns.
Each crowned head is then planted in His Kingdom or State, Jesus Abraham being
here with us long enough to give us all useful Instructions, then he goes back
to the great White Throne of his Father. Adam, or Michael the Arch-Angel, at
the Marriage of the Lamb, Jesus Abraham, then gives the Kingdom under the whole
heaven to Potter Christ, the Ancient of Days, as says Dan. VII, 13, 14. I, Potter
Christ, now hold this title by virtue of my spiritual lineage and quickening
change, being now the first Adam and the last Adam. This is why I go to the
Grand Council of Heaven, to receive the Keys of Power. (Potter Christ, “The
Titles Potter Christ has by Scripture” (April 1870), in Kirk Watson, Potter
Christ: The Life, Death, and Doctrine of a Mormon Messiah [2026], 110, 111,
118)
