A great throng filled the 63rd Street Auditorium for the Righteous Government Forum Wednesday night, April 20th but a still greater throng filled FATHER'S New York City Headquarters at 126th Street, singing and praising His Holy Name while waiting for HIM to come down Personally to serve the banquet. As many returning from 63rd Street joined the throng, the building was filled to overflow and the praises of mankind's Redeemer in a Body continued.
As FATHER served the Banquet one of the great songs of praise was:—
If you want Joy, Peace, Life and Happiness
Just keep on praising His Holy Name.
Following this FATHER Spoke Personally as follows:
Peace Everyone!
Here we all are again; there I sit and stand. I AM still transmitting MYSELF, that men might dial in and be partakers of that which I AM. That little comp[composition long since composed, I call your attention to it this morning —"If you want joy, peace, life and happiness just keep on praising MY Holy Name." By harmonizing with Me and with all which I stress and AM you become to be partakers of that which you harmonize with and become to be the reincarnators of it. Aren't you glad!
Then I stress, if you want joy, peace, life and happiness just keep on praising MY Holy Name. When you are filled with praise and thanksgiving, if you can praise GOD vividly and consciously until you become to be the materializers of such praise and become to be the outward expressers of such praises that are being given, you will have the key to every problem. It has long since been said in the world of religions, "Prayer is the key to heaven," but the transposed version of true praying and prayer I stress — "Praise is the key to every barred and shut door." Praise will unlock any and all of the doors, both of the desirable and the undesirable doors; but you must give praise continually until it is quickened within you, and you will be able to express volitionally praise, and give thanks at the remembrance of His Holiness by the unction from the Holy One. That is the mystery!
A thought I brought up for consideration a little while ago, how you have been persecuted through prosecution and through legal proceedings because of MY Name's sake, in the name of being prosecuted — a good many of you — on account of children. While sitting and thinking I thought for consideration as I said — a few years ago — when a few, at least one of our city judges had attempted to persecute a good many of you for MY Names sake and had attempted to persecute ME for what they said you did, or what you did. I said at the time, if persecution continues and the mistreatment of the people is exercised in the way of oppression, by so doing I will lift up a standard in the consciousness of millions, where they will not be caught in such a predicament in fifteen or twenty years from now; and I looked and beheld the thousands under sound of MY Voice in the dining room and in the dining room below and the auditorium below. I considered how marvelous it is to be lifted. Thereby you are not increasing and multiplying to lead your flesh and blood to the slaughter.
Then MY thoughts ran back to China, how the millions there have been slaughtered because of self indulgence. Those millions that have been destroyed should not have been born.Had they not been born they would not have been here to be slaughtered. The same like manner with millions of others .Wheresoever they have been increasing and multiplying and over replenishing the earth, they have to be slaughtered and destroyed in some way to thin them out apparently. Someone suffers for it. Someone is in trouble on account of such, but all of his comes through graft and greed, through selfishness through one person desiring to take the advantage of the other.
As I often say, as with an individual so with a nation. If by nature you are inclined to desire to rob your fellow brother, you would also rob the nation if you could. Several of you would get together and rob the nation. When and wheresoever there has been a war, one country trying to rob another country out of some certain territories, shortly after then you read where there are thousands and thousands of bandits and other highway men, thieves and robbers of every type; for as with a nation, so with an individual and as with an individual, so with a nation.
I have stressed the significance of recognizing the Constitution and its Amendments. How the document should be considered as an important piece of legislation — in other words — an important document, to be considered by all the nations of the earth. Nevertheless, to have this document theoretically, and merely to have it legally established and theoretically recognized, unless we have it mentally and spiritually inculcated and reincarnated as a living reality individually to us , the Constitution and its Amendments are not a living reality.
But how marvelous it is — as with the negative, so with the positive. You can see, the nations of today have arisen, almost every civilized country, one against the other — those that are called civilized countries because of graft and greed and selfishness. But if men could and would but recognize GOD'S Actual Presence and realize, that which they have been doing selfishly in the way of multiplying; increasing and multiplying continually selfishly through self indulgence, and for the purpose of raising up a great nation to overcome some other nation, and for the purpose of taking some other nation's country — this is exactly what all of this propagation is for, a great part of it. It is for that, even if you do not know it. But oh, how glorious it is to realize, from those conditions you have been lifted; no longer living in the folly of selfishness, self indulgence, lust and passion to appease the mortal concept of your human desires, but ready and willing at all times for every human fancy, tendency or pleasure to be consumes with a consuming fire.
I thought oh, how marvelous it is! Then I say, the more severe they are in opposition to ME and to MINE, the more determined we will be in lifting up a standard, and in living a pure and spotless life before GOD and man, that you will not be increasing and multiplying and replenishing your family and the earth at large, to be slain by men as hogs.
I know this talk is a little strange this morning — I desire to say something to stir up your pure mind — but yet it is true. I said many years ago, when there was a flood in China and more than a hundred thousand were drowned at once, I said if they lived evangelical lives and refused to indulge in self and over replenish the earth, and to multiply so swiftly they did not have room nor spaces or places to accommodate them, the flood would have never come and destroyed them all. But they continued. Now this great war and other floods from time to time, and still there are more things to come. But those things are not in our consideration. I mean disasters, pestilences, contagions, diseases, and all sorts of undesirable conditions. It is not that I AM making a prediction, but I AM merely telling you concerning the scientific truth of things which always follow war.
Therefore, I say, if you live in the recognition of the truth concerning your GOD and bring your bodies into subjection continually, how glorious it will be when each and every one of you twenty years from today — the great and the small, the young and the old, as you may be termed — bring the same; free from sickness, sorrow, from pain and from death, free from all of those undesirable conditions created by men on earth. This is accomplished by living above the mortal concept of things, by living in the recognition of GOD'S Actual Presence, and by raising your vibrations high, that you might contact the Christ Consciousness continually and be attached to it firmly, that naught will be able to sever you from the Christ Consciousness with which you have been connected. You will not have an occasion to descend to those things; to self indulgence, the mortal version, human fancies and their tendencies and pleasures, for GOD Himself will be within you and will give you the victory over such conditions that come by living in mortal consciousness.
How glorious it is to realize, when you are completely self-denied, things that are predestined to befall self cannot reach you. When you are translated or changed completely and become to be new creatures characteristically, those things that are predestined to befall you as an individual will not be imposed upon you, for you are a new creature.
Then I say to be changed from the Adamic state of consciousness to the Christ Consciousness; to put off the old mind, the old man with all of his deeds, to put on the new Mind, the new man in whom you should live. There and then you are a new creature and a new creature indeed. You are no longer seen or discerned by men as the old one, for the Apostle declared on one occasion,"Ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in GOD."
Then I say, live in this recognition and you will be free from those undesirable conditions, and even if such would come in your own country as has befallen others, those things could not come nigh you mentally and spiritually, as said the scripture. I might say at this time, many might fall at your right hand and many at your left, but those things could not come nigh you mentally and spiritually, therefore they would not affect you even though you be with them.
There are many things I could say along this line, but as I often say, I attempt to give every visiting friend a chance to have a word to say. Those of MY followers, co-workers and MYSELF, we are talking day by day and nearly all day and all night. Therefore, we can refrain from speaking for a little while. I AM sure the Spirit will permit it if we are willing; but of course if others do not feel led to speak, nor have a confession or any such thing to make or say, the spirit in MY followers will move volitionally and will speak according to the dictates of their conscience. I thank you.
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