We Enter Heaven as a Family Unit

Have you ever been able to describe what heaven may look like?  What about heaven on earth?  What kind of world would that be?

Many people of faith speak about heaven and paradise, but they should know that it is not a place which we enter alone.

Heaven is a place that we enter with our parents and siblings.

What is the secret to entering heaven and going beyond paradise?

We should know that heaven is not a place that is filled with individuals, but rather it is meant for family units.  Not only that, but your tribe must be there with you.

You are blessed if you have a big tribe for God on earth.

If we see that a family has many sons and daughters and they have great wealth, don't we consider them blessed?

If you also want to be blessed and enter heaven, you do not do it alone, but as a family.

No one can enter heaven individually.

As I found out, heaven is not such a chimerical place as believed by Christians. Originally, heaven is a place you are supposed to enter as a family unit. Families are meant to go there.  The place parents and children enter and live together with God as the center is the ideal world. 


It is hard for conventional faiths to understand this.

Think about this, would you be happy in heaven if you were together with your mother and younger sister, while you see your father and elder sister go to hell?

Just as in the movie, What Dreams May Come, the whole family went to heaven, but the mother went to hell because of her sadness of her children and husband dying.

Her husband rejected heaven and searched for her to help her come out of her sadness like he did when she tried to commit suicide on earth.

Other than the reincarnation and the family members living separately in heaven, this was a pretty accurate movie from what many spiritualists who have peered into the spirit world realm have relayed.

Therefore, only families go to heaven.

This family will have had a holy wedding on earth wrapped in God's bosom of love where people have not fallen or have reversed the sinful past.

A family of children which God can rejoice with as His grandchildren and received His love enter together.

Would it be heaven if you entered heaven while your child failed to get there?  Who could enjoy heaven without their loves?

That place is Paradise where parents, spouse and children enter separately, no matter how close and affectionate they might have been while on earth.

Paradise is for the individual, it has nothing to do with the family.  Could Paradise be Heaven?

Jesus spoke at the cross to the thief, that he would enjoy paradise with him, not heaven.

Why do we not make this distinction clear?

Heaven is a world where the entire family follows their parents to interact with God as the center.

Would it be good if the parents are living happily in heaven while the son is screaming out desperately in agony while in hell?  Could that place be heaven?

From God's point of view of the ideal He had for creation, could such a place where everyone entered separately be heaven?  Would this be the highest realm to achieve?

No.  Heaven is such a place that where if the father enters it, so will the mother and if the parents enter it, so will the children.  Therefore they stay there together as mom and dads.

Originally, heaven, in accordance with the principles of creation, is a place entered by families. 

You would only be happy to go to such a place if you entire clan entered it.

If parents went to hell while the children went to heaven, what kind of heaven would that be?

Therefore, as we pave the way for going to heaven in the future, we must attain the family level of restoration.

Otherwise, we will not be able to go to heaven, but to Paradise.

Through the family, we must be able to escape any accusations which Satan can accuse us.  We must escape from the historical level of accusation of sins and the contemporary level of accusation.

God did not have plans for the husbands to go to heaven while the wives went to hell.

At the time of creation, God intended that the heroes who obtain the ideal, namely the fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, would form a tribe, people and nation  Shouldn't it be this way?

Yet because of the Fall, humanity created a hell corresponding to the wicked way they lived on earth. God did not create hell, our sins did.

The Heavenly Way People Should Go In The Family

Of course we know that we should love our neighbors' parents, grandparents and children just as they have loved their own children.

Only through these kinds of relationships of above and below, left and right, and front and back can they fully arise creating a balance.  Only then will the standard of heart be established and the heavenly way emerge.

Hence, they should practice the correct standard of relating to one another while they are on earth.  Therefore, they will build ideal families.  We are crossing from the family level over into the tribal realm, and from there into the national realm.

Thus, as you are able to build a heavenly foundation through witnessing, more and more people through you and the standard of value of character advance toward God.

So, what must we do with this heavenly, vertical standard?



I am saying that we should manifest it horizontally.


The family progresses on the day the mother and father unite.

The day the children and parents unite, the family progresses to a higher dimension.  Then what will happen on the day when the family and the tribe unite?

Then a new spirit for the race will emerge.

When we are prompted to reach to a higher level as a family, then everything is integrated at the national level.  We will then be able to live as the kindred of loyal subjects.

Now, even I will become a grandfather before long. This is the same for you, when you get old you will become grandfathers and grandmothers. We are born as a son or daughter, get married to become a father or mother, and then become a grandfather or grandmother; that is the course of our life. 


Since the formula course of life is grandparents, parents, spouses and children, failure to love them runs opposite to the heavenly way.  If the three generations are not able to bond together, then there will be no way to bring the world into order.

In comparison to Eastern culture of respect, grandmothers and grandfathers of the West are pitiful.  They long for the Oriental customs.  They are saying, "Oh, the Oriental thought reveres grandparents like God!  Sons over there consult their aged parents even if they are in their 70s and eighties.  How wonderful it must be!"

Therefore, those who do not know how to show love to their grandparents cannot love God.

Who do you think the oldest grandfather is?

He is God.

God is older than all of the grandfathers and younger than all babies.  If you are unable to love people as a whole, you cannot love Him.

If you say that God is old and He is the oldest person, and you say that God is the young of the future, he is a youth more than anyone else.

We want to love God, thus, we have to love people in between.

Since people of the past in the spirit world always have hope and live within that realm, we must love them as well.

It is logical that after this we will then be able to go the way of truly following and loving God.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seon Gyeon Book Four, Chapter Eleven, Section 5 and 7

Why Do We Like the Concept Family?

As we witness the chaos of the world, instability in jobs, and relationships, there is one relationship that never changes no matter what - family.

Your siblings, mother, father and extended family will always be tied together by blood ties.

God made this unit of relationships that teach us how to love brothers and sisters, the elderly and the young of the world.

So, why do we like the family?

It is because family provides a base to freely exchange happiness.

This is why we yearn for our hometown where we grew up.  It is the place where our parents and siblings live.

The family is originally a good place.  Why is it good?

Because your parents, siblings and relatives are there.  Therefore, we become homesick for our native land, our hometown.

People think more about their hometown than they think of their nation.  Even living in a large city like New York, people long for their hometown.

Why do you like your families?

It is because the family becomes a free activity center for their parents' love.

God must be able to act freely there.

When God comes upon a society full of people who are more driven internally, and have the shining core of love no matter how shabby they may be, God will be able to act freely around them.

Do you feel uneasy when you visit someone else's home?

Like you are out of place?  This is because there has not been a bond of love established there for you.
You will feel awkward in someone else's dwelling because the love between the people there does not emanate in all four directions but just between the family members.

This was not the original role of the family. Thus we are destined to walk a path in oneness, unity.

The best thing is not decided by you?

Then what would hold the highest value in the family?  

The parents.

You as an individual could have great wealth, knowledge, respect and power, but none of these attributes are superior to the parents' position.

Your spouse would come next and then your children.  When it comes to your family, is there anything more valuable in life than your parents, spouse or children?  There is nothing more precious.

Why do we like our spouse, our parents and our children?

Because love is there.

Parental love is something absolutely needed by the children. 

Also, fraternal love and filial love of the children are absolutely necessary in the family.

Then who are the most beloved people in your families?  Wouldn't they be your parents?  Why do you like them most?

This is because throughout your lives, they are the closest to you in a relationship of love.  Then your beloved spouse comes next.

If husband and wife come to love each other unconditionally rather than set on conditions or circumstances, that love will be the greatest thing that will bring happiness and harmony into the family.

Even if it may not be closely related to an eternal love that is absolutely given by Heaven.  If this love becomes one, that reciprocated between the husband and wife, that is the greatest love in the family.

This is how I see it. Filial love, the love children have toward their parents, is next. If children can sacrifice themselves for their parents and love them with a bright and positive attitude rather than despair, while longing for ideal circumstances in which their love can sprout as the hope of tomorrow, that love will be one with pure and true value for the happiness of that family. 


Thus, if the family that is complete with true parental love, true conjugal love and true filial love, centered on God, then we can only conclude that it is the most ideal family in the world.  A true family.

The Family Is the Base of Eternal Happiness

On what basis can we say that someone is a truly a happy person in our daily life?

Is someone happy because they have some special talent, hold any power or authority?  Do these things alone make a person happy?  They cannot.

Also, can a person that has a lot of money be totally happy because they do not have to envy what others have? No.

Could a person become happy because they obtained a global amount of knowledge or hold some control over the world at will?

As we see in today's climate that, this is not the case.  People cannot truly become happy with just those things.

Even if they do so momentarily, happiness will not be eternal by going this route.  What happens the moments that these material objects are lost?  Can they maintain that state?

Such external things will never be the source of eternal happiness even if a person acquires enough wealth that they do not envy anyone in heaven and earth and sing songs of joy.

They will still feel a gaping hole in their soul and yearn for even more.

Material things may be a means to find happiness, but they are not able to be happiness itself.

Then, what is determined in order to feel happiness?

You must have a beloved spouse, parents and children.  Nobody can deny that the original way to happiness is through the creation of a true family.

We may see that if we lack one of them, we feel sorrow and dissatisfaction will inevitably remain in our hearts.

All people on earth generally feel that the family is a base of happiness. 

A family must have parents as the head of it, like the president of a nation.

People who grow up without parents are called orphans and are seen as pitiful people.  It is pitiful for one to not have parents or a spouse.

The family has parents and a conjugal bond at the same time.

However much the spouses may have loved each other, there will be utter pain and misery when one of them loses the other.

It is the same for when a couple cannot conceive children.

The family must have parents, spouse and children in order to become the foundation for eternal happiness.

God's original purpose for seeking to restore humankind was for His own happiness.

This establishment of happiness cannot take place apart from human beings.  At that point of convergence, it can only be brought about through God's relationship with them.

When all of the ingredients needed for our emotional well-being are present in our family, God also wants to feel happiness in such a setting.

From where does happiness arise?  What kind of setting will allow us to sing songs of joy?  It is in the setting of the family.

This family happiness cannot be attained if there are emotional problems, or if there is no heart or love experienced between the family members.

If a couple cannot have children, also, there cannot be any happiness there.

This is the same for children who do not have parents.  There will be no joy for them.

Where there is a man, there will have to be a woman as his partner. 

This same truth is for the woman.

The husband and wife desire to keep their love at a higher dimension within their subject-object relationship.  Further, they must have children.

A unified family is only realized once a couple has parents above them and children below them.  A family is united vertically (spirit) and horizontally (physical) in this way.

Then upon whom does this family center?

We already know that we center the idea of unity based solely on human beings.

But this method is impossible for two separate beings to come together eternally since they alone cannot pursue a higher value.

But if there is an absolute Subject Partner of love, then the parents will want to become one with this Subject Partner as their center.

That center where all of the family members become one in love, is a place of happiness and hope.

Everything must then be brought into oneness and unified through something more valuable and stimulating.

This is not possible based on our human love alone, but only from God, the true subject partner.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four Chapter Eleven, Section 1 and 2.

Children Complete a Couple

That is such a bold statement, that a couple is incomplete without having children.  You would imagine a picket line being formed with a President making such a comment.  It is the same as saying a person is incomplete without a partner.

There is truth to these statements.

Even though one can be whole on his own, it is only to a certain level of growth.

Everything in creation is created with a partner in order to expand to a larger level of growth and living.

Why should humans think we are any different?

Parents who have raised many children see that their heart of love has grown wide, large and deep.

They can feel on their own that they cannot fight even their wicked enemies.  They stand on that foundation and live according to that broad of a law.

When a baby is born, he follows the electric current of love and automatically seeks out his mother's nipple.

He does not care how ugly or beautiful his mother is.  To witness such a sight of unmatched harmony and holiness.

Each of us are the fruit of our parents' love for one another.  We are born in love, and grow up while receiving love.

You are the visible, real fruit of what your mother and father's love is like. 

Therefore, it is natural that the parents have to love the person who is the fruit of their love.

Through this fruit, the infinite love bears fruit yet again.

This is the path where we can be connected to individual love, family love, tribal love, universal love and even the fundamental love of God.

You are a unique participant and companion in love in front of your parents.

This love makes you equal to your mother and father and you can rise to an equal position.  This is the privilege of love.

Parents want to bequeath everything they own to their sons and daughters, whom they truly love.

You can jump in and inherit a hundred percent of the universe when you have found an equal position of value of love in the tradition of love.

This is why all parents want a child of filial piety.

Children of filial piety pass on the inheritance of love as participants in the eternal love of their parents.

A baby who is born through love can do whatever he wants and you will not dislike him one bit.

Rather, no matter what, you will love your baby because he is made from your flesh and blood and is a second you, created through love.

Even when he defecates or urinates, has a runny nose, he is still cute and adorable in your eyes.

This is because these things are soaked in love.

The love between the parents and children comes from the parents.  We receive our parents' love from the moment of our birth.

After we receive the parents' love and grow up, then we receive the horizontal love between husband and wife.

In order for the love of the husband and wife to continue, they must have children and love them.

Parents can feel genuine love only when they have children.

Through only the love of brothers and sisters, we cannot learn about parents' love.

In other words, we come to know parental love when we ourselves experience the circular course through becoming parents and complete the circle.

The love string of our parents and the string of our ideals are connected to each of us. This cannot be cut off by anyone.  All of the power of the universe protects such a union.

Thus, wherever I go, my parents will follow me. My parents always want to be with me, even in the spirit world. Thus, it is a sin to dislike your parents accompanying you.


The highest value for human beings is to think of and love our parents like they are our own body and practice filial piety.

We are born from our parents' love and are engrafted to their love.

Before the connection of life and lineage are made through love, the connections are in place.

Why are each of us so precious?  Not because we have life, but because we participated together in our parents' love.  Parents have loved, but the individual is the fruit of that love.

Each of us are precious because we are born with the beginning point and the fruit.

True parents strive to continue this tradition of love.

This is the same for those in the East and the West.  All parents want to have an universal tradition of love by transcending our own tribe.

All people want and strive to bring their family into completeness and harmony so they can live a happy and peaceful life.

In this case tradition is the essence.

Only tradition can connect with the future.

Which is greater: conjugal love of husband and wife or the love between parents and children?

Westerners value the conjugal love of husband and wife as greater, but this is not so.  Love for a child is greater than the love of the spouse.

In conjugal love, the husband and wife fight because they think the other does not love them.  But parents and children fight thinking that they must love the other more, this the original heart.

The parent and child relationship is such a way because the love of parents and child is the center and vertical.  It follows the road that is close to the heavenly law.  Thus, we find that the love that serves others is closer to the genuine love.

However strong a man is, or however tough a woman may be, they will bow down to that love.

The reason parents are precious is because they give and sacrifice for the sake of their children.  So things come to be the other way around.

When parents get old, they become children.

Long before, the parents were their children's first teacher, they become seventy and eighty years old they become like children again.

At the same time, the child takes the place of the father or mother as they become elderly and unable to care for themselves.

The child should love his parents just as the parents have loved them when they raised them.  This is the principle of heaven and earth.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the book, Cheon Seong Gyeon Book Three, "True Love' Chapter 2, Section 3

How Can Love Destroy?

In the fallen world, love has turned into the most dangerous element to behold laying destruction and broken ideals and hearts around.

How could something so precious created by the Almighty God cause so much calamity within human society?

This is because the Fall mismanaged love and shattered the world and turned it upside down.

We went in the opposite direction and built a society based on false love.

People have not clearly realized why love, which was originally from God, has become false and dirty.

They have still tried to protect and keep it because of their desire that true love should magically appear in their lives.

But, without the right direction in which way to walk the path of love, true love is just a dream.

In these days, wherever we see a commercial, television show or movie, we are taught the wrong ways of love.  The wrong ways of life.  The wrong ways of using our sexual organs.

We have adapted the lifestyle of using the sexual organs for just anyone one desires for the moment. How can true love dwell in such an environment?

Through the Fall, the sexual organs of men and women have moved in the opposite direction of the original palace.

This gate of death and the laws of death and destruction bringing hell.  The sexual organ has become a wicked agent that has ruined the heavenly way.  This has been a secret that has been hidden in history until now.

If we do not rightfully correct this thinking, the world will become distorted.

If history cannot be fit back together properly, then wickedness will fill the world and remain as we see it today.

I have experienced the agony of delving into the fundamental problem of humanity and the fundamental core of the universe, and the place I arrived at as a result of this endeavor was the sexual organ. When I arrived at the sexual organ as the origin, and thought about it carefully, I found that the harmony of heaven and earth unfolds like a whirlwind from that place. This is an amazing fact. 


When we know the power of blessings or destruction lies within the sexual organs, then we understand why Satan has placed such a focus on distorting the reality of such a holy place.

Why do you think it is more natural for the man to be on top when making love?

Because it is only in this way the true seed from heaven comes.  It comes from true love.

The seed comes from the father, through the convex organ of love.  When the convex fits into the concave, the whole of heaven and earth shakes.

If you delve into exploring your sexual organs because you think it will make you happy and you'll be intoxicated because it is so mysterious, then this is a grave matter.

The door of love opens only when it is time.

You must wait until this time before opening and entering the royal palace of love.  You should be able to open it proudly after becoming the owner of love.

How can this take place when your love is freely given to anyone without God's consent?

Why do men and women like love?

The human body consists of trillions of cells. The time when these cells move as a whole, is when they make love.

Who is qualified to become God's partner in love?  Is it a man who is by himself?  Will a woman alone be His partner?

What kind of partner would God want?

Would He want money as His partner, knowledge or fame?  No, because God wants a partner of love, he needs human beings by being at the place where a husband and wife unite through the sexual organs.

We have come to think that the whole of our bodies belongs to only us, but love is not yours.  Love is completely in the possession of your partner. In the Old Testament, we find words such as 'holy place' and 'most holy place'.

The holy place symbolizes a person and the most holy place symbolizes love.

Every person has a holy place and a most holy place.

In other words, the holy place is a house where you attend God.

As for the most holy place, since God has dominion of privileged love over it, it is a place to make a relationship with God.

You should know that the one who had the key to the most holy place was Adam and the one who had the key to Adam's most holy place was Eve.

You should know that the mouth of the man and woman is a holy place as well.

The mouth is the formation stage in the love relationship.

For women, their breasts are the growth stage and their organs are at the completion stage.  These are the holy places of our body.

The key to these holy places cannot be held by just anyone.  No one can have it without inheriting it through the heavenly way.

Religions should walk a path of tribulation. They should fight against the body's evil desires which can lead them to make a mistake with the sexual organ.

The most serious enemy to the road of restoration is sex that is connected to the pulsating of the devil's blood.

We should be liberated from this lewdness and corruption of the sexual organs.

In order to cleanse the satanic blood that is woven from the lineage you have to engraft to a new type of life.  You must want to build a relationship with God.  Only then will true love begin.

God is the traditional center of love and also the ancestor of true life.

The most fearful thing in the universe is the problem between man and woman concerning the misuse of that love.

Your body heats up when you are in love, doesn't it?

It shakes and there is a mixing.  East west, south and north are mixed.  Also above, below are mixed and become one.  Everything focuses in the direction where love sparks fire.

You move into love freely with no restraint in order to completely invest yourself again and again by investing yourself completely for the sake of the man and completely investing yourself for the sake of the woman.

You then forget about your life and your material possession when you live you life in this way.  Because that is the path of love, and because it is the path that never ends, you will like it forever.

If God was to give you and I a gift, do you think that He would give a bad one?

He gives the best.  Where would that be?

It is something that exists in a deep place.  God would want to take it out from from the deepest, inner place and give it to the one He loves.  This is why love is good.

True freedom embodies responsibility.  If people were to just insist on practicing only the freedom of individual, selfish love without any responsibilities attached, how much chaos and destruction would come from such an environment.

Human being's perfection, who are to manifest the ideal of love, is possible only when they take responsibility to act with true love.

People should be grateful to God who gave them the freedom of love. 

The first responsibility is for one to become the master of true love and become truly free.

We should thank God for the freedom of love and obtaining the knowledge how to cultivate it and control ourselves through religious disciplines and from the Divine Principle, the Completed Testament.

Responsibility of a love relationship should not be carried out merely because one is following a law or social convention.

Instead, we should want to be responsible through one's own self-control and determination and have a committed vertical(spirit) relationship with God.

When someone uses their sexual organs like a blind person who wanders around aimlessly and without direction, it will lead its owner to Hell.

By the same token, one who is able to use the sexual organ according to the standard of God's absolute love, they will be led high up into Heaven.

This is the clear conclusion.

In the Garden of Eden, while in their youth, Adam and Eve had planted the seed of free sex through sharing their sexual organs without God's permission or approval.

In these Last Days, therefore, we are living in the time of harvest.  The phenomenon of an expanding trend where youth explore every avenue with free sex appears.









Love is not something that is learned.

Where did you initially learn about love?  Did you learn at home?

Does your father or mother tell you when you were a child to learn how to love from them?  Also, do the parents learn how to love through their children?

What about the bride and bridegroom, did they learn to love from someone in a certain way?

Do parents receive instructions from someone on how to love their children?  Women here, when you loved your babies after they were born, did you learn the way to love them?

Is there a school that teaches love?  Can you get a bachelor's or doctoral degree in this field?

There may be no such thing, but everyone should reach a perfect score in this.

The more lacking you feel yourself to be, the more complete your love is. 

You do not have to learn something that is complete or anything more does not have to be done to it.

The less that is needed to be added or subtracted from something the more complete it is.

Hence, complete things do not change, but last forever.

Love is hard to study and to understand in the context of words.  No matter how much explanations and study guides are given about the parent's love, people without parents still would not be able to understand the content.

The same for conjugal love, people who live alone would not be able to grasp any explanations which are given.  

Once you are in a relationship with your partner and feel the love, you can have an convergence in your actions that you can perceive.

This can be such as loving what your partner loves or connecting to his or her whole being.

It is through this power of love that a newborn baby finds their mother's milk without having to go to school or train to do so.

Sincere love is heavenly law, thus it is realized naturally before it is taught.

The Parents' love does not become bigger or smaller in accord to how cute their child's face is or how ugly when he or she cries.  Is there is a child who changes his love and respect for his parents because they are good looking or bad looking?

Are there children who say, "What an ugly face you have, you must not be my mother."  There would be no such child.

Also there would be no parents who would deny they gave birth to their child because they have an ugly face.

If there are such parents or children, we would not be able to call them human beings.  Even mothers in the animal kingdom do not exhibit such behavior.

True love is to be attained through experience and understood through feeling.

It is not something that can be mastered through words, writings or education.

It is only attained through daily living.

In their process of growing up into adulthood, Adam and Eve were supposed to reach perfection.  They would have achieved this through experiencing and feeling the heart of their true children, the heart of true brothers, heart of true husband and wife and the heart of true parents.

Through their daily living step-by-step, they would finally become the ideal people who have matured into perfection spiritually and physically.

There would have been no way for Satan to tempt them thereafter.  They would have fulfilled God's purpose of creation when they could deeply learn through experience, God's true love as a whole.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Three, True Love, Chapter 2, Section 5

We Are Brothers, Sisters Without Parents

Throughout history, mankind has exerted all kinds of efforts to bring about world peace through war, religion, philosophy and political powers to no avail.

People had no way to truly and eternally unite.

This is because they were all brothers and sisters who were like orphans who have lost their parents to teach the true way of how one should be.

Humankind lost their parents when the first parents of humankind followed the wrong direction and could not pass down God's true path for living to their descendants on to us.

There was no way to unite our own minds and bodies centered on God without any trace of sin.  Therefore, there was not a path to unite with one another.

If parents had truly followed God and had sinless children, everything in history would have developed through the unconditional love of the original parents.

The first brothers and sister, Cain and Abel, would have united centered on their parents' love, but this could not be achieved.

Adam and Eve were unable to show their family the true love of God through example.

Everyone needs True Parents no matter what position they hold.

The reason God established the nation of Israel and the Jewish faith was in order to build a sturdy foundation of protection to receive the Messiah.

When the Jewish people could not follow Jesus to the end and could not follow him as God's son, God created Christianity in order to receive the Lord of the Second Advent.

The returning Lord will be called the True Parents because they will reverse the mistake of the fall of the first parents who brought sin into the bloodline.

For True Parents to appear is the hope of humankind, is the hope of history, the hope of the nations, the hope of philosophy, and the hope of the providence.

The True Parents coming to earth is what all of history has hoped for to reverse the sins of humanity and will only happen once.

You are alive to witness and breathe the same air as the True Parents.

What kind of people are the True Parents?

Do you think your parents are the same as True Parents without a trace of sin?

In terms of love, your parents have a different concept.

Your parents' love is centered on the earthly realm of living, while the love of True Parents teaches about love that is centered on the spiritual ream.

Therefore, the content is very different.

Democracy is an ideology of brotherhood.  Above that ideology is the parent-centered ideology.

Do you decide who will be your parents through an election?  You cannot.

Democracy has the basis to foster atmosphere of distrust.  Why?

Because people in politics have done all kinds of things for their own profit.  They use their money to mobilize manpower, plot against each other, slander them and so forth.

True Parents give birth to humankind through true love

You have been born with the sinful blood lineage of false parents who were chased away from Heaven with no connection to God or true parents.

In order to go in the opposite direction and cleanse this fallen lineage, you must trample that lineage again and again and pull it out again and again.

Without changing your satanic lineage at the most basic level in this way, you cannot enter the heavenly world.

In transforming the lineage, unless the condition for victory is fulfilled through binding God's love to the seed of the children of the future, God's child cannot be born in the future.  This is a logical certainty.

What kind of savior is the savior who is demanded by the fallen people?

He should be one with God's will and receive God's love and blessing in the position of unfallen parent.  He must be the savior who is able to give birth to humankind, otherwise people will not be able to disconnect to the original sin with him as the model to follow.

Even though the Messiah can change your lineage, you yourself have to attend, act and walk the bloody path in order to change it.

If you do not have such a standard, we cannot reach the path of salvation.  This is not achieved easily, but only in a situation where your life is at stake.

This change of blood lineage is possible only when you fulfill a forty-day fasting and prayer condition or experience a state of death in which you are vomiting blood - a cleansing of the sinful blood.

Why do we need True Parents?

We need to take root in the realm of the heart.

Now, there is a different root.  Through the Fall, the trunks and branches become different.  Now a new root of history has emerged.  A trunk and branches grew, and you are being engrafted to this true tree.

Therefore, in order to be recreated without traces of the fall, you should cut yourself down, reject your fallen acts and become engrafted.

You must remove everything from the satanic world down to the root.

Because history did not have the example of a perfected person, a person without the trace of the fall, there was no way for humanity to go in the right direction or see that their ways were fallen.

They needed an example of the true way to follow and that is through the coming of the True Parents.

What do we all desire?

We all want to welcome the True Parents who will establish a global nation.  Your sons and daughters would want to be born in the lineage of True Parents, not your own fallen, sinful lineage full of abuse, lies, disease problems and such.

Therefore, True Parents become the starting point of the new future.

True Parents should correct the false lineage, the root of the satanic world, reverse the false life which we live everyday, and open the true path away from the path of false love.

Once false love disappears, infidelity, divorce will disappear.

What does the paradox in the Bible mean, those who wish to die will live, and those who wish to live will die?

This is because as you walk this path of ridding yourself of the satanic blood lineage you must die, your humanistic, sinful self must die. But through this 'death', you live.

Those who cling to their fallen ways and live, ultimately die in spirit.  The world is full of people who are zombies without a soul enriched in God's love.

True Parents walked a tremendous path of suffering to lay a foundation for you and I to follow out of hell.

Complete salvation, which is no connection to satan or sin, is only possibly through True Parents.  Complete salvation is both spiritual and physical.

Jesus could only accomplish the spiritual realm of salvation, but he himself lost his own physical body to satan.

True Parents have brought salvation to our bodies as well, where we can have complete mind and body unity centered on God where Satan cannot invade.

No one can sever the relationship between True Parents and their True Children.

It is eternal and unchanging destiny.  There is only one path toward God, there is no secret method.  All of humanity from the President to the homeless man, must walk this path.

True Parents bring people of the world together who have walked this path to cleanse their fallen blood lineage and marry them together.

Therefore, they transcend racial differences, cultural differences and good people marry bad people.

True Parents deny evil love, evil life, and evil lineage, but they do not abandon Cain who disobeyed God and killed Abel, rather they bless him at the same level.

Therefore, 'bad' people as well will join in this dispensation, thereby completely expelling Satan from this earth.

The Fall occurred through the false marriage in the Garden of Eden. So, True Parents reverse this by marrying people in the proper way approved directly by God.

They sweep away the bad deeds of the false parents and abolish hell and carry out the work to bless billions of ancestors in the spirit world through the foundation of the earthly descendants which is based on true love.

Furthermore, through the foundation of such families, East and West form a connection.

We as God's adopted sons and daughters should connect to God's true son.

We must cut off the wild olive tree and engraft a bud from the true olive tree.  Then create a movement of wild olive trees becoming true olive trees.

You should first long for the Parents.

You receive salvation by attending the Parents based on their being your motivation for life, the entirety of your hope and the root of all your ideals and happiness.

You should have the conviction that you are a son or daughter who can become eternally one with True Parents.  Otherwise rebirth will not come.

You might think that you have your natural parents and you are fine?

Why do you need spiritual parents?

It is because you are fallen and you have no direct relationship or blood ties with God, thus passing on the fallen blood lineage of Satan.

What do false parents teach?

They have taught you the way to continuously deteriorate centered on yourself.

They have helped you chase away the better part, more than half of yourself.  This creates a clear line that keep you eternally bonded to the satanic world based on the false love of your parents.

There is no other way to cut this off other than attending the True Parents.

On the other hand, True Parents teach you greater and greater things on this foundation so that you can be fit for the heavenly kingdom.

They equip you with the tools so that you can keep in rhythm after you go to the eternal kingdom.  They teach you so that you will be able to breathe the air of love which is the atmosphere in the spirit world.

True Parents teach you the true way of God.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: How Can Love Destroy? This Post was rewritten and derived from the book Cheon Seon Gyeon Book Three, "True love", Chapter 2, Section 2

Reason Religious Conflict Continues

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if man had not fallen?

What if we chose God's words over Satan's?

The Bible teaches that God is absolute, holy perfect and all-powerful, while we humans which He created are profane.  This is wrong.

Even those who have passed on to the spirit world call God their Father, just as people on the earth do.

Therefore, if you are unable to establish a direct relationship with God without the need for a messenger, how can we come to call Him our Father?

Here we see the logical contradiction at the outset.

God created humans to be His sons and daughters, but do you think throughout human history He has witnessed them dancing and singing while praising God?

Because man was expelled from Heaven on Earth from the outset, God has not been able to experience that day.

Christians do not realize this fact about God.  They see God sitting on His throne in glory, all-knowing, all-powerful happily enjoying the creation.

God is not able to do anything.


Because we fell from His standard, God cannot work freely or to His heart's utmost intention.

Christians must ask why God has not been able to save humanity all these thousands of years.

What is the answer?

Because humanity is the one that committed sin.

They practiced free will in not choosing God's words as absolute.  Then they fell away from God and toward Lucifer as a consequence of that choice.  Since we committed sin, we must be the ones to liquidate it.

What is it that God absolutely wants? 

What do you think that God ultimately wants?  Is it ability?  Power?

Churches today teach that God is the righteous God of judgment.  They say He sends good people to the Kingdom of Heaven and evil people to hell.

Would you like to have that kind of judge or father?

Do you even like judges in the secular world?

What kind of God would want to send people to hell and others to heaven?  This would be unfair.  Christian doctrine claims that God the Creator is holy and the things He created are profane.

This theology contradicts the original purpose of the universe.

The traditional, mainstream idea of Christianity is said to be based on love, even loving one's enemy, but how can the profane sinner and the holy God become one? 

There must be a basis establish to answer this serious question.  Any other conclusion beforehand is futile and false.

God needs a partner to absolutely obey, serve and have relationship with Him at the cost of His own life.

Unfortunately, theological trends have upheld so far the view that created beings are not in equal position to the holy Creator.

Now is the time to re-examine all previous doctrines of God and views of life.

With the old ideals, how can love be given?

Can God share His love with Himself?

God needs an object partner.  

What motivated God to create the world?  Why wasn't He satisfied alone?

God created Heaven and earth because He needed love.

Then based on this, the Christian doctrine is in error.  They say that because God is an absolute power that He can subsist on power alone.  That is why wherever this was taught, blood has been spilled.

Based on this logic, Christian culture will have a devastating impact on the world in the Last Days even though the Western world has developed according to the Christian culture.

History is heading into the age of science. 

We are living in the advent of scientific development where the fundamental roots of everything are investigated.

Our basic origins are pursued through studying the origins of species, religion must keep up the pace.

Religion must explain the reality of the world of creation and prove God's existence.  God prepared the substance of such a religion because He is a living God.

If the Absolute Being created us to practice His love, it is clear that there was a motivation and purpose behind our creation.

In order to explain this motivation and purpose, there needs to be a correct view of God that explains who He is.

Once we acquire the correct understanding of God, it will reveal His purpose and motivation for creation. Therefore, clarifying the reason we practice absolute love for the sake of peace.

If God exists, then we must be able to view the origin of true love, true ideal, true peace and happiness from the new standpoint centering on God.

From there we can secure perspectives of God, life, and material things that are aligned with God's own viewpoint.  Then finally, we will be able to welcome a world of new peace and new happiness.

The reason behind religious conflict lies in the vagueness of the doctrines.  There cannot be two absolute beings, only one.

However the leaders of each religion claim that their absolute being is the true God and the others are false or not true gods.

This results in each religion having their own absolute being even though it is the same God.

This fosters further contradictory ideas of the existence of many absolute beings.

Since this leads to the conclusion that the gods of all religions are nothing but relative gods, the system of absolute values still remains relative.

This should have been developed through religions based on the doctrine concerning God's love and truth.

In other words, we conclude that religions to this day have not established an absolute value system that settles the confusion.

This is because no religion has been able to present the correct explanation about the Absolute Being.  Confusion is the inevitable result.

Each religion has their own absolute being as the basis of its doctrine.

The absolute being in Judaism is Jehovah, in Christianity, God and in Islam, Allah.

Buddhism and Confucianism do not specify an absolute being, but with the basic Confucian virtue, benevolence being connected to heavenly mandate.

Heaven can be taken as the absolute being in Confucianism.

Moreover, since Buddhism teaches that all dharmas constantly change while the truth is found in the "suchness" behind dharmas, we can say that "suchness" constitutes the absolute being in Buddhism. 

This new religion must have a doctrine that reveals the absolute beings of the different religions as not separate gods, but one and the same.

This new religion will reveal that all religions constitute a brotherhood established by God where the theologies of each have embraced one particular aspect of God's attributes.

This new religion will complete the picture of God.

In revealing the attributes of God and His motivation and purpose behind creation, the doctrine must explain that this purpose and these laws govern the movement of everything in the universe.

The doctrine shows that human norms are in the end, in accordance with the universal law, that is the heavenly way.

The Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, explains that the creativity serves us in our understanding of the process of creation.

Next, it gives a substantial explanation to the true reason behind the Fall and then present a view of history.

It explains how God, rather than abandoning human beings in their fallen state, took responsibility for His children and has been working diligently for their re-creation throughout the course of history.

God has been working hard to bring His original ideal of Heaven on Earth to fruition in our time.

The Principle logically and plainly reveals that through this process of restoration, we will arrive at the world He purposed to achieve.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: We Are Brothers, Sisters Without Parents

True God Cheon Seong Gyeong Book one Chapter One, section 7

Importance of the Love of Nature

Just imagine for a moment that you were God before the creation of anything. You are alone with no interactions with other beings and there is nothing to enjoy or look upon. Would you like to spend eternity in this state? So, from God's point of view, why do you think an all-knowing being needed to create things? It was so He could have an object partner and a realm of object partners to love.  They would eat and live in love and return to God's original world and eternal kingdom of love for eternity with Him. In other words, God needed a partner in order to feel the stimulation of love. Today, many religious people believe that because God is all-knowing and powerful that the world was created when simple words were spoken. They do not realize that the world was created in stages or different time periods that correlate to the six days of creation that are referred to in the Bible account in Genesis. God invested all of His being, all the energy He had to create the universe and all of creation. He did so as a gift for His beloved sons and daughters, His beloved family of the future by investing all the power of love He had. Thus, we should look at things of creation with this kind of understanding. God's will in creating the world  God experienced great joy when He was creating all things. After creation was complete, He said that it was good. This means there was joy.  Joy is what you feel when you have finally achieved a certain purpose.  Since all things contain God's consciousness of purpose, He was able to feel joy with them. The world of restoration will be a world that is populated with people who have a connection of heart where they can sing and praise God even when looking at an individual masterpiece of the creation. This is where God sees the value of personality. The story of Saint Francis preaching to animals animals is a dream-like story.  But it is a true story. Everything in creation is made by God as a textbook so that His beloved sons and daughters could learn and nurture the ideal of love. Through observation of penguins int he Arctic, we see how important community and family is to the survival and well-being of the family. By observing nature, we will not only learn about God, but also how to create the world of peace. Minerals function through a relationship of subject partner and object partner. Protons and electrons within atom relate on a subject-object relationship. Without interacting, these elements would cease to exist.  If they are not in motion, they cannot continuously exist. The universe was created to relate to the central point which is human beings. The universe is a mysterious world. God did not create the universe as something to fool around or play with.  He created using the most devoted efforts for the sake of his beloved people. So, when we look at this universe, we should have an extremely grateful heart toward the Father who created it for us. When you walk around a blooming garden in the summer, beholding the trees, plants, flowers, and birds and watch the streams flow, feel the wind blow with this heart of appreciation, you cannot help but be overwhelmed with wonder. Perfection of the universe involves the external and our innermost self to rejoice.  In rejoicing, both our mind and body must be joyful, and all the cells must be delighted. The cells of my eyes and those at the bottom of the feet are different, but this has to be a world where these cells, too, can rejoice. The cells in our hands and all the cells in our entire body including the mind can rejoice as well. While doing so, they should not stay separated but become connected in the resonant joy of love which is based on dual purpose.  Only then will the universe reach perfection. Connections start from extremely small things.  You are a living body which consists of as many as 400 trillion cells which are connected together. In the ideal world centered on God, among all of existence, there is none that came into being from outside God's heart. You are consisted of as many as 400 trillion cells connected together in your living body.  A poet who can feel these kinds of emotions for God's creation would be a great poet once he began to write a sonnet. If there were a poet who could feel and express a cosmic heart when seeing a leaf shake, he would thus become a poet of the universe. We may not know of all the phenomena that is unfolding in heaven and on earth, but without us knowing, there are things that exist together with God's love. When you enter a meditative state, you can see that even a small grain of sand contains all of the principles of the universe.  Even one small atom contains the bottomless and inexhaustible harmony of the universe. Even science cannot deny that all of existence is the result of a complex force, although we are unable to clearly understand it. Atoms exist below molecules and elementary particles exist below atoms. These forms do not exist below molecules and elementary particles exist below atoms. These forms do not unconsciously exist, but have a certain consciousness and purpose. Therefore, we should clearly and fully understand the fact that all things in existence appeared through the loving hands of God and exist in a necessary relationship of heart with God. What kind of people are the enlightened masters? They are those with a heart so deep that they recognize even the value of one stem of grass as equal to their own and can cry out "God!"  They would be of the highest level of enlightened masters. Those who can sing its value this way would be the artists of the highest caliber. If there are people with this heart that could allow them to discover the charm of God's love and heart in every variety of creation, in all their forms and colors, then befriend them and find enjoyment together, they would be the people who could represent the entire universe. If there were people whose cells could move one by one with this type of feeling, they would be the lords of creation. Conversely, if there is a person who knows about nothing but eating, can he become the lord of creation? Nature is a textbook teaching the ideal of love. People observe and learn from nature as they grow up. From playing with and interacting with nature, they will come to understand what the insect world is like.  When you listen carefully on an autumn night while the full moon and the stars shine, then the sounds of the insects are like an orchestra. Why do they like to make such a sound at night? They do so because they are looking for their ideal partners. They are whispering love throughout the night. Birds and all other animals also follow this same common denominator of love when they make happy and sad sounds. They are low on the scale and far away form the axis, and yet they are circling around in parallel.  This is the same for all existent beings. There are three types of bird songs. First, there is a song which expresses his hunger. Second, a song which expresses his love for a mate. Third there is a song which is sun in time of danger.  These are all different.  We ordinary people do not know this small detail about nature, but only know about their own world. Around what does a birds life revolve? Hunger is taken care of simply by eating, and they do not face danger everyday either.  Most of their singing goes back and forth in the give and take relationship with their partner. If you were to sit out on the porch one Sunday afternoon, you could catch the call of two birds separated on different trees exchanging bird calls. It is a beautiful sound. Human beings were also created as a pair - subject partner and object partner. The world of all things also exists for the sake of humankind, creates harmony under the law of love and then manifests its life and ideal through the love of humankind. This would have been the maturing Adam and Eve.  The created world of all things was to be a textbook of love, a museum that infinitely displayed the essence of love. All of nature exists in pairs and harmonizes with each other through love. Flowers and butterflies relate as two opposite poles, yet they find a way to harmonize with each other. This is the harmonious relationship of heaven and earth.  The opposite poles of the universe create harmony through love. It is the same with migratory birds. Birds that live in the south migrate north, and birds from the north migrate to the south, loving each other back and forth as they cross the regions. Through this, they are able to revolve around love. People learn about love through this textbook in the museum God created. When people and God love each other in joy, then all things in heaven and earth will follow their rhythm and harmonize around them. If God likes this, and loves this, the angelic world will also like it. The entire created world will like this, too. It would applaud and offer praise for such unity between mankind and God. Songbirds would sing praises and flower that blossom in the fields would offer praises through their scents. This created world exists in order to expand the fragrant atmosphere in which the central personages of the highest love can enjoy themselves.  Even large ugly toads make croaking sounds when they make love. They kick their legs and move them up and down while they delight in love.  This is the highest art which God created. When it is time for spring to come, whenever you hear the birds sing, as soon as you hear the song, you should think of your wife, your children, your country, the world and even God. When you think in this way, then everything is complete. Birds can only think of their own existence, but people have a sense of being in relationships with other people. This relationship in the human world is the mediator between the animal world, plant world and the spirit world as an exclusive privilege to human beings. Only human beings have this special authority. As Adam and Eve matured, they would have come to understand their purpose through observing the animal world.  They would have understood how to make love. God laid out the world of all things as a textbook for humans to understand how to bring the ideal of human love to maturity. As Adam and Eve continued to grow toward maturity they had different feelings toward each other. They knew that they were brothers and sisters in the past but now they have different feelings for one another. Love is like a nerve. It is the same as pulling on a strand of hair that pulls the entire body with it.  If we pull on the love strand, the universe itself is pulled along with it. As motion is created in love, the entire universe will come into harmony, too. When love is present, we dance. Is this how dancing came about? It was because of love.  So, when there is love, we dance.  It was through the experience of love. Songs came into being because of love and so did laughter. If love was to be taken away, everything would become hard and stiff. People like butterflies more than bees, because butterflies dance as they fly.  Everything which flies has a rhythm and a beat with a melody. Fast-flying creatures fly in time with a beat.  So do slow-flying ones. There are various styles of flight, but everything flies according to a certain rhythm. The way deer run and rabbits lay in the mountains is musical.  The way they hop around has a certain rhythm, too. The way they eat has a musical quality. This is the same for people.  We eat with a certain rhythm as well.  These all express something musically. If we think in this way, we should feel thankful to God that someone made this universe for me to last for eternity and put it in place for me.  We should feel grateful to Him. We should not think as an onlooker as if it has nothing to do with us, but understand the depth of creation. Photos Courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net Return for Tomorrow's Post: Reason Religious Conflict Continues This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book three, 'True Love', Chapter Two, Section 9

Love Nation, World, Humankind = World Peace

Just like God, love is not flat.  Once you are united with God in oneness, a circular motion manifests in all kinds of forms and figures. This is why the older sibling must love the younger by following the examples of their parents who love them as well. Love will blossom within a family that is united in this way. That love becomes the love within a society and then the love within a nation.  In this this expansion of heart, it will later become the love of the whole world.  This is how world peace will be established - through the family. Love of the Nation, Love of the World, and Love of Humankind When you look at the world it is composed of many nations. Nations are composed of societies.  Societies are made of of tribes. These tribes are made up of families which are two individuals coming together. Those who sacrifice their lives to live for the public purpose of humankind will come together centering on their love for humankind. Likewise, have a love for their homeland, they will unite based on patriotic ideas. As their patriotic feelings grow stronger, the citizens will unite through their patriotism in order to establish a nation. You must build relationship and gather people of like mind together once you know you have the responsibility to work on the patriotic movement.  The base where genuine love can settle down is the family. Therefore, the original family that embodies the love of the universe will expand the domain of love in the universe and be protected by the universe. We should go beyond the family level and walk the patriotic path of loving the nation.  Furthermore, we must go beyond race and nation and go toward the path of loving the world. Those who love their family are children of filial piety and virtuous wives.  Those who love their nation are patriots.  What do we call those who love the world?  We call them saints. The path of children of filial piety, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters How do you become a global figure? You cannot become one by just human morality or making people your central concern. If you are only concerned with human beings, then you will not be able to go beyond the national level. It is that which is of heaven that will enable you to step beyond the national level. If you do not have a philosophy that embraces heaven and earth, then you cannot go beyond the national level. If you look at the ranks of the saints, they revered God or did they not revere him?  Is there any saint that did not have God?  They all upheld God's will as their standard way of living. Thus, the saints have spoken about God tremendously, not just about humankind.  Moreover, the saints have taught not only the way of morality, but the path of the heavenly law. Children of filial piety serve and love their parents in a family.  Those who serve and love the nation are patriot. Those who love the world are saints. Then, what is it that I teach? It is to be a divine son or daughter who loves God, the world, and the universe. Which will you be? Will you be a divine son or daughter, or a dutiful son or daughter?  Love is the essence that moves reality. It cannot be omitted from daily life or from history.  Love provides the internal power which moves everything from a parent's body to our social institutions. This is why, when you are educated, you are taught to love your country. You are taught, brotherly love, parental love, conjugal love and worldwide philanthropy of your country. All of these contain love. What does this mean?  It means that we cannot connect to history without including love which is the realm of people's daily lives and the course of history. What do you have to become? You must become a patriot.  A patriot devotes one's effort to serve the people as they would serve the nation's ruler.  What is a child of filial piety?  They are those who devote all their efforts toward their parents. Those who devote themselves to their brothers and sisters as they would serve their parents are children of filial piety. Saints are people who have sacrificed themselves until now and died for the sake of all humankind. What is a divine son or daughter?  Those who reach out to the world centering on God and serve mankind as they would serve God are divine sons and daughters. Historical saints are those who have died for the sake of the people of the world.  Divine sons and daughters are loyal to God, but as they live for God they also live for the sake of all people.  Being a saint does not make you a divine son and daughter or God's child. What is next level after you become a child of filial piety, a patriot and a saint?  No matter how much you have loved the nation's ruler and its people, you have to know the laws of the heavenly royal palace to be a divine son and daughter.  You have to live in the rhythm with the palace law. A filial child's heart goes straight to his parents without changing. The same goes for the patriot whose heart goes straight to the king.  The saint, likewise, has a heart that goes straight toward God without changing. In other words, you can be a child of filial piety, a patriot and saint only when your heart goes straight without changing even in a situation where you may face death. A filial child serves and loves the parents in the family.  The one who serves and loves the country is the patriot and the one who serves and loves the world is the saint. You should be divine sons and daughters who love the world and universe.  Once you have such a broaden love, you must have as much love as God. The child of filial piety lives on even when his household perishes.  This is why there are epitaphs of children of filial piety, patriot and saints. Divine sons and daughters are people who know how to observe not only national laws, but also the laws of the heavenly royal palace. Thus, that which can connect straight to the path of children of filial piety, patriots and the path of saints is the path of the divine sons and daughters. Our life course can be condensed into the life paths walked by filial children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters. Would they be paths driven by the heart of wanting to be together and live together regardless of the upper and the lower, transcending front and back, left and right, and day and night, and going beyond one's own life? This is the conclusion that has emerged. No matter how outstanding a person may be, he is of no use if he has no love.   Also, happiness becomes connected based on love. The medium that connects brothers and sisters, friends, countrymen, all humankind and heaven on earth is love.  Love is like yeast. God created the universe and established its law.  What kind of being is He? He is the Being who stands as the representative caring for others more than anyone else.  This is God. Therefore, if you want to meet God, you have to live for the sake of others.  God is the king of knowledge, but he will not tell you to come to Him with knowledge. Although He is the king of capability, He would not tell you to approach Him with capability. God is the king of money, power and knowledge, He does not need these things. God would tell you that anyone can come to Him that lives for the sake of others.  God exists in front of human beings for their own sake. This is why we want to follow God forever.  If you want to maintain your own position of existence living within the natural law, you must exist for the sake of others as the universe does. Through serving others, you connect to the East and the West, and to the past and the present.  God has the same love in the past that He has now in the present. God can overcome the East and the West and overcome the past and the present, and even the future. Therefore He is able to unify them into one.  How is He able to do this? He unifies them only in love. Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Importance of the Love of Nature This Post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, "Cheon Seong Gyeong, "True Love", Book Three, Chapter Two, Section 8

The Love of Siblings Teaches Love of Parent

The ideal of family has changed over the last decades beginning after World War II. You can even see the change in ideals from the 'Leave to Beaver' family structure of mother cooking at home raising the children and the father as the overseer of the family. There are significant reasons why this is so.   God fought a hard battle with Satan in the second world war in order to bring about a world where He could substantially rule. Instead, after winning the battle, Satan was able to claim that foundation because there was no unity with the returning Messiah and the Christian world. In fact, he suffered greatly and was rejected by the established churches. Therefore, he had to walk his own path of 40 years of suffering to establish God's foundation on the earth. If the religious world had followed his directions given from God at that time, based on the teachings of the Divine Principle, the world of peace would have been established in that time. At that time the world of family tradition still followed the ways of God compared to the times of today where divorce, wife swapping and second/third husbands is the new trend. Now we stand on a solid foundation where God can truly come directly to do His work through the foundation of families. Why did God give us family, our brothers and sisters?   Why did He make such a unit? We need brothers and sisters so we can look at them and realize that our mother and father must have been like that when they were younger. Children can see through his brothers and sisters the process of his mother grew up. Sisters can observe elder brothers and understand how her father grew up and lived.  You should know that this is the love among siblings.  You can become one by growing up in this environment.  Should you love your brothers and sisters or not? What if parents have only one son and only one daughter? Then the son needs an elder sister and an elder brother doesn't he? The daughter needs an elder brother and an elder sister. Furthermore, they need a younger brother and young sister. Through them you come to appreciate and love who your parents are. It is unfortunate if you do not have them. What if parents have only one son and one daughter? The son needs an elder sister and an elder brother, doesn't he? Also the daughter needs an elder brother and elder sister. Furthermore, they need a younger brother and younger sister. There needs to be an elder brother, an elder sister, a younger brother, and a younger sister. It is unfortunate if you do not have them. Brotherly love is a model of love for all the people of the world. A family that has a younger sister, younger brother, elder sister and elder brother has achieved complete unity and will receive God's protection. America has moved away from the tradition of larger families and some have even forsook marriage or having children at all. The elder brother and elder sister means east and west, and the younger brother and younger sister mean north and south.  When this pattern is completed there will be three dimensions. This family becomes the origin of a clan, a people, and a nation upon expansion.  When such a principle of love takes root, the origin of peace will be established. When an elder brother loves his younger sister, and the younger sister loves her elder brother, they cannot just love one another, they must also involve their parents in that love. They can cherish their childhood experiences of growing up in the bosom of their parents. They should be a brother and sister who are connected on the basis of parent and child of oneness. Only then will they be able to ascend as they grow up. They should grow up like this all the way through elementary and middle school. However far you go in your travels around the world and throughout life, nothing will be able to replace the love of your brothers and sisters in a family who share the same blood from their birth. When you go out to society, is there anyone who is closer to you than your brother or sister? Although some people may be close, they will eventually drift away from you. Why do you need brothers and sisters? They are those who are connected to the vertical (spiritual) and horizontal (physical) plane. If Adam and Eve are horizontal, then God and Adam and Eve are vertical.  At this intersection it creates a plane. This is why both a horizontal setting and the front and back are needed. Through their unification, a sphere is formed. Therefore, when the love of brothers and sisters expand to a love for all the people of the world, then sibling love transcends family. Only when we can embrace the world and love all people with sibling love,will we join everything together in an ideal sphere of love. When this occurs, no mishap will severely shock us; all the substance of God's thought finally bear fruit. God's ideal of children unites and bears fruit there: the fruit of children's love, the fruit of siblings' love, the fruit of the love of husband and wife and the fruit of parents' love, the fruit of siblings' love, the fruit of the love of husband and wife, and the fruit of parents' love. When God's original world of creation is finally manifested on earth, upper and lower, front and rear, and left and right will be merged with Him. Through brothers and sisters, a nation arises and all humankind arises. The brother and sister relationship signifies front and back like a flat surface, but when flesh is added then a sphere is formed. So, it is brothers and sisters and the people of the nation who from this sphere. Brothers and sisters expand to become a people, and the love of brothers and sisters is connected with the love of the world. A family where there are many brothers and sisters growing up is like a model to embrace all people of the world. This family creates an ideal Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven. Hence, brothers and sisters expand in number.  When there are many siblings, two may have to share a plate at mealtime. They do not fight because there is only one plate of rice. Even if there are many siblings and they have to suffer to live in hardship, if they have such a heart of love that says, "Although I may starve, I will give this to my elder sister," or "I have to give this to my younger brother or sister," then everything will work out very well. Return for tomorrow's post: Love Nation, World, Humankind = World Peace This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three, "True Love" Chapter Two, Section 7