The 'Self' is the Ticket to Hell

What is the greatest obstacle to entering heaven?

Yourself is your greatest enemy.

Hell and the satanic world were created when humanity became aware of ‘self’.  Lucifer took actions centered on himself.  He intensely thought of himself and gratifications only.

What is a traitor?

A person who puts himself before his nation is called a traitor to the nation.  Same with a family member before his family.

This path leads to hell and leads a person to ruin.

This foundation called the self, and centered on the self, leads to death.

Wanting to receive love is the path to hell and belongs to Satan's side. 

On the other hand, the path that wants to give love is the path to heaven and belongs to heaven’s side.
Parental love is on the side of heaven.  It continues to give even when the child refuses to receive.

Though all humankind is fallen, the true path still remains through parental love.

Because God is a parent, and we are His children, that kind of love still remains in fallen human beings.
Where are you headed?

“I will go to the spirit world and stay at the highest point of all kinds of love. Just as there is a North Pole and a South Pole, there is a Love Pole. No matter how hard you try searching at the half way point, or however much you go around, you will not find me.

“Since you cannot find me, you might say, "Rev. Moon went to hell." Would it be easy to stay at the highest point? "I will not freeze to death at the North Pole. I will be like a fireball of love!"

This is a great ideal and a great system of thought. So, everything will be fulfilled. Even God is inside me. The people of the world are inside me. Those who say that they will inherit love are of my tribe! You're not offended?”

If God was to visit hell, all of the satans there would bow their heads to Him.

Even Satan cannot oppose absolute love. 

All the gates of hell would open for God.

This is the basic rule for all relationships of all creation.  The mind has no boundaries.  God is like this; He does not have any boundaries in His mind.

If God wants to go to heaven, He can go there; if He wants to go to hell He can go there, too.  This means there are no walls in the mind of God.

A person who is on his way to his own execution would detest any clothes they wear no matter how elegant they are.

But if someone’s clothes were made by loving hands of his wife, no matter how ugly they might be, the clothes would shine extremely brightly.

We can conclude that anything done out of the essence of love will be welcomed by God wherever it goes. 

Even if something made out of love was to go to hell, God would go and be there with it.

People who go to prison for the person they love, they are not really in prison.

They are in a place that deepens the bond between them.  Therefore, true love can both control God at the highest of hell and at the lowest level.

This principle is the same throughout creation in the earth and in the world of plants and animals.  They all like the song of love.

When you wake up in the morning, would you like to hear the sound of birds singing love songs or the sound of them fighting one another?

Of course, you would like to hear their song of love.

In this universe there are no borders in places that have true love. 

Those who live with true love have what it takes to pass through any place.

They have the ingredients to control God and hell.  Love has the strength to break down barriers and go anywhere.

Love became the pillar that let this universe come into being. 

In the same way, love, false love became the pillar that supports hell.

How difficult it is to make this right after something like this went so wrong.  Even if you wash it with a powerful bleach, because love makes up its root, it becomes tainted again.

Only the strength of true love can make total unity. 

Words of love would even make Satan in hell and the entire world say “Mmmm”.

The power of love makes everything become one. Is there anyone who can deny this?

Our work of restoration is building a cable car from the human world that is in the depths of hell to the highest summit where God is.

What is that cable made of?

If we made this connection with just money, it would snap in an instant.  What about with just knowledge?  Even a cable made with authority will not be enough.

A cable made of love that transcends the top and the bottom should be used to hang the cable-car so it can run smoothly on the cable.

What is a clown’s major job?

It is to make people happy and dance around.  If you cannot dance, at least keep up with the time.

If God was to see church members dancing in such a place, He is not so stingy to say, “Oh, dear, you as the founder of the Unification Church are found keeping time with a clown, then you go to hell.”

God is amazing.  But we have limited Him to our simple thinking.

God’s mind is not small like the leg of an ant.  We haven’t really realized that He is such a great God that if He opens His mouth to inhale all the air in the universe, He still have room to spare.

When we look at God’s providence throughout history, do you think that He send people in the spirit world to hell and only works to restore those on earth?

Since God is love in the highest sense, wouldn’t He desire that His providence of salvation be completed even if it crosses the borderlines of hell? Or He would not recognize those in hell and not mind they suffer for eternity?

The human mind is not like crystal but like ice. 

The mind has all sorts of odds and ends frozen within it after the Fall.

We work to melt it to get rid of these odds and ends and make it into a lump of pure ice that God could suck.

You can only be restored into a lump of ice that belongs to heaven rather than hell once you think you will become pure ice that God likes.


Return for tomorrow’s  Post: We Choose to go to Heaven or Hell

This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

Hell Has no Relationship w/God's Love

Truly, what was the Fall?

Humanity fell into the darkest of nights because of the Fall, transforming our ticket to heaven to a ticket to hell.

Hell is a place that has no relationship to God's love, life or lineage or even to God Himself.

Hell is a place where you are alone and you are shut of from everything.

You have a longing for what you cannot attain.  You will feel the happiness in the large realm of this universe, but you will not be able to move one inch.

“So what is it that I am doing? I am initiating a movement to love God, heaven and earth, based on a universal system of thought: the Principle.

“This is so that from now on, you have to prepare the way you will take when you go to the spirit world. You are doing great things by making such preparations.”

Do you know how vast the spirit world is?  Since it is such an infinite world, you must have a global and universal mind to keep up with the pace of that world.  Therefore, you are making that world the stage for your activities while you are here on earth.

This is impossible if you are individualistic and worry only about your own needs.

If you are not able to connect to the whole, what greater hell is there than that?  It would be the same as catching an eagle and locking him in a dark hole where he could not move or feed.

The eagle symbolizes America.  Wouldn’t it be miserable to live just to eat and satisfy the stomach?  Is that happiness or unhappiness?

To commit suicide is the worst sin of all sins. It is an atrocity that destroys the universe. 

A person who commit’s the crime of killing themselves will go to the lowest of hells.

What if one of your nostrils was plugged and you could only breathe just a little bit through your other nostril?  That would be hell.

Hell is where you are unable to receive when you want.  It is also when you cannot give when you want to.

How long can you endure holding your breath?  How long can you go without exhaling or inhale when you need to?  That is hell.

You cannot eat without God's love in the spirit world. 

Without God’s love in the spirit world, you do not have the right to eat.

Hell is a place where you watch others eat, but cannot eat.  Only those who have experienced the life of heaven on earth with their mind and body united can take ownership in the Kingdom of Heaven.

What do you do when you are in spirit world?  Do you still eat?

You eat food based on love.  Therefore, a person who doesn’t have love will not be able to open his mouth no matter how much he wants to eat.  The food will jump from his face.  This is his punishment.

The world on earth is in chaos.  What about spirit world?  Since humans go to the spirit world in confusion, then the spirit world ends up in chaos as well.

Stealing something becomes a habit.  Once a person who steals a lot on earth goes to spirit world, he naturally wants to get something for nothing on the other side.  Since it is difficult to deal with an unprincipled person such as this, hell was created to separate them.

God did not create hell.  It is a storage place for waste and has nothing to do with God’s love.  All of humanity who begins from false love inevitably go to hell.

God also does not send people to hell, people go to hell on their own accord.

If a person who lived an evil, selfish life on earth was to go to heaven, they would not be able to breathe because the air there is God’s love.

Since they were not able to exercise their love lung while on earth, they will have to go to the lower parts of spirit world where they are comfortable.

Therefore, the person who goes to heaven lives with God eternally.

Since God’s mind and body are united, if a man and woman and their family can do the same and live together in front of God, and become His object partners, they will naturally go to the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world after leaving the earth.

Those who lived a life with God while on earth could not live in hell.  They would not be able to breathe and the smell and taste would be repulsive.

If you reach heaven, you would be able to freely come and go from there even visit hell.  Would you rather be a person who is limited to a space in hell or a liberated person who is free?

You have to think of difficult people as the gate keeper and think that you are going to touch and melt their heart so they will guide you when you reach those gates.

Hell is a place without a future. 

Heaven has a future.

The Fall began in the place where there is no future in the public sense.  The self became the center and living for humanity’s own sake forsaking god is the way to hell.

Living for others is the way to heaven. That is the concept of heaven and hell. 

A flattened balloon slowly rises when it is filled with hydrogen.  It seems that the balloon can rise to any height, but it has limits.

A balloon stops at the place where it finds a balance with its own weight and remains at the same level of atmospheric pressure.

This is the same case in the spirit world.

Those who are greedy go down. They are heavy. 

For that reason, hell is where heavy things gather and collide with one another.

What if a racist white person went to the spirit world and the gate keeper to heaven was black?

If a person was blocked from entering heaven and made to go back, he might cling to the gatekeeper at that time and cry out for them to have mercy on them.

He would experience a living hell that is hundreds and thousands of times greater than any suffering they caused the black people in his lifetime.

“If I were God, I would also put such keepers by the gates. “

Everyone lives under the rule of the universal law.  No one can free themselves from this law.  This affects the order of love and morality from the family level to universal and then God.

One who has violated heavenly law is not free to go anywhere in the universe.

There is nowhere to run or go where you wish.

To attain a life that is supported by all the laws including the laws of nature, the true path is the one giving love and living for the sake of others.

You should realize that hell does exist. Hell is a place one goes who does not follow the way of carrying the banner of love.

“I hope that you can stand in court and be victorious.”

When you do not have the discipline to practice love, when you go to spirit world a reaction comes against you from everyone there, nobody will tell you or send you to hell.


Public or Private

Being public means living for the greater good, doesn't it? Being private means putting yourself first. Living for your own sake leads to hell. Public-mindedness leads to heaven.

Unification Church members are not without value.

We may look simple, but we are not a simple group that believes that we go to heaven by just going to church on Sunday or through just holding a Bible under our arm or giving tithing every now and then.

As a people, once we believe in something, we do it till the end.

Even if our spouse grabs us from following this path we are intense and follow the path of faith even at the risk of divorce.

The reason you suffer now is for the sake of finding the freedom of heaven. 

Even if you go to hell, after living such a courageous life on earth, no one in hell can hold you there after they have judged your life.

Going down to a lower position is something that would never happen in a society of brothers, but is only possible within the realm of the parental heart.

God can go to the bottom of hell where His children suffer; this is the example of a parent - a true parent.


Return for Tomorrow’s Post: The Self is Ticket to Hell

This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

Jesus Wasn't to be God's Only True Son

If

the Fall never happened, heaven would have been the place where God’s only begotten sons and daughters would have lived creating a family of God living in His love.  Yes, that is with a plural.

Heaven can only be entered as a family. 

You cannot enter heaven by yourself.



Since Jesus was not able to form family, he was unable to enter heaven and waits in paradise which is the waiting room for heaven.

Paradise is not the same place as heaven.

Paradise is like a preparatory environment before entering heaven.

Since Jesus was God’s only begotten son he carried God’s pure blood lineage.  He was to establish the ideal world through having children who had His blood and spread this lineage to the world-wide level.

Since, Jesus went to the cross without leaving God’s good seed on earth, he has to return to fulfill his mission of bringing heaven on earth.  Until this ideal is fulfilled on earth, even the Messiah cannot enter heaven.

What is the prerequisite to go to heaven?

The qualifications are on earth.  This is why Jesus left the ‘keys’ to the Kingdom on the earth.  Since Jesus and his 12 disciples could not form true families on earth, the Unification Church today must establish 70 then 120 disciples with Blessed families.

After such families are established on earth then heaven will open.

Is it possible that just by having a belief in Jesus will send you to heaven?  If Jesus was not able to become an ideal couple and could not enter heaven, can he realize true love by himself?

Even God could not substantiate true love by Himself. 

Can Jesus fulfill the ideal of true love if he was to return on the clouds and destroys the earth?

We are living in the time when the Messiah has returned and people should follow him.  Christians believe that they will go to heaven by just believing in the Messiah and then they will go to heaven as an individual.

How many people say that they want to go to heaven with their mother father or husband?  In the future, religion should not teach individual salvation, but states that God’s will for people to enter with their families.

When tribal leaders understand this and live this truth, everyone will follow them into heaven together.

God created heaven for human beings who lived without falling. 

 We can only go to heaven after living God’s original standard while on earth.

Jesus’ purpose for coming to earth was to fulfill the ideal of heaven on earth, not just in spirit world.  He was to accomplish this through having children with God’s original blood lineage as Adam and Eve were to do without falling.

He was to stand with his spouse as the unfallen parent of humanity and enter heaven with his family.

 However, Jesus went to Paradise alone without children and has been in a waiting place to enter heaven.

Heaven is empty. From this you can realize that God's providence for restoration has been a sorrowful one. 

When God lost Adam and Eve, the story did not end there.

The lost of the first parents, meant the lost of the tribe, then the race, nation and true world.

God lost the people of heaven, tribes of heaven and heavenly men and women - His only begotten sons and daughters.

Originally, families were to enter the spirit world together.  Doesn’t this sound more like a Godly plan then a father going to hell and the mother going to Paradise with the children?  Could that truly be a heaven?

All of the saints and sages lived a single solitary life.  Therefore, when they went to spirit world, they lived single lives without an ideal, godly partner.

You cannot become a top leader without true love. 

A true leader lives for the sake of others.

God has worked through the source of religion in order to save humanity.

The higher the dimension of the religion, the more the teachings should be in accordance with the purpose and laws of the original heavenly homeland.

Therefore, religions teach about sacrifice and service.  Any religion that strives for its members to live for other people will develop. On the other hand, any religion that causes the world more problems from a self-centered stance will decline.

 The Bible states that  you should love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and your mind as the first commandment.  It warns that those who do not abide by this commandment cannot enter heaven.

What is the second commandment?

Love your neighbor as you love yourself is the second commandment.  The one who loves God first and loves his neighbor second can be a filial child.

Jesus’ disciples thought that Jesus would dominate the Roman Empire in one blow and become the new king of Israel.  As his followers, then they would receive high positions.  This was not the main case.

First, a foundation for heaven must be formed in the mind.  Then, based on such a heavenly mind there can be unity between the body and God.  This was the challenge for the people of Jesus’ time.

Hence, your mind is the base for heaven. 

When God is amiable, you should be amiable.

The internal and the external should match.  Also, you should align to God’s will.

If this is the case, should you do things centered on your own mind and do things that your body detests?
You have to do the things that both your good mind and body enjoy.

Isn’t there things that even God likes?  Since Jesus is God’s son, there are also things that he likes as well.

You cannot free yourself from the satanic realm without loving God. 

Therefore, you must love God more than your wife or husband.

Humanity has only been able to reach the edge of God’s realm through the trap of false love.  We are still trapped and have not been able to completely come out of satanic realm even though religions have been established.

To loosen this snare, you should not love your father, mother, or husband more than you love God.

When you reach spirit world, you will see that the martyrs that died solely for the purpose of going to heaven, did not actually go there.

But the ones who were able to walk the path of suffering shedding blood as their heavenly Father has walked and are grateful for the moment of death to return that grace could enter heaven.

Such people did not die for their own salvation, but for the sake of heaven and earth.  Dying in order to go to heaven is dying for your own sake.

Fallen human beings can never enter heaven by pushing themselves forward as they do so on earth.

Return for Tomorrow’s Post: Hell has no Relation with God’s Love

This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

Heaven in Spirit World Emerges from Heaven on Earth

Historically, people called by God were over fifty or sixty years old, worn out and one step away from death.

God used such people at that time, but knew He would work with the younger generation in the future.  Therefore, God was concerned about how to develop His providence through the young people.

Buddha was able to proclaim that he was his own lord throughout heaven and earth.  A person who becomes a complete object partner of God after disciplining himself to achieve oneness of mind and body, he can become his own lord.

“Once, I felt that I was grasping the world tightly in my hand, and it seemed to melt. When you reach this level, miracles can happen automatically. The curing of diseases comes as a natural result of religious life.”

Most people today go about their lives just waking up and eating and going about a daily routine and think they are fine in God’s eyes.

However, unless they are acknowledged as a partner to God and become owners of heaven, they are not fine in front of God.

Satan remains in the place where a person has not established an absolute faith.

Many religions say that heaven will be established by the their church and their founder’s teachings.  This is a fantasy.

Christianity is divided into hundreds of different denominations.  They call other churches heretical or satanic, but they do not do so from the authorization of God.

If churches judge other churches for their own benefit, then their motivation is not pure.
If our church does this, it will also decline.

Even the spirit world has been divided by walls. 

Buddhists and Confucians are separated by walls.

The barriers are overcome by a higher standard from God’s heart.  All the walls from the lowest to the higher realms must be broken down in reverse order.

The walls that separate ancestors and people from many thousand of years ago must be broken down.

All the walls on the earth must be eliminated and a true path connected to liberate hell must be paved.  Otherwise, the gates of heaven cannot be opened.

Members must be a better person than Buddha, than Confucius and even better than Jesus.

Before, religion had a purpose to only save the individual. Our purpose is family salvation.  This is the difference between Unificationism and other religions.

For salvation we are saving the family. When we go to heaven we are not going alone. 

No one can enter heaven alone.

Only after the ideal of a true couple is realized can heaven come about.  Therefore, in order to go to heaven, fallen human beings must go through  restoration and resurrection.


To give the Marriage Blessing to you is to open wide the gates of heaven.


“Through the Blessing, I am opening the closed gates of heaven for you.”

Jesus taught that the Kingdom of heaven was in our hearts.  But Jesus was miserable when he could not proclaim that that heaven was in our families.

When you have a family, you can sing with happiness that we can live in this way.

Yet Jesus who was God’s pure Son could not even dream of having a family necessary for heaven.

Jesus trodden a sacrificial path for three years in order to awaken to the fact that heaven within our hearts.  But then he was crucified.  Now, there is no heaven on earth.

The tracks of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and those in the Kingdom of Heaven in the spirit world are the same.

In order for a train to pass the border of one country into the next, the tracks must match so the train continues running.

Likewise, the tracks on earth and in heaven should be connected.

The path of true love connects the rails from earth so the family can be the embodiment of love and go directly to heaven nonstop.

Therefore, the individual path should connect to the family’s path going in the same direction.

We are destined to go to the spirit world whether we like it or not. 

We are each like wanderers that move closer to that destination.

The biggest issue is whether you lived a life for others while on earth for just for yourself.  If you live more for others, you go to heaven, if you lived more for yourself, you go to hell.

This basic formula may be argued given your present situation, but when you die, you will know that this is the truth.

People went to different levels in the spirit world. They went to the position that correlates to the degree they have practiced filial piety according to the way of love.  How much they pledged their loyalty to their nation and fulfilled the way of a saint in the world.

People should take the path of righteousness while on earth. The path for the individual, family, tribe, nation and world or God should be one and the same path.
What is that path?

It is the path of original love.

Which world do you think you will go to in the end?  Are you going to heaven or hell?

On the way there are you the kind of person that says, “Father, please help me!” or a person who says, “Welcome, True Father!”?  That is a matter of life and death.

After marriage, you made a pledge to live happily.

“When I say live you should live well, it means that you should become an unchanging couple. In order to become like that, you should go to the ever-changing world and receive training together.

“You should keep your promises even if you go to a world where people are divided, north and south or in all four directions. You should maintain such a well-trained position.”

Children born of true parents as Adam and Eve should have become by following God’s Word, are true children not false, sinful children.

From such children, a true family, a true tribe, nation and world is created.

People in this world will live a heavenly way of life with God.  This is the only way that this earth becomes the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

You should not think you are entitled to go to heaven. 

You should focus on building heaven on earth as Jesus came to do.

Also, you must become a heavenly person and become united with Heavenly Father to the point that Father’s heart is your heart.

You should be a representative of God’s heart, the Lord’s heart and the heart of your ancestors.  Through this, the historical problems will be solved.

If a person is on their death bed and they tell God, “God, even though I could not live according to Your will until this moment, I tried to go to heaven in my mind.  Please regard me as making the proper indemnity conditions!”

Since God is a fair God, He will reward the person according to his actions, placing him in a position of wanting to go to heaven.  That position can be just below paradise.

Even people in hell are trying to go to heaven.

You  alone are responsible for deciding the actions you commit while you are on earth. And make any recompense for any wrongdoings.

If this door is closed, no one else can open it again for eternity, only you can be responsible for it.
If the door is opened, no one except you can close it again.

If what is bound on earth is bound in heaven, then it should be released while you are on earth. What does this mean?  For instance, if you did a wrongful act and did not compensate or ask for forgiveness for it while on earth, then you will ever be bound to that sin when you go to spirit world.

You will be bound to it.

Therefore, when you go witnessing now, you should witness to your family members and relatives.

If you can claim that you love the billions of people on earth more than your own mother and father who gave birth to you, then you are able to love in an unified position within the realm of God’s love.
Then you will stand in a position not be related to the satanic world.

An original person is someone who is not related to Satan, establishes a family based on the love of the ideal couple and goes directly to heaven after his life on earth.  A world of families such as this would be called the Kingdom of Heaven on earth where people live the ideals of the heavenly kingdom.

Therefore, the fact that Peter was given the keys to the gates of heaven means that heaven is first to be established on earth.  Everyone should know this clearly.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

People Serve Each Other in Heaven

If there is a member of the church whose children wear poorer clothes than their own children, you should not be able to sleep and want to give him clothes.

This is the heart of God, of a parent.

The leading thought of the Unification Church is to have the heart of a parent, wear the clothes of a servant, shed sweat for the earth, tears for humankind and blood for heaven.

Heaven is the world of love where you bring your children.  You receive love and give it out to the universe.

“I love God. I know everything right through from the spirit world to the physical world.”

The heavenly spirit world is mystery it is a place where people go who live according to the principles of existence that God established.

This means living for the sake of others. The ideal heaven is a world that is built based on such heaven.

What should you do in order to prosper?

You must be selfless.

We practice selflessness living for the sake of others. This is the dividing line between heaven and hell.

This is how spirit world is.

You know the dwelling place where people lived for others and for this reason you need to live for others and live the way of thinking of the saints, the teachings of the Savior, and God's way of thinking.

God thinking is to live absolutely for the sake of others.

Smaller things are invested for the greater good.

This is why the family should sacrifice itself for the sake of the tribe; the tribe sacrifice for the people; and the people for the nation; and the nation for the world;

Those who take national property and give it to their families will suffer in hell and will perish.  If they do not go to ruin while here on earth, they will hang upside down in spirit world.

Life on earth and heaven are opposites.

People on earth spend their whole lives centered and lived for their own purposes.

Spirit world is a place where people are supposed to live for the sake of the whole, therefore, by becoming people who can become an object partner to God can say ’amen’ for eternity.

Those who live on earth for their own sake cannot go to heaven. 

What is an evil person?

It is a person who unites everything through himself - not God.

Such a person may seem good by human standards, but is a dictator and a villain.  He goes directly to hell. This is not allowed in the Church.

“The individual must live for the family; the family for the tribe; the tribe for the people; the people for the nation; the nation for the world; the world for the universe; the universe for the cosmos; and the cosmos for
God. Then who does God live for? He lives for you.”

Religion must teach them to live for the sake of others.

The higher the level of the religion, the more strongly it places emphasis on living for  others.  Therefore, we must be meek and lift up many people and live for their sake.

Religion teaches to sacrifice and serve because it is training to conform to the rules of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Once people live on earth, they enter the spirit world.

A person who can go to other countries and live for the people in that country with a heart of a mother, and a heart of a saint to save the world from evil will go to a higher place.

“I think in that way. ‘I am one man, a general who represents sons of filial piety of the historical ages, a general of patriots and of saints.

“Although everyone else who had the name of God's son failed, I was born as a victorious son: There is only one thing that will enable you to say that. It is to live absolutely for others.”

It is simple: those who give and serve others and forget what they have given can digest the fallen world.
There is no one born who can avoid death.

After 80 to 100 years living on earth, people will die.  People who lived on for their own interests, when they go to spirit world they enter hell.  On the other hand, those who lived for others go to heaven.

These two worlds are separated at death.

There is a long line of people, the longest line in the world of people who give their property to heaven.

Therefore, everyone should become penniless and offer everything leaving only tears, mucus and blood to offer only.

“I was like that. There was nothing else left to offer. I offered all my life and property. If you have a savings bankbook for your sons and daughters, should you use that for them? Or should you use it for the salvation of the world?

“Only if you think in that way and act upon it can you participate in the ranks of the Messiah's chosen ones. You should live for others. Live for the whole and for the greater good. Live for the world, for God, and for the liberation of humankind.

"You have to motivate people to change to the new lineage through your efforts.”

In the future, there will be a competition to live for the sake of other people.  Why?  Because those who live for others go to the highest position in the Kingdom of Heaven.  Also, when you live for such a person, you can raise up by using them as your foothold.

Just like a launch pad, you will be launched and fly into the sky.

If you live for the sake of someone, you demonstrate the same motivation that God had in creating His partner in love. 

You stand in the position of loving counterpart to that person

For that reason, follow someone and live for others.

“You work following me, don't you? Aren't you trying to occupy God by leaping upwards to become the object of my love? Is it true, or not? Satellites should be launched towards a destination, shouldn't they? It is the same idea. Satellites are symbolic of today's believers trying to jump up towards the Kingdom of Heaven, crossing thousands and tens of thousands of miles.”

"In the spirit world, people live not just for themselves, but for the whole.  A person who lives for others 100 percent says, ‘Walk over me and go on.”

Even though America is big, if there is someone who lives more for the nation than he, everyone will welcome him even if he steps on the president to do so.  But if someone only lives for themselves, everyone becomes his enemy.

It is the same in the spirit world. If someone lives for a greater cause, he can pass along freely

To go beyond the family level, it is to follow the way of true love by living for other people.

If you are fifty years old and lived for the sake of the salvation of the universe and heaven’s principle for over twenty-five years, you can go to heaven.  You will live in the better part of the spirit world.

But the ones who lived their whole lives centered on their own ideas and own thinking go to the original homeland of evil called hell.

By knowing these facts, you can liquidate your own sinful, fallen past way of living for your own being.

If you make effort to live the rest of your life to live for the sake of others, nation, the world, heaven and earth and God, this follows the path to the ideal world of heaven.

Even when Jesus was about to die, he did not protest but told God as He willed even though Jesus asked for the cup to pass from him.  Jesus was ready without question to offer himself as a complete sacrifice for God’s will.
This attitude brought Jesus closest to God because it enabled him to go deeper.

The one who strikes such a person will be instantly destroyed.  God would personally inflict punishment upon that person.

The person who lives self-centered life can never occupy heaven - he will be in hell.  Even if he was a great minister he will find out how such a life leads to death when he gets to spirit world.

The Unification Church tries to save its enemies and even the communists, but the communists try to torture members.

So, what kind of love should have dominion over the world.  You should not become strong by becoming an evil person.  But, if we become strong based on love that lives for other people, it will be enough to save the world.

Heaven is where you live a life of giving. 

Even God has to give and parents give to their children.

A parent’s mind is such that they want to give and give again when you have something good.

“If I can give one thousand things and forget that I gave, in front of God who gives a hundred things and forgets, God will surely become my partner. Do you know this?”

If a person tries to live for goodness more than God would such a person go to hell or heaven?  He would be in the position to sit with God at the supper table and share meals of love with Him.

“I have experienced the reality of the spirit world more than anyone else.”

Heaven is our original homeland.  The spirit world is a major special field of study.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

Heaven is a World of Pure Love

Heaven is the world of living for the sake of God

“If I say that heaven is empty, people will think I am demented. But Jesus could not enter heaven. You cannot go there alone. Our original ancestors should have grown through adolescence, established the ideal of love in which God dwelt, become parents and bequeathed the seeds of true love.

“Then the first place they would have entered would have been heaven. But up until now, there have been no parents embodying God's love, who were able to leave the seeds of true love.”

Adam and Eve did not leave such a glorious foundation to have such descendants.  Thus, heaven is empty.
“I have been going this way, enduring persecution for forty years, because I too am greedy to grasp the line of love that leads to the global heaven.

"This was so I could grasp the line of love beyond the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world. Then, with this in my grasp where will I go?

“After finding the love line of the world, we must go back to our hometown because we have received many blessings and succeeded in life. Shouldn't we go to our hometown and save the unfortunate people there?”


The way to heaven is opened by loving your brothers as God does. You are trying to follow me, but while keeping such a heart you should strive to reach out and bring your brothers with you.

We can conclude that the one who teaches the highest, quickest and best way to go to heaven is neither God nor me, but your brothers.

People of faith scream out about going to heaven, but can people just automatically go to heaven without encountering it first on earth?

In order to enter heaven on earth, you have to go through the law of love.

A family that has many children can restore many sins and the greater the additional cross of loving God’s Kingdom.

A family has many children because they have many responsibilities for the sake of the kingdom.  Children will be born in this family who can inherit good fortune in the generation to come.
What kind of person can enter heaven?

The person who can enter heaven is the one who is one with God’s mind.  They should center on God to the point when God works on His will that person should be in harmony with God’s mind for eternity.

This harmony should not last for just ten years, but eternally align to the eternal God.

How can we find unity with God and be like God?  In order to be His son, you should not appear to be a sad person.  Heaven is established from removing the satanic lifestyle and denying everything that is related to his will and thinking.  Futhermore, we should eliminate him.

To enter heaven, a person must not sin, must receive God's love directly.

A person who can unite completely with God and eliminates Satan, does not need a savior because they will be directly linked to God.

Only when a person such as this goes to heaven can a peaceful world be established.

The future descendants will unite this world and all heaven.  God, the first one, and these descendants are connected by the family.  Not the nation or individual.

When you go to heaven, no one will recognize you because you are an American and you will not be rejected for being from a poor nation. Only the family that can exhibit a true family will be acknowledged. This is the formula.

The warehouse where the fruits of such true families are stored is heaven.

You must practice a life of attendance before attending God.

Those who wholeheartedly attend God while on earth go to heaven.  This is our destiny to follow the course that advances toward the world of heavenly purpose.

You cannot enter heaven without being joined in heart. 

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Heaven is the original nation, the which can have dominion over the whole of humanity.

This nation had the original godly nature, not the fallen nature of today.  

Only people who have a deep bond of heart can posses such a nation.  Christianity deals with heart.  God is creating a foundation where we share our heart beyond our personal circumstances and live for others.

What kind of place is heaven?

Is heaven for those who just want to seek blessings?  No, it is for those who prepared themselves attending God with their whole heart while on earth.  They leave their life of attendance as their legacy and continue to push forward even if they were to die in the process.

It is where you can take pride in what you prepared during your life on earth, and where you take pride in your life of attendance?

We should think seriously about the importance of how we should live from now on in this life of attendance.
Dr. Lee Sang-hun talks about the reality of the spirit world.  He saw heaven and said it is bright wherever you go.

Heaven is where God's light of love shines into all  corners of the universe, and all creation within its bosom. 

If we are liberated from Satan’s hold and let go of all their resentments, we should shout out for liberation!
To enter heaven, you must be united with God and the Messiah of the Second Coming’s true love.

Now that the True Parents have emerged and restored the fallen act of the first parents on earth, those related to children who are born from God’s lineage can go to heaven.

Up until this era, no one has been able to live such a life and go to spirit world.  Therefore, heaven is empty.

Even one who goes to church service for a hundred years, but they have a self-centered mind, they can never enter heaven or salvation.  A person who centers everything on him or herself has no value.

What kind of person is a true person?

Only the one who invests all of themselves including is own life for the sake of other people can live continuously in the realm of God’s love.

The great people of history and saints lived in this way.   This is the way we were all meant to live.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

What Kind of Place is Heaven?

What kind of place is Heaven?

It is a place where God’s love dwells at the core.  It is the realm where the environment of God’s love is established.

The kind of person that lives here is one who can harmonize with His love.

Since heaven is the world where we live for the sake of other people, you have to go based on this concept.

If you only want to be served, you will be destroyed. 

Heaven is filled with God’s love.

Heaven is different from the secular world.  We are taught by religion to live for the sake of others, be obedient to sacrifice and serve.  The secular world does not have such teachings.

This was God’s secret strategy against Satan so people could receive a good fortune, even though they are unaware of the heavenly law.

You go to heaven on the tracks of love. 

Love is not like elastic, so when it is pulled, it will not be thinned.

The more the line of love is pulled, the thicker it becomes.  Therefore, when one becomes the king of suffering for the sake of God’s will, this is a secret weapon to occupy the world.

What kind of world is heaven?

It is not a world where people treat each other with animosity, jealousy or turn green over another’s fortune or happiness.



One person's success represents the success of the whole.


A person’s joy is not for himself only, but can be shared by the whole.

Heaven is such a place where people can be pleased over other’s happiness and everyone can join in and rejoices in other’s rejoices.

In heaven, you smell through the air of love.  There is no place in heaven that does not throb with life.
   
Since people in heaven would be from God’s pure lineage, when God is sad, then the entire spirit world living as a cell would feel sad.  Also, when God feels joy, everyone would feel the same.

This is how God’s love moves throughout the Kingdom of Heaven.  The world responds to this love and becomes artistically beautiful through the relationship between the elements of creation which are all connected by lineage.

If God is happy, you are happy; if God is sad, you are sad. 

Will we struggle in heaven?

Wouldn’t that world be boring?  What would we do there?  When you eat, you should do so feeling love.

 You should wear clothes feeling love -live feeling love and travel embodying God’s essential love.

If we do not live in this way daily feeling God’s love, there will be no harmony.

A person who lives in this way where they occupy God’s essential love, they will occupy a high place in spirit world.

Why does God exist?

He came into being and lives through true love.  For this reason, we were born and live because of true love.

True love expressed through human beings is the blossoming of absolute value. 

God and human beings do not have a reason to complain when we live in this way.

Human beings are the flower of the universe; with true love as the center, both sides become one.

The right and left sides will both scream out in joy with their hands in the air. Everyone unites and releases a fragrance.

While we are on earth, we train to attend God.  We should attune with other peoples’ minds.

Siblings with the same mind live together in the spirit world. If  you aren't trained to live like that in this world, there will be a collision in the next world.

God is absolute; there is no forgiveness if you deviate from the Principle.

You should be in accord with peoples’ minds and harmonize with them.

When one perfects his character, he makes friends wherever he goes and can be at hoe anywhere including God’s throne.

How do you go to heaven?

You have to be crazy for God’s love. You have to love God more than Adam and Eve, love Jesus more than Peter.

If you are not able to reach this level of loving, then the realm where God can love cannot be restore.


Do not worry that you have no money. Do not worry that you have no children. If you continuously follow this path for ten or twenty years, you will be able to scale very high and steep mountains.

You may feel when you walk this religious path that you only go through hardships and gradually decline, but actually, you are moving higher and higher.

By being persecuted, the church becomes bigger.

One in the family who is being constantly persecuted for the common good, can become the master of that family.  In other words, he becomes an owner in the Kingdom of Heaven.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

A True Family is the Kingdom of Heaven

The beginning point of Kingdom of Heaven is not based on an individual or nation, but a family. 

Jesus knew this and sought to work through the relationship of a bride and a groom on earth.  

Is the starting point through an individual?  

No, it is a family.  The family is the basic foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Once you visit the Kingdom of Heaven where there is only unity, you will never want to return back.  

You will never tire of dwelling there with God’s beloved.

If all of humankind wanted to live and meet there, then the world will unify quickly.

This does not happen all at once.  

First, an individual must unite his warring mind and body or flesh and extended this through the family, national and worldwide levels. 

Your family represents the sovereignty of heaven:

Parents represent sovereignty, children represent the nation and your possessions represent the land.  To be dutiful toward your parents means to be loyal to the nation and to practice being saints.  This was the original ideal world.

Instead, we have fallen families that are the origin of disgraceful behavior.  God truly believes that the family can be the sacred site to turn all of history around.

Our mission is to guide all corrupted families in the fallen world toward the heavenly path.  We do not have the right to turn away from them.

These three, parents, children and belongings are necessary components defining the boundary of a family.

A husband’s duty is to relate to the church, and his wife should tend to the material.

Then the family members should become completely one.  This is where the Kingdom of Heaven starts at this point.

Heaven is only established if a couple becomes one centering upon God’s love.

This union can never be dissolved and it will never split.

What kind of love are you centered upon?  

If you found God’s love, your mind and body are completely one so He can dwell completely in you.

The Kingdom of Heaven is realized through a family where a father and mother are completely one through God’s love and the children love them.

“As Father did when he started the Unification Church, you must take sincere care of your friends when they visit your house. You have to make them say, "Your house is better than mine. This meal is more delicious than at my house. Can I stay here one more night?" 

“When you make your house a place where every guest or friend wants to come and live, even abandoning their own families, you have the Kingdom of Heaven of a family.”

We don't need so many people in the church. The Kingdom of Heaven starts not from the church but from a family -- namely, from a bridegroom and a bride. 

The woman was born to see a man and a man born to see a woman.

The first person on earth a baby sees when he or she is born is ‘mommy’.  A couple should treat each other in a way that the husband calls the wife the same way the baby calls their mother and vice versa.

A couple that lives in this way will not envy young couples when they get older.

The whole family should participate in worship service and learn from exemplary families and guide the families that are in a bad situation.  This way, we establish the kingdom of Heaven of the family.

The Kingdom of Heaven on earth cannot be established without the Kingdom of Heaven of the family.

Do not forget the dignity you have as a family member.

Heaven begins from the family and nowhere else.  You must think that whenever you embrace your spouse, it is in order for the men and women of the world to become one.

The family is the place where you can set the condition to love the whole of humankind.

Reach the status where you can even feel God’s mind, heart and appearance and His suffering as your own mind, heart, appearance and suffering.

This should be accomplished here on earth.

“Now Heavenly Father feels that I should teach the norm for life in the Kingdom of Heaven. People in the restoration course should learn from those who are expert in the Principle. 

“Father cannot be responsible directly for those problems. That age already has passed. The organization of the Unification Church is the organization of a family. The Unification Church is centered upon a family, not upon an individual, which has been the center so far.”

Where is the Kingdom of Heaven? 

It is not in the sky. 

It is the place where the father, mother and children experience 100% joy when they use all things for life and for ideal situations.

What does God’s ideal world look like?

It is a place where Heaven on earth is founded upon the True Parents who have reversed the fall of the first false parents.

The Kingdom of Heaven is established only through the foundation of love. 

There is no trace of such love in the fallen world or spirit world.

No one has received the love of true parents on earth and spirit world until the Second Coming of the Messiah to make a way.

In God’s original world, man’s love, woman’s love, son’s love, daughter’s love, parents’ love and God’s love were part of the original family.

When one loves parents, spouse and children in such a harmonized place leads a life of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

You are qualified to go to Heaven when you respect your spousal love and parental love.  We can create a unified house of love.

Grandparents hand love down to the parents, the parents hand down love to a husband and a wife.  The couple hands down love to children.

To deny any of these denies the establishment of Heaven.

The world is afraid of the Unification Church and owes the families that were blessed in marriages more than the Principle.  

The Messiah and the blessed families become one in love centering upon God's love. 

The Messiah, the blessed couples, and the blessed children: these three generations are connected to be one in love on earth. 

The Unification Church is the place where three generations can be linked.  When three generations live together in happiness, the ideal of creation is realized. 

Husband and wife should love one another and pray for their children with love and take sincere care of them.  This will create a harmonious family and perfect love is established.

Cousins and second cousins should become one in love and form the perfect shape of love.

The Unification Church regards the tribe as the start of the Kingdom of Heaven.

When parents, brothers, cousins and second cousins become one centering upon the grandfather, a perfect three generations are established. 

A wife must serve her grandparents-in-law and parents-in-law in place of God and her husband.  

She must also harmonize with the sisters-in-law and brother-in-laws.  When this kind of relationship expands to the society, nation an world, this becomes a world of peace and love - not crime and war.

The Kingdom of Heaven of a family is established when a man and a woman are completely one.

Husband, wife and children should center upon God’s Will for the sake of humankind.

We work for the sake of humankind’s salvation, not only for God.  God’s dreams is to find a family that has such a standard.  If we do not have such a heavenly family on earth, then God cannot save all of humankind nation and families.

Such families were raised by the Messiah of the Second Coming that center on God.  These blessed families should strive to lead a life that is connected to God’s nation.

The heavenly nation and world is established from their existence and when we work for others.  The family is responsible for organizing the world centered upon God.

The members of the Unification Church centered upon the Messiah’s word which is like a tribe and a nation following God.

The Unification Church’s role is to form a nation for God that is composed of five races that is united and can work for the sake of the whole world.

The purpose of the Messiah returning is God wants to accomplish this through his bringing God’s new truth to the earth testified in the Book of Revelations in the Bible.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Blessing and Ideal Family Part 2 written by Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Open the Door to People's Hearts

Buddha was in a mystic state when he said, "In heaven and on earth, alone I am the honored one."

It takes an integrated mind and become a perfect object partner to God cay say the same.  They feel that they hold onto the world so tight that they might melt in their fist.

Miracles happen automatically in this state.

We must cultivate the field of our heart in line with the door of our heart.

We must discover God, our subject as we steer the direction of our heart.  If we want to start to connect to God, we must focus our mind.

When we illuminate our minds, we will be able to follow the right direction.  For instance, when you pray, you may be facing east, but once you enter a mystic state, your orientation changes.  the mind has a door.

There are times when it is easy to pray and other times we do not feel like praying.

Even though we make absolutions and devotions, it is still difficult to pray.

Our attitude toward prayer varies depending on the location and direction of the room because North, South, East and West exist based on a central point.

There are places in the mountains one can pray well.  There are also places where satans gather.  These are the shady spots.  The sunny spots and spiritually formed in this way.

When we get revelations, dreams and visions from spirit world, we must apply them to our lives and not ignore them.

Such phenomena further develop the relationship between God and humankind.

To reach a certain state, you must make an effort to open the doors to your heart.

Once you have cultivated your heart, then you must apply this to the relational world.

The meaning of "Opening the Gate of Heaven"

Even though Adam and Eve erred in the Garden of Eden, God took full responsibility.

The Messiah’s responsibility is to inherit the responsibility from God to open the gate of heaven.

Through the Fall bringing sin on the earth, the gates to heaven were closed on every level.  Therefore, the Messiah must open the gateway for the race, nations and the world through true families.

“God's strategy is to prepare small things for the sake of recovering bigger things. From the individual through the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmos and even to the afterlife, they have been blocked by heaven and hell.”

Reverend Sun Myung Moon 


If Adam and Eve had followed God’s word and become true parents, then the world would have become one based on the foundation of their good family.  Cain and Abel would have been true brothers and Cain would not have murdered Abel.

After the Fall, false parents emerged and blocked hell.

Thus, True Parents must come to reverse the first parent’s act and break down this historic wall of bitter grief.

Humankind are living in hell on earth, the spirits suffer in hell in the spirit world.

The gate of hell on earth and in the spirit world must be opened to liberate humankind.  First, the pathway must be connected from the individual level to the nation and world on earth, then the connection leads from earth to the spirit world.

Since we have a internal struggle with our godly mind and our fallen body or flesh, we should make the mind and body unite into one.

Centered on this oneness, there will not be any barriers to block your path as you pass from the family level to the tribal level and transcend the race, nation and world to the spirit world.

Everything must be broken down.

It is impossible to enter heaven without opening the gates of hell on earth and spirit world. 

Only those who overcome hell can go to heaven.

You can only enter heaven, not through prayer, but through God’s love.  This is done through opening the gates of hell while on earth by centering on God’s love.

Jesus was given the authority as the prince of heaven and God’s only begotten son because he could love the satanic world and also the spirit world.

Spirit world is entirely blocked by walls.  These barriers must be taken down through having a higher standard that comes from God’s heart.

Just as the physical communist wall in Russia came tumbling down, all the walls from the high throne of heaven downward must be broken down.

Starting with the walls built from our ancestor’s sins ten thousand years ago and those who passed a few years ago must be broken down.

Otherwise, the gates of heaven cannot be opened.

The origin of the "Opening of the Gates of Heaven"

“I greatly appreciate Mother. She had many very deep experiences of the heart during my time in Danbury. Being a mere child when she met me, she has had to lead a life that was to reach the line parallel to mine. Having lived that way, her standard has gradually risen.

“Before, she probably did not experience the deep valleys of the heart. After being separated from me because of Danbury, she was able to realize the precious value of the True Father and understood how lonely it could be for a woman without her husband.

“As a result, on February 1, we conducted a ceremony to open the gates of heaven and hell. Now they cannot be closed. Through the True Parents standing at opposite poles, a solution can emerge from the place where the two poles connect.”

With God's heart, you have to act so that the force of love can be connected. 

Are you going to be leaders that need saving or are you going to stand on the vertical line of history?
Everyone must go this way in accordance to the principle law of restoring our fallen selves through atonement because we are born in sin.

Are you going to become audacious leaders who will have to stand before God in need of salvation or are you going to go along this vertical line?

The path to the heavenly palace is where man and woman meet as one and follow the path.

As the True Parents have been established on the earth centered on God to reverse the fallen acts of the first parents, Reverend Moon speaks further about the process of opening the pathway of heaven and hell.

“All my life I have loved the enemy -- on the stages of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world, and all the way to the cosmos. Why did I enter Danbury prison?

“It was because of the walls that had blocked the spiritual and physical worlds. In order to resolve what was disrupted due to the fallen parents had to pave a way in the spirit world and in hell.”

Whoever makes effort on this foundation can rise up to the heavenly world.

Also, if there are good spirits among your relatives in the spirit world, they will come to you, educate you and even take you with them to the heavenly world.

Also, the good spirits in the other world can educate the evil spirits in hell. While the good ancestors play the role of the Savior, a way has been opened allowing them to develop and ascend to the heavenly world.
Gradually, through this process, God plans to liberate all His children even the lowest in hell.


True Parents and the gates of Heaven

Our mission is different from past religious organization who only seek individual salvation.
We seek the God’s original idea without any trace of sin or the Fall.

In this ideal world, people perfect their heart, marry centered on God’s love and give birth to godly children and automatically go to heaven upon death.

What kind of heaven is it where the father and children go to hell and the mother goes to heaven?
Heaven is a Kingdom which everyone enters: parents, children, tribes, races and nations.

God does not open the closed gates to heaven by Himself, or He would have done this right after the Fall.  Instead, He kicked humanity out of the Garden which represented Heaven on Earth.

Humanity created sin, therefore, humans must receive punishment.  All of the thousands of years of Fallen history must be recovered.

If humanity followed God’s word absolutely, then we would enter heaven through connecting to God’s love and unfallen Adam and Eve or True Parents’ love.

Instead, the road to heaven has been deferred throughout history where nobody attain that bond.
The highest level in spirit world one can go is paradise.  Majority of humanity entered hell.  First ones to enter heaven will be the True Parents.

“If I were to say that heaven is empty, people would think I am demented, yet even Jesus could not enter heaven(he entered paradise). One cannot go there alone, (but as a family).

“Our original ancestors should have grown through adolescence, established the ideal of love centered on God, become parents and bequeathed the seeds of true love. Then, the first place they entered would have been heaven.

“As yet, there have been no parents centered on God's love who were able to bequeath the seeds of true love and thus no foundation of leaving behind such descendants. Heaven, thus, is empty.”

If we want to go to heaven, we must pass through and conquer hell. 

Those who conquer all the levels of hell while on earth go to heaven.

God chooses one representative man and one representative woman from the billions of men and women in the world to reverse the act of the first man and woman.

They will be the fruit of the love of humanity.

“You should be resolved to loving that entity which is the fruit of the love of two billion people more than the father and mother who gave birth to you. Then you become someone who can love the four billion people more than your father and mother.

“At that point, you will have nothing to do with Satan because you will be totally one with the realm of God's love. You will then be in the position of loving humanity in oneness with God.”

These representatives will be called the True Father and True Mother.

When you have the heart to love all of humankind, then the gates of hell in spirit world and on earth will be open creating a highway to heaven.

But, you will have to pay for the gasoline to get there.

Angels were supposed to lead the way to heaven, but they rebelled against God.
When you follow this path while loving True Parents and loving humankind more, there will be no roadblocks or no alleys.

We are going along the mainstream of heart, which directly connects to the highway. 

Therefore, we can go directly from earth to heaven.

We are entering the era of the realm of heart that loves the parents that have fought against the satanic world.
If you make mistakes in front of the True Parents, you must go this way again.

“Throughout my life, as a parent, I have taken responsibility to prepare the way for my children to go. If you stand in the place where you love humanity with the same heart as you love the True Parents, you will become one with the True Parents and stand in the same line horizontally with True Parents.

“If you do this, Satan cannot influence you, because the realm of fallen heart will be below you. You can connect to heaven directly. To commence this work, I declared the Day of the Opening of the Gate of Heaven.”

Our attitude to the "Opening of the Gate of Heaven"

The straight highway to heaven was prepared and passed on to you.

You inherited the power of heaven.  You must then plant God’s love within your mind and body and come one with True Parents’ ideal and then Satan cannot separate you from God.

“Together with me(as the Messiah), you who represent the world have been restoring Cain's sons and daughters. If you too have the heart to love the world more than the True Parents, nothing evil can block your way to God's Kingdom, whether on earth or in heaven.”

Beginning from the level on earth, you go beyond the world and the spirit world and go directly to heaven, or if you cannot go this straight heavenly way, you will go through many high mountains and blocks.

“Knowing this, I dedicated my life up to now to prepare the way. Since I gave you the privilege today to attend the Day of the Opening of the Gate of Heaven, please become the victors who can pass through safely and attain that realm of heart without fail.”

The path to heaven through fulfilling one's portion of responsibility.
You must know where you are on this path?  Satan and God divide you between them based on how you have fulfilled your responsibility.

Those who take care of their responsibility while on earth belong to God; those who do not, Satan will claim them as his.

When you get to the gates of heaven, the gatekeeper will ask you whether you did your portion of responsibility.

When you go this path, you can’t worry about money or the trivial things of the secular world.  You must long for God’s love and do your responsibility.

No one in the fallen world could enter heaven until the Second Coming where the Messiah opens the way; humanity could only reach paradise.

He has to restore the time of Adam and Eve.



Heaven and hell are our options



We should not complain on this journey of our life of faith.
What is there to which to complain?

We should joyfully go on this road of restoring God’s world even when we are shedding tears.
You are to go laughing while shedding tears.

If you are not able to do so, the Messiah and God cannot help you.  You choose whether you go to heaven or hell, God or Satan does not ultimately send you to either one.
The decision is yours.

Complaint is hell, going with gratitude even when there is something to complain about is heaven.
Heaven was never intended to be taught, it is the automatic destination of people of true  conscience.

The buds, grass and trees face the sun when it rises.  How much more are the people of the Lord’s creation able know to go in the right direction?

Return for Tomorrow’s Post: A True Family is the Kingdom of HEaven

This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook “Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter Four, Section 4”

Spring Break!

Taking a much needed break to catch up on the posts that seem to slip away so quickly.
I started a night job and rest during the day, so please catch up on the other 500 posts until April 21.  You can still check out our tweets at twitter.com/wordsofreturned.  Until then, peace in  your family means peace on the earth.

Denise Rochelle

The Family is Road to World Peace or Destruction

The family sets the cornerstone on the road to world

peace. The family also can destroy that road. The

family of true love becomes the foundation for creating

a society, nation, and world centered on true love.

―Sun Myung Moon

It is not too much to say that the future of human society lies in the quality of the love relationships experienced in the family.

It is true that how one is raised in the family will carry over not only into their relations in society, but also how they will treat their own family.

Therefore, the family has been referred to as the school of love – a school for how one will relate to others in their lifetime.

Everyone born into sin had imperfect parents who could not love them enough beyond their own preoccupations. This causes a lot of resentments from how one was raised leaving mental and emotional scars.

The relationships children encounter in the family are 'internal working models' for how they will interact in all subsequent relationships.

Beliefs, values and habitual patterns learned through the family have staying power throughout one's lifetime extrapolating into all social relationships which impact the community, the nation and the world.

Good relationships are the cornerstone of a peacefully running society.

The future of human society lies in the quality of love relationships experienced in the family.

When Barbara Bush was the First Lady, she addressed college graduates at Wellesley and emphasized the importance of relationships, especially family ones.

She said that more important than what goes on in the White House, is what goes on in their own houses. This point makes a deal of sense when we look closely at how the way people are in their family do impact the larger culture.

One direct example is how a writer in Hollywood may have not had good relationships with their parents or only lived in a one-parent home write movies about these struggles that influence a generation of children who watch their movie or television shows.

There is a high-trend in Hollywood of broken home families. Basically, a writer can only draw from their own home life and reality.

Family Breakdown

Family is important to the stability and peace within the social environment. When we look further at the effects of the family breakdown we see that the family of a father and mother and their biological children has been a resilient baseline for the children's success

Reverend Moon says, “Juvenile problems bring on public confusion. What is the cause of these problems? It almost always has to do with emotional issues that result from not having sound parents and brothers and sisters, and from unsound man-woman relationships.

“Considering this fact, where do we look for the clue to correct these destructive problems? It is in the family.”

Linda J. Waite, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, and Maggie Gallagher, with the Institute of

American Values, say in their book, The Case for Marriage: “On average, children of married parents are physically and mentally healthier, better educated, and later in life, enjoy more career success than children in other family settings.”

Children living with one parent or in stepfamilies are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than are children living in two-parent families.

Single-parent homes and homes of blended families may have children with aggression, alcohol and drug use, delinquent behaviors and low self-esteem, and suicidal thoughts.

Children who are not raised in a stable two-parent home have a higher level of behavioral problems and score lower on test scores.

Another study said, “Compared with peers in continuously married families, students who were in the disruption process scored lower in all four academic tests and in educational aspiration.”

Children who are in single-parent homes are among the poorest in all major demographic groups. Experts have described women and their children after divorce a “plunge into poverty.”

In societies as diverse as England and China, the same conclusions are reached: the family as a social institution is irreplaceable.

Family Breakdown and Crime

The break down in family affects the crime rates.

There has been a link between non-stable homes and social pathology found worldwide. Homes where the father was absent found that more of the boys grew up to be violent.

Sociologist David Courtwright argues that when men and boys embrace the norm of stable family life, violence and disorder decline, as evidenced by the sustained reduction in violent death rates during the mid-twentieth century marriage boom.

Other studies have shown that crime rates in general are directly related to the numbers of divorced people, single parents and single people in communities.

Domestic violence and abuse was more prevalent among couples who lived together nines times greater than homes where the couples were married.

Children were more likely to be sexually abused by their mother's boyfriend than their biological father who lived in the home.

Family life helps channel male aggressiveness into the constructive pursuits of creating, raising, protecting and supporting loved ones.

Males that are born and raised by parents who are married are less violent and susceptible to crime.

Children raised in stable homes form families of their own and become good citizens of society. They become husbands and fathers who restrain their aggressive impulses toward other males and learn how to cooperate on the job and form healthier habits which lead to a more peaceful and satisfying life.

Family Dysfunction

Social sciences once saw the family as unit to be flawed when studies showed that even in 'intact' families they showed problems that spread to the society level.

They believed that the family institution should be done away with all together. This is understandable wwhen we look at the evidence.

The fatal flaw of misdirected love that began in the first love relationship of the first human family has plagued the family, society, and the world ever since.

The family as an institution is superbly designed and works to benefit all involved which there is no other form of living capable of providing of giving.

Family dysfunction, even without divorce, is a serious detriment to peace.

The scars that children carry into adulthood from experiences from their parents takes a toll in life.

Old wounds that do not heal can perpetuate and multiply the offenses as people re-enact their childhood traumas by visiting these demons onto others possibly to their own children. This is a difficult cycle to break.

When these abused children rise to power positions over many others, they come to menace a whole hosts of people.

Alice Miller of The Natural Child Project did a detailed study of the brutal beatings Adolf Hitler received as a child at the hands of his father.

His father's beatings were regularly bloody leaving Hitler's psychological anguished and humiliated. This meshed with the agony and humiliation that the German people felt after World War I, solutions to their problems through violence was inevitable.

Miller adds that, “Countless human beings have already been killed in wars whose instigators didn’t want to realize they were carrying dynamite which they were constantly trying to get rid of at the expense of other people in order to take revenge for old, highly personal wounds.”

How the Four Realms of Heart in the Family Affect Society

Reverend Moon has observed:

When people who experience their grandparents’ deep love in their family come out into society—for example, the streets of New York—they will feel very warm toward the elderly people there, and the elderly people will treat them as their grandchildren.

“Feeling close to each other, they will communicate with each other using any method. Young people who have served their grandparents will help old people right away whenever they are in need of aid. When children who have received love from their parents go outside and meet people their parents’ age, they will feel very close and will try to talk with them and help them.

“When people who have a beautiful relationship with their brothers and sisters in their family go into society, they will easily get along with people and have close relationships with their neighbors.

“They will feel natural even in relating with the opposite sex, regarding them as brothers and sisterswithout any sexual desire or unsound ideas. The Kingdom of Heaven is built of families where you are able to experience

such loving relationships, centered upon God.

“The love between children and their parents sets the pattern for vertical or hierarchical relationships. In society, this would be any relationship where a person is in a subordinate position to someone in a position of greater authority.

A person’s willingness to receive and follow instructions, to obey with good will, to receive guidance from and support legitimate authority are first learned in the child’s relationship with his or her parents.

Social Relations as Extensions of Family Relations

Patriotism Grounded in Filial Piety

A child who has a positive relationship with their parents are more able to know the virtue of respect and support for rules, and the authority figures that uphold the laws and social institutions.

When a child is well-loved in the home, they are able to trust and be confident in authority figures. They know that such a submission will benefit them and will not detract from them as they know they will be deeply loved.

The justice and benevolence of authority is assumed, based on the justice and benevolence of authority exercised in the family.

Therefore, good parenting extrapolates into a positive introduction for one being a citizen of their community and nation.

Those who protect and shelter children, this transfers into the larger sphere of the nation.

The child who is well-loved responds to the nation's or his or her parent's call to take on more responsibility out of love for the whole.

A child's whose heart is well-nourished is more willing to be obedient and submit to our loving Parent, God.

Such people voluntarily serve the nation with love to the degree which they served and loved their parents when they were children.

Children form concepts of God from how their parents treated them.

People can see God as a personality of wrath or even creulty and may even be hated if their own parents displayed such a personality.

Children are more able to view God as a merciful being full of grace and support if their parents displayed these qualities.

The child’s ability to trust God and others in authority stems from how much the parent’s love reflects the love of God.

A child who received a balance of parental love grows up to love and serve God, yet challenges the person to an even greater spiritual growth.

Such a person learns to have true love for others from serving God who is unconditionally forgiving and supportive.

Such people are the normal backbone of society and are willingly giving of themselves to God's will and ways. They seek to make this world for Him a pleasurable place to dwell.

A World of Brothers and Sisters

The relationship siblings have in the home are the basis for all the relationships one encounters in society between peers.

Once a person fulfills this level of sibling's realm of heart they are a good friend, co-work, neighbor, and a person that is good to do business with. The person who is well-schooled by this realm of heart through relationships in the family, they are better prepared to cope.

China has the long-standing one-child policy where majority of the children grow up without siblings. This is the so-called 'little emperor syndrome' where the child becomes the center of the family's attention and is the sole recipient of their love and resources.

The children feel very special, but the Chinese have noticed an unhealthy side effect – spoiled children who are demanding like little rulers of their family home.

The good effects of having brothers and sisters is one learns how to share the family's resources, time, attention, transportation, etc.

Learning to share equally is one of the most important aspects of the sibling’s realm of heart, and it has tremendous social and political implications.

Learning how to share between siblings early in life trains them lays a foundation for fairness and equality in society.

The Declaration of Independence refers to how men and women should treat each other based on their common parentage of God.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Human rights are derived from common origins in the love of God, the Parent of all.

In other words, if humanity was to live by those words when they were written, we could have possibly lived in a heaven on earth ideal world by now.

Since we are all created by the same Parent, then all men and women are actually siblings in this human family. Therefore, there are equal claims that everyone be treated fairly.

Those who affirm God as their Parent, feel this sense of kinship with others and refuse to hurt or opress their brethren because they feel brotherly love for them and out of respect for the Father.

This is what it means to be a true citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, "Educating for True Love", written by a team of writers to explain Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy on love and marriage.