Heralding the arrival of FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE
If all mankind would but remember, the Way you have found HIM, you must continue to walk therein, how easy life would be for all concerned ! If praise and thanks were the Key that unlocked the prison door in Bible time, it is just the same to-day. Therefore this little poem that follows should be well considered.
'In the morning when you arise,
Let the Personified Body of GOD
Be before your eyes.
Let no imperfect thoughts in your mind be seen,
It will keep the way clear;
And let nothing between.'
This Message is a Message to all Governments and to all peoples of the earth,
therefore heed the Words of GOD, FATHER DIVINE, and be saved from the terrible
fate that is sure to come.
LORD, We Thank You for Your Protection !
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER's Message follows:)
Peace, Everyone !
Here we all are; all in one and one in all. That is the way we were to be omnifariously we came, but E-Pluribus-Unumly we stand; therefore we all are, just as you see I AM.
At this particular instance I have arisen to say, we have visiting friends as usual. If any of our visiting friends care to speak, they are welcome to do so; they are welcome to move volitionally as we do if they care to; if they do not care to move as we do, an introduction will be forthcoming, if they give us their names, addresses and professions, or if we have them, if they will accept of such an introduction. I thank you.
(No one seemed to respond to such an introduction, so FATHER arose and continued to speak as follows:)
Peace, Everyone !
I do not wish to bore you, for I desire to have others express as well as Myself, but while the one was speaking a little while ago and mentioned praising GOD for the blessings they have and the only way to keep out the undesirable conditions that follow the elimination of giving thanks and Praise, I thought how emphatically true it is ! When you are in the Spirit of Praise and Thanksgiving, the very Spirit within you will respond spontaneously if in the case of any emergency, in the case of an accident, or any such manner of expression. If your heart has been tuned to sing GOD's Praise, automatically you will say, "I thank YOU !" For this cause as I have often said, to create within one, an upright Spirit and a clean heart, in readiness and willingness to give GOD Praise, for Praise is the Keynote to Salvation, that will solve the nation's problem.
Uncle Sam declared, and still declares inscription-ally,
'In GOD we trust.'
'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of GOD in Christ Jesus concerning you.'
Scripturally, the apostle declared it in the epistle; and when you give thanks
for everything, the doors that have been closed will be opened to you; ways that
have been crooked will become straight to you; sickness and affliction will disappear
from you, and GOD in Life and Health and Happiness will be within you. These
are facts and figures too stout to be denied. They have been facsimiled over
and over again hundreds of times, but I AM merely reiterating and emphasizing
the things that I have said in the past, so that you might retrace your thoughts
back from whence you came.
Praise will solve the problems of the nations, if you praise the One to Whom all Praises should be given. For it is written,
'MY Praise I will not give to another
(MY Glory I will not give to another, whichever), neither MY Praise to graven
images." Praise and Glory, you have been giving to everything else mortal-mindedly
but the Fundamental.
To the mortal versionated ideas and opinions, to men, it is appealing to praise graven images and the material things that life demands. But oh, how glorious it is to realize when you praise GOD from Whom all blessings flow and praise Him all creatures here below, such Praise that comes from a sincere heart will unlock every barred and shut door.
In mentioning of Praise, I thought of what I have often said according to an original story as a fairy tale it may be termed, but a composition stressfully to be remembered among the children of men. Once it was said, that a shepherd had passed over the mountainside hundreds of times leading and driving his sheep in and out, but at last, one day, he saw a flower and stopped and plucked that flower, and that flower was known as the Key Flower, the KEY to all of the underground treasures. The mystery, at first was not revealed to him until almost instantly the door of the hidden treasures was opened and it was so beautiful. In the doorway and in going down in this hidden treasure, there he found all sorts of precious diamonds and rubies, and all of the precious gems of life.
He laid the Key Flower on the table, and behold he looked and saw a peculiar looking little man sitting behind this table, and this little old funny insignificant man said, "Get all you want, but don't forget the BEST." He filled his shepherd's bag, and the man proclaimed, "Get all you want, but don't forget the Best." He filled his pockets and his mouth, and the old kobold said, "Get all you want, but don't forget the Best." He goes back and gets the very largest diamond he could find so the story goes, and the old man said, "Get all you want, but don't forget the BEST!" He had taken all he could carry his shepherd bag filled and his hands filled and his mouth filled, but he could hear a voice as though his ears were not so full, "Get all you want, but don't forget the Best !" Just as he passed through and out of the door, all of the underground treasures that he had, turned to leaves and pebbles, all because he had forgotten the BEST.
A Message to you MY hearers, Followers and friends and all mankind: I speak after the manner of the kobold, "Get all you want, but don't forget the BEST." The man was insignificant and all alone as he was obliged apparently to stand alone, because there was none with him, yet he had in his possession and at his disposal all of the treasures of creation according to the story; but he told this man, "To get all he wanted but don't forget the BEST", because he had acquired the Best on the outside, and it had given him admission into and unto the hidden treasures of the earth; and there had given him the access to get all of the blessings he desired. And having the access and the man in charge willing for him to get all he wanted, he was privileged to get all he wanted without comment and without fear. Therefore, he had taken all he desired, but because he had forgotten the BEST, just as he had gotten out from under the mountainside all he had turned to leaves and pebbles, or to something else worse ! Take these thoughts to consideration.
I often think of that little story, and observe those of MY immediate Followers and others ceasing to give thanks and Praise to GOD ALMIGHTY
It is a lesson for each and every one of you. Those who have the Best and still hold to the Best, it is essential to keep the BEST in giving thanks and praises for GOD's Presence on earth, and the Blessings millions are receiving of HIM. Give thanks and Praise for the Blessings, for they are so freely given, and without GOD Whom you say I AM, it is a matter of impossibility to get them; and even if you get them without the FLOWER, the KEY to the mystery, and hold fast to the BEST of which I AM speaking, it is a matter of impossibility to keep them.
How Glorious it is to live in the actual Presence of GOD ! Thousands of you have been healed from every ache and from every pain and from every affliction and from wants and lacks and limitations, and from all depressions; and I have established your going in the land of the living and caused you to be absolutely independent as real American citizens. Hence, I say, hold fast to that which is GOOD, and do not forget the BEST, or else all you have will turn to leaves and pebbles, or to something else worse ! Take these thoughts into consideration.
I often think of that little story, and observe those of my immediate Followers and others ceasing to give thanks and Praise to GOD Almighty begin to find fault, or fault-find whichever; criticize and condemn, accuse and ridicule and doubt and fear, and lose that which to them was so freely given; that had unlocked the hidden treasures of the mystery of the Glory of heaven and each and every desirable blessing. Therefore they lose one by one until they lose everything; for what does it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul, or what will a man give in exchange for his soul nothing.
They usually do it, because they give in exchange for something they think, but when they get it, it is not that thing. Can you not see the mystery ? They are something like missing the substance and catching the shadow; that is what they have received, the shadow, as nothing but the reflection of the substance and miss the reality all the time. Therefore, it is true when you lose all you have, all of your blessings of health, happiness, success and prosperity, all of your blessings of wisdom, knowledge and understanding, all of your blessings of the Four Freedoms of which the Atlantic Charter is speaking oh, how glorious it is to realize I have given millions this Freedom of which President Roosevelt was speaking !
I have freed you from fear ! I have freed you from division ! I have freed you from segregation ! I have freed you from lacks and limitations ! I have freed you from barbarism and Hitlerism; for barbarism is Hitlerism in another name ! Aren't you glad ! I have freed you from those conditions, and I AM going forth conquering and to conquer; and I will free millions more if then will allow ME to; for the Mouth of GOD has declared it; and that which is spoken and expressive, is operative and expressive for others as well as for the first ones. Can you not see the mystery ?
The I say, it is a privilege to live in the Actual Presence of GOD. You can just see the reality of democracy fulfilled, the reality of the Biblical history and the life that the Biblical history depicts and speaks of; the Spirit and the meaning of both it and them, I fulfil in the hearts and lives of the children of men. Religiously, I cause you to fulfil it, to fulfil the Scripture, the law of the prophets' prophecy of generations; fulfil the Gospel and the Epistles, the apostles' and Jesus' predictions for the present and future generations.
Therefore, the New and Old Testaments of the Bible, I make them a living reality for you. They are no longer made a mockery among you, but they are made a living reality, both for the Gentiles and the Jews. Aren't you glad ! They are made a living reality, for you are the fulfillers of the Gospel and the Epistles and the prophecy of the Apostles and Jesus and the prophecies that were predicted by the prophets, the sages and the seers. I cause you to fulfil these prophecies and predictions, and make them to you a living reality. Therefore, give thanks and Praise, now, henceforth and forever, and I will continue to give you the victory.
The two great religious documents of all creation are the New and Old Testament for all mankind's salvation. Aren't you glad ! This is religiously discerned and understood by inspiration, since GOD is His Own Interpreter, and He is making the interpretation. Oh, how glorious it is to live in the Actual Fulfillment of these two great documents of life, as it may be termed not only documents of salvation, but documents of life for every living creature for this and the future civilization, if there be any to come.
We are now the fulfillers effectively of these two great documents. Scientifically the Spirit and the meaning of them are fulfilled in your hearing, in the hearts and lives of the children of men, who of MY Spirit have been truly born. Aren't you glad ! Now this is religiously; but for the governing forces of the children of men here on the earth plane, through MY Condescension I have made the national political documents a refuge, a place of refuge for the nations of all creation combined with the two religious documents of all Salvation. Aren't you glad ! Therefore, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and its Amendments, these two great documents are fulfilled in your hearing and in your lives and in your affairs when you live them and put them forth into expression.
Then the two religious documents combined with the two political documents, have truly established the Kingdom of GOD on the earth plane, for which you have prayed. And it shall go from shore to shore and from land to land, and naught will be able to slightly hinder ME. Aren't you glad !
The Constitution and its Amendments and the Declaration of Independence, the Spirit and the meaning of the Bill of Rights enacted effectively, will establish a Utopian Government for the future generation. For this cause, we rejoice for we have actually lifted a standard for this people, and have given this whole nation, of all the races, as may be termed, creeds and colors, a New Birth of Freedom for which you all have been speaking documentally, but had not had your New Birth of Freedom that I AM so freely giving the people.
Now you have to hold fast to it. Get all you want, but don't forget the BEST; for the BEST is truly that of which you say I AM; that has opened the barred and shut doors and set the prisoner free, and given you the Spirit and the meaning of the two great Religious Documents and their amendments, and the Spirit and the meaning of our National Political Documents. I have caused you to fulfil them with their amendments to the letter; therefore, who can criticize it ? Those who will not take cognizance of MY Message and adhere to MY Teaching, automatically they are failures; for the Mouth of GOD has Declared that he that Believes Shall Be Saved, but he that believeth not, shall be you know the latter is not a blessing, but, you have declared it, is a cursing. I thank you.
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