Exaltation

To become like God and inherit Celestial glory.¹ Elevation to the highest degree in which all powers are increased.² To be exalted is to already be in possession of what one hopes to acquire in mortality; that is, Christ was already exalted. He did not come here for His advancement, according to the angel who spoke to Benjamin, but He came and descended into a “tabernacle of clay” in order to serve mankind. Although He is a glorified, eternal God, reigning in Heaven and holding the power to exist from eternity to eternity, He will condescend to dwell in a tabernacle of clay (Mosiah 1:14). If man can take that in, then he can understand what Joseph Smith said about “sons of God, who exalt themselves to be gods, before they were born” (TPJS, 375).³