FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE
On the Sun Deck of the Manor House
FATHER DIVINE said:
PEACE EVERYONE! Here we are, all together in ONE--each and every nation, every language, every tongue and every people tonight. The thoughts and the minds have turned toward that something some call Love, some call the Great Spirit and some call the Universal Mind Substance--however, they have directed their minds and their hearts to this Principle Whom you call FATHER. The people collectively may not know, all of these qualities expressed or unexpressed must be fulfilled in you! It is true, as in Adam all die, even so in the CHRIST Consciousness shall all be made alive. Through the traditions of your foreancestors and of all of the Christian religions, your attentions have been called for the past week to the recognition of the Birth of CHRIST, but this, as aforesaid, was but a symbol and a sketch of a reflection of the reality of the Birth of the CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS in the hearts and minds of the children of men.
For this cause we are standing as many and yet being One, conscious of the EVER PRESENCE of GOD and conscious of this Birth in the hearts and lives of one and all, that satisfies every good desire and causes dark clouds of doubts and fears to dispel, as a symbol of the Prophecy of the reality of the COMING of CHRIST, in the parable the Wise men experienced as they came from the East to worship Him. They heard the Voice, as the voices of many singing:
'Glory to GOD in the Highest and on earth, Peace, Good Will to men!'
It has been nearly nineteen hundred years ago, yea even more, since that was supposed to have been sung. Yet the reality of this Peace and Good Will towards men had not been Personified in reality, until this last time. Therefore we can see, the things that have been spoken of in parables, in visions and in dreams, they were but the symbols of prophecy, or predictions of what would come to pass in reality as they were done in parables.
JESUS as an Individual, is a pre-evidence of the Birth of the CHRIST in the consciousness of the children of men. He came, and in this Body called JESUS He expressed the Fullness of CHRIST'S coming UNIVERSALLY in the hearts and lives of men. It was first done in a parable, in that Body that was called JESUS. It is indeed Wonderful! It was nineteen hundred years after the fruition of the CHRIST had been made manifest in the Body called JESUS, before it was brought to fruition universally. But we are privileged to see THIS DAY that the symbol, as a sketch and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the coming of CHRIST, has been brought to fruition in your lives and in the lives of the children of men collectively, yea even universally. Hence, CHRIST is being born every day and the SAME BIRTH of the CHRIST is declaring,
'Glory to GOD in the Highest--on earth Peace, good Will to men.'
20 W. 115th St., N.Y.C., N.Y., December 31, 1933 A.D.F.D.
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