MOTHER DIVINE in the lower dinning room, Divine Tracy Hotel
The second Message delivered by FATHER at the afternoon Banquet, Saturday, July 15, was proofread before FATHER rose to speak on this occasion, and HE began speaking along the same lines and from there launching out into other points, covering the importance of an inner conversion, the real emancipation which gives the underprivileged and downtrodden the same privileges as the so-called upper classes, the parable of Moses and the Red Sea, the result of being branded with a lowrating name, the folly of preparing for a journey to heaven after death and other subjects.
The(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER'S Message follows.)
PEACE EVERYONE! We still have Good Health and we have a Good Appetite and we have Good Manners and Good Behavior -- we have All Success and All Prosperity and we have Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding and the Fountain of Youth is abounding!
To make this Message a little more explicit, I desire to stress it vividly for your consideration. The proofreading of that Message was very distinct and plain, but I pointed out the mystery of the unclean spirit going out of a man when he finds no rest as he seeks it, out of that man -- he desires to be reincarnated in someone; but when he cannot find rest in any other, he returns by identification to the old house he once lived in because it has been identified to him.
If you are old John Jones, that old drunkard, that old drunken spirit will have a chance to return to you; but if you are born out of that Adamic state of consciousness and become to be a new creature characteristically and dispositionally, you will not be identifiable and your old characteristics cannot identify you to your old iniquities, neither to your old infirmities. But if you are identifiable by having the same old characteristics, the same old disposition of your old cursed lineage, your old infirmities, your old afflictions and diseases and your old iniquities and transgressions can identify you and they can find you by such identification, and they will come back and enter into their own house because that is their old house. Can you not see the mystery?
But if you are born again, as said the Gospel of the Epistle, you are a new creature; and if you are a new creature, they cannot identify you, for you do not belong to that old lineage from when you came! As soon as you make your rightful disconnection with such a cursed family, you are connected effectively with the Royal Family not only by adoption into the Royal Family, but by birth into it. Then you are a New creature! Your old infirmities cannot find you! Your old iniquities and transgressions and the wickedness of your ancestors cannot find you. If they find you, they cannot identify you. They identify you by characteristics. They identify you by something like unto themselves. That is the mystery.
Mentally they will identify you. Characteristically they will identify you. They may not identify you by physical sight, but by nature they identify you, for they are there and those characteristics are the nature and the characteristics of that family with which you have been connected. Can you not see the mystery? For this cause Jesus said:
'If you hear any man inquiring after Me, tell him I said first deny himself.'
Now some person or persons may say, "Jesus said that but Jesus was a teacher
of Christendom." This may be true, but what about Judea? What about those
commonly known as Jews?
If you retrace your thoughts back, GOD said in that Message as described there:
'I AM, the LORD thy GOD, am a jealous GOD; visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children from the third to the fourth generation of them that hate Me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me and keep My Commandments.'
iniquities of your ancestors are imposed upon you! That is, if you remain in
consciousness and in consideration under that old lineage with which you have
been connected, for you are identified as an heir to that lineage and the founder
and all of the ancestors with whom you are connected or have been. You have a
right to your own inheritance. You have a right to your cursed lineage's infirmities,
sickness and diseases. If you have a right to one part of them, you have a right
to the other part of them, so long as you are connected with them mentally and
spiritually and recognize such a mortal connection.
But what said the Psalmic prediction of David concerning the mystery? You will find it in the Forty-fifth Psalm:
'Forget also thine own people and thy father's house,'
in speaking concerning the majesty of CHRIST'S Kingdom. Read it for yourself.
This is not in the Gospel of which I AM now quoting, but in the Psalmic prediction
of David, of CHRIST'S Kingdom -- even in the healing of it you will find it says
the Majesty of CHRIST'S Kingdom. Read it for yourself.
Hence, do not get offended with ME because I want you to keep your minds stayed on the Fundamental --
'Minds and Attention, Love and Devotion, Ideas and Opinions, all concentrated on the Fundamental.'
This is because --
'In perfect Peace I will keep thee whose mind is stayed on ME.'
Can you not see the mystery?
Then I say, I desire to see you Peaceful! I desire to see you Healthy! I desire to see you Happy, for I desire the Kingdom of GOD established effectively and it cannot be unless you are Happy! It cannot be unless you are Healthy! It cannot be unless GOD is present in evidence in outward expression as well as in the inner.
Oh, glorious it is to know the Truth! The Truth will set you Free! It will give you Victory! I cannot stress this thought too vividly, for it is essential for you all to get it.
To be adopted into the Royal Family, it is a wonderful psychological mental and spiritual concept, but to be born into it, it is a transformation! It is a transformation, for you are transformed by the renewing of your mind -- born a New Creature -- no longer merely be reformed, but you are Transformed! You are transformed from the Inner by taking on new characteristics and a new disposition completely; but by being adopted into the Royal Family, you can be reformed, but you are not actually transformed by adoption; but you are actually transformed by a New Birth!
You find many beautiful reform schools and reform homes and such like, reforming men and women theoretically, reforming them by training them mentally and outwardly in the way of living modestly. That is a good thing, but reformation is not the true expression of GOD'S Work from His angle of expression, for Transformation is the great thing of which I AM stressing!
'Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.'
Be ye inwardly changed -- no longer merely theoretically changed, but changed
from the within! Let your Nature be changed.
That is an Inner Conversion. The very Spirit will respond within you when you are born in reality, but when you are reformed by adoption into the Royal Family, you are merely a child adopted into the Royal Family as one as a foster child to a foster parent and as one having a foster home. It is not a true one -- a false home in short. That is what it means. A foster home is a false home -- it is not a true one. A foster parent is not a true parent. But I have striven to get you to know GOD is your FATHER and you never had another! You are not merely adopted into the Royal Family, but you are Born into it and you are GOD'S real Child when you are. Therefore you have GOD'S Nature and GOD'S Characteristics! You have GOD'S Spirit, you have GOD'S Mind. You have GOD'S Ideas and Opinions concerning things that concern you. That is wonderful, is it not?
You feel NEW! You feel good, do you not? You are taking on more of GOD by reincarnation and by harmonization. You are taking on more of your FATHER'S Nature! That is what it is all about! And after a while GOD'S Nature, GOD'S Mind, GOD'S Spirit, GOD'S Life, GOD'S Love, with all of GOD'S Characteristics, and all of the mental and spiritual of GOD, will be your portion and you will be the personification of that which was mental and spiritual. Can you not see the mystery?
For you are the Personification of the spiritual, and GOD is the Spiritualizer of the material. It is vice-versalated. It is reciprocatable. Hence, as you materialize GOD and His Spirit and His Mind, GOD spiritualizes your body and your physical structure and all of your conscious mentality.
How glorious it is to be spiritualized! According to our modern homes of today, practically all of them are electrified. You are in the background if you do not have modern improvements consisting of electricity in your homes and having them electrified from top to bottom. Now, GOD spiritualizes you and you should materialize GOD -- in other words, you should be the materialization of GOD, the reincarnation of GOD and the personification of GOD, whilst GOD is spiritualizing you as a person and you are materializing and reincarnating and personifying and re-personifying your GOD!
You cannot do this with your own mortal characteristics -- you will be mortal and will not put off mortality unless you do it psychologically, but you do do it psychologically if you put off the mortal versions, the mortal ideas and the mortal opinions, and if you put off all mortal characteristics and the mortal disposition. Then you are putting off mortal and putting on immortality.
You have heard the religious teachers speak of men putting off mortal and putting on immortality. You do not do it physically directly, but you do it indirectly by taking on the CHRIST'S characteristics. You do it psychologically firstly and then it is accomplished physically, for that which is within you causes you to be mortal or immortal. Can you not see the mystery?
If you have the mortal mind with all of the mortal ideas and the opinions of mortal men, you are a mortal man. Now, if you have the Divine Mind and the Immortal ideas and opinions, with all of the Immortal Nature and Characteristics, you are Immortal! You are one or the other. Aren't you glad?
Jesus proved this plainly when He said the sheep and goats, when John said:
'O, ye generation of vipers, who hath warned thee to flee the wrath to come?'
Can you not see the mystery? Jesus said:
'It is not meet" (or suitable) "to give the children's bread to dogs, neither to cast your pearls before the swine.'
nature and the characteristics of dogs in bodies, imputes them in the sight of
the Almighty to be dogs! Can you not see the mystery? The spirit and the nature
and the ideas and opinions, with the mind of goats or swine, in the sight of
GOD, the Almighty One, such persons are imputed or reputed to be just whatsoever
those characteristics and nature they are producing. If it happens to be the
swine nature, they are swine in the sight of GOD!
Now if this is true, as the Bible makes it plain, then what about the Immortal Life among the children of men? Oh, how glorious it is! You are being electrified with the magnetic and electric current of My Presence! You are being spiritualized, even as our homes are electrified. A LIFE rail is not a dead rail, but if the current is turned off of it, it will not be a LIFE rail any longer. So it is concerning the mystery of putting off mortal and putting on Immortality! We shall have a Righteous Government! We shall stress Righteousness, advocate Righteousness, emphasize Righteousness and demonstrate Righteousness so vividly until all of the nations of the earth universally will get it, conceive it and inculcate it and reincarnate it and personify it and re-personify it! Then and only then will Righteousness have its rightful place among us.
How glorious it is to be in the Actual Presence of GOD! From whence cometh this wisdom for you all? Your conscious religious conviction is the mystery through which this wisdom is drawn to the surface and put forth into expression for the sustenance of your soul and your body. That is the mystery . . . because I do not have a hymn book nor a Bible open to tell you. The Fount of GOD'S Omniscience is flowing freely for you. Aren't you glad! This Infinite Love beyond degrees is flowing so free for you and for ME!
Then I say, build upon this foundation, knowing once and forever, you are heirs and joint heirs with CHRIST. You are not merely heirs to the Kingdom by adoption, but by birth, by nature and by characteristics and by the Mind of the Almighty and by His own Spirit! Aren't you glad!
Live in this recognition. Build upon this foundation! I will give you Victory over every trial and over every tribulation -- I will establish your going in the land of the living just as I AM doing, where naught can hinder you. You would not be Emancipated if you could not go unto any part of the country anybody else could go. If you could not live in New Rochelle the same as other folks, the Constitution and its Amendments would not be your protection, and you could not live under the protection of this Democracy. You would not have the privilege to Life and Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness! You have a right to pursue Happiness! Constitutionally you have! Can you not see the mystery? And not only to pursue happiness but you have a right to Have it! I have given you Happiness! I have given you Liberty and I have given you Peace! But you could not have Peace if you were bound or limited and could not have a free access, so long as you live Evangelically and legitimately, the same as everybody else.
It looks to ME as if all creation should, or would know there would be an uprising among the nations if it would continue and I did not or would not prevent it. So-called Society trying to put barriers and bans on the people! You can only live here or there or some other place, regardless to your morals and your character! Do you think the Spirit would tolerate it? I say NO! The Titanic was an expression of it many years ago, before a few of you were born. But I know definitely what happened! Many other places of restriction where it was altogether segregated and restricted to the fullest measure, why, there is where destruction comes!
'The wrath of man shall praise Thee," but the wrath of GOD shall KILL them!
Now, do not think I AM mean because I call judgment on such things. What did Moses do about it when he came to free the people? According to history, Biblically speaking, Moses caused lice and fleas and all sorts of plagues to come! It could have been said that Moses was cursing the people. When Moses caused the cosmic forces of nature to cause the Red Sea to open up and dry land appear, according to the Scripture -- some may say it was a parable, but it was a beautiful parable -- the cosmic forces of nature also closed in on Pharaoh. Therefore in that parable, even if it was merely a parable, it was an illustration of the mystery of how I have the Victory! My Spirit supernaturally will fight against My enemies and My opponents! Aren't you glad!
'It is not by power nor by might, but by My Spirit,'
and I have long since declared in the which I re-declare again:
"It is not by the bullet but by Righteousness," for,
'Righteousness exalts the nations, but sin is a reproach to any people.'
Aren't you glad! Now I AM going to have My Way and I AM going to free all of
the under-privileged, the non-privileged and the downtrodden who will let ME!
But as in the experience of Moses among the children of Israel, those who were
bitten by the fiery serpents, who would not look upon the serpent that had been
lifted by Moses, they died of the bites. Moses did not help them. He got them
a certain distance and they died in the wilderness because they would not follow
him. They would not do what he said do!
Now I say, let your human version concerning things that are negative and that are false and erroneous, go! You have been taught erroneously and it is in a good many of you and you really think it is right. Some old cursed vulgar name by which you are called! Millions and millions of dollars yearly are robbed out of those who are called by those vulgar names -- millions and millions of dollars, just because of vulgarity, and you think that is something. "I am a 'so-and-so'." CURSED be the name of the "so-and-so," and those who you use it! The name has been a curse to the nations of the earth, even as the earth was cursed for Adam's sake. You think you are intelligent! That is what your intelligence will teach you! I know the heathens are raging! I know they are imagining a vain thing.
They have said many years ago they would break our bars asunder, ac cording to the Second Psalm, but they have not done it yet. You are robbed and your are spoiled -- everyone who is ignorant enough to think he is going to heaven some place above the sky! This is not one race, creed nor color alone, as it may be termed, but it is to everyone who does not know the Truth concerning heaven. Heaven is not a place geographically, therefore you need not try to go up there. For this cause, you have been robbed and spoiled, misled and you think you are intelligent. You do not know you are robbing yourself of the Understanding that CHRIST has for you. You are going to heaven some place! Heaven is just as the sky is! . . . that heaven you are talking about. Heaven is as the sky is, I say! You can see it at a distance with an eye of an imagination, your imaginary eye, but you will never see it even after you die, with your physical eye, saving as it is brought into recognition and into your conscious realization of that which you are stressing. For your fondest imagination is made a living reality; it is made real, tangible and practical when you bring it into actuality and make it a reality by living it and expressing it together wheresoever you assemble, in your deeds and in your actions
You need not bother about going to heaven -- do the right thing here! That is why so many people do not have anything to eat, drink and to wear. It is because they are always preparing to go to heaven! Some of them buy clothes to wear to heaven, and they do not have enough to eat here! That is why they are always on the Welfare! That is why they are always going around, begging, soliciting and taking up collections for GOD in heaven. It is a hard saying, but yet it is true. They say, "Give the tenth part of your earnings to GOD," and, "He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the LORD," and they think they are giving it to GOD somewhere in heaven, in a way of speaking. Lots of them think they are giving it to GOD in heaven by so doing, going up in the sky, and I have declared the sky is nowhere and is nothing, but everywhere where there is nothing. You can ask your astronomists to tell you about it. Science will tell you as far as they can see, there is nothing, except wheresoever they see a planet or some other visible body. They see vacant space up there. Hence, the sky is nowhere and is nothing but just vacant space. Wheresoever there is nothing in the way, if you look in that direction you will see the sky. I AM just giving you a little simple talk and I AM working cancellation on your imaginary heaven. When I shall have cancellated completely and dispelled your imaginary heaven from your consciousness, then I can establish the reality of heaven among you. Whatsoever you imagined would be in the imaginary heaven as you saw it in your fondest imagination, we shall have it right here on earth tangibilated, materialized and personified. Then and only then can we realize that which you have surmised and have sought so long for -- I mean, to live just as you should live. Do better than the folks that are going to heaven, because we want to do all of our Righteousness here! We want to make it a living reality right here in all of our business, profession, labor and trade, and in all of our activities -- in all we do and all we say, let GOD be in you and let GOD have His Way!
There and then you shall have enthroned the CHRIST on the throne of your mind and GOD is selected and elected as LORD of lords and as KING of kings over you and over all things. Then you can see in reality,
'Wheresoever a king reigns, there is where his kingdom is,'
for GOD'S KINGDOM will be within! I need not say more. When this is established
in you -- I must say this -- and GOD is ruling on the throne of your mind, in
you and over you and over all things that concern you -- when this is done in
reality, there are not enough powers politically, socially, intellectually or
in any other way of expression, by customs, systems, rules or regulations, to
hinder you or prevent you from doing exactly what I AM telling you. That is what
I want you to know, because in you individually will be it of which was spoken
of by the writers saying:
'If GOD is for you, who can be against you?'
GOD in one man is the majority, therefore GOD in one of you, when GOD has full
access over you, is GOD Almighty! And there are not enough navies and armies
in the universe to hinder one person -- not one! For if GOD has full access in
you as an individual, GOD in you is the majority, GOD in you is Almighty! ALMIGHTY
means ALMIGHTY! It means OMNIPOTENT -- but anything else but the Almighty is
limited, but GOD is OMNIPOTENT! Can you not see the mystery?
Then I say, let GOD be in you, in all you say and in all you do, and you will have the Omnipotent One and in evidence in expression you will manifest the Omnipotence of the Omnipotent One, and naught will be able to hurt you, harm you nor retard your advances; for it is GOD Himself unadulterated, expressing, as GOD in one man is the majority and wins every battle for you.
I need not say more, as I afore said, I AM just giving you a tip of the mystery and why and how I have the Victory, because GOD is Omnipotent, GOD is Omniscient, GOD is Omnipresent and the Light that transcends your fondest imaginations, the Omnilucence of GOD'S Presence! I thank you. I thank you. I thank you!
PEACE EVERYONE! I want to point out to you again, I did not come to do you any harm. I did not come to do any man any harm. I came to give you Peace! I came to give you Liberty! I came to give you Righteousness! But in one sense of the word, from one angle of expression, I did say you think I came to bring Peace on earth. I say NAY -- but a sword! In doing any great constructive work on any constructive job, they have to tear down first to build up. It is first to bring a division between you and your mortal version, your ideas and your opinions, before you can get MINE!
If you are traveling through the country, when the government is doing a whole lot of constructive work on the highways, the roads are torn up worse than ever, are they not? They have to do that to lay the foundation and pave out the way. Can you not see the mystery? So, in that particular manner of expression, it is confusion. But if you accept of the message and allow the constructive work to go on until the constructors are finished building, you will have a comfortable riding road to ride over. That is the mystery, and that is what I mean by it.
Now I would like to say, a question was asked today, or yesterday now, whichever, "What are all of these doing and who are they?" or words to that effect, speaking of My stenographers. "How do you all do -- get together and tell each other what each one says?" Each one of My stenographers takes My Words verbatim. My occupation daily, as well as other work in connection with the same and along My line, is proofread, every transcription, before I release it to the press, to see if they received and caught My words accurately and transcribed them accordingly, why, naturally they are proofread and proofread quickly, and when they are proofread, they are sent out as accurate. But even aside from that, My followers, especially My stenographers and secretaries and other professionals, I have caused them to be experts in their professions. The majority of them, like court stenographers, they must have every word accurate before it passes the Law of the Spirit of Life which I AM representing.
Then I say, I AM perfecting those as stenographers and other representatives, that they might present Perfection in all their respective activities, and cause others to visualize it by they demonstrating it to others; and by expressing perfectly, others will get it by visualization, and they too will be partakers of the same characteristics and the same nature.
I have long since declared by composition:
'I will preach CHRIST in words, but more so in deeds and in actions, and I will put My Spirit in them and cause them to walk in My statutes.'
I do not force them or coerce them to walk in My statutes, but I put My Spirit
in them and they walk in My statutes automatically by taking on My Spirit, My
Nature and MY Characteristics, by harmonizing with ME. I thank you.
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