Reverend Sun Myung Moon
If we don't have a clear understanding about this, then we can't understand the origin of the universe.
Secular people have the goal to become the number one person in the world through money, power or knowledge. Yet, everything in the universe relates to God. He has hopes for them to become the number one practitioners of true love. This is the path originally desired by both humankind and God.
What is the origin of the universe? God has the power, but power is not the origin anymore than knowledge is. Would it be money? When we look at the next world of spirit, those who try to collect money on earth are like those collecting garbage, useless things.
In other words, saving or collecting money is the same as collecting waste material.
“People like me may have money, but I am not going to use money that has been collected like this.”
You all claim to like love and are looking for love. Then the question is, “What path would you take as the most direct way, or the shortcut to love which is consistent with the basic formula of the universe?
Q: How did God create heaven and earth?
Only human beings, and none other, can be His perfect objects.
Therefore, God committed Himself 100 percent to the creation of the universe for His object of love.
Why did God who has all the knowledge and wisdom of the universe need to invest everything?
Through giving all of Himself, then he reached the zero point, a position of nothingness. Therefore, His object will be able to attain 120 percent in return.
We can explain this through the process of atmospheric pressure. God would eventually stand as a vacuum after investing everything. This is the point of lowest pressure. Then His object, man would become a high-pressure area. This creates a renewed circulatory action.
One who constantly invests themselves in their object, that object will eventually be enveloped, surrounded with love. This takes place because the origin of the universe is love.
Unity is expressed through an individual becoming perfect. This is where the family, tribe, nation and world all stem from. This is the case no matter how small the origin is.
If true love were to spread out in all directions from the origin, then no matter where it was in the universe, the whole earth would nevertheless be unified and filled with true love.
Once this happens, then at any time everyone could say to each other, "Good! You are just like me!" It would be the same both spiritually in the vertical sense, and physically in the horizontal sense wherever you went.
Humans require love throughout their lifetime and even after they have gone to spirit world.
Humanity can never be separated from the concept of love.
No matter how young, old, or passed away, whether it is day or night, we can never be separated from love.
Why?
We cannot help being this way because our origin set this standard.
Love by itself can exude creative ability, this ability cannot come into operation without love.
Everything moves driven by a force of love that is like a powerhouse.
Would you think that God can create love? Even God cannot create or own love when He is alone. Owning love is another matter, but one cannot own love when they are alone. It takes two to do that.
Love should not be affected by the change of seasons.
Love measures all things in the universe, material world and eternal world. This is a fundamental issue.
Why did God create us bound by the ties of love?
God, the universe and humanity seek love because it can harmonize.
Therefore, one who is not bound by the ties of love has no base of mind where they can become happy and expect to lead happy lives. If the basis is wrong, then the result cannot be happiness.
You can attain the same state of mind-body oneness as Buddha where you feel, “in heaven and on earth, I alone am the honored one.”
Nothing in existence could come into being without passing through the axis of love. Every form of energy within the sphere of love cannot engage in action without passing through this center. Everything that is in creation has expanded based on this principle.
The nucleus and axis of love did not come into existence. Not just for humankind. We have failed to understand and practice love according to the standards of the origin. When we express love between each other, within family, tribes, races and nations which stem from families, or taught by saints and sages, humanity falls short of God's ideal of love.
What comes first, life or love? When we look at the origin of the universe, we can see that life cannot come first. Since God is the source of life, based on that foundation, would God want to live and continue to exist without love or peace?
Life is unable to achieve either one. What establishes peace transcends all the stages of creation, and goes beyond the highs and lows of the subject and object partners. Only true love has this capability.
You know about the process of cell reproduction. Even if that was cut off, or another eye, nose or other feature would grow back to replace it. This is also true of hair feet and in fact everything.
The cells that are connected to true love are of the same value as the universe. Why does true love give so much value to what it is connected to?
It is because it is the cause and, at the same time, it is the result. Love is the motive and at the same time the purpose.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Love is the Root of the Universe Part III
This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong written by Reverend Sun Myung Moon based on speeches and his teachings of the Divine Principle.
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