FATHER DIVINE
He was standing apparently between life and death, with one foot more firmly in the grave than upon the earth; and there was no hope or mercy nor redemption to be found but in CHRIST our Lord, FATHER DIVINE. His one chance was fastly slipping, and unless he could renew his hope and increase his faith, he must succumb to that which surely awaited him on his declining state. On the brink of the exclusion of Life, he remembered his Creator, and today, he stands again before the multitude of people as a living witness of the condescension and miraculous Power of GOD.
As FATHER proves His efficacy in this case, so can all mankind be cleansed of their every form of sin by their belief in the existence of the Immaculate Savior, FATHER DIVINE. CHRIST, our LORD, we thank THEE.
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks after the singing of the following song:)
SONG
'Live with a mind stayed on FATHER!
Live with a mind stayed on FATHER!
Live with a mind stayed on FATHER!
Allelu! Allelu! Allelu!'
'Stay with a mind staid on FATHER!", etc.
PEACE EVERYONE! Health, Joy, Peace and Happiness combined! These and all other blessings will be your portion if you live with a mind staid on the Fundamental. What Doubt Can Do, or Faith
While the last speaker was speaking, I recalled the reaction of the former condition when it came back upon him, after being healed; but being in the environment of those who claimed to be of ME, and of the Household of Faith, as it is written, the worst enemy you have is that of your own household -- those who were actually handling My Message, printing My Words, carrying negation, accusation and condemnation in their hearts and in their minds, they caused the brother to feel doubtful after he had been lifted from sickness and disease.
His faith in ME as though it were ME, firstly lifted him from the hopeless condition he was in, where nothing else could help him. But as his faith was the thing that healed him, his unbelief or doubts would kill him if he would have allowed them to remain in him. It was not anything that I did as a Person, but the very Spirit of My Impersonal Presence, and yet the Personal represented was the thing that lifted him through his faith in ME.
Oh, it is a privilege to realize what your faith can do! Your faith can lift you from the depths of sin, from the very lowest degree of vice, of crime and of sickness and diseases, and of misery of every kind; but remember, when your faith shall have lifted you, it was your faith in ME, as though it were ME, that lifted you. It was not so much of what I had done as a Person, for I did not do anything as a Person to reach the condition.
That is why I would not come Personally when they called for ME. I wanted them to know, and wanted him to know GOD is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent. I want you all to know it is not necessary for ME to come to you Personally to reach your condition; especially if you have the slightest evidence or are slightly convinced that I AM the Omnipotent.
My Personal Presence was not the thing; but as I AM Impersonal and yet Personal, the Impersonal is the great essential, with the recognition of the Personification of the Principle. Hence with such a recognition he was lifted from the lowest state of cancer and other contagious and incurable diseases; but after he was lifted, hearing so much gossip, accusation, persecution and slanderous statements made by those of whom he had faith in, it caused him to feel a little doubtful, and his faith, as had his faith to the extreme reverse, it worked and had great effect on him in his physical body, and in his mental condition; therefore, I say,
'You faith in ME as though it was ME, made you whole.'
Now some may say, as I explained about the time the reaction that such a condition came upon him, I said, "Some may say, 'I once believed in FATHER DIVINE, and by my faith I was healed completely of all of my afflictions, and of all of my diseases.'" I said, "That is true, even though you may say it, and they definitely knew it, but remember, whatsoever caused your faith to be increased and caused your faith to be established in ME, that which caused it was not the thing; but it was your faith that lifted you, as though it was ME."
Now it matters not what may cause you to disbelieve or doubt ME, why, you will feel the reverse and undesirable reverse, undesirable results; for the reversal of your position and your version concerning ME will cause the reversal of your condition physically and mentally. That is the mystery. So it is a lesson for each and every one of you.
Mr. B. has gone to the lowest depths and his faith in ME has lifted him, and has given him his real emancipation, after everything else failed him. He reclaimed his faith as he did in the beginning, and through reclaiming that faith, and his sin was not unto death, as he did not sin against the Holy Ghost, there was a chance for him to be reclaimed; therefore, he did reckon, and here he is . . . there he sits as he did stand. Aren't you glad?
You can see how marvelous it is to visualize the Perfect Picture, especially concerning ME. Aren't you glad? Others may visualize the negative, but I say it is detrimental to visualize the negative concerning the Fundamental. It is essential to visualize the positive, that the negative might be eradicated and the undesirable dispelled once and forever. Then say once again for your consideration and for millions of others, as his faith in ME healed him, and gave him his deliverance, your faith and other's faith can do the same. It matters not what may be said that I have done, or AM doing, your faith in ME is the great essential. Aren't you glad? Your faith in ME will give you your real emancipation. That is the hope of your redemption, not by thinking negative but by thinking positive concerning ME.
Oh, it is a privilege to realize the significance of the positive picture being established. Since the positive picture is a reality, since it has been established, naturally the positive through concentration, will be reincarnatable and will be reproduced in the consciousness of others, those who concentrate upon it. That is the mystery; but if you concentrate on the negative, naturally the reproduction of such a concentration and such an imagination will become to be your conscious realization, for that which you vividly visualize you tend to materialize, and especially concerning the Perfect Picture, concerning that which has been set apart and established and recognized by millions, yea, by millions' conscious conviction.
When millions' conscious conviction has established a picture, that picture, that version, that idea and that opinion is a reality, for by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established. Naturally, it must be established when there are two or three millions and millions and millions increased, and multiplied; naturally such a version of millions, when their version has been verified by others and established by their experience, such a version must be a reality, for it must be established since it has been verified by millions.
The Perfect Picture has been reckoned! It has been revealed! It has been individually visualized and it has been declared to be materialized and such a materialized version established in the consciousness, in the lives of millions, naturally it must be a reality when it shall have been established by the versions of millions. Then it is essential for those who are sick, or those who are afflicted to concentrate on the Perfect Picture in the positive direction, that the reproduction of such a concentration might reproduce the desirable in their experience. That is the mystery.
Someone may say, "Well, how about visualizing the positive in everybody?" That is a metaphysical way, of which is good to observe. If there is the positive established or reflected in another, even though he be the "other fellow," you should visualize the reaction of the positive, and allow it to be magnified for you; but to visualize the negative in the negative and try to make it a reality, it is a matter of impossibility; but visualize the positive, although it is limited. You magnify it and make it bigger. That is the mystery. But do not try to magnify the negative, neither try to change it by thinking,
'for you cannot add one cubit to your stature by thinking, neither can you make one hair white or black.'
These thoughts are well worth considering; but you can increase and multiply the positive instead of increasing and multiplying the negative. That which is positive in any individual, you can vividly visualize it and magnify it through visualization and through concentration on the positive, even though it is in a negative person. Concentrate on the positive instead of concentrating on the negative; but do not concentrate on the negative and try to justify the negative by the positive if it is not positive. There is where you make a mistake, and there is where you become to be a failure, by increasing and multiplying the negative instead of multiplying and increasing the positive.
Then I say, as it has been seen and declared by millions, the positive has been actually established, and the version of millions is a living reality; therefore, those who vividly visualize, they will materialize it, for it has been verified by millions, and you today are personifying it. Then I say, the last speaker, when he vividly visualized the positive, refusing to indulge in, or tolerate the negative statements concerning ME, the positive result he received even in his physical body, for he vividly and consciously visualized the positive instead of the negative.
By believing in the Personification of GOD, his physical body began to materialize, re-materialize and re-personify health and happiness, vigor and courage instead of personifying the negative as it had been doing. The physical body had personified the negative. It had continued to materialize it, but by the reversal of his version; in other words, by the reversing of his former mental decision concerning ME, he began there and then to materialize the positive as he thought in the positive direction and he became to be the personification of health and happiness again. Do you all see the mystery? But if he would have continued and even would have merely remembered the Spirit as an individual, and did not recognize the materialization of it, he could not have personified health and happiness again. Now his physical body as an abstract expression is the outward expression as a sketch and a reflection of the reality of invisible health and happiness.
Your physical body will personify that which you vividly visualize, and when you personify health and happiness as a living reality, that health and happiness that were invisible, will become to be fully manifested, and when it is fully established, health and happiness then will be the reality, for it is materially manifested and it is logical. It is not logical so long as it is merely invisible. He may have received his health from a metaphysical point of view, but his health would have been in the mental and spiritual realm, and his physical body would have gone down; but by the recognition of the Personification of GOD; and by visualizing the Body of GOD, GOD materialized the faith, and personified his version, by the outward expression. By that he became to be an outward expresser of the positive version of his; hence, he is the manifester of his own conviction and he is now verifying what others have been telling you. The physical body verifies his conscious conviction, and it verifies the conviction of millions.
Those who merely believe in GOD as invisible, his physical body could not verify it, but those who believe in GOD as visible, his physical body is verifying his version that has declared, "GOD has been Personified."
'For this cause many are sickly among you, and some sleep, nor discerning the body of Christ.'
Because they did not discern the Body of CHRIST, their physical bodies are sickly
-- many of them. When you begin to disrecognize or dis-discern the Body of CHRIST
or refuse to discern the Body of CHRIST, then you become to be sickly; and by
continuing to disrecognize the Body of CHRIST, you become asleep; but by continuing,
or by the continuance of the recognition of the Body of CHRIST you are made alive,
spirit, soul, body and mind, and your body will express the vigor and the Life
and the Courage of your GOD. That is what it is all about!
Then I say, be of good courage for your own sake. Visualize the positive! Refuse to observe the negative. Visualize the Perfect Picture and observe the materialization of it. The materialization of the perfect will cause you to materialize it, and by you materializing it yourself others will realize it; but you cannot realize that which you have not yet materialized. If you have not materialized it for you to realize it, someone must materialize it for you to realize it. You can imagine something in the imaginary realm, something invisible, but you cannot realize it until it has been materialized and brought into the conscious realization of the individual. Unless you are conscious of it you cannot realize it, you can merely surmise it. Aren't you glad? But we shall materialize and make real -- or cause millions to realize GOD has been actually Personified, and it is a living factor in the hearts and lives of all humanity. Aren't you glad?
Upon this Foundation if you will stand, you will not have an occasion to fret nor worry, for the Spirit of My Presence will be with you now, henceforth and forever; giving you victory over every difficulty, over every trial and every tribulation, over every adverse and every undesirable condition, for the Mouth of GOD HIMSELF is speaking. Aren't you glad?
When you realize the Truth, when you materialize the Truth, the Truth is a reality; but it is not a reality so long as you keep it in the imaginary. We shall no longer keep things in the imaginary realm. We shall bring them to the earth plane in the request of the Prayer Jesus taught you to pray:
'Let thy kingdom come, and thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'
Let the Kingdom come from the imaginary realm. Let it come to the material plane. Let it come into observation to the children of men. However, the Kingdom cometh not with observation, but it will make it observable after it shall have come. Aren't you glad?
I have made the Kingdom of GOD observable, for I have brought it into outer expression and into materialization that mankind might observe that which was invisible. Aren't you glad? By this, all mankind shall eventually recognize the Actual Personified Presence of GOD; for the Kingdom has truly come, and the Will is now being done. Aren't you glad? All of this cometh not with observation; it is firstly coming in and through and by the invisible, but after it has been brought into your conscious recognition, you shall bring it into materialization, for you shall materialize it. Aren't you glad?
The body of the brother who lastly spoke, is the outward expression of the conscious conviction and the materialization of millions. The materialization of GOD'S Spoken Word and the Personification of the same, coming by the Personification of GOD is a living reality established as a Light for you all. Aren't you glad? By this all mankind shall know there is a reality in GOD, and a reality in His Presence among the children of men to make visible invisible things and to make spiritual visible things and material things that the two might no longer be twain, but one.
That was the Mission of the Kingdom of GOD coming down. It was to make the Kingdom of GOD and the earth one; that the Will might be done on the earth as it was in the Heaven in the imagination, yea, the fondest imaginations of the children of men. Your fondest and most happy or personal imagination, that is the place of Heaven in the imaginary concept of Heaven; but I will bring the Kingdom from the invisible imaginary concept completely, and cause all humanity to realize it as a living reality when we shall have universally materialized it. I thank you.
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