Living in the Eternal Dimension: One Eternal Christmas and One Eternal New Year

As You Understand Each Other Better
Universally You Will Be A Part of Every Nation and Every Religion
and the Summation Will Be
E Pluribus Unum.

-- FATHER DIVINE --

'One Eternal Christmas and One Eternal New Year.'

Our FATHER'S Sermon Given whilst at the Holy Communion Table Circle Mission Church
2064 Boston Road, Bronx, New York
Sunday, December 31, 1950, A.D.F.D.
Time 11:26 P.M.

The transcriber introduces the Sermon:

This truly glorious Sermon, delivered by the Lord of lords and King of kings, is dynamic in its expression of living truths unto the children of men. Just before the Sermon, one of the recent recordings from Australia was played and enjoyed by the vast audience of visitors and followers as well. FATHER refers to this and other recordings received from His various followers and Churches in far off countries, and in His marvelous Sermon explains the mystery of this One Eternal Christmas and One Eternal New Year. At the conclusion of the Sermon FATHER brings forth a very vital point for consideration concerning the religious conviction of His real true followers with regard to insurances of any kind and this Conviction will go down on record even as it has in years past, and will be lived and carried out, regardless of the consequences. The Mouth of GOD has declared it! Almighty Redeemer, we truly thank Thee!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows:)

PEACE EVERYONE! This is one of the days set apart as being termed the Christmas Holidays, which, at this time, this is commonly known as New Year's Eve for the Christian world. But as with the New Year so with the Christ Mass or Christmas Day with us. We recognize the One Eternal Christmas Day, in other words, Christ Mass Day and One Eternal New Year's Day. We recognize the Ever and All-Presence of All-Wise, All-Mighty and All-Circumferencing GOD of the Universe.

You have heard the testimonies of the different individuals from Australia, and there they are as we are here, representing every nation, every language, every tongue and every people by this great Conversion and by the Recognition and the Realization of GOD'S Actual Presence! No longer observing your Creator merely as a supposition but observing and realizing GOD'S Presence as Something that is the Creator, the Author and the Finisher of all of His Creation; though at one time invisible, intangible and being unconsidered as being visible; yet GOD made visible, things that were invisible, and brought into tangibility and into outer expression, the intangible and invisible things of His Creation.


Light of Understanding Coming Forth

Today we are realizing, as it is written according to the historians, the earth was created as well as the heaven, but the earth was void and without form, even as the heaven as being described as such; but GOD did say,

'Let dry land appear!'

according to the historians, and dry land came forth into expression tangibilated, materialized, as though personified; for GOD said,

'Let us make men in our own Image!'

According to the historians GOD formed man out of the dust of that dry land that HE said in His Own Omniscience, let it appear! We are happy today to say, things that once did not appear are coming into appearance. Things that were not once considered are now being considered; for by the Unity of the Spirit, as with GOD in the Creation, there was an agreement made between the Great Universal Mind Substance and Something, when GOD said,

'Let us make man in our own Image'.

There was an agreement made; and also as it was when GOD said to Something, according to the historians,

'Let there be light',

and light came forth into expression as a pre-evidence and as a visibilated prediction of how the Light of Understanding would come forth into expression when there is no light or no understanding. Aren't you glad? ('Yes, so glad, LORD!' came the immediate response.)

Coming all through the ages up until this present time there are thousands and thousands, yea, millions of individuals we, or I MYSELF as One of the unit, if I enumerate them one of the one hundred and fifty millions Americans; just enumerating the one hundred and fifty millions of Americans, plus all of the other nations, languages, tongues and peoples in all countries! Aren't you glad? ('So glad!' again came the immediate reply.) Just being One among the number, transcended and transcending all racism, all sectarianism, all partisanism and all isms that spell division bringing to you, My fellow citizens, hearers and friends, the Recognition of E Pluribus Unum. Aren't you glad?



All Mankind Unified

To recognize and realize E Pluribus Unum politically and legalistically, we will also recognize E Pluribus Unum religiously, nationally and racially, and we will bring an abolition to all divisibility among the nation. And by so doing we will understand each other better universally! And as you understand each other better universally, you will become to be a part of Judaism as well as a part of Christianity. You will be a part of every nation and of every religion and the summation will be E Pluribus Unum, where there will be no more divisibility of the children of men but all will live in Unison together and will partake of the great One Eternal Christmas, Circumferencing and enveloping the Jewish Christmas; circumferencing and enveloping the Hindu's Christmas and the Christian Christmas and New Year and all of them combined; making for that which we have here today where all mankind are unified! Aren't you glad?

Then I say, it is a privilege to observe it! You can see in our Churches in Australia, in Switzerland, in New Zealand, in Panama, in England and in Canada and in all other countries coming into the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose where we can celebrate One Eternal Christmas, and going on to the New Year, as afore said; we also celebrate the One Eternal New Year this being the eve of New Year, as it may be termed. But with this Light of this Understanding we realize there is One Eternal Christmas and One Eternal New Year's Day!

One Eternal Merry Christmas

For this cause, by composition as a message and as a declaration, (FATHER holds high The New Day, showing the song on the front cover, as HE says:) I brought out this little Message; even having it or putting it in a melody and in notes so that you might read it, sing it and play it, and convince yourselves and convert your hearts and your minds and all of your human intelligence and intellect to the realization that there is One Eternal Christmas and One Eternal New Year's Day.

When this is done you will endeavor to worship and serve GOD from your own viewpoint not as a creed or any other dogma, but as individuals recognizing the Supreme Being the Creator, the Author and the Finisher of all things! And when this is done you can say in reality, by the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose we can live in unison together and there will be no more divisibility of nations and races and of families among us, but we will recognize the Universal Brotherhood of Man and realize the Ever Presence of the FATHERHOOD of GOD!


International Peace

When this Truth is established among the nations of the earth as I have it now established among you all, My adherents, My followers and My friends, there will be no more warfare and no more bloodshed, but you will have International Peace, as one of our picture cards portrays. (FATHER holds up the card bearing HIS and MOTHER'S picture, and the red, white and blue books bearing the dramatized pictures, the titles of which FATHER reads:) 'In the Air, on the Land and on the Sea.' where the people will no longer be divided among themselves. They will no longer live, considering themselves as some sort of a cursed race, creed or color, for I have declared Scripturally as well as I have declared it socially and Personally organizationally,

'Together you stand but divided you fall.'

If the people will unite together and live in this great universal Brotherhood of Man and recognize the Ever Presence of the FATHERHOOD of GOD, there will be no more limitations, there will be no more lacks, there will be no more adverse and undesirable conditions, for the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD will dispel and eradicate all adverse and undesirable conditions! Then I say, live in this Recognition!


Consciousness of GOD'S Presence

You have heard the voices of those of My representatives of My different Churches in Australia. A good many of you have heard the recordings from Switzerland, from England, from Germany and from other parts of the world making this selfsame declaration of the Consciousness of MOTHER'S and MY Presence here, and there as well as here. And such a Conviction automatically adjusts matters satisfactorily, and such a Conviction automatically produces the abundance of the fulness of the Consciousness of Good, and they find no space vacant of the fulness thereof! In the European countries, in the war zones, where lacks and wants and limitation, misery, disappointment and failure have gone rampant in the land, My Spirit and My Presence when they are conscious of It produce the abundance of the fulness of food and of raiment, of houses and of shelter, of comfort and convenience and of every desirable blessing, because they are conscious of My Presence.

Many people have read and you all have heard that as in the beginning of the creation, according to the historians, the Spirit of GOD moved out upon the face of the waters and began its creation of all creation can you not see the mystery? The very Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD moving out there automatically was creative and It is just as operative today as It was then. Can you not see the mystery? GOD being a creator by nature, even through the cosmic forces of nature and the creative forces of nature, the earth will create in itself, by nature, insects of its own kind. Can you not see the mystery? GOD'S Presence in your consciousness, and the recognition of It, will automatically create the good, the desirable and the blessed, and cause you and all things with whom and with which you are concerned to be blessed by such a recognition.


New Year Resolution

I know there are many vows being made. Many vows are being made in the Christian world to live better, to be better and be truer; to be more honest, to be more competent, to be more reliable in every way next year than what they have been this year that is now passing out. Aren't you glad? But what profits it to make such vows and promise to do such things unless you recognize the supernaturalness of GOD'S actual presence the omnipotence and omniscience of HIM Who liveth forever to be with you to guide you and protect you and to lead you and to give you the power and the privilege to do better than you ever did before? It would profit you nothing just to use a formula to say as the old year passes out and the new year comes in, 'I am going to do better, be better, I shall be more honest, I shall be more true to both GOD and to man than what I have been !' Unless you make up your minds to do it and then do it, and realize GOD is with you right here, to help you to do it, you will not be able to do it. You will be going on doing as they have been doing from ages up until now yea, until I came and made My Declaration known because I declare I AM GOD!

It is written of ME,

'In My Name ye shall cast out (you know) other fellows'.'

That is what I AM doing daily! I AM casting out the 'other fellow' of lacks and wants and limitations, of depressions, panics and famine! I AM casting out adverse and undesirable conditions of sickness and diseases and all sorts of undesirable conditions because the Name of GOD is a strong tower and the Righteous run therein and they are saved.

Let us live in this recognition and be conscious of GOD'S Presence. If you can only be conscious of GOD'S Presence metaphysically if you cannot be conscious of GOD'S Presence Personally or Personifiedly, be conscious of GOD'S Presence metaphysically; and suppositional and metaphysically you may get a blessing. But if you can be conscious of GOD'S Presence in Person, you will personally get blessings! Aren't you glad?

That is why, where I AM, the abundance of the fulness of the consciousness of Good no space is vacant of the fulness thereof because the adherents and those who are visitors even, the majority of them are Conscious of GOD'S Personal Presence.


GOD Materialized, Man Spiritualized

GOD Materialized HIMSELF and spiritualizes you so that you might live in the recognition of GOD'S actual Presence and such a recognition is just as operative and expressive as it was in the beginning of the creation when the Spirit of the LORD moved out as Something that was invisible, upon the waters but it was a consciousness, and that Consciousness created the earth. Aren't you glad? Created the Heaven and created the earth! And GOD said,

' Let dry land appear.'
Now live in this recognition and you will have victory over all adverse and undesirable conditions, and you will have not only spiritual blessings but you will have Peace on earth and Good Will toward men, and have success and prosperity economically! You will master the economic situation, and all of your social and intellectual and political and racial problems will be solved, for GOD, your Creator, is the Great Solver!

I have long since declared by composition as a motto for the consideration of the people, and of those of My adherents especially,

'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD
is the Source of all Supply, and it will satisfy every Good Desire.'

If I can make you conscious of GOD'S Presence it may be called superstition, it may be called expressions of fanaticism, even radically but if I can convince you GOD is Present among you, the very Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD will be to you the same Spirit that moved out upon the face of the waters in the beginning of the creation and said,

'Let there be light and there was light!'

I said, let here be the abundance of the fulness! Let right here be the consciousness of good wheresoever you are and I will declare to you, no space will be vacant of the fulness thereof! (Loud applause resounds.)


Standard of Independence

Why go around in lacks and wants and limitations? True followers of Mine do not go around soliciting, begging, stealing and borrowing! Aren't you glad? True followers of Mine will express their individual independence, even as our Country declared her Independence as a Nation, for you could not be a real American citizen, according to My Teaching, unless you would express your individual independence and refuse to be dependents, and live in the Consciousness of GOD'S actual Presence; then and only then could you be real, true American citizens.

I AM raising up a standard and a citizenry second to none, where a true follower, if he is physically fit, has health and strength, will not go around soliciting, begging and not a true follower of Mine will be on the relief roll, taking assistance. That is what I AM talking about!

Then you can look over here in this week's issue of The New Day this present current issue of The New Day, and also last week's issue of The New Day, under 'Righteousness Marches On!' In this present current issue of The New Day of December 30, 1950 under 'Righteousness Marches On!' you can see why My followers do not accept of tips and gifts and presents. That is their religious conviction and it is according to our Church Discipline! Can you not see the mystery? That is why they do not insure automobiles and houses and do not insure themselves and their children's lives as an insurance against sickness, death and accident because they know it is not trusting GOD infinitely, conscientiously and sincerely. For this cause we abstain from taking out insurance!


No Social Security or Other Insurances

My true followers own millions and millions of dollars' worth of property, and they do not have any real or personal property insured although they pay high taxes on their personal and real properties where it is called for but they do not insure it because it is against our religious conviction. Therefore, we will not take out insurances, even so much as Social Security insurance. It is against our Religion!

My true followers do not insure themselves, their lives nor their children's lives. They do not insure for sick benefits and accidents or anything of that sort, because we intend to trust the Ever Presence of GOD with Victory over all adverse and undesirable conditions and every hazard that may be created by the 'other fellow' better known by the religions, the d-v-l! Aren't you glad?

This did not just begin! For years and years and years, and it always has been, the true followers of Mine will not insure their own personal properties; will not insure their own real properties! Can you not see the mystery? ('Yes LORD!' came the reply.) And why should they insure them now, if they have not ever done it because of their religious convictions? They would go to jail or even die, if they could, before they do it! I thank you.

(As FATHER made this dynamic statement HE pushes in His chair and started to leave the Holy Communion Hall, only to re-enter and speak as follows:)

PEACE EVERYONE! I have returned! I lost sight of MYSELF and I lost sight of you as persons at the instant!

I want to say at this instance that those of the Rosebuds who have not dined, will be pleased to be the first ones to be seated at this Table, for they must go to our next Service shortly and serve us as the Choir and Choristers. I thank you!

FATHER DIVINE as the Great Avatar or Logos, Creator of our Solar System, Personified in the Fathership Degree

Harmony No 36 Divinity of Father Divine

On September 10 we Re-member: I AM Life

I AM known as Alpha and Omega. Before time was, I AM. I encompass the Universe. It is My Habitat, and yet, I AM the heart beat of every man. I caused the mist to roll away and lo, eons of years ago a world appeared, but, even at this very moment, I AM here. And when all is done in My Infinite Plan, It is I Alone Who will remain because I AM eternally the same.

I A M L I F E !

I AM felt in Happiness. I fill the air. Life in all its exuberance is Mine to share. Youth, effervescent and unrestrained is My Domain. Still, in the contentment of the sage, I AM the same. Enjoy My Fountain of Energy, it's boundless, it's free! Let it saturate you endlessly.

I A M L I F E !

I AM seen in Nature. I AM the rush of the wind in the trees, apple blossoms, autumn leaves, the snow-covered crest of the mountain peak, all living creatures that be. I AM the fire that gives warmth and cheer. I AM the seasons of the year. I AM the ebb and flow of the tide; the fury of the storms that rise. I AM the gravity that holds all things to this Paradise on earth I bring. I AM also the Magnetism that suspends the spirit of man in ecstasy, world without end.

I A M L I F E !

I AM heard in Conscience. I speak where no other can, deep within the heart of man. By inner unction I demand to what is always the right stand. But to hear the whisper of My Command man must know that I AM. By constant use and motive sincere and pure, My Whisper, increasingly amplified, is more easily heard.

I A M L I F E !

I AM expressed in Liberty proclaimed throughout the land, I AM the Voice of Freedom that cries out from every man willing to pay for his God-given birthright, generation after generation sacrificing his own life. This relentless surge to be free comes from the very Nature of ME for nothing restricts and nothing binds the movement of My Infinite Mind.

I A M L I F E !

I AM balanced by Equilibrium. From My Veins runs the blood of every nation: in My Sight all are the same. I weigh on the Scale of Justice every act. My Price is just: My reward exact. By ME every man is judged, not by what he says, but by what he does.
The upright do not fear to come before ME. Justice is My Scale: Truth My Creed.

I A M L I F E !

I AM moving in Progress. I never stand still. My press, always onward, My Plan to fulfill. And as man progresses to the Perfection of ME a new dimension to explore, he will begin to see where he can push back frontiers of a new world seen, yet unseen; heard, yet unheard where every challenge is to the perfection of man -- spirit, body and mind where at last he is lost in My Will Divine.

I A M L I F E !

I AM, in essence, the Word made Flesh. I AM the Law of Moses magnified. I AM the Law of the Spirit of Life Personified. By My Spoken Word I AM and in My Word undiluted I remain. Nothing is relevant to the Reality of ME. I Alone Am Absolute. Unrestricted and free I have decreed to be. Through forty-two generations of Biblical history I AM come; through thirty-two lynch mobs in this dispensation every battle I have won. I cannot be separated from the Allness of ME -- Spirit, Body and Mind the same.

I AM LIFE -- I AM ETERNAL -- GOD FATHER DIVINE IS MY NAME !

~~~

I Thank You, Father

For ABUNDANT LIFE !

SOURCE

Your Body of Flesh is the WORD OF GOD Materialized

'All That You Really Are Is GOD'

FATHER DIVINE'S Words from the Notebook of John Lamb

'There are joys flowing like a river every day and you and I can enjoy them. It is a wonderful thing to come to this place in consciousness where you realized that you can produce whatever you gaze upon. Whatever you gaze upon, that is what you tend to materialize, since you are made in the express image of GOD your FATHER. I was talking to a party a little while ago that thought her mother had had a stroke and they were seemingly in agony to think of it. But I was telling them that in reality your mother cannot have anything but that which is good, for GOD is your MOTHER and you never had another. When you get to this place in consciousness and realize it, you shall have detached yourself from all materialism and from all matter and from all mortality, and shall have attached yourself to the true Divine Mind which will lift you, as the song says: 'With tender hands He lifted me, from shades of night to planes of light, He lifted me.' It is a great consolation to know that your thoughts are things and as I said to the party, when you realize that your MOTHER is GOD and you never had another then you cast the trouble out of your system by casting it out of your consciousness and you will not be subject to the infirmities, and neither will she be subject to the infirmities of mortality. When you realize that you are absolutely one with GOD, that your body is one with GOD and all that you really are, is GOD, your mother, your father, your sisters, your brothers and all of your kin and everything else that you ever thought that you had that was good, is GOD. You never had another.

GOD condescended to put on and permit HIMSELF to put on mortal bodies through which to bring into outward expression other mortal bodies to appease the mortal concept of the human mind until those HE has brought forth into the world have risen to realize their oneness with GOD and have lost to this extent the limited degrees of consciousness concerning themselves and everybody else. And Jesus, the great Love Master, strove to get men to see and realize that, nineteen hundred years ago, supposedly in the days of ignorance. He strove to get men to realize that HE was one with GOD and that GOD was His FATHER and that men had failed to realize that and therefore, looked upon themselves as worms of the dust and afraid, and filled with corruption. Jesus said,

'When ye pray, pray ye our Father,'

He did not say, 'Pray ye Jesus' Father.' You see that would have been well enough for this day, to those of you who think GOD is Jesus' FATHER. The Christian world believes GOD is Jesus' FATHER and they don't believe GOD is their FATHER and your FATHER. They only think GOD is Jesus' FATHER, but HE is just as much your FATHER as HE was Jesus' FATHER. When you know it and when you put off that mortal version concerning yourself then you will be able to declare, even as He did, that GOD is 'my' FATHER and you never had another.

So as I was telling the party, when you realize that GOD is your MOTHER and has put on that body to prepare HIMSELF a body to function in on the earth, on the material plane, to appease the mortal concept of the human mind that calls itself your mother, and when you realize that is GOD's body,

'Know ye not that ye are the temples of the living GOD?'

'And GOD has said, I will walk in them, and talk in them.' And when you realize that

'In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us . . . And we beheld His glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth,'

the same was in the beginning, and I can say the same today, the Word has been made flesh and it dwells among us, but that is you. Your body is a body of flesh, made out of the Word of GOD. GOD said,

'Let us make man in our own image,'

therefore, your very body is a body of flesh, the Word of GOD materialized, and we can behold HIS glory.

So as I said to the party, now cast out of your consciousness and out of your system, by casting it out of your consciousness, and out of her system and out of the systems of those that concerned her, all of the belief that this individual is something apart from GOD. Cast out of your consciousness that your mother has a stroke and you will cast it out of her system. So whatever we think, that is what we tend to produce in our physical structure and in the physical structure of those we come in contact with.

SOURCE

The Testimony of Brother Walter Lanyon

"What Went Ye Out for to See - A Man ?"

Can you imagine the excitement that reigned in the little town of Samaria when the woman returned from the well and said:

"Come and see a man, which told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ ?"

"Come ! see a man who is doing the works of the Master; is healing the sick, opening the eyes of the blind, supplying food, shelter and raiment freely; has no new creed, no new system, or church to found. Yes, all this right here in our present day; in this materialistic age; right on the very doorstep of the hub of the universe - New York."

And so they came in great waves; came to see, to hear and to partake. A thousand gradations of human thought rushed in to "have a look." A thousand gradations of human thought rushed away to place its interpretation on what it had experienced.

Hundreds daily sat down to a banquet that would have caused the average Continental chef endless planning and trouble. Banquets followed one after the other without the slightest stir or confusion. The only confusion that existed in the household was that which was brought there by the onlookers. Miracle followed miracle, and all wondered.

"Everyman" had on a thousand robes - he was playing every part. There was the little "Everyman" who at once understood everything that Father said, and spent the time setting everybody right. There was the cunning "Everyman" who lay low and watched, and checked against everything to see if she could explain that it would have happened anyway. She was protecting the weak sisters and brothers, who might be misled. There must have been some such a person at the arm of Jesus when he was feeding the multitudes, peeping down his sleeves to see if there were not flour and water, hidden there out of which he made the bread he was giving the hungry.

There was "Everyman" who had proved the power for herself, and knew Whereof she spoke, who went out to see what it was all about; hadn't she been able to demonstrate the power .... hadn't she been able to always make the "street-car" be at the corner the moment she arrived ?

Aren't we funny ? Surely you are going to say yes ! to that ? We are eternally looking for the way out of the human dilemma, and the moment anything comes along that looks as though it were a possible way of escape, we immediately want to make it conform to the laws of the human mind. We are all the same in this respect. We are "Everyman," and it is not with any malice or criticism that I list the various specimens that followed the exciting invitation, "Come and see a man." Most of us go out with exactly that idea in mind - we "Come to see the MAN."

How very disappointing. The man may look like anything. He may belong to any race - he may not conform to any of the idea., you have had in mind. I suppose a Chinaman would like to see a Confucius, and Hindu would be looking for a Buddha, and so on. When we go out to see a MAN We usually see a MAN, and we disobey the teaching of the Master "What went ye out for to see? A man?"

The looms of human conversation, imagination, exaggeration, ran back and forth - words, words, words - repeated, enlarged, stretched beyond all recognition, flew back and forth, weaving a flimsy fabric of fantasy, as a great army of talkers started in the age-old habit of building the Tower of Babel. All talking the same language at first, but presently no two of them speaking in the same tongue. And the only note of harmony that kept breaking through the whole mass of human talk was the startling and glorious word of the Father," It is WONDERFUL."

And so the Tower fell, and great was the fall thereof.

"I AM the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord."

But it seemed at first as though "The zeal of thine house has eaten me up." The confusion and excitement of having seen a sign or having heard of someone who had seen sign, ate up the "omer of Manna", and one was left alone in the desert of confusion; alone in a wilderness of opinions and beliefs.

And only the glorious word remained, "It is WONDERFUL."

The first great wave broke on the sands , and left behind it a rare collection of things from the deep.

"There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walketh not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

And the first and glorious word Sounded a hundred per cent like Jesus' words: "Blessings, blessings, blessings, so many you cannot count them, to you, to me, to everybody ; To all those who have misunderstood and misinterpreted the Words Spoken here. It is wonderful . Nothing has happened but my Love has allowed."

Day after day the Father sat and dispensed the glorious knowledge of the Kingdom as Here and Now, and spoke of the power of the I AM, and time after time he explained that the I AM was Universal and Infinite, and that all had the right to enjoy it.

"It is not necessary that you see Me personally, for I AM here, I AM there, I AM everywhere. I AM a present help. I do not give absent treatments, for I A M everywhere.

You do not need to follow Me personally, but if you are going to go away from here, claiming that God is everywhere, and then follow after another Man or teaching, I say it is better for you to follow Me."

Regardless of how many times Father made it plain that the I AM was Universal - here, there and everywhere, it seemed to be necessary to make this explanation every time the I AM was mentioned, or else "Everyman" took offense and reiterated the age-old saying, "He made himself as God."

Why should He not make himself as God, if He were made by God and moulded out of the substance of God, in the image and likeness of God ? Is there anything strange in that? Yes, there is the strange hypnotism of the human thought that is struggling to free itself, and at the same time trying to lug into the new heaven all its former baggage.

"Only believe and thou shalt be saved" is entirely too simple. The wise "Everyman" cannot bow to such simplicity.

And so the tales of "Everyman" ran wild.

When Father therefore said : " I will keep your souls, and even if your bodies leave Me I shall hold your souls and you will have to return to Me, "Everyman" got afraid - he heard something personal and imagined that he was being held against his will. He did not stop for a moment to realize that the Voice through the Ages had spoken the same words. Your Soul has always been with God, and your body has been wandering through the desert of human thinking. What is so strange about the fact that that which is born of Spirit is Spirit, and dwells eternally with the Spirit, and what is so strange in the statement, and the promise that the Prodigal Everyman" shall return to his Father's house?

The great power of keeping the personal separate from the Impersonal was not used, and "Everyman" actually imagined that Father wanted to hold them against their will. Had they stopped for one moment to ask themselves WHY ? they would have seen how ridiculous this piece of imagination was. Father Divine, who asked nothing of any man, and gave all, could fill any place he entered with people who were willing and ready to follow after the glorious Impersonal teaching of the Christ. He had no need to hold on to a few souls. Isn't it wonderful when you think of it. He asked nothing of anybody and gave all. Doesn't it sound like the wonderful way of Jesus. He asked nothing and offered all.

"Everyman" came with the story that all their life they had wanted to have the time to learn of this glorious truth, but the question of earning a daily living was always in the way, and Father so graciously and beautifully said to these, "Come, eat and drink without price." Just what they had they wanted? But was this what they had wanted? Yes, with reservations. No sooner had they entered into this new order of things than the discipline and order that was necessary began to bother them. "I think it should be done this way or that way or some other way from what it is being done." Aren't we funny? You and I ? Did we ever hear the word "Patience must have her perfect work " - yes, we have heard it, but before it has time to work we are going to help it along with a few personal ideas. And so "Everyman" began to find all sorts of faults and conditions that he would change.

One little "Everyman," who had no-one or nothing to be separated from, complained that Father was separating people ! that he advocated leaving all relations, etc. "Let the dead bury their dead, follow thou Me," is but the slightest request of the Master, whom this little "Everyman" believed in emphatically. It was but a reiteration of the teaching of Jesus, when he said that a man having seen the Light would leave, family, houses, lands, all and follow after that Light. Yet somehow that did not count - Jesus was after all an historical character, and his teaching was to be taken with reservations.

Yes, '"Everyman" is in reality afraid of the very thing he is seeking, because it begins to set aside all the cherished beliefs of his existence. Yet why is it we reiterate the words of Jesus over and over: "' The works that I do ye shall do also and even greater." Do you begin to see that he who travels alone travels far ? Isn't it wonderful ?

People who went to Father's and enjoyed free board and room for months, came away saying that he had placed a curse upon them, and that he was breaking up homes and families, and this was especially strange since these very persons had neither home nor family to be broken up. When the human mind cannot have its way, it will try anything to get into the limelight again. But all the time Father smiled pleasantly and said, "Bless them." What a blessing it must have been!

Hundreds of people partook of the wonderful banquets at Father's freely, partook of the instructions freely, partook of lodging freely, and then imagined that they were being coerced into following after Father. And all the time Father gave freely, and showed them that which he said he would show, "the miracle of the loaves and the fishes." And those that had eyes saw and understood, and knew that at last the Truth had come within the vision of our day.

The very people who glory in the stories of Daniel in the Lion's Den, and the disciples in prison, were the first to broadcast, with "childlike" simplicity and hidden wiseness, Father Divine is in jail, I can not understand it." Yet these very souls imagine that they would have been the faithful attendants, waiting outside the prison-house to serve the disciples. Do you suppose there was any more worldly honour attached to going to jail then, than now ?

"Nothing has happened but my love allows," said Father, as he submitted to the human law, in order that he could give a further concrete proof of the power to those who needed a further sign.

The proof was given, and in spite of all the efforts of the human mind, the doors sprang open and another legend had become a fact. Isn't it wonderful.

"Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall give thee Light."

A little"Everyman, who was especially fond of saying "All things are possible to God," came to me saying"Yes, but how could Father produce money - it would not be lawful." And then with the wisdom of human ages twinkling in his eye, he added: "You see, there would be the serial number of the notes to be taken care of." You see there would always be serial numbers to be taken care of for that human state of consciousness, and yet he kept on repeating, "Yes, all things are possible to God " - but evidently there were some things that were not possible. Do you hear, do you see ? You who READ this line? "I have a way you know not of." Has man, then, found something that God cannot do ? You answer for yourself.

When the old King in the Bible was told that he must be born again, he answered the same thing: "Yes, but what about the serial number" only he said, "Impossible, I cannot go through that re-borning process." And so we find something else that God cannot do - and if we do not watch out, we will find that God cannot do anything, except what we can conceive of as possible for him to do. Isn't it wonderful ?

The very idea of being born again would upset all the human laws about birth. Yea, that is just what the coming into contact with the Divine Law does, it upsets the human law and its way of thinking. Aren't you glad ? "I shall overturn and overturn and overturn until He comes whose place it is to rule." What are you going to do about it ? I think you had better be glad that there is something that can upset the old false standards and beliefs.

And so a lot of funny little souls who are like chameleons, in that they take on others thoughts, imagined they had been hurt by Father Divine, and people who had not been invited, or asked to come to his home, seemed to think they had missed the chance of going, and should accordingly be recompensed for having decided to go. And a great law was shown forth, and many were caught in the trap of not only accepting evil as real, but also assisting in passing on that which had been merely hear-say. It must have been difficult, after trying with such faithfulness to make evil real, to say in prayer "there is no evil." Watch - Watch - Watch"

"Untouched in any way by all the talk," Father's work grew by leaps and bounds. New impetus having been given to it by the glorious proof of the Power. The weak sisters had fallen by the way, and made the ground ready for the souls that were prepared for the meat. Many a babe on a milk diet found the meat too strong, and retired to cut his teeth on something less solid. Isn't it wonderful ?

"They laid every charge against him," sounds like Scriptural language, but it is twentieth century journalism. "Everyman" came after a lifetime of mis-thinking - stumbling and falling on the way, seeking only the loaves and fishes, and when he found none, went stumbling away again, charging his broken-down condition to the teachings of Father.

One little "Everyman" told me she had established a Retreat, where the broken-down souls that had been hurt and torn by Father could find refuge and peace - yes, a place where the driftwood that had been broken on the sea of life might float in. I wonder what will be done with some of the funny little shells and bits that float on the tide from One beach to another ?

I suppose Jesus was blamed for the murder of all the babies that Herod caused to be destroyed, since the announcement of his birth was the cause of their death ? Isn't it wonderful. You and "Everyman " - are beginning to see a little, to recognize the falseness of the character with which we have been associated. We profess the Christ and go into ecstasies over His miracles, and yet we are so often caught trying to "slip up on Him," as it were.

Beloved ! you can "slip up on Him" any time, and you will not find Him wanting - the glorious Impersonal Power that has come to us again has come through the avenue that was most fit and ready to express it. It is wonderful ?

The sport of the human mind is to make a Jesus and then crucify him. And the strange part about those who partake in the crucifixion is that they always come away from their ignoble work exclaiming that they are the ones that have been hurt.

One "Everyman," who ran about saying that she "had given up everything to go to Father's, and now she had nothing," had asked me to pray for her, three months before, in order that she would not be dispossessed of her apartment.

Another "Everyman," who ran about exploiting Father at one time, later ran about saying in her most sanctimonious tones: "I hope no one is going to ask me about Father Divine " - letting those who heard draw their own conclusions.

The Romans had finally had their holiday, and after the noise and smoke of human opinion had cleared away, they found that the "sacrifice" had escaped them, and that the glorious echo of the Voice was still in evidence, and the undying word, "It is WONDERFUL," still echoing in the land.

And so the command, "What went ye out for to see, a man or a principle ?" was again asked and the answer of the masses was "A principle." And those who have been looking for a principle, have found a principle that is again showing forth the works that it came to show forth, and making it gloriously possible for us to enter into the New Day of realization. Kipling has said it was the, disciples and followers of Jesus that crucified him, and not the mad mob as was supposed And so it is - but what must be the feeling of those who imagined they were destroying a Messiah, to find that He had moved "untouched" through their hands ? And what must have been the amazement to find that He was still blessing them and breaking the bread for them. It is wonderful !

"What went ye out to see, a man or principle ?"

The glorious revelations of Father that have attracted even greater and greater masses of people than before, are put in the simple impersonal language that a child could understand, but the "Everyman" who wishes to distort their meaning will find the same old human equation in evidence.

Father is teaching the Here and Now of the Spiritual Universe. He is teaching the possibility of instantaneously entering into the Heritage of the Son of the Living God. He is teaching the blessings unlimited. He is teaching the one-ness of Jesus-Christ, the word made flesh. He is teaching the abundance and fullness of all that is needful - without price. He is teaching. It Is Wonderful.

"The abundance of the fullness of the consciousness of Good - no space is vacant of the fullness thereof."

"You must live in accordance with the teachings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John."

"You must call no man your Father."

"You must be willing to accept your good here and now, as a reality and as a natural part of your universe."

"You must enter into the joys of the Sons of God."

"You must claim your right and press your claim as the Son of the Living God."

"You must be glad, for you are in a NEW DAY."

"Must accept the Presence of the Living God, and know that He lives, breathes, moves and has His being in you."

It is wonderful ! wonderful ! wonderful ! And so are the glorious possibilities of your contacting Him, Here, There, Everywhere; at every place and every time. "Ask and ye shall receive" has again been made true - you will learn the glorious "open sesame" of "Thank you, Father," because you are arriving at the point where you are transcending the human argument and reason, and are able to accept the inspired word of God as True. All you can do, then, is to say" Thank you, Father," because before you even voice the idea, the answer is - and by the glorious revelation that we are now receiving we can prove this for ourselves. It is wonderful that "Everyman" is beginning to go out to see the Principle, and he is coming home filled and thrilled with the fulfillment of the Promises. It is wonderful ! wonderful ! wonderful !

The new way is opening before you - you are beginning to accept the words of the Master as True and without reservations. You are beginning to step out on the Promises of God. It is wonderful. "Be still and know" sets aside the human thinking, and makes you free to receive the laws which no human mind has yet stated - the laws of attainment and accomplishment which are unconditioned and free. Such is the gift that Father Divine has brought to us in the only Impersonal way since Jesus brought it. It is wonderful ! wonderful ! wonderful !

One "Everyman" asked another, "Well, if He does not want money, nor followers, and is not seeking to build a new movement, nor a church, what does He want ?" And the other answered: "He wants you to know your God-given heritage and He wants you to accept His glorious offer of Freedom, for He has said "You are not another but the same one - What I AM you are." Could anything be more glorious, more free or more Wonderful?

(The quoted Italics are the words of Father Divine, in whom I recognize a Door of Revelation. When he said to me : "No man should call me Father who sees me as a man" I knew that I had found a thoroughfare which would lead somewhere other than to unfulfilled Promises.--W.C.L.)

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Our Father Speaks on the Importance of PRESENCE

FATHER'S Message given in
the Auditorium of the
Philadelphia Hotel
764-772 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
July 15, 1942 A.D.F.D.

This beautiful Message stresses the vast importance of recognizing GOD'S Actual Presence daily and hourly and getting rid of the old doctrine which has been taught and preached for centuries that GOD is absent from the children of men and that HE rules and reigns in a Kingdom far beyond the sun, moon and stars.

In this present world dilemma the Presence of GOD is sorely needed by every nation, language, tongue and people, and vainly their prayers are sent to an imaginary GOD in an imaginary heaven. But oh, how glorious it is to realize that GOD Almighty is on earth among men in a beautiful Holy Body and millions and millions have been made cognizant of this great news and glad tidings. Millions are daily being lifted from lacks, wants and limitations; their bodies healed; their minds cleansed; their souls renewed, by calling on the Precious Holy Name of FATHER DIVINE, the Redeemer and the Savior of the universe!

Men and women of the political, social, religious, industrial, professional and all other worlds of expression are coming from far and near, telling of the marvelous things that have been accomplished for them, simply by calling on that Holy Name -- rejoicing as they declare to the world at large that they have found GOD Almighty! Thus it was on this occasion that as usual a large number of visiting friends were present and accepted of the invitation extended them to speak. Several of their speeches are transcribed herein for your benefit and enjoyment.

Thank YOU, FATHER Dear!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which is recorded the song sung by the audience just before FATHER arose to speak.)

'I know the LORD has come, I know the LORD has come.
Glory, Glory Hallelujah! I know the LORD has come!'

FATHER speaks as follows:

PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition is much in harmony and in keeping with the Mission of Jesus of nineteen hundred years ago. Nineteen hundred years it has been a living reality to those who can perceive it and sincerely believe it. Aren't you glad!

It is written:

'They shall call His Name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, GOD with us!'

That was the Mission of the coming of CHRIST in the Person of Jesus: to bring into the realization of the children of men GOD'S Actual Presence, so that they might realize GOD is no longer in that imaginary heaven according to the suppositions of men, but GOD Himself is with them.

Now this is not strange. Because of the Mission of CHRIST you should not feel as though it is strange in this Gospel country and Bible land, for you have been taught from your early existence, GOD is Ever Present, but not so distinctly and so vividly as the teaching of the present day, bearing witness to GOD'S Presence with and without a Person.

Then I say, when you sing those assertions, you have the witness in yourself. If you sing it sincerely, if you sing it in all sincerity GOD has truly come to you for what said Malachi concerning the mystery?

'The LORD Whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His Temple!'

That recognition, that realization would solve every problem; it would adjust matters satisfactorily for you if you could but know once and forever, GOD is actually Present!

I retrace your thoughts back, those of you who have heard and know ME, to one of My original Compositions as a motto for your consideration, in keeping with that particular quotation:

'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD
is the Source of all supply and it will satisfy every Good Desire!'

As the light shines more and more and you observe the Truth concerning the mystery by what you are presently experiencing, you can say with ME, ". . . it is the SOURCE of all supply; it can, it will and it actually does satisfy every Good Desire!"

As the light dispels darkness, even so GOD'S Presence dispels and eradicates undesirable conditions. For this cause it is essential to keep GOD in consciousness according to the Scripture in the fulfillment of that prediction, and have your religious conviction according to the standard of that particular composition.

The LORD has truly come and is with men and always has been but they did not know it. But since calling your attention to the original composition and prediction of the coming of CHRIST:

'They shall call His Name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, GOD with us!'

If the preachers of the Gospel and representatives of the cloth could have, and would have taught this simple Truth since nineteen hundred years ago, GOD would have been REAL among you! GOD would not have placed by preaching and by teaching, some place in the sky geographically, neither far away from the children of men, and would not have given the "other fellow" a chance to come in. But because men teach the absence of GOD and preach the absence of GOD and not the Presence of GOD, the absence of GOD has been made real to the children of men, for GOD hides His Face from them. They live in misery, they live in sin, they live in disappointment and they live in failure because they disrecognize GOD'S Actual Presence to adjust matters satisfactorily for them.

But this Truth to you is real! It is real according to your conviction because you realize and have seen the actual demonstration of GOD'S Actual Presence in evidence in your experience, therefore, it is a reality; it is made Real, Tangible and Practical, for the Word has been made FLESH and dwells among you and you are convinced in reality GOD has been made Tangible and Practical!

To the average religious person GOD is not more than a supposition, but to those of you whose minds have been lifted, GOD to you is a REALITY and you recognize GOD'S Presence even if you do not see HIM. By believing it so vividly, GOD was obliged to materialize it and reproduce it and Personify it so that you might realize the Truth concerning the mystery!

The earth was real even though void, but to the conscious mentality that is, it would not have been real to the conscious mentality of men when that consciousness would have come, had it not been made material; tangibilated, materialized and personified!

I would not be real as a Person to you if you did not know the Truth concerning the mystery, if I had not brought this Message and explained it so explicitly.

The earth was mentally and spiritually real in GOD'S Recognition and Realization, but in the conscious mentality that was to come the earth would not have been real to them, because it was essential for GOD to materialize the earth and cause the earth to be Tangible as matter, as something that could be discerned and made a reality, because the conscious mentality does not observe realities saving as they are tangibilated, materialized and consciously realized.

But oh, how glorious it was to observe the mystery in the making yea, in the creation, making ready, in a way of speaking, for the making of the things that were very desirable. GOD said,

'Let dry land appear!'

It seems like I AM obliged to take you back to the beginning of the creation to bring GOD into your conscious recognition and into your realization, for the children of men do not realize GOD unless you bring them back where HE was in the beginning, as in your personal religious experience. Many times a good many of you are obliged to go back to Conviction's Wharf. Aren't you glad! When I take you back down there where your dungeons shook, why, then you are getting right for the making of the contact with your religious career and travel on from there to here. Aren't you glad! Going back to Conviction's Wharf in your religious and spiritual infancy, when your dungeons shook and your chains fell off in the old-fashioned way of getting religion!

There was a great spiritual awakening in the original system of the common custom of getting converted, as being termed getting religion. A great change in those days took place and you felt good. It was something more than mortal to command and you actually felt as though it was a mighty Hand that had reached low and lifted you; a good many of you felt it. It was a Supernatural Touch according to your conviction and according to the original and former teaching of the religion under which you had been christened. Aren't you glad!

But that is the mystery; because under whatsoever religious conviction or religious creed you are christened, you speak mentally and spiritually after that respective religious conviction, and you get an answer to your sincere prayer according to that birth under which you have been mentally and spiritually born, to that degree. Therefore, it is a blessing to observe the mystery. But bringing you into a more perfect manner of expression, it is a glorious privilege to realize GOD is actually Present; GOD is no longer merely a supposition.

You have imagined many things. Those things you once imagined were not real in reality, saving as they were made tangible and practical and you left that world of imagination in consideration and brought it into your conscious religious conviction by the realization of something better in evidence in your experience. GOD healed your physical body. GOD clothed you and fed you when you were hungry. Then it was bringing that religious conviction into a more recognized state of consciousness where you could realize GOD was not merely surmised, GOD was not just a supposition but a Living Reality!

So, live in this Recognition and lo, I will be with you; and as you think, so will it be, for

'According to your faith so be it unto thee!'

I did not arise at this instance to speak at length, I merely arose especially to give our visiting friends a chance to speak. I delight in meeting and having visiting friends of those who are Christians and those who are non-Christians to participate in these meetings. You are welcome to come if you care to come, and you are welcome to speak and sing and be led by the Spirit within if you are so led to do it. Therefore, those of our visiting friends as ministers of the Gospel, teachers and preachers of religion and professors and teachers and lecturers of social service and other works of righteousness, you are welcome to speak. Anything you wish to say as giving cooperative information such as you have according to your conviction, you are welcome to speak; but do not feel as though you must necessarily speak according to ours. You are welcome to be governed by your highest intuition and we should be governed by ours.

Let this Spirit and this Mind be in you that was also in CHRIST JESUS, and the development and the unfoldment of that particular Mind of which I AM now speaking will eventually be brought to fruition within you as well as in others, for it is written,

'Be ye therefore perfect even as your FATHER which is in heaven is perfect!'

It is your privilege to do it. Now I need not say more at this particular instance, but I AM refraining from speaking to give our visiting friends a chance to speak. If they desire an introduction according to custom, we are pleased to introduce you whensoever you give us the necessary information. I thank you.

(As a card was passed up to FATHER, our loving Savior arose again to say:)

PEACE EVERYONE! We have with us the Reverend Doctor Griffin. If Doctor Griffin would like to have a word to say he is welcome to come forward to the platform and speak, if he is led to do so. I thank you.

(At this instance Reverend Griffin, Assistant Pastor of the Umbria Baptist Church, came forward and spoke as follows:)

Beloved: It is a wonderful pleasure for me to have the privilege for the first time, meeting FATHER DIVINE, at which time I was seeing HIM in New York on the street and I was not able to get close by HIM because HE was in a parade. The greatest of all was when I heard such Gospel that HE was preaching. There is no other Gospel under the sun that can stop it! That is the onliest Gospel there was in the world! Any time the Truth is told it is Gospel. It is really surprising to me for some things that HE did say, because you hear things that are not actually the truth, but when I came and heard it for my own self, then I can witness that as preaching the Gospel.

HE is worth every word that can be said about HIM! I could have sat and listened to HIM for all night; and I believe HE preaches the same Gospel I preach. I tell the people that they must be born again. They must be born again!

I could say more but I am so filled from the very, very fine way I was introduced to you until I hardly know what to say; but I wish it would be that I could come back some other time and explain myself to you just the way I do feel.

I know, this thing -- you know, religion, you can't tell it all at once anyway. It takes some time to tell it. But I can say I want to live so GOD can use me at all times; and when we live so righteous that GOD can use us, then you can never lose anything!

If I should speak no more ever in your presence, you love FATHER DIVINE! I believe myself, HE is wonderful; I always longed to see HIM Personally. Many miracles have been done by your FATHER DIVINE; many miracles have been done, and whether you know it or not, but the majority of the world is trying to get what HE got. No longer than today, I don't know why, I did not know I was going to be here tonight. There was a "w---" gentleman talking to me. He said to me, he said, "What do you think of FATHER DIVINE?" What do I think of FATHER DIVINE? I said, "Well, I think HE is about the wonderfullest Man' that ever was." He said, "I think so myself." He said, "If the whole world could get what HE has," he said, "what would the world be?" He said, "It would be a heaven right here, wouldn't it?" And so he said it is so strange until I put my hand on my head and I said, "I believe you are right." And on and on we talked.

And tonight my main reason for being down in this vicinity is because there is a quartette I used to sing with in Norfolk, Virginia, that happened to be at the Tindley's Temple, and I came down to hear them sing. I used to broadcast with them over station WTAR, and by getting here I saw this car and I knew I had seen this car in the parade in New York. I said, "Oh, my Lord, the One that I have been wanting to see here a long time is here now and I will go over." And I thank you for this little space you have allowed me to speak. I could say more. May GOD bless you and may you ever pray that I may be blessed too, that HE can get the glory out of my life and that I may ever be the man GOD wants to use in this glorious day. I thank you!

As Reverend Griffin concluded, FATHER arose to speak again as follows:

PEACE EVERYONE! Here we all are, in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose to contagionize others with this which we are now experiencing, for we are going on!

If any of our other visiting friends in our midst desire to have a word to say, you are welcome to do so. Do not feel obligated to speak as we speak, neither as the last speaker, Doctor Griffin, but feel free to speak according to your own religious conviction. If it happens to be Mine, it is all right; if it does not happen to be Mine, why, it is all right too. Paul said:

'Let every man be persuaded by his own opinion.'

I say in this modern age:

'Let each person be governed by his highest intuition and move volitionally. Be conscientious and sincere and he will bring forth the CHRIST within to fruition that will give him the victory!'

Remember, Paul said on one occasion:

'The Law of the Spirit of Life that was in CHRIST JESUS has made me free from the law of sin and death.'

The same Law will free you because it is impersonal. Aren't you glad! To each and everybody it is applicable. You can apply it to your life. By bringing your body into subjection it will give you the selfsame emancipation that Paul was speaking of when he said:

The Law of the Spirit of Life in CHRIST JESUS has made me free from the law of sin and death!'

Now, I say, be governed by your highest intuition and be not ashamed of the Gospel of CHRIST! Some people are ashamed to speak, only in their own congregations, but I rejoice and much appreciate the last speaker because he is not ashamed of the Gospel of CHRIST. I believe he realizes this is a Power because this shall sweep the universe. It shall envelop the world, and all nations, languages, tongues and people shall eventually be universal believers! I mean, and I believe the same thing just like you and I believe in the Actual Presence of GOD, that shall satisfy every good desire! I thank you.

(At this point another gentleman arose volitionally to speak as follows:)

Peace: I want to say that I traveled from coast to coast, and since I have been here I have tried to get up and speak in some of FATHER'S places. Now I want to say here that I see that FATHER DIVINE is the onliest Real GOD there is. You can say what you want to say. I have been right there in Youngstown, Ohio, in the Baptist Church, and they charge you ten cents when you go inside the church and then watch over you while you go out. But this is no gambling den. There is no gambling den in FATHER'S place, but every church you go to, it is a gambling den!

I do believe that FATHER DIVINE is GOD Almighty. I don't understand very much but as far as I can see, HE is GOD. I believe HE is GOD and I am going to follow HIM!

It was after this speech that FATHER arose to speak once more as follows:

PEACE EVERYONE! This is not a systematized and an organized class meeting as we usually have in our Methodist Churches, but I move, I speak volitionally to endorse the last speaker; and at times we move volitionally in the actuated words of expression, doing just what others may do by custom, but when the Spirit does it, it is just the same as if it was done by custom.

Class leaders lead the class and instruct the speakers. I have arisen to endorse the speaker in his religious conviction, in his determination to live the Life and keep the Faith and do that which is Just and Right in the act of serving GOD according to his own religious conviction.

If there are any other visiting friends desire to have a word to say you are welcome to do so. If you contact ME harmoniously the reaction of the harmonious touch will bring you your desired results. I thank you.

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He shall be called "GOD with Us"

A Definition from Wikipedia:

Darshan is a Sanskrit term meaning "sight" (in the sense of an instance of seeing or beholding; from a root dṛś "to see"), vision, apparition, or glimpse. It is most commonly used for "visions of the divine," i.e. of a god or a very holy person or artifact. One could "receive darshana" of the deity in the temple, or from a great saintly person, such as a great guru.

In the sense "to see with reverence and devotion," the term translates to hierophany, and could refer either to a vision of the divine or to being in the presence of a highly revered person. In this sense it may assume a meaning closer to audience. "By doing darshan properly a devotee develops affection for God, and God develops affection for that devotee."

A Message for American Thanksgiving

Praise the LORD, Hallelujah, praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD, Hallelujah, praise the LORD!
When you believed ME, then you received it,
For I have brought you the Victory!
Oh, once you were sickly, now you are healthy,
For I have brought your health to thee.
When you believed ME, then you received it,
For I have brought you the Victory!
Oh, once you were dead, but now you are living,
For I have brought your life to thee.
When you believed ME, then you received it,

For I have brought you the Victory!

Our Father's Message Given

February 3, 1934 A.D.F.D
(Taken from World Echo)

PEACE, EVERYONE!

Good Health, Good Will and Good Appetite! These desirable attributes to you I bring, the same as I have been doing. It is indeed wonderful! That little song was composed many years ago, but I renewed the declaration in this particular expression, affirming the affirmation that has been made concerning the deliverance and healing of this child, "When you believed ME, then you received it, for I have brought you the Victory!"

While sitting thinking, MY Thought ran to the great significance of speaking and thinking GOD into action. It is indeed wonderful! When you think GOD into action, HE will come into display automatically! It is indeed wonderful! Thinking vividly and believing equivalently, the very Same Spirit and Mind of your thinking according to your thoughts, with faith and unshaken confidence, will bring into outer expression the desirable qualities of HIM of Whom you are thinking. It is indeed wonderful!

Then I say, your thoughts and words have been materialized. Remember, everything that you see and hear was created by the thinking or by the thoughts of GOD! You cannot think them into existence, for they are existing, but by your rightful thinking on the positive condition, it will tend to bring into materialization that which you are thinking. Aren't you glad! When you believed ME, though you were sickly, you have been made healthy! When you were weakly, you have been made strong by your Faith in HIM that liveth forever! Concentrating upon the strength of the strong, you tend to produce it and bring it into your experiences by vividly and enthusiastically thinking or concentrating upon it. It is indeed wonderful!

It is such a privilege, dear ones, to know that there is a difference between matter and true spirituality, although the two may be the same. When true spirituality shall have been brought into materialization, it may apparently be the same as matter in materiality. It is indeed wonderful! There is a difference between Spirit and matter, I say. Although the Spirit may be materialized and brought into outer expression, you, by your thinking on the Spirit in materialization, you can receive a blessing, and by thinking of the flesh in materialization, you can receive a cursing! It is indeed wonderful!

Just take for consideration: now you her the Name, FATHER, being rehearsed and repeated daily. One may be speaking of a father in mortality and you may be speaking of the FATHERSHIP Degree of Spiritual understanding that is brought into expression in true spirituality and into materialization in the very same likeness. One may be going from door to door begging bread, and the FATHERSHIP Degree of expression having been brought into materialization, can be feeding thousands and thousands daily! Do you not see the difference between visualizing the negative and the positive, although the two may apparently be the same? It is wonderful!

The very name, father, a man may call that very identical name spelled with the same identical letters with which you spell the Name, FATHER, when you are speaking concerning ME, and yet that person or persons they are calling father or fathers, may be living in mortal consciousness and that mortal consciousness or concept will bring into outer expression the characteristics of itself.

Then I say, it is a blessing to visualize the perfect picture and that is why I stress so vividly and enthusiastically the great essential of visualizing the Spirit and not observing the BODY. It is not for MY Sake, dear ones, but for your sakes, for nothing less than CHRIST and nothing more than GOD in the visible expression and the materialization of Bodily Form, can save you from the storm! I do not fear, but humanly speaking, it could have been said, for fear that you might observe ME as a Person and observe someone else that is living in mortal consciousness that would lead you to degradation, for this cause I Came and for this purpose I stand, stressing the great significance of observing the Spirit and not any man!

Although within Myself I may realize, even as you say you do, you have declared the actuality and visible expression of MY Personal activities to be nothing less than the Personification of the Infinite ONE! Nevertheless, for your highest good I have stressed the great significance of visualizing the Perfect Picture and stressing the Spirit in particular. I say it and stress it, not for MY Sake or because of your being misled by following ME as a Person, but to show you and to teach you a lesson, that you might be governed by the Spirit and not follow any other person! Aren't you glad!

By your sincere Faith in ME, as though it was ME, it did heal you of all of your diseases! It has brought you the Victory over adverse conditions! It has given you consolation in the time of trouble! It has bound up the brokenhearted! It has given the weary rest, and you have declared, "It is Manna to the hungry soul, and to the weary, rest!" Now don't say it unless you mean it! ("We mean it, Lord!" shouted the adoring masses.) It is indeed wonderful! If you continue to say it and say it in your mind and in your throat, after a while it g e t s down in your lungs and after a while it gets in your heart, then you are fixed! You can make out pretty well until it gets in the heart! You know it is true! That is the changing place. That is where something else starts! Now don't say it unless you do mean it! You keep on saying it and after a while you will Feel it, and if it gets in your heart in real good fashion, you will be it!

But I AM rejoicing to see practically every one of you having been physically healed of some ailment! Where nothing else could help, it was Love that found you, and this Love is so fascinating, it attracts your attention and calls you from the world of sin and causes your minds to turn to HIM that liveth forever within and not accept of any other one, but to willingly lean on the Everlasting Arms!

Then I say, when you believed ME, then you received it, for I have brought you the Victory! CHRIST, in the Name of Faith, is the Victory for each and every individual. If you will but have it in the express Name of Faith, it will manifest itself in you as the Victory! Aren't you glad! This little child, is an open and outward expression manifested, that each and every person might see, yea, that even the most material might see and understand, GOD is not a GOD afar off, but GOD is a GOD at hand! Through this recognition you can see sighs and tears and sickness and diseases, adverse and undesirable conditions disappearing! You can see all of the afflictions that are in your systems being eradicated and negation dispelling at the recognition of GOD'S Presence by living Evangelical. It is indeed wonderful!

Now don't you love ME? ("Yes, we love You, God Almighty!" shouted the assembly.) Well, if you don't want it to be true, don't keep saying it, for it gets in your heart. That is where something else starts!

These limitless blessings are flowing free for everyone! Live in this recognition and as you can plainly see, it is being made manifest on the material plane. Look at this beautiful dining room with all comforts and conveniences and each and every desirable blessing imaginable, where you could not have even the thought of coming into possession of these limitless blessings just a year or so ago! It is wonderful! I have made manifest these mysteries to this degree, which is only a slight sketch of a reflection of a percent of a percent of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of what I will do this year!

Just look at this beautiful extension of our assemblies, as being termed an extension of the Kingdom, and the comforts and conveniences and all accommodations, and just think of how easy it is for you! Think of living in these beautiful places with all of the Joy and Peace and Happiness, with Love, Success and Prosperity and every desirable blessing so freely given by your great Creator! Now if you don't mean it, don't say it! Don't sanction it unless you mean it, for if you continue to sanction it, after a while you will mean it!

But it is beautiful, is it not, to observe the opening of these beautiful assemblies and the limitless blessings flowing so freely-- of food and of raiment, of houses and shelter and each and every desirable blessing? You can plainly see that if it were only for the material side of life, it would be worth while, would it not? ("Yes, it would!" came the sanction.) Then I say, when you believed ME, then you received it, for I have brought you the Victory! Victory over sorrow! Victory over trouble and all adverse and undesirable conditions, for GOD is the Eradicator and the Dispeller of all such, but the Expresser and Manifester of the desirable, the positive, the pure and the true! You don't need to think for yourselves, humanly speaking, but by relaxing your conscious mentalities by willingly submitting or presenting yourselves as living sacrifices, it will work automatically. The very Spirit of GOD'S Presence will work automatically and you will not have to try to make it work! It is wonderful!

When someone said they called on MY Name and received a blessing, the thought came forth within MY consideration, brought forth within as a little composition, though I did not unfold it openly, the SPIRIT of MY Mind and MY Name are sufficient to heal all of your diseases, for the Name of GOD is Infinite and when you have some faith in the Name of HIM in Whom you trust, it will materially manifest the thing that you are desiring, if you have faith in the actual materialization of this Name! The majority of the people do not get answers to their prayers on the material plane, for they do not have faith in the materialization of this great Name. They may get an answer on the psychic plane, but they may never get there to enjoy the blessings!

If you only recognize GOD and HIS Blessings from a spiritual point of view, you can only receive same from that angle, but by the recognition of the actual materialization of the Spirit of the Presence of GOD, things are materialized for one and for all! Openly you can see it! Just look at these beautiful material things which all came through and by this great Name, by the conscious conviction and actual realization of the natural materialization of HIM that liveth forever and forever! Every desirable blessing for the spirit, soul and body, I can and will bring into materialization and manifest both it and them on the material plane! I cannot make this too stressful, for that is the outward expression of the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven! It must come to the material state of expression to be made manifest on earth!

If I would allow these limitless blessings to stay in the invisible, only on the spiritual or psychic planes, it would be a matter of impossibility for the Kingdom of GOD to come! But every desirable blessing imaginable from the mental or psychic and spiritual planes, I have called them down into materialization! For this purpose and for this cause I came! It is wonderful!

GOD is the MASTER of Omnipotency and the Controller of mankind's destiny! Not only in and on the psychic and spiritual planes, but on the material plane upon which we live! Do you not see that it is a wonderful blessing? ("Yes, God Almighty!" came the response.) Truly might one have said, "Joy to the world, for the Lord has come! Let Earth receive her KING!" GOD is calling the Spiritual things down to the material plane, for HE alone shall have Dominion over them! Aren't you glad!

Those may be hard sayings to the mortal mind or minds of men that are not willing to surrender to HIM, but I have come to make it plain; that is the only way the Kingdom was to come, through and by individuals recognizing the actual materialization of GOD' S Own Son, materializing Himself and materializing everything else, bringing it out of the invisible into the visible and bringing it out of the spiritual into the natural, as it may be termed. You know you used to love GOD in Heaven, did you not? You thought you did! But all of your love has been withdrawn from the invisible state of expression and it has been placed on the material plane through which your blessings come.

These may be hard sayings, but yet they are true. Don't you feel better now? That is why so many in mortal consciousness, visualizing and living in the invisible spiritual realm, they become as spooks and almost like ghosts, walking around here on earth! You can plainly see it! The people that live in that spiritual state of expression and do not recognize the actual materialization of the great Creator, you can see them get pale and all out of life! They come to be just like an unwatered garden! Now notice it for yourselves. You see them going around in the spirit world all the time, never getting out of the spiritual world and they dry up!

A merry heart doeth good, for it is a medicine,
but a broken spirit dries the bones.

And you are broken spirited when part of your spirit has gone into the invisible and a part of it is here! You have broken it, sending some of it to one place and some to another! But we are so glad

HE was in the world and the world was made by HIM,
but the world knew HIM not.
But as many as received HIM,
to them gave HE power to become the Sons of GOD.

For

The word was made flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld his glory.

It is a great blessing to know, Spiritual things can be made fleshly and fleshly things can be made Spiritual! For this cause we are rejoicing, and that is why we have brought with us the Kingdom of Heaven, manifesting it into materialization on the material plane, and here we are, eating and drinking material things right here in the Kingdom of Heaven! Now why fret or worry? Old things have passed away; behold, I make all things new! And if you will live in this recognition, as I AM, so can you be, and sighing and sorrows will pass away, for you will be happy day by day. I thank you.

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