"GOD'S Actual Presence Comes Forth into Expression Merely By the Recognition of it."

"The Press Can Slay Nations." -- Father Divine

Our FATHER's Message given whilst at the Artist Colony, Milton-On-The-Hudson, July 13, 1939 A.D.F.D., Time: 12:40 P.M.


FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE

FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE.

 

Little did men realize that electricity and all scientific discoveries and inventions are but parables revealing to mankind the mysteries of GOD's Omniscience, HIS Majesty and HIS Power here on earth among this people. As electricity is of great use to humanity when applied correctly and controlled by man, and as it is a destroyer of anything and everything when it is free and expressing volitionally in a great electrical storm, so is FATHER DIVINE, the Great Dynamo of Salvation, the same. When men harmonize with HIM and bring their filthy bodies into subjection to HIS Will and IS Desire and live righteously, soberly and godly as they should, why, HE showers down upon them every Good and Desirable Blessing conceivable; but woe to any man who will speak antagonistic words against the GOD of every nation, for they will find that they have run up against the Power House of the Universe itself and their electrocution will be short and swift and their downfall will be pitiful. For what said the Scripture?

'Before one jot or tittle of My Word shall fail, Heaven and earth shall pass away!'


Therefore, man, choose ye this day whom ye shall serve, GOD, FATHER DIVINE, or the "other fellow"--- doom and inevitable destruction!

O Mater of Omnipotency, we humbly thank and praise Thee!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber after which FATHER speaks as follows:)

 

Peace, Everyone: It is good to be here. To be in the Consciousness of GOD's Presence, it is good at any place wheresoever you are. As I have often said, heaven is not a place geographically but a place in consciousness wheresoever GOD Rules and Reigns Supremely.

If the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is in evidence among this people, we find that GOD's Kingdom is there established. The conscious recognition and the realization of GOD as a Living Reality will establish the Spirit of Supremacy in the hearts and lives of those who are conscious of HIS Presence and will cause the reproduction of the Supreme One to be manifested universally.

How glorious it is to observe the mystery, even though it may come through the most insignificant, those who are called the least among the nation, those who are called under-privileged, and I say those who are called non- privileged, it is a privilege to have the privilege of being ignorant enough to believe in such an unbelievable thing, that GOD is a Living Reality, made Real, Tangible and Practical among this people.

I know it is an expression of fanaticism but it works supernaturally, the same as electricity as I declared it. When electricity was first invented, as I said in that Message as read, men did not believe that electricity could electrify the nature's atmosphere; they thought it would only contact or be transmitted through some sort of metal or material, visible expression before it would be really in reality transmittable.

But oh, how glorious it is to see in the parable of the invention, GOD is telling you of HIS Actual Presence, of HIS Omniscience, of HIS Omnipotence and of HIS Omnipresence, how HE Moves and Works scientifically according to science and invention, that science and invention, in the actuated words of expression, might tell all creation in their divers parables of expression, that GOD is a Living Reality, made Real, Tangible and Practical and transmitting from and through the Fount of HIS Omniscience, Wisdom transcending all human intelligence.

 

The Presence Comes By Recognition

Oh, it is a privilege to recognize such a Presence and it comes forth into expression merely by the recognition of it! It is not anything you do especially to bring it about, but by recognizing GOD's Actual Presence and by submitting yourself unto GOD and resisting the mortal version, which by the religions the "other fellow" we call him those expressions of negation, adverse and

undesirable conditions are dispelled from among you and the Light of Understanding comes forth into expression. Success and prosperity are in evidence; they are in evidence and the very Spirit of Progressiveness is manifested and you will make your demonstrations automatically without seeking anything or anyone to help you !

As I looked over this beautiful abode, I said this morning, you hear of the different practitioners and representatives of the metaphysical field speaking of their demonstrations, if they can make a demonstration, and of what they desire to do in the act of bringing about a demonstration of the supernatural Power of GOD on the material plane, I said, when you behold these limitless blessings that is expressing and manifesting, it is plain to see and to know definitely that GOD as the Demonstrator is not only the Demonstrator but the Creator, the Author and the Finisher of all demonstrations !

The Name in itself, it brings into outer expression that which is superior to all of the mortal version. For this cause it is essential and it is significant, more than your minds can grasp, for you to recognize GOD's Actual Presence, for GOD is the SUPREME ONE and by such a recognition the transmission of HIS Supremacy fills the atmosphere in which you are living and the convicted and converted hearts and minds of the children of men are quickened in this atmosphere, this mental and spiritual atmosphere, and you become to be super-intelligent by the transmission of GOD's Omniscience.

 

10.000 Adults In School

GOD Teaches wisdom from every angle expressible, not only wisdom industriously but GOD Teaches wisdom, scientific wisdom, wisdom of every expression for the benefit of the advancement of the understanding of this people.

As I said the other day there are those who do not know, in New York City once I sent out a request for all of MY Followers and others who desired to advance intellectually and learn more from an educational point of view, to return to school, matters not how old or how young they were. Overnight, among the adults, there were Three Thousand turned out to schools! Since that time there have been more than Ten Thousand in the different schools throughout this state and through the other states among the adults who had never thought to go to school again. Aside from the public schools there are the schools in the different extensions; They are training them from every angle of expression.

Oh, what a privilege to realize CHRIST is rich and all you need and GOD From this angle of expression, will your every hunger feed and produce and bring to fruition the very Spirit of Independence! No longer merely to read the Spirit of Independence theoretically in your consideration but read it as a living reality as transmitted as a spiritual awakening in the character and in the lives of the Children of men that they might be partakers of the Nature and the Spirit of Independence.

As the country declared her independence as a nation, we stress the independence of individuals that they might be real American Citizens. I often say, how can a person expect to be even so much as classed as a real American citizen if he or she cannot express their citizenship individually and characteristically, naturally and spiritually as well as declaring their citizenry as a person because of his birth, the physical birthplace being in the United States of America ?

 

The Spirit of True Americanism

Truly might have one said,

'The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.'

Then Spirit of True Americanism will produce and bring forth to fruition in you your real citizenship if you will allow it to, but you cannot be an American citizen in reality just merely by considering you are an American citizen and independent documentally, but you must bring it to fruition by re- inculcating and by reincarnating the very spirit and the nature of the document and prove it within convincingly, that you are an American citizen and expressing your individual independence.

Oh, how glorious it will be when all government shall have been converted in reality ! The government of our country, as it may be termed, reminds ME so much of a whole lot of church folks who claim to be religious and devout and have not had the touch of the Spirit of their religion in the heart. The heart has never yet responded to the Spirit of their religious belief but they merely have the religion theoretically, according to the disciplines and not according to the Spirit within them ! But oh, how glorious it is to know, those with whom I come in contact, when they live according to MY Teaching, they are actually quickened and awakened into the Light of this Understanding by the Spirit of the Consciousness of such a Phenomenon no longer merely to observe anything merely documentally but to observe it scientifically and according to the spirit and the meaning of such as you are representing. By you producing and bringing such within, I AM causing your very nature and your characteristics to be a part of it.

 

Expressing the Nature of GOD Physically

For this cause MY Followers physically are expressers of the Characteristics and the Nature of your SAVIOR. By concentration and by harmonization they are partakers of the Nature and the Characteristics of your GOD. Can you not see the mystery ?

I have often said and I re-say the same again,

'The thing you vividly visualize you tend to materialize.'


You have vividly visualized that of which I have stressed vividly in your consideration. You are bringing into materialization that visualization and bringing it into outer expression because you are bringing it into materialization. It is not brought into outer expression until it is brought into materialization and materially manifested, but when it is materially manifested it is brought from the inner to the outer, brought from the invisible to the visible; it is made visible by the tangibilization of that which you are stressing. Aren't you glad ?

We mean to materialize and personify every unfoldment of the mystery as I reveal it distinctly to the people! We mean to bring from the hidden realm of GOD's Omniscience, wisdom, knowledge and Understanding concerning the mystery of GOD's Actual Presence, of HIS Work and of HIS Mission so scientifically until it will seem supernatural, yet I shall tangibilate it and materialize it and even personify it in the lives of those whom will conceive it and bring it to fruition within.

I thought of what I said in that Message a little while ago concerning,

'MY Tongue is a pen of a ready writer.'


Truly might have it been a common saying used in America and in a good many of the other countries,

'The pen is mightier than a sword.'


Men of great ability have been slain by the pen! Can you not see the mystery? Get the newspapers behind an individual and they will put him down if it is possible to do so, for the pen is mightier than the sword. The press can slay nations over and above all of the armies and the navies. They tried to slay ME but they could not and they cannot do a thing, for MY Tongue is a Pen of a ready Writer! my Heart has been inditing a great matter, yea, a good one David declared in his Psalmic prediction of this dispensation:

'Mine eyes have seen the King!'


He said,

'Forget about your own people and your father's house!'


You must lose your mortal identity according to your respective cursed lineage. I said according to your respective cursed lineage, and identify yourself with the Infinite, Who is Blessed once and forever Who is cursed, no never!

Oh, it is a privilege to realize what it really means to harmonize with this of which I AM stressing! MY Tongue is a Pen and it is a ready writer! The whole American press, in a great measure, tried to slay ME but they could not do a thing, for when they rose against ME, I AM a Press within and MY Tongue is the Press' Pen! MY Tongue is the Press' Pen! Aren't you glad! And when I speak, millions respond, even as they respond here this morning!

Millions are responding now to MY slightest wish, to MY slightest desire! Automatically I reach those who are in harmony and they are blessed abundantly automatically psychologically, mentally and spiritually, without the conscious consideration of it! "Vice-versalate" the expression and the assertion you find those are cursed who rise in opposition through criticism, accusation or trying to use words through lowration!

When they speak of ME in the press, they use the word, "so-and-so." What for? Think they can lowrate ME ! They are disgracing themselves! It shows the lowrated degree of such an individual that would speak of a Supernatural Phenomenon as a "so-an-so !"

 

The Electrifying Power of Salvation

When you speak of electricity you do not speak of electricity as red, white or blue and so AM I ! I AM the Electrifying Power of Salvation for the conscious mentality of all humanity and even the subconsciousness I electrify ! That is what I AM ! I AM not bound to what you see, I AM only veiling MYSELF as an electric bulb of Salvation for the conscious mentality of all humanity and even the subconsciousness I electrify ! That is what I AM! I AM not bound to what you see, I AM only veiling MYSELF as an electric bulb!

Many times you see the red light, the blue light, the white light, but electricity is the reality of the light that expresses it! Aren't you glad ! GOD is GOD with or without a bodily form and every mortal mind had better lay off !

The same as a little old cursed local paper you have here, speaking about the "so-and-so" GOD ! The man is cursed beneath the lowrated word he spoke against ME ! I AM the GOD of Every Nation! Now tell them I said it! Every language, every tongue and every people, GOD is Spirit and GOD is Mind, the same as electricity!

As I told a man the other day, why, I slightly asked him he was a representative of the press, a little local press up this way I said, "Do you know very much about Hearst's papers?" He said, "We don't bother with Hearst's papers very much," or words to that effect. I said, "Well, I just thought I would call your attention to them, because they rose in opposition to ME a few years ago, but they went down and are still going until they repent and believe and be baptized; and I AM not sneaking of being baptized in material water but being baptized in the Light of Righteousness and cleansed from all dishonesty, incompetence and untruth and recognize GOD as a Living Phenomenon and not as matter or personality, for I Am Impersonal by Nature !"

 

The Natural Atmosphere Electrified

They strike live wires and they do not know it! They strike Live Rails and they do not know it! And if they choose to take a little flight in the air in the atmosphere they may get a shock up there, for I Electrify nature's atmosphere and environment in which you live ! Aren't you glad !

A good many of you may recall several years ago here in Jersey, there were many birds that had fallen to the ground, the majority of them killed, the most of them, whichever. They did not know why, but through a study of science, by science, whichever, they found that the atmosphere was charged with electricity, with such a powerful radio broadcasting system they had flown into a wave length and they were shocked in their nature's atmosphere through the invisible !

This is only a parable. Electricity and all of its inventions are only parables as a slight sketch and a reflection of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the reality of GOD's Omniscience and of GOD's Infinite Spirit among this people!

Take these thoughts into consideration and jot them down in your mental and spiritual vocabularies and you will see the mystery of GOD's Actual Presence is not to be tampered with or played with without due consideration according to MY Plan and according to MY Purpose ! I thank you ! I thank you ! I thank you!



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