Why Are Humans Born?

Which came first, life or love?  We can claim that each is first, but which do you think came first?

It is love that came first, because the love between parents is how children come about.

For something to have value, there should be an original flow of love. Love comes first, then life, because what comes second must humbly surrender to what comes first.

This is natural that we offer our lives for the sake of love.

This is how things are.  Since we are born in love, then the conclusion is that we should walk the way of love and die for love.

Why Are Human Beings Born?

We were born to find the kind of love that the macrocosm is able to welcome.

Our purpose is to be born, to love and to die in the midst of the great universal love that God, creation, our parents and angelic world all can acknowledge.

This is how I see it.  Human beings are not born based on their own choice. Then, are they born due to their parents' wishes? No. They are born due to God's desire. 

Children are born through the love of their parents which represents God's love. The person who is born as a new life through parental love, representing God's love, is 'I'.

Love has the power to create everything. 

I am the one who is born at the center of the whole universe by receiving all the love of the universe.

Then the highest purpose of life is to be born through love, be raised in love, live by love and to leave love behind when we pass onto the next world.

Then the most valuable thing to do in the whole universe is to fulfill the rules of love, through the family, which is at the center of the universe.

You should understand truly why human beings are born.

We were not placed on this earth for the sake of acquiring money, knowledge or power.

We are born because of love and from love.  What is it that makes love so great?  Why does every human being seek to embrace love?

Love is the original source of life. You are born in the midst of your parents' love.

No one was born out of their parents' desire for money or knowledge, but for love.

Since you are born from a love like this, then you should be able to bear fruits of love.  This is why children are needed.

A husband and wife only become complete when they have sons and daughters as their object partners.

Human beings cannot exist apart from love.  All things originate in God's love.  All things come into existence on the foundation of love.

It is undeniable that human beings, as the center of the created universe, must also have begun in love.
Therefore, since we begin life in love, mature through love, then we cannot live separated from the standard of love.

This is the logical solution.  Man's problems and woes all begin and continue because we are separated from the true love which comes from God.

Life in its Original Form

What is the cause of human existence?  Why are we here?

Since the cause of our existence is love, then our purpose lies in completing the ideal of love.  Not the ideal of success, money or knowledge, but love will only make your life complete because it is is our origin.

When we clearly understand this, then we see why there is so much suffering in the world: lack of love.

For this to happen, a man and a woman who have a relationship must become one in love and connect front and back, left and right and above and below.

Even if we determined with our life to become an absolute being and have an absolute purpose for our lives, it is fruitless unless we are happy.

Our daily life should be happy.  We live for this purpose.

So, when we are able to achieve the purpose, something new will exist that is greater than existence itself.

What is it?

What is the most precious for a man and woman?  It is love.

The key element to happiness: love.

No matter how lofty a person's purpose may be, if he is not able to establish love that can take dominion over his purpose, then he will have to pursue a new purpose.

Purpose does not stand above love.

What do you live for?

Some say they live to eat or shop and there will be some who say that they live to work or they live without a purpose, they are just trying to get through today.

If you are able to say that you live for the sake of love or the sake of others that is a great answer!

Human beings are born as the fruit of love, live in love and return that love to the eternal love of God's bosom.  This is the original life of creation God intended.

Once one grows up in love, next he leaves the love of his parents and finds and connects to the love of a partner.  This love is in another dimension.

On the way to restoration, there is the formation stage, the growth stage and the completion stage.  We can call parental love the formation-stage love and conjugal love the growth-stage love.

Therefore a couple, no matter how much they may be in love, cannot see the completion of their love until they have children.

This is why couples eventually desire to have children. Have you realized that a couple who is unable to have children feel unfulfilled no matter how much they love one another?

A couple having children is the completion-stage love.

Therefore, the center of human life is the process of going through conjugal love, parental love and children's love.  This is the original path of God's ideal of love at the time of creation.

Life is born from love. 

We are born from love, grow up in love while being loved by our parents.  Then one meets a beloved wife and loves her and dies in love.  This is what is called human life.

Therefore, in the original world, there would have been no sorrow or pain in human life or in death.

The original center of the universe is the place where all the vertical(spirit) and horizontal(earth) combinations of love come together so that parental love, conjugal love and children's love can unite.

This becomes the point upon which the entire universe focuses and the directions of all cells in the universe are.

Also all of the spirits in spirit world focus on this love relationship.  They will also protect this place so no one can invade it.

If this place of pure love was invaded, it will be catastrophic, since it is the center of human life.  There should be a certain form in order for it to remain intact.

This form is called the four-position foundation of relationship(siblings love, parental love, spousal love, centered on God's love)

For Human Beings, the Eternal Element of Life is Love

You should not forget that while you lived as an embryo, you received nutrition from your mother, but you also received love from her.  Likewise, people who live on earth do not only receive physical nutrition from the elements in the universe, but also love from God. He is the essential element of life.

Just like all plants absorb sunlight as an element of life, love is an element of life for people.

We have hopes that the Kingdom of Heaven on earth or the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven be built where we live eternally in love and in adoration of one another.

We are born through love and grow through their childhood while receiving love.

After we grow to a certain age, we realize that parental love is not enough.  Their love expands horizontally through the love among brothers and sisters and the love of the tribe.

In other words, they grow to maturity while receiving all kinds of love in heaven and earth.  When they become adults, they thirst even more for the love with the opposite sex.

By engaging in this love, they finally find the center of love, a more comprehensive love.  The path that a man and woman walk exists because of love and for the sake of love.

My path is the path of love.  I move in order to attain love, keep love, and form an environment of love. It is also for the sake of love that women put on cosmetics and receive massages. Wanting something and doing work are all for the sake of love. We overcome hardship and move on in order to attain precious love.

From the moment we are born, we receive parental love.  As long as our parents are alive, they love us at each stage of life we experience - from childhood, our youth or the period of middle age. When we grow up receiving parental love, the horizontal love of husband and wife is bound to happen to each of us.

What is marriage?

Marriage is a school, a place where men learn something they did not know about women and women learn something they did not know about men.

Everyone should get a grade of A in order for the husband and wife to be pleased.

You also have sons and daughters for the sake of learning how to love the world.  The last several posts have discussed how God's original ideal was for love to be learned through the relationship of a true family which would expand to the global level of world peace.

Without having children, you will not have a connection to the future.   God gave you children as educational materials through which you can be connected to the future world.

Fulfilling your filial duties to your ancestors and grandfather and grandmother is like receiving education from the spirit world.  All of these are connected through love.

The grandfather and grandmother, husband and wife, and sons and daughters are all connected through love. 

Just like our blood vessels flow up and down, you also go up and down all the way to your ancestors of 10 million generations in the spirit world.  You also reach your distant descendants through this connection.

So, you should know that this is how spirit world and the universe are organized.  All things will be governed in this way.  Therefore, becoming a servant of love and a slave of love is the greatest happiness.

What is God's Love?

Try to find God's love.  How are you able to characterize God's love?

We can compare it to a warm spring day where white clouds gently float in the sky.

The heat then rises from the ground, insects fly around, ants crawl in and out and pussy willows shoot out by the stream.

Frogs sing new spring songs, bees swarm and butterflies flutter from flower to flower.

When you come to such an environment, you are intoxicated by it and feel sleepy.  But in reality, you are awake and feel so good that you want to stay like this forever.

When God finds His object partner, He gets the same feeling like this.

Do you have a good feeling or a bad feeling when you think about this?  Maybe dull-witted men may not be aware of such details.  Of course, it feels good.

When you run into someone that you haven't seen in a while, you feel pleased.  You will firmly shake their hand or tightly hug them.  When someone joyfully says, "Long time no see!" and hugs you firmly, do you feel good or bad?  If there is someone who says he feels bad, just kick him.

When you are excited to see someone you haven't seen in a while, do you tightly grab them?

Do you firmly like it when someone grasps your hand firmly?  You might not like it.  Maybe you do not know the person.  You have to know something to like it.  You do not know it, then how can you like it?

If your husband loves you, you do not need anything else.

You will live clinging tightly to your husband.  It is always great to see a man and a woman firmly holding hands.  Especially when the man's hands are as rough as a cow's hoof and her hands are soft as butter.

We like to watch romantic movies that display such affection.

If the woman says to the man that he has such pretty hands, he would be offended.  This is how things are.

Love is eternal.  Love is united, not divided.  You become one.

When a man and a woman become a couple and love each other, they are bonded together. 

This does not happen literally, but in heart they are able to reach a level that is higher than this.

This is God's love.

If you can live centered on such love, will you be united or not?  Everything is destined to become one no matter how confused and disunited it is in the present moment.

We see that many kinds of things happen when a man and woman fall in love.  If you find a way to know God's love and are able to taste it, then His love cannot be compared to anything that exists in this world.

If there is someone who has tasted this love, no amount of difficulty or sorrow can defeat that person.

A person who lives in the realm of God's love is liberated.  How do you find such a place?

God's love can be divided into three great forms of love: parental love, conjugal love, and children's love.  The center where these three forms combine into one is God's absolute love.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: God's Rules for Successful Rrelationships

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four -True Family Chapter Four Section 1-4

The Atmosphere in Spirit World is Love

Have you ever wondered what the atmosphere in spirit world is? Do you breathe there and if so do you breathe air?

We are each born in love which represents God, live in love and reach the destination of love by having sons and daughters.  Then we return to God and live with Him eternally.

In other words, our life begins with love, matures in love and then becomes the fruit of love.  Thus, a person's death is the point at which the fruit of love is harvested.

Death denotes a second birth at the end of our physical life. 

The place where our second birth occurs, or the place we go after death,  is spirit world.

Once we enter that world, we receive a supply of true love, which represents the entire universe, from God who is the third Parent.

The spirit world is a world where we breathe love and live in love. 

If you fail to develop a character of complete true love while you are on earth, your travel will be restricted, and you will not be able to pass through all four directions in spirit world.

Even if you were able to get past the gate of your confinement, you will not be able to go any further.

As the previous post discussed, you must then develop your character of loving completely during your life on earth.  This is the way to be qualified to live in rhythm with the four seasons regardless of time and place.

To die is to be reborn in God's love.

Even though death is a new birth, people make a big fuss screaming out that they are dying.  God laughs loudly at this.

It is the equivalent to a baby who cries as he is being born unaware of the new life of air which he will live.  He cries as he leaves the world of water, fearful there is no other way to live.

Going to the spirit world is leaving the world of limited love to one of unlimited love.  

The moment of death is the moment of a second birth.  That path is the path of ascension.

We should overcome death.

Death is not meant to be a sad occasion.  It is a leap into a new world.  An ascension.

Death is the process of change opening the way to a second life.

The secular world views death as the end of life.  But death really means to be born anew into another world.  Therefore, you should not be depressed, sad, or anxious when you think of death.

We should rejoice of this passage to the new world, with the idea of people being reborn in spiritual triumph after having lived a life for the sake of God's mission.

If you become immersed in sorrow or grief, this will only pull the spirit of a person who was on the way to heaven back down to earth.

This occasion of entering the spirit world is like a person being born to another world through the womb of the second mother which is the universe.

This also can be compared to a wedding ceremony.  How could this then be a sorrowful moment?  It is like an insect emerging from its cocoon, throwing away its hard shell and taking on a new form, becoming a new being, or a new essence.

The reason we must die is that our body's ability to love is limited. 

Our life on earth was meant for us to grow into maturity of love centered on God.

As God's true object partner in true love, to possess His God's true authority, our limited bodies will not suffice.  This is why we have to make the transformation to being an incorporeal spirit

Through this process, we are able to share the ideal of love equally with all of heaven and earth.

Therefore, the moment of death is not a path of pain, but instead it is the starting point of opening the gate of happiness, through which we can possess universal true love.

We must collect all of God's love that has been strewn all over our lifetime and take it with us to the spirit world.

That is what we received from our parents' love, shared the love of husband and wife and loved our children.

When a husband and wife unite and realize the three stages of love, when they go to spirit world, they become the eternal object partner to the God.  God is the ultimate subject partner.

This will take place when a husband and wife of true love pass away.  They begin with God and end with God.

Life on earth and the life in the spirit world are not separate.

Life in the spirit world is connected to earthly life.  Both are important.  But the people who live on earth today are not aware of eternal life.

Thus, they believe that this life on earth is so important.  That is the problem and situation of today's society.

Even after being taught this through Divine Principle, many people still do not deeply understand how greatly their actions on earth affect their eternal life.

Normally, humans stay in the mother's womb for nine months, are born and live on earth for a certain time then they die.

Therefore, lacking knowledge about the world after death, they fear death as they grow older.  This fear and anxiety grows as they age.

The spirit world is a place that is totally covered with the ingredients of love. 

The earth is immersed in air, but the spirit world is covered with love.

While we live on earth, we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.  In the spirit world they live inhaling love.  The love they give and receive in the spirit world is true love.

Once a person dies, they are to live in the spirit world for eternity.

As soon as a baby is born and breathes through his nose, this connects it to the second world.  That is the world of air.  In order to come into the world of air, we have to destroy the umbilical cord and the water bag where we lived in the womb.

At the time of death to the world of the womb, the baby is born to mother earth.

Then we eat with our mouth and breath with our noses.  The food that we eat on earth is just for the nutrition for the life of the physical body.  Food is not an essential element of spiritual life.

The key element of life is none other than love. 

Therefore, while we have our earthly life, we should inhale the air called love.

We should breathe the air of love we receive from our mother and father.

Since the first parents did not fulfill the requirements of building a palace of love, True Parents must open this palace in spirit world.  Then all beings in the entire spirit world will take their positions around it.

Once Adam and Eve, you and I, reach perfection and go to the spirit world, they will be God's body and God will be their mind.

Therefore, God will be invisible even in the spirit world.

God produced humanity as a way to reflect the mind and body of creation, the substantial world.

After looking around even the back streets of the spirit world, I found the principle of heaven and earth was something simple. In other words, the truth is simple. 

God enters where two things form a vacuum after uniting through the power of absolute energy.

He comes in and becomes the core of the bone marrow.   Here, man's love and woman's love strongly unite.  This is the core of the universe.  The ideal embodiments of love join together and form the axis of love.

Earthly and spirit world move facing each other.  When the earthly world goes up, so does the spirit world and vice versa.  When one side turns, the other side turns also.

We should live life deeply, feel these things and use them to benefit our eternal life.

Our eternal life and our present life are not divided.

Where do we eventually end up?

Spirit world has been called the world after death.

But in reality, it is not the world after death because it is a world related to love.


The spirit world began with true love; therefore, although I stand in the position of true love here and now, it is the same as being in the spirit world. This is why love is great. 

Thankfully, God created human beings in such a way that they can live forever intoxicated in true love.  Once we purely know this, then aging is not our enemy.  People begin with love, live with love and then harvest the fruits of love at death.

These are the loves we harvest: parents and children's love, shared conjugal love, loving our children, and together with God's love and all other internal loves, bear the fruit throughout our lives.  These loves we take with us to spirit world.

Have you wondered what the population of the spirit world might be?

When you think of the number of people on our side compared to the number of those in hell, do you think we will lose or win over the world?

When you go to the spirit world countless saints, sages and ancestors will get together to have a discussion.  They will wonder where you came from where did you live on earth?  Your grandfather and tens of thousands of ancestors will meet you.

Think about this: if they yelled at you for living such a dirty life can you feel good?

What will you bring as a special gift to the spirit world?

The martyred saints, loyal servants of God will be lined up in front of you.  Will you be able to confidently offer them anything from your earthly life?

The church has suffered greatly for the sake of the restoring the world into an ideal world of peace.  What kind of hardships for others have you gone through individually?

If you have not gone through as much as the saints have, how can you say that you live for the sake of the nation and the world?

You have indeed suffered, but I do not think of it as suffering. That is reasonable to say. There is a path still ahead of us. We should be able to go to the spirit world, open our bag, and say, "This is the gift I have been preparing my whole life to give. Please accept it." 

When a woman marries, she takes many things from her home to their new home.  Should you go empty-handed when you go to the Kingdom of Heaven?

Even though your body ages as you get older, the longer you live as husband and wife and the more you love one another, the younger your spirit gets.

This means that the longer a person lives, the more his or her spirit becomes a mature and beautiful man or woman of the higher degree.

What is life like in the spirit world?

Why do you think they do not worry about food, living or clothing there?  You do eat in the spirit world as well, did you know that?

Because everything you desire is possible according to the level of your spirit.

Even though you have a spiritual body it is the same.  When you touch yourself in spirit world, you will be able to feel your pulse, feel your blood flowing.

In the spirit world, you will not long for anything because nothing is missing.  You would only long for a true person.

Therefore, the meritorious servants who have made effort in order to raise a true person will naturally become sons and daughters of glory in the heavenly world.

There is nothing you can be proud of except this. 

Are you able to see your mind?  the spirit world is where you mind takes form. As many gurus profess in our time, your thoughts become immediate reality in spirit world.

It is a world that transcends time and space.  There, you can eat whenever you want and you do not have to worry about your food, water or about drinking.  There is no need to worry about clothes.

The spirit world is a place where you rise above the need for clothing, food and shelter. 

There are no car factories or textile factories there.

It is a place where you can move millions of miles in an instant.  What power can do that?  By the force of love.

If you want to see your loved one, he will appear before you.  You can go everywhere in the spirit world at any moment because there will be nothing to block your path there.

If you have the original characteristic of God, you should not be blocked.

Spirit world transcends time and space, therefore those who died millions of years ago are still there now.  They can be any age they choose.

The spirit world resembles a person.

God, who is the Subject, and the spirit world, which resembles a big person, will be united.

When the two unite, the entire spiritual and physical worlds will be euphoric.

When God laughs, the earth laughs, when God jumps, so will the earth.  That is how it should be.

There are no explanations or excuses there.  You will sense what is going on immediately at the slightest indication.  Nothing is hidden in spirit world. You will know the hierarchy of love.

It is different from the earthly world.  Those who have used deceit and slander to succeed will find that the situation is turned around there.

Deceitful people will face failure in the spirit world.  This is why you should follow the right way.

Whoever is in a higher position naturally stands in position according to that hierarchy.  This hierarchy is absolute.

What are you going to do in your lives? Let us leave behind a mound of love. 

If you live in a mound of love while on earth, then you will have no regrets once you pass to the next world.

Such a life will succeed forever.  God will bless you after living in such a way.  His sons and daughters will welcome you.

If the spirit world's atmosphere is true love, then you are unable to eat, breathe, or move if you did not practice true love while on earth.

Hell is the place where you cannot eat even though you see food.  You do not have the right to eat.  Even though you want to take action, you cannot move.

Only those who have led a life while on earth in which the spirit world and body become one in God's love can possess the heavenly kingdom or the eternal world of the ideal.

Those who were able to exercise the highest standard of love will be able to exercise God's authority in that world.  You need to love God more than the world, nation, your spouse or child.

Everything has to be born through love and shall live in love.  You should become filled with love by living for the sake of others.  

Once you have reached this standard, only then will you become the substantial being of God's hope which He has longed for throughout history.  You will be welcomed wherever you go in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Living in a family is preparation for you to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 

When you expand your family training in four directions, you create a realm in which love is practiced.

By living in this way you will go directly to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Because the spirit world is infinitely vast, you can travel even millions of miles instantly centered on love.

Love is the fastest.

When we compare the spirit world to earthly life, earth is like a speck of dust.  You do not realize how immense the spirit world is.

It is an infinite world that transcends time and space.

It is a world where your intuitive senses become reality.

If you were to say that you wanted such and such a person that was born and lived during such an age with such an heart, he would appear instantly.

God created the spirit world so beautiful, that you will never tire of looking at it even after a thousand years.  Even the best things found on earth are nothing in comparison to even a small corner of the spirit world.  You cannot even imagine it.

So, earth holds no interest for me. Honestly speaking, I want to go back because this earth does not fit my purpose.

If your heart is filled with love, when God looks at you, you shine brighter and brighter.  From God's point of view, this light is more beautiful than the light of a diamond.

The more He looks at it the more He loves it.  This is the reason God uses the term 'love'.

As we now know, the air in spirit world is love.  

Love is the essence of life. 

You do not breathe through your nostrils in that world, but through the top of your head and through all of your cells.

Thus, if you want to live such a free, full life in spirit world, you must first completely develop a character of love during your earthly life.

When you go to spirit world, you find that those who deeply experienced the love in their family between parents, husband and wife, brothers and sisters and children, they enjoy a great deal of freedom there.

They are able to go anywhere in any direction without restrictions.

On the contrary, those who have not had any experience of love, who are narrow-minded, will be isolated in spirit world and have no freedom.

In the spirit world, God's love is law. 

The spirit world is an eternal place that seeks eternal elements.

Thus, a spirit that deeply experienced love will be drawn like a magnet to that world automatically.

What kind of place is the spirit world?

Spirit world is a world or harmony where everything is made of love and packed with love.

Everyone wants a relationship of love.  This is because they desire this in order to be in rhythm with the spirit world.

Every person on the earth is moved by the power of love.

Everyone becomes an object partner to the power of love.  There would be no one who would not answer when asked with love.  Love can call upon everything to make it possible.  Love also has the power to make things reappear.

The spirit world, therefore, is a world of free and unrestricted movement where a heart filled with love makes everything possible.

You must be able to unite the spirit world.  If you are not able to control the spirit world, you cannot unite the earth.  Therefore, world peace is not possible until this is first accomplished on the individual level.

If Heavenly fortune comes from heaven, how can those who are unable to control heaven unite the world?

Before we could ever think about uniting the world, we must first unify spirit world.

You are resurrected human beings of history who have been born from your ancestors, resembling them. 

How long has history gone on?

Science says that human history is hundreds of thousands of years.  All of history has been working hard to create this one person who is you.

If you are a Kim, you can think of all the countless ancestors of the Kim family that have come and gone in order for you to be born.

So, we are the fruit of history.

You should visit your grandparents grave thinking of them as God.  Up to this point in history, people in the spirit world have been divided.

Things do not connect horizontally.  They partly connect vertically.

In the spirit world, a murderer and their murder victims are gathered together glued through the revengeful emotions of the victim.  Even if the victim was a good person, they are tied forever to their murderer out of the need to seek revenge.

They fight with knives against the perpetrators.  This is why there are so many barriers blocking the way.  Sometimes these evil spirits go to their enemies' descendants on earth and cause them to have fatal accidents.

These problems must be resolved in the earthly world.

You on earth have to offer a better solution, a more pleasing offer so the evil spirit with resentment can see it as more important than someone's death.

More important than whatever it was that caused them to have such hate seething with revenge.

People go toward the spirit world.

Spirit world is like the sea.  Everyone has no choice but to go there.

Just as there are currents in the sea, there is unparalleled harmony taking place there.

The tide of the sea bring beings of harmony and change that are not found in the fresh water.  Just as there are countless fish families in the sea, there are countless new families of heaven and earth in the spirit world.  It is the same when you go to the spirit world.

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True Love Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three Chapter 5, section 1

Why Do We Marry?

Marriage is being placed in question these days, so it is fitting to ask why do we marry?

With a large amount of marriages being unhealthy, unhappy and on its way to divorce, what is the appeal to still get married in this day and age?

Many are ignoring the notion of being with one partner for life, yet many are still tying the knot.

Many answer, "I married to receive love".  Has anyone answered that they married in order to give their love?

Someone would say this in our current time because this is the age of action.  Women should be thinking in terms of giving in love instead of receiving love.  Men should give from the position of Yang and women in position of Yin.  This give and take action moves toward a life centered on that love.

You should support and stand behind your husband for his success.  Husband must be prepared to go a hard course, over the back path of wife.

A woman who wishes her husband to be strong and healthy is even willing to go hungry for his well being.  As he encourages you, you should push him forward in return.  Woman should do the same for her husband.  A husband and wife who do this create a spherical form.  Then thy meet in the center of the sphere.


Why Men and Women Were Born? 

It has a simple answer. Men were born for women and women were born for men. It is as simple as that.  Were we born to fight each other?  No, we were born to love others.

How much do spouses like each other?  With love for the spouse, knowledge and material possession or anything int he environment are not important.  How much do you love your wife?  When you truly love your spouse you can forgive anything and even though they might make you angry you should not leave that sphere.  We must understand this and remember that moment of love that first drew you together.  If you or your spouse ever leave this realm of love, the universe will chase you out.


Flowers Must Give Off a Fragrance First

Should women chase men or should men chase after women?

Women physiologically reach maturity before men and this is why men are less enlightened and this is why they are insensitive after the Fall of man.  Women give off a fragrance first.  As a flower sends forth its fragrance to attract the butterflies.  This law of nature applies to women as well.

At the age of 15 or 16 girls begin to look for their partner wondering where he is and make a big fuss.

Is there a difference between the love of a man or woman in love?  During a thunderstorm does the loud clap we hear as the result of the positive charge and the negative charge at the same time or different time.  They occur at the same time.

When there is a love current between man and woman wouldn't they become one or stay separate?


Love Travels the Shortest Distance


God is in the world of spirit, how do we know if God likes love or not?  Can people observe an electric current flowing through a cord just by looking at it?  We can find out with an electric tester and physical senses.  although electricity appears invisible to our eyes, we can feel it stimulate our senses.

The same applies to love.  An unfallen perfected person would be able to sense God's feelings.  They will feel sad when God is sad automatically and when God is happy they would feel happy, also.

When we hear a story of a person who desires to have love with tears, your own heart suddenly fills with emotions because we have the same elements.  We are all filled with common elements.  If God was crying with an aching heart or unhappy for anything other than for humanity because His purpose for creation isn't fulfilled we would probably deny and kick him out.

God is loving and cries for us and we give Him sympathy and help.  This is how the world of love eternally works.

Centered on love, especially centered on greater love, if there was a man who wanted to work more passionately, then people around him, which is the family, nation and world, would be eager to move according to his will.

Mankind should connect to heaven and earth vertically while horizontally connection to nation and the the world by each doing their part.  The whole world will be moved in this way.  The Messiah goes this way up to the world level.  On his way back, even the people who opposed him before would now welcome him.  This is how things evolve and the way of heaven and earth.  God and the Messiah have been moving the same way, vertically and horizontally.


Where does horizontal and vertical meet? They meet at a 90-degree angle.  man and woman represent the horizontal plane and there is only one absolute way they can simultaneously come together, not two ways.  Since love travels the shortest distance, centered upon love, the horizontal and vertical end up meeting at a 90-degree angle.  A 91-degree angle means they travel a longer distance.

Perpendicularity is connected to absoluteness. 

Why is it perpendicular at the place where love abides?  Centered on love, to be perpendicular, love should travel the shortest distance. When you go to meet the person you love, do you go slowly, as you would to meet your next-door neighbor, or as straight as a bullet?

Even if it is night, day, spring or fall, however long human history is, love will always travel the shortest distance.


It is so that a point in the highest position can be connected to a point in the lowest position through the shortest distance. That is why love travels the shortest distances in this universe. That is why it is a vertical line that connects high and low positions at a perpendicular position. Do you follow?

Love Grows Bigger in Circular Motion


Do you need love? (Yes)


Within your body, what part wants to see and touch love first.  What is the antenna of love?  It is man's convex and woman's concave.  When these two parts come together it becomes round and then disappears.  This is true with everything.

For example, a positive electric charge comes together to meet a negative electric charge and creates a thunderstorm, then returns to neutral.  They go back to where they were.

Love works in a circular motion, it does not become smaller but becomes bigger and bigger.  Love has the desire to grow into bigger and greater love and seek family-level love instead of individual love.  In our own live we seek family love rather than individual-level love.  We not only need our family but our community or tribe.  The individual lives for the family to connect to the bigger world of love.  The family is for the society, the society for the nation, nation for world, world for the cosmos and the cosmos is for God and then God is for love.


God came into existence for the sake of love

That's why all beings that exist on earth want to be absorbed by love.

Does mankind want the same thing? For example, there are two people living together as husband and wife. Even though the husband loves the wife very much, if a greater love comes to the wife, then she will want to go to where there is more love.

Even if a husband loves his wife very much, if a greater love comes to the wife, she will want to go toward the greater love.  If he has greater love than he can detach her from the other love.  If one realizes that their spouse can embrace people of the nation and world, it is all right for him or her to leave the family and it will not be a bad thing.

Even if a wife begs her husband with tears, her husband still may leave his wife and children for the sake of bigger love.  Those who move forward for the sake of bigger love are the people closest to God.  This is why we call it goodness.  No one wants to pick the smaller love or a bad one.  This is a common universal concept of ownership and applies equally to everyone and is centered on love.

The original quality of love of an American mother is the same as a Korean mother.  We cannot begin to fathom the concept of unification without love.

Is the love of an American husband different from a Japanese husband and wife?  If the wife sheds tears for her husband and years for him, would her tears different while the other person's are bright with true heart.

They are the same.

The tears of an oriental wife and the tears of a Western wife is the same color and they both taste salty.    If yours are sweet then they are both sweet.  Isn't this correct?  If all human tears are the same, that means they are unchanging.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Starting Point of Love


Textbook: The Way for a True Child Section, "The View of True Love Between Man and Woman"

The Love Man and Woman Desire

"In your life's journey, the loveliest and most beautiful time is your youth. In youth, your looks are like the most precious flower. Someone who can love fully can be invited into God's living room. A man and a woman who have such love can receive God's blessings and be invited into His living room." 

What is the definition of human happiness?

Can we say someone is happy because they have a lot of money or diamonds and jewelry?

The only way to happiness is to experience the joy of your partner whispering in your ear while you are both enraptured in love.  This is a truly happy couple that can do this.  A couple that enjoys a partner softly whispering in their ear while caressing their earlobe would think that they were dreaming.

Our youth is the happiest time of our life.  It is the time we are still blooming radiantly and bursting virtually with love.  This is also the time to unite in love with another.

An ideal person does not search for someone who is just absorbed into the love of a man and woman relationship.  Rather, this person would search for a partner that first loves God, the world and then loves you with his or her remaining love.

When we look at this principle of the universe, we see that we have fallen away from this idea. We mostly look for a love that can fulfill only our needs, but true love wants to give unceasingly to the other and the world.

True happiness for a woman is to meet her true subject partner in love. 

If a man searches with seriousness for a love while he is single, others will only view him as a crazy man.  No matter how talented or handsome this man or woman may be, it is of no use to anyone if there is no love to be found.

Men and women have opposite attributes and personalities to the other.

Women are uni-directional, while men are multi-directional.  Mostly the man travels around the world while women stay home.   What can unite men and women as subject and object partners?  They unite through love.  This love also unites humankind and God.

The reason God created humankind was for the perfection of the ideal of love.  Therefore, the relationship between God and humankind is the highest example of love to be found between a subject and an object partner.

So, when will humankind reach this perfection of love?

It will only happen when man and woman reach a point where they will make a connection of love and understand the extreme value of this love and cherish it.

Even though a man may be very handsome and healthy, this does not carry any meaning if he does not have a woman.  A man who is only occupied with his great looks and the health of his body is useless.

Many men have caused our tragic history because of their self-centered lives.  God's providence of restoration to lead the world back into His direct dominion has been to transform this self-centered world back into his ideal world or Utopia.

Therefore, the best idea in the world is a man for a woman and a woman for a man.  So, the love that charms a man won't be found in another man or a woman won't be enchanted by the love of another woman.  It may have seem this way in our revolutionary lifestyles of America, but we are speaking of the absolute true love of God.

Do you long for love when you are alone?

When a man loves a woman with God's love, he should be able to say, "I love her inside and out.  We share a love that will not change from beginning to end".

A woman should preserve and keep her body sealed to reveal and share such a love.  She should close it like a peony flower that is wrapped in many layers.  This way, the couple will be able to experience the harmony of heaven and earth in spring and start a new life in unity and do this well.

Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon highlights this point during his speech:

"Among the flowers, which do you think is the most beautiful?

I don't know what kind of flowers you like, but I like flowers that look like a trumpet. The reason is that trumpet-looking flowers send their fragrances far away.

Trumpet-looking flowers represent deep love. Flowers must look like a trumpet if their fragrances are to spread far. For this reason, the more a flower resembles a trumpet, the more fragrance it has.

So if women are like flowers, they should have a deep heart of love. Flowers with beautiful fragrances are loved by all people. 

Lilies, for example, are loved for their simplicity and elegance. I think the clear and elegant lilies are aesthetically and emotionally rich flowers because their stems aid leaves have the same color so it is difficult to distinguish which is which.

Likewise, ladies should be like morning glories and lilies. They should be clear and elegant flowers."SMM

Every girl, no matter how pretty, after adolescence has a most precious time of her life when her beauty truly flowers.  Is there any woman who can say she is happy and rather be alone than to be with the ideal man?

This is not the definition of a woman.  What about a man?  Is there any during this time of youth that rather live alone than share love with an ideal woman?  At that time, they are more likely to look for a partner.

Why?

It is because we resemble God.  During our adolescence, it is the best time to look for a life partner.  This is true for both men and women alike.  There is nothing of creation that was brought about for its own sake.

Why do men exist?

Men would say they are not interested in questions or discussions about relationships and they rather live alone, but man was born for the sake of women.  Without women, there is no reason for man to exist. 

When we look at the five senses of our ears, nose, mouth, eyes, and hands and truly observe, we can see that they are there for the sake of our partner?  Can we look into our own eyes without looking in a mirror?

Our five senses are tools of true love, created for the sake of true love.

Some American women might not want to hear this, but the most precious thing for a woman is a man.  It doesn't matter if he is plain, crippled, talented or not.  What matters is which man she can find a love that has value.

God will rejoice over a relationship where a man loved by God lives in the heart of a woman and a woman loved by God lives in the heart of a man.  When this couple cherishes each other God and all things will be happy together.

Their joyful embrace will be of great importance in bringing joy to heaven and earth.  Such a couple that embraces in mutual adoration is a meeting point where the universe becomes one.  This was the original ideal which God had wanted to realize with Adam and Eve.

Woman is not born for the sake of another woman just as man was born for the sake of a woman.  The problem occurs when a woman convinces herself that she does not need or is not born for the sake of a man.

Women and men can protests and argue all day and night that they do not need the opposite sex, but God, the great master of the creation made this as an original rule.  You and I will not be able to enter the true, joyful and peaceful world of love without following this rule.

Women should be careful not to give sidelong glances at the countless men in the world.

Fidelity is more precious than your life.

Have you noticed that the most horrendous crimes have started because of the passion from the misuse of love?

Women in this new era will open up a path that will resonate throughout history.  This path will be loved by the husband, sons and daughters, by the nation, even loved by the world.

Women should undertake the solemn task of establishing a basis from which the beauty, nobility, and emotional tradition of women can shine forth. In order to accomplish this, you should give your utmost heart as a truthful and genuine person. 

The most beautiful time in life is young adulthood when the flower is in full bloom.  This period is from the age of eighteen to twenty-four.  This precious time will never be repeated in your life when the beautiful flower of your love will blossom.  

A peony is a type of flower that the buds are wrapped tightly in dozens of layers so they cannot be up easily.  This is true for both men and women.  When is the best time to reveal this bud of love that blossoms?

The time of youth is the best time to reveal your beauty within the harmony of heaven and earth.  This is when the blossoms are at their peak and you shine as the centerpiece of God's great work of art.  This is the time when you will be in full bloom under God's blessings.

Do not defile your purity of heart during this time of youth.  This time is the time to reverse the selfish love of Adam and Eve who lost their heart of pure love in their youth.

Your determination should be firm enough to say that even if you have to wait thousands of years for love you will absolutely keep it pure and not abuse this gift.  If you are able to not defile your holy pure heart by the dirtied, stained fallen world, where would be the best place to place your heart?  Place it on the altar that brings God the greatest joy.

This holy ground where a man and woman both with a pure heart meet can become bound as one.  This is a place where the bride and groom meet.

Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Sacrifice 4 Love

This text was rewritten and taken from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three - True Love written by the founder of the Family Federation

Chapter Three - Love and Marriage

Don't Look For Love, Give It

God is our Parent. Then why did He create us? God’s creation of humankind started from the place participating  in love. Humans started from God’s mind, growing up in God’s bosom of love, becoming mature in
God’s bosom, and making the family which can connect with the love of the world. Through that, they come to return to God’s bosom.

—Sun Myung Moon


You don't have to look for love ever, there is already an abundance all around you.  God has given us love directly on the physical plane where no human should ever be alone, ever.  If you were to look at nature itself, you should never be without love even glancing at a tree or a leaf for it itself is looking for love from humans. 

This is how God created all of creation, for the love of humans.  Then to look at the people all around you that you encounter everyday, you may not like any of them, but there is an wealth of love in even the most evil person waiting to be awakened.

Have your ever thought that a baby is not born knowing automatically how to love others?  Just like a baby has to learn to walk, True Love must also be learned.  Each person must cultivate his or her capacity to love truly.

How?  What environment lets love grow and flourish?  How does one practice the true way of love while on the earth.  Is it performed through just being nice or acts of kindness?  Is there a blueprint we can all follow that helps us lead a true life of love in which all men seek

There is one easy step for all of us to learn how to love.

In order to get love, we must give it, time and time again and forget that we had even given...then give again.  This is the 'secret' which all the saints, great leaders and those who sacrificed throughout the centuries used to help change the world one footstep at a time.

Jesus was the ultimate person who exhibited true love and sacrificed his life for those in his time and generations thereafter even though those in his time did not know the quality of the person they were persecuting.

Fortunately, many sources suggest that the cultivation of true love over a lifetime may be broken down into three essential pursuits:

1. Attain individual maturity
2. Through experiencing family and close relationships
3   Contribute to the world

These three pursuits are the fertile ground to cultivate true love.  They serve as direction, give purpose and are a framework for a life lived for the sake of others -  a life rich in true love.  One's life does not diminish when they sacrifice to love and live for others, rather they obtain a unique higher quality and gain more while giving of themselves.


God's Three Great Blessings

The Three Great Blessings  are gifts granted by the Creator for the fulfillment of human life.

Reverend Moon notes their Biblical derivation from the three orders given to Adam at the beginning of the world and again to Noah, when God had hopes of beginning the world anew: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Gen. 1.28 KJV).

Just like the earth, the Blessings Adam and Eve were to receive once they had establish unity with God are to be founded forever.  Billions of generations later were to acquire these gifts.  These Blessings are the universal and enduring pattern for human life and are the means by which we all become true humans who can relate directly to God.

These Blessings is what separates man from the animal and other kingdoms.  They endow us with the potential for a lordship of love.

The Three Great Blessings may be summarized in the following way: The first, “Be fruitful,” may be interpreted as the exhortation to achieve mature character, to become a well-integrated, Godly person capable of loving others. Just as an immature tree cannot bear fruit, so an immature person cannot bear the “fruits” of a loving spirit: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Galatians 5.22-23).

When God gave the second blessing to multiply, it meant to create a warm united marriage and family and to multiply His Godly lineage.  The third blessing was to "replenish and subdue" the earth and to "have dominion over it".

This does not mean to destroy the earth as a master, but to care for the creation God labored to invested for His children.  This last blessing gives you and me the responsibility to create a prosperous world where all humanity and the creation do not suffer, but flourish in a reciprocal relationship.

First Blessing: Mature Character

True love requires a good and mature character as its foundation. 

Although love is often thought of merely as a warm, pleasurable, sweet feeling that arises spontaneously, it is easily seen that various loves depend upon character. Well-developed character enables love; poorly developed character disables it.

For instance, for one to be a patriot with a love for country, one is required to have the virtue of self-sacrifice when their nation calls.  Love of  a friend requires one to be selfless and have consideration of others.

Love of a child requires one to devote themselves and be consistent over a long period of time.  Love of a brother or sister requires one to be caring, supportive, dependable and have honesty as their basic quality.  These love all call for the virtues of a good character.

Romantic love is one of the most confusing loves of all.  It would be rare if a woman thought her man loved her if he was always sitting on the couch watching television or playing video games.  If he refused to pick her up from the train station and told her to get a cab instead, she think he did not love her.

It would be hard for an elderly couple to have stayed together for 50 years without some admiration or appreciation for each other's internal qualities. Especially to have patience and understanding of the other's fault and still love.  In this day in age when beauty, youth and sexual attraction are highly rated for a couple, when these qualities fade with time, character continues to shine.

"Love flounders without the underpinnings of character strengths or virtues."

Author Don DeMarco said:

Love would be impotent if it were not for the various virtues that withstand attendant difficulties and deliver their message of love where love is needed .

"What would the world be like with a soldier who did not possess courage, a doctor without care, a teacher without patience, a parent without prudence, a spouse without fidelity, a priest without faith, a leader without determination, a magistrate without integrity and a friend without loyalty are all partners to futility, not because they lack love, but because they lack the virtue to express it."

Love and a person's character are connected.  A relationship benefits more with people of mature character supplemented with a moral identity and who contribute to the world than those who are immature, selfish and are conflicted within.

The person who lacks a mature character spends many hours of dissatisfaction\ and inner struggle. The person’s relationship with him- or herself is a disharmonious and uncomfortable one, often leading to strife in relationships with others.

An immature person is mostly dissatisfied in every situation and is always in conflict with relationships with others and with themselves.  They live a disharmonious life and are always uncomfortable and make other's life just as uneasy to live.

"Mature character is a prerequisite for joy and peace. Only those of mature and virtuous characters are able to enjoy and share fully the fruits of true love."

Reverend Moon said, “It is when the divine soul or mind becomes the master of the human body that a person’s love can become God-centered. It is as if God’s mind were coming to dwell within that person.”

Reverend Moon calls this state of character maturity “mind and body unity.” Such integrity is the ultimate requirement for true love to flow.

Second Blessing: Multiply Love

The second blessing to multiply sometimes is only noted to have more children.

There is more than just extending the lineage through marriage and children.  It means to embody one's love and on an internal level multiply to others the love that one has cultivated in their life.  To one's horizon of love unselfishly.  A world based on the culture of heart is heaven on earth.

The way to spread one's mature love is through marriage.  Marriage provides one to have a primary person in which to share the fruits of their love, one who is different emotionally, physically and spiritually yet can be their counterpart in love.

Reverend Moon claims that love cannot be complete without a member of the opposite sex. He says:

"You men here are wonderful, proud people, yet . . . in reality your love cannot be seen or proven until you meet a woman. A woman is the one who will awaken your love.  You can insist that you have love and try to prove it, but no one will see that love until the day it is sparked by a woman."

When a couple decides to marry, this pure love will inspire the couple to have children and care for them expanding their parameters of love to embrace yet more 'others'.  When one establishes loving relationships between their family members, they are growing closer to God through living for the sake of others beginning with their family.

As Jack Kornfield, a student and teacher of Buddhism said:

“The sacrifices of a family are like those of any demanding monastery, offering exactly the same training in renunciation, patience, steadiness, and generosity.”

A good family life is the first place where one cultivates the capacity for warmth, care and commitment.  Every human thrives on the joy which is inherent in loving relationships of every kind. The warm concern of a mother's love, the friendship of siblings and the sexual intimacy shared between a couple in marriage.

To learn how to love others in a true way, they must first learn through the loving interaction of family members first.

This is labeled the four realms of heart within the four aspects of the family: child's realm of heart for the parents, sibling's realm, spouses realm and the parents' realm of heart for the children.

These four realms of heart is the basis which affect a person's future relationships with others outside the context of the family. This is how one multiplies the level of the first love found in within the family to the others in society.


The Third Blessing: Prosperous World 

The desires to make a contribution to society and to appreciate and care for the natural world are outgrowths of humankind’s endowment of the Third Great Blessing to make a prosperous world.

Using Biblical language, the third blessing is to have dominion and authority over another.  In the true sense, this blessing is to exercise a caring leadership over the creation which is yet another way to give love to others.

Nature is the 'other' to be loved in this blessing so that future generations will benefit from the earth's precious resources.

The author of the Divine Principle and speeches which this blog is based upon, urges people to think of future generations in their everyday use of water, disposables, and money. Conservation, he says, is a way of loving others who are not yet born

In return of humanity nurturing the earth, it nurtures us.

"Martin Luther King once said that due to the inventions, innovations, sacrifices, and genius of people the world over, we are indebted to many:

Whether we realize it or not, each of us is eternally ‘in the red.  We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women . . . When we arise in the morning, we go into the bathroom where we reach for a sponge which is provided for us by a Pacific islander.

We reach for soap that is created for us by a Frenchman. The towel is provided by a Turk. Then at the table we drink coffee which is provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs we are beholden to more than half the world.

Feeling grateful and responsible to the world makes us consider the best use of precious resources, ways to more equally distribute wealth, food, and health care, and ways in which to bring our unique gifts to bear on the world’s problems.

These are God’s concerns, for, as Jesus said, when we do not feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and imprisoned, we are ignoring him.

The third key purpose brings us closer to a kingdom that includes all that lives and which returns the gifts and talents human beings have been endowed with to benefit the world as a whole."


Return for Tomorrow's Post: What is True Love?

This text was rewritten and derived from the Textbook: True Love, Chapter "Love and Life's Purposes".

Every Human Born Into Satan's Lineage

We already know this statement to be true, even if in theory.  We know every human is born with sin, has elements of the fall and have to be linked to a Messiah to be saved.  With elements of sin, we are not born into God's pure lineage.  Whose lineage are we born into?  Mary's?

As human beings, you and I were endowed to have dominion even over the angels. That blessing that God had given us has always been our possession.  Satan has tried for millions of years to hide the secrets to open this truth - but with the Messiah's victory, we can begin the process of restoring humanity back to the position before the occurence of the fall.

I suppose this is why we love movies such as this that show the power of man so often that is hidden through super hero movie and countless fantasies.

With the tools of religion and the truth of the Returned Messiah, we can faithfully march forward to rid ourselves of Satan's influence individually and on a family level.

Is this going to be an easy task? Satan has been trying to cover up his true crime since the Garden of Eden. If what happened in the Garden was a literal fruit, then it would be impossible for God to reverse a sin that we as human would inherit for eternity.

The fruit was not literal and we have been attached to Satan's fallen lineage through the blood line. How do you attach through the blood line?

If this already seems heretical, then maybe it is too much for now. I have been studying these 1,000 volume text daily and faithfully for over 7 years because I want to get rid of satan substantially not just conditionally. As a faithful christian, I found just praying and keeping myself sexually pure wasn't enough against the forces of darkness in which you, I and the world are attacked.

Do you think if I only mildly had the truth I would proclaim such a large message about Satan? Everyday, God reveals more truth about the world we live in and I'm coming to see that we barely have been taught less than one percent of the truth.

It would be impossible for anyone to live in this current world completely attached to God's word for they would never be able to see people, watch television, or look at another human. Simple habits we encounter daily  keep us attached to Satan's dominion over us without us even knowing it.

We are fortunate to live in the Last Days where the war between God and Satan will ultimately be won by God through the blood, sweat and tears of his faithful soldiers - you and me.

Responsibility comes with this knowledge and I have witnessed the Divine Principle to my family, friends and everyone I come in contact with and now I am passing this to you my brother and sister.

We must first begin with God's ideal. The current world that we live is not God's ideal of creation, but if we look at God's point-of-view of history, we can see His mighty works to restore humanity back to its original position.


God's Original Plan

The Kingdom of Heaven on earth is a restored world in which Satan can no longer instigate any activity. To realize this world, it is necessary for all humanity to eliminate their common base with Satan and not engage in give and take action with him. This pertains to the prophecy that in the Last Days God will confine Satan in a bottomless pit signifies that Satan will be utterly incapable of any activity, since there will no longer be any counterparts with whom Satan can relate.

That means that you and I have completely eradicated our ties to Satan and humanity no longer is influenced by his works.   

We as a religious community must be honest to the fact that even if we follow God's laws, have daily devotions, are saved, and devout to God's word, you are still surrounded daily by Satan's dominion and influences throughout your walk of life. There will be a day where we will battle with Satan as a united front on God's side and these influences will no longer be our burden.

What a great day this will be for God and humanity!

God is the owner, and we human beings are His sons and daughters. Angels, on the other hand, were created as God’s servants; hence they are also the servants of His children. This was not indefinite. There was a growing period for angels as well as humans. They were to grow to a higher level as they taught humans about the creation. Then they would receive God's love through perfected humans.  Instead we know the outcome. Among all the angels, the archangel Lucifer was the closest to God as well as to Adam and Eve.

Satan knew all the stories behind the scenes. During the process of creating the universe, prior to the creation of Adam and Eve, God would discuss things with the archangel and send him to do his errands. In other words, the archangel was like a servant of a wealthy lord. He was also in the position of a servant to his master’s children, no matter how young or immature they were.

God created the angelic world and assigned Lucifer (Isa. 14.12) to the position of archangel. Lucifer was the channel of God’s love to the angelic world, just as Abraham was the channel of God’s blessing to the Israelites. In this position, he virtually monopolized the love of God.

However, after God created human beings as His children, He loved them many times more than He had ever loved Lucifer, whom He had created as His servant. In truth, God’s love toward Lucifer did not change; it was the same before and after the creation of human beings. Yet when Lucifer saw that God loved His children more than he, Lucifer felt as if there had been a decrease in the love he received from God. This situation is similar to that in the biblical parable of the laborers in the vineyard.

(Matt. 20.1-15) Although the laborers who had worked since morning received a fair wage, when they saw that those who came later and worked less received just as much, they felt underpaid. Lucifer, feeling as though he were receiving less love than he deserved, wanted to grasp the same central position in human society as he enjoyed in the angelic world, as the channel of God’s love.

This was why he seduced Eve, and this was the motivation of the spiritual fall.

Satan's Curse

God cursed the fallen angel, saying, “Upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.” (Gen. 3.14) “Upon your belly you shall go” means that the angel would become a miserable being, unable to function properly or to perform its original service. To “eat dust” means that ever since the angel was thrown down from heaven (Isa. 14.12, Rev. 12.9), he has been deprived of life elements from God.

Instead, he has had to subsist on evil elements gleaned from the sinful world.
 

Evil started from Satan, who infused into Eve the attitude, “I am the subject; I am the center.” It started with the mentality to boast of oneself, which is evil. God’s original Principle of Creation is, “Live for the sake of others.”

Satanic fallen human nature is, “Live for myself.” You must know the origin of good and evil clearly. Evil people expect others to live for them; God wants to tear down this nature. Jesus also wants to tear it down; that is why he taught: Do not be arrogant, live for others and serve others.

The Fall means that human beings fail to connect with God’s vertical true love and cannot fulfill horizontal true love in their relationships with others. This is because the archangel Lucifer invaded human horizontal love.
 

As the result of the Fall, God lost His children, and we were born into a dysfunctional life, suffering from conflict between mind and body. On this condition, the Devil can inappropriately subjugate human beings as our false father.

Due to the Fall, human beings could not become temples of God; instead, they united with Satan and became his dwelling places to use as he pleased. By being united with Satan, they failed to cultivate the divine nature; instead, they acquired an evil nature. People with evil nature have propagated evil through their children, constituting evil families, evil societies and an evil world.

This is the hell on earth in which we have been living. In this hell, we cannot properly form cooperative horizontal relationships with one another because our vertical relationships with God have been severed. We perform deeds harmful to others because we cannot feel the pain and suffering of our neighbors as our own.

Since humans are living in hell on earth, after shedding their physical body, they naturally enter hell in the spirit world. We have not built the Kingdom of God, but instead established the sovereignty of Satan. For this reason, Satan is called the “ruler of this world” (John 12.31) and the "god of this world" 2 Cor. 4.4

That is why God had sent hundreds of saints and prophets in a desperate effort to give His children weapons against Satan through His word.  That is why He has brought the Messiah to our time so we may unite with him and completely eradicate and sever all ties to Satan and finally fulfill the promise of the three great blessings and bring this world of peace into reality.    This is God's one dream.

 

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This text comes from World Scripture II, the section is called "Evil Sin and the Human Fall". This book took 30 years of research to write. It coordinates verses and sayings of philosophers, religious text to show how they all have the same purpose - to bring the higher truth of God for His children to practice to align themselves with Him and be released from Satan.