In the midst of the enthusiastic gathering of followers, visitors and friends, during the course of the daily noon banquet, our SAVIOR, FATHER DIVINE, delivered to His waiting hearers another masterful Message, a lesson in TRUTH, to which if all would automatically adapt their lives and affairs, everything that is needed would be supplied, and the love of GOD as it is manifested would enrich the lives of all, as it has extended from land to land and from shore to shore.
Following a testimony given by MOTHER DIVINE in which SHE thanked FATHER for the lovely little home HE had given Her, the following composition came forth inspirationally from one in the assembly, to which FATHER refers in this beautiful Message, also referring to the testimony given by MOTHER.
All sincerely joined in the singing of the song, made familiar by the angels of the Kingdom, worded as follows:
From the sky, From the sky
We thank YOU, FATHER, for taking our minds
and attention from the sky.
Lo! For many weary years
We toiled in sorrow and in tears,
Planning to die, to meet our SAVIOR in the sky.
(The foregoing statement is made by the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks
as follows:) >
PEACE EVERYONE:
Good Health, Good Will, a Good Appetite, with Life, Liberty and Joy and Happiness for each and everybody!
That little composition long since composed but transposed by the SPIRIT of My Presence by the conscious conviction and the realization of millions, that
'The sky is nowhere and is nothing, but everywhere there is nothing'
by this little course in scientific, practical psychology, My followers, hearers
and believers have learned that the mystery of the sky is an expression of an
appearance, but not a reality. For this cause and by this we mean to eradicate
and dispel once and forever the imaginary heaven above that sky of your imagination,
of which appears as though it is, and yet it is not. What a Privilege it is to
have your minds taken away from the sky, taken out of the imaginary expression
of your physical sense of sight. As the physical sense of sight appears, even
so appears the sky. The sky appears to the physical sense of sight as a visible
expression, as an appearance, but not a reality, for when you get there where
you see the sky to be, you would see when you get there the sky would not yet
be. The sky would be as far away as it is now.
Go to those places or that place where you see the sky to be with your physical sense of sight, as it appears to be. It is an appearance but not a reality, for it is not tangible, and it is not actually visible; but as distant space appears to be a consolidated mass-like expression commonly known as the sky, men observe those things and believe them by the sense of the sight of the physical eye, of which they are looking into open space as far as they can see. When there is nothing in the way, it looks as though it is the sky.
The sky is nowhere and is nothing, but everywhere where there is nothing. Then, to take your mind out of that nowhere and nothing, mythological appearance, it is a Privilege to be lifted from such a superstition and to live in the recognition of GOD'S Actual Presence, where GOD and Heaven are made real, tangible and practical for the benefit of all humanity.
So long as you could keep your mind and attention in the invisible sky and in that place of which you apparently see with your eye, since it is vacant space, why, your minds are going into the nothingness of nothing where you cannot find a Foundation where you can live, nor be established in reality. For this cause I CAME TO TAKE YOUR MINDS AND YOUR ATTENTIONS OUT OF THE SKY!
What said Jesus concerning the mystery?
'No man has ascended up into heaven but he who came down from Heaven, even the Son of man, which is in Heaven.'
This was an assertion made by the Great Master as an abstract expression to be
handed down to all humanity, especially those in and under Christianity. What
a Privilege it is to realize your superstitious ideas and opinions handed down
through your ancestors to you and to others, according to their mortal versions
as they saw things. To them they observe the Kingdom of Heaven above all of the
other planets in a place set apart for GOD'S Abode and His Holy ones alone.
This of course, was a glorious, superstitious, suppositional version. It was glorious to the conscious mentality in mortal consciousness to believe they would have a place of abode when done with the sinful trials of this world. But how glorious it is to really know those things were suppositions and the versions of men handed down through the superstitious individuals who were sincere. A good many of them are ignorant, as the light of this advanced spiritual civilization had not advanced to the pitch where it is today, where mankind can look far away, through the great telescopes and see planets so far distant it would take millions of years for light-rate speed to ascend to them or descend from them.
Oh! It is a Privilege to observe the mystery, as science and invention, even the mechanical inventions, are bringing to the conscious mentality of humanity, light of understanding to eradicate and dispel that imaginary heaven above all of the other planets. Aren't you glad! In the revelationic prediction of John, he declared it was a revelationic prediction as well as a revelation. He declared in this revelationic prediction:
'The first Heaven and the first earth are passed away.'
Can you not see the passing of that superstitional, imaginary heaven of the religious,
above all of the other planets, contrary to the teaching of Jesus the Great Love
Master? For what said HE concerning the Kingdom of Heaven?
'The Kingdom of GOD is within you and GOD HIMSELF dwelleth with you and shall be in you.'
Bring your imaginations, every one of you collectively, together from the imaginary
world of expression, far beyond all of the planets and the sky, as it may be
termed bring them down; for Jesus taught you to pray to ask GOD to let those
things come down:
'Let THY Kingdom come and THY WILL be done on earth as it is in Heaven.'
We are calling into Actuality and into the Reality of Spirit, of Mind, of Aim
and of Purpose, the fondest imagination of the religious heaven, that such a
heaven from their fondest imagination might be a living reality, made real, tangible
and practical among us. To purge humanity of such superstition is the Work of
CHRIST Only, and GOD Alone can accomplish such work by the actual Words of His
expression, by science and by invention and by scientific Truth as it has been
given and as it is being given giving Truth of scientificness, that men might
see and know definitely, there is a Reality in the Actual Presence of the Almighty.
One desired to know, when would the Kingdom be? Jesus made it quite plain.
'The Kingdom of GOD is within thee,'
and as John had preached in the wilderness, saying:
'Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.'
This was at that time to bring men into the recognition of GOD'S Presence and
into the realization of the Kingdom of Heaven, that they might no longer think
of the Kingdom of Heaven far away geographically, but that they might recognize
the Kingdom of Heaven, with all of GOD'S Love and Mercy as a living Reality,
here and now at hand with us!
It is such a privilege to observe such a mystery! For this cause I say men have been somewhat divided subconsciously. In your subconsciousness, even against your human training and your orthodoxy, you have been inclined as science and invention unfold mysteries, and as the light of civilization advances you have been inclined over and above your sense of your training by the spirit of orthodoxy, to believe there is a Reality in GOD'S Presence among you.
What a privilege, Beloved ones, to KNOW THE TRUTH, and to bring all of the powers that be from the imaginary heaven and from your imaginary GOD to the earth plane, and bringing these qualities and expressions into Actuality among the children of men.
By this we can see the earth being Renovated and the earth being Regenerated and the great Re-creation of the world taking place, for History is actually repeating itself. Aren't you glad! Can you not see the great changes taking place in History, in our daily activities and in our daily connections with things that pertain to the heavenly realm and to the earth plane? Changes are taking place by the recognition of GOD'S Actual Presence and by the Prayer you all have been praying:
'Let Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.'
This was to let you see and know, at that time it was not necessary to ask GOD
for some place to go, neither to expect to go to some place, for it was foreordained
that the Kingdom of GOD would be in the hearts and lives of the children of men
and in their business and in their affairs unless they sin!
When GOD formed Adam out of the dust of the ground and placed him in the Garden of Eden, the Kingdom of GOD was in evidence there and then until he sinned. When he sinned, he was driven automatically from the Presence of GOD; therefore, he apparently willingly and voluntarily went away and hid. GOD had driven him from His Presence automatically before he told him to go. That is why he hid! He went away from the PRESENCE of GOD. Automatically GOD had driven him from HIS Presence subconsciously and inspirationally; therefore he went volitionally from the Presence of GOD and hid. Can you not see the mystery? But GOD came in the cool of the evening, as said the Scripture, and called for Adam to come forth, back to His Presence, that he might get his commission.
When GOD called him back to HIM, HE gave him His commission to go out of the Garden of Eden, as the earth to him then would be woe, would be misery. He was commissioned to go in misery, away from the Tree of Life, and remain from the Presence of GOD until the time would come when he would be redeemed back to the Garden of Eden, from whence he was driven. But the time has truly come, humanity can and will be completely redeemed! They all are now Privileged to return to the Garden of Eden from whence they were driven and be able to partake of the Tree of Life and eat and live forever, as said GOD concerning the mystery of Adam being driven from HIS Presence.
For if Adam would have stayed in the Presence of GOD and could have had the chance to get a-full and a-plenty in the Presence of GOD and at the Tree of Life, he would have or could have put forth his hand and taken and eaten and lived forever. But GOD drove him from His Presence because of disobedience; hence, Adam was not privileged to partake of the Tree of Life until Adam came in this time, in the Name of JESUS THE CHRIST returning man back to the Garden of Eden from whence he was driven.
'For the first man Adam was of the earth, earthy, but the second Adam is the LORD from Heaven.'
I find Christianity saying on many occasions:
'I know that my REDEEMER liveth, for HE liveth in my soul.'
I hear them say:
'Jesus died that we might have the right to the Tree of Life.'
Hence, if CHRIST died as a Person apparently, that you might have a right to
the Tree of Life, you should return to the CHRIST, the Garden of Eden from whence
you were driven, and come into possession of your Rightful Inheritance, the Garden
of Eden, that was given firstly before Adam sinned and before you disinherited
your inheritance through the disobedience of Adam.
But now you are returning, and returning to the Garden of Eden. It is not going up in the sky some place, in the mythological realm; it is going to a place in consciousness where GOD Lives, Reigns, and where GOD'S Abode really is. Aren't you glad! By this you can see
'The Kingdom of GOD is at hand,'
as declared John in and around the Jordan. Aren't you glad! The Kingdom of GOD
put forth into expression no longer a supposition, no longer something to be
imagined, but something as a Living Reality brought out of your superstition
and out of your imagination into your Conscious Recognition and the Realization
of millions made Real, Tangible and Practical for the Comfort and Convenience
of all Humanity.
Now is not this comfortable here? Not only here but elsewhere, where GOD Alone Reigns, for, as I have often said, I redeclare the same: "Wheresoever a King reigns, there is where his Kingdom is." That is a simple thought; it is plain to see it. Then I say, if each and every one of the inhabitants of the earth could and would accept of the CHRIST and enthrone HIM on the throne of their minds, and allow CHRIST to rule therein and thereon over them, in them and over their affairs and over all things that concern them, THERE AND THEN GOD'S KINGDOM SHALL HAVE COME, for
'Wheresoever a King reigns there is where his Kingdom is." Aren't you glad!
Up on this foundation if you will stand, you will not have an occasion to fret nor worry, but each and every one of you can make CHRIST your selection and election sure, and when CHRIST is selected and elected by you and enthroned on the Throne of your mind to Rule and Super Rule all things in you, over you and all things that concern you, there and then you have the Kingdom wheresoever you are, as being termed under your jurisdiction, for CHRIST is Ruling on the Throne of the minds of the children of men and having all dominion. That is the mystery! Even a little child's playhouse can be the real Kingdom of GOD can be the real Kingdom of GOD where GOD Alone has dominion in the Name of CHRIST JESUS, His SON.
When the CHRIST from that angle of expression shall have been selected and elected and enthroned on the mind of the individual in charge, there and then that individual, even though it is an infant, has the Kingdom of GOD. As far as his Dominion is concerned and as far as it goes and stands, he has the Kingdom of GOD, for GOD has Dominion over him and over his Domain. There his Kingdom is! Aren't you glad!
Then I say, it is a privilege to take your minds out of the sky, where you have superstitiously lived in a mythological world of expression in your fondest imagination, yet in misery, lacks, wants and limitations, having not been emancipated; but I came to emancipate you from those conditions, and to bring into Actuality your fondest imagination, and cause both it and them to be a Living Reality here and now on the material plane where GOD alone shall reign. Aren't you glad!
That is what it is all about! Then I say fret not yourselves because of the workers of iniquity, for you can see, over them I have the Victory. You can see definitely, it is a matter of impossibility for them to affect ME, it is a matter of impossibility for them to hinder, for GOD in you and among you is Infinite, and GOD Alone in you and among you is Infinite and GOD Alone has all Dominion. Therefore I say, each and everything should praise HIM!
I would just like to say, in reference to what one of the speakers said a little while ago, it is a Privilege to know, over and above even the standardized expression apparently, as a direction of thoughts in a special direction, it is distinctly understood, I, as a Person, AM possessing nothing. Yet I have all things, for:
'The earth is the LORD'S and the Fullness thereof,'
and yet, at each and every extension there is a room and accommodation with all
of the comfort and convenience for MOTHER. Therefore, Her Home is not confined
to any special place. As with ME, so with Her, and so with many others. When
they live exactly according to My Teaching, they have the Abundance of the Fullness
from every angle expressible, because they are claiming nothing, yet possessing
all things. Aren't you glad! Hence they have a-full and a-plenty whithersoever
they go, and in all of the millions of extensions and connections and places
of My representatives, I have accommodation at all of them.
Just think of it! And wheresoever I have accommodation, at practically every one of them, MOTHER also has a room just for HERSELF and the secretaries, or HER and Her companion. This is a sample and example to let you see and know, if you live the life and consecrate yourself to the CHRIST, GOD will be with you whithersoever you go. You will have Success, Prosperity, Comfort and Convenience, for GOD will comfort you. Aren't you glad! That is the mystery!
Now the place where MOTHER stops at a good bit, because SHE is there, SHE is not confined nor bound to that place any more than any other place, but SHE selected it and SHE likes to be there at times; still SHE is here at times. SHE is at all of the other places at times and SHE has the full access and free access without criticism, without the least drawback by the representatives, coworkers and followers, at any and all of the extensions. Such a Glorious Privilege! The Privilege of having such an Emancipation, such a Freedom to go, such a Freedom to come, such a Freedom to live and to be even as I AM and be with ME at all times, with all Comfort and Convenience. What a Glorious Privilege it is!
Just think of it! But remember, Beloved ones, you cannot expect to come into possession of such an Inheritance that will cause you to really be Peaceful and Happy and Contented and Satisfied unless you LET GO and LET GOD. You must LET GO all human affection, all human mortal connections and connect yourself with the Lineage of the Infinite and recognize only your Lineage to be the Infinite's, and the Infinite's Lineage to be yours only; for GOD is your FATHER- GOD, your MOTHER and you never had another.
Do not tell me you love ME unless you are making an Affirmation, unless you mean to tell ME Something and BE IT, Unless you really are fully and Wholeheartedly Consecrated and Sacrificed to your GOD, Connected and Re-connected, detached from mortality and the mortals' versions; for every human, mortal concept will tend to separate and cause you to deviate, and cause you to cease to express My Spirit, if you will allow such to affect you. That is the mystery!
Jot these thoughts down in your vocabularies and remember, if you let ME, I, GOD, will be with you now, henceforth and forever, and I AM in expression for you and for others, the Desirableness of the Desirable manifest, and all can enjoy it if you will let ME. I thank you!
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