Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research

The Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research grew out of the 1931 vision of Dr. Henry Clifford Kinley, an Ohio Christian minister who had absorbed insights from two very different sources, the Sacred Name Movement and Theosophy. The former had swept through conservative churches following World War I(1914-18)with the idea that the Creator of the universe should be called by the name He had revealed, Yahweh, and his Son should be called Yahshua rather than Jesus. In 1931, Kinley claimed that Yahweh revealed his plan for the Ages, and Kinley began to teach what he had learned. For that purpose, he founded the Kinley Institute that later evolved into the Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research.

The statement of aims of the institute are "To form a nucleus of Universal Brotherhood of Humanity in Yahshua the Messiah without distinction of Race or Nationality, Creed, Sex, Caste or Color; To investigate the Unexplained Spirit Law or so called Law of Nature and the Powers latent in man; To encourage and promote the study of Scriptures, comparative Religions, Psychology, Philosophy and Modern (practical and occult) Science." This statement was adapted from that of the Theosophical Society.

In 1958, Carl F. Gross succeeded Kinley as head of the institute and along with a group of Kinley's students relocated its headquarters to Los Angeles where for the first time it was incorporated. Later he published Kinley's primary text, Elohim the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe. Yahweh had revealed his pattern or plan previously to Moses, who embodied it in the Hebrew tabernacle. It was later embodied in such teachings as the Kabbalah, where it is pictured in the Tree of Life diagram.

Yahweh appeared at various times in His super incorporeal form on several occasions including to Moses (Exodus 24), Isaiah (Isaiah 6), and at the mount of Transfiguration (Matthew 17). Yahweh is ultimately Spirit, without form. However, since matter is simply condensed Spirit, Yahweh can take physical form. He does this in a more general sense as the material creation, but in a specific sense in Yahshua. Following his resurrection, Yahshua continued in His "physical" form as the Comforter (usually called the Holy Spirit).

Yahweh has acted in history though a series of ages or dispensations. The last of these ages began with the resurrection of Yahshua. The revelation to Kinley was to usher in the end of this present church age, which should come to an end at sometime around the end of the twentieth century.

During the 1990s, by which time the institute had developed centers across North America, the headquarters moved to Florida and new leadership emerged in the person of Dr. Kenneth Haverly, III. The institute can be contacted at P.O. Box 536156, Orlando, FL 32856-6156.

Sources:

Kinley, Henry Clifford. Elohim the Archetype (Original) Pattern of the Universe. Los Angeles: Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research, 1961, 1969.