"Through Your Hope or Expectancy You Looked Forward for Something Better
for the Years to Come.

"GOD Is Your Help in Ages Past, Your Hope in Years to Come.

"As Mankind Change from the Adamic State of Consciousness to the Christ Consciousness by a New Birth of Freedom, They Come into a New Age and a New Dispensation."

OFFICE TALK Given by FATHER DIVINE to some of His Secretarial Staff in His Private Office of the
Circle Mission Church, Home and Training School, Inc., 764-772 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Thursday Night and Friday Morning, January 17-18, 1946 A.D.F.D., Time 3:05 A.M.



MOTHER DIVINE with guests at
The Mount of the House of the Lord

MOTHER DIVINE with guests at The Mount of the House of the Lord..

As it has been said by FATHER on several different occasions that many hidden mysteries are revealed when the conscious minds of mortality are asleep, so was this made a reality to those who were blessed to be with the Holy Body of GOD Almighty. In the early hours of the morning, shortly after FATHER had Personally arrived from attending the Righteous Government Meeting at Newark, as HE and some of His Staff were gathered in the Office, from the Fount of His Own Omniscience HE majestically began speaking these profound Words of Spirit and Life that the Nations of the earth might be blessed abundantly mentally, spiritually, physically and materially, for this Bread of Life is the Panacea for all nation's ills.

For Thine Omniscient Wisdom imparted to the children of men, Almighty GOD, we humbly thank Thee!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and the following is the profound Office Talk, with FATHER speaking as follows:)

I was thinking about how a fertile spiritual land, how any population could be increased by the descendants of one or two in so many years; I mean spiritual descendants. As in the days of Adam, so in the days of the Atomic Age. Remember, we are literally in a New Age; now declared to be by science and invention in the actuated words of expression both by Biblical prophecy, in a New Age.

In an old familiar song sung down in Christendom, it says something about "in ages past":

'O GOD, our Help in ages past, our Hope in years to come, A shelter from the stormy blast, and our Eternal Home.'


"Our Hope in ages past." So I AM thinking about, there are ages past, and every age brings forth something else; in certain dispensations a different unfoldment of humanity, a different unfoldment of expression, a different age and dispensation. It is marvelous to see how marvelous it is!

GOD IS your HELP in ages past, your HOPE in years to come. GOD IS as GOD is always and not necessarily was, but to you, ages past, and GOD IS as HE is; as would be said to be, as WAS, but GOD IS!

'Before Abraham was, I AM!'


CHRIST did not say, "Before Abraham was, I was", but "Before Abraham was, I AM", as ever present, a standing standard of LIFE; but other things come into expression and disappear, but GOD is the same in all ages, in ages past has been your help in the different ages and your hope in the years to come. You hoped to be sheltered from the stormy blast in our eternal home.

So it was a hope, a supposition. You imagined there would be a protection. Through your hope or expectancy you looked forward for something better for the years to come, realizing GOD had been your Help in the past ages and dispensations and in the former incarnations; realizing man was, but GOD IS!

Human beings were, but GOD IS. Therefore, they had a certain dispensation and their dispensation terminated. Therefore, the civilizations perished, but GOD is the master of omnipotency through all of the ages and still remains the same, being the supreme! That is why in this Mystery GOD is the same as is and not as was! But the different dispensations and different ages come and go , but GOD is the same forevermore!

So then, the Mystery of the Mysteries is that GOD IS in ages past and your help then as now; your hope for years to come! Therefore, the ages may come and the ages may go, but better would be and will be the advanced modern ages, for perfection is being developed into perfection and light into light, understanding into understanding that was unseen, but GOD still remains the same, bringing those things into expression and allowing them to go into oblivion and still remaining the same, and even humanity coming through the different ages and dispensations, coming through by reincarnation, only knowing of itself by history and hereditation.

That is the point deeply to be considered when you study human nature and learn of yourself of the past. In your past reincarnations you learn more of it of your past life of the past reincarnations. In this present incarnation or reincarnation, you learn more of yourself, of the past by hereditation, by human tendencies, fancies and pleasures, expressing the tradition of others through which you came. That is the lesson you are being taught for all of the children of men. Therefore, to study the human nature, you study hereditation, hereditive tendencies, fancies and pleasures and study the traits and characteristics and disposition of others; you are learning something of the past histories; not just merely the biographies of others theoretically depicted, but hereditively reproduced and demonstrated. That is the real education you are learning, an education transcending just mere book learning.

Look at yourself and look about yourself and others and read the characteristics, the disposition, the nature and their ideas and opinions and their fancies, pleasures and tendencies. These come by hereditation. When you learn these, you are getting a good lesson. It is a subject that will stand throughout eternity for if there would be new dispensations and new ages and new civilizations to come, these things of the life of humanity will come with them by hereditation and they will be put forth into expression and will teach others lessons into which they are reincarnated.

So it is a wonderful lesson to learn of real hereditation. It is a wonderful lesson, a wonderful lesson, a wonderful lesson! It goes into infinitude for the future and it comes from and through and by the ages that have passed, but infinite in the Hope for years to come mysteries, mysteries, Mysteries! Some may say, "Where do they come from?" From the Fount of GOD'S Omniscience! They did not have a beginning and they will not have an end, but bringing the different scenes of expression through the different ages and dispensations and even through the different civilizations, but the very same characteristics and disposition of humanity; by hereditation I AM teaching the nation of their ancestors and of what their descendants will be. But as they change from the Adamic state of consciousness to the CHRIST Consciousness by a New Birth of Freedom, they come into a New Age and a New Dispensation.

When Jesus was born nearly two thousand years ago, as so to speak, it was the beginning of a New Dispensation, the Christian Dispensation, as it may be termed. When I made Myself known to the children of men universally, religiously from a religious point of view, yea from a spiritual point of view, a New Dispensation began in the act of bringing about a New Age until by inspiration I inspired the inventor of the Atomic Bomb to bring into outer expression the great unfoldment that would shake creation physically, that would cause humanity to quake and fear and feel, as it was declared by John in his revelationic prediction, that they would run to the rocks and the mountains and say, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of an angry GOD!" This is it of which I was speaking through John in his revelationic prediction.

You can see them running from the Atomic Energy as it was put forth into expression by an invention that was seemingly destructive to the extent that it would destroy the planet Earth, according to science and invention. That was it of which was spoken of by John in his revelationic prediction as he said they would run to the rocks and the mountains and say, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of an angry GOD!"

Geographically and scientifically and even politically and nationally they are speaking from that angle of expression concerning the Atomic Energy since it has been brought into outer expression by the great natural and supernatural invention of the Atomic Bomb. Now who shall and who can stand before the Face of the Presence of such Omniscience and of such Omnipotence materialized? No longer merely surmised as a supposition, but materialized as for the conviction and the convincing of humanity's conscious mentality of the reality and of the naturality I say, of the naturality of that which was supernatural!

They would not fear so much as long as it was in the invisible and imaginary realm of a suppositional world of expression merely considered as something spiritual. Only the superstitious as they would term it to be, would fear such, but when GOD brings it down into materialization and into the mineral kingdom from the psychic plane, on the material plane and you find that it is tangibilated by science and invention and brought into outer expression, tangibilated, materialized and personified or physicalated, it is no longer something like an emergency as a Principle or expression of something that gives Life as invisible so some, but as visible and tangible it is far reaching and convincing to every person, both the scientists and those of whom are superstitious. Even the superstitious religious, they are obliged to sit up and take notice and consider it as something from science and invention materially invented that is destructive and can destroy creation. Therefore, they are obliged to believe in the Reality of something that is supernatural, made natural, tangible and practical.

So we are in a New Age and they have declared it "The Atomic Age", drawing Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding unconsciously through the ages and from the ages through which you have been helped by GOD.

GOD, my Help in ages past, my Hope for years to come,
Do shelter us from that stormy blast in our Eternal Home!'


Consciously or unconsciously the hereditation of the Spirit retraced back to that composition. It was a prayer being prayed to be protected scientifically through the mental and spiritual protection of the INFINITE ONE into a mental and spiritual Home that was to come in and at the time of the Atomic Age when it would begin to shelter us from the stormy blast in our Eternal Home.

I AM answering their prayers now and their prayers from that angle of expression were the words verbatim spoken:

'O GOD, our Help in ages past, our Hope in years to come, Do shelter us from the stormy blast.'


It could have said: "Do shelter us from the destruction of the destructive forces of the Atomic Energy in the dispensation when it comes forth into expression." It could have said, if by a foreknowledge and understanding I had given it to them, to give the correct interpretation of the Message that I was giving them by composition in that little song. Can you not see the Mystery?

So it goes into infinitude, the end you cannot vision! It transcendeth the fondest pre-imagination of humanity, yet it was by interpretation given in a parable; in other words, by a parable given concerning the mysteries of which we are now speaking,

'Do shelter us from the stormy blast in our Eternal Home.'


Do shelter us from the destructive forces of the Atomic Energy in the time of the harnessing of the Energy that is lying dormant; when this Energy shall come forth as a stormy blast, when GOD shall rain down fire and brimstone from heaven and destroy them as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, as with the two cities of Japan! I thank you.

You see how it is, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the two cities of Japan! They would not take cognizance of the young men that went down to Sodom and Gomorrah. They would not take cognizance of what they told them! Those cities were destroyed because there were not enough righteous persons or people in those cities to spare the cities! So the destruction of the two cities of Japan, as brought into outer expression; it was a sample and an example of what would become of the world at large the whole world of whom would not believe and trust in GOD!

So here we are again, back from whence we came, right here in this Atomic Age. I have come from the beginning of the creation up until this time and dispensation and even until this generation. I AM bringing out mysteries and teaching you Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding by hereditation. By your own hereditive tendencies and preconceived ideas and opinions that are within you, I AM telling you something of the past and of the future by your prenataled tendencies, fancies and pleasures; therefore, when you study this mystery, you will learn a great lesson! I thank you.


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