FATHER DIVINE,
Convention Hall, Atlantic City, N. J.
FATHER'S Love, like a mighty magnet, is daily drawing His Own unto HIM from the North, the South, the East and the West, and they are making their pilgrimage here to pay homage, and to give thanks and praises to One Who has liberated them and instilled in them the Virtues of True Americanism, thus giving them free access to Life, Liberty and the Reality of Happiness.
On this occasion, in the beautiful Tarrytown Mansion, a sister who had recently arrived from the West Coast, praised FATHER for His Limitless Blessings to her, stating, that before she knew HE was Materialized in a Bodily Form, she called on HIM in the Name of Jesus and HE saved her from death many times. Then on one occasion, she stated, when she was critically ill with poisoning of the bowels and was passing out, after having refused medical aid, and when all the church members were praying for her, she saw letters of gold written across the bed sheet saying, "My glory I will not give to another," and a few days later she was restored to perfect health, for which she gave FATHER all the praise and honor which is rightfully due HIM.
After the conclusion of this beautiful testimony, FATHER sang the following composition which is well worth considering, followed by this Glorious Message given for the edification of each and every living creature.
For Thy Great Condescension, O GOD, we humbly thank Thee!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and the following is the composition, followed by FATHER'S glorious Message.)
SONG
'One by one I saw the angels coming, one by one I heard them sing,
One by one I heard the Spirit humming; Hallelujah, praise the King!
They are coming seeking new bodies, on this earth to dwell among men,
They want bodies somewhat like your FATHER'S,
Hallelujah, praise the King!'
PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite; All Wisdom, All Knowledge and All Understanding, with Life, Liberty and the Reality of Happiness! These and all other Blessings, you have them!
At this particular instance it is a pleasure to retrace your thoughts back to that original composition as though we were speaking of angels that were invisible, and so they were! GOD Himself to you was invisible, but appearing at intervals through transmission, by inspiration, by revelations and by visions, speaking in the actuated words of expression according to the Scripture and according to the Scriptural prediction: GOD will speak to you in visions and in dreams, and at times GOD through His condescension comes to those who are spiritually inclined by inspiration; at times by intuition, by revelations, by visions and by a great spiritual awakening; but in visions, GOD reveals Himself to the children of men as they are in that place to see HIM and observe the Truth from the angle of expression whereto they have been converted.
'One by one I saw the angels coming, one by one I heard them sing,
One by one I heard the Spirit humming; Hallelujah, praise the King!
'They are coming seeking new bodies, on this earth to dwell among men,
They want bodies somewhat like your Father's, Hallelujah, praise the King!'
That little inspirationic composition, yet it being a composition and a song
for consideration, it was also a prediction, an affirmation, yea, and a declaration.
I could, by the inspiration through the composition, see the angels coming --
coming for the purpose of lifting others to that standard or status wherein they
function so that they might express and enjoy life, even as the angels did from
that angle of expression -- reincarnation as an illustration to be considered
in observing the invisible.
The invisible is observed by visions, by dreams, by revelations and intuitively observed by one's intuition being in touch with the Infinite One, therefore, those things being observed, they are brought into actuality and into reality when reincarnated in someone. They are no longer merely dreams and visions, but the recognition and the realization of millions.
The invisible angels were not considered as a reality until GOD caused them to be made real, tangible and practical by reincarnation.
'God makes His ministering spirits angels and His ministers flames of fire.'
His ministering spirits are made representatives of some special mission. They
are commissioned to go forth and carry the message, and they are commissioned
to do so by being reincarnated, for the message is not at all times observable
or understandable to mortality or to the mortal mind if it merely appears to
them in a vision or in a dream as something invisible, intangible; to them it
is impractical.
For this cause GOD shaped and formed HIMSELF in the likeness of sinful flesh to speak to the children of men directly, and HE also prepared bodies for the reincarnation of the invisible inspirations and commission of HIMSELF from the different angles of expression, and HE calls His ministering spirits angels, and calls His ministers, who are the angels of the Spirit of Life, flames of fire.
It is a privilege to realize all of these different degrees of unfoldment of the Spirit. As I have often said, they are as much a living reality, even though it may be deemed as something inspirational and supernatural -- they are as much a living reality as the nations that are formed in the likeness of the First-born, in the likeness of the first made, or shaped or formed, even Adam.
They are made a living reality, for out of One Blood GOD created or formed all of the nations to dwell upon the face of the whole earth. This was a visible and tangible unfoldment of the visibility of GOD'S human creation, but there is something as great to be considered. There is a Spiritual creation as was requested by Jesus to Nicodemus,
'Ye must be born again.'
This new birth of which Jesus was speaking, it was a spiritual birth that must
needs be considered. Aren't you glad!
Hence, as was with the first man Adam that was of the earth, earthy, and all other nations created by HIM and in His Likeness and Image of the first man shaped and formed by the One Blood, even so by the One Spirit all are born again. Therefore, in that degree of unfoldment of your experience, I truly did appear according to your faith and according to the time and season and according to the conviction of the people who were born in that recognition. Can you not see the mystery! Out of One Spirit GOD created all of the different unfoldments of religion and all of the spiritually born into a spiritual recognition. Can you not see the mystery! As with the nations, so with the denominations. As with all of GOD'S Creation from a humanity point of view physically considered, even so with creeds of religion and all spiritual unfoldments of righteousness. By the One Spirit GOD created all of them; that is why HE can comprehend. That is why HE can do as you heard HIM say, reach each and every person!
If you are sincere and conscientious, and if you are converted into any religious unfoldment -- to that degree that you are converted, sincerely and conscientiously converted from the Spirit of Truth from the depths of your soul, GOD can comprehend, and HE requested by the writer,
'Be able to comprehend with all saints.'
So it is a wonderful blessing!
There are a good many cannot understand the unfoldment of the degree of the Pentecost; those who sought it and were sincere and true, they received it according to their conviction, and as they received it, it was a spiritual awakening, though they came by the way of Jesus. Except a man be born again, he cannot see those things. He cannot understand them, for who knoweth the things of the Spirit, in other words, who knows the things of man but the spirit of man? Who knoweth the things of GOD, but the Spirit of GOD? It is as much logical to be considered, the things that are of the Spirit and are spiritual, as to believe and consider the things that are of the flesh and are physical.
Everybody who is -- all who are spiritually scientifically awakened to the creation of humanity, they believe as said the Scripture,
'Out of One Blood GOD created all nations,'
but they do not understand, out of the One Spirit all of the Christian religions
were created, organized and set apart by the selfsame Spirit! Can you not see
the Mystery!
So it is a privilege to be able to see and be able to talk in the convictional language of the different abstractions of religion according to the divers religious convictions wherein they were born.
While the speaker mentioned how I appeared to her and declared, "My glory I will not give to another," it is well worth considering, for if you were not watchful, and you were superstitious and critical, you would get self-bewildered and self- exalted and say, "Well, it was not HE," because you did not personally see ME at that time you mentioned, and because you called on the Name of Jesus. GOD has many Names to reach the people. Can you not see the Mystery!
According to the seasons and times and according to the dispensations and spiritual awakenings, GOD speaks in the dispensational language of the children of men, and that which is spoken in the actuated words of expression dispensationally, it is also spoken individually, the individual thus and so, whatsoever it may be.
It reads in the Bible concerning the former and the latter reign. I know those who are spiritually awakened and have passed through the water of spiritual limitation to that degree of sanctification, you have been taught of the former and the latter reign. Aren't you glad! There was a former and a latter dispensational reign, and there was a former and latter individual reign. The unfoldment of the Spirit to individuals, individually unfolds itself demonstratingly as the former dispensational reign and as the latter dispensational reign. So the former and the latter dispensational unfoldments of GOD from the spiritual realm, these are dispensational predictions of individual convictions. It is a wonderful thought.
So then having experienced the former individual reign -- I mean the reign of the Holy Spirit -- the latter individual reign will be, or has been, a good many's experience. Can you not see the Mystery! So GOD speaks scientifically as well as inspirationally and dispensationally. So it is a privilege to observe the Mystery and to be able to comprehend with ME!
It is a privilege to be able to give all the glory to GOD to whom it is due as the Author and the Finisher of all things. As the Beginning and the End, as the First and the Last; as the Root and the Offspring, as the Trunk, the Tree and the Branches. Aren't you glad! Therefore it is a privilege to have such an understanding to be able to comprehend with all saints and with all people and to observe the Mystery as it is.
I felt to speak from the experience of the speaker because there are some who may not have been born into that direct experience, but unfoldments of the Spirit in everyone and in different ones, may be different unfoldments to them, different demonstrations, different Mysteries GOD is revealing, but as with the nations, of every nation, language, tongue and people, so with the divers denominations and the different extractions of religion from the different angles of expressions where others sought Salvation from the different degrees of understanding as were revealed to them. Can you not see the Mystery! They sought it and they received it, those who were sincere and conscientious, therefore, it is a privilege to comprehend with all saints, which is to say, to understand them.
My Glory I will not give to another, neither My Praise to visible things. I could have said, "My praise to graven images." Can you not see what I AM getting at, to let you see and know from the different angles of expression regardless to through what you came, all the Glory to GOD belongs and you will not give to another. And when this is understood definitely, you can say truly with Solomon;
'Before His Works of old, the Lord possessed me. I was there by Him, as one brought up by Him, rejoicing always before Him.'
Aren't you glad! To realize you have been with ME even before you had any body,
before I had any Body, observe the Mystery and psychologically, mentally and
spiritually see yourselves with ME, and so you will be. Obstructions of the visibility
of things will not prevent HIM. The visibility of things is not an obstruction
in the Great Universal Mind substance. Nought that is visible can prohibit the
Infinite One. They are the mere expressions and visible manifestations of the
different unfoldments of the mind. Aren't you glad! But I will not allow the
visibility of things to be obstructible and I will not allow them to be destructible
to ME, but I may use them for the purpose of teaching wisdom, in speaking parables
and speaking in poems and giving inspirations by making comparisons so that you
might understand, but I will not allow them to be destructive, and they shall
not be obstructible.
If anything would be in the way of an expression, I may use them as parables as in illustrations to give instruction, but not for destruction. So there are many things I could say, but remember definitely once and forever, there is not anything visible that can hinder you; there is not anything visible that can prevent you if you know the Truth concerning the Mystery, for GOD is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, visible or invisible.
For this cause, before GOD had any Body GOD was GOD! His Body shall not prohibit His Existence, nor His Activities. That is what I AM talking about and your bodies shall not prohibit it, and shall not slightly retard His Advances, nor the unfoldment of His Mysteries. I may use your bodies constructively in a way of speaking, but GOD is the Great Constructive Energy of the Spirit that motivates every activity; therefore, My Glory I will not give to another!
If you are not watchful, or thoughtful, whichever, you may think to give My Glory to another; to some other person, to some other unfoldment, to some other degree of expression; to some creed or some denomination; to some work or mission or activity other than that of GOD unadulterated. My Glory I will give to another! It is marvelous! My Glory, I say, I will not give to another! I stress that in your memory and in your consideration to be transmitted and conveyed to others so that they too with you might observe My Prediction and My Declaration,
'My Glory I will not give to another!'
Others could have, and no doubt did or would have sought the Glory, the Honor
of healing you, but My Glory I will not give to another.
GOD speaks in the hearts and the lives of the children of men by inspirations, by intuition at times, and by revelations and by dreams, but when they are quickened and awakened within, with you the Message will remain. The Messages that are conveyed, you cannot forget them, for they are stamped in your memory to remain, hence, that thought especially was well worth considering, for truly did Jesus say as a Person parably speaking,
'All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not hear them.'
They take the honor, they take the glory; they take the honor and they seek it,
and a good many of them speculate on it for monetary gain, but My Glory I will
not give to another. Therefore, I say, it is a privilege to live in this recognition,
to be at a place in consciousness where you can get a vision, where you can get
a revelation and where you can get an inspiration speaking Biblically according
to the Biblical predictions. But when they come to you, they are telling you
definitely, most distinctly, the Scriptures from GOD, they are a reality, though
they have been spoken by the prophets, the sages and the seers, but when they
are revealed, or re-revelated as a revelation of the old and the new revelation,
GOD speaks and it is stamped in your memory; you cannot forget it. Hence, you
can realize, the Glory to GOD alone belongs. When you give tribute and honor
alone to GOD to whom it is due, with or without a Bodily Form, GOD can forever
be with you. Matters not where you go, GOD will be along. I thank you.
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