Importance of Children Growing in Love

The most basic and central truth of the universe is that

God is the Father and we are His children.

—Sun Myung Moon

In order for a son or daughter to learn how to love, it involves the heart to develops which begins at a very young age and matures throughout the lifetime.

The toddler who clings to his or her parents' hand is decades apart from the weeping adult who must place his or her parents to rest in the grave and vow not to let their wishes go unfulfilled.

Even though the experience is different, the essence of the heart is the same: a heart of attachment, appreciation and love toward the parents that only deepens and becomes conscious and responsible over time.

A child's growth determines the person's relationship not only toward his or her parents, but also toward society in general, and ultimately God.

The East calls a child's devotion to his or her parents “filial piety” and is considered the root of all goodness and morality.

Confucius taught that a child's responsiveness to one's parents is the root for empathy. Mencius taught

that if a person loved his parents, he would be kind to people in general and caring toward everything in the world (7A45).

Jesus demonstrated how important a child's heart is when he instructed his disciples to not turn away children from him. 

“Such are the kingdom of heaven made of,” he said. Saint Paul said that a Christian’s right relationship to God was to cry out trustingly like a child, “Abba!” which means “Papa” or “Daddy.”

The child’s realm of heart is foundational to a life of true love.

The success within the children's realm of love places a person in a position to receive and respond to the love of parents and the love of the ultimate Parent, God.

On this strong foundation, a person is well-placed to learn to love others as oneself.

The Formation of a Loving Child

Before religious leaders were accepted to say so, Reverend Moon was pointing to the breakdown of the family as the main culprit in society's main problems.

Now, these assertions are widely accepted among social scientists.  Developmental psychologists widely agree

that having loving relationships with caregivers (usually a parent or parents) promote the development of empathy with others and impacts a person's relationship to the world at large over a lifetime.

Children who lack such loving relationships are left without maturing a proper heart of compassion toward others, which leaves the growing young person crippled morally. 

 Such children are prone to get involved in all sorts of risky and destructive behaviors.

When a mother plays with her child, the natural facial expressions prepares them to be able to 'read' other people's facial expressions then understand what the person must be feeling based on this. This is an example of training in empathy.

The ability to empathize: to recognize and feel another person’s pain, suffering or joy as one’s own. To have empathy is the basis of the capacity to give love, take responsibility, and have fulfilling relationships with others.

Those who develop early loving relationships are able to attain trust over mistrust. This is what Erick Erickson calls the first 'crisis' of life.

When a baby cries, someone comes to comfort. When the baby is hungry, someone brings food. When the baby needs warmth and dryness this is provided. 

When the baby needs to be held, someone's tender arms are there. When a child is lonely or frightened, someone's soft voice reassures the child.

A baby who grows up in this nurturing environment, sets the stage to grow up to be benevolent, helpful participator in the world.

A view of a larger universe and of God are imprinted firmly on the mind of a young person through these early interactions.

James M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, said, “The God to whom little boys say

their prayers has a face very much like their mother’s.”

If a mother had a smiling sympathetic face, the child will respond with a similar face to the world whenever they interact outside the family.

“We learn how valuable and worthy of love we are almost exclusively through interactions with attachment figures, especially parents,” observes Stephen Stosny, a psychologist.

A child who grew up in a loving home, assumes others are similarly lovable and worthy. He or she will behave in a manner that is just and kind toward them and treat others as he or she has been treated at home.

Operating from a core of being loved, the child is able to love others.

Studies have shown one common characteristic of rescuers of Jews under Nazism: The rescuers all have very warm relationships with one or both parents which caused them to have empathy for others in maximum proportions.

Since they were convinced of their own worthiness, it was easy for them to see others as similarly worthy and to take a stand for others' human rights.

History is laden with children who have been neglected or abandoned. They have moral impairment that can result from having a poor relationship with parents.

1940s psychologist William Goldfarb did a study of seventy children who have been raised for the first three years of their lives in institutions. He found that they were cruel to one another and also to animals.

They severely lacked an ability to control impulses, especially aggressive ones.

Researcher Selma H. Fraiberg studied children who were misplaced out of their homes. She studied abandoned babies, children raised in institutions, children shifted from foster home to foster home and children who had to be torn from their family during wartime.

She remarked, “These children who had never experienced love, who had never belonged to anyone, and were never bonded to anyone except on the most primitive basis . . . were unable in later years to bind themselves to other people, to love deeply, to feel deeply, to tenderness, grief, or shame.”

Since these children were denied the most pivotal relationship in the children's realm of heart and love, these children could never mature their heart to empathize and love others. They could not see other people as themselves.

Ambivalence in the Love Relationship between Parent and Child

In average families, there is enough ambivalence in the love relationships to produce ambivalence in a child.

Morally, this places children between great altruism and great cruelty.

The average person tends not to be cruel or or consciously try to hurt or oppress others. But the same person may have not developed empathy for instance for people in poverty and think that they are responsible for their own fate.

Freud explored the human psyche and uncovered the ambivalence of a child's relationship to the parents. He found child's relationship with their parent “contained not only impulses of an affectionate submissive nature, but also hostile and defiant ones.”

He explained that we all relate to the Father, God, with the same ambivalence we have toward our parents in general. This creates the idea in the evil Satan.

From the standpoint of cause and effect, it can be thought that a child's 'hostile and defiant' interactions toward the parent reflects a relationship with their false father Satan and evil even though they have a relationship with goodness and God.

Since the parents heart is divided between good and evil, they raise children who are similarly divided in heart.

This creates a great need for parents who have true love. These parents resemble the selfless love of God and are able to love their children in a healthy and a beneficial way.

Children raised in this ideal home, they can be true to their parents' good expectations and thus become brothers and sisters who are true to one another. These siblings can support one anther's growth and successful entry into the spouse's realm of love.

Marriages that come from adults raised in this type of environment will have peace and harmony which will become shelters for the new generation as they are guided by true parental love.

The more the parents' love reflects the love of God, the happier and healthier, and more productive the child will be.

The child will demonstrate empathy will have a more benevolent impact upon the larger world.

To have such Godly parents of true love is thus a very pressing social need to nurture and guide a child's heart.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Children Need God, Too

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.

We Must Understand Death, Not Fear It

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

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

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

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

The meaning of the Korean word toraganda

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

Where do we return?

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

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

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

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

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

The universe is always engaged in circular motion.

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

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

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

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

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

The place to which we must go

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

We also currently live in the spirit world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The day we pass on is a precious day

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

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

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

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

The spiritual connection of life and death

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

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

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

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

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

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

This principle applies everywhere and to all.

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People entertain all kinds of hope in their lives.

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

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

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

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

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

All things of this world will pass away. 

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

Then what remains?

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

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

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

Death in relation to the value of life

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

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

Who knows the value of life very well?

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

More women.  Why?

Because women tend to have an one-track mind.

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

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

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

Death is a process to link three worlds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is in accordance with fundamental principles and laws.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Then what should your life be filled with?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is invisible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the true meaning of death?

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

We are currently living in a wrapping cloth of air.

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

 

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

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

 

The Atmosphere in Spirit World is Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We should overcome death.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The key element of life is none other than love. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our eternal life and our present life are not divided.

Where do we eventually end up?

Spirit world has been called the world after death.

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is life like in the spirit world?

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing you can be proud of except this. 

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

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

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

There are no car factories or textile factories there.

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

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

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

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

The spirit world resembles a person.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the fastest.

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

It is an infinite world that transcends time and space.

It is a world where your intuitive senses become reality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the essence of life. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What kind of place is the spirit world?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How long has history gone on?

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

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

So, we are the fruit of history.

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

Things do not connect horizontally.  They partly connect vertically.

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

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

These problems must be resolved in the earthly world.

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

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

People go toward the spirit world.

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

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

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

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