Numerous visitors were present at the Righteous Government Meeting held in the Artist Colony at Milton, in what used to be a theater of amusement for the presentation of legitimate plays. Now it has been turned into a lovely hall where all can come together in the Spirit of Unity and give Praise to the LORD for the Glorious Work HE has done and is doing for the benefit of all mankind.
Among the visitors were teachers from the Kingston High School. They appeared to be very interested in the reading of the political plank of FATHER'S Righteous Government Platform and also in the significant Message which FATHER gave concerning same.
For this glorious privilege of hearing, as well as reading these Words of Wisdom, oh Dean of the Universe, we thank YOU!
(The foregoing statements are made by the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! I have arisen at this particular instance, not so much to speak on the Righteous Government Platform, but merely to give an invitation to our visiting friends. I have been informed that we have some visiting friends among us; if they would like to come up on the stage, we would appreciate it. In the meantime, if you do not care to come forward and take the front seats, as it may be termed, you do not have to do so, but if you care to come forward and come up on the stage with us, we will appreciate it very much.
(At this kind invitation extended by FATHER, several visitors came up on the rostrum. After several testimonies were given and the political Plank was read from the Righteous Government Platform, FATHER arose and gave this mighty Message in order that we might grow in the Knowledge of the LORD and learn the true significance of Righteous Government and how to apply it correctly in our daily lives and activities. FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Here we all are again and there I sit around, one in all and all in one; the way we are to be in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose; for the common good of each and every one of us we should stand. This is not only in politics, but in all of our daily activities, in all of our work and in all of our mission.
I would like to say in reference to the political plank of which we are apparently discussing; it is well worth considering and it is to be called to our attention now, just what I said some years ago, how GOD through His Condescension would reach the corruptible politicians and move them out of official duty, that Righteousness, Truth and Justice might have a free access. I stress from time to time the great document of this great country commonly known as the Constitution. The Constitution and its Amendments grant the privilege of assemblage and the freedom of speech. It grants you the privilege of serving GOD to the dictates of your own conscience. Through and by the Constitution and its Amendments, by which we are living and of which I AM now stressing, we are privileged to assemble here this evening and we are privileged to discuss politics or any other legal organization, even those organizations that are illegal, you are privileged to discuss certain things and certain subjects along illegal lines; but it is a privilege to realize we can harmoniously discuss something that is for the benefit of all of us. Politics in Righteousness and Righteousness in politics -- we are discussing it not so much in words, but we are putting into practice the Golden Rule and all of these qualities and properties of Righteous Government that we might have a Righteous Government within ourselves.
For this cause I came, stressing vividly daily, the Government of Heaven. I AM not speaking of that which is commonly known as heaven slang-ly among those who are critics, but I AM speaking of the Government of Heaven of all devout and true Religions; the Government of Heaven of the Christian world, the Government of Heaven as described by JESUS the CHRIST, the Government of this Heaven as exemplified and stressed vividly by our daily activities. This government, of course, through the political world and through legality we are endeavoring to establish and bring into legalization that the Righteousness of GOD that was in Heaven according to your religious conviction, might be a living reality among us.
This is done in the fulfillment of the prayer Jesus taught all of His Disciples to pray,
'Let Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,'
which was to say, let the government of your kingdom come forth into expression
among the inhabitants of the earth as in the Heavenly state of expression according
to the Heavenly version; let this Your kingdom come! Let Your government come
from the invisible realm to the earth plane, since the earth is visible according
to the Scripture.
As the earth was invisible in the beginning, GOD, through His Mercy, Love and Compassion, with His Own Omniscience, saw fit to call the earth into outer expression to make the earth first observable, for the earth was void and without form in the beginning, but GOD said, "Let dry land appear." This in the beginning as an abstract expression of how the things from the invisible realm would come forth to the surface as GOD would call them into expression. The Kingdom of Heaven, of its invisibleness and its purity of righteous endeavors were called to the earth plane by Jesus the Great Love Master, that such a government as the government of the Kingdom Heaven, in and on the invisible plane, might come to the earth plane to be among men. By this I observe the Righteous Government as exemplified by JESUS the CHRIST, coming to the earth plane, coming through and by the prayer He taught His Disciples to pray,
'Let Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.'
The Kingdom of GOD had not been exemplified in the political world at that time. Righteousness, Truth and Justice had been ignored and had been criticized even as in these last times; nevertheless, GOD ordained that the kingdoms of this world would become to be the Kingdom of our GOD and His CHRIST. By this He sought to teach, in other words, to get you to pray for the Kingdom to come. Let Your Government from Heaven come down to the earth plane that we might no longer be governed by wicked men, but that we might be under a Government wherein a Righteous King Reigns. Aren't you glad! By this CHRIST taught you as Christianity and as Christians to pray,
'Let Your Kingdom come and let Your Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,'
and "Give us this day our daily bread." This and all other Blessings
in this prayer you prayed. You prayed for all these Blessings.
'Give us this day our daily bread and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all that is evil.'
You were not delivered from evil by the prayer apparently, for you groped in
sin and in vice and in crime until I came. The prayer Jesus taught you to pray,
apparently you did not pray it with the spirit of sincerity. Hence, the Kingdom
of GOD had not come into the conscious recognition and the realization of the
children of men. For this cause I drafted My Righteous Government Platform! Those
who have been converted to Righteousness, to live and do according to the Teaching
of JESUS the CHRIST, from their righteous converted minds I drafted My Righteous
Government Platform as a platform under the Constitution upon which the very
government can be founded and all government can build upon this Righteous Government
Platform, for it brings into actuality in the conscious mentality of those who
observe it, the reality of the Righteousness of the Constitution as a Document
as the protection of all Christian Religions, not only of the Christian Religions,
but all Religions.
For this cause, as an individual said to ME, at least, in one of our meetings the other day, the Constitution is FATHER DIVINE'S Protection, or words to that effect. The Constitution does not merely mean a document to be read and to be seen, but it means a document to be lifted and put into practice by the spirit and the meanings of such a document. Therefore as this party said that it is not any one individual -- even the chief executive of our Country, has granted us the privilege of assemblage, but the Constitution granted this great privilege.
Then I say, the Constitution and its Amendments are our protection and we are to protect the Constitution as I have protected it; to inculcate and reincarnate the spirit and the meaning of the Constitution and its Amendments, and live it and express it, emphasize and stress it until all humanity get it and become to be real American citizens. This is our duty and this is what we are doing!
Then I say, the political Plank is another point in and under the Constitution of which will give you the privilege of expression and the privilege of registering and the privilege to vote. Why should you be disfranchised because of your race, creed or color? Why should you be disfranchised because of your endeavors to inculcate and reincarnate the spirit and the meaning of the Gospel and JESUS the CHRIST?
When this is produced and brought to fruition in you, you will speak and act and do even as Jesus did, and as for the Christian world, even so politically I speak! Those of us who may touch on political points and legal points in connection with our daily activities, we endeavor to bring the Righteousness of the law to fruition within us and establish such a law in our daily activities. Then and only then, according to My Version, will we be real American citizens. This includes the Political Plank and the political section, yea, it includes all of the planks in our Righteous Government Platform. When we live this and express it effectively, we are bringing the government of the Kingdom of Heaven to the earth plane. By putting these qualities and expressions into practice we are becoming to be the real reflectors and manifestors of Righteous Government.
For this cause I AM daily calling to mind the significance of the recognition of the Constitution and its Amendments by all of My Hearers, the significance of not only recognizing the Constitution and its Amendments, but the significance of producing them through reinculcation, through reincarnation and bringing to fruition the very spirit and the meaning of the Constitution and its Amendments that we might be real American citizens, and again, to repay all old bills, to adjust matters satisfactorily in the sight of GOD and of men, to live absolutely independent, the express the reality of the Declaration of Independence as the Country declared it.
How can we be real American citizens unless we produce the spirit and the meaning of the Declaration of Independence within us and bring that document to fruition, that we might express the true independence of which the Country declared as a nation! I AM endeavoring to produce perfection among My hearers -- perfection in every endeavor! We mean to go on to perfection according to the request of GOD through the Apostle as recorded in the Epistle, "leaving the principles of CHRIST behind;" going on to Perfection!
We are requesting every adherent to My Message, to My Teaching from every angle expressible, to bring these qualities of which I AM stressing to fruition within them that they might be the reality of that of which they are studying, of that of which they are stressing; and, as I say, we cannot be real American citizens according to My Version, until we shall have inculcated and reincarnated the great document of this great Country, the Constitution and its Amendments, and brought both it and them to fruition within us. Then and only then can we be real American citizens!
Why are we not American citizens until then? It is because we do not have the spirit and the meaning of the Constitution and its Amendments, neither do we have the characteristics and the nature of our American citizenry within us. But if we bring these qualities to fruition by living evangelically and by being honest, competent and true in all of our endeavors, then and only then according to My Version, can we be real American citizens!
For this cause My Followers are returning all stolen goods such as they had stolen from the early days of their life. If it was fifty years ago -- if one had stolen something, he returns or pays the equivalent to the amount he had taken, adjusting matters satisfactorily within himself, making ready for the Kingdom of GOD within! I know there are those who do not know -- they think we speak of the mere buildings as Heaven and the Heavens. It has long since been declared by the great Love Master and I re-declare the same,
'The Kingdom of GOD is within you!'
Then I say the Kingdom of GOD is not a place geographically! The Kingdom of GOD
is a state of consciousness! When this state of consciousness is developed in
an individual, then and there he has the Kingdom, and that Kingdom is the government
of Heaven transmitted; even as you receive a message through your radio receiving
set. How glorious it is to live in such a recognition where all of these qualities
of Heaven from your fondest imagination through your superstition can be transmitted
to you and brought to fruition and become to be a living reality -- no longer
merely a superstition. Aren't you glad!
By this, My Followers are exceedingly happy as an abstract expression of that mental and spiritual conception, for your outward expression is but the reflection of your mental and spiritual conception, concerning ideas of GOD, of good, of honesty, of integrity, of truth, of devoutness in whatsoever you say or do! When these are conceived mentally and spiritually within you, your outward expression will tell the story of what you really are and of what you are endeavoring.
How glorious it is to live such a life of truth, when the very qualities of GOD and the Kingdom of GOD transmitted -- I mean the government of GOD transmitted -- can be reincarnated and you can become to be the habitation for the reincarnated Spirit of GOD and of His Government on earth among men!
For this cause I say, the government of the Kingdom of Heaven is actually transmitted to the children of men! You, as individuals and as true believers, should dial in on the Fundamental! When you dial in on this Principle as a radio receiving set, when you concentrate vividly on the Message, the Life and the Teaching of CHRIST, you will, by reincarnation, receive the Spirit and the Nature of CHRIST'S Characteristics. Aren't you glad! For they are as much transmittable and reincarnatable as a message broadcast from a great broadcasting station is transmittable If this message can be transmitted, why is it men cannot see and realize, by concentration and by harmonization, that the same Spirit, Characteristics and the Nature of your Savior can be reincarnated in you and become to be the expressers of GOD'S Characteristics?
Truly might have the Apostle said,
'Be ye holy, for I AM holy,'
as bearing record of GOD'S Word to the children of men. It is written as Jesus
declared,
'Be ye perfect even as your FATHER which is in Heaven is perfect!'
This does not mean, according to My Version, that you must be sanctimonious,
that you must put on a long face and appear to be holy, but be honest, be true,
be competent in all of your endeavors, in all you say and in all you do -- that
is what I call True Holiness! It is not a matter of what the average person in
the religious world consider holiness, but it is the act of your duty to your
fellow man! It is the act of your duty towards all mankind and even to the animal
kingdom! It is the act of your duty to act honest, competent and true, even to
the animals with whom or with which you have to do! Cruelty to animals is an
expression that shows unholiness; it shows incompetence; it shows untruth; but
how glorious it is to present to you a holy picture of actual service to GOD
and to man by putting into practice the Golden Rule that is a Blessing to all
mankind.
How glorious it is to live in such a recognition, where the very Spirit of GOD'S Presence will be with you so vividly in evidence until you will be conscious of GOD'S Presence at the most destitute hour of your life! Such a conscious conviction of GOD'S Actual Presence will dispel doubts and fears -- will dispel all of your wants and all of your cares! But all of these things are done right in line with your daily activities according to My Version concerning the mystery.
What we are to do, let us do it with the spirit of honesty, of competence and of truth, of zeal and of courage in all we do, and if we do, we are actually bringing it into outer expression that of which I AM stressing politically, that of which I AM stressing socially, that of which I AM stressing as an important essential intellectuality! We can be positive in all we say and in all we do, and with whomsoever we come in contact daily we can express Righteousness, Truth and Justice. Put into practice the Golden Rule and the Righteous Government Platform -- you will be standing thereupon.
In reading The New Day, the pages under "Righteousness -- Marches On!" as the reader read a little while ago -- it shows you how My Followers are paying all of their old bills. There are just a few, as the publication can only carry a few each week; but if you read after ME you will see they carry a few each week -- maybe that many or more each week, where I AM receiving hundreds and even thousands of letters from My Followers who are consecrated to the service, where they are paying all of their old bills such as they never intended to pay and never would have paid had I not come into their consideration as the Hope of their Redemption! By this they are inclined to believe that GOD is with them more effectively when they deal justly between man and man, and by so doing they are putting into practice My Righteous Government Platform and they are protected under the Constitution and causing themselves to be eligible to fill an official duty if they are qualified otherwise.
Dishonest persons do not have any business to fill official duty! If they are incompetent and untrue to their fellow men with whom they come in contact daily they are not qualified to fill official duty for our State nor for our Country! They are not qualified even to fill official duty for our little communities! Just and honest men should be the ones to fill such duties, for they are to be SERVANTS of the people, for the people, and they are to SERVE the people and not be the SUPPORT of those who are supporting them!
Then I say, this Movement is actually STIRRING UP THE NATIONS UNIVERSALLY, but socially, economically and otherwise, I have lifted up a Standard to show mankind, under the Constitution of our great Country, we are endeavoring to bring to fruition that political government transmitted from the Fondest Imagination of the devout, of the devout of all Religions -- the Government of Heaven! That which was in their imaginary realm I AM calling it down from the fondest imagination of men to the Actual Recognition and the Realization of them, that they might see enacted in Law and in Politics the Righteousness of GOD'S Kingdom from Heaven to the earth plane to Control mankind!
What said the prophet back in the Prophetic Age concerning this mystery! We read in Isaiah 32:1,
'Behold a King shall reign in righteousness and princes shall rule in Judgment and a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind and from the tempest that blows!'
GOD shall rule on the throne of the minds of the children of men when this Kingdom
of which we are stressing and for which you have been praying shall have descended
to the conscious mentality of them and when CHRIST shall have been selected and
elected and enthroned on the throne of the minds of men, especially those who
are elected as officials! When CHRIST shall rule on the throne of their minds,
there and then the Kingdom has truly come, even though it be in a Court Room!
'Wheresoever a king reigns, there is where his kingdom is!'
Is it not observable that all officials who are elected to office, even if they are appointed to office, they are sworn in by the Bible to Tell the Truth; to Do the Truth; to do that which is Just and Right according to the official duty and Nothing Else but that which is Just!
If you go before a court of law, you are requested to take an Oath under the Name of GOD or by the Name of the Bible that you will Tell the TRUTH and nothing else but the TRUTH, so help you GOD! This is done for the specific purpose of enacting and producing and bringing into action the Law of GOD and GOD in authority over the mind and the minds of those with whom you are dealing, to produce the Truth and nothing else but the Truth in evidence. This is for the purpose of bringing that Kingdom for which you all have been praying, to the earth plane that GOD HIMSELF might rule over all mankind! In courts of law or out of them, GOD ALONE SHALL REIGN! That is what it means . . . you will tell the TRUTH and nothing else but the TRUTH, so help you GOD!
This oath is taken in the Name of GOD or by the Bible, to stamp GOD on the throne of your mind, that you might be true in all you say and in all you do! This is for the purpose of selecting and electing CHRIST, GOD Almighty, to Rule on the Throne of your mind and on the minds of those who are in authority -- that is what it is for. When this is done, there and then the Kingdom has come, for
'wheresoever a king reigns there is where his kingdom is.'
I AM bringing from the Heavenly version of the Religious World, the reality and
then the actuality of your GOD, that GOD might be selected and elected in all
of your endeavors and in of your activities, not only in that of which is called
the political Plank, but in all of your emotions and expressions and actions,
that GOD Alone might Rule on the Throne of your minds and,
'Wheresoever a king reigns,'
I say,
'there is where his kingdom is!'
This is plain to see, I AM sure -- you all know it as you see it so distinctly! Let the CHRIST Rule on the Throne of your minds, beloved ones -- GOD Alone to be selected and elected and enthroned thereon that naught but GOD might have All Dominion, and every other deviating or imperfect expression injected or inserted in your mind might be DETHRONED.
When you dethrone every other expression or suggestion that is imperfect and GOD, the Perfect One, Rules on the Throne of your Mind, there and then His Kingdom has come, wheresoever you are! When you go before a judge and you say, "Judge, your Honor," think not to say within yourself, you are speaking to a man! You should be speaking through a man to GOD! A judge has not any business to fill the office unless he is the exact expression through which GOD can speak and judge the people with equity!
This is the way HE was to come and this is the way HE came on the Throne of the Minds of the children of men that GOD Alone might have Dominion over them! Aren't you glad! For this cause, all corruption shall be rooted out of politics and all of the legal field must be cleansed of all of its corruption, for among the legal representatives we find they are corrupt in a great measure; but all corruption must be rooted out! So long as there is prejudice, resentment, dishonesty, graft or greed or any such selfish tendency as men are heirs to, they cannot judge the people with equity and they will not do what they should do! But I came as insignificant as possible, that I might transmit My Spirit, My Mind to others, that they might recognize something ruling on the throne of their minds to do that which is JUST and RIGHT in the sight of men and in the Presence of the Almighty GOD!
All corruption shall be gotten out of politics! Can you not see it must be somewhere? I AM not Personally judging, but according to evidence and the different statements that are being made, corruption is on one side or the other in politics! Now that is for them to find it out! But oh, it is a privilege to Know Your GOD! To call for the Kingdom to come! To let GOD'S Kingdom come on the Throne of your Mind by calling for the KING to descend as a PRINCIPLE, as a STANDARD, as His Understanding, as His Mind, as His Spirit to be selected and elected and Enthroned on the Throne of your mind to rule you, yours, and all things that concern you! When this is done, beloved ones, there and then the Kingdom has truly come!
Buildings will be the outward expression as a sketch and a reflection of the mind within, but the real Kingdom of which I AM speaking is the Kingdom of GOD inculcated and reincarnated and established within you once and forever! Now we shall have a RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT! I cannot stress this thought too vividly, for it is something that is very needful - - it is very needful at this particular time, whilst the unrighteousness of wicked men is trying to put millions on the firing line in violation to the BIBLE by which you and others are sworn in.
'Thou shalt not kill,'
as recorded in the great and the first Commandment; for when you shall
'love the Lord your God with all your heart,'
you will not kill! In that first and great Commandment itself, it is an expression
of a prohibition of which will prohibit you from doing all the other violations
in the act of refusing to keep GOD'S other Commands, for when you love the LORD
your GOD with all your Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength, you will love GOD too
well to do anything like those other commands have demanded and commanded you
not to do!
Therefore I say, it is a privilege to be in the Actual Presence of GOD and have these Qualities and the spirit and the meaning of all of these particular good qualities and expressions brought to fruition within that you might be the real expressers of that which you are advocating, until you will become to be the personification of them, even as JESUS the CHRIST was and still is the Personification of GOD! GOD Personifies things when you allow those things to remain in you. You become to be the person of that of which you are vividly stressing and of that which was inculcated and reincarnated in you. If you continue in those things, you become to be the person of that -- the persons of it. So it is a privilege, dear ones, to live in this recognition and dial in on the Fundamental continually, until all of this Government shall be able to express and lift up a standard of Perfection that will emancipate all humanity from wars, race riots and confusions such as the millions are now undergoing; for as with an individual, so with a nation.
Not one of My Followers is on the welfare! If you hear of any person or see any person on the welfare, getting money without giving some practical service for it, tell them I said he is not a true follower of MINE unless it happens to be an absolute invalid -- one who is absolutely physically unfit and unable to give practical service in some way; but as usual, those who are MY real followers will not even remain physically unfit, for if they live evangelically wholeheartedly, they will be lifted from those conditions and healed of their afflictions!
Not a one of My real Followers would smoke a cigarette and do any other little no- harm thing that the children of men ordinarily do! They would not do those things; for they consecrate their lives and their energy and their ambition and all of their tendencies in the direction -- the way they have directed it since they have been converted in the fulfillment of that of which has been said quite often repeated as it was composed:
'Minds and Attentions, Love and Devotion, Ideas and Opinions, All concentrated on the Fundamental!'
When you concentrate your minds, your ideas and your opinions, and your love
and devotion on the Positive instead of the Negative, you will produce the Positive
and the Desirable Results in your system, in your bodies and in your affairs.
As an abstract expression, as was declared in one of My Letters as read this
evening -- one of My Letters under "Righteousness -- Marches On!",
if men would release their money and put their money to an exchange according
to My method and refuse to hoard their money, I believe every citizen of this
Country would have a-full and a-plenty to eat, to drink and to wear, but because
of hoarding up the money that should be in circulation and because of Selfishness
otherwise, refusing to renovate, remodel and build up instead of tearing down;
because of this, men and children are in lacks, wants and limitations!
All of those things could be eliminated and eradicated, once and forever, if they would live according to My Righteous Government Platform! As a sample and an example, if the State would permit ME to teach My Followers according to My Desire, we would do away with all old dilapidated buildings and we would make the country throughout this Country a fit place in which to live! All over this wide extended plane we would have a country that would be a light to all nations of the world! We would lift up a Standard of Decency and of Cleanliness as an abstract expression of Godliness, with all success and all prosperity, and we would lift all this government and her subjects out of depression and off of the reliefs and all of them would be even as My Followers are!
Why live in lacks, wants and limitations when there is a-plenty for each and every citizen? Why live in such conditions? PUT YOUR MONEY INTO CIRCULATION! Each and every able-bodied citizen, endeavor to be Practical and Profitable in some way. Learn to be Constructive instead of being Destructive! Learn to Build Up instead of Tearing Down! If perchance you happen to tear down anything, let it be tearing down that particular object for the purpose of building up! Not only material buildings, but mentally and spiritually building up, and if you will copy after the fashion I AM showing you, and all humanity will accept of My Message, we will lift all humanity UNIVERSALLY -- all civilization above depressions, lacks, wants and limitations! But we cannot accomplish this by living in SELFISHNESS, by living in graft and living in greed! We cannot expect to accomplish these endeavors of MINE universally by you unless you let go of graft and greed and all other selfish tendencies and recognize GOD'S Actual Presence and refuse to carry the spirit and the nature of the beast within you!
So long as men are heaping up millions and billions of tons of destructive forces with the energy and the ambition of the intelligent for destruction, it is a matter of impossibility for this world of civilization to continue to advance scientifically and peacefully, for the expression of such that would be creators and multipliers of destructive forces will tend others to have a mind and cause others to tend to do the same as you are doing. Therefore they, as well as you, will do the same, thereby spending billions and billions, yea, I venture to say, almost quintillions and sextillions and septillions of dollars for destruction instead of building such for, or spending such for construction work.
Why should we be afraid of some nation coming in on us? For defense we use, we are piling up many things to prepare for war! We are already prepared for war; but why is it we have to do that? It is because civilization has not lifted mankind as nations, out of the brutality of the beast! Truly might have Solomon declared, "I saw in my heart," in other words, he saw that men, they themselves were beast.
If men were real expressers of the children of GOD -- of the Sons of GOD -- of the spirit of what civilization actually calls for, they would not be afraid of another invading the Country, for the other civilized person would not attempt to intrude nor invade on another's territory wilfully in the act of trying to destroy. But they are afraid of each other, they are a- scared! Why are they? It is because they have not yet been born into the civilization of which I AM representing -- a civilization of peace on earth, good will to all men! That is the civilization I AM representing! A civilization that will cause you to be civilized enough not to fight your brother for any cause. That is what I AM talking about! That is what I AM calling for! A civilization that will cause you to put away your equipment of war! When this is done the only weapon you will need is to fight animals -- the four-footed beast, and not against the children of men!
It is the lack of intelligence, according to My Version; for the beast would not do you as bad as some nation would do you! This Country or any other country is not piling up thousands and thousands of tons of warships to fight against the four-footed beast! Can you not see that man is worse than beast?
Let us arise, for the LIGHT has come! The Glow-rays of GOD have risen upon you! These rays that I AM extending from the Light of this Understanding will give you an understanding to see and know you would not have to create such an army and such a navy to fight against the wild animals in the forest; but they have to do all of those things to fight against men, because men are the worst beasts -- they are the worst animals! Now when they are born out of that Adamic state of consciousness they will no longer be in the Animalistic Kingdom, neither will they have the animalistic nature with the understanding of this advanced civilization, but they will have the understanding of this advanced civilization and will have the Divine Mind!
We are not criticizing advancing scientifically, intellectually and otherwise, the criticism is just on the other side. I AM criticizing our advanced civilization that will allow themselves to show up themselves to the world of heathenism, that they are worse than the animals in the animal kingdom!
You do not have to get so many soldiers and marines and torpedo boats to kill all of the animals that are coming here to destroy you! Well, the two-footed animals are the worst ones! When they allow this Light of Truth as transmitted through Christianity from Jesus to you, to be established by you as American citizens and as Christians, to live according to the Life and Teaching of Jesus, you will not have to have Armies and Navies increased and multiplied, but you will have more Constructive Forces of Organization for the upbuilding of humanity!
I AM making this Country and all other civilized countries better places in which to live! That is what I AM speaking of! This is just a slight sketch and a reflection of a percent of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of a percent of what I mean to do universally -- what we have done in Ulster County! This is Transmittable, it is Reincarnatable; it is just as expressive and just as operative for others as it is for ME as a Person! Therefore, when I say "I", I AM not speaking of Myself as a Person to accomplish all of these things, but the very spirit and the meaning of such an endeavor will accomplish that of which I have endeavored, for it has long since been declared and I re-declare the same:
'It is not by power nor by might, but by My SPIRIT declares the LORD.'
But if you put it on ME and say I AM doing it, well, it will look as if though
I AM doing it! I AM not doing anything; it is by My SPIRIT, declares the LORD!
As a Person I AM not doing anything but giving way and giving space for the Spirit
to work, and lifting up a standard, as it may be termed; but the Spirit is the
One who is actually doing, and My Followers have declared that Spirit is ME!
Now I did not arise to say so much, neither to stir up your pure minds as I have done. I merely arose in the beginning to ask our invited guests, as visiting friends, to have a word to say if they wish to. We are always glad to have you, and we are seeking any constructive unselfish criticism if there is any to be expressed. Any constructive and unselfish information, if you have any to give. We are always willing and ready to receive, for we are here to build up and we endeavor to build up with every constructive thought extracted or transmitted or even so much as interjected in your expressions or your assertions you may make. Every constructive one, we mean to use them for the advancement of Righteousness and Righteous Government in our daily activities; in all we do and say!
Now we would like to hear from our visiting friends, those who have been invited as guests and those who have not. If you feel like speaking or are led to do so by speaking volitionally as we do, you are welcome to. You are not obligated to speak on any special subject unless you care to. Speak even as we do if you desire to; if not, give us your name, address and profession and we will gladly introduce you according to custom. I thank you. In the meantime, before we conclude and before you speak, I would like to say, those who have been invited as our guests tonight and as speakers or as guests, we will be pleased to have you to "break bread" with us at the banquet table when the meeting is concluded here. I thank you.
(As there seemed to be hesitation on the part of the visitors to speak FATHER continued as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! We do not wish to bore you with My Talk, neither with My Presence. Of course, it is true, I know My Followers never get tired of hearing ME talk! But we wish to give others a chance to speak. We do not like to call on any individual if they do not move to do so openly, for we never like to intrude, although we wish to say again -- we will appreciate it if you feel like speaking, any of you; if not, as I afore said, you are not obligated to do so. You are welcome to attend any of our meetings and listen in on whatsoever we have to say -- read of us. Gather first-hand information by reading The New Day. You cannot so well gather first-hand information by reading newspapers, for they themselves as conveyers of the Message, do not know; but just what we have to say, as a rule, in a great measure you will find it under the pages of The New Day. There may be some typographical errors or printer's mistakes; nevertheless, The New Day carries a great part of My Messages weekly. It is a matter of impossibility for it to carry all of My Messages, but it carries enough for you to get a good bit of information as first-hand information through the pages of The New Day. I thank you.
As FATHER concluded, one of the visitors from England arose and said in part that when he returned to his country he hoped that FATHER would use him as an instrument to carry this wonderful Message given by FATHER this evening as, no doubt, he would find upon his return, his country mobilizing preparatory for war. He concluded by saying that he hoped the Message could be transmitted freely, so it would neutralize the evil forces in the world. Another visitor spoke, addressing FATHER as "Your Honor." He said that he really enjoyed FATHER'S lecture and he found, after reading the newspapers and then coming to see for himself, that FATHER was very different from what the newspapers related. Another visitor spoke in part as follows: "As a visitor, I enjoyed the lecture very much and would like to know more and more of Your splendid Work that You are doing. I think it is better to get things first-hand and then you can get things as they really are. It is very interesting to hear of the Work that You are doing." (Again FATHER arose and spoke as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Again I arise as a representative of that of which I AM stressing and as stressing that of which I AM representing! I was looking over this audience just then. Even though I stole away as it may apparently be, as if though I stole away, yet, as has been declared concerning ME:
'The Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good; no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof.'
Wheresoever I go, as a Sample and as an Example, I draw the masses to My especial
assembly, wheresoever we are assembled, to get you and all others visualize,
as a psychologist, the abundance of those things of which I AM stressing, that
you as individuals might be successful in your endeavors and attract the abundance
and draw such to you in business, profession, labor and trade or whatsoever you
do.
How glorious it is to even, say, take this thought: I will visualize abundance; observe abundance. The thing you vividly visualize, you tend to materialize! Permit ME to stress the GOOD so vividly that others might visualize it and materialize it and carry it forth into the other countries as well as in this one, and transmit it to others by Harmonization! Words of Kindness, of Truth and of Love -- these qualities are as contagious as the undesirable, profanity, and other undesirable tendencies are contagious!
Let us contagionize the atmosphere with the good and with the Abundance of the fullness of it! Therefore, I appreciate those who have spoken and I appreciate you all even if you have not spoken; but I appreciate the statements they made concerning what they can see of that which has been conveyed. I forbid Myself to do or say anything SELFISHLY, but permit ME to Speak and Act UNSELFISHLY, that others might get that of which I AM stressing and see the good of it and become to be partakers of the GOOD and DESIRABLE CONTAGION, that they might also CONTAGIONIZE others with it, for it is all IMPERSONAL!
Now, as you go down from this place, you can take these thoughts with you as you have heard and observed. Produce it if you wish to, in your business, in your activities, in your endeavors and you will bring to fruition these Desirable qualities in abundance and also bring about success and prosperity, for we believe in the spirit of it!
As I say, in all of the audiences in which I enter, even if I go in a place where there is not an audience, I will draw an audience, even if I AM in a place where I AM not known! I can stop in a gas station -- if I AM there very long, I will attract and draw them, for I carry in my consciousness the abundance of the fullness and I draw the abundance to ME wheresoever I AM and on whatsoever plane I AM Functioning!
Now the seed idea of what you are expressing, can be in your business, can be in your trade, can be in your activities -- whatsoever you are expressing by harmonization! You can be partakers of the same magnetism, for God is with you! As I say, the earth has a gravitation. The name of God and the recognition and the realization of God has a Magnetism! The name of God will attract and draw; Desirable things can be drawn to you by taking the Name of GOD with you! I thank you!
PEACE EVERYONE! If there is not anything else to be said, as the time seems to be quite well expired, we will consider ourselves dismissed, those of you who wish to go. Of course, My Work has not yet ended. I AM requested and required to serve the Banquet up there at the hotel and of course I AM going up there now. Those of our visiting friends and those who have been invited as speakers -- My Custom has been in all of our Righteous Government Meetings to especially invite them if they wish to, to partake with us of the Banquet on those evenings. All others are welcome to come up there if they care to go. There are a good many of them up there now. If you can get in the dining room, you can at least be there and partake together of the Spirit of unity. I thank you.
After FATHER finished speaking, some of the visitors came up on the rostrum to thank our LORD for the gracious way in which they had been received. One of the party told FATHER that she enjoyed herself more in this meeting than in any church she had attended in all her years. Thank You, FATHER! After this we made our way up to the beautiful hotel where we enjoyed a delicious Banquet served by our Precious LORD.
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