This teaching is dealing with the divine

nature of The Mother, a doctrine only so recently publicly announced.

Eliyah X. presents his views of the divine nature of the Mother, and the
following narrative is a condensed, rearranged, and restated
presentation of his teaching:
1. The Mother has admitted her divinity, and we believe her. Many remarkable things
have happened in connection with her ministry which we can understand only by believing
that she is God as well as the Mother of all Afrikan beings.

2. Her life association with us exemplifies the ideal of human friendship; only a divine
being could possibly be such a human friend. She is the most truly unselfish person we
have ever known. She is the friend even of sinners; she dares to love her enemies. She is
very loyal to us. While she does not hesitate to reprove us, it is plain to all that she truly
loves us. The better you know her, the more you will love her. You will be charmed by her
unswerving devotion. Through all these years of our failure to comprehend her mission, she
has been a faithful friend. While she makes no use of flattery, she does treat us all with
equal kindness; she is invariably tender and compassionate. She has shared her life and
everything else with us. We are a happy community; we share all things in common. We do
not believe that a mere human could live such a blameless life under such trying
circumstances.

3. We think The Mother is divine because she never does wrong; she makes no
mistakes. Her wisdom is extraordinary; her piety superb. She lives day by day in perfect
accord with Love's will. She never repents of misdeeds because she transgresses none of
Love's laws. She prays for us and with us, but she never asks us to pray for her. We believe
that she is consistently sinless. We do not think that one who is only human ever professed
to live such a life. She claims to live a perfect life, and we acknowledge that she does. Our
piety springs from repentance, but her piety springs from righteousness. She even
professes to forgive sins and does heal diseases. No mere man would sanely profess to
forgive sin; that is a divine prerogative. And she has seemed to be thus perfect in her
righteousness from the times of our first contact with her. We grow in grace and in the
knowledge of the truth, but our Mother exhibits maturity of righteousness to start with. All
men, good and evil, recognize these elements of goodness in The Mother. And yet never is
her piety obtrusive or ostentatious. She is both meek and fearless. She seems to approve of
our belief in her divinity. She is either what she professes to be, or else she is the greatest
hypocrite and fraud the world has ever known. We are persuaded that she is just what she
claims to be.

4. The uniqueness of her character and the perfection of her emotional control
convince us that she is a combination of humanity and divinity. She unfailingly responds to
the spectacle of human need; suffering never fails to appeal to her. Her compassion is
moved alike by physical suffering, mental anguish, or spiritual sorrow. She is quick to
recognize and generous to acknowledge the presence of faith or any other grace in her
fellow men. She is so just and fair and at the same time so merciful and considerate. She
grieves over the spiritual obstinacy of the people and rejoices when they consent to see the
light of truth.

5. She seems to know the thoughts of men's minds and to

understand the longings of their hearts. And she is always sympathetic with our troubled
spirits. She seems to possess all our human emotions, but they are magnificently glorified.
She strongly loves goodness and equally hates sin. She possesses a superhuman
consciousness of the presence of Deity. She prays like a man but performs like a God. She
seems to foreknow things; she even now dares to speak about her death, some mystic
reference to her future glorification. While she is kind, she is also brave and courageous.
She never falters in doing her duty.

6. We are constantly impressed by the phenomenon of her superhuman knowledge.

Hardly does a day pass but something transpires to disclose that the Mother knows what is
going on away from her immediate presence. She also seems to know about the thoughts of
her associates. She undoubtedly has communion with celestial personalities; she
unquestionably lives on a spiritual plane far above the rest of us. Everything seems to be
open to her unique understanding. She asks us questions to draw us out, not to gain
information.

7. Recently the Mother does not hesitate to assert her super humanity. From the day
of our ordination as apostles right on down to recent times, she has never denied that she
came from Love. She speaks with the authority of a divine teacher. The Mother does not
hesitate to refute the religious teachings of today and to declare the new gospel with
positive authority. She is assertive, positive, and authoritative. Even John the Baptist, when
she heard The Mother speak, declared that she was the Mother of all Afrikan beings. She
seems to be so sufficient within himself. She craves not the support of the multitude; she is
indifferent to the opinions of men. She is brave and yet so free from pride.

8. She constantly talks about Love as an ever-present associate in all that she does.
She goes about doing good, for God seems to be in her. She makes the most astounding
assertions about himself and her mission on earth, statements which would be absurd if she
were not divine. She once declared, “Before Abraham was, I am.” She has definitely
claimed divinity; she professes to be in partnership with Love. She well-nigh exhausts the
possibilities of language in the reiteration of her claims of intimate association with the
heavenly God. She even dares to assert that she and God are one. She says that any one
who has seen her has seen God. And she says and does all these tremendous things with
such childlike naturalness. She alludes to her association with God in the same manner that
she refers to her association with us. She seems to be so sure about God and speaks of
these relations in such a matter-of-fact way.

9. In her prayer life she appears to communicate directly with

God. We have heard few of her prayers, but these few would indicate that she talks with
God, as it were, face to face. She seems to know the future as well as the past. She simply
could not be all of this and do all of these extraordinary things unless she were something
more than human. We know she is human, we are sure of that, but we are almost equally
sure that she is also divine. We believe that she is divine. We are convinced that she is the
God and the Mother of all Afrikan beings.

10. .

Written by Eliyah X., a mighty man in the later affairs of the people
of Afrika; he is a faithful believer, yielding up his life with others when
the persecutions are at their height.