I am so sorry that Living Temple came out as it did, and was circulated, and the worst of itthat which struck right to my heartwas the assertion made regarding the book: It contains the very sentiments that Sister White has been teaching. When I heard this, I felt so heartbroken that it seemed as if I could not say anything. Had I said anything, I would have been obliged to speak the truth as it was. {Ms46-1904} Representations had been shown me that some danger was approaching and that I must prepare for it. I must write out the things God had given me in order to prepare for it. {Ms46-1904} I did not read Living Temple, though I had it in my library. At last my son said to me, Mother, you ought to read at least some parts of the book, that you may see whether they are in harmony with the light hat God has given you. He sat down beside me, and we read the paragraphs to which he referred. When we had finished, I turned to him, and said, These are the very sentiments against which I was bidden to speak in warning at the very beginning of my public work. When I first left the state of Maine, it was to go through Vermont and Massachusetts, to bear a testimony against these sentiments. Living Temple contains the Alpha of these theories. The Omega would follow in a little while. I tremble for our people. These beautiful representations are similar to the temptation that the enemy brought to Adam and Eve in Eden. {Ms46-1904} When but a girl I went to New Hampshire to bear warning against these same doctrines. There was there a man by the name of Billings and another by the name of Bennet who were preaching a higher spirituality. I was asked to meet these men, and I did so, giving them the light that God had given me. In the meeting a great distress came upon me. I was taken off in vision. The men began to triumph, thinking that things were going their way. When I got up to bear my testimony, they began to shout. I stopped and did not say a word until they had finished. Then I went on and told them plainly where the doctrines they were advocating would lead to. {Ms46-1904} I met these same doctrines in Dorchester, Mass., where for a time I made my home. In one meeting held there, a man arose, and after making a confession, said, I have listened today to the testimony of Ellen Harmon, and I feel as if I had been partaking of the richest feast ever set before me. In the past this man had been a model of piety, but these seductive theories came before himtheories teaching that men and women could live above all sinand he accepted them. What was the result? He left his wife and children and went to live with another woman. {Ms46-1904} I was at this time nothing but a girl, and I said, Why am I left to bear this testimony? Said the one in whose house I was staying, God knows why. The men advocating these doctrines have a strong influence as being very pious men, and if we were to say anything against them, they would put us in prison. But you are a minor, and they cannot touch you. {Ms46-1904} We met these theories again in Topsham, Maine. A brother there, who had accepted them, was very sick, and he wanted me to pray for him. I said, I cannot pray for you so long as you and these sisters are so free with one another. He sent for Elder James White who, when he came, asked him, What are you going to do? Do! he said. Do you ask what I am going to do? I am going to cut loose from all these evils. I am going to take my stand in harmony with what Sister Ellen Harmon has been presenting to me. I accept what she has said as the word of the Lord. Thus the company with which he was connected was broken up. And many more such companies were broken up by the light that God gave me. Thus I worked and suffered in my girlhood. And all through my life I have had the same errors to meet, though not always in the same form. In Living Temple the assertion is made that God is in the flower, in the leaf, in the sinner. But God does not live in the sinner. The Word declares that He abides only in the hearts of those who love Him and do righteousness. God does not abide in the heart of the sinner; it is the enemy who abides there. {Ms46-1904} There are some things upon which we must reason, and there are other things that we must not discuss. In regard to Godwhat He is and where He issilence is eloquence. When you are tempted to speak of what God is, keep silence, because as surely as you begin to speak of this, you will disparage Him. {Ms46-1904} Our ministers must be very careful not to enter into controversy in regard to the personality of God. This is a subject that they are not to touch. It is a mystery, and the enemy will surely lead astray those who enter into it. We know that Christ came in person to reveal God to the world. God is a person, and Christ is a person. Christ is spoken of in the Word as the brightness of His Fathers glory, and the express image of His person. {Ms46-1904} I was forbidden to talk with Dr. Kellogg on this subject, because it is not a subject to be talked about. And I was instructed that certain sentiments in Living Temple were the Alpha of a long list of deceptive theories. {Ms46-1904} These sentiments have had an effect on our people everywhere. Some think it strange that I write, Do not send your children to Battle Creek. I was instructed in regard to the danger of the worldly influence in Battle Creek. I have written hundreds of pages regarding the danger of having so large a sanitarium, and of calling so many young people together in one place. The young people in Battle Creek are in danger. They will come in contact with error. Years ago I did not think that they would meet these errors right in the sanitariums; but when Living Temple came out, and some of our ministers told me that there was in it nothing but what I had been teaching all my life, I saw how great the danger was. I saw that blindness had fallen upon some who had long known the truth. I pray that the Lord will open the eyes of these ministers, that they may see the difference between light and darkness, and between truth and error. {Ms46-1904} In a representation which passed before me, I saw a certain work being done by medical missionary workers. Our ministering brethren were looking on, watching what was being done, but they did not seem to understand. The foundation of our faith which was established by so much prayer, such earnest searching of the Scriptures, was being taken down pillar by pillar. Our faith was to have nothing to rest uponthe sanctuary was gone, the atonement was gone. I realized that something must be done. {Ms46-1904} The battle has nearly killed me. I saw what was coming in, and I saw that our brethren were blind. They did not realize the danger. Our young people, especially, were in danger. They delighted in the beautiful representationsGod in the flower, God in the leaf, God in the tree. But if God be in these things, why not worship them? {Ms46-1904} The reason I have published anything in regard to the medical missionary work was that the errors that were coming in must be met. I did not design to meet them, but in the visions of the night I saw a large ship far out at sea. Suddenly the man on the lookout cried, Iceberg ahead! Without hesitation the command rang out, Meet it! The engines were put on at full force, and the vessel crashed into the iceberg. There was a tremendous shock, and the ship quivered from stem to stern; but she rebounded from the shock unhurt and went safely on her way. After seeing this representation, I knew what work I must do. I knew that I must meet the errors that were coming in among us. {Ms46-1904} I have been hoping that there would be a thorough reformation, that the principles for which we fought in my girlhood, and which were brought out in the power of the Holy Spirit, would be maintained. Night after night in our early experience our brethren studied out the truths which we now hold. When they came to something that they could not understand, they would get down on their knees and would remain there for hours sometimes. Sometimes the sun would rise before they would give up the struggle. At times, when they said, We can do nothing more, the power of God would come upon me, I would be taken off in vision, and instruction would be given me. Then I could explain what they could not understand. I would read the Scriptures to them, never looking at the printed page. Thus light was given in regard to Christ, His mission, and His priesthood, and the great points of our faith were firmly established. {Ms46-1904} But during this period of our experience, my mind was locked to an understanding of the Scriptures. It was one of the greatest sorrows of my life. Thus it was every point of our faith was established in harmony with the Word of God. {Ms46-1904} At this time I was living in the house of Father Andrews. He was helpless with rheumatism and was constantly in great suffering. I knelt by his side and laying my hands on his head asked Jesus to make him whole. The power of God came upon him, and he walked back and forth across the room, praising the Lord. {Ms46-1904} Soon after this I was instructed by the Lord that I should no longer mourn in regard to my inability to understand the Scriptures. God unlocked my mind, and ever since, whenever I read His Word, a flood of light comes into my mind. {Ms46-1904} Thus the work went on, and we were shown where we must stand. Do you wonder that I have something to say, when I see the pillars of our faith beginning to be moved? Seductive theories are being taught in such a way that we shall not recognize them unless we have clear spiritual discernment. {Ms46-1904} I will stand firmly with every one who will stand for the truth. But I do not want our young people to flock into Battle Creek. They would better not go there. Any one who can be so utterly deceived as to place the misleading sentiments contained in Living Temple before our people cannot be trusted as a teacher of the youth until he is converted. {Ms46-1904}
Well, there it is the really long post with quotes from EGW. If you are not sure of those quotes then here are some direct quotes themselves from the living temple itself.
You decide from these if this is the alpha or not... I do believe it is the alpha of the omega.
The Living Temple
Calculate the number of blades of grass in an acre, and in a square mile, and remember that every one is a witness to the active presence of the one infinite, abounding Life.p. 16
Marvelous Intelligence Manifested in Plants.In the growth and habits of plants, also, there is abundant evidence of the presence of this universal Intelligence.p. 20
An unerring Intelligence guides the plant to hold its leaves in such position as to receive, to the fullest extent, the vitalizing light which energizes its cells, and carries forward the marvelous metamorphosis by which the gases of the air and the soluble substances brought up from the earth are transformed into wood, bark, leaves, flowers, and fruit.p. 22
Intelligence in the Inanimate World.Even in the inanimate world, the evidence of an intelligent power is ever present before us. That which may be known of God is manifest in them [to them ]; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse." Rom.1:19,20.Every drop of water, every grain of sand, every snow crystal, every floating cloud, every thunder peal, every lightning flash, the hurricane, the cyclone, the tidal wave, the earthquake, the rain, the dew , the rainbow , the rising sun, the changing moon, the stars which shine and circle in infinite space, the motes which dance and glitter in every sunbeam , every object and operation in nature speaks of an active, controlling Intelligence possessed of infinite power and capacity. P. 23
Here is unity, infinite, all comprehending, an evidence of the universal presence which comprehends every atom of matter and every cubic inch of space in all the wide universe.It is only recently that men of science have come to recognize the fact that, in the presence of this great universal force of gravitation, we stand before the Infinite. p. 25
There is a clear, complete, satisfactory explanation of the most subtle, the most marvelous phenomena of nature, namely, an infinite Intelligence working out its purposes. God is the explanation of nature, not a God outside of nature, but in nature, manifesting himself through and in all the objects, movements, and varied phenomena of the universe. Says one, "God may be present by his Spirit, or by his power, but certainly God himself cannot be present everywhere at once." We answer: How can power be separated from the source of power? Where Gods Spirit is at work, where God's power is manifested, God himself is actually and truly present. Said an objector, God made the tree, it is true, just as a shoemaker makes a boot; but the shoemaker is not in the boot; so God made the tree, but he is not in the tree." The object or overlooked the fact that the process of tree-making in the living tree, is never complete so long as the tree is alive. The tree does not create itself; a creative power is constantly going forward in it. Buds and leaves come forth from within the tree; does the tree create them? Acorns are put forth from within the oak tree; each acorn is a little tree, which, when planted, may grow into an oak as large as the parent tree. Does the tree create the acorn? Can a tree make trees? If so, then every plant, every shrub, every insect is a creator, and man is a creator.
So there is present in the tree a power which creates and maintains it, a tree-maker in the tree, a flower-maker in the flower,- a divine architect who understands every law of proportion, an infinite artist who possesses a limitless power of expression in color and form ; there is, in all the world about us, an infinite, divine, though invisible Presence, to which the unenlightened may be blind, but which is ever declaring itself by its ceaseless, beneficent activity. p. 29
The conception of God as the All-Energy, the infinite Power, an all-pervading Presence, is too vast for mind to grasp; there must be something more tangible, more restricted, upon which to center the mind in worship.P. 30
Scientific men have ceased the attempt to prove man to be a mere product of physical forces, but they recognize in his existence, and in every function of his body, the presence of an infinite Intelligence, working, controlling, creating, for man's good. God dwells in man. He is the life of man. He is the servant of man.p. 36
The divine Builder occupies the house as he builds it, and remains a permanent occupant as long as the house stands P. 41
