“Whenever One of MY Messages is Read I Feel as Though These Are MY Words,
Not as a Person But as the Infinite One!” — FATHER DIVINE

FATHER’S Message at the Banquet Table, King’s Town Extension, the Promised Land,
Saturday, November 12, 1938 A.D.F.D. Time: 1:15 P. M.

 

The Mount of the House of the LORD

The Mount of the House of the LORD

 

Stressing “The Word of GOD” and vividly pointing out the Life-giving Substance of its creative expression, FATHER Blessed all humanity with the beautiful Message herewith recorded; for it contains the very essence of Salvation and proves the foundation for all existing conditions in the world today, whether bad or good!

How thankful, then ought we to be for such a Precious Savior and His Priceless Words of Truth as they are sent forth into all the world for the redemption of mankind, and surely we can show our humble appreciation in no better way than to walk closer to HIM in Love and Obedience to HIS Holy Will. Our Blessed King, we truly thank YOU

 

Before delivering this Message, FATHER spoke a few words of counsel and instruction in response to a testimony in which the speaker complained about her co-workers and laid much emphasis on the happiness she enjoyed on what she expressed as “that sweet path in the beginning.”

FATHER first asked the speaker a question, and then freed her and all others who may be in the same category. (The foregoing is the statement of the transcriber, and FATHER’S question follows.)

 

FATHER asks: Where were you working when you were in that sweet path?

Miss W. I was on a job.

FATHER: I told you quite some time ago, if you get a job, if you are serving GOD, if you are serving humanity, if you are serving the Cause or if you are serving yourself, whatsoever or whomsoever you are serving, you should be more profitable and more practical and more beneficial and more harmonious if you get a job and get a salary such as you should earn according to your alleged qualification. But as a chauffeuress and as a cook and waitress and all of these qualities and positions, and your qualification developed in you and positions you can fill with such, why, you would be more practical, more beneficial and more harmonious, more happy to work on a position such as you can fill according to your alleged qualifications, and get the right price or right salary. You could be real happy , no doubt.

Then you could be and would be free from being encumbered with others who are not living Evangelical. That is the significance of the Independence of GOD, and that is the significance of one’s real Emancipation! Not any of you are obliged to work in the connections of the Kingdom, unless you wish to, and you really should not do it unless you keep exceedingly happy and perfectly contented and satisfied. You should go and be at that place where you can. If you are working for yourself, if you are working for the Cause, if you are working for any other person or if you are working for the Kingdom, or if you are working for ME, or it matters not who you are working for, it is an access in this Grace where each and every person can be emancipated to go forth and serve in a constructive way without confusion.

Then why worry, why complain and make complaints about others? Now, this statement is applicable to each and all who may be concerned, or may be in any way whatever interested in the Work and Mission of MY Spirit. When you speak of working and working hard and working for ME and such like as that, if you are working for your own self, for the upkeep of your respective places where you live, if you only turn in fifteen dollars a week for that particular place, it would be more beneficial, more practical and it would be more profitable and would be more good than what you would benefit or benefit others monthly by doing nothing and being in a confusion under the pretense of doing something in working for the Kingdom.

Dissatisfaction is always dissatisfied when it is put forth into expression! It causes individuals to be dissatisfied. So, it is your privilege to just go right ahead and do as I said, and it is the privilege of all others to do the same, those who are not happy and satisfied in the Kingdom.

(Other testimonies began to come forth as soon as FATHER paused, and as the speakers were taking up so much time unnecessarily, FATHER spoke briefly before proof-reading a Message as follows:

 

Peace Everyone!

Now, we do not wish to interrupt, but our Work must go on! This that I AM doing is MY Work —proof-reading and Speaking. We are glad to hear your testimonies when time permits it, but I have a lot to do, I have to be moving on; I cannot hold the whole universe up on account of someone’s misconceptions or misunderstanding! I must go on!

 

(When the proof-reading was finished, FATHER Blessed the gathering to the Message recorded in these few pages that follow.)

Thank YOU, FATHER!

 

Peace Everyone!

Good health, good will, a good appetite with good manners and good behavior, all success and all prosperity! These and all other blessings I continue to bring, and I put them forth into expression for all mankind!

That Message just read I thought how marvelous it would be if all could perceive the idea concerning the mystery as it is revealed! If you would stop and consider, even as I do, though insignificant apparently among you yet I do consider the significance of MY Significance, MY Message, MY Work that I AM transmitting; I feel as if though I could not live without both it and them! Whensoever one is read, I feel as if though these are MY Words I have spoken, not as a person but as the Infinite ONE! Then MY Words are Spirit and Life to all mankind they are an inspiration to MY Own Mind. Therefore, I, as well as MY real devout, true and faithful, fanatical, ignorant followers enjoy them just as I do! That is the Mystery. For the Words they are Spirit and they are Life, even though as a Person I AM insignificant; but as Spirit and as Mind, as the Impersonal, as the Infinite ONE, Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent with the magnanimous Wisdom transmitted as I exhibit it to the children of men.

How glorious it is to live in such a recognition, to build upon such a foundation that cannot be shaken! I enjoy MY Words, I say, for they are Spirit and they are Life, and they are as expressive for ME as a Person as they are for you! Therefore, you all should also rejoice even as I do!

I need not say more! In the Message just read I conveyed the significance of your intuition being GOD’s Intuition wheresoever GOD is and Whosoever He may be. If your intuition is your own mortal, human , individual intuition, your intuition will be antagonistic and conflicting to yourself as an individual, for man is destructive to himself in mortal consciousness.

Even the first heaven and the first earth must come to its destination, yea, to the destination of each of these great expressions, for what said I concerning the mystery?

“Behold I create a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness!”

Your heavenly state of expression, your heavenly state of consciousness must pass away! The first heaven and the first earth passed away, but the second one came forth into expression, for GOD Created the second one, Righteousness! Even there was war in heaven according to the Scripture the first one, but the last one, in the last one there shall be no war! Aren’t you glad?

Then I say to those of you that have not attained to this place in consciousness, relax your conscious mentality and still yourself, and put off the old shell, the old ‘shed’ of the flesh and reckon yourself to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto GOD, through Jesus Christ your LORD! And as I say, when you find yourself in a state of consciousness and in a place in the country personally where you are not perfectly happy and absolutely contented, you should relax yourself from such a state of expression, and go on to perfection leaving the foundation of such an expression behind.

Then I say, it is a privilege to hear the Word of GOD, for MY Word is Spirit and MY Word is Life. MY Word will heal your physical bodies. MY Word will heal your mental and spiritual bodies as well as healing your physical one. Oh, it is a privilege to observe it, to see it! The physical is merely the outward expression as a sketch and a reflection of the reality of what is actuality internally, mentally and spiritually and psychologically going on. Aren’t you glad? Then I say, MY Words are Spirit and they are life! They are good to ME; I enjoy them. MY Body feels good; it causes MY physical Body to feel good; it causes it to look good too! It is written that ‘ man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of GOD!’

Therefore, the Words I have spoken to you all, I reiterate, I repeat, I hear them as I read them, and I adhere to MY Words! Aren’t you glad? They are Spirit and they are Life! Then I say, copy after the fashion if you desire to go on!

As I was thinking the other day, thousands and thousands of people who have stood high in the spiritual and ecclesiastical society of which they considered ME at times as representing and as a representative, have been cut off the stage of action, and especially the active duty of the ‘clergy class’. They have ceased to function, thousands of them, yet ignoring this Fundamental because to them it was insignificant. The time came, as it was to come, when GOD would ignore them, when they would call on the Name of GOD, and could not be heard at all. That is the mystery!

Then I say, it is something to rejoice in, to be exceedingly glad, for MY Words are Spirit and they are Life, not only to others, but to MYSELF as a Person! They are the Life-giving Essence of Salvation To My Own Tabernacle, My Own Body, as I have Spoken. Then I say, live in this recognition for your own sake if you please! If for any cause you are discontented, unhappy or dissatisfied, why try to disturb someone else with your dissatisfaction? Why not live in the recognition of GOD’S Actual Presence and go on wheresoever you are and rejoice in the presence of GOD? By so doing it is a matter of impossibility for you to be a failure. As a sample and as an Example I stand, and am daily demonstrating the Reality of GOD among men, and GOD here on earth as a man. What can be done! I AM demonstrating and showing in the actuated words of MY Expression what can be done for humanity, what can be done for man!

For what said I concerning the mystery? “As He is, so are we in this present world.” I spoke through the writer, “As He is so are we in this present world,” speaking in the name of those of the earth place, giving them to know definitely they can be even as I AM . . . mentally, spiritually, physically and otherwise, and this can only come into your experience by the recognition and realization of the Presence of GOD, and by living exactly according to MY Word! See the mystery!

Then I say, it is a glorious privilege to live in such a recognition, and to be fanatical enough and ignorant enough to harmonize with the Spirit, and go above all thoughts of the superstitious ideas and opinions of men such as you may get the presentiment of from time to time. They will say, “Why, you should not praise yourself.” They will say, “You should not do this that and the other, you should not speak as you have spoken. If you are speaking of yourself, why speak as you do?” That is what that presentiment from someone would come to ME saying: “Why would you say your words are Spirit and Life to YOU? GOD created the Heaven and the earth and all things that are in them and all things that are created and brought into expression are given life by GOD’S Words HE has spoken, and by the Words He is now speaking! Can you not see the mystery? Then GOD is Life to HIMSELF as well as to others, as a sample an as an example that they might copy after the fashion . . . those with whom I AM daily contacting.

Oh, it is a privilege to live in such a recognition, and to know you can be lifted continually above all infirmities, all diseases, all afflictions and adverse and undesirable conditions by the recognition of GOD’S Actual Presence with you. But it was quite amusing when I called out and was apparently obliged to go when the Message was being read . . . just about the conclusion of the Message, and I felt somewhat, no doubt, more loath to go than you would feel like going, because MY Words are Spirit and they are Life! Now, if you let ME speak through you equivalently the same with the spirit of sincerity, and be conscientious in all you say and in all you do, why, to ME your words will be the same. I have often spoken along that line, I have often said I would rather hear another speak if the other can and will speak more distinctly and more positive and more accurate than I. Give ME the most accurate word of expression and let ME hear it expressed by others if they can express it more accurately. Give ME the “Perfect Picture” wheresoever it is represented! Then you will not live selfishly nor mortal-mindedly by so doing, but to the extreme reverse you are unselfish, and you are living impersonally and refusing to indulge in all such things or tendencies as selfishness as may be reflected.

If you are impersonal it matters not from whence comes the Truth, not through whom comes the Truth. If the Truth is in you, the Truth will set you free! If the Truth is in another, if you harmonize with it, why, the reaction of your harmonized state of consciousness will adjust the conscious mentality, and will cause your conscious thinking to begin to think more accurately until you bring forth the “Perfect Picture”. That is the mystery!

Then I say, let us live in this recognition for your own sake, for GOD is lifting you up, and has lifted you that you might you might be a sample and an example for others as you bring your bodies into subjection to the Fundamental, Life, Liberty, and the reality of Happiness. This is no longer merely a statement, it is the reality of happiness when it shall have been within you established. With you and others you will carry the Peace, the happiness, the joy and the pleasure, if you are unselfish . . . such as others are seeking! They will be obliged to reckon GOD’S Actual Presence wheresoever you are, and especially where you are functioning. I thank you.

 


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