Theosis

Portrait of John Taylor

John Taylor

. . . The world have no idea of God, and they do not acknowledge him. He may develop, through one person, the principle of electricity, but the world will say it is some wise man that did it. He may, through another, develop the power of steam, but they say, Some wise man did it.

Journal of Discourses 167
Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, Liverpool, England, 1873, speech