FATHER DIVINE feeding chickens in the Promised Land
Following the inspirational composition, 'As it is Right Here, Some Day it Shall Be All Over This Wide Extended Plane.', FATHER speaks on thuswise:
PEACE, EVERYONE: Good health, good will, a good appetite; good manners, good behavior, all success and all prosperity, and the knowledge to know the true and the living GOD, which is life eternal for one and all who may know HIM!
It is written in the Gospel,
'It is Eternal Life to know THEE, the only TRUE GOD and JESUS CHRIST Whom THOU hast sent!'
When I say Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite, these are some of the
Attributes of GOD to you I have given if you will but accept of them and walk
in the Light as the Light is turned on!
A little while ago when you were singing that song,
'Just as it is right here, some day it shall be all over this wide extended plane!'
I thought how marvelous it is to have a foretaste of it and to see the Sample
and the Example exemplified, realizing you have sought diligently and prayedconstantly for just what you are now enjoying! A good many of your fathers and
mothers and others longed and yearned for the time to come when you could live
in Unity, in Harmony, and according to our Constitution, in Tranquility, one
with the other, and be no longer divided in groups and races and creeds and colors;
but you did not know it would happen right down here while you would be tabernacling
on the earth plane! Yet you did pray the prayer that is commonly known by all
other religions, The LORD'S Prayer!' and you did ask GOD to
' Let the Kingdom come and the Will be done on EARTH as it is in Heaven,
and you did say,
'Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all that is evil!'
And you did say,
'For THINE is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory are THINE now, thenceforth and forever!'
All of these declarations you made in your beseeching attitude towards GOD. Even
though it may have been to you as a matter of course, it was left on record as
a prayer for all Christendom to pray, to believe in the coming of the Kingdom
of GOD on earth where there would be Peace on earth and Good Will toward men,
for which CHRIST came!
You realize even the wise men when they were going down to Bethlehem where the young Child was born, it is recorded they heard angels singing, saying,
'Glory to GOD in the highest and on earth, Peace, Good Will toward men!'But you never heard of so much peace universalized until you realized and recognized your GOD!
When you realized and recognized your GOD and made that declaration known, thousands and millions arose in the light of this understanding and declared GOD'S Presence as a living reality! Therefore, to you GOD'S Presence is no longer imaginary, no longer a vision, no longer a dream, but is real! Real! Real!
The REALNESS of GOD to the children of men and the Consciousness of HIS ACTUAL PRESENCE actually does bring about the same results it did in the beginning of the creation. Such a conviction is creative in itself! It is productive and will produce! It is increasable and it will increase! It is multipliable and will multiply because it did it in the beginning and it is doing it continually!
To be Conscious of GOD'S Presence it actually brings the results that it brought in the beginning of the creation when the Spirit of the LORD moved out upon the face of the water and said,
'Let there be light!'
-- and light came forth into expression, according to Biblical history. And when
it said,
'Let dry land appear!'
dry land came from the hidden mysteries of GOD'S Understanding where there was
no visibility of the created earth in evidence, in outer expression, so you could
observe it; because it was GOD'S Presence in consciousness exemplified and declared,
according to the record given; and so it is with this recognition and the same
assertion; GOD is actually present and
'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is actually the Source of all Supply!'
Marvel not, MY fellow citizens, hearers and friends, at the things you have heard
and seen, because GOD in the midst of the children of men today is just the same!
GOD may not have had a Body at that time, GOD did not have a Body at that time, according to history, but GOD was operative and expressive and GOD was creative in HIMSELF by nature, and HE brought into outer expression the earth that was void of expression and without form! There and then the tangibilization of the tangibilatable creation began! Aren't you glad! And from thence until now, GOD'S Presence continues to tangibilate and materialize and reproduce and personify that which was once merely surmised!
GOD'S Presence brought the earth into outer expression, I say, and GOD'S Presence has brought this grandeur and splendor of the abundance into outer expression! It is no longer a vision I say, and no longer a dream, because the word has been made flesh and dwells among men, and one declared,
'We beheld HIS Glory as that of the Only Begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth!'
Can you not see the mystery? And because it was full of Grace and of Truth, He
declared,
'And of all of HIS Fullness have all we received, Grace for Grace!'
Now just think of that! Because of GOD'S Fullness that you observe, the thing
you vision you tend to materialize, and you did materialize it and reproduce
it because you visualized it vividly! You brought it into outer expression! Aren't
you glad!
So then, GOD'S Presence is creative and operative and expressive, and wheresoever GOD is in consciousness and in the consciousness of the children of men, there and then His creation continues to go on! Aren't you glad!
So then, as I said, why, Just as it is right here, some day it shall be all over this wide extended plane! And this is not a supposition; I have declared it! It is the conscious recognition and the realization of millions and all can observe what you have seen and heard! Aren't you glad!
Then I say, by such a recognition, the abundance of the fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof, not only in the material things that life demands, but in the mental and spiritual things that GOD created! -- even all wisdom, and all knowledge and all intelligence and all intellectual ability and every manner of expression that has been given intellectually and scientifically -- all of these blessings are at GOD'S disposal and at HIS service without a letter of the English alphabet! Aren't you glad!
The time cometh and is near at hand, I may discontinue even your studies from an intellectual point of view, though I did tell you to go back to school and I have sent millions back to school! But when you know ME aright, I AM omniscient! I AM omnipotent!
I AM omnilucent! and I AM ever present, wheresoever you may be! I AM all wisdom, all knowledge and all understanding! All you have to do is to know ME! Aren't you glad!
When you know ME aright, all things are possible with him that believeth! That is what I Am talking about! There will be no more critics and no more criterions as far as you are concerned, those who are in harmony with and in and dwelling with the omniscient One!
Who can defy omniscience? Who can criticize omniscience? Where did you get your diction and from whence came Webster's diction? Where did Einstein get his, and all of the mathematicians? With all of the mathematicians' information they have received, it has not diminished in the least, mathematics, because it and they are just as operative!
Those words lastly mentioned are for those who may feel critical or desire to be criterions. Aren't you glad! God in the midst of thee desires to give you a little taste of what HE has for just as it is right here, some day it shall be all over this wide extended plane!
The material expression is but a sketch and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain, of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the mental and spiritual conception! Therefore, critics and criterions, I say, do not think among yourselves that we are merely boasting of the material supply from an economic point of view, for all of this is but a sketch and a reflection of a per cent of a fraction of a grain, of a per cent of a fraction of a per cent of a fraction of a grain of the omniscience and of the mental and spiritual conception! Live in this recognition and the time cometh and is near at hand, you will recognize GOD'S actual presence as the dean of earth and heaven; not only the dean of the universe, but the dean of earth and heaven, and all of the planets therein discovered! By this you will be taught wisdom intuitively and inspirationally, for it will move from the within! God and wisdom will rise in the conscious mentality and will expand itself throughout your being! As science and invention will be that which was once, or has been, but the reality of the inspirator of all creation and of all science and invention will be so pronounced it will no longer be as though it is something abstract, but the reality of wisdom will be tangibilated, materialized and universalized and all shall live by the recognized presence of GOD!
New Day: August 2, 1947 A.D.F.D. Pg 3-4
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