know, and the way ye know."[1210] Thus in language simple and plain the
Lord declared the fact of graded conditions in the hereafter, of variety
of occupation and degrees of glory, of place and station in the eternal
worlds.[1211] He had affirmed His own inherent Godship, and through
their trust in Him and obedience to His requirements would they find the
way to follow whither He was about to precede them. Thomas, that loving,
brave, though somewhat skeptical soul, desiring more definite
information ventured to say: "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and
how can we know the way?" The Lord's answer was a reaffirmation of His
divinity; "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father
also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him."

At this point Philip interposed with the request, "Lord, shew us the
Father, and it sufficeth us." Jesus answered with pathetic and mild
reproof: "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known
me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest
thou then, Shew us the Father?" He was grieved by the thought that His
nearest and dearest friends on earth, those upon whom He had conferred
the authority of the Holy Priesthood, should be yet ignorant of His
absolute oneness with the Father in purpose and action. Had the Eternal
Father stood amongst them, in Person, under the conditions there
existing, He would have done as did the Well Beloved and Only Begotten
Son, whom they knew as Jesus, their Lord and Master. So absolutely were
the Father and the Son of one heart and mind, that to know either was to
know both; nevertheless the Father could be reached only through the
Son. So far as the apostles had faith in Christ, and did His will,
should they be able to do the works that Christ in the flesh had done,
and even greater things, for His mortal mission was of but a few hours
further duration, and the unfolding of the divine plan of the ages would
call for yet greater miracles than those wrought by Jesus in the brief
period of His ministry.

For the first time the Lord directed His disciples to pray in His name
to the Father, and assurance of success in righteous supplication was
given in these words: "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will
I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any
thing in my name, I will do it."[1212] The name