Creation or Evolution?

The greatest question or debate in the scientific world today is whether the universe is the result of evolution or created by someone's will.  People want to know what is the purpose of life and whether they evolved through random mutation haphazardly.

Then, if evolution is true, who determines its direction?

Evolution heads towards a higher state of development. Does each element determine its own goal?

Does each being know where it is going to advance next? Evolution needs the input of new energy to develop into a higher state. How does the process of evolution obtain its energy?

Today's science is totally deadlocked in this area. Even if the level of development is different, all things-grass, rocks, trees, etc. aspire in some way to be like God, who exists in dual essentialities.

All the things of creation focus on one center and are concentrated into one microcosm-human beings. All the elements of the entire universe were assembled and compacted into one little shape: a human being.

Each smaller plus and minus combines into bigger elements, forming higher and greater existences. The basic qualification for being absorbed or harmonized by a higher being is absolute internal harmony and balance between plus and minus. A harmonized plus and minus resembles God, who is perfect harmony.

The Principle states that wherever a perfect plus exists, it will automatically attract a perfect minus.

When a greater plus appears, the smaller minus becomes a greater minus in order to become worthy of complementing the greater plus.

The minus thus grows to create balance.  Suppose the minus is not large enough to balance a very large plus, how will it create balance?  Balance is created through another small minus, and with it will grow in stature.

Evolution is a theory that is an external observation of internal processes within creation.  It analyzes phenomena after the fact, but it cannot show internally that there is always a will and a goal at work.  Through give and take action, a new higher being is created.

All the elements of the universe revolve around God.

Even in our own body, one cell does not remain in one organ, but it circulates all over the body, from toe to brain.

Blood is a harmonizer.  It travels throughout the body and blends with all its elements.  Also, the nerves bring all the cells and organs into harmony.

We can compare the process of spiritual growth to the educational process.  We start in life as a little being who wants to become higher and larger since we want to resemble God, who is the highest being of all.

Children go through elementary school, but they are not satisfied with just that level.

They want to continue through high school and perhaps go to college and graduate school.

When he finally gets his Ph.D., he might turn around and put down his 'lower-level' education and say it was a waste of time.  He wouldn't be able to do this because his experiences at the earlier levels, formed  the foundation for his Ph.D. work.  They harmonious with the higher education.

From balance comes harmony, cooperation and advancement.

Communism proclaims that development comes about through struggle and confrontation, but this is a lie.
This is exactly opposite of God's ideal.

How is it possible for higher beings to develop through such disharmony and struggle?

Only balance, cooperation and harmony can bring about growth and development.

With this simple principle, we are able to evaluate the errors in the evolution theory.  We can also show that the ideology of communism, birthed from evolution theory, is based upon falsehood.

The Divine Principle stresses that God exists with dual essentialities.  This sounds very simple, but nothing grows without the interaction of a subject and object, a pair system.

The greatest historical question has just been answered whether the world was created or is the result of evolution.

The universe was created is the most logical answer.

Since everything in creation has a direction and goal, when one aspires toward their goal and takes action, energy arises that enables them to reach that goal.

Thus, it is logical to conclude that the entire universe is heading in a certain direction and there is a will which determines that direction.

Once one sets the goal, movement has direction and all existence has a goal.

People of religion speak of a heaven on earth.

Communist also speak of an Utopia as the inevitable goal of an ideal world.  Except this world will run according to their 'law' of materialism and regulated through force. But that is pure fabrication.  The basic human right under God is freedom of choice.  Even God does not force His principle on His children.

How can unity be reached through violence and struggle and constant conflict?

The clear answer is that history has been the struggle between good and evil, not between plus and minus or complementary elements of male and female.

History is filled with examples of confrontations and struggle, but between good and evil.  When communists say that struggle between the classes is necessary for growth, this is false.

We can see the clear evidence of this through the conflict we experience within our own hearts.

There are two processes operating within all creation: action and reaction.

When we only look at the reaction process, everything appears to be a struggle, but through action, a parallel reaction automatically appears.

The authors of communism look at such phenomenon and come to a different conclusion.  They believe that a new element or creation comes into being when two elements continually war with each other. This is their view of existence according to dialectical materialism.

There are active and reactive elements.  There are two very different ways of explaining them: communism or Principle.

A repelling energy exists in the universe, but God is complete harmony between plus and minus.  he is a perfect being.

If there was a foreign element, like within a healthy body, this perfect element repels it.

Even in our own experiences we repel threats to our life and being even unconsciously.  When an insect flies toward your eye, you automatically sway it away.

If someone came to you in a threatening manner, you would crouch down making yourself smaller, ready to burst into action.  You repel any external invasions and defend yourself against foreign elements.

Why does the human body shrink first before it strikes out?  It is because the universe is like that.  Once you achieve perfect harmony, you want to maintain it for eternity.

Everything aims for eternal existence; therefore, you have the built-in power to repel any threat. 

You have your own defense department within you!  Likewise, all of creation also seeks to protect itself for the sake of preserving harmony.  This is the beauty of the universe!


The Principle teaches that when plus and minus come together, God is able to dwell within us.

This is because harmony reflects God's own characteristics.

Once we have this base, God can dwell within us.  Blood flows toward healthy cells and the nervous system serves them.

A perfectly functioning cell automatically sends an invitation to the circulatory and nervous systems and the life force flows into it.

When the plus and minus elements completely harmonize, God comes to dwell there.

Therefore, both a harmonizing or comforting force and a repelling force exists.

The harmonizing force brings everything into oneness like glue. The repelling force rebuffs any threats to that perfect harmony.

It springs into action and yells, "Get out of here!"

A rapport is established between plus and minus, but a foreign element that is not a perfect plus or minus is unwelcomed.

Of course you would rather talk to a loving person with whom you have a complete rapport, rather than with someone you dislike.

You rather not have them around.  The universe operates in two ways: by harmonizing and by repelling.   Both activities needs energy.

If you are not able to observe the whole picture, you will only notice the small elements and the repelling action.  You will see the struggle and wonder how such things are able to develop into something greater.

For instance, Darwin observed the conflicts within nature and came to his conclusion from only external observations.

But when  you are able to view the whole, you will see the repelling force and the harmonizing and unifying force - not just the repelling force.

Whenever you seek after a greater object or subject, the uniting force becomes greater than the repelling force and it draws you forward.

If you know something about elementary electricity, you realize that two circuits are required in an electrical current: a plus circuit and a minus circuit.

Do plus and minus attract or repel each other? They attract.

However, two pluses and two minuses repel each other. When plus and minus unite, they resemble God, but plus and plus together do not.

If you observe a thunderstorm, there are great masses of plus energy that collides with masses of minus energy in the air.  When they come together, they produce a joyful spark and an incredible sound.

But, if the plus repels plus and minus repels minus, how is it possible to amass such a huge plus and huge minus?


I was studying electrical engineering, and I was going to write my dissertation on this topic. However, I changed my studies to religion and never wrote the dissertation, but I still have a theory about this question. Engineers and physicists do not deal with philosophical questions; they usually just study the phenomena. I worked out a beautiful theory to show why plus and plus do not always repel but also unite under certain circumstances. 


If there is no minus element present, then the plus and plus will join.  As soon as a plus does spot a minus-a potential 'mate'-then he exclaims that this is what he has been hunting for a long time!

The plus will then reject the plus and goes to the minus.

We can take another example.  When boys are young they are best friends with each other.  In this case, plus and plus are united.

But once men meets the woman who will become his spouse, he does not want other men around anymore.

When a plus discovers a minus, it is drawn to its object.  This is because their unity will make them more like the image of God.  No matter how closely plus and plus are united, it does not reflect the image of God.

On the other hand, when plus and minus unite and repel others, they are actually giving them a loving push away.

This is an encouragement to go and find their own mate and create their own eternal harmony.  The repelling action is a stimulant for others to become the harmonized image of God.

When plus unites with another plus, forming a higher pluses, universal, eternal beauty is created.  Ultimately the super plus and super minus are destined to meet to create the ultimate universal, eternal beauty.

On one magnetic pole is mankind, which is the supreme creation, and on the other magnetic pole is the universe and the rest is creation.

When mankind unites with the universe and energy flows between them, they give birth to incredible beauty and the ideal world.

However, this is not the end of the journey.  As we continue our quest to reach our destination, our subject, God, we find complete, ultimate harmony, with God as the plus and mankind as the minus.

Once men and women join in perfect harmony, the repelling forces will push away any foreign element that tries to invade it telling it to go and find its own mate.

Your body tells you that the normal harmony or balance is broken somewhere through sickness and pain.  You feel pain because something invaded and upset it.

The universal repelling force operates in your body to drive away the foreign invasion and sickness.  The struggle between the two produces pain.

If someone hits you, of course you feel pain from that invasion.  Pain motivates you do something to protect yourself.

Pain is necessary as a warning signal, or else the invasion will continue unabated and can destroy your body.  Even a newborn baby feels pain whenever there is an imbalance within his body.  A baby is sensitive to any abnormal situations.

In conclusion, we are the result of the act of creation, not evolution.

You and I are the fruit of harmony, not division or struggle.

Communists claim to have the ultimate truth and enforce its laws through violence and force.  But it only analyzes the world in little bits and lacks the whole perspective.

In order to produce complete harmony, the universe needs to compose plus and minus elements with their intricate interactions forming all the beauty of the universe.

There is always give and take between plus and minus.  In a big plus there are lots of smaller pluses and minuses.

Isn't this true even within the human body to the atom?  A big minus includes lots of pluses and minuses as well.  Each plus and minus unites, something greater is created.

We have spoken about all these levels of duality, but you too are also a dual existent being.  Within you there is the internal and external, mind and body, right?  If there is no harmony between the internal, spirit body and the external physical body, you feel the pain of conscience.

In order to create harmony, you need God.

Human efforts alone will never bring about unity to the world.

God brings you the power of life.

When He dwells with you, you will never lack energy.  Thus, as the dwelling of God, you become a powerhouse, able to continue day and night without running out of energy for His will.

When you do your mission work or fundraise all day in the heat or the cold weather, there is a constant battle between your mind and body.  You will feel fatigued and powerless once your mind and body are united.

God can dwell in you and you feel abundant energy and vitality.

Therefore, each individual is like a factory with all of the machines running and you don't have to worry about going on strike from overworking.

Some people of faith wonder what is wrong with a little drinking, smoking, or taking drugs.

Liquor, for example invades your body and upsets your balance with the ability to make you commit some mistake before God.

Once you achieve perfect harmony within you, liquor, cigarette and marijuana will not distract you from your course.  But while you are in the process of growing, you tend to look in all direction and the wrong elements try to woo you to it.

Once you pay attention to them while you are spiritually immature, you will be drawn into their sphere.


Take another example: although there is no line between you and me, you feel some pulling power from me, don't you? I may try to chase you away, but you come right back, just like a rubber band! You may think about me day and night, and you feel good because of the invisible link pulling on you. That is the power of life. All living things orient themselves toward the power of life; plants, for example, grow toward the sunlight.



No one can replace Father.

His position cannot be appointed.  It is the same with you.  Can anyone replace your mate or loved one and swap them for someone else?

Certainly not.

We should not be satisfied with just doing well as an individual, you need a family.  The family and its members are essential.

By uniting with them, you are able to enlarge yourself.  In a way, family is your larger self.  Your society and nation are still larger selves.

The world can be your larger self.  Through unity, each person wants and becomes a greater and better being.  Without this principle, the standards of value in society cannot be determined.

Home Church, witnessing to 360 homes in your area and caring for them, is the greatest contribution Father has given to the world.  It is the base for becoming a larger self, transforming the individual into the greater world self.

According to the Principle, a perfect plus automatically brings forth a perfect minus.

If you make yourself the perfect minus, then perfect harmony will result.

God is the perfect plus of the universe.

If there is a negative force that tries to threaten that perfect pair, universal power will shatter it.  If this is not true, then the law of the Principle, universal law is false.

If God is the perfect plus, then the rest of creation, the world, spirit world should be in the perfect minus position in relation to God.

Therefore, we become the perfect object.  If the Messiah is the perfect minus to God, if the whole United States tries to harm him, the universal force will make it stop.

This is how the truth and philosophical conclusion must operate.

Father has seen proof of this statement:


"Representative Donald Fraser, with the overwhelming power of the US Congress behind him, came against me and our movement. I gave Bo Hi Pak instructions to go out fearlessly and fight. Knowing this truth, I took the position of a perfect minus and Bo Hi Pak was united with me. No power under the sun, not even the universal power, can shatter such a relationship.

Anything that tries to break the harmony between God and me will be repelled by universal power. History proves this.

Who was defeated in the battle with Congressman Fraser? Who was defeated in the battle with the Carter administration? Was I defeated? I ran a beautiful test of this theory-like a laboratory experiment- with Fraser and Carter and I proved that it works.

The same principle is behind my announcement of a rally in Moscow. Everybody said, "A Moscow rally? How could we?" But if this principle is true, the Moscow rally will become a reality when you unite with me and the absolute minus.

Yes or no? This is a logical theory and I am not acting blindly. There is logic and philosophy behind my actions. By following this principle, we will ultimately bring the universe and the world into unity(world peace). That is our ultimate goal."


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


We we talk about winning over the world, we are not speaking of physical means.

Winning over people with love and enveloping them with love is the goal.  Father urges members to become bigger people and take greater challenges.  You only win people through loving them.

Loving them more than their own family, giving them greater and deeper service.  By loving and serving the world, you create a vacuum or a perfect minus from which to work.

High pressure is drawn to a vacuum, so when you become a perfect vacuum, God moves in.  No power under the sun can stop Him from dwelling with you as His perfect object.

Please become like perfect, low pressure air. God is the world's ultimate high pressure air.

But there has never been corresponding low pressure air to be the dwelling place for God on earth.

If you become the lowest of all air pressures, practicing humility, you are a perfect minus.  Then God's high pressure will flow into you and fill you.

This is a natural law and principle.

You are sent out daily to suffer and endure hardships as people of faith, not because God hates you, but so you can rid yourself of your fallen, sinful ways and become a perfect minus to God.

Opposing elements look for their perfect mate for the achievement of perfect harmony.

This universal repelling power was not created to destroy someone, but guide them into their complete harmony.

Universal power is not a destructive power.  This is why we love our enemy.  By loving the worst opposing force, you are actually guiding it into a greater harmony.



Return for Tomorrow's Post: Can We Build World Peace?

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Realm of Existence

Even an Atom Has Aspirations

The message of today's post is the realm of existence.  The balance of human life is so fragile that it can be compared to hanging on the thread of a spiders web.

Could you imagine inhaling ten times without exhaling?  Even to try to inhale three consecutive times in a row is not easy.  You can try it.

The natural inhaling and exhaling are one simple example of the beautiful balance that characterizes all of existence.  Balance and harmony exists on a very thin line.  In addition to the respiratory system, our body also has a nervous system and a cardiovascular system.

They maintain a tight, narrow balancing act to sustain the life of the human body.  For example, if you close one nostril, of course it becomes difficult to breathe.

If you close one eye, then your vision is incomplete and your face is not symmetrical.  Through just these examples we conclude that pairs are necessary, or complementary aspects, in our life.

Where does human life originate?

It starts from a base or foundation that is harmonized.  Common logic concludes that everything has its origin in harmony.

Since we come from harmony and balance, there must be some element that generates this equilibrium.  From studying the Principle, you learn that God exists in dual essentialities.

Then it is possible to determine the subject and object elements within God.  This is one of the truly great discoveries in human history.

A subject and an object is needed to form a pair or circuit.

Everything in existence participates as a subject or in an object role.  God is the ultimate subject of the universe and created all things in the objective role to Him.

Within any subject, a minus or objects also exists.  In other words, the subject also contains dual elements.

The plus, which is subject and minus are supposed to form a circuit of give and take, interacting in a complementary manner.  This basic truth of the relationship of God and creation is seen in the cosmos.  The universe is divided into small entities trillions of subject and object.

But the relationship is always subject or plus, and object or minus, and each of these always contains complementary elements.

Chemistry has identified over 100 elements.  An element consists of atoms of only one kind and cannot be broken down into simpler particles by ordinary or physical means.  Each element is identified by the number of plus and minus particles it contains.

The relationship of plus-minus is marvelously complex and sophisticated and can be seen in all the beautiful aspects of the universe.  The variations throughout the universe come from different combinations and angles of plus and minus.

If we take an individual for example, he may have a very large plus element and a small minus element.  There are many variation, but the basic principle will stay the same.  Each being encompasses 360 degrees and includes various plus and minuses while its composition is unique.

Imagine drawing a line through a circle.  The two complementary halves which are formed match if you go directly through the center and balance is created.

Every atom can be broken down into protons, electrons and neutrons.  Even within the small atom, there are two kinds of electrical charges of plus and minus.  

We can compare the atom with a heavenly body: there is always a center with elements that are revolving around it.  Even the smallest of atoms has an electron revolving around the nucleus.  It is like a miniature solar system.

All the elements of existence can be contracted into a tiny atom or expanded to the solar system and the universe.  The microcosm and the macrocosm reflect one another.

Today, scientist say that the universe arises from energy, but what is energy and how does it exist?

Energy operates only within the bound of universal law.

Which is the first cause: energy or action?  This is like the question which came first, the "chicken or the egg".

I already stated that energy is no exception to the law of existence. Neither energy nor action can be permanent or solid without the fundamental elements of plus and minus. In other words, energy and action are like the effect, or the shadow; the complementary elements of plus and minus are prerequisites to both of them. 

When we look at the law of existence and say that thought, spirit comes before matter, then that means that energy or action cannot be the origin of the universe.  What created this energy; where did it come from?

Within God there is plus and minus and that relationship is found everywhere. 

When plus and minus create a circuit, the action of give and take immediately arises.

Action creates energy just as flowing water through a power plant produces energy.  How much energy you exert depends on the size of your object. 

An extraordinary object calls forth extraordinary energy.

For example, would you use the same amount of energy to pick up a piece of chalk that you use lifting a rock?  To relate to a small object, you only need a small amount of energy, while a large object requires greater energy.

This is the most logical universal truth:  existence begins with plus and minus forming a reciprocal relationship of subject and object producing give and take action.  Energy is generated through such action.

Scientist use examples of energy so much because it is something that they can see and study.

But science must recognize that before there is energy there are two deeper elements which may not be recognizable by the scientific method of research.

Plus and minus are invisible and often impossible to study in a laboratory.  Energy has a prerequisite which scientists do not study that far.  They are content to conclude that the universe originated with energy and that is that.

However, energy is unable to produce action if it does not have the two elements of plus and minus, in other words a subject and an object.

Do you have love?

Can you pinpoint where it is and show it to someone?

You are not able to see the love within you or show it.  However, once you have an object of love, you will feel a certain power moving within you through the relationship of give and take.  You then feel love growing.  

On the same token, people may not know whether or not God exists.  God is invisible like love.  You cannot pinpoint His location, but as soon as we become an object to Him, we are able to feel His power moving within us.

This method is very scientific, even though scientists do not recognize it.

All action in the universe springs from the dual natures of subject and object.

Apart from subject and object, action cannot take place and energy cannot be generated.  

We each have hopes and dreams that must have a direction or goal as their subject.  Our aspirations and goals, thus must work together as a hand in a glove, as plus and minus.  People naturally want to fulfill their aspirations and reach their goals, because we long to resemble God.

Our ultimate goal is to unite subject and object.  We then become perfect objects to God and can have direct give and take with Him.

Just as humans have hopes, all things of creation do, too, although on a different level.

The aspiration and goal of all the elements was the creation of the universe.

Without that hope, they cannot connect to God.  Without unity or love, the universe would not have come into existence. All things of creation ultimately aspire to resemble God.


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Return for Tomorrow's Post: Creation or Evolution?


This Post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Realm of Existence

Become Ideal People for Liberation

It has been reported to me that there is a great deal of communist activity on college campuses. When our CARP teams stage counter demonstrations, all the communists usually retreat.

You applaud when you hear this because you are excited. CARP pushed the communists to take cover so you feel good, but you don't want to exert the discipline that would give you the power to do that.

You have to accept the discipline that will make you powerful enough to drive communism back. If with bare hands we can gather the resources to lay the foundation that can save the world, then if we have enough tools and money could we do it easily?


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


If we have already become such people, then the world has no way to compete with Father.  What we can accomplish is so above their own standards, that they cannot even imagine how to compete with us.

In the fishing industry, Father set a standard that no competitor could outdo him.  He would be able to be out on the boat fishing with his crew at 4 am and not return until almost midnight.  Sometimes they would spend 24 hours on the boat.

Once he would proclaim something, that would echo throughout the entire country and world.

"People cannot help but listen. I operate on a simple principle and I have a plan."

Don't look for the easy way out in the Unification Church.

Before you are thirty, I will push you down to the dungeon. In that hell you will have to persevere and survive. The rest of the world is looking for the easiest direction, looking for another way to have a good time, but we don't care that those things exist. By following my discipline you can all become saints by the time you are thirty. After that, go ahead and have a good time. You can even grow your hair until it reaches your toes. You can braid it into a rope and connect yourselves together and have a big parade, but only after you reach that saintly plateau.


Once you become ideal men of God, you shall enjoy true liberation.  No matter how much you enjoy this liberation, you must always be within the Principle.  This is what perfection is.

The most precious and important thing is God.

We might take God's presence for granted throughout our daily lives.  Imagine a life without God's existence, or God decided to abandon the human race?

What comes into existence first: spirit or matter?

You cannot show spirit to someone, but the communist place such importance on matter.  When you wake up in the morning, usually the first thing you think about is breakfast, correct?

Are you able to prove that the invisible world of the mind exists?

What about the eye for example?  Does the eye understand that it needed to tear in order to keep it clean and wet enough to function?  Was the eye aware that it needed to develop eyelashes to help keep the dust away?

Did the eyebrows automatically develop to keep the sweat and rain from running into the eye?

When communists, Marxists and evolutionist cry that matter came about haphazardly or automatically, then how did the hair know to come out of the forehead and not the eyes.  Even after a baby is born, it has no clue or knowledge about the atmosphere.

Would the eye know anything about itself in the mother's womb and develop on its own accord?

Of course not.

There was a designer of the eye that knew about the related environment with sunshine and dust and rain.  The point is that someone knew in advance that the eye would have to cooperate with the environment.  Therefore, the designer would also plan for hair, eyebrows, ears and so forth that would unite with the rest of creation.

What if no one was born with hair that lived in the hot tropics?

Imagine being bald on a hot fierce beaming sun day.  There was an universal mind that figured out all of these things in advance.  Since no material in creation could haphazardly bring itself about into existence, material did not come into being first. Therefore, spirit existed before there was any material world.

Why is there such a debate over this?

It is like a debate between the religious and god-denying world of communism that denies the world of spirit.

If material just came into exist by happen chance and thought came as an effect of material, then there is no set standard to live by.  If there are no standards, if gives rise to lose behavior and live however bringing about chaos.

As a person of faith, you live by the principles set by God that brings about peace.

Even the best eye doctor a hundred years from now, still would not be able to discover all the secrets and complexities of the formation of the eye.

It is completely illogical to say matter comes first.

Even though the spirit is invisible, it comes before any material comes into being.  The conclusion is that all of the beauty we observe in the universe was designed by a universal consciousness which is spirit.  From that spirit, the visible world was created.

You are an effect, not a cause, therefore, you need to know this cause.  The vertical subject.

You live in a material reality as men and women with horizontal relationships.  When you connect to the vertical power, the vertical and horizontal turn around together.  Then existence is permanent.

Mechanical principles work the same way in physics.  The motor has four poles; one pair of plus and minus is not enough.  Even the visible universe has a spirit, like the visible body has a spirit.

If there is a subject, that designed man, then does this mean that that spirit is superior to you?

That universal spirit would thus have give and take with all the things of the universe.

The center that designed all things is who we call God.  No one can deny that there is a divine knowledge, emotion and will in the universe.

If God exists in our universe what would be the most important for Him of all?  Is it true love?

Where did true love originate?

First, there must be life, for without life nothing can happen.  You must come into existence before you are able to do something.

For God, the most important thing is life.

He does not want a temporary existence but eternal.

After there is life, then we can speak about true love, which is the culminating point. Therefore, a temporal life is not enough.

Love is not a stationary subject, but is only generated out of a complimentary relationship.

Nothing can be perfect independently.

There has to be a subject and object together to make a pair that creates a circuit which generates love.  The pair system is the beauty of the universe.  

Men and women both have life, and God is the same.  Without life, nothing is able to begin.  Love cannot be activated outside of the pair system, so, in order to fulfill love, you need the pair system.  

Each individual also exists within the pair system which is called dual essentialities.  This is needed to create a circuit for give and take of love.

What if you take one of your arms and link it to your other one to make one long arm and hand.  Is this utilitarian?  This would not pass the love examination.

Even your teeth are part of the pair system.  There is an upper and lower set of teeth.  They snap at each other.

But they must behave this way within Principle.  Love is only activated within a complimentary, reciprocal circuit.  Each finger on one hand represent a season, and has three segments which the total of twelve represents twelve months.  The thumbs have two segments, so they represent duality.

You have two types of nervous systems, plus two types of blood vessels.

A baby is able to make a fist with his hands, with the thumb inside while he is still in his mother's womb.  The thumb is the number one finger representing God.

The center, or subject, should be inside. 

The messiah is the center of God's dispensation to bring about a world of peace, with members surrounding him.  All of these relationships derive from the pair system, in order to fulfill love.

Do you think that insects have a pair system, too?

What about the grass and flowers?

Everything exists in pairs and they all like love. 

There is no exception, because God's main goal is to fulfill love.

God needs eternal life and eternal love.  In order to fulfill this eternal love, God is in search for His eternal object, so He can live in an eternal pair.

Who would be God's permanent object?   Only a perfect man.

Eternal life is your goal.

Many fables speak of ways to obtain eternal life or immortality on earth through dreams of vampires and the fountain of youth.  Why is it necessary to live forever?

Because God is an eternal being that lives forever.  Therefore, He gave us eternal life to pursue eternal permanent love through the subject-object circuit system.

Therefore, we are God's objects.  Just as much as God is eternal, we shall be eternal.  As a person of faith, you can be sure you are living for eternity.

Many people just live their life everyday for the purpose of fun, but from here on out, have complete conviction that you will live forever.  Upon this foundation, our next concern will be ideals.

Does God have ideals?

If you love someone, then you want to be proud of him or her?  You want to shower him with gifts, and tell people about him.  You want to be able to demonstrate every capability and be recognized by your lover?

In the same way, when God loves someone, He also wants to show off what He has done for them.  "Look at the creation I made, look what I created."  He would say look not just at the ocean and mountains, but the small planet Earth, the stars and the galaxies.

He would want to give it all to you.  Then His child would be proud and say that God was number one.  They would embrace and become one.

What if God only created His children with nothing to show and they just sat together in the empty sky, looking at each other for eternity?  That would be no fun.

We need an ideal, something to aspire to.  God has an ideal that He wished to accomplish after created humanity.  To fulfill that ideal, we have a vast universe in which to travel.  We need to enjoy the world and ideal things.

With this clumsy body you can't even travel to one planet, yet God has created millions of planets. 

In order to travel around God's big world, you have to travel faster than the speed of light, faster than electricity.  Without this idea of speed, you are unable to travel throughout the universe.  Did you know that you have the ability to travel as fast as the thoughts that come?

We have already traveled to the moon.

That's why God can control the universe.

With love's power, He can travel even faster.  Therefore, even God needs an ideal.

We need the four seasons and the changing weather, the great beauty of the universe to praise God for.

Some people may complain about spring, and like only autumn.  Other people say they hate winter or summer.  If you want to be in the image of God, you will go through all these seasons.  You may like winter, but you have to go through spring, summer and fall.

Would God only like comedy and not a serious drama?

Does God have a sense of humor and joke with loved ones?

If God was to disappear briefly, you become sad.  This sadness is not bad, because it gives additional stimulation when your loved one returns.  Love is never boring.

Over the course of history all peoples will be treated fairly. 

History does not flow in a straight line, but in waves.

A person may have a tragic history, but will experience glory at some time.  Stronger nations may conquer smaller nations, but at another time, the smaller nations and oppressed people will conquer the great nations.


That is why I do not come from a big country. I came from the small country of Korea to bring to America the ideology which can conquer. So far in the materialistic, scientific world, America has led the way. But the small country of Korea has a new spiritual ideology that will control the world. It is only fair. History is turning around.



These events are not happening separate from the rules of the principle.

Most of the problems that are occurring today, began because American society is very wealthy.

American homes enjoy so much that they do not appreciate it.  In essence, family members are not experiencing true spiritual love between each other.  Therefore, there must be a change that comes about throughout the nation.

Our planet earth even breathes.  It also expands and contracts.

This amount of change that comes about is very small compared to the size of the planet.  Still the earth swells and shrinks.  Do you think your cells in your body also breathe?

Scientists today are trying to prove that you do not need love to create a human being through a test tube, but every cell carries life.  Would you like to live on this clumsy earth forever as many dream, or would you want to become the central element of love and live forever without any limitation?

Well, does that mean you want to go to spirit world immediately?

Even with the Concorde, it would be difficult to stay up with the speed of God with our clumsy bodies.
 Does that mean you want to go to the spirit world very quickly?

Our real, true body is our spirit body, and our real world is spirit world.  This is reality.

God who is a spirit, created the body only to help the spirit become perfected while on earth, following Him looking over the universe enjoying eternal life.

God created man in spirit and body.  This is how God designed it.

Then you may wonder why would God need to make the external world and our clumsy, fragile bodies in the first place.

God's creation is the manifestation of spirit through the visible material.  God is the ultimate spirit like the north pole, and creation is the south pole.  That's man.

In other words, man is the visible image of God.

The central line where God can look down to the other extreme is the line of love.  God dwells in the center.  There, life, love and God's ideal world are all concentrated on this line.  That is the axis which turns.

You also want to live forever.  You want to have love.

You also want to have ideals which these things you crave are concentrated on this line.  This is the universal center for everyone.  It does not matter whether you are yellow, white or black.

God will be proud of His creation when man also rejoices over it. 

When you look at grass, you know that God made each beautiful green blade for you.  When you hear birds singing, you can think, "God created them for me.  Thank you God."

If you do not have this fundamental understanding about God's creation, you will not have gratitude.  \

Once you understand that everything was created in the pair system, God is the subject looking for His true object, and all the universe is the object to man, then you know that things are created for you.

Then you will understand that the central spirit behind all of creation is love.

Who is God and what is God?

God is the one who created life as a foundation.  He is searching after perfection in love, and he has a great ideal.

You and I are God's object, so therefore you pursue the same thing God pursues.  First of all, I must be an eternal being because my Creator is one.  Once you have eternal life, then what?

You fulfill love.

God's ideal is to fulfill love, therefore you want to make that circuit of love with God.  God is sacrificial and unselfish.  You want to truly give everything to God and God wants to give all He has to you.

In this respect, you want to own the entire world.  Within the spirit of love, you are able to do that.

God has a desire to love men, but how is that possible with men who do not possess love?

Man has the possibility to give and take in love, and then God can freely exchange His love with man.  The blessing will only come after a man or woman learn the true value of love and experience that love.

From this point of view, we know that the fall of man meant that man became numb to love when they did not follow God's word.  They did not grow to understand true, Godly love.

Christians always speak about being saved and how they want to have their little corner in heaven.  Most of them do not care about the world or about loving all people.  Being comfortable in their own lives and the few people they may meet, they do not waste their energy on world affairs.

Heaven is not a place. Heaven is love. 

It is a popular notion that heaven is a place in the sky and just by mere belief in Jesus as God's son you will enter the pearly gates.  Preachers may tell members of their congregation that when they pass on, all of their sins are automatically cleansed and they become perfect to live with God for eternity.

If you do not perfect your love or possess God's ideal and practice it on earth, you cannot speak about heaven.  Salvation becomes a visible image of God from the extreme of the material world.

If you yearn to go somewhere, you do not get there by just lying down and sleeping or hoping to get there.  God's desire is to perfect His visible image of man.

Therefore, we are not the subject, but the object.  Do you want to live by your own will and fallen ideals?  Live by your own motivation?

Americans practices too much individualism where each does not worry about others except their own position, situations and happiness.

How can they be harmonized with the universe with that kind of mindset?

With that kind of selfish motivation, the more you move, the more you become distant from the universe and further from unity.  You are separate from the universe and do not harmonize.  Is the American ideal a step forward or backward from establishing world peace?


Every day I am working to cut out all the old ideas and give you clean new ideas. But the old ideas tend to creep back in again! Think about yourself-how many times do you have to keep cleaning out the old ideas? You want me to do things the American way. If the American method would build the Kingdom of Heaven at once, I would be happy to do that. I am a logical person. I look at the truth, and if there is a better and faster way to achieve it, I would take it. 


Our problem is that we never threw out the old way of thinking that came with sin.  We just keep carrying them around.


But I devised a new way to get rid of them: It will be you a very narrow gate and a crooked road, and as you go along your luggage will get worn out and you will throw it away. I will push you faster and faster, and soon you will lose your old ideas.


Honestly, have you had to keep re-examining your old ideals?  To go God's way toward world restoration, you must be pushed out the narrow gate in order to be hardened and disciplined.

You will be tested and you can thank those who persecute you because you will find out how tough you are.

People come from all over the world with big bundles of ideas.  Satan would excuse if we just leave them alone or cut them from the dispensation.

The best way is to leave your luggage behind on your own.  We should make a pledge among ourselves to get rid of our baggage.

When you fundraise door-to-door, you can think of it like visiting another planet for the day.  Some planets will give you the cold shoulder and some people may shout or accuse you.  When you visit such a planet, you can think of that house as the winter season.

When you get a hot welcome, think of it as summertime house.

Through this type of work, you can rehearse everything in your life.  You should be able to be a rounded character that can like all season, weather and atmosphere.  This is your goal while you are here on earth.

By digesting with love everything happening here on earth, you become successful in your life.

Satan will naturally surrender in competition of love and has no defense when you practice intense love.

Love is your best offense and your best defense.  You can make love wider and wider because it has no limit and can break all barriers.  This is the original concept of God's creation.

For the first time in history, the concept of creation which is God's ideal is being followed.

Through the fall, man lost the knowledge of true love and love's order.  Man has remained in the dark of self-centeredness.  We must liberate mankind from its selfish lifestyle and behavior.  Wherever you go, you should be the crossroads where love, life and ideal are concentrated.

With it, there is nothing you cannot win.  Without it, there is nothing you can win.  Therefore, you must always defend these three points.  This is what God's strategy has been all of this time.

Is it right to refuse to go to a home because they are atheists and do not believe there is a God?  You should embrace such a family and be sacrificial toward them.

God always sacrifices Abel for the sake of restoring Cain.

For this reason, you are pushed strongly.

As people of faith, you are in the position of Abel, so you must demonstrate sacrificial love to save those in the Cain world.  The more you practice this greater love, the wider your horizon becomes.


 I have lived this principle all my life. I always forgave the people who mistreated me, and sacrificially loved them. Eventually they were conquered by love, and my own horizons became wider. Do you think I am very tough, or vulnerable and easy to break? I will never break. 


You, too should also have that kind of toughness that Father has that nothing can stop your life power.  If you are not able to demonstrate that power of life, love and ideal, God will not be able to have a good rapport with you.

God is eternal and tough.  When you resemble the Messiah, God will know He can trust you and deal with you.


When I issue a direction, how do you answer? Pushing you out and making you hard does not benefit me; it only brings criticism to me. I don't need your fund raising because I do not spend American money for my purpose. I can take care of myself. It is not for my own benefit that I push you.


If someone was trying to take your life power away from you, would you just give up in defeat?  What if your former boyfriend or girlfriend wants you to come back to them, will you just say, "To heck with eternal life, I just want to have fun"?

Do not do things that cheapen your life.

You are not able to swap the extreme value of your life for even the whole universe.  Your life is connected to God and is there for eternity.

Your life should be full of give and take with God.  Would you give up this pure relationship over a girl nagging you?

Are you able to sell your life cheaply?

Even if millions of Americans were to come against you, you still cannot sell it.  Even if the entire earth came after you, still you cannot sell it because it is more precious than the entire cosmos, equal to God.

Ungodly love brought about the fall of man below God's ideal and brought death and misery.  Through restoration, we have found true life.  Eternal life.

In order to restore the original love before it was lost through the fall, you should not hesitate to do anything that will bring you closer to the ideal.  Therefore, it is your pride to be persecuted, condemned and spit upon for the sake of restoration of true love.  Many saints, people of faith and conscientious people went this way of love for the world.

God created original love and now you are restoring it into wholeness.  You are doing the things that are as important as God is doing.  How great is this sacred work we are doing?


 Until God and the world are united in rejoicing over God's one principle, I shall not relax one minute. No matter what, you must defend the central point where life, love and ideal all come into the center.


We are pursuing that kind of eternal life here in the church and that kind of God-centered love and ideal.  The world is our stage.  If we are not victorious on earth, we shall never prevail eternally.  We have not been able to win the ultimate victory yet.

Instead of running many races, just think about being victorious all at once.  Think how to condense everything into one race.  You'd want to participate in that kind of game and that is why you become a champion for all seasons, in all areas.


I have a good brain and I am always thinking about what the one game is in which I can win everything. God wants to see His son win that kind of certificate. 


Think of that one game where you can win the championship.  That game is Home Church.  That is the place where you can run with your life, love and ideal.

No matter what people will say about you will not make a difference.  Go ahead and run in all directions with this principle.

If others sleep for five hours, you will sleep for four hours.  If they sleep four, you sleep three.  If they sleep for one hour, then you get no sleep at all.  You  must have strong life power.

Father lived by that high standard.  Many people think that he is like superman with an iron body as he was was in his 80s giving 10-hour speeches, playing sports and talking with leaders from around the world all day and night.

He may not be Superman, but he has an iron spirit.

Our mind tends to be unfocused and jump all around, but his mind is like a rock that stays firmly in place, period.  Once he set a goal and marched forward, there was nothing under the sun that could move him away from it.  He is determined that no matter what hits him, he would not shatter.

 I will not slow down at all. That is the kind of teacher and leader you have.

Whether you go to Africa, South America or Asia it does not make a difference where you are persecuted, how can you forget what you represent?

Wherever you go in the world, you stand on Principle.  God gave you Home Church as the stage to practice the principle with the people there representing the world.

Therefore, season your life with life power, love power and ideal power in your home church.

If you want to get a Ph.D, you have to work day and night.  Sometimes people may spend many years on their dissertation.

This work cannot be done in your own way,  it must be accomplished based on the Principle, in God's way.  You want to meet the three criteria of life, love and ideal.

When you think you have passed, then you will be given an exam to test how you did.  Then God will examine it and add the final signature.  Unless your certificate is signed and completed, it will not be accepted anywhere.

Go ahead and create the power of life, love and ideal so that your cup will completely overflow.

If you say this task is easy to do, then you are faking.  Life, love and ideal are important to us.


I know that it is not easy because I have been suffering all my life. What I had to obtain was so important that there was nothing I could not endure. I have already graduated, and now the next seven years are your course. I have become the school principal and now I can put my signature upon your certificate.


From the bottom of your heart, do you believe that this is the most important thing to practice?  Would you do this work of restoration if you were blinded, and your ears were cut off and you could not hear?

The Bible uses very severe language such as if your arm or leg hinders your work for God to cut it off because sin is detrimental.  With sin there is no way out.

If you pledge that today is a new day to begin practicing the Principle raise your hands.  Let us pray.

Return for Tomorrows Post: Even an Atom Has Aspirations

This post was rewritten from the speech Things That are Important to You

Life of Faith Toughest School

If you say that a school is good, usually it has an intense and demanding curriculum.  Religious life can be compared to going to school. Do you want to join a very simple, easy-going religion?

Members of other churches go to church Sunday morning and sit on cushioned seats. All they have to do is write out their contribution card and tithe weekly, and that's it. But here you have to raise funds. Some of you have been kidnapped by deprogrammers. There are incredible differences.



Reverend Sun Myung Moon


Of course a person that is healthy is able to digest things that a sick person would not be able to handle.  By the same token, when you have a healthy mind, you, also, can digest anything: democracy, communism, and any philosophy.

Which -ism do you think a movement such as this belongs?  Godism.  Also, Unificationism, which is concerned with uniting things.

Is it easy to unite things?

We each have five senses, plus the limbs, and the beauty of each component comes from its harmony with the whole.  The eyes do not say, "I do not want to belong to that community.  I want to be all by myself."

Even nature observes such laws of the Principle while humanity has turned away from it through choice.

Here, we have five different colors of skin coming from all different parts of the world.  Our goal is to unite them into one family of man.

This church-life of fundraising, witnessing and working around the world for world restoration is complex.

We are into boat building, the fishing industry, and later we will go to the deep mountains digging miles into the earth for minerals.  What are the goals through pushing members into these incredible experiences?

You are being made into people who cannot be defeated.  That is people who are so capable that there is no one who can keep up with you.

Through this difficult training, you are learning how to totally digest many ways of living.  Through the hardships and incredible experiences, you will become great teachers whom people ask for advice.

Then our question boils down to one central point: Is there a God?

We broke down in three previous points how the theory of evolution leaves out God in the answer to the origin of the universe.

Ultimately, our question boils down to one central point: Is there a God?

There are two contrasting "blocs" in our world today.

The two worlds are the democratic world, also called the free world, and the other is the communist world. There are a few basic differences.

People of the free world assert that all of creation began with a thought, through the invisible world of the mind, or God.  The communists on the other hand insist that matter is the essence of everything, and thought is formed from matter.

This is the fundamental difference between them.

However, because of the communistic influence that has captured the world, many people in the free world are not aware of the existence of the mind, or spirit because it cannot be seen.

When such a person gets up in the morning they know that they need warm clothing because it is cold, they don't need spirit.

If they could choose an overcoat, they would like mink or sable.  Is it easy to obtain high-quality, expensive things or is it difficult?

If God does exist in the universe, then He would be important to the existence of the creation.  But if this God was only good for fulfilling the external daily requirements such as meals and necessities, what kind of God would He be?

If God was on a mountain, He would not only be on the highest mountain, He would be at the peak of that mountain.  If there was a tree there, God would be at the very top of that tree.

Is it easy to find and discover God?  If God has hidden himself on the earth, if He dwelt in the desert, He would look for the largest desert, like the Sahara.  This is how we reason.

If God was in the midst of the Sahara, even though many people have died along the way in search of Him, there would be many other people who will never stop searching to find Him.

God is that precious.

If He is the most precious thing, and you knew you can find Him in the desert, would you like to go there?  Even if it was at the risk of your lives?

This is the way human nature is.

If God is at the highest point of the mountain, people would not stop climbing up until they reach that pinnacle.

That is the way man is created.  If He was hidden in a cave miles beneath the earth, men will dig and dig and not give up until they reach Him.  This is what man's spiritual nature is inclined to achieve.

Why is that?

While man is in the process of reaching that highest, deepest and widest point, we overcome everything in between.  Once we finally reach the top we become conquerors. Thinking men always feel they want to conquer something which ordinary people do not reach.

It is mans spiritual nature to reach and strive for the utmost.

Would God place Himself where it was easy or difficult to reach?  God would be at the pinnacle, where people could ultimately reach Him through an extraordinary way.  What place are we?


I really want to give people the most precious thing under the sun. Then should I devise a way of life which is easy to live? Or should it be a path full of overwhelming experiences?  Everyone wants to get a Lincoln, if possible, instead of a Ford or Chevrolet. The most beautiful car is the easiest thing to create in the factory, right? No, the most expensive car requires the most care to make.


A lot of investment, extra effort and all kinds of tests went into making a car.

People who buy cars do not think about how difficult it was to build;they just simply enjoy the car.  Even though one created the automobile and wants to ride it, the owner would tell him that he does not belong there.

But, if his car breaks down, who will he need?  He will need an auto mechanic.

The well-dressed rich man who bought the car and the oily mechanic are both connected to that automobile.  What does this analogy mean for us as people of faith?

Would you want to be the passenger in the expensive car, or would you like to be the dirty, oily laborer who made the car?  Anyone can get dressed up and sit in a nice car, but not everyone can create a car from nothing.


Dumb Reverend Moon took the difficult road instead of the easy one, becoming the dirty mechanic. The mechanic who had the ability to create the expensive car has nothing to worry about. If the car breaks down, he can fix it. Even if there isn't a car, he can create one. He has confidence in himself.


Many Americans are proud of the Empire State Building and the once World Trade Center and so forth, but who built them?  Who designed them?

The Trade Center was designed by Japanese and built by the unwealthy.  Americans are proud of such structures, but are they able to build them on their own?

Even if your ancestors were great, working hard to build the things America is now proud of, what abut you?

Descendants of many great people do not care about such things and rather go clubbing and just enjoy life dancing and having a good time.  What can they be proud of other than that?

Young people today are going after fun with no purpose in life. 

No matter how great their past may have been, these young people will decline.

The children of those who had built such great monuments should be able to do something even greater and bigger to leave for the next generations.  Thus, the nation and people will be able to prosper.  We pledge to be people who will be purposeful and prosper.

We shall be the remnant.

Father speaks about growing up in North Korea and the process of activities that work toward restoring the ideal world:

I was born deep in the mountain country of Korea in a little house. I talked about mankind, the universe, and salvation of the nation. My parents thought I must be crazy.

They said, "You are the son of humble peasants.  Think about how to take care of the fields, how to raise the animals."

People around there couldn't comprehend the things that the little boy was talking about, so they said I was a crazy child, and when I became a little older, they said I was a crazy young man, then a crazy adult.

That crazy boy grew up to be a crazy man, then came to the United States, and is still talking about crazy things. I act like a crazy person. People look at me and say that something must be wrong with my brain.

Recently I have been saying that America cannot afford to have Jimmy Carter as President for another four years. Attacking Carter was almost like hitting a stone wall with my own fist. Who would get hurt?

Even if my hand got hurt, I wouldn't stop. But finally the stone wall gave in.

From the average person's point of view, my ideas are a little crazy. You are the followers of that crazy man. Amazing, though you aren't bothered by being called crazy men and women. You became so crazy that you gave up drugs, gave up discos, and you stopped any promiscuous behavior. You are liberated from that.

We are looking at the entire world and are trying to do something about its problem. If I tell you to gather on the East coast, you hop into vans and drive all day and night, and in three days you are all here. If one driver's eyes keep closing, someone else will open his eyes and drive.

Do you think I am so dumb that I don't know anything about these realities? You fundraising members, for example, go out into the streets every day and people yell at you and spit at you. Sometimes you are even shot at.

The best attitude is to go do fundraising as a researcher who is studying the people who hate Moonies. I am also researching all the fundraising members. I push you out, and in the meantime I study what kind of person you are.

The material fundraising members get to study is the extraordinary treatment they receive.

Some are kicked, some are stabbed, and some are hit. I want to see these records. What makes the men and women who can withstand this remain committed to their purpose?

People do not like to suffer, even for themselves, but here my fundraising people are suffering for the sake of others. Not a single benefit comes to them, but they are doing it for the sake of others and for the sake of the world. This is either extremely bad or extremely good; it cannot be in between.

Certainly I don't enjoy tribulation.

I would much rather go to an easy church. But I discovered that an easy path was not going to bring the solution. An extraordinary route had to be found, and I found it.

Once I found that route, I asked you to go all the way and not give up. Do it until it is finished. What you are doing now is becoming dirty, oily car-makers. You have started to build an automobile, so don't stop in the middle; go all the way.

Your fundraising record will remain.

People will recognize your deeds and your certificate will come. Later, a signature will be placed on that certificate, acknowledging you as a master in your field of fundraising, for instance, and then you become a teacher. When you complete a most beautiful car and then you drive it, nobody will say anything critical to you.

Would you rather build a 1981 Lincoln Continental, or buy one from a dealer?

If you build one, when you drive it you are not just driving a car. You are demonstrating what you are and you can be proud of yourself. But if you only talk about your idea and never carry it out, no one will trust your word.

You may buy a car and be proud of it, but people will say that you are just being snobbish, that you really have no right to be proud. But, when you make it and drive it, then you can be proud of your accomplishment and no one will say anything.

The basic difference between you and me is that you would prefer to buy a car from the dealer while I would rather build the car myself. The Unification movement is like that car. I can be proud of it and no one can say I am taking too much credit.

However, I am still working on this car because I haven't gotten the certificate yet from the US government, for example. But eventually the certificate will be processed and the signature will be put on, and then I will proudly testify and proclaim it to the people. Then they will say they are ready to hear me.

My ambition is to make each one of you my coworkers in the factory. Are you the auto buyer, or a coworker? That means you want to get down to work, don't you? Doing this hard work means being disciplined, pushed and taught. As the foreman of the factory, I will not compliment you too much.

I will always discipline and criticize you instead. This is the only way I can make you into top-notch workers. I want to push you so hard that no one is able to compete with me. I want all customers to agree that the best automobile comes from the Moon factory. Would you like that reputation?

The same principle is being applied to boat making. I told our people to make the best boat under the sun, but to make it the cheapest. The only way they can do that is by sacrificially giving themselves. But through this process the most beautiful boat is created, and no one else has a boat that can compete.

With the same spirit we make a society, a nation. If we Moonies make the best kind of nation for the cheapest price, there won't be room for communism to creep in."


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Become Ideal People for Liberation


This Post was rewritten from the speech Things That Are Important to You

Life is a Classroom

Whoever truly practices public mind love for the nation shall become the leader and master of that nation. The same Principle can be applied to the world.

Why should this Principle be practiced on earth when not many people adhere by it throughout the world?  Why don't we just enjoy life and then practice such a true way of life once we enter into the spirit world much later?

This is a very clever idea!

This is the only classroom you have.  Therefore, this Principle must be practiced here on earth.

You have to go through elementary school before you can enter high school, correct?  No one can just skip any of the material.

When you enter college, you still use the same formulas you learned in your elementary and high school days.

No formula can change; all it can do is expand.

The spirit world is a higher realm that is completely Principle-oriented, public minded, and sacrificial.

If we do not practice this right way of life here on earth, then we cannot unite with the spirit world.  This is what is deemed as hell, where there is no movement or growth, just suffering.

Even though the spirit world and physical world have been divided after the fall, they both operate on one principle.  In order to enter the spirit world and practice that principle on a higher level or plane, you must first have practiced it here on earth.

You elementary work must be done on earth so you can continue in spirit world.

If you are unable to reach the level to feel the love of God on earth, you will not feel it once you reach spirit world.  Thus the Bible states, "What is loosed on earth, is loosed in heaven."

You enter the level of spirit according how you lived on earth. No one is sent anywhere, but is his own judge based on the level of his own immature or mature spirit.

What kind of temple do you think God would want?  We should each be the temple of God.  God dwells within each of us.  In true love, He would like to look, smell and hear through your eyes, nose and ears.  Your five sense become God's instruments.
Through them, God can perceive His way.

When the mind is fully contented in the love of God, the whole body will thus be contented.  When the mind has love, it becomes exuberant and ecstatic.

When there is love, therefore, there is freedom. Without love, everything is in slavery.

A person who takes drugs in America will think he has found freedom.

Actually, he cannot find freedom in drugs.  This person creates his own hell because no love dwells in him.  How does taking drugs bring about the purpose of the whole of world peace?  Can one bring about unity through such behavior?

All creation was made for God's love.  You become the temple of God when you live as a public person.  Look through your eyes in God's way; have God's hearing; God's smelling, God's voice, and God's touch.

If the brothers were to look at a beautiful woman in God's way, how would he think?

Would he look at her lustfully, thinking how he could get her to bed?  Does he think about how to make her happy?  How can he make her better and whole?

A brother would want to convey something with a public-minded love of God so that she becomes in turn public minded who is another beautiful temple of God.

If you find there is no love of God within a person, then you want to give love to him. 

How noble that is to give love to one who may have never experienced true love.

Naturally, when most women see a very handsome man, they wish that they could go on a date with him.  The godly vision is different from this fallen way.

Once you place God inside of you, your world concept changes.

Even though you may not have wealth, it does not matter.  As long as you practice love, you are the richest person under the sun.

You know that God dwells within you when you have a mind of Principle, a public mind, a sacrificial mind.  That is the place where God rejoices.  You must see that the moment you complain, become depressed, give up, God is leaving you.

You cannot afford to lose God.  So, you try to improve in order that He will stay.  As long as God stays within you and you think in God's way, there is no complaint. But once God leaves, you lose everything.

Many good-looking American brothers ask Father to match them with a Korean or Japanese fiancee.  Why?  Because Father, who is from Korea, represents the whole Oriental culture, and through him and his teachings, you have had a taste of heavenly love.

No one can take that love away from you.

An elderly Korean woman who has been a member ever since the beginning told father that she must see him three times a day or she would become crazy and could not live.

She said that her life was hell because she could not see him everyday.  He never showed her any special treatment in the past and he always treated all the members the same way.

She said, "I feel shy to say this, but I love you, Father."  Father did not show any grand miracles, but there is something within him that touches everyone's heart.

It is the love of God.  It is like electricity, it is not visible, but you know that the current is flowing when you have been touched by it.

God is a super person, but He works exactly the same as you do.

You are specially attached to the clothes you wear, even your eyeglasses.

If we are in the image of God, do you think God's mind works that way?  Would He feel a certain attachment to an object or a person?

Since God uses our body as a dwelling place, would He have a certain attachment to us?

God lets us suffer as people of faith, but that is the fastest way to welcome Him within us.  God enjoys the love that is public-minded and sacrificial.  You are going to resemble God.  When you go inside of God and He comes within your heart, you have total freedom.

You have no strange feeling at all when this occurs.

If God dwells in you, but you still have selfish, sinful thinking, then you feel as though you are choking.

This is God saying, "You're wrong.  Change your mind."

Unless you live the public minded way, God wants to chop off the hand or limb that disobeys His principle.

There is no way that He can stay within you otherwise.

To keep God within you, and to make Him happy, you have to practice the three points explained in the previous post.  You must be a principled person, you must be public-minded, and you must be sacrificial.

Within God, there is no national boundary.

That is why this love can extend even to your enemy.  Then, true unity between mankind and God will be created.  True unity between the spirit world and the physical world can be created.  God is that catalyst.


Within your heart I have planted a small seed of God's mind. That seed must germinate and grow bigger and bigger, reaching out to your family, society, nation and your world. If you have a difficult task ahead of you, go after it.


By going this way, you are not asking for an easy way out or looking for a clever way.

While you are tackling this difficult mission, there is no room for complaint.  When you are truly trying to practice everything within love, how can you complain about the difficulties you encounter?

You cannot complain against love. 

God will be within you while you are searching after that love with a grateful heart to give glory and praise to God.

Since you want to be the dwelling place of God, you should be serving and praising Him all the time.  If God is within  you, you want to make Him happy, so you practice the Principle way and become public minded.

To truly have God live within you for eternity, you must be sacrificial.

When you practice this way of life, you cannot go wrong.

Automatically, when someone is nasty to you, you may want to fight back.  But then you think that for the sake of God you must win him over. That is how you change your fallen mind toward the more public mind.

God loves love and wants to dwell in love. 

The church is not the dwelling place of God.

He doesn't want to dwell in the church, but in me and you.  The church is merely an organizing systematic way of teaching the Principle way.  Don't think you are only a part of the Church; the Unification Church is for you. It is at your service.

The work you do for God's will is for you.  The church is only an instrument to merely come to assist you to go to heaven.  How thankful you should be.  If the church is here to serve you, then how can you complain?

You must know clearly that the church, God and the Messiah are mobilized for your sake.  Now you clearly know who God is and who you are.  Did you forget?  You are the dwelling place of God.

Then your eyes shall become whose eyes?  Once your eyes becomes God's eyes and your ears are God's and so forth, God would feel they are working for Him.  Then once you hear something, you know immediately if it is a satanic sound or a heavenly sound.

If a European was here for the workshop, he may want to go back to Britain where he thinks the job is easier.  On the contrary, they must think that the job is not hard enough.

What place would be the hardest work for God's will?

Africa, or South America?

Even though a person and his family may not welcome the idea of moving to Africa, it does not matter.  They will go anyway.  Is this wrong?

Now you understand that suffering creates a larger shopping bag for you to hold the love of God.

That fragrance of that love is so wonderful that black, white, and yellow people will feel heaven in it.  Through your God-centered suffering, that kind of container is created, and you want to give that package of love to the world.

If people reject you, you do not lose.  That package of love is then passed down to your own children.  You do not lose anything.  One way or another, you are a winner.

Be thankful as you live this way of life.  Digest everything so there is nothing stuck in your stomach.

Is there anything harder than a marriage of two people from enemy nations or other countries who do not speak the same language?

If you are able to unite these two extremes in marriage, you can digest anything.

When you can serve a strange husband or wife, you know that you are just sampling the difficulty that is ahead of us as we travel this pathway toward world peace.

When you serve in your home, you should be principled, public minded and sacrificial.  That way of life will grow like a snowball rolling down the hill and will cover the world.  That world will become the dwelling place of the infinite love of God.  Amen.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech given by Rev. Sun Myung Moon Who is God and Who Am I?