This is derived from a cause and effect relationship.
No action is initiated without purpose; all actions have some purpose.
Everything has a purpose: the bird sings, bees hum, the butterfly flies and the wind blows. The blinking of your eye, your breathing and when you smile it is not for yourself but all have a purpose and a reason.
Scientists maintain that all things in the universe are made up of energy. Energy exists everywhere, as well as force or power. Which is first, energy or force? If we see from both viewpoints, we see that either answer seem correct.
Action comes from a definite source; the subject and object precede action. If God is omnipresent, then He must have both the subject and object qualities within Him. This describes God's dual characteristics which are very real and are important to our lives.
Since the beginning of the universe and individual entity, subject and object was the beginning of the existence of self. Everything in the universe consist of two different qualities or parts. Each part is involved in give and take action.
Force is the consequence of the subject and object having give and take action. If parents have give and take of love, then children will be the result. Children are like the force. This is God's creative process. God is the cause.
The force has within itself the possibility of give and take action because it is the result of give and take. When we think of force we immediately comprehend two qualities of subject and object, cause and result.
When we think of our existence, we think of the power within ourselves but before that we realize that it all originated through give and take action within us.
Therefore, you are the subject body of force.
We are very powerful. The mind and body form a subject-object relationship. When they give and take, a power is created within us. Why is that? Because the cause has this quality, so the result has to be that way. This is very logical reasoning.
When scientists study how life forms come into existence, they make the conclusion that energy just randomly evolved into higher and more complex beings. Science says that man came into exist by chance. This is not a logical theory and it is in need of further examination. It is more acceptable that subject and object together form a self which would be a greater subject and take on another object.
Together they would form some higher life form or bigger self as a new subject and take an object, and so on, forming greater and greater entities.
In our social life, we want to expand our sphere of influence and increase our areas of activity and not stay stationery. As a subject on one level you wouldn't be satisfied alone, you want to find an object on that level. Then this subject-object unity becomes a greater subject on another level.
Scientists explain this phenomena through random mutation saying it all happens by chance. We quickly see that this is false logic. Since they cannot come up with a better theory, they just use this theory without any basis of truth to it.
The reasoning states that a small thing just all of the sudden becomes big. Boom! Even one who is not a scholar or well learned, would choose the logic of the subject-object explanation over the chance theory.
How does that theory tend to explain how a small entity just becomes big into existence? This theory does not take in account the original force that causes a smaller cell to grow bigger or enable a small group of cells to become bigger step by step.
Force is the result of give and take action.
There is no give and take without purpose. Nothing happens without purpose. A chemistry student or teacher who tries to mix a plus element and minus element of two different qualities will never get a reaction. But, if he prepares a compatible subject and object, when he brings them close together a reaction will automatically happen.
The explanation based on give and take describes science more adequately than theories of probability or random occurrence.
Everything is included in the realm of the subject-object relationship. This means that "I" exists within a broad universe and lives within a broad purpose. Therefore, our conscience directs us to become bigger and greater. We must understand the reason for this so we will want this centered on God's purpose.
When we look at the four position foundation (God, spouse, parent, sibling) we see a circular action. To create this action, it must have a plus-minus, plus-minus not a plus-minus, minus-plus. Name one entity that cannot move or turn.
If there is anything that refuses to move, it will cease to exist.
The whole universe is full of life and vitality. Even the cells in our bodies are always active. A collection of these cells, which is you, is even more active.
Our conclusion is that this big universe moves with a certain purpose, not haphazardly. Even one of the billions of tiny cells in your body has plus and minus and is an inseparable part of the universe, and so it wants to become as great as the whole universe.
Even a tiny cell in your body will protest if the body no longer wants to become greater. This is why each person has hope for a greater future. If a person is forced to stay in the same situation for the rest of their life, they lose the will to live. We see this with many of the elderly after retirement or in patients living with chronic pain from an illness.
What existed before force existed?
The action of subject and object. And where does action come from? Action derives from a subject and object, and the whole thing takes place because of the whole purpose.
There are dual purposes present:
One is to maintain oneself, the other is to become part of the larger self, which is the universe. The reason man takes an object is to preserve and perfect himself and then become one with woman. The purpose of man and woman coming together is to have children. Then they stand in the same position as their ancestors.
Let's "look" at our eyes as an example. The eye does have a self-existent reason, but our eyes serve the whole body. The ear works on it own automatically, but it also helps the whole body. Everything has a right to exist because of its purpose of the whole.
It is likened to a car with many complicated parts, but it will not run even with the most insignificant small piece missing. This piece exists for the purpose of the whole.
How is it that the grand universe is interrelated?
As individuals, we have dual objectives: one is to protect the self and the other is to make sure that this self unites with another self to make a bigger self.
The theory of evolution has been able to understand the purpose of the individual need of self-preservation, but it has not been able to explain the reasoning of an entity's purpose in relation to the whole.
For instance, it theorizes that a zebra is eaten by a lion seems barbaric, but without zebras and other game, the lion could not simply sustain life. Therefore, the zebra has just as much importance as the lion and lives for the purpose of the whole.
Even conscientious scholars do not have a clue how to answer the question of what is the purpose of the universe. Their conclusion has been that it does not have a purpose, but it just continues to go on and on and will one day perish.
We understand that this is not true. As it seems that one thing will perish, but actually something else will be formed. This happens because everything even the universe has a purpose. This principle applies to every aspect of the universe. When individuals gather, it might be for their own needs, but the purpose for them forming is for a greater being.
If one desires to have a great character, they must be willing to become the object to the greater subject which is the universe and they must be worthy of it. Today, those of the Caucasian race tend to stick together and ignore or exclude other races. But this is not their purpose. They are to embrace other colors.
Individual purpose must always follow the purpose of the whole.
People of conscious may wonder why the big fish eat the little fish, why animals are allowed to eat other animals, why the powerful eat the weak. This whole scenario seems chaotic, but according to the principle of creation, the smaller things exist for the larger purpose. So the lion is justified in eating the rabbit.
This principle is the key to solving the whole problem. The smaller entity exists for the purpose of the greater existence which is ultimately the whole universe. This does not mean that the whole or the greater abuses or mistreats the smaller.
Americans don't know that they exist for the purpose and betterment of the whole. Who says so? God says so. More objectively, the universe says so.
Members of the Unification movement are the most consistent people in all of history because they understand this principle of small sacrifice for the larger. They understand that the individual should exist for the family, the family for the tribe, the tribe for the nation and the nation for the world.
This should not only be theory, but we should live this way. In a way this is kind of selfish. By the small going on to bigger and bigger levels, we make ourselves available to become big individuals.
This principle clears up any questions about whether any activity is good or not so good. For instance there was a dance called kisco dancing - "co" means "nose and 'kis" means "kiss". Was this dance between a couple for America, the world or for just the couple themselves.
This dance does nothing for the whole and it is confined to the individual purpose. Their development stops. It is deemed a sin when one is living self-centered.
In order to live a life for the betterment of the whole, we want to get rid of whatever would harm the whole. If it is for your betterment or the world's betterment than disco dancing 24 hours a day is good. North Korea is always threatening other countries, if disco dancing could stop their advance then disco dancing is good. Tomorrow's post we will speak further how sports can play a role in bringing about peace. Imagine instead of war all the countries depend on the Olympics to solve problems.
No one today is able to place a true reason what is man's purpose. From the lowest to the highest level, no one understands the meaning of what the individual self is. All of this confusion in the world of which direction to go arises from ignorance.
The principle is not learned in public or private schools, they do not know it. It explains all of the phenomena of the past and shows how to apply it consistently all the time. Reverend Moon is the first teacher of this knowledge of the principles of creation.
This is the beginning of a new culture.
By knowing this you can comprehend Divine Principle even better, and know why there are three stages, subject and object, how give and take occurs, and why there is a purpose. Now the Divine Principle is no longer conceptual, but something you can put into action in every circumstance.
The Divine Principle has surpassed the conceptual stage and we can place the teaching into action in every circumstance of our lives. Now you will never forget because the Divine Principle is you.
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Return for Tomorrow's Post: Role Sports Play Bringing Peace
This text was rewritten and derived from the speech, "Myself" given by Reverend Sun Myung Moon,
January 13, 1980
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