Unity Mission Church, Philadelphia, PA
Shortly before FATHER arose to speak this time, HE had previously called for visiting guests and friends to speak if they so desired, and among those who lastly spoke was in individual who frequents the meetings quite often and would not be considered a visiting guest. As she continued speaking at length, FATHER finally arose and gave a brief announcement of explanation regarding the speaker. Then after this our Lord listened to many other visitors express appreciation for the glorious time they had and the hospitality shared by them on this delightful evening.
It was after the testimony of one in particular, as later explained, that our beloved Savior arose and delivered this beautiful Sermon concerning transcending mortality and individuality and reveling into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of GOD! HE also continued speaking on this subject when HE went to His office study, after dismissing the Holy Communion Service, and these priceless Words of Spirit and Life are also included herein.
Thank YOU, beloved Redeemer and Savior, for thy condescending Grace!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! I do not wish to bore you with My Words and sayings, with My Presence and anything; (A loud protest went up from the adoring congregation, saying that FATHER could never bore anybody and to please continue on, FATHER then said,) but at this instant I thought to arise again to let the last speaker and all know I have refrained from speaking to give our visiting guests and strangers a chance to speak. Of course, she has been accustomed of speaking. She is here quite often and she comes in and is welcome to speak but as it was an invitation to visiting guests, we would like to give them a chance to speak so I had refrained from speaking at the time.
If not any of our visiting guests wish to speak they are not required, as I afore said, but I do desire to give them a chance, as strangers and visitors. I thank you.
At this point many of the visiting friends and guests present arose to thank FATHER for His generous and gracious hospitality and to say how very much they had enjoyed the occasion it being the first time for most of them. One lady in particular had the witness of the Holy Spirit and said how much she had desired to see FATHER and now her desire was fulfilled. However she stated, she would like to have the opportunity to speak with FATHER sometime when it was convenient. Nevertheless, she stressed the fact she was indeed glad to see FATHER at last, as she had often wished to see HIM in Person. Shortly after this testimony, FATHER arose once more to speak as follows:
PEACE EVERYONE! At this instance I would just like to say, a little while ago when the lady spoke over there in reference to desiring to see ME. As I often say in reference to My Portrait or Picture in the New Day, or anything else concerning Myself from a personal point of view, it is not what you see of ME but the things that I do! For you cannot really know ME by seeing My Personal Appearance, since I have said I AM transcending all personages and all individuals and all individualities and all personalities even the Personality of GOD Himself, which is this Personality, so that you might concentrate on the Impersonality and the Unindividuality of GOD!
Of course, it is true, My following often say to ME when I shake off mortal and the mortal-versionated concept of things and put on Immortality, the invisibilization of GOD Infinitely in the presence of you at all times they say, "But, . . . ," they seem to think, at times, that I must do things as a Person, or by My Personal Presence I will do something. But oh, how marvelous it is to observe the Impersonality and the Unindividuality of your GOD!
Realize, without sight, without a physical sense of feeling, GOD is carrying on His Work and carrying out His Plan and His Purpose to the letter as HE did before HE had any Body!
According to the historians, GOD moved out as Spirit upon the face of the water, and began His Creation of all creation and did not have any Body! And did not have the visibilization of the earth upon which to appear, until HE said,
'Let dry land appear.'
The same Spirit is speaking today! I AM the same today, yesterday and throughout
eternity!
For this cause John in his revelationic prediction, when he saw the angel that showed him all of these things, and he started to fall down to worship him, he said,
'See that thou do it not, worship GOD!'
GOD is Personified! Nevertheless, as you X-ray an individual's hand or any part
of his body, it is marvelous when you can X-rayly behold ME in Reality transcending
all personality and all individuality!
That is why I have striven, from time back, to keep My Personal Appearance off of the scene, at times, for as I have often said and daily say,
'It is not especially necessary to contact ME Personally, but if you contact ME mentally and spiritually, conscientiously and sincerely, sympathetically and harmoniously, I will give you your heart's desire!'
These things are accomplished not by power of the physical might of man neither
by the skill nor the intellectual ability nor by the philosophy or dogma or the
doctrine, but by My Spirit I do it!
That is why I try at times, to keep My picture off of the papers and out of the papers, because I AM doing My Work and carrying out My Plan and My Purpose to the letter without the visible expression of My Person. Therefore, it is not the Personality nor the Individuality, neither is it the appearance from any angle expressible, but it is My Spirit that will do it; for I did say,
'It is not by power, nor by might, but by My Spirit, says the Lord God of Hosts!'
I will not allow your personalities to get in My way! I will not allow your individualities
as individuals to get in My way, and I will not allow My own personality nor
My own individuality; the personality or the individuality of GOD; for I AM with
and without a personality! I AM with and without an individuality! So, My beloved
ones, if you take these thoughts to consideration and make your mental and spiritual
contact sympathetically, conscientiously and sincerely, you will get results,
whatsoever your results may be, you will get the desired results that await you.
What a privilege to live in such a recognition! One writer said,
'When this old mortal shall have put off mortal,'
in other words,
'this old corruption shall have put off corruption and shall have put on incorruption; when the mortal shall have put off mortal and put on immortality.'
I AM putting it off of you now! This is a great mystery the same as the great
mystery of the Marriage of the Bride and the Lamb! It is a great mystery the
same as the mystery of the marriage of woman and man.
'This is a great mystery,'
the Apostle said,
'but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.'
I AM putting off mortal and I AM putting on immortality on you now! I AM putting
off the mortal concept of things and I AM putting on the Divine concept of things
all of these things are concepts in illustration. Therefore, put off mortal in
your concepts concerning yourself, and everybody else, and
'HE will change your vile bodies in fashion like unto His Glorious Body!'
For your mortal bodies shall be changed from corruption to incorruption from
mortal to Immortality. I AM changing them Now! I thank you!
PEACE EVERYONE! I will not bore you longer. Those of us who have dined will arise, take the back seats and back stand or walk around and do what we should have done, and allow others to come and do as we have done. I thank you.(As FATHER left the table personally and entered His office study, still caught up in the majesty of His Holy Spirit, HE continued speaking as follows:)
Transcend all mortal and mortality! Transcend all individuals and individuality! Transcend the superficial and live in the reality! Transcend the psychic into the spiritual and live in the eternal throughout eternity! Then you are untouched, incorruptible and undefiled and cannot fade away, and then you are living in one eternal day! I thank you. You feel good when you put off mortal, you know it is true, to bring into materialization and into personification that which was the invisibilization of the immortal souls of GOD, that which was in the invisibilization of the unindividuality and of the impersonality of all mortality, and yet materialize it, reproduce it and personify it having put off mortal and put on immortality. Then you are living in the Reality and no longer in the imaginary, for the reality is the realness of GOD without the visibility of anything made visible, tangible and practical.
I heard you say as Rosebuds,
'I was with HIM then when HE said, Let there be Light!''
You should not say it unless you mean it; unless you believe it! And if you say
it and mean it and believe it, then to you it is a reality! I must verify it
to make you true!
The unindividuality and impersonality, when you touch along these lines, it is wonderful, isn't it? Wear the world as a lose garment! I AM Spirit, yet Spirit materialized! therefore, stone prison walls and iron prison bars cannot hold you! I AM SPIRIT!
Put off the mortal and put on immortality! Put off carnality and put on spirituality, for
'To be carnally-minded is death." For "You are not debtors to flesh to live after the flesh.'
You don't owe the flesh a thing! You don't even owe the flesh a thanks for bringing
you into the troublesome world!
'You are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh for if ye live after the flesh ye shall die. But if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body you shall live!'
Such a wonderful life! Now if everybody would pick those things up like it takes
with ME, when I get to talking along those lines it goes right home with ME,
like I said all should let ME go home with you, because the vibration goes home
with ME. I get Myself all charged up! It is wonderful! Wonderful! WONDERFUL!
WONDERFUL! Peace, Everyone!
(And with this FATHER dismissed the adoring crowd that had followed Him in the office, and they left with their thoughts and minds lifted and stayed on the Giver of every good and perfect gift, GOD, FATHER DIVINE!)
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