Stone Marker at The Home of the Soul,
Sayville, L. I., N.Y.
In this Sermon FATHER shows how "CHRIST the Hope of Glory" is formed in the individual by the relaxation of the conscious mentality and bringing the body into subjection to His Will.
(FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYBODY! No one really does know, humanly speaking, where the Body called Jesus is; but yet the work continues to go on and has added millions and millions to the Church since the Crucifixion and the disappearance of it. My Spirit and My Mind, My Life and My Love, which I AM, is just as operative today as it was then. So you see that is the great consolation. Nothing can shake you because you know it has been brought into the fullness of expression with or without the Body and it will always be the same. GOD will always appear to humanity in the likeness of Divinity. GOD will always reign on the Spiritual and in the psychic plane and in the Spiritual realm of observation, in this Personal likeness. When humanity sees in a dream, the GOD even of the whole earth, they will see this appearance.
Now that is not just because I AM in some way as a Person, different from you. When you form anything in a mold or pattern, in the likeness that you mold it, it will be like that. When you form butter or jelly, it will be like that mold. When you form yourself in the likeness of a mold, you will be like that mold. GOD condescended to mold and shape Himself in the likeness of you when you conform your will to His. GOD will shape Himself in your likeness and will go out from you in your personal appearance. You are the mold if you shape your lives mentally and Spiritually in the Fashion that I have shown you on the Mountain. Then the Life of CHRIST will be re-formed in your likeness. As you have formed yourself in His likeness mentally and Spiritually, HE will form Himself in your likeness physically and GOD will appear from place to place and from time to time; for you have denied your individual mental and Spiritual view for the CHRIST'S views, and HE has denied His Personal expression and appearance, and His Views then are yours. They are yours. And your likeness and your personal appearance are His. That is the way it is.
So, therefore, CHRIST will appear looking just like a little woman, a big woman, an ugly man, a little man, a big man. "Behold what manner of Love the FATHER hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of GOD, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that we shall be like HIM, for we shall see HIM as HE is." That is the significance, for HE will form HIMSELF in the likeness of those that will subjugate their Spirit and their mind and their body to the Spirit and the Mind of GOD.
You are now assembled in the presence of the nobles, yea, the noblest of all the earth. The spirits of noble men and the just and the perfect and the upright, He that liveth forever and forever. Truly might the apostle have said on one occasion, "The general assembly of the Church of the First Born, where the spirits of just men are made perfect." These noble spirits and minds cannot be made perfect without us. I have brought you into expression to perfect the perfection of these noble men. You can jot that down in your vocabulary if you will. "How great and marvelous are Thy Works, O GOD, for great and Holy is Thy Name."
The very Name of GOD is able to accomplish all that is necessary. On the mental plane, on the physical plane, on the natural plane, or whatsoever plane, through the cosmic, through the Infinite One that lives forever and forever. Everyone of you can enjoy the fullness of GOD if you will live according to the same. Relax your conscious mentality, your personal ideas and opinions and know that they are a thing of the past. You must eradicate everything that existed in your consciousness before time and recognize that which is uppermost in your consciousness now. By recognizing only One, you are influxed with the fluid that went out from Jesus when the woman touched the hem of His garment; that is, the Holy Balm of Salvation to the world.
How can you die when you recognize the Presence of GOD in every pore of your skin, in every atom, every fibre and cell? GOD is working therein to beautify you and petrify you wholly. How can you be sick when you realize that GOD is there, beautifying you with His Holiness? How beautiful it is to see the CHRIST in the pores of your skin! Now look at your beautiful skin! You cannot see it with your physical mortal human eye unless you put on the spiritual, mental microscopic lens of salvation, and then you can see and really get the interpretation. You can see the CHRIST working through every pore of your skin, for the CHRIST is there purifying and petrifying your body for Himself to dwell in.
A good painter, when he paints a house, rubs paint in all the pores of the wood and then, when it rains and the storms of the winter comes, that paint will protect it and prohibit the wood even so much as decaying. Greater is HE that is within; HE that is painting you, the beautifier of complexion. Just look at HIM now, just beautifying your beautiful skin, beautiful for GOD to look at. Better not think that you want to be beautiful for some mortal woman to look at, or some mortal man to look at, but you want to be beautiful for GOD, that GOD may glorify Himself in you and that you may glorify GOD in your soul, in your Spirit and in your body, for they are one. You can't help it, can you? And I don't care if you do.
This is so fascinating, the whole world has gone after it. It will not be satisfied until it contacts and receives it. Truly might have Philip spoken for the whole world and for the whole of mankind generally, saying, "Show us the FATHER and it sufficeth us." Philip may have been unconscious of the significance of that word that came to him, but I AM conscious of the word for I know from whence it came. It came from the depths of humility and simplicity of the spirit of man to GOD, and it has gone forth to GOD and back to mankind. "Show us the FATHER and it sufficeth us."
You have never been, and never would be satisfied until you see the FATHER. You may see all of the intelligence of Heaven and all of the intelligence of the earth, and you may come under the altar and find Him that crept out from under the altar to loosen the seals of the book, but still you won't be satisfied until you find the FATHER. But when and where and here and now that shall have been accomplished in your consciousness and in your conviction, then you gain the conscious realization of GOD'S manifestation and that is perfect personal satisfaction to your body as well as to your mind, and you sit down in perfect peace. I keep them in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on ME. You don't want anything else either. I thank you.
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