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.

Jesus Forgave Without Shedding His Blood

We hear often about the blood Christ without truly understanding the significance.  On day of Communion, many people of faith take in the drink of wine and bread as Jesus did with his disciples at the final supper to indicate the drinking of his blood and bread.  How much of a controversy this would have caused to many believers then.

What is the importance of Jesus' blood and why is it so misunderstood by many?

Many Christians place salvation exclusively from the blood of Jesus. This is a mistake in the sight of God.

Even before Jesus shed his blood, he already forgave others for their sins and transgressions.

Therefore, it was not necessary for Jesus to die shedding his blood to bring about salvation - it was an alternative route from God's original plan.

The Bible records the account of the prostitute who was about to be stoned.  Jesus told anyone who felt they were without sin to throw the stone at her.  In everyone's hearts, they knew they could not condemn her and they drifted away in shame.  Then Jesus spoke to the woman who was accused and told her that no one condemned her and he would not condemn her either and not to sin no more.

What does this mean scripture truly mean? By his own words Jesus offered forgiveness.

Therefore, to bring about salvation to the earth, it was not necessary for Jesus to die before completing his mission.  Jesus didn't give anyone a raincheck to come back for his forgiveness after his death.

 

 

Jesus could open the way to salvation to everyone by the Word of God.

 

God's plan of salvation does not require bloodshed by necessity.

Q. What does salvation mean?

Salvation means that living men, women and families on earth will enjoy the garden of Eden as God had intended from the beginning.

We need to realize the love that Jesus brought to this earth - not the alienation, bloodshed and his death.  His love and forgiveness should be told more often than his end.

Death came when human beings departed from God when they misused the love of God.

After the first parents fell away from God, human physical bodies remained alive.  Resurrection means to accept the word of God and to become the possessor of God's love.

What if Jesus was to appear on earth for the first time right now or on television?

Would you like to have spiritual salvation only through him being murdered and shedding his blood or would you want to have Jesus bringing about salvation with his should and body raising an exemplary Godly family to which to follow?

 

You have to reach the point where you are one with Jesus in flesh and blood.

That's why he set up the condition of the sacrament: Christians must feel they are actually eating Jesus' flesh and blood.

They should actually feel Jesus' life and love more than just eating a piece of bread.  Then they should also feel they are drinking his blood.

Salvation will not come about until that moment. 

This was Jesus' method to bring humankind out of Satan's world into God's uniting the believer through this real sense experience.

This means that Satan is cut off and humanity is engrafted to Jesus and we can feel this oneness.

There is a further vision for Christianity: people go through total salvation on the spiritual AND physical level.  What does this mean?  Jesus' body was attacked and lost by Satan, but he must return again to bring about salvation of our physical body leaving it un-attacked by Satan.  In other words, Satan attacks our body through diseases, mental illnesses and accidents. 

This is the prophecy which will be fulfilled at the time of the Lord of the Second Advent.

If this is hard to grasp, please ask seriously in your prayers guidance on these matters. Ask either Jesus Christ or God himself.

If Jesus had lived and fulfilled his primary mission of bringing the Kingdom of God on earth, Christianity would never have been what it is today.

The purpose of Jesus' coming was for the salvation of the world. The chosen people were to be God's instruments. However, salvation was not intended only for God's chosen people.

For every soul upon the face of the earth, Jesus is the savior.

He is the savior of all humankind.

Should the Messiah come to the Christian world alone, or to the whole world? What God, together with the Christians, must do is cover the whole world both on the spiritual and physical levels.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the text, Jesus and the Second Coming God's Warning to the World -message from prison

Live as if You May Die In a Year

Q. Why is it important we need to know about the issue of eternal life?

Shouldn't we just worry about the end of life when we get there?

Don't we have enough issues on earth to deal with before thinking about life in the other world?

Then we can switch to a more earthly base.

Why are families throughout the world being destroyed?  Why do husbands and wives become enemies and children cannot trust their parents?

It is because there is no true love.

The most important thing is eternal life.

There we go again.  We are connecting problems of the world back to the basis of an earthly life.

Why do religions seem to focus more on the after life than the here and now?  The life we can prove exist.

The first question is how are people to understand the the importance of the next world if they do not even believe that it exists?

If a person headed in the wrong direction was to clearly know that he lives for eternity, would he want to commit a crime if he knew he would pay for that misdeed for for eternity?

Yes, everyone at the base has the basic knowledge that they will 'reap what they sow' or believe in some kind of law of Karma.  But what if people were brought the true fact that every deed they do, or seed they plant manifest forever in the other life?

If humanity was to feel this simple truth to the core of their being, we would not be able to just live only for our own selfish ways  in this world even if you were instructed to do so.

If you are not able to invest in true love or a true life while you are here on earth, it doesn't matter if you practice a religion or are a Christian, you will not be able to live in heaven, God's ideal world.

Heaven begins first how we live on earth.

If our church is armed with the truth of the Principle, the issue of eternal life will become clear. 

If we could not connect to the basic issue of eternal life, then the idea of a social revolution of future change would be impossible.

Issues on earth can be connected to eternal life.  Unfortunately, what was a basic human truth was severed when humanity turned in the wrong direction, to an evil path.

If we are to approach such issues as poverty from the perspective of eternal life, we will be able to overcome environmental conditions. This is why the principles which religion teaches are so great which connect to eternal life.

Before religions could digest the cultural differences and background.  This was because they could not establish a true concept of eternal life and how to apply it to our daily circumstances.

You may see that even the faithful and Christians are shaken when their circumstances are changed.  This is because of they do not have any confidence in regard tot he concept of the after life.  When we place our whole focus on goals for the here and now or our life on earth, it is easy to not be focused on eternal issues.  Christianity built its foundation on the back of saints and a people who sacrificed their lives to push God's dispensation forward.

Can Christians now lay down their lives in order to overcome their circumstances?  They now are backsliding into living to satisfy their present needs on earth and their social obligations which leave no roots or traditions for future generations.  They experience distractions coming from all directions.  unless the proper concept of eternal life is well planted in these people, they will fall away from this difficult path of attendance to God and the Messiah.

What can turn this wrong path people of faith are taking?

Only love alone can do this.  We are are the ones who can completely accomplish this task.  We understand that our path of faith is not preparation for life on earth, but for a life in the eternal world.  People who have this conviction to set their life path to live the correct way for the next world can take care of themselves in this world.

After we pass the age of 40 and fifty, the day that we will die draws closer and the more serious people become about the issues of eternal life.  Some may become serious about how they have wrongfully spent their time on temporary things and have not yet left anything behind.

The older people get, the more serious they become.  As we get older, the thinking becomes dim, but when one has a strong concept about the eternal world, they will become more serious with age instead.  In the future, only those who have have a religious ideology can lead this world.  Those who are able to maintain an absolute concept about the eternal world will be able to face changing circumstances and the ups and downs of life without any problems.

Our lifetime and the issue of eternal life

Have you ever wondered how long you think you will live?

Everyone may think that they will live to the age of seventy or eighty and don't think about dying before then.  Yet, we may have these feelings, but we really do not know whether we will die tomorrow or even later today.

Young people may think that they will live at least to forty or fifty years old.  Did God guarantee that you would live to a certain age?

You should live as if you might possibly die soon or perhaps within a year.  Therefore, you should make all the necessary preparations during this short time and live with such a thought.  The shorter the time you think you have, the happier you will be and the less you will have to lose in life.

Your sincere preparations during this time become the building blocks of your home for your eternal life. 

Have you ever loved God in such a way that you thought you only had a short time in mind to do so?

If you are able to live this way, then you will become the master of eternal life when you die.  If you had the thought that you will die in two years, how serious would you make plans or live from day to day?

You would start visiting cemeteries and attending funeral services.

In our life of faith, it is absolutely necessary to do prepare in this way.  This is where the Principle applies.  If you are able to think about dying for God's will and for heaven during this short time that we spend on earth, you will thus live eternally.  This is where the Principle applies.

Wouldn't a man who once believed that he would die single and unmarried, suddenly received a loving life before he died, how grateful would he be?

You should leave something behind that God can praise, while you go forward to immediate death under God's order.  You would feel that your time on earth is too precious to spend just sleeping and eating.

You would not waste your time worrying, even if you wanted to.  You will be able to live your lives with greater value the more you think that you only have a short time to live.

What value is there in loving someone, a family or a tribe?

Loving others creates a textbook for loving all of humankind.

Love is a textbook to loving everybody in the spirit world that transcends time and space.

How do you plant the concept of eternal life?

God created Adam and Eve to be His objects of love, therefore, we should live as objects of God's love.  We do not just talk about it, but feel it and experience it deeply.

Once you know the great power of true love, you would willingly go this way even if someone told you not to do so.

When you plant the idea of life after this one, that there is another life after this one, everything will be complete.  This idea will vibrate through your mind and your body will resonate harmony with the mind to the same level.  Adolescence is when such things happen.


The Fall occurred at the age of adolescence, so the years leading up to the age of 16 are unaffected.  The age before 16 is the standard of original nature and remains intact.

Therefore, you should get acquainted with God during your adolescence.

In doing so, you will become inseparable with Him.  This happens based on the your understanding that this life is not the end and there is an eternal life we live based on how we lived on earth.

Our descendants would follow no other path but this if they went this way even if they were told not to do so.

Therefore, we must save the world and quickly bring about a heavenly nation.

This becomes your possession in the other world.

Also, your rank is determined in proportion to how many people you have witnessed and brought there.  That is why heaven is empty right now and the rest of the lower spirit world is being filled daily.

Humankind seeks eternal life

What is the purpose of living this way of life?

A life of faith consists of seeking the world of eternal life.  Our faith involves us seeking God's eternal love.  To unite with eternal life along with eternal love, we must seek where God's joy can be felt as our own joy. This is the way of faith.

The most important thing in this life of faith, the degree to which we can live life with a progressive love and vitality.

Your value as a human is determined by how much you perceive sensations through your five senses in relation to life and love.

Therefore, we should think about whether we have lived in society with an added heart of love.

If you are not standing in such a position, then you are at a standstill or in a position in retreat.

Eternal life and religion

Human beings have the gift of eternal life.

Religion has expanded throughout the entire world and passes through all kinds of circumstances, which include different cultural backgrounds and customs.

That is the central issue concerning eternal life moreso than a person's earthly lifetime.

 

People should live together with the universe during their life.

 

 

 

 

Life is short, amounting only to one hundred years.

Your life does not disappear after your life on earth ends.  Once you are able to overcome that boundary, you can continue to live in the realm going beyond the bounds of the global village that once defined our limits here on earth.

An eternal life sympathizes with and helps humankind who have lived in suffering until now.  Religion is necessary.   We have to resolve the issue of God in matters of eternal life.

All of these matters are interconnected.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeon, Book Five, Chapter One, Section 5.

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.

 

Return for Tomorrow's Post: What To Leave Behind After Death

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

 

Crossing the Border to Victory

As the saying goes, there are few guarantees in life other than death and taxes.  This is far from the original world which God had bestowed to us.

Everyone on earth has thought about or feared at one moment about the point we cross the last border.

No matter how much we avoid it, we will each die in our lifetime.

This is each human's final destination on earth. We should pass the line even if we have to brave the fiercest storm.  Where is the value in doing well most of the way and then collapsing just before you are to cross the finish line?

On the other hand, what is the use in living the good life if we end up living it in a secular way?  You chose to live the right way by joining and following this way of life.

You can think of yourself as a motley crew.

It is good that you joined.  Even though we are totally focused, we still have doubts that we can make it all the way on this difficult course where many have sacrificed and died to see the day of World Peace. Yet, after thousands years of sacrifice, we the day of peace still has not dawned.

Be encouraged and don't give up in the middle of the battle.

We win victory only as we dash toward the finish line at the last border.

Every human that is born on earth should make this effort to walk this path.

No matter how much opposition or persecution you receive, it is worth continuing on your path.

Opposition is not our concern.

A person that is able to work hard and walk his destined path one step at a time, even if he has to crawl, will eventually cross the final border.

Everyone from the President to the farmer must go this way.  If everyone was to live this way for the cause, then world peace would appear in one generation.

Modeling ourselves after God's external form, heart and divine character

Everyone will eventually shed their physical body and move on to the spirit world, no matter how healthy or wealthy they have lived.

As human beings who are born into this world, we must be prepared for our inevitable death.

We endure through the suffering so we can form our good self into the second self we will be in the eternal world.

Once a mother receives good prenatal education and care while she is pregnant, then the baby will be born as a good and healthy baby.  In this way, your life on earth is similar to the same care and attention you received while in the mother's womb.

We should grow by modeling ourselves after God's external perfect form with His heart and divine character.

As we grow, we should risk our lives in overcoming obstacles in order to achieve this goal of perfection.

Do not sin

Of course if it was as easy as making an effort to never sin again, maybe world peace would have been founded on religious efforts alone.

But when we talk about the mind must be straight, we see why people walk upright; they must be vertical.  We should make our mind completely vertical as God is.  Your body will from the horizontal line.

Accordingly, you must find your true self.

When you say that you have finally found yourself which is in line with God's standard, then God
should be able to agree and the Messiah must agree.

Your relatives, your tribe, nation must also be able to say that is right.  The one who is accused by any one of these is the problem.

In the future, the continents will be divided not based on superficial borders, but between frigid zones and temperate zones.

There will be a time when those who continue to sin a lot despite the world becoming united centered on God's true way, they will be sent to the North Pole.  This is the same as patients who have contagious diseases and are quarantined.

Live and die for the world

We have gone from an era where saints, sages and people of faith walked a blood path to see the day of glory where God standard would shine as the rising sun to an era of individualism.


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.


When you think upon these things, you must live and die for the sake of the world.  Once you stand on the global level and die for people of the world while embracing your loving spouse, family and race, this is the position you should reach when you die.

We have formed tribes and are now forming a race.

When the founder of the Unification Church dies, he will die for the sake of the world while he embraces Korea, also.  If the Korean people unite and die for the sake of the world, there will be a paht for them to be able to live with the world.  This is how Reverend Moon went forward seeking that path.

Work hard

This is the territory where you work: If you need money, make it; if you need people, work hard without eating or sleeping to raise them.

Do not ask anyone for help.  Do not rely on the church headquarters to help; you should help them with what they need instead.

Work three times harder than ordinary people to make it through this difficult path.

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 100 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. 


Only when you live to this standard can you bear fruit and increase your ownership of love in the spirit world.

When you live that way, you can bear fruit and increase your ownership of love in the spirit world.  That way of life yields a life of freedom 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

Society has moved away from the idea of living beyond the family for the good of the public purpose.  Private matters belong to Satan and public matter belong to God.

What are the laws of heaven which we abide by?  They are to promote the public righteousness.

Even if you are opposed as you walk this course, if you are not disturbed by the opposition but go the way of hardship with vitality, you will become a person of heaven who will welcome spring.

If you notice a greedy shopkeeper, you'll see that that there will not be many customers who will buy from him.  The world does not have a need for a greedy person.

Everyone has the innate knowledge of what is the secrets of managing one's life in terms of distinguishing between private and public matters.

Therefore, if you are unable to go to heaven because you lived a selfish way of life, there will be no excuse that you did not know how to manage your life in the true way.  Why?

You already know the distinction between what is a private matter and what is a public matter without the need to be taught.

Let's say that you and your brother or sister were dividing rice crispy treats equally and you eat your share, but your sister keeps hers without eating it.  Then you wake up at night and you secretly eat your sister's half which she had her heart set on.

Before you can eat it, your conscience will warn you, "You devil you!"  If you are unable to feel this in your consciences, you are not a true human being.

Some people have suppressed their good conscience by so much of their evil deeds that they are numb to its calls of warning.  You should feel this.  Why?

Because your conscience was created to pursue public matters.  Your subconscious is God.

If you follow private desires you will perish.

In the world that originally existed, when you follow the laws of heaven, a mind defends and protects them from destruction.

What does it mean 'originally" existed?

God originally had such a mind and human beings came to have the same mind from the start of our creation.  This is not a man-made law.

Is anyone able to change their conscience's standard by commanding it to follow the way he chooses?
Where does our conscience receive its orders?

We do not know the origin, we do know that it does not originate from us, but outside ourselves.

When we see that our conscience guides feelings that control us, we can understand that they do so over public and private matters.

People struggle internally and externally at the crossroads between good and evil and between their public and private lives daily.

In many cases, people struggle between the two before they settle for a self-centered private lifestyle that does not expand outside the realm of his individual self or family life.

Those who live in this way will perish.

Therefore, in order to go in the right direction, we must repent for our past self-centered, private lives.  They should grit their teeth and push toward living publicly  and end up distancing themselves from the public good.

This has been your life of faith until today.  Therefore, all of those who live a private life, must repent.

Everyone wishes to receive good fortune and to live forever.

In order to live in this way, you must become a public person.

This means in educating your children, don't just love them as your own, but become parents who love their children as offerings for the sake of the people of the world.

Teach them to live for the sake of others.

When you hold your baby to your breast and nurse them, think of yourselves and your baby as representatives of the entire human race on earth.

Become a woman who can nurse your babies with such a heart.

Instead of caring only for your children and how they appear in front of others, cherish other people's children as your own with a loving heart.  Babies who are suckled by such mothers will certainly grow up to become great people.

Of course, you will not be able to see such a result right away in your family, but after the first and second generations among your descendants, there will be born great figures who can rule the world.  This is the formula.

Which would you prefer to dedicate your life toward, a life indemnifying private matters or public matters.  Both are devoted to some purpose.

Such people who are able to risk their entire lives for the good of the public will become great people.

A group like this will set up a new history toward a better world.

This is the course of tribulation which we must follow from now on.  When you manage your life, the issue is whether you can live your life individualistically as much of the world or publicly.

For whom do you eat, wear, buy sell things in your daily life?  Is it for yourself or for the purpose of God?

This is the issue: whether your life is a private or public life.  Do you have a private or a public mind in all these activities?

You should pledge to go the public way.  If you are supposed to indemnify the sinful, wrong history which humanity has gone, you must advance to the stage that everyone desires.

During each day, you must make effort to transcend private feelings and embody public feelings. This is the important issue that all people of faith must concern themselves with.

What is sin?

Sin came into the world from a private standpoint.  Therefore, ruin comes along through the private way of living.  Evil is the same.  When one pursues private matters just for their own life to a certain degree, they manifest evil.  Private matters only go to a certain limits.  When you reach the limit of a private life, sin, evil and ruin are the result.

Where will be in a position to be eternally good, prosperous and fortunate for eternity?  How do we get to the point where we can prevent sin,evil and ruin?  That position is a public standpoint.  When you speak, you should digest the situation with public words and not from a private mind.  In this way, live connecting all aspects of your lives with public matters.

Such people are not able to go to hell even if they try.

Experience love

Do you live your life only concerned about yourself?  Do you think, "I am the only one."

If everything that your parents and elements supplied by creation were removed from you, you would disappear. So, how can anyone claim that they belong to themselves.

We are each in a position to represent our mother and father.

You live through your mother and father by going through the period in the womb, inherit their blood and flesh and are provided for by them.

In the modern age, the term Mother Earth and Mother Nature are used.

This planet is our mother which provides us with elements at different levels.  What do we breathe while we are in the mother's womb?

e breathe in the womb through the umbilical cord.  This is a hose that is linked to the mother's body.

Now we are connected to this second world, the world of air.  As we emerge from life in the womb, we cause destruction.

Thus, the moment from our first cry, we are connected with the world of air where we breathe air through the nostrils.  Our nostrils are the absolute supply line.

Can we live if our nostrils are all the sudden both blocked?  Any human who is unable to breathe will die.  It is made with a dual structure.

The umblical cord and the placenta which the baby depended on to live is destroyed once he comes from the womb.  So, what appears at the point of death when we are being born into the spirit world?  The baby comes out into the universe, to the Mother Earth and come to live by the supply of elements through its mouth.  Our nostrils are prepared as the airway while we are breathing through the umbilical cord in the womb.

Once we emerge from the womb, we switch the use of the organ and begin to breathe.  Likewise, what must we do in this world to prepare for the next world now?

We must experience love, inhale the air of love from our mother and father and undergo all processes by the supply of the air of love.  Once we are born in a family as a baby, then we go up and then come down along a sine curve.  After we are born as a baby, we grow and age, then we die and are dissolved back into the earth.

We are born as a baby and return to the stage of being a baby again in our old age.  What will happen when we die?
We have to kick away the second womb and be connected to the thrid breathing organ of love which is the air we breathe in the next world.

We kick away parental love and fraternal love and enter teh world of love which is in total harmony with the Original Being of the great cosmos, God.

The spirit world is filled with the air of love.

Therefore, we should prepare our life here on earth as a pipe-like device for breathing love.

We need to experience the spirit world.  We become immortal only when we become people who feel spiritual love and then breathe the air of love.

Then when we kick away this womb we call Mother Earth and come out, we breathe with the respiratory organs of love.  We can gain eternal life only when we inherit the third love.  Where do we go after being connected with love?

We then return to God.

We return to the spirit world by being linked to teh respiratory organ of love.  yet there remains the way to go to God.

Since God is the originator of the seed, it must bear fruit and return to Him.  The course of life being a traveler's journey, then what must we take with us here?  We must go this path of experiencing love.

The Fall meant that we could not receive parental love, we must form the vertical family centering on true parental love, true brotherly love, true conjugal love and true filial love.

Families should be formed in the north, south, east and west.  These families should form true families that can link the vertical with the horizontal.  When this is linked to the realm of tribe, people, nation and world which is bound by love.  This is called the Kingdom of Heaven.

Leave a Tomb of Love Behind

When we think of eternal life, we don't think in terms of years or centuries, we think in millennia or
eons.  When people die, they are no different from animals at that point -  their bodies return to the earth.

What is the use in leaving something behind? Even atheists and agnostics say that they want to leave a name behind for themselves.

What's the use in leaving behind a good name.  Even if you are able to become a patriot or are honored with a monument, it would disappear when that country perishes.

Even if you were to leave your name behind, a name is only able to be considered good during a period os prosperity, but it can later be viewed as bad during a period that the country experiences a period of decline.

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

When we enter spirit world and go before God in the spirit world after leaving behind children who live for God on earth, we also come to stand in His position.

Therefore, how will you live on earth?

Leave a tomb of love behind.

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

You may get tired living within this tomb, but will feel no bitter sorrow if you live in love.  If you are able to live in a tomb of love in your lifetime, your life will be a success for eternity.

If you are able to live and die living in this way, God will bring His sons and daughters to welcome you in the spirit world.  If there's no ring yet on your hand, God will put a diamond ring of the Kingdom of Heaven on your finger.

If you are not well-dressed, God will dress you in the richest apparel fit for royalty of the Kingdom of Heaven.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: We Must Understand Death, Not Fear It

This Post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Five Chapter 2, Section 2