How to Strengthen the Power of the Mind

When the sinful body is led by the godly mind, true love comes into being.

The essence of strengthening the mind is to toughen your moral will. What if everyone in the world lived by God's moral code. We would immediately see peace in the world. All conflicts would be resolved through God's point of view.

We must start with the basics. To strengthen the mind, it must be built up daily like a muscle through daily habits.

Through the small choices to do the right thing everyday, despite any fear, distress or fatigue, we can make our godly mind stronger than our flesh. Therefore, to strengthen this mind, we need challenges which allows us to encounter adversity and develop inner strength and will.

Here are five ways to harvest these skills:

1. Determining and realizing your goals

The most basic way to strengthen your will is to make a determination to God and yourself and achieve your goals.

For example, this could be talking to a relative that you know is distressed over a situation instead of enjoying a book. Or choosing a career that serves humanity such as social work.

To challenge yourself more, you can set goals that rely only on your spiritual power, deep prayers, studying the truth, and your acts of true love.

“Twelve years ago when I first came to Mountainview High,” recalls a physics teacher in a rural school

in the American Midwest, “I swore that I would bring the white and Native American students and faculty together in a tangible way. I prayed about it every day, stuck my neck out more than a few times, got misunderstood a lot and once almost lost my job. But now in the faculty there are cross-cultural friendships developing and this year the president of the student council is a Native American boy.”

To make promises to God and fulfill them is significant to reverse humanity's betrayal of the Creator.

This is the most powerful way to get divine support, also through building your self-respect and faith in yourself.

Heaven and other people notice the one who can always be counted on to fulfill their promises and carry out their responsibilities.

2. True Love as a Motivator

To have motivation will give you the power to go beyond any discomfort when it depends upon meaningful purposes that make the sacrifices you encounter worthwhile.

The strongest motivator is true love.

Love is the key to unification of mind and body.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

This kind of love is familiar to parents.

A father son team was the first team ever to finish the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in 1999. Dick Hoyt, was 62 and still raced every Boston Marathon for over 20 years while pushing his paralyzed adult son, Rick in his wheelchair.

His son excitedly declared that, “It was as if I wasn't even handicapped!” This was enough motivation for his father to challenge his every physical limitation and give his son such an awesome experience year after year.

The power of love is behind the heroic sacrifices of religious and national lore.

Many of the first Pilgrim settlers to North America starved to death instead of eating their grain that was later to be planted. They endured such hardships out of love for the next generation and the hope to build a community that could worship freely unlike their previous community.

Christians recount how St. Peter faced a painful execution upside-down on the cross gratefully out of love for God and his Savior Jesus Christ.

Whether if such acts are done on legendary proportions or just a small act of unselfishness found daily, true love is the strongest means to subdue your fallen body.

3. Acting on Faith

We can mobilize a tremendous power of self-control when we can sustain a great vision of the future despite any obstacles we face right now.

Debi Faris is a woman who is familiar with heeding the call of her heart and conscience in faith. As a wife and mother of three teenagers, she heard this call when she heard news of an abandoned baby found dead. She arranged to give the child a proper burial, and soon, one child led to three.

Her middle-class family committed to ultimately $27, 000 in expenses despite other pressing expenses her family had. She recalls, “I remember praying, “i don't think I can do this, God. I don't think I have the courage.

“I stayed quiet for a while until I sensed that what we were doing was right. It was an act of love, and at that moment I made a commitment to offer it to any child who needed it.”

She has since raised funds and organized volunteers to found a cemetery for abandoned babies called, “Garden of Angels. She fights for legislation to help prevent further tragedies.

Such people who believe in their own gifts or that truth and goodness will ultimately win, those who cultivate the power of faith and hope and demonstrate “sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not curently see” (Hebrew 11.1) have a priceless advantage that enables them to harvest their strongest resources to unite mind and body.

4. Service

Serving others physically such as massaging an elderly person's back, preparing food for homeless shelters, picking up bags of trash for the community, these practices are especially helpful for training our moral will through demonstrating humility.

A man and his comrades of a service club recalls how they were ready to do whatever work was necessary for his community without any fanfare.

“The staff at the rehab center were surprised to see middle-aged men willing to just set up the party, serve the boys soda and food and take down and mop up afterwards. And it didn’t do this CEO big shot any harm either to do grunt work for a bunch of not-too-grateful teenagers. I think I learned a few things.”

5. Connection with God

Ultimately all of these methods used to strengthen the moral fiber support the greatest remedy for the mind and sinful body to unite: only through the connection to the divine Source.

The first necessary step is to center your mind on God.

Then your body will automatically become one with your mind.

Through prayer, worship, study of God's words, supporting the spiritual community, acting on faith, fulfilling goals, being humble and offering service, all of these time-honored ways accesses the Heavenly Parent and tremendous resources of strength.

“Live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature,” promises St.

Paul (Galatians 5.16).

The stronger the bond with God, the more readily your mind can conquer the fallen body.

Corrie Ten Boom was a watchmaker who was sent to Hitler's concentration camp because he rescued many Jews. After the war, he gave lectures about God's love and forgiveness and healing of wonds caused by the war. After one of her lectures, a former S.S. guard of her concentration camp waited at the back of the room

She instantly flashed back to the time she and her sister were forced to walk naked in front of the male guards on the way to the showers. They were ill, cold, hungry, elderly and in deep pain. They were also mocked sexually by the guards.

She remembered at that moment, her sister's pained face as she had to bear the humiliation in front of the very guard who attended her lecture.

Unfortunately, her sister died at the concentration camp. This former guard now came up to Corrie and acknowledged God's forgiveness of his past and he now asked for hers. He held out his hands to her.

She remembers, “I tried to smile. I struggled to raise my hand. I could not. I felt nothing. Not the slightest spark of warmth or charity.”

Yet her strong religious beliefs told her she must forgive him. She breathed a silent prayer to give her the strength to do the right thing. She resolutely took his hand in to her own matching her deds to her highest ideals and loftiest words.

Then, “As I took his hand the most incredible thing happened. From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me.”

She then cried out to this soldier that he was her brother and assured him her forgiveness. Through her willingness to act upon the beliefs she always lectured upon, she unleashed a flow of true love which liberated both persecutor and persecuted.

To love another at the most difficult time requires the capability of the mind to assert itself over the demands of the satanic body.

Such efforts reduce the unnecessary pull of the flesh and at the same time enhances our moral and spiritual strength. Thus, the mind and body can unite centered on God's ideals.

Then, the heart is also liberated to give of itself freely and unselfishly, and reap the rich rewards therof.

Such a world of experiences would be 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.

The Way to World Peace

If fallen man understood that humanity went in the wrong direction causing a constant war going on within each of us, the restoration of the world would be faster.  

As a consequence of the Fall of Man, there is a continuous struggle and conflict within ourselvess between mind and the body.  Between the desire for good and the desire for evil.

 

Originally, our mind and body were to be operate as one in unity, not struggle.

 

Our mind represents God's mind.

The human body is a container to accommodate the mind.  Separation came between these two when the fall occurred.

Thus the body dominated the good mind based on Satan or selfishness.  Thus, tragically, the human body has become the servant of Satan.

On the other hand, the human conscience is the agent of God in the individual person.  Our conscience was not created to benefit oneself.

It is planted by God for the sake of righteousness.

Yet the body rebels against this conscience.

The body only seeks after comforts and tends to act selfishly, going after carnal desires.  The conscience in turn is trying to chastise the body and direct it toward the godly mind's desires.

This is why there is always inevitable conflict and struggle within one's self.

This is the reason why the traditional religions of the world all teach the principle of chastising the body through fasting, prayer, and other disciplines.

By doing the opposite of what the body desires to do that is wrong, discipline brings the body to the will of the mind.  For this reason, religion which is the training ground where the desire of the body is suppressed, has been the instrument of God to bring men back to God's original ideal.

In order for us to dominate the body, we must unite with God within Himself.

The only power that enables the mind to dominate the body is the same power which generates unity of the mind's wth God's truth and love.

 Mind is subject and body is object. 

God's love and truth has the power to bring the mind and body into harmonious person.  Religion would define such a person as a man of perfection or a holy man.

Men and women that center their whole life on God are called men and women of goodness.

These good men and women may receive God's blessing of marriage and be united into a couple of husband and wife.

This will be the beginning of one ideal family of men on the face of the earth.

This model family is what God wanted to have as a building block of the good society, nation and world.

The Family is the Foundation of Peace

The Orient has a saying that "Once peace dwells int he family, everything goes right."

A happy and harmonious family is a family of peace and the foundation for the heavenly kingdom on earth.  The dynamic of the family is true love.

You must love God first, then love your husband or wife and your children with pure and sacrificial love.  This is the manifestation of true love.

God created love as the supreme force in the universe.

There is nothing greater in the universe than true love which is supreme.

True love, of course, originates from God.

God invested everything, every ounce of Himself in order to bring about the creation of all things and mankind.

 

Love is the only is the only thing in the world when invested fully, returns fully.  

When you invests true love, it will multiply and prosper.

Investing 100 percent of true love will yield 120 percent.  One might think that those who practice true love would become poor and miserable, yet the end result is to the contrary.

Through practicing true love, you will acquire prosperity and eternal life.

This kind of family of true love becomes the foundation for creating a society, nation and world centered on God's love.

That world would become ideal and peaceful.

There you will find understanding and peace and not misunderstanding and confusion.

You will find unity instead of division.

You would find selflessness instead of selfishness.  It would be the world where sacrifices and good service are a dominant virtue which everyone would strive to achieve.

The realization of God's ideal is the way to bring about true peace in the world.



 

The Ideal of True Parents for True World Peace

The Bible states that God sought to create human beings from "His own image" and character.

This means that the invisible God wanted to manifest Himself substantially into a visible, physical form.

In other words, men and women would become the personification of God through their perfection in pure love.

If the first man and woman had realized the ideal of God, they would have become the first visible form of God and created the first family of man of God-centered children, grandchildren who would expand to form an ideal society, nation and world.

In this case the invisible God would thus become the vertical True Parent of man centering upon true love.  Humankind would have centered upon good Adam and Eve who became True Parents by becoming one family eternally fulfilling a true brotherhood.

The Fall of Adam and Eve brought about the lost of not only God's ideal world, but the True Parents of humanity.

We became like orphans whose true parents abandoned them.

Therefore, brothers and sistersturned into enemies.

As a result, nation became antagonistic relationship rather than friendly ones. Accusations, and distrust abound on every level of society.

In the final fulfillment of human history, therefore, God's work of restoration is the restoration of True Parents first, liberating humanity from its orphan status.

Today this is the central dispensation of God - to bring True Parents to earth to guide mankind and create the true family of man centering on God and true love.

Ladies and gentlemen, today's creation of the Federation for World Peace must be different from that of the League of Nations and the United Nations. Most important is that we must found this organization upon the true ideal and philosophy of lasting peace as well as the ideal of True Parents. In the final analysis, peace in God and with God is the newest level of awakening. 


Once humanity reaches this level, it will be a refreshing new beginning toward attainment of peace.  The exclusion of God from human efforts to bring about peaceful solutions, is the core reason why there is constant failure in these endeavors.

Therefore, we should make God the center of this movement.

Historical Gathering

For men and women who are fervently longing for world peace, today's gathering is an historic gathering. There are many presidents and former presidents here today, as well as prominent religious leaders and leaders from every walk of life. This is truly a rare and extraordinary assembly. Furthermore, there are leaders from the East bloc and the West bloc. Until recently, those leaders were mired in the Cold War and locked in a chilling confrontation. In this auditorium, however, there is no East or West. Everyone is gathered together in one spirit of cooperation and reconciliation.

On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall finally came tumbling down.

Ever since that historical event which was felt around the world, we have been living in a different world.

The world is quickly moving forward to reformation, mutual understanding and friendship.  Everyone today feels that the world is opening up, a new way, to blossoming opportunity of peace.

If you agree that the principles I have expounded are the fundamental criteria for peace, then true peace is reachable and achievable. The industrialized North must reach out to help liberate the South from pervasive impoverishment. The developed nations must reach out with a helping hand toward the developing countries and the new democracies.

During this time of transition and restoration, each nation must change from a selfish one to an unselfish one.

That in itself is a revolution.  Nations can do this when leaders themselves are able to see from the position of parents.

 

The most unselfish and sacrificial love of all is the love of parents. 

 

 

 

From this perspective, we can see that on a worldwide level that all of the nations are brothers and sister nations.  

 

Then a fresh new vision emerges and a new opportunity will open up in front of us to a new dawn.

What should be the priority of those countries that are part of the UN in the days to come?

We have reached the age where colonialism is over.  

 

Where the powerful nations exploited the weakest ones in the past is over.  The law of "survival of the fittest" does not apply in our new world.  

 

The age of the superpower arms race which drove the world and humanity into fear and uncertainty has also passed.  

 

 

 

 

 

Humanity ought to be liberated from the devestating threat of nuclear arms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What time is it on God's timetable of restorating the world?

This is the time that the Holy Scriptures refer to "beating our swords into plowshares."  Do you see it is such a time of human revolution going toward a better world centered on God?

This is the time for developing mutual trust which is based on a high moral standard.

It is a time when all of the members of the United Nations in a relationship of mutual respect and love, should jointly declare one final war against our common enemies.  

 

That would be hunger, ignorance, disease and crime.

This is God's plan.  Even though everyone has a concept of their home country where family lives, in larger sense, the world now becomes "my country" because it is where God, my Father and my brothers and sisters live.  

 

From this point of view, all the advanced nations should seek to share their knowleddge of high technology with developing countries and new democracies.

To do otherwise would be a moral crime.  Things which are good and beneficial must be shared among all nations.  When a new discovery is made, it should benefit all nations.  If something is good for humanity and the world, it should be fulfilled, transcendent of national boundaries.

For a long time, I have been fighting for equal opportunity in the use of high technology by all developing nations.

A Century of Peace

Ladies and gentlemen, your coming to this place is not an accident. Nothing happens by accident. I feel you are ordained to be here. You are chosen by God as champions of peace.  A new era is unfolding. With the cooperation of God and man together the twenty-first century will be a century of peace. 


If we are to see a world of peace happen, we should work tirelesly together for the next nine years.

If we do, we will be able to eliminate all obstacles which might hinder the attainment of peace.

If we are able to push forward, centered on God, we should be able to eliminate all obstacles which would hinder the attainment of peace.

This twenty-first century should be a righteous century full of hope.
Wealth will not be the dominating factor in this era.

Instead, the human spirit and soul will prevail.  The twenty-first centry is the era of unity between God and man.

It should be the era where a new awakening will come to every man.

They will realize that there is more benefit for himself when he serves others and lives for the sake of others.

In this century, selfishness will decline.  Life honor and glory based on unselfishness shall be triumphant.

These are the characteristics of the era for peace is approaching.

Now we have the opportunity for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.  This century shall be hopeful and glorious.

To make this happen, the Federation for World Peace will provide the ideal and philosophy to educate the world's population. The Federation will assist spiritually, mentally and financially in the development of needy nations. The Federation will set a high moral standard and take a dynamic role in building a world of peace.


As you walk this path of restoration, you are the apostles of peace.  The bright new hope as well as a exciting new future awaits you.  We should fervently feel the desire to fulfill this great mission that has been bestowed upon us by God.

In order to achieve this sacred duty and historic responsibility of building everlasting peace on earth, we should dedicate our lives, fortunes and sacred honor with total commitment to this dispensation.

The first item on our agenda is to invite God into our individual hearts and those of our family, society, nation and world.

When God is with us, who shall be against us?

Respected friends, my beloved brothers and sisters, we are called to this sacred mission: to build a world of peace.

Our noble march shall begin today toward that glorious future.  Let us build a true world of peace together with God.

Thank you very much.




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This post was rewritten from the Textbook for World Peace Chapter 2

What Kind of Place is Spirit World?

What is the center of the spirit world and physical world? One may questions why worry about a place many people do not believe exists?

But we must be concerned about the spirit world.

There are many religions that take the path to search the world where we live eternally in relation to the spirit world.

The next world is a world where we will live eternally with God.  

This is religion;s destination and purpose.

However, do religions of today teach such a standard of living?

Religions around the world are on the decline.

We have entered the era in which people think of religion as weak and unnecessary. Or they believe that it was created by people as an idea to help in their times of troubles.

Even the central religion has declined.

America represents the Christian nations of the world. Those who grew up in Christian homes have now lost their faith and are living according to their own faith and rules outside of God will.

Heaven, the dwelling place of God, has been idealized by Christianity which is now being abandoned.  There are three reasons.

First, this is happening because they do not have a clear understanding of the existence of the life hereafter.

We favor, of course, a better situation than a bad one.

Through an innate capacity, we are ever in search of a higher dimensional realm of greater value.

This is the original human nature.  Second, it is because they do not truly know God.  Third, it is because they do not know that love is central and binds us to both God and spirit world.

These three points are not known.

Even though people of faith might know of God and the spirit world, they do not fully understand that it is a world which is centered on love.

When you are in a place of love, you will be happy whether you go up or down or stay in the middle.

Does a true wife dislike her beloved husband if he is in a higher position in society than she lives?  Does a husband dislike his beloved wife because she is in a lower position than he shares?

When you live in unity, you can go anywhere from below to above, and vice versa - even stay in the middle.  In that state, there are no restraints.

Thus, many people in the world want one unified world of peace.

This also holds true for spiritual and physical worlds and for spiritual and physical beings.

God and His love are both central to both worlds.

Fallen people on the other hand usually do not see God in this way in their mind.

Our mind and body exist in different dimensions.

The mind differs from the spirit world.

We speak of these two worlds in terms of God's love.  In order for spirit world and physical world to be united, God must be involved.

Without God's love being involved, the spirit world cannot exist.  Spirit world is linked to God.

How does our conscience differ from the spirit world?

Many people may be confused at how the mind and the spirit world differ.  They may think that the mind is in spirit.

Because of the Fall, the mind does not have anything to do with the spiritual world.

In other words, the mind of a fallen person is like a boneless body.  

This gives a realistic picture of what kind of form the mind has.

The spirit has a spirit body and a spirit mind.

It requires spiritual food in order to stay healthy and grow just like the physical body.  The spirit mind corresponds to the spiritual world.

It definitely relates to God.  Therefore, if we do not have a relationship with God, then this spirit mind will not come into being.

We must clearly understand that the spirit and mind are two different things.

Each of our fallen minds does not have a relationship with God.  

God has left that.  He cannot either relate or control our mind directly.

Your mind changes, by going one way and then it goes in another direction.  But the spiritual world and spirit beings do not.  They are able to set an eternal goal and them constantly move in that direction.  Why is this so?  Because they stand on the side of God.

Our mind that lives within each human vacillates.

What is the spirit mind?

It is the mind and the spirit uniting.

It is moving toward its new goal.  It is a motivational mind which has the ability to direct us to become our ideal selves by uniting with our conscience centered upon God.

Well, if we were not created with a spirit mind, we would not be able to search for its origin which connects us to the spirit world and to true love.

When our spirit mind sprouts, then our body experiences joy and everything follows after it.  There, everything starts to unite automatically.

Humanity's biggest problem is the separation of the mind and the body.

Our mind and body naturally become one when spiritual good energy comes into the body and creates the origin of our spirit mind.

Unless there is a revolution that occurs at the root and we discover the origin that rectifies everything from the root then there is no way to find the ideal.

How can there be result if there is not a motivating cause?

Religion's purpose is to implant within us a spirit mind.  There are several forms of religions that are centered on the spirit mind.  

Unity of the spiritual and physical worlds

If God is such a majestic being and His creation takes after His qualities, then the spiritual and physical world must be unified and not separated.

Because true love was absent, these two worlds had no substance on which to unite.

Our minds and bodies became separate; also, between religion and politics.

When we center upon love, all things become united.  This includes individuals, family, society, nation, world and cosmos can all be united.  But the work of this unification must be created with our own hands.  Otherwise, we will not be able to inherit God's original kingdom in heaven and on earth.

So, how will we be able to unify the spiritual and physical worlds?  Only through true love. Nothing else can bind the two for eternity.  Love has such a power.

The spirit world clearly exists

Unfortunately, the reality of the spirit world is not known for sure by 80% of the world's population.  Even believers, people of faith are unsure of its existence and even of God's existence.  But it is for sure there.

Without having this knowledge or ability to unify and work with the good spirit world, unification of the world is at a standstill.  We are limited at best.

We can think of a person who has a lot of money who is prepared to invest all of their assets into creating the most beautiful architectural garden of happiness.

Then we can see how God, who created the beautiful heaven and earth, created such a dwelling place.

Spirit world is such a world of beauty and depth and beyond human imagination.

One can never get tired of experiencing it or gazing upon it.  The most prized possession on earth cannot compare to even a corner of the spirit world.

Therefore, I do not want to own this earth, that is to say, I would rather go back because it does not conform to my purpose.


But, many people do not even know about or think about the world in the hereafter, and even fear such a place.  People just continue to live their life just because they were taught to follow this ungodly way.

What is the center of such a mundane lifestyle?

People are born to think that food, shelter, clothing is the most important elements of life.  These issues have become the central reason for living.

Of course, there are some elements in human relationships such as morals and morality that enable people to improve, develop and find satisfaction with one another.

But the standard of each person's morality varies, just as the races and nations.

Moral standards and social systems all vary in accordance with the world's diverse cultural backgrounds.

Because of the standards we each adopt in our lives are different from the original standard which God set forth, the existing moral and ethical standards are scattered in all directions.

These standards we have away from God's standard have not been systematized into a whole, causing much confusion and disunity among humanity.

So where are we headed?

We are not clear about this, therefore, secular people do not know whether the spirit world and God exist.

However, we are clear on the point that spirit world exists.

We not only believe it, we know it.  How?  Because since coming to the truth of the Divine Principle, you each have had spiritual experiences.  Therefore, we are in no position to deny the existence of the spirit world.

So, what path should we take?  We must follow the path which God desires.  We should follow the path of God's will, but what is His will?

There is the path of God's will that individuals must go, and the path of God's will that families must go, and also the path for the society, nation, world, and spirit world. I am the specialist. The spirit world definitely exists. 

What consequences arise from the existence of God and the spirit world?

Some people try to have nothing to do with God even though they think He exists, but this is wrong.

When we deny the spirit world and just live the worldly way, it is the same as denying the family, the nation, or the world despite if a person is a part of these.

Therefore, we desire to enter into a relationship with the greater God and the greater spirit world.  Instead of just being a part of their existence, we should strive for unity with God and spirit world.  We are moving forward toward this single purpose.

The spirit world is the driving force for faith (Saint Paul's vision of the third heaven)

Paul explains in the Bible, how he gained experience for fourteen years to see the third heaven.

After he walked a path of 14 years, he was able to know more about what he was talking about when he spoke about the third heaven.

His experience in seeing the third heaven in spirit world became the driving force which empowered him to do his missionary activities for fourteen years.  We also must have such experiences.



That also holds true for me.  I do not fear death. What made this possible? Love did. I can digest even being put in jail. Thus, I must digest and conquer today's adverse circumstances. I will conquer everything with my own hands.

When God created the spirit world

Spirit world is the equivalent to the angelic world.  The world today is in the same position as that of Adam and Eve.

God created the spirit world and angelic world before He crated His children.

Since the satanic world came to exist through our choosing to follow the archangel Lucifer's words and deeds, the spirit world also went against God's will.

Therefore, that world can only be restored after the spirit world welcomes God's will.

Also, the Lord of the Second Coming could not come to the earth until this world was able to subjugate the evil spirit world which was dominating humanity until now.

This is why we have worked until today to subjugate the spirit world and consequently, the spirit world has helped us in our mission for unification with the spirit world and physical world toward a world of peace.

Where is the spirit world?

Spirit world is in your bodies.  Therefore, you cannot escape it.

The spirit world exists.

You attend it.

Spirit world exists for this world, this world exists for the sake of the eternal world.  People may ask where is God in the world.

Some people wonder if there could be a god that exists in such an evil world.  God lives in the spirit world.

What kind of place is the spirit world?

If life only exists where we live for only eighty or hundred year on earth, then we wouldn't have to worry about problems.

But since we live eternally, this is a different story.

We have no idea how much of an unchanging world it is.

We experience racial discrimination, cultural clashes and other issues, despite these problems, we maintain values which do not pass away.  These values continue on vividly into spirit world.

Scientific advances and space exploration act like lubricants which will create the ideal world of love.

In this same way, the world is filled with the electricity of love.

There is nothing we cannot do with the electricity of love. 

We can govern the realm of spirit world through our way of thinking.

Then what is the spirit world?

It is a place that desires eternal elements.  It is the world of harmony, where everything is filled with love.

Thus, the universe gets into operative mode through just a push of a love button.

Then what is God's kingdom on earth?

Heaven is a place where all the love bulbs light up.  What about God's Kingdom on earth?  It is a place where these love bulbs light up completely.

As long as you keep a loving heart and pull the rope of love, everything else will follow.

When you pull love back, it goes back, when you pull it sideways, it moves sideways.  You can steer it however you like it.

Love does not resist, but moves automatically.

Thus, we find this concept where the spirit world is filled with the air of love.

If God's love wants to feed all of humanity at once and says in order to make them happy "Let there be food", then food will appear.

You eat the food of love in the spirit world.

The more you hear, the more you want to hear.  Within spirit world, there is no concept of being sleepy or tired there.

You look at each other with the eyes of love there.

No words have been created that can express the mystery of the spirit world.  People today try to link everything to love.

Why?

This is to be in sync with the spirit world.

Since the spirit world operates in this way, all of creation cannot help but respond to that.  They cannot abandon that position.

When you see me in your dreams, I appear to you through the waves of God's love. 


For you to have such experiences, you have to let go of ego there.  You have to sacrifice yourselves and create a vacuum.

In this vacuum, there is no memories of the fallen past, regrets or ideas of revenge or hate of another.

Once you create this vacuum, you have to become like pure gold.  Gold does not contain any other element; it is pure in itself.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Five, Chapter 3, Section 2

The Love of a True Parent

What is a true parent?

Is there a nation where there are true parents, true families leading lives fully based on God's will?  Where did this position of humanity begin?

Imagine if Eve had resisted Lucifer's advances and then later did not tempt Adam. If they decided to live in accordance to God's will and waited until they had matured to eat of the fruit, what kind of individuals would they be?

The fruit, which was the sexual organs which bear the fruit of children, was not lethal when it was fully matured, but could cause death in its immaturity.  If they had waited until God's direction, been blessed by God into a pure marriage and never left the Garden of Eden or Heaven what would have happened?

They would have become perfect individuals who would have been God's external body.   

God is like the bone and Adam and Eve like the flesh. 

Did you know God has a mind and body?

If Adam and Eve had become perfect in God's true love, God becomes the internal parent and Adam and Eve would be the external parents, who become intertwined through love.

This union of God and human beings in love would have resulted in true parents.  

Without this unity in love, there cannot be a perfect person.  The results of not becoming true parents and severing our direct ties and lineage to God, is the world which we currently live today.

Sinless true ancestor and savior of humankind

What has history, this age and the future been searching for?  True parents connected to God's direct blood lineage.

If we are unable to meet true parents, then we cannot find true happiness in the course of history or in the universe.  A happiness that is eternal, not only experienced for moments.

What kind of people are people who are True Parents?

They symbolize the hope for all fallen people.  They bring hope because they have reversed the mistakes of the Fall and carry God's true blood lineage on the earth.  They symbolize what humanity can finally become.

They are the fruit of history, the center of the age, and the starting point for the future where human beings can connect God's direct blood lineage.

True Parents govern history.

Through True Parents, we can return to the new, original world.  We can finally subjugate Satan completely and eradicate him from this earth.

True Parents conquered Satan and finally liberated God and resolved His sorrow and suffering.

We should be grateful for this amazing grace with which we live together with True Parents and attend them and honor their commands.

The hope of humankind is to meet True Parents. 

You should meet the True Parents even though you must walk the path of death to lay the foundation to do so.

You walk the same bloody path with your own sweat and tears for you and your ancestors to return to the original position before the Fall.

Even if you may lose all of history and all of your descendants, once you meet True Parents, you will regain history and the future.  True Parents are such people.

No one can follow this path of restoring themselves and history without shedding tears.  

You should shed tears for God and True Parents.

You shed tears walking this thorny path until now in order to save humankind.  Reversing every fallen element in your family's history is not an easy task.

But how can we even think about restoring the world when we cannot conquer ourselves?

The world is composed of individuals and families, thus for world restoration, this is the beginning point, ourselves.

You should understand how amazing it is that I have come to this earth with the name of the True Parent. What are the most blessed words among all the words in the world?

For fallen people, the words True Parents are the words of greatest blessing, greater than regaining a nation or the world after it has been lost. You should know that these words are more precious than anything it heaven and earth.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Just imagine if you were raised by True Parents, without sin how radically different your experiences in life would have been being raised under God's complete protection and dominion.

Just the simple use of the words True Parents can command history.  The same as the power of Jesus' name.

Who can count the many saints, sages and good people of history who have had to walk this path of sacrifice in order to establish this phrase on the earth?

Up until now, the world consisted of just brothers and sisters fighting one another who have lost their true parents.

Even though the world is full of leaders and presidents, we are all just children who have lost their parents to teach the true way.

The name established on earth holds hope after going through the bloody strife, struggles and screaming is the name of True Parents.  Before there are True Parents, True Children must appear.

Do you think that you have become True Children before the True Parents or God?

That which is true does not change in the past, present or in the future.

Since God has worked throughout history to restore His children back to their unfallen state, it can be seen as a history to establish the True Parents.

Children need direction on earth, wouldn't it make sense that you would need parents that have God's direction, who cannot be attacked by Satan, to set a standard by which to follow?

From the time of Cain and Abel, who God had tried to reverse the Fall through Cain's offering and humbleness to his brother, but failed through murdering him, Heaven has been fulfilling the providence to realize these True Parents.

Whoever opposes or interferes with the fundamental providence to realize this purpose will be deserted in front of the heavenly principle and eventually perish.

The Messiah is the True Man who takes a bride and become True Parents.

This is what is meant in the Bible as the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.  We are therefore, to destined to become the true children.

When the Messiah comes to the earth, even though he comes as an individual, he is not just one person.  His value is such that he is the fruit of all the religions, the fruit of all hopes of humankind and the fruit of the love desired by all humankind.

The Messiah holds the key to all of the world's problems, false love and false lineage.  He bequeaths this knowledge and blood lineage to God's children in order to restore them back to their original position.

Everything connects to this fruit: the past, present and the future are connected to him; furthermore, the individual, family, tribe, nation and world are also connected to him as well as heaven and earth.

The Messiah must carry out the role of True Parent when he comes to the earth.

This was the main purpose for Jesus coming to earth - not to leave an example of how to be a True Son and a true brother, but to leave not only God's true blood lineage but how to be a True Father, True Husband and True Parent through his true marriage.

The Messiah is the Horizontal Father and God is the vertical Father.  He is the only vertical Father. Christianity says that Jesus was God, but this is not correct in the physical sense, but yes, Jesus acquired God's qualities and power, but he was not the same entity. Jesus is not the same spirit who created earth from the beginning.

There is only one vertical (spirit) Father, Jesus was to become the horizontal(earth) father.

You should know that until the appearance of True Parents on this earth, there had been many tearful stories in the background that you cannot even imagine. I don't know how many tears I have shed without you knowing about it. Only God understands this. 


True Parents who do not have the trace of the fallen, sinful blood lineage, become the ancestors of humankind even though they are on the earth today.  Thus, you should attend True Parents just as you do your own.

True Parents come to the earth to restore human beings and make you into True Parents - little True Parents - of your own clan.  This is how the world will eventually be restored.

Where does true love begin?

True love begins from the True Parents.  Even though "husband" and "wife" are good words, there is no better words than that of True Parents.

Without the appearance of True Parents, there there is no true husband or wife that can appear in the fallen world.  We must understand this.


Why do we need True Parents?

Since the True Parents reversed the acts of the Fall by carrying God's direct blood lineage and following God's words, the connection to true love has been completed for the first time in history.

This connection to God's direct lineage and being is unprecedented in history and will not be repeated in the future.

There is only one set of True Parents, one origin.  Even though we are destined to become true parents, the first True Parents are the first ancestors of humankind and cannot be replaced.

It is the same as if they were the first Adam and Eve and those who connect to them fall in order after that.

The love that your mother and father are engaged in right now is not true love.

God's original ideal for the world is realized through the creation of True Parents.  

This is the place where we meet our lost parents, our lost true parents.

All the saints have fought to bring this foundation to earth.  There have been many junctures throughout history, but this is the most valuable one.

The Fall made human beings Satan's descendants. Therefore, we must reestablish the True Parents who are on the side of heaven and have God's descendants.

We must be fully reborn through connecting to the True Parents pure love. This is the only way that we will be recreated and become citizens of heaven on earth.

God absolutely needs the True Parents.  Many people of faith wonder why God could not just accomplish world restoration in one swipe.

Without the True Parents on earth, even the omnipotent God is unable to fulfill the providence of restoration of the world by Himself.   

Without True parents, the realm of the archangels cannot find value in their work to support the realization of God's will on earth.  You need True Parents to stand directly before God.

When you look at the history of humankind, you can see how God worked through major wars, suffering and such to lay a foundation for the sake of the world to receive the True Parents.

All the religions have been seeking such parents, the world and nations have been seeking True Parents.

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

Love Your Spouse Centered on God

No matter how much we practice religion while living for the sake of others, we notice that there is such a resistance to the good activities that we do.

Haven't you noticed this conflict within ourselves?

This is because each one of us as an individual has a mind and body that is in mutual conflict.  Thus, we should unite our good mind as the center where God can come and dwell.

When a man and woman become a couple, they have many hopes and dreams for their future.

What couple comes together desires divorce, conflict and separation when they finally find each other?

Even if it is not their hope, the more we look into the society of relationships, we see such division and conflict.  There seems to be no solution to the problems between man and woman relationships.

Some people have a clear-cut answer and that is to never marry.

But could this be the original ideal God had planned when He beheld the first two beings on earth?

God made it clear that He wanted humanity to be matured in love and then prosper and multiply.  Since we are not living in the original way God intended the purity of a man and woman uniting has been turned around in the opposite direction.

Instead of two people who matured into perfect individuals uniting centered on God, the world is filled with billions of fallen individuals who do not fully mature in love or center their lives or marriages on God, therefore, conflict is sure to rise.

So what was God's original purpose for creating a union of man and woman?

A perfect man and perfect woman were to marry centered on God's will thus fulfilling God's whole purpose for creating the world.  Thus the three would enter a spherical relationship where God could govern all of creation through His perfect objects man.

When such a man and woman receive the marriage blessing directly from God sharing their perfect love and delighting in joy, in God's eye this is like a flower that has blossomed on earth for the first time.

All the forms of harmony that unfold through their love are like a fragrance to God.  Therefore, God will come before them because He wants to live amid such beautiful flowers and fragrances.

Even God is Enraptured in the Love of a True Couple

God can love only in the place of a true couple's love.  This is where all things in the universe harmonize.  This is the teaching of the Divine Principle and it explains such ideas and the path to follow.

What sound and melody do you think God would like to hear more than anything in creation?  It is the sound of laughter coming from an eternal married couple that likes each other and rejoices with one another.

When such a couple understands and embraces the world and lives a life with a heart that can love the entire universe, then this laughter becomes natural.

This sight is of such a loving man and woman before God is like a flower to Him.  This is not a simple idea, this is speaking about the original world which God intended for His children to live.

When you look at a mountain, a husband and wife ask the mountain for whom it comes into being.  Also, for whom does the universe come into being?

They would answer saying that they come  for me and at the same time for you.

This is the same for what a married couple is like.  The husband and wife unite through fulfilling the purpose of the universe and valuing the central purpose.

When the husband and wife speak to one another it should be centered on heart, personal character and love.  Even if a lady is a country bumpkin, what will her status be if she marries a government official or minister?

They go the same way.

Although that country lady may only have an elementary school diploma, everyone will bow their heads to her because she is the minister's wife.  This is the way for a husband and wife to go together.

Would their love be separate for her and him?  For them, love is both your love and my love at the same time.  It is your love and my love.

True love is that with which you love with your entire bodies as one, and with your whole hearts and blood vessels as one. 

Who could such people be that can love like this?

It is the love of a husband and wife.  If there was no such thing as husband and wife in the world, would life have any appeal?

When you watch the conversations between a loving couple, their words are more beautiful than any poem or painting in the world.

Moreover, how beautiful and splendid are the words, "Just between two people in love" and "Just by ourselves," and "Just the two of us"!  These are all good phrases, but what do you think is the best among these three spoken?

If I call my partner and say, "Hello!", she will answer in a corresponding manner, saying "Hi!" and if I call her saying, "Hey," she will answer, "What?" and if the husband uses cute phrases such as, "Hello, Dear!". But if he speaks to her bluntly she will answer in like manner, "What's the matter?" This is just like the mountain echo, everything is reciprocal.

Everything is reciprocal when people are intoxicated with love.

For instance, when a man laughs, he opens his eyes even bigger and when a woman laughs, she gently closes her eyes.  If the husband's eyes get bigger and bigger and the wife's eyes get smaller and smaller we can say that they are a happy couple intoxicated with love.

The More a Husband and Wife See Each Other, the More They Want to See Each Other

When does a man and woman feel happy?

They feel happy when they become partners and share love.  If a man were to relate to a woman by swinging his fist with physical force, this couple would never be able to attain any happiness.

When the man embraces and protects the woman with his strength and loves her, she will be able to feel true happiness.  The love between a man and woman does not work just with strength or just within the mind.

The woman will be able to experience a real feeling of happiness when the man affirms his loving heart with his strength.  Then when she returns love to him with her body and mind they will be a truly happy husband and wife.

A person always needs stimulation. Happiness does not come without stimulation. 

Stimulation is necessary in a relationship.

Just as eating meals everyday is better when it is fresh only when you are hungry each time you eat, the same with the love between a husband and wife should always be new and fresh.

The more the wife and husband see each other, the more they should desire to see each other and long to be together all day.  Love has value when two people long for each other.

In asking for love, if you have a mouth, you should open it, and if you have eyes, you should open them. Only then, will the giver of love be happy.

If you just remain silenced and dumb, love would run away on its way to you. You should know this.  How would you feel if your lover was not serious and behaved half-heartedly toward you in their affection?

Would you rather be together or separated from your beloved?

The closer you are to each other the better everything is.  Why is this so?  It is because everything works together.

What is the thing you like the most?  Is it food?

If you see some food when you are hungry, of course you will eat it with more joy than if you were already full.  But this pleasure is only temporary.

If someone gives you more food, even after you have become full you would not like to eat it so much.
But this is not the case with the one you love.

Is there anyone who says of his lover, "I want to forget her?"  Even if you have seen her over and over again, you still want to see her yet again and again.  Isn't this so?

Even if you have just seen her, you want to see her again, and even after seeing her again.  This way, you first stand one in front of the other, and alternate like a wheel of a cart.  This is the place where unification begins.

A wife that knows love sometimes gets the impulse to bury her head in her husband's chest to enjoy an afternoon nap as he watches television.

This is because she is drunk with happiness.  Before marriage, the man appeared ugly and strange, but after the marriage, she misses him and has to see him many times in a day.  This is how the hearts change.

Therefore, sometimes she will ask him to come home during the lunch break for a quick visit.  This is the same for the man who has come to know love.

Whenever he has a chance, he would like to sleep using his wife's knees as a pillow.  He will run home whenever he has a free moment, regardless of whether it is lunchtime or for a short coffee break.

If he wants certain things done, he will not hesitate to do things for her, even if he didn't like doing them before marriage.  He'll do things that he probably complained and said, "This is a woman's job.  A mighty man shouldn't do it."

These changes come about in men and women because of love.

When God created humans and blessed them, He did so in such a way that the husband and wife would be happy and experience joy.

A husband and wife that that have opened and entered such a gate of blessings will be lost in whispers to each other.

This kind of couple only says sweet things to each other.

For instance, "I have been waiting like this in order to meet you.  My whole life will reveal its value like a blossoming flower through you.  I was born to love you, and I have been waiting for this day."

There is nothing in existence that is as sweet as secret words of love.  The secret words whispered by a husband and wife, even when together in bed, will be a refreshment to dissolve all the fatigue and hatred of the world.

How Conjugal Love Develops

A man and woman who meet through the mediation of God would express their love through the process of the development of love.  The first is the lips, the second is the breasts, and the third is the sexual organ.

It is through the lips that a woman when she first meets a man feels shy and will hide before starting to love him.

A woman covers her lips with her hand because of this.  It is because of love starts with kissing.
When love matures, sons and daughters are born as its fruit.

For a woman, her sexual organ is the holy place of love.  So, should she have several keys for many men to explore this place?

She should have only one key to open that gate held only by her husband.  If a husband has two or more keys to a woman's holy place of love, he is Satan.

Also, if a woman's holy place could be opened by any key other than her husband, she is also Satan.

Once the husband holds the key of love to his wife's holy place and enters there, the most precious sons and daughters in the whole world will be born.

The value of sons and daughters is such that they are an encapsulation of love, not exchangeable for anything in the world.

Parents will experience the heart by which God created the first human ancestors through loving their sons and daughters.

This is the reason why parents rejoice when they look at their children, singing, "You are my love, whether, I look at you this way or look at you that way."

No matter what your baby does, who is born through love, you never hate him, but simply love him. This is because he is part of your body, made of your own blood and flesh and your love.

Whether he pees, takes a poop, has a runny nose, he will still be simply cute and lovely to your eyes. It is because love is dissolved into such things.

In a husband and wife relationship, if their love is joined through a strong force, they must be joyful and feel their partner is lovely, no matter what that partner does.

When a wife complains about the way her husband smells or the husband thinks or feels that he hates the way his wife looks, they behave this way because they have not established perfect love between them.

This married couple is only joined together for some superficial purpose or interest.

In your own family life during marriage, in order to feel true joy, you should bring God into the center and have a relationship where you can love each other where you see God rejoice together with you.

A man and woman getting married and making love is not something you should be ashamed of.

The act of the husband and wife consummating their love is something that is most dignified, holy and beautiful.

However, because the first human couple violated God's commandment on the time period for them to enjoy their sexual organs, the history of love has been a sinful one.  This is why shame has become attached to exploring the sexual organs.

You should think that even though there are many men and women in the world, that there is only one for you.  You should devote yourself completely to this one woman, with the thought that she is devoted to you.

This is the Principle.

In the very beginning God didn't make two sets of men and women for them to pick and choose whom to mate, he created only one man and one woman.

Therefore, if God placed Eve with Adam and she didn't like certain qualities about him or thought that God was wrong in His choice, then there would not have been creation of a family or such a thing as the human race.

True happiness can be found in the place where you can laugh, sing and whisper together with your beloved with both of you intoxicated with love.

I would say that the one who is able to listen to the whispers of his beloved is a happy person.  


It is because having such words whispered into your ears can give you a feeling of joy as if you were dreaming.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheong Seong Gyeong Book Four-True Family, Chapter Seven, Section 4-6