Divine Riviera Hotel
This dynamic sermon given during the Review of the Fifth Anniversary Celebration of that glorious event–namely, the Holy Marriage of the LAMB and His SPOTLESS VIRGIN BRIDE, is destined to stir the hearts and minds of the children of men the universe over! For it took only GOD Himself to come in a Holy Body on this earth plane to rid it of the gross wickedness so impregnated in every field of endeavor on the material plane!
Truly the world has been ruled by carnality and the evils thereof, and only GOD Himself has brought this marvelous change that is taking place! This New Birth of real Democracy ! This re-awakening of the Spirit of Righteousness and Honesty within mankind! Millions are being caught up and contagionized with this spirit of Righteousness emanating as a Holy Fire from the Founder, Maker and Creator of all Good–FATHER DIVINE!
Read, therefore, these electrifying Words of Spirit and Life and you will see the Fruits of Righteousness which are coming forth into existence and into tangible reality to be enjoyed by all who will but heed the Words of FATHER DIVINE and obey His Righteous Laws! You will also see what exists when FATHER DIVINE is not heeded and one allows the spirit of graft and greed to control them!
Thank You, ALMIGHTY CREATOR!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER
speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE: As it is My custom to be mindful how we entertain strangers, I have arisen at this instance to give our visiting guests and strangers a chance for expression, for in any Hall of Democracy the Freedom of Speech is exercised. All men have the right to speak, to sing and to do whatsoever they are led to do in any of our public meetings; although this is a meeting commonly considered as a Review of my Fifth Wedding Anniversary, to review what we have experienced and what we are daily experiencing, propagating Americanism, Christianity, Judaism. Democracy and Brotherhood as synonymous; not only the propagation of such but also the reproduction and the reincarnation and the personification of these Qualities for the good of humanity universally!
That is what My Marriage was for–to bring about the Universal Brotherhood of man and the Conscious Recognition and the Realization of the Fatherhood of GOD for which you all have prayed! Therefore, Americanism, Christianity, Judaism, Democracy and Brotherhood with us are Synonymous. Just as we sit and stand, we live and we express our fellowship, one with the other, and bring into our daily experience that which will bring Peace on earth and Good Will to men. That was the purpose for which CHRIST in the Sonship Degree came!
"And His Name shall be called Emanuel, which is being interpreted, GOD is with us!"
I AM here to let mankind know from shore to shore and land to land, GOD is actually with the children of men and is bringing Peace on earth and Good Will to them!
My fellow citizens, hearers and friends, just a few years ago you could not have considered such a demonstration of Democracy, of Americanism, of Judaism and of Christianity as synonymous and as E Pluribus Unum, but oh, how glorious it is to recognize this is the Personification and the Universalization of that which I have mentioned, for I AM Universalizing Americanism!–I AM Universalizing Democracy!–I AM Universalizing Brotherhood!–I AM Universalizing Judaism and I AM bringing them all into that Great Melting Pot of Democracy, where the children of men will be able to live together in peaceful and quiet resting places!
It is written of ME.
"It is not by might nor by power but by My Spirit,
says the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!"
I AM bringing it to pass HERE and NOW automatically, scientifically and accurately, because My Spirit will do it! Aren't you glad! ("Oh, so glad LORD" exclaimed the joyous assembly.) After a while there will be no more warfare, no more race riots, no more lynchings and no more division among this people, for the Life, as being termed the Blood, has paid it all!
I have further declared by composition as a motto for your consideration and yet as a song to be stressed and sung over and over:
"Just as it is right here, some day it shall be, all over this wide extended plane!"
and
"None shall lack in GOD'S Abundance For there is A-full and A-plenty for All!"
If there be a question as to the Truth of the fact that I have declared, come around any of our places, in any of our banquet halls over which I preside; you will see the Abundance of the Fullness by day and by night, every day and everywhere!–because GOD'S presence will produce it automatically and adjust matters satisfactorily! Aren't you glad! ("So glad, GOD ALMIGHTY!" declared the congregation.)
I have long since declared by composition as a declaration and as a proclamation for the future:
"The Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof!"
I have further declared,
"The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is the Source of all supply!"
Because My adherents are Conscious of GOD'S Actual Presence when I AM Personally Present, the abundance of the fullness of the Consciousness of Good is in evidence, not only suppositionally and superstitiously, but the Abundance is in evidence in our Daily Experience economically, materially, physically and from every other angle expressible, because GOD'S Presence will produce the Abundance! ("So true, LORD!"sanctioned the Assembly.)
I have never been around soliciting, begging and stealing (aren't you glad) and I do not expect to do it!–but the Presence of GOD, as GOD is superb; and the Presence of GOD, as GOD is supreme, and the Presence of GOD, as GOD is Perfect, shall express superbness and shall express supremacy among the children of men!
Over and above every criticism of those who try to ridicule, even by the press and by other means, to lowrate and to distort and to pervert the Truth concerning your Humble Servant–I AM expressing the superlativeness of the Superb and the Supremacy of the Supreme!–not only mentally and spiritually but economically! Not only economically but mentally and spiritually and socially from every angle expressible. I came to produce and bring into your experience something that is superb and manifesting the Perfect! ("So glad, GOD ALMIGHTY!"exclaimed the assembly.)
Perfection is demonstrated in all of our demonstrations! I know there are those who are bigoted and prejudiced and divided against the different complexions and racial abstractions, and the like, and desire to keep inequality, division and strife established among the people, like Hitler and like Mussolini did; but I AM here to say,
"This is a Democracy and I shall bring it about not only here under My Personal Jurisdiction but in All Parts of this Country! A Real Democracy of Americanism, Christianity, Democracy and Judaism as Synonymous!"
The time cometh and now is that we shall have no more inequality, no more division and no more strife, no more lacks, wants and limitations, because GOD is Perfection, being Perfect, and expresses it! And since GOD is Omnipresent, these blessings shall be expressed and manifested Universally, because we know it!
I know mortality–in other words, carnality in all mortality–would be glad to get you to think that I think that I AM just here where I AM Personally, but I shall let all mortality and carnality know that I AM Omnipresent, I AM Universal and I AM Universally Expressing Perfection wheresoever man is found! ("So true, LORD!" declared the Assembly.)
When and wheresoever they are conscious of My Presence,
"The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is the Source of all Supply and it will satisfy every Good Desire!"
That is what it is all about!
Look over this vast audience ! You can see Democracy in Action! Brotherhood and Christianity! You can see True Judaism established–incorruptible and undefiled–for by these we should live and move and have our being! Aren't you glad! (Truly glad, FATHER Dear!" exclaimed the congregation joyously.)
There are many things I could say, but it is better put into demonstration than to merely say it orally; for I have long since declared,
"I will speak and preach CHRIST in Words but more so in Deeds and in Actions, and will put My Spirit in the people and cause them to walk
in My Statutes!"
To those of our visiting guests, strangers among us, who are not so well acquainted with us, I have put My Spirit in these, My adherents, and millions of others,, and I have caused them to walk in My Statutes! Where they once were thieves and robbers and bandits and every kind of an ill-fame person, I have put My Spirit in them and made them Super-Honest! All of our friends and neighbors can verify it! Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" exclaimed the entire Assembly.)
My most severest critics can declare that FATHER DIVINE'S Followers are Honest!
I put My Spirit in them and cause them to walk in My statutes and I do not have to tell them, "Thou shalt not steal!" but I put My Spirit in them and they would not want to steal! ("So true, LORD!" sanctioned the congregation.)
They would not steal a dime! They would not keep a nickel if they would find it on the streets, for they would advertise it and have it to go to the person or persons to whom it belongs! Aren't you glad! Because Honesty is the Keynote to Salvation!
That is why there are so many people in lacks, wants and limitations today, because they are trying to get Something for Nothing! ("So true!" again verified the Assembly.)
Just the other day in our daily print you will find in Philadelphia a flimflammer flimflammed some four thousand dollars away from a woman that had saved it up, of her life savings! Caused her to go to the bank and take it out and give it to them, because she was trying to get something for nothing as well as they were!
A true Follower of Mine, if you come along as a flimflammer trying to flimflam something out of them, you would not get any correspondence, neither participation or cooperation, because they would quickly tell you they do not want a thousand dollars for nothing! They would quickly tell you if you have found a thousand dollars or if you say your friend picked up a thousand dollars before you and "We saw him pick it up–part of it would belong to you!"–they tell you "Part of it belongs to you!"–My Followers would say, "Not a dime of it belongs to me!" My Followers would not try to get something for nothing!
At times those flimflammers and trick pocket-book handlers and trick knife handlers will tell you, at times, that this man–"I saw this man pick up a thousand dollars! Part of it belongs to you. Did you see him?"–and the like. "I saw him pick it up." Not a dime of it belongs to you unless you earned it with honest labor! (Thunderous applause resounds.)
So then, this lady in Philadelphia, though she was an elderly lady, had saved up more than four thousand dollars. She went to the bank and drew it all out and gave it to the flimflammers–all because she was trying to get something for nothing! I came to convert you from vice and crime and from debauchery of every kind!–Save you from all tendencies of graft and greed and racketeering–to save you from trying to get something for nothing! Then you can live as we do!–An independent life!–A life of abundance! Aren't you glad! ("Oh, so glad!" came the exclamation.)
So take these thoughts to consideration and build upon this Foundation and as we go, MOTHER and MYSELF and others cooperatively–cooperating in the Unity of the Spirit of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose conveying this Truth as we give it, will impregnate you with it; and you too as well as they and as well as We, will not want to get something for nothing!
Some people say, "FATHER wants this and FATHER wants the other!" I have never asked a one for a dime and I do not expect to do it, for My Followers have unlimited purchasing power by living according to My Mind and Spirit! That is why they could buy this beautiful hotel, costing more than a half a million dollars, and many other places, and not ask a man for a penny; and yet cutting the cost of living, and cutting your cost of living to a minimum; more than fifty per cent of what it was before!–cutting it down to less than fifty per cent of what it was before! Can you not see the mystery? ("Yes, GOD ALMIGHTY!" declared the congregation.)
Now, you can live in such a hotel as this for fifty cents a night or fifty cents a day, if you do not want to give more–where you once were obliged to give some three dollars and a half and up per day in some of these places! And My followers serve meals equivalently and make it possible for those of you who have never lived in a decent and respectable place in your lives, to have a chance to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness!–and then some have the audacity to say My Followers give ME all of their money!
If they give ME all of their money, how could they buy all of these hotels, automobiles, yachts and airplanes in this and in other countries, and everything else that life demands, and have a-plenty and to spare to help you to live for less than fifty per cent of what you used to have to pay! Aren't you glad! ("Yes, so glad, LORD!" came the joyous exclamation.)
Then I say, live in this Recognition and know within yourselves, because GOD is with you, He has brought you Victory over limitations, and has solved your economic problems; has solved your racial problems! It does not look as if though there is very much of a racial problem here, does it? ("No, Sir!" cane the emphatic declaration.) It does not look as though there is a national problem here, does it?–because we have those of every nationality, every nation, every language, every tongue and every people!–for GOD is the FATHER of all creation and they are recognizing My DEITY and coming Believing! I thank you!
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