Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Even something that is seemingly insignificant like a clump of grass exists because of love.
Minerals come into being by way of positive and negative ions, which are all in motion for the sake of love. However small the realm of heart created through true love is connected to the universe. This effect extends everywhere, even to the spirit world. This is because the cosmos, including the spirit world exists under the principle of God's true love where there are no inequities.
The true relationships between God and humankind are the origins of such true relationships that are among between human beings themselves.
The perfection of true relationships can only be accomplished within ideal families that have established The Four Great Realms of Heart (Parents, siblings, spouse, centered on God).
What is the essence of love? What kind of quality does it have? Specifically, what is love?
The love relationships of one-night stands and promiscuous sex, which prevails in the US today, an ideal expression of true love?
That kind of behavior has no connection with the original love. Then what does true love look like? Love is the beginning and the end.
God says of Himself in the Bible, "I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end." What does this mean? He is referring to original love in these words.
Why should you live for the sake of others when you don't want to do so? Because you and your body are bound by the ties of love, which are connected to all of creation.
Do you think that God is happy all the time? Are you able to be happy all the time? No, you are unable to do so. But when you are able to hold true love, even sadness will be absorbed by that love.
At this time in history, everything and everyone has their arms open wide asking to be tied to love more quickly. Everyone is in search of the original love, not the false love that is found easily around the world.
Each being wants to grow rapidly and occupy the universe of love, and possess not just this, but God Himself who is the origin of love.
When we look from this perspective, we then realize that our natural desire is to make the authority of love stand in a position that is superior to anything else in the universe.
Did humankind emerge from a combative concept like communism, or from a concept of harmony?
When we express this in terms of electricity, we can say that positive and negative charges fight one another. So, where would this lead? We originated from a source of harmony and unity, therefore, through the harmony and loving union of a mother and father, we came to exist.
This is an undeniable fact. In this light, we are able to recognize that the origin of the universe was initiated from something that was harmoniously unified.
How do we become a person which the universe is indebted to instead of it debtor? This all depends on the state of mind: you need possess the mind of an owner who can say, “I'm sorry” and “Thank you”. One who can gaze on the waters, the fields and mountains, the plains and rivers of Korea and the whole earth and exclaim, “Thank you!”
You should become a people that can have gratitude toward God and nature and then live in service to them without any complaint. Only people who have such a mind can become true owners.
Humankind is the center of love in the created universe. We are the objects of God's love.
How great is humanity's value? God yearns for humanity after thousands of years.
“I have discovered the nature of the origin of the universe. The two-way relationship between God and humankind has finally led to the recognition of a worldview based on the vertical and horizontal aspects of love. As it developed into a relationship of up and down, and left and right, the worldview of vertical and horizontal love could emerge.
In the center of it all dwells God. That place, which can be bound firmly in the deep valley of the mind, is the center of the vertical and horizontal aspects. If it is not tied down, the vertical and horizontal standard cannot emerge as the ideal form of love. Though there may be any number of vertical standards, the horizontal will not come into being. Thus, you must know that God had no choice but to create human beings accordingly.”
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
God is an absolute being with an absolute idea about creation, and so He seeks after an object of absolute value.
If God was to exchange His relational being with Himself, then He would be left alone as a result. He would be all by Himself. This is why God exhaustively commits Himself, His strength and energy for the sake of His object.
God is engaged in a war of attrition.
It is very clear that this form of existence with absolute value is none other than humankind.
God created humanity as valuable beings with such an idea in mind. He created human beings for love.
Human beings differ from all other parts of creation, because we were created as God's children.
We were created as the object partners to directly receive God's love. This is our
privilege.
Who do human beings resemble? We resemble God.
God also desires true love just as we do. The ideal world of creation based on love signifies this manifestation of God's love in an external form.
When the substantial form is happy, its image form will automatically be happy, and vice versa.
Only love can bring this interchange about.
It has been said that out of everything in the universe, the most precious and sacred of these are human beings. Basically, this means that out of all of the creation, we are the center. Based on what? Love. Then things such as knowledge, money or power are of no importance.
God as the Creator can possess any of those things on His own as He wishes, however, love is something that can possess or seek alone.
Without any exception, love only appears and is fulfilled through an object partner. Not even God Himself can break this principle.
Did God create heaven and earth for Himself to dwell?
He created heaven and earth for His object of love.
If we examine the essential qualities of love, we would see that they include the rights of inheritance, equality, and participation. Since this is the case, if God was to experience love, then He would dance to the tune of love.
We teach that even God needs love. Even though He is all-knowing, omnipotent, omnipresent and almighty, He requires objects of love. Those objects were Adam and Eve.
The noun 'happiness', or the adjective 'good', cannot be used in the context of isolation. These two only can have meaning where there is a reciprocal relationship established.
Who is able to claim that they are absolutely happy when they are alone? Hence, even God Himself claims to be happy when alone.
Let's take for example, that there is a musician who sing extraordinary. He sings in solitude. Would he be happy? Of course not, he needs an audience.
What is good can only come about in the process of giving and
receiving.
God cannot be alone when He says, “good!”.
Humanity's process of maturity is reflected within God's own development. Creation shows a renewed development of God Himself in a substantial way. God is able to find interest and stimulation from creation.
Human beings are just like this. Artists draw with the idea of creating masterpieces while fully expressing their inner nature. They are able to squeeze from deep within themselves down to their bone marrow and invest into their works. Where can human perfection be found?
Man cannot be perfected by himself any more than a woman by herself. This is because they are only half-complete.
They can only be perfected through a complete union of love centered on God.
In order for Adam to grow to perfection, what does he absolutely need? He needs God vertically (spirit), and he needs also a horizontal connection. Without both, he could not generate a circular motion. For this reason, he absolutely needs horizontally (physically). Likewise, Even absolutely needs Adam.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Spreading God's Love Worldwide
This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong written by Reverend Sun Myung Moon based on his speeches and teachings of the Divine Principle.
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