FATHER and MOTHER (Peninnah) DIVINE
This wonderful Lesson of Life given by the Master Teacher, yea, the Dean of the Universe, is one never to be forgotten; for the thoughts conveyed herein are of vast importance to the life and well-being of each and every living creature!
Further comment is not necessary, for the Words of our LORD, FATHER DIVINE, explain in detail and so concisely the points to be taken cognizance of, that a further interpretation of them would tend to dull their glistening radiance of Truth and Beauty!
Read, therefore, this all-important Message and apply every Word of it to your daily living. By so doing you will become heirs and joint heirs with CHRIST and enter into GOD'S Glorious Kingdom here on earth!
Blessed Redeemer, we truly thank Thee!
(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 among you I remain, unifying the children of men in that of which I mentioned in that Message as just given!
Honesty, Competence and Truth, you cannot stress these points, or this point, whichever, too vividly, for as I said in the Message in part, your physical body is built up of what you think and do. If you are incompetent, unfaithful and untrue, your physical body, your health and your happiness shall be the same to you!
This is just another phase of the mystery of what I AM telling you of Honesty, of Competence and Truth. You can build yourself up of a wholesome, healthy, vigorous and lively body or you can build your body up of the corruptibleness of the corrupt and the falsity of the false, of the untruth of which you represent! Aren't you glad!
These thoughts are well worth considering, to realize your bodies are the embodiment of ideas and opinions and your bodies will express the wholesomeness of your thoughts, of your words, of your deeds and of your actions or will express the falsity and the corruption of them!
Oh, how glorious it is to build upon a Foundation that cannot be shaken, realizing your word truly is your bond and your bond truly is your security and you shall have no other! But if you build upon it as an expression of Truth, of Honesty and of Competence you will have a Foundation upon which to found, upon which to build your Shield and Hiding Place as a Rock in the weary land and as a Shelter in the time of a storm; something that cannot be shaken when you build up yourself out of Truth and nothing else but the Truth, so help you GOD!
By this we shall have a nation in the coming generations, of Perfection Physically, expressing Health, Vigor, Life, Liberty and the Truth that I have so freely given you! But, on the other hand, those who do not live according to the version I have given, will produce the extreme reverse, and your physical body, your system, will be the outward expression of your mental and spiritual conception!
When you conceive corruptible ideas and opinions and especially when you convey them, sow them, why, you are sowing a crop of which you must surely reap! "If you sow to the flesh, you shall of the flesh reap corruption, but if you sow to the Spirit, ye shall of the Spirit reap Life Everlasting!"
Therefore, it is a privilege beyond a reasonable doubt, to live in the Actual Presence of GOD, to build yourself upon Truthful and positive and Firm Thoughts that cannot be shaken and that cannot be destroyed! Aren't you glad!
When I said through the mouth of the Apostle,
'If ye live after the flesh ye shall die, but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live,'
I said those words not in vain, but I AM speaking as I was speaking to the children
of men just what they had been, as some had been. Can you not see the mystery?
To mortify the deeds of the body, mortify the mortal, corruptible ideas and opinions of men and be transformed by the Renewing of your mind and put on a new set of characteristics and a new set of ideas and opinions different from the first ones!
Truly might I have said through the mouth of John,
'I saw a New Heaven and a New earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.'
You can see the passing of the preconceived ideas and opinions and every mortal
version and all of your human tendencies, all of your mortal fancies and pleasures;
for that is mortality of which and of what the Apostle was speaking when he said,
'Put off the old man with all of his deeds and put on the New man, CHRIST JESUS . . .'
He said this,
'Put off mortal and put on immortality!'
Your physical body is an abstract expression of your mental and spiritual conception.
Therefore, if your mind is mortal -- in other words, if you are mortal-minded,
your body is a mortal body. If your mind is spiritual-minded your body is a spiritual
body. And as you put off the mortal concept of things and put on the immortal
concept of things you are putting off mortal and putting on immortality in which
CHRIST shall Reign.
CHRIST to Reign is to Reign on the Throne of the minds of the children of men -- those who have actually been born again; those who have put off the old and put on the new and have become to be New Creatures Characteristically and Dispositionally. Therefore, they have put off mortality and have put on Immortality when they have put on the Resurrected Savior and the Redeemer of all humanity!
But the mortal version of men will cause you to think at times in your mortal concept of things, that that which is visible is mortality. But as true as that which is visible was Spirit and was Mind and has been made Flesh as mortality, even so that which is Visible that was Spirit, invisible, has been made Flesh, which is the CHRIST, the Truth and dwelleth among us!
It is a privilege to realize, the Truth you give birth to through your thoughts, through your words you have spoken. The very words you speak, if you realize the Truth concerning the mystery, they are corruptible or incorruptible; they are constructive or destructive; and if they sow the seeds of constructible-ness and the seeds of practicalness, of profitable-ness -- in short, the seeds of Righteousness, Truth and Justice, you will eventually reap the fruit of the same!
Your very thoughts and actions and your daily emotions and expressions will sow the seed idea of something that is good or evil. If you make a facial expression in your facial emotion and cause that facial expression to cause someone to conceive an idea that is good, your actuated words of expression has sown the seed idea that you must reap the fruit thereof. Aren't you glad!
Insignificant as it may apparently be to make a facial expression, to make a gesture or an emotion that will convey a thought to someone through your emotion and cause that person to think good or evil, you are sowing the seeds of the fruit you must reap some day! Aren't you glad! "Actions speak louder than words," whilst yet words are in evidence in your experience at times; but the actuated words of expression will sow seeds of poverty, limitation, adverse and undesirable conditions, for your emotion and expressions in visibility will cause the eyes of those who see and observe your expression, your emotion, to perceive an idea, whether it is good or evil; and that idea or opinion that it has perceived, it will conceive and cause you to form -- or cause them to form an opinion. If that opinion is good or if it is evil, you have sown the seeds for the fruit for the harvest, and you must eventually reap the fruit of the harvest of the seeds you have sown in emotion and expression and even in a gesture! Aren't you glad!
Then I say, it is a privilege to live in the Actual Presence of GOD where there is something coming forth into expression at all times. When you think vividly in a direction according to an emotion or an expression, according to a move of a person in an expression and according to the thoughts of your mind you are thinking in that direction, the idea you have conceived concerning that emotion and expression you will produce in your experience in some way or the other, for your bodies are the conceivers of thoughts on which you have concentrated -- the thoughts of the thing on which you have concentrated. Therefore, "The thing you have vividly visualized you tend to materialize!"
Then I say, "sow good seed, everybody, for you shall reap just what you sow!" You are building for yourself a body of vigor, of Health, of Youth and of Strength and Courage or you will build for yourself a body of corruption by conceiving corruptible ideas and opinions and corruptible thoughts as others convey them. Aren't you glad!
A person conveyed a thought in the action of his expression by his emotion, and that thought he conveyed, it caused ME to think and say, "If it was good, it is a blessing; if it is evil or detrimental, you are detrimental!" Can you not see the mystery?
Then,
'How careful ought we to live with such religious fears, for such a strict account we must give for our behavior here!'
For every emotion, every word, every deed and every action, you are sowing the
seeds by the actions through your outer expression to cause someone to conceive
them and reproduce them and manifest them! Aren't you glad!
Therefore,
'As a man thinketh in his heart so is he!'
And if you can get a person to think something Positive, if he thinks it vividly
enough, he will become to be the Personification of it! But if you can get a
person to think the negative, the undesirable, the untrue, unreal and falsity
of mortality, they produce the fruit of the same and will cause you to be the
reaper of that fruit or seed you have sown! So it is a wonderful thought.
Then I say, "Sow good seed, for you shall reap just what you sow"; and whatsoever you would do unto others, or would desire to come to others, will come to you firstly! That is why I said through the Mouth of Jesus:
'Whatsoever ye would that men do unto you, do ye unto them. Whatsoever you measure unto others, the same shall be measured unto you'
heaped up, pressed down -- in other words, shaken down and running over, shall
men measure unto your bosom!
So it is a wonderful thought to realize Honesty is the Keynote to Salvation! You can be dishonest in emotions, in expressions and in actions, for actions speak louder than words that are spoken with your lips at times. Therefore, if you are dishonest in an emotional expression or a facial expression that would cause someone to think erroneously or think detrimentally and be led erroneously, woe unto that man through whom offense cometh, that has caused that person to think erroneously; in other words, to falter or stumble! Then I say, be watchful and be mindful, for GOD deals in the affairs of men!
In every emotion and expression, in every facial expression, if you cause the quiver of your eye to convey a thought erroneously and that thought is conveyed and produced -- undesirable conditions -- the negative instead of the positive -- you shall reap the fruit of that which you have sown! The seed idea of that thought you have conveyed in that expression was an idea that caused the condition of what I just said. Aren't you glad!
Then I say, it is a privilege to know the Truth. But on the other hand, on the hand of knowing the Truth, whichever:
'If you continue in My Words you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free!'
The Four Freedoms of which the Atlantic Charter was speaking, we are daily expressing
them through and by the suffering of your Humble Servant! Through paving out
the way for you and millions of others, through bearing the burden in the heat
of the day, through bearing persecutions, prosecution, slander, accusation and
condemnation I have brought you the Victory over all of those adverse conditions
that were set up as a barrier of prohibitation to those Four Freedoms of which
you are now enjoying! Aren't you glad! But I AM Going On!
Then I say, live in this Recognition and these Four Freedoms of which I just mentioned will be your portion as you live in this Recognition and refuse to tolerate materialism and mortality and mortality's version; for those tendencies and expressions are detrimental to and for all humanity!
Oh, it is wonderful! Just think of living in the Actual Presence of GOD where GOD is on Duty and at Home at all times! But you must raise your vibrations to contact the CHRIST Consciousness to recognize GOD'S Supernatural Presence and realize GOD is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent and actually unlimited in Dominion and Authority, and can and will work for the good of all humanity if they will but let HIM!
I need not say more, but I thought to somewhat confirm the Message as proof read and verify once again what I had said concerning Honesty, Competence and Truth, and how dishonesty will produce undesirable conditions and cause you to become to be the personification of dishonesty, and you will not be happy, matters not where you go! You will be tortured and tormented if you have the Cain or serpent's spirit (Aren't you glad!) for Cain was driven from GOD'S Presence and was made a vagabond!
Those who do not live exactly according to My Teaching, they are made vagabonds, going from place to place and having no place to stay mentally and spiritually even if they think they have a place to stay physically. You find they are all like a wandering star. They are not substantiated; they cannot stay at one place in consciousness as well as they cannot stay at one place in a position!
Incompetent persons, unreliable persons, cannot hold positions because they are impractical, unprofitable and good for nothing. But practical and profitable and good-for-something persons can hold positions and can be stable and substantiated in Faith and unshaken in Confidence. But dishonesty will cause you to express a sense of dishonesty to your employer and to your employee; will cause you to try to rob labor, if you represent capital, and cause you to try to rob capital if you represent labor!
Dishonesty, Incompetence and Untruth will try to get something for nothing, as I have often said, and when it can't accomplish its unjust and malicious, antagonistic and unconstitutional aims it will try to start something in opposition to something they hold to blame for their slothfulness, impractical-ness and unprofitable- ness!
Why would you have a mind to try or desire to condemn the One Who gave you Life to live? -- or try to bring a conflict or embarrassment or criticism in the hearts and minds of the children of men, all because of your impracticalness and unprofitable- ness and good-for-nothingness? You try to lay the blame on someone else and if you weigh everything you will find the blame lies in yourself!
Then I say, take these thoughts to consideration. Corruptible thoughts and corruptible ideas and corruptible opinions, impractical and unprofitable thoughts and ideas and opinions, all of these expressing dishonesty and untruth, unfaithfulness in words, in deeds and in actions will convey the selfsame thought to you and others and produce misery, disappointment and failure, and cause others who would be profitable to become to be unprofitable, impractical and good for nothing because of the falsity you have conceived of them!
False thoughts or false ideas and opinions are as conceivable as a contagious germ disease. They are contagious if you conceive them! Even the emotion of a person, by an expression through the thought they convey, you may conceive some idea and it may produce a negative and inharmonious condition, resulting from the negative thinking -- and from the ideas and the opinions you have conceived from negative and untrue thinking!
Then I say, it is a privilege to launch out into the Ocean Divine and let go the shore line and realize once and forever if you live the Life Soberly, Righteously, Godly and Unselfishly, GOD Himself will be with you! Any information you wish to know, GOD Himself will tell you! I thank you.
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