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Ye Are Gods
Editor's Note. Soon after publishing the first edition of this remarkable book the author, Annalee Skarin, according to Affidavits in our files, underwent a physical Change known as "translation," such as did Enoch of Biblical days.
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343 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1952
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Annalee Skarin
31 books9 followersAnnalee Skarin was an American Latter-day Saint writer of mysticism and New Age literature. Her 1948 book Ye Are Gods was popular among some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in Utah, but leaders of the Church felt it had serious doctrinal flaws and her refusal to renounce the principles taught in the book led to her excommunication. The underlying theme in all of her writings was a desire to understand the deeper meaning behind scripture. She wrote: "There was just that intense feeling that something was required of us and we had to find out what it was." Skarin was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who served as a missionary in California, and later was a ward Relief Society president. As of 2014, Ye Are Gods was in its 18th printing, though her later books were more popular among non-Latter-day Saints in the New Age movement. She accepted no royalties, and it remains unclear who, if anyone, profited from her many successful books.
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March 25, 2022
Skarin gives hope for the befuddled by creating a spiritual foundation from sacred Mormon writings and words of Jesus and other bible musings while always explaining the scripture in such a way that it makes the reader wonder why they didn’t think of it that way themselves.
There’s a lot of avenues that Skarin opens up within this book that seemed as if they were to be continued at a future date in a future book and I suspect that she does do that with her other books, and probably (I’m guessing) ends up down playing Mormon theology because clearly in those days that would have made her arguments anathema to all but non-Mormons. Today more people can be receptive to her arguments as opposed to the dogmas they hold within their epistemological closed systems.
The law of production according to her is a belief that everything comes from something like itself such that like things make like things, and for Skarin, faith is the substance of things hoped for, and for her substance is real and becomes elemental for the bless within the kingdom of Goodness that is within each of us because each of us can become like Gods because we are specially chosen since we existed before our existence on earth and will exist afterwards in a celestial realm, and the faith we have will produce more of the hoped for things unseen as we create more and more of it. At least from my readings of the Doctrines and Covenants and The Pearl of Great price it appears as if the Mormons have a belief in a pre-existence, and a post-existence and that aligns with what she is getting at.
The celestial harmony within the heavens’ vibrations is best understood when its vibrations’ eigenvectors are in synch with our own eigenvectors (she doesn’t use the word eigenvector, I thought I’d take liberties by paraphrasing it in so much as for any set of covariances there exist a set of eigenvalues which explain the vibrations of the whole matrix and when two sets of covariance matrices have eigenvalues in synch they will vibrate in harmony).
She will say, your thoughts, ideas and good feelings are what you take with you as you pass through the eye of the needle and go onto the other-side in as much as that camel might not want to go through if it doesn’t feel like it and it is for the individual to lessen their own burdens and embrace the goodness that is around us.
She did say the Russians are going to be fighting at the last battle that marks the end-of-times and it seemed like it was going to happen fairly soon after 1948 when this book was written, and only 12000 times 12 for a total of 144000 will be of the elect. She liked quoting from the book of Revelations just as Joseph Smith seemed to do within the Doctrines and Covenants. The one thing I can agree with Martin Luther is when he took the Book of Revelations out of the canonical bible, I only wish he had kept it out instead of putting it back in.
Constant prayer with constant good thoughts and knowledge of the power that we have given to us by the Comforter and be-living (believing) in its truth will lead to a translation of walking with the Lord as Enoch did and about 10 others have who have all been documented in the sacred books she sites from. Also, there is some clever arguments around the priesthood of Melchizedek. To me, The Book of Hebrews is the most sophisticated written book in the New Testament and it too dwells on the priesthood of Melchizedek, but Skarin did not seem to mention that book in this book.
Skarin writes with confidence and speaks as if she thinks she has the authority of a prophet. She offers assurance for those who have forgotten to look for truth within themselves and need spiritual certainty while in a finite world. For her being=truth but the truth is covered up by our distractions and by the mis-interpretations of the sacred text given by others who know less than we do. She is right on that point, rely on your own readings, experiences and thinking to find your own meaning and thus reason for being, find your own Truth, screw what anyone else thinks unless it is right for you. There are no do overs.
By the way, there is an incredibly good narrated version of this book on Youtube and can be found just by searching on ‘Ye Are Gods’. At one time, there were many devotees for Annalee Skarin, and one of my best friends in life was one of them, I can only hope he translated and didn’t really pass-on in the traditional sense.
Skarin tells her story in such a way that it is not necessary to be attuned to the Mormon belief system, or even any other Christian sect. She does rely on the inerrancy of the bible or the words of Jesus but she’ll give her idiosyncratic spin on their meaning. This book does remind me of Ernst Holmes’ book Science of the Mind from 1926 in some ways in as much as the truth is for us to find and is in plain sight within us.
I think the strength of this book is that it interprets what she thinks scriptures mean such that it always seems obvious after she points it out and that she is more spot on than what more traditional thought says it means. I wouldn’t really call her New Age because her spirituality can fit completely within regular religious thought with just some different emphasis than what others would say, but then again New Age can mean different things to different people.
I don’t really care too much for organized religions as such or give much stock to their sacred texts, but I did enjoy reading a different approach that comes out of 1948 thought before the really weird New Agers start to take over, and I know from experience that Annalee Skarin can give hope to those who are in need of hope and can’t find it through more traditional avenues as my friend did in the 1980s.
There’s a lot of avenues that Skarin opens up within this book that seemed as if they were to be continued at a future date in a future book and I suspect that she does do that with her other books, and probably (I’m guessing) ends up down playing Mormon theology because clearly in those days that would have made her arguments anathema to all but non-Mormons. Today more people can be receptive to her arguments as opposed to the dogmas they hold within their epistemological closed systems.
The law of production according to her is a belief that everything comes from something like itself such that like things make like things, and for Skarin, faith is the substance of things hoped for, and for her substance is real and becomes elemental for the bless within the kingdom of Goodness that is within each of us because each of us can become like Gods because we are specially chosen since we existed before our existence on earth and will exist afterwards in a celestial realm, and the faith we have will produce more of the hoped for things unseen as we create more and more of it. At least from my readings of the Doctrines and Covenants and The Pearl of Great price it appears as if the Mormons have a belief in a pre-existence, and a post-existence and that aligns with what she is getting at.
The celestial harmony within the heavens’ vibrations is best understood when its vibrations’ eigenvectors are in synch with our own eigenvectors (she doesn’t use the word eigenvector, I thought I’d take liberties by paraphrasing it in so much as for any set of covariances there exist a set of eigenvalues which explain the vibrations of the whole matrix and when two sets of covariance matrices have eigenvalues in synch they will vibrate in harmony).
She will say, your thoughts, ideas and good feelings are what you take with you as you pass through the eye of the needle and go onto the other-side in as much as that camel might not want to go through if it doesn’t feel like it and it is for the individual to lessen their own burdens and embrace the goodness that is around us.
She did say the Russians are going to be fighting at the last battle that marks the end-of-times and it seemed like it was going to happen fairly soon after 1948 when this book was written, and only 12000 times 12 for a total of 144000 will be of the elect. She liked quoting from the book of Revelations just as Joseph Smith seemed to do within the Doctrines and Covenants. The one thing I can agree with Martin Luther is when he took the Book of Revelations out of the canonical bible, I only wish he had kept it out instead of putting it back in.
Constant prayer with constant good thoughts and knowledge of the power that we have given to us by the Comforter and be-living (believing) in its truth will lead to a translation of walking with the Lord as Enoch did and about 10 others have who have all been documented in the sacred books she sites from. Also, there is some clever arguments around the priesthood of Melchizedek. To me, The Book of Hebrews is the most sophisticated written book in the New Testament and it too dwells on the priesthood of Melchizedek, but Skarin did not seem to mention that book in this book.
Skarin writes with confidence and speaks as if she thinks she has the authority of a prophet. She offers assurance for those who have forgotten to look for truth within themselves and need spiritual certainty while in a finite world. For her being=truth but the truth is covered up by our distractions and by the mis-interpretations of the sacred text given by others who know less than we do. She is right on that point, rely on your own readings, experiences and thinking to find your own meaning and thus reason for being, find your own Truth, screw what anyone else thinks unless it is right for you. There are no do overs.
By the way, there is an incredibly good narrated version of this book on Youtube and can be found just by searching on ‘Ye Are Gods’. At one time, there were many devotees for Annalee Skarin, and one of my best friends in life was one of them, I can only hope he translated and didn’t really pass-on in the traditional sense.
Skarin tells her story in such a way that it is not necessary to be attuned to the Mormon belief system, or even any other Christian sect. She does rely on the inerrancy of the bible or the words of Jesus but she’ll give her idiosyncratic spin on their meaning. This book does remind me of Ernst Holmes’ book Science of the Mind from 1926 in some ways in as much as the truth is for us to find and is in plain sight within us.
I think the strength of this book is that it interprets what she thinks scriptures mean such that it always seems obvious after she points it out and that she is more spot on than what more traditional thought says it means. I wouldn’t really call her New Age because her spirituality can fit completely within regular religious thought with just some different emphasis than what others would say, but then again New Age can mean different things to different people.
I don’t really care too much for organized religions as such or give much stock to their sacred texts, but I did enjoy reading a different approach that comes out of 1948 thought before the really weird New Agers start to take over, and I know from experience that Annalee Skarin can give hope to those who are in need of hope and can’t find it through more traditional avenues as my friend did in the 1980s.
September 4, 2011
I can't say enough good things about this book. One of the most important books I've ever read, certainly. It's actually so weighty I have to read a little, digest it, come back and read a little more. And every time I reread a chapter I find new things. Read it with a pencil for underlining. Annlee Skarin discusses vibration theory (if that's what you call it) decades before quantum physics made an appearance (although that's not the crux of the book). Amazing.
January 18, 2018
Chapter 14: The Substance of Eternal Elements min 5 "We are no more or less than the thoughts we hold and the vibrations we send out into the universe... Power to reach out and transform and multiply the good... We become the vibrations we create... min 27... A sneer propagates a vibration that is more deadly than poison... BE READY always by living these laws... min 29... Vibrations and the thoughts that sent those vibrations into action are the eternal realities and before long we will be dealing entirely with these realities... 30 ... When one learns to hold a place in that realm or on that beam of those glorious vibrations they also help to create and strength the vibrations of light and spirituality that compose the very kingdom of almighty God... loves and hates (doubts and fears) are factors so far beyond man's present comprehension that man would stand trembling in fear at the very thought of discord if he only understood "
Minute 30 : control thought ( resolve with love) and only glorious vibrations will emanate from you
Inspiring, lots and lots of depth- listened to on YouTube, and may listen to part of it again and then perhaps add more here.
Chapter 15: "The Three Great Tests" To reach the greatest glory. Abide by the law and the covenant ... seek to make that kingdom manifest on the earth....
Minute 30 : control thought ( resolve with love) and only glorious vibrations will emanate from you
Inspiring, lots and lots of depth- listened to on YouTube, and may listen to part of it again and then perhaps add more here.
Chapter 15: "The Three Great Tests" To reach the greatest glory. Abide by the law and the covenant ... seek to make that kingdom manifest on the earth....
July 25, 2009
Book written by a woman who claims to have been given information to spread to the world. Meant to inspire us to practice and express the actual love of Christ.
December 8, 2013
Beautiful, inspiring book on how to become more God-like.
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