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.
Then the heavy tread ceased and a lesser one continued to approach. I could sense the nearness of a soul which was soon to become pure intelligence with me, moving onward toward its perfection. I knew the seventy old men had stopped while Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu continued. Finally, only the one most advanced soul entered into the cloud which was the connecting link between spirit and matter. Too dense to be spirit and too ethereal to be pure matter, the cloud became the meeting place between the soul of a mortal man and the Eternal Soul.
Still my sense of vibratory balance was disturbed. I was spirit and man was invading my domain. But soon he was to become one with me in the spirit, and together we could approach God.
I could feel the man Moses being commanded to lie down upon the ground...place his earthy body upon the earth of which it was part, and where I had left mine.
Once more I could feel the pulling into space; through space into time; through time into eternity as the part of Moses which was made in the image and likeness of God separated from its physical counterpart. Once more my balance was restored for spirit communed with spirit.
As though I was reliving my life in the age of Moses I could see the prayers I had prayed being unfolded and flashed on the screen of cosmic consciousness at the same time as were Moses pleadings for the Israelites. These blended into a symphony of universal desire which was to be fulfilled before we returned to the shackles of mortal limitation. Yes, our return would hold forth a promise, given only to those whose spiritual eyes had been opened.
He and I became one in the universe and awaited the pleasure of the God of Creation.
As one senses the approach of a source of tremendous power, so all around us became as one gigantic electric charge. It was flowing through us and emanating from us, for we were one with it. It was universal and we were a part of the universe.
We, and our surroundings had been radiant with light, but now we began to dim...there was no need to see. We could sense with greater clarity as the source of power came nearer. Greater and greater it became until we were vibrating with such frequency as to approach insensibility. After all, we were not God. It was a provision of His superior wisdom that no man was permitted to see His face.
Our surroundings changed from dimness to darkness and then to the blackness of inter-stellar space, where darkness becomes an impenetrable solid. When? How? There is no when; there is no how in eternity. As it is willed, so is it!
As if to further reduce Himself to our limitations God did not present Himself as the Great Source of Power we felt Him to be. Ours were not spirit minds, they were but human minds freed from physical bodies for the moment, and functioning on a spiritual plane. The human mind cannot accept that which it cannot conceive. It conceives only in comparison with something else it can and has conceived in the past. We had seen men, we were men with limited capacities and we knew something of these limitation. Thus God presented Himself to us as a man, but with unlimited capacities.
