There is No Creator God; God is the Creation!

The energies that make up all existence are eternal, both retrospectively and prospectively. They were not created or made.

Matter is a natural product of the primal forces of nature.

We are a part of it, every atom in our bodies contains the seed of existence.

Intelligence is the Mystery of Mysteries, but we can say a few things concerning it:

Each basic intelligence is an individual component, while also being part of a more complex order. The product of several basic intelligences results in a more complex intelligence. These are combined to make even more complex and higher order intelligent entities until we at last arrive at a level perceived by us to be a sentient being.

God does not enter the picture until the product has already been achieved.  A god is a high order, compound intelligent being, the archetypal goal of Human life.  The basic intelligences are not God, the origin and source of all is not God, but dust, as it were.

When did the Church apostatize?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has lost its Theology. Entirely. During Gordon B. Hinckley's Presidency, they didn't say very much about their theology, or the things they said were conservative enough to make it ambiguous.

But now, (and perhaps also at the very end of Hinckley's life, it is hard to tell when things were written) the Church has apostatized (fallen away) from many of its former views.

The most significant one which I see is that they have entered into idolatry by beginning to worship Jesus Christ. This is the next step (and final straw) on top of the Talmage theological reformation which took place beginning around 1915.

The "correct," original position:

Heavenly Father (Father Adam, if we want to get specific) is the only God whom we worship. Also, we pray directly to him.
We are all spirit sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father and Mother, and Jesus is their eldest son, firstborn in the spirit world.

Read Moses Chapter 1 in the Pearl of Great Price. It clarifies that Worship of the Only Begotten is a tactic of Satan, and that Jesus teaches that we should exclusively worship God.

Learning True Good - Ethics as a Tool of Spiritual Discernment

This is only a partially developed thought, but I wanted to share it.

Somewhere out there on a planet in Alpha Centauri there is a being so Superior to us that we call Him God. He is not alone. There are many Supreme Beings out there - the Elohim. Some are good, and some are evil. Well, what makes our God special? He, together with our Mother, seeded our world.

If any of these Elohim visited us on earth, we would be tempted to worship them as God. It has been revealed to us that our Deity is one of Goodness. If an Evil being came it would seek out this worship, and try to be recognized as God, but it is our duty to know the Good from the Evil so that we can detect such an impostor.

Any other Good being would not try to take that which is not rightfully theirs. No Good God would come to a planet not under his or her authority and usurp it.

While this example may not be correct in its technical details, it is illustrative of the principle: If we properly learn Ethics we can discern between God and all Impostors. Therefore, to know Ethics is to know God. To know Ethics will cause us to practice them. If we know God we will know ourselves. To show it another way, if we understand the Ethical teachings of Jesus, we will know the Father when we see Him.

Secret Teachings, their Purpose

For being around as long as Kabbalah has, it has received relatively little opposition, compared to other mystic traditions. I want to contemplate how this relates to the highly Esoteric methods of instruction it employs, and compare it to the Esoteric side of Mormonism.

Mystics, almost by definition, stretch boundaries. They live on the "edge of insanity" where logic and creativity, inspiration and experience, collide. The mystic rarely poses a true danger to others, but "orthodox" thinkers will always feel threatened by their presence because the mystic challenges what has been established.

People who have a mystic experience have to decide what to do with it. If they just sit on it, they aren't going to cause a problem, but they probably aren't going to improve the world either. Some choose to share what they have received, or attempt to share it. This is sometimes part of the revelation, and other times done out of instinct, or desire to help others feel what you have felt.

Sometimes the thing cannot be described owing to technical reasons: An inability to put the experience into words. Other times, it won't be described for practical reasons: To do so would put the mystic in danger. The mystic probably isn't trying to create waves, but merely attempting to fit what he or she has actually felt within the context of what was expected in the context of his or her religious community. So, the secret teaching is born. It can be conveyed in many ways: Obscuring it in parables, expressing it artistically, passing it on to select individuals or successors only, or binding it by oaths.

Early Mormonism applied several of these techniques, especially in regard to Polygamy and the Adam-God teaching. Both of these concepts were introduced by Joseph Smith, Jr., to whom they were given by divine inspiration. Polygamy came out of the bag first, as would be expected since it directly affects family life, and in a close-knit community it would be hard to hide family arrangements for any extended length of time. Adam-God (and the associated doctrine of Exaltation) came out, publicly, at least, after Joseph had already been murdered (quite probably for reasons owing in part to the outside reaction to the doctrine of Polygamy.)

We are left with the last years of "Nauvoo Mormonism," the most mystical and revelatory of all, being also the most secret and mysterious. Oath-bound organizations abounded, such as the Council of Ytfif, the Anointed Quorum or original recipients of the Temple Endowments, and secret sermons and teachings being delivered to Joseph's trusted circle of friends like Brigham Young and Eliza Roxcy Snow Smith (who would later receive yet another additional surname of Young.)

This is a practical, fresh, recent history example of how the very best spiritual light is found in the "darkest" places. Now, apply this back to the Kabbalah and other traditions. If we expect there to be some real meat in a religious, something divine that utterly redefines expectations, where should we expect to find it?