Why Do We Like the Concept Family?

As we witness the chaos of the world, instability in jobs, and relationships, there is one relationship that never changes no matter what - family.

Your siblings, mother, father and extended family will always be tied together by blood ties.

God made this unit of relationships that teach us how to love brothers and sisters, the elderly and the young of the world.

So, why do we like the family?

It is because family provides a base to freely exchange happiness.

This is why we yearn for our hometown where we grew up.  It is the place where our parents and siblings live.

The family is originally a good place.  Why is it good?

Because your parents, siblings and relatives are there.  Therefore, we become homesick for our native land, our hometown.

People think more about their hometown than they think of their nation.  Even living in a large city like New York, people long for their hometown.

Why do you like your families?

It is because the family becomes a free activity center for their parents' love.

God must be able to act freely there.

When God comes upon a society full of people who are more driven internally, and have the shining core of love no matter how shabby they may be, God will be able to act freely around them.

Do you feel uneasy when you visit someone else's home?

Like you are out of place?  This is because there has not been a bond of love established there for you.
You will feel awkward in someone else's dwelling because the love between the people there does not emanate in all four directions but just between the family members.

This was not the original role of the family. Thus we are destined to walk a path in oneness, unity.

The best thing is not decided by you?

Then what would hold the highest value in the family?  

The parents.

You as an individual could have great wealth, knowledge, respect and power, but none of these attributes are superior to the parents' position.

Your spouse would come next and then your children.  When it comes to your family, is there anything more valuable in life than your parents, spouse or children?  There is nothing more precious.

Why do we like our spouse, our parents and our children?

Because love is there.

Parental love is something absolutely needed by the children. 

Also, fraternal love and filial love of the children are absolutely necessary in the family.

Then who are the most beloved people in your families?  Wouldn't they be your parents?  Why do you like them most?

This is because throughout your lives, they are the closest to you in a relationship of love.  Then your beloved spouse comes next.

If husband and wife come to love each other unconditionally rather than set on conditions or circumstances, that love will be the greatest thing that will bring happiness and harmony into the family.

Even if it may not be closely related to an eternal love that is absolutely given by Heaven.  If this love becomes one, that reciprocated between the husband and wife, that is the greatest love in the family.

This is how I see it. Filial love, the love children have toward their parents, is next. If children can sacrifice themselves for their parents and love them with a bright and positive attitude rather than despair, while longing for ideal circumstances in which their love can sprout as the hope of tomorrow, that love will be one with pure and true value for the happiness of that family. 


Thus, if the family that is complete with true parental love, true conjugal love and true filial love, centered on God, then we can only conclude that it is the most ideal family in the world.  A true family.

The Family Is the Base of Eternal Happiness

On what basis can we say that someone is a truly a happy person in our daily life?

Is someone happy because they have some special talent, hold any power or authority?  Do these things alone make a person happy?  They cannot.

Also, can a person that has a lot of money be totally happy because they do not have to envy what others have? No.

Could a person become happy because they obtained a global amount of knowledge or hold some control over the world at will?

As we see in today's climate that, this is not the case.  People cannot truly become happy with just those things.

Even if they do so momentarily, happiness will not be eternal by going this route.  What happens the moments that these material objects are lost?  Can they maintain that state?

Such external things will never be the source of eternal happiness even if a person acquires enough wealth that they do not envy anyone in heaven and earth and sing songs of joy.

They will still feel a gaping hole in their soul and yearn for even more.

Material things may be a means to find happiness, but they are not able to be happiness itself.

Then, what is determined in order to feel happiness?

You must have a beloved spouse, parents and children.  Nobody can deny that the original way to happiness is through the creation of a true family.

We may see that if we lack one of them, we feel sorrow and dissatisfaction will inevitably remain in our hearts.

All people on earth generally feel that the family is a base of happiness. 

A family must have parents as the head of it, like the president of a nation.

People who grow up without parents are called orphans and are seen as pitiful people.  It is pitiful for one to not have parents or a spouse.

The family has parents and a conjugal bond at the same time.

However much the spouses may have loved each other, there will be utter pain and misery when one of them loses the other.

It is the same for when a couple cannot conceive children.

The family must have parents, spouse and children in order to become the foundation for eternal happiness.

God's original purpose for seeking to restore humankind was for His own happiness.

This establishment of happiness cannot take place apart from human beings.  At that point of convergence, it can only be brought about through God's relationship with them.

When all of the ingredients needed for our emotional well-being are present in our family, God also wants to feel happiness in such a setting.

From where does happiness arise?  What kind of setting will allow us to sing songs of joy?  It is in the setting of the family.

This family happiness cannot be attained if there are emotional problems, or if there is no heart or love experienced between the family members.

If a couple cannot have children, also, there cannot be any happiness there.

This is the same for children who do not have parents.  There will be no joy for them.

Where there is a man, there will have to be a woman as his partner. 

This same truth is for the woman.

The husband and wife desire to keep their love at a higher dimension within their subject-object relationship.  Further, they must have children.

A unified family is only realized once a couple has parents above them and children below them.  A family is united vertically (spirit) and horizontally (physical) in this way.

Then upon whom does this family center?

We already know that we center the idea of unity based solely on human beings.

But this method is impossible for two separate beings to come together eternally since they alone cannot pursue a higher value.

But if there is an absolute Subject Partner of love, then the parents will want to become one with this Subject Partner as their center.

That center where all of the family members become one in love, is a place of happiness and hope.

Everything must then be brought into oneness and unified through something more valuable and stimulating.

This is not possible based on our human love alone, but only from God, the true subject partner.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four Chapter Eleven, Section 1 and 2.

Everyone Desires Good

What do you think people ultimately want out of life?

The American dream is mainly focused on happiness based on material gain.  As we take a look at the country's current status, we see that this pursuit has left the once flourishing Christian nation as a soulless land full of selfishness and immorality.

There must be a higher standard which we all wish to achieve beyond the material world.

Every soul desires to become true parents who raise sons and daughters who are able to go straight to the heavenly kingdom without persecution from the satanic world.

Even evil parents wish their children well, and hope to see the day that they, too become good parents.  Every child wishes for parents who are loving.  Isn't this our original nature? 

Of course, this has not happened all throughout history.  We only witness the tragic situation of false parents.  Who can deny this?

What parents wishes to have a child born of evil, where reckless behavior and rebellion abound?  We each want to have the best child in the world, but you have not been unable to do so.  

Then the question is how to do we become true parentts. Then what is next? 

The Three Subjects Principle is our desire

God gave the archangel the responsibility to raise His only children Adam and Eve.

Wouldn't the most important position be to raise our children as God's sons and daughters and educate them to become the people God will need?

I think that we each want to be such teachers and good examples to children.

You would like to work hard and be the president's right-hand man who can represent the nation or the owner of the company or the head of a branch of the country's administration.  In other words, we all strive to be successful.

This means that you want to become a true owner.

We all have three great ambitions in life: to be a true parent, true teacher and be a true owner.

Wouldn't you want to become a leader of your region or even the nation's president?

Before you can achieve that level, you first have to master your own household.

You have to earn the position to stand as the master who inherits the family tradition representing your ancestors and God.

After you accomplish this, you will be respected by all families and by the nation itself.  These three ambitions contain all positions in the world: true parent, true teacher and true owner.

You should each become a true parent, a true teacher and a true owner.  What is the root of these three subjects?  It is true love.

True love means that you are willing to invest more than a hundred, invest again and then invest still more.  You should be a parent, a teacher and an owner who is able to practice this philosophy.

This root is one.

Once you say true parent, then true teacher should come to the right side and a true owner to the left.  They all go around together.  Just because you have sons and daughters does not mean that you automatically become true parents.

You should give birth to them, raise them and teach them the true pathway to heaven.  Sons and daughters should depend on their mother and father.

The Three Subjects Principle is the philosophy of True Parents

The core of Three Subjects Principle is the philosophy of True Parents. Why are true parents the core here? 

On the perpendicular, there is only one vertical line. Since there is only one vertical standard based on true love, it is the representative standard rooted in the family where True Parents and the vertical God meet. 

Thus, a teacher or sovereign who follows the pattern of parental love will pursue the environment of a heavenly nation which Satan cannot invade. Since the evil one's sphere of false love cannot invade, a realm of liberation will unfold and create the heavenly kingdom on earth. 

The essence of the Three Subjects Principle

Adam and Eve became false parents through their betrayal of God's words.  This false love has brought ruin.

Since the Heavenly True Parents have reversed this mistake, we are now able to return to our original hometown.

We are living in the dawn of the age where all bad accounts will finally be settled.  We will once again be able to travel together on the proper course which God planned from the time of creation.  Everything will see its end.  This includes Christianity, Buddhism and Confucianism as will politics,  also.

So, by bringing all these together, I have established the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace (IRFWP) for the sphere of religion and the Federation for World Peace (FWP) for the political sphere.

Once the fall occurred, our mind became divided between good and evil. Now our mind will become one and its worldwide fruits will be harvested.

What bases will we be able to harvest?  This is based on the love of the True Parents who are at the head of the this dispensation.

True parent, true teacher and true owner are the essence of the the three-subject principle.  Because of this principle, even prominent and world leaders will be able to kneel before the Messiah as True Parent and ask him to teach them the true way.

Politicians of the world who are the false owners will also want to be connected to the Messiah because he is the representative of the three-subject principle of true parent, true teacher and true owner.

Then, where is it that I live? I do not stand only in the teacher's position or only in the owner's position. Even the president of an university returns home as a parent in the evening and even the president of Korea returns to the Blue House. Even the one who commands the royal courtiers must go home to sleep and there he becomes a father, a parent.

When you step back and look at the original position, then we realize that the parents are the center. The school is based on parents, and the position of owner is based on parents.

Everyone may go out or leave, but eventually they return to their parents.  The place where you can live without having to return is the place where your parents live.

There is a saying that the king, the teacher and the parents are all equal with its basis here.  This is how all things work involving true love. 

I am now conveying a true teaching to you. This is why I am the best of all teachers.  Among all the rulers of history, there have been none who have ruled with loved.  This is why the mind and body desire to live forever resonating with me and the way I am going. 

Those who love this movement and have the heart to love God, love humankind and love the fundamental essence of human beings are unable to leave the Messiah.

This is because at his Second Coming, he acquires the heart of a parent, the heart of a teacher and the heart of an owner.

Through his teachings of the Divine Principle, which upon this blog is base, you are able to become the true parents which you have desired.  You can become owners and become true teachers.

A parent-centered ideology

We know that Jesus is a man. He is not just any man, but a man who received God's direct love, life and lineage.  

If Jesus was to meet a woman who could have a true marriage with him and they were to have true children, then these children would have been linked to the direct lineage of God.

If Jesus was to fulfill his mission of creating a true family leaving true children of God on the earth, then there would have been no need for 400 years of Christian persecution or the Vatican.

Jesus' true lineage would leave a true kingship and a true royal family on the earth to this day.

The Bible speaks of two outcomes, either the Messiah was to be King and conquer the evil society of Rome or he would suffer greatly.

When the Jewish people were unable to follow Jesus as God's true son, he left his mission incomplete, thus having to return to finish his mission of having a true family on the earth.

This true family will expand creating a new world centered on God.

This true kingship would not have started on the world level, but would have a starting point in a single family - the family of Jesus.

Then from the family, it would have advanced beyond being a family kingship such as the royal family in England, but it would have become a tribal, a national, a worldwide and a cosmic kingship.

This was God's original plan for Jesus, thus, the way of the cross was a secondary decision for only spiritual salvation of the world.

This condition still left the sinful lineage of Satan on the earth.  The True Parents have liquidated the mistakes of the fall from their lineage and now offer humanity complete salvation from satanic life, love and lineage forever.

If this had happened in Jesus' time then all of the denominations, ministers, and Democracy would not be needed.  Democracy is only based on the brotherhood ideology.

This is why people continue to fight centered on this philosophy.

The world's conflicts is just merely brothers and sisters fighting among themselves.Therefore the brotherhood ideology should return to a parent-centered ideology.

From there, God-centered ideology of Godism will rise to replace the divided ideology of politics.

The parent-centered ideology was initially supposed to be established by Adam and Eve.

True Parents are the horizontal or earthly parents, so we need a vertical or spiritual parent. God.

This can be termed headwing or Godism.  That is how it works.

Once heavenly life and earthly life connect, than human beings are born.  Then heavenly love and earthly love are connected, and heavenly lineage and earthly lineage are connected through the unity between the horizontal true parent-centered ideology and the vertical God-centered ideology.

This is why we are beings with a dual structure.  We each consist of an internal and external person.  The internal, spiritual person is the vertical self and the external, physical being is the horizontal self. These are the fruit.

Since Democracy is based on brotherhood, when there are many brothers, then the one who receives the most love from their parents always creates the issue in the family.

Some children may take after their father and some after their mother.

Then within that unit, a mother's group and a father's group emerges based on which child takes after either parent.  This takes place based on love.

Through this scenario, we see that after the Second World War that the victorious nations allowed the defeated nations to keep their independence.

This had signified that the world had entered, at that time, the brotherhood ideology.

This is why at the point where the God's side ideology appears, the two brothers will thus fight in front of the one God.

In the final period of history, America played a leading role based on its Christian culture.

This has laid an unified foundation.  Instead of America judging the other nations of the world, she allowed the defeated nations to keep their independence instead of conquering and taking over that nation.

This suggests that now we have entered the age of God's providence where the abandoned sons and daughters of history, the prodigal children, can now be brought back together.

This explains how the brotherhood ideology of democracy came about.

As this time of the brotherhood ideology comes to an end in history,the parent-centered ideology now establishes a base on earth.

The only way we are going to see world peace is under such a parent-centered ideology.  Ideology based on God.  This is providential history.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 2, 'True Parents'  Chapter 8 section 1

The Family is a Training Center

Everyone is a  part of a family unit.  The parents may have divorced, the sisters and brothers may live in separate houses, but the family still exists.

When we stand in the world of space, in order to stay balanced, you need top and bottom, left and right and front and back.

When we deal with relationships concerning top and bottom, left and right, and front and back, also problems in the family, nation and world, there is only one solution.

Just as there has to be these six positions with the individual in the center, there also have to be parents and children, husband and wife, and brothers and sisters.  This also applies to the nation.

The leader is at the center of the nation.  All families should embrace the civilization of east and west, and the civilization of north and south, and all the people of the world as brothers and sister.  Eventually, establishing a family model.

This model is the same for all.  You are the center of that model.  This model represents a principle that requires that from you sprouts your family and expands into the nation world, heaven and earth all the way to God.

The Family is the Central Model for All Beings

You not only want to be the center of the universe, but you want to be the center.

In the same way, the family is the center of the universe.  If you were to think of heaven as the parents, then earth represents the children.

In relation to east and west, east symbolizes the man and the west the woman.  So, after marriage, the woman goes to the place where her husband is.

This is similar to the west reflecting the sunlight that shines from the east.

This is the same for the brother and sister relationship.  When the eldest brother leads a task, the younger brothers and sisters will cooperate.

Each person should, therefore, be in a parent-child relationship, a conjugal relationship and a sibling relationship.  Do you see how this rounds out. These three relationships should meet at some point.

Also, you can see that in these Last Days that all of these relationships have been broken up. This is directly the root cause of all of the world's problems which expands from relationships within the family all the way to the worldwide level.

The central point is one.  The center for the top and bottom, left and right, front and back should be the same.

If the centers are different, then the relationships will all be imbalanced.

So the common central point of top and bottom, left and right, front and back must add up to the number seven.

When this happens, then the family is united in true love with God at the center.  This is where all things form a complete sphere bringing about harmony and unification.

We often think of the number seven as the luckiest number.  Therefore, when we hear this about the number seven it seems believable.  As long as true love never changes, then the central core will turn forever without changing, therefore, realizing the idea of a true family.

Also, since everything is connected to this core, then each of the position are equal.  For example, if the grandfather and his sons and daughters want something and the grandchild is not against it, then all the three generations will come to want it.

The grandfather, grandmother, husband and wife, and sons and daughters will all follow the center.  The parent-child relationship becomes one in terms of love.    The conjugal relationship is one and the sibling relationship becomes one.

They become one body.  So, what do these relationships revolve around?

They revolve around the true love of God who is the center of true love.  In this way, the value of everything becomes equal.

The Family is the Textbook of Love through Which We Can Connect with Universal Love

What is the universe?

God created everything in the universe as a sort of a training aid to help His beloved sons and daughters find the ideal of His true love.

This is why you see a reciprocal relationship in all of existence.

For instance, minerals are based on the reciprocal relationship of subject and object partners.  Protons and electrons exist based on a relationship of subject and object partners.

What is the universe?

We see this in human relationships of teacher and student, husband and wife, and parent and child where there is also interactions between a subject and object partner.

The universe is simply the expansion of a true family.  If you take a close look at the family that has been able to become an ideal of family love, you see that it has a top, middle and bottom.  That is the parents, husband and wife, and children.  You will see left and right and front and back.

This is the principle.

When we talk about top and bottom, this refers to the parents and children.  When we talk about left and right, we mean the husband and wife.  The front and back refers to the brothers and sisters.

How are all of these positions able to become one?

There is no way for it to become eternally one through power, knowledge or money.  If a family was to be united through force, smarts or money, then once these things disappear, the family will separate.  So, what would determine eternal unity of a family?

It is only through love that a family will truly unite.  This is the absolute truth.

If this does not happen, then the sphere cannot be formed.  The top, middle and bottom of the family is the textbook of love.

This is the textbook through which we can experience universal love.

We then go into society and put it into practice.  So, how should we love?

Jesus taught about the kind of love for your neighbor as you love yourself.  What should we do to follow this kind of teaching?  Do we see even Christians living this way in this time and age?

Do Christians unite with brothers and sisters of other faiths?

When you go into the world and see an elderly man who is the same age as your grandfather, treat him the same way you would your own grandfather.  Treat people like your own mothers, fathers and your own sons.

When you are able to go out into the world and live in this way and love people in this way, God will dwell in the midst of that love.

You should know that the world is an exhibition of all people.

  

The people of top, middle bottom, front and back, and left and right are all displayed in the exhibition of all of the world.

What does the Kingdom of Heaven look like?

It is the place where you love the people of the world the way you love your own family. It is where people who do this are the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Your grandfather and grandmother, your mother and father, your wife, brothers and sisters and your own children are four generations.  What do they represent?

They are the textbook where you can deeply experience love, the true love of the universe as people of Heaven. In other words, the family is the foundation, a type of textbook that

They are the textbook through whom you can deeply experience love, the true love of the universe as people of the Kingdom of Heaven. The family is the foundation, a type of textbook that teaches you this love.

We cannot live without learning the love of the universe. 

Your grandfather and grandmother were sent as representatives of all the grandmothers and grandfathers in the spirit world.

God has prepared textbooks and scriptures containing promises which openly say, "Love your grandmother and grandfather."

"Therefore if you love them, I will take it as if you had loved all grandmothers and grandfathers."

Next God would say that since your mother and father are representatives of all the countless mothers and fathers of the world, if you love them to the utmost it will be the exact same as having loved all mothers and fathers because they are the textbook and model of love.

It would be the equivalent of graduating college after many lessons on how to love mothers and fathers.

Furthermore, if you as a man, who represents all men, love a woman who represents all women, then it will be a condition of having loved all women.

Then God would say, "I will take your loving your sons and daughters as you having loved all sons and daughters."

This is how the family becomes the training center to receive such training on loving the world.

This training process which God developed is in accordance with the scriptures.  If the trainees are willing to go out into the world and love the grandmothers and grandfathers of the world in place of their own grandparents, this will save the world and bring a world of peace.

If all the people of the world were raised in such true families, where brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, grandparents and grandchildren each treated each other with respect and true love, when this expands to the world level, then Heaven on Earth is recreated automatically.  Therefore, there will not be true peace in the world until there is peace in the family.

A Training Ground of Love for Entering the Kingdom of Love

This is God's will: to realize the kingdom of love.

Then if God wishes to develop a globalized ideal world of love, then the family is the experimental ground where you earn your credits at such a school.  This is obtained all the way from the elementary level to the bachelor's degree and PhD.

If you were to examine the world carefully, you will see that it is a world where grandfathers and grandmothers live.  It is a world where adults like your aunts and uncles live.

It is a place where your elder brothers and sisters live.  It is a world where youth live and where children live.

So, this place where the middle-aged, elderly, young people and children live are just a larger expansion of the family.  Isn't this so?

The family is the smallest unit within the training center.

It is also a textbook for how to enter the Kingdom of Heaven automatically.

It has four levels: grandfather's level, mother's level, couple's level and siblings level.

Then each of these levels expands into a larger group of grandmothers and grandfather's, mothers and fathers, your own peers, and your own sons and daughters.  Together, they form humanity.

Only families that can love all of humanity as their own spouse and parents, and serve them as their own sons and daughter can inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.  This is amazing.

This is where the right to inherit all of the power and authority of heaven and earth lies.

You receive the right to be registered at the Palace of Peace and the Kingdom of Heaven once you pass to the spirit world.

As discussed, the family is the training ground for the true way to love all of humanity.  

The extension of the family is the world.

The world is made up of smaller worlds: grandfathers' world, grandmothers' world, a world of fathers and mothers, there are husbands' and wives' worlds and sons' and daughters' worlds.

When all of these combine, they make up the whole world.  Therefore, if you are able to love all of the people of the world as your own family, this will lead you toward a straight path to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Thus, the first commandment is to love the Lord your God with all of your heart and soul and with all of your mind.

The second commandment, "Love your neighbor as yourself".  With these two practiced together of loving God and humanity, then everything will be accomplished.  A world of love will follow a people that live in such a way.

No matter how much spiritual training you obtain, if you are unable to love in this way, your training is in vain.  If you do not know how to love God, humankind or the whole universe, you will fail the test.

You should deeply experience love by going through this family training center which is an encapsulation of the whole universe.  Then this expands to loving the world.

When we see the clear-cut point of God's way to train humanity how to love and look at the current situation of the world of broken homes, we see where true restoration should begin.

You have inherited this tradition from your family, which is your training ground, where your mother and father raised you.

If you are able to love your parents more than your wife, love your sons and daughters more than your wife, love humanity more than your wife, and love God more than  your wife, then everything will be accomplished.

Of course, this does not mean to abandon your wife, because loving in this way, each recipient of that love will come to love your wife as well.

Could there be a more glorious place than this?

If you want to love your wife, follow this proper order of love.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four, True Family Chapter 3

Family Was Created as Good Place

Family was created to be a good place.  Do you feel this is true about your own family situation?  If not, it is due to the problems of the first human family that did not follow the will of God.  

Originally, God a good purpose for the world to begin based on the love shared between the family members of Adam and Eve. 

Why is it good?  It is a good place because my mother and father are there.  It is a good place because my siblings are there.  It is good because my relatives are there.

Thus, human beings feel nostalgia when they think of the original hometown where they grew up.
Isn't it true that they have more great feelings about their hometown then they do for their own nation?

It is a place everyone longs for even if they lived in a humble community.

What place do you long for even though you are living in a large city?  It is your hometown.



The Family is Our Eternal Original Hometown


What kind of place is your hometown?

It is where your heart is lifted up in four directions and three dimensions.

This heart is a place where you are tied up by love.

Upward, your mother and father tie you up; left and right, the bond between husband and wife is tying you up; downward, your sons and daughters and relatives are tying you up tight with three dimensional love.  This is the original hometown.

No matter what position they enjoy in the world, no one cannot help but to long for their original hometown.  Why?

Everyone longs for their hometown, because they see it as the original point of happiness based on love as the best.

Then where is God's original hometown?  It is earth.

If God is the God of love, He surely would have prepared a starting point for living on this earth. Where is it?

Where is the starting point where God's family can be created?  It is none other than the place where a son dwells who understands God as his real father.

The original hometown exists where the son can monopolize God's love.

It is also a place where such a daughter dwells.  It is a place where such a true son and daughter marry and form a complete family.

Who should be in this original hometown?  Those you miss should reside there.

Your parents, brothers and sisters should be there.  Those who you long to meet should be there.  When you miss someone and want to live with them, would you be satisfied to see them for just a moment?

Would you just visit for a short time?

When you meet and live with them, you should never tire even if you live with them for eternity.  You should find such a place.  This becomes the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth which today's religion pursues.

The reason why we long for such an original hometown, today, is that is where parents, brothers and sisters, and relatives, who are closer to us than anyone else.

They always guide us, welcome us as they did in the past whenever we visit them.

They sympathize with us, console us and receive us with joy when we are having difficulties.

If you do not receive this kind of welcome, even if you longed for your hometown, your desperate, longing heart would vanish.  You would go back to those feelings of deep regret.

Your original hometown has to have people who will welcome you.

The Family Is the Final Standard for the Cosmos-centered Ideology

Everything can be dived from one into many parts, which then eventually merge into a larger whole.  In other words, one divides into many and then unites again into one.

From here it divides again and becomes something even larger.

Families exist within this larger created object.  These families all have the same form as the other.

This is the place where the husband and wife relationship is established and the couple unites.  The tribe is a place that unites families.

Race is a place that unites clans.  Races combine to form one nation.  Here, families play the central role.

Once the family expands, this becomes the horizontal world.  This is why a society cannot manage without the family.

Therefore, if families cannot be restored, the world cannot be restored.  

Next, we must realize the cosmos-centered ideal through these families.

This seems far-fetched to think of the cosmos, but in the original world, once humanity had completely united with God, we would have had the knowledge to explore the whole of the universe.

As we are fallen, we are limited to the earthly plane with limited knowledge of the universe.

The word 'cosmos' combines heaven and earth.  Heaven and earth are likened to a person's mind and body.  Thus, the mind and body must become one.

Just as a subject partner needs an object, a man needs a woman.  This union of man and woman leads to a family.  God's foundation of love will not be attained without working through this family.

Cosmos-centered ideology is a philosophy that unites the mind and body and forms a family as the main body of love, and connects that idea to the spirit world and physical world.

In Korean 'cosmos' is translated into the character ju of cheonju which means house.  This is why we use the term cosmos-centered.  Cosmos combines the spirit world and the physical world.

What relationship does it have with us?

We all need a family.  If you are unable to become one in your family, you will have nothing to do with the cosmos-centered ideology.  The family is the final standard for completing this ideology.

Those who are unable to sing songs of peace and sing songs of praise for happiness while here, will be miserable people either on earth or once they pass into spirit world.

Where do you think the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth begins?

It is realized from our relationships within the family.

Then what kind of ideology do we have? This is a family-centered ideology. The word cosmos-ism in Korean contains the word heaven and the word house.  So this word means heaven's house.

This is where the word cosmos becomes clear.

If you examine closely, all of the sixty-six books of the Bible are filled with words that desire an ideal family.

Furthermore, what do all men desire?  It is to have an ideal wife.  Also, all women desire to have an ideal husband. 

No matter if she is very famous, proud and rich or a woman who has a doctorate, her desire is to meet an ideal man she can love and with whom she can have beloved sons and daughters.

This is the root of happiness.

The beginning is the family and the conclusion is the family.

So, what exactly is this cosmos-centered ideology?

It is the ideology of our house, our nation and of your individual self which makes up part of the cosmos.

If humanity had not fallen, we would live centered on the Adam-centered ideology based on a perfected Adam who laid down the true family tradition as the first parent.  This was God's original ideal for Adam to reach perfection, not for him to fall laying a tradition for sin.

Therefore it is the true parent-centered ideology.  

This ideology is the way of a true father and true mother.  There is no other ideology that is higher than this.

We should link the matters of the heart with heavenly ideology through the way of true parents within the boundary of the original ideal family.

As long as families that have been able to live this way of life of a true family remains, we will not perish.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook,  Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four, true Family Chapter 3

We Need Brothers and Sisters

Everyone wants to be loved.  The ideal manifestation of that love is parents.

Orphans do not have a relationship with their original parents.  We can say that a person who neither receives parental love from his parents even though he wants to, he is very miserable.

Suppose someone is much less attractive than someone who did not grow up with their parents.  Even still, just as long as that person can serve and devote himself to his parents, he can feel very fortunate by comparison.

He might think that someone is handsome, but if he or she does not even have parents, what does that benefit?  He might think, "I may be ugly and disabled,  but at least I am fortunate to have a mother and father."

Parents are the Origin of Love

What are parents?

Why is it that even the most strongest and intelligent son could never ignore their parents even if they were a burden?  Why can he not control them with one finger?  Since he has such credentials, he could challenge them with his wit, but he wouldn't want to do that.

Where does love come from?

Does it come from yourself?  No.  Love comes from parents.

This is because the origin of love is not you, but your parents.

There can be no result without a cause.  

When it comes to love, you are not the owner of it.  When you come before your parents, you should say, "Yes, Mother and Father, you are right."

Your parents may say that no matter how established, wealthy or intelligent you are, you cannot deviate from your duty to your mother and father.  Then you can reply as above.

You do this because of love.  Parents are the subject partners, and children are the object partners.  The subject partner serves the object partner, and the object partner follows the subject partner.

This is the principle of Heaven.

When this principle is breached, that house will collapse and end up worthless.  Because a person is born in accordance with heavenly nature, however uneducated he is, he knows the Principle of Heaven.  Therefore, even the strongest champion has to bow his head to his parents.

Humankind continues to be plagued by conflicts based on power or knowledge.  When the end of the world comes, the power of the fist and the power of knowledge will pass away.  Don't you realize that we are living in such times?

We are currently living in the war of love.

That is why religious leaders say that their time is coming. In the end, only the power of love will remain.

These are the Last Days, the final age of worldly supremacy.

Can a strong elder brother come home and become the boss of the house with his parents there?  No matter how strong a world champion he is in the ring, he cannot be the boss at home.  Even if the elder brother has hundreds of doctorates, when he returns home, he cannot be boss because his parents are there.

The Reason We Need Brothers and Sisters

Why do we need brothers and sisters?

Because boys can watch their younger brothers and sisters and learn how their mothers grew up.  Girls can watch their naughty elder brothers and see how their father grew up.

This is called the love of brothers and sisters.

Therefore, you should love your siblings.  Also, you should learn to love your siblings as you love your father and mother.

You cannot love our brothers and sister of the world if you do not learn how to within the family.  So, therefore, through observing your siblings you can learn how our parents grew up and come to love them as your parents do.

In this way, you will be able to love your mother and father when you go to the next world.

You need your brothers and sisters in order to be an owner of love without shame. 

Would it be better for siblings to love each other more than they love their parents, or less than their parents?

It is better if they love each other more.  Why is this so?

Because watching and loving your brothers and sisters is the same as watching and loving your father and mother when they were growing up.  When you do this, it fulfills the condition of loving  your parents from their birth to their death.

Thus, brothers and sisters are connected to each other through such love.  That's why we think this way.  In the case of the parents, the more children they have, the more they can learn about their spouses.

For example, the wife might see her son act in a certain way and she can think, "Oh, this is probably how my husband was growing up."

So, loving the children is the same as loving the spouse the way he or she was before they met.

The husband can watch and learn from the daughter and say, 'Oh, she is showing me how my wife would have been when she was young."

Through loving the children, the husband fulfills the condition of loving every aspect of the wife.  The mother and father do not say, "Love only the boys, not the girls."

Loving parents love their sons and daughters equally, without discrimination.

So by having sons and daughters, a beautiful circle of love in the family is formed. 

Parents will treat the children equally.  All parents are like this.

The first rule in family education: hating your brother or sister is a greater sin than hating your mother.

Suppose after you have a fight with your brothers or sisters you leave the house.  The least you can do when  you return is to hold a party so that you can make them happy again.

Ask them for forgiveness and tell them that you should love one another as you love your parents.

Brothers and sisters represent your father and mother.

If they were poor, then help them and serve them as you would serve your mother.  There would be nothing more beautiful than this. This is where the Kingdom of Heaven begins.

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True Family Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four Chapter 2

One World Family

We speak about World Peace, beauty queens speak about world peace even soccer players and politicians all have the agenda toward world peace.  Is world peace simply just war ending and everyone laying down their weapons as a nation?

Then if this was to happen what about on a societal level of peace?  Is it true peace if there is no more war, but people still are afraid to leave their homes in their neighborhoods, or go home because of a fear of a spouse?

What is truly World Peace and what will it look like when God's ideal dream finally is realized in our reality?

After we entered into the new millennium we moved quickly in the direction of an unified world.  The twentieth century was the most violent in all of human history.  The religious call this Armageddon.  the last struggle between the good side of God's people and the evil side that fought on the side of satan through the use of the communistic world.

We are going beyond the "one nation under God" and are moving toward "one universe under God".  This will bring about the universal family that was prophesied for many centuries. Some call. this the Utopia.  A world of peace.

This will now begin to become a reality and not just a work of fiction or an fruitless dream of many who fought for good.

Even in this new era, there are obstacles on this path toward world unity pertaining to racism and religious strife which are a formidable, lingering force.

God is the first ancestor.

These obstacles stand against His will.  God does not see race or national borders.  In reality, the five different colors of humanity reflect the climate from which they originate.

White people began in the Arctic region and spread through Scandinavia, Britain and across the world.  The yellow race lived mainly in Asia practicing agriculture.  They have a deep love for the land.  Their soft skin eventually turned brown.  Black people are like the black bear of the tropics.  Their skin is black because they lived near the equator where the sun's ray's are intense.

The different skin colors among the races have no significance in terms of superiority or inferiority.  It is simply a matter of our having adapted to different environments.

The make up of every human's body is 99.6% identical.  God did not create skin color.  He is the God of love and He is colorblind.  To God, color does not hold any qualitative importance.  In the spirit world, color does not exists - only the color of true love.

In the spirit world, there are no walls between nations, denominations, or religions. It is a world composed of one huge family.



Jesus' words:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life," 

John 3:16


Let's take a look beyond the boundaries of Christianity to reveal the nature of salvation on a universal, global level.

One roadblock to a peaceful world is the divisions among the religious group.  God only created religion in order to usher in the new world and teach you and me the path to walk.  He did not create religion to break into different denominations and religious groups.

Religion is the direct result of the fall - not a part of God's original ideal.

Originally, Adam and Eve would directly link their love to God directly and bare children with God's lineage.  Satan is the originator who created division between religions, nations and peoples.

Satan works to build barriers between the people and God works hard to tear these barriers down.

The great founders in spirit world, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad and Confucius have worked as well to tear down any barriers between their followers in spirit world.  These leaders can go back and forth and communicate freely with one another.

In the future, the Home Church format of witnessing of God's love to 360 people in your hometown will gradually become well established on earth.

Ultimately, organized churches, temples and mosques will disappear.

Why doesn't God just intervene and return the world to the original Garden?  Even Satan does not want to destroy the evil world he created.  God by Himself alone cannot reverse the ill effects of the fall.  If He had the ability to do this alone, He would have prevented the Fall or would have reversed the problem as soon as it happened and end sin within the first generation of Adam's family.

The only one that can reverse the mistake of Adam partaking in false love is a person who conquered on the individual level the position of Adam before the Fall.  The perfected Adam's family is the only family that will possess the original nature of love that originated from God.

Jesus was brought to earth and became the perfected Adam, but many wrong paths of the people of his time occurred and instead of building a world of peace centering on his family, he went the secondary way through the cross in order to bring about salvation through the spiritual level only.

In the original world, parents would officiate their children's ceremony where the children come to resemble their parents and inherit the parents' lineage.


Restoring the Order of Love


"The completion of the unification of all the religions in both the spiritual and physical worlds have been declared. All the saints in the spirit world, my own children who have joined the spirit world and all the blessed couples were included.

In summary, the True Parents are the king and queen of the families. Has there ever been anyone who could claim that he or she is the king or queen of the family, standing as a representative of heaven and earth, with absolute purity?

In order to become the king of the family, we have to become the parents among parents and the first son among first sons."

All of Creation Has an Order

There is an order to everything.  Among brothers, the first son should be the first to marry and start his family.  The order is violated a lot these days which mirrors the path of restoration for humanity.  People go this and that way, follow the reverse order; the disorder should come to an end.

When the right order is not followed, everything will fall apart.  The world has become this way.

How do we begin to repair or undo these problems?  All problems that deal with illicit love relationships stem from this confusion.  When people revolve around without knowing the center or the source, these wrong kinds of relationships occur.

As a consequence, they grab and consume one another.  In this era of confusion, chaos and family-level disarray, people bump around hooking up with one another without any sense of order.  This goes even beyond the national level.

The self-indulgent lifestyle of many diplomats can testify to this statement.

God could not interfere with the tragedy of the fall or with marriages.  Even in these Last Days.  Since it was the first parents that became false parents through false love and false life centering on satan's ideal, the true parents have to reject these false ideals and restore true love, life and lineage through indemnity.



Liberation Through Sacrifice


What is the meaning of Matthew 10:39,

"Those who seek their life will lose it"?

We should be able to reach beyond the level of death in fulfilling God's providence. We should be able to say, "I still have energy to do God's work, even after I die."

In this way, we will live.

There is no resurrection for those who fear death and run away to save themselves.

Even if God takes the position where He might lose His life, He will live.  But if God lives for only His own sake and His own being and life, there there will be no completion of the ideal world.

This is how God saves fallen humanity.  When you throw a rope to the bottom of the pit you have to keep pulling the rope up until you bring everybody up to the top.  This is how God offers everything to humankind   Therefore, He is not sitting up on His throne enjoying being glorified.

Therefore, the Messiah should work even harder than God and be willing to lose his own life.

Those in the Western word always shout out, "I want freedom!  Freedom!"  Even though the Western world has high-standard education, it is still confined within the context of the fallen world.  The idea of family, society, world, religion and the providence of God are missing.  In this respect  the Oriental and Western systems are 180 degrees opposite of the other.  Even the family concept is different.

"Ultimately we even have to liberate God. I started from the smallest level and finally came to the position of liberating God."

Therefore in these last days, the concepts of the Western world will diminish where we cannot find the concept of tribe, people nation, world and cosmos in this selfish individualism.    How do we begin to awaken a new concept in the world and cosmos?

Reverend Sun Myung Moon has brought the Completed Testament The Divine Principle to the earth by conquering satan spoken of in the book of Revelations.  He has taught the view of the family all the way to the view of God.

How was it done?  By starting with the smallest point: mind-body unity.

When one clings to selfish individualism, he cannot reach a position of absolute unity in order to build a family, nation and world that can return to God.  Individualism is the enemy of religion, conscience and God.  It is connected directly to satan.  It makes no difference whether you are a laborer or a graduate of Yale, Harvard or Oxford, this rule is true for all.

The life of free sex and homosexuality will lead people to drugs and AIDS which are detrimental to human survival.


Have No Fear


We have entered the era of Heaven on Earth where the True Parents and children have been liberated.  There is nothing to fear even if you are locked up, you should not be afraid.

The cosmos is in my hands. You should not deny that you have ultimate value as a child of God. You should not worry.

Today, by holding God's kingship ceremony, we have changed the nation. It is the time to worry about how to follow the will of God. God has been pained with the history of resentment. We need to provide the supportive force so that God can do whatever He wants to do freely without restrictions.

His children are to build heaven on earth and should be able to say to God, "Please wake up and take me along."  From now on things will change.  You should know how to guide Him.  God is to have full authority based on this new kingship.

Before, satan was the ruler of this world doing as he pleased breeding suffering.  Thankfully, that old world has now passed away and it is time to bring in new wineskins.

How do you achieve individual perfection?

It comes through the mind and body becoming one.  When we centered our mind and body on satan at the time of the fall, we inherited his blood lineage.  This fallen blood became stronger than the conscience.  To cut this tragedy we should under no circumstances follow bodily desires.


Three Immutable Laws



We should recognize that there are immutable laws that we should follow:

The first law is not to stain the blood lineage even unto the point of dying.

The second law is not to infringe upon another human's rights or heart.

Whether we are female, male, black or white we are all equal with God as our Ultimate Parent.

One must not discriminate or violate human rights. Extending this, one in the leadership position should not change someone else's position based solely on their own feelings.

The one who practices true love, honoring human rights in the correct way, living for the sake of others, is in the mainstream. 

The creation of heaven and earth began from that point. Whoever commits an act that dilutes or squanders this main current of thought is not to be tolerated. Violation of this is the second of all sins.

The third law is to refrain from stealing money to fulfill selfish desires. Seventy percent of the people in jail are there because of these crimes. If you are imprisoned, you will see this is true. Human rights infringements and lineage violations are problems that concern man and woman. Then come the money problems. Following these are the problems dealing with power and money.

The third law pertains to taking money solely to benefit selfish desires.  The jail system is filled with crimes such as these.  The human rights and lineage violations concern both the men and the women.  Then comes the power and money problems.

Money, knowledge and power have ruled the satanic world.

Starting today should pledge not to contaminate the blood lineage bequeathed through God's love and life.  To not follow the actions of the fallen world.  Even if your spouse dies, you must pledge that you will not stain the blood lineage.  When a husband and wife quarrel, they should be able to stop immediately when they remember this unbreakable, impermeable determination.  Once you understand this principle, you must abide by it even if you have to die a thousand times.

What's the first? Purity! Second? Abuse of human rights! Third? Misuse of money!


This is absolute necessary to maintain the kingship of heaven.  Therefore, do not neglect your older brother or younger brother.  In the secular world, people do not care if their siblings need help, but we cannot neglect in-laws or relatives.

How Shall We Live?


Those who graduated from a university neglect those who only have a high school diploma.  This is a sin.  It violates human rights.

In the beginning, God called out to Cain and asked where was his brother and Cain answered that he was not his brother's keeper.  This was after Cain had murdered Abel.  Those with a selfish lifestyle will not succeed no matter how lavish or great a life they may portray.  Try living this way or look at many people who have fallen from the top.

Following this offense is the misuse of money.  The selfish abuse of the public environment is just as sinful and fearful as the misuse of public money.

The whole universe dislikes those who incur a debt. 

Would those in a family or clan love it if one of the members created a debt that caused the whole clan to fall into debt?  In the end the whole clan would punish this person. Debt does not always mean money.


"Do you understand the three points? Count the number of determinations you have made in your heart to follow the laws of the kingdom of heaven. Do you pledge to do that? The laws have to do with purity, equalization of all people, and proper use of national property. You should understand everything well and make it habitual.

You will avoid the wrong actions only when you reach the stage in which as soon as your mouth opens these articles of the kingdom of heaven come out.

There is no doubt you will face these challenges in life. There will probably be many such circumstances, but if you make an effort to abstain from violating the law, the challenges will make you a victorious person. As long as you keep up with these heavenly laws, you do not need Reverend Moon's teaching. You will naturally enter the Kingdom of God."



We all want to live a good life.  Does anyone consider living alone a good life?  We should live together.  Then what kind of people, rules and environment would be best for this environment?

There are three simple answers:  The parent-child relationship, the conjugal relationship and the brother-sister relationship.

Brothers and sisters are in the position of children in front of their parents;it refers to a relationship among children of the same parents.

When you share the same mother and father, naturally you have the brother-sister relationship.  Those of the extended family such as in-laws and all cousins are related.  Once the parent-child relationship and conjugal relationships are connected, the brother and sisters automatically exist.

Then all of the relationships that are shared between humankind would become a brother-sister relationship on the worldwide level.  God created these relationships in order for us to live a great life of harmony.

If you cannot become a model for others to live the best life, then you are not leading a true life.  

Every person has to be an example to others because in order to live a virtuous life, guidance is necessary.  If you can become an example before the mother, father, husband and wife and the children, then you are living a virtuous life.



Goals for Your Life


The time will come when the nation will recognize the family within its borders that is living the best life.  This family will have three generations each of which form the perfected four-position foundation (the oneness of God, husband, wife and children).

The time will come when the president will present the award inside the home of the family exemplifying the best life.



"There are three relationships, parent and child, husband and wife, and among the children. The brother-sister relationship is a consequence of the harmony of all these relationships.

Therefore, whether in a brother-sister relationship or children's relationship, in order to become a person standing in the position of subject, you must influence others positively, such that not even one person can live without you.

From now on, even if you are accused as a traitor and executed in the view of the world, if you keep these things absolutely, your family will belong to the heavenly royal family that possesses eternal freedom, unity and liberation.

I want you to remember this clearly. Keep it as a motto. In the motto of the third millennium, I mentioned pure lineage, the equality of human rights, and the preservation of national public assets. That means, do not be a thief.

What is next?

Be an example!

Be an exemplary parent, exemplary spouse, exemplary child and exemplary sibling. If you form such a family, people in your neighborhood will say, "We should follow that person. I want to live with him." 

That person is surely a citizen of kingdom of heaven, and heaven will remember that family forever.

I explained to you on this historic day, the day of the Coronation Ceremony of God's Kingship, the three most important things that humankind must uphold and by which you can be truly liberated in your family and in your nation. I hope you can remember these contents and keep them as the goals of your life.

In the Completed Testament era, we must understand about the spirit world. May you study about spirit world and God, and may you live for the sake of others. If you do so, you will receive the blessing and become a blessed family.

Through living for others, you prepare for your eternal life. We all should try to gain this heavenly fortune, which surpasses the fruit of all earthly effort.

In front of the living God, with humility, let us be children of filial piety and loyalty. Let us become the sacred children of God. In light of God's sovereignty, in this age of kingship, let us stand together to establish a world of peace, love and harmony.

May God bless you and your family.

Thank you very much." SMM


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This text is taken and rewritten from: God is Our King and True Parent