I've often speculated that the word "through" in D&C 84:46 might not just mean that the spirit enlightens men throughout the world, but also that the spirit uses our experiences in the world to enlighten us if we will allow it. Vaclav Havel has something similar to say -
"And here we encounter, in a new form, the profoundly paradoxical nature of human existence: the "I" can only approach the kind of Being it longs for (i.e., in the fullness of being) through its own existence-in-the-world, and the manner of that existence. It can neither skip over that existence, nor get around, nor avoid it nor ignore it."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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