How to Weaken the Body's Harmful Desires

Religious text refer to the body as the flesh and show that it is the cause for the chaos in the world we experience today.  We will continue from yesterday's post which delved more into mind and body unity based on self-control. W society that is self-governed by such individuals are closer to the ideal society in which God originally created.  A Utopia.

One must reinforce the mind's strength through methods such as prayer, study, respect for parents and other well-known measures.  It is a challenge to set up the right order between the mind and body so that both can function in the best way.

For example, one who is trying to control their appetite and their unhealthy passion does not have to lead to anti-physical or otherworldly excess.

Weakening the Power of the Body

The first method is to weaken the influence of the body's wants and desires.  One has to make a conscious decision to disregard the body's preoccupation with being comfortable or wanting control over our better thoughts.


1. Deprivations

One basic means is through fasting and other deprivations. These stunts the usual control of the body and material environment over the spiritual and moral desires to make it easier for the mind to assert itself.

Meditation, prayer and reflection come more clearly and readily.

“The first week of Ramadan is really hard,” reports a university student. “I am just tired and really hungry by nightfall. But after that, I start feeling light and really good, and don’t miss eating. I am more in touch with myself, more aware of other people, more sensitive to God’s blessings in my life.”

When one experiences this deep joy and liberation it shows the motivation for the extreme practices of some religions and medieval ascetics in order to control the body's temptations and individuals in a society.

A secondary effect of fasting help to control self-centered impulses like complaint, anger, impatience or jealousy and suppress the body's reliance on physical distractions.

Our spiritual strength arises when we overcome physical desires that cause physical discomforts.  There are other ways besides fasting to weaken the body.  Reducing the hours the body needs to sleep by rising early for morning devotions is a common way.

Introducing the body to discomfort on purpose such as cold showers or hard physical labor is another way.  The main idea is to combat any unproductive habit as the simplest way to stay in charge of one's mind and body.

“I quit smoking two years ago,” declares a restaurant manager, “and now I watch out for something getting a hold of me even in a small way. Like I stopped watching the news for a few weeks one time, and I skip my morning coffee once in a while, just to show myself I can live without it.”

Practicing chastity and celibacy is a strong way to keep the strong hold of the body in balance.


2. Obedience and Self-denial

Another way to weaken the body is through a life lived in service and submission to a higher authority.  This authority can be a moral or spiritual principle, God or country or anything else an individual holds in great regard.  In order to do so, this involves self-denial, overcoming the need for self-assertion and rebellious behavior and eliminate immature attitudes like ego and pride.

The military is the obvious example of training in obedience. 

In order for one to be part of the armed forces, an individual must learn to subdue their own selfish tendencies, respond to orders and become part of an effective unit or group.  Team sports is another example of such training.  Team players must deny their personal glory and give their best for the sake of the whole which is the team.


3. Living Simply

When one makes their lifestyle simple, it is compared to avoiding idolizing materials.  One has to choose to put their focus on the spiritual and rational approach when it comes to property.

When we turn on the media, we see the push for us to consume more and acquire more in order to foster a self-indulgent way of life where the importance is on comfort and amusement.  Living a simplistic life resists this and helps to maintain a proper balance of mind and body instead of our well being depending solely on the material.



Adopting a certain austerity in possessions means the preference of substance over style and remembering the difference between needs and desires.



Living simple avoids the traps of debt that is very oppressive and is a burden that saps the peace of mind and constrains one's ability to give freely.

Like the Israelites in the wilderness who were instructed to take only of the manna and quail that they needed for the day, simplicity means resisting the temptation to hoard and trusting in tomorrow’s provision.

“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you shall wear,” Jesus declared. “Is not life more important than food, and the body more than clothes?”

Matthew 6.25


This is a reminder how Heavenly Father takes care and keeps a connection with those that keep His words and makes the strength of the spirit over the body or flesh a priority.

“Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness,” and material needs will be taken care of as well

Matthew 6.33


A simple life relies on bringing happiness from the treasures of the heart instead of from pleasures of the body.  Also, having faith that true wealth is in love and spiritual growth and not in having an abundance of things.  Such a life recognizes that God is the real source of material prosperity and security.


Strengthening the Power of the Mind


1. Determining and realizing goals
2. True love as motivation
3. Acting on faith
4. Service
5. Connection with God


When the body is subdued, we need at the same time to strengthen the mind through toughening the moral will.  We build this will through the daily habit like a muscle through choices of doing the right thing despite having fear, distress or being tired.

To do so, an individual needs to strengthen their moral fiber through adversity.  The individual needs challenges whether it is given or self-sought to develop inner strength of will.

1. Determining and realizing goals

The basic way to strengthen will and build self-discipline through making a determination to oneself and God and then achieve them.  This can be exampled through talking to a troubled relatives just as you were about to delve into an enjoyable book.  Also, when one changes careers in order to be a greater service to humanity.  Trying to stay healthy for the children and spouse.

Even more challenging is to set goals that rely mainly on spiritual power, fueled by prayer, study of spiritual truth and acts of love. 

“Twelve years ago when I first came to Mountainview High,” recalls a physics teacher in a rural school in the American Midwest, “I swore that I would bring the white and Native American students and faculty together in a tangible way.  I prayed about it every day, stuck my neck out more than a few times, got misunderstood a lot and once almost lost my job. But now in the faculty there are cross-cultural friendships developing and this year the president of the student council is a Native American boy.”

In order to reverse the negative history of betrayal between God and humanity, we need to make promises to God and fulfill them.  This is significant.  It also helps to build self-respect and faith in oneself.  This is probably the most powerful way to attract divine support.  A person that fulfills their promises and actually carry out their responsibilities is noticed not only by other people, but also and especially by Heaven.


2. True Love as Motivation

Having motivation empowers the will to go beyond any discomfort we may experience in order to achieve our goals.  This motivation depends on having meaningful purposes that will make such sacrifices worthwhile.

The strongest motivation is true love; “love is the key to unification of mind and body,” states Reverend Moon. This power of love is familiar to parents.

Dick Hoyt, 62, has raced in every Boston Marathon for over 20 years pushing his paralyzed adult son, Rick, in a wheelchair. In 1999 they became the first team ever to finish the Ironman Triathlon World Championship. It began when teenage Rick asked his father to push him in a local race.  When they finished, the boy excitedly declared, “It was as if I wasn't handicapped.”

This motivated his father to challenge his every physical limitation in order to give his son that experience over and over ever since then.

The power of love is behind the heroic sacrifices of religious and national lore. 

An example of this will is the first Pilgrim settlers to North America.  They starved to death instead of eating the grain that was intended for planting once their reached their destination out of love and hope for the next generation with dreams to build a community where they could worship freely.

Out of love for God and the Savior, St. Peter desired to face a painful execution by being crucified upside down.  This can be through legendary proportions or just small everyday acts of unselfishness, true love as the strongest means of subduing the body.


Act on Faith

A person can have tremendous powers of self-control when they are able to visualize a better future despite any obstacles that stands before them.

Debi Faris is a woman who knows what it is like to heed the call of her heart and conscience in faith. A wife and mother of three teenagers, she heard of an abandoned baby found dead in her town of Calimesa, California, and arranged to give the child a proper funeral and burial.

One child led to three and her middle-class family committed to the costs, ultimately $27,000, despite other pressing expenses. “I remember praying, ‘I don’t think I can do this, God. I don’t think I have the courage,’” she recalls. “I stayed quiet for a while until I sensed that what we were doing was right. It was an act of love, and at that moment I made a commitment to offer it to any child who needed it.”

She has since organized the funds and volunteers to found a cemetery for abandoned babies, the Garden of Angels, and is fighting for legislation to help prevent such tragedies.

Those who believe in one's own gifts or that it is inevitable that truth and goodness will finally triumph have a strong advantage that helps them achieve the strongest resources to unite mind and body.  As well as those who have built the power of faith and hope and are "sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see".

Hebrews 11:1


4. Service 

This includes the physical service to others: massaging the back of an elderly person, preparing salad for the homeless, picking a bag full of trash in the neighborhood all are helpful practices for strengthening the moral will because it requires humility.

“We made a point of just showing up ready to do whatever work was needed, no fanfare,” recalls a man of his group of comrades from a service club.

“The staff at the rehab center were surprised to see middle-aged men willing to just set up the party, serve the boys soda and food and take down and mop up afterwards. And it didn't do this CEO big shot any harm either to do grunt work for a bunch of not-too-grateful teenagers. I think I learned a few things.”


Connection With God

All of these methods are used to empower the moral will and is the greatest prescription for mind and body unity by connecting to the divine Source.

“The first step is for your mind to become one with God,” says Reverend Moon, “and then your body will become one with your mind.”

Here are more resources of strengthening the mind and access the Heavenly Parent:

Prayer, worship, scripture study, supporting the local community, putting faith into action, fulfilling determinations and promises, practicing submission and offering service.

“Live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature,” promises St. Paul.

Galatians 5.16


Like a soldier, the stronger the bond of the mind and God, the more ready the mind can conquer the body. The brave Corrie Ten Boom, a elderly watchmaker, was sent to a concentration camp because she rescued Jews during the Holocaust.

Corrie began to lecture after the war about God's love, forgiveness and healing of the wounds of war.  After one of these lectures, a former S.S. guard, who had been at one her concentration camps, was waiting in the back of the room.

Immediately, she began to have flashbacks of her and her sister who had been forced to walk naked in front of men guards on the way to the showers.  She remembered being ill, cold, old, hungry and in pain and how she was being mocked sexually by these guards.

She remembered that her sister had been tortured by pain of humiliation in front of the same guard she sees now.  Her sister later died at that camp.  The former guard came up to Corrie acknowledging her pledge of God's forgiveness in her life.  He held out his hands reaching out for hers asking for her forgiveness.

Forgiveness was part of her life now and not only a part of her lectures.  Was it easy for her even now?

“I tried to smile, I struggled to raise my hand. I could not. I felt nothing, not the slightest spark of warmth or charity,” Corrie said.

Yet, she could never forget all the religious teachings she has had and was teaching about forgiving people who have hurt you in the past.  So, being the woman of faith, she took in a breath and prayed for the strength to do what God wanted and she eventually took his hands into hers.

She matched her deeds to her highest ideals and words that she was illuminating to the crowds when she finally could take action to forgive the most horrid part of her life with this guard as a representative.

Then, “As I took his hand the most incredible thing happened.  From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me.”

This spark of love made Corrie cry out that he was her brother and she assured him that she had completely forgave him.

Her ability to take actions on truths and promises that she had spoken had unleashed the flow of true love and liberated both persecutor and the persecuted.  When a person is able to love even when it is the most difficult requires us to assert the mind over the demands of the body to protect itself and its ego.

Through such efforts to reduce this pull of the flesh while at the same time enhancing our moral and spiritual strength, the mind and body can be brought into unity!

Thus the heart is liberated to give of itself freely and unselfishly, and will be able to reap the richest rewards in return.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Control Fleshly Desire Gain the Universe

This text was taken from and rewritten from the textbook: True Love Chapter, Mind and Body Unity

God's Ideal True Family

The past few posts spoke about the ideal spouse, love and family.  A family centered on God and living for the sake of others is a family that the universe will want to possess.  We see that marriage has been viewed in the wrong light in these last days, but God intended to build a world of heart by uniting with husband and wife and their children multiplying throughout t he universe.

The father represents heaven and the wife represents earth.  The children represent all of humankind.  

The family represents the sovereign of the nation with the father like the present of the family;that means he must take responsibility for upholding all of the laws and orderliness of the family.  In this respect, he is in the position of the judge that distinguishes what is right or wrong in the family.  The mother is the lawyer and the law itself is the prosecutor.

Law was created because of selfishness and is important to uphold the country.  After the fall, if humanity unceasingly was disobedient without those who upheld God's law like Moses who obtained the 10 commandments, society would cease to exist.  Likewise, within each family, there should be certain standard and laws which are upheld and enforced by the father.  That is one of the father's responsibilities.

"There is a great distance today between this original standard and the reality of today's families. Young people in many families deny that they need the guidance of their parents. What those children are actually saying is, "I don't care about the past or the future; I only care about now." That is animalistic."

Grandparents represent the past, the parents represent the present and children represent the future.  Therefore these three time periods must unite into one for the betterment of all of mankind.

Throughout the ages, there have been revolutions in areas of economics and politics, but there can never be a revolution of heart within the heart of a family.  Love is eternal and unchanging and thus is beyond revolution.  Children grow up in love of their parents, but leave the home for the sake of a higher love or ideal.  When parents love their children, the children must eventually return to their parents.

Before you stand as a completed individual of ideal love, you must experience three generations of love: grandparents, parents and the love of brothers and sisters.  These are the three purposes of love.

To qualify as an ideal family, the husband and wife should live for the sake of the past, and future.  If they live just for the present they only have a horizontal connection and no vertical connection.  Here is a simple question, do you need your mother and father-in-law no matter how old and crippled they become/.  Do your children respect and love their grandparents who represent the past?

The most important human connection is the vertical rather than the horizontal because it is the basis of the universe.  Love comes to mankind from the vertical, position, from above.  Thus the first direction of love is vertical and then the horizontal direction comes into existence. 

This explains why we value our grandparents.  Everyone has heard tales of their grandparents certain experience or two and learned from the elderly about lives that the grandchildren would not know about without their grandparents.

Whom should a person love first-his spouse or his grandparents? He should love those in the vertical direction. Two people love each other horizontally, but they must always reconnect to that vertical relationship. Thus their love can flow downward to their children and create one complete cycle. The husband and wife should love each other with all their heart; then together they love their parents and their children.

We see couples divorcing more and more each day and children divorcing their parents, but who has heard of parents divorcing their children? 

Why is that? 

The love of parent and child is more fundamental than the love of a spouse.  The love between parent and child is along the vertical line which connects each person to God.  The first question that arises when a couple thinks about divorce is who will have custody of the children.

Western civilization must take heed of this truth that the ideal couple loves each other and their children, but they must also have love for their very own parents as much no matter how old they become. 

This fulfills the original ideal God planned for creation. The nation is basically a collection of families in which all the generations are included. Each extended family symbolizes one small country.   

Unless a nation establishes their families with the proper center, that civilization will perish.  Look at the Roman empire and many nations, they all began to crumble with the breakdown of the family unit.  Wars did not destroy that civilization, immoral acts and self-centeredness instead of God-centered did. Because the law of the universe will not allow an unlawful citizen without subject to change to exist for very long.

This is why we say the family is the textbook of love.  It is how a peoples learn about the ideal family and ideal nation.  Once this is accomplished in one country, that country becomes the textbook for the ideal world.  Then the ideal world becomes the textbook for the ideal universe, thus we have four textbooks with the family as the basic one.  In order to have a world of peace, each family member should love one another and completely devote themselves for the sake of their children and their own parents.

 You must make your family one which is loved and approved by all those around you-your parents must approve and your children must appreciate it. That is when the man actually becomes the "president" of his family, which is a micro-country. 

How can a president run a country full of lawbreakers?  God meant for the world to be governed not by direct civil laws, but by love.  One philosopher said that one who enforces strict laws on their people when they are about to do something evil, otherwise, love is enough.

"Thus the directions of up and down, left and right and front and rear must remain connected harmoniously to the couple."

You should love your parents as much or more than you love your spouse.

Then as much as you appreciate your own family, you should respect other families, so in this way, the nation of families interconnect to create one peaceful nation. 

How can a peaceful nation begin?

To begin to love your nation and world, you must first love the people in your immediate surroundings, love your distant relatives, and then branch out your heart of love further and further until you can love each person within the nation.

To beginning this task, you must focus on learning to love all of your relatives.  Once you master loving all the different personalities of you relatives, you can then travel to any nation, any part of the world and love anyone there. 

This is the basic qualification of any president of any nation.  It is said that a woman who has 12 children learning to love the 12 different personalities that represent all of humankind, she can become perfect.

This principle will stretch to govern the whole world and a king that rules over the world can be possible if he has such a level of love.  Then this standard will spread throughout spirit world and all of the cosmos.

This standard sounds simple, but how can you find hope in a world of peace that connects to thousands of generations from thousands years ago if we can not find the unity with our own parents or grandparents. 

This path is very difficult on just the individual level within the family.  Then we have to expand to the level of the world and be able to love nations and races of people.  After this, we must accomplish on the level of the universe, love beyond time-past, present and future within your realm. 

This principle will apply in the future.

All of these levels begin with one individual who obtains this knowledge by observing the love within their family, how their parents, siblings and grandparents interact.  Is this possible to have a world of peace beginning with one individual in a family?  The ideal was to have Adam and Eve populate the entire universe centered in oneness with God. 

Then through the passage of time, they would populate the earth through their good descendants and eventually all of spirit world would fill up with their ancestors.  Adam's and Eve's family and country would be God's direct family and country sharing in complete oneness of blood lineage without a trace of sin.   

Earth was supposed to be the place where Adam's descendants would have ruled according to Adam's tradition. Such a world would have been Heaven on Earth. Do you understand the reality of Heaven on Earth now?

Every human has an innumerable amount of ancestors and when we pass to spirit world, we are bound to rest where our ancestors are.  When they enter the spirit world, their ancestors will judge them using their own standard.  How does one surpass the level of judgement from their own ancestors? 

That qualification comes through the standard from within your own family.  The Messiah returns in the last days to bring about the standard of a true family, society, nation and world and guides us toward Heaven on Earth.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Qualification For Marriage

This text was rewritten and taken from the Speech: Ideal Family and Ideal World.

Preparing Leaders to Save America

What makes a great leader?  Is is someone who gives commands to their subordinates easily, a person who has accumulated many degrees and years of knowledge?  It is a question the Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon has asked many times to his congregation.  Here he speaks to a class of Unification Theological Seminary graduates:

"You see me here, such a short distance from you, in a very intimate way. However, you have no idea what I have been doing during this time. Many things are going on in my heart, in my mind, and in my actions.

If you don't know what I am doing now, you are even less aware of what is happening spiritually. So much has been happening spiritually that you have no way of knowing about it. I originally asked how much you know me; it is not an exaggeration to say that you know me very little.

As recently as last night, I gave Bo Hi Pak a hard time and scolded him severely. His eyes popped out; he was completely shaken. Even someone as dedicated as he is, and someone who serves me so closely, didn't know me well. I know him completely, but he doesn't know me. Since I gave him such a hard time last night, I was waiting at breakfast time to see whether he would show up, and when he did show up I looked at his face to see whether his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. They weren't.

I treat leaders like that because I am preparing them to face greater difficulties in the future. I want the leaders always to be prepared. The best way is to scold them, and let them react. This is one of my strategies for training leaders. If you know my principles, you should strive to follow my example."

I personally trained the first UTS class

"I am very happy to see you UTS graduates. I feel a special affection and affiliation with you, because when the school was built, I drove from Tarrytown to Barrytown virtually every day for three years. I spent two and one half hours on the road every day in order to meet with you and speak with you. If one day passed without seeing you, I felt empty.

That is what I invested to raise you up. I trained you so much, because that first group was the pathfinders, the compass. Unless I put them into shape, establishing the right tradition, I would not leave a good tradition at UTS. I tried to set the best possible tradition at UTS by going there and teaching every day.

Members of that first class have unforgettable memories, because I put you through many strange experiences, such as carp fishing on the Hudson River. I sent shivering, frozen men and women into the water for many hours. I made fishing nets that are still there. Do you think I was just aiming for more carp?

I caught many carp, but not one ended up on my dinner table. I often went out deep-sea fishing, but not because I wanted to eat fish. My only focus was to give you unforgettable experiences and teach you my tradition. You went through difficult times. You were hungry and cold, but I was there with you, touching you, pulling you.

You used the net I made, and fished by my side. No money can buy such memories. This is the new tradition that you should leave to posterity. How many of you alumni here today still cherish the memory of those experiences? How many of you really value those days that you spent with me?"



This Nation Must Be Saved

"At that time I had a noble ambition. I knew that difficult times would come for the United States and I would need leadership prepared for that day. I knew that this great nation would diminish and probably even go down the tubes. Determined to raise up this nation and save it, I brought the leadership to UTS to prepare them for that day".

America could boast itself as a hopeful Christian nation full of strong families of faith and now we must reevaluate the situation of America today.  AIDS, immorality and drugs are rampant.  The young people in the nation are dying and alongside the physical death of the nation is the spiritual death.

This wealthy nation is in a poor spiritual state and needs to be saved.  There must be one champion that can stop the nation from slipping into the quicksand.

Reverend Moon continued to tell how he came to America as a doctor to cure the sick or a fireman to put out the flames in which the country has been blindly engulfed.

"One time Jesus passed a tree along the roadside that was not bearing fruit, and he cursed it. When I am going down the streets of the United States, and curse this nation for its lack of leadership to cure its ills, I always feel that I am the one, that I have my people to do this thing. This is how I think about you UTS graduates. I cannot let this great nation slip down the drain.

I toiled in this country for twenty-one years. My labor cannot have been in vain. If I leave America for good, how many of you would remain to pursue my goal to the end? Right now every one of you thinks you would. However, to back up your thoughts with deeds is something different. There is so much distance between your thoughts and your reality. Everyone knows that the United States is declining. America is decadent. In order to save this country, there must be sacrifice. A price must be paid to save this country."


You Must Take Over My Mission

"I cannot stay here permanently. I have a job to do in Asia. I have to bring unification to the Korean peninsula. There are 3.2 billion people there waiting for my message. I must move on. When I move on, how many seminarians will say, "Father, leave it to us. We shall guide this nation. We shall be Rev. Sun Myung Moons here. Don't worry about the United States"? By words and promises I would like to bind you together.

That's the purpose of your coming today. I would like to bind you together in a promise that UTS will initiate the "Save America" movement and take over my mission. Say, 'Yes, Father, we are your direct heirs, your champions, your children. We have inherited your tradition, your methods, your truth. We will take care of this country.'

The flame of UTS has been burning. Now I want to use that flame to burn up all the iniquity and unrighteousness in this country. Truly you will become the saviors of this nation. I can say this because only you were taught by me. There are no other people who deserve this kind of statement. Promise that you will multiply the flame three-fold, ten-fold, twelve-fold. Pass down the torch until the fire is burning everywhere in this country.

When you stop the decline of this nation, you will have truly carried out my role, which is to save America. You will ignite the resurrection of the American people. A firestorm of resurrection shall begin, but someone has to ignite the people, and I am looking at you seminarians to be the sparks. Two years from now, in 1995, you will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of UTS.

A great deal of time has elapsed. You have grown. By then there will be a thousand alumni or more. One thousand multiplied by two is two thousand; multiplied by three, is three thousand. These are the forces that shall ignite the moral and spiritual revolution in this country.

The flame, the torch, shall start burning high and bright in America. Good seeds must be taken and planted in other fields as well, all over the United States. Become a seed and plant yourself in this society. You are the heirs of my teaching and tradition and spirit. Those who pledge to begin this movement, raise your hands. God bless you. If you keep that pledge, America shall not decline."


Be the Savior of the Nation

"As much as I have trained you, led you, and guided you, giving you the tradition, you should lead your juniors, and guide your children. UTS is the forum of the movement. Recruit people for UTS, knowing that I need future leaders as well. Bring them in, thereby multiplying yourself. UTS will erupt in a volcanic explosion for America.

That campus shall ignite, and foment a revolution for America. When you look at me and the things I have done, can you feel to the bone that you will be responsible for the United States, that you are the saviors of this nation, that you will stop the decline of this nation, that you will make America prosper once again?  You shall be central figures for that mission.

As much as I love UTS and love you, you should love UTS, your juniors and your children, creating a patriotic movement that will inspire love of your country, love of your fellow man, and love of the world. This is how you shall expand the horizons of the people, so that we can make another golden era for the United States.

You built many things during your school days. We will preserve your accomplishments as part of the founding spirit of the school that started out from me. Thus the genuine love for your school can be translated into genuine patriotism."

When will Rev. Moon give us money to repair the Mission Center?

"That is a very irresponsible way of thinking. This is not my house; it is your house. Even if I have lots of money, still you should say, "Father, you have lots of places to spend your money. Here in America, we'll take care of things, particularly the World Mission Center. We will clean it, and make it the most incredible monument in New York." I have not heard even one person, even with a ten dollar bill in hand, say such a thing. Not even one person is concerned about it, as far as I have heard.

I am not an American citizen. My job is done. My mission is over. This World Mission Center shall be here fifty years from now, a hundred years from now. Certainly by that time I am not going to be here. I may not be on the earth. In the coming decades the entire world has to go through the Unification community, because there is no other hope for resurrecting humanity. This building is the monumental holy ground, a holy building. Somebody has to take care of it. This kind of thinking represents the hope of America, and the future is bright with this hope."


This text was taken from the speech, How Well Do You Know Me?  January 29, 1993 given at the World Mission Center, New York, NY USA andTranslated into English by Dr. Bo Hi Pak

Only Belief in Jesus Not Enough

This could be argued a had said he needed us to have belief that he was the son of God.  That's it...for that instruction.  Jesus also said to pick up your cross and follow him.  Follow his instruction, work on your problems and become perfect like your Father in heaven was perfect.

If only the mere belief in Jesus caused a Christian, Catholic or Jew the ability to become perfect, please bring those sisters and brothers forward to give their testimony to the world.  I have friends and clergymen who believe that Satan will always be the dominator on earth and that humanity will never have the capacity to become perfect. 

 

My response is, that will be true in your life as long as you hold onto that notion.  Satan will always dominant such a person's to some extent and that person will stop working on themselves to a certain extent.

 

Why have we made God so small!!!!

He had the expectation for Adam and Eve to reach perfection and never gave up that dream after they fell.  He also gave us power over the angel and even though int he beginning we followed him instead, does not mean we can not dominate Lucifer, a servant, back to his position.

If there were no tools or God's words in existence that gave us the ability to do either one, would I be so bold to announce it without fear of his attack?  No, I have not reached perfection, but I do have tools that have bound Satan from interfering in mine and my families life and have been given the chance through the Lord of the Second Advent's words, to liberate thousands of years of pain caused by my ancestors which you and I repeat generation after generation.

We can go beyond the 2,000 year doctrine of just follow to being owners alongside Jesus in the battle to win the world back to God's side.


Paradise Is Not The Kingdom of Heaven

If at the beginning of creation, a family could have been realized in which God and man could have united in a relationship of True Love, today we would not have to worry about Hell or Heaven because we would have automatically entered the Kingdom of God.  The problem here is that God's true love and true man's love did not begin at a common point, united as a subjective and objective love. God's love and man's love began in two different directions with two different goals. Therefore, it has been impossible to realize the ideal world which God and man long for. God's ideal of beginning in a common point was completely frustrated.

What does the conscience do to win the true love God? Even if a person has money, knowledge or power, and she loses the love of her life, none of those things have any meaning. If you unburden and liberate your mind completely, your conscience will automatically connect with the True Love of God. If we compare the conscience's size to love's size, we will see that the size of love is greater. We can know this due to the fact that the conscience begins from love.

The Kingdom of Heaven is the place where we go to live in unity with God's True Love and a free conscience. It is the place we go after having lived centered on love and after preparing ourselves to be the lineage of God's love. Without winning this love, we can never enter the Kingdom of God. We will have to wait thousands of years until that day comes. Due to the fall, there will not be a connection with the Kingdom of Heaven so long as man is not illuminated by God's true thought and sustained by God's True Love.

The person who lives in unity, with a true conscience and true love, will automatically enter the Kingdom of Heaven. No matter how much a person believes in Jesus, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven if he is not linked to the love of God. The fact that our mind and body are struggling prevents us from entering the Kingdom. The person who inherited Satan's lineage cannot enter the Kingdom.

The religions which have the mission of opening the way are struggling amongst themselves and will have a sad ending in the Last Days. God cannot be found where there is conflict. Religion is a movement to subjugate the body and liberate the conscience. It is not a key to open the doors to salvation. We have to know that the key which opens that door will not be received if we fail to inherit the love, the life and the true lineage of God.

By believing in religion, we will not receive salvation. In reality, religion exists to discipline the body. When our conscience is liberated, its ambition can be raised up to God. How does this seem to you? Think first about what you are doing. Will you try to find out more about this? Who will know first what someone is doing? Who will know first? The conscience or God?

The conscience will know first. Man is a distinct person from God because he occupies the object position. In the same sense, husband and wife are different. The characteristics of each are clearly different. If we were to conclude that God could know everything prior to it happening, we could say that we are a part of God, as if we are a single body. But in such a case, we could not be God's objects of love. An ideal cannot be perfected when it is alone.

After Adam and Eve sinned, God asked, "Adam, where are you?" Adam hid himself behind a fig tree and answered, "I am here." God understood and said, "You hid yourself because you have sinned." Man comes from God's love and returns to God. We must return to God. Ladies and gentlemen, when sons and daughters age and when parents reach the age of 100 and their children reach the age of 80, the relationship of father and son also becomes a relationship of friends. Friends!

We cannot compare the physical strength of a woman with that of a man. She can never defeat him. But through love, wife and husband are attracted to one another and follow each other. If Adam and Eve had been the objects of God's love, would that have been pleasing to Him or not? God created the universe before Adam and Eve would have perfected themselves as His objects of love. God had the ambitious hope that in the future they would be His ideal object.

If, after having perfected themselves as the object of God's love, they had asked God to create something greater than what He had already created, do you think He could have done so or not? As infinite as the ambition of our conscience is, we should know that God can create everything that we desire. God created us with the value of True Love objects. Because this value was lost, it must be restored.

This restoration is the purpose of human life and history. God established religions and promised that some day each of the founders of those religions would return. Christianity has taught that Jesus will return. In Buddhism they speak of the return of Buddha. Confucianism alludes to a new Confucius. Likewise in Islam, believers await the return of Muhammad. What would be the reason that God established the different religions?


Restore Us to God's Ideal

We need to understand that the will of God is accomplished centered on His beloved children, children who are like God's flesh and blood. With that type of son and daughter, God wants to form families, tribes, races, and nations. We need to understand what kind of person the Messiah is. In his Second Coming, the Lord is the person who perfects the ideal which has been longed for by all the religions, coming to the earth for the first time in the eternal love of God.

He will become a TRUE FATHER and centered on that lost True Love, He will work to establish an ideal family on earth on the foundation of true life and true lineage. That is the purpose of the providence of salvation. Due to the fall, God lost the true Mother as well as the children of Adam's family. This means that God could not have true children. There was no family which was connected to the pure blood lineage which was to come from God's love. Instead we linked to Satan's fallen lineage perpetuating sin throughout humanity.

The providence of salvation is the providence of restoration which God has been leading to restore His lost sons and daughters and restore the unity of mind and body, the absolute unity of husband and wife, and the absolute unity of parents and children in the True Love of God. This true family which is qualified to live eternally with God should be connected to Christianity which is in the position of bride to the Lord.

By establishing such a blood relationship with God, we can realize united families, tribes, races, nations and united nations which would thus conform to the united world which is the culmination of the providence of salvation. Distinguished leaders of this nation, is it not true that this nation would like to receive God's blessing? To do so, you must become a people whose mind and body are united in God's true Love.

You must also unite as absolute husbands and wives. When the number of families in any nation which can unite as absolute children of God grows, then God will come to live in that nation. If this happens, then automatically that nation will become the central nation of the world. Human beings have this kind of nature. If his beloved one lives in the countryside, in poverty, he wants to live there with her. In the same way, if there is a place where God's beloved sons and daughters dwell, that place, if poor, will be the Kingdom of Heaven. If rich, it will be the Kingdom of Heaven as well.

Today the Founder of the Unification Church is here speaking to you. If you ask me, "What is the mission of the Unification Church?" I will say that it is a place where God's True Love is present. It is the place where we want our mind and body to unite in true love. It is the place where we want to form ideal marriages with absolute unity between husband and wife. By means of an ideology which can make all people into inseparable brothers and sisters, we are carrying out the mission which God has given us.

With the love of the True God and the love of the True Parents, we are cleaning everything that was dirtied by false love, false life and false lineage. The Lord of the Second Advent has achieved the True Parents position. The mass international marriage ceremonies are the ceremonies to sow the seed of true love, true life and true lineage which results from the unity of God's love and man's love.

The blessing marriage is a ceremony to restore families formed in false marriage which, due to the fall, received the seed of false love, false life, and false lineage. Having families participate in these mass marriage ceremonies from around the world will connect them to God's great blessing. It is my fervent desire that all people receive that great blessing and become families and a people which can establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.


World Peace Through God's Marriage

The Lord of the Second Advent initiated through God the Mass Wedding movement bringing people of different races, religions, cultures, and enemies, together in Holy Marriage which links them directly to God's lineage.

The following is the how Father Moon expresses his desires to those who are learning about the movement to open their eyes to the truth to the foundation he laid for all humanity, not to just those who are members of the Unification Church.  In the beginning, Father Moon never wanted to be a minister or open a church, just as Jesus did not wish the same.  it was only through the many failures of the higher leadership to recognize that Jesus was Lord that Jesus had to savage lowly men who did not know to the deep extent the teaching Jesus was trying to portray in his time.  The same misery was afford to Father Moon who was rejected and persecuted by the Korean Christian leadership, so he had to go the hard way through making his foundation from scratch which the established leadership should have followed the Lord of the Second Advent.

The following may sound blasphemous to those who do not have the ears to hear or are awakened to the time they are living, but so was the same when Jesus was telling people that no one could enter heaven without going through him, to drink of his blood and that they should love him more than husband, wife and mother.   One should read the bold statements which Father Moon has declared himself rewritten in the third person for the purpose of this blog:

The purpose of the Unification Church is to succeed through this means to establish relationships of brotherhood which transcend nations. Through this means we want to realize the ideal of one great universal family centered on God and thus proclaim the ideal of True Parents. True spouses, and True brothers and sisters. In this way we will begin the world heart culture.

From earth to Heaven, we will be liberated to fulfill the world of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Since the end of the Second World War and during the past eighty years, Reverend Moon has been persecuted and criticized by the entire world. The time has come that you should know that such persecution was not because he committed any crime. Instead it was to save you. And unlike in the past people now think that I am the most admirable man.

By the hand of Reverend Moon, communism collapsed. It was Reverend Moon who awakened Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung. To save the United States which is going towards a collapse, he established a foundation which leads Americans to feel that Reverend Moon is the hope. Also behind the difficult political context of North and South Korea, Reverend Moon is involved. The same is true for the Middle East.

You need to know that after 40 years, the Republican party triumphed in the United States, thanks to the influence of Reverend Moon. Perhaps you are unaware of these facts. But you should know that if any nation precedes the United States in receiving and absolutely embracing Reverend Moon, that nation will become the first nation in the world. Everything which Reverend Moon has said has been fulfilled.

The entire world did everything it could to put an end to Father Moon yet he did not die while laying the foundation, and he firmly stands on the top of the world.

Because Father Moon spoke to out loud these statements, it is because God loves him and is on his side. You need to know that if I survived, it is because God absolutely protected me. For that reason, I believe that you should seriously study about his teachings through the Divine Principle. You have met Father Moon this day of deep significance.

God asks that to follow the proper path, you make a determination based on this new awakening to bring God's blessing to your families and your nation. In that way, ideal families will begin to appear on this earth. As you probably know, Reverend Moon and his spouse are known throughout the world as the True Parents.

If it is true that as True Parents we are connected to God in True Love, True Life and True Lineage, I would like you to remember that beginning from a true family and from you a realm of liberation, liberty, unification and happiness will begin. It will allow the hope of peace to sprout upon the earth. Thank you very much.


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