FD Library – Page 62

The Condescension of God

As Revealed by Father Divine in an Interview with Dr. Lewi Pethrus, Pastor and Editor from Stockholm, Sweden.

FATHER DIVINES’S Interview at His New York City Headquarters 20 West 115th Street, New York City, Wednesday Morning. December 2, 1936 A.D.F.D., Time:11:15 A.M.

“Come ye, and let us go up to the Mountain of The LORD,
to The House of The GOD of Jacob;
and He will teach us of His Ways, and we will walk in His Paths.” -Isaiah 2:3

“Behold, The TABERNACLE of GOD is with men,
and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS People,
and GOD HIMSELF shall be with them, and be their GOD.” -Revelation 21:3.

“Hence, for the purpose of visualization and concentration, GOD, through His Condescension, made His WORD a visible observable TABERNACLE, a BODY of FLESH, that you might observe The ALMIGHTY!” — FATHER DIVINE.

For more than fifty years they have been coming from all parts of the Earth to see Him, to hear Him, and learn of His Ways: priests, ministers, rabbis, swamis, monks, sheiks, metaphysicians, philosophers, educators, scholars, writers – even agnostics and atheists!

And because He is so deeply dedicated to His Work, FATHER DIVINE takes time to see everyone who desires an audience; and even sacrifices the hours and days He might spend at recreation and relaxation to answer, Personally, the thousands of letters He receives weekly from His millions of Followers, Friends, and Well-wishers.

One of the most interesting and enlightening interviews ever granted by FATHER DIVINE -especially from a layman’s viewpoint – was that given to Dr. Lewi Pethrus, Pastor of Philadelphia Church in Stockholm, Sweden’s largest; and Editor of a daily newspaper in the same city, the Stockholm-Tidningen.

At the time, America was battling a major depression. In Europe, Adolph Hitler was sowing the seeds for a World War. In New York City, FATHER DIVINE was healing the sick, injecting Hope to the downtrodden, imparting Wisdom to the ignorant, and feeding thousands of unemployed daily — without cost or obligation!

Dr. Pethrus was accompanied by another minister who did not take part in the fascinating discussion that is hereinafter recorded verbatim. Thank YOU, FATHER!

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What is God?

FATHER DIVINE’S Letter Dated July 5th, 1956 A. D. F.D.

My dear Mrs. Lane,

Your letter of the 11th ultimo is received with clipping attached.

It is wonderful to see how MY Spirit is moving in the hearts and minds of men to establish just laws in government. I have long declared that as it is on MY immediate Staff, so shall it be in government, from land to land and from shore to shore.

The amalgamation of the peoples of the world is the only solution to world Peace and Prosperity. It is the key to the physical health and safety of the people individually and collectively. It is the power that will keep the planes in the Air, the ships on the Sea and the trains on the tracks. It is the spirit of Democracy that will create International Good Will that will promote science and invention which will secure men in their stand for the Brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God.

Now relative to your question concerning the Universal Mind Substance and the Spiritualization of material things and the materialization of Spiritual things, biblical history informs you that

‘In the beginning the earth was void and without form and darkness was upon the face of the waters. And GOD said, Let there be light and there was light.’
God in the invisible realm of expression, was, and is, the Universal Mind Substance – the invisible, intangible, infinite Power, of the Holy Ghost; in other words, Spirit and Mind. Then I say, out of nothing GOD created His Creation, and by the same Power can many worlds be created for you can create the kind of world your thoughts can produce.
In the beginning of Creation God did not have a Body, but since that time, the very WORD of Creation has become Flesh, and the children of this Dispensation can Behold the Perfection of Life in the Personified God-head Bodily Form.

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Interview with Mother Divine in 1997

The second part of an interview with Mother Divine held in June, 1997. She talks about the significance of Father Divine’s dark complexion.

Overcoming Evil With Good

FATHER DIVINE Interview Granted to Mr. Maxwell Fisk, of Australia In the Office-workshop, of the Peace Center Church, 152-160 West 126th Street, New York City, Friday, May 8th, 1942 A.D.F.D

BLESSED REDEEMER, WE THANK THEE!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and the interview follows:)

Secretary: This is Mr. Fisk from Australia, FATHER.

Mr. Fisk: How do You do, FATHER?

FATHER: PEACE! How are you? What might be your name?

Mr. Fisk: My name is Maxwell Fisk. I’m from Australia . ..

FATHER: I see.

Mr. Fisk: . . . and I came not really for myself, although I am really interested, but for my father’s sake. He is interested, very interested, way off in Australia, and he asked me to come in to see You, but I put it to get some of Your magazines. He wants them.

FATHER: I see.

Mr. Fisk: … and I am going to take them back to Australia to him . . .

FATHER: That’s fine.

Mr. Fisk: . . . and one of Your people was so kind to me. I want to get one of the modern -the latest issue. They gave me a very good pile of the back numbers …

FATHER: Sure.

Mr. Fisk: . . . but I have just been down listening to them in the room-You would call it the confession, would You?

FATHER: Yes, maybe, in the auditorium?

Mr. Fisk: Yes. It is fascinating.

FATHER: Yes.

Struck by the Happiness of the Followers

Mr. Fisk: Do You know–of course, You will have heard this from many, many people, but coming in as a stranger from a land so far away and just coming in, the first thing that hits me is the happiness on everyone’s face.

FATHER: It is wonderful! Well, they are, they are quite happy. It is considered through faith in GOD and sincerity, if a person is sincere in whatsoever they do, that person can reach a source of happiness beyond a reasonable doubt, that transcends the average state of happiness that the average person has who is not really conscientiously sincere.

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