Do You Know God?

An Introduction to the Divine Pattern of the Universe

By Dr. Henry Clifford Kinley, D.D., Ph.D
Founder and Dean of the Kinley Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research
Cincinnati, Ohio

The Officers:
Dr. H.C. Kinley, Founder and Dean
Dr. Carl F. Gross, President
Mr. Fred T. Allen, Vice President
Dr. Damon A. Young, Assistant Dean
Dr. Robert S. Conn, Director of Education
Mrs. Willa M. Fishback, Secretary
Mr. Annanias Hodo, Treasurer
Mrs. Lillian R. Conn, Director of Music
MRs. La Trelle Glassmeyer, Director Public Relations

(An Introduction to the revelation and subsequent teachings of Dr. H.C. Kinley, embraced in the philosophy known as the DIVINE PATTERN OF THE UNIVERSE.)

From the earliest days of my youth I had wondered how it was possible for God to have made the Heavens and the earth in six days. I wondered how it could be that no man had seen God, yet Moses wrote of the creation as an eye-witness. I determined to search in the very core of the universe itself--the God-head--until the answer was revealed. I too would know the mystery of mysteries.

I turned to the solitude of the deserts; the wildernesses with their singing streams. I turned to the solitude of the ocean's vastness in vain search. Bewildered, I turned to meditation upon that part of myself which was created in the image and likeness of the God about whom I wished to learn. I found then the true meaning of, "Be still and know that I am God." My first lesson in universal knowledge.

While in my meditation I felt myself drifting away into a sleep which was not sleep. I lost consciousness of my room, my bed, even my body. Yet I was not unconscious. The sensation of having my mind turned backward and inward persisted until I was no longer in possession of any earthly knowledge. I knew that I existed, and that was all. I did not exist in relation to anything I could recognize. All I could recognize was "ME". This was that part of me which was created in the image and likeness of God. It was to that ME that the Creator spoke. He could do nothing with the egotistical, misdirected personality which had evolved from the many incarnations as a creature of earthly flesh.

The dizzy, backward journey from the realm of time as I knew it into the eternity of pre-creation was exhausting, yet there was no fear. There was no me to be afraid. I had become absorbed into the universe.

I was spoken to while I was in this state. I say spoken to, yet there was no impact of sound waves upon my ear, and there were no words used. The speech did not come from somewhere else; it seemed to originate within me...and so it did, for I was not one with the universe. It was willed that I should know a certain fact, and instantly I knew it. God willed it, and as He willed so the entire universe, with me as a part of it, reacted.

I knew I was being transported somewhere, yet there was no sensation of motion. For the moment I was universal; and motion is physical. It occupies time and takes place in space, both of which are of this earth. It was being willed that I should be at a point in the past where a revelation was to be made to me and I was responding to that Divine Will. I was there!

I was there at the time in history just before Moses entered the cloud which surrounded the top of Sinai. I was not in the cloud nor on the mountain, neither was I suspended in space above them. I was a part of the universe of which these were but the visible counterparts.

I watched the Children of Israel approach the foot of the mountain; I felt rather than saw, Moses and the seventy elders enter the mountain, for it was as if they were treading upon a part of me. The beating of their feet disturbed my vibration and I knew I was being visited by mortals of a lower realm.