"Overcoming the Negative Is Not a Physical Battle,
It Is a Mental and Spiritual Battle in Your Consciousness."

Excerpts from FATHER DIVINES Message Given while at the Banquet Table at 152-160 W. 126th Street, New York City, New York,
Monday evening and Tuesday morning, June 19-20, 1939 A.D.F.D. at 3:28 A.M.,


The Mount of the House of the Lord

The Mount of the House of the Lord

 

"The conscious mentality with its mortal claims will keep you limited and burdened down, but if you let go that conscious concept concerning your self and everybody else from a personal point of view, and observe things impersonally, there and then you have the victory; for you will transcend the barriers of limitations, you will go into infinity mentally and spiritually you will find you have no destination in this recognition!" "When you shall have mentally and spiritually gotten to the very depths of conditions that are in opposition, and mentally and spiritually you still remain victoriously a conqueror in your conscious consideration, there and then you have overcome death, that last enemy of which I was speaking. It is a personal battle it is not a physical battle. It is a mental and spiritual battle in your consciousness.

"In your conscious mentality you must overcome the oppositions mentally and spiritually from every angle expressible, and realize barriers cannot hinder you. Go through those conditions mentally and spiritually and know definitely it is a matter of impossibility for any sort of an undesirable condition to have an existence when you are conscious of GOD'S Actual Presence. There and then you have won the victory over death, "the other place" and destruction. Because you are not bound mentally to your concept concerning things from a personal point of view, personalities may come or go it will matter not with you! Your version will be the same for you will be characteristically One with your GOD, you SAVIOR, a GOD that never changes!"

"Things only exist as long as they exist in the consciousness of some individual, but when you dispel such a version completely from the consciousness of such individuals who have such things in consciousness, then and only then, will you have the victory over those conditions by realizing the nothingness of those alleged conditions and the Allness of the Impersonal Presence that has been invisible.

"By your bringing an abolition to the visible undesirable conditions in your conscious mentality, naturally the invisible will appear in the place of the visible, antagonistic and conflicting conditions, and when the visibilization of the Perfect Picture shall have been established within you, there will be no longer need for the invisible of the negative to be reckoned and considered; for it has no longer an existence when you have dispelled it."