How to be a True Parent

It has been said millions of times that the toughest job in the world is that of a parent, most particularly the mother's position.

There is probably no other time in history where the children were as collectively rebellious as in the Last Days.  Because of Adam and Eve's mistake, which they made while they were still teenagers, we are witnessing this phenom today.

Now that we are living during the time of restoring humanity back to the position before the Fall, we will see the fruit of fallen history take place.

For parents to educate their children, they must first put their good words into practice.  They should first set the example of being loyal to God's will.

In this way, they create an atmosphere where whatever they say, their children will revere them without ever talking back.

Otherwise, there is no way for the children to follow them.

For this to happen, parents should give their children a heavenly education.  In teaching their children, parents should first be exemplary.

For parents to teach their children about filial piety, then the parents must be children of filial piety first before God.

This means that you, the adults, should be filial sons and daughters according to the heavenly laws so heaven's tradition of filial piety can be established from there.

Parents should educate them to practice filial piety just as their own parents practiced filial piety in the family.

The patriot's parents struggled for the nation even while being driven into desperate circumstances. 

Parents Must First Set an Example

Parents do not make their children practice filial piety just by telling them to do so.

Every parent should want to possess a heart which causes the children to WANT to practice filial piety to spring up within them.

This kind of love does not happen in one morning, but is developed over a long period of influence from the parents.

What does it mean to exert influence?  

Parents should set the example in their daily lives for their children to follow their way. 

You should be experts at putting such things into practice.

As parents, you do not just simply say, "Become great people" but rather, you say, "Go this way in order to become great people."

Fathers must fulfill their responsibility as fathers and the elder siblings should fulfill their responsibilities as elders.

By you becoming people who walk the path of true men and women, who do not deviate from the heavenly law, a pathway will emerge by which you can go the principled course and become the citizens of the one nation.

Then, what should parent's do?

Parents should teach the children to love their brothers and sisters in such a way as the mother and father loves them.  At the same time, they should teach their children to have a love for the nation in such a way. Then they do not need any further education.

When it is time for you to pray, ask God to make your children follow this way since you are doing it this way.

You can only place your children in such a position only after you yourself have set the standard.  Once you stand in such a high position, then God would naturally lead your children in the same direction.

Thus, if you fail to reverse the trend here, then you will be called to account for this failure once your go to spirit world.

Each of your families should have such children that view Mom and Dad as greater than any kings, queens or presidents in the world.

Also, you should be able to show them their mother and father are close and united with each other like no other parents in the secular world.  You should establish such a tradition.

This tradition should be so well planted in your children that they will say that their parents make them proud more than anyone else in the world.

If you look at the parents in the secular world, they constantly fight making a big mess even when their children protest their behavior in tears.

If children are unable to grow up without any tears or sympathy, when they see their parents fight in the secular world, they still exclaim that their Mom and Dad are the best in the world.

This is because they do not know the standard.  This is why you should set the example of a true parent and how children should be.

You should establish a parental bond where adoration flows out from the innermost core of your children's heart.

Thereby, this is where the family precepts and traditions are established.  Through teaching this tradition, the children of the next generation will say, "We will stand in the position as parents."

Parents Are Best Friends and Best Teachers

Have you ever thought where does love originate?

It never comes from the self, but rather from a partner.

Without a partner, love cannot arise. 

We see this pair system in all of creation.

Within humankind, women complement men, and children complement their parents.  Love is never realized without partners, a subject and object partner.

Those who have not been able to truly experience this love of the three object partners, cannot stand of having substantially experienced God's perfect love.

We should give birth to be able to match the rejoicing of God after having created Adam and Eve when we give birth to sons and daughters.

After God spent millions of years to develop the creation, surely he was overjoyed at the time of His first children's arrival.

We learn this in the Divine Principle.  After God created the first parents He told them, "From now on, you will rule over the world.  Our family will be the central family of the world.  Please grow up quickly."  God felt joy and satisfaction after Adam and Eve came into being.

God thus desired to see the day that Adam and Eve would be able to be blessed in His true Holy marriage upon their coming age.

By the same token, when fathers and mothers give all of the energy and love into raising their children well, they want to find good partners to become good husbands and wives.  When this happens, the family thus prospers.

Who are truly your children's best friends?

Not the young boys from the neighboring village. Your children's best friends are none other than you, their own parents.

This is how it should be.  Parents should be liked by their own children even more than their friends.  This is how you should think when raising your children.

Parents must be their children's best friends and best teachers.

While educating their children, parents should not lose their tempers and yell, "Hey you, don't do that!".  Teachers should not say, "You brat! I will spank you if you don't do what I told you.  Don't do that!"  Instead both should educate children with love.

Parents should teach their children in such a way that if they were to ask their children, "Hey, do you think you should do that?" The children will answer in such a way, "You are right, I should not do that because it would make my parents sad."

This is the reason that the parents should be their children's best friends.  Do you think that Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden had friends?  If Adam had any friends, his only friend was Eve.  Next there was just God.

But God did not want His children to be friends with the archangel who was a servant until after the purpose of creation was fulfilled, then Lucifer would have gone to the  next level beyond the servant if he fulfilled God's will.

Instead, Adam and Eve befriended the wrong person.  So, parents should be the best of all teachers, the best of all friends and become the best of all thrills of love.

Love begins from God.

Therefore, conjugal love stems from the parents.

When it is is time for the parents' children to find mates, the parents can say, "Hey, you like each other not because of yourselves but because of the virtues of your parents."  Their children should reply, "You were right, if you had not raised us this way and found such partners for us, we would have been disastrous."

As we have seen in society, marriages that are based on personal choice only without thought to the purpose of the whole, fail to meet the standard.  So who should educate children in love?  They should be educated by their parents.

Children should see that their mother and father love each other with great fun, like two cooing pigeons and learn from this kind of love.  They should be able to say, "Wow, when I see my father and mother together like that, I feel lonely when I am alone.  I also need a partner whom I can love like my parents love one another."

Their parents should teach them how to be like this.

When children are able to repeat this kind of love and extend it out into society, then the world will become a world of goodness and human history will become a history of goodness.  This is what we seek to accomplish.

Chastisement with Love

According to the Revelation of John, one should be hot or cold, but never lukewarm, because the world where love is lukewarm will never do.

If you have a heart of love you can even chastise with a stick. 

While raising your children, if they fail to meet a certain standard, even though you have loved them, then you should sometimes treat them coldly.  If you do not scold them when they are clearly at fault, then they grow up without the capacity to distinguish right from wrong.

Although your Teacher may look amiable, I can sometimes be strict. I can be merciless toward evil, but toward goodness I can be hot like a furnace at thousands of degrees.  When I heard recently that a teacher at a school in the West was in trouble with the authorities for using corporal punishment, I said to myself, "Now that nation will perish!" 


A nation that does not allow the correct discipline of children will soon be a nation of adults that do not know how to behave in the proper way.  Therefore, students should not mind if their teachers strongly guide them in the right direction even with strong chastisement.

There is a saying in Korea, "Give one more rice cake to someone you dislike, and wield a stick for someone you like."

This is the only way to ensure that the right tradition is continued.

Children should forget the pain of their punishment and should be able to shed tears before the love of their parents.

The closer you are to someone, the more you can scold him, saying, "You heathen! Why did you do that?" 

Instead of rewarding him, you can spank him on the calf and scold him, saying, "You rascal, did you do something good or bad?"

But the intensity of our concern for him must exceeds the severity of the punishment otherwise, it will be a sin.


If your punishment is more severe and surpasses the concern for the child, he could become one of your biggest enemies.


Even if you correct your child out of love, if the severity of the punishment exceeded the degree of love then everything will shatter.  Nevertheless, the opposite case happens, then everything is set right.

If we were to say that your love for him is at a level of ten on a scale of one to then, but incurred a minus of five because of a severe punishment, your child would still be grateful at the level of five.

Even still, if you child is unable to accept his punishment well, in order to allow him to come to repentance, you should love him with a greater love than you have shown him in the past.

Thus, even a delinquent child would be able to repent and turn immediately around in front of such true parental love.

However, if you scold your child repeatedly, and speak loudly about how well you have raised him, he will begin to pack his bags. 

But, if you love your child with a greater love, by shedding tears as if your heart would melt for them, they will turn around.

Greater love tends to take the lead in assimilating and integrating all other lesser forms of love. 

Even parents that live in the secular society if they are lax and tell their children not to study because they look tired, that parent does not truly love their child.

Parents should encourage their children to stay up and study even if they have to spank them.

Why is this so?

The parents should be concerned for the future well-being rather than just their present circumstances.  Parents discipline children in this way because they have greater hopes and dreams for their future.

When you give birth to and nurture your children, do so with true love. 

Based on this foundation, if your family members are able to unite closely and learn to love their nation, they will then become patriots.

Hence, parents watch over the growing process of their children and thus educate them.

Sometimes loving parents have to wield a big stick of love so that the children can grow up in the right way.

Children should not complain or protest because of being scolded or even spanked by their parents when they make mistakes.

Children should take such discipline as a lesson.  They should repent seriously and strive to amend their errors.

Such children will be able to grow up correctly and draw near to the center where God abides.



Return for Tomorrow's Post: Parents' Heart Resemble God

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four-True Family, Chapter Nine, Section 3-5

We Should Attend the Lord of Second Advent

Everyday we wake up, we may already be burdened by things of the past or debts we have to face even before we brush our teeth.  But we must remember, that we are not living in the original world in which God planned for us to live.

God's ideal was for us to live our lives completely for Him.

In God's original world of love, we would live and die surrounded by love.  Thankfully, God never abandoned humanity at the point where humanity separated from God, but has dedicated all His knowledge and energy into restoring man to their original position before the fall.

All our activities would be in reverence to bring joy to God.  Therefore, we are all destined to live in attendance to God.

Therefore, how great would it be to attend God and receive His joy and love that we exclaim, "I want to live for thousands of years!"

A verse in a Korean poem reads:

"Moon, Oh moon, you bright moon, moon
loved by the poet Lee Tae-baek!
Oh moon, on you grow a laurel tree.
I want to chop it down with a jade axe and
trim the branches with a gold axe
to build a thatched cottage to bring my parents to..."

These words sound nice, but we must think, where are the Parents in this scene?  Isn't this like the current situation of the world - just brothers and sisters without parents on the worldwide level?

If these parents base everything on their own desire, they will completely disappear.

We need Parents who can reveal the straight path to create Heaven on earth and plant the tradition for future generations to follow.

This was Adam and Eve's task, but they fell away from laying a tradition to lead toward heaven.  Therefore, parents have only laid a foundation to continue the path toward hell on earth.


My life's purpose, until I die, is creating the way for the world that is like that folk song.   Religious leaders prostrate themselves and pray in an effort to receive blessings, but I have never prayed to receive any blessing. 

When we look at the Testaments in the book, we can see how God worked through the saints of history in order to lay a foundation for future generations to prepare for the coming of True Parents who reverse the fallen mistake of the first human parents.

The Old Testament Age was the age of finding God's people through the sacrifice of material; the New Testament Age was the age of sacrificing the sons and daughters such as in the Roman times through countless religious people shedding blood;  the Completed Testament Age is the age of liberating God by sacrificing the Parents' (the Messiah and True Wife) own family.

This was the foundation for the True Parents to be born to the earth where we would live with them for thousands of years.

The Last Days is the time we receive the True Parents who will lay a straight pathway for heaven on earth.  The Lord of the Second Advent, the Messiah, returns to take a bride, known as the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and become True Parents of humankind reversing the acts of the fall of the first parents, Adam and Eve.

The poem above is about the moon and the laurel tree singing of bringing parents and living with them for tens of thousands of years.

If you look closely, the tale has a revelation within it: "..wanting to bring the heavenly parents to earth and live with them for tens of thousands of years..."

Whenever I think about this song, I cannot escape the intense longing in my heart. Don't ever feel bad about having been born as a Korean. In the past, you might have felt pity for yourself for having been born Korean, saying "How is it that I was born in a thatched-roof among these poor Korean people, although Korea boasts of its five-thousand-year history?" 

Father does not feel happy when he hears the song that sings of building a thatched cottage. 

The Korean song that goes "Moon, Oh moon, you bright moon" sings of building a thatched cottage and living there for thousands of years.

How can we bring True Parents to a home with only a thatched roof?  This song connects with the Christian belief of the Second Coming and with the belief in a savior to come that is present among all people and nations.

The son about the moon, tells us about attending the parents.  Which parents?  Your neighbors' parents, your own parents?

This is about attending the parents and the grandparents on both the father's and the mother's side.

This song sing praises of the people's long cherished desires.  This is why we even have a concept of True Parents.  True love that can bring us to live together for thousands of years comes from and is taught by the True Parents.

We have a desire to live with both sets of parents. 

Parents symbolize masculinity and femininity with God as the highest authority.

The authority of their sons and daughter should be at least as high as their shadow.  You should not seek to join the movement and keep your old habits and greed which you acquired in the satanic world.

Our church is different from the established churches. It is a place where we wage a battle of life and death, building an altar of love and prepare the arrows of love. We do not go to the Heavenly Kingdom to be judged by God above. 

God is here with us and judges our lives every day.

By attending God with the Messiah, we are able to share in God's pain and in His joy in our daily lives.

Because we attend the True Parents with such a heart, we have not come to ruin through this age of tribulation.  We received many blessings and protection in these Last Days of turmoil.

Can God die?

No, God is alive.

Today, having achieved global victory, I have returned to this nation. Our nation is divided and I must reunite it. While we build a unified nation of North and South Korea, you must also establish your own nation, people, tribe and family. It is simple now for Unification Church members, because your Parents have completed the entire indemnity mission.

Once you are able to know the real God and True Parents, then everything will be finished. You can become true husband and wife, and real, true sons and daughters by attending and connect to the True Parents' true lineage like a wild olive tree engrafting to a pure tree.

You must be able to love them.  Once you have loved them and liberate your brothers sisters, the twelve apostles, and 120 disciples on the satanic side, then you can love your owns sons and daughters, and bring them to live with you forever. 

"Moon, Oh Moon, you bright Moon, Moon loved by the poet Lee Tae-baek!
Oh Moon, on you grows a laurel tree.
I want to chop it down with a jade axe and trim the branches
with a gold axe to build a thatched cottage.  I want to bring my parents
and live with them there for thousands of years"

The Korean people can receive this song as the chosen people.

This song is a prayer that sings praise for eternity.  The meaning behind it is about attending one's parents for thousands of years in a thatched house.  You probably don't know what that is.  This means you have to start at the bottom from the individual level to restore the ancestor's path of the fall.

Without serving your parents in a thatched cottage you cannot find the royal parents. 

You then organize a tribe and then a people from the tribe.  

Where is the base where God's love and human love harmonizes?

God created human beings because of love.  Even God is lonely by Himself.

God created people because He wanted to live in love for thousands of years.  Even if we only live in a meager cottage, we still want to live with parents forever.

This is the same with the ideal God.  It is amazing that God is infinitely big, but He can enter a small cottage and still embrace Heaven and earth there and breathe love and live.

Therefore, is this a small house?

If God is there, even a thatched cottage is a palace of the Heavenly Kingdom, a universal palace.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: How to Be a True Parent

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook  Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 2, True Parents and us chapter 7

World Peace is Our Responsibility

Are you still waiting for the rapture and for Jesus to return?

Christianity teaches that God's son, Jesus will return in the Last Days for the purpose of restoring the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth as God initially intended.

Through the Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, we learn that the Lord of the Second Advent will spiritually pioneer the way of the cross and will be victorious where Jesus left off.

This is the difficult part of restoring the world and God's people back to their original positions before the Fall.

Since, the Fall began with the first parents, then True Parents must reverse the mistakes of the Fall.

In all of history, when we look at earth, humankind and heaven, has there been anyone who was able to attend these victorious True Parents(Messiah)?

Heaven, earth and humankind have not been prepared to attend such True Parents who do not carry the trace of the Fall within them.  

Now that we are living in the Completed Testament Age, the position of True Parents have been restored and humanity is being prepared to follow to attend them and God.

Is it just enough to attend the Messiah when he returns?

After attending the parents and reaching perfection, you need to restore your own family, tribe, nation and world. God prepared the people of Israel for the birth of the Messiah as well.

To stand before True Parents as true children, you must accomplish the course of the individual level, family level, tribe, and national-level restoration.

After completing the parents' course of restoration on each level, then the standard of parents and children having become one and victorious is thus established and Satan must leave.

Only after this is accomplished can we conclude the restoration of the national and the global level.

Then, what is the mission of the Unification Church and in what kind of position are you who have joined the church? You have been called into the Unification Church, of which I am the central figure. 

As you walk this path or restoration, you have to develop spiritually and physically what has been a sorrowful six thousand years of vertical history.

Then what is our goal?

We must establish a nation of people who are restored to the True Parents position on a worldwide foundation.  In other words, we must establish the world-level nation of True Parents instead of fallen, satanic parents.  This would be a world of peace.

We must eliminate the remaining sorrow, pain and tears of the world as soon as possible. 

As long as brothers and sisters suffer hunger, pain and suffering, a world of peace will never be found.

This is our responsibility and mission.

This is the path you were meant to follow.  You should not turn and look back either with your heart or with your body as the Israelites did.

This kept them from from following Moses and further delaying God's victory to 40 years with the first generation dying in the wilderness on the way to Cannan.

The Israelites suffered greatly in the desert that they even envied their past life as slaves instead of having faith and believing they could conquer the more established Canaanites.

Therefore, we should have the sincere hope to be able to fully attend the True Parents on the behalf of God.

In attending them, we should not attend them after the conditions and difficult path has been laid and everyone admires and respects them.

Rather, we should desire to attend the True Parents of all history as they pass through this sorrowful course.

When you look at the saints and good people throughout history, they have prayed for the day that the Messiah would return and liquidate the fallen lineage and return humanity back to God's lineage.

In their time, even after arduous pray, they could only momentarily keep Satan's attacks at bay.

Our own ancestors deeply are pained that they could not attend the True Parents while they were on earth.  All humankind deep in their hearts have such hopes to attend True Parents.

Therefore, you should become true sons and true daughters of filial piety who are able to attend them from a miserable situation rather than trying to attend them from a glorious position.

Such sons and daughters will cry out that the True Parents are walking the suffering path of the cross that is more severe than that of Jesus, even though the sons and daughters are experiencing difficulty, despair and misery themselves.

As filial sons and daughters they will exclaim, "As someone who attends True Parents, I therefore accept any kind of heavy cross as a matter of course. I praise that, so please, God, do not worry on account of me."

How can we engraft, on the individual level, to the parents' individual victory of restoring the sinful blood to God's pure blood lineage?

Only after we indemnify, restore the worries, pains and sorrow that come to us, instead of giving them to God to bear.

Why have I spread the Blessed Families(families married by the Messiah and rid of sinful blood) out everywhere in Korea? God works with the thirty million people of the Korean people and the entire Korean peninsula, and True Parents are coming to the thirty million Korean people and the Korean peninsula.  Every village, valley, mountain and field -- desires to attend the coming True Parents. 

Serving True Parents is the desire of all people in history. 

You should set an individual standard of indemnity and then become the substantial representatives of True Parents.

You should become the type of people whose whole village will want to serve you without regret.  Of course, True Parents are always in the center making a spiritual relationship with everyone.

There is only one set of True Parents.  However, with limitations of a physical body, they are unable to relate with everyone personally.

This is why True Parents have blessed families so they can stand in the position as their representatives. Therefore, they stand in the position to relate with all people.

True Parents' responsibility is to bear the cross and pass the national level where Jesus had laid the path on to the worldwide level.

Therefore, the cross of the people should be carried by the Blessed Families who live as true children of True Parents.

After the Fall, we fell below the position of God's true sons and daughters.  Through Jesus' difficult path, we were able to become God's adopted sons and daughters.

Now that we live in the Completed Testament Age, we can become true sons and daughters just as Jesus was.

All families that receive the Marriage Blessing which reverses the fallen blood lineage and connects your family to God's direct lineage, must serve as the foundation for the people in order for Heaven to gain victory.

We must love True Parents and separate from Satan based on the standard of original love. We must fulfill our responsibility to go beyond the standard of perfection on the world level.  This is how world peace will come about.

Our mission

We are preparing a foundation so we can directly attend True Parents and assemble other brothers and sisters of the world before them.

We are the ancestors who have this responsibility.  Therefore, we have to remove the path of the cross and persecution so our descendants do not have to bear it.

Currently, the sad situation of humanity is that we pass on the blood of the fallen blood lineage to our children who have to also bear the cross to liquidate their sins.  This is our original mission, not our descendants.

When can God finally appear as the master and Parent of all creation and reclaim His position which was stolen from Satan?

Once the human world unifies and the Abel and Cain world become one.

We can think that all the people living on the earth today, are like children living without their parents.

They fight among themselves.  Therefore, God has to appear as the Parent and teach them that those who are fighting are only fighting their elder brothers and their younger brothers.

Nobody knew this but God. 

The concept of true, ideal parents departed once false parents were established.  Also, because true parents' position was lost, there was no foundation for the ideal children to come.  These positions were sacrificed to Satan.

Therefore, the ideal parents must now appear replacing the false parents linked the blood lineage of Satan.

The time has finally come, awaited through all of history, for God to educate ideal children.  A religion, a movement has taken over this mission.

This is the Unification Church.

We should be proud of the True Parents' achievements.

Next, true children must come together.  They should not just love their family clan, but they should love on the global and universal level.

True children should not say that they only know the American people.  They should transcend any ethnic feelings.

In whose name did the Fall occur?

In Satan's name.

Therefore, in these Last Days, we should jump over the line of the Fall in God's name.

So, God should be above our head and command us directly, just as God was above Adam.

True Parents have no connection to the Fall. 

Our path is to make this new world by gathering people with the true lineage from around the world, who are connected to True Parents and God.

Thus a true family will become a tribe, a tribe will become society and a people will establish a  nation that takes dominion over the world.

Throughout history, the fallen world has been sinking.  Now, we must make a new start and go up.

We are at the time in history where the fallen world and the new world centered on God will meet.  Everything will now reverse.

Then, when will we connect to that central line?

The True Parents had to reach the worldwide level to finally be victorious over Satan who is firing his weapons.

This is why we are experiencing a heavy battle, so we can expand from the nation to the spirit world capacity of True Parents.  

We are approaching the time where the True Parents will be welcomed as national parents.


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This Post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook,  Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Two, True Parents and Us Chapter 6

Want World Peace - Love God

To receive God's love, we have to turn around to save this world; we have to sacrifice ourselves. Therefore we must obey the commandment to love the Lord God with all our heart, all our mind, and all our spirit. With all our love, we must love God. This is the first commandment.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


Because our world, nations, families and ourselves were built on the foundation of evil, God cannot exist in them.  We cannot love God this way.  This is why Jesus taught to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, love other families as we love our own.

Then the question arises, who is your neighbor and do you love them more than yourself?

It does not pertain to your brothers or sister, your neighbor is all other people in all other nations.  To go the way of love and love your neighbor, you do not put yourself first, you sacrifice yourself.

Without sacrifice we cannot perform God's love. 

As we receive Gods love, we have to sacrifice ourselves to love our neighbor.  The Bible states that we should love God with all of our heart, our minds and all of our spirit.  We might think that God is a dictator
demanding love and devotion from us.

On the contrary, all of these commands are not for God's own sake.

When we love God with all of our being, He will love us just as we love Him.  This is God's intention behind the commandment.  When we love God, he loves back.

God sacrifices the one He loves the most.

For God to love others, He sacrifices the one He love the most. The command which asks for us to love
Him with all our beings means to love Him with our life by sacrificing our life.  This teaching shows clearly why God had to sacrifice Jesus in order to love the whole world.

Because of such teachings, we call God love.  God is the greatest love.  An ideal nation that loves and sacrifices for others is different from those of Satan.  Satan always uses others to protect his own position, God makes His own sacrifice for others, not for God's sake. This is the difference between God and a dictator.

There should be an individual of such sacrificial character who is perfectly one with God.  We say there are many sacred men, but there is not more than one who is completely united with God's Will.  Only one person is truly united with God and His purpose. This person is the Messiah.

The Messiah does not come to save himself or a particular country, he comes to save the world.

The Messiah does not just appear, God has been making preparations to make a way for the Messiah through sacrificing men, families, tribes and nations.  To prepare for Jesus, the Israeli people were sacrificed.  To prepare for the Messiah's return, millions of Christians were sacrificed.

If the disciples had been united with Jesus and he was able to pave a way for the true family and nation, he would have been able to lay a foundation to save the world then.  Thus, the way of the cross would not have been necessary.

Thus, Jesus did not have a foundation to stand upon in which to sacrifice the nation and church for the whole world.  This led to the second choice of salvation through the cross to await his return to our time.

Jesus' people had a smaller notion than God.

They believed that when the Messiah came, it was to raise their nation to lead all other nation.  They did not think about sacrificing themselves.

Therefore Jesus prayed for a way to sacrifice the nation and people for the whole world. Then Jesus would not have been killed and he would have established God's nation on this earth through his true family. Then Israel would have been the first nation to sacrifice itself for the whole world.

Through the sacrifice of Jesus' body, Israel was lost and Jesus had to find another way to sacrifice his followers for the sake of the world.  Therefore, through many sacrifices of people of Christianity, it prospered when it had the spirit of sacrifice.

When Christianity lost this spirit, it declined and has become absorbed by the secular world.

The current churches try to establish a world of peace, but only center on their own nation, their own religion. This narrow scope will never open the way.  This is why in the last days at the Christ's return, a new spiritual movement whose people are willing to sacrifice for the whole world will grow and prosper.

We live in a world today where no nation is willing to sacrifice itself for the sake of the world.  Therefore, religion must sacrifice itself for a nation, and then that nation must sacrifice itself for the sake of the world.  The world then sacrifices itself for God.

Through this sacrificial spirit, God's ideal world will come about.  If this religious movement is in America, then the movement must sacrifice itself to save America.  This church should not work to multiply buildings, but should do the work to save the nation by sacrificing its own churches.

Through this spirit of sacrifice for the whole, that nation will come to eventually unite with the movement.  Then when this religion unites with the nation, together they must go forward to save the world through sacrificing themselves.

Therefore, without sacrifice, God's will cannot be realized.

We do not unite in this way for just one day or a special church holiday, we must do it for life, but no one likes to sacrifice themselves.  We think that we become less through sacrificing ourselves.  However, in sacrifice our value is not lost.

Sacrifice does not lead to destruction.  Even if one was to die while sacrificing, they will live on in history.  Someone will admire you for your sacrifice.  Jesus sacrificed his life for the world, and two thousand years later he is still remembered.  People of faith should sacrifice the comforts that the body desires to save the spirit.

Destruction came about through the fallen body taking over the good mind with its evil desires.  When our body and spirit become one on the individual level, we take this foundation and then sacrifice for our family.

Throughout history, saints and sages were not welcomed or understood in their time and were seen as complete failures.  Afterwards, they were praised as famous historical figures.  Because of their sacrifice, they did not fail and were honored.

We revere Jesus now as a prophet, but during his time he was rejected by his family, his church and even his disciples did not revere him as the savior of the nation, the son of God.  Jesus had nothing and he left the earth with nothing.  However, Jesus did not sacrifice for his own sake, but for the people and the whole world.

For this reason, Jesus' teachings have multiplied and had such a deep impact to the present day Christianity.  Buddha also went the same course.

When a man sacrifices himself for others, people will come later and bow to him and select him as the central figure.

If the youngest son of a family sacrificed and dedicated himself for the sake of the whole family, then even the father will tell him to be the center of the family. If a man served his friends with his life, they would not want him to leave.  If the man tried to leave, his friends would grab him and ask him not to leave.  

Finally, they would ask him to become their leader. One does not become a good friend without sacrifice, without serving.

The good father, mother, or son cannot be obtained without sacrifice.  A bad mother wants to take everything away from the family.  But if she serves the family and if a friend serves his friends, they will come.  They will also bring all his friends.

If the friend continues to serve throughout his life, such news of how he was as a friend will be spread all over the country and all people will come to him.  We come to destruction when we overcome others,  but the way to prosperity is to serve others.  This is the dividing point between God and Satan.

Egocentric works will fail and public spirited ones will live. 

Through going the way of the public men, we gain the individual, the family, tribe, nation and the whole world without fighting.  But if we can only think of our own self to gain our family and nation, we would have to fight and even if we win them over, they will not last long.

Therefore we cannot but conclude that the teaching of sacrifice is God's. 

Those who deny God say, "Mine is mine and yours is mine".   We must think, "Mine is yours, yours is the nation's, the nation is God's, and God is mine."

Love has the power to make two things one.  If I love God, then God's love is my love.  For example, if people love and respect the president, then they will also love his wife, although she may be uneducated.

The United States was once revered by many other countries, but now because of the immorality America is falling to destruction.  If the United States would serve the world, the world would do its best not to let her be destroyed.

God had raised Christianity to be able to bring His children to the truth in the Last Days, but is lacking in being able to follow the course of self sacrifice.  Therefore, a new movement has come that understands the individual sacrifices for the nation, and the nation for the world.

We must create programs, not to save ourselves, but save the millions of people of America.

This movement will sacrifice itself to save America, and once America is saved, she must serve the world standing on that foundation.

If you were to die while walking this course, you will not go to hell.  God saves His children through the sacrifice of His most beloved ones.  God's chosen ones are called to restore God's true nation.  Therefore, we should go beyond the thinking just for our nation.

Not only Communism, but Democracy is also declining because neither has been able to look past their own national desires.  Through the international weddings uniting former enemies through a Godly marriage, these national barriers are being broken.Through the struggle of Adam's sons, the world became evil.

So, in the last days, three sons must struggle and unite.  The nation that sacrifices the most for the sake of the world, will become the leading nation in the future.



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How Will the Unified World be Established on Earth?

Is World Peace Possible?

Everyone has the hope and dream that one day the world will experience peace and the days of war and conflict will be long gone.

Is World Peace possible?

Did God create the world with the idea of unity?

If the earth was not derived from a unified source, then it will never be possible to be unified.  The good news is if it was created from a unified source, then all individuals, families, tribes and nations will be able to be unified.

We find that this world is not unified, that nations are not unified, and tribes and families are not unified. And even this world is divided into two worlds. Even within each nation, there are different polarities, families experience division among members, and the individual mind and body are divided within.

We cannot deny this division.

If this world began from a perfect entity, then why is the world divided?

It is most important to investigate the cause of the division throughout the world on the individual, family, national and world levels.

If God is an absolute god then why does such a divide exist?

We have to conclude that God is not the source of such division in the world.  Then what is the cause?  We must know that the cause of evil was not derived from a good source, then it must be evil.


The Mission of Religion

The mission of religion is to destroy all of the problems caused by evil to bring about a unified world.  The most important thing is to find the root of the cause of these conflicts.

By finding the evil cause in ourselves we can solve all the problems.

The most important thing is to find one person whose mind and body is not struggling with each other and is fully centered and become one with God. Their every action in unity with God.  Have you known anyone who has completely made his mind and body one with his every action centered on God?

If that thought makes you laugh, then this means that no one has been able to attain this state of being beside the Messiah.

Then the most important thing is to find the self which is not divided and does not struggle with evil.  If God exists, we must know that He will show us the way to restore us to our original godly state.  This is the purpose of religious discipline.

A person who is determined to follow God's will, will be taught strong lessons on how to become an ideal individual.

God is on the search for individuals who cannot be destroyed by anyone or anything in this world, no matter how difficult the situation is.  God's champion cannot be beat by anything and can be eternally unified with God.  Throughout the course of history, God seeks such a man.

God's providence was designed to take out such a man among the evil society.  Even though God searches for such a high-quality person, man lives among his family, he lives in the material world and in his nation.

In order for God to restore His nation, His family, His individuals and the material world, He does not in the literal sense take these things back.

Even though God is Almighty, He needs a condition if He is to take things back from the evil environment.  Evil that possess what God wants to restore will try to retain all of these things, therefore, the ways of good and evil must not be equal; they must be different.

If evil goes this way, then God must go the other way.  

If one goes to the right, then the other must go to the left.  All people wish for a unified world of peace, but this is not obtained simply.

Evil wants to go ahead and good wants to go backward.  You as one walking on the path of God's will stands in the central position in the struggle between good and evil.

Which do you think is most serious: the fall of a nation or the fall of one individual.  For man, the worst would be for him to perish.  We all have a slight tendency to not sacrifice ourselves for other people.

We all have the mind to center everything on ourselves and not God.

If we continue this way, then world peace will never be realized.  We must first surpass the obstacles in our mind which try to stand in our way of the path toward God in order to reach the world which our mind wants and desires.



How Will World Peace Happen?

Will we be able to bring about a world of peace through fighting other nations?  Is this the true way to a peaceful happy world?  A peaceful world will not come about through the control of others.

Since God knows this, He goes the opposite way of evil.  God is the first to lead the path toward world peace.  If we go this way, the leader is God, if we go the other way, the leader is Satan.  If God was to go in the same direction, He would destroy all the people who are one with Satan.  Since God wants to save every last child, He goes backwards.
This explains the mysterious ways God asks His prophet to set a condition for Him.  For instance, Noah was asked to place a boat on a mountain away from the ocean.  What seems to not make since outside His providence is a way for God to get only the most faithful to follow His path.

Evil does not come from other-centered motives, it comes from self interest. 

There are two kinds of people.

Evil also wants to make the world one, but through beating other people.  God does not and goes the opposite way.  Evil let man fall and made man deny that God existed.  Adam and Eve thus brought about destruction through uniting with Satan.

The fall began when Satan left the path of the servant and planned everything for his own self.  This initiated evil desire far from God's will.  So through the history of fallen man, he has tried to sacrifice others for its own interest.

When you look at the history of nations and wars, you will see that there has always been a struggle between  where the stronger always sacrifices the weaker. This struggle spread from the individual, family, to the nation and in these Last Days to the world.

Now history is at the stage when the two, worlds, which tried to overcome by sacrificing the other are tired.

The Democratic and Communist worlds want to dominate the world, but both have given up.

These two worlds cannot unify the world.  All people of every nation want to enjoy a peaceful, happy world, but there has not been a way to bring an ideal world.

There are two ways to surpass the obstacles of the past:  jump or go around it.  If a nation places its own interest first, then it cannot jump over the obstacle.  

We can achieve the ideal world with the thought that for the interest of the, whole world, we are willing to sacrifice our own nation.

The Communist world centered around its nation and struggle against the Democratic world could not fulfill her role because she, too, thought of her own interests more than those of other nations.

God blessed America to share its blessing, but instead, it turned toward the nation's own self-interest.

During the Cold War, if Russia had supported the world then Russia and the Communist world would be united.  On the same token, if the U.S. sacrificed herself to share the prosperity of the Democratic world, then she would not have declined.

Just taking a look through history, we see that unless we find those who want to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the whole world, then the ideal world will never be reached.  Is there such a nation in the world willing to sacrifice itself for the world?

Instead, the Democratic and Communist worlds are willing to throw away the whole world just to save and uplift themselves.

When we find such a nation that is willing to sacrifice her country and her people for the establishment of the ideal world, there is hope that we will see the glory of one ideal world.

A sacrificial nation does not exist for her own benefit, but for the interests of the whole world.

God went a different course from these worlds.  God's number priority is to find someone who is completely one with Him and cannot be broken away from Him.  He must go to the position where he can unify the world.  God has been teaching the religious people two teachings: to love God and to sacrifice oneself for the world.

The one who can unify the world must sacrifice himself for the whole world.  Since man is in the evil position due to the fall, he cannot go straight to God, therefore, he must turn around and go back toward the original direction.

The opposite direction from the evil world which religion teaches is to leave the fallen world, his family his material wealth and even his fallen self.  This is how to love God and return to the original position which He seeks.

When man really loves God, then He must love him.  Then as man receives the love of God, he must sacrifice himself for the world.  This is the most important; this is the core of God's providence.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech  How Will the Unified World Be Unified on Earth?

Obey Your Mind

Those who follow the words of the Divine Principle written by the Messiah, already have a deep understanding of the importance of mind and body unity.

If one was to only follow the laws that the fleshly body dictates, they would not be able to find a way to Heaven.

God's chosen champions in these Last Days are God's Air Force, Gods Navy, His infantry.  In this way, we can even go into the houses of prostitution and all the satanic covered areas showing that the good conscience must come alive.

We will defeat Satan, but like those who go to war, we must be prepared.  You must become an absolute plus on God's side no matter what.  You will either crash into the evil plus that stole the subject position or your will be able to convert them into a mins.

This is how Satan is defeated and the Messiah's strategies.  God blessed America in its infancy not for itself, but to save the world.  

He brought the Messiah to this country to show America's wrongdoings.  America must return back to God or it will perish soon.  

"The majority of the white people in this country do not want to be told to change and be involved in making heaven on earth. "We are happy already," they say and they all take a leader's position. Great country people feel, "Hey, what are you saying about me? My feeling is not so good; we're going to kick you out.".

They create an atmosphere of persecution from all four directions against the Messiah. Only one Reverend Moon is standing up; young people shoot arrows, bullets, machine guns, shooting me. But they cannot destroy me. Why? Because I take the absolute plus position; that is my continuous way. Minus automatically follows, becoming God!"

Rev. Sun Myung Moon


Satan uses his strategy as well to keep Gods children from uniting with His ideal and Will.

Satan's aim: "How can I control the mind?  With what?"  With the body.

Satan uses the human body which is attached to him through his fallen blood lineage of sin.  He'll whisper to you that the work of God is just too much.  Why don't you just take a rest?  The sky is clear, it is springtime.  Why do you work in such a poorly, dark place when everyone else is enjoying the sun and enjoying partying at night? God makes you work too hard and this course is difficult.  You aren't strong enough to stand before this kind of situation."

This is the kind of discouragement that is given to those who faithfully walk toward the path of God's will.

This is the habit of your body:  the body likes good food, good clothes and a good place to live.  It likes to sleep as much as possible.  These habits sounds and taste good and seems natural, but stands as a roadblock to do God's will.

Satan uses the material world of stimulating things to keep us from uniting with God: drugs, alcohol, beautiful women/handsome men.  When we follow the temptation of a beautiful man or woman, we will fall down into hell.  Because of Gods providence to restore man back to the original ideal, this ownership can be restored.

This is the Messiah's mission at his return: to restore the true mind owner, true love,and the true kingship.  We have been born into this world and accept at some point this is the way, but we have never experienced any of these elements in the true sense and they all have fallen from God's true ideal.

The world of conscience has been a victim throughout history not a victor.

Satan attacks the human mind to take control of God's children and pull them toward hell.

Originally, God had never made the word "victim", only victorious words. Because of the other side, we lost this most precious situation. How are we going to save this situation of humanity?  The number one point is the kingship of the mind.

Then kingship of what?  True Love.

These two things will have a relationship that is 180 degrees opposite of how the satanic world operates.

The satanic world will follow this true way of life once it is established.  Then the bar will be raised and then the it will be lowered down into Hell's waterways and barriers clearing Hell and lifting it up toward Heaven.

Forever the heart connects with God's purpose; the eternal direction is God's direction.  

We will return this fallen world which Satan uses for his purpose to destroy, to its original position and turn it back to God.  God is the subject and humanity is in the object position centering on connecting on true love forever.

We will return the world in which Satan turned all of creation toward his fallen purpose to its original position and back to God.

Once True Parents, True Love, True Life, True Lineage is established, even if Satan uses his strongest power, it will not continue there.  This is the original way of the original heart's purpose.  Your heart was not meant for Satan's will.

This it the viewpoint of the Principle:  humankind can live forever centering on true love;the ideal of God's creation.  True Parents who return the position of the first fallen parents back toward's God is absolutely needed.  The fallen blood lineage will return to God's ideal free of Satan's sinful blood lineage.

When we walk this path no matter the difficulty, we can restore absolute ownership no matter how far we have walked away from God's path.

We have to take absolute true love kingship.

What was the original position where God's love and human love was to unite?

This is through the sexual love organs.  Our sexual organs are the original palace of love and is the most valuable place.  Man and woman were to connect here centered absolutely on Gods love.  Then from there, connect children and life to God.
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The sexual  organ is the king's life palace when we see it from the original purpose of God.  Now that we know this, we see why Satan has placed emphasis on misusing the sexual organs as he knew this was God's ideal to unite with humanity.

Through the pure sexual organs we connect the kingship true blood lineage of God.  These three foundations connect at that one point: Children, life and lineage.

Of all humankind, in all the created world, this is life's most valuable thing. 

The sexual organs is the most high-level, valuable place.  It automatically connects to the creation of the absolute ideal God had at the beginning of creation.  Not just anyone has the permission to open that place.  Only the absolute owner, the one absolute subject has the key to this palace.

From this point, absolute love appears.

Through the connection of the two love organs, absolute soul-baring is revealed. Just having this connection is not the way of salvation or restoration back toward God.

We need the Messiah in order to have the full restoration of the body.  Jesus was the first son of God to bring us toward spiritual salvation and returned to bring us salvation on the earthly plane to open the way for Heaven on Earth.

In the beginning, this pure connection centered on God would have created a true love, true children and true lineage.  Why can we not as humans create these three foundations?

Because of the fall. If the first parents obeyed God to wait until maturity to open their "fruits of love", there would be no need for a savior.  Adam an d Eve would have become the True Parents passing on Gods pure sinless lineage.

Originally, we had everything: God's ideal mind, God's body, God's love. This true love and value was stolen by Satan's mind, body and love.  We are living in a time when Satan's ideals run rampant. We live with two minds at war: our original God-given mind and our evil, fallen mind.  Our original mind understands the value of God's true love.  

Your original mind understood that true love and value. So once you can take back the original human dignity of personality, Satan will be blocked.

If you were to evaluate it, what is the deepest most important point:  This would be the mind.  Then the second point would be love.

When we know the true value, we see that there is no harmony in mind and love all around the world.

The Messiah comes to reclaim the individual foundation lost to Satan and the family foundation through the holy marriage blessing.  Then this foundation expands through restoring the representatives of Satan's family.

The Messiah will push his followers to become independent from the fallen world's way and follow him even though they had once belonged to Satan's side.  Yet many will push the Messiah away because they are satisfied with living the comfortable lifestyle they have acquired.

"Father took the consequences every time centering on God's law of conscience.

"I opened doors and left them open behind me. The route you have to follow is my way-the way I took has become the universal textbook. If you can understand the contents of this textbook, you will be grateful forever."

The Messiah is the most precious thing: touching him we connect to true love, true life and true lineage.  Without the Messiah blazing a trail of restoration through suffering, there is no way for humanity to obtain the knowledge to bring about the true blood lineage on earth which God desires.

We must connect to the words of the Messiah through his teachings of the Divine Principle which this blog is based upon and live it substantially.  We must get those three valuable things and take them back to our brothers and sisters of humanity.

True love forever. In there we will take that happiness; in there hope, in there peace, in there freedom.

If we do not restore the true love place, where is the freedom in that?  When we center on love, we have freedom.  Therefore, the American concept of freedom as 'do whatever you want' is wrong.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Let Us Inherit Victory.

Spirit World is Now Here on Earth

Every Sunday morning worshipers sing about "God is on His throne" as we praise him. Would any father enjoy His high position as His own children suffer?

God gave up His throne and came all the way down to the bottom of hell.

After the Fall of man, Satan stole God's children from their original birthright as true owners.  There at the bottom of hell, God Himself paved each step toward the accomplishment of human perfection.  God has been pulling and pushing mankind through each step of the providence.

Who fulfills God's will? By man.

When God is down at the lowest part of the world, would he say that He doesn't need you and He can fulfill His will all alone?  It is impossible to fulfill God's will without man's participation.  Man is an important component to fulfill God's will.  Therefore God embraces man in this mission.

God instructs man in accordance with man's acceptance or his level of understanding.  God cannot teach the highest possible truth to men with inadequate awareness.  With many failures of saints and people of faith to fulfill God's will, His providence has been prolonged for thousands of years.

God could not reveal the contents of the Bible or Divine Principle to primitive tribes who did not know anything about the world or universe and only had concerns for themselves.

God has a method of teaching and gives guidance that differs according to each man's perception.  Still God had a method to teach each generation of man to their own level of understanding.

For example, through Shamanism, God asked people to worship the creation of trees, the sun and moon things in which they could relate and see directly.

Would God have been able to teach people of a simpler time in a classroom and blackboard setting?

God already has all the knowledge and resources necessary to teach each person who can perceive the universe through other teachings.  Yet, God is limited in all the knowledge that He can teach man all the time.

The human mind turns every moment of the day both day and night just like the universe and the earth.  God can only reveal His teaching to a person's mind that is in the daylight or one whose mind is uplifted.  Only in those moments can God capture and teach each of us.

No individual's mind travels in a straight line.

Instead the mind progresses in waves up and down.  You may feel this.  Some days you feel like a million bucks when you wake up and feel like flying.  Other days, you feel so gloomy that you can barely get the strength to make yourself wake up completely.

In those moments that your spirit is uplifted and shining, you are ready to contact the spirit world and God.  A spark can jump between God's spirit and your spirit.  This is the very reason as people of faith that we should strive very hard in each moment to be bright and happy all the time.

When you keep your spirit uplifted all the time, you can meet God. 

This is the most basic and important mode of life for those who want to reach God for which we can be thankful.  If there is something troubling you, then somehow take care of it right away.

So why is it important to monitor and make effort concerning your behavior every moment in life?

By living in this way you open yourself to God and prolong the time which you are able to be with God directly.  In this way, there is more chance that God can approach you.

This is why our religious life is so important in our spiritual progress.  The true definition of a religious life is making yourself readily available to receive God's revelations.  In living a religious life, we pursue the hope of seeing a grandiose future ahead with God even though our present situation only involves suffering.  By doing this you create an atmosphere where you can meet God.

When something deeply troubles you in your heart, don't you seek out a good friend to talk about it and get it off your chest?

This is the same reason religion stresses communication with God and trusting Him with our problems and forgetting about them.

You can go to God and tell him, "God, I have a problem here.  Let me talk it out with You so You can see it and I can get rid of it.".  This is better, because your good friend may not be capable to help or understand you and will eventually forget your situation, but God is capable to handle your problem and will never forget your situation.

Spirit world and God will always approach you when your awareness is high. 

In your awareness, the spirit and God can touch you and teach you, not in a classroom, but through dreams, visions and revelations.

You also may be guided by a spirit guide on a tour and be opened to the reality of the spirit world.  God uses dreams as an important medium to reveal Himself through important revelations in some dreams.

Because of the fall of man caused by the first parents of humanity, we belong to the satanic lineage or bloodline of Satan.  This stained sinful or fallen blood is not pure.  Therefore, there is only one way that a higher spirit can contact you.

Each time we move, that satanic blood circulates through our bodies.On the other hand, when you sleep at night and your body is not in motion, your blood does not circulate as rapidly.  It is the same as a muddy lake that is sitting still allowing the dirt to settle to the bottom bringing the pure water to the top.

This same kind of phenomenon happens when we sleep; our bodies quiet down and in that way our spirit is in a position to be touched, which is why revelations usually come at night. This is common sense; it may be new to you, but in religious life these experiences are very important.

Can you distinguish your dreams whether they are from God or from Satan?  A satanic dream does not have a clear focus, direction or central theme.  Korean slang labels this as "dog dreams".  They are jumbled and easy to forget upon waking up. In contrast, a heavenly dream has a system and a clear theme or message.

Heavenly dreams may continue a message from one dream to the next. 

If you have an uplifting dream three or more times that has the same theme or atmosphere, then you can consider this and receive it as a revelation.  A heavenly dream is so clear in your mind that upon waking you can clearly recall it vividly.

Why is that?

God's purpose of creation was that God and man were supposed to be completely united for eternity after completing the growth stages of formation, growth and perfection of self.

When God gives you something in this true atmosphere, you would not soon forget it.  Because satanic relationships are illicit and unprincipled, however, they are quickly forgotten.

If you are in constant contact with the spirit of God and good spirits, you cannot be swayed by the temptation of Satan.

You would have an unforgettable relationship with God.

Even if you were to go down to the dungeons of hell in a satanic environment, Satan can not claim you because you would be so deeply meditating on God's revelation.  Did you know that 70% of the Bible came through the revelation of dreams?

 In the Old Testament Jacob's eleventh son, Joseph, once told his parents about a dream, in which the sun, the moon and eleven stars came and bowed down to him. This little boy vividly recalled his dream. Later on, Joseph became the Prime Minister of Egypt and his father and mother, who were represented by the sun and moon in the dream, and his eleven brothers, the stars, came and bowed down to him.

Jesus' mother Mary received an important revelation testified in the New Testament.  Joseph was approached by an angel one night that told him not to fear taking Mary as his wife for the baby was conceived in her was of the Holy Spirit.

Every human dreams at night, but usually people forget them.  But if there is a vivid, unusual dream that you can remember more than three years later, such a dream is a revelation and the work of God.  Many people get the revelation about the Messiah of the Second Coming will be an Oriental man born in the flesh.    

Why do these phenomena have to occur?

The spirit world has descended on earth and they are trying to teach you through many distinct types of messages.  Sometimes, God Himself comes, or the spirit of Jesus or a noble spirit.

Sometimes your own ancestors come to you or even an evil spirit.  Therefore, it might not be that easy to determine how true these messages or from who they originate.

It is important to get the help and support of spirit world, but we can be misled and confused by it if we don't know the fundamental principles governing it.  You may witness that in today's time, more and more people are suffering from psychological disturbances.

This occurs and is more prevalent in these days because the lower spirit realms of spirit world also assault the physical world always trying to affect people on earth in one way or another.  The lower realm spirits always have an adverse effect on people.

Even those spirits from the lower realms are trying to assist you in your work on earth, but because of their lower energy, they can destroy you or at least disturb you.  Conversely, good spirits from the higher realms can guide and assist you by bringing you divine truth and power.

This is the reality of the world today whether people believe in life after death or not.  Psychologist and professors try to study dreams extensively to determine the cause and come up empty handed.  Some people believe that dreams come from the depths of our subconscious, but those kinds of dreams do not originate from God and easily are forgotten.

A God-given dream is very significant and vivid and are never expected.  All of a sudden a dramatic event will occur in a dream, that cannot be forgotten.  They are often times not related to familiar things.  This kind of dream is the intervention of the spirit world.

When we make an effort to concentrate on spirit world and God through praying all night or meditation, our spiritual nature can surface.  There, our dirty and foreign elements will settle to the bottom.  This is similar to when we are in a state of sleep except we are wide awake.

In a state when we are really tired where we are on the verge of sleep, yet we are still awake and can still hear sounds and see things not clearly, this is the moment where a vision can come.  This is a wonderful opportunity for God to reveal a clear vision and message to us.

Prayer is emphasized in discipline, in order to quiet our bodies down and increase our spiritual alertness.  This allows God to speak to us very clearly and manifest Himself in our visions.  When one becomes disciplined in this kind of prayer, one will be able to see visions with their eyes open.

As you sit down to pray, you will automatically see visions and hear voices.  Your ears will hear sounds from both the spiritual and physical worlds.  The movie 'The Sixth Sense' described this phenom perfectly.

Everyone has this ability.

This practice is called religious discipline.  When the missionaries get tired from working so hard all day, heaven will then open up and show them astonishing things as they are momentarily dozing.  Even with one second of time, God can reveal to them ten years of history or give them some kind of forewarning.  This is an almost daily diet.

There are two systems within our bodies: one deals with the physical world, another with the spirit world.  There is so much to be talked about spirit world for days and nights because it is so fascinating this world that one will not want to return to earth.

Of course,there are those whose spirit self is unsettled once they go there because of the unclean life they lived, but those closest to God who lived in love while on the earth can breath the air of the love of God while there.

Before you can speak about individual perfection, you must have a basic understanding of the spirit world.

The person selected by God is a pathfinder who can lay a superhighway for all the people dwelling in those lower realms and thereby free them to go to a higher level. We call that person a prophet.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon



God has been working in the lower realms of spirit world to bring multitudes of spirit men up to a higher level.  To do this, God will raise up a prophet or a central figure to open the path for even the lowest spirit in hell.  This is the pattern which God follows.

God chooses a pioneer on earth, not a spirit man, to first work in the lowest and most primitive reams that will open a path that other spirit men there can follow up tot he next level.  Spirit men work through a person on earth of their choosing to elevate when they elevate to a higher level on earth.

Then they will be able to live in a higher realm of the spirit world.  Everyone will benefit from God's pioneer who paves the path and become a recipient of his accomplishments.

In our times of the Last Day, spirit men from all the levels of spirit world come down to earth to assist people on the same level they are and inspire individual to follow God's central person the Messiah of the Second Coming.  These spirit men will then benefit from the person's accomplishments.  Spirit men will reap the same benefit by assisting the person on earth.

The key to man's situation is here on earth; whatever we loose here on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 

This means that salvation is only brought about on earth; once in spirit world, there is no solution to restore wrongs of the past.  Spirit men must have to work through someone who is in the physical world.  Some religions such as Buddhism has a similar theory called reincarnation.

The Divine Principle teaches that there is only one life and there is no way to reincarnate.  There is only one Buddha.  He cannot return and become another Buddha on earth born again in the flesh.  The confusion may begin because Buddha can appear in spirit and assist people on the spiritual level.  Then, people mistaken this phenomena of the second coming of someone as reincarnation.  Reincarnation is not possible.

Sometimes a spirit man influences an individual so much that he even behaves like that spirit man like Buddha or Confucius, for example. People may think that the individual is the reincarnation of Buddha, but actually it is only the spirit of Buddha assisting him.

Throughout history, God handpicked numerous prophets to extend the highway in order to further develop man's spiritual progress to teach them higher content.  Therefore, God made spiritual progress possible for all of mankind.




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The Will of God and Individual Perfection

God Sacrificed to Bring the Lord of the Second Advent

When you are fighting for God on the frontline, He can manifest himself to assist you and lead you.  He had to lay a kind of foundation for many thousands of years through many sacrificial offerings. Many martyrs have died, and much sacred blood has been shed in the name of God's will.  Upon that foundation, God can appear and work on earth.

This crusade is going on, transcending national barriers, transcending language barriers, transcending racial barriers.

The Almighty God who is the creator of heaven and earth and mankind will appear directly in the form of the Messiah at the Second Coming and the Bridegroom borrowing their images to work with you in your missions.

The Messiah lays a foundation for complete salvation.

Do you think that spirit world could penetrate a barrier like the communist world?

God does not recognize any national barriers.  In these Last Days, the entire spirit world has been opened up and is rushing down to the world like a flood descending on this world.

When rushing water comes pouring down a place like Niagara Falls, it finds the slightest opening, even a little creek. The water knows clearly where the gaps are and pours right down into them.  By the same token, compared to the size of the world, the Unification Church is like a little creek, a tiny gap, but the water knows it very well.

When you make a little creek, the water comes dashing into it, and splits it wide open.

When you truly look at the history of God, you see that He paid a heavy price in order to see His ideal of perfection on earth.  Martyrs, saints, Christians sacrificed and shed blood waiting the day of fulfillment.  When God comes down to help you, would He come down by Himself or bring millions and millions of spirit people with Him?

Before the Second Coming, there was no way from the spirit world to function properly.  There wasn't a foundation of correct communication established or love between the nations and races.  No one could prepare the base so that God could bring down His hosts of angels revealed in the Book of Revelations.

We have witnessed many spiritual phenomena in the past decades.  Many evil, lost spirits are haunting and terrorizing people to do their own will.  Spirits can cause diseases, accidents and problems in each person's
life.  There are also many mediums trying to tell fortunes.

What is the difference between evil spirits and good spirits?

You feel fearful, uncertain and unstable when you are being approached by an evil spirit. 

It is like the wind and will make you shiver. When a good spirit comes near you to embrace you, you feel so good without reason.  You will feel like you are walking on the clouds.  But a heavenly spirit is like spring.  It melts you and relaxes you and you will feel warmth, love and comfort.

If you do not feel this in the movement, then you still have a ways to go in your spiritual awakening.  When people join, they feel free, secure, happy and very energetic ready to do any mission for God.  But in the secular world, your parents are waiting with good things, like cars, and lots of food, but some how you feel uncomfortable, scared and shivery.

You just want to stay by yourself. You must experience this kind of distinction between the two worlds.

The secret is deeply hidden why the Divine Principle causes this without brainwashing, pills or injections.

Divine Principle is like a big reservoir of the word of life. 

When you listen to the Divine Principle, it is like sticking straw into a limitless reservoir supply of the water of life coming to you.  You keep drinking and drinking.  If somebody tries to make you go away from the word of life, your mouth may stick to the straw even though your body is taken away.

Have you ever observed a honey bee going from flower to flower to suck the sweet nectar?  If you were to pull him away while he is sucking the nectar, even though his wings may break he will not release from the flower.  You, too might experience this kind of concentration. The Divine Principle is sweeter than nectar and you want to stick in a little pipe into it for the rest of your life.

Those who follow the True Parents of humanity, the Messiah at the Second Coming, and truly realize you belong to parents who have eternal life and see them in your dreams, your life will be connected to eternal life, eternal source and the unlimited reservoir.  With this realization, you are already living in the Kingdom of God on earth.

In the past religious history of the world, the experience, the exhilaration you taste in your life could not occur. This is the first and last time in history.

Does honey only taste sweet to white people and only taste bitter to black people?  Is honey sweet to God? Is there something that tastes sweeter than honey?  What is that?  Love.  Correct.  Love is a mysterious thing.  If someone was to ask you to show love, you would not be able to show a piece of love.

In the current situation of the world, many may question if there is a such thing as love, but actually there is.  When there is none, it seems to be there.  Love is very mysterious.  Love looks just like God.  When you peer into God, there may not seem to be a God to see, but there is definitely a God.  He does not come within your grasp.  He is both there and not there.

The host of love is God, God owns love.

If a person is becoming more like God's image, they would be pulled by the power of love.  This person would be able to recognize the power of love.  How is someone entitled to receive love from God?

It is something intangible.  There is some mysterious, magnetic power.  All the single women, who would want to marry this type of person?  Many people don't understand why many are influenced by the magnetic power of the Messiah and judge that there are other reasons why people join even if they are told to go away.  It is the power of unconditional true love.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family