Multiple mortal probations

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"Third, there is only one mortal probation, and it is crucial. There are stages before and stages after, and one may indeed move in the cyclic spiral, but not in repetition and not in a circle. The seriousness, the risk, and the glories of mortal life are undercut the moment one supposes he will have a million or more subsequent probations of the same sort. It is a spurious comfort to be told, as was the weeping wife at the cremation of her husband in India, 'Do not weep, he has been through this a million times before.' Physically and metaphysically that is impossible." - Spencer J. Palmer^[1]

"You know there are some of our brethren who have thought that Jesus, in his first estate, as we call it, or in his former state, was a resurrected being. I do not know where they get the idea from, but it is likely from this that he was called God by John the Revelator and by a great number of writers in the Book of Mormon and in the Doctrine and Covenants and in other revelations. "He was in the beginning with God, and was God" [Sec. 93:21]; and he could not be a god, they say, unless he had a body, and passed through mortality and had been resurrected. What scripture did they find to suggest that notion? I don't know of any revelation that declares it. I don't know of any that intimates at all that he could not be God unless he had passed through a mortal probation and had been tried and tempted and had suffered; that he could not be God beforehand; but we are told that in the beginning he was with God, and he says that the Father had shown him all things that he himself doeth." - Roy W. Doxey^[2]

↑ Spencer J. Palmer, ed., Deity and Death, p.68
↑ Roy W. Doxey, comp., Latter-day Prophets and the Doctrine and Covenants, 1:, p.166 - 167