Beliefs & Doctrine

Heavenly Mother

  1. The belief in a Mother in Heaven — a divine wife of Heavenly Father and mother of human spirits.

A distinctive Latter-day Saint teaching, flowing from the doctrine that we are literally God's spirit children and that exaltation is for couples. She is spoken of reverently but rarely in detail, and is referenced in the beloved hymn "O My Father."

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