For instance, just the same as a man in the United States Army – – not only in the time of a great emergency, such as this, but any time one enlists in the Army, if he does not have a dollar, as soon as he enlists in the Army and when he is assigned to duty, why, the government equips him with the necessary uniform and the necessary equipment to serve his nation or his country.

So it is in the great Army of GOD. Men enlist by Faith. It is not by sight but by Faith. So when one makes up his mind to live exactly according to the Fundamentals of the doctrines of Christ, even though he has not done it, it is a vow he is making with GOD subconsciously, and even consciously, and that vow is an enlistment into the Army, and he will receive the blessings he is seeking, as a rule, automatically, for the enlistment with the promise that that person will live and do according to the requirements to possess such blessings or come in possession of such blessings or to possess such blessings.

FATHER DIVINE

New Day 2/14/59;p10,c2;p11,c1

When you speak of electricity you do not speak of electricity as red, white nor blue – – and so I AM. I AM the electrifying power of salvation for the conscious mentality of all humanity, and even the subconsciousness I electrify. That is what I AM!

I AM not bound to what you see, I AM only veiling Myself as an electric bulb of salvation for the conscious mentality of all humanity, and even the subconsciousness I electrify. That is what I AM! I AM not bound to what you see, I AM only veiling Myself as an electric bulb.

Many times you see the red light, the blue light, the white light, but electricity is the reality of the light that expresses it. Aren’t you glad? GOD is GOD with or without a Bodily Form, and every mortal mind had better lay off!

Recognize GOD as a living phenomenon and not as matter or personality, for I AM impersonal by nature!

FATHER DIVINE

New Day 6/29/68; p13,c1-2

GOD IS TRUE! Once upon a time you did call a little cotton plant cotton. You used to call a little plant just coming up two or three blades high, corn. You would say, “Why, the corn is growing nicely.” It wasn’t corn. So people used to say about “My husband, my wife, my child, my this and my the other.” That wasn’t the real one, the real thing. It was just an imitation, the substitution until the real thing came along. It was encouraging to the mortal concept of things until the real thing came. You see the mystery?

But not any of it – – it wasn’t corn, it wasn’t cotton until the real thing came. So that which was corn is that which was invisible. You see the mystery?

That one who is your husband is the One Who was invisible until the time came for Him to visibilate Himself, even as with the corn and with the cotton!

FATHER DIVINE

Office talk, 4/20/48; 4:40 pm

Then as I said, you are breathing in the very broadcast message – – not only mental and spiritual, but you are breathing in the broadcast message of that electricity transmitted through seven hundred and ten kilocycles – – that very broadcast message from and through and by electricity, you are breathing it in, and you are exhaling the same, although you do not understand the mystery! Therefore, you have not concentrated in that direction to the degree that your physical body, your structure could catch it and express it as accurately as the mechanical receiving set could manifest it.

The mechanical receiving set can express it accurately and in your own language, the same as it was spoken when it was broadcast from that station; but your physical bodies are not developed in consciousness whereby your mentality can catch it and your physical bodies express it accurately as the mechanical invention, the receiving set, can express it. But it should be as operative and as expressive in you as a mental and spiritual mechanical invention, as you could except it to be expressive by a physical expression of the hand of art, as a mechanical invention made by man . . .

Hence, the time will come when you will be able to speak and express as accurately by the transmitted message from one to the other, as the radio broadcasting system has become to be practical, real and apparently essential.

Therefore I say, as I have said, the mystery of GOD is now revealed, He came to bring to the surface that which was hid and mankind must arise from that mortal concept of things and discern things far beyond the visible expression of invention, for the visible expression of the invention cannot express a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of all of GOD’S Omniscience. But, as you bring your bodies into subjection and recognize the Allness of GOD and the nothingness of matter, the inspiration that will come from the Almighty will teach you wisdom transcending all human information and all human understanding in this advanced civilization.

Father Divine

New Day 10/25/58;p7,c2-3

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The Personification of the Redeemer must take place universally, even as Benjamin Franklin’s invention of electricity has been universally established. It is not only in one bottle now.

Just think of it, when it was first harnessed or brought down, it was in one bottle, was it not? But now just look at the different bottles in this room. Every electric bulb is a bottle. Just think of how many bottles are here.

The invention of electricity was but a sketch and a reflection of a percent of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the mystery of GOD working. It was a scientific invention expressing in a parable to some degree, that degree of the expression of the fraction of the grain of it, according to MY illustration, and this parable was merely done on the material plane to show you what GOD could do in the souls and bodies of men, how HE would fill and thrill them with His light, life and love, for:

“In him was life, and that life was the light of men that

lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”

Just think of it! Being lighted as the electric bulb – – lighted from the great high tension wire of salvation. The power is coming from the power house!

FATHER DIVINE

New Day l/19/57; p16,cl