The Mount of the House of the Lord
'And the LORD said., Behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.'(GENESIS 11:6)
"I have Personified the WORD., and it is made Flesh in ME. I express it and transmit it and reproduce it within MYSELF for the Salvation of all others, that they too might get it effectively and enjoy the reality of the blessings of MY Life and Spirit." - FATHER DIVINE - (N.D.8-3-57 A.D.F.D., p. 29)
"Praise ME for something,, if it is only for some word or phrase of MINE! Praise ME for something if it is only for some motto or composition that I have given! Praise ME for something if it is only for some thought I have conveyed or some simple Word I have said." - FATHER DIVINE - (N.D.1-5-57 A. D. F. D., p.1)
"Where coercion begins the work of GOD that moment ends."
"GOD is your FATHER and you never had another."
" Tell the Truth and the Truth will set you free."
"Put off the old man and all of his deeds!"
"Weigh everything on the Scale of Justice!"
"Every stumbling block is a Stepping Stone. Every failure will help you some victory to win."
" Be the same in MY Personal Absence as you would be in MY Personal Presence!"
"The relaxation of the conscious mentality is the re-conception of GOD'S Omniscience."
"I will stop every dog from barking. I will stop every dog from wagging his tail."
"Minds and attention, love and devotion, ideas and opinions, all concentrated on the Fundamental - GOD, FATHER DIVINE."
"Just beyond your highest affirmation lies the field of endless joy beyond degrees, and joy without a tear."
"MY Words are Spirit and They are Life, They are the SAVIOR JESUS the CHRIST." --- FATHER DIVINE - (N.D., 11-13-54, A.D.F.D., P. 26)
"GOD is the Same today, yesterday and throughout all eternity."
" The Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good. no Space is Vacant of the Fullness thereof."
"If you take cognizance of MY Message, a greater picture of ME can be reproduced in your likeness."
"What seems to be the trouble?"
"If you build upon this foundation, you will not have an occasion to fret nor worry."
"Think on, beautiful thinkers!"
" In the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose I came!"
" One Eternal Merry Christmas and One Eternal Happy New Year!"
"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. ---FATHER DIVINE."
So you can plainly see it is Something more than mortal to command.
The Scripture this day is fulfilled in your hearing.
FATHER DIVINE SAYS:
"The Name of JESUS was the Personal Name of GOD Nineteen Hundred Years ago." - (S-W. 5-30-36, A.D.F.D., p. 18)
Men may come and men may go, but the Spirit of MY PRESENCE and MY Endeavors shall go on forever. (S.W. 5-30-36 A.D.F.D., p. 21)
You are conscious of GOD'S Presence this morning, but you must be conscious of GOD'S Presence tomorrow morning. - (S-W. 5-30-36, A.D.F.D., P-5)
So long as you have one will, one desire, one fancy or one pleasure, it is a matter of impossibility for GOD'S will to be done within you effectively, That is the mystery. - (N.D.6-1-39 A.D.F.D., p. 13)
Oh that mankind could but learn the great significance of self-denial and sacrifice according to the Teaching of CHRIST! - (S.W. 11-2-35 A.D.F.D., P. 6)
Everybody running for SELF! They don't know they are running for DEATH! They want to appease SELF and the end of SELF is DEATH! That is why they all die! - (N.D.12-29-62 A.D.F.D., p- 14)
"If you can be disturbed I do not need you! I came treading the wine-press all alone! That is, if I AM the ONE. If I AM not the ONE and cannot stand, then let ME go and let the one come who is the one! That is what I am talking about!" - (N.D.9-8-62 A.D.F.D., p. 6) "
"Now if you all - any of you under the sound of MY Voice don't want ME, I want ME." - (N.D.11-9-46 A.D.F.D., P. 9) "
"Now you need not come to ME Personally, you need not to come near ME Personally. You need not speak to ME Personally. You need not see ME Personally. You need not hear ME Personally, all you must needs do is to contact ME harmoniously, and
'Call on ME in the day of trouble and I will DELIVER you!'
Aren't you glad?" - The Spoken Word, 7-27-37 A.D.F.D., p. 16)
"The knowledge of GOD should bring the Desirable Results to all. If the knowledge of GOD does not better your condition and better the conditions of those with whom you are concerned, the knowledge of GOD to you is in vain." - (N.D.4-21-62 A.D.F.D., P. 7)
"When you allow the CHRIST to rule on the throne of your mind in you, over you, through you and over all things that concern you - when this is done - there and then the Kingdom has come and the Will is being done. That is the Key, not only to the Scriptures., but the Key to the mystery of the Abundance of the Fullness and the Key to the answer of every problem. Aren't you glad?" - (N.D.3-24-62 A.D.F.D., p. 6)
"How glorious it is to live in such a Recognition! When YOU live for GOD, GOD lives for you, When you live for yourself, GOD need not live for you, for you are living for your self! When you stand for yourself, GOD need not stand for you, for you are standing for yourself! GOD needs to take up HIS time standing for someone else who is not standing for SELF. That is the Mystery! - (N.D.1-19-63 A.D.F.D., P. 9)
Oh, how marvelous it is to know the mystery -- to be TRUE, and FAITHFUL and not to be a deceiver, for when you are trying to deceive GOD you are deceiving yourself! If you can turn on one hundred millionth of a kilometer of a percent of a fraction of a grain of LOVE, or DEVOTION, or ATTENTION to another, you are not loving GOD completely and whole heartedly! - (N.D.10-14-50 A.D.F.D., P. 3)
The Love of GOD to the children of men is blessings bestowed upon them, and the love for GOD by the children of men is the service in which they give. Now there it is. Love in expression to GOD, is in service. Love in expression to the children of men from GOD, is in the act of blessing. GOD expresses HIS Love by HIS blessings HE gives and GOD'S children's love is expressed for HIM by the service they give. Then transpose the version as even it is recorded in the other Scripture -
'Thou shalt serve the LORD thy GOD with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.'
which means the same - Love. " - (The Spoken Word, 12-23-37 A.D.F.D., p. 18)
"Mankind has been talking about Spiritual things and has believed in Spiritual things long enough. By your concentration on the Spiritual One as being Materialized, it will cause you as a person to be Spiritualized, will cause all things under your jurisdiction to be equivalently Spiritualized even as you are spiritualized." - (The Spoken Word, 11-17-36 A.D.F.D., p. 7)
"Now I am praising GOD for all of the blessings I have, and I am not asking for any more. I do not have to ask for health, I have health. I do not have to ask for wealth, I have wealth. I do not have to ask for friends, I have friends. I do not have to ask for any desired blessings. I have them all. All I must needs do is to praise GOD for the blessings that I have. As a sample and example I am doing this for your sakes." - (The Light, 4-26-33 A.D.F.D.)
"Oh. how sweet it is when we get together in the Unity, of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose and all have free access for singing and there is no one there to put a damper on! There is no one there to put the brakes on. When there is no one there, there is no one there to retard the advances, the Spirit is sweet, and we know our Joy is complete!" - (N.D.10-29-60 A.D.F.D., p. 4-5)
" It is a matter of impossibility for super-enthusiasm to be a failure. You must deviate in some way and lower your vibrations from one angle or the other for you to be a failure." - (The Spoken Word, 6-22-37 A.D.F.D., P. 4)
" It is a true saying. It is a shame to be sick for it is a sin to be sick - in other words, it is sin that caused you to be sick; and where there is sin there is shame, and where there is shame there is sin." (N.D.11-19-60 A.D.F.D.0 p. 11)
"It is a pretty good place to be even when you can say openly and publicly you love ME. But then I want to shame you, if you can bo shamed. If you are ashamed to say you love ME, I want to shame you all I can; for if there is any shame in you, you should be shamed. Can you not see the mystery?" - (N.D.2-26-42 A.D.F.D., p. 27)
FATHER DIVINE SAYS: "The work of the Mission of CHRIST was to prepare Himself a body, and your body as the body, the temple of GOD. You as the temples of GOD, were to receive the SPIRIT of GOD. Hence GOD gives you HIS SPIRIT if you give HIM your body! That is the mystery. But you must give HIM your body whole-heartedly, and your body will be GOD'S Temple and GOD'S Body in reality, and HIS SPIRIT will be your spirit and your life in reality! That is the mystery." - (N.D.6-1-39 A.D.F.D., p. 13)
"Your physical bodies express vigor. Your physical bodies express courage. Your physical bodies express health and happiness. Your physical bodies express Life Eternal, so long as the Spirit of CHRIST is in them and expresses HIMSELF Supremely. Aren't you glad? ("So glad!" responded the mass assembly.) when Christ is in you and expresses HIMSELF Supremely, then and there, you can and will express Vigor, Courage, Peace, Joy, Health, and Happiness and even express Life Eternal, for the
'little leaven leaveneth the whole lump;
therefore, the leaven of the Spirit of Life that is in your heart and in your life shall leaven, shall quicken and Spiritualize that which was material, and all things that can be Spiritualized, GOD can Spiritualize them.. Aren't you glad?" - (The Spoken Word, 6-5-37 A.D.F.D. P. 16)
"But the first thing that is essential is faith, unlimited faith, undying faith, faith that cannot get sick. Oh., for a faith that cannot get sick, a faith that cannot get sad, a faith that cannot be afflicted, a faith that cannot be disappointed, a faith that cannot be bereaved, a faith that cannot lose anything. That is the kind of faith you should have. Then you are back home with me, where I am." (N.D.7-15-50 A.D.F.D.9 P. 31)
"As a living SHRINE I came, throwing aside all of the inanimate shrines of the land, presenting MYSELF as a living sacrifice before the children of men that they might gaze upon the PERFECT PICTURE, mentally and spiritually; their prayers will be heard and answered speedily the same as others have been answered through and by the spirit of sincerity. That is the mystery!"
(N.D.3-31-62 A.D.F.D.0 p. 28)
"Your Souls-Mate should mate with your soul continually. Even though it may be lying dormant in your subconsciousness, your Souls-Mate should be there resting comfortably, undisturbed, and you should be unmoved and undisturbed saving as HE moves on the altar of the heart and causes you to cooperate with HIM. Oh! it is a privilege to realize it!" - (S.W. 2-4-36 A.D.F.D. p. 7)
"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:
'Shew 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?" - (N.D.1-6-62 A.D.F.D. p. 10)
"Follow the Lamb-likeness, the meekness, the humbleness, the obedience, the patient-able-ness of GOD expressed in the most insignificant way, by being
'led as a LAMB to the slaughter, dumb as a sheep before her shearers.'
Such an expression is your leading, and your only, Hope of Real Redemption; but to the extreme reverse, I find some going in the different directions by thinking they will observe ME in Majesty. John told you to behold GOD in the Lambship Degree of expression, in the most meek and the most humble way. That is the way to get rid of your sins, sickness and disease and everything else that will displease, and all things that do not appease". - (N.D.9-30-37 A.D.F.D. p. 5)
"It is a great calmness when you visualize the realness of GOD..When you believe, you receive. Therefore you are no more anxious concerning things; your anxiety ceases and there is a great calm ..PEACE has been spoken to the sea of your mind and it is still. You are in GOD'S Will." - (N.D.6-11-51 A.D.F.D., P. 4)
"There are millions of souls waiting for ME" but I transposed the composition and will declare to them, "There are millions of souls now dwelling in ME." With this recognition I rise on the wings of MY Power sailing over every difficulty, riding on the wings of Love carrying within MYSELF the VICTORY, here and there, and whithersoever I go, until time and seasons shall be no more." - (N.D. 6-13-59 A.D.F.D. p. 22)
"PEACE EVERYONE! Those of us who have dined will arise. I know you feel the steady stepping of the ALMIGHTY GOD but I will refrain from speaking further, I will not continue in words Personally, but I will speak more profoundly and more definitely by the steady stepping of MY SPIRIT in HEART and in MIND and with you I will go home! I thank you." - (N.D.6-24-61 A.D.F.D. P. 8)
FATHER DIVINE SAYS:
"The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.," but I have declared., I AM MY Link and I AM MY Chain." - (N.D.6.1-39 A.D.F.D., p. 6)
"Oh just think of it, your privilege to put off the old man with all of his deeds, not by self-indulgence but by self-denial and sacrifice, for such kind will come out with fasting and prayer. Fast out those old "other follows." - (The Spoken Word, 10-26-35 A.D.F.D., P. 5)
"If you make ninety-nine and one half, ninety-nine and one half will not do! It takes nothing less than a hundred to make the full measure and the stature of Christ!" - (N.D.7-11-53 A.D.F.D. p. 11)
"An appeal to those of you, our fellow citizens, brethren, as we may term them to be, if you will only contact ME, and live harmoniously for thirty days, from adverse and undesirable conditions, I will give you complete VICTORY!" - (The Spoken Word, 6-20-36 A.D.F.D., p.28)
"Oh it is a privilege, dear ones, to see the fulfillment of the Scripture! As you live it, believe it and express it in words, deeds, and actions, after-a-while the whole Universe shall be partakers and be infected by this great Contagion." - (The Spoken Word, 11-2-35 A.D.F.D., P. 4)
"I shall fulfill the Scripture from A to Z, from Genesis to Revelation, in the fulfillment of the Scripture I shall not let one stone be left upon another. . . .Why should you run all over the world to find diamonds, when you have them in your back yard?" - (The Spoken Word, 6-15-37 A.D.F.D.,. P. 8)
"There are but a very limited few who actually trust in GOD whole-heartedly. If an individual trusts in GOD wholeheartedly it calls for a complete relaxation of many human customs, fancies, and ways and means!" - (N.D.12-15-62 A.D.F.D., P. 8)
"I cannot stress this thought too vividly and too often, for a limited few, if any, see the significance of being absolutely impersonal in all things, even the love you have for GOD ALMIGHTY." - (N.D.6-11-53 A.D.F.D. p. 15)
"To contact GOD, it means to contact HIM mentally and spiritually and characteristically. That is the way to contact ME, It is a matter of impossibility for you to contact ME merely by saying,, "I thank YOU, FATHER", unless you get ME characteristically, and dispositionally, mentally and spiritually and "thinkingly", if I must speak in MY Own Language. You must reach ME and meet ME thinkingly., by thinking according to the way I am thinking, and by having the Characteristics and the Nature in evidence that I am expressing, that you might be with ME in those different expressions. That is the only way you can contact ME." - (N.D.9-8-62 A.D.F.D., p. 9)
"Then I say if you GIVE PRAISE, GIVE THANKS and BE CONSCIENTIOUS and SINCERE in all of your endeavors, and in all of your activities, look not upon your own self or your own gain but look upon the gain and the good of others; by so doing you are taking on the Nature and the Characteristics of CHRIST your SAVIOR and becoming to be heirs and joint heirs with HIM to come into possession of your rightful inheritance as joint heirs together with HIM!" - (N.D.5-30-40 A.D.F.D., p, 26)
"We have a Communion Table - I AM supposed to go and serve the other members shortly! It is beautiful to serve in a practical way, in a profitable way for spirit, body and soul, but it is as beating the air, in MY Version, to merely be serving to be serving! But when I am serving for the benefit of your body and for the benefit of your soul, to keep your soul and your body together, I believe I am doing something. Aren't you glad?" - (N.D.11-11-61 A.D.F.D., P. 4)
"I do not have a ritual for you. to go by that you must do this or you must do that. MY Spirit is your ritual You must be governed and controlled by it. It is the Law of the Spirit of Life that was in CHRIST JESUS that made you free from the law of sin and death!" - (N.D.1-26-63 A.D.F.D..9 P, 7)
"After you have firstly thought, you shall realize you should cease to think, still yourself consciously and allow the Spirit of GOD within to think and act; by ceasing to function personally, according to your conscious mentality, your preconceived ideas and opinions, the reaction of such a realization will bring the desirable result of what you have been thinking." - (The Spoken Word, 20-2-37 A.D.F.D., P. 6)
"It is more constructive in MY consideration to have oppositions and to have those things that are commonly known as failures or disappointments, for the Spirit of GOD'S Presence wells up in its highest voltage of unfoldment and demonstrates victory over the opposition, matters not how great it may be." - (N.D.5-2-40 A.D.F.D., P- 34)
You will not have oppositions when your will is lost in the will of GOD because there will not be anything to oppose you within; but as long as you have those oppositions and conflicts and conflictions, it is an open expression that you are not in harmony with GOD and GOD'S will is not done in you." - (N.D.6-1-39 A.D.F.D., p. 14)
If you are substantiated in confidence and unshaken in faith, the very spirit of opposition cannot enter your world of existence. It cannot disturb you, for it cannot reach you. You are hid, for you are hid in Him Who lived on such a Foundation. You are hid in the Infinite One." - (The Spoken Word, 12-30-37 A.D.F.D., P. 22)
"When you shall have made a complete denial of self from every angle expressible, and shall have made a complete surrender by loving GOD whole-heartedly in reality and refusing to love self, you will be so abundantly blessed until nothing else could reach you but that which would be a blessing to you. That is the mystery." - (N.D.8-22-53 A.D.F.D., P- 4)
"Then I say all will eventually learn it is a matter of impossibility for them to hinder for they will know definitely we are not working by our physical hand or bodies but we are working by the Spirit and the Power of the ALMIGHTY! That which I desire or would have come forth into expression, I speak it into consideration. Even if I do not speak it, I think it and I get MY Brownies to work and get them together and bring about that which I have endeavored! Aren't you glad?" - (N.D.2-10-62 A.D.F.D., P. 3)
"How marvelous it is to live in such a recognition, for the atmosphere is changed completely. It becomes to be a pleasant atmosphere in which you are living when you are conscious of GOD'S Actual Presence and live exactly according to MY Teaching. You feel quite different here, do you not? The very atmosphere is a different atmosphere! It is a pleasant atmosphere, it is a fearless atmosphere, it is a courageous atmosphere, it is a faithful atmosphere, it is a truthful atmosphere and if you continue to live in this atmosphere and stress it in your actions and your deeds, you will eventually produce and bring to fruition the reality of the Kingdom of Heaven among you universally." - (N.D.2-10-62 A.D.F.D. pp. 2-3)
"You are using the Key to unlock the door, when you are giving GOD Praises according to the Scripture. Truly might David have said in his writing,
'Let everything that has breath, Praise the Lord!'
I will bring it a little closer for consideration, and especially into materialization on the material plane.. "Let everything that has any EXISTENCE Praise the Lord."for they shall Praise GOD even if they have no breath at all. I AM causing the pots and pans, the automobiles, and all sorts of machines, and each and every visible thing brought down on the material plane through GOD'S Omniscience, to Praise GOD the same as you, yourselves, that are the Temples of the Living GOD." - (N.D.3-11-61 A.D.F.D ., P. 11)
"Let these thoughts sink deep in your consciousness. Allow them to soak in for a while." - (The Spoken Word, 11-2-35 A.D.F.D. p. 6)
The Mount of the House of the Lord
'We would that someone could bring YOU a sacrifice Worthy of the Love YOU freely give; We would that someone could give YOU a heart, Lifted in Praise each moment of the night and day! We would that YOU could find a body Where YOU could reign supreme within; A body that would cast aside every version, every opinion, every affection, Every tradition and idea preconceived by man! We would that someone could bring YOU a heart Loving YOU alone! A heart that would not shrink, though oppressed by every foe! A heart to whom the dark and the light, Sorrow and joy, pain and pleasure, Praise and condemnation, life and death, would be the same Loving YOU above these incidents of mortality! Yea, a body, willing to trample on its own will,. That YOUR Mission might be accomplished! We would that YOU could find a body that never tired in doing YOUR Will! A body ever eager and anxious to search out YOUR Pleasure! A body over thrilled and intoxicated With YOUR Holy LOVE! A body to whom YOUR Will Is the sweetest thing she can dream about! A body that finds in YOUR Body the supreme heights of Love and Rapture complete! We would that YOU could find a body and mind so submissive, so meek and so sweet, That whatever seed YOU would drop there would quickly grow And flourish and produce the Fruit of YOUR Love! A body that would respect YOU and hold YOU in Holiness and Reverence! A body that would see Perfection in YOUR every Word, YOUR every Thought, YOUR every Move and Plan! A body consecrated in every atom, fiber and cell! We would that YOU might find a heart, kind and true; A heart like a deep cool well, Where YOU might turn and be refreshed After long hours of bearing with. mortality's versions! A heart, warm, and sweet.. with tenderness and praise! And although we know that YOU could not stay away from such a heart, Still this one should be willing to see others apparently blessed above herself Yet keeping her devotion and sweetness Yielding humility and tenderness as a flower for YOUR Pleasure! And then, our Darling SAVIOR, when YOU have made this heart, as we pray YOU may, Make us all like that one, that YOU may be pleased and glorified eternally!'
FATHER said in an Office Talk on APRIL 29, 1939 A.D.F.D D.
"The Manifested CHRIST reveals what the un-manifested CHRIST conceals, yea, for the manifested CHRIST reveals HIMSELF, while the un-manifested CHRIST conceals HIMSELF and lies dormant within, while others are expressive and active in the conscious mentality of the individual. So it is just wonderful, and some day I will have some one who will love ME, so, where I can express as I may express, and I will not be retarded in MY mental and Spiritual advances as I unfold MY Mysteries and develop MYSELF within them. I thank you." - (N.D.5-4-39 A.D.F.D., P- 43)
"GOD has chosen for HIMSELF and for you all - a Spotless Virgin for you to vision the virginity and holiness and virtue therein!" - (N.D.5-1-48 A.D.F.D. P. 3)
"It is wonderful to know that it matters not where you may be in consciousness, if you will just still yourself and direct your whole heart, mind and soul on MY Presence, and on the Presence of MY Helpmate, One who has reached the Mother-ship degree of expression in HER Universal aim and purpose, you will not fail to receive a new joy, and enter into a peaceful state of consciousness." - (N.D., 3-1-58 A.D.F.D., p. 22)
"Let MOTHER be your Sample and Example, even as SHE is the Queen of the Rosebuds and well pleasing in MY Sight. Read HER testimonies and speeches and gaze on HER Picture as you do on MINE with reverence, and know that SHE represents real Virtue such as the world has never known. It is this inner concept and understanding that you hold that gives you Spiritual zeal to live the Life accordingly. - (N.D.12- 18-54 A.D.F.D., p. 23)
The inspiration is introduced as follows:
FATHER, I had a little inspiration about HER. It's little, as regards length, but it is profound. It speaks of this building, 772 South Broad Street and it is called
They quiver with Life And with Truth They shine, - Those Strong, Pure Thoughts Of MOTHER DIVINE! - They are met In the halls; The whole House is a Shrine; - It is filled with the Thoughts Of MOTHER DIVINE!
They heal with Love, As They quiver and shine, - Those Strong, Pure Thoughts Of MOTHER DIVINE! - They strengthen with Truth And with Life sublime, - Those Strong, Pure Thoughts Of MOTHER DIVINE!
The LAMB and the BRIDE say "Come to this Shrine - And bathe in these Thoughts That quiver and shine!" - 0 Virgin Heart, accept Them as thine, - Those Strong, Pure Thoughts Of MOTHER DIVINE!
And if anyone told HER what goes on In this Shrine, - HER Answer would be, "But those Thoughts are not Mine! - They come from the Heart of FATHER DIVINE!
(N.D.4-21-56 A.D.F.D.# p. 15)
" Peace FATHER Dear, Peace to our visiting guests and friends, Peace everyone: We are happy to be here in YOUR Presences FATHER, because we know it is YOUR Presence that has brought such a true expression of Democracy, of Unity and Tranquility, and it is our desire and faith that someday everyone will be privileged to enjoy the Peace and Happiness that we, as adherents to FATHER'S Principles, are the recipients of. We are happy to have visiting guests.. somewhat strangers to us, to come in and break bread with us because as we sit together partaking of the same food and sitting at the same tables passing the dishes around, we do fellowship and get to know each other better and you will. see from coming, that our religion is a way of life with us. We live together as one big Family and we dine together like this daily. We work together and we are, as I said before, we are happy to have you come and join us today. If you would like to express yourselves with a few remarks you are privileged to do so. We believe in moving volitionally, giving everyone a chance to express themselves according to the dictates of their own conscience. You do not have to share our version or belief, but we would be happy to hear from you at this time if you desire to speak. If you prefer an introduction we would be happy to introduce you according to custom. I thank YOU, FATHER." - (M.D. 5-12-62 A.D.F.D., p. 18)
"FATHER, we are so grateful to YOU for coming and fulfilling the Scriptures; not only the New Testament but the Old Testament; not only for Christianity but for Judaism! And YOU are here, answering the prayers and the hopes and the dreams of all religious people - the Muhammedans, the Buddhists - all people who have observed the TRUTH of what and who GOD is, YOU are answering their prayers, FATHER Dear! And ALL PEOPLE can come to YOU because YOU are no race, no creed, no color. Everyone is a part of YOU and YOU are a part of everyone. That is why, FATHER, those that personally sit around today have come from the far corners of the earth and they have come from every walk of life. YOU are not confined to any special class of people, any special nationality, any special religion, but, FATHER, YOU are the ESSENCE of ALL THAT IS GOOD that mankind has ever experienced or even hoped for; and we are so grateful to YOU, FATHER, Dear. We love YO U. We love YOU for what YOU have done for each and everyone of us as individuals and we love YOU for what YOU are doing for people throughout the world whether they recognize YOU or not. It is wonderful how YOU bless and bless and bless, through people just touching YOU mentally and spiritually. FATHER, we thank YOU." - (N.D.5-6-61 A.D.F.D., p. 11)
"PEACE, FATHER Dear! PEACE, EVERYONE!
We have enjoyed the remarks of the various guests, some as strangers and some as not strangers. We thank YOU, FATHER, that we are happy to have each and everyone of you come at this particular time, that FATHER has made it possible; and the beauty part of FATHER is that you can take HIM along with you! Wheresoever you may go, and whatsoever you may do, if you just think on HIM harmoniously and with appreciation for what HE is doing for others if not for you, you will find that things for you will work more harmoniously and will work better for you. This has been the experience, of those of us who know FATHER, not just here around HIS Personal BODY but in countries far from here! It is wonderful to know that we have SOMEONE in our midst WHO cares for each and everyone of us. ("So true" came the sanction as loud applause resounded.) FATHER has come to plead the cause of the people, SOMEONE with no selfish or ulterior motive. HE and HE ALONE is worthy to lead this people into a LIFE of PEACE and JOY and HAPPINESS that has been in the hearts of men from the beginning of time. Today is the day of fulfillment and we who are blessed to realize it can rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for that day has truly come! So with this thought, FATHER, we truly appreciate the privilege of being in YOUR Personal PRESENCE and dining with YOU. And as the time has expired for this particular setting, we thank FATHER for those of us who have dined and those who are standing around to pass out and pass on and go on your way rejoicing, for truly, FATHER will go with you according to your faith. I thank YOU, FATHER Dear!" - (M.D. 9-29-62 A.D.F.D. p. 12)
"I know you appreciate MOTHER, that is why I have given HER to you that SHE might comfort you and serve you when it is not convenient for ME to be Personally Present to serve you and others at MY Communion Tables as I might Personally desire to do. I enjoy serving MY Own. I like to see that they have a-full and a-plenty of the very best of everything. Therefore I serve MY Communion Table Personally that the world can see and know just what I expect all mankind to have and just how I desire for all to be served. With each dish I touch, I extend MY LIFE as MY BODY that all might partake of the same. Hence, I AM well pleased with the service MOTHER gives in caring for MY OWN for I have taught HER by MY Hand and led HER by MY Mind. Thus, I rejoice when you are well pleased with that which I have done." - (N.D.9-2-3-61 A.D.F.D., P. 7)
" PEACE EVERYONE: When the last speaker was speaking I thought how marvelous it is to be Meek and Lowly in Spirit; for I did say in the Sonship Degree,
'I AM Meek and Lowly in heart and thou shalt find rest for thy soul'
I first thought very stressfully upon the testimony of the sister over here by the window, when she said she told this lady - some lady- ,I thank YOU., FATHER DIVINE.," stressfully declaring MY DEITY; but yet, more stressfully, or not even thinking, no doubt, that there are THREE PERSONS in the GODHEAD BODILY, in other words, in the GODHEAD BODY; and those THREE PERSONS, according to many of the different religions are namely: THE FATHER, the SON and the HOLY GHOST. But in this present Dispensation and in this present time, since GOD has taken unto HIMSELF HIS SPOTLESS VIRGIN BRIDE, reproduced HIMSELF in the NAME of HIS SPOTLESS VIRGIN BRIDE, to be known as MOTHER DIVINE - if she would have emphasized the fact by the actuated words as well as by words of reiteration to this party that was sick - I mean, the lady that was ill and needed a healing - if she would have said., "Say., 'I thank YOU, FATHER DIVINE! I thank YOU, MOTHER DIVINE! I thank YOU, MOTHER DIVINE! and just denied herself and thought in terms of the UNITY of MOTHER and MYSELF, and humbled herself to that extent, The woman would have been healed! Many people in far-away Australia.. in Switzerland., in Now Zealand and in many of the other European countries other than that of Switzerland, have called on MYSELF and MOTHER DIVINE., though WE were not Personally Present with them, but recognizing OUR DEITY, as recognized as TRUE BELIEVERS; they have been HEALED and FORGIVEN for all of their sins!" - (N.D.5-27-61 A.D.F.D. p. 13)
"I carry MOTHER with ME wheresoever WE go, and I bless the people through MOTHER even as I did through JESUS, for that is the Mystery!"--- FATHER, DIVINE - (N.D.5-l0-52 A.D.F.D., P. 4)
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