The Mind of God

In the Scriptures of the Bible it reads, "My ways are not your ways,
my thoughts are not your thoughts.  Mine are from above while yours
are from beneath."  Here God is saying to the people: you don't think
like I think.  And your ways are not like My ways.  My ways are above,
yours are from beneath.
       If God's ways are above and God's thoughts are above and ours are
beneath then there's a gulf between man and God.  And as long as that
gulf exists between man and God man cannot ever be what God originally
created him to be; which is in His own image and likeness.  You can't
be in the image and likeness of God in form and not in mind and spirit
and thought.
So, if we are created to be in the image, from the scriptural or
Biblical point of view, in the image and likeness of God, then we are
created with the capacity to be able to think like God.  And therefore
if we can think like God we can act like God.  God's actions are Godly
and when a human being acts Godly that means that human being is
thinking on a higher level.  Are we in agreement?
          In the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Jesus never talks
about God's thinking.  He just says as a man thinketh in his heart so
is he.  You can't get a people truly resurrected just by curtailing
their actions.  We have to get into the mind of the human being to
elevate the thinking of people.  And when people can think above they
will rise above.  Clear?
       Okay.  So Jesus says, as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.  How
do you think in your heart?  The heart here [chest] is not the heart
that the scriptures are talking about.  The heart that the scriptures
talking about is the core of the person's being-thinking.  That's the
real heart.  It is the essence of the individual.  It is rational.  It
is intelligent.  It is not emotional.
       When you think of the heart you think of emotion.  But to think like
God we have to be able to think above emotion.  And that's what
separates man from God and beast from man.  Beast is moved by
appetite.  Man is controlled by emotion; but God is the master of the
process of reasoning.
       So in the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad we are taught
that Islam is Mathematics and Mathematics is Islam.  The Nation of
Islam, according to our Lessons, is all wise and does everything right
and exact.  We can't do things right and exact unless we do things
mathematically.  To do things mathematically is to do things with
precision.
       When you do things emotionally you throw away mathematics.  And most
of our decisions in life are made not from know-ledge but from
feelings.  [The minister sings] Feelings, nothing more than feelings.
If you haven't got nothing more than feelings you in bad shape.
Children feel.
       Mature people think on the basis of know-ledge; actual facts.  How
do you feel?  I feel fine.  You don't ask the person, what do you
know?  How do you feel?  That shows the level that we operate on.  We
operate on feelings.  And that's why we're hurt so much and we're all
so bound up subjectively, because we're moved by emotion.
          God has emotions.  But He doesn't make decisions with emotion.
God is so magnificently mathematical.  He can plan long range and the
people get thrown off by the majesty of His mathematics 'cause it does
not have emotion involved.  God has emotion, but He's not ruled by
emotion.

The Islam World
By Elijah Muhammad
July 27, 1957

   One may ask, "What is True History?  What is True Religion?"  True
history is the history without falsehood and true religion is the
same, a religion without falsehood.  The present history of the Black
Nation given by their enemies, the white race (the devils) contains
falsehood.  So does the religion called Christianity contain
falsehood.
   The Black Nation's history given by their God, One who is Truth
Himself and loves the Black Nation and One who knows the beginning and
end of all things, is the True History and that God's Religion is the
True Religion for His people.  The knowledge of the Truth was not to
be given to you and I until the Time given to false-hood (the devils)
had fully expired, because falsehood was allowed to rule the Black
Nation for a time to try that Nation; something never experienced by
the Original Nation (Black Man) before and never will it happen again.
But, the experience made the Black Nation much more wiser to the
knowledge of self, and of that other than Himself.
   Knowing that iron ore exists in the earth is one thing.  Mining it
out of the earth and putting it into the service of people is another
thing.  Regardless of how strong iron appears over that which He made,
for it is foolishness on the part of any manufacturer to make that
which he has not the power to master.
   The Devils white races' knowledge of the so-called Negroes is like
that of one who captures or steals a cub lion and takes it home for a
pet or train it to obey and follow him, or to do acts and tricks
contrary to the nature of the lion's family, for fun or commercial
purposes.  He could not tame the old lions to do his bidding for he
had not the knowledge of the birth and original tamer of the old
parent lions.
   The so-called Negroes of the original nation, who have been deprived
of the knowledge of their own selves and nation by their slave masters
(the devils), are not living and acting the life of themselves, but
rather the life and acts according to their masters, (the devils).
   Now, they will even fight and oppose anyone who attempts to try
teaching and training them into the True History of their own and
others.
   The Truth has come to us from the God of Truth and Falsehood must
vanish.  Stop being the actor--jumping and dancing at the music of
other than your own.  Allah (God), the Best Knower of Truth, has
taught me the Truth to give to you who will hear and believe.  He said
that there is no birth record of the Black Nation.
   We are the Original people of the Earth, and the Originator (God) of
the Universe was a Black Man, and its’ powers is controlled by a Black
Man.  Not since we had our deportation from Moon (66 trillion years
ago) has the Secret of God really been revealed to the public.
   The Holy Qur-an Sharrieff comes closer to it than the Bible, though
the Bible gives a very ugly symbolic description of God in the book of
Daniel and the Revelation; of all Truth, the Greatest is the Truth of
God and His enemy, the devil.
   The knowledge of self and others is really a blessing that can't be
compared or even duplicated.  Especially coming to us, the so-called
Negroes, whom the world looks upon as fools, and fools we were before
the coming of Allah in the Person of Master W. F. Muhammad, to Whom be
praised forever.
   He taught me that six trillion years before, we saw that the Star was
essential to have in our Flag.  That was seventy-two trillion years
ago.
   Six trillion years after putting in the Star, which brings us to
sixty-six trillion years ago, we made the Moon and put it in our Flag.
The Moon is a part of the Earth.  She is devoid of water and
vegetation and in the deportation, the Moon lost all of its water on
this part.
   Before the making of moon we used Mars for our Moon, which is
forty-eight million miles from the Earth.  Before the making of the
present Moon, the Earth was thirty-six thousand miles closer to the
Planet Mars.  Of course, that is only a fraction when compared with
the great distances between our Worlds.
   Again, there is some secret sciences about these figures for there is
life on Mars and six other Planets, but not the type of Earth life
that you and I are a part of.  They are referred to in the language of
the Seven Worlds and Seven Wisdoms of Allah, to Whom be praised
forever.
   The entire present Universe was made in six periods of time,
according to the Holy Qur-an but whether these periods were of six
billions or six trillions periods, I can't say, but I must surely
disagree on your Bible's theory of six thousand years of which we know
refers to this world of Satan's creation and rule.