Now your next reference is D&C 93:29:

"Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth was not created or made, neither indeed can be."

Now the thing which acts is called "eternal intelligence," in the plural, "eternal intelligences."

The next one is D&C 93:30:

"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."

These intelligences are independent and act voluntarily, they are not compelled and the heavens wait on them until they obey. They don't do anything until they're ready, just like us. Our Heavenly Father built the whole Universe with this "element x of action." This energy factor in the Universe is intelligence, and it operates as fast and in a direction that it is willing to follow.

Now, Abraham 3:19:

"And the Lord said unto me: These two facts do exist, that there are two spirits, one being more intelligent than the other; there shall be another more intelligent than they; I am the Lord thy God, I am more intelligent than they all."

These intelligences are graded, from lowest to the highest, and the highest of them all is God's intelligence himself, and we're in between.

And some intelligences were assigned to the elements and some were assigned to plant life and some were assigned to animals and those that were His very special, superior, super-deluxe intelligences were given bodies in His image, and you are they! You are very, very special people.

Joseph Smith describes this in the Documentary History of the Church, volume 4, page 519. He says, "And I explained to the quorum of the Twelve tonight (and their wives), the doctrine of "The Eternal Progression of Intelligences."

Then he doesn't tell us what the explanation was so you have to go to Brigham Young and Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball and they explain what he explained to them but they got the doctrine from him.

Your next one is D&C 93:33:

"For man is spirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a fulness of joy;"

That which is acted upon—there is a thing to act and a thing to be acted upon—that which is acted upon is called "Eternal Element." It's called element. It's matter.

Joseph Smith said that matter exists in two dimensions. The very refined element is called spirit and the more coarse element is called temporal matter, that we've got here. So it's all matter that exists in two planes: it's like ice and water. They're really the same thing, but they're on different dimensions (you can kind of think of it that way). Everything is made up of a combination of intelligences and matter. They are the building blocks of the Universe.

Abraham 4:18, 12, 10; Helaman 12:8, 9:

"And the Gods watched those things which they had ordered until they obeyed."

"And the Gods organized the earth to bring forth grass from its own seed, and the herb to bring forth herb from its own seed, yielding seed after his kind; and the earth to bring forth the tree from its own seed, yielding fruit, whose seed could only bring forth the same in itself, after his kind; and the Gods saw that they were obeyed."

"And the Gods pronounced the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, pronounced they, Great Waters; and the Gods saw that they were obeyed." (Abraham 4: 18, 12, 10)

"For behold, the dust of the earth moveth hither and thither, to the dividing asunder, at the command of our great and everlasting God. Yea, behold at his voice do the hills and the mountains tremble and quake." (Helaman 12:8-9)

Now if you're a scientist and a real good scientist, this will be very exciting information because our most advanced research scientists in the pure research area have just proven that this is true: Matter does not function mechanically; it has an element of finite intelligence in it, they say. That's what Burgson, the French philosopher called it. It can distinguish. It can choose. It doesn't always do what the rules say. Some of those little elements are just as ornery as you and me. They go wandering around. In the aggregate we say that's the law of chemistry. In the aggregate, yes, but you look at them individually and they're fooling around. As a matter of fact, Robert Miligon said, "If all the elements were obeying all the rules of chemistry you would never die." There Is rebellion in the flesh and they're called "seeds of death." You may have heard of that before.

Element which has received intelligence attached to it, at Gods command, It will, obey. You want a mountain to move? TALK TO IT! IT'LL MOVE!! And they move when God commands it or His Priesthood does it by His authorization. When God commands these intelligences (in the elements), they obey! That's Jacob 4:6; 1 Nephi 20:13....

Now listen to Brigham Young discussing this principle: "There is life or intelligence in all matter throughout the vast extent of all the eternities: it is in the rock, in the sand, in water, air, the gases, and in short, in every description and organization of matter, whether it be solid, liquid or gaseous particle operating within particle."

Now all of a sudden we begirt to catch the vision of the miracle of God's creation. He goes out into the outer darkness of unorganized intelligences and unorganized bits of elements and combines them together so that a little tiny bit of element has an intelligence attached to it and now you can command it to combine together in certain ways. The Lord says, "I have given all of them a pattern which becomes the law by which they operate." Some will accept electricity and some will resist it. Some will combine with various things and you'll get a combination. Two particles of hydrogen and one of oxygen and we call it water. That's because they were organized that way. They are so marvelously organized that you can take one single little complex organization, it's called a cell, and it's fertilized by another cell and in 9 months, because of the DNA organization that is set up by a highly intelligent Heavenly Father, that will grow into a HUMAN BEING. And all by design! You almost stand in a worshipful feeling toward our Heavenly Father as you realize what is possible with that organizational structure.