GLEANINGS 

'Let there he Light, and there was Light." This was before the creation of the material symbol of light - the sun. It is just this Light that man is today seeking again, having caught glimpses of it in the instantaneous manifestation of Power, which is termed by many, the supernatural power, but which is in reality the Only Power. Just as the light which preceded the sun is the only Light, the coming of this Light makes the light of high noon as twilight.

In this closing chapter I have massed together the words of Father. The leaven, which, if buried In the meal of your human consciousness, will make the whole mass leaven:

One of Father's songs:

BEHOLD I STAND AT THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AND KNOCK. I AM THE FOUNT OF EVERY JOY.

I AM ALL INTELLECT; YOU DON'T HAVE TO GROPE. I AM ALL SUCCESS. I AM ALL HEALTH. I AM ALL WEALTH. I AM ALL STRENGTH. I AM ALL INTELLIGENCE. I AM ALL WISDOM. I AM ALL KNOWLEDGE. I AM ALL LOVE.

I AM ALL THAT YOU CAN DESIRE; AND I AM KNOCKING AT THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART. EVERY TIME A MAN SEEKS JOY,

IT IS I KNOCKING AT THE DOOR OF HIS HEART. OPEN UNTO ME. OPEN WIDE. LET ME IN.

SPEAK LORD, AND THY SERVANT HEARETH.

I SPEAK, AND MY SERVANTS WILL HEAR, WHEREVER THEY ARE. I DO NOT ASK THEM TO HEAR OR DEMAND THEM TO HEAR. I SPEAK THE WORD AND THEY HEAR. I BID THEM SEE AND THEY SEE. I BID THEM WALK AND THEY WALK;

I BID THEM BE PROSPEROUS AND THEY ARE PROSPEROUS.

In speaking of human relationship, Father Divine said:

"You cannot have mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, relatives and family, etc., and have ME too. You cannot rob God. Someone is nearer and dearer to you than I Am, then you wonder why I do not claim you. That is why you cannot get to ME. That is why you are subject to sickness and trouble, because mortals are subject to those things and you are living in mortal consciousness. God declared, 'Let there be no division among you.' Every distinction and every division is a curse to the nation. Jesus, in the seventh chapter of St. John, prayed to make them One even as we are One. Some of you claim to have been in the Truth for years, and yet you have sisters and brothers, and others and fathers, husbands and wives, etc.. Such of you are separating yourselves from the Infinite Whole and joining yourselves to the individual world. The Son ship degree of spirit prayed the Father to make them One as we are One, and that is what I have done. I have put you all in a melting-pot and have made you One. Now that is the way back home, where the Christ is. It is the only way back home - denouncing these mortal things and then REnouncinig them for Christ.

In speaking about the new life, the new idea, in relation to its former bondage, 'That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of spirit is spirit.' The new creature, then, does not go back and have converse with old relative conditions, if he expects to take on his new heritage.

"I have come to take you OUT of the grave, out of mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, husbands and wives, children and parents, races and creeds, out of mortality into immortality. I have said nothing of how long you have been dead or how long you have been in this state. Lazarus had been in the tomb four days, typifying a time equal to the four thousand years since Adam; and people thought he was dead, saying, 'he stinketh.' People have thought the seed of Christ in man is dead, it has lain so long, but it is not dead, and I have proved it is not dead, and I have come to awaken you. You are going back to the Garden of Eden as you were before the fall. If you will live in accordance with My Will, this automatic machine within - the Christ - will begin to work in you, if you abide in this consciousness.

When the new idea is born, it must of necessity have a new abode:

"I'm taking your mind out of the imaginary heaven, for, as John saw, in Revelation, twenty-first chapter, the first heaven and the first earth have passed away. I'm canceling the imaginary heaven and earth out of your consciousness. That's what I came for, to erase that imaginary heaven and earth from your mind, and prove to you that the Kingdom has come and the Will is being done. You have prayed that the Kingdom should come; how can it come when you have the imaginary heaven in the way? Get it out of the way and then the new Heaven and the new Earth can come in. The first heaven and the First earth shall not be called to mind anymore, and I am getting it out of the way so that the new Heaven and the new Earth can come in. We have Heaven here because we are making Earth a paradise. The old seed idea was alright, but this is the harvest now. The old idea that was planted in your consciousness for years, is bearing fruit now. The prayers of your dear mother, the prayers of your dear father, have been answered, and the new Heaven and the new Earth have come down from God out of heaven.

In speaking of the reason for so much sickness and failure among those in metaphysics, Father says:

"I was just considering how slight a thing it takes to recognize the body, the actual body, of Christ. It is wonderful! Truly wonderful that it is that way. I repeat again that quotation I so often use: 'For this cause many are sickly among you, because they do not discern the body of Christ.' It is truly necessary to discern the actual materialization of the Christ in order to be freed from mortal limitations and be saved. The Truth teaches and the Truth students particularly have discerned the Spiritual Christ, but they have denied the materialized Christ. Consequently they are subject to all kinds of sickness and trouble in their physical bodies, because they have not included them in the Christ. They say the spiritualized Christ is perfect in them, and is not dependent upon a physical body. Then why bother with the physical body? Let it go down into the grave. But Jesus came to save physical bodies, and I Am here, the materialized Christ, to save your physical bodies. By gazing upon this perfect manifestation of the materialized Christ you will reproduce the same in your own bodies in every joint, every sinew, and every bone. You will see good in your hands and fingers, in the fine skin, etc.. You will feel this boundless joy coursing through you. Limitless blessings! He who is an anti-christ must be half brother to the atheist. The anti-christ does not believe in the materialized Christ of nineteen hundred years ago, or of today. The atheist does not believe in God. Take these things in, dear ones, for your consideration.

Speaking of the impersonal nature of the Christ:

"Though I should not be visible to you, I Am always with you. I have established this Truth, and, with or without a body, it is operative. It is even more operative when you do not see ME. Nothing can stop the operation of this Truth, for I have established It. If America should sink and every visible expression were to sink in an earthquake, it could not stop It. If you are sick, all you need to do is call on My name and you do not have to see anybody or anything.

Explaining the manner in which manifestations were concreted, or brought into visibility, Father said:

"That which you think is spirit, that which you think is only mental, can be materialized by the power of Christ Itself. 'As any as received Him, to them gave He power to become the Sons of God,' etc.. When you believe in the materialization of Christ, that gives you the power to materialize things, but the average person, who believes only in the spiritualization of the Christ, cannot materialize things. I might say here, if I can coin a word out of nothing, they can only imaginationize things. When you realize that 'the Word was made flesh,' then you materialize and bring out the activity of Christ in you. When you come to this relation things are actually materialized. Humanity has lost sight of the great importance of the materialized Christ. For your highest good it is necessary to realize that Christ has been made flesh and dwells among us. Dear ones, I am sure that those that are in Truth have been taught that God is a Spirit; they have misconceived the idea that the Word has been made flesh. Many make shipwreck of good faith, and cause themselves to be atheistically inclined, and have caused many more to be atheists than deists. Every Spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is of God is of My Kingdom, but every Spirit that denies that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is an anti-christ. He is separating his body from the spirit. God declared 'What I have joined together let no an put asunder.' How dare you separate Jesus from Christ, or Christ from Jesus. If you do you are separating your body from the Spirit, and 'whatever you measure shall he measured to you again, and it shall be full, pressed down, shaken together and running over." Again I say, 'your ways are not my ways,' saith the Lord, for as the heavens are above the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. Now realize, dear ones, that it is for your good to see the materialization of the Christ. Until the Word was made flesh we could not behold his glory, as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But not until It was made flesh could man behold all the glory of God. Since you beheld His glory, therefore, have all we received of His fullness, grace for grace. Do you not see that step by step it came into actuality, as we grew in the knowledge of the Truth? Then of ALL of His FULLNESS have we received, grace for grace. The you, as well as I, will be the identical duplication of the Christ that was manifested nineteen hundred years ago. "

I give absent treatments? No, because God is present everywhere.

In response to the question "How to go into the silence?" Father answered that it was unnecessary to sit and go into the silence if you lived in the silence. By silence he meant silence of mortal opinions and beliefs.

"Beloved, now we are the Sons of God - God in any individual expressions of himself. 'The manifested Christ reveals what the unmanifested Christ conceals.

'He will come as thief in the night - that is, unknown to you, and asked or disguised."

'Since Christ came, you have had the same right to the Tree of Life that Adam had before he sinned."

Father refers to the Lord's prayer as having already been answered. We need a fuller recognition of this fact, to consider it under the light, "Before they ask I will answer." The important part of the prayer is: "For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

Paul said: "For of the fullness of his glory have we received, grace for grace' - all of his glory, every bit of it. We have received ALL - so claim your right and press your claim.

"He re-storeth my soul. Your soul was once stored up in God before Adam, and protected by him, but it has become scattered, and is now being gathered up into him. 'He RE-STORETH my soul, my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall ABIDE with me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.' I KNOW the Christ in Me can save you. I KNOW it - if you will LET the Christ in you, save you.'

'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God is the source of all supply, and will satisfy every good desire. That is the way I get my money, and in no other way. The abundance of the fullness of the Consciousness of Good - no place is vacant from the FULLNESS thereof. NO space is vacant. No space in you is vacant. It is in every joint, every sinew, every vein, every bone, and every fibre and cell of your body -the ABUNDANCE of the fullness of the Consciousness of Good - I am speaking to every cell in your body, and the Christ in every cell is responding and coming forth to the Christ.

'And it is done here and now If you will abide in Me, and let My word abide in you, you will, through constant praise and thanksgiving, create such an atmosphere about you that your message, silent or spoken, will continue to bless and heal and draw all joy and health, and love and life unto you.'

It is not necessary that one come to ME as a person to be abundantly blessed, but that they form a mental and spiritual contact, raising their consciousness to contact the Christ-consciousness, if they would be even as I AM, free from all bonds and limitations. The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of God is the source of all supply, and will satisfy every good desire."

One of the angels at Father's asked this terse question: "Would a chick hatched in an incubator call the incubator its mother, and look to it for its inheritance?" The answer is obvious.

'It is essential that all moral intellect be stilled that the voice of God may be heard. A complete relaxation of the conscious mentality is absolutely necessary, being still and knowing the 'I AM' God within, speaking, sacrificing, and laying down every prop that tends to hurt or bind, and depending solely on God alone. Then running with patience the race, for it is not unto the swift and the mighty, but unto him that endureth unto the end.'

POSTSCRIPT

Beloved - at this instant, as you read, we are in the glorious silence of the Presence. The Father within and the Father without is present. We are pausing in the flooding light of Truth, which is permeating the entire universe. The heart fills full and runs over with the joy of this Presence. The former things have passed away - you are entering the new Kingdom. In this hushed and lovely moment of silence we give thanks to the rather. Son of the Living God, arise and shine, for thy light has come. The new day has dawned, and the shadows of the day of relativity are fleeing before this Light.

Michael Pupin once said:

"These big stars are only the beginning of God's creative energy. The human soul, in so far as science can penetrate, is the last chapter of cosmic history as far as it has hen written. It is in the soul that Divinity resides. When we think of that, we are not so small. Science has found nothing in the universe which even compares in importance with the life of man."

It is, then, to Father Divine that I give thanks and praise for having shown me something of this wondrous Life which looks out from the stars instead of up to them.

'Blessings, blessings, blessings so many you cannot count them. '

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. You are laved in the glorious flood of Life -

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