"Civilization Must Advance Spiritually as Well as Scientifically."

"Bring Your Bodies into Subjection to Your Higher Self. --- FATHER DIVINE"


Two excerpts from FATHER DIVINE'S Message as Given at 20 West 115th Street, New York City ,
Saturday, March 14th, 1936 A.D.F.D. Time 11:15 P.M.

Excerpt #1
The Advancement of Civilization


Sunset at The Mount of the House of the Lord

Sunset at The Mount of the House of the Lord

 

 

"Now heretofore, you have lived in an abstract state of consciousness, not in the true Christ consciousness wherein you were born. It is indeed wonderful! Every man has in him and in his subconsciousness, that seed Idea of life lying dormant, but you cannot put it forth into expression saving as you bring your bodies into subjection to your higher self, your higher leading, by denying your conscious self completely. Then I say, the relaxation of the conscious mentality is the great essential. Your conscious thinking must cease to function until you shall have been quickened mentally and spiritually to recognize GOD supremely. When this recognition shall have been established in your memory, then and there you can re-think and re-act. Oh, it is something to consider!

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.'

"You will begin think in your heart scientifically concerning the mystery of that which is termed the Kingdom. You will no longer think on terms as have been you former instruction, you will think on terms of religion from a scientific and spiritual awakened standpoint, even as we are enlightened in the light of civilization, to a greater degree than that of our ancestors. We are being enlightened more and more scientifically, spiritually, as well as socially and inventionally from a scientific point of view, and from other scientific points. If the light of Civilization has advanced to the degree where we can stand here and speak today, and the very sound of our voices can be heard through the universe, and heard over and over again, how much more should the advancement of our spiritual enlightenment be, in this advances spiritual civilization? Truly might have one said,

Grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.'

As civilization advances, you will be able to meet it scientifically, spiritually and religiously. As well as the light of civilization advances for the scientists, our religious understanding can advance equivalently, to cooperate with the advanced civilization, that we might be able to cooperate with them."

Excerpt #2

Every Invention is a Parable

"Heretofore it has not been, for men could not and did not understand, such things could be made tangible, real and personified. Those of the human race have been personifying the negative, the undesirable and untrue. We are endeavoring to personify and universalize the personification of the positive, the real and the true. This is the mystery in which and through which the qualities of GOD can be produced.

" Before the inventor of the radio, yea, even the Victrola, could produce the perfect voice of mankind, he produced it only partially, but as his understanding advanced scientifically, they continued to experiment until they did produce the perfect voice.

"The perfect expression of GOD in and on the material plane, could, can and will be universally established and made real to the children of men, as the prefect voices of mankind can be heard coming through the ether. Now this is not hard for us to believe. Why? Because I AM speaking scientifically, I AM speaking according to your daily experiences. You can plainly see, as well as GOD through men, through science and invention, could, can and actually did bring into observation and into the perfect voice and expression, the likeness of an individual; not only his voice but his appearance, and transmit it through the ether. Do you not know every scientific invention is a parable of the mystery of the spiritual realm?

"Every scientific invention is but a parable, parable-ly speaking, through the world of invention, of the mystery of GOD and of Heaven, and of such spiritual expressions. When I rose to speak, if so to speak, if after the manner of men you take ME to be as any other man, realize, you can, as well as I, dial in on the Christ Consciousness and produce it, and bring it to fruition and into expression in words, deeds and actions, and demonstrate it. The perfect picture through science and invention, your very likeness can appear on the screen. Your very voices can be heard from shore to shore and from land to land. If there is a scientific truth, real, tangible and practical, brought to fruition to a degree where it is accomplished quite perfectly, how much more should it be recognized as operative and as functionable the perfect expression of your Lord and your Savior in your physical bodies? He declared:

"Your bodies are the temples of the Living GOD.''