Truly Help Our "Lost" Brothers and Sisters

If you are a person that walks the way of faith of any religion, you see that the current world we live in does not literally follow God's Kingdom.  We learn through looking at the Bible from the Principle point of view, we learn that human history started on the wrong foot which is the evil side.

This is why the Bible states that the god of this earthly world is Satan.

Due to the human fall, Satan abides in each us, through the sin circulating through our blood with every heartbeat.

In other words, we as humans are the incarnation of Satan.  Biding Satan's will and giving Satan's love. 

We are born in the lineage of Satan - not God's no matter how religious we are. 

This is against God's law of creation.

This is why He created the religious world where there were many martyrs that had to lay a foundation to bring His dream of World Peace closer to fruition.

The first religions, which were primitive, people of faith were sometimes killed as offerings or sacrifices.

This represented in a devilish way the impulse to shed the satanic blood.

From God's point of view, with this flow of stained blood in our veins, we are not human beings or part of His pure creation.  We are seen as just satanic beings in the position of His enemies of love. 

We became Satan's children through following his low standard of 'love' and will and God's enemy.

Yet, God has worked thousands of years to help to change this tragic position of humanity.

This world of hell came about not as part of God's world, but from human's not following God's plan of flourishing blessings.

This is why Jesus cursed the people and said, "You are of your father, the Devil" John 8:44.

Our first ancestors went against God's desire and entered into an unchaste, sexual relationship before God's love was able to grow and mature within them.

True Parents are needed in order for us to have perfect restoration.  We must be able to change this stained blood lineage through the process of true rebirth.


In the Bible we read that when Nicodemus visited Jesus and heard him talk about rebirth, he asked, "How can we go back into our mother's womb?" Jesus reportedly said to him, "You are a leader of Israel and still you don't know what rebirth means?" In conclusion, he said, "If you are not born again, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God."


To be 'born again' means to become part of God's pure lineage such as Jesus was, because we are men and women of the satanic lineage, this is our destination.

To change our satanic lineage into God's, we must live a true ascetic life such as we observe those in the convents.  Such a life of faith presents difficulties and hardships in a world of such free sex and loose morals, but to begin the process of a pure lineage, we must follow God's true laws in order to restore our sinful blood.

What does changing our sinful blood have to do with World Peace?

Wouldn't a world of people who are not born into sin less likely to cause war and harm to others, yet live for others?

Imagine a world full of Jesus'.  Wouldn't such a world be more at peace than this world full of Judases and Cains.



Q. How did sin come into the world if God didn't create it as part of humanity?

God gave the warning of do not delve in the fruit of love before the right time and Satan gave his word of it is okay to eat.  Adam and Eve both believed Satan's world more than God just as children do with their earthly parents.

God said do as I say and there will be blessings, but if you go against my laws expect curses.

How can we in this day and age still believe that God created hell when He is our Father and He wanted to give us a world of blessings. HUMANITY chose curses over a world of God's love and laws.

This was the first stage of the fall.  During the course of restorations, we must have the conviction to believe in God's words strongly and absolutely.  The result of our not having faith in God's words and carrying them out was the satanic lineage through believing in Satan's words.

Jesus shed his blood in order to connect our satanic, sinful blood to his pure unstained lineage.

The wine during the Holy Communion symbolizes the shedding and sharing of Jesus' pure blood that is connected to God's.  All of humanity was meant to be born as Jesus was without sin.

The wine thus symbolizes godly lineage.

When we partake in the bread and wine, it signifies the blood of God's lineage and we are removed in that manner from the satanic lineage to divine lineage.

We can look at the tragedy of the sin becoming part of God's children tainting His pure bloodline as a burden to humanity who owes a debt of blood, sweat and tears in order to clean this stain.

God's only story is experiences since the fall filled with nothing but tears, sweat and blood.

This is His only history.  When we see the true history of God's painful, torn heart due to His children's disobedience, we see that people of faith and Christians truly don't know what God is all about.

They sing about Him sitting on this glorious throne enjoying life and His rule over His Kingdom.

Through the Divine Principle, we see that this is not true at all.



"Someone has to liberate God and He cannot do it Himself The agony of parents, or of husband and wife, cannot be solved by themselves alone.

The agony of parents can only be solved by children; the agony of a husband can only be solved by his wife, and the agony of a wife by her husband. The only way to liberate God from His sorrow is by becoming a son or daughter of filial piety to take over His agony.

God wanted to forgive Adam and Eve, but He was not in the position to forgive them, because they were in no state to be forgiven.

We must imagine this: suppose there was another person who did not fall-a brother of Adam, who, standing intact from the fall, would go to the Father and beg Him to forgive his brother and sister; what would have happened?

If that man, without having fallen, would go to God and ask Him to forgive his brother for the fall, and if he would tell the Father that he would help by taking on any responsibility himself-, he would be willing to be beaten or anything else for the sake of the fall of his brother and sister, God could have forgiven them.

This was supposed to be the way of forgiveness, or salvation of the fallen people.

A person who has not fallen can be said to have nothing to do with Satan.

If God has that kind of individual, He can develop His providence of salvation with that one in the center.

This type of person is "Abel," or one who is in the position of Abel in the place of Cain who symbolized the satanic bloodline.

Abel is supposed to be the person who can receive perfect love from God. He or she must be able to be triumphant over Satan. Abel must be able to sacrifice him or herself for humankind. In other words there should be one who is willing to be sacrificed in place of the fallen brother and sister in order to liberate them.

That sacrificial brother will become the Christ. What is the mission of Christ, the Messiah? He is the one who bears your burden and your indemnity.

That is why he is the savior."


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


In today's society, we see many leaders and celebrities who want to be in the position of a god, saint or Messiah.

Once we see the heavy burden of such a title and responsibility, we see that the rightful owner of such a title is the one and only God.

If you take over the burden of someone else's life then you are that person's savior.  Just on your condition of standing in the place of your fallen, sinful brother, they can be liberated.

The tears you shed for them will be the gateway of salvation to open and to relieve God's sorrow and the human sorrow.




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God's Providence in Scriptures - God's Warning to the World message from prison

Part II, Thanksgiving: Gift of True Christian Spirit

When we look at how the American laws were built based on the words of the Bible, we have a proud history.  But, then we fast forward to today, we see that these Christians values have been swept away and the decline of such a glorious county mimics that of the very Roman Empire which Jesus conquered.

I am sure that God had thought that in this time that Christians would be His world champions fighting against His enemies fulfilling the role of the thief who followed Jesus crucified on his right-hand side.

Christians do need to rise to their responsibility and be willing to struggle for the salvation of the world, their dying brothers and sisters.

But when you look at the Church's, Christians today are too busy worrying about making their separate denominations and churches grow.  All Christians should unite and with the Messiah.

The 'end of the world' discussed often by believers is really the time of the arrival of the Lord of the Second Advent carrying God's direct message which will save and unite humanity.

The returned Messiah must have a base, a foundation which is prepared to fulfill Jesus' unfinished mission.

He will need a new environment unlike witnessed in the New Testament.  For that purpose, God work thousands of years to set up one landmark achievement: the creation of democracy.

In America, we have a system which is strict about the Constitution which include the rights of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

When we look at the history of the Pilgrims, their wonderful sacrifice brought these freedoms about - that Christian Spirit.

Democracy was the most important preparation for the coming of the Messiah.



"If this nation did not guarantee religious rights, could I freely preach like this? Would I be safe in this country? Even with its democracy there has been some religious martyrdom in America. America is meant to be that base for God's will to progress today, but America is deeply troubled.Christians today are still a minority in the world.

Are they respected by the rest of the population? Christians have become arrogant, feeling that they are especially privileged people of God and the rest of the world is doomed to die. Many Christians believe that when Jesus comes again they will be lifted up to meet the Lord in the air while the rest of the world is consumed in the fire of judgement. How can the rest of the world admire people like that?


When I first came to America, I went to New York and stood on Fifth Avenue during the rush hour. Suddenly tears began pouring down my face. I looked at the wonder of the Empire State Building and the magnificence of the new Trade Center -- the tallest buildings in the world. But I asked myself, "Does God dwell in those buildings?"

New York is becoming more and more a city without God. It is a city of crime. Such a beautiful city is now crumbling. I can see so much immorality and so many signs of godlessness in that city. It was shocking to my eyes as I stood watching during that rush hour. I could see so many things at once that are all intolerable in the sight of God.

I asked God, "Is this the purpose for which you blessed America?" I know God wants to see His spirit prevail in those great buildings. In those beautiful automobiles He wants to see young people strong in their enthusiasm for God and the love of others.

It doesn't take the Empire State Building to glorify God; it doesn't take a new automobile to glorify God. Even if you have only a rock as your altar, when you pour out your hope and your tears upon it for the service of God, God is with you. I can really see that God is leaving the great city of New York. New York is instead becoming the city of evil."


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



We know America to be the 'melting pot' where people of all the five colors, nationalities and creed melt into one new breed.

If anything needs to melt, it requires heat.  What then was the heat for America to bring this beautiful process of melting all of humanity into one place?

God was the heat necessary for that process.


"Without God, you could never have melted your people together."


The true brotherhood that is witnessed in America could only come through the Christan spirit.  But now that we are beginning to lose this foundation, America's moral fiber is deteriorating beginning with the family breakdown.

Look at the American young people.

There is also the drug and alcohol problem, sexual promiscuity and juvenile delinquency.

In the time of Jesus leprosy was a great problem; drugs are the leprosy of America today.

The drug problem began as Red China manufactured opium and distributed it through the soldiers fighting against the Viet Cong.

In the pas, England exported opium to China and India to corrupt their youth, now, Red China uses this same destructive way to corrupt Western youth.

Once one becomes a drug use, it is had to overcome this habit.

Money is needed for such a habit and users will do inhumane things to keep it up. 

Nazis killed 6 million Jewish people, but there are more young people being killed in larger quantities through drug use.


Communists work underground here to cause this destruction.  Do they do drugs themselves?  No, they forbid their own young from having that behavior.

Can you see the destruction of the family structure and the morality of sex?

The American entertainment reflects the disappearance of our Christian morals.



"American society has degenerated to such an extent that it is making Sodom and Gomorrah look trivial. The "gay liberation" movement is gaining tremendous momentum, but that is virtually a tool of Satan by which he seeks to destroy the most precious, fundamental values of God. The gay movement seeks to justify itself through gaining legal, political and ultimately moral power, but this is disgusting in the sight of God."



The very definition of 'sin' is the violation of God's law of love.

God abhors sin.

Those who indulges in unprincipled love will only perish.

America today is not an exception to this very rule that judged such cities in history.  Ultimately, God's law and love will prevail!

The fall occurred due to unchaste love relationship which bore the children of satan all the way to our generation.

These Last Days which the Bible predicted is the time when selfish, individualistic love will fall away and reach perfection of God-level love.

In such a world of peace, anything other than God's love will be scorned.  Amen.  Saints of all generations have prayed and waited for such a day.





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Christianity in Crisis God's Warning to the World - message from prison

Thanksgiving: Gift of True Christian Spirit

In the history of Christianity, new world that was in the realm of salvation was created with Jesus Christ.  Also, the religion of Christianity on the whole went through the same suffering course that Jesus went though. 

When Christianity was still being established and went to a new country for the first time, the men and women went through major indemnity conditions of shedding blood and suffering. 

Those who were murdered for their beliefs, took the suffering in order to be separated from the world of Satan.  They stood where they could get God's love and make themselves as a sacrifice for others in the world to come to God.

What if Christians were to curse those who tortured them and killed them?  Then the faith would not have not have had a foundation to be able to bring restoration in the world.

Christians had to pray for those who had killed them. 

Without this sacrificial lifestyle, the faith would not have been able to mobilize, grow and affect the world.  Sacrifices and suffering had to occur because God had the intention to go back to where sin originated and forgive Adam and Eve after they fell away from him.

If there was a brother, sister or unfallen angle that could have sacrificed themselves for the sake of the other in their place, then they could have consoled God's painful heart and mind that was broken due to their disbelief.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon, The Divine Principle







Throughout human history of the Old Testament there were sacrifices of animals to God in order to separate from the sin.

In the New Testament age, Jesus himself was the substantial offering.  Jesus labored hard in obedience to God and sacrificed himself in place of humanity so we could be forgiven for the sins we inherit and give and take with everyday.

If all of humankind was united into one with Jesus, then we could have been saved on both the spiritual and physical level due to his obedience.

This is why Jesus must return, because of the disunity of the Jewish people and Jesus who left salvation in the physical realm unfinished.  Once the Messiah returns and lays the foundation for the physical sins to be forgiven then Heaven on Earth will be accomplished.

Right now, humanity only has been forgiven of sins in spirit.  Meaning that the physical body still suffers under satanic dominion and attack.

When Jesus was crucified he saved humanity spiritually, but he himself lost his physical body to satanic attack therefore that was left undone.

So the purpose of Christianity is also to restore that lost physical body of Jesus.

 

 

Christianity was unable to accomplish Heaven on Earth in its time.

It must restore the land, the people and the sovereignty.  Christians must stand in the position of humanity as a sacrifice just as Jesus had done on levels of society, nation and the world level.

Through Jesus's crucifixion, Christianity spread throughout Asia Minor and was thrust toward Rome which was the target.  Therefore, Rome was considered 'the world'.

 

 

 

 

For the world to be saved, Rome had to be conquered by the army of Jesus Christ.

Eventually, after 400 years of sacrifice, this inconceivable goal was achieved.

At that time, the Roman Empire, just as America in the past, seemed to be an impregnable fortress that did not seem to be even a topic to conquest.

But through faith and sacrificial blood of the people of Christ, they conquered the army with their bare hands.

Christians did not use weapons, swords or spears. They were only armed with their love of God and Jesus Christ.

They marched fearlessly toward Rome with utter conviction and strength in the power of God.  Through this, they paid the ultimate price in blood.  What army is stronger than the one where one does not fear any death.

 

 

 

No enemy is invincible against an army of faith.

History is witness to the deeds of that army of Jesus.

At last, the Roman Empire fell...Jesus conquered Rome.  Then Roman Catholicism became the center for God to bring about world salvation and eventually Heaven on Earth.  Therefore, it was planned that the Pope would be God's foremost champion.

Unfortunately, time and time again, history shows that time after time, God was let down by leader after leader.

The Middle Ages much corruption and a decline in the sacrificial strong faith of the Christian spirit.  Church leaders and officials of that time were only worried about their own power, authority and welfare and not the true soul of their congregation.

We even see this trend in today's society.

Those in the hierarchy enjoyed their untouchable power and abused it forgetting all about God's original purpose.

Leaders held tightly to their positions and persecuted those who opposed them.  They claimed that they were direct heirs of Jesus's lineage and his disciples, yet they were unable to rise above their own sins.

In many men, the true Christian spirit was dead.

No matter how much disappointment and heartbreak God experienced, He continued forward with His dream of World Peace!

God is not satisfied with any answer that is less than a total response.  During medieval times, there was much corruption in society. There were people like St. Francis and Martin Luther who denied everything society embraced and retreated from the world.

They were loyal to God's vision instead of pursuing worldly goals.

St. Francis was able to create a movement which enable Christians to give their worldly possessions which enslaved them and walk toward the same goal.  Through overcoming their worldly desires, he greatly advanced and led everyone who understood God's goal.

However, even the Franciscan Order became an organization that could not last beyond its human's weaknesses.

The church need to be reformed, therefore, Martin Luther and other righteous reformers emerged within the Catholic's own ranks determined to win liberation from the confinement of outdated,abusive doctrines that only benefited the leadership.

People wanted to freely worship God and Jesus, not just the church as a worldly institution.

People had a desire to directly communicate with God and not have to work through leadership.  Such people were able to bring God's world one step closer to His goal of peace to His children.

Later in England, resisted and objected the state church's practices.  The outcries for reform caused the Puritan movement to form.  It quickly spread amid persecution.

These new seekers seemed to be a threat to the established church leaders, who tried to use every means to suppress the new movement from spreading.

Those in faith who wanted freedom to worship had to either flee or be imprisoned.

They had such a strong spirit that they did not even have enough power to resist the government at the time.

They fled to Holland, yet this wasn't satisfactory to such a burning spirit of people of faith. 

Still these rebels longed for some new world, a new heaven and new earth where they could find freedom to worship God.

Such an untouched, pure land as America then, must had been attractive to such people who dreamed of a new world.

This unknown territory promised freedom of worship which they craved.  The Pilgrims strong desired to create a community of their own.  America seemed such an ideal place.  They made the courageous decision to take the voyage there.

Once they made the commitment to take the treacherous journey across the Atlantic while risking their lives, they found strength in their faith that was stronger than their desire to stay alive.

"Think of it: They had to give up their families, their relatives, their surroundings, and their country, and head toward an unknown land. Their only hope was in God. Every step they took they depended upon God.

Their journey was long, and there were many storms. They prayed unceasingly to God. They had but one way to turn. They turned to God. When they were sick and dying on the voyage, they had no medicine to take, no doctor to care for them; they turned to God. Those Pilgrim men and women were one with God. And that is how they survived.

Put yourself in their position of total reliance on God. What a wonderful faith! I am sure that the faith of the Pilgrims touched the heart of God. And when God is moved He offers promises; and when He makes promises, He will fulfill them. God determined to give these faithful people the ultimate thing they wanted -- freedom of worship. He then determined to give them even more.

I am sure you know, as I have learned, that the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Rock in New England almost in the dead of winter.

November in New England is rather cold. The destiny of the newcomers could have been only starvation because there was so little food to eat.

Given this fact, it really inspires me to learn about the store of grain in the hold of the Mayflower which they would not touch, even though they were starving to death. They preserved this grain for planting the next spring.

This was truly a supreme example of sacrifice. They preferred to die hoping in tomorrow rather than to act in desperation for only a few more days of life."




And this is the foundation not only of the spirit of Christinity around the world, the earth we step on in America.  This is why we should still have the same spirit to fight to keep God's dream on the basis of this great land He still has hope in.

God bless and have a wonderful God-given Thanksgiving!!!




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Christianity in Crisis from God's Warning to the World --message from prison

What Does an Ideal Family Look Like?

Family is where all the efforts are brought to fruition and all of God's work is fulfilled.

 

God's ideal was purposed to manifest beginning in the family and happiness of family.  

The family is good because it is the base for all free activities based on parental love.

An ideal family is God-centered with eternal parental love; eternal conjugal love and eternal fililal love can be found.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We all must have a family base.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is composed of parents, children and their possessions.  

 

What being is able to be the manifestation of the spiritual, physical history of the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages?

Creation, the children and the parents are required in order to form a family.

This ideal does not lie in any other philosophy.

The beginning as well as the ending is in the family.

Who has been able to solve the problem of obtaining eternal happiness?

This is why it has been sought after more than ever.  Unificationism has been recognized because happiness is only attained through a systematized, universalized form taught through the teachings of the Messiah.

If everyone in the world without exception were to bow their heads and admit to the ideology of Unificationism, then unity would automatically be achieved.

When you look carefully at the sisty-six books in the Bible, you will see that it is an expression of the hope for ideal families.  Isn't that what the Bible teachings are mostly formed from, the family?

Every story was connected to a person within the context of their family.

Jesus and his mother and father, Job losing his family, Tamar, Sarah and on and on.

What do men desire?  To be married to an ideal wife.

If you find a man who says that they do not want an ideal wife, then he also cannot claim to be a man.

It is quite obvious that the desire of women since they are born is to meet ideal husbands.  No matter how great a woman is in the world, no matter whether she is a college graduate or holds a doctorate, her greatest desire would be likewise -  to meet an ideal man.

Her desire is to meet an ideal man whom she can love and can have beloved sons and daughters.  This is the root of happiness.  Since we have this doctrine deeply rooted in such a family, no one can be removed from it.

Where will the Kingdom of Heaven be first established?

'The Way of the True family' is the best term for our belief.

We advocate cosmos-centered ideology.

I need to provide a detailed explanation in order to clarify the meaning of the word "cosmos". You can view the family as a miniature nation which is grounded within a small social unit.

The family is a miniature nation, world and cosmos.


Therefore, if you abandon the family, you will not be able to do anything.  We are great in that we teach people these things about the family which were not known before.  The family is the everlasting base.  This fact cannot be changed by the father or elder brother, by any system in the world that tries to change this principle.

The most important time in anyone's life is the moment of birth, marriage and death.

We each should be born well.  In other words as we say, we should be born through the bond of heart.  Marriage, the next important moment in marriage.   We marry in order to live a full life.

We marry in order to achieve the four-position relationship of God, parents, Spouse, children.

When we will see such public laws of the universe governed established on earth, then God's will and humanity's will for world peace will be fulfilled.  The family is where we can find structure and contents required by these universal laws.

We can see that the world develps resembling the family structure.  Even if the world is in total choas, this will always remain true.

Therefore, the ideal world we envision for the future must be established based on the trinty of the family.

Since the four position relationship needs to be completed by every human being, everyone should marry and form a family.

'We must take after God.  A society that is based on human beings must take after them centering on God.

I founded the Unification Church in order to make this come true. The whole world should already have developed to such a state, but it is not the case yet. However, through such principles, the world can ultimately come to resemble human beings centered on God. 


The ideal world of peace is where the whole world is molded in the image of an ideal person.This world will transcend national and racial boundaries.\\\

The family is the horizontal foundation that is in the same form of a miniature world.

Then from the family stems the nation and the world. What is the family?  It is the objective standard to the absolute center.

What are the individuals?  They are the stepping stones which the absolute center resides.  When you view the ideal world in this way, an individual cannot be bestowed as the absolute authority to judge this world.

This authority should be bestowed on a true family. This is why you have seen a similiar example of kingdoms being ran by families.

Then knowing this, what would be the first place Satan would attack in humanity?

It would be the place of the family.

This is why families that fail to unite into one break up.  The breakdown between father and son, husband and wife, the whole family is the result of disunity.  If a person created a family and watched it break up later, he will be scarred with a wound that could not be healed for eternity.  There is no amount of consolation that would do this person any good.

We must become parents, husband, wives and siblings that are united within the family which God has yearned for.

Why is the family good?

We yearn for the family because it provides an environment where we can share love with one another freely.  This is the reason why people miss their home and their hometown because the parents and sibling live there.

When the father is pleased, the whole family is pleased.

When the child is pleased within the family, then the whole family is pleased.

The family is where the whole universe can experience joy simultaneously.

We start by gaining control of our body and mind and become a perfected individual.

Then the husband and wife need to become one in order to form a perfected family.

When the mother and father become as one, that family can develop further. 

When the children and the parents in a family become one, that family will flourish on a higher level.

What will happen if families unite with their relatives?

Many movies are made about the problems that come with in-laws, extended family are relatives. what would happen if we naturally just were able to get along with them?

Then a new spirit among the people will emerge.

When they seek to go to an even higher level, they will bring unity of the entire nation.  They will be remembered as a clan of loyal patriots.  A family of God's Kingdom does not come about through force, rather it happens naturally where there is joy.

Even when loving, one should not strive to merely receive love, because ideal love is only established when there is giving and receiving between the two.

A happy family is one where the husband comes home after work and discusses everything that happened to him during the work day with his wife and plans new areas of pioneer with her.  A happy family is one that strives continuously to discover new things.

When the parents set such an example in the family, the children will come to contribute as well.  They will gladly align themselves to make such a family.

The true family is the place where a husband sacrifices for and loves his wife as he loves his mother. On the same token, the wife sacrifices for and loves her husband as her father.

Also, they should love each other as younger sister and older brother respectively.

Heaven is where ideal families live in a world where husbands and wives love and respect each other as they would God.

such a tradition should be established on earth.

The mother and father cannot become as one without love. 

Why do you think you cherish love?

It is because you are destined to like it if you don't want to.

The greater the love the mother and the father have for one another rather than just the love they have for themselves, the more ideal it would be.

Love's bond binds the mother and father completely into one.

Metal chains rust and break after much time, but the bond of love is eternal.

Food or money will not bond the parents and children.  This will happen only through the love between the parents and children that they can bound together.

A family formed on a foundation that cannot be affected by the elements of revolution, no philosophy or ideology would be able to absorb it.

Rather, that family would control and surpass them.

A family with such a standard would be eternally unchanging, even after decades, centuries, and milleniums.  They would maintain the form of a entire race and nation.

What would be contained inside a package of love?

Once you have reached the homeland and opened the package of love, an ideal husband or ideal wife would come out.

Moreover, the package of love should contain a pouch that is filled with blessings from which an ideal family would spring forth from it.  The highest level of restoration for the world would come out of this pouch.  in this state, no one in the world would be above or below anyone.  The individual, family, tribe, race nation and world would be all at the highest level.

Therefore, brothers and sisters as well as the family itself would be restored based on the foundation of love.  In order to lay such a foundation for unity, a package of love like a treasure chest is required.

The family gives birth to the love for society, nation, and humanity

A circular motion is created once your mind and body are united centered on God and manifests in all sorts of forms and figures.  This is why the older sibling must love the younger, by following the example of their parents loving them.





A family that is united into one in love will blossom.



That love will flourish and spread to the love within the society, then the love within the nation.

In this way, it later becomes the love of the whole world.

Unfortunately, the ideal of love within the family spreading to each level has been obscured.  There has been an all and out attack on the structure of the family.

How should love be between siblings?

How should siblings love each other?  They should love one another as their father and mother loves them.  From whom should they learn to love?  They should learn from their parents.

Ideal love is realized in the family, however, God could not have true sons and daughters.

There has not been true brothers and sister or husband and wife in society before.  If we could not become true children could God become fully our True Father?  No, we are only at best His adopted children, because our bloodline belongs to Satan.

It is God's will to fulfill these things.  Love dwells only when God's will is fulfilled.  People would abandon everything they have in the world just to find their way to the place where such a heavenly love could be found.

What is true love?

It is parental love, conjugal love and filial love put together.

If people are unable to sacrifice their selfish ways for each other, then love will not be able to last a long time in the that environment and will disappear. This easily explains why marriages and families are breaking down due to humanity adapting to more selfish, individualistic way of living.

Naturally, good parents sacrifice themselves for their children.  The bond of love they have for their children will never break.  The sons and daughters who grew up receiving true love from their parents will be filial children toward them.

When the husband and wife try more and more to live sacrificially for each other, thinking in their hearts, "You have lived for my sake," their family will receive blessings from heaven.

Such families are the dwelling place that God seeks.

Who is the most valuable in the family?

The children are not the most valuable.  This sounds shocking.  Take yourself for example.  Is there anything that is more valuable than your parents?  Is authority, knowledge, honor or money more precious to you than them?  Wouldn't you give up all of these things if your parents were on their deathbed?  Of course.

The parents are of the highest value within the family.  None of these objects are more valuable than your parents.  The next in value would be your spouse and finally your children.

What is more valuable than the life of those listed above?  There is no such thing in creation that is more valuable than the unit of your family.  Then why do we value our parents, spouse and children so highly?

It is because we have a love for them that will never be severed.  Even within a relationship where there seems to be 'hate' within the family, hate is a form of love that has been misguided in the wrong direction.  You can't not hate that which you do not love.

Parental love is absolutely necessary for the children. 

For a husband and wife to stay united, conjugal love is necessary.

The sibling love between brothers and sisters, and filial piety toward parents, are also absolutely necessary in a family.

Who do you cherish and like the most in your family?

It's your parents, right?  Why do you like them the most?

It is the one relationship in your life that sustains love from the moment of birth o throughout your life.  The one you love next best would be your spouse.  If the love shared in the relationship between a husband and wife is not a conditioned love, but is unconditional, then that love becomes the best thing in a family.  Nowadays, spouses agree to love each other until the other crosses a certain boundary.  This is a conditioned love that is based on the individual's preferences.

Unconditional love brings happiness and harmony even if this love is not directly connected to the eternal love of God.  Then finally the filial love the children have for their parents.  If children can sacrifice their selfish ways for and love their parents in a bright and positive manner, they can bloom as the hope of the future.  This type of filial love will be a pure and sincere contribution to their own happiness.

A family that is in complete possession of the true parental love, true conjugal love and has true filial love would be the most ideal family in the world.

Who do you think is the center of the family?

The person who is the oldest member of the family.  That would be the great grandfather if he is still living.  He would be the center of the family.

If the other members choose to ignore him and think of him as not as immportant because he will soon pass, it is the same as ignoring the vertical (spiritual realm) world.

Even if the eldest in the family was to become senile and dependent on other, he should still be the center of that family.  This means he should be the first served at the every meal.  This is becausee the son represents the horizonatl position.

Where does unhappiness come from?

It is when the love nest is lost.  In a happy family, the children live with and attend their parents who safeguard the household.  The parents safeguard the house.

The parents represent God.  They are two strangers who represent two separate families who unite as husband and wife, bound together in love.  They abide by the heavenly principle and carry on the family line.  A family must have parents, spouse and children.  Only then can that family provide the grounds for happiness.

God's yearning for the ideal He purposed for humankind is in order to find His own happiness.  God cannot fulfill His ideal world without human beings.  Only when humankind and God form a relationship in unity, can He have a place of emotional harmony.

We feel joy when we are emotionally content in our own homes.  God wants to be able to feel the same from such a position with the world.  Even if someone was to obtain all the wealth, fame and possessions in the world, this alone does not bring happiness.

Do we not see this trend today?  There are mega stars in deep depression, suicidal and unhappy even though they seem to externally have everything.  These things may be the condition to find happiness, but they cannot be happiness itself.

What determines whether you feel happy or not?

In order to feel happy, you need to have a loving parent, a spouse, and children.  No one one earth can deny this truth.  If anyone has only fulfilled one of these conditions, he would still feel a hole, incomplete and feel sad. He would not be able to help feeling discontent proportionate to what is missing.

What do youthink God had in mind for the first human ancestors?

Could such a loving God have imagined a world of chaos for His children?  A world filled with sadness and unhappiness?

God's ideal was for man and woman to come together in union to form an ideal family that would eventually become an ideal world.

The man or woman is not the center of an ideal family.  A family is just an unit that is connected to each other by the bond of a parent to a child and a husband and wife's love. These relationships would then be centered on God's love.

Therefore, we can conclude that God's will is to perfect a family that is centering on His love.

This is an ideal family:  a place where parents, children, husband and wife, and brothers and sisters desire to unite into oneness based on true love.

From such a place the eternal global equalization begins and consequently, the God's Kingdom on earth.

This is followed by God's Kingdom in heaven coming about automatically.

As God is the original substance of true love, when one connects to true love everyone becomes part of one body.

Parents are gods living in God's stead on earth, husband and wife are mutual counterpart gods and sons and daughters are little gods.

Is there any domination or manipulations on any part within that kind of relationship?

A family is composed of three generations which is centered on true love in this manner and is the basis of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Without achieving such a foundation, the kingdom cannot be established.

The family is the center of the universe.

Family perfection is the basis for the perfection of the universe.

If there is true love within the family and a love for the universe, you can freely go anywhere.

In this case, God stands in the combined central position of love as the Parent of the whole universe.

Man's love, woman's love, son's love, daughter's love, parents' love and God's love are all included in the original ideal family foundation.

Those who love their parents, spouse and children in such an harmonized circumstance leads a heavenly life.

There is a saying to the effect, "All is well if there is harmony within the family." If peace reigns in a family everything will go well.

A family that has reached perfection in love, is a family that experience peace which forms the basis of God's Kingdom.

The driving force of a family is true love.

Loving God more than yourself and loving your spouse more than life itself is such an example of the the power of pure and beautiful love.

God did not create a force that is greater than the power of true love in the universe.

True love is God's love.

Such a family is the basis of God's Kingdom.

How else will heaven on earth begin if the individuals within a family are disunited?  Each family's driving force is true love.

A human being should be part of a parent-child relationship as well as a husband and wife and sibling relationship.

These three relationships should meet at one point.

There can only be one central point.

That means the central point of upper and lower, left and right and front and rear should be one and the same.

If any of these have a different center, then the balance of the three relationships would be broken.

For example, it is hard for even three people to come together if their each stick their their philosophies without finding a common ground.

In the end, there are seven points:  above, below, left, right, front, rear and finally the central point is formed.

The significance of fulfilling the number seven is the seven points have become as one in perfected true love, centering on God, thus achieving a perfect sphere forming a family that manifests harmony and peace.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Ten, Chapter Two, Section 1

Love Comes From One's Partner

Love cannot be realized by oneself.  - Reverend Sun Myung Moon

 

Where does love come from?

 

A husband should think, "Love does not come from me but from my spouse.  Since love comes from my spouse, I must bow my head and serve her."

 

This is where the heavenly principle of living for the sake of others originates. 

When something highly noble comes to me, I must honor and serve it in order to receive it. We must live the philosophy of living for the sake of others.

When we are alone, love cannot manifest itself.

 

Love does not appear when man is alone, but only when woman appears as his object of love. Only when the object of love appears, does love finally spring forth.

We say that parental love is good and conjugal love is good because genuine love is not something that is self-centered. Love is not something that starts from me but something that starts from my partner. 

You need to know this. Love comes from your husband and from your wife, and from your sons and daughters and from your brothers and sisters.

 

Love does not start from your own self but from your spouse. Therefore, who is the owner of love?

 

 

 

 

 

Your spouse is the owner of love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where does love come from?

 

It comes from your partner. If your partner is homely or ugly, love recedes; if your partner is nice-looking or lovely, love advances more quickly.

 

The way in which love functions is determined according to your partner's attributes: her speech, her scent, her smell, and her taste.

Where is the base of love?

 

The base of love is not me. The word love must be used in reciprocal terms. No matter how handsome a man may be, if he has no partner, he is stuck because he cannot love alone.

The base of love is not me. "Love comes from me" are words that Satan has been using. I am not the base of love.

 

You may think that you are the base of love, but there will be no progress in the future unless such a mindset is totally dismantled and transformed.

Until now, wives have put themselves at the center, and husbands have put themselves at the center, with both wanting to be served. 

This has been destroying relationships. Since the basis of love does not come from me, but from my spouse, if I am to possess that love, I must sacrifice myself for that love. Love requires patience and absolutely demands sacrifice. 

With this viewpoint, there is no place in the cosmos, other than on earth, where we can defeat Satan.

God is holding tightly onto love because it can be found only in accordance with the God-centered principle of love. 

The word compassion (jabi) cannot be expressed in the absence of love. The word benevolence (in) also cannot stand on its own. The words jabi and in are all used only in reciprocal terms. 

 

 

 

Men and Women Harmonize in Love

Man symbolizes heaven and woman, earth. The two must unite and realize harmony. Men and women are different. Men's muscles are rugged and women's are smooth. Men have beards while women do not. 

Their voices are also different. If we compare men and women, we see their contrasting features fit together well.

 

Harmony unfolds between them. When we look at the physical structure of human beings, their left and right sides form a correlative pair. These two halves are bound tightly together.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you like only high things or only low things? You like things that create harmony.

 

Judging from the line formed by the horizon, fish live below and mammals, birds, and other creatures live above. 

Women menstruate once a month, like tidal variations based on the moon. Breathing is similar. A man and a woman establish a line of balance and create harmony.

 

People like Disneyland, with its rides that go up and down, because Disneyland duplicates the motions of the universe.

Which do you think will be more pleasing, a man harmonizing with another man or a man harmonizing with a woman? 

A man harmonizing with a woman is better because that reflects the harmony of the universe. We should live in step with the beat of the universe, the universe that promotes harmony through the harmony of yin and yang.

When man and woman create harmony, they initiate circular movement. When man and woman become one body through love and bear the fruits of love, God comes down and they go up and they meet in the middle. 

God becomes the center of this sphere, and spherical movement begins. The center of the sphere is the place where harmony of love is realized. 

It is the place where life emerges and moves, and it is the starting point of human equality and communal philosophy. This is so because the power of love is there. Thus, the force that embraces all interactions of the universe is love.

For human beings love is eternal. It is one and never divided. Once a man and a woman are joined in love they are to live together for a lifetime and then eternally even after death. They are two bodies that become one body by uniting and revolving together. 

When the two bodies become one, they revolve as God does and form a four-position foundation of love, the expression of the ideal world of love. Only true love dwells there and false love cannot invade. 

When man and woman become blessed by God and achieve perfection, God comes to them freely. When they form a four-position foundation of love, they will come to love each other's mind through each other's body, and when they come to love the mind their body will follow. (Blessed Family - 344) 

Original Human Beings Are Enraptured with True Love

 

What is the holiest thing in the world?

 

True love is the holiest thing in world. True love originates with God. If God exists, there is no other way than the way of true love.

 

 God truly desires the way of true love, and without traversing the way of true love, we cannot go before God. We have to know this point.

God wants to see, hear, eat, and touch everything in the universe through love.

 

As for human beings, if they receive a kiss of love from God, their joy will make them feel as if they are going to explode from inside.

 

This is where God's desire lies. God does not rejoice because He has diamonds or jewelry. 

The human body has five senses and every human being feels and confirms true love through the sensations of the five senses.

 

If the eyes are directed toward true love, they will be colored by and intoxicated with true love. 

Think about how enchanting the smiling lips of a person immersed in true love are.

 

Try to imagine the intense beauty of the five senses moving in intoxication with true love and the harmony of the five senses moving toward God.

Alone, God cannot experience the joy of such beauty. He can experience such beauty only when He has a partner, and this is the reason God created human beings. 

How would God feel as He observed a beautiful man and woman absorbed into one another through true love-intoxicated eyes, or kissing with true love-intoxicated lips, and playing the melody of a heart of true love?

 

If there is an Eve of true love, God would want to completely traverse her world of heart. God would have an impulsive desire to explore the breadth and depth of this beautiful Eve's world of heart.

God would want to traverse both Adam's and Eve's world of heart, a world more beautiful than the created heaven and earth.

 

It is certain that God would rather travel within the world of the heart of a person of true love than the universe. God would never want to leave Adam's and Eve's world of heart and true love. 

If, after God created human beings, He fell into their true love and became a child lost in that love, what kind of world would we have?

 

Since God would dwell in their midst, the world formed by God and human beings becoming one would be a world filled with joy and beauty.

If the true love of God had been perfected, the God of responsiveness would have no regrets at being totally absorbed by true love. 

God's nature is such that He would be totally happy with anything that happened within the realm of true love.

 

If human beings were to live in this world of true love, they would live a happy life free from regret. Moreover, this world would be without war and free of complaint and misfortune. 

Love Is Realized in a Completely Natural Setting

 

This is a story from my youth:

 

One day, I caught a pair of birds and tried to make them kiss each other's beaks. 

To see them kiss I put them in a cage, fed them, and watched them. I did it out of a child's desire to see them love each other and sing happily together. This was an experiment, out of curiosity, to understand the principles of nature. 

I continued this experiment, which I now understand to have been quite naughty. It was only after a long while that I finally understood that love is realized only in a natural setting. 

Sincere love is realized naturally, in an atmosphere that is natural to the highest degree. Through a long journey of experiments I came to the correct understanding of love.

When someone loses love, will having a university education help him to regain love?

 

He will only accumulate knowledge, become individualistic, and come to worship materialism.

 

Just as Korean bean soup tastes right only when it is served in a thick Korean bowl, character training can reach its purpose only when it is based on love.

The flower of world civilization should blossom on the basis of artistic harmony. In this sense, roasted ribs should be served on a heavy platter and Korean bean paste soup should be served in a thick, Korean earthenware bowl to bring out their proper tastes.

 

Once you have become used to the rough, deep, and refreshing taste of Korean bean paste soup, you will never forget it no matter where you may go.

Likewise, once people have become used to the earthy, deep, relaxing taste of love, they will not change.

 

Just as one easily tires of instant foods that are usually heavily sweetened, if one could obtain love easily and anywhere like instant food, we would be unable to call it true love.

There are people everywhere today who taste love as if they were eating instant food. This is the problem.

 

Love does not deepen because you bathe in a fragrant bath. 

I would say that the love of a couple living in the countryside that washes themselves in cold water before going to bed is purer, longer lasting, and ever deepening.

 

A couple that has to brush their teeth before kissing is not experiencing natural love. 

The toothpaste smell will prevent them from tasting the unique smell of the other. When I look at people who brush their teeth before kissing, I don't know whether they are trying to taste love or taste toothpaste.

When you meet with someone you like and love, you want to embrace and kiss that person. This is a natural instinct between the sexes. You can think you are meeting your partner in order to love your surroundings which is the universe. Finding a partner and establishing a relationship is a natural human behavior.

When man relates to woman and woman relates to man under the ideal of partnership, there will be no acts or incidents that violate the order of love. The true order of love emerges only when man and woman meet on the basis of the ideal of partnership. 

 

 

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Cheong Seong Gyeong Book Four - True Family, Chapter Five Section 4-7

Human Being's Awesome Value

There are many songs dedicated to the term, 'the good ol' days'.  Even theme songs to popular shows begin about how the milk man and innocent television show are long gone.

 

We currently live in a world where people feel it is more tragic to drop a popular phone than to care for the life of a fellow human being.  This is the tragedy of the current human condition.

How great is the true value of humans?

We are the only beings that God longs for over tens of thousands of years. 



According to my observations, this fact happens to be the basis for the creation of the universe.


God and human beings relate to one another on the internal, external, vertical(spiritual) and horizontal (physical) perspectives about the world of love can be established.

God binds these at the deepest core of the heart and comes to reside in the center of them all.

Without uniting into one, the standard of vertical and horizontal cannot develop into the ideal form of love.

 

 

 

A vertical (spiritual) form alone does not guarantee the existence of he horizontal (physical) form.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Therefore, it is necessary that you get an understanding that God had no other choice but to create human beings in this form.

God is an absolute being with an pure ideal for His creation which was corrupted.

He pursues beings who can relate to Him with absolute value.

This value is not exchanged for anything else in that exists in all of creation.  Could the love of your life be replaced by another?






 

 A being that can relate to God has a value that is greater than that of God Himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is this statement true or is it blasphemy?

How can we say a being is more important than the Creator Himself? 

The form in existence that has this absolute value before God is none other than humankind.  God created us as beings of value with this idea.









God created humankind for the sake of love.

Human beings were created because of love.

We are different from any other being in creation because we were created as God's sons and daughters.

As humans, God created us as His object partners  This means that through relating with us, He receives love.  This does not mean we were created to serve or worship God.

We were created to receive love directly from Him.

This is a privilege only given to humankind.  Therefore, because we are in the position to receive God's love, we resemble God.  God, then, desires love just as you and I do.  

In God's ideal of creation, humans were to embody God as his image and the rest of creation was to embody God in symbols.  This is based on Love.

When God rejoices, people will automatically rejoice, then when they rejoice, the creation will automatically rejoice as well. This was the original way of the world.

How could this be possible?

This could only come about through true love...nothing else could achieve such a link to God and the creation.

Some may say that is placing humans on the same level as God.

You must think deeply about this fact.  If God was to create an object that would reflect His love and internal being, whom would God make it resemble?

Wouldn't He rather have it resemble Him than anything else in creation?

Then, if God creates an object that resembles Himself, then that object would have all of His characteristics, both male and female characteristics that are within God.

We resemble God;He made us in His image.  We are the substantial, physical manifestations of His internal nature and His invisible form and His invisible mind.

Whose eyes do our eyes resemble? God's.




 

God's invisible being is symbolically reflected in all parts of our body.  

Have you ever thought about that?

The Bible even states that we are made in the 'image' of God. Then wouldn't this mean that He would create our bodies to resemble Him as well as His heavenly charcter.

When you closely observe the human anatomy you will see that the facial features, the eyes are set deeper than other features.

Our deep-set eyes can thus observe everything.

Then the nose symbolizes Adam and Eve.  Next, the mouth symbolizes all the things of creation.  It is horizontal and encloses thirty-two teeth or four times eight based on all the things of creation in the world and the number.

Who knew that God had placed all of these hidden symbols within our body?  Next the ears symbolize all directions.  The features that are found above the neck symbolize heaven.

In other words, the features above the neck is the information center of heaven.

Did you know that the Lord of Creation placed every part of His internal form in the face of human beings?

Hence, God's characteristics can be found there.  The eyes symbolize God, therefore, the eyes are the first features to develop.

Since God is the center of the universe, the eyes symbolize Him.  Just as the old saying goes, 'the eyes are the window to the soul', you can tell just by looking into someone's eyes whether they are conscientious person or not.

What would be the core of truth?

The center would not be knowledge, money or power.  

The core of truth would be love.  Love's essence is vertical (spirit) and truth that embodies love is horizontal.

Because we are created in his image, you would know Him by looking at creation.  Adam and Eve are the object partners of vertical love while standing as subject partners to the creation.

If the love between a man and woman can be made to be together with the axis of the world through east, west north and south, then God the spirit world and the entire physical world would be connected.

You need to attain oneness with your spouse. 

When a subject and object partner attain unity, reproduction takes place.

This can only happen through the action of give and take.  This place is truly one of joy.  Therefore, only when man and woman unite, can the subject of the couple be established.

When they are united, the man is automatically the subject even if he does not want to be.

 

We need to voluntarily be part of activities that demonstrate God's original love.  

Human beings need to love God and come closer to Him.

The first commandment Jesus gave was to love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul and with all of your mind.  To love God comes first.  You need to love God with all your body and soul.  You need to go to the very end, and not go halfway in loving God.

In such a manner, you need to attain the state in which your heart reflects God's image, with an original nature that is absolutely aligned to become one with Him. Through this, you will attain the beginning and the end of everything. The first commandment dictates this as the way to love God. 

The rhythm of the expression of joy can bring God, human beings and everything in its presence which can dance in tune with this rhythm either symbolically or substantially.  

When this happens, the day that all of creation can feel this liberation is when it will be able to exclaim, "Yes, my existence in this world is worthwhile!"

Wouldn't it be even the smallest creature in the world's wish to be a part of the grand feast that celebrates the love of God and humankind coming together?

What a day that will be.  This is the day in which God has longed for since the beginning of creation before His ideal was destroyed.

The creation is the foundation on which God's sons and daughters can be created. 

This is how we are connected together in a relationship based on this foundation.

This is true of animals, minerals, and plants.  Stamen and pistils that are found in the plant world are similar to the male and female that are found in the animal kingdom.

The greatest masterpiece of creation is the internal nature and external form of human beings.

We are the combination of all forms of creation brought and bound together.

 

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book