FATHER DIVINE at Rockland Palace, N. Y. C.
Song:
I love to feel Your Love, I love to feel Your Love,
I feel it flowing through my veins, I love to feel Your Love.'
(FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYBODY:
("Peace, FATHER", rang out the happy throng.) That little composition just sung is very applicable to those who are radical enough and ignorant enough to get in the wave lengths of MY Love. As an expresser and functioner from the different wave lengths of expression, yea even from the wave lengths of ignorance, the Spirit of MY Presence can transmit MY Love beyond degrees. Through and from these different wave lengths I AM sending out from MYSELF.
The little composition is appropriate for the occasion, for those who are radical enough and ignorant enough to desire, and to love to feel MY Love. (A great expression of joy was demonstrated.) Through the ignorance of preaching, men are saved from vice and from crime and from debauchery of every kind. Through the ignorance of preaching, you are saved from undesirable conditions, whatsoever they may be. You are established in the land of the living, with victory over all adversities. Through the ignorance of preaching, and through the fanaticism of MY believers, we are standing and sitting together, in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose. We are enjoying the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth plane. Through the ignorance of preaching, by contacting the Fundamental, the Spirit of MY Presence, as it is transmittable, it is transmitting to humanity through ignorance, the Omniscience of the Infinite that transcends all human intelligence. ("Truly wonderful!" shouted the hearers.)
Stirring up the nations! As I heard an individual say some time ago, this was the most intelligent gathering he had ever been in. He stated, through all of his experiences and years of study he had not experienced the intelligence that comes from the Almighty as he saw put forth into expression in these bodies. He stressed one point especially; through the ignorance of preaching, these MY followers are sincere believers in such fanaticism sufficient to free them from the conditions that have been existing among the intelligent; free them from sickness, from diseases, from sorrows, from worries, from confusion, from adverse and undesirable conditions; free them from all limitations, even to the extent of not seeing one percent of a percent of MY followers wearing glasses.
This is accomplished through the ignorance of preaching, by the fanaticism of the fanatics, and by creating an environment that causes others to think as we have been thinking. When you think as as I have been thinking and others have been thinking, it causes the conditions that are negative to change. It causes chaos to be dispelled and eradicated and negation completely dispelled from your consciousness.
"I love to feel His Love." You can get in the wave lengths of it if you wish to, but this Love cannot be increased and multiplied if it would be handicapped, limited or confined. It must be exempt from every limitation and have its free access in the hearts and minds of the people, and I might increase MY Love and multiply it completely from one to the other until it shall have been established universally. If you would say within yourselves, "This love for to redeem an individual, is for me as a person only," the Love of GOD, with its redeeming grace could not reach others if it would be subject to your version; but as GOD'S Love is universal, as GOD'S Love is unlimited from every angle, not only universal manifestly on the material plane, but it is universal from an infinite point of consideration; it is infinite, therefore, it is not confined nor bound to the earth plane, the planet on which we are now living; hence, this Love must be increased and multiplied by the willingness of the willing, to transmit it to others, and for ME to do it voluntarily and unhindered. ("So wonderful, FATHER," commented the assembly.)
How can this Love be increased and multiplied, unless I contagionize the atmosphere in which you are living, and cause others to be partakers of MY Characteristics and MY Nature and also love ME even as you say you do? Increased and multiplied is the great essential, that the Spirit might be transmitted and that the standard might be lifted up as a reality; not as something imaginary, only universal, but it must be a real, universal expression, in and on the material plane, for I have produced it into materialization, that you might observe it. Now, isn't this a wonderful place to be? ("Truly wonderful!" responded the audience.)
This Love is increased and multiplied, by having something to ignite it, that it might ignite the hearts and lives of others as well as yourselves; then and there this Love is increased and multiplied; but if you are self-conceited and living in a selfish state of consciousness, both the material expression of GOD'S Love and that of the mental and spiritual reflections, you would try to hoard them up for yourselves and desire to have it for yourselves alone; but because of the nature of Love it is increasable apparently, and it is multipliable apparently; hence, it will increase apparently and it will apparently multiply.
"I love to feel Thy Love." I stress it as the topic for consideration at this juncture. If you love GOD unselfishly you love to feel His Love, and if you love GOD unselfishly your desire is for one and all to feel GOD'S Love the same as you do. Now isn't that wonderful? But the selfishness of the selfish will cause fogs of doubts and fears to arise in the horizon of your understanding and cloud the way, to prohibit you from seeing, as you should see, the true and the living way.
"I love to feel Thy Love." ("Yes, FATHER", shouted the devotees.) Now do not say it unless you mean it. Even the word love is contagious. It carries with itself a contagion that will infect the minds of others that it contacts. It is indeed wonderful! This mighty Holy Love you should not talk about it so much if you do not want it. You continue to talk about it, you will feel it. It is indeed wonderful! The love that surpasses all human understanding. It goes into infinitude, the end you cannot vision; therefore, you should not think one time that this Love should be limited to you as an individual.
You cannot measure the measure of GOD with the measure of a man, neither should you try to measure or fathom HIM out by your finite wisdom of mortal mentality. GOD'S Love is unlimited. That is why it is infinite, because it is always ever in motion increasing apparently and multiplying, yet not increasing in reality. It is ever the same, but bringing into the outer expression and conscious recognition of men, the advancement of the unfoldment of it, that man might see it as it is.
It is filling all space and absent from none, but it must be reincarnated and it must be reproduced and brought into outer expression for the universe as the whole to observe it. Now isn't this a wonderful place to be? To see, it is going from shore to shore and from land to land by going from person to person, from individual to individual, from man to man. When it takes a hold of an individual it causes him to lose control of himself, or takes a hold of an individual and causes him to lose control of himself personally, then and there he is ready for the expression and the manifestation of GOD as a reality and as a living factor in the midst of the people.
"I love to feel Thy Love." (Spontaneously a great demonstration of love was manifested by this devotional expression from FATHER.) Don't say it unless you mean it, for if you say it, sincerely believing and meaning it, I will convert your feelings and you will feel it. As a great converter, through this universal and infinite conversion, your physical feelings are being converted. Your physical feeling must be converted if it has not been converted; it must be converted into the positive direction and unto GOD in Heaven.
Your physical sense of sight must also be converted. That is another expression; or in other words, the identical expression, but in reference to another one of your senses. When you are truly converted, your feeling, your hearing, your taste and your smelling and all of your five physical senses will be truly converted, but they cannot be converted unless you consciously and willingly surrender and present your bodies as living sacrifices wholly. By so doing you can feel MY Love, but if you direct your affection, as being termed love, in a mortal direction and yet direct both it and them to ME, you will feel the lack of this love, for it will not respond to thee.
"Love GOD," and if you happen to love GOD whole-heartedly unselfishly, and non-mortally, the Spirit of GOD will transmit to you the Love of unlimited joy and the joy that is unlimited that surpasses all human understanding and you will not look for another. The joy and the pleasure that will come by loving GOD, you will not desire another. As in the case or experience of an individual being sorrowful "The sorrow of the world worketh death, but GODLY sorrow worketh repentance."
There is a positive, and there is a negative the negative is a shadow and a type of the real. The unreal is a shadow and a type of the real. The counterfeiters will make things in the likeness of that which is real, yet it can be a counterfeit or an imitation. The imitations are not the real. The real is made known by the reality of itself by nature. It is real from the creator or maker of that which is real.
The imitators and counterfeiters will try to get a counterfeit in the likeness of the real, and if you are not alert you may not understand and you may handle some counterfeit money at times and think it is the real money of the United States of America. ("It is wonderful!" sounded the people.)
These thoughts are well worth considering, but if you are not a counterfeiter and an imitator, you need not worry, not imitating, but realizing and visualizing and reproducing, materializing and reincarnating that which has been created and no longer try to imitate, as a counterfeiter to make perfect the perfect picture, in reality. By so doing you can and will be filled and thrilled with the fullness of HIM that is real, for you will be the producers and reproducers and expressor's of the identical, and not merely counterfeiters and imitators.
Each individual should get the snapshot of the identical and not merely the shadow or the imitation. A snapshot of the identical, you can have a cut of it if you wish to. Each individual can have a cut of the identical, not merely the imitation, but to get a cut of the identical; then to you it will be wonderful! "I love to feel Thy Love." If you do not love to feel MY Love, don't say it, and if you don't like for MY Love to be extended to others, other than yourself, don't desire to feel MY Love, for MY Love is unselfish. The Love of GOD that surpasses all human understanding, it is being increased and multiplied by being transmitted from you, through you to another and from one to all and back from all to GOD. By nature it is reciprocatable and we must reciprocate and bring that which we have received in the direction from whence it came. ("Oh, GOD, it is so wonderful!" shouted the gathering.)
Now look at you! The time cometh and now is, I need not say a word after the manner of men; MY Spirit and MY Presence are sufficient, for it is ignitable in the hearts and lives of them. When you think vividly on this Principle with the words that are spoken from MY Love, the transmission of the Spirit will penetrate through you; it will penetrate and it will saturate and it will invigorate your physical bodies beyond measure. That is what it is all about.
That is what is actually stirring up the nations; because GOD has become to be a living reality to you. If not to others, HE is to you. Now isn't this a privilege to make real your fondest imaginations, even though it may be an expression of human superstition, let it be in the positive direction, and it will bring perfection even in your superstitious ideas and opinions, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. I thank you!
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