Banquet Table 158-160 West 126th Street, New York City, New York
Many visitors were present as usual on this occasion, many of whom had been attending the Friday Righteous Government Meeting in the Auditorium. Most of them stayed for the Banquet, hoping that our Lord and Master, FATHER DIVINE, would speak, as HE had not spoken in the meeting. Great was the joy of one and all when FATHER satisfied the multitudes gathered around HIM by giving not just one Message on this evening, but several glorious Lectures which filled and thrilled HIS audience mentally, Spiritually and physically as well.
In these last Messages, the first of which is recorded elsewhere in the ‘New Day’, FATHER sets forth in majestic power, the significance of HIS Presence here on earth in this dispensation, and further reveals to the world at large, hidden mysteries and secretes of such precious worth that it behooves every man, woman and child to read and partake of these Words of Life that they might be redeemed from the world of sin and draw nigh unto GOD ALM IGHTY, FATHER DIVINE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows:)
Peace, Everyone: Now you all are glad, are you not, to realize that which is enjoyed by one can be enjoyed by all, and that which is accomplished by one can be accomplished by all?
Whilst the Message was being read just a little while ago, I thought of MY often rehearsed statements; ‘As with an individual so with a nation, and as with a nation so with the nations universally!’ If one expression can come forth in and over and above all oppositions and be the positive in reality, it can universally be established. Aren’t you glad!
I thought of what one of the speakers said a little while ago, concerning the mystery of what I had said in the Righteous Government Platform. As with those of us as individuals, individually and severally, returning all stolen goods and paying all old bills you never intended to pay; even so I request and demand all civilization to do the same! But yet as the last speaker said, it must be done in Righteousness and according to MY Righteous Government Platform!
Naturally, undeveloped and unexploited territories are not worth as much as they are when they have been developed and improved. It is the same with your property when you buy a piece of property. If you do not improve the property but if you allow it to go down and lose its actual value, why, naturally your property would not be worth as much as it was when you purchased it. But if you improve your property and bring about great developments in divers places on your real property, naturally your property is worth more than it was before it was improved, therefore a righteous adjustment should be made.
For this cause I petitioned the powers that be to buy, or propose the purchase of, Czechoslovakia, and as with that Message to them at that particular time, so with the Message to all mankind, and, as one of the speakers said, it has aroused much comment and much consideration.
There are those whom you might think little, are deeply considering a mystery that I AM about to reveal to this people! Oh, it is something to consider! It is unbelievable, but yet it is considered! Then I say it is a glorious privilege to be here and to know definitely it is not merely a supposition; it is a conscious conviction that if one thing can be accomplished in one place, it can be accomplished in all places!
Now the abolition of segregation and discrimination in your public schools; this may apparently be one slight sketch and a reflection of what we shall have universally, but it has actually been accomplished as a reality psychologically, mentally and spiritually. By faith it has been accomplished. Now this will not be eliminated nor prevented until itshall have been universally established! It may be thought of by some that it would be a matter of impossibility to have the Universal Brotherhood of man established in such a prejudiced and a barbaric people as a good many of these in North America; nevertheless, that which I have declared, I have spoken as Spirit and as Life, and that which is Spirit and is Life, it is a matter of impossibility for it to be prohibited!
When I speak as I do, I AM speaking in opposition to every supposition concerning the oppositioners or the opposers, whichever. Aren’t you glad! I AM speaking as one having authority and I know it is a matter of impossibility for that which I have spoken into consideration not to be fulfilled effectively Personally! That is the mystery! For I speak over and above every fearful and doubtful superstitious idea and opinion according to the suppositions of those who may imagine vain things. Aren’t you glad!
Be sure you are right and then go ahead! You need not fear anything, there is nothing to fear. You need not fear a thing! Personally it has been tested and tried, or else I would have died! Can you not see the mystery! Therefore I know this Truth is incorruptible, undefiled and it fadeth not away! It is a matter of impossibility for it to fade! That is what I AM talking about.
Then I say, build upon this Foundation and when you speak or think with ME, think over and above all of your frightful and doubtful superstition and recognize GOD’S real Actual Presence as the hope of your redemption and HIS and your own protection. It is Spirit, it is mind, even though it may be and it has been personified.
What said I when I spoke on MY vacation in nineteen thirty-two? I said, ‘Stone prison walls and iron prison bars cannot hold ME, for I AM Spirit, yet Spirit Personified!’ I realize I AM Personified! Now unify your mind with that of which you are, even as I do that which I AM. Your spirit, body and mind become to be one and one indeed. It would be a matter of impossibility for you to be hindered physically, even as it would be for you to be hindered mentally and Spiritually! Nevertheless, as GOD is impersonal, you can speak impersonally and stress it vividly because you are not talking from a mortal point of view. You know that which you have spoken into consideration, you will do!
You have heard ME say from time to time, those who have promised they would be with ME, it is a matter of impossibility for them to go! It is not matter making the promises. It is not materialism making the promises. Mortality may be a failure, but I hold fast to that which is good; the spirit of you, the mind of you, the impersonality of you and the un-individuality of you! That is the reality for ME! That is what it is all about.
I have often said, if any individual as a person would cease to function or refuse to do what the individual personally promised, I AM X-rayly beholding the reality of the impersonality and the un-individuality of the person! I said that to convey this: that which I have spoke into consideration, I will accomplish with or without a body! It is absolutely immaterial to ME.
therefore the Spirit speaketh and the Spirit observeth and the Spirit accomplishes all of its endeavors! That is the mystery.
Therefore, you can rejoice in it and be exceedingly glad! The promises that you have made---a good many of you---if you choose to lose out as a person, I hold the impersonality of you to the impersonal promise and GOD will give the impersonality of you a body as it pleases HIM! Therefore, when you go, others will come. That is the significance of the independence of GOD, but firstly you must X-rayly behold the reality of the ALMIGHTY and transcend all personalities in your consciousness and get home where GOD is, Who is impersonal! Then and only then can you be in unity with HIM!
I AM not bothering about a thing! As I said many years ago: If I thought I had any mortality in this Tabernacle as a Person, I would use a razor blade or something to drain all of the mortal blood out of the system, that GOD might be in evidence and be in expression and mortality might no longer have an existence! I AM saying all of those things to bring the fact before your mind eye, if after the manner of bringing an abolition to all segregation in public places, in schools and elsewhere, I will do it regardless to what! But as I said at the time of prohibition when they were trying to get liquor back in all of the states. I said it is immaterial to ME even if they do, the people will not drink it as they once did! I will take care of that! Aren’t you glad!
Now you can see thousands and millions are being converted into this recognition and I have brought about an abolition of all segregation universally by the sample and the example I AM demonstrating. Can you not see the mystery? For as with an individual, so with a nation; in other words, as with an individual, so with an assembly and as with an assembly, so with an organization, and as with an organization , so with a nation, and as with a nation so with all nations universally; therefore, the universality of all things to us will become to be a living reality!
How glorious it is to know, as Christendom said, ‘Each victory will help you some other to win!’ If you can accomplish in one thing, you can accomplish in all things! Why should you fail in any? That is the mystery. Why should you fail in anything if you are right ? But be sure you are right and then go ahead---that is the thought! So build upon this Foundation and realize, as in the world of education, so in the industrial field and all of the divers fields of expression; so shall it be universally as I have it under MY Personal Jurisdiction where I AM daily speaking!
You all do not feel that sense of segregation here; you feel the sense of unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose, for you are working and coming together for one common purpose. That is the mystery. Therefore you feel that sense of unity, you feel the Universal Brotherhood of man expressing or in evidence as present that you might be the outward expresser and the manifestor individually and collectively of the Universal Brotherhood of man and the conscious realization of the FATHERHOOD of GOD!
Then I say, as the victory was won according to MY Righteous Government Platform concerning the segregated school, it is a victory for all schools under the Constitution---I mean for all people under the Constitution in this country who may be segregated because of so-called race, creed or color. The one victory is a victory nationally! Since it is nationally, it is also internationally and shall go forth universally and accomplish that for which I have sent it!
It is not merely a victory from an educational point of view alone, but in ignorance and folly, in every phase or on every phase of life, whichever, and in each and every endeavor, the victory has actually been won as far as segregation and discrimination are concerned. Aren’t you glad!
Then we shall have a Righteous Government. We shall put it through as with this particular issue in the school in the act of bringing an abolition to the segregated system that has been existing in the schools, so shall it be in all parts of our civic and social work among men politically, socially and otherwise. We shall have a Righteous Government and as I have it on MY immediate staff, as you see with your physical eye as we sit and stand in these dining rooms and auditoriums; so shall we have it in reality socially, morally, intellectually and otherwise, and the segregated terms they have been using to rob mankind will eventually be completely done away with. That is the mystery.
Just think of it! As I said the other day; for what purpose and for what cause are those who are called Jews being mistreated? Because they have identified themselves as Jews by nature, by characteristics and by disposition; yet in the same country, being citizens of their respective country wherein they are born, why should, by nature and a continuous reproduction of the characteristics and disposition, they be identified as such that would bring about segregation in violation to the Work and the Mission, and in violation to MY Righteous Government Platform?
The Universal Brotherhood of man and the conscious realization of the FATHERHOOD of GOD must be established in all civilization! How can you be unified together in reality so long as you conscientiously and willingly segregate yourself from others because of some cursed lineage or some cursed nationality? You are cursing yourselves continually unconsciously! If you think you are great, you are cursing yourself and bringing a gap to the access in the Graces wherein I stand, whereby you are prohibited from expressing and from advancing scientifically and infinitely for you have divided yourselves, man and man!
But oh, how glorious it is to take the Teaching of CHRIST as exemplified by those of us who are unified together and observe the mystery and see the significance of it; see just what it actually means! It lifts you above your mortal versions and above the mortal fancies of others. It causes you to lose your mortal cursed identity! It causes you to be hid in the Infinite with your Protector; for what said the Apostle concerning the mystery?
The foregoing statement was a quotation evangelical, yet I speak from a Scriptural point of view of which is just as stressful and as much considered and should be more considered.
As I mentioned in that Message, the Psalmic prediction of David in the forty-fifth psalm; GOD was speaking in his prediction of what you would do as though he was telling you what you should do. If you be reminded of your lowliness and your good-for–nothingness, or something that is not pleasant, you will tend to re-create such conditions for yourselves, but if you are reminded of something that is desirable, something that is advancing and you visualize it vividly, you will tend to materialize it and up to that degree of unfoldment you will automatically be lifted and will have victory over those undesirable conditions under which you had been laboring. That is the mystery.
Can you not see the mystery? Can you not see what I AM doing for all this people? I have lifted you from the miseries you have been undergoing through the misconcept of the Truth and through the lack of understanding, because you thought you should be in some special rut before I came. You thought you should especially visualize the negative and stress it continually; but since I came, I AM bringing into your conscious consideration something that is better, something that is greater; I AM causing you to stress it vividly and I have caused you to reflect it and since you have reflected it in your faces, you have expressed it in your lives and in your activities.
As with an individual, so with a nation. Then, as with one phase of life, so with all of the different phases of life and with all expressions of the divers phases of life. GOD can and will express HIMSELF effectively and will give you victory in every endeavor if you will but let HIM! ‘Have faith in GOD,’ I heard Christendom say, ‘the sun will shine. Though dark the clouds may be today, HIS Heart has planned,’ one said, ‘your path and mine. Have faith in GOD, have faith alway!’ Your faith will lift you. Your faith will lift all humanity!
When you speak, speak positive words without a tremor and without a doubt and without a fear, over and above all superstitious doubts and fears, over and above every supposition that would cause you to doubt or fear. Speak positive words and declare the reality and GOD will bring it to pass, as I said in the Gospel. What said Jesus concerning the mystery?
Can you not see the mystery? Now speak it and it will be! That is the mystery. Speak it, speak anything that is good.
Whatsoever you may desire, if it is good and unselfish and non-malicious, speak it and your supposition will be a reality, for GOD will bring your suppositions into actuality and cause you to realize the things you have imagined.
How cometh the great inventions, the great discoveries, the compositions and other such unfoldments of the mystery such as we have enjoyed---how cometh they? How do they come into expression? By being spoken mentally and Spiritually into your consideration through your supposition and through the supposition, yea, the suppositions of others. Whilst they imagine certain things, they imagine them vividly, but they eventually brought them into actuality and caused them to become to be a reality---no longer merely a supposition but a living reality because they imagined them.
All inventions, all discoveries and all compositions and inspirations that have been brought out as compositions, they were merely an imagination firstly; but because you thought them vividly and continued to think them and observe it in your mentality, you brought it out from under the surface to the surface and caused it to come forth into outer expression; therefore you discovered it, in other words, you uncovered it. That is the mystery.
Now speak whatsoever you will so long as it is absolutely unselfish and non-malicious and non-prejudiced. GOD will bless you and bring it to pass; for I say, ‘If you say to yonder mountain, be thou removed and cast into the depths of yonder sea, it will obey thee!’ Things are just as movable and just as ‘obeyable’ to you as they were with CHRIST if you know the Truth concerning this Life! Think of it! Speak them into actuality, though they may be an imagination and may be superstition according to the mortal version; but if you stress them vividly with the spirit of sincerity, as with the composition and as with an invention, so with anything else you may desire to bring to the surface! That is the mystery.
Then I say let these thoughts abide with you and bring them from under cover and you will be a discoverer. That is the mystery. It is good to know this Truth! Now speak and GOD will hear! GOD said, ‘Let dry land appear,’ and it came forth into expression! HE told you to do the same! Speak to the creative forces of nature, they will obey you! So long as you speak scientifically and according to the Gospel and the Scripture, your requests will be heard and answered speedily, for the mouth of JESUS declared it. Did HE not say,
Now speak as one having authority and the cosmic forces of nature, they will obey you speedily. The creative forces of nature, they also harmonize with you and obey you. Speak into actuality unselfishly with the spirit of meekness and the spirit of sincerity; your prayers and your requests will be heard and answered. I thank you. It is wonderful!
(As these wonderful Words had created a very high vibration, only a few minutes elapsed before FATHER arose again to further stamp in our minds these positive thoughts of LIFE and TRUTH, speaking as follows:)
Peace, Everyone: I cannot stress the thought too vividly, of the unindividuality of all things and of the impersonality of all things. As I sat, I thought just then, the Message I sent to the powers that be, as nations, according to the new stamp we have out, the Peace stamp. The cablegrams, yea, the cablegrams I sent to each of the European powers and also the Associated Press and to the President of the United States---this could have been termed as if though I was sending it to men; I mean, to some nationality, yea, to the different nations. But as with a nation, so with an individual; it is vice versal, even as I have said---as with an individual so with a nation. For this cause it is a much with an individual as it is with a nation and GOD loves an individual as much as HE does a nation. Can you not see the mystery? And HE Loves a nation as much as HE does an individual, for GOD by Nature is Infinite!
Then the Message went out over the cablegrams and the telegrams and to the press as to the nations at that time. You see the mystery? But now the Message, the same Message is going in the Peace Stamps individually to all of MY Correspondents and to all of the correspondents of all of MY Friends who will endorse PEACE on earth and GOOD WILL to men. Can you not see the mystery?
Therefore the New Day Publishing Company is now publishing these stamps and selling them at twenty-five cents a hundred. Just think of it! Every letter you send out, you should send one of these Peace Stamps on it. You are preaching the Truth concerning the mystery and revealing MY secrets to the public! You will not even be criticized much, because I have even stopped the prejudicial postmen from trying to criticize!
Here is Presiden Rooseveltt’s message speaking officially on this stamp! Now if they try to knock ME out of there, they will try to knock the government out, for the President was speaking officially for the general masses of this people representing the American people! Can you not see the mystery? I merely confirmed what he said and substantiated it and verified it and sent it out effectively by cooperating with him. Just think of it!
Now any individual receiving any correspondence from these, MY immediate Followers, MYSELF and MY Co-workers and Friends, can and will get the exact Message I sent the nations of Europe and this nation. It cost many, many dollars to send those cablegrams abroad to all of those powers but here you will get the same Message individually for one-fourth of a penny if you will buy it! Can you not see the mystery? How I AM endeavoring to and I AM reducing and cutting the cost of living and blessing everything where all can enjoy the same as a government could enjoy!
Czechoslovakia and the European countries, because of MY Message I sent them, enjoyed being free from the immediate destruction of a physical warfare! Well now, you can enjoy individually as well as the nations did over there nationally. Can you not see the mystery? Therefore, just what I have given to the different nations as nationalities, as nations of the earth, I have given the same to you individually that you might have the very same thing yourself. I thank you. And GOD does just as much for an individual as HE does for a nation and will do just as much for all of the nations of the earth as HE does for an individual! That is the mystery of this stamp, embodying both the gist of what President Roosevelt said and what I said concerning this Peace we all have been seeking. Can you not see the mystery? It was for an individual and yet it was for all of the nations universally that they all might be emancipated from the fear and the dread of another world war! Can you not see the mystery? Therefore, it is a blessing well worth considering. GOD is blessing HIS people individually, severally, collectively, nationally and universally! I thank you.
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