Be Like God and His Heart

We are modeled after God’s heart and heavenly character

Even the healthiest and richest person has to one day discard their physical body and move on to the spirit world.

Therefore, since death is inevitable, we must all prepare and be ready for it.  We should endure the hardships on earth in order to form a good character that will live in the eternal world.

While in the womb, we need good prenatal care in order to be born healthy.  In the same way, our life on earth is like the womb.

As we grow, we risk our lives to overcome obstacles that hinder us from becoming like God’s form, heart and character.

Do not sin

An electrical pole stands upright just as the mind is straight.  This is why people walk upright - to make your mind completely vertical.

The body forms a horizontal line. The perpendicular force and the force of rotation must be balanced. Accordingly, you must find yourself.

When you say that you are yourself, God should agree with you.  Then your relatives, your clan, and the nation must also agree that what you say is right.

The one who is accused by them is the problem.

In the future, continents will not be as segregated by borders as it is now, but divided between frigid zones and temperate zones.

The time will come when Heaven on Earth will become a reality. Those who want to continue to sin will be sent to the North Pole just like patients with contagious diseases are quarantined.


Live and die for the world

“I did not work hard for the sake of the Asian situation or the Korean people. Think about how to fulfill your responsibilities in the global field and be willing to die for this cause.”

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

We must live and die for the sake of the world and go beyond the individual and family level and stand on the global level.

What position should we leave the earth?  We should die while embracing our loving spouse, family, tribe and nation.

How will the founder of the Unification Church die?

“I will die for the sake of the world, while embracing its people and the Republic of Korea also. If the Korean people unite and die for the sake of the world, there will be a path for them to be able to live with the world. That is why I go forward seeking that path.”

Work hard

“If you need money, make it. If you need people, work hard without eating and sleeping to raise them on this path.

“Never ask anyone for help. Do not rely on the church headquarters for help; you should help them instead. Work more than three times harder than ordinary people.

“That is why, if I were to live for 70 years, my life content would actually be equivalent to 210 years. Likewise, don't think of living for I00 years; instead, think of working three times harder than others.

“If you were to live that way for 70 years, it would be worth 210 years. Think this way: if you worked ten times harder, you would live 700 years; if you worked twenty times harder, you would live 1400 years.

“You should work twenty-four hours a day throughout your entire life. Only when you live that way can you bear fruit and increase your ownership of love in the spirit world.

“Your fortune of love will grow. Your ownership will grow and your sphere of activities will expand.”
Work for the public good

All the laws of heaven promote public righteousness.

Private matters belong to Satan, and public matters belong to God. 

Go the way of public righteousness.
If everyone opposes you while you stand this course and you are not disturbed by the opposition and go the way of hardship with vitality, you will become a person whom heaven will welcome.
You can observe this principle yourself.  If you see a shopkeeper who is greedy, you will notice that the customers will not buy things from him.


No one likes a greedy person.


Everyone naturally knows how to manage one’s life when it comes to public and private matters.

If you do not make it to heaven, you cannot make the excuse that you did not know how to properly manage your life.

Why?

We already know the distinction between matter that are public and private without being taught.

Let’s say you had a delicious snack that was equally split between you and your sister.  You already ate your share, but your sister keeps her share.

You wake up late at night hungry and you secretly eat your sister’s cake which she had her heart set on to eat maybe with breakfast.

Just before you eat it, or while you are thinking about eating it, your own conscience will cry out, “You devil!”

You should be able to feel your conscience protest before you do an evil act.

Why? Because your conscience pursues public matters. If you follow private desires you will perish.

A mind that follows the laws of heaven is a mind that defends and protects a person from falling into destruction.

God originally had such a mind, human beings came to have the same mind from the start.

This law is not made by man.

Can you reason with your mind that you want to do an unlawful deed because that is the way you think or the way you are?  Would the mind surrender and follow your way?

We may not know directly where the conscience receives its instructions from, but we know it is not from us.

Our mind chooses public over private matters.

When people struggle at they come to the crossroads between good and evil, and public and private matters, they finally fall into a self-centered private life.

Those who fall into a selfish lifestyle will eventually perish no matter how successful they become.

Therefore, they should repent for their past, private lives and push themselves back into a public way of life.

People waver between going the way of a private life to a more other-centered lifestyle.

But after the Fall, people are more inclined to live a private life where they only concern with themselves and distance themselves from the public good.

This is how you have lived your life of faith until today, so therefore, you should repent for living a private life-style.

We all want good fortune and to live forever.

But in order to do so you must become public people.

Become people who don’t just love your children only as your own, but become people who love their children as an offering for the sake of the people in the world who are suffering.




When holding your babies to your breasts and nursing them, think of yourselves and your babies as representatives of the entire human race on earth.




Nurse your babies with such a heart.

Instead of just caring for your own children’s wellbeing, cherish other people’s children as if they were your children with a loving heart.

Babies who are raised by such mothers will certainly become great people.

Such a result may not come to the surface right away, but after the first and second generation of
descendants, great figures who can rule the world will be born in that family.

This is the formula.

Which lifestyle do you prefer to  live to indemnify the past: private or public?

Both have a purpose.

But those who stand up at the risk of their lives to devote themselves for the public good will become great people.

A new history will be created by a group of people like this.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Cheong Seong Gyeong written by Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Our Spirit Body Resides in Spirit World

Spirit is the essence of life

Wherever a nucleus exists, there is a related being that revolves around it.

On the same token, humans are meant to revolve around God.

God naturally pursues restoring our minds, like an electron, because we relate to God’s which is like a nucleus.

When we seek the word of truth, we can feel God's life pulsating.

The harmony of God’s love is within in His Word.

Once we seek God’s love and life through the path of truth, we then become people of value.  The truth is eternal and unchanging.

We find the truth once we begin to distinguish the difference between good and evil in the fallen world.
We must be selfless and self evaluation.

The Bible also teaches us that those who exalt themselves will be humbled and that those who humble themselves will be exalted (Matthew 23:12; Luke 14:11; 18:14).

In essence, we are spiritual beings.

We may not realize the depth of how much living for the sake others until we go to the

If God, a selfless being, created us in His image, why do we persist so much in living selfishly?

It is because all of humanity inherited the sinful blood of the angel who fell away from God.  Satan contravened the heavenly law.

We have a spiritual body which needs to be nourished by spiritual food.

To be able to stand and survive on God’s side, you need to train yourself to like the taste of spiritual food more than physical food.  God’s words tastes as sweet as honey.

A life based on spiritual power, far exceeds that of a life centered on physical might.

The meaning of lord of all creation

Who is the lord of all creation, and what does the term mean?

People may say that human beings are lord of all creations, but fundamentally, God is.

Since we know that the spirit exist within each of us and we are the leaders among the spirits, finally, we are lords over all creation that is directly connected to God.

Human beings cannot become the lords of all creation on their own. 

How can a created being become a lord over the creation?

As created beings, we are a reciprocal and resultant beings.

“The lords of all creation I am referring to are those occupying the central position in the spirit world. I am talking about the originally intended relationship of oneness between God and humankind.”

Those lords of all creation are in the position to communicate with God.
Even though we are called the lords of creation, not all of fallen humanity is qualified to be one.

Those who live selfish individual lives are not eligible to join the club of the lords of creation.

Those who live their lives seeking the greater good are eligible to go to heaven.

God seeks to fulfill what He wishes through such people.  Heaven will become theirs.

Therefore, people should live eternally.  Yet, in this evil world, people do not see the difference between the death of an ant and that of a human being.

How can such people be true lords over the creation?

Our mind does not age; it is immutable and carries the highest authority.

Everything else undergoes change.

Even pure gold weathers away.

So, how can be we determined to be the lords of creation?

It would not be through money, knowledge, or power, but rather, God’s sublime love.


Inner person and outer person

What is our original destiny as humans?

We are meant to enjoy perfected love and take these values of praise and respect within the realm of God’s absolute love.

Humanity emerged amidst the complete union and harmony of the destinies of heaven and earth. 

Hence, we have an invisible mind and a visible body which corresponds to spirit world.

If we were aligned to this original destiny, would our minds and body be in conflict or would they be in unity?

They would be in total unity.

Your inner self and your outer person are also in conflict with each other. Do you feel a constant struggle when you want to do good things?

This is why God has been working hard to restore us to our original selves.

When will this conflict end?

It will not happen automatically, but will take much effort and faith.

Many believe that God created human beings with this conflict within ourselves.  If we were ordered in this way, then God would not be a god with a single purpose but a god with two separate purposes.

He would not be a God of peace, but a chaotic god.

Every law in the universe pursues a certain purpose, but they do not counter cross or conflict with other laws.

Therefore, we can see that we were not created in a conflicted way either.

Let us seek our original good mind and push aside our fallen bodies that want to go in the wrong direction.

Which do you think is more important: our physical self or our spiritual self?

The flesh has a shelf life of about a hundred years, but our spirit is eternal.

Our spirit is more important.  The body disintegrates into nothingness sooner or later while the spirit has the power to transcend both time and space.

We should understand this original purpose God has for us and fulfill this responsibility.

No matter how well you live in this physical reality, our bodies will perish in the final analysis.  This is how we are made.

Then which are more important: spiritual standards or physical standards?

We are not equipped to live based on physical standards.  We have become like this because after the Fall we have becomes self centered.

The flesh exists for the spirit and vice versa. 

Do not get stuck in the rut of a secular lifestyle.

We should become people who combine our spirit and flesh in a position to save the flesh from its low position of sinful activity.

The purpose of life on earth is mind-body perfection


Why does God have a Will?

It is so humanity can become perfected spiritually and physically.

Individually, our spirit represents the past and our body the present. 

Both of these worlds were invaded.

We are in the position to conquer the present satanic world and the past satanic world spiritually.  When you are able to uphold the standard of the mind subjugating the matter, your future will be blessed.

We should know that the physical world is the subject, not the spirit world.  This is the place where we achieve perfection.

Life on earth is very precious.

After humanity followed the wrong path, the spirit world has wrongly dominated this world.

When there is perfection in the physical world, this encompasses the perfection in both the spiritual and physical worlds.  This is what the Bible means when it states that whatever is bound on earth is bound in heaven.

Restoration from our fallen self is only through the physical body.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Five, Chapter One, Section 2.

Why We Should Live Eternally

Do you believe that we will live for eternity after we shed our bodies on earth? Many movies about vampires is appealing to those who have the desire to live eternally on earth.

But who wants such restrictions of a non-living body that can only come out at night and feed off of the blood of others?

For those who are religious, it is commonly accepted that there is a life after this one, and has a much better ideal than a night creature tale.

What kind of creature did God create human beings?

He created us as the objects of His love who is able to posses His absolute and unique value.  This is an amazing fact, unfortunately, how much value is placed on a person these days?  We have practically been reduced to a worth of a few pennies.

Originally, God's children were to have much more worth.  Their value was so precious that life could not be exchanged even for the entire universe.

People are born from, live in, and die in love. However, they do not just disappear.

Since God as the subject being is eternal, thus, human beings who are his objects of love who stand in front of Him should also live eternally.  From this point, the theory of life after death, or eternal life originated; it did not begin with life.

What kind of person is a true person?

A true person receives love completely in the position of God's child by becoming one with Him inside and out.

We can say that the way of life of people in step with God is the way of a true life.

All people desire the best, no matter what position they have.

When  you are able to reach the highest position, God belongs to you, and you belong to Him.  Then you become God's child and you become God Himself, thus, even the universe belongs to you.

If there is something that God loves and treasure most, would God have made it where it was easily thrown away after 100 years or spent just a day with it?  God invested all of Himself in humanity because we were to live with Him eternally.

We are the object partners of God who can feel joy from us in absolute love.  If God were to have such a liking for them for one or two days, or hundred years and throw them away thereafter never to think of them again, this is not true love.

The more you love someone, the more you want to be with that person.

Is there a man who will remain single for life after his wife died.  He would carry her handkerchief in remembrance.  Nehru of India had lost his wife when she was young. He wore a rose the rest of his life because his wife loved roses.

Since God did not create such complex beings to be cast away out of existence, there must be a basic principle that human beings live eternally.

We must stand on the foundation of an action where a stronger power can , in order to live eternally emitted.

The more love is given as the days pass, the more love that is given back and received, rather than depleting.  The power of love becomes stronger and greater.

Life will not end only in happiness but can expand to an unlimited happiness.

This world is the nation that we have come to idealize where God dwells.

Do you want eternal life?

Perhaps you only mildly wish for eternal life.  If you have something precious, you will bring it with you when you seek refuge.  You would not stop being proud of it after a day or two.

When it is time for you to pass onto the next world, you will want to leave this precious treasure to your descendants for eternity.  That is the same for God.

Since God is an absolute, eternal being, then His object partner He can love should also live eternally.  That is why people have longed for eternal life since time cannot remember.  Therefore, the Absolute Being cannot help, but look for a loving son and daughter who possess the value of eternal life.  We humans resemble God as His masterpiece.

Since God is eternal and we also have an eternal nature, our heart does not become old.  Have you ever thought about your heart aging or not?

Therefore, human beings should live eternally. Only when they can live eternally, can they have the value of existence as that masterpiece.

Therefore, human beings are the lords of creation.  Spirit comes from this place.  Human beings should live eternally, therefore, we cannot just think of our existence ends after 100 years.

Living for the sake of eternal life

People live however they want in their own way centered on their own thinking, not God's

Living means your everyday life.

Lifetime means your entire life.  Furthermore, religious people use the same word 'eternal life'.  Eternal life means not a lifetime but a life that continues eternally.

Eternal life means a life that continues eternally.  Then it is important how you connect on your life course with eternal life.  Doing so is your life responsibility.  A lifetime determines through linking each day to the next.  Your entire life is the sum of continuous days in your life.

What content determines if your whole entire life was determined to be value?  It is not determined after you have gone through all your life well?  This means we purposely live the days which represent the entire course of your life.  If you say you have lived life well today, it means that it was memorable day in your life, that you can be proud of.  When you say that you lived well, tat day would surely be the most valuable day in your entire life course.  If you were to see a day that you could live with value, it would be an unforgettable day in your life as well.

What is the theory of eternal life?

God is wise.  If God did not create the ideology for love, He would be alone and depressed for eternity; He would be a god who could not feel joy, anger, sorrow or happiness.

God, who has lost this absolute love through the fall has stood in a serious, appalling and absolutely miserable position that no one has ever experienced throughout history.  No one was there to comfort Him the moment that all of His creation and children were taken from Him.

God is not satisfied with just recreating an ideal shape and form of His dreams and then resurrecting His original son and daughter whom He desires.  He should be able to decorate the ideal more brilliantly and express it beautifully as He travels great distances while embracing that ideal.  That is how He created the entire universe.

When the atmosphere falls into an absolute low pressure area, then a high pressure area is automatically created which brings about a circulatory movement. God is the King of wisdom, and greatest scientist.

The theory of eternal life is an logically foundation, because the eternal circulation beings through that principle of automatic circulation.  When you invest, invest, and invest some more, the theory of eternal life will begin.

Those who live for the sake of others will not perish.

God's eternal object partner we allude to the ancient saying, "Among all creation, human beings are the most precious."  This brings about the longing for the partner of love who unites with the Creator's eternal love where He lives forever.

Eternal life is the natural product of this theory.  Eternal life begins from this point.  Based on the relationship of love, how to establish a theory of eternal life is the problem which sets up an precious debate in religion.
Eternal life cannot be found in either the man or the woman.  Eternal life is not even found in God, but it is only found in love.

The most important issue of eternal life

Modern Christianity states that if you just believe in Jesus, then you automatically attain eternal life.

In order for one to be able to live for eternity, one must carry on with a continuous action.  In order to walk the path of life eternally, the circulation system such as the veins and arteries of the heart should function normally.

Also, all of the nervous system and all the actions of the cerebrum should also function normally.  This requires a tremendous amount of consumption to keep this in working order.

When it is time for you to go to bed after you take off your shoes, are you confident that you will be there to put them back on again in the morning?  No matter how busy you say you are, there is nothing in this world that is more important than the issue of eternal life.

Only, we have been inundated throughout our entire lives with unnecessary trivial happenings that we  do not place much importance on the life hereafter.

Either way, there is not quest in this material world that is more serious than to resolve the problem of eternal life.

Ultimately, human beings must return to eternal life

We each has the responsibility to dissolve the problems of the Fall by establishing the way of True Parents' love who have laid a strong foundation based on Jesus' path, who have reversed the mistakes of the Fall and passing it on to humanity.

Only after we establish a family of true love over which God can reign, can you go straight to heaven.  When we see the reality of the path of restoration, we do not spend our life on earth wasted on trivial matters.

The rails of God's Kingdom on earth and in heaven must all be the same.  A train can run only when the rails are the same.  In the same way, in the heavenly world, there must be the path which connects God's Kingdom on earth with His kingdom in heave; this is the path of true love.

Consequently, the path of an individual takes, and then the path of a family takes.  These two should be connected and then their direction be consistent with each other.

Therefore, everything we do in our lifetime, becomes a permanent fastened to his rear end as a record of how well we have performed for the sake of true love.  Thus, when a person passes to the spirit world, he comes to dwell at the same level which corresponds to the achievements he left behind in his lifetime.

Faith and the issue of eternal life

How does one live for eternity?

You can only be saved through love.  Only a true woman can be God's partner in love.  Therefore, if someone has true love, he must be able to live for eternity.  Once you enter the realm of that love, whether you are in the spirit world or on earth, you must come to know where you should live.

Even rats of a ship know to escape to dry land.  Even though they are small creatures, they can distinguish which is the right way to take and go in that direction when faced with matter of life and death.

Why have humans who were created to become the lords of all creation, come to be as corrupt as they are?  It was because of the Fall.

How are you going to remove this mask of the Fall or free yourself from the devil's love, life and lineage?

To free yourself means to break free from something holding you back from life.

We need to completely break free from and stand in the position to have no relations or common base with Satan.

A mother in her nineties will tell her seventy year old son to be careful of the cars, and be safe.  She can say this until she reaches the ripe age of ninety.  She will not get tired of saying it even if she were to continue for eternity.

What is the motivating power behind a mother's careful warnings?  It is love. If parental  love is like that between fallen people, what would our life be like if we were able to belong to God's true highest love in His original world?

When we are able to reach the state, then the realm belonging to the true object of God can be established for the first time.  When we come to know that God's love is eternal and unchanging, we can validate the theory of eternal life centering on our human love.  We live eternally centering on love.

 

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This post was derived from the book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter One The Existence of Human Beings, Section 5

The Nobility of Life on Earth

We all know the tale about the beginning of the world from the creation of light to the first breath of the human being from the earth.  But we have taken these Bible verses themselves in the wrong context.

The Bible account of God creating the world shows that God said the world was good after creating Adam and Eve.

It was the same as placing His signature after the completion of a project. This means that it was the way He had wanted the world to be.

At that time Heaven and Earth were not separated and evil did not exist.

Therefore, God intended that humanity would not fight among themselves and that we would not be separated from the spiritual world or heaven.

Instead, humanity has inherited a mind and body that fights for the number one position - to be subject the human.  Therefore, God created religion to teach us to strike our body and make it submit to the direction of our good mind.

We must cross over from the evil realm into goodness.

The complete victory of our body means that Satan will be completely extinguished and uprooted from our bodies and life.

That day of victory has been fought for by thousands of saints, sages and people of faith.

We will finally subjugate Satan.  We can only go to heaven through conquering Satan.

We are unable to conquer Satan once we pass on to the next world.  The evils that are bound here on earth will also be bound in heaven.

The original world, earth and heaven would be one in the same.

This means that we would be able to see a person who passed into the spirit world because this was God's original plan.  There would have been no earthquakes, floods and such if we just obey our creator's word over the evil one.

Because of the Fall where we separated from heaven and God while on earth, the problem of sin must be remedied while we have a body on earth.

Therefore, we cannot subjugate Satan without a physical body.

If we do not accomplish our designated tasks while on the earth where the problems were created, then we will end up in eternal hell.

On the other hand, when you triumph on earth and stand on the heavenly side of goodness, you can go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Life on earth is to prepare us for life in the spirit world

You must understand how short a time we have on earth compared to the eternal life that awaits us.

Which would be more fruitful to sacrifice for: the world of the temporary here and now, or the one that will last unto eternity?

Once you realize this fact, your hours become precious when not spent as much on eating and sleeping and worrying about the temporal.

The more you live realizing each moment is precious and live it for other's sake, the more the blessing you will receive - more than anyone else in the whole wide world.

Even though we have a limited time on earth of possibly eighty to a hundred years, our possessions which represent the creation, thus, belong to the world.  Can you assert that you will be able to take your possessions or any notoriety into the next world?

Our bodies are the bodies of all the people of the world, and our minds are the minds of all the people of the world.  All of these combine to make an altar before God. Such a heart that lives this way is one with God.

Things do not happen by chance. Preparation is never easy. 

When we look at a life as a whole, we see that childhood is the time to prepare for adolescence, the prime of our life is to prepare for old age, which in turn is the time to prepare to go to the spirit world.

Therefore, we can see that our life is a training course that prepares us to acquire an universal personality.

We live in this world; yet it is not the only world that exists. 

We live on earth, but our spirit bodies live in the spirit world at the same time.

That is right.  As you are sitting and reading this, your spiritual body is interacting with the spirit world of spirit even though you live on the solid earth.

The world of spirit should be integrated together rather than in two separate worlds which was caused by the disobedience of our first ancestors.

Where do we go and live for eternity after the shedding of our bodies?

While living physically on earth, we proceed into the eternal world.

Ordinarily, people are born into this world, go through the time of youth, reach their prime and then enter old age.

Life passes like the setting sun.

Those who know the reality of the spirit world know that their lifetime is but a fleeting moment compared to eternal life after death.

Knowing this, our lifetime prepares us to welcome the world of eternity with God.

A student's performance is measured by the schools set standards based on the credits they are expected to take in an academic year.

If students do not get a high grade, they fail in accordance with the standard of merit which the school sets.

Everything can be measured by means of some norm.

Life on the physical world is parallel to the period which we prepare ourselves to meet the standard of 'credits' throughout life.

During our lifetime, we are ever striving to accumulate achievements.  The measure stick determines to what extent we have been able to fulfill our responsibility.

Do not do the hard task of digesting problems for just your own sake, rather for the sake of God, your nation, tribe, family and spouse.

Self-centered living is fraught with worries.

Conversely, if you constantly devote yourself to the welfare of others to the point you empty yourself out, you become a vacuum, and the truth will come into you.

Our pride is we have true love and secondly, we have True Parents who have reversed the mistake of the fall of the first false parents Adam and Eve.

We are the only ones to have this term, it is not in the dictionary.  Third is true children and fourth is a true tribe.  These relate to the four main goals of life of faith.

The preciousness of our life on earth

If you are liberated, God will be liberated.

Also, if your family is liberated, so is the heavenly family. It is the same with earth and heaven.  Accordingly,  the biblical statement, "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven," refers to being able to liberate problems while on earth or wasting your life and keeping the problems which will stay with you when you get to heaven.

We must truly understand the preciousness of life on earth where you can make use of your body to restore back to its original God-given nature.

Our body gives us the opportunity to resurrect God and the universe and to unite the world.

God and the creation as a whole can never be exchanged for the value of life on earth.

Because if humankind did not exist physically on earth, God and the universe would be incomplete.

We must realize how precious the body is.

We cannot trade our physical selves even for the universe.  The biblical verse speaks about using your time on earth wisely, "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his eternal life?

What can a man give in exchange for his life?"

What has equal value to a human life?  Right now, it seems like material goods such as phones and sneakers have taken over the value of a human life.

The average lifespan does not exceed hundred years.

Within that short time which has been allotted to us, we must grip the historical realms of goodness which were entangled in history.

When we see the realm of goodness we are suppose to bond with during our time on earth, our mind and conscience must move forward to align to that standard.

Once we die and pass to the spirit world, we cannot do the work of restoring ourselves without the aid of a person who possesses a  physical body.

It may be difficult to get rid of a sin or a habit on earth and it is even 10, 000 times difficult once it is bound to you after death.

We can find the original homeland of God and serve the heavenly sovereignty and live in His nation, then we can enter God's Kingdom of heaven.

The spirit world is infinite and eternal.

How should we manage how we live in order to live in the heavenly realm?

We must put our life in order while we still have a physical body, once we enter spirit world, there is no opportunity to straighten things out.

A self-centered way of restoration does not exist, if so, then suffering would not exist.  Even a millenia from now, God's principle is the one and only way to go to heaven.

Those failing to fulfill in this way during their lifetimes, will have to make up for it in the spirit world which can take thousands of years.

Imagine if someone had a problem with women or killing people with words, they get anger management classes or go to AA meetings and still struggle.  It is thousands of times harder to rid a sin in spirit world as restoration only takes place through a human body.

Habitually doing things in life is important

Let us make a pledge today to renounce the awful habits of the satanic world and usher in God's new order centered on the sake of living for others.

It is very difficult to break a habit.  While we live in the satanic world now, you have come to enjoy self-centered habits, living individually for only yourself and your small circle of family and friends.

These habits harden like cement attaching to the body, becoming even more deeply ingrained into our lives more than any addiction such as cigarette smoking.  Continuously interrupting and hating people

Since the devil has emerged, our habits have become very deeply rooted in our lives.  Even if we want to stop a certain behavior, it takes much effort to do so.

How will we be able to eradicate these hardcore habits we've acquired?                                                                                              
No matter how deep you dig a pit, you still cannot get to the root of this serious problem.

In order to go to heaven, you need to replace all your bad habits with God-centered habits.

The standard of life on earth

My life is for the sake of God and the world. Do not think of living for yourselves. Live for God, True Parents and humanity. True love is indispensable for you in forming a four-position foundation with God, True Parents and humanity. They all desire true love. You should become people who can inherit this true universe centered on true love. We need to bear this in mind constantly.


We, therefore, should evaluate how much we have lived conformed to the heavenly standard until now.

You should become people who represent humanity, the True Parents and God.

If you are able to live this way, you will not be restricted by borderlines and will be able to move freely between the spirit world and anywhere on earth. This is closer to the ideal of Heaven on earth which God envisioned in the beginning.

If you wish to dine with a thousand friends, such an experience is possible in the world of love.

When God exercised His power as the Creator, He did centered on love.  In the spirit world, once you connect with true love, you are able to regulate and create everything.

This is our ideal hometown.  Unless you make a connection with true love, everything will be in vain.

Everything will be recorded through the physical body

If you lived two-thirds of your life in an unspeakably miserable position, will you be able to erase that?

You cannot.  These experience stay with you.  In order to restore the problems and sins of the past, we need indemnity. Indemnity or redemption is how we pay back for a wrong done. Restoration is also re-creation.

You should leave behind a life of value. 

Some people want to enjoy themselves and have a good time. They say that they will believe in Jesus when they get older so when they die they can go to heaven.

But it is more difficult to change bad behavior or habits the older one gets.  Therefore, the younger the better: it is more valuable to know the truth when you are fifteen rather than twenty.  It is even more so to grow up knowing the truth from infancy.

Is the water that is inside your bodies, pure or dirty?

After a heavy seasonal rainfall, rivers and streams become dirty, likewise you are full of all kind of impurities.

Thus, you need to go through the stirring and straining process like a filtration system.

We should not become egoistical, otherwise we build a blockage.

If our bodies accumulate excessive dirt, then even the filter can be clogged up and the water will be unable to flow completely.

Did you know that you would be inspected with a system like an X-ray machine when you go to the spirit world?

God needs people that have already passed through the filtration system.

Life on earth is so important

If you are unable to fulfill your responsibilities while on earth, you will enter a probation realm in the spirit world where you will live for some millennia.

You go to the place in spirit world which is consistent to the level which you stay for a long time.

Then your ancestors and your sons and daughters will come to you and accuse you why did you live a certain way when you could have lived better.  The time you spend in that place depends on the level you have accomplished while on earth.

This is not an easy task, this is why you have to do everything through the Principle while on earth.

A bolt requires an matching nut in order for it be fastened properly.  Only when the nut fits can it be fastened, understand?  This is the same with your life and activities on earth and the different levels in spirit world.

How important is life on this earth?

It is just a spark of a moment that comes only once when compared to eternity. This moment is insignificant, therefore, you have to go beyond your physical life and prepare for the spirit world.

You must always be able to control and conquer everything by standing in the center upholding the standard of the Principle.  Without being able to do so, you cannot achieve individual perfection.

Using our physical selves to fulfill our portion of responsibility

You should think about God and the standard of  True Parents in your daily life.

By doings so, your mind and body can stand within a harmonious, stable and fulfilled sphere of love.

Those who are able to live in such a realm of love, naturally do the same in the spirit world.  The level of the expansion of your internal life will come out on the surface in the spirit world.

God and human beings are like one cell of the body since our love is internalized.

The spirit world is the world, where you become one of those cells, where God will come inside your heart.

When you call out, "God!", He will surely answer in your heart, "What is it?"  In other words, spirit world is the world, where you live with God unlimited by the body for eternity.

Therefore, your responsibility while on earth is very important.

That is why I established the principle of the portions of responsibility for restoration. Whenever you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning, you should consider how you, as a man or woman, are going to fulfill your portion of responsibility. It is a serious matter.


All five senses are enraptured in the love which is gained after accomplishing your portion of responsibility.

All your senses operate within a substantial realm of love.

What should you do to accomplish your portion of responsibility?  What do you do to become such people?

You should be able to stand in a position to deny everything that was born of the satanic world of emotional ties with Satan.

We live in a world where the lines are blurred of what is good, godly behavior and what is satanic.  We should learn what behaviors draws us closer to God.

What happens once a person passes to the spirit world?

He becomes God's body.  Adam becomes God's body once he unites with God.  This is what Jesus meant when he said, "The Father is in me."  This does not mean that they were one being, but they had become united through Jesus becoming perfected in God's love.

First Corinthians, "Do you know that you are Father's temple," confirms that the body is the holy temple where God is suppose to dwell.  Our body is meant to be God's house, not a house for Satan's deceitful deeds and behaviors.

How can one come to resemble God?

When you are able to reach the stage where you complete your portion of responsibility, then God dwells within you, creating a oneness between you and God.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Jesus and Spirit World This post was rewritten and derived from the book Cheong Seong   Gyeong Book Five, Chapter one, Section 4

What to Leave Behind Before Death

The process of dying for people is no different than the process for animals.

Even if a person lived an exemplary life and were honored for their patriotism with a monument, it would disappear when America perishes.

Even if the monument was to stand for centuries during the time of the country's prosperity, it can later be viewed as bad during the period of decline.

Leave a tomb of love behind.

God's purpose is to have His posterity populate the earth.

Do we live in such a world?

Therefore, when we go before God at the end of our life, we also come to stand in His position after leaving behind children of the living God on the earth.

"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth," in the Bible describes this.

So, how will you live your life?

Do you only want to leave a tomb behind and a lot of debt and the regret in how we have lived?

Let us leave a tomb of love behind.

If you live inside a tomb of love, you will feel no bitter sorrow. 

Of course, you would feel stifled living in a tomb, but you will not feel any sadness if you live in love.

If you live within love and then die, Go will bring His sons and daughters to welcome you in the spirit world.

If you do not have any fancy clothes, He will dress you in the richest apparel fit for royalty in Heaven.

Property rights in the spirit world are determined through witnessing

How much property you can own in the spirit world is determined by how many citizen you bring to the Kingdom of Heaven.

The time will come when millions of people will be witnessed to the new truth in one day.  We have such tremendous potential at this moment.

When we look in the world, we see many people wandering around like lunatics in agony over whether to live or die through ending their own sad existence.  Suicide has become an option to a difficult time in one's life.

The bigger your heart is when you enter the spirit world, the more the people will line up to be with you.

Such a person of heart will be respected in the spirit world.  If millions were to wish to live with him, he would become wealthy with extensive domains.

What kind of person would find wealth in the next world?

The one who invests for the sake of love is rich.

To witness to brothers and sisters is the way to collect the blessings of love.

With love, we as owners are able to recover the property of heaven which was stolen by the satanic world.

We live in a world where those who do the most evil are able to prosper, but we are in an age where those who center their lives on God will prosper.

If we approach those we witness with the heart of love more than their mother and father have for them, then we are able to bring in all of the blessings related to love.

Even if you are mistreated along the way, you will not perish.  Myriads of saints and all of the things of creation will follow you.

Thereby, you will become wealthy naturally.

Therefore, take care of Satan's children.  Each of us are to look after more than 120 people.  The Kingdom of Heaven lost all of its citizens, but by engrafting them, we establish a condition for them not to be lost any longer.

Once you enter the spirit world you leave money, treasure behind.  The people you bring to Heaven is all you can bring to spirit world.  You leave behind everything that is physical.

In order to pass through the twelve pearly gates in spirit world, you must recover the citizens of heaven from Satan through witnessing them to God's word on earth.

This path of faith is not an easy one.

You must shed tears, sweat and blood.  With the heart of love for restoration of the world, invest your heart more than any father, mother, sister, brother husband, wife, sons and daughters in the satanic world.

Then through shedding your tears, sweat and blood bring about the transitional process to bring satanic children back into God's bosom.

If you are unable to do so, you cannot become the citizen of heaven.

Based on the number of citizens you win to heaven, your position of glory and your closeness to God in the other world will be established.

You are unable to take possessions or positions of earthly glory to the spirit world.

So, what should you do from now on in life to prepare for the next life?

It is to recreate as many sons and daughters of God to love.

We can bring our own children, but there is only a certain amount of babies one can procreate while on earth.

By recovering many sons and daughters whom God can love from the satanic world, your deeds will be linked to your ancestors and serve to help liberate them as well.

This is the greatest gift you can obtain in the course of restoring the world.

If you were a regional director, but you have not witnessed one person to come to God, you will go to the spirit world empty handed because you will not have even one person attached to you.

Position and grandeur enjoyed on earth do not pas on to the next world if it was not based on bringing people to the heavenly Kingdom.

Heaven is an infinite world requiring bridges linking up with the heart of love. 

The more people you witness over the world, the more you will be able to move around in the spirit world because everyone will want to be be linked to you.

By resolving relationship problems on earth creates a vast base for the relationships you are able to resolve in heaven.  Therefore, your sphere of activity will spread out to the entire spirit world based upon this standard.

If you are unable to create this base, you will be pushed into a corner and will be restricted.  After learning how important our activities are on earth, there is no spare time to be idle or rest.

Eating, living and raising children are no issue in the spirit world.

We must recover heavenly citizens; they become your assets there. We must digest all of the human problems and the world.

If we are able to restore much of the problems humanity faces today, all the spirits in the next world will undergo returning resurrection.

If the satanic foundation which stole the birthright returns to God's foundation, the archangel will listen to us and follow.

If we stand in the absolute position of obedience, the archangel enters the realm of Adam's love together with God's love.

Thereby, naturally he enters heaven following Adam.  This is the principle and was heaven's original plan before the Fall.

People on earth even those of any faith, have been unable to fulfill this responsibility which caused a mess they must clean up, not God.

We must understand the tremendous power of witnessing.

The way to restore the world through indemnity, paying for past wrongs has been opened up.

Jesus paid for the initial way for spiritual salvation but lost his physical body in the process, and we enter the era of bringing about full and complete physical salvation.

Just singing empty praises and going to church is useless in terms of salvation.

We must bear actual fruit.

The question is how many people can you bring in for registration into the realm of eternal life.

When Jesus approached a fig tree to see if it had any fruit, he cursed it when he found it to be fruitless.  Thus, it withered and died.  This is how judgement will be.

What is the use in keeping appearances of having a successful witnessing campaign if when you reach heaven you find yourself without a harvest?

You need to bring 120 people, even hundreds to Heaven.  The number 120 represents the nations of the world at the time of Jesus.

The 430 families are equivalent to all the surnames in one nation. The 430 families represent 4,300 years of Korean history. Through them, I opened the gate for the citizens represented by these surnames to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Although I have opened it, it does not mean they have actually entered. This is not empty talk; it is logical. 


Once you are able to raise sons and daughters will you be able to leave to your descendants a foundation to be proud of.

Only after your children become great people can you stand proud before history.

To rise to the national level, you need actual results that can be passed on as a tradition.  This is why everyone desires to leave something behind for the nation, the world and heaven and earth.

This principle applies to you as well.

You must set a clear life-long goal of purpose to establish your domain of ownership.  Therefore, do not think of giving up on the way of God's will even if you do not like it and there is tremendous suffering along the way.

"Why would I take on that responsibility even if it means I have to go to prison and suffer there alone to save people from suffering in such circumstances. People in suffering circumstances will follow if it can benefit them.

By following, they are harvested. When I go to the spirit world, because all I have done will be welcomed as something public, I will go to the highest position of the heavenly kingdom.

If citizens are well educated, the nation prospers. The same principle applies to you. It is a question of how much you can reason with people, straighten out their attitudes, and leave behind the achievement of your ideals centering on the realm of life of the heavenly kingdom.

If this is done, the world will be restored quickly. That is why you have to devotedly raise them.

It is the same with me. When I give sermons, I speak for five or six hours at a time. I do not do that because I like to.

The gist of a sermon is simple and does not even require a fifteen minute talk. I speak that long because I try to make it easy for different types of people, for those who have come to hear, to understand the gist by explaining to them using many examples, and to have them participate within that sphere.

The purpose is to sow as many seeds as possible in the spring season. If I sow many seeds, many plants will grow."

Reverend Sun Myung Moon


Then where must you sow your seeds?

In an unspoiled place.  Where would that be?

In adolescents.  Once you sow your seeds in them, they will last a lifetimes.  They will not be uprooted.  People are more sensitive in elementary school.  Peoples' senses are dull as they advance to middle and high school.

Once they go to university, this is like passing through a neighboring village, an excursion of activity.  The most difficult time is during elementary school.

Where must you sow the seeds, then? It must be an unspoiled place. Where is that? Adolescents. Once you sow seeds in them, they will last a lifetime. They will not be uprooted.

As time goes by, the sensitivity dulls.  We must sow seeds of life accordingly.

If in Sunday school, you teach children songs and read stories, such things will become external assests for your future.

Whenever you meet elderly people, testify to God's Word. 

May church leaders are not laying these seeds well.

Even when you have time on the bus, you can talk to ten people and ask them where they are going so you can get to know them.

You can arrange to see them again so you can introduce the Divine Principle to them.  There are enough materials to witness them as much as you like.

It is much better to witness on the bus and the subway instead of driving alone in your car.  If you commute routinely for twelve months a year, you will get to know people simply by their faces.  By greeting them, you are tapping into an interactive network of people.  Such paths have been cleared, but we are wasting our time on just individual, superficial things.

More important than eating is harvesting the citizens of heaven.

We are not sowing seeds well.

This should be our main occupation as people of faith.  This is or principle activity while we live on earth.

Among all of the work you do in your lifetime, the most important thing is to sow seeds for citizens of haven.  Getting a good job, being promoted, making money is all just water under the bridge.

Money quickly becomes useless in the other world.  Materials, and knowledge are also unnecessary in the life after here.

There, you do not have to be taught many things, you mind can know things within a week.




Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Nobility of Life on Earth


This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 5

We Must Understand Death, Not Fear It

Many people fear death because they do no know where they may end up.

They do not know what to expect on the other side.  Once we are able to have a clear understanding, then we can prepare for life in the coming spirit world.

There is no doubt that the spirit world exists and once we shed our physical bodies, we will go there for eternity.

Since we were born from the spirit world, we must return there.

The meaning of the Korean word toraganda

The Korean word toraganda (literally means to return, to die).  This is interesting.

Where do we return?

Some people literally believe that our final destination is literally to just return to the soil and nothing else is waiting us after death.

Our purpose in life is not to end up in a cemetery as many have come to believe.  Someone who is born in Korea, for example, does not return on that path as one.

Then we return to the original world that brought forth our ancestors.

This means, we will return to the place where the Creator is.  

That is where we came from, so that is where we return.

The universe is always engaged in circular motion.

The snow covering the mountains melt in the spring time and flows down through the small valleys into the ocean and through many streams and rivers.

Later, the flow enters the ocean where it evaporates and returns to complete the cycle once more.

Everything in creation circulates.  When one returns, where do they go?

We all wish to return to a place where we can be higher and better.  No one wants to dwindle and become smaller, however, all the laws of motion in the natural world dictate that everything diminishes through action.

When we roll something, it does not roll for eternity.  First, it rolls rapidly, then decelerates and finally stops.

The place to which we must go

Even though we live in this world, it is not the only world in which we exist.

We also currently live in the spirit world.

Not many understand this outstanding fact. As you are living on earth, you also have a spirit body living within your physical body which also lives in spirit world.

The world of spirit should not have become two separate worlds, they should be integrated.

Then where is the place in which we are to go and finally live?

Everyday where we live physically on earth we are proceeding toward the eternal world.

Ordinarily, people are simply born into this world, pass through their teen years and then reach their prime and enter old age.  This end of one's life is like the setting sun rising on the horizon and settling on the other side.

Those who do know the reality of the spirit world, know that this lifetime is but a breath in comparison to the eternal life after death.

This being said, our lifetime serves to prepare us to welcome the world of eternity, not to settle here forever.

The day we pass on is a precious day

If Adam and Eve were able to follow God, a world of peace would have developed and their family would have set the tradition for that world.

If humanity was able to become a global unified world, then special days such as Adam's birthday, wedding day and the day he returns to the spirit world would have been holidays where humanity would celebrate as a unified brotherhood of one people.

They would have become a people that lived in one world where heaven and earth did not separate because they would have become one with God instead of being banished from heaven.

If this had happened, Adam's family life would have been inherited by all of humanity.  His family would set the tone for the culture formed at that time and we would inherit this tradition eternally.

The spiritual connection of life and death

No matter how hard you try to avoid death or however rich you are, we each will die when our time comes.  People enter the spirit world in different stages.

Some go in their ripe old age, while others die tragic, untimely deaths.

Among the latter are those who die due to punishment or to pay indemnity for their ancestors' or the sins of the people of the world.

For example, if three prominent young people that live in one city die all at once, a good fortune will come to that city.  If three youth who had great promise for the future of one clan die, good fortune will come to that clan.

In other words, indemnity must be paid for past sins in order for humanity to go forward, just like any bank account.

Even though Jesus paved a way for salvation from our sins on the cross, humanity still sin.  Therefore, we must on an individual and societal level pay for these sins and eradicate them from earth once and for all.

This principle applies everywhere and to all.

If God chooses a central figure such as Moses who has the equal value to that of a thousand people, he will let him walk the path of death.

If those thousand people are able to follow him while inspired by his grace and virtue, their entire race will enter the same blessed realm as he.

The reason people try to discover the thoughts of patriots and sages and follow them is to enter the same realm of their blessing.

Last year, several members went to the spirit world. This year, several more will go there. Although I have not talked about it, I know of this already. Why does this happen? Because when we go up one stage, we cannot avoid paying indemnity for past sins. 


Of all the people who have been born on earth, there are those who live with hope and those who live without being able to have hope.

There are two kind of hope: humanistic hope and God-centered hope.

From the first day we are born, we grow up thinking that our mother's bosom are the best thing in the world.

But once we leave her bosom and come to have friends, then we think our friends are the best thing.  Nevertheless, we end up parting even from our friends.

As we grow older, neither loving parents, nor a loving spouse, nor loving children can completely satisfy our hopes.

We all have hopes for many thing, but eventually all those hopes will vanish.

We have hopes for our family, our country, or even the world, however, as we get older, our hopes fade away.

There are many on earth who live with a firm conviction that their entire hope, the hope which they cannot live apart from, is worth losing their lives to bring to fruition.

People are destined to have to fight and go beyond death after living life as it is known.

People entertain all kinds of hope in their lives.

Only, when they face death toward the end and pass away, they abandon all the hopes they had fostered.

They wandered about seeking this hope they cherished, wishing to live today and tomorrow to see it come to fruition.

Once they come upon death, though, all their hopes fade away, then they fall into despair as they see their final path before them.

From a person's own viewpoint, they seem to have hope for a bright future, but they are unable to have a hope which they can go over the summit of death.  They disappear without having such a hope no matter how hard they worked for the cause.

Should we die understanding this pattern of life, or will we seek a hope that lasts where we laugh even in the face of death?  These questions are important for all people on earth to think about these days..

All things of this world will pass away. 

Our families, nations and even the world itself will pass away.  Ideologies and philosophies, too, will pass away.

Then what remains?

It is the hope where we can fight and win over death.  If we are unable to have this hope,  we might see ourselves as failures in life.

If there is a group of people who since their birth, reject all the hopes that satanic, secular people desire including all humanistic wants, and they are able to live embracing heavenly hope, they should not live embracing earthly hope.

They should live dreaming of and cherishing the eternal world of that can conquer even death, not this earthly life which is only a breath in comparison.

Death in relation to the value of life

Those who seek to live do not, those who seek to die seeking the value of life clinging to God while at the crossroads of life and death will not.

The word 'death' invites an understanding of the meaning of life.

Who knows the value of life very well?

In today's world, there are many who end their own lives by taking sleeping pills. Do more women commit suicide or more men?

More women.  Why?

Because women tend to have an one-track mind.

No matter how ugly a man may be, he is able to approach a problem from different perspectives.

Women can only see one way out of a problem, but men avoid death by finding all viable alternatives as a solution.

As such,  they have a lower suicide rate then women.

Death is a process to link three worlds

It is only natural that we want to resemble our Father God.  God also wants us to resemble His characteristics.  This is why we want to resemble God and He wants to take us with Him.

We are searching in the dark looking for a way to make this union possible with God.

Therefore, we must be reborn into a pure body that allows us to resemble God.

Both God and humankind are waiting and hoping for this day of rebirth.

Such a day is necessary.  What day would this be?  It would be the day of one's death.

If the day of death is the day that we resemble God, would this be a day to welcome or a day of sadness?

First, what is the purpose of death?  We die for the sake of True Love.

Originally, God purposed death not for us to live a life of sadness, but as a rebirth to welcome His children to eternally live with Him.

At that time, we discard our physical body in order to participate in God's realm of infinite love.

Our bodies are very limited, but in the spirit there are no limits to how one takes in the experience of God's fullness of love.

We go to spirit world for the sake of God's world of love.

Death is a time of rebirth from the world of air, to the world of love.

But in the world today, we clamor in our death and scream out, "Oh, I'm dying!"

Death is supposed to be the moment you can welcome the joy you feel by being able to leave the realm of limited love and enter the realm of infinite love.

The moment of death, is the moment of your rebirth.

Therefore, God would be joyful about the day of birth from your physical body.

He would react joyfully upon the hour you are born as His true son who is to act with a heart of infinite love in the second world.

You might wonder why I talk about such things that are 'depressing'. You cannot establish a relationship with God without liberating yourself from the fear of death.


Death was not part of the creation in order to bring fear, but to bring His children closer to Him for eternity.  Why do we come to fear such a natural process?  This fear of death came about after we left our heavenly position as God's true children and created hell centered on Satan's will and words.

As humans, we go through three stages: formation, growth and completion.  We begin in the realm of water in our mother's womb, then the realm of air on planet earth, and finally the realm of flying in love in heaven.

The period within the womb is the time the fetus floats in the depths of water.  We draw in and expel this water and live by the cord attached to the stomach.

The fetus is nourished through the navel which functions as a mouth.

We should be disdainful of the navel for taken such pains for us in the past.  If you pat your navel several times, your health will improve.  If you sleep in a cold room, but you cover your navel, you won't get diarrhea.

During the time of the womb, your navel functioned as your mouth and as the breathing organ.

When we are born, we must detach the cord.  In the world of spirit world, we are attached to the physical self, like the embryo which feeds off the physical body.  Therefore, we have two bodies: a spirit body, and a physical body.

As the physical body grows old, the spirit self comes out and eventually discards the physical body.

When we are about to be born, we become the object of love of the mother and father.  Likewise, the spirit self must be reborn as a person who can relate to God who is our spiritual True Father.

This is in accordance with fundamental principles and laws.

The earthly world is where the embryo can become friends with its father and mother after it is born.

We are born on the earthly plane and share love with our mother and father.

Likewise, when we are born in the spirit world, there we can share love with God, the Parent by whom we connect ourselves with the infinite world.

Those who did not live a life connected to God while on earth will find it hard to breathe the air of love in the spirit world.

We go through a period of water, the period of land and finally settle in the period of flying.

How many thousands of years have people longed for the time we would see a human fly?  Such a person would be the world's greatest attraction.

Those who breathe in love on the earth are not dead but alive. 

Once we abandon the placenta which is connected to the navel, we are born to a new, higher dimensional world.

Air is supplied on this larger plane.  We come out and immediately receive a supply of air.  Even a baby screams at leaving the comfortable world of water into an unknown world.  Just the same we fear the unknown world that lays before us.

Then what will you develop after coming out of the womb?  It is not air, but love you receive elements of love.

Therefore, you should not just live your life for eating, that is the way of death.

When you just live to eat and drink and sustain that kind of living, it is only living for the sake filling a bag, a water bag in your physical body.

This kind of living is part of being on the path of death.  It is a secondary existence.

Then what should your life be filled with?

It is not air but love; you receive elements of love while on earth. 

You must form a character of love during your period of growth.

What everyone on earth needs is love, just like the Beatles song.  Why is a child who does not live with parental love called an orphan?

Because he is unable to receive the love that will enable him to be eternally be connected to the next world of love.

Therefore, those who are unmarried people who live on alone are pitiful.

Death means to inherit the elements of love after the destruction of the physical organ through which the body has engaged in breathing through the secondary type of respiratory organ.

Love is invisible.

Just as an embryo is required to grow in order to be normal in the womb, the baby must grow properly once he is born on the earth, as God's laws require.

His internal self will develop based on the parental love they receive and then the conjugal love of their spouse once they have matured into adulthood.

There are many insects that go through three stages in life.

The dragonfly develops in water during their larval stage at first but then they creep on the earth and then fly.
They are then able to prey on bugs that they would have never been able to imagine eating before they had reached that stage.

They are able to flutter freely throughout the universe which they think is their stage.

Insects have wings in general and go through life in the water, on land and in the air.  This time period of swimming in the womb is equal to the time period as humans.

We as humans are supposed to be the lords over creation, but we do not have wings.

Once we pass through the stage of water in the womb, grow during the period of air on the earth, we will receive a set of wings of a higher dimension.

God gave death as the blessed gateway to our second birth.

What is the true meaning of death?

Earthly life, which is the time of living in air, parallels to the time we were once living in the womb.

We are currently living in a wrapping cloth of air.

Death itself is not unique, but only our rebirth into the third life is, because that is the time of transition in which we call death.

 

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, chapter two, section 1

 

The Atmosphere in Spirit World is Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We should overcome death.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The key element of life is none other than love. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our eternal life and our present life are not divided.

Where do we eventually end up?

Spirit world has been called the world after death.

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is life like in the spirit world?

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing you can be proud of except this. 

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

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

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

There are no car factories or textile factories there.

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

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

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

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

The spirit world resembles a person.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the fastest.

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

It is an infinite world that transcends time and space.

It is a world where your intuitive senses become reality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the essence of life. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What kind of place is the spirit world?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How long has history gone on?

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

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

So, we are the fruit of history.

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

Things do not connect horizontally.  They partly connect vertically.

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

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

These problems must be resolved in the earthly world.

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

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

People go toward the spirit world.

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

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

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

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