FATHER DIVINE ringing the Bell,
Unity Mission Church, Philadelphia, PA.
(FATHER speaks as follows:) Now, that is self-explanatory. Read it over again.
(The Secretary re-reads the quotation, which is from the first chapter of second Peter, verses four through eight, as follows:)
'Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;(FATHER then speaks as follows:)
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience Godliness;
And to Godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.'
You see, that is the point! Now all of these Virtues emphasized, if you live them and put them forth into expression you will no longer be barren nor unfruitful in Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding, and you will need no man to teach you, for the Spirit of My Presence will make you so productive, increasable and multipliable in Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding, you will have so many children of Truth, of Spirit, of Knowledge and of Understanding that no man will be able to compete with you! It definitely explains it. And why I stress it is because, as Dr. Gaines says, "FATHER DIVINE is the only One Who has taught you how to live!" I have laid the Foundation and taught you to be virtuous, Holy; taught you to be all of these qualities. (FATHER turns to the Secretary:) Repeat it so that you might know, even if you do not want to know it.
(Secretary, reading:)
'Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises . . .'
FATHER: And these are the Promises that have been given you. These are the Promises: The following will be the Promise and the latter clause is the summation and the reward of those Virtues and Promises that I have given you.
(Secretary continuing:)
'That by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.'
FATHER: Now if you are partakers of Divine Nature; if you are no longer partakers of lust and passion and have no lust and passion, have no self-indulgence, have not anything in you that could move you -- if you saw a man naked, if you were a man and saw a woman naked, it would not move you in the least, "having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust!"
(FATHER says to the Secretary:) Read on.
(Secretary reading:)
'And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge . . .'
FATHER: And the giving of diligence, adding to your faith more virtue! -- and of this Fullness have all we received, Grace for Grace! "Add to your faith virtue . . ." (to the Secretary:) What's the next?
(Secretary reading:)
'Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance . . .'
FATHER: You would not drink liquor, you would not over-indulge in anything!
(Secretary reading:)
'. . . and to temperance patience . . .'FATHER: And to temperance, you would be long patient. You would not be quick to fly up!
(Secretary reading:)
'. . . and to patience godliness . . .'FATHER: And to patience, you would be more godly -- in other words, more GOD-like!
(Secretary reading:)
'. . . and to godliness brotherly kindness . . .'FATHER: And to Godliness, be more GOD-like; you would be more Brotherly and Kind toward each other!
(Secretary reading:)
'. . . and to brotherly kindness charity . . .'FATHER: And to Brotherly Kindness. You would be more charitable and you would express hospitality to others -- strangers. That is what charity is; in other words, it is love. (FATHER then says:) Read on.
(Secretary reading:)
'. . . for if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.'
FATHER: Well now, that is what I have been teaching you all to be, Virgins! To be Virtuous, to be Godly, to be Holy, to be Kind and express Brotherly Love, and as he said there, "If these things be in you, you will no more be barren." -- I mean, no longer be so you cannot get an inspiration! You will always be giving birth to inspirations, compositions, songs and praises and bringing something out of the Secret Treasures of your heart by inspiration and by intuition, that will SHAKE CREATION, because you will no longer be barren! See the mystery? ("Yes, LORD!" we eagerly replied. FATHER then said to the Secretary:) Read on.
(Secretary reading the rest of the letter:)
"Hence, be Honest, Competent and True in all you say and in all you do and you can rejoice in the privilege you have of becoming to be even as this leaves ME, as I AM Well, Healthy, Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind and in every organ, muscle, sinew, joint, limb, vein and bone and even in every ATOM, fibre and cell of MY Bodily Form.
Respectfully and Sincere, I AM
REV. M. J. DIVINE, Ms. D., D. D.
(Better known as FATHER DIVINE)
(FATHER then says:) Now this is not for criticism but it is for instruction and to admonish others into the way of Life and Health and Success and Prosperity! All Scriptures are given by the Inspirations of GOD, therefore, GOD wrote the Bible. They say it is the Word of GOD but it is out of someone's heart and out of someone's mind. By dreams and by visions, by inspirations and by intuition men spoke as they spake and moved by the Holy Ghost. That is the way GOD spoke to creation and established the foundation of the world. So that was the mystery.
Secretary: I never would have known what it meant if YOU hadn't said.
FATHER: I knew you would not. That is why I called attention. Just like something else was read and I stopped to call attention. It was not so much of anything but I stopped to call attention to it. Years ago that used to be My Stressful Preaching; I mean, years ago.
Secretary: YOU mean this quotation?
FATHER: Yes -- about having escaped the corruption of the world through lust; you would no longer be barren or unfruitful in Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding. Then, after forty, fifty or sixty years, after preaching that, I came along teaching you how to be Virtuous and Holy and Godly and Charitable so that you might reproduce in yourselves by reincarnation and by the reconception of what I had conveyed and of what I had said, so that you might be re-impregnated with Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding of your LORD and Savior, JESUS CHRIST, by which you would give birth to, and it would go on to others and they would enjoy the Presence of your Savior, the Redeemer of all Humanity!
Secretary: I noticed as I said those words YOU picked it right up.
FATHER: Sure. I know some would take it right away thinking you are talking about that you would give birth to a whole lot of mortal physical children. But if you change your lust and passion and self-indulgence through Self-denial and Sacrifice into Virtue, Virginity, Holiness and Kindness and Godliness, you will be impregnated with the Wisdom and Knowledge and Understanding, of which you will give birth to, and no longer be children as you have been, barren. You will no longer be going around not giving birth to an idea, not giving birth to an opinion!
Some people cannot get an inspiration, only was someone else can tell them or has told them. You should be no longer barren; you should give birth to inspirations, compositions and songs and praise and Thanksgiving and wisdom and knowledge and understanding. You are the ones to give birth to those things if you live Virtuous and Holy according to My Command! No longer barren! And if you really live Virtuous sure enough, like you all started out to do when you first started to follow ME in the Virginity-ship Degree, look at the inspirations you all used to get! You gave birth to those Ideas and Opinions, Inspirations, that you were impregnated with by Concentration and by Harmonization and by Participation with the Virginity and Holiness of your LORD and your Savior! You became Partakers of GOD'S Nature through Reincarnation and would speak in Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding; therefore, you would be no longer barren nor unfruitful!
MOTHER DIVINE: That is beautiful, Dear!
FATHER: So it is such a wonderful Thought! But firstly I have striven to prepare you so you could produce those Qualities depicted, by requesting you to live Virtuous and to express the Virginity of Mary; to express Holiness and Virtue from Every Angle expressible. You would no longer be barren nor unfruitful; you would need no man to tell you anything, for GOD Himself would be within you and inspire you with Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding as you give birth to those inspirations, compositions, songs and praises that I impregnated you with by inspiration and by intuition.
Were not thinking about any matter of mortality. All of this and these were the Virtues of GOD exemplified! Okay -- read on!
(At this point there is a momentary interruption, after which FATHER continues speaking as follows:)
You see, if everybody would be Virtuous in heart and in mind and in understanding, be Pure and Holy, they would no longer be barren nor unfruitful in Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding, but they would give birth to a-full and a-plenty to supply yourself and millions of others with Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding.
How marvelous it is! Your hearts and your minds being purified and purged of all lust and passion, self-indulgence, human affection, adverse and undesirable tendencies and having been made New Creatures characteristically and dispositionally, you would no longer be barren nor unfruitful as a barren tree in the garden, but as fruitful as a fruitful tree that bringeth forth its fruit in its seasons and its leaves also shall not wither! See the mystery? ("Yes, FATHER Dear!" we declared.)
This makes you think about the old fashioned warriors, in the negative or in the con. We are pro and the positive in this we express -- a Zeal and a Courage and Enthusiasm by being aroused by thinking on the past experiences; it causes you think back and consider things that you have formerly experienced, and it causes you to remember the day and remember the time when your dungeon shook and your chains fell off! -- when you were dug up by the plowshares of the Gospel and set free by the Holy Ghost! It inspires you and re-inspires you and makes you feel something like that very same time! That is, if you have ever been dug up by the plowshares of the Gospel; if you have ever been set free by the Holy Ghost and free beyond your personal control to declare your deliverance, your freedom. It causes you to feel that same TOUCH again when you begin to talk on those things and think about what has been and what will surely come again!
The warriors in the negative, the warriors in the con, as so to speak; old-fashioned warriors, Civil warriors, though it has been eighty years ago or more, if they have life and it is not too afflicted and too ill to move -- when you start talking about the old Civil War it arouses that spirit in the con, in them, in the negative, to make war with the enemy, that did make war with the enemy and caused them to be like old fire horses! When they hear the whistle blow for the fire they are ready to jump, even though they may be too old to move around, because they have that implanted in the soil of their horse souls! Their energy, preconceived ideas and opinions are re-inspired by the spirit of the thoughts of the minds transmitted and spoken back into consideration. They are ready to move volitionally. See the mystery? ("Yes, LORD!" we replied simultaneously.) So it is a privilege!
So that is what aroused My Consideration or re-consideration in that illustration and quotation; because I had taught it many years ago so much, and considered how marvelous it could be; and after many years I began stressfully and persistently requesting the masses to turn to Holiness, Virginity and Virtue, to make ready for the Life of Victory; to overcome every difficulty by giving birth to Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding so that they might no longer be barren in those things. You see the mystery? ("Yes, FATHER Dear!" we responded.)
Therefore, you all should be the wisest and the most inspired of all creation, for I took away and eradicated your lust and your passion and self-indulgence so that you might express the Virginity of Mary and the Holiness of Jesus and be virtuous, so that you might give birth to Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding and no longer be barren in those things wherein others are barren.
Why is it people do not give birth to understanding like the prophets, the sages and the seers did? It is because they are not living self-denied and consecrated and virtuous. They have used their energy in lust and passion and self-indulgence; therefore, they deprive themselves of the kind of births they should give: the New Birth of Freedom with all Knowledge, all Understanding and all Wisdom. That is the kind of birth you should give! It is wonderful!
MOTHER DIVINE: That is what YOU meant when YOU told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply.
FATHER: It is true -- to replenish the earth -- to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth! I did not tell them to multiply the Serpent's versions and ideas and opinions but I told them to multiply and replenish the earth with GOD'S Holiness and GOD'S Virtue and GOD'S Love and Mercy! But they went out and took the Serpent's version and the Serpent's ideas and the Serpent's opinions; therefore, they began committing adultery because they began there and then to adulterate what I had given them in the act or understanding of increasing and multiplying and replenishing the earth -- for to them it was given GOD'S Likeness and GOD'S Image that they should have produced instead of the Serpent's nature, the Serpent's likeness and the Serpent's image, which are lust and passion and self-indulgence and disobedience! They started increasing and multiplying that! (At this point FATHER threw back His Holy Head and laughed as only GOD Almighty can!)
MOTHER DIVINE: They certainly did, Dear. Woe! Woe! Woe!
FATHER: The carnal appetites of humanity came directly from the Serpent, and those appetites are not Virtuous but to the Extreme Reverse to that of which is Virtuous, True and Holy! So it is a wonderful, wonderful, WONDERFUL THOUGHT!
That quotation should be stressed in your memory. You should imbibe the spirit and the meaning of it; the spirit and the nature and the characteristics of these Qualities exemplified; and let them live in your vocabularies and be recorded in your notebooks for the future, as well as in your subconsciousness, to inspire you with Wisdom, and even others, without My Personally telling them.
MOTHER DIVINE: For it is better revealed than told.
FATHER: It is wonderful! You may retrace your thoughts back now to that quotation and look in the Gospel Epistle of the Apostle and read it and record verbatim, and it will be stamped in your memory forever so that you will need no other to teach you Wisdom saving that which you are impregnated with and give birth to in the future! (FATHER turns to the Secretary who is looking for the quotation in the Holy Bible, and asks:) Have you found it? (The Secretary says:) Yes, second Peter, first chapter, verses four through eight. (FATHER says:) Read it.
(Secretary reading:)
'Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge;(FATHER then said to the Secretary:) Did you read the whole?
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience Godliness;
And to Godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.'
Secretary: Yes, that is all that is quoted in the letter.
FATHER: Okay. The quotation shall herein after be committed to memory, for they shall be the Words of Life in your subconsciousness. You will no longer be barren nor unfruitful in the Wisdom and Knowledge of the Bible if you live thus accordingly. I thank you.
It is wonderful! Wonderful! WONDERFUL! WONDERFUL! Well said and well done! I need no longer prolong the discussion for it is well said and well done. If you will but commit these Truths to memory and hold them in your subconsciousness forever by living Soberly, Righteously, Virtuously and Godly and by expressing the Virginity of Mary and the Holiness of Jesus and by no longer being partakers of human nature but being partakers of DIVINE NATURE which will not cause you to be lustful nor passion-able, but you will be Virtuous, Pure and Holy now, henceforth and FOREVER if you LIVE IT and EXPRESS IT! I thank you. It is wonderful!
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