Alma 41: Restitution & restoration

Brocciflower: every floret is a copy of the whole.

Each leaflet of the fern is a copy of the whole

Diffusion-limited aggregation: self-similarity at all scales

3 And it is requisite with the justice of God that men should be judged according to their works; and if their works were good in this life, and the desires of their hearts were good, that they should also, at the last day, be restored unto that which is good.
4 And if their works are evil they shall be restored unto them for evil. Therefore, all things shall be restored to their proper order, every thing to its natural frame—mortality raised to immortality, corruption to incorruption—raised to endless happiness to inherit the kingdom of God, or to endless misery to inherit the kingdom of the devil, the one on one hand, the other on the other—
12 And now behold, is the meaning of the word restoration to take a thing of a natural state and place it in an unnatural state, or to place it in a state opposite to its nature?
13 O, my son, this is not the case; but the meaning of the word restoration is to bring back again evil for evil, or carnal for carnal, or devilish for devilish—good for that which is good; righteous for that which is righteous; just for that which is just; merciful for that which is merciful.
14 Therefore, my son, see that you are merciful unto your brethren; deal justly, judge righteously, and do good continually; and if ye do all these things then shall ye receive your reward; yea, ye shall have mercy restored unto you again; ye shall have justice restored unto you again; ye shall have a righteous judgment restored unto you again; and ye shall have good rewarded unto you again.
15 For that which ye do send out shall return unto you again, and be restored; therefore, the word restoration more fully condemneth the sinner, and justifieth him not at all.

Christ is the pattern, patron, temple and template: if we get the first iteration right, then the rest will be restored to us in eternity.

Also, the epic story of the exodus:

1. Creation in Heaven / Jacob in famished Palestine
   Gen 46
   3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
   4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

2. Eden / Wilderness
3. Lone & dreary world / Egypt / Living in captivity to sin
   Scrifice of the Lamb, death of the Firstborn
   Flood / Red Sea / Baptism
   Fire / Pillar of fire / Confirmation

4. Millenium / Wilderness / In the word but not of it
   New Jerusalem / Mount Sinai / Temple

5. Sea of glass / Promised Land / Heaven

applies to worlds, nations, and individuals, self-similarity at all scales.