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The Plan of Salvation, so much great information is available to us in the latter days!
“All men know that they must die. And it is important that we should understand the reasons and causes of our exposure to the vicissitudes of life and of death, and the designs and purposes of God in our coming into the world, our sufferings here, and our departure hence. What is the object of our coming into existence, then dying and falling away, to be here no more? It is but reasonable to suppose that God would reveal something in reference to the matter, and it is a subject we ought to study more than any other. We ought to study it day and night, for the world is ignorant in reference to their true condition and relation [to God]Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith p.324
Joseph Smith’s Expansion of Our Understanding of the Premortal Life and Our Relationship to Godhttps://rsc.byu.edu/archived/joseph-smi ... erstanding
Here is a link for a boatload of information about the post earthly spirit world.http://emp.byui.edu/satterfieldb/pdf/spiritworld.pdf
And The Three Degrees of Glory
Elder Melvin J. Ballard
Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
(Sermons and Missionary Services of Melvin J. Ballard, p.234-261, Delivered at the Ogden Tabernacle ) https://scottwoodward.org/Talks/html/Ba ... Glory.html
And why not while we are at it, also add Tragedy or Destiny, President Spencer W. Kimballhttps://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-sp ... 2?lang=eng

Interesting.

Spirit World Part of the Second Estate
Neal A. Maxwell
We tend to overlook the reality that the spirit world and paradise are part, really, of the second estate. The work of the Lord, so far as the second estate is concerned, is completed before the Judgment and the Resurrection.
Since those who go to the celestial kingdom include, as revealed, those who “overcome by faith” (D&C 76:53), the same efforts and triumph would need to occur in the spirit world before they receive resurrection and the entitlement to enter the celestial kingdom. . . .

He gave us our spirit birth, bringing the first estate to all. He gave the gift to us of mortality, or the second estate, where all might be “added upon,” leaving one- third of the host free to be rebels! (Abraham 3:26; Revelation 12:4). He provides in the spirit world a continuum of mortality’s probation, the great opportunity for all. (The Promise of Discipleship, p. 111)

Of course, we still lack many details [about the spirit world] and would like to know more. Even so, we ought to pay closer attention to what has been given about the spirit world so that we can truly “cite [our] minds forward” in appropriate ways (Alma 13:1). [The Promise of Discipleship, p. 105]

As far as what we ideally keep studying - my first thought was how best to love others (loving God) as well as ourselves. I’ll be working on that ‘till my dying day.