FATHER DIVINE
Truly, these are words of Life and Beauty, wonderful Words of Life that were given by the Savior and Redeemer of men on this beautiful Sunday morning in the Promised Land. Two Messages HE had given two evenings previous had been proofread, and with the thought of Mary's virginity and the Holiness of Jesus uppermost in the mind of all, FATHER gave this glorious Message in the same vein, starting however, with a definition of Justice and Mercy and their correct application to our lives.
The significance of Jesus' birth, life and death our Savior explains in detail; for much has been said and written concerning Jesus' death that we might have Life, but few have really understood the example He set from the beginning of life to the apparent end.
FATHER'S concluding thought will bring body salvation to all who receive it, for HE shows clearly to even the most undeveloped mind that HE can only do for us individually what we allow HIM to, which is according to the way or position we hold HIM in our minds.
BLESSED REDEEMER, WE THANK THEE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER'S Message follows the little song HE sang just before rising to speak.)
SONG
'Walk in this Light! I AM the beautiful Light!
Come where the dewdrops of justice shine bright,
Shine all around us by day and by night;
FATHER is the Light of the world.
'There was a man of the Pharisees
FATHER is the Light of the world
His name was Nicodemus, he did not believe
Your FATHER is the Light of the world.'
FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition was long since composed but transposed according to the conscious recognition of the advanced light of this spiritual civilization and according to the conviction of some who had been converted into a higher light of understanding; no longer merely seeking that which is termed Mercy, for Mercy rejoices against Justice and tries to take advantage of it, but Justice and those who seek Justice, they are the ones who are in closer fellowship with GOD than those who are seeking Mercy at the Hands of the Almighty.
When they seek Mercy and pity and compassion, you may know they have not been doing right that is why they seek Mercy; but those who are just and honest and true, they seek Justice even as ye do.
It is a privilege to live in such a recognition, to get the advanced light of this spiritual civilization through this great Conversion. Now if you will walk in this Light, this beautiful Light, and will come and remain where the dewdrops of Justice shine bright, you will find the very Spirit of GOD'S Presence as Ever Present with you to give Justice to you and to others. That is the mystery.
While listening to that Message as transcribed but firstly as given from My own conviction, I thought to further stress the significance of following GOD in other words, the LAMB and taking on the Characteristics and the Nature of your Savior, the Holiness of Jesus and the Virginity of Mary. Mary did not sell her Virginity, she did not sell her Virtue; but she directed her Virtue, yea, her Virginity, to GOD to Whom it belonged and from whence it came; and stressing her mind in all Purity in that direction, her mentality conceived the Holy Word of GOD as transmitted. In the Name of the Holy Ghost or the Spirit she conceived it and she carried this in her heart and in her mind until it was actually brought forth to fruition within from a physical point of view, as an abstract expression according to Christendom, to let you see and know that there was something done by the Spirit of GOD'S Actual Presence and not be the mortal version.
So this Virginity and Holiness of GOD brought forth the Man Child, as it may be termed, the First-born among many brethren. This was a sketch of a reflection of the reproduction of the selfsame Spirit of Holiness that would be conceived in the hearts and lives of the pure and the holy; and when this seed idea is reconceived as it was preconceived by Mary, it will develop within and brought to fruition; and the seed idea being the leaven of which Jesus was speaking, will leaven the whole lump, and as the leaven, will be the outward expression, the real Personification of Perfection, when CHRIST within shall have been rightfully arisen and brought to fruition. That is the mystery of what I AM telling you.
You need not look for another material birth to be in evidence as an experience, but the sample and the example has been portrayed before you in the Person of Jesus. For this cause the one hundred and forty and four thousand of which I was speaking, those who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, they were redeemed from among men, being the first fruit unto GOD and the Lamb, as the first grade fruit from your vineyard, "and in their mouths was found no guile. They were without fault before the Throne of GOD, for they were Virgins. They were redeemed from among men and they were not defiled with women."
As explicit as it could be shown to John in his revelationic prediction I made it very explicit John observed it and saw it was. They were Redeemed from among men, as women, and as men they were not defiled with women. They were Virgins because of the Redemption of the Redeeming Grace that was bestowed upon them to emancipate them and save them from the Adamic state of consciousness; to recreate in them the CHRIST Consciousness as preordained and as prenataled within them.
To bring forth this CHRIST Consciousness to fruition, the Spirit of GOD was with them. They were redeemed and they followed the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. The mystery is now revealed. Hence, the Evangelical system I brought forth into expression for your consideration for the reproduction of this of which John was speaking in his prediction, to cause the Virginity of Mary and the Holiness of Jesus to be a reality; and it was put forth into expression so effectively they were Redeemed from among men and they were not defiled with women.
This is it of which he was speaking. This Evangelical Living such as I AM daily giving and the Evangelical Teaching transmitted to all this people, coming forth into expression, being Contagious for all creation, it gives vent for access for the Spirit of GOD'S Presence and for the inspirations that are being daily given. The inspirations cannot come forth into expression through self-indulgence, through prejudice, through resentment and anger. They come forth into expression through the Spirit of Purity, through the Spirit of Honesty, through the Spirit of Competence and through the Spirit of Truth! They came forth into expression through the Spirit, by the bodies that are consecrated to and for one common purpose. The Spirit comes forth by inspiration and gives many Messages through compositions, through songs and through praise; hence, it is a blessing to observe the mystery and to see what GOD has actually done for this people.
Mary's mind was on GOD undiluted, yea, unadulterated. She did not adulterate her standard of thinking to think on mortality and the mortal version. She concentrated on the great Creator continually and continued it until the very Spirit of GOD'S Presence produced it and brought to fruition within her. Can you not see the mystery?
The thing you vividly visualize, you tend to materialize. She materialized the thing she vividly visualized and stressed in her memory continually, until it was actually materialized and Personified and given deliverance through the birth of her Virginity. Can you not see the mystery?
And when this was done, there and then it was known throughout all civilization, a Redeemer and a Savior had come, for He came not by the versions of men, through lust and passion, through indulgence, through the mortal version; but to the extreme reverse He came through a new system of a new BIRTH, showing mankind how they all should have been born. Then they all would have been the Sons and Daughters of GOD and not the sons and daughters of men. Can you not see the mystery?
Is it not written Jesus was the WAYSHOWER? He came to show you the way back to the FATHER, the way you all should have been born, the way you all should have lived and the way you all should have died. If die you must needs do or be, it was that you should have died even as Jesus died and not died as mortal men die. Can you not see the mystery?
You should LIVE as Jesus lived and you should advance and grow in grace and in knowledge as Jesus did, because your BIRTH should have been as His, your conception should have been as His and you should have been conceived out of the selfsame as He was conceived out of the Spirit of GOD and it would have been a Perfect Birth for one and for all. Hence, all would have been the real Children of GOD!
Nevertheless, since this was not, I said to Nicodemus, as he was the advanced teacher of the philosophies of religion in the world of Judaism, in the world of religions in which Jesus was living:
'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven,'
because they were not born right; they were not born as it was preordained that
they should have been born, for I came in the Person of Jesus showing them how
they should have been born, how they should have lived and how they should have
been.
Hence, coming through as a Sample and as an Example, Jesus the first-born among many brethren was it of which was spoken of by the Apostle saying:
'The Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His Glory as the Glory of the only begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth; and of all of His fullness have all we received grace for grace.'
You could not have received of His fullness grace for grace, had it not been
that CHRIST came in the Flesh and exhibited and demonstrated His Fullness as
He did. The Flesh was the Demonstrator and the Manifestor of that which was in
it.
'The Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His Glory as the Glory of the only begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth.'
You could not see the Glory of GOD until CHRIST came! It was hid from all mankind
until the Word was made Flesh and the flesh appeared in the Likeness of men!
Then and only then could they see the CHRIST of Him. Then and only then could
they see the Glory as of the only begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of
Truth. But when this was done, they had Something desirable and Something worth
considering to gaze upon. Can you not see the mystery? And as they gazed upon
it vividly, "of all of His Fullness," as they gazed upon it, have all
we received grace for grace" the selfsame thing that they gazed upon in
Him Who had been made Flesh, as the flesh of men, that they might see and know
Him.
As the speaker said a little while ago: had He not come in the Flesh, you would not have been saved! Had CHRIST not come in the Flesh, there would have been no flesh saved! Can you not see the mystery? For by the Flesh is the flesh saved and by the Spirit is the spirit cleansed, and by the Mind is the mind redeemed from vice and crime and sin. Can you not see the mystery?
Therefore, to you as you live in this recognition and serve GOD whole-heartedly, as you serve HIM, so will HE save you. If you serve HIM mentally, HE may save you mentally; if you serve HIM spiritually, HE may save you spiritually; but if you serve HIM physically, HE may save you physically because of service according to the way you receive HIM, serve HIM and obey HIM.
GOD is Just! GOD would not be a Just GOD if HE just saved you spiritually if you served HIM physically. That would not be Just and a scale of Equilibrium, whichever, to be regulated by the spirit of equilibrium would not be the Scale of Justice to give Justice to everything according to its works; for I reward every man according as his works may be.
If your works are mental, spiritual or supernatural or imaginary, I will reward you imaginarily, suppositionally; but if your works are material and real as a recognition and a realization of a real converted one, I will reward you according as the works you have done. These thoughts are well worth considering.
For this cause the nations of the earth are stirred at the Presence of My appearing, for I, as I appear to you, I eventually appear to them; for it is so far reaching, it is converting and it convicts them when they observe it.
Just think of it! GOD is Everything you see HIM to be. But yet there are many to whom I AM GOD, and only GOD, as you had surmised ME to be before you personally saw ME. Under such a supposition, to you I AM what you see ME to be: I AM lofty, I AM mighty, I AM holy, I AM far above you, I AM untouched and you cannot reach ME from a physical or personal point of view. Hence, at times I cannot reach you and your condition from a physical or personal point of view because of the way you see ME.
Though you see ME lofty and mighty and great, I receive you according as you see ME, and I reach your condition just from that angle of expression. Hence, if you hold ME up in your suppositional heaven and on your suppositional throne, which all of the religions of imagination have created for themselves and others, there will I be, and I see you and I reach you accordingly. Can you not see the mystery?
But you have not stopped to remember or consider, Jesus told you to pray to let the Kingdom come; let the will be done on earth. GOD has been called down from that suppositional, imaginary heaven of mere loftiness, of mere supernaturalness, of mere invisibleness to the earth plane. Now where I Am to everyone is where they see ME to be. That is the mystery. That is the difference in the unfoldment and how according to the way they see ME to be, so AM I to them and so will I be as long as they see ME from that angle. Can you not see the mystery?
But oh, how glorious it is as long as since it has been declared the Allness of GOD and the nothingness of matter, and CHRIST is All and in all GOD is your Help and in every need GOD does your every hunger feed; GOD fills all space and is absent from none! To you, wheresoever you are, who see ME from that angle of expression; to you from all of these angles I have truly come, and I can and will do the work as I have done in Spirit and in Mind, to and for some; for,
'CHRIST is rich and all you need and will your every hunger feed.'
I thank you.
(The Rosebuds rendered a song at this juncture, the words of which appear below; following which FATHER spoke again briefly.)
SONG
'We give YOU our word, we'll always love YOU, Dear;
We give YOU our word, YOU are our One and only Love
We give these hearts, bodies and minds to YOU;
Our hearts would have broken had YOU not taken us too.
'We give YOU our word, YOU are the Only Love.
Everybody has heard what YOUR Love has done
FATHER, what's the use of life without love
And love without YOU?
We'll never change, we give YOU our word.'
(FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! At this particular instance I would just like to say, to further say to those of you who are under this Banner and are actually living according to My Teaching and expressing the Spirit and Life of real Evangelism, which is to say, expressing the Life of which I was just speaking: it is a wonderful blessing to observe it and know you can. If there be those who have not been ordinarily in that state of consciousness physically, where you can claim your right of Virginity, by the Spirit of My Presence as the Redeemer, as mentioned in Revelation, you have the chance to be Redeemed by your LORD and your Savior and follow the Lamb and then be real Virgins!
I mentioned this because there are some, both young and old, who have not or had not made such a sacrifice of material, mortal tendencies and pleasures for the good of the soul. Some had not denied themselves completely until now, since they see and are convinced distinctly it is essential, since you have made your rightful contact. For as an organization that has a club open at times, you might have a chance to enter and be the same as others by the Redeeming
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