Reverend Sun Myung Moon
What would be the most basic question to God?
What is the true relationship between God and mankind and whether or not God exists would be the best questions.
To answer whether God exists, we can for the time being take the philosophical approach about ourselves, or 'I'. Throughout history, philosophers had different answers for whether "I exist and how to know if 'I' exist.
"I think, therefore I am. I cannot doubt that I doubt" is what has been asserted.
Then where did thinking originate?
Some answer that it comes from the brain while others will assert that man's spirit is the origin of his own thought.
Whatever answer we find, man has a separate origin than thought. So we should answer the two questions separately.
Evolution has been the answer to where man originated which answer that man came about by chance and through the slow progression from apes.
This answer is expedient, but is is not actually the fundamental one. If this is the case, then evolution has to have an origin somewhere. Even science is becoming aware of this fact.
This process alone does not answer where did man's spirit, mind and thought within man begin if an animal does not possess these same qualities.
In order to begin to answer this question we would have to start at the beginning of creation and observe the elements of that creation.
The amoebae is the simplest organisms. What if the amoebae has the capacity of a simple thought/ How would this simple conscious evolve into the complicated human mind?
Can we truly say that our noble spirit of humankind came from this simple organism alone without any help to reach the more complex species?
We know that the human mind has a greater capacity. This is not a logical solution. Through the development of man's body, there should have been something that brought the human spirit into being.
Through the explanation of evolution, we must conclude that the elements of greater and greater thought were added bit by bit to the simple consciousness of the amoebae until we reached the level of the human mind and spirit we possess in our day.
Does the amoebae, which is the beginning of the evolutionary point, contain the kind of energy necessary to propel itself forward into a higher being on its on natural course of evolving?
If not, then there must have been some extra energy that was supplied from the outside. Then man did not come from just a natural , or automatic occurrence which is explained through the process of evolution.
Those who observe the phenomenon of the evolutionary development do not try to figure out the question and only just observe the end result and call it evolution. But when each step of the process is analyzed, there are clearly some missing factors.
When we look at the internal aspect more deeply, we know that there had to be some additional power besides just the object which is changing. When amoebas today collect in greater numbers do they somehow produce the human spirit?
Every element, even the amoeba possesses an inner form and an external form. These two aspects work together as a joint unit, with the internal aspect behaving as the central point.
The two major schools of philosophical thought: materialism, which considers matter as the essence of the universe, and the metaphysical idealism, which considers spirit as the essence around which everything else in the universe revolves.
The age-old philosophical question is whether consciousness precedes existence or existence precedes consciousness.
When we observe the external aspects, it looks like existence came before conscious and developed naturally. But when we look at the internal point-of-view, there had to be an awareness or consciousness first, from which sprang being or existence.
Two entirely different viewpoints emerge depending on how this question is answered. Which is the true one?
Materialist philosophy is on one side and the other side has the clear acceptance of a Creator or God as the origin. Between these two ideologies there are thousands of different theories.
When we look between these two opposing viewpoints, which is 'internal' and 'external', struggle arises. This simple fact is important to know because once we know the true order of things, there is the end to this struggle.
We must know the truth which came first, consciousness or existence of matter itself and then which is the subject and which is the object.
But if we continue to believe that matter and spirit coexist on an equal level, there will always be struggle between ideologies and mankind.
Marxism is founded on the belief that the universe sprang from the essential element of material and that consciousness is a by-product of matter coming into existence first preceding it.
We can break down the most basic component of matter which is the atom into smaller particles.
The atom consists of the neutron and proton with the electron circling around it. This proton occupies the center and takes on the subject position; however, within the proton there is another give and take action where further breakdown can occur.
All of these elements come together beginning with some motion.
Whichever particle created the motion becomes the subject.
The nucleus is the central point and beginning of motion within the atom. Within the amoebae the same thing applies. The amoebae has an internal nucleus character and an external character.
Also, each of the billions of cells within the human body has a nucleus as well. If there is a concept of a center, then all four directions must exist. What is the purpose served by the central point within?
The central position determines the location of the axis; it is the position of the starting point. Without it, nothing can move.
What determines the shape and characteristic of each atom is its nucleus? The characteristic of the nucleus determines the substance of the outer body, so the central nucleus is the key determining factor for the entire being.
This is true for the development of the different forms of existence.
As atoms move about together into different types of nuclei, the outward characteristics become markedly different. One direction consists of the vegetable world, in another is the animal world, then the mineral world.
The central nucleus character is determined first then the outward phenomenon, or the external form, is determined.
Evolution is based on the assumption that life just happened by chance or accident on its own, automatically. But there is no way for such development to just happen automatically without an outside force.
When there are two different types of nuclei there will be two different types of external forms.
For example, no matter how hard a Chinese cabbage and a radish try, a radish cannot become a Chinese cabbage and the cabbage cannot become the radish.
It is impossible for them to come together and create a new form. By observing the basic elements we see that they have two different nuclei with totally different characteristics.
Unless the element of the nucleus are changed, the external forms cannot be changed. The monkey and the human resemble each other. Also, other animals such as the dog, cat and cow have eyes and ears similar to the humans.
Does this mean that the cow becomes a man and a man becomes the cow because of the similarities?
This is impossible because the determining fact of anything in existence is its nucleus, which is the center.
Humans have the determining factor of humanity; cows have the cow-determining factor; and dogs have the dog-determining factor. As long as these each carry different nuclei, no matter the effort spent on external unity, they can never become interchangeable.
To begin with, the monkey and human beings have different items. The monkey has the monkey-determining factor and the man has the man determining factor.
The two have entirely different purposes, as well. Should we conclude that the monkey automatically evolved into a man?
By looking at the internal aspects we see this does not hold true.
The nucleus is in the position to relate to all four directions. It can exert influence in all four direction and receive energy from all four directions. The nucleus determines the overall character of the external form.
In other words, the nucleus determines its shape and its substance. When we view from the concept of a central nucleus, the internal and external aspects of man can be more understood.
The theory of evolution cannot explain the internal and external because it does not have the understanding of the core or center at the most basic form.
The elements might not have occurred in all four directions at the same time. Maybe they began with one direction; but ultimately they covered the entire four directions. The four directions of east, west, north and south have different characteristics from each other.
Every essential element of matter has a different origination point.
Between the nucleus and the body, the nucleus comes first in the subject position and it determines the nature of the objective body. Even though it is invisible, the internal is first.
Whoever takes the initiative is the subject.
For instance, in order for you to sit in your chair you had to have the initiative to get up in the morning and then sit down where you are now. This motivation for an action comes from within the nucleus, which is the center point.
You first had to determine within your thinking to get up and get ready. Your body, which is material, did not push your mind to come to where you are right now from your bed.
Since that core-nucleus exists prior to objective embodiment(external), the internal occurs before the external.
This core makes the external embodiment, which we can observe, possible.
This is not the other way around. This same principle can be applied everywhere. So, the internal reality and the internal character comes first and then is the subject position.
The theory of evolution falls apart simply because it does not explain how one nucleus change itself into another nucleus containing totally different elements.
If a scientist tried to command the several elements with differing nuclei to come together, no matter how hard he tries to manipulate the union if there is no mutual interaction or possibility for reciprocal relationship, those nuclei can never come together.
By knowing the internal aspects and that the nuclei determines the external form how can we just accept the information that the universe developed through natural occurrences without planning?
There must be some external source of power, will and initiative. Some universal nucleus-idea which is the governing factor of the entire universe must have had a hand in the manipulation of several different aspects of the creation.
Each of us has a nucleus that went through the process of gathering up the substance that makes us who we are. Our nucleus has its own characteristic.
The central nucleus determines liking or disliking, willing and not willing. Therefore, each nucleus is different from others; it is unique.
Our nucleus has already determined our size and character. We cannot go beyond our own characteristic nucleus, nor can he become anything less than the nucleus requires.
Exactly what the nucleus was, we became.
Also, nothing can be added to it because it would be foreign. No matter how much other elements try to enter that character, it will not be accepted unless the nucleus ordered certain substances.
We can view all men as 'cells' for some universal nucleus character. We are a part of something that is bigger than ourselves.
The central characteristic of man is heart and this central characteristic is common to all.
We cannot relate equally with the animal world because we are human beings and they are animals.
Man is man. We are each a part of the human family as one cohesive group. We have a common character within each of us. We strive to become better and pursue goodness.
Because of this, we always reach out for new horizons, and greater and higher universal character.
In other words, we want something better and some way to progress. This is why the whole of humanity continually heads toward betterment because such character exists within the common human nucleus.
Since we all have a basic common search to do good and become better, there must be something bigger than our own character within this universal character. We recognize as a collective group that we are objects to some greater subject.
Because there is a common human search for goodness and betterment, there is something bigger than our own character within the universal character.
As a collective group we recognize that there is some greater nucleus; we recognize ourselves as objects to that greater subject. The human consciousness involves this collective effort to reach out to that universal consciousness.
Because of our human consciousness, we can reach out to that greater consciousness and we can communicate with it.
In that way, universal consciousness becomes subject and we become the object or substance of that universal consciousness. We are glad to become the objective consciousness of that nucleus conscious.
We would want to communicate and align ourselves with that central consciousness. That consciousness has many several different names throughout religion, but it would be the true originator of all existence.
We call this originator of such consciousness and human beings, God.
This central consciousness would be the center of all existence. Man stands uniquely as the microcosm of the macro-cosmic universe.
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Return for Tomorrow's Post: Does God Exist Part II
This post was rewritten in conversational form and derived from the speech God and Us.
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