Prisoner of God's Love

How do you differentiate between the world of good and the world of evil?

Does it begin with two different people or with the division of one person into two parts?

Each person also has an internal part and an external part.

A central characteristic of evil is that it is changeable in quality. 

Therefore, an evil person is always changing.

A person with satanic tendencies will betray your trust, stab you in the back, have two tongues by speaking of something in a favorable way and at another time say the opposite.  It all depends on what benefits him.

Would a man or a woman be more likely to have a changeable character?

This is a touchy subject.  What is the greater possibility?

After evaluating all of the circumstances, it looks like women are more susceptible to being changeable in nature.  Women usually never miss out when good times or good things are being pursued.

A man would be content to wear the same suit every single day, and all year long, but women on the other hand would want to wear a new fashion.

All the men in the audience are basically wearing the same style of clothing, but women are wearing all kinds of blouses and dresses with different shapes and colors.

The men's world is just one dull color, while the women's color is like visiting the colors displayed in a flower garden.

We can say that the men's world is like the soil and the women's world is something growing above the soil.
Therefore, women are more prone to the changing world of evil which came about into existence.

The Bible states in Genesis that the fall of man was initiated by a woman.  Women wear all kinds of colors on their nails.  If a trend started where each nail was painted a different color, that would catch on like wildfire.

Women pay attention to such things.

However, men are not so wise that they avoid following women.

In the world today, do women follow men or do men follow women?

It is the feminine nature to attract attention through color.  A flower attracts insects through color and fragrance.

When it is time to shop, the distinction between men and women boldly comes out.  A man will pick out a tie, while the woman wants to shop around in many places and compare before she buys one specific item.

In the process, she looks at many different departments looking for the perfect weapon sending out signals to make herself more colorful.

The function of a flower is to attract the attention of insects.

Men always replay to signals women send out.

Thus, men duplicate the changing nature of women by responding to the signals they send.

This nature is the cause of the fall.  In the Bible, Eve first committed sin with Lucifer.  Then she tempted Adam by offering her fruit (sexual organ) and he took it.

Do we see men do this more to women or women do this more to men?

Eve sent out artificial smiles and messages which is more obvious.

Father seems to be harder on women during his speeches, but then you must think whether it was man or woman that sent out the false signal first.

It was woman.

When we say that a nation is very colorful, we are saying that the women are colorful.  Men may say that the house needs repainting every few years, but women would want to change the color every season!

The first impression of Germany is that it is a sober, dark country because the women wear dark, uncolorful clothes.  Then when we come to America, the feeling is entirely different.

There is always a new fad and American women are always at the head of the line.

This is not to say that the women's world is bad and the men's world is good.

There is both good and evil within the world of women.  Some women are always on the lookout for the freshest, newest thing while other women are trying to preserve tradition.

Which side is the closest to good or evil?

Of course the side of tradition has a more unchanging quality, so that represents the good side.  There are all kinds of national traditions, so which would be the center?

Would you want to preserve internal things or follow external things?

Without question, you rather pursue the internal things.  We commonly speak about conscientious people.  Men of conscience have life, and also love.

Tradition should be based on the qualities of conscience, life and love.

Which is more preferred, life or love?

Each of us preserves our own life, but we cannot think of perfecting love on our own.

You need a circuit in order to perfect love.

Is it possible for the power or love to unite society and the world, or would it have to be the power of love?

It must be through love, but love should be added to life because love needs energy.

The root of life is the fruit of the love between your father and mother which comes vertically down to you.  Thus, the energy of your life should be directed toward love, becoming a seedbed of love.

Your parents' love is consummated in your life, so your life is spent searching after that origin. 

You should then associate with people in society to consummate your love.

You are in pursuit of the tradition in which your parents' love created your life.  Thus, your life is directed toward fulfilling love which will bear fruit.

Only through the power of love will man and God's ideal be allowed to blossom.  Love is the common goal of every person.

Everyone loves love.

Do you need food more than love?

We need food to not only preserve life, but for the power of life in order to give energy to your love.

From food, you get the energy for life.  Then that energy will be directed toward the blossoming of love.

Not only man, but also all things of creation are pursuing love. 

What is the ideal for men of conscience?

Men of conscience highly value tradition.  They thrust their whole life into perfecting themselves in love.  If a tradition is erected, it should continue for eternity where everyone will recognize its value.

God wouldn't hesitate to place His stamp of approval to the tradition that bears the fruit of love.  A good man upholds the unchanging quality of the tradition of love.

This tradition of love can be used on the individual level, family, society, nation, spirit world - everywhere.  This tradition is valued universally.

A man of love is accepted as a good man on every level, including spirit world.

What kind of person do you think God is?

Of course He, too is a God of conscience.

If we have a conscience as a resultant being, then certainly God, the Creator must also be a God of conscience.

We feel that the energy of life will blossom and burn into love, and our ambition is to fulfill love.  If we think this, then our first cause, God, must thinks so, too.

Do you think you meet every criteria for the universe of love?

Would you swap love for the British crown?  If you could exchange love with the most expensive diamond in the world you should think that this is only an ornament.

When your eye is shining in the power of love, that eye is priceless. 

If you walk with the eyes of love, all things of creation will want to be seen by you first.

If you have the power of love, all sounds will want to be heard by you, competing with each other to enter your ears first.

All the smells and fragrances of the universe will want to compete to be appreciated by your nose.  If you have the power of love, all food will want to be chewed by your mouth.

Even though food will be crushed by your teeth, it still wants to be connected to the power of love through you.

Food would rather be in the mouth and stomach of one who holds the power of love than continue as it is.  All the fish in the ocean would rather leave the water and enter the mouth that represents love.

All creation responds to love.  Everything wants to be a prisoner of love.

The ultimate satisfaction of creation is to be caught by true love.  Mankind is also a part of creation of God, so we find ultimate satisfaction in becoming a prisoner of God's love.

We all want to enter the mouth and ears and eyes of God.  We want to become instruments of God by becoming prisoners of His hands.

Why does this bring such joy and satisfaction?  There is nothing greater than God's love.

By becoming His prisoner, you are becoming part of His love.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Two Worlds of Good and Evil

See the Bigger Picture

"Everyone is headed somewhere," is an universal statement. People in the past, present and future have all been headed somewhere.  But what is their destination?

Children who leave the house in the morning, school is their goal.  Even though many students go to the same school, they can be learning entirely different subjects.

Modern science is divided into many fields with each scholar focusing on something different. Before there was modern technology that is highly developed, people basically worked in factories for a living and were involved in the whole manufacturing process.

Today's factories, workers may feel they are a small part of the whole and do not know what the rest of the factory is involved in and many feel that they play a significant role.

Those who go for their doctorate are often focused on a very narrow, specialized area.

Once they are able to accomplish their goal in that certain field and have considerable knowledge about it, they can be awarded with a degree.

They can be compared to residents of the large cities such as New York, who go to the countryside for the week and search the streams for a certain pebble or insect.  For that person, he thinks it is important to study such things, but the realm of the big city cannot fit inside a tiny bug.

Somehow, such research should connect to the realities of New York.

People are blinded by their focused outlook, that they lose sight of the whole.  They lack the perspective of the world, nation, society, or even the family.

As people go about their daily lives, they do not want to think about ideology, or how to better themselves or the world.

This is why the traditional value systems are crumbling.

Americans and people of the free world are suffering, simply because they do not see the bigger picture of what is taking place in the universe.

Thus, they lack any vision and do not know what to expect for the future.

Once one obtains their Ph.D, which direction should he move: toward the universe, or down?

If he goes down, he declines.

The further you descend, the less you will be able to see on a larger scale until everything turns pitch black.  Then  you become more and more confused.

When you are living in this way, your path is blocked and you see only people's misery and suffering.  This is the direction many intellectual people are headed.

Many learned people may brag about their accomplishments, but they really have closed minds.

Thus, universities and institutions are headed in that direction because of the people who are leading and running them.

Once a people live in an animalistic way only wanting to have fun and stimulate their body, they do not see the reason for ideology or even morality.  They wonder why follow a disciplined life?

People live for such lowly goals.

Reality shows have taken number one positions in the television arena with young people wishing to become like the people on the shows.  They perpetrate animalistic lifestyles as rewarding, glamorous and the best way of life.

Where are the shows that show the side effects of living such an selfish, external life without any morals and thinking about others?

Without any foundation, individuals can't relate to something greater than themselves, some higher cause. 

People don't even want to think about a higher purpose in life.

Majority of citizens only see themselves as individuals not seeing them as part of the whole.  They do understand that the world is full of wrongs, but they just want to have fun anyway forgetting all the problems.

They do not worry about the direction or history because they think that somebody else is running it.

Such people are not worried about their community and they do not have strong patriotic feelings toward their nation.  This is the situation America has found itself.

Majority of people do not have any real goals and they do not make an effort to go beyond their situations.  They could at least pursue the well-being of their country as one goal.  Even if they cared about their home town, they would have a place to return in the future.

When people look at the past, they conclude that God cannot exist because they cannot find any trace of Him.  Then because of this belief, they do not see the need in religion.

In any school, the student who is a little better than the rest of the students will be the winner.

People see someone who has a Ph.D and they want to follow him, but someone who has a doctorate's degree that keeps hitting stonewalls in life will only cause the people that follow him disaster.

We all must go somewhere, but where?

God created the human mind where there is a corner of the brain which simply cannot accept a totally animalistic way of life.  Even portions of the body will rebel such a lifestyle saying that life should not be like that.

We can hear this voice whispering from within.  People's carnal desires tries to push them in a certain direction, but then another part will place on the brakes saying, "No, that is not right".

What if someone was to eat at a different Chines restaurant for every meal for one week?  Afterward, he wouldn't even want to look at Chinese food that he once coveted just a short time ago when he was very hungry.

We are living int he age where free sex is rampant.

People meet and have relations without even getting to know each others first or last names.  These kinds of people are able to satisfy their bodily desires, but then what?  Can they live happily ever after or even affect the world with such behavior?

What if there was a man who was having sex with several women a week? He along with several others would believe that he was living a satisfactory lifestyle envied by others.

But once he is alone back at home, he truly know that he feel empty inside.

Then he may reminisce about the time that he dated a simple, country girl who was only mildly pretty.  She may have not worn make-up, but she had a pure heart.

He will remember the days when he was in love with her and he now realizes that those times were better times than he is enjoying now.

Even though externally it looks as though he has everything he needs to enjoy life, it does not satisfy him.  He feels empty once he looks back upon how he was living a pure life and had pure love for someone.

Some people may quarrel once with their spouse and accuse them saying that they do not care about them and leave.

On the other hand a true husband and a true wife will disagree at times, but their relationship has a cohesiveness which nothing can destroy.

Even though they may fight, they do not want to break up.  Which of the above examples do you want for a spouse?  Of course you wouldn't want the first kind, but why?

Anybody with a conscience will say no to this.

Everyone comes to this same conclusion.  How can one talk about the ideal way of life when they are living in such volatile situations constantly?  Where can you find true love in that situation?

Can we find any righteousness in a society that is filled with selfish individuals?

People will feel that this world is evil, bleak, dark and sinful and they would not want to have anything to do with it.

To follow the path of the world brings only calamity and disaster. 

Would anyone disagree that living a life only for oneself leads to destruction?

Since that is the path to ruin and death, what way should we go?

We do not see the solution anywhere in America, Europe or in the great Western world.  In fact, all of the Western society is walking that path toward disaster.

We can conclude that God exists.

God must be hastening the decline of the Western world by letting it crumble in order for it to rebirth into a new world.  It is the same as killing a germ that is trying to infect the rest of the world.

Wouldn't this be the logical conclusion?

If God exists, would He just sit back and watch as the rest of the world crumbles or would He take action?

God would want to exterminate the evil germs quickly, like a diseased person, in order to keep the healthy parts of the world from becoming infected.

Those whose thinking is parallel to God's thinking would be also concerned about reversing the trend in which the Western civilization is headed and turn it toward a new and good direction.

Some Western people have decided that they rather live somewhere else and end up denying their home country.  Americans were once revered by other nations, but now when they visit other countries, they are rejected.  This is the reality today.

America's greatest need today is finding hope in the midst of despair. 

Because God exists, He must have placed a beacon of hope somewhere.  He has made a way to stem the tide.

Anyone who wants to have a part in accomplishing this change is taking up the most critical challenge in America.

When you really think about it, has there ever been a religion or a philosophy that has been able to save America?  So, far we have witnessed none that have been able to completely eradicate this nations's problem.

There has not been any political, religious or social ideology to liquidate the problems of its citizens.  In fact, when we compare the situation of America to just 30 years ago, we see that the country is in an emergency situation.  Even the religious powers in this day are being eradicated.

People may even judge that God is not concerned with the problems of this society.

Do you think it is possible to find a solution?

Of course man has tried all throughout history to find pragmatic compromises to attempt to justify people's fallen way of life.  Many people today claim that God is dead.

So, where can the solution be found?

Through the almighty God.

God is of love, so He must somehow devise a solution for this nation.  Therefore, something new and great should come about so the change can come to the United States spreading throughout the world.

The Communists have claimed that God does not exists; He is just made up to comfort the poor.

The Marxist ideology, based on material,  has been on the offensive in the world and many Westerners have been heavily influenced by those ideals.

If you follow the communistic way of life, you will decline.  Even if you follow the Western way of life which looks glamorous, you will decline.  When we look at this situation, there seems to be no hope.

Communist denies God and on the other side, the free world recognizes God, but have abandoned Him.

Everybody is headed some place, but where?

We can make an analogy of the situation humanity faces right now.

Imagine a boat full of blind people.  Now, they are approaching Niagara Falls.

Everyone knows that they are going somewhere, but they are not aware of the imminent danger ahead where they will plunge thousands of feet to their death.

How will we stop this movement toward destruction?

This is not just one person's theory.  This is a very real problem.

Would we be able to escape this disaster by making a magical leap?  Do we have enough energy to do that?

Why are we even here?

First, we proclaim that God exists and that He is here and not dead.

Next, we have a steadfast philosophy of hope, not despair.  Our philosophy is based on the living God, not on fixing things quickly.

Furthermore, we have a genuine solution to the world's problem which no one else has been able to solve.  This solution is capable of bringing all the people of the world into unity.

Communism is the archenemy of God and religion; thus communists also hate the Messiah. 

America has abandoned God and has acquired a loose standard of living, thus becoming God's adversary.

To follow this true way of life, we were pulled out of the secular way of living in order to become a new breed of people who can go out to the world and bring new life everywhere.

Many from both camps have tried to destroy this work, but what if everyone trying to better America disappeared?  Would America automatically improve?

Right now, as we go on our missions in other countries, Africans may say for us to go home.  But if we were to make a change in the nation, we can quickly influence the world and turn it in the right direction.

If people of America were to demonstrate a true way of life, the rest of the world, especially the less-developed nations will follow.  This is why God placed His focus on such a nation as America built on religious freedom.  Our purpose is for world salvation.

The Western way is now based on selfishness, not caring about others.

Many people want to take advantage of other poorer nations, but we are working to transform the American way into an unselfish and sacrificial way of life.

The only way the United States will truly survive and prosper will be to have its white people and youth give out their sweat blood and tears for the sake of other nations, creating a true revolution which no one can stop.

Do you think that Harvard University professors or deans are up to the task?

Only one person proclaims that Americans should do this work of restoring the world and make it a reality.  Yet, he has been opposed by the U.S. and the entire world.

Once people see him living in this way and continuing to move forward as an immovable rock, they are repentful at how they have criticize him in their heart and misunderstood his direction.


You think, "Of course, Father is trying to do some good, but he is doing it in his Oriental way. He is just forcing the Korean direction on us."  But let's think together this morning. Does America need my direction and the solutions I offer? How much does America need a solution? 

If your parents oppose you and if the government or the entire nation came against you, would you still be convinced that this is the right way of life? But what would you do if nobody helped you? If you were all alone, would you give up? We must not give up. Our devotion will continue as long as we have breath.


How can you say after only doing this work with less enthusiasm that you are tired of witnessing and walking this path?

Father came to this land from another country.  America is not even his native land, but he came as a fireman to put out the immoral flames waiting to consume her.  So, if anybody gets tired, or needs to retreat it should be the one who does the most.

March forward without faltering.  We should be able to say, "Let's go farther" or  "Let's take a rest".


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Everyone is Headed Somewhere

Even Evil People Wants to Possess Good

We must always remember that daily life is a continuous struggle. There are many kinds of struggles and therefore we have to determine what kind we are going through at any particular time. Many people struggle daily in order to make a living and receive a salary.

We all face all kinds of continuous struggle in our daily life.  There are many different kinds of struggles, therefore, we must determine what kind we are going through at any particular time.

Some people struggle to earn money, but some people are more worthy of receiving their salary than other because they do better work.  Therefore, those who do inferior work can be criticized.

Then there are those people who work just for themselves and do not receive a salary.  In this case, the quality of their work determines whether they will be a success or not.  According to the work one does, they are also subject to judgment or criticism.

There are some Americans who better the country and are liked and respected, and there are the citizens that do not contribute to the country in any way.  Within every group, this kind of difference can be found.

There are the people who are looked up to and we want to emulate and then there are the people who are not well respected.  Only the person himself can criticize himself because he knows himself better than anyone else.

Each person knows where his or her weaknesses lies and he knows how he needs to change.  Within an individual, every element knows whether it is being used for something good or something bad.  Your own eyes know if you are looking at good things or bad things.

Also, your ears can distinguish between good things and bad.

You may feel inspired when you hear these words because you recognize them as true.  Someone else might think that this is too general and is not inspired.

Would you want to be on the good side, exhibiting only good qualities or would you be content to remain on the bad side of everything?

Everyone, naturally, would want to experience the good qualities.

At the national level, some nations are criticized by the other nations because they damage the rest of the world.  Each nation can judge and criticize other nations.  We see that God must be evaluating the nations of the world according to how they are performing for the total benefit of the world.

God certainly desires goodness. 

If there is also an evil god in existence, he would also want something good.

We may think that an evil god would want evil things, but an evil being desires good things.  If the evil god was not able to get good things, he would go and plunder good things from others.

The good God just wants to stay with goodness.  He wants to have good things all the time and wants to cherish them eternally.  But the evil god would try to snatch the good things away from God the first chance he gets.

Isn't this true?  This is how the fall began with Lucifer wanting to possess the good Eve for himself taking her and humanity away from God.

In all levels of life there is struggle between good and evil. 

Do you think that you are a good person or a bad one?

Truthfully, you said you are only good in a half-hearted way, you must not have much confidence.  You are right to answer in that way, because if you completely good, you would not have to struggle or restore yourself back to your original position.

If you are already a completely good person, there would be no struggle with evil.

Where there is something good, both bad and good people want it.  What do you think is the best thing in the world?

You might say 'true love', but even before true love exists a person must exist first.  If many good people exist, then there would not be so much struggle in the pursuit of true love.  It would be found freely flowing everywhere.

The main question is, did human history start from an evil or good foundation?

Is it possible that man was good in nature but gradually became evil after he was born or it was the other way around?  Were we created to be evil and then to gradually struggle to be good?  Would a perfected, good god create such a contradictory being?

This does not make sense.  If people were born to be evil, then we could never have the possibility to to improve ourselves or root it out because it would be forever part of our being.

Is there a possibility that you can become completely good, almost perfected?  Then we can say confidently that we were not born in a hopelessly bad condition.  We know for a fact we were born relatively good, but not perfected.

Even though one is born with a good nature, if he is surrounded by a bad situation, he will struggle hard to come back to his good state.  This is logical.

Therefore, we can conclude that man's original nature was created good, but something happened after he was born.  The Principle explains that human beings were created for goodness, but were corrupted and fell into a bad situation.

What is the element that influenced humans to become evil and have to struggle to go toward goodness?  Many would say 'self-centeredness'.

What is that exactly?  It is placing yourself ahead of God and everybody else.

When this first occurred, people began the path of false self-centered love.  We can surely see that self-centeredness and false love put human beings on the wrong path in history.

When mankind fell, it was as if he received injections: one was self-centeredness and the other was false love.

These evil elements began to circulate in the human body.  Have you been able to cleanse from this fallen blood?  No.  In fact, evil renews itself with each new individual.

If you were to get food poisoning, you then a need an antidote.  Therefore, because we were poisoned by self-centeredness and false love, we need an antidote to cure it.

What do you think that would be?  We easily say 'true love'.  But where do you find it?

Let's examine ourselves.

Have you been able to cleanse this evil blood from your system or is it still circulating within you?

You know it is still there and you can feel it easily.  Where are you going to eliminate this poison?  Do you just do nothing and think that it will go away automatically through time?

This is what many people of faith believe to be true.  The belief is that by simply believing in the Messiah and sitting in pews and being nice to people that their fallen blood is somehow cleansed.

Jesus died for our sins, but how do we explain that we are still born into sin and no matter how devout we are, we still bear children with the fallen blood lineage?

There are different stages of awareness.  There are some people who don't even know they are doing evil.  There are others who know when they are doing bad things and want to become good and struggle to do so.

Those who want to become very, very good must go through tremendous struggles.

To whom does love rightfully belong?

Love itself is a common possession.  True love is owned by everyone at the same time, but there should be a master or subject of love.  Who would that be?

God is the master of love.

To fulfill the purpose of love, there must be a man and woman who practice and appreciates true love.

The first two people who come into contact with love for the first time would think that they would like to have that.  There is nothing bad about that.  This is very natural.

People were born to appreciate good things.

What then is the difference between a good person and a bad person?

Both good people and bad want good things.

Everyone was meant to experience love at the proper time.  We see that love belongs to everybody.  But there is a proper order to achieving everything.  First things come first, second things come second and so forth.

The order of love was God was to receive it first, then man and woman were to have it, then it was to pass love to the angels.  This is the correct order for true love.  Any other order is false love.

Thus it is the orderliness, the right order, that made the difference in love.

When man did not abide by the right order, false love came into being and then the distinction between true love and false love came into existence.

Let's look at a family of brothers and sisters for an example.  Each are born in a certain order, one after the other.  There is the first child, a second child, a third and so forth.  Even if there is only a difference of a year in their ages there still is an order.

If it became necessary, the first-born child could take responsibility for the second-born.  The second could do the same for the third and so forth.

Suppose the elder brother said to the younger one, "Do this," and he replies, "OK, but I must do something else first." That would be the proper way for him to reply, rather than to shout, "No, I Won't do it," without giving any ounce of obedience or explanation.

Violating the rules of conduct in regard to order is wrong. 

In America, this concept is strange.  They may wonder why the elder brother has more authority than the younger one.

But when you observe more closely, even in America, it is natural to give difference to an elder.  Let's suppose there are five brothers lined up in order of age.  The eldest is first, the next one is second and so forth.

In America, would they line up at random?

What about the parents; would the parents go in line in front of the children?  No.  The parents would go first and then the children.  So, even in America, that would seem logical.

When the parents give direction to the children, they are expected to obey.

Unlike what we see in American homes today, the child shouldn't say that they don't have to listen to their parents.

This is not acceptable.

Even if the parents were to give a wrong direction, the child should say, "But if I do it now, it would create a bad situation.  Could you please reconsider?"

Then a good mother or father would think about it and answer, "I guess you are right, so you don't have to do that."  Through this mutual respect and understanding, the parent and child can come to resolve any differences properly.

In any situation, parents should not stubbornly cling to their 'authority' and demand the child do what they have to say.  If a parent did that, then any child would rightly be forced to rebel against the parent's unreasonableness.  Then the parent would have to yield to the children if the children are in the right.

When parents ask their son to do something That he is sure will turn out badly, then he should not be demanded to blindly follow their instructions.  He should explain his thoughts to his mother or father  so that the correct course of action will bring forth good results.

You may wonder how this relates to human history and mankind's problems and think this may seem too simple of analysis of the problems experienced between children and parents.

This actually describes the basic element of human history from the beginning point of mankind's problems and the solution.




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This post was rewritten from the speech The Victorious Person and the Defeated Person

America Must Change Directions

America feels that the direction that it is going is the best direction just because they have always been successful.

Americans don't even want to accept the suggestion that they have to move in another direction.  Americans insist that they are the greatest and refuse to believe that any other nation can be great enough or worth understanding and learning from.

According to the Principle viewpoint, this will never work.


Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon


If you were to observe the country decade by decade, you would undoubtedly see the multitude of changes such as the break-up of the family units, school shootings, rise in atheism and so on and so forth.

These may seem like natural occurrences, but it is a true sign that we as a nation have headed in the wrong direction.  Others may shrug it off and say, "This is human nature.  We are animals, there is nothing to stop it".

What is the true desire of our original God-given nature without any trace of sin?

When you say 'nature' most people, automatically think it conveys something we see or that is manifested.

The word 'nature' refers to the result instead of the cause.  But 'original nature' refers to more to the cause than the result.

We generally understand that there is a background or cause to a person's nature.  There is something that formed everyone's nature.  The result's destiny and direction is determined according to its cause.  People receive certain surnames from their parents such as Smith or Jones.

Each individual comes from a different cause which takes him to a certain destination and direction.
  We see that some people like a certain thing and some people don't like it at all.

We as individuals are within the universe which is a big sphere.

All spherical shapes have a central point from which a line is drawn out going in all directions.  As individuals, we each have a certain point within this sphere and form our own sphere, centering on the central core.

From that point, we proceed in a certain direction according to what we inherited from our ancestors.  Even though another person may be at the same point within the larger sphere, he might take the opposite direction depending on what he inherits.

You, as well, occupy a certain position.  Some of you go toward the north, others will go west and so forth.

When the person who is going west has reached the limits of the west, he has to do on of two things:  either he stops there, and cease to move, or he can change directions and keep moving.  Everything in motion wants to perpetrate itself without exception.  Everything wants to keep on moving and continue forever.

The person who has reached the limit of the direction of the west can turn to the north and then turn back toward the east.  This person can think, "I have been going west and it is very meaningful to me, but I can go east because I am flexible."  Then that person keeps moving forward.

If that person however does not have flexibility in the direction he is going, when he has reached the limit of the west then he will be in trouble.  Then instead of willingly going forward, the nature of the sphere will force him to change his direction maybe pushed to go toward the south.

He can do one of two things: He can be absorbed by the environment of the south, or he himself can digest the environment of the new direction. The person may think that heading east he will never once deviate from that direction, but unless he can willingly move to a new direction, once he reaches the limits of that direction, he cannot continue to progress.

Why is it necessary to change directions?  Why can't he just continue to move east?

It is the will of the universe, which is in the shape of a sphere, to maintain that spherical nature. 

Therefore, changes of direction are necessary.


Here I am, Reverend Moon, an Oriental man. People wonder, "Why doesn't he stay in the Orient? Why did he come to the west and face all this criticism?" Externally, there are many barriers for people to understand this, but internally I am well understood and able to communicate. Your original nature, your true nature, can estimate your own value, the value of Reverend Moon, and the value of the relationship you can have by uniting with me. Although I came from the east, it is also important for me to move toward the west.


Once you enter another person's property you have to ask person for permission to go any further.  Once you are allowed to enter, you may tell them that you will obey the rules of the territory.  The same thing applies to the existence of men and women.

Women today who say that they are sufficient with being by themselves forever and why do they need a man, does not understand her need to move in a different direction.

Or on the other hand, a woman who has seriously been searching and finally finds a man, but she instructs him that he has to do everything the way she wants.  Certainly men do not want such a woman.

Her movement toward another direction towards a man only came to a certain point.  She actually cannot truly enter the territory of a man if she has such an attitude.

By the same token, a man who has been in search of a woman must be willing to accept her and behave in a way that pleases her. Otherwise, he too stops right there and does not actually enter into the territory of a woman. He does not actually change his direction.

Why should men and women live according to the desire of the other instead of continuing to just live in the way they desire?

By living for the other, men and women make a spherical movement, not a linear one.  Living in this manner, there will be no end to their movement, and they will continue forever.

As they move in this spherical manner, they are headed in a certain direction, or along a certain path..

When a man and woman are truly living in perfect harmony with one another, they are able to go any  place in the world and adapt, no matter where or how difficult it is.

A couple may be headed east and say that they do not want to go west, but once they get all the way in that direction, there is nowhere else for them to go.  Then they cease to develop.

Why do we need to change our direction?  Why is the going in the opposite direction necessary?

It is because in order to keep moving in a spherical motion requires that we embrace the opposite direction.

All living things move like a spiral which is small in the center and is large on the outside.

Just like we all breathe in and breathe out, all living things go through the motion of shrinking and expanding.

Through this phenomenon, it ensures that the central point will eventually move to the outside and the outer point will eventually move to the inside.

When we exercise our muscles, our bodies naturally go through the normal shrinking and expanding.

Have you noticed people breathe in different ways?

Some people breath in a deep long breath, but exhale in short puffs.  Others may take in a short, strong breath which takes a long time to exhale.

Also, the earth expands and shrinks.

We must be connected to the rest of the universe and have a relationship with it.  Would you only want to be recognized by people in your school, or by everyone in the United States or even in the whole world?

The biggest trend these days is reality shows that showcase everyday people.  There are different scenarios that one can imagine even wife swapping.  It seems that everyone wants as many people to know who they are as much as popular.  Everyone wants their 15 minutes in the limelight.

Why do we want to be recognized on the largest scale possible?

We want to be recognized by the largest scale so we can be connected with it and move out to the largest level of value.

Another way to express your desire to be recognized by the world is by saying that it is natural to want to relate with the cause of your being.

It is good to go back to our cause in order to participate in the value of the whole universe.

Your value as an individual can be involved in the value of the universe.

If someone was to pluck a hair from someone's head, to whom would that hair belong?  The hair was attached to the body, but the whole body contributed to the elements of the hair.

All beings are perpetually in a spiral, spherical motion, coming back to their cause.

In a circle, we can draw a spiral that begins at the outer rim and goes to the inner point of the circle, but we can also draw a straight line that leads from the outer point directly to that inner point.

You may wonder why we just don't go in a line which is the shortest distance, but the universe does not work that way.  Only in a drawing, in two dimensions can we move in such a straight line, not in the realm of the ideal.


Where should I go after having been here in the west? I will go to South America and Africa, then to the north and such countries as Russia. There is work that needs to be done in the southern and northern countries. 


A person has two options when they go to another country:  either be absorbed by that country or digest everything there.  Traditionally, the United States is a place where other cultures are absorbed, but Father has tried to influence America to become a better place.

If a nation comes to the end of the direction they are heading and refuse to go in another direction, it simply will perish if it is not willing to change.  This is the law of the universe.

This is why Westerners are taught in the church that they must change directions.

If Americans were to go to the the southern countries, where the people are predominantly dark-skinned, with an attitude that their way is superior and "black" people should bow down to them, this is not good.

This is the same attitude of the woman or man who refuses to harmonize with their spouse.  Of course the spouse will not accept such a person and he will be isolated.

If Westerners refuse to recognize the value of any other direction just because they have been going in one direction, then they will be isolated with no place to go.

We can see that all over the world this type of non-changing attitude has caused strong anti-American sentiment.  Some nations are bitter toward America.

Americans may not know this fact until they are exposed to such feelings.  Someone has to point out to them that, yes, they have been successful so far, but they must recognize they have come to the end of this direction and must turn around and go another way.

Someone from the east teaches this important lesson because America was started from a certain cause and has come to a certain result.

Now, the spiral must begin to turn inward toward the original cause.

Maybe someone is happy that they found God, but they still want to continue to expand himself.  However, it is more natural to go inward toward the cause which means that one must become smaller.

A spiral motion goes inward only by shrinking, not expanding, therefore, modesty has been traditionally considered a virtue.

By becoming smaller, a person can return to that cause in the center.  But a selfish person is not normally modest or humble.

Sometimes, humble people are criticized or treated poorly.  They may be told that they should be more expressive and reach out to the world and give themselves more.

Once this person has gone to the inside of the spiral, then they move out again to the outer part toward the result level.

In other words, once he has gone all the way down to the smallest point, there is no other way to go but up and out.  If he stays around and doesn't want to go out, someone will come and push him.

Why must there be constant motion?

The purpose of all movement is eternal motion, this is the nature of eternity.  

The effect has become one with each other in perfect harmony.

Then they can move in any direction, just like an harmonized couple that is welcomed anywhere in the world.

You have within yourself a mind which is the cause and a body which is the result of your mind.

They want to be in motion, this is natural.  The mind wants to express itself and go beyond itself through the use of the body.  The body, also, wants to go inside the mind.

Which is the subject and which is the object?

The one who takes the initiative is the subject.

Thus, the mind is in the subject position over the body.  But we find that the body sometimes refuses to respond to the good mind.  This is the general nature of Satan.   Satan resists ever becoming smaller.  Once he does go up, he never wants to go down.

The true, original nature of man is in accordance to the principle of perpetual motion from inside to outside, from up to down. Constant motion.

Then do Western people need Eastern people?

Yes, because both directions are required within the sphere of the earth.  The one who gets the closest to the center is the one who is adaptable and willing to go in all four directions no matter how difficult it may be.

That kind of person is qualified to be closest to the center.

There may be a humble woman who is close to that central point, but because people just judge her by her outward appearance, they many not see how good of a person she is.  However, she has a quality that is the most beautiful and adaptable to all four directions.

She is harmonious within all four directions able to digest everything never making demands for herself.

Even is she does not realize it, as she continues to move, she will eventually end up at that central position.

Who do you need more: yourself or your neighbor?

If you are from the west, whom do you learn from more, another Westerner, a Northerner or anyone from another direction?

Because of this principle, we can conclude that all people must live for the sake of others.

When you ask a college student why does he study, he may answer because he wants a better position in life or want to marry a better person.

This answer is not universal.

The better answer would be that he goes to school in order to have more to offer in service of his nation and the world.   This actually makes more sense.

If a person continues to go up the ladder of success step by step and becomes a rich man of influence, eventually he has to return those accomplishments back to his cause which are his parents.

Even though the whole world may willingly bow down before a man of greatness and influence, he will stay humble before his parents like the day he was born not demanding them to bow to him.  This is more natural than one who tries to remain in a lofty position never wanting to go back to his origins.

In Korea, parents say to their children, "Go out and come back quickly," wishing their child well.  In the English language there is no simple word to express such an idea.

Within this wish is such a knowledge that unless you are welcomed by the world, you cannot go out and come back quickly.  So, you want the world to welcome your child.

It is a natural desire for parents to send their children out to become successful, then come back.  Also, we want to go to the level of true family because the original mind needs to reach that level before it can move up to all the other levels.

This is the standard way and no one can change it.

You may have many people tell you that you have beautiful eyes, but do the cells of your eyes feel isolated from the cells of the rest of the body?

Even the eye wants to be harmonious with the rest of the body even though it is a small part of the whole.

Some people might want to stay in the same position and not move up to other levels because they are satisfied being by themselves.

They don't even want to go to the family level.  If somebody wants to stay in such a position, he will eventually be miserable.



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This post rewritten from the speech The Deep Desire of Our Original Nature

The Country to Lead the Future

The country which has the greater marketing ability will lead not only a gigantic country such as America, but the whole world.

If American cars were sold all over the world, then American cars would have an advantage.  But being the leader in only the car industry will not mean that America will lead the world.  When other countries buy American products, America must follow.  This means that America is being led.



Higher Direction

Young people of the world chose to study in the country with the best university.  They search for the country with the best philosophy of economics and universities whose economic theory are geared for the sake of the world.  Those countries are the most popular.

The world is one, therefore, study should be for the sake of the world, and not for the sake of the individual or the country alone.

One thing is inevitable:  the world is bound to be one.  

There is no way to stop this destiny.

In education, the necessary basics, such as religious thought, must go beyond the national boundary. And all fields of thought must go beyond the boundary of the nation. Therefore we need thought, religious teachings and basic theory which encompass the whole world, which establish a foundation commonly accepted by all nations.

If world peace is inevitable, which direction will the world go?

It is going where the level of thought is higher than where it is now.  Religion also moves toward this direction.  We see throughout history that knowledge reaches higher levels.  Today, religions have established certain knowledge, but a higher religious power comes and will lift that up and the whole world will follow in that direction.

When higher thought and religion combine together working effectively, then the whole world has nowhere to go but follow that direction.

Where is the country where such higher thinking and a higher-level religion that works together exist?  That country was once America blessed by God in 200 short years, but it has abandoned its glorious Christian spirit.

Wherever this group and religion goes, eventually the whole world will follow.  This will determine the future of the world and how the world will develop in the new millennium.



The Tide of Heart

Power resides with the one who can influence the mind of the people, and especially who can influence families to transcend national boundaries. 

The government does not have the thought that is powerful enough to move families from one place to another as families in a higher-level religion can. Even a country that has thought along with other countries will have to follow that.  The group that has such thought and action naturally has power.

The world is about to change, and we have to prepare ourselves to go in that direction of change. 

The leader of this group has been placing a net and knows where the current of history is going.  Just wait and everything has to eventually pass to this point.

When we put economic matters, thought matters and family matters together, they form a specific activity.  We can call it a Happy Mind delivery system.  It is here where we can deliver anything within thirty minutes.

All things will be done through a simple system.  Factories would not create pollution in the future because they will be spread thinly throughout the world and not concentrated in one area.  Large urban cities will dissipate.  There is no reason for millions of people clustering together creating confusion.
 
Formerly, there was a reason to have big cities, because the highest standard of cultural life was there and outside the city there was nothing.

This lifestyle is changing because of the media.  It is no longer necessary to be present to witness cultural events outside the city.    On the countryside, it is easier to produce agricultural goods, have more time to think, study and analyze.

Through watching television, you can sit and participate in the cultural life just as well.  We can attend college and school through the internet.  We can do the equivalent forty-year career of research online.

From one factory to another the products will be uniform and have a common standard. For example, there is only one best computer system. Nobody will use a different system; everyone will have a common system.
What about language? It will be the biggest problem.

The world's language is bound to be unified. 

Once we overcome the barriers of language and learn one common language, then racial and national differences will disappear.  You will be able to live in any country at any time without worry about visas and time limits.

Black, white and Asian will be mixed equally, but white people may want to stick together and live among themselves.


White people don't have much to be proud of in their history.  Compared to the total population of humankind, they are really the minority.  This separation in an united world would not last long and they will say, "Please, let us in so we can develop with you."  This is what is in humanity's future.

If someone proclaims that the visa system needs to last forever and ever raise your hand.

It is an unfair system created by Americans.  For this reason people of the world say, "Yankee, go home". Americans still place a tremendous importance on visas.

What language will the world choose as a common language?

So, what would this common language be that the world chooses?

It will be the language of the country which has the higher, deeper thought and higher and deeper religious theory and practice.  This country will become the center of the world and everyone will want to use that language.

It wouldn't take force to make people speak this language.  They will want to speak it and it will develop naturally.  People will choose it.

Through participating in an international marriage, many countries will be connected into one race, one tribe within three generations of these families representing several nationalities.  This means that many countries are symbolically combined in one place.

What language will they use?  It will not be English.

The purpose of the original source of this blog was produced from life-long work.  The purpose is to unify thought and unify religion for humankind.  Those people who do not understand say this theory is far fetched.  But it is they who are unrealistic.

This content serves as a living guidance for every person on earth. This content shows in great detail like an encyclopedia hundreds of ways to accomplish victory in the most difficult times.

The material Father is sharing is the foundation for the writing of thousands of doctoral dissertations.

Those who don't believe that the content of the Divine Principle is a higher teaching is ignorant.  Because of that, the significance of the content does not register to them.

You may not have an understanding now, but in the future don't you think you would understand?  This is how every speech has been accepted: first, not understood and then later they catch on.

We must keep up with the future direction of the world.  If your system does not fit with the future direction, then it becomes obsolete and useless.  This is the same as water that is stagnant.  It eventually becomes corrupted and decayed.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the The Tide of the Heart