The mind that is governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh/body cannot please God.
Romans Chapter 8:5-8
Mind and Body Unity
There was a time that man could communicate directly to God. This was the state of sinlessness that we witnessed before the Fall. This is the state of having mind and body unity; a state of the spirit leading the body or flesh.
Is it possible for us to have mind and body unity - for the flesh and spirit to unite into one? If so, when and where will this happen? It's not really a question of if it will happen because man must absolutely return to the state of sinlessness.
If the mind and body are moving in different directions they will never find unity. On the other hand, if the mind and body can welcome each other and move in the same direction, then they will work in harmony instead of be in conflict.
Many ask why God does not make our mind and body unify if He is such a powerful God.
The author of the Divine Principle which this blog is based on discussed about his time in prison for teaching about God during the Japanese occupation in Korea which he relied on this principle of mind and body unity:
"I have experienced the harshest life in a prison labor camp and I found that actually the greatest suffering is not found in prison but in the conflict between mind and body. Sinful man always regrets the consequences of his body struggling against his mind.
I ultimately came to the conclusion that my enemy is not the world or even the communists but my own body. Your worst enemy is your body.
Do you believe it? I established one very firm principle for myself, that I must conquer myself before having dominion over anything else.
Each of you is also committed to a ruthless battle of subjugating your own body. Your job is to have your body surrender to your mind and then bring it in the same direction. That is why a religious life is the pursuit of conquering your body.
If you have not conquered your own body then you haven't reached the standard yet.
Religion teaches the importance of a life of penance; when your body wants to rest then you should wake up and pray. Your body wants to eat delicious meals but religion teaches the value of fasting.
What the body wants the mind rejects.
By giving up your body you can receive the entire universe, so it's a very good deal in a way. By giving up a little bit of your flesh you can gain the entire universe.
This is absolutely true.
Why is it that you cannot feel the love of God all the time?
Your body is the barrier preventing the love of God from reaching you. God's love is shining forth but your body is blocking it, so by sacrificing your body and liquidating the barrier so the shining love of God can freely reach you.
Once this happens nothing will be in your way and the total unity between God and man and mind and body can become a living reality. Once you can receive God's love, God will certainly dwell with you. God needs true love and cannot leave it once He has found it.
Do you really understand this now?
What you ultimately need the most is the love of God. Do you know how beautiful and how powerful the love of God is?
In this world men and women have romances and say they could die for love of each other, but suppose they were to fall in love with God first.
That's the key.
I searched and found how that love of God can be reached. I not only found the answer but have experienced how the love of God can reach man. With the love of God the mind and body can unite in total oneness.
The love of God needs an object in order to manifest; man is that object. When will this become reality? Religions have been teaching that the end of the world will occur when one central figure comes, or in Christian terms the Lord of the Second Advent.
The love of God will be seen where the Messiah and his bride meet for the heavenly wedding ceremony.
Is that place a horrible scene of judgment or a scene of cosmic spring and the fulfillment of love? God works logically and through your own mind you know that the first heavenly family will bring the cosmic spring."SMM
The Messiah will first reconcile the body and mind
When the four realms create a relationship centered on God's love, this completes the circuit for the expression of His love. This is where the perfection of love is born and the heavenly kingdom will expand over time. This four-position relationship in each family is duplicated and expands.
What is the Lord of the Second Advent or the second messiah's mission when he returns?
Jesus Christ was to realize a physical Heaven on Earth, not just a spiritual path to Heaven. Are we currently able to live in a Utopia?
No, Christians surmount that we can only have true peace once we shed our bodies and enter the realm of spirit. This is why the Messiah returns. To bring physical salvation.
When he comes it is asked in the bible, will he find faith?
So, will he be spending his time visiting countries to heal people with cancer and feed the poor? In a way he will be. He will be giving spiritual food to humanity in order to unite their mind and body with the fire of God's love.
That's the job of the Messiah. If he can ignite the love of God in your heart so that your body and mind can become one, then he has done his job.
God would not create such a world to only be recognized and loved in the world of spirit only and He has never given up the fight to bring restoration back to earth and His children.
He cannot build the Kingdom of Heaven without reconciling the body and mind's contradictory elements. Jesus said we join him in Paradise which is not Heaven. The Messiah will give the word to teach us how to subjugate the body which is blocking God's love.
What else does God really need from man?
God has lots of love within Himself so why should He need more? Is He greedy?
"I am a man so I have love in my heart and in my body, but can I say that I don't need any more love, that I have enough love to be happy? It is a profound truth that love will never become real love until it finds an object."
Even though God is almighty, He still cannot activate love without having an object in which He can have a give and take relationship.
An object ignites love.
Who is the highest object of God's love? A monkey?
What else but man can be qualified as God's object of deep love? Then, does the universal God choose to love just any kind of mind or does He long to deal with one who has a universal mind? Is the mind or body God's real object? Which one does He relate with love?
Your mind is so big that you can even trap God inside.
Your mind feels like it is big enough to challenge the world. Every human has the qualification to be the object of God because we are endowed with such a mind that God can deal with. When God loves you, will He complain how dirty you are after you dealt with the satanic world and push you aside? Is God's love conditional, partial or total and unreserved?
When God fervently embraces you, this burns away all your sinful past in order to try to give you all of His love.
One who is enraptured in the total love of God, every cell will be filled and there will not be a want for anything further. You feel totally intoxicated in this state and do not want this goodness to end. This is the real world in which we live. Every human is supposed to be host to such a love. Don't we want to have even a taste of such a world now?
This is why we desire and long for World Peace.
The teachings of Reverend Moon is for the purpose to lead humanity toward such a world of peace and love. But many people believe him to be a hustler or that he is deluding members and people to a beautiful idea in order to enslave everybody for his own selfish purpose.
How do you know this is not so?
Even if he is a swindler, a better solution has never been found in all of history in order to bring about Heaven on Earth. He is like the plus pole trying to put a fire under the cold and sleepy minus world.
Plus and minus instantly spark when they first unite, but this world has become so numb that this connection has been lost. It takes a lot of effort to wake up this sleepy world and put a spark that will jump us awake.
Both God and man are in the same tragic situation because their common purpose has not been fulfilled.
What kind of God is He, and why does He approach man?
God and man definitely need one another so there is a common goal or purpose that they both want to achieve to seal this bond where we can meet or else we cannot unite. We need to know the importance of the relationship of God and man.
Man have used money, knowledge and experience to be able to survive on this earthly plane. But, does God need these things from man?
No.
There has to exist a common purpose where God needs man and man needs God. This common purpose has somehow not been fulfilled. This is the tragedy of both God and man.
Where can we find a remedy for the conflict between our mind and our body trying to dominate the other. There must be something wrong in our hearts to cause this conflict. In the original world before sin sprouted, there was a place where both God and man dwell, but somewhere along the way man separated himself from this place and lost connection to God in the process.
Concluding that there is a perfect God and realizing the imperfect state of man today we must come to one logical conclusion: Man is the one who is out of order, not God. Man deviated from his original state and is thus prevented from reaching perfection.
If we reconcile this imperfection of man we can soon connect to the perfection of God.
When we acknowledge the repercussions of the Fall of man, we realize the existence and perfection of God.
This information is very precious.
Many blame God for the situation and state of the world today, but the fault does not lie within God, but in man. At the same time, through this knowledge we can explain the imperfection and the self-contradiction dwelling in man.
God lives in a perfected state while after we lost our direct connection to God we experienced struggle between our mind and body. Once we know the true fault of the fall, we can logically justify the existence of a perfected loving God and sinful man.
It is from this point that two worlds came into being instead of just the original pure one God intended.
The world of goodness is governed by God and the world of evil is the result of the fall.
We cannot accept the premise of atheists that there is no God due to the imperfection of man. We know the Principle. After knowing this we can recognize how the God of perfection has been making efforts throughout history to restore the corrupted world into goodness. Religion testifies to God's efforts.
What is the purpose of religion?
Religion is God's tool to communicate to this imperfect world and raise up good men. In other words, religion strives to bring this fallen world closer to God.
So, what is goodness?
Anything that tries to bring unity between God and man is good. People are in the dark about how to define goodness.
Is hard work, eloquent speech, fasting an example of goodness?
Good springs from love.
All religion teaches love as the source because it is the common purpose shared by God and man. Religion has been making effort toward unity between God and man by stressing the common purpose of love.
God's search for men of goodness has love as the ultimate goal and man is searching for God for the very same reason.
Return For Tomorrow's Post: Control Fleshly Desire, Gain the Universe part II
The text today is rewritten and based on the speech Core of Unification.
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