As we come to 1877, the last year of Brigham Young's life, we find him still teaching what he had first taught 25 years before. The setting for this discourse is in the home of Brigham Young. There appears to be evidence that part of this address was to be used as the lecture before the veil in all future endowment ceremonies:

...after supper went to Prest Young's... Prest Young was filled with the spirit of God and revelation and said... "In the creation the gods entered into an agreement about forming this earth & putting Michael or Adam upon it. these things of which I have been speaking are what are termed the mysteries of godliness but they will enable you to understand the expression Jesus made while in Jerusalem. This is life eternal that they might know thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. we were once acquainted with the Gods & lived with them but we had the privilege of taking upon us flesh that the spirit might have a house to dwell in. we did so and forgot all and came into the world not recollecting anything of which we had previously learned.

We have heard a great deal about Adam and Eve, how they were formed & some thing he was made like an adobie and the Lord breathed into him the breath of life, for we read 'from dust thou are art and unto dust thou shalt return'. Well he was made of the dust of the earth but not of this earth. he was made just the same way you and I are made but on another earth. Adam was an immortal being when he came on this earth. he had lived on an earth similar to ours, he had received the Priesthood and the he Keys thereof and had been faithful in all things and gained his resurrection and his exaltation and was crowned with glory immortality and eternal lives and was numbered with the Gods for such he became through his faithfulness, and had begotton all the spirits that was to come to this earth. and Eve our common mother who is the mother of all living bore those spirits in the celestial world. and when this earth was organized by Elohim, Jehovah and Michael who is Adam our common Father, Adam and Eve had the privilege to continue the work of progression, consequently came to this earth and commenced the great work of forming tabernacles for those spirits to dwell in. and when Adam and those that assisted him had completed this kingdom our earth he came to it, and slept and forgot all and became like an infant child. it is said by Moses the historian that the Lord caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam and took from his side a rib and formed the woman that Adam called Eve - this should be interpreted that the man Adam like all other men had the seed within him to propagate his species, but not the woman. she conceives the seed but does not produce it, consequently she was taken from the side or bowels of her father. this explains the mystery of Moses' ark sayings in regard to Adam and Eve. Adam & Eve when they were placed on this earth were immortal beings with flesh and bones, and sinues, but upon partaking of the fruit of the earth while in the garden and cultivating the ground their bodies became changed from immortal to mortal beings with blood coursing through their veins as the action of life... Father Adam's oldest son (Jesus the Savior) who is the heir of the family is Father Adam's first begotten in the spirit world, who according to the flesh is the only begotten as it is written. (In his divinity he having gone back into the spirit world and come in the spirit to Mary and she conceived for when Adam and Eve got through their work on earth they did not lay their bodies down in the dust, but returned to the spirit world from whence they came."

I felt myself much blessed in being permitted to associate with such men and hear such instructions as they savored of life to me (56).

At one minute past 4:00 P.M., on August 29, 1877, Brigham Young died. He presided over the Mormon Church longer than any other man - 30 years. Though many continued to believe in Adam as their God, the doctrine was largely buried along with Brigham. Rather than publicly preaching this doctrine, the Church authorities sought to avoid controversy by remaining silent.