FATHER DIVINE at 115th Street, New York City ready to go
Under the great canopy of a mid-night sky, a Rolls Royce, two brand new Chevrolets and a shiny Ford drew out from the curb at 20 West 115th Street on Monday evening, March 30th, pulling away from the crowd that had gathered in the street to catch another satisfying glimpse of the Precious Body of the LORD, FATHER DIVINE.
Dawn brought to the ears of the country visitors the chirping and cheeping of birds, and the promise of a beautiful warm day. The Country Estate at Sayville, the famous Birth-Place and Conversion of many souls again welcomed the Personal BODY of FATHER DIVINE and a part of HIS Immediate Staff.
Official business was in progress and as was wont, the Great Mind of FATHER DIVINE revealed the causes and effects of things, and the way out of every dilemma and perplexing problems of man.
The approaching hour for the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann was being radioed and the minds of the listeners at this particular location at 72 Macon Street, Sayville, L. I. were excited and strained, as they hoped for a last minute stay of execution. But the Infinite Mind of the MASTER was far above any such mortal, mental anxiety. And so with ease and dexterity, FATHER DIVINE perceiving the anxiety of those present swung the conversation into another channel of thought, firstly explaining , Mercy would be extended Mr. Hauptmann if he would call on GOD, without any feeling of resentment against those prosecuting him, for if he had murder in his heart against them, he would increase his resentful feeling, and thus be guilty of the crime, although he might be guilty of the act.
From this, FATHER let fall from HIS Precious Lips the Pearls of Wisdom that spellbound every listener, and the following was picked up in the middle of HIS Conversation, and all can enjoy it, if you can grasp it, the Highlights of this Great Psychological Principle concerning the conscious and the unconscious and the subconscious minds of men.
(The foregoing statements plus the comment and foot-note at the end of these Gems are those of the Staff-Reporter and these precious Gems follow.)
You are no longer conscious. Therefore, the consciousness of your mind ceases to function, as being termed, you are unconscious, but it does not say it is the worse state of being— the worse state of misery. As far as the physical is concerned, it would be the time when the body would be in mental or physical torture or agony.
That state of preconsciousness will become to be that subconscious state of expression. That pre-consciousness will be submerged underneath the veil of darkness and when this is done, you are known to be unconscious by the conscious minds of men, for as they are consciously thinking, you are no longer in that conscious state of expression. They cannot tell your conscious thoughts, for your conscious thoughts are inexpressible. But yet, it is alright, the conscious mind should express the perfect state of consciousness that you subconscious mind might be the expression of that perfect state of consciousness, when your conscious mind ceases to function.
The relaxation of your conscious mentality with your subconscious mind will be the real expression in action instead of your conscious mind. Your conscious mind acts consciously and personally according to the conscious senses' actions.
As you look, you feel, you taste and you smell; you consciously act accordingly. If you are not an expression of these, you are in a subconscious state of expression. Why act in consciousness negative actions or undesirable actions? It is because of your five physical senses. As you smell, you frown. As you smell, you smile. As you feel , you do the same by your conscious thoughts centered on that which you feel according to the sense of feeling, according to the sense of smelling."
Your conscious thought will be centered on some expression according to the sense of feeling or smelling. The centered thought will be directed or centered on some special expression according to your sense of tasting. All of these respond harmoniously, but they respond harmoniously according to the conscious mind. That's why it is essential to relax your conscious mentality, that your subconscious mind might be active. Your subconscious mind will act automatically at times without the sense of tasting, feeling or smelling, but your conscious mind will automatically act ordinarily according to the five physical senses, according to the act of their duty, according to the sense of their duty.
Therefore, the conscious mind, going by the five physical sense actions and expressions as that scale of Justice, will weigh accurately at times. Therefore, your conscious mind should weigh rightly that your subconscious mind will act with a good judgement. Not in an unrighteous judgment, but with a Righteous Judgment. When you judge with sight or with hearing, it is by your conscious mind. Your conscious mind is subject to the sense of feeling and to the sense of hearing and to the sense of seeing, to the sense of smelling and to the sense of tasting. These expressions will lead you into captivity and condemnation by the senses, I mean by your conscious mind.
Your conscious mind will act according to same, which is detrimental to your well-being a times. Your conscious mind will deceive you, for your conscious mind gets its information and instruction and leading from and by your five physical senses. Your five physical senses will express according to your physical condition and not according to the mental and Spiritual condition from the within, within your subconsciousness.
The sense of physical hearing, tasting and smelling and your sight and feeling, those senses work in harmony with your conscious mind and mortal conscious thinking. The mortal conscious thinking will act according to the five senses"
"So, to overcome these conditions, the great essential is for one to relax his conscious mentality and cease to judge with an unrighteous judgement by sight, or by the seeing of the eye, and the hearing of the ear. These words are Biblical. For,
'We judge not by the hearing of the ear, neither by the sight of the eye, but with a righteous judgment'
That's why I like to go away at times, for the sense of hearing with the physical ears ceases and the sense of feeling with the physical body of expression ceases to function. Then and there you can be alone with GOD and not with your conscious mind, nor your physical senses— no longer with either one of them.
You can be alone in the field with GOD. So long as you are with your five physical senses and your conscious activity, otherwise, you are not alone in the field with GOD. But if you can and will still your conscious mentality and relax your physical body completely, the Spirit of MY Presence will be with you. The reaction of your relaxation will cause you to feel it.
That is the mystery from whence cometh the Spirit of MY Presence, and where has it been so long? I have been right here waiting for you to relax yourselves as individuals that I might speak and act automatically, for this, I will do spontaneously when you relax. It's a Blessing when the relaxation of the conscious mentality has taken place in your physical body. Oh! It is wonderful!
The physical feeling has an expression. He puts forth himself in many angles, it could be termed many branches. The physical hearing does the same, and the physical taste. But the physical feelings are more expressive from many angles than that of the hearing, tasting or smelling. The feeling is more detrimental.
The physical feeling will attract your attention, and the physical sight will do the same, but more stressfully at times, the feeling, than that of the sight does. Now isn't that wonderful! All of those expressions will cause you to think inharmoniously at times, your feeling , your tasting and your hearing. You may think your physical senses will help you to think harmoniously. Your physical senses will cause you to think, when I say: 'Take no thought for yourselves.'
Your physical senses will cause you to think conflictingly, for your thoughts will not be in harmony with the Infinite. Your thoughts will be functioning from a mortal angle, conflicting with the Fundamentals of the Infinite, although you may think they are harmonious at times.
One of the Staff queried, 'But FATHER, you have to think not to think!' FATHER responded, Refuse to think to think. It is by relaxation, relaxing your thoughts, stilling yourselves as far as those things are concerned, especially from a sense of feeling, and a sense of hearing, and the sense of smelling in the way of correction, especially in the way of correction—then your physical senses will try to correct your mentalities. Your conscious mentality will not be corrected satisfactorily speaking by the recognition of your five physical senses, or some one of them.
Your physical senses will instruct your mentality. You will not be satisfied. There will be no satisfaction in the physical body, nor the physical conscious mentality, saving by the endorsement of your five, or one of your five physical senses. And in most instances the physical sense will suggest to the mentality and will tell the mentality it needs correction—therefore, the physical senses will go as a committee of more than one at times to adjust matters satisfactorily to and thru your conscious mentality. Your conscious mentality will not accept of a message saving by one or more of your five physical senses.
Remark by another of the staff: 'It won't accept of it by the Spirit." FATHER, "No, not by the Spirit. Your conscious mentality may bring something into consideration, it may bring it into consideration as convincingly as the Principle of Mathematics, but, unless your five physical senses or some one or part of them endorses your conscious mentality, it will not be satisfied with it. Your conscious mentality is always seeking some one of your five physical senses to endorse what your conscious mentality may suggest or express.
Therefore, your physical senses will really be the expressers and controllers of your physical body thru and by your conscious mentality. That is the reason why you should relax your conscious mentality and still it, for it is the servant of your five physical senses which is your physical bodily structure.
Therefore, if you live after these five physical senses which is your physical bodily structure, you shall die. But if ye, thru the spirit do mortify the sense expressions and the versions of the senses, as they put them forth into expression, to your conscious mentality, you shall surely live.
"That old sense of sight! That old sense of feeling and sense of hearing will rob you of your good judgment, coming from your subconsciousness, so long as your conscious mentality is active and will take the suggestions of your five physical senses. This is a psychological truth as spoken by Jesus concerning the mystery of Himself, in His Majesty and in Himself as the Impersonal and as the Spiritual or Subconsciousness.
"All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers."
But the subconsciousness would not hear them. The subconsciousness would not hear the conscious mentality, nor the five physical senses suggestions as they would make it to and thru the consciousness.
It is a psychological truth whilst yet, parabley speaking it could be termed as an individual or individuals, being termed people. Now isn't that Wonderful!
All of your five physical senses and your conscious mentality—they came forth into expression and into conscious activity, but your subconsciousness comes forth into expression openly, to teach and to tell you something and
"All that have come before ME,"
I put the emphasis on 'that'—
"are thieves and robbers."
All that was in your subconsciousness in your consciousness, as in your five physical senses activity—they came before the subconsciousness, came forth into expression and into open action to the act of the duty of the subconsciousness, but the subconsciousness has acted, but silently. Therefore, it had not come forth into expression openly.
Therefore, those things that came before I came forth into expression openly, they were all thieves and robbers. Yet it is true, it means a person and persons
,"but to him that is Spiritual, all things are Spiritual."
The very Presence of GOD with such a recognition thru the relaxation of the conscious mentality, by relaxing your sense of your five physical senses, first, and their immediate suggestions to the conscious mentality, the reaction of such relaxation will cause the limitless Blessings to come into expression automatically by the subconsciousness.
The Name of GOD! Such a recognition at times automatically will bring from the invisible world, Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding, such as the conscious mentality openly accepts even in the smallest degree. Now comes forth the mystery.
The relaxation of your conscious mentality—I caused you to relax it automatically, yet unthoughtfully, When you ceased to mentally struggle, trying to help some other, immediately you have relaxed your conscious mentality and I can and I will work automatically for you. By this I did help some other, even Mr. Hauptmann. You just heard the announcement over the radio of the forty-eight hour stay. I thank you.
(Note: Do you catch the mystery? We caught it for we completely forgot about Mr. Hauptmann, and our minds were lifted above the pressing problems of man, and if you were tuned in mentally and spiritually to the Infinite, FATHER DIVINE, so were you relaxed from every conscious thought of the same.)
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