Keys of priesthood conferred on 3 apostles on sacred mount
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"Transfiguration is a special change in appearance and nature which is wrought upon a person or thing by the power of God. This divine transformation is from a lower to a higher state; it results in a more exalted, impressive, and glorious condition." (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 725-726.)
"There is another world with which we mortals are little acquainted," said Elder Spencer W. Kimball, then of the Council of the Twelve, in an April 1964 general conference address. "It may not be far from us. Peter, James, and John, the Presidency of the Church, came to know the power of God. These three central figures climbed the high mountain with the Lord Jehovah, while He was yet in the mortal world before His crucifixion. . . ."What a glorious experience! The Son of God, their Master, `was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light' and heavenly beings Moses and Elias appeared to them. . . ." (Matt. 17:2, 5.)
The Savior, with Moses and Elias, conferred upon Peter, James and John the keys of the priesthood. "At that time many things pertaining to the earth and its inhabitants were revealed to these apostles, for the earth was transfigured before them as it will appear when it receives its glory," wrote Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, then of the Council of the Twelve, in Doctrines of Salvation 2:233-234.
