Heaven in Spirit World Emerges from Heaven on Earth

Historically, people called by God were over fifty or sixty years old, worn out and one step away from death.

God used such people at that time, but knew He would work with the younger generation in the future.  Therefore, God was concerned about how to develop His providence through the young people.

Buddha was able to proclaim that he was his own lord throughout heaven and earth.  A person who becomes a complete object partner of God after disciplining himself to achieve oneness of mind and body, he can become his own lord.

“Once, I felt that I was grasping the world tightly in my hand, and it seemed to melt. When you reach this level, miracles can happen automatically. The curing of diseases comes as a natural result of religious life.”

Most people today go about their lives just waking up and eating and going about a daily routine and think they are fine in God’s eyes.

However, unless they are acknowledged as a partner to God and become owners of heaven, they are not fine in front of God.

Satan remains in the place where a person has not established an absolute faith.

Many religions say that heaven will be established by the their church and their founder’s teachings.  This is a fantasy.

Christianity is divided into hundreds of different denominations.  They call other churches heretical or satanic, but they do not do so from the authorization of God.

If churches judge other churches for their own benefit, then their motivation is not pure.
If our church does this, it will also decline.

Even the spirit world has been divided by walls. 

Buddhists and Confucians are separated by walls.

The barriers are overcome by a higher standard from God’s heart.  All the walls from the lowest to the higher realms must be broken down in reverse order.

The walls that separate ancestors and people from many thousand of years ago must be broken down.

All the walls on the earth must be eliminated and a true path connected to liberate hell must be paved.  Otherwise, the gates of heaven cannot be opened.

Members must be a better person than Buddha, than Confucius and even better than Jesus.

Before, religion had a purpose to only save the individual. Our purpose is family salvation.  This is the difference between Unificationism and other religions.

For salvation we are saving the family. When we go to heaven we are not going alone. 

No one can enter heaven alone.

Only after the ideal of a true couple is realized can heaven come about.  Therefore, in order to go to heaven, fallen human beings must go through  restoration and resurrection.


To give the Marriage Blessing to you is to open wide the gates of heaven.


“Through the Blessing, I am opening the closed gates of heaven for you.”

Jesus taught that the Kingdom of heaven was in our hearts.  But Jesus was miserable when he could not proclaim that that heaven was in our families.

When you have a family, you can sing with happiness that we can live in this way.

Yet Jesus who was God’s pure Son could not even dream of having a family necessary for heaven.

Jesus trodden a sacrificial path for three years in order to awaken to the fact that heaven within our hearts.  But then he was crucified.  Now, there is no heaven on earth.

The tracks of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and those in the Kingdom of Heaven in the spirit world are the same.

In order for a train to pass the border of one country into the next, the tracks must match so the train continues running.

Likewise, the tracks on earth and in heaven should be connected.

The path of true love connects the rails from earth so the family can be the embodiment of love and go directly to heaven nonstop.

Therefore, the individual path should connect to the family’s path going in the same direction.

We are destined to go to the spirit world whether we like it or not. 

We are each like wanderers that move closer to that destination.

The biggest issue is whether you lived a life for others while on earth for just for yourself.  If you live more for others, you go to heaven, if you lived more for yourself, you go to hell.

This basic formula may be argued given your present situation, but when you die, you will know that this is the truth.

People went to different levels in the spirit world. They went to the position that correlates to the degree they have practiced filial piety according to the way of love.  How much they pledged their loyalty to their nation and fulfilled the way of a saint in the world.

People should take the path of righteousness while on earth. The path for the individual, family, tribe, nation and world or God should be one and the same path.
What is that path?

It is the path of original love.

Which world do you think you will go to in the end?  Are you going to heaven or hell?

On the way there are you the kind of person that says, “Father, please help me!” or a person who says, “Welcome, True Father!”?  That is a matter of life and death.

After marriage, you made a pledge to live happily.

“When I say live you should live well, it means that you should become an unchanging couple. In order to become like that, you should go to the ever-changing world and receive training together.

“You should keep your promises even if you go to a world where people are divided, north and south or in all four directions. You should maintain such a well-trained position.”

Children born of true parents as Adam and Eve should have become by following God’s Word, are true children not false, sinful children.

From such children, a true family, a true tribe, nation and world is created.

People in this world will live a heavenly way of life with God.  This is the only way that this earth becomes the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

You should not think you are entitled to go to heaven. 

You should focus on building heaven on earth as Jesus came to do.

Also, you must become a heavenly person and become united with Heavenly Father to the point that Father’s heart is your heart.

You should be a representative of God’s heart, the Lord’s heart and the heart of your ancestors.  Through this, the historical problems will be solved.

If a person is on their death bed and they tell God, “God, even though I could not live according to Your will until this moment, I tried to go to heaven in my mind.  Please regard me as making the proper indemnity conditions!”

Since God is a fair God, He will reward the person according to his actions, placing him in a position of wanting to go to heaven.  That position can be just below paradise.

Even people in hell are trying to go to heaven.

You  alone are responsible for deciding the actions you commit while you are on earth. And make any recompense for any wrongdoings.

If this door is closed, no one else can open it again for eternity, only you can be responsible for it.
If the door is opened, no one except you can close it again.

If what is bound on earth is bound in heaven, then it should be released while you are on earth. What does this mean?  For instance, if you did a wrongful act and did not compensate or ask for forgiveness for it while on earth, then you will ever be bound to that sin when you go to spirit world.

You will be bound to it.

Therefore, when you go witnessing now, you should witness to your family members and relatives.

If you can claim that you love the billions of people on earth more than your own mother and father who gave birth to you, then you are able to love in an unified position within the realm of God’s love.
Then you will stand in a position not be related to the satanic world.

An original person is someone who is not related to Satan, establishes a family based on the love of the ideal couple and goes directly to heaven after his life on earth.  A world of families such as this would be called the Kingdom of Heaven on earth where people live the ideals of the heavenly kingdom.

Therefore, the fact that Peter was given the keys to the gates of heaven means that heaven is first to be established on earth.  Everyone should know this clearly.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

Impact of Sex Without Commitment

Even though no intimate relationship is immune from experiencing bad times, having a committed marriage between two God-centered individuals can be the best defense against the worst influences that break up relationships.

Sex within uncommitted relations offers no protection and invites the most destructive kinds of interactions to take place.

The guilty parties in the Bible's Genesis story blamed each other for their own wrongdoing.

“Sex always changes the dynamics of a relationship,” observes educator Josh McDowell.

Essentially, any relationship outside a committed relationship is a sibling relationship, between brothers and sisters.

Therefore, when two individuals have casual sex, they no longer or maybe never will fully enjoy the benefits of a friendship or reap the complete rewards of married love.

This is why Reverend Sun Myung Moon cautions single men and women to not get physically involved, not even holding hands, because it depletes the potential for true love between them.

Also, having sex outside of marriage not only affects the two individuals, but compromises relations between friends, other peers and potential marriage partners.  This may also impact future marriage.


Impact on the Relationship

1. Stress with parents and friends
2. Problems with partners
3. Negative effect on future marriage



1. Stress with Parents and Friends

Parents have a deep stake in their children and grandchildren who are the extension of their blood and investment of heart.

When children begin to enter into sexual relations outside the form of marriage, their parents may feel worried, disrespected and hurt.

This breach can be difficult to mend just as when Adam and Eve who could not face their divine Parent and hid from God after their indiscretion.

When one gets obsessed over a sex partner, it reduces the attention given to friends. In addition, of sex only intensifies feelings on all sides.

Nothing is as divisive as sexual jealousy.

Close friends can become the best enemies overnight.

When there is a crowd of friends that are sexually active, it can become a web of attraction, rivalry, possessiveness, jealousies and betrayal.

Even the most innocent gestures become suspicious by a jealous partner.

When one betrays his spouse with infidelity, the friends are then added to the betrayal list.

 “After the initial shock of his affair wore off,” recalls Eugene, 45, a computer instructor, “I found myself dealing with my own anger. How dare he betray his wife, who was my friend! How dare he hurt his young daughters, who are my daughter’s playmates! And then I realized he lied to me too, over and over.”

2. Problems with Partners

“Once burned, twice shy” is uttered by many people who experienced heartache from a breakup of  a sexual bond.

They remember the pain and this one betrayal will stand in the way of them giving themselves completely and trust the ones who deserve their love.

Women may distrust all males as only wanting them for their body.

Males can mistrust and fear which last for years even until they find the right person to marry.

Sometimes the introduction of sex disrupts a warm and caring friendship that might well have been a good basis for marriage.

“Everyone thought we’d be married, including us,” one middle-aged man reminisced about a girl from his youth. “We were very close and didn’t need sex. But everyone expected it and we thought we were missing something. Finally we slept together. Afterwards we felt different about each other. What we had just faded away.”

Conversely, when two people have a horrible relationship that has no future, they may stay in it longer because of the strong bonding power of sex.  It becomes difficult after a couple experiences such a powerful physical intimacy that they are lacking in the emotional closeness.

Sex not only multiplies one's own ego, but it is an addictive pleasure which brings on rationalizations and demands.

One partner comes to expect sex at every opportunity.

When the other refuses to give sex, this can launch  the other to become violent.  It is a fact that when one gets involved in sex outside of marriage, especially live-in lovers, there is more violence and other forms of abuse than among married couples.

Because we posses both a mind and a body, once physical intimacy is introduced into the relationship, then the heart yearns for the same level of emotional intimacy.

Yet, having sex too early in a new relationship makes that longing harder to fulfill because it can overpower any meaningful communication or friendship-building activities together.

Thus, the couple may avoid taking the effort to understand the other and work out their differences.

One college woman admitted that ironically, “Having sex is easier than talking face to face and having to deal with all the things that come up.”

Once a couple no longer has quality interaction outside of the bedroom, then the relationship collapses from within.



3. Negative Effect on Future Marriage

Just because a couple gets married and have children, they are not free from the ill effects of premarital sexual experiences.

The problem of self-centered sexual habits can be carried into the marriage bed.

Marital sex is supposed to be one of uninhibited surrender to the joy of pleasing the one they love within the safe context of acceptance and commitment.

When those who have repeatedly used sex for selfish reason enter into a committed relationship, they find it difficult to switch it from a selfish act to one of giving to the other.

Those who were virgins when they married learn the other's wants and needs and attune to one another, those who are already experienced have habits and preferences that may obstruct that harmony.

Second, because people hardly forget a past sexual partner, one who is experienced may be haunted by images of past partners even after marriage.  They may unconsciously compare their spouse's performance to past lovers.

This must not only disturb them, but also is heartening to the spouse if they find out.

Who wants to have a spouse that compares their body or performance to another lover of the past?

One young husband observed, “Whenever I kiss my wife or engage in love play, my memory reminds me that this girl could kiss better than my wife, that that girl was better at something else, and so forth. I can’t concentrate on loving my wife with all that I have—there have been too many women in my life to be wholly committed to one.”

Since sex before marriage is taboo, males can be conditioned to connect premarital sexual arousal with the thrill of doing something illicit – the forbidden encounter and the excitement of possibly being discovered.

This sexual excitement can be psychologically linked to risk.

Later on in life, a sexually experienced person may see the safety and legitimacy of marriage as to tamed to be arousing.  Therefore, in order for a husband to get sexually aroused, he is constantly drawn to illicit stimulation such as affairs or pornography.


Weak bonding and predisposition to breakup

Fourthly, after one has many encounters, sex may lose its potency to build strong attachment to one who they finally choose as a lifemate.

Research suggests the chemical sexual bonding power may grow feebler after having already imprinted the heart and mind with previous partners.

On the other side, disappointing sexual experiences can lead one to avert sex or have a feeling of boredom during the act.

One can get into the habit of holding their heart from a sex partner because of many experiences with sex in unsecure relationships that turned sour.

Instead of viewing sex as wholesome and giving of the mind, body and soul like virgins on their wedding day, one may find it challenging to completely give of themselves even with their spouses.  This can be hard to overcome even after years of marriage.

A final consequence of indulging in unmarried sex is the possibility of divorce.

Couples who lived together first before they were married, are more likely to break up some time after they get married.

Research also shows that women who were sexually active before marriage have less stable and satisfying marriages than those who were virgins before marriage.

Those who have a series of sexual relationships learn many things, not the least of which is break-ups and failure in relationships.

Sex amplifies an already present atmosphere of understanding, acceptance and intimacy within a marriage.

On the other hand, outside of marriage, sex only aggravates insecurity, lack of trust and misunderstanding, making real intimacy harder to attain.

One single 21-year-old woman, a rock musician, agrees: “Leaving sexual intercourse out makes it easier to enjoy a relationship . . . . Without sex, you can be yourself—it’s more comfortable. It helps you figure out faster what kind of person they are if they are right for you.

You can also get out of a relationship easier—you’re not glued by the sex. Sex complicates things and confuses you. Sex just slows down everything if what you’re interested in is a good relationship.”


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, “Educating for True Love” written by a team of writers to explain Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy on sex and marriage.

Advantages of Marriage

A man and woman will learn from each other through their union things about themselves, humanity and our Creator that can not be known in any other way.


“Man is born to meet woman and woman is born to meet man.  And man and woman together are born to combine with a higher level of love, God’s love. Neither man nor woman can touch God’s higher love by themselves.”

This means that when a man weds, his woman is a kind of savior in countless ways.  Just as a husband is like her personal messiah.  This is the where the foundation for spouses to have inexpressible gratitude for one another.

Oneness between a man and a woman is relative.  First, they have the deal with the inherited legacy of conflict between men and women.  Then there is the inherent contradiction between partner's words and their actual deeds that makes true love itself a great struggle.  This is why when masculine and feminine become one, it remains a grand challenge as uniting the mind and body.



The Rewards of Commitment

In a husband and wife relationship, research supports the power of having continual investment.  A study found that couples whose relationship was distressed that almost 8 out of 10 reported being content in their marriage after they persevered for five more years.

Those who gave up on their marriage and decided to divorce, they were not any happier the ones who stayed married in their peer group, or those who even remarried.

This information reveals the importance of sticking things through and staying commit meted.  If people remained through the ups and downs, this investment will surely yield fruit.

“One advantage of marriage,” notes author Judith Viorst, “is that when you fall out of love with each
other, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.”

The heartbreaks and hardships that accompany any long-term relationship can turn into an element of deep bonding.


“I did not even want to deal with all the difficulties in my marriage. It was easier just to put on a game face, have a few drinks and dive deeper into my job,” one man remembers. “But my pastor forced me to say some things to my wife that needed saying, and to face what I was doing wrong too. Now I look back at that time as a period that made us a lot closer.”

The Bible encourages couples to love each other in a proper way - as “joint heirs of the grace of life..in order that your prayers may not be hindered. (1 Peter 3.7 RSV)

The oneness between spouses is a lightning rod for divine blessing.

At the same time, when a man and woman unite in deep abiding love, the joy that is created and prosperity they share from the blessing will spread to their children, all who know them, the greater human community and the Creator Himself.


Identifying with their gender community


Societies used to have rites of initiation when a boy was transitioning into manhood aor girls into womanhood so that they youth could solidify their gender identity.

In modern society, boys and girls still participate in single-gender team sports, or clubs like the Boys and Girls Scouts, to give challenges and opportunities to win respect among their elders and peers.

The military still serves in this traditional way for young men.

Even after marriage, men and women both continue to receive empowerment and comfort when they are in the company of their same-sex friends.

When they are joking around together, this characterizes the banter of male buddies.  They give silent respect and honor one another which in turn renews them.

Likewise, the “girl talk’ between women is a reassuring reinforcement of a sense of connection and support in their lives.

This is why both sexes need to enjoy the company of same-sex company on a regular basis to ‘retreat and regroup’ to strengthen their ability to give to the opposite-sex individuals in their lives.



Unification through Marriage



The ultimate unification of masculine and feminine takes place in marriage and in making a family.


When a husband and wife hold each other, their children will understand and appreciate the opposite sex.

To the woman, her husband and sons represent masculinity in all phases of development.

Similarly, the man embraces all femininity through his love for his wife and daughters. Thus marriage and family life provide the fascinating ongoing adventure of bonding and integration between masculinity and femininity.

Marriage and family life thus makes men and women into a better mirror of the divine. 

“In the image of God he created him; male and female he created them,” the Bible reminds us; man and woman together echoes the Creator’s own “wedded” nature (Genesis
1.27).




Hindu scripture speaks of the original Self, the Creator, splitting in two to make man and woman. Thus each is “like half of a split pea” (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.3).

Such a couple is a full mirror of the Godhead. Indeed, Reverend Moon characterizes the married couple as the smallest unit of humanity, in the sense of fulfilling the purpose of human creation as God’s complete reflection and love partner.

The love between a man and woman can be uniquely edifying because they are complementary in physique and psyche.  They can feel ‘as one’.  They can feel knit together in mind, heart and body the same way same-sex friends never can.

When man and woman give into marriage in heart and body, their “humanity is rejoined and fulfilled,” in the words of philosopher Michael Novak.


The result is a certain “distinctive honesty, realism, and wisdom taught by each sex to the other.”19 A man and woman learn through their union things about themselves, humanity and the Creator that can be known no other way.

“Man is born to meet woman and woman is born to meet man,” says Reverend Moon. “And man and woman together are born to combine with a higher level of love, God’s love.

Neither man nor woman can touch God’s higher love by themselves.

In this sense, a man’s wedded woman is a kind of savior in countless ways, just as a woman’s husband is like her personal messiah. This is the basis of the inexpressible gratitude spouses often feel towards each other.


Potential for oneness

Because men and women are indeed made for each other, given sufficient time and effort, the unity of heart between a man and woman is to be expected. The magnetism between masculinity and femininity can overcome differences. Since their Origin is an integrated whole, they too can integrate into wholeness.

Even though such an idea is hard to reconcile with popular notions of romance, it is the ordinary experience of the millions of couples over countless generations who were strangers when married and who grew to deeply love each other.

This is captured in the memorable lyrics of the song from “Fiddler on the Roof,” when Tevye reminisces about his arranged marriage to Golde, his wife, and says to her,

But my father and my mother said we’d learn to love each other

And now I’m asking, Golde, ‘Do you love me?’

After protesting that for “Twenty-five years my bed is his; If that’s not love, what is?,” she concedes that indeed she does.

And so between two people who may not have been attracted to each other at first.

Recalls Ann Meara, half of the long-married comedy team, Stiller and Meara, “Was it love at first sight? It wasn’t then—but it sure is now.”23 This may not be the self-conscious and passionate ardor of young lovers, but it is a deeply rooted, comfortable kind of caring and unity not unlike the attachment a person has to his or her own arm.


Continual Devotion

For this reason, a sixth principle for true love is Investing towards Oneness.

Ultimately the Creator represents the highest and original purpose. Those who center their relationship upon God invite Him to manifest Himself and His beauty, truth and goodness in the partnership and its fruits.

Examples are endless, since this is the dynamic behind all productive
relationships, even in the inanimate world.

Protons and electrons have opposite charges that attract each other. They interact
as subject and object partners, driven by atomic law that contains a higher purpose, and create a new existence, a hydrogen atom.

A professor as the subject partner engages in give and take with her students as object partners, based on the curriculum as their shared purpose, resulting in an enriching learning experience for all.

A band comes together to express their common vision of music, and the members interact with one another in lead and backup roles.

Their degree of unity is directly reflected in their music. A coffee shop manager in the leader position hires counter help in the supportive role.

The manager treats the workers well and the counter servers are diligent and loyal, resulting in a productive business that realizes the shared goal of profits and service to the community.

A pastor prays with his youth ministry staff as his helpers and together they craft a marriage preparation ministry that leads many young people through purity into matrimony and a deeper commitment to God.

Implicit in this observation is that whenever any relationship is unfruitful—or destructive, as is possible in the case of human relations—certainly there is a problem with the nature of the urpose or the interaction or both.

“My high school football team was undefeated in our state,” one young man recalls. “But sorry to say, the victories went to our heads.

We lost our focus on doing our best and got complacent.

At the same time, a lot of us starting worrying about showing off for the college scouts and we forgot about the team.

When we got to the regionals, we blew every game.”

In other words, the team lost its vertical purpose and the horizontal interactions also deteriorated.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook “Educating for True Love” written by a team of writers to explain the philosophy of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

God is the God of Love

God's love is the source of life, the source of happiness and the source of peace.

St. Paul asked who could cut off the line of God's love within Christ.  Even Christ would not be Christ or savior without God's love.  Have you ever thought of that fact?

You can come to understand this through spiritual experiences.

God's love is stronger than the sun.  

When the sun rises in the morning the buds of plants turn toward the energy of the sun

Likewise, God's love is the source of life, the source of our original good mind, and the core source of ideal elements.  That is the way it is.

Since God is the substantial essence of love and He is the central being of love, He has no beginning or an end.

The world of heart enables us to experience something special that we can be proud of thousands of years from now for having lived for one hour, and be proud for tens of thousands of years for having lived one day; this is true love.

Love originates from God

Our cells expand and feel even the energy of love.

The world where God's love exists is like this.

How can we describe God's love?

Imagine a warm spring day where white clouds float gently by in the sky.

On this day the air shimmers above the ground, insects, ants scurry about exploring the magnificent world.

Next to the warm flowing stream, catkins blossom and frogs sing new songs of spring welcoming swarms of bees and fluttering butterflies.

You would be enraptured in this atmosphere, a twilight state we experience right before drifting peacefully off to sleep.  Yet you wake in a happy mood rejoicing forever.

God's love has such delectable flavor.

When your ideal partner is given to you by God, you will feel as if you are born in a flower garden where butterflies and bees are busy flying flower to flower.

This makes you happy just imagining such an environment.

Maybe thickheaded men cannot understand this very well.

Love fills the place where God dwells. 

It is a place where the more you give, the more you desire to give even more.  The more you receive, the more desire you have to give ten million times what you have received.

Would this be an environment of heaven or hell?

You would feel such an explosive stimulation because the more you give, a stimulation that makes you feel as if all of your cells exploded.  God's love is like that.

What kind of being is God, who created the heaven and earth?

He is a being of the utmost goodness, the main root of all things and the subject partner of love.  This is why, after He created all things, God wanted to give all the precious things in creation to human beings.

If God had someone whom He could truly, love and entrust all His things to, He will want to hand him all of His most precious possessions.

What kind of taste would God like most?

If God could smell, hear and feel what would He like to smell, hear and feel?

There is only one thing God likes? That is love.

Only love can focus God's five senses and fill Him with joy.

If God was looking for a partner in love what part of creation would He choose?

Would he choose an animal a true?  We can conclude that it would surely be a human being.  This is why we say that among all things of the universe, human beings have the highest value.

Within God's love is parental love, conjugal love, brotherly love and children's love.  

Once it expands it also contains the love of the nation and world.  We say that God's love is parents' love, husband and wife's love, and children's love. This is the most wonderful thing that can be said.

What kind of love does God need?  Would God want absolute love or false love?

It is the same for us.  Just as God needs absolute love, unique love, unchanging love and eternal love, we also need the same.  We should resemble God.  God created because of love.

Because God created for the purpose of love, then God enjoys watching a man and woman loving each other.

Therefore, when God appears before the world of existence, He appears as the essence of love.  Just because God has been giving love to us, He can say, "I gave all of this because I love you, why don't you give back to me?"

Is God this kind of character?  God cannot assert Himself.

God has absolute love, but He is still anxious and troubled that He has not been able to give all the love He wants to give.

To give love completely, is God's purpose in creating people.

Thus, God's heart burns to pour out all of His love to the human world where He has as yet been unable to give His complete love freely.

The more we think of God, the more we feel God because He is such a God.

If God was the kind of god that demanded you give Him something back because He gave, we would not need Him.

 In giving us love, how much would God want to give?

God's love does not work according to a limit that says that a certain amount is enough.  It is a love that wants to give infinitely.  Even after giving everything, God will say, "I want to live in you because of you."

What brings this about?  It is love.

If love is present, God would be happy to live even as a servant.  The father will feel joy even if his beloved son was to climb onto the dining table and take a poop.

Love transcends the law.

There is nothing God does not have.

There is nothing He wants to keep back for Himself.  Even though He has everything, if there is something He wants to present and be proud of as being the most precious of all what would that be?

God needs only love, and nothing except love.  There is nothing He needs but love.

God said, "I am  love."  What does this mean?

It means to like love day and night, even while resting, working, dancing and crying. This is why He said, "I have love in it entirety and indicates that everything is contained therein.

God is the one who like love most.

Because God has such love, when we taste such love, we will not be able to let go of it even when we die.

What does it mean that God is the original being of life, goodness and truth?

These all have the same meaning and are indispensable.  The central core of life, original being of love and original being of truth is God.

God is the father and mother of humankind.  Maybe this is the first time that you have heard that father is both father and mother.

We only perceive God to be a male characteristic, but God has dual characteristics of both feminine and masculine qualities.  Since both men and women are made of God's image this makes sense.

God created human beings as His children to be the object partners of His love.

As He watches them grow, becoming brothers and sisters, husbands and wives and parents, God establishes Himself as the master of love at all stages.

Thus, human beings can be seen as more precious beings than God, who we enabled to be the master of love.

It is the same as you regarding someone you love as millions of times more valuable and precious than yourself.

God is the bone of love. 

You should know this simple fact.

In regard to love, God is the bone, and human love is like the flesh of the body.  The bone and the flesh become one to take shape. This is the principle operating.

Therefore what is love?

It works like a lubricant and a rail where upon everything turns.

Automobiles need oil to move, everything needs lubrication if it is to move.  Movement needs lubrication. Without love there is no lubrication.

Only love can be the lubricant for the highest joy.  It does not disappear because it is rooted in the eternal God.  Action brings progress.

God's love appears in a place that does not change because God's love is unchanging, therefore it is eternal.

If God's love appears to us, it appears on the foundation of an unchanging heart.

Thus, we should eat for the sake of love, sleep for the sake of love and act for the sake of that love for our entire life.

As long as we have an eternal and perfect standard for the sake of love, God's love will appear.

Otherwise, the public principles of this universe would all be in vain.

God is our Father.  Therefore, like an earthly father, day and night He worries that His children may be harmed.

He protects us if trouble comes, and He defends us if some opposing circumstances appear.

He is that kind of awesome parent.

Going in search of the essence of such a parent is the way of goodness and the way of love.  Human beings, as God's children, need to receive God's perfect love.

Until this point was made clear, God has given His love to those people and even tribes and nations that were nearer to His side.

He blessed them by adding things again and again unless they should think that these things were too small and not receive them.

Even this was not enough.

God even gave them the life of His beloved son whom they even rejected and sacrificed.

Even after He gave over His only son to be killed, God again wants to give even more of His love. This is why on the day when we return this love, all of heaven and earth will turn into an ideal Kingdom of Heaven.

The principle of love concedes: the more love you receive, the more love you give in return.

When we give God a hundred units of love, God will return to us a thousand, ten thousand units of love.

If all we have is the the love of God, we can remain in God's bosom, we can squeeze God's nose, we will have no boundaries wherever we go in the world.

We will have a free pass everywhere.

If you were to receive a kiss of love from God, you would feel a joy that triggers an explosion within you.

This is where God desires to be fulfilled.  God does not rejoice in having diamonds or other jewelry.

Where do God and human beings connect?

They connect where their lives, loves and ideals intersect.  That point would be the parent-child relationship.

From this point of view, then God is the subject partner of love, He is the subject partner of life, and the subject partner of the ideal.

In relation to His children, God ignores His authority and dignity.

However sinful or incompetent His children may be, if they are able to embrace Him with a repentful heart, He will not tell them to go away and stop.

Rather, He would embrace them, rub them and love them.  He would experience this to the point his bones melt.

God has the desire to give again and again unceasingly even after He has give for thousands of years. For this reason, we are looking for God.

If God was a cheap merchant who says after He gave, "Hey that will cost you this much and that much amount," we would not need such a God.

When you come into contact with God's love your hair will dance, and so will the cells of your body.

When you are a hundred percent intoxicated in this love, you will want to live forever rather than withdraw.

As the saying goes, "A saint's delight makes him forget the passage of time." There is indeed a way to become enraptured in such a high level of this kind of love beyond human imagination.

It has been said that if humanity had connected to God from the beginning and achieved perfection and carried His direct blood lineage, we would be so enraptured in love and oneness with God.  We would sing and dance wherever we went.  It would be likened to a musical where we are so intoxicated with love that we sing the words that come out of our mouths when we experience so much joy.

Love can fill anywhere, and reach everywhere. 

What happens when loving people embrace?

Do they just hold each other's hands and say, "I love you"?  Maybe they hug so strongly that their eyes pop out and water comes from both their mouth and their nose.

When they embrace, they don't just stand still, but turn around.

The universe will turn only because they are one in love like this.

God is the father of human beings, and human beings are God's sons and daughters.  We were created through God investing the core of His bone, the core of His flesh and the core of His bone marrow in their entirety.

Therefore, when we pull God, God cannot helped but to come along.  When God pulls human beings, they cannot help be pulled along.

Why do people like and follow God throughout the ages?

It is because God is the one who gives and gives again everything for thousands of years and yet He still feels ashamed that He has not given enough.  He says, "Now I can only give you this much, but wait a bit longer, and I will give you something that is many hundreds of times, thousands of times better."

This is because He is someone whose heart is not content with what He gave today, but He promises to give better things in the future.

Why do all humans seek eternal life, to live forever?

We seek an eternal partnership of love because we have the value of being God's object partner.  Because we will inevitably live eternally before the God of absolute love.

When you are able to stand in this place, God becomes you and you become God.

When we are connected to such a realm of God's love, what kind of feeling will we have. We will feel as if we were looking at the most beautiful intricate flower and smell all the fragrances in the garden.

At such a time, all the cells in our body will jump and dance in joy.

A man and woman must connect their horizontal love to God's vertical love.  They must join at a ninety-degree angle.

Any love that does not fit this will end up as a wandering love and be destroyed.

When you enter the love where these two are aligned, you will be able to rule the whole universe through this love centered on God.

When you are able to have a relationship with the whole universe, you will not need any knowledge, power, money or even life.

Life also lives within love.

God likes the love between Adam and Eve.  God wants to meet His sons and daughters and love them.  This is the final destination desired where human beings attend God as their Father and receive love as His sons and daughters.

For God, Adam is the core of Himself, and the core of the ideal love of the future.  So, Adam is God's external form or body when he is able to reach perfection.  On the other hand, Eve is God's wife and body.

Adam is a spiritual partner who relates to God's body and Eve is a physical partner.  When Adam and Eve become one as husband and wife and love each other they will share their love with God.  This marriage will be exceptionally holy.

God does not need knowledge, because He created knowledge.  Contrary to many non-believers, God does not need power, He is omnipotent, and omniscient.

He does not need money - so what does God need?

The only thing that God needs is love.

Can God create and receive love all by Himself when He is alone?

You may think that the almighty God can just receive love as He pleases but it is not like that.

Even though God is all  powerful, He needs a partner the most with whom He can give and take in love.  You have to understand this.

God's love is a wonderful flavor that combines everything.

It has a power as such that when you like it and grasp it, you can hold it without limit, and unfold it without limit.  Hence with love, you can fill everything and reach everything.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three, "True Loe" Chapter Two, section 1

Now All Sin Can Leave the Earth

We are living in the age where all of fallen history is being indemnified.  This means that all of the wrongs of the past are being completely turned around.

Jesus laid a foundation for our sins to be forgiven, but we still carry the seed of sin on the earth.  Now is the time for full resurrection and eradicate sin completely from our lineage and from the earth.

In the Completed Testament Age, the world of peace that has been hoped for by millions of saints, peoples and those of faith will finally unite God and humanity together.

This can only happen because the True Parents, who have restored the fallen first parents of humankind, have arrived.

Jesus was to be the first true parent of humanity.  Since he perfected himself and became God's True Son carrying God's true blood lineage, he would have been able to connect his True Family to this lineage.  Thus, his followers would have engrafted to his family clearing away their path of sin and this would then rise to the national level.

Unfortunately, Jesus was unable to complete his mission due to the faithlessness of his disciples who ultimately abandoned him in the end.

So, we should know the value of how precious this time that we are living in to live in the same time as the True Parents and finally liquidate the sins throughout history.

So, how much love do we receive of the True Parents?

Today, many groups, atheists and communists are screaming out that God is dead or there is no God.  If there is someone who condemns this declaration, then he would love True Parents more than God does.

If you pray that you will be able to witness to such a person and bring them to meet the True Parents, then you will meet such a person and God will be joyful.

If you agree that this person is the smartest person, then absolutely you cannot be defeated by the spirits in the spirit world.

If you love True Parents and practice their teachings, then you absolutely cannot be defeated.

Satan accuses God's people endlessly.

But you can accuse the spirits that you have loved True Parents this much, but what have they done for God's dispensation or ever done for God?  Then you become the people living in the greatest abundance.

If family members were to fight over who loves the True Parents more, would God be saddened upon witnessing this?

God would call them both and establish them as a model of loving True Parents.  Then tell other people to love True Parents as these two have loved them.  This is the standard.

We should love True Parents

How far away do you think you are from this standard?

Those without tears cannot follow True Parents.

God, spirits, and all people need to pay close attention to True Parents.

We should think about this in our daily lives.  Without following True Parents' difficult path with tears, your face cannot be brightened.

You should live for the sake of others.  Even though you may try to do your best, you should always have an apologetic heart towards heaven.

We must attend True Parents

If you went through the wilderness course and crossed the Jordan River, and then fought the seven tribes of Canaan, this still would not be a victorious death.

You become an original person that is worthy of a heavenly appointment from God, only after you conquered the seven tribes and then established a new nation centered on God.

The True Parents are the ancestors of humankind.  You should therefore attend them as your own parents.

When you follow and serve them for three years or more, then the nation should serve them and the world should serve them.

This is the only way we will build a world of peace.

Since True Parents have conquered the root of sin that has caused so much suffering in human history, following their path will lead this world finally out of darkness.  This is how it should be.

This is the way to advance to global restoration.

The principle is that you serve for three years eat, and live with parents and discuss with them.  This is how the household should be.

As a family living with the parents, you should have a three-year period where you live in peace and happiness, use only good words, and share joy with one another.  This is the path each individual should take.

We should be obedient

The children should show absolute obedience to the Parents who have come in the original name of God without any trace of the fallen blood lineage.

There is no objection to that.  This is not done by force.

We are creating an environment where humanity can serve the True Parents centering on love.

The wife loves her husband and the husband loves his wife.  You become parents centered on love and create an environment where your beloved children can naturally submit to you.

Only through this natural submission without force, such as communism and false parents practice, can the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth be realized and not destroyed.

We must inherit the tradition

Upon the arrival of True Parents who brought the truth of the age through their Divine Principle teachings, the Completed Testament, we did not know what was to become of humankind.

We did not know what was to truly become of ourselves.

People have never understood history and where we were headed.

They did not know humanity's purpose and what was to happen in the future.  This is because we did not have the true parents and ancestors to reveal the truth of all of history and the coming world of peace.

Because of the True Parents, we know true history, the circumstances between God and us and we have come to know the present and future.

We can know such a tradition and inherit it.

We can win over the fallen history and the future with this tradition.

Why and from whom?

It is because you have met True Parents.  You follow what True Parents teach, and what they do.  They have cut a clear path which to follow continuing the mission left incomplete through Jesus' death.You desire what True Parents desire and inherit from them.

You inherit these things from them.

We realize that until now there have been no parents in this universe.  Those who gave birth to children before this time acted on behalf of fallen parents.  They were evil parents, using and ruining their children.

What got broken through this? 

Through the first parents of humankind falling, we lost true brothers, and sisters, brides and bridegrooms, fathers and mothers, who are meant to become perfect, have split apart.

Parents throughout history had not been able to have children of goodness, meaning they ultimately lost the family.  

The family is a representative of universal history.

Imagine a world where every family was centered upon God's ideal.

All of humanity's current problems would be immediately eradicated.  Why?  Because the Fall began through the family based on the false love of a man and a woman.

Family represents the world, the heavenly kingdom, the nation and all families.

God is trying to find its center.  People living today should be connected to this center.  In other words, the common purpose pursued by God and human beings is to be connected to the center.  There is nowhere else that the past, present and future can be bound together.

True Parents have accomplished the tasks that Adam and Eve were meant to do from the beginning, building a tradition for all of humanity to follow toward a world of heaven on earth.

Through restoring family, you have now something Satan is unable to own.

You are separating from Satan through the base of your family connected directly to God through the unfallen lineage of the Messiah.  You should have the best brothers and sisters; you should have original siblings that are not found in the evil world.

You must have brothers and sisters that are not from the satanic world.

You should establish such a tradition.  This is how it should be for you before you marry.

Two people who perfect themselves, cleansing the mistakes of the past and being reborn, you will leave a tradition to your sons and daughters that teaches them how to live.

You fight such a hard battle in the countries so you can leave behind a tradition for your descendants after you have gone.

This is a great opportunity that comes only once.  An opportunity to educate your children saying, We worked amidst this kind of hardship.

The tradition you leave behind will be your testament.

This cannot be changed. It is an eternal tradition.

Since we have been able to transcend the world, blacks, yellows and whites can be brothers and sisters.  This is in order to realize the brotherhood realm of humankind.

This is the true realm of Adam and Eve, which has no connection with the Fall.  Once humanity goes in the opposite direction of the Fall, then we will see an Utopian world come.

What philosophy can establish such a tradition to lead us to that better world?

Everything will work this way if we live for the sake of others.  

Sons and daughters who grow up in that kind of environment do not have to suffer such as their parents who walked a path of faith to leave such a tradition.

They will become descendants who will be able to automatically go straight to the heavenly nation with actual accomplishments that surpass the satanic worlds greatest feat, because they are directly connected with heaven.

The next step is for such people who live such sacrificial lives to marry one another.

Our marriages transcends the satanic boundaries.  We have the mindset that we can marry an African if told to do so, marry a white if recommended to do so and marry a yellow person if recommended to do so.

Such a tradition should be established from now on.  We should create oneness from now on.

Then you should guide your descendants and the world to live in this way from now on.  The two must become one.

When you become one with your spouse, you should not bear evil children.

To bear children of goodness, the husband and wife should be completely one.  Without becoming one, children of goodness cannot come about.  Thus you should become completely one centering on God's will.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Book, Chapter 6 True Parents and Us from Cheon Seong Gyeong Book two

Persecution is Necessary

God created man to have true love but man fell; thus, God agonizes that true love has not been achieved. He has been trying to raise man so that they can both have true love. True God can have true love and true man.

Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon

True man can have true God and true universe.   True creation has true man and true God. 

True love is the most important.  Without possessing true love, there is no way for you to become a true, absolute man or possess true things.

Do you want to have true love then?

What if you were to go hungry for a few days, would you want true love more than you want food if you had to choose?

You may have experienced a fasting period so you could focus more on God.  One minute before the fast is to end, do you want true love or good food at that moment?

In just that crucial moment, your thoughts can destroy the whole purpose of your three or seven-day fast.  If in that moment you feel that you could continue to fast even more for true love, then you have served the purpose of the fast.  But, if you were thinking about eating once more and to become full as quickly as possible, then the purpose has been lost.

The providence for God to restore humanity's fallen history is thousands of years.  But, now, we have the tools to cover this same distance toward true love within one generation.

If we really plant our stake in true love then God will be overjoyed.

Once we reached this standard, then human life has reached its goal and mankind can experience joy eternally.  Everyone would then celebrate.  A true man might be the most foolish in the world because he will understand this concept and like persecution.  He understands that true love is man's ultimate goal.

The main problem we encounter during the process of restoration is how do we inherit the correct pattern that will help move history back in the right direction.  The Messiah returns not to take believers immediately away to a paradise, but to lay a foundation and tradition that reverses the fall.

As sinful sons and daughters, we are not really qualified to inherit this tradition.

Then, what is needed to qualify as a true son?  Would a true son leave their parents' house from one argument?  But, we witness this in many families.

It is not easy to be a true son or daughter.

Out of a family, maybe one child would struggle to stay at home during the rough times.  Such a son will say he will leave no matter what actions his parents do.

God is the toughest to the ones He loves the most.

He does not sympathize, or worry if you had eaten or not while you are performing His mission.  He would wonder what time it was and why do you sleep.  With such a standard, He might think His son would leave, but would be surprised to see the true son keep going during the difficult barriers.

Why does God set such a difficult path for His soldiers?

Satan can follow those who are working for God to a certain height, so God would want you to make it over the highest point where Satan can no longer follow you and your progress from there on is not so difficult.

From God's point-of-view, He does not think that Satan is all bad when it comes to your mission.  He thinks that if there was no Satan to push you, that you would not work so hard for God.

In school, no one likes examinations, but teachers know that if they were never to give out tests, that you would never study the material.  With each exam for which you study hard, you gain more knowledge and become more useful.

Persecution is in order for us to get the blessing.  If we get persecution, then we keep going.

An offering must be pure.  The criterion in ancient times was to make a sacrifice of virgin women through offering of the first love.  This was the same with animals.

During the Old Testament times, people of faith would offer things of creation which are closer to God than fallen man.  While in the New Testament, man himself was dedicated as the offering.

Now that we live in the Completed Testament age in the era of the Second Coming, the standard of offering is elevated and we experience sacrifice of the heart.

Therefore, once we dedicate everything for the sake of goodness it is painful to be rejected and misunderstood.  A person that is constantly persecuted can be seen as an offering.  The best material is used as an offering, so a pure wonderful person should be used as an offering.

If you don't proclaim your love for God and receive persecution, can we truly say that we are an offering?

All the fifty states of America belong to the nation, not to one individual.  Likewise, America belongs to the world.  If the Messiah is going to bring the whole world and spirit world into unity, then he belongs to God.

This confirms that the individual comes under the family, the family belongs to the tribe, the tribe to the nation, nation to the world, world to the cosmos, the cosmos to God, and God to absolute love.

By following this reasoning, then we can conclude that we are living for the sake of love.  This should be our concern.  Everything in creation is included in true love.  Even within a couple, if the husband snores, the woman might go into the other room, but a couple of true love, the wife could stay and snore just as loudly, what a sight that would be.

In Korea we say that a man who has already reached his destination is a crazy man. 

This is the kind of craziness that God wants to see.

Without true love, thinking about uniting the races and the world would be just pure fantasy.

To reach this destination, your course will lead you to all things of creation and mankind.  If someone asks you which country you are from, you tell them that you are an American, not the state you are from.

People of faith are fishers of men.

We catch people for true love.  When you are doing mission work, it is to help build the bridge so all those people can cross.

We must contribute not just our material, but also men, and give them with God's heart.  We dedicate our families to that bridge, centering on love.  When we recover the nation, we will offer it, when we recover the world we offer that to God also.  For the sake of true love, we shall recover the universe and dedicate it to God.

We don't offer just a few things, but all things gather for the offering including men and heart.  We dedicate our property, money, bodies and heart to God.  This is the same as offering all material, people and all their heart.

Then whose property does it become?

Then everything is returned and owned by God.  Your ownership is external while God's ownership is internal.  All of this can be indemnified in one individual.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Persecution and Blessing