FATHER DIVINE
'All hail to the Power of FATHER'S Name, let angels prostrate fall,
Bring forth the Royal Diadem, and crown HIM LORD, GOD of all!'
Truly, in this day and time is GOD Almighty, FATHER DIVINE, proving His Omnipotent
Majesty, Dominion and Authority to the inhabitants of the universe at large!
Through Righteousness, Truth and Justice which HE alone is establishing on a
lasting foundation in all government, HE is doing away with corruption in politics
and making the world safe for Democracy.
FATHER'S Activities in the social, economic, political, legal, educational and every other field of endeavor are so profound and so superior to man's endeavors that when anyone attempts to criticize HIM, as one brother related hearing a preacher over the radio doing, why, it is just like a little dog barking at the moon!
However, although they do not wish to admit it, the world is beginning to see the handwriting on the wall, and willingly or unwillingly they must come before the KING of kings in all meekness and humility and confess their wrongdoings -- that is, if they wish Peace and Prosperity, Health and Happiness and Life more abundantly to be their portion!
Omnipotent King, we praise Your Holy Name!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER Speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Here we all are again! There I sit and stand in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose! Although I stress it continually in the hearts and lives of men, apparently I must stress it over and over again.
At this particular instance I was just looking over this vast audience of Peace and Unity, of Tranquility and of the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose, and the recognition of the FATHERHOOD of GOD and the Brotherhood of man among us, by which the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good is in evidence and no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof! This is our experience and all can experience it if they are worthy to, by bringing themselves into subjection by living Evangelically whole-heartedly.
How glorious it is to live in such a Light of Understanding where GOD Himself is a Living Reality and no longer something imaginary! Your fondest imagination is made a recognition and a realization -- made Tangible and Practical -- and GOD as supernatural and as invisible and yet Omnipotent, has become a Living Factor in your experience!
Oh, how glorious it is to live in such a recognition! Nevertheless, as I thought for consideration, when the question was in the minds of some, yea, in the minds of a few, I might say, concerning someone speaking against ME, naturally such things will be, because GOD Alone Reigneth!
Just as you see it here jurisdictionally and domestically and locally, so shall it be universally, and all of the nations of the earth eventually shall realize, it is better to be under the government of FATHER DIVINE or MR. DIVINE, if you please, than to be under the government of any dictator of civilization and any so-called leader of the diverse religions, for GOD in this Name is Omnipotent! Aren't you glad! GOD in this Name is Omniscient and GOD functions in the Name of FATHER DIVINE! Aren't you glad!
Hence the Scripture as given by inspiration as a prediction of Isaiah the prophet in the prophetic age:
'He shall go forth as a mighty Man, and shall stir up jealousy as a Man of War!'
I had in the prophecy long time holden My Peace, but I refused after a while
to hold My Peace and refrain from speaking. I revealed MYSELF in testimony and
I declared MYSELF more vividly! I made MYSELF known universally and was recognized
universally and infinitely just as I had been made known in the prediction domestically
and individually!
Oh, it is a privilege to live in such a recognition! Now who would not desire to have a government such as this one? -- such as this I AM exhibiting and demonstrating? A government controlled by Righteousness, Truth and Justice; a government controlled by the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good and no space being vacant of the Fullness thereof; a government where there is A-plenty for one and for all, where none lack in GOD'S Abundance! With such a recognition who would not delight in living under such a government as this one? Aren't you glad!
Therefore the nations of the earth are stirred; and especially because in and around wheresoever I AM Personally found, where they see and know, the masses clamor for ME! They want ME socially, economically. They want ME politically, mentally and spiritually. They want ME psychologically. They want ME metaphysically, because they know as a practitioner, the Master of Omnipotency, I AM HE! Aren't you glad! Therefore they know I AM Perfection from every angle expressible for the benefit of all humanity, and when they come to ME they do not find anything else other than such; therefore if they go away from ME, they leave it behind! Such information as they bring, it will not go back with them, for they lose what they seemingly had if they offend ME! Aren't you glad!
Then I say, it is a privilege to live in such a recognition as this one, realizing this is the Sample, this is the Example, how we shall have it economically, politically and nationally, yea, even internationally, just as I have it here jurisdictionally in and under this personal jurisdiction in this dining room as you see us standing and sitting! Aren't you glad!
Now it is something to consider, isn't it? Just as I have it here, that is the way I shall have it universally! Those who do not desire to be governed by it, they are just in that number who are not yet weary and heavy laden! Those who are weary of their mortal burdens and mortal systems and customs of men, those who are weary of superstition and their suppositions, as they have not come to an end and apparently have no end, yet their suppositions are still living in a suppositional, superstition-al state of consciousness, and being dissatisfied, finding themselves dissatisfied, though a good many say they are sanctified, they do not even know what sanctification means! Sanctification means satisfaction, and sanctified means satisfied!
A person cannot be sanctified unless he is satisfied! That is the mystery! For he has received his Satisfying Portion from the INFINITE that cannot be destroyed! Can you not see the mystery? Then he can be satisfied as was in the experience or predicted experience or prospective experience in the prediction of Philip when he said, "Show us the FATHER and it sufficeth us!"
You cannot be satisfied until you have seen the FATHER! This does not necessarily mean a physical body but a degree of unfoldment, if you please, a standard, as a FATHERSHIP Degree. Can you not see the mystery?
The FATHER is not materialism nor mortality but the FATHER is as the SON! Each of these degrees, but in the SONSHIP Degree JESUS CHRIST came, representing the children of men in that degree as was in Him -- the way they would be to go to the FATHER through that unfoldment of the mystery as He led them persistently! There was the way to the FATHER, through the SONSHIP Degree of expression!
In some fraternity lodges and societies there are Past Noble Fathers, Grand Worthy Fathers and other degrees of unfoldment in the movement and in those respective organizations, expressing the degrees that have been conferred upon them. Can you not see the mystery?
There are those in our civic and also in our civil service commission; some are called masters because they have a master degree. Can you not see the mystery? It is not because they are physical masters according to the mortal version by birth, but as they have developed that degree among us and have brought it to fruition as a sample and as an example for other people and they rule in that degree of unfoldment, hence they are called masters!
Some are called postmasters; some are called assistant postmasters, and assistant postmaster general. Some are called schoolmasters, some are called landlord, and other degrees of unfoldment as developed in that respective field of endeavor and unfoldment of that particular issue of which they are expressing -- (the master degree may be called father or master) -- so the master degree is revealing itself very distinctly. Can you not see the mystery?
GOD as a Living Reality as the FATHER of all His Creation, was to come. The Sonship Degree of expression of which you have been representing as the Children of the Kingdom, or Children of GOD, as you may be termed, you yourselves as representatives of the Christian religion, should be the fulfillers of the Sonship Degree of expression; hence you are called the Sons of GOD, as JESUS the CHRIST was the First- born among many brethren, representing a degree of unfoldment, until you develop that degree and bring it to fruition within; there and then you are representatives and witnesses of HIM! Why? Because,
'Ye shall be witnesses of ME in Jerusalem and in Judea and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth!'
This is an unfoldment that develops itself. To those who developed it and brought
it to fruition, they are representatives of it. To those who have not developed
it and brought it to fruition, they may not represent it so effectively.
There are those who have not developed and reached the degree of the master. There are those who have not developed any degree whatsoever as a master degree from an educational point of view. Can you not see the mystery? And even some who have passed it, they do not express the mastery of such a degree that they have been given, and the honor that has been conferred upon them; they cannot express it in actuated words of expression unless they have the bodies to enact their profession and demonstrate their qualification in the act of their duty! That is the mystery!
Hence, GOD through His Condescension, may be in evidence in places where HE is not represented, but HE is not understood and observed to be a Master or Father of perfection unless HE has a chance to express it. But oh, how glorious it is in this mystery of which I AM stressing! GOD, through His Condescension in this Tabernacle, has a chance to express His MASTER DEGREE of PERFECTION! Hence, in expressing His MASTER DEGREE of PERFECTION HE can exercise His Profession and fill His Profession according to His Own Vocation, and work scientifically with it and cause others to observe it as HE demonstrates it! Can you not see the mystery?
Hence, this degree of unfoldment of the FATHERSHIP DEGREE as observed by you and as demonstrated by ME, all humanity shall eventually see there is a reality in what we say and a reality in what we are doing, and none shall be able to hinder, neither slightly prevent ME in My Endeavors! But if there is a question, as I said concerning the analyzation of the twenty-one Republics' Constitution -- to be just and to give a just and a square deal, give each and everyone a chance to express if they please! Take My Unfoldment through the spirit of analyzation, and if perfection more expressively has not been manifested, then bring it to the surface and let ME observe it! Myself and Mine will accept of it! Can you not see the mystery?
As I said, carry the twenty-one Republics through the spirit of analyzation -- the Constitution of each and all of these Republics -- to see if one of the divers Republics has the most perfect Constitution. If they have the most perfect Constitution that is unbiased and absolutely honest and true and perfect for the benefit of humanity, accept of that Constitution than can land Perfection on the Western Hemisphere and bring it to fruition among the nations! Bring forth that Constitution that can do it and we will accept of it! But if they cannot prove to ME conclusively that either one of these Republics' Constitution can do it, then they must accept of My Proposal to UNITE under this democracy and recognize this Constitution!
Even though there are laws in violation to the Constitution under this democracy, they must recognize this Constitution and its Amendments and recognize the Declaration of Independence as two great documents, unless they can present some other document as a Constitution for the other Republics, that is the most perfect! Can you not see the mystery?
As with the nations politically, legally, nationally and internationally, even so with you and Myself and others religiously and organizationally. If they can produce any unfoldment of a mystery religiously that can compete with this One, even say measure in comparison with it, then I will be glad to accept of them and let them take this Unfoldment of the mystery of My Personal Activity and the Spirit of My Mission through the spirit of analyzation and equalization and see if they can equalize with it, if they can stand with it! Oh, it is Wonderful! If they cannot, then they had just as well to shut up shop, for I AM GOING ON! Aren't you glad!
Hence, all of the religions of the divers professions and creeds, they are jealous of the mystery because the nations are clamoring for ME and coming to ME, for they want FREEDOM! Aren't you glad!
Then I say, GIVE ME FREEDOM AND GIVE ME PEACE OR GIVE ME DEATH IF I CANNOT GET ANYTHING ELSE! Aren't you glad! I Must Have It! Aren't you glad!
We shall have a Righteous Government universally, and all of the nations shall come to it, for it has been predicted that they all shall flock into it and you can see the fulfilment of it, and we all are now enjoying it, because when you come in like this and know GOD is Absolutely Independent of each and every individual, every living creature -- GOD is absolutely independent of them -- therefore when you come you must come representing nothing, not anything, but, "Come, humble sinner, in whose breast a thousand thoughts revolve!" Can you not see the mystery?
They must come and they must see the Nothingness of themselves as persons and the Allness of GOD as a Living Reality, and the establishment of the Kingdom as I have it!
How glorious it is to observe it! By this they will eventually put down their swords and even do away with their shields and try not, or think no longer to study how to fight against ME, for they have put up their swords! As said JESUS to Peter, Simon whichever, in the Simon-ship degree: "Put up your sword even for fighting for ME!" Aren't you glad!
Simon cut off the high priest's servant's ear so he could not anymore hear about HIM! Aren't you glad! Simon did not want him to hear so much because he had been talking a whole lot! Aren't you glad! He heard so much he did not want him to hear any more! He cut off his ear, BUT I PUT IT BACK ON! Aren't you glad!
So it matters not with ME what they say. It is immaterial to ME what you hear; but of course I do not have any time to hear such foolishness! I AM about My Own Business, gathering My People together and bringing them into the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose from every phase of life and in every endeavor -- bringing forth Perfection and demonstrating the Master of Omnipotency and the Controller of humanity's destiny, and they are all coming to ME! They are coming to ME, recognizing ME, loving ME, obeying ME and following ME! That is what they are doing! Aren't you glad!
It is evidently known, if these so-called preachers who think they can criticize ME -- if they could have done anything, they would have done it long ago, but they could not do anything and never shall be able to do anything! They cannot do anything but low-rate and disgrace and disintegrate and disembody themselves from the bodies in which they live! Can you not see the mystery?
Thousands of them have lost their bodies! Of course they can come again in other bodies and rise against ME, but that doesn't amount to anything, for GOD Alone Shall Reign, and those who Live shall Love HIM! Those who Live shall Follow HIM! And as I have it here jurisdictionally, domestically and personally and locally, I shall have it Universally, and all through these streets and communities in the City of New York they all shall live in Peace and Harmony, according to My Plan and Purpose, by Loving and Obeying ME Personally, or else they shall live in misery, lacks and limitations! For I AM the One Who has all Success and all Prosperity and all Health and all Happiness, all Wisdom and all Knowledge and all Understanding and all Power in ME -- I have THAT! I thank you!
(As FATHER finished speaking the vibrations were exceedingly high, and someone started singing a little inspirational song, saying:
'Just like a little dog, barking all the way,
Just like a little dog, barking all the way,
Just like a little dog, barking all the way --
FATHER is showing you something every day!'
Then FATHER joined in, transposing the composition to,
'Just like a little dog, barking at the moon!'
It was shortly thereafter that HE again rose to His Feet, speaking volitionally,
as follows:
PEACE EVERYONE! That little thought as I had thought to say -- the thought was revealed just in a little different way, but it is well worth considering. You all might consider it. They are just like little dogs, barking at the moon! And they can get as close to ME as a little poodle dog can get to the moon -- just like that! They can stop ME from shining and carrying out My Plan and Purpose just as much as a little dog can stop the moon from shining!
And aside from that, I thought to say a little while ago, if you stop and consider, there is a Positive and there is a Negative. From the beginning of the creation it has always been one to the Positive and one to the Negative or to the reverse. Such an expression is to let you see and know, as was in the beginning of the creation there was light and darkness after light appeared; hence, the darkness could not prevent the light but the light could prevent the darkness!
Wheresoever the light is, there is no darkness at all. Hence, the thought came as I brought it forth, those who are weary and are heavy laden and tired of the burdens of sin, of misery, disappointment and failure, and tired of living in lacks, wants and limitations; tired of living in sickness and disease, disappointment and failure, they will come unto ME, all of them who labor and are heavy laden! They are the ones to whom I will give rest! I will let them take My Yoke upon them! I will let them learn of ME as you have been! By so doing they will find rest for their souls!
I thought to say, those who harmonize with the critics, I will let them see and know, as the wind blows it comes forth into expression; when you have an outdoor demonstration the weather works harmonious to us and with us. The weather conditions respond! They respond according to the Plan and the Purpose of GOD!
Now I will let those who think they have the Holy Ghost see -- I mean, such as those who claim they have the Holy Ghost to work and move in them and criticize the Work of My Mission -- I will cut the Holy Ghost off from them, for this is the great Service Station of Salvation!
When you do not pay your light bill the company comes and cuts your current off! Now I will let them see and know -- they think they have the Holy Ghost -- I shall let them see and know they shall not have a Whiff of the Holy Ghost! And those who co-league and endorse such, I will let them see and know that I HAVE THE CONTROL OF THE SPIRIT! NOW LET THEM SEE IF THEY CAN HAVE IT WITHOUT ME! I thank you!
(As FATHER resumed His seat HE said:)
Aren't you glad! GOD CONTROLS THE AFFAIRS OF THE NATION!
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