FATHER DIVINE
In this Message FATHER shows how the change and transformation of an individual takes place, and how the positive thoughts, words, statements, deeds and actions brings forth a new birth; how man lives again by dying to the old versions and living in the new and true Light of Understanding and by being steadfast and unmovable in his belief when he knows it is right.
FATHER makes reference to the song which was sung by the audience with great fervor:
I know YOU are GOD,
I know YOU are GOD
I know YOU are GOD
I know, I know, YOU are GOD,
Down in this heart,
I know YOU are GOD,
I know, I know YOU are GOD.
FATHER DIVINE speaks as follows:
PEACE EVERYONE: Here we all are again, there I sit and stand. Here I come and go, the same as I have always been!
It is a wonderful privilege to be here this morning, and yet to be here this afternoon, to be in the vibrations and in the atmosphere of such faith that cannot shrink, being in such environment that will actually change the nature and the characteristics of men, the same as the heat of the sun changes the time and the seasons.
Oh, it is a privilege to be in the actual presence of GOD! While that little song was being sung just before the second to the last, and the second to that, I thought of how marvelous it is to say anything if you mean it. If it is something you desire to produce, if you say it vividly, sincerely believing it, and if you are in the vibrations and in the atmosphere of it, when the vibrations are raised high, and when you contact the CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS, those versions will be branded in your physical bodies, and you will become to be partakers of that which you are stressing.
I say, "Don't say it unless you mean it," and if you say it and continue to say it, it will change your physical feelings, it will change your physical taste; it will change your physical hearing and the other of the five senses combined; each and all of them will be changed completely, and will get in unison according to their respective mission.
If you continue to talk about love, saying it even if you do not believe it in the beginning, if you keep saying it after awhile "it will take.'" It will take in these vibrations, for the atmosphere is contagious. Whatsoever may be continuously reiterated vividly and stressed in your consideration, your conscious mentality will take it, and your subconsciousness will conceive it. your conscious mentality and your subconsciousness are susceptive to thoughts and things as they are expressed in your conscious consideration and especially whensoever they are continuously reiterated, your conscious mentality will take them. they will get in your mind, and you cannot get them out. That is why there are those who do not desire to hear or see their children iterate and reiterate words they do not wish for them to be partaker of.
Why is it men in some places, even some of the prejudicial officials in some places will try to keep you from reiterating the word "PEACE" on your automobile and other and other places, for they know that the word "PEACE" is contagious. It is as contagious as A, B, C, although you did not know such letters were contagious, but all of your alphabets are contagious when you continue to say them.
Any word that you continue to stress and vividly reiterate, after awhile they will be so permanent in your concept until they will become to be a living reality, and you will express them automatically without consideration. The password of "PEACE" , the password of I thank YOU FATHER," if you stay in the attitude, in the proper attitude to be partakers of such Nature, you will partake of such Nature as you iterate the words and reiterate the words which are iterated by the one who passes them on.
This mighty Holy Love shall envelop the world, and all mankind shall see and know there is no other place to go, for they shall all see all that there is, is enveloped in this great recognition of GOD'S Actual Tangibilated Presence, of HIS Mercy, HIS Majesty and Compassion, how the Love that surpasses all human understanding is as operative as your alphabets were in the beginning of your educational career. you iterated and reiterated and reiterated them until they became to be a living reality in your conscious concept and was conceived in your subconsciousness.
Through iteration and reiteration of any positive expression or assertion, you will become to be a partaker of the Spirit and the nature of that which you are iterating and reiterating. Firstly, that which you iterated is being reiterated when you iterate it, but to you it may be as you iterated it in the beginning, but as you will be continue you will be reiterating it, for you will be continually saying it over and over again, the same as you did in your educational career in the beginning, in your catechism or in your kindergarten, whichever, when you said "A, B, C."
We shall continue to iterate and reiterate produce and reproduce the Positive until the Positive result shall be our portion from shore to shore and from land to land. We shall stress those desirable qualities and attributes vividly, and we shall iterate and reiterate them until they become to be a part of us, for the vibrations in which you have been lifted this afternoon, will brand the words you have spoken and the words I have spoken in your conscious mentality, and they will be conceived in your subconsciousness to live throughout all Eternity.
your alphabets, although you have accustomed yourselves to say them some twenty, some thirty, some forty or fifty, or sixty, or seventy years ago, yea, even a much longer time than that, yet can never be forgotten, for they are stamped in your conscious mentality and conceived in your subconsciousness to live forever.
When you are conscious, the reiteration of that identical expression can be reiterated automatically and spontaneously, the foundation for all expressions, the foundation for every good and desirable blessing, as you start out in your educational career to seek to find more Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding, from the Educational World.
This in itself was a parable, speaking of the mystery of Something better. Merely to say your alphabet is not the they great significance of it, but everything is done in a parable. All things you do, and all things you say, they are parables to be fulfilled in reality some day, but as you are persistent in your ambition in making those parables as reiteration, the first may come as a sketch and as a reflection, but after awhile the reality will come forth into expression. The parable firstly, and a continued reiteration of the parable and reproduction of the parable, until the perfect shall have been brought into expression.
We shall make the parable of your human education, a living reality, made real, tangible and practical as a living factor among all humanity- no longer merely to use education as a mere means of information, to explain something theoretically, but to bring that which was theoretically understood and explained and learned, as it may be termed, into actuality and make them be a living reality by tangibilating and materializing that which merely once upon a time was theory, as others are now theorizing.
Upon this foundation if you will stand, every positive spoken word and every good and desirable concept of things will become to be a living concept in reality, and will become to be a living reality, by being made real, tangible and practical, for GOD will materialize and personify that which you have surmised. Nothing is a reality, saving as it is made real to the consciousness of the children of men. Those things are merely theories and versions, ideas and opinion until they are brought into your conscious realization and materially manifested, they are convincible and a reality to those who are living in mortal consciousness. For this cause we shall make real your assertion, your affirmations and your declarations.
We shall confirm every Positive affirmation and cause it, through the confirmation of your affirmation, to become to be a living reality, that you might hereafter declare it as your declaration now henceforth, and forever. We are building upon a foundation that cannot be shaken for this foundation is a Rock which the Christian World call Christ Jesus, the Rock upon which you are building. Aren't you glad? Then I say, by continuing to say "I love YOU," through a continuous reiteration, you will find you are growing into the reality of the sense of the feeling of it, for the vibrations have been lifted, and you are caught up in them. By this, all mankind shall eventually seek to enter into this consciousness where there is PEACE and Rest forever in the PRESENCE of the LORD all the time.
Reiterating the Positive expression, the Positive words as they were spoken, through a continued reiteration, you will become to be the real conceivers, the materializers and the personifiers of that which you merely once surmised and iterated in the beginning. That is why thousands and thousands, yea millions and millions are living in the conscious conviction and the realization of GOD'S ACTUAL PRESENCE because as it was with you in reference to your alphabets in the beginning, they continued to reiterate and affirm and by affirming continually the Positive Affirmation, GOD confirmed that which they had affirmed until it is made real and none can make it unreal. That is why MY followers are so substantiated in faith and unshaken in confidence because they reiterated it and they reiterated it, and repeated it continually until it was stamped within them. When it was once established within, it was a matter of impossibility for them to deviate from it, if it is once established in reality. That is why the mortal mind strives so hard to get you to deviate in thoughts, for the mortal mind knows definitely if you concentrate vividly and believe sincerely, the concept of your version will become to be a living reality, for it will be stamped and branded in you.
It reminds ME of an attempt years ago, when I was traveling Personally- they said they wanted to get that Belief out of ME. If they could shoot it out of ME, why it would be all right, just so I got that Belief out of ME, and did not believe such foolish things, but that Belief was ME, and I AM MY Belief, for I have Materialized and Personified MY conscious conviction, and I AM causing these to do the same!
These Words are facts and figures too shout to be denied, for by your past experience, from even the beginning of your educational career as I aforesaid, the very first three letters of the alphabets, (" A. B. C.") you iterated and reiterated them until they were stamped in your memory, in your mentality, in your spiritual vocabulary that is within you, whereby none can prohibit you from having them wheresoever you go. you do not usually get everything else that way, you do not usually get all things that way, but it is your privilege to be Perfect in every expression by bring to fruition the Perfect expression and the Perfect concept concerning all things that concern you, and be Perfect and get at least from 70 to 100% on every Subject. That is your privilege to do so, for Perfection is in you as the Perfector is there willing and ready to Perfect you here, there and everywhere.
Why should you linger beneath the Grade, beneath the standard? Why should you draw back from any angle? Why not produce Perfection from every angle and on every account and in every expression that Perfection might be your portion and that you might be able to express it accurately? It is your privilege to do it.
your alphabets and 1,2,3, were something, and they still are something children usually get perfectly by committing those things to memory, but they do not seek diligently to get all things perfectly as they do those things in the beginning. Let your ambition be to Perfect yourself wheresoever you are and produce Perfection from every angle expressible that you might be a Sample and Example for others. Do not be satisfied at anything less than the best. Truly might have Paul said on one occasion:
Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ behind, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of GOD in Christ Jesus." (Phi. 3:14)
Leaving even the Principles of the doctrine of Christ behind, that you might
go on to Perfection. Hence, I say at times, Whensoever an individual can and
will express from any angle expressible a perfect expression, even though they
may not be the real expresser of it, if you stress it or speak of it, I AM glad
to endorse you in the perfect state of expression, if you can even so much as
speak of, or as an endorser expresses a thought concerning the Prefect. Then
I say, as you say in your Songs and in your Praise and in your affirmations which
you are making day by day, I Love YOU," or any other positive expression,
if it is for the advancement of your spiritual growth and your understanding,
for the Redemption of your body, or Emancipation of your mind from certain conditions
by reiteration, you can continue to bring such an expression to the surface and
GOD will confirm it, if you will merely affirm it; for everything you can affirm
GOD can confirm and everything you can ask for and desire, GOD can give.
Your imaginations cannot go above nor out of the power and reach of your Creator's Dominion to make a reality out of your fondest imagination. Then I say, make your imaginations great and your desires the same, and make your affirmations known to the children of men, and by so doing, GOD, as HE confirms and makes your imaginations with your affirmations a living reality. HE will also bring it and them into the conscious realization of others as they co-operate together with you; no longer living in the outskirts of the understanding and the world of great revelations, but living in the place where all revelations, inspirations and all things coming from the spiritual realm are common to those of you within that world of existence, for all things are made plain by HIM Who liveth forever.
There are many things I could say along this line, but I merely arose to stress the significance of reiteration and affirmation and imagination, or reiterating, affirming and imagining. When you imagine something good, when you stress it vividly in your consideration, your fondest imagination can be your conscious realization, for GOD can bring it into outer expression and bring it to pass, although it was hid from your conscious concept in the beginning.
You cannot be conscious of things saving as they are materially manifested and brought down on the material plane. You may be conscious of your imaginations, of your desires and such like, but your desires are not a reality until they are made real, tangible and practical by materializing them. They must be materially manifested before they can be a reality to all of the people. For this cause I AM especially stressing the significance of making real your fondest imagination and continuing to reiterate the Positive assertions and stress them vividly and sincerely, that we all might be partakers of such as you are now stressing and desiring to come forth into expression.
Oh, it is a privilege to live in the Actual Presence of GOD! You are in the Presence of GOD! You are in the Presence of GOD and you know it. Everybody is in the presence of GOD, they all are in the presence of GOD universally, but they are all not conscious of it, therefore, they cannot tell you definitely the things pertaining to the Kingdom of Heaven, and they do not get the desirable results such as you get because they are not conscious of being in the Actual Presence of GOD.
Your consciousness of anything will cause the results to be manifested in that which you have stressed in your conscious consideration. If your conscious concept conceive an idea that is negative, that conscious concept will express your conscious conviction; as it is manifested in your physical system, you will express it in your physical appearance in your countenance. Why? Because your thoughts in consciousness are in your physical body and your body will manifest your thoughts as you think them, for "your body is the outward expression of your mental and spiritual conception." Why not train yourselves to think positive thoughts, to think wealthy thoughts, to think progressive thoughts, to think desirable thoughts and stress them vividly in your consideration until they are brought into your conscious realization by harmonization?
By harmonizing with your Creator, by harmonizing with the Teaching of Jesus, by co- operating with the fundamentals as were given by Jesus the Great Love Master, you will bring into your present experience that which you have vividly visualized and by so doing you will actually materialize that which was merely once visualized, Love and Happiness, PEACE and Pleasure, Success and Prosperity and all of the desirable expressions of which I AM stressing and manifesting, each and all of them can and will eventually be the outward expression of each and all of you.
The negative has been a reality because mankind has stressed it vividly. Mankind has thought upon it and allowed his mind and his thoughts to dwell upon those negative things and conditions, hence, they have brought, and they continue to bring unto themselves such an outward expression in their physical system and after it is manifested in them in consciousness it is also brought into outer expression in their surroundings because the outward expression of your surroundings is the product of your mental world of existence.
Your home, your automobiles and any and everything surrounding you, not only these things which are within you, but all things that concern you will be the outward expression of your mental and spiritual conception and of the things that you dwell upon mentally and spiritually, even if you have not seen them. Why is it some homes are so tidy, decent and sanitary? It is because of the cleanliness of the mind of those in charge. Their surroundings are also cleansed by that cleansing process that is going on in the mind firstly, and then in the outer expression of the physical system, giving the physical body courage and zeal and vigor to go about your daily duty to accomplish your endeavors as it does. Then it will also bring about the expansion of that cleanliness of the mind into all things on the material plane whatsoever they may be that may concern you.
Perfection must be, therefore, WE must not deviate nor deteriorate. WE must not retard our advancement until WE shall have attained Perfection in every expression, as I have said in reference to one great unfoldment- as wicked as men can be, men can express that of "the other fellow" so vividly until mankind will call them "the natural-born other fellow". Think of expressing wickedness so vividly, that which is commonly known as' wickedness' expressing those things so vividly continually until they become to be partakers and expressers of such a characteristic until the average person will consider that the person is "a natural-born other fellow! Why is it? It is because that person has expressed it so vividly and convincingly until it is uppermostly in the consciousness and in the actions of the individual; therefore, he is classed as that, as such that they may call him.
Now bring your bodies into subjection to the Positive assertion, if it is only to the Angelship Degree of which we are daily stressing. Live it and express it vividly continually; reiterate it in actions and in deeds, until you become to be the real outward expression of your Mental and Spiritual conception!
Name means nature. As you continue to go by the name of Angels" you must produce the characteristic and the nature of the Angels, if you are open-mined. The reverse is equally true If you are expressers of the negative and continue to vividly stress it in your actions and in your deeds, you will eventually be partakers of the nature and characteristics of the negative and will manifest it in your physical system and in your surroundings.
It is a privilege to be where you can be called by the name of GOD. The very Name of GOD is a blessing to each and everyone who will not take the Name of the Lord your GOD in vain. GOD'S Name is an Angel: GOD has many Names I claim. When GOD went down to Lot, yea, even when HE went down to Abraham, as it may be termed, while Abraham was sitting in his tent door, HE came to Abraham in the Name of three young men. By the religious version of our day, they were known as "Angels," but yet it was GOD in reality coming to him in the likeness of the actuated language which HE could understand.
If GOD would have come to Abraham in the likeness of the imagination of the children of men concerning HIM, Abraham could not have understood-it would have been a matter of impossibility for him to understand, but through GOD'S Condescension, GOD has always appeared to men as men, and to man as man, saving as they are brought under some superstitious imaginary delusion, then GOD will appear to them in that deluded state of expression according to their mortal version. My true Followers who know the TRUTH concerning the Mystery, they could not and would not see an Angel as the average person would consider Angels to be. they could not and would not see an Angel from that angle even though they see such an expression in their dreams. Why? Because they are lifted out of that world of imagination. they are no longer imagining vain things for it would be vain to seek to see Angels with long wings. Aren't you glad?
You are blessed to be lifted above such superstition and imagination, that your fondest imagination from the spiritual realm might be brought into outer expression and descend from that spiritual concept of things down to the earth plane just as the Kingdom was to come:
'Let thy kingdom come and thy will be done.'
The Kingdom has truly come, but not according to your imagination, not according
to your mortal version, not according to the theories and doctrines of the children
of men, yet coming down in the fulfillment of the Prayer which they so long have
prayed:
'Let thy kingdom come and thy will be done.'
Let it come from the imaginary realm. Let it come down to the earth plane. Let
it come down in the likeness of the children of men, and let us all be like HIM!
Truly might have one declared:
'When we shall see him, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as HE is.'
GOD coming down to be like the children of men and to be One among them, and
yet all in HIM; no longer living in the superstition of your former mortal version
concerning GOD, the Kingdom and of Heaven, but living in your conscious conviction
of that which was in the imaginary realm, having come from your fondest imagination
down to your conscious conviction and your conscious realization; for GOD has
made your fondest imagination your conscious realization.
You may imagine vain things as well as imagining things that are not vain, but it is in reality vain to imagine things to be as you have thought them to be in your religious infancy. you must no longer be as children in wisdom, knowledge and understanding, but merely be children in malice, in strife and in anger. Be children in those detestable tendencies. Be children in detestable characteristics, but be men in understanding. No longer will you be looking to go in the imaginary heaven, for John declared concerning the mystery of which I Am now stressing, he saw a new heaven and a new earth coming down from GOD out of Heaven, coming from that imaginary Heaven, coming down to the earth plane. That Heaven was only an imaginary heaven. It was only heaven to the religious World's imagination; but to live in a Heaven of reality, it had not yet been tangibilated, it had not yet been materially manifested. Therefore it was essential for the new Heaven to come down from the imaginary heaven as a sample and as an example, that the earth plane might copy after the fashion of the imaginary heaven's conception that was sent down from the imaginations of the children of men to the material, yea, to the earth plane. For this cause we are rejoicing to know we are lifted individually and collectively above materialism and above mortal versions and theories and doctrines of the children of men. We are living in the Actual Kingdom of Heaven here and now, a state of consciousness where CHRIST has truly come and has made HIS Abode once and forever, and HE shall abide with you forever. I thank you.
THIS LOVE
This Love is like a blooming flower,
This Love grows sweeter every hour,
It's the seasoning of our souls,
We're filled with Joy that's uncontrolled,
This Might Holy LOVE of FATHER!
This Love will cause your heart to sing,
This Love will make the heavens ring,
For it fills all vacant space,
Nothing else can take the place
Of this mighty Holy LOVE of GOD!
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