“I want to tell you, each and every one of you, that you are well acquainted with God, our heavenly Father or the great Eloheim. You are all well acquainted with Him, for there is not a soul of you but what has lived in His house and dwelt with Him year after year … There is not a person here today but what is a son or a daughter of that Being. In the spirit world their spirits were first begotten and brought forth, and they lived there with their parents for ages before they came here. If you do not believe it, cease to call him Father; and when you pray, pray to some other character.”

— Brigham Young (1857)