Tarrytown Mansion, Tarrytown, New York
There are those who think by opposing the different followers and complaining to the authorities that they can arouse the authorities to draft laws to prohibit the followers from living in the various restricted neighborhoods. However, they fail to realize that when they oppose them they are opposing the Work of GOD ALMIGHTY, FATHER DIVINE, for it has been declared Biblically, and even the President has reiterated it: "All men are equal." And when man opposes GOD, he opposes his life, his health, his success, his joy, his peace, his happiness, and not only his but that of all who claim him; for it is written:
"The sins of the parents shall be visited upon the children from the third to the fourth generation.
Now, oppose the Work of FATHER DIVINE, if you can, for He is the ETERNAL, ALMIGHTY GOD, CREATOR of heaven and earth, and He holds your DESTINY, your LIFE, the very breath you breathe, in the hollow of His Holy Hand!
WE THANK THEE, OUR HOLY, ETERNAL GOD!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER'S Message follows:)
PEACE, EVERYONE! GOOD HEALTH, GOOD WILL and a GOOD APPETITE; GOOD MANNERS, GOOD BEHAVIOR; all SUCCESS and all PROSPERITY; all WISDOM, all KNOWLEDGE with a GOOD UNDERSTANDING; all DOMINION and all AUTHORITY I bring into expression! These and all other blessings I bring and I put them forth into operation for the true and the faithful among the children of men.
At this particular instance I have arisen to say it is GOOD to be here and it is GOOD to know matters not where you are, My SPIRIT, My PRESENCE, My LIFE and My LOVE, if you allow it to, can and will take care of you.
When one of the speakers mentioned a little while ago something, I thought how it was with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; how they could live in the fiery furnace and be unharmed for the fire could not scorch or singe them because they were in the Presence of GOD, and GOD as their only FRIEND was the REDEEMER and the SAVIOR of them. I thought how in these different places where the enemy actually does not want you to be, Hitlerism does not want you to have access for expression as real, true AMERICANS! Hitlerism does not want you to express a real DEMOCRACY, they make mockery of a democracy, the spirit of Hitlerism in those who are called American citizens, who are filled with prejudice, segregation and discrimination. Those who do not want you in the different places, they will seek to find some flaw and some clue whereby they can condemn and bring pressure to bear, if they can, in the act of causing you to think it is a violation of the law to do a certain thing; to live and express and do what you may be inspired to do.
But, as I have said, there cannot be a law that My SPIRIT cannot comprehend. Laws, rules and regulations in the different communities, as were mentioned, would not permit you to enter these borders had I not come Personally. If I had not come Personally, you would not be, able to enter many of these borders, a good many of you, because of prejudice, segregation and discrimination in the expression of localization, by drawing a line of demarcation to prohibit you and others of the servant class and those who are commonly considered as the underprivileged from entering such borders as these.
But remember, since there is a law, they say, in these places, that you are not privileged to make a noise at a certain time; if they can do without making a noise, you can obey the same law and come into possession of all of the homes and ranches and land and everything else that life demands, by keeping the law's command. Can you not see the mystery?
Restricted neighborhoods and the like, we are as, and can be as restricted as anybody else. Seclusive neighborhoods, we can be as seclusive as anybody else. Our quiet neighborhoods, we can be as quiet as anybody else and we can meet every issue scientifically and accurately and set up a stand, yea, a standard for the people whereby they `will not have grounds for criticism.
So it is a wonderful privilege to know the truth. This is what GOD has done and what GOD will do for you; cause you to know the Truth; qualify you to meet every issue of life scientifically and accurately. If the 'other fellow' can live in the 'other place,' you can live there too if it falls your lot to do so; and I can make it Heaven for you! Can you not see the mystery?
Truly might have one said:
"An open confession is good for the soul."
It is true, it is good to make an open confession from time to time; but,
"Prayer is the hearts sincere desire, unuttered and unexpressed."It is inexplicable, you cannot explain it or express it;
"for you know not how to pray as you ought;"
but if something causes you to desire something with the spirit of sincerity, the least you say about it at times the more effective will be the answer to that prayer and the more explicitly openly will it propound it in the actuated words of expression in the answer to your request So it is a wonderful thought.
Look at these beautiful homes; not only here in Westchester County but in all communities where I sojourn and wheresoever I will to go! Through My MIND and My SPIRIT, those of My true followers who adhere to My Teaching will come into possession of whatsoever is necessary for their comfort and for their convenience and none can 'prevent it!
Then some will try do bring about or dig up some old "blue law" and other laws that have not been even drafted. They will try to draft laws to bring oppression against you, to oppress you; but if you stand firm and know the TRUTH, GOD in you and among you and for you can meet every issue as well as they can. Therefore, in these different communities where they would complain, make complaints or have made complaints of any noise of your car or anything of that sort, why, you need not fret nor worry, but whatsoever rises in opposition, it is against those who are of the opposers, those who are in opposition. They may think they are opposing you, but they shortly move themselves through prejudice out of existence and go the way of all of the dead but not the way of the living!
So these thoughts are well worth considering; I thought to mention this point for your consideration. Nevertheless, with all you know concerning the matter and concerning the mystery, stand firm and do the thing that will be in keeping with the law of the land, with the ordinances wheresoever you sojourn, where you will not be the slightest violators of the slightest law or regulation, so that the enemy cannot have grounds for persecution under the name of prosecution, or bring any railing accusation against you for My Name's sake; and if they must or desire to bring something against you, let them bring it against you without a cause, definitely without a cause saving through and by the cause of preconceived and hereditive prejudice and bigotry handed down traditionally.
Those detestable tendencies, I AM exposing them and, as the speaker said, I have long since declared I would cut off the head of the SERPENT, prejudice; not only cut it off but I SHALL CRUSH IT! I did cut it off legally and officially by the chief executive! I cut it off, if they would but adhere to his message, his address to Congress, both the joint session of Congress, it was for the purpose of telling all of the senators and all of the representatives from every state in the Union to bring an abolition to all division and segregation among this nation; for ALL MEN ARE EQUAL! This was to tell them that! President Roosevelt desired to tell them some time ago, but no doubt for fear that it might do more harm than good he held his peace as far as those things are concerned in a great measure; but in this particular address to Congress, his proclamation was according to My inspirationic composition transmitted;
"Let there be no division among you!"
GOD has called for the UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD OF MAN and the conscious recognition and the realization of the FATHERHOOD OF GOD. HE retraced your thoughts back and told you concerning the Garden of Eden in the beginning and how HE created man, and that is the FOUNDATION of the BROTHERHOOD back to which we must go, and all shall see and know THERE SHALL BE NO DIVISION AMONG YOU! Oh, how glorious it is to observe the mystery!
But in coming in contact with the different people in the different communities, filled with prejudice and bigotry, and some of them filled with barbarism as the barbarics and as those that would wage inhuman warfare against even the subjects of this democracy if they could; coming in contact with them, live the LIFE OF CHRIST as real law respecting and law abiding citizens; understand the community in which you live and just be a citizen as far as legality and Evangelism may be concerned. Do not try to be as far as they are concerned, more than other citizens, as far as law and order is concerned, but live in this recognition, abiding in the Law of the Spirit of Life and keeping GOD in consciousness at all times; realizing you are not to be ostracized or isolated from others but you are a part of the community in which you live!
You are a part of the state and the country in which you live and you, as American citizens, should have the same rights— not a dif different right as an EQUAL right, but you must have the SAME rights and the SAME law, the SAME rules and SAME regulations and the SAME customs and systems of men legally to be dealt with and to deal with your fellowmen! Each one must recognize the selfsame, and when you do according to My Teaching, why, you will not be the aggressor and will not be the offender but you will stand firm; and if one wilfully or maliciously, through prejudice or bigotry, attempts an attack by the law or any other method for the purpose of embarrassing or harassing you in any way whatsoever, you can stand firm and be not dismayed, knowing GOD will take care of you; and live the LIFE effectively, accurately and perfectly, and let Me express within you whereby you as the SUPREME ONE'S daughters and sons, will be a LIGHT to this socalled civilization and will be a standard, whereby I have lifted you, that they must come up to.
I mention this because it was said and it has been said heretofore, there are those who would seek to condemn you, and you would condemn yourself if you did what would not be lawful to do; they would seek to find some flaw in the life you live, in your daily conversation or in your talk, to condemn by accusation, by bringing pressure to bear through persecution under the name of prosecution if you talk loud in some of the places; therefore when you know they are malicious and desire to find something like that, why, just refuse to talk loud, just as I did in New York City and instructed My followers to do, until the authorities found out WHO it was among you! Can you not see the mystery? Now they know definitely they cannot exist without Me!
Had it not been,for Me Personally, My Personal Work and Mission in New York City, there would have been much bloodshed before this time; had I not come and brought the people together, brought an end to prejudice among those who had been converted, brought an end to segregation and discrimination and broken up the organizations that had been organized and set apart for insurrection and for uprising one nation against the other and one race against the other! I AM the ONE that brought an end to such and I will bring an end to it throughout this land and country, and all of those who ignore My Teachings, My plan and purpose, I bring them to their knees even if they call themselves officials, and eventually those who do believe, I will give them the authority as the officials!
It is a wonderful thought to live in the ACTUAL PRESENCE of GOD ; to see what GOD is actually doing among you and for you all!—not only for those who are called My followers but for all mankind! A STANDARD has been lifted of PERFECTION as a sample and as an example for all civilization. This standard that I have lifted, all government and all representatives of all society must recognize it or else they must go down in defeat! It is wonderful!
It was brought to My attention that there was someone called up, as they did once in Sayville, concerning one of the places, someone starting their car or getting their car in the garage, and said it was a violation of the law to make a noise. Now this could have been a little annoysome if it would have been, but prejudice and maliciousness motivated it because Hitlerism has free access among them; because in this and under this DEMOCRACY they desire to express and manifest themselves over some, as it has been said the Germans did over the Jews, the same SPIRIT of HITLERISM; but it has no place or space under this DEMOCRACY for I have the CONSTITUTION AND ITS AMENDMENTS and I AM the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!
How glorious it is to know by these two great documents you are legally and politically protected so long as you live Evangelically and legitimately and do not do anything maliciously or knowingly or wilfully in the act of a violation of any ordinance. So the very SPIRIT of My Presence is here and will carry My plan and My purpose through to the letter, and naught shall hinder Me! But, as in the experience of some in different communities, who have risen against Me, so will be the experience of many others who will rise if they allow prejudice to have access within! But GOD alone shall reign until He shall have conquered everything that is not obedient to Him and not in keeping with His Command!
There are many things I would like to say but time at this particular instance may not permit. The Spirit of My Presence will transmit it and with you I will inspire you with it, with you I will inspire you and with you I will inspire you with it, and with you I will inspire you in it. So these thoughts are well worth considering and if you live according to My Teaching you will be law abiding citizens and abide in the SPIRIT and refuse to deviate, refuse to doubt and refuse to fear, for GOD HIMSELF is here with you!
Another point for consideration I would like to say: now in the City and elsewhere the air raid wardens and other representatives of authority may not at all times be identifiable. They may not at all times be identifiable! They may ask you to stop your car or stop in crossing the street, in doing something; but the SPIRIT of My Presence and with My own OMNISCIENCE as I teach you wisdom, you will adhere to My Message and will take cognizance of it— you would stop! It would not hurt you to stop ; it will not harm you to stop and see if they have the authority to request you to do so and see what they want. They may not be police officials and they may not have any uniform to identify themselves as officials, but you could stop and find out from them if they are legitimate representatives of City, State or Federal Government. They will intelligently and respectfully show you their credentials and tell you decently and respectfully why they asked you to stop. I thank you.
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