Fruit of Love Has to Mature Before We 'Eat of It'

Everyone by now knows the Biblical account of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.  God warned Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit.  The fruit was symbolic of their sexual organs.  He did not tell them this to be mean or keep them from love, but it was because it was not the right time for them to love.

Imagine an apple growing on the tree still has not reached maturity.  But a young person is so hungry they take the unripened fruit and decide to eat it anyway.  Would this fruit be fully developed yet in its immaturity?

Since they were still in the growth stage, God commanded them to wait until they became spiritually mature.

Everyone grows up and thinks and longs for the time when they can pass through their adolescence.

Why is it necessary to wait until after adolescence to be married?

A man and woman can love at anytime and age, so why is it necessary to wait until after adolescence?

Because of love, this is the only course.

We need to pass through adolescence in order to mature.  Once we fulfill certain conditions during that period, then our spirit and body matures.

What should have been Adam's and Eve's attitude toward their education?

Because God is their parent, Adam and Eve should have obeyed Him and followed Him wherever He went.

The Time for Adam's and Eve's First Love

As we learn in Genesis, they did not do so.

God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply.  This does not hold the same context as bearing children.

Fruitful means that after their physical and spiritual bodies had become fully mature, they should have become a loving husband and wife centered on God and had good children.

They instead left their original positions and disobeyed God.  Since God is the Absolute Being, they should have followed and obeyed Him absolutely even if they did not understand why.

As appointed lords of all creation, they should have acted according to Heavenly Father's time table.  In other words, they should have waited until their bodies matured physically and they matured spiritually.
As Adam and Eve grew into maturity, they were always together.

As they were exploring and getting to understand and know creation, there could have been a time when Eve was frightened by something.  She might have felt safe and comforted in Adam's arm.  At the same time they both might have felt strong sexual urges because their bodies were different from the other.

In this situation, who was the first to initiate the sexual actions: Adam or Eve?

From that time on, their sexual contact began to increase gradually.  

God created the universe with love.

Since God created with His love, then we should have made the created world a community of love centering on God's love and connect it to Him.

This was their responsibility.

Adam and Eve should have been careful to think beforehand how and with what attitude they would share the love they had which was permitted by God.

Matters of love are extremely serious: life or death is determined by its giving or misuse.

Where does love begin?

A true world begins from the perfection of the individual.  The Principle view point states that we can only love after we have become perfect.

The relationship of love only begins when one passes through adolescence and become mature spiritually enough to fulfill the responsibility of becoming one in harmony with the universe.

As we know that Adam and Eve did not wait until they were perfect to indulge in their fruit of love.  How do we know Adam and Eve were not perfect?  Because a perfected person completely connected to God cannot fall.

Then what kind of love did they share?

Since their love was not centered on God or did not unified all of creations in the universe, this means their love was not mature.  Their love should have been mature and natural.  However, the sad fact is, the love they did share was unnatural.

All Beings Are Perfected through Love

God had created us to become perfected.

This happens once the good mind and the body interact based on God's love established in the beginning.

Thus, both the mind and body grow to maturity based on the principles or laws God set forth, and then they completely unite.

This means that the mind would only center on things God approves and the body would have no choice but to follow.  Human beings still have a way back through religion.  The mind can subjugate the evil desires of the body and return to God.

Perfection can only be achieved when one's life is rooted in love. 

When your love matures centering on God's love, then that love puts out buds and bears fruit on that foundation.  Once a foundation of love is established in this way, then God comes and resides there.

Therefore, until love fully matures, the foundation to bear its fruit cannot be established.  Adam and Eve are the true examples of what happens when we delve into immature love spreading it generation after generation.

All things were created according to the rules of love, and thus they continue to exist. 

Plants bear fruit based on the give and take action between the stamen and the pistil in the flower blossom.  This is also true for the animal kingdom and the human world.

Everything continues to exist through the circular motion of love.

In this way, all things become perfected only after passing through the relationship of love.  In other words, all beings can be perfected only through love.

Our mind and body can only unite when they are positioned to conform to the nucleus, center of God's love.  Also, human beings can only completely mature when they enter the realm of God's love when they are united in mind and body.

Humanity began with the mind following the selfish desires of the body thus completely severing our relationship with God.

We begin our journey toward individual perfection as we were originally intended at the time of creation before the Fall.

When we observe the mind and body, we see that the mind is geared toward heaven and the body is geared toward earth.

This creates the ideal place where heaven and earth and the visible world can unite into one.

Many want to dominate the world, but what if someone wanted to dominate the cosmos?  If his mind and body are not completely united would that be possible for him to lead the cosmos?

If he is not able to rule his own body centered on God, how can he rule others?

If he is not able to unite his mind centered on God, nothing will be achieved.  We see this in every nation and throughout history where the world was led down a darken path due to the fallen nature and evil desires of leaders.

If his mind and body failed to become one completely, nothing can be achieved. 

When we achieve unity between the mind and body centering on God, then God becomes our internal God.

The person is physically the external representation of God.  Then the mind and body become one centering on love.

Love is the link between man and God.

We are the horizontal representatives of the existing world and God is the vertical representative, and love bonds the two externally.

Once we are united mind and body with God, then our heart and emotions are pouring in infinite joy and happiness.

In the end, God and human beings become one through the bond of love.  Then also, human beings become one with the world through love.  The realization of a world of peace begins from here.

God's purpose of creation begins from there.

Jesus, who had matured into perfection centered on God, was to be the beginning of heaven on earth, or world of peace.  But no one in his time could accept him and follow him to the end.

Adam and Eve begin to notice the opposite sex around the age of sixteen or seventeen.  As they matured, they were drawn to each other like a flower in full blossom.  Even God becomes enraptured in this fragrance.

Therefore, when God and human's mind and body become one, the nucleus of the universe is formed.  Together they can travel the path upon which they can take charge of all kinds of love.

However, we see that they did not follow this true path, but their own desires which they could not overcome.

Had they have been able to make God's desire stronger than their fallen one, then they would unite with God, they would have never been able to leave him.

Then their descendants would have been connected, generation after generation, forming a tribe, people, nation and the world.  This then would have been a world full of peace, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, True Family Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four, Chapter 1