page_title: Degrees of glory
section_title: Telestial kingdom
hierarchical_section_title: Degrees of glory / Telestial kingdom
caption_attribution_description: English: The telestial room of the Salt Lake Temple
context_page_description: In the theology and cosmology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there are three degrees of glory which are the ultimate, eternal dwelling place for nearly all who lived on earth after they are resurrected from the spirit world.
  LDS Church members believe that the apostle Paul briefly described these degrees of glory in 1 Corinthians 15:40-42, and in 2 Corinthians 12:2. Joseph Smith elaborated on Paul's descriptions based primarily upon a vision he received with Sidney Rigdon in 1832 and recorded in Doctrine and Covenants section 76. According to this vision, all people will be resurrected and, at the Final Judgment, will be assigned to one of three degrees of glory, called the celestial, terrestrial, and telestial kingdoms. A small number of individuals who commit the unpardonable sin will not receive a kingdom of glory, but will be banished to outer darkness with Satan where they will be "sons of Perdition".
context_section_description: The telestial kingdom is the lowest of the three degrees of glory. It is believed by LDS Church members to correspond to the "glory of the stars" mentioned by the apostle Paul in the King James Version translation of 1 Corinthians 15:41. There are no known uses of the word "telestial" prior to its use by Smith. The prefix tele- in Greek translates into far or distant, although the remainder of the word remains ambiguous.
caption: The telestial room of the Salt Lake Temple
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