FATHER DIVINE, Ulster County, New York
(FATHER'S Address is as follows:)
Peace, Everyone: I speak as I have spoken — I stand as I have stood, speaking apparently to a limited number but as though to millions, as I stand; because the Message I AM conveying is not confined to men nor is it confined to a limited few, wheresoever I AM. Wheresoever I AM it is as though I AM speaking to millions, even though they may be limited in number, in the number that can be observed; however, the Message still is to be considered as if though I AM speaking to a few, it is true, but realizing, that which I have said to one I have said to all.
For this cause I have arisen to speak as though to a limited number, but yet to millions, for MY Spirit and MY Mind shall convey it and— all throughout this Country and other Countries shall hear it distinctly. Now isn't that Wonderful!
That little composition I brought forth just then for consideration;
"He who waits on the Lord, he shall renew his strength."
– it is a privilege to realize, everyone who will still himself as an individual, that person will give space and place in his individual mentality and in his world of existence for the accumulation of the Spirit of GOD'S Actual Presence and the Work of the Almighty to be manifested. Then I say:
"He who waits on the Lord, he shall renew his strength"
It is a privilege to realize, while you may apparently see a limited few at times, but if you wait patiently and be true and faithful, the Spirit of MY Presence and the Presence of MY Spirit will be to you as an offspring of water that will spring up unto everlasting life, inspiring you with more understanding by the stilling of your conscious mentality.
While sitting , listening to the reading, I thought of how marvelous that Message is. It is a Message transcending the most scientific person of our present civilization. Mankind may look upon this Movement and even the Spirit of MY Actual Presence, as something fanatical, as something ignorant, as something illiterate and as something really small to be looked upon— but when you observe the Mystery of the Spiritual Unfoldment of GOD'S Actual Presence, it will cause you to still yourselves as individuals, for the Spirit of GOD will teach Wisdom when individuals still themselves personally.
I thought of this thought, as I conveyed in that Message, how you are inhaling and exhaling that identical Message that has been broadcast over the broadcasting station. You inhale it and exhale it, the same as your radio receiving set catches it. It is in the ether, although when you inhale it and exhale it, you may not feel it consciously and you may not speak it consciously, but the bespoken word as transmitted from yonder broadcasting station, it can and it will eventually be caught up in the mentality and in the physical structure of others when they shall have developed to a place in consciousness where they can attune themselves to catch it.
So it is a privilege to observe the Mystery. Then I say, there are many things to be revealed, but they can only be brought from the invisible realm and from the invisible world of existence by those of you who are spiritually inclined, and those who will relax their conscious mentality enough to allow the spirit of GOD to work.
GOD can work in the hearts and lives of the children of men as they bring themselves into subjection to HIM. The reason the religious or spiritual world is so far behind that of science, is because they do not have the Faith that science and invention have. Those who are scientifically inclined from a material point of view, in the act of inventions, discoveries and other research work, they have more Faith than those of the Christian or Religious world. That is why they can revel into the invisible mysteries of GOD on the material plane as science and as scientists and as research workers— and find things in the invisible realm that the Christian world cannot find.
But. as the Inspirer of all information and of all and all science and all invention, I have brought to the surface that thought for consideration; the very Spirit of GOD'S Presence is willing and ready to reveal the mystery to the children of this people spiritually, as well as those of science can and will discover things from an inventional and from a "discovery-al" point of view— in other words, through science and invention, that they might discover new things that have not been seen and known.
You can see that men and mankind generally, in and on the material plane, the more material they are apparently, be scientifically inclined— the more information they will get though science and invention and through new discoveries, such as the Christian world of our present Spiritual or Religious civilization cannot bring them.
For this cause it was essential and it still is essential for ME as an individual to bring to the minds of the people the significance of true Spirituality, that mankind might realize, science and invention comes through and bring their discoveries and inventions through and by and from Spiritual world and from the mental world. But as they are materialists, the majority of them, they do not bother about the ordinary religion, for the ordinary orthodox religion will bar them from seeking and receiving mysteries for new discoveries and for new inventions. But in this modern spiritual advanced civilization in which we are living, we can give to science and invention a new hold on life, that they might more persistently study and do more sincere research work in an effort to get more and more information from, through and by science and invention— but yet it all will come through and by MY Inspirations.
Oh, it is a privilege to realize, the Mystery of Omnipotency must be your recognition and you must recognize GOD'S Actual Presence as the Mastery, of Whom I AM now speaking; and by such a recognition you can concentrate on the Positive Picture and all of the Spirit of Positiveness, you can and will produce and bring to fruition in your experience.
For this cause you can see, those who are living in harmony with the Spirit, they are being more Scripturally inclined, and being more Spiritually inclined, they are inspired with more scientific information, to cause them to be more scientifically inclined than they have been, by the contact with ME.
Then as I said, you are breathing in the very broadcast message — not only mental and spiritual, but you are breathing in the broadcast message of that electricity transmitted through seven hundred and ten kilocycles — the very broadcast message from and through and by electricity, your are breathing it in, and you are exhaling the same, although you do not understand the mystery; therefore; you have not concentrated in that direction to the degree that your physical body, your structure, could catch it and express it as accurately as the mechanical receiving set could manifest it.
The mechanical receiving set can express it accurately and in your own language, the same as it was spoken when it was broadcast from that station; but your physical bodies are not developed in consciousness whereby your mentality can catch it and your physical bodies express it accurately as the mechanical invention, the radio receiving set, can express it. But it should be as operative and expressive in you as a mental and spiritual mechanical invention, as you could expect it to be expressed by the physical expression of the hand of art, as a mechanical invention made by man. Though you being individuals physically manifested, yet created by the hand of nature and the creative Force of nature, as the expresser you should b e able to express accurately the expression of anything any mechanical invention created and made by the hand of man could express.
For this cause I say, that which is in the physical world of existence is far behind the standard of science and invention in the material world, from a scientific point of view. When I say in the material world, I mean that which is in your physical, personal world of existence is not developed and brought to Perfection and Fruition to the degree that that which is in the material world as mechanical instruments and inventions of the mechanical world of things, has advanced; that they, through science and inventions can bring out things more accurately from a scientific point of view than that which is done through you.
That thought I stress for your consideration. Hence, the time will come when you will be able to speak and express as accurately by the transmitted message from one to the other as the radio broadcasting system has become to be practical, real and apparently essential.
Oh, it is a privilege to observe the mystery! But time apparently marches on! This expression of course, is a foretaste and a forelight of what will be as mankind concentrates on the Perfect Picture and relaxes his conscious mentality that has been active in the way of doubtfulness, in the way of timidity-ness, and in the way of fearfulness. The conscious mentality, with the daily actions, functions more in timidity, in doubtfulness and in fearfulness, than it does in a constructive work that should build mankind up in the most Holy Faith. But by the Spirit of MY Presence, through science and invention, I will tell mankind something they have not been hearing — and by this they too, as a people of the earth plane, will learn more of the significance of concentration and the realization of GOD'S Actual Presence among the children of men, in bringing about a moral betterment and bringing a more perfect state of Expression among the people of the earth that they might express more accurately from a physical point of view as well as they have been expressing mechanically pretty perfectly, in a way of expression.
The time cometh and now is, I will bring into actuality that of which has been surmised and imagined by those who are living in mortal consciousness seeking the advancement of their mental concept of things on the material plane. They can advance educationally, scientifically and inventionally, and other ways of expression on the material plane, but they do not stop to consider that their advancement should be mental and spiritual and yet it should be physical as an outward expression and as the personification of that advanced Spiritual Civilization.
For this cause we shall bring to fruition MY conscious Conviction and Realization, that mankind might observe the Perfect Picture as manifested among you. The time cometh when things that are done in parables mechanically, shall be a living Reality Mentally and Spiritually; for the parable of the mechanical inventions is merely a parable telling you of something that is a Reality Spiritually.
Everything we can enjoy from a mental and from a spiritual point of view, why, in reality the Reality of it is in you. The reality of the radio broadcasting system is in mankind, but the parable of it is brought out in the invention, commonly known as the radio broadcasting system.
The parable of the invention of electricity, in itself is a great mystery, yet it was an invention and a discovery. It was an expression of the scientificness of GOD'S Infiniteness, telling mankind in the parable of such an invention, there is a reality in something more than that of what you could consciously consider and discern with our conscious mentality; but as the parable unfolded itself, it expressed that which was behind it; something more great, something much better, something more far-reaching; for the parable is only a slight sketch and a reflection of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a percent of the grain of the Reality of the thing.
Hence, if this be true, why not seek, through concentration in the positive direction, the Perfect Expression instead of stressing merely the parable? Mankind can and will daily stress the parable, because they are material, they are material-minded, being mortal-minded, naturally they will observe only to the limitation of mortality, refusing to observe he significance of True Spirituality, the Inspiration for all mortality and materialism. Those things that are brought about through science and invention, they received their rise from the inspiration of the Almighty from a spiritual point of view, by speaking down in science and invention to the materialists, that they might catch it and invent or discover something that will be of practical use for mankind.
Therefore, I say as I have said, the Mystery of GOD is now revealed — HE came to bring to the surface that which was hid and mankind must arise from the mortal concept of things and discern things far beyond the visible expression of invention, for the visible expression of the invention cannot express a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of all of GOD'S Omniscience. But, as you bring your bodies into subjection and recognize the allness of GOD and the nothingness of matter, the inspiration that will come from the Almighty will teach you wisdom transcending all human information and all human understanding, in this advanced Civilization.
Therefore, you will no longer be lonely and apparently destitute, for your Wisdom as expressed in you will be a center of attraction and will attract others and draw them to you. That is the Mystery. It will not only attract others and draw them to you. That is the Mystery. It will not only attract others as persons, but it will attract whatsoever you may desire for your comfort and for your convenience, for the very Spirit of GOD'S Actual Presence as manifested, will be and it is the Source of all Supply. It is the satisfier of every good desire; therefore, I say, by concentration and by living in the Positive state of Expression you will attract the positive and the desirable and bring it forth into expression.
Then I say, that which was spoken of in the message there, concerning your very presence to attract and draw to you the voices and messages that are transmitted through the mechanical broadcasting system, it was unbelievable until I revealed it, because mankind had not thought of such a thing. They may have thought you could you could catch a thought through mental telepathy, but they did not think of the Mystery of the mechanical broadcasting system's message being transmitted and you could catch it. They did not think of it being reproducible, they did not think it was possible that physical bodies could reproduce a message transmitted through the ether; but I AM telling you it is as much possible as it was and as it is for your radio receiving set to catch it through and by dialing in on it. Now isn't that wonderful?
I AM speaking of the scientificness of your very physical existence! If the physical existence and your physical body and the very electricity in it and the atmosphere in which you are living and breathing and moving and have your being, were not as scientific and as real as that of the mechanical world of expression, how could the mechanical inventors get such an inspiration to bring about such inventions that they are now inventing? They must get these inspirations to bring about such inventions and such discoveries; hence, I say, your present existence, as physical persons, is as scientific as the inventor's information, skill and ability, for they are made and created like you.
Oh, it is a privilege to know the truth! Then I say, if you live it and express it, the time will come you will rise above all lacks, wants and limitations, by rising above all accusation, doubts and fears and criticisms. So long as you can allow any concept of the mortal concepts of men to bind you to their preconceived ideas and opinions and mortal versions, through criticism, through accusation, or even though condemnation, it is a matter of impossibility for you to advance scientifically and go on to perfection, personally or spiritually. Now isn't that wonderful?
Why are you retarded mentally and spiritually? It is because of the lack of your persistence in opposition to all criticism, in opposition to all accusation, in opposition to all of your sense of feelings and doubts and fearing. Your doubts and fears should be transcended. Your sense of fear should be overcome from every angle, for as long as those things can bind you through conventionality, through orthodoxy or through the versions of men from any angle expressible, it is a matter of impossibility for you to advance spiritually and scientifically.
Had the inventor of electricity listened to what the people were telling him, he would not have ever brought out the invention. Had the inventor of the invention of the automobile listened to what the versions of others had to say through their orthodoxy and their ignorance of invention, the automobile would never have been invented.
In every endeavor, you will find there are others who will try to prohibit you; but if you are persistent in your ambition and will go on and on in opposition to the opposers and those things that are in opposition to you, you will find yourself advancing toward your goal and you will get something they cannot get, because they have not advanced to it. Now isn't that wonderful?
In any and every discovery, in all inventions, those who are the discoverers and inventors are called ignorant by those who are less advanced scientifically, than they are. They will tell you, "Why, you can never get the lightning down from the sky. That is a matter of impossibility; that is GOD'S Business." In other words, they would have told you that as they did tell the inventor of electricity, and other discoveries and other inventions. They told the inventors of them it was impossible because they were limited in their concept, concerning the Mystery. They had not advanced scientifically, therefore, it was a matter of impossibility for them to tell you something to help you; they would only retard your advancement toward the mark of your new discovery or new invention that you may have been inspired to invent.
As someone said to ME recently, "I have observed by a vision", or dream whichever, "the way to dispel all static on the radio." I said, "One of MY Followers has invented such an invention." Although it is reproducible it is "re-discoverable." It can be rediscovered by others from another point of view, or even by the same; nevertheless, it is through and by one getting away from self and the former thought of things concerning that thing that they are trying to bring out from the invisible.
So then I say, as it was in the invention of electricity and the radio broadcasting system, even so it is with the mystery of these things I AM telling you. There are many things to be brought to the surface, as I said in one of MY Messages; I AM sure you all have read that the time may come you will be able to hear your own voice, the words you have spoken thirty or forty or fifty years ago and you will understand it when it comes in and through and by a mechanical instrument as could be termed a radio, or something of that sort, for the voices that have gone out.
Think not to say within yourself, your voice, because it is no longer heard consciously, that voice is dead. As Bert Williams and others who have passed on apparently, their voices can even be on a wax as a Victrola record. You can hear their voices distinctly now, as they were when they spoke the words. Now how about the voices being on the ether invisible apparently? They may be silent, but who can say that these voices that have been hid, cannot be mechanically picked up and re-spoken into your hearing just as distinctly as they were when they were first spoken?
Take these thoughts to consideration and as the Spirit of MY Presence will advance this advanced Spiritual Civilization, mankind will be inspired more scientifically that they might bring about more mechanical inventions to produce that which has been spoken into existence.
So then the time cometh and now is, things that have been hid shall be revealed. As said the Scripture,
"You must give an account for every vain and idle thought, and every word you say."
For this cause it behooves every individual to think Perfectly; for them all, for all mankind to think perfect thoughts, for if they do not desire to hear themselves talk again, and be speaking erroneously, they should speak perfectly now that their voices may be heard, and that they might not have anything to regret in the future. It is indeed wonderful!
There are many things I could say along this line, but I believe I have said enough to stir up your pure minds and yet, I could and I should say many things; but time will not permit to say so much at this particular juncture, while yet, as I afore said, there are many things to be said and many Mysteries to be revealed as you live in the Recognition of GOD'S Actual Presence.
Now as far as the different individuals speaking of how glad you are to see ME — I AM pleased to see you personally; nevertheless, when I AM apparently absent in Body, if you recognize MY Presence and be accurate in your words, deeds and actions, the same as if you were in MY Personal Presence, I can and will be with you according to your accurateness and according to your daily actions. That is the idea!
So, as I have often said,
"If you will sow good seeds and express the Perfect Picture, you must produce the fruit of its own kind"
and you will not have an occasion to fret nor worry when I AM apparently absent, for I will be as expressive, with such a recognition and such a faithful act, as I AM when I AM Personally Present. Now I say with such; but remember, when you deviate and will not be the same and will not live the same at MY Personal Absence as you do in MY Personal Presence, it is an open expression that you are deceiving yourself. You cannot be protected as effectively if you do not recognize MY Ever Presence; but if you recognize MY Ever Presence in the acts of your doings, in words, deeds and actions, the same as if I was with you Personally, then and there the Spirit will work for you accordingly.
All of it is a mental and spiritual concept and condition, but you must be the expressers of it that the spirit might work for you effectively at MY Personal Absence. That is the Mystery! But when you go along and get slack and unconcerned, as if though I AM not Present, then and there I will act accordingly and will be as if though I AM not Present when the accidents, disappointments and failures follow you.
But if you use it and express it in words, deeds and actions in all of your endeavors, the same will result, the same as if I was Personally Present at all times, because it is merely the concept of the thing and your conscious conviction through your daily actions, words and expressions that will bring the results to you according to your concept concerning the Mystery.
Oh, it is a privilege to realize the Truth. As I continue to stress, and apparently I must continue to stress it — the lion faced man. He was in the exact likeness of the lion, so the story goes, because his mother thought she saw a lion and was frightened at him — at the lion whichever.
Now this is not necessary, to make a lion or something in the likeness of a lion, but because she thought she saw a lion, it did not have to be a lion, but according to her conscious conviction and realization, as she saw it to be, to her it was a lion; and it proved itself to be to her a lion, because the first born-child, after that time, was in the exact likeness of the lion. Now, isn't that Wonderful!
Now the word says, in accord with one of the speakers' words a little while ago, when she spoke of being sincere and acting with the spirit of sincerity, this is also according to the Scripture. She said she could see MY Presence, or words to that effect. The word says,
"Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see GOD."
Now if you are pure, sincere and positive in words, deeds and actions at MY Personal Absence and at all times, you will be obliged to see GOD.
GOD will be in your deeds, in your dealings, in your words and in your affairs, and wheresoever GOD is ruling and reigning, there HIS Kingdom is; there is where HE has Dominion and wheresoever a Righteous King has Dominion, all things are abundantly blessed and none will be under the curse.
Now wheresoever a king reigns, there is where his kingdom is. If you allow CRIST to rule and reign on the throne of your mind, in and over you and over all of your affairs, then and there you will find your GOD. If you are Sincere in all of your endeavors and if you are True and Faithful, you will be obliged to see your GOD, for GOD will be with you now, henceforth and forever. I thank you.
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