Beliefs & Doctrine

Three Degrees of Glory

  1. The three heavens or kingdoms of glory to which people are assigned after the Final Judgment: the Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial Kingdoms.

Latter-day Saint doctrine teaches that almost everyone inherits one of these kingdoms according to how they lived and what they accepted. The three are compared in scripture to the glory of the sun (Celestial), the moon (Terrestrial), and the stars (Telestial).

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