(FATHER sang and spoke as follows:)
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(FATHER sang and spoke as follows:)
'All My Ways are Joy and Peace. Hallelujah!
All My Truths are Righteousness. Hallelujah!
And if My Truth would in you dwell. Hallelujah!
All is well, yes, all is well; all is well.'
Good Health, Good Will and Good Appetite! The three steps from misery to happiness, and also the way to Glory it is! Firstly, you have received good health. Secondly, you did have good will after having received the good health. And thirdly, even along about the same time, you received a good appetite. The way from misery and woe to joy, health and Eternal Glory.
Then I say,
'All My Ways are Joy and Peace. Hallelujah! All My Truths are Righteousness. Hallelujah! And if My Truth within you dwell, all is well.'
This thought I bring for your consideration this morning, that you might observe
the great significance of doing away with YOUR ways, your ideas and your opinions,
and the great privilege of living in this recognition whereby you can be in this
Way -- the Truth and the Life -- that will lead you to the FATHER-Ship Degree,
wherein you will have the Victory over all adversities.
I have heard you sing and I have heard you say, "LORD, I believe." If your belief is supported by obedience through consecration, your Faith is the Victory and that is the CHRIST within you. It is your privilege to live wherein you can feel and see and hear the very Presence of GOD wheresoever you are. But remember, as I have so often said, behind the veil -- which is to say, the flesh, materialism and mortality -- you cannot observe the reality of GOD'S Presence.
'Out of Egypt I have called My Son.'
Out of the mortal version of men I have called each and all of them, that they
might live in this recognition whereby they can be in fellowship with HIM by
having the identical characteristics controlling their every move, word, deed
or action.
The characteristics of GOD are essential for you as individuals to be blessed in the way you are seeking blessings; for GOD will not look upon you as an individual, but HE will look upon you as the CHRIST, as being termed Jesus. The CHRIST condescendingly came in the hearts and lives of men -- only a few of them firstly, but as a Sample and as an Example -- and you and others are beginning to copy after the fashion that HE has manifested, of Himself, in the few in which HE has come. Producing and bringing into your experiences the identical characteristics of CHRIST, as being termed Jesus, you, as a person will become the manifester of that identical CHRIST; for GOD looks upon these characteristics, these qualities, as His Son and the Only Begotten One. In that the Gospel is fulfilled.
If you abide in ME and let My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you"; and also another quotation in the Gospel -- "In that day you shall ask Me nothing, but whatsoever you shall ask the Father in My Name, He will give it to you.'
These are facts and figures too stout to be denied. You must get in the Nature
of the CHRIST, the Characteristics of Him, and live therein in deeds and in actions,
and in every emotion or expression mentally or spiritually, that you might be
real possessors of His identical Characteristics, which are in reality His name.
Then in this name, this Nature, whatsoever you ask the FATHER, it shall be done unto you. You will not be asking Jesus, but you will be asking the FATHER of this Principle that was called Jesus; for you as an individual, when you shall have produced these characteristics and brought them to fruition in your individual experiences, will become the personification of that special Name of whom you say I AM. Then in My Name, whatsoever you ask, it shall be done. That does not mean that you just say, "In the Name of Jesus will YOU please bless me, will YOU please give me this or give me that, or heal the sick, or raise the dead"; but it actually means the Word that is spoken; not in words after the manner of men through the mortal version of speaking, but a Word that is spoken in deeds and in actions by the "internality" of your subconscious mind, through producing the Characteristics of CHRIST, the LORD.
Then and there, your bodies become the temples of the Living GOD, and GOD in the Name of His Son, better known as your characteristics, which are in reality His, when they shall have been fulfilled in you -- will speak and act in you and whatsoever GOD will see in you, will be the Name, the Nature of CHRIST, petitioning the FATHER for the blessings that you are seeking. Oh, that man could observe and but partially see, the great significance of dialing in on this Principle and denying himself as an individual and living continuously in this recognition!
Then I say,
'All My Paths are Joy and Peace; all My Truths are Righteousness; and if My Truth within you dwell; all is well, all is well.'
It is your privilege to allow these Truths to dwell in you. As it was afore said,
'If you abide in ME and let My Word abide in you, you shall ask what you will. The very Words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are Life.'
And in another version it has been spoken, "I AM the Way, the Truth and
the Life." Oh, that man could -- and he could if he would -- but observe
the Truth just as it is; for behold, He was dead but now He lives! This is it
that was spoken by John, the Revelator, in Revelation, concerning this great
Resurrection that is universally taking place in the hearts and minds of men:
'I AM He that liveth and WAS dead; but behold I AM alive forevermore. I have the Keys of the 'other place' and of death.'
I can open doors that no man can shut.
Then I say, it is a privilege for you to be living in this Resurrection -- not merely the Resurrection of the individual that was called Jesus; the Resurrection of Jesus was a pre-evidence of the great Resurrection of Life in the hearts and lives of all of the people of the earth. Take these thoughts into consideration. The individual Crucifixion and individual Resurrection was but bespeaking the great Resurrection of our present day Salvation that I have brought to humanity's conscious realization, the great Resurrection of Life within all of the children of men. Then I say, this Truth, which was and IS the CHRIST, has been long since lying dormant in the subconscious mind of men, being crucified by the mortal versions and by their theories and doctrines, and held by the selfsame expression; but behold, the great Resurrection has taken place. Firstly, as a Sample and as an Example. Jesus as an individual brought it to fruition as an outward expression of the universalization of the Truth. But now you can say with ME and also with the writer of old,
'I know that my Redeemer liveth, for He liveth in my soul." You can say, "I know He has risen, for He has risen in my soul.'
The Sonship degree of expression in the Person of Jesus, was but a parable concerning
the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Life in the hearts and minds of men collectively.
It was fulfilled individually as a forerunner and a pre-expression, as a sketch
and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the reality of the
Resurrection of Life in the hearts and lives of men. Now aren't you glad! ("So
glad, FATHER, praise YOUR Holy Name", came from the believers.) As an individual
CHRIST came. He as a Person was crucified, dead and buried apparently; but it
was merely a parable, speaking concerning the mystery of the crucifixion of the
CHRIST within you, and the resurrection of Him that liveth forever and ever universally.
In the Sonship degree's expression, in that administration, as an individual the Apostle puts it,
'He was crucified, dead and buried, and God raised Him up and made Him both Christ and Lord.'
Both CHRIST and LORD! This parable was done in the Body called Jesus, as a sketch,
I say, and as a reflection of a percent of a percent of a percent of a fraction
of a grain of the reality of the mystery of the great Resurrection in the hearts
and lives of men. He was speaking in parables -- not only in words but in actual
deeds and in actions in the midst of the children of men. Then I say, it is such
a glorious privilege to look back into the mystery and see, as it was with Jesus
as a Person, GOD raised Him up although He was individually and humanly speaking,
crucified, dead and buried.
"GOD raised Him up and made Him both CHRIST and LORD."
This was but a sketch and a reflection of a percent of a percent of a percent
of a fraction of a grain of the reality of the great Resurrection of Life that
would take place in the hearts of the children of men. After Jesus was resurrected
as an individual it was just the beginning of the birth of the CHRIST Consciousness
as a Principle. It was just the beginning of the Birth of the CHRIST Consciousness
as a Principle. Now aren't you glad! ("So glad, FATHER", echoed and
re-echoed.) I know you are glad to know that! After the Crucifixion, Resurrection
and Ascension, the Birth of CHRIST as an Individual Principle took place in the
hearts and minds of men as a real expression of this Christian Dispensation.
When the Birth of the CHRIST as a Principle took place universally, this Birth of the CHRIST as a Principle universally, mentally and spiritually, had to go on until the Crucifixion took place in the light of our civilization and the human light of civilization according to their mortal versions would crucify every seed idea of the CHRIST. And so it was from a mental and from a spiritual point of view: the very seed idea of the CHRIST Consciousness was crucified in the hearts and lives of men for lo these nineteen hundred years; but condescendingly I came and I have resurrected universally as well as individually, this CHRIST Consciousness in the hearts and lives of men, that has been crucified by the mortal versions.
This is verifying that which GOD spoke through the mouth of the Apostle, saying,
'We groan within ourselves . . . waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body'
to the manifestation of the Sons of GOD,
'whereby we cry, Abba, Father.'
The Sonship Degree of expression could not be brought to fruition in the individuals
collectively until they should have relaxed their conscious mentalities. When
that had been accomplished, as Jesus laid in the tomb three days and three nights
apparently silent, through the silencing and the silences of the very consciousness
of your mind, the Spirit of GOD called into question that One that was lying
dormant in the subconscious mind, and quickened Him, and you cried, "Abba,
Father." It was that which you had so long been waiting for --
'the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body'
-- that which you had been waiting for lo, these nineteen hundred years. You
had been waiting for it, not as an individual, but as the Sonship Degree of expression
under the Son's administration.
You had been waiting for these nineteen hundred years under the Son's administration although it was lying dormant. You groaned within your sleeping selves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body, to the manifestation of the Sons of GOD. This is fulfilled this day in your hearing, and you can see that the Sons of GOD are being made manifest universally. Just think of it! The very CHRIST was lying dormant in the subconscious mind of the children of men all the way through Christendom, after having been crucified by the mortal versions of them, waiting for the adoption until the Adopter would come. Have you not been waiting to be adopted? Have you not been groaning within yourselves, and waiting for the adoption? When GOD raised Him up and made Him both CHRIST and LORD, it was but a pre-evidence of how GOD will and has, raised YOU all up and made the Sonship degree of understanding both CHRIST and LORD IN YOU.
The Son has been elected and has been enthroned on the throne of the minds of men. He has been elected as LORD of Lords and KING of Kings; but first He came as an individual, as a sketch and a reflection of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the reality of the universal Resurrection in the hearts and lives of men -- this CHRIST Consciousness, as being termed the Son. Do you not see that since I have elected CHRIST as LORD of Lords and KING of Kings HE is Reigning in all of the affairs of men? Do you not see that He is reigning on the throne of our City government ? Do you not see that He is reigning on the throne of our Federal or Unites Sates Government? It is wonderful to see the great Resurrection and the great reality of the parable being fulfilled in your hearing. As it was in the sketch and the reflection of the percent of the percent of the fraction of the grain of the reality, we have brought it to fruition universally, for consideration. Did He not say that GOD raised Him up and MADE Him both CHRIST and LORD? As an individual, I say, it was but a slight sketch. Now universally expressed as a Principle in the hearts and lives of men and in all of the affairs of them, CHRIST is Reigning and Ruling, LORD of Lords and KING of Kings.
The Sonship Degree of expression, for nineteen hundred years has been groaning within itself,
'waiting for the adoption.'
But after having been adopted into the Royal Family, and the manifestation of
the Sons of GOD having taken place in your experiences, you have elected the
CHRIST universally as LORD of Lords and KING of Kings. Hence, it verifies that
which the Apostle said, "GOD raising Him up and made Him both CHRIST and
LORD -- even the Jesus degree of expression as being termed the Son. Aren't you
glad! ("So glad, FATHER", was the enthusiastic response.) Then I say,
you as individuals collectively, yea, even universally, can say with ME,
'I know my Redeemer liveth, for He liveth in my soul; I know He has risen, for He has risen in my soul;'
I know that GOD has made Him both CHRIST and LORD, for He rules on the throne
of my mind, and He is CHRIST and LORD of Lords and KING of Kings in me and in
mine, and over all things that concern me. That is the way you know Him; that
is the way you know GOD has raised Him up and made Him both CHRIST and LORD,
by His being CHRIST and LORD in you, through you and by you, and over you and
all things that concern you.
I have not done anything yet, I have not unfolded the secret of the mysteries, yea, the greatness of GOD'S understanding. GOD'S Omniscience has not yet been touched. We have not yet touched nor tapped the main stream of GOD'S Omniscience. This will I impart to the souls and bodies of the children of men! I will inspire their mentalities with GOD'S Omniscience, and they shall see and know within themselves, as well as you,
'GOD is not a God afar off, but GOD is a GOD at hand.'
(FATHER accompanied the words with a gesture, taking up a glass of water.)
These thoughts are well worth considering. Do you not see what they are bringing into existence? They are bringing into outer existence and into materialization, every good and desirable blessing imaginable. Oh, it is indeed wonderful! This has been fulfilled just recently in your hearing -- that which Jesus said --
'It is written that man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceedeth out of the Mouth of GOD.'
Are not these Words more than Spirit? They are more than Life to you, for they
are GOD Himself, imparted to you. If you will but digest them, you will become
the personification of the same, and they will be manifested as you and you as
them. Truly might one of our modern composers have brought forth a composition
for consideration many years ago:
'Wisdom, Righteousness and Power, Holiness forevermore, My Redemption is full and sure; CHRIST is all I need.'
It is indeed Wonderful! Having accepted of the CHRIST as the Fundamental, as
the true Ideal of Life, you find that this Principle, if put forth into expression
in your experiences, will meet every issue of life satisfactorily and it will
satisfy every good desire, verifying that which I afore said,
'CHRIST is all I need.'
How can a mind on earth withstand or resist this Fundamental, this Life, this
Love, that transcends all imagination and goes into infinitude? You cannot find
its destination, for it has none. Now you know it is true! ("Oh yes, FATHER",
was the shout.) I just then heard you say within your mind, something I may not
say at this time. But truly might the writer have said,
'It tastes like honey.'
It is so fascinating the whole world has gone after it, and when they got after
it they could not get it without getting ME. Now look at you! (Instantly, there
was a great shout and a reaching of hands toward FATHER in an expression of love.)
You can't stand this Love! I think I had better stop! It is Wonderful! This mighty
Love! If you don't feel this Love it is because you have it veiled or barred
by the mortal versions of men, by your mortal theories and doctrines, preconceived
ideas and opinions. That is the only reason why it is not so fascinating to you
that you have been attracted and lifted off your feet.
Live in this recognition and abide in the Spirit and Consciousness of My Presence with or without the Person, for it is operative. You can find the very Mystery of GOD revealing the hidden mysteries that are called secrets. It is indeed Wonderful!
("Bless Your Name, Bless Your Name, Bless Your Name, FATHER," came fervently from every side.)
PEACE EVERYONE! That which is termed in mortal consciousness as time, will not permit apparently that I should go very much further along this line at this particular juncture; but I further wish to say that the Spirit of My Presence apparently prohibited ME as it was so "compulsing", compelling the individuals to express the Joy that is in GOD, unspeakable.
I AM now calling your attention to one of the first points of view I conveyed to you -- the great significance of living in the Spiritual state of Consciousness. It has long since been said,
'They that are in the flesh cannot please God.'
I have Personally conveyed this thought to you many months, yea, even years ago.
You could not or cannot be blessed of GOD if you are in the flesh, even if you
would offer Him a million dollars a day. If you were willing to give Him a million
dollars a day, you could not please GOD if you were in the flesh. The Apostle
puts it on one occasion,
'Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity (which is love) it profiteth me nothing.'
Do you not see the great significance of denying yourselves whole- heartedly,
putting off the mortal version of the human mind, and as I afore said, living
out of the United Sates of Fleshly Expressions, the United States of Fleshly
states of Consciousness? These different states of expression, they are all subject
to death, for they are mortal. They are not confined to that which is termed
the flesh by the average person ordinarily; but the flesh consists of many states,
the same as North America and the United States of America consists of many States
and a few territories connected 'round about. So it is with the fleshly state
of consciousness, the Fleshly United States of Consciousness. Do you not see
that the flesh is united with you -- if not on the one hand, on another -- if
you are in mortal consciousness, living after races, creeds and colors, sisters,
mothers, fathers and brothers? In all of these different expressions are the
mortal versions and the seeds of "fleshlyism"
or materialism, and they are united together in sensuality. You may not be subject
to and yield yourselves servants to obey, your human tendencies, fancies and
pleasures after the mortal versions of men; you may be morally trained even from
a social and moral point of view, not to commit such vice and crime as they have
been committing; but yet, if you are living in these united states of consciousness,
where they are united together in connection with the state of sexuality or sensuality,
you are just the same partially, as the person that is living in that immediate
state.
I find there are those of you at times that will desire to deny yourselves of someone that YOU claim, that you are tired of, but yet you will desire to claim someone else on the other side, that you are not tired of. Do you not see the mystery? They will move out of one of the united states of materialism and live in another that is condemned with the same pollution of the flesh. You would use the Spirit of CHRIST, use the Body of CHRIST, to get rid of someone that you did not care for. You have been doing that from your earliest existence. They are doing that in our civil courts today and have been doing so; but for CHRIST'S sake what will you do?
If I sacrifice something I don't Care for, what profit is it to ME? Some will come, desiring to sacrifice, they claim, to appease the mortal concept of that preconceived idea that they have had for many years. They desire to get rid of someone, and when they hear the Teaching of the CHRIST, they know within themselves they are not doing it for righteousness' sake, but for a selfish purpose. They say, "I will leave my brother, mother, father, sister, husband or wife," to appease that mortal human preconceived idea and opinion and not seeking to please Him that Liveth for ever and ever. Giving up someone; a step that you have been contemplating making, but you just did not see any way out -- and thinking within yourselves that you can use ME and My Presence and My Messages and Teaching, as a hiding place! Then I say, do you call that Salvation? Humanly speaking, according to the mortal version of Religion, do you call that Religion?
If you are denying yourselves for Righteousness' sake, you will deny the best and ALL you have. You will not be as it was with Cain. He had something he wanted to get rid of. He tried to use the sacrifice of God as a garbage can. "Here and now is the time," thought he, "I can get rid of this I do not care for. I will offer it up as a sacrifice unto God." But what profit was it in the sight of GOD -- something that you have been contemplating getting rid of -- seeking some way whereby you could rid yourselves of your garbage! "Now here is the time, while God is requiring sacrifice, I will offer this up as a sacrifice to Him, and I will get Him to take it away for me." Take these thoughts into consideration and live in this recognition, and weigh your mind, your ideas and opinions on the scale of Justice, and not on the mortal versions of the human mind; looking diligently to Him that Liveth forever by making a complete self-denial. Abel offered up the best, that which he desired for himself. Cain offered up the worst, that which he desired to get rid of. Do you not see Cain and Abel expressing at times? They are expressing, each of them, coming offering up unto GOD the desirable and the undesirable according to the individual's mind. Now, is it not a glorious privilege to live in this recognition, where GOD'S Omniscience is being poured out? It is indeed Wonderful! You need no man to teach you. All of the human intelligence of our present civilization, it is but a slight sketch of a percent of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the reality of GOD'S Intelligence; and GOD'S Intelligence is but a percent of a fraction of GOD'S Omniscience. It is the offspring of GOD'S Omniscience, and the human intelligence is one of the germs of Divine Intelligence. Therefore, you have got down to the very Fount of all of these desirable expressions, and it is the Foundation of every blessing, flowing so free for everyone; and you too, as well as I, can dial in on the Omniscience of GOD, and can rejoice and revel in the glorious Liberty of the Sons, here and now.
I will not bore you longer! ("Oh, FATHER GOD, YOU Are Wonderful", was the response.) You know you never tasted any such Love or any such Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding, that is flowing free from the Fount of every blessing that has tuned your hearts to sing His praises. Now aren't you glad! ("So glad, FATHER", came back a mighty chorus.) Don't say it unless you mean it! I think I had better stop! I thank you. (Still standing, while many were on their feet praising Him and reveling in is Love, FATHER concluded with arms outstretched in inexpressible Love:) Oh, it is Wonderful! Verily, verily, I say unto you this is the only well of Salvation, as being termed "The Fount of every blessing", that is flowing so free for each and every individual, and it is the Fount of all your Joy. It satisfies every desire. I thank you.
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