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Father and Mother Divine of the The International Peace Mission Movement in Sayville, NY

Father Divine supposedly kills people with flashes of lightning

Father Divine

Father Divine aka George Baker was a black cult leader that set up his headquarters in Sayville. The house was sold to him because the prior owner wanted to spite a neighbor that he did not get along with by having a black live next to him. The ad actually said for sale to "colored." He commanded his followers to worship him as God incarnate. Their first communal dwelling, which they called heaven, was in Sayville. All members had to turn over all possessions to him, and work for free. There was lots of noise. "I phoned to Divine's place one night and I asked if the noise could be stopped," said a neighbor. "A voice I believed to be his replied, ‘Do you know whom you are talking to? This is God himself!"'

A Sayville resident that said he was God, and said he killed a judge with his supernatural powers.

The Curse on the Village: He put a curse on the village " Sayville sowed seeds of its own destruction."

Because of the weird goings on, many real estate agents wanted to run him out of town since his presence lowered the property values on Macon St. Worldwide there were 178 “Heavens” and Father Devine contributed to Sayville’s reputation for this sort of thing worldwide. People came from all over to worship him as god. According to Newsday, ""I have information that this man is not a moral man, but immoral," Smith said. 'I believe that he is not a useful member of society, but rather a menace to society.' Divine would have the last laugh. Five days after the sentencing, the 55-year-old Judge Smith died of a heart attack. From his jail cell in Riverhead, Divine is reported to have said, 'I hated to do it.' " "Devine Intervention in Sayville" by George DeWan, Newsday. PBS said there were "Newspapers reported allegations of mishandling of funds, sexual abuse, and homosexuality." He also thought white women looked better than black ones.

He was arrested in 1931 for being a nuisance. Father Divine was convicted, and immediately afterwards the judge died. Papers all over the country said the judge was struck down by god for sentencing Devine to 1 year in jail. Eventually to the relief of the business community and real estate agents, Devine relocated to Harlem. His white woman was called Mother Devine.

"FLASHES of LIGHTENING went out from his body." << Symbol of Sayville

USE OF LIGHTNING: According to the FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE'S International Peace Mission Movement, "Witnesses say that just then FATHER clutched HIS Heart and in the power of HIS Spirit flashes of lightning went out from HIS Body, and as it did so, the D. A. staggered from the middle of the courtroom to the stairway outside, falling down the stairs paralyzed." In addition, his followers claimed he set a hotel on fire, and killed his critic Mrs. Annie Hallick, all with his supernatural powers.

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Harris, Sara. (1953). Father Divine: Holy Husband. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 320 pp.
Harris researches and writes about practical sociology. A biography, and frequently sympathetic
portrait, of Father Divine, a diminutive African American born as George Baker in Georgia on a
rice plantation around 1890. In 1912, he broke with two preachers he had teamed with in
Baltimore, and declared himself to be the dwelling of God. He relocated to Georgia where
authorities forced him to leave in 1914. He resettled in New York City and built a following, and
then relocated his base to Sayville, Long Island. Gradually, he built up the Divine Peace Mission
with an enthusiastic following, especially among poor New Yorkers. By 1930, his movement was
increasingly interracial and had attracted more middle class adherents. He renamed himself
Father Divine and referred to himself as God. He reported how he effected physical cures and
inflicted retributive illness and death. In 1933, he relocated to Harlem, New York City. Co-
operative businesses staffed with his followers and underwritten with their money allowed him to
house his followers and feed the community during the Depression. In 1942, he relocated to
Philadelphia. His movement had major real estate holdings in Philadelphia, New York City, and
Newark, New Jersey, that were worth millions. Followers surrendered their money to him and
renounced their families, and he gave them new names. A follower’s death was interpreted by
Divine as evidence that the person was not a true follower. He prohibited sexual relations by
married couples. Rumors persisted that he used young women followers who were close to him,
known as ‘angels’ and ‘rosebuds’, for sexual indulgence. Harris reports that his young male
followers worshipped him with the same “naked sexual glare” as of the young women. She
provides a description of a coterie of young secretaries who manifest physical orgasm rooted in
spiritual ecstasy.

http://old.www.lcms.org/cyclopedia/a/f.html
Father Divine
(original name believed to be George Baker; ca. 1880–1965). Negro cult leader; b. probably Hutchinson Island, near Savannah, Georgia; itinerant worker; asst. to evangelist Samuel Morris in Baltimore; ca. 1907 Morris took the name Father Jehovia and the title God in the Fathership Degree and gave Baker the name Messenger and the title God in the Sonship Degree: traveling preacher in the South 1912–15; to NYC 1915; operated an employment agency; purchased home 1919 in a white community at Sayville, Long Island, under name of Major Morgan J. Devine and made it a communal dwelling, his first “heaven”; operated an employment agency; changed name to Father Divine 1930; arrested with followers for disturbing peace 1931; released on bail and moved to Harlem 1932; opened first Harlem “heaven” 1933; sued by an apostate and moved to Philadelphia 1941; est. “kingdom” including many properties; movement called Peace* Mission; defined deity: “God is not only personified and materialized. He is repersonified and rematerialized. He rematerialized and He rematerialates. He rematerialates and He is rematerializatable. He repersonificates and He repersonifitizes.”

"THis Far by Faith" on PBS
www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_3/p_10.html
But his success created problems. Father Divine lived large, dressed ostentatiously, and challenged the status quo. As his empire grew, so did the investigations by journalists and government officials. Newspapers reported allegations of mishandling of funds, sexual abuse, and homosexuality.
His actions got him arrested, imprisoned, and, on one occasion, institutionalized in a mental asylum.
He married white women and lived openly with them.

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