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God has given us universal feelings that we put into words. With it went my ability to feel thoughts. Presently the burning stopped and we left. Instead of answering his questions I addressed his true concerns. So I continued talking to our host and as I did, I could feel his thoughts and knew exactly what he actually wanted to know. But in that situation it was inappropriate. I knew immediately that it was an angel, though I couldn't see it and would have looked right at it an said something had I been alone. It was a door knock not different from hundreds of others but as we talked a bright burning appeared in the corner of the room. On my mission my companion and I were invited into a home. As shown in the temple or in other words endure Celestial glory. As it turns out they are useless without God's power and God won't power yours until you can pass through the veil. In case anyone is wondering no I don't have one. He went so far as to say that its spiritual particles were with us in the spirit world before we were mortally born. This is very close to Spencer's description of the very personal nature of the Urim ie seer stone. Instantly the crystal responded with a faint light and a voice declared that "unless one hundred thousand righteous persons used this crystal to stem the present corruption, we would be destroyed in the days to come." I immediately recognizing it and my heart leapt for joy. I felt myself feeling into it, seeing the things I wanted to know while a tremendous living power flowed forth from it. ".a prompting within me said, 'There is a better way to know the truth.' Still striving for understanding I replied, 'How?" I've edited this but in a nut shell I was looking into a crystal and the voice inside of me said," Through this you can know all things past, present and future." I saw myself putting my fingers on top of a molten stone that was not hot and was told that was how it was tuned to each person according to their spiritual needs.
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I was deeply pondering the Nag Hammadi Library when I had the following experience. I want to share something which is similar to what Spencer said about the Urim and portals and which I saw were made from a specific crystal.