# What is the Purpose of Mormon Transhumanism?

The single constitutional purpose of the Mormon Transhumanist Association is to promote the Mormon Transhumanist Affirmation. This primer presents the Affirmation in full and one illustrative way to understand it.

An orienteer's compass in hand
The Association’s constitution defines its purpose as promoting the Mormon Transhumanist Affirmation. Like a compass, the Affirmation provides a fixed point of orientation, while leaving each member free to chart their own course of interpretation.
Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
That everyone may act … according to the moral agency which I have given unto them, that everyone may be accountable…
Two clasped hands
One of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism” is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.
A person filled with the love of God is not content with blessing their family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.