Can We Become 'Ideal'?

What does the ideal mean?  Is it possible for a man to become ideal?

Only God can be the subject to this explanation.  This means that God is central to the ideal.

God's goal is the creation of the ideal house of the universe.

The Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, teaches that the Messiah will come to the family, which is the building block of the universe.

Your home began with your parents.  A husband and wife, plus children are there.  Is this all there is needed to have happiness in the home is having parents and brother and sister?

Happiness comes when you have harmony in relationships, when there is loving give and take.

A happy home is an environment that allows you to freely express yourself in love.

If something joyful happens to you, would you like to celebrate it by yourself or look for someone you can share it with?

You would look for a loved one to rejoice; a husband wants to rejoice with his wife, parents with their children and children with their parents.

Would the ideal home consist of siblings that fight with their parents?

Wouldn't it be more natural for them to want to be with their parents?  A wife and husband do not come together for just their own happiness, but solely for their children.

The relationships that are contained within the four-position foundation (husband, children, sibling, God) can cover the entire earth.  Children eventually become parents who have their own children, who in turn become  parents continuing this cycle.

Would the children think that it is bad that their parents call the town together to celebrate with them when they are happy?

Would children want their parents to only share their happiness with the children instead?

Father's children could understandably complain in their hearts that their parents spend too much time with the church members instead of having fellowship with the children.

If children have this selfish thinking can they be called good children?  Father's children would not complain because they understand that they labor to pour out their love for the sake of the world.  For that reason, they appreciate their parents.

What is happiness within children whose parents work hard for the members of their church and for a public purpose?  They have happiness because they know eventually that love will come to them.  The ones who receive that devoted parent's love will pour their love to the children.

If those parents instead spent time with their children instead of the the members, then the members would be justified in their complaints that Father only loves his own family.

Those parents aren't neglecting their children, of course they love them, but more than their own children, they love society, nation and the world. Eventually that love will come back to our children.  This principle is true and will not change with time, nor will its value diminish.

When you love the universe more than your own family, you are entitled to receive more and ultimately it will benefit your own children. 

Ideal parents will expand their love universally.

If the parents bring a great benefit and love to Russia, when their parents visit there, they will be well received with love and respect.  If the parents love the world, then wherever their children go, they will be welcomed.

When people receive a lot, they want to reciprocate.  When parents see that their parents are loving the world and working hard to spread that love, the children should not feel neglected.  They should be able to understand this realization and see it as their hope.

What if a wife only wanted her husband to pay attention to only her, or a husband wants his wife to ignore other families and pay attention only to him?  Such a person deserves hell.

Many American women are this way.  They even look for a man who does not have a family ties so he will pay attention only to her as the wife.  A husband or wife usually become jealous when the spouse pays too much attention to the family, resenting the love that person gives to someone else.

If the world is filled with such husbands and wives, would this be a hellish or heavenly place?

Women should realize that the ideal husband is he who loves his wife, but loves his parents, brothers and sisters and neighbors as much as he does her.

That kind of husband is not wasting time with others, but inviting their love for his wife.  It is only natural that the love he shares with them will come back to her.  A daughter-in-law can become the central figure to the husband's family because of the love she gives.

She can become a queen of love in that house.  Any home that violates that principle is judged and shall decline.  Is this true or false?

Some women who are humble and live this principle may not be as pretty, but are ideal because they have this concept of ideal womanhood, ideal family and ideal love.

What kind of husband would you want?

The kind that does not have a family or the one who has nagging parents and grandparents and even great grandparents?  The husband with the big family will be the most exciting place to go.  There you have more objects to love and fellowship with.  By having this foundation, you can receive more love.

This principle is very simple, but American women are blind to it.  Once they are awakened to this way of life, however, a revolution will occur in American homes.

Now, you have the tools to become an ideal husband or wife.

What if your husband disappeared on the night of your honeymoon?  Then you find him in fellowship with his father-in-law, and the next night with his mother-in-law.  If you were unable to see your husband the whole honeymoon, would you complain when you see him loving your parents instead?


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Leading the Future

If you take a look into history, you'll notice that we are headed into the direction of one united world.  Is the thought of a united world a dumb idea?  Millions of people in the world may be against this idea.

Many people fear that that reality will be like a communist tyranny, but a united world and people is God's ideal for creation since the beginning.  Communism tries to bring about world peace through force, taking away human freedom and doing so without God.  This is the major difference.

The church that is willing to sacrifice itself for the good of the nation, will lead the way in the future.

Have you met anyone who works hard to reach third place?

In the past, America thrived in the number one position in the world.  Any other country that was different than that standard was in second place.  Now, America is in the third position and dropping.  If someone was to show evidence that America still was blessed in the first position would be false.

There is a desire for America to be in the number one position because God sacrificed to bless America to lead the world with its Christian values.

America was the youngest country and it won the number one position after only two hundred years of its official inception.  This is because it had its strong roots in the ethics of Christianity.  America was number one in all of the fields.  Is it easy for one country to accomplish that task?  It takes a lot of discipline and training to be and also stay in the number one position.

Is this possible, probable or just remote?

How long would a small village last that had citizens that starved while other feast everyday?

It is inevitable that this village is bound to have fighting and separation.  If the world moves toward equal privileges and equality, who would complain in that type of society?  Therefore, the unequally wealthy will not sustain that position for long.

The whole world first belongs to God. 

Groups will own the things bigger than the individual; hundreds of millions of small groups will have ownership. Members of a church sacrificing themselves for world peace will be the forerunners and pioneers toward a world of peace.  Everyone in the future will fight to do the work that needs to be done.  The technology will advance so much that just a push of the button on a computer is all that is needed.  It will be enjoyable and people will compete to that type of work.


We see that automation will become more and more advanced, such that eventually you don't even need to go to the workplace. By satellite, the factory can be controlled from home. That's high tech. You may not realize it, but that day is already here.

Technology is so advanced that a corporation doesn't have to operate from the office.  Faxes, telephones, computers and the internet have advanced so much that one doesn't have to travel everywhere to get the message out or do the work.  Technology blossomed in the 20s to support the mission of the Second Coming for this purpose.



The Sheep

Just like the tide in the ocean: heart moves the same way. 


When we discuss the tide or current of the heart, we only can take examples from the physical world because it is our only reality.  The world living in heart is the same as the physical world.

The Korean language has an explanation about the current world of heart or living based on the heart.  The word 'woon' translate to mean 'carrier'.  This represents 'army' and 'cart'.  This is the same as a safely covered vehicle and means to bring safely into a certain place.  A fast car will carry you to a certain poin safely without an accident.  That's fate.  That is luck.

How does luck work?

Luck or fate always follows the current of the heart.  If there is heavenly luck, that means the current of the heart is being followed, thus you are covered in luck.

People in the West, who are more materialistic,  do not understand why Orientals emphasize aspects such as filial piety, patriotism and sainthood.  Orientals themselves did not understand why they were doing those things.  They simply thought it was the right direction. They were just following the heartistic current.   So they were in the heavenly fate, exalting benevolence, beauty and love.

Beauty, in the Chinese character, is composed of "big sheep." The big sheep is the one who sacrifices himself greatly on behalf of others. Also, in the character meaning righteous, the sheep occupies the top position. Why the sheep? The sheep signifies sacrifice. Thus he is righteous.

The Chinese characters for the word 'beauty' is composed of 'big sheep'.  

The Bible unceasingly symbolizes Jesus as the lamb carrying the burdens of the world.  This sheep was pierced and sacrificed with the sword.



The Chinese character for 'heaven' shows two men, not one man.  The principle states that two centering on love that come together is the essence of the ideal of creation.




Without love, they cannot make oneness.




We must accept the logic and reason behind the flow of heavenly fate: it travels the heartistic current, the heartistic tide.

We preserve heavenly fate through sacrifice.  When we do service for others, we stay in the realm of heavenly fate.  The general direction of heavenly fate, therefore, is always somewhere beyond the individual's interest.

HEavenly fate moves toward the greater whole.  It follows always in a straight line, a straight direction.  God connects it back to the individual.  This straight line of heart is the safe route for the individual to travel and reach God.  Heavenly fate begins from God and moves on the line to bigger and bigger levels until reaching the whole universe.  Love is always a straight line.




The only straight line is the line of love.




Why is Love a Straight Line?


The act of love between grandparents, parents and a young couple just beginning are exactly the same.  It is the same for white and black people.  Eternally it will be the same.  The way they prepare food east and west are different, but the way they love is the same.


 For white and black it is the same. The animal kingdom, too, is the same.  Can we change the quality of love or improve it?  Love is the one thing that cannot and does not need to be improved.  The way of love is true within the plant and animal kingdom.  Man is no exception.

The family needs the son or daughter of filial piety.  The nation needs the patriot.  The world needs the saint. The cosmic world needs the holy son.  These four levels are connected by love:  son and daughter of filial piety, patriot, saint, and holy son. These levels have love in common.

These levels always operate on the path of love and connect like a crystal.  This can be called crystallized love.  Why?  This way, we inherit the universal blessing.  When we get that blessing, we are liberated; we are really free.  In freedom, we become the subject, the center.




Everything moves at our will.





Have you noticed that we all want to be the center of all things.  This is a natural desire.  What most people do not recognize is that you do not become the center through knowledge or power.

The contents of that center or any other center is the same.  They may be on different levels, but they contain the same contents.  If you take this center anywhere, it will be welcomed.  The underlying concept is that of 'sacrificial contribution", sacrificing oneself.  Heart.

In the realm of the realm of heart is where it is possible for the spiritual world to come to the physical plane.  Then they can unite together.  This unity can only come in the heartistic realm.  In other words, this unity of spiritual world and physical world comes only through love.

This relationship between the vertical and horizontal is absolutely ninety degrees wherever it travels.  Heavenly fate always follows.  Where their is a true, perfect joining of these two world, love fills the space like air fill space.


Images of Truth


In a man's face, if the angle between the line of the eyes and the line of the nose is perfectly ninety degrees, this person is an honest person. 

This line is very important.  The navel should be on this line and line up right down the center of the breast and the reproductive organ, too, straight down.  If there is a straight line, if there is a straight line, that person will rise up in the world.

When you train your eyes to see these things, you can interpret the person's future.  The Messiah is at the top of that area.

Those with very small eyes can see things at a distance.  Big eyes see thing close up.  This is the same principle for the camera lens.  People from the West come from pirate ancestors who are always moving and pioneering. So, the westerners' eyes resemble the ocean and Orientals eyes the earth.  They have big eyes and see things near them very accurately.


Which is the subject - the earth or ocean?   Is ocean subject?  In all of history, no one would claim ocean is subject.  Earth is subject.  If the ocean is subject then all of civilization would be made of boats and built on the ocean.  Human civilization started at the river, then went to the island, then peninsula and continent.  The Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the Pacific, in this way civilization developed.

So, western civilization should embrace everything  that comes to the Pacific ocean and reaches the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Now, we are entering the ocean culture that is reaching to that new island in the Asian civilization era.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     The western civilization had a vague idea of the future of the ocean trend, but were not certain how to bring this about and hesitated. The Messiah builds a bridge and teaches about the coming ocean era.  He gives them confidence and reassurance to help western civilization. Men from the west want to go to Asia and get an Asian wife.  This is how a man of conscience feels.

Why is this so?  It is where the heavenly fate is going.  The ocean causes erosion to the shore, scraping more and more land, but the land doesn't mind.  As more is scraped, the ocean become shallower and islands rise.

Where there is more erosion at beaches and are more severe, the earth does not protest this natural phenom.  It allows this scraping which goes on for tens of thousands of years never resting.  The earth has a tremendous endurance.  Water, on the other hand, does not have endurance.


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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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Youth Sacrifice for World Peace

Throughout the history of the universe, humanity has had a strong desire for the ideal true love.  This has been the motivating factor for humanity's need for change, for a better world.

The principal participators and initiators of historical change in this time are the young people.  Young people still have the hope for the ideal of a true family and they possess a greater capability to realize this ideal than anyone else.  The young people still have hope for a brighter future for humanity and an ideal of a better world.

Young people are the symbols of hope for a humanity that desires to lead to the new ideal family.

The ideal of family in America has degenerated far from the original ideal of a true family.  Families within used to be the safe haven and hope of the community.  Now mothers and fathers and siblings may be an enemy to one another.

You can examine the history of literary works and recorded accounts that give praise to the roles and the special characteristics young people exhibit.  But there is no more time of critical importance than now that the roles that young people play within the family, nation and world.  Just as the time in history when society had fallen far from the ideal, the family needs a revolution to become ideal families of goodness.

We are living in the critical time in which you live where today's family, nation and world are standing in a place of dilemma?  Have you ever noticed that the more technology and industry advances and youth enjoy major conveniences in their life, we see that the institution of family and individual lives seem to erode.

The divorce rates have risen in America over the last decades.  Also, there is a rise in the same sex-marriage.  The phenomenon of teen pregnancy and and suicide had increased in the last 30 years at the same time of the breakdown of the family.  This is not a coincidence.  This is the most critical issue facing modern society.

When we look at the national level, these issues including sexual diseases, economic imbalance and other social problems, political powers are very limited in the face of these problems.

These problems did not just arise in America alone, but all over the world, countries continue to agonize over how to solve the problems affecting humanity.  Problems such as the threat of war, problems between the races, separation between religious groups and the destruction of the environment.

This reality that many regions of the world experience the miseries of hunger and disease, especially those who practice any faith.

If we were to give a grade regarding the outcome of how humanity's ideas and activities in the last 20 centuries, humankind would receive a failing grade.  All families, nations and the entire world are urgently seeking change for the future.

Throughout history, there was not a clear road for humanity to follow the true path.  This is the reason God brought Jesus and his return to the earth to gather humanity and place them on the path back into God's arms.  It is now imperative that priority is given to develop awareness to the responsibility each of us has to bring about a revolution of change to the family, nation and world.

Our task is to establish for youth a new status as initiators of change and to open a new age for true families, true nations and a true world.

If you plant a seed and it does not sprout at the right time, it just rots away.  On the same token, we are living in the time where everything must be renewed.  Those who find that they do no make themselves new based on God's standard will decline and eventually perish.

The Bible speaks on this when it speaks about placing new wine in old wineskins cause it to burst and become useless.  We are in the era of where we should make ourselves new wineskins to prepare for the new wine never before seen in history.

When the new morning comes, we must put on a new set of clothes; when the new season arrives, we must arrange a new living environment for ourselves.  We must be first renewed as true families and a true nation before we can think about bringing about the re-creation of a true world.  What is the one means by which we can renew each individual, our families, nation, world and change the flow in which history is headed.

The Messiah teaches the philosophy of the ideology of a true family, true nation and true world.  This philosophy opens up a historical horizon for world peace.

God's original ideal of creation was the idea of sacrificial true love capable of giving, then forgetting and turn around to give and forget over and over.  When we see this ideal of creation and the current state of the family, nation and world, we see how far from the idea humanity has fallen.

God's own creative effort involves the sacrificial effort of Himself, His own power.  Yet, because this effort stems from true love, it is returned to God in the form of joy that is tens of thousands of times greater.

In the family, if the parents are motivated by this kind of true love and then invest in and sacrifice themselves infinitely for their children, then, their children will feel infinite gratitude for having to receive this true love.  Then, the parents will experience great joy in place of their sacrifice.

This process of give and take action initiated by sacrificial true love establishes an eternal relationship of joy and peace in the true family, true nation and true world.  This was God's original ideal of creation that we have the hope to restore.  It is in this place that the ideal world of eternal life is manifested.



The true family is the initial stage on which the different types of love, between true parents, true husbands and wives, true children and true brothers and sisters are put into practice and jointly grow to fruition.



On the other hand as we experience in our time, when a family nation or world does not exhibit such true love, it becomes an empty shell.  The lack of true love degenerates into a breeding place for all types of distrust, resentment and immorality.

The family is supposed to be a safe haven where our pure love is nurtured, grows and is perfected as a true family.

The true family is the fundamental nucleus of a peaceful world.

The family is where we learn about God's true love through the love of true parents.  We are also trained by the means of true love of true brothers and sisters which is necessary to acquire a universal love for a true nation and the true world and all of humanity.

True family is also linked to history.  True love is handed down from the parent to child in each generation of the past, present and future linking them together in a consistent value system.  Thus, a family that is destroyed where true love is not flowing, the individuals will not learn how to function appropriately in society and the world.

Therefore, the young people in this age must first become the embodiment of true love becoming the principal actors to build a foundation for a true family culture and true family tradition.   Beyond the true family, it is in the context of the nation that young people are able to put their ideals and energies into practice.

For this reason, we should not base the strength of nation on its political, economic or military might, or its cultural influence but should be measured by the temperament of that country's young people and their sense of patriotic loyalty to the nation.

The young people are the sprout.

Like a sprout, if the young people in a nation wilt, then the tree has no future.  When you observe young people, what is their reality in the world today?  The major problem  each country in the world experience today is the same concerns for the young people.


Political, economic, social and environmental issues can be addressed through such means as institutional improvements and government funding. Laws, military power and economic strength, however, cannot solve the problems of youth.

When dealing with the social problems of the youth, it can never be solved through force or coercion.  The only way for the young people to take responsibility for their wrong actions, young people must lead sacrificial lives and become manifestations of true love, thus establishing their positions as masters of true love.  Do we see this in our youth of America today?

The main force that has the power to initiate young people to bear their responsibilities is true love.  True love is the initiator of all ideals and whose action will continue throughout eternity into the future. True love has the more power than life itself.

If all the youth of the country were to center a new outlook for their country on true love, that that country will discover new possibilities for advancement.  When we look just the history of America just a little over a hundred years ago, we see that the youth had more of a patriotic spirit willing to live and die for their country without want for anything in return.  This tradition is what made America such a great nation in less than a history of 200 years.

When groups that are diverse in the nation transform to an attitude based on true love, they will rise from the limits of their conflicting interests and thus bring about a society of cooperation, harmony and progress.

The primary force that moves a country forward arises from true love in the form of sacrificial and patriotic loyalty. When we look at national heroes whom we respect today, each one of them exemplified a life of patriotic sacrifice rooted in true love, not selfishness.

There are many challenges that keep the world from peace and unity: differences in region,race, religion, culture, custom, language and citizenship.  These differences mus be overcome in order to bring about our desired world of peace.

If we look at all things in the universe from God's eyes of true love, then we would see that the world is one despite all of the above differences.  God does not see national borders, race or anything created to keep humanity from uniting.

When the young people are able to dedicate their lives to sacrifice and service centering on God's true love, then they can start to solve world poverty and hunger.  They will begin to heal the wounds that were caused by humanity's differences in economic standards.  Also, their dedication will erase the feelings of animosity and hatred arising from having different historical differences.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Youth for the True Family.