In an issue of The Seer, Orson Pratt warned that there is probably more than one of this being, whose "most perfect obedience" makes for an unfit object of worship.
This religious figure's origins were the subject of a 1984 "Sociological Account" by Heeren, Lindsey, and Mason. In an issue of The Seer, Orson Pratt warned that there is probably more than one of this being, whose "most perfect obedience" makes for an unfit object of worship. A hymn containing the line "No, the thought makes reason stare!," by Eliza Snow, posits this figure. Gordon Hinckley preached that "we have no revealed knowledge" of this figure at a 1991 meeting of the (*) Relief Society, whose entire membership shares a key trait with this subject. This figure, without whom spirits could not have been propagated in "pre-mortal existence", is often said to be subject to "sacred silence," and is not attested in the Doctrine and Covenants or the Pearl of Great Price. For 10 points, identify this rarely discussed divine personage who is literally wedded to God in Mormonism.
This religious figure's origins were the subject of a 1984 "Sociological Account" by Heeren, Lindsey, and Mason.
Heavenly Mother [or Mother in Heaven; accept descriptive answers such as God's wife or God the Mother; prompt on Goddess; prompt on God; prompt on Heavenly Parents or Heavenly Family until "obedience"; do not accept or prompt on "Heavenly Father"] 