Mankind's Godly Responsibility

This speech was given in 1992 in Seoul, Korea by Reverend Sun Myung Moon's wife:

Distinguished guests, representatives of the Women's Federation for World Peace from seventy countries, women leaders and members of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia:

By your presence, you bring many blessings to our Federation's future, and inspire us to multiply our determination to achieve world peace.  

This may be the first time that women have taken the initiative by bringing so many women together in one place.

I am certain that from this day forward, women around the world will come to understand their noble role which has been ordained by God, and that a road will be opened for us to build an ideal world filled with peace, happiness and freedom.

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon

The following declaration is based upon the heart of God that transcends the past, present and future.

These words are a declaration before heaven and earth, with history as a witness.  The following words may seem unfamiliar to some, but they deal with the secrets of heaven that all women today need to understand in order to usher in the new era of peace, not only for their own family, but for the world.

History Began in a Diseased State


We have come to live in a diseased world whose destruction of its evil is inevitable.

This is the true meaning of 'The Last Days'.

Every day we hear the ugly sounds of its final death rattle.

We can trace the origin of this disease to the original ancestors who had the responsibility to lay a tradition in paradise that would lead the rest of their descendants directly to Heaven on earth.

Instead of following God's Words, they followed another.

Our original ancestors thus contracted a serious disease.  In religious terms, this even is referred to as the human fall.

This disease caused by Satan, who told our ancestors to follow his word instead of God's, has been the focus of human history in restoring the world back to its original position of heaven on earth.

The tragedy of human history was that it originated with Satan's will.

The lord of evil stole the central position to God's ideal of creation.

Adam and Eve's union resulted in children of evil, instead of children of goodness bearing God's original pure blood lineage.

We inherited Satan's love, Satan's life and Satan's lineage.  Our reproductive organs were intended to join together in virtue, to be the temples of true love, true life and true lineage.

Love was supposed to be experienced betwen a husband and wife in a virtuous union to procreate children who carry on the pure lineage.   The center of life is love.  The human lineage is transmitted by means of the love and life of a husband and wife.

The connecting line of love, life and blood lineage is what continues throughout history.  We have been held as prisoners by satanic love, satanic life and satanic lineage bearing any link to God's pure love, life and lineage.  Adam and Eve were in their youth when they sowed the seeds of this false love, false life and false lineage.  

Therefore, in these Last Days, we see a decline in morality among the young people around the globe.  

Satan uses his fallen love as a way to create a den of sin where a blow struck against God's ideal of true love.    

Standards were relaxed concerning sexual behavior, the plague of drug addiction and the decline of the family structure and traditional values have turned this world into an earthly hell.

It is impossible to find a true man, true woman, true brothers and sister, true husband and wife or true parents anywhere.

Before this age, there was no hope of creating a true society, true nation or a true world.

Mankind Must Engraft Onto God and True Parents

Adam and Eve formed a trinity of evil.

It is up to us to restore Adam and Eve that is in accordance with the ideal of creation.

In order to resolve this historical disease, someone has to testify to the fact that Satan committed sin and be able to explain the fundamental truths concerning the sin which our original human ancestors committed.

Satan and God have known the details of the fall which has been hidden from humanity and repeated to this day.

Adam was still young and did not understand many things about his environment.

In the Last Days, when Adam and Eve will finally reach perfection and discover this information and share it with the world is the biblical account of Revelations to how God will surely reveal all secrets in the Last Days.

Thus the exact crime which Satan created throughout history will be revealed.

Then it will be possible to expel Satan from the world.

For the first time, humanity will be able to make a fundamental change in direction toward hope, peace, happiness and freedom.

For us to be able to break free form false love, false life and false lineage we inherited from Satan, it is necessary that we leave behind our wild olive roots and engraft onto the true olive tree of the Messiah.

This will make it possible for our blood lineage to return to God's unstained, pure blood lineage and rebuild a heaven on earth and in spiritual world.

This is God's final purpose of God's providence of salvation, restoration and recreation.  Therefore, this is the era where the True Parents come to earth to reverse the mistake of the first parents.  

This is of the greatest historical importance.  The True Parents, who reverse the fall of our first parents, represent the final fruit of human history.

True Parents embody the completed form of human cultural history.

They signify the victory of religious efforts and philosophy within history.  Before True Parents could come, there was a period of indemnity and restoration through sacrifice, suffering and blood.

God's Providential History of Restoration

I would like to speak for a while about this historical period, based on the biblical record, to illustrate the difficulties. By understanding this, we can understand how important it is that we fulfill our responsibility today.

In the Old Testament, history worked through indemnity such as an eye for eye, tooth for tooth and life for life.  This responsibility of the fall passed from Eve to Adam.

Satan was at the center of that union.  From Eve's standpoint, after she had received the seed of false life and love from Satan, the fall occurred where Satan took over God's position.

Satan became Eve's father.  Eve placed the archangel in the position of father and Adam in the position of her son.  

Women who stand in the position of Eve in the course of restoring the world through indemnity, they have had to risk their lives in order to assure God's will would pass to the next generation.

When we look at the historical record in the Bible, we see a number of events that seem to defy explanation.

God's original intention in His creation was that Eve would become one with God.

Because Eve followed Satan's command, she became one with him.

Immediately after the Fall, God began the work through the family of Adam in order to undo the wrong course of history by going through the reverse course.

God worked through Adam's family because by them not linking to God, the fall deprived members of this family of eternity which they were given this privilege at their creation.

This is the process God used to bring about restoration of the first parents:

Cain was the very first fruit of love linked to Satan who took Eve which was on the side of evil.  Abel who was the second fruit of love, was placed to resemble the side of heaven.

This was the beginning of the history of struggle between good and evil which was aimed at the fundamental restoration through indemnity.

Cain and Abel made offerings to God at the same time, but God received only the offering from Abel, the second son, who represented God's side.

Cain represented Satan's side and God refused his offering.

The reason for this was that the second son should restore the birthright of the first son who represented Satan who was the first 'son' in relation to Adam.

Cain was to make his offering through Abel.  This is the orderly path of restoring the mistake of their parents.  This would have restored their mistake.

But because Cain could not humble to Abel and killed his brother, heaven thus worked through Seth who worked on behalf of Abel.  This providence was extended to his descendants.

Because of their failure to restore the Fall, while outside of their mother's womb, God had to accomplish His dispensation beginning within the womb.

Once we know this simple fact, we understand when Rebecca asked God why Esau and Jacob fought within her womb, God said, "Two nations are in your womb..the elder shall serve the younger." Genesis 25:23

After she understood the providence of God's will to return the mistake of Cain and Abel, she came to take greater care of the second son, Jacob.

Jacob had the responsibility to restore through indemnity the birthright of his brother Esau, emulating Adam and Abel to take back the birthright of God from Satan and Cain and bringing it back to the correct position.

That leaves one position left for this to be successful.  Rebecca needed to fulfill her responsibility in the position of Eve.

Now, we can understand the biblical account of why the firstborn was struck in Egypt during the course of Israelites' exodus and Jacob's switching of his hands over Manasseh and Ephraim at the time of their blessing.

These all contained the hidden will of heaven in order to bring about the reversal of the mistake of the first and second sons.

God's Providence to Send the Messiah


Eve deceived, God, her Father and Adam, in her fall.  To restore this, Rebecca stood on heaven's side and deceived the father Isaac and her son Esau so that Jacob could receive the blessing.

Jacob bought the birthright of the first born and initiated the lineage of Israelites on this victory which was won with the cooperation of a mother and her son.

However, when Jacob was successful in fulfilling God's will of taking full control of the birthright of the firstborn, he was already forty years old.

Therefore those who were forty and older were in the realm of victory over Satan.

But those under forty did not have a condition that gave them victory over the control of Satan on that level.

Therefore, a new dispensation was carried out for the purpose of gaining victory within the womb.  Tarmar and her twins Zerah and Perez.  Perez was the younger brother, but he pushed Zerah aside in order to become be the first born.  In fact, the word "Perez" is derived from this event.

At the beginning of history, Satan's lineage was planted within the mother's womb.

How was this possible when humanity was created by God?

We saw in the previous post that the misuse of the sexual organs was the actual cause of the Fall.

The archangel had tempted Eve with fallen love that was outside of God's dominion.  Through a sexual relationship passed on this sin to Adam, thus bearing children that were connected to Satan's blood.

The only way that the blood lineage passes from one to the other is through the action of a sexual encounter.

This mother's womb was restored to the side of God through Tamar following the will of God. Therefore, heaven took control over the first-son realm and the second son realm to God's original lineage which had caused the fall.

This was the way that the tribe of Judah formed a pure foundation where the Messiah could be born through that lineage.

This was not a simple reversal.

Tamar, as a woman fulfilling Eve's mistake, had to place herself in the position of deceiving her father and son.   She had to deny her father-in-law and his sons, whom she eventually would marry, in order to separate the position of Eve from Satan.

After this was accomplished, a basic tradition was established where God's children could be conceived without the original sin. The womb was purified from Satan's invasion.

Then it was up to the Israelites and Judaism to carry on this standard of victory in the womb until the time of the Messiah could be sent.

But by then , Satan had already had an established nation in the world.  Therefore, to send the Messiah at that time, there was not a safe national foundation for him to stand where the dispensation for restoring the world.

God had to wait 2,000 years until there was enough of this national foundation, where a woman could stand in the position of Eve, for Him to carry out His providence.

This finally took place through Mary who was Jesus' mother.

When Adam and Eve created the fall, they were engaged at that time, but they were not married by God yet.

In the same way, Mary and Joseph were betrothed to each other centered on God.  Just as Rebecca and Tamar, Mary was a revolutionary woman.  She was called by God to take part in the process of recreating Adam.

Since, Eve had deceived God and Adam, Mary had to place herself in a position to reverse Eve's mistake by deceiving her father and son.

This is the process where Jesus was conceived.  Therefore, Satan could not invade Mary's womb during the time of Jesus.

Jesus was born of a womb that belonged to a victorious woman who reveresed the reverse is the first fruit of the first love.

This was the first time in history that the bond to love Satan's children was established.

During the time that Jesus was in Mary's womb, Satan could make no invasion through lineage.  Even though saints dedicated their lives as individuals.

This is true today.  There, the Christian point of view was able to be used and was able to spread.

Finally, God has worked to use the victory in the Second War and the Christian cultural sphere to be able to accomplish unification of the world.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook for World Peace, Chapter 3

Through Loving Our Children, Become as God

Why are children so valued to a couple?

It is because children, who are the fruit of their parents' love, stand before them as representatives of the world.

Why do we think of people without children as being lonely?

Because children enable us to deeply experiences the circumstances of the heart of God while He created the entire universe through love.

Our children are born through us based on our motivation.

By having and loving our children we come to realize how God loved and fought for people through this course of restoration.

Children result from a concentration of parental love

Parents sacrifice for their children and return to God through their children.

They come to deeply experience parental love while loving their children.

Then they are led to feel and be aware of God's love, which is a manifestation of something original.  Since those who cannot have children cannot feel this deep parental love nor come to understand God's parental love, their love is always incomplete.

What kind of children can reside in the Kingdom of Heaven?

They are those who have paid off the debt of parental love on their own.

When parents become old and senile, the sons and daughters should endure the difficulties of their care with the same heart their parents had toward them when they were little.

This means cleaning up their urine and bowel movements.  Only then, will they be children of filial piety.

Parents have given their very lives for the sake of their own children.

Therefore, children should sacrifice their lives for the sake of their parents.

Since life comes from love, then sacrificing one's life in front of that love is a logical conclusion.

I say that this is not a contradiction. When children strive not to be indebted to their parents, the parents feel their worth.


If a parent has to discipline their child with a stick using their loving hands, they cry loudly after spanking their child. Would the child fight back and curse them then?

True love carries dual values in harmony.

A great mother will embrace her children while teaching them principles of becoming a person of goodness who will be able to move the world and to endure any difficulties they encounter.

This type of mother penetrates the heavenly principle.

That kind of goodness never perishes.

You give birth to a child, give your milk and think they are cute.  But because of whom do you adore your child?

You should adore your child on the behalf of heaven and earth and on the account of the nation, world and God.

The power of heavenly fortune in accordance with God's love is moving beyond the world to embrace heaven and earth.

A mother should embrace and breastfeed her sons and daughters with the eager heart that she is embracing God's beloved sons and daughters on behalf of heaven and earth.

Parental love is the basis of a child's pride and happiness. 

Children receive life from their parents who have created harmonious oneness in true love.

They want to be raised in such a love.

The most precious responsibility that parents have toward children is not to raise them externally, but to give them life elements of true love that will make their spirituality complete.

No matter how much a father loves his child, his love cannot match the mothers' love.

Why is this?

This is because the mother has devoted herself, even her body, suffered more for the sake of her child. Hence, we can say that she is more loving than anyone else.

In this sense, women have an elevated and precious position in the arena of emotions.

A father cannot know love to that degree that the mother has no matter how much he loves his baby.  For this reason, if anyone goes to heaven, women will go to the heavenly kingdom of heart.  From this standpoint, it is not bad to be born a woman.

You will come to see God is fair!

The way of true children is filial piety

When you come to know your parents, what do you do you need to do for them?

You should have filial piety in return.

Also, by going beyond your parents, you should become patriots in your nation, because your parents have had authority within the nation and the world.

Before you can become a patriot, you must first set the standard by becoming children of filial piety before your parents.

Before you can become a child of filial piety, you should be a member of the family who is proud of true brothers and sisters.

The term "family member" is a title that brings the right to sing the praises of your brothers and sisters.

A child of filial piety is precious because he respects and serves his parents with unchanging love whether he is in childhood, an adult or in old age.  We call such a person a child of filial piety.

How do you become a child of filial piety?

You must align yourself with the direction of your parents' heart.

One who walks this path does not do things separately from his parents.  When his parents go east, he should go east, and when they go west, he should go west.

There so be no question or debate about it.

Even if you are told to go a certain way and are told to turn back ten times, you should again turn back and follow your parents.

In your family, you are asked to offer your filial duty.

This requires that you become a fellow traveler on the path of love your parents walk, centering on your parents.

The parents' path of true love follows along with the heavenly principles.

It is not that just the parents standing by themselves, but there are invisible, vertical heavenly principles that are connected to them and work through them.

Thus, pushing you to be one with your parents is to ask you to follow the way which connects the realms of heart with the tides of history.

This is the reason why you fulfill your duty of filial piety toward your parents.

This path is also connected to the patriot, like the shoot of the bamboo.

What should patriots who faithfully serve their country do? They should walk the path of saints for the world.

If you are unable to fulfill your duty as a filial child, but you manage to become a patriot in your country, your parents will be able to say job well done.

Even if you have abandoned your parents and left home, if you become a patriot to your nation, your mother and father, even though they may have died and gone to spirit world, will praise you saying you have done extremely well.

What is a child of filial piety?

He is a person who takes responsibility for the parents' sorrow by seeking out the difficult places and fulfills his responsibility.  Thereby, he brings joy to his parents.

If the parents have done ten loads of work and the child has made effort to do fifteen loads, the parents will feel joy that corresponds to five loads.

The one who makes effort by serving the parents and thinking how to fulfill such an amount is a child of filial piety.  that knows no limits because they love their children eternally.  Then what are genuine children like?

Genuine children are the ones who reciprocate the love of their parents eternally with a loving heart which overflows with love.  This is the way of a child of filial piety.

If God needs something from His children, what would that be?

Is it for them to make a lot of money and become millionaires?  Is it to be president while holding the most power in the country?

What God wanted from Adam and Eve was for them to grow up and be children of filial piety, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters.

Have you ever thought that you should be a filial child in the family, to become a patriot in the nation, to become a saint in the world, or a divine son or daughter before heaven and earth in accordance with God's own thinking?

When you look from the viewpoint of history, all of the saints have taught about becoming such children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters.

When children grow up in the tradition of love, do you think they could be indifferent if their parents wanted a divorce?

Absolutely not.

The children would insist, "I am your child, I am the one with whom you are combined.  You have to make whatever negotiation necessary, and you have to be great parents for me.  I need you."

We must make young people and parents awaken to the fact that because of their children, parents have no right to divorce.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Book, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three, True Love Chapter Two, Section 6

Sexual Organs the Most Holy Place

Throughout religious history, practically every part of human life has been discussed in the pulpit except one grey area: the sexual organs.

While preacher's may speak about the current world situations, disasters, economy, political views, dispute other faiths and philosophies, still they leave the most important element out of their speeches.

Sex in and of itself is not dirty, but humanity has become ashamed because we have left our position and ate of the fruit without God's permission.

In these Last Days, we have reached a position through the return of the Messiah to reverse this mistake of the Fall and return to our original position before the Fall.

Through the teachings of the Divine Principle, we learn that the world turned into chaos because of Eve and the archangel giving into the fruit which were known to be the sexual organs.  She passed this indiscretion on to Adam and from then on to their descendants up to the present times.

Now, is not the time to hide this information, but to teach about it and speak about it in order for this mistake to no longer be passed down.

If parents or preachers do not teach their children at a younger age, then Satan surely will teach them for us the inappropriate ways of using their sexual organs and without any time period or waiting for just one partner.

Why do we stubbornly hold onto the tradition that speaking about sex in the context of God is a no no when God created absolute, pure sex in the first place?

Where do you think God's most holy place is?  It is the sexual organs of men and women where love dwells.  This is heaven's most holy place.

What is the symbol of the love between a man and woman?  Where is the final destination of love?

The place where man and woman want their love to end up is the sexual organs which make a man and a woman one.  The sexual organs become a channel that can bring their mind and body into complete oneness of love.

Sex is the original palace of love, the most holy place of heaven

What is the difference between men and women?

First, the obvious difference is their external bodies including the sexual organs are different.

For whom is the male sexual organ absolutely necessary?

The male sexual organ exists for a woman.  One sexual organ is concave and the other is convex.  Why are they made like that?

Both of them could point out or be made flat, but why do they look different?  It is all for the sake of the other.  The man's organ is absolutely wanted by the woman's organ, and the woman's organ is wanted by the man.

We have not known that the woman's organ absolutely belongs to the man and the man's organ absolutely belongs to the woman.  Would they belong to several different men or women?  Is God like this?

By the two owning each other's sexual organs, man and woman can come to know true love.

The sexual organs of men and women are the treasure store of the royal palace.

The man and woman's sexual organs are the treasure store of the royal palace of the heavenly nation.

Even God cannot do whatever He wants with her sexual organ.  Only her husband can open the lock to it.

A woman should not get undressed before two men.  She is only allowed to undress herself before her master.  Anyone else is a devil.

The sexual organ is the royal palace of love.

The sexual organ is the royal palace where one receives the blood ties and lineage.  It is where one will inherit heaven. This will never, ever change.

It is a royal palace of true life, a royal palace where true love is found and true lineage.

It is the most precious place.

Therefore, since this is the most holiest of places, then it is also the most fearsome if one lets just anyone open up the key to this place.

As Adam and Eve had done, they destroyed the royal palace of love, life and lineage and invited in the false love, life and lineage inherited from Satan.

You cannot do whatever you want with it.  The sexual organ cannot be open without God's official approval.

No one can even touch this royal palace without your husband or wife who has received approval from God and the universe.

Why did God create the sexual organs?  It is because of love.

The sexual organs come into being in order to find love. What is the sexual organ?

It is the royal palace that is centered on a true lineage where God's direct blood lineage can be born from there.

Then it is the most precious thing in creation. Without it, God's ideal world, God's family and God's will cannot be realized.  The sexual organ is the starting point for the achievement of the perfection of all of these.

If a world existed that absolutely valued the sexual organ, do you think that this would be a good world or a bad world?

Would a world that preserved the sexual organ be a world of prosperity or a world of ruin?

When God created human beings, what part do you think God made with the greatest of concerns? Would it be the eyes?

What about the nose?  The heart or the brain?  These things will disappear when you die, do they not?

The sexual organ is the royal palace of love. 

What has happened to that royal palace of love now?

It is such a precious thing, a holy thing to be cherished.  But the Fall has turned it dirty.

From God's viewpoint it is not something to be viewed as dirty, but something holy.

From there, true life, true love and true lineage are connected to it.  Satan defiled such a holy thing.

Our sexual organ is the original palace of love. Only if love, life and lineage is accomplished can your sexual organ be the royal palace in which God can dwell.  Since God is King of all kings, and the one who is to go to the original palace and reside there, if you attend God you must attain the original palace of love, life and lineage, and the original palace of conscience. Amen!

The sexual organ is the point where two people in love become one as a unified body of life with love at the center.  It is the place where the blood of a man and the blood of a woman blend into one in one melting pot.

You should know that this place is more precious than your own sons and daughters.  More precious than your husband and even more precious than God.

They will say you are a heretic for saying this, but through the sexual organs that remain pure and are approved by God, can create children that are born of God's direct blood lineage - true children.

Without it, your parents would have no value, your couple would have no value.  Your sons and daughters would have no value.

Once humanity lost the royal palace, children thereafter were connected to Satan carrying his dirty blood lineage. This is the point where the view of something of such value as the sexual organ received such a negative connotation.

If we do not inherit the royal palace, there is no value to you as a couple.

Since this place is so precious, it is kept under lock and key as the most precious treasure of your whole life.  In order to keep it from being seen by anyone in the world.

The key to the man's organ is held by the wife and the key to the woman's organ is the husband.  There is only one key for each.

Would you like for your husband to have ten or twenty keys just like those who indulge in free sex?  Do you want it to be like a ruined house without an owner, where the door is open to any passerbyer?

The sexual organ is the original palace with which a man and a woman make love.

Your grandparents and parents have lived revering this place.

You as a couple revere this place, and your sons and daughters to come in the future will also live revering it.  Is this not so?  Is there a woman or a man who has lived truly regarding and safeguarding their royal palace?

If so, then why has it turned into something bad?

The sexual organ is seen as a vulgar word.  Why when it is such a holy place?

It is because of this that eternal love is connected and from this that eternal life and lineage appear.

A man and woman who are able to protect and keep their purity are likewise protected by the universe.  This is because by keeping the order of love between men and women is the fundamental root of the universe.

Why were men and women born on the earth?

They were born in order to love one another.

Since God is a great king of wisdom, He allowed for the exchange of the love organs between men and women.

Despite what people have come to believe, the man's sexual organ does not belong to him and neither does the woman's sexual organ belong to herself.

Behaving according to popular culture, or to your own desire while ignoring the owner will cause you to receive judgement for violating love.

God is a fair being.

Hence, since it is not right for people to fight over who owns what, God designed for the planting of the man's possession within the woman and the woman's possession within the man.  Love may seem wicked, but in reality it is something breathtaking.

Love must create harmony.  There is nothing dirty in love.

Although the sexual organ is the most precious thing, it is also close to the dirtiest area of the human body. Why is this the case?

Since harmony is a principle in the creation of heaven and earth, the male and female sexual organs are the most precious things.  God thus installed them properly in the center of the body.

It is the safest zone, and at the same time it is next to he dirties place. This shows us that God is truly the king of wisdom.

He teaches the human world that love can even rule over something dirty.  

The pathway of urine is also nearby.

Which would you rather cut off: your fingers or your sexual organ?

There should be a vertical standard for the use of the sexual organs. 

All the four limbs are horizontal. This is why the vertical sexual organ is right in the middle.  Isn't this part of a trinity?  It represents God.

Among all of the possession that a man has, two parts of the sexual organ represent the dual characteristics of Adam and Eve.  The one that stands stiff represents God.

You get married in order to be able to meet God.  God does not exist separately from this.

When you enter that place, God is living there.  The sexual organ is more important than your own head?  There is not true love, life or lineage in your head.

Where is the origin?

The sexual organ is the most important than your head.

The root of life also lies here.  It is the same with lineage.  This is the most precious place. Not only in reference to the human body, but also in the world and throughout human history.

Without the sexual organ, the multiplication of humankind would be impossible.

For human beings, the antenna of love is their sexual organ. 

The man is convex and the woman is concave. When the two join together, they become round and disappear.

It is like a negative electrical charge and a positive electrical charge which meet creating a thunder clap, then returning to zero.

If the man had his own sexual organ he would not want to give it away and the woman would not want to give hers away either.

Then the man and woman would stand confronting each other in this way for a thousand or ten thousands years.  However, since they have made this exchange with each other centered on love, they share their sexual organs out of mutual need and give and receive creating a circular motion.

Value occurs only through this exchange.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook: Cheon Seong Gyeon Book Three, True Lov Chapter 2, Section 5

Fruit of Love Has to Mature Before We 'Eat of It'

Everyone by now knows the Biblical account of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.  God warned Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit.  The fruit was symbolic of their sexual organs.  He did not tell them this to be mean or keep them from love, but it was because it was not the right time for them to love.

Imagine an apple growing on the tree still has not reached maturity.  But a young person is so hungry they take the unripened fruit and decide to eat it anyway.  Would this fruit be fully developed yet in its immaturity?

Since they were still in the growth stage, God commanded them to wait until they became spiritually mature.

Everyone grows up and thinks and longs for the time when they can pass through their adolescence.

Why is it necessary to wait until after adolescence to be married?

A man and woman can love at anytime and age, so why is it necessary to wait until after adolescence?

Because of love, this is the only course.

We need to pass through adolescence in order to mature.  Once we fulfill certain conditions during that period, then our spirit and body matures.

What should have been Adam's and Eve's attitude toward their education?

Because God is their parent, Adam and Eve should have obeyed Him and followed Him wherever He went.

The Time for Adam's and Eve's First Love

As we learn in Genesis, they did not do so.

God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply.  This does not hold the same context as bearing children.

Fruitful means that after their physical and spiritual bodies had become fully mature, they should have become a loving husband and wife centered on God and had good children.

They instead left their original positions and disobeyed God.  Since God is the Absolute Being, they should have followed and obeyed Him absolutely even if they did not understand why.

As appointed lords of all creation, they should have acted according to Heavenly Father's time table.  In other words, they should have waited until their bodies matured physically and they matured spiritually.
As Adam and Eve grew into maturity, they were always together.

As they were exploring and getting to understand and know creation, there could have been a time when Eve was frightened by something.  She might have felt safe and comforted in Adam's arm.  At the same time they both might have felt strong sexual urges because their bodies were different from the other.

In this situation, who was the first to initiate the sexual actions: Adam or Eve?

From that time on, their sexual contact began to increase gradually.  

God created the universe with love.

Since God created with His love, then we should have made the created world a community of love centering on God's love and connect it to Him.

This was their responsibility.

Adam and Eve should have been careful to think beforehand how and with what attitude they would share the love they had which was permitted by God.

Matters of love are extremely serious: life or death is determined by its giving or misuse.

Where does love begin?

A true world begins from the perfection of the individual.  The Principle view point states that we can only love after we have become perfect.

The relationship of love only begins when one passes through adolescence and become mature spiritually enough to fulfill the responsibility of becoming one in harmony with the universe.

As we know that Adam and Eve did not wait until they were perfect to indulge in their fruit of love.  How do we know Adam and Eve were not perfect?  Because a perfected person completely connected to God cannot fall.

Then what kind of love did they share?

Since their love was not centered on God or did not unified all of creations in the universe, this means their love was not mature.  Their love should have been mature and natural.  However, the sad fact is, the love they did share was unnatural.

All Beings Are Perfected through Love

God had created us to become perfected.

This happens once the good mind and the body interact based on God's love established in the beginning.

Thus, both the mind and body grow to maturity based on the principles or laws God set forth, and then they completely unite.

This means that the mind would only center on things God approves and the body would have no choice but to follow.  Human beings still have a way back through religion.  The mind can subjugate the evil desires of the body and return to God.

Perfection can only be achieved when one's life is rooted in love. 

When your love matures centering on God's love, then that love puts out buds and bears fruit on that foundation.  Once a foundation of love is established in this way, then God comes and resides there.

Therefore, until love fully matures, the foundation to bear its fruit cannot be established.  Adam and Eve are the true examples of what happens when we delve into immature love spreading it generation after generation.

All things were created according to the rules of love, and thus they continue to exist. 

Plants bear fruit based on the give and take action between the stamen and the pistil in the flower blossom.  This is also true for the animal kingdom and the human world.

Everything continues to exist through the circular motion of love.

In this way, all things become perfected only after passing through the relationship of love.  In other words, all beings can be perfected only through love.

Our mind and body can only unite when they are positioned to conform to the nucleus, center of God's love.  Also, human beings can only completely mature when they enter the realm of God's love when they are united in mind and body.

Humanity began with the mind following the selfish desires of the body thus completely severing our relationship with God.

We begin our journey toward individual perfection as we were originally intended at the time of creation before the Fall.

When we observe the mind and body, we see that the mind is geared toward heaven and the body is geared toward earth.

This creates the ideal place where heaven and earth and the visible world can unite into one.

Many want to dominate the world, but what if someone wanted to dominate the cosmos?  If his mind and body are not completely united would that be possible for him to lead the cosmos?

If he is not able to rule his own body centered on God, how can he rule others?

If he is not able to unite his mind centered on God, nothing will be achieved.  We see this in every nation and throughout history where the world was led down a darken path due to the fallen nature and evil desires of leaders.

If his mind and body failed to become one completely, nothing can be achieved. 

When we achieve unity between the mind and body centering on God, then God becomes our internal God.

The person is physically the external representation of God.  Then the mind and body become one centering on love.

Love is the link between man and God.

We are the horizontal representatives of the existing world and God is the vertical representative, and love bonds the two externally.

Once we are united mind and body with God, then our heart and emotions are pouring in infinite joy and happiness.

In the end, God and human beings become one through the bond of love.  Then also, human beings become one with the world through love.  The realization of a world of peace begins from here.

God's purpose of creation begins from there.

Jesus, who had matured into perfection centered on God, was to be the beginning of heaven on earth, or world of peace.  But no one in his time could accept him and follow him to the end.

Adam and Eve begin to notice the opposite sex around the age of sixteen or seventeen.  As they matured, they were drawn to each other like a flower in full blossom.  Even God becomes enraptured in this fragrance.

Therefore, when God and human's mind and body become one, the nucleus of the universe is formed.  Together they can travel the path upon which they can take charge of all kinds of love.

However, we see that they did not follow this true path, but their own desires which they could not overcome.

Had they have been able to make God's desire stronger than their fallen one, then they would unite with God, they would have never been able to leave him.

Then their descendants would have been connected, generation after generation, forming a tribe, people, nation and the world.  This then would have been a world full of peace, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, True Family Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four, Chapter 1

True Love Breaks Barriers

If you use true love as the key, every door can be opened. 

Since Heaven and earth were originally supposed to be united, wouldn't love be able to penetrate through the barriers in spirit world as well?

After the human fall occurred, God's heart was sealed shut.

If this was to remain forever and true love did not exist, there would be no way to unite God and mankind for eternity.

What else could melt the heart of God after humanity caused Him so much pain?  Would offering Him money, sweet words or beautiful jewelry be able to open His heart?

Even if you were to find the largest diamond, He would point to the mountain made of diamonds which He already owns.  Would your knowledge or power on earth be able to open the door to God's heart?

Everything you present, God would say that, "That's all you know and have?  I made it all."

When you have the greatest worldly power, you can command a country, but you would not be able to break through the barriers to God's heart.

What does God yearn to have?

Not money, knowledge or power, but only true love. 

Why does love have this power?  God created love with an almighty, uniting quality which can govern and can be governed.

It has the power to be absolutely flexible.  Love has the ability to digest both extremes of happy and painful things.  So, even if you are being pinched because He truly loves you, you would want Him to pinch you harder.

The one thing that can dominate the entire universe of creation is true love.  Isn't this true?

You are able to communicate love without communication.

Nature has the same ability.  Your little puppy knows whether you love him or not.  Also, a bird can feel love, as well as the trees, grass and a deadly, poisonous snake can feel your love.

Love is communicated even without language.

A puppy knows whether you love him or not. Likewise, a bird can feel love; even the trees and grass can feel love. If you love a deadly poisonous snake, it too can feel your love.

Love is supreme.

If you possessed just a little chunk of love, would you keep it only close to your heart, or would you be excited to sprinkle it around the world so, that it would multiply?

This kind of heart would make you a millionaire of love.

Maybe to have this standard of love, you would have to lay a foundation of gallons of sweat, blood and tears.  Would this still be worth doing?

The only way you can reach God is through love, because He is the center of the universe.  So, whoever can possess Him would be the richest person.

Then, no matter how much sacrifice is needed to obtain Him, you would be able to do it.  True love is this valuable.

God is like the largest fish in the pond and you can use love as your bait.  But, without sacrificial love, you would not be able to make God your prisoner.

God loves love so much that He will swallow as much bait as you offer Him.

When you sow true love, you will harvest love and God is bound to be close by.

Members of the Unification Church are fishing for God by sprinkling our love bait everywhere.

God is like us in that He enjoys and prefers certain tastes.

God is the gourmet of love, so He knows its exact taste, whether it is sour, sweet or flat.

Even though God knows that there is a large hook hidden inside that love, He would confidently digest that hook.

God loves love permeating from the one who has tasty love that is not centered on self; selfish love tastes bitter.  But when your love wants to save the world and serve others, God would savor that kind of love.

Even though God is gigantic and beyond words, once He taste sweetness of true love, He melts and becomes like a child.  With this He will want to go wherever the one who carries this kind of love goes.

Why were you born?  Why are some humans born as men and others born as women?

There are popular phrases such as 'born to shop'.  Such lowly statements as "I live to sleep" "live to eat" is the narrow way of life.  Some people think that they were born to study.

It is beautiful, eternal and good that we were in fact born to say, "we are born to love".

Have you ever once thought that every part of creation of life that is on earth today is the fruit of love?

You participated in the love of your parents, grandparents and so forth.  You were born at the place of love and the motivation for life was love.

Then, after you were born, you received the love of your parents.

Why do parents love their children?   Why do animals love and take care of their offspring?

It is because children are the witnesses to their parents' love.

Both cause and effect spring from love.  

Because of this truth, parents must love their children.

This is not only true in the human world, but you have also seen this in the animal world.  Children who live in the love of the parents are very happy children.

We experience a generation gap here in America, where parents and children both think they will live their own separate lives instead of unifying.  When this happens, this family loses the home base of love and they have nothing to return to.

God designed the family unit to expand the pure love that pours from within it out into society, spreading one cord of love all over the country.  Then this love spills over into the entire world.

Imagine if the President was to exhibit this kind of love of his family out into the nation how that would spread like wildfire all over the world?

Children who are born and live in love at home can thus become patriots in their nation and even in the world.  Just as water in New York is the same color as water that comes from Norway, the whole human make up is the same.

Once your family is able to fulfill the criteria of love in the home, then you can expand this same criteria of love in the nation and the world.

People should be born in love, grow and mature in love, and then die in love. 

We continue to live eternally in that love with God as the center in spirit world.

Many people believe that this world is the final destination and build their life to only focus on what is here on earth.

We should see this world as a training center where you can learn the stages of how to love the world.

One who is able to love a difficult sister or grandparent, would know how to love any woman or elderly person in the world they meet.

When you graduate from this school, then you enter spirit world.  There you can experience love for all eternity.

Perfected love can be compared to a perfectly round bowling ball that knocks down all the pins.

On the other hand, those who 'fail' in the workshop of love is likened to a square-shaped or lumpy ball that does not roll properly.  True love is perfectly round and goes anywhere and finds it way through any difficult situation.

If this ball was to travel in an erratic pattern, it would still find its final target.

If Father has the knowledge to teach us this Principle, wouldn't God have thought about this even more?

Love is round, shining, beautiful and tender. The more you touch it, the more you like it. 

Therefore, love is good.

Naturally, you want to receive love directly from your parents.  Also, you must receive the same amount of love from your society, nation and world.  Would you want your love to be only confined to your parents or expand to the whole world?

What if you told or demanded people to love you, would you receive it from them?

God is the origin of love who is always taking the initiative to give love to the fallen world.  You as God's child are also to take the initiative to give out love.

In order to make your love truly good, you have to have the power to encompass the difficult and bitter things along with the good.

You should be able to embrace both extremes, loving not just America or your own family, but also the enemies of America.  What do you lose by giving this kind of love?

By practicing this kind of love, you come to resemble God.  It is even easy for evil people to like the people who also like them, and if humans had become perfected, that would be all we would need to do.

But because we have fallen from the original position God desired for humanity, this kind of love is not good enough.  Now we must be able to have the power to even embrace the people who even hate us.

What is the difference between Satan and God?

Satan can only move in one direction, but God can move in all four directions and embrace everything.  Thus, we must obtain the ability to love all people; we should love evil people as well as the good ones.

This was the main philosophy of Jesus' teachings.

A person who is healthy, does not have to worry as much what he eats because he could digest anything, even dried corn.  If your stomach is weak and certain kinds of foods make your stomach ache, then you don't have enough digestive power.

We should have the capacity to digest everything.

In order to develop such a capacity, you should look for things and people whom you hate and who you hate the most, then learn to embrace them.  Once you are able to digest the worst, then everything else is no problem.

This is the obvious conclusion.

When there are jobs that no one else wants to volunteer for, you should willingly take up those jobs and concerns and come to enjoy them.

You would become the champion of loving difficult tasks.  When God observes you doing this He would say that you have been doing that work for too long and tell you to come up to Him raising you up higher and higher.

If you are to love the world, would you take lots of vacations having loads of fun and then love the world at your leisure, or would you dash forward to the mission?

What if a woman who was beautiful enough to be Miss America decided to forget her beauty and own selfish desires and work all the time for the sake of the world?

She would even reject many marriage proposals from many distinguished men, saying she does not have time for all that.

So, which is the best route: going the way of love centered on your own thoughts and philosophy or unselfish love that is public minded?

If you are able to practice unselfish love for others for ten years, you are guaranteed that people will think you are truly the spitting image of God.  You would have the key after such a foundation of love to solve any problem people have.

This way of life sounds very colorful and dramatic,  but when you try to put it into practice you will see it is very difficult to do.  Anything is easier than loving an impossible person in this world.

One who pursues this way of life through persecution and criticism has the goal of love that will penetrate the entire universe, and you know that this is not easy to win.  This kind of love shatters the bonds of the earth and goes straight to the throne of God.

When that kind of love hits God would He just smile or would He be knocked out by it?

When God gets hit by this pure love, He will tumble over and over, nothing could compare with this expression of His joy.

Is this the right route to go; the route headed toward true love?

If you have gone this way since your youth, would that have been a wasted youth?  Foregoing heavy partying, drugs, drinking, promiscuous sex and going to the movies to do the public work of restoring the world?

By following this standard, you are engrafted to the Messiah at the Second Coming, then you are protected from going wrong.

You must produce your own buds which will blossom.

Don't just depend on the work of the Messiah and say that is good enough.  You must do the work as well to reach perfection as branches and produce your own blossoms yourselves.

Once you create many blossoms, you are able to draw energy to that area and you will send out new branches.


 If some branches are exceptionally energetic, the tree will grow in their direction, but when everyone works with equal power the branches will be balanced and the tree will grow straight. This is why I want each of you to do equally well. Thus you can't shirk your responsibility when everyone else is fulfilling theirs. If one main branch dies and falls off, the tree starts to lean to the other side where there is still activity in the healthy branches. 


In the human body, healthy blood is accepted wherever it circulates, on the other hand, when blood is unclean it becomes a burden to the body.  The best thing for a tree is to chop off the dead branches and graft on healthy little branches.

If one branch was American and the other was Japanese, and another is German and so forth, observe which branch is more energetic and powerful.  When one branch is not doing well, that healthier branch will graft another little branch there to strengthen it.

Would cultured people or primitive people be more adapt to endure hardship?

People who are the most cultured have almost zero endurance, while primitive people have 100 percent endurance but no culture.

God is fair in not distributing culture and endurance together!

When I came to lead the American movement, I had a tough time because the Americans had their own yardsticks to evaluate me with.  I brought many Japanese and Germans to this country to show Americans how to endure; people in those nations suffered much during and after World War II.Cultured people think the night is for sleeping, for instance, so they thought my way wasn't right for them.  Some people insisted they needed eight hours of sleep and three meals a day on time. But these criteria become obstacles when we are fighting the revolution of true love.


When Father told members to compete with the American members, the Americans thought it wouldn't work because these people didn't know the American nature.

But when the result came in, the Japanese and Germans were the winners and the Americans realized they had to change their outlook.

When you are in the midst of war or battle you cannot expect fine china and grand food.  Once you are able to finally gain true love, you see that it is the most cultured thing ever.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Heaven and Us

Reversing the Fall

The will of God is to consummate the purpose of creation.

Where is the will of God going to finally take place and who will be the one to achieve that goal?  Will God Himself do it?

If it was fully God's responsibility to return the world back to its original position to obtain His will after the fall of Adam and Eve, then He would have immediately reversed the fall at that moment when it occurred.  In order to consummate the will, an object is required.

God's will cannot be consummated within Himself without having relation to another.  Who would play the major role as God's object to bring about His will?

It was Adam and Eve's responsibility to be in the object position to God as subject to consummate the purpose of creation.  How would they have completed this task?  If Adam and Eve had become perfect individually and united with God, the purpose of creation would be established based on their family of goodness as a True Family of God.  Instead, they fell while still not united with God.

Therefore the will of God requires not just God Himself, but more particularly requires man for its consummation. 

What is left in our time to bring about God's purpose for creating man?

Man must become perfected.  That might be a far-fetched ideal that sinful, fallen man can become perfect, but the will of God and individual perfection are one and the same and cannot be separated.

Have you ever thought how far you are from perfection?

The center of the circle is the same distance from the edge in every direction and this represents the perfected position.  If you were to think of yourself inside this circle where would you be in relation to the ideal central position?

How about humanity?  How far has man fallen from that central point after the fall?  There have been billions of people born after the fall.  This caused humanity to develop away from the central point in a circular pattern.

The history of humanity tragically has been filled with men wandering through life trying to come back to the center from every direction.  Every person has their idea of where the point of destination should be.  They do not know where the true central point is to lead us back to the purpose of creation.

If we were to look at our family tree, we would see a family line full of different characteristics.  One branch of our family may have developed in one direction and another may have gone in the opposite direction.  Either way, we are still the fruit of that entire ancestry.

If each family has a different ancestral origin, the position of their fruit cannot be identical.  We have different individual characteristics and varied spiritual heritages.

God is a God of justice, equality and fairness.

If each individual comes from different ancestry can God say that everyone in His sight is absolutely equal?  Is this a correct concept?  If Adam and Eve had followed God's word instead of following Satan's word, every person would have been born equal.

Because of the fall, man's value had changed from one person to another and has entirely different course in his life of wandering.   Because of this varied course of behavior, two different consequences came into being: one is heaven and the other is hell.

God did not create hell.  This is a misleading belief of many people of faith.  Man created hell by not choosing God.  There are different accomplishments like different ranks between heaven and hell.

There are as many levels or different ranks existing in spirit world as there are here on earth.

If a person comes from a particular ancestral line that accumulated goodness, the person on earth is somewhere between heaven and hell.  We each accumulate good or evil through the choices we make in our own lives.  The several different levels of accomplishments here on earth will be reflected or paralleled in the spirit world.

You do not know much about spirit world now, but when you understand its makeup you will recognize the thousands of different levels of accomplishment, from the worst kind of evil existence to the highest, most divine existence of spiritual perfection.

Spiritual growth can only happen while you are here on earth.  

Thus, the Bible states that what is loosed on earth will be loosed in heaven.  You enter the spirit world the way you leave earth.  Thus, many scary movies portraying spirit men as they were the moment of death has some truth to it.

If a person finds himself at the bottom of hell and knows that he has a millennium of effort just to reach to a mediocre level, would he strive hard toward the goal to reach that level?  No, human desire is sparked on when a person can see his own position and the glorious goal clearly.  Then the person would strive toward the goal.

When a person can clearly see where he wants to end up, he must first realize why he has not reached his goal and is 'stuck' at his present point.  A person who has fallen far from God's ideal central point, where would the solution begin?

Would he find the solution at the present position or from God's central point?

This state of being far from God came as a result of man's behavior during his physical life and reflects what his character was on earth. 

This means that the solution begins with men here on earth.  The fundamental problem of spirit men in hell is it is too late once you enter the spirit world.  Once you enter the spirit world for eternity, you can no longer work freely on earth to make any spiritual progress without working through this earthly world.

In order for a spirit to make progress, the entire spirit world must make union with the physical world.  As we have found in history, it is not easy for these two worlds to intermingle or for spirits to freely come down until the Messiah returns to release them on earth.

There are thousands of different levels in spirit world which came about due to Adam and Eve laying the foundation of disobedience.

So, who is then responsible for the tragic situation in spirit world and humanity?

Suffering in the world began with the first parent Adam's misbehavior.  One man began the tradition of suffering to mankind both on earth and in spirit world.  Then who would be the next person responsible for the situation. There is no question that it would be Satan.    

Parents are responsible for the behavior of their children.

Since God is the father of humankind, as the creator of Adam, He also took responsibility for Adam's actions.  Fallen Adam does not have the ability to bring himself to perfection without God's power.  God leads the way and guides Adam back to perfection.  God takes the responsibility, but Adam has 5% responsibility to carry out the goal.

God's throne is in the highest possible heaven. However, God gave up His throne and came all the way down to the bottom of hell to be with His children.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Will of God and Individual Perfection