Spirit Creation See also Create, Creation; Man, Men The Lord created all things spiritually before He created them physically (Moses 3:5). The Lord made every plant before it was in the earth, Gen. 2:4–6 (Abr. 5:5). By the power of my Spirit created I all things—first spiritual, secondly temporal, D&C 29:31–32. That which is temporal is in the likeness of that which is spiritual, D&C 77:2. I made the world and men before they were in the flesh, Moses 6:51.