The Path We All Must Take

The body is far from eternal life

The earth breathes and moves just as our bodies do.

Your cells breathe as well.

Would you rather live eternally on earth, or would you rather live eternally in a place where you are a full entity of love?

In our physical body, we cannot see God when He wants to reveal Himself.  This is why our spirit self is needed.

God is in the center of the spirit.

As God's counterparts, He wants to bequeath to us everything from the eternal realm.


How the majority of people live

We are all headed toward a destination whether we know it or not.

The nation, the world and even heaven and earth are headed there as well.  This is an undeniable fact.  You are driven by this destiny.

Where are you headed after this life ends?

Religions arose to deal with this issue.

Where are our minds and hearts trying to go?  Also, our wishes and hopes.  Where are they trying to go?

Even though humanity has not truly resolved these issues, we are still destined to go in any case.

On the day that this body is buried in the ground, will our mind, our heart and hopes be buried together along with the body?

We should look at this with solutions and a purposeful perspective.

Every saint and sage and founders of religions stopped on their normal paths of life to ask the questions of their minds and their hearts.

They wondered where they were headed and they struggled to resolve these issues.

Even though numerous saints gave their life to answer these questions, there still has not been anybody who could confidently claim that their body, their heart and mind went to such an ideal place.

Religious and conscientious people all desire for the end of this fallen world which originated from private desires.

Over a millennia, religions have awaited a public world -  a single, unified world of peace without borders or conflicts.

How should religious people live?

They should shorten the path to restore historical mistakes and link this path to the world and cosmos.

A family that lives walking this path is far more interesting.  This is a liberated family that becomes a true family.

“Walking the streets of Myungdong in Seoul, one sees young couples being affectionate. For whom are they doing that? They say they do that to enjoy their youth, which they have but once.

“That's fine, but who is the owner of enjoyment? This is a serious question. How long can you enjoy life? You do so from your twenties, but it will not last after you pass your sixties, seventies, and eighties.

“Yet the way of the Unification Church is different. For what purpose do we eat? For the sake of the world and to abolish this evil world. We see in order to clean up this evil world -- not to become a part of the evil side but to defeat it. How we hear, think, walk and act is different from the secular world.”

God created us as precious beings whom He cherishes eternally.

God derives joy from us as His object partners.  Since God is eternal, we must also be eternal beings.

Many people live centered on such thinking that they will live until they are eighty and think that when they die that is it.  Throughout history, the question of immortality has been pondered and people wonder if they can live for eternity on earth and never die.

Then they ask, what is the meaning of life?

They wonder what is the point in just being born and pass away.  They just conclude that life is just suffering and that we just come and go like the grass of the fields.

The more people held on to this ideal, the more they thought and asked themselves, "What's the meaning of life? Why are people born and then go away like travelers?" and

Death is inevitable

One day we will go to the spirit world.

Even if people visit Korea at Gimpo Airport, it does not mean they traveled in Korea.  Where do we go afterward?

We go to a county.  From there a township, then a village.  From there we must go to a neighborhood.  This is not an easy task.

If we cannot determine a dwelling place, then there is no value in having a successful social life.

“If God orders me to come, even tomorrow night, no matter how great I may be today, I have no choice but to go.

“However loudly I might protest, I would have to go. I will go while protesting loudly, but only after speaking the right words. I must present the way that the nation and the world must go. It will be my death if I fail to do so.”

God is the owner of life

“Who is the origin of life? Not I.”

The origin and purpose of life must transcend me.  Actually, our life did not originate from our parents, society or a nation, but from God.

Only when you link your origin to the cause, the purpose of life, and deny your fallen self, then you make a leap and transcend.

You must link your life to the transcendent motive; it does not begin with yourself.

It began with the absolute God.

If you link yourself in this way, then when you die, you will be within the transcendent process because of God's Will.

People do not live for a millennia or for centuries.  They die within a century or so.

Among the numerous ancestors who have died throughout history, if any of them live with a public mindedness that met the standards of the universe, they would have left a legacy that lasted a millennum.

Instead, our ancestors lived selfishly and perished.  They brought everything to ruin.

This kind of selfish lifestyle causes problems.

The bigger problem is how can we replace the way of looking at everything from an ego system with one that serves a higher purpose.

The question is how do we shift from emphasizing self-centeredness to benefiting the greater good.

We must reverse the way of living individualistic lives.

This requires action.

If you only had one pair of clothing, you would fight for your life to keep others from taking it off of your body.

If you had a change of clothing for every season, when it is spring and you see people dressed in winter clothes, you show them your spring clothing and tell them they wear winter clothes and take them off.  If it is summer and people wear spring clothing tell them to change according to the weather.

But those people do not see the need to change.  They were unaware that something of greater value existed.

The same goes for those who are living in a lifestyle centered only on their own self-interest.  Until someone shows them the truth, they may not see the value of living a life for others.

On the earth we have parents, teachers and relatives. We have ways to establish such relationships on the earth, but not in the spirit world.

Everyone practices God-centered public-spiritedness.

The position one holds is differentiated.  Those above cannot descend below, and those below do not easily ascend.

It was God's original idea that we would not pass on to the spirit world until we achieved perfection on earth.

Adam and Eve to were to perfect their love to God before the blessing of marriage, live, and die in perfect oneness with Him therefore, naturally going to Heaven after living on Heaven on Earth.

It is an absolute that we will each die.

This life course is short compared to eternity.

Even if a person lived a life span of eighty years, it is equivalent to less than eight hours in spirit world time.

When we look at our time here on earth, it is even less than that amount of time in eternity.

This means the power of true love is great.  The speed of true love is so great that is beyond our understanding.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, book Five, Chapter Two – Section 1

Can We Build World Peace?

God is the high pressure air and when we become humble as low pressure air of the nation, you are the best patriots.  Everybody will pay respect to you, including the president.  How do you become the lowest pressure air; go live for others; serve others to create low pressure air.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


We know the core beliefs of communism and democracy.

What is Unificationism? It is the harmony of everything through the power of love.


My children know the universal truth and they pray according to it. You, too, know what to pray for. Then God will heed your prayer. Otherwise, your prayers are just mumbling and bumbling-beating around the bush, in God's opinion. People say many things about me, but one thing is absolutely true, I am the one religious leader who will make you suffer the most! 


You may protest to Father's instructions, but this is why he pushes us out to suffer for the cause.

If you are able to work harder than everyone else, with a loving heart of suffering for the sake of the family, even your parents will come and bow down to you and thank you from the bottom of their heart.

Through living that way, you become the child of God.

When you are truly one with God, living with Him, you attain God's position in your family.  As members that understand Unification Thought, you shoulder the worst problems of the United States with a loving heart, then the entire country will eventually bow down to you.

This is heavenly law.

You become the patriots of patriots when you live this way.  But in order to become that standard, you must suffer for the sake of the nation, with a loving heart more than anyone else in history.

There are quite a number of patriots in every country, but only a few saints. 

The realm of the saint is different from that of the patriot: he works for the universe and for God.

There are three levels of spiritual advancement: children of filial piety, or good members of the family; patriots; and saints or holy people.  How high is Father's ambition for the members?

He isn't just teaching merely how to be children of filial piety, but how to be saints.


I am ambitiously seeking to take on the worst problems of the universe, asking to bear the universal burden. Is that good? People have had high ambitions and have tried to establish Utopian ideals, but no one has been able to accomplish them.


Why haven't we been able to bring about a better world of peace?

Father sought out to understand the greatest problems in the world.

God's worst headaches are the expansion of communism, the rapid decline in religion and the degradation of the youth and collapse of morals in the nation.  These are the major problems of the world that have to be tackled.

God has been working day in and day out through people of faith to solve these problems.  Father volunteered telling God not to worry that he was going to take away His heavy burden and solve the problems for Him.  He came up with a source and method with the quality of hope to unify the world and establish a true Utopia.


This was the motivation behind the International Conferences for the Unity of the Sciences. God's original plan was for people to be perfected within approximately 20 years. I am thinking that if I lead these scientists and eminent scholars for 20 years, they will have reached a pretty good level. Every year they give their unflagging attention to absolute values. When they could find no answer to a certain question, they decided to ask me about it!


Father had many accusations and criticisms thrown at him, but he continued on moving forward able to digest anything that came to hinder his mission.  We are engaged in a war against communism, confronting face to face.

He is opposed by many established churches in the Catholic and Christian communities, but he just tells them that they are not able to digest him and they need him if there is any hope for the future of the world to become the ideal world God envisioned in the beginning of creation.

Father was not only able to digest opposition along the way, but he created a logical explanation for all these phenomena without any hazy areas.


I can be calm even in the midst of suffering. If I am sentenced to prison and have to face hardships, I am filled with peace even as I enter jail. I can sleep well, eat well, and even digest sand if necessary. There is never a cause for worry once you know universal truth. I am absolutely confident of my destination, the heavenly world, and I want to take as many people along as I can. I can invite you to accompany me without any doubts, since I know our goal and destination.



To the degree that I am a perfect minus to God, I am a perfect plus to you. Whenever you create the perfect minus position, I will be with you.

The Unification Church is grounded in the truth of this principle. We see throughout history that any new truth that emerged and outshone the current truth that the other one would fade away.

Unless there is a greater truth that emerges higher than the Divine Principle, there is no way anyone can push us back or put us on the defensive.

We should be the ones resolved to suffer more than anybody else.  The principle does not change whether you have a Ph.D or are a famous actor or actress.

I am setting a new tradition, and those who give themselves to the best of their abilities for the sake of others with a loving heart shall form the mainstream.

It does not matter if one does not like this way or not, it is truth.

You are pushed out to live for the sake of others because the results will be glorious.

Great blessings await you at the end of your course.

Then you will be grateful.

Is this just to win you with cunning and sugarcoated promises?  This is the absolute truth.

So many people have wanted me to disappear, to be taken to heaven or hell-or wherever! Many people have actually prayed for my life to be taken away, so why does God keep me here on earth? Regardless of what the entire world might think or pray for, God needs me and the members of the Unification Church.

You should have no fear going this way, as God has the power to protect you.  So, you should move forward with a bold and strong heart.  You are a living being and should have the powerful life force that can move the whole universe.

Once you are fortified with this ideology, no challenge is big to you.  When Father first came to the US, do you think that he was overwhelmed?

Once you become the perfect object to God, you then can act independently.  In that case, you might say, "Father, I don't need your help or the church.  I will take responsibility for this country."

You can pledge that you will become perfected then reach out to bring along the rest of the church because that is your goal and destiny.

Opposition is a test to see whether you can do these things on your own.  If you cannot overcome opposition, you have nothing to be truly proud of.

But because you have learned to withstand and overcome opposition, this is proof that you can accomplish great things on your own.  This is beautiful and dynamic.

During the heaviest of battles, Father never was afraid. He never prayed to God that he was perishing and help him.

He told God to let him do the work and sit back and enjoy the show and take delight in the accomplishment to come.  This is the way he teaches us to be.

You shall become people of dynamic boldness and strength. 

We shouldn't lose motivation, become discouraged over our chose of spouse or lose our energy. With such thinking, you will not go far.

Those who pledge, "Yes, Father I will follow your principle, become a dynamo and perfect myself on my own, helping to create the nation, world which God desires,' raise your hands, please.

Let us Pray.



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This Post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Realm of Existence

Our Life Compares to Seasons

It is natural for everyone that is living on earth to think that they are the most important and to think of himself or herself.  It is also a human trait to think of one's family, and the world centered on himself and even think of God centered on his own thinking.

It is human nature to think of oneself in relation to others.

What is the source of one self?

We each started our existence in God.

Science teaches that human history has existed for hundreds of thousands of years. Everything starts from self, myself and everything exists to bring us about.  Your ancestry consists of many generations.

Your ancestral tree would consist of all different types of people.  You might have a tall grandfather, a tall grandmother, one grandmother who is small in stature, all kinds.  You had handsome and beautiful men and women, crippled, and disabled.

Your ancestry is an encapsulation of all humanity.

From God's point of view, some of your ancestors were good and some were evil.

Some were thieves, some were murderers and we can imagine there were all sorts.  We cannot help but think that those kinds of ancestors are mingled within our bloodstream.  You are a product of that lineage.

Therefore, when we look at our ancestry on these terms, we see that we are not pure.  We are unclean and not so decent.

God has all knowledge of your background and your ancestral tree.  In His eyes, He sees that more of your ancestors have been evil than were good.  But when everyone speaks about their bloodline, they would imagine that his ancestry has been good or fairly good at least.

That is not so.  Everyone one of you are the fruit of a stained lineage inherited from Satan.

When we think of the history of a piece of fruit, we would see that it is the result of one person's year of toil and labor.

In one fruit, there is every element: the nutrients absorbed, the sun, and the elements coming from the environment.

We don't know the past story of the fruit, but just by seeing a small scar on the surface of an apple, we can see there is a long story behind this.

It is our fallen nature to think of ourselves in a selfish sense, but this is not the right way.  We think about things centered on our own thinking saying, "This is good, or this is bad because I don't like it."  But this is not the way we should think of things.

It is possible that your ancestry in general has been good, but in your generation, you yourself are committing many sins, and it makes your ancestry lower, or stains your ancestral lineage.

Each generation of our ancestors has built a graph of ups and downs.  You are either on the peak of the graph of ups and downs or you are at the very low bottom.  When you are at this low point, you think that you are lofty and high in status.  Is this good for your ancestral bloodline?

There are four seasons in a year revolving around one after the other.

If the graph was placed in circular form, the circle would revolve as human history revolves.

One day can be compared to the season: our mornings correspond to spring, summer corresponds to noontime, evening corresponds to the night.  With noon as the center, we start from the early morning and ascend or go up, but from noontime, we begin to descend or come down.

Your ancestors represented the season, too.  Some belonged to the spring, some to summer, still others to the fall and the rest to the winter.

Among us, we represent the four seasons in terms of in-born nature.

A springlike person would take delight in making friends who belong to fall. Those who belong to winter are more or less for those belonging to summer.  When we find our spouse, we must think of people in these terms, too.

Your entire life can be compared to the seasons, too.  

Our childhood belongs to spring, adolescents is a transition to summer, youth represents summer, middle-age represents fall and the elderly represents winter.

This comprises the four seasons, so we should not like our childhood only and feel like getting rid of some parts of our life belonging to summer, fall and winter.  The total experience of each age is our life.

What is the definition of a good man?

A good type of person is one whom children, youth, middle-aged and the elderly can like and vice versa.  A person who can like children, youth middle-aged and the elderly is an ideal person.   As the subject towards nature, you should be able to love the four seasons alike.  God likes all ages alike.

There are many colors here: white, black, yellow and red.

God does not discriminate.  He never likes just one race, but He likes everyone.  He loves white people, black people, yellow and red people.  With all of these races included, we can call this humanity which is woven in history and culture with these people.

But is this the end of human history?

We say that Western society is going down, but it should prepare to go up again.

When you come down, you are prepared to go up again.  This means we should never be arrogant in thinking of ourselves.  You may be enjoying a prosperous time now, but there is no guarantee you will stay in that position.

It is more smart that when you are up, that you prepare yourself to go down.

When you are up, you must do something for those who are less situated.  If you are not supported by the people below you when you are in the high position, you cannot really keep such a position and that's the end of it.

Everything moves, not in a straight line, but making waves. This is inevitable.

You must realize that Western civilization is declining from its high position.

So, if Western people only think about their own nation and prosperity alone not reaching out to other countries less fortunate, they are doomed to decline or perish.

On the other hand, if you are able to think of people at that point, the whole of humanity, then there is hope for your civilization and you will soar up again.

For instance, the white people are at the top.  If they do things centered on themselves alone, the situation will drastically be reversed.

This same principle applies between the East and the West.  Because of science, the East and West have come much closer like relatives more than neighbors.

The world is not for just the Orientals, but with the two combined, we can picture the wholeness of the world.

Even when East and West come together, they will still experience up and downs.  If either one of them does things centered on itself, this harmony would not be able to sustain.

 We must ride on the tide of human history. 

When the white people go down, you cannot tread down upon the black race and go up, but you must push them ahead of you and go up.

The law of human history is to work for others, live for others, and help each other.

We can determine that those who live in this way are destined to rise, and those who are living self-centered lives are doomed to decline.  By being open and welcoming other people, it means you want to be beneath them while lifting them up.

Based on this power, you will go up again.  If you willingly welcome a person placing yourself below them, then you are supported by that person and many others, and you will be lifted up.

This is the manner to welcome people:  you concede and give your seat to others.

From that point you will be lifted up from your position.

The morning cannot be arrogant and say that it will stay all day and make the whole day morning.  To have a sound day, your morning must give way to the noon, noon must give way to the evening, and the evening must concede to night.

If you work hard enough to stay in childhood throughout your life would that be possible?

You must think that childhood is for youth to come, youth is for adulthood to come and adulthood is for the aged period to come.  You must respect the other ages and levels.

This is the law of God and nature which God is teaching us.  God wants us to live for other people, sacrificing ourselves for them.  In proportion to how much you have lived for others, you then can be supported by others.

You can become the central figure with all of those people you lived for supporting you.

Would you like your whole life to live for yourself alone and would you like to have other people live for your family?

Are you greedy and like for the whole world to live for your nation?  Your nation would prosper for a period of time, but then it would end and go down.

At the height of your country's prosperity, your nation would decline and perish and disappear from the human scene.

This is what has happened to many nations and dynasties throughout history.  If the nation is careful to make another leap, the history of the nation can go on.

When we look at the history of humanity, we see that those who have sacrificed themselves for the sake of other people survived, and then became part of the mainstream of history to last generation after generation.

A patriot is a person who has done something for the nation and his existence will remain as part of the history of the United States.  He will be remembered by other people and his name and deeds recorded.

If one sacrifices his own pleasures for the sake of the whole world and all of humanity, we can call him or her a sacred or holy person.  From that viewpoint, we can call Jesus Christ the most holy man.

We know that the history of the Western civilization was founded upon the Christian ideology, but absolute faith and obedience to God's word is declining.  It is puzzling that such a prosperous Christian nation like the US is losing ground in these Last Days as the people turn away from Jesus' true teachings of sacrificial living becoming individualistic and self-centered instead.

The fact that Christianity is losing its influence and is declining is evidence that Christians have lost sight of the original calling and become self-centered based on their own thinking of how to live.

This nation has hope if it revitalizes the Christian spirit and the people begin to live lives for the sake of others.

Self-centered ideals are against God's will, and against the law of God.  A nation that goes that way will naturally perish and decline.  In order to rise up to a great nation once again, we must discard the old way.

The fundamental spirit of Christianity is to live for other people. 

Christianity's greater purpose is for the sake of the nation, something bigger than Christianity itself.

If Christians continue to center on self and works for the prosperity of oneself, then the theology is doomed to decline.

God had foresight to see that Christianity existed not for its own churches, but for the future generation and for the whole world restoration to Heaven on Earth.

God set up the foundation of Christianity in order to save the world not for the members to live individual, selfish lives.  This is a major reason for the decline.

The Bible states that God sent Jesus to save the world, not one religion or territory.

Therefore, God does not consider Christianity to be the most important thing, but placed Christianity in the sacrificial position in order to save the whole world.

The purpose of Christianity is more important.

This purpose will be realized using Christianity as the instrument.

When we look at the chosen nation of Israel, we see that God had prepared that nation for the salvation of all humanity.

For thousands of years, He prepared the nation for the coming of the Messiah.  Going about their daily lives, they forgot their mission.  If you focus your viewpoint with more emphasis on 'myself'' you are doomed to decline and perish.

When we stop to think of ourselves who am 'I'?

In a word, I am for the whole.  The kind of person that has that kind of thinking is liked and loved by the whole and defined as a good person.  On the other hand, an evil person is disliked, or hated by others.  This alone defines him as evil.

Centered on yourself, you have your whole ancestral past, so in this light you are for the past ancestral people, too.

On the horizontal line, you have all humanity living on earth.

On this level, you are for the family, relatives, tribe, nation and the whole world.  Vertically, in spirit, you are for your ancestors and for the future generations and your descendants.

If you live for the whole, you are situated in the central point. 

Among all of your ancestors you are the most important person if you live every day solely for others.

Your ancestors would want for you to live for the whole, more than they did when they lived on earth.  In the present day, your living relatives and family would want you to live your life for the sake of other people.

Also, your descendants would want your ancestors and yourself to work for the sake of the whole.  Then they are able to be proud of you and their heritage.  You must become the person who works for the sake of the people more than any of your ancestors have.  Do you understand?



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Whole and Myself

We Come From One Root

"The root of the individual, the root of the family, the root of the clan, and the root of the nation are all the same. What this means is that if you look from the world's viewpoint, and you trace the root up or down, we all come back to the same root." 

This is true for the nation, the clan, the family, and even the individual. 


All countries eventually can trace back to one root.  The root is all the same.  Through this one root, all families, nations and even the world must be connected.  Since there is only one root for all, then we have only one trunk and a unity of branches.  There aren't different trunks or different roots.

When we accomplish this connection and unity in deed, the world will come into unity. 

If we were to ask people of different nations where their root lies, they would give many different answers.  Their answers may only be local.  For example, if you ask an American this question, they would say, "My root is Washington".  This does not apply to the whole world.

Does God think that the root of mankind is Washington?

Japanese people would say they trace their root to the goddess Amaterasu Omino Kami.    But now we know that everyone can be traced to the same root.

There is only one root, but humanity has not been able to see the root of it all.  Since no one can identify the true root, the Messiah returns to identify where the false root of division began.  Also to reveal what we think our roots are and then present the true root.



The Root is True Love

What is the completion of the ideal of creation?

The Messiah clearly defines God's will in simple terms.  God's will is to accomplish the ideal of creation.  Period.  Simple isn't it?  God is an absolute God.

Since He is absolute, does he have two different ideas or just one?  Absolutely one ideal.  Even if peace seems impossible to humanity, God has never wavered away from His dream of accomplishing Heaven on Earth.  This is the logical conclusion.

When we complete the four-position foundation (parents' love, siblings' love, childrens' love, each centered on God's love) then the completion of the ideal of true love is accomplished.  Everything important is there.



Creating True Love

The amazing fact is that the Family Federation has achieved these.

All of the thinking, teaching and action of the Unification Church is founded on these consistent lines: True Love, the four-position foundation and the ideal of creation.

The ideal of creation is to create the four-position foundation(sibling, parent, conjugal and God's love).  Then we must understand deeply the descriptions of all relationships of creation and the importance of the main ideas.

Even though it begins from a concept, it is reality. If you open up your spiritual eyes, you can go ask a big tree, "What is your purpose in life?

To accomplish this idea, first, we perfect heaven on earth and through this, heaven in spirit world will automatically appear.  Currently, there is only Paradise in which Jesus spoke.

We cannot enter heaven alone without our family.

As we discussed before, what wife would enjoy heaven while her husband spent eternity in hell?  When we catch a hold of God's True Love, then wherever we go and what we do will be connected to God.  This is reality and not just a concept.

What about a big rock, and belongs to the mineral kingdom? If you were to ask why does it exist, it  would answer you, "I exist for the sake of love."

Why did you come into existence or why do you breathe?

You exist for the sake of love.  Even a large rock that belongs to the mineral kingdom and doesn't seem to have much value would answer and say, "I exist for the sake of love".  Even the atomic kingdom, electrons and neutrons would answer the same way.  There is no way to deny it.  This is the reason all things were created in pairs: it is for love.

Love is the Beginning

Because of True Love and starting from True Love, the whole world came into being.  True love was the beginning of the concept of the universe.

We can even extend this and say that God came into existence for the purpose of love.  If love did not come into existence, then God, too wouldn't have a reason to exist.  Before thinking of the universe, we can think of True Love.

Before we can understand the deep meaning of True Love, we can see the concept of the male and female or the subject and object concept conveyed in all of creation, even at the subatomic level.  Everything in existence has that dual characteristic.  Take time to think of one exception, but you will find none.

Scientists maintain that the universe is held together by a force or a power, but they stop there.  They do not bring into account the logical steps that force only comes about because there was first an action that brought it about.

Without action, there is no force.

Which is first:  force takes place because of action or action takes place because of force?

Which one is first?


Reverend Sun Myung Moon gives an example to answer this question:

"When a man grows up, real love power does not act upon him. He has no involvement in love action. He grows up by the energy of man. With that he grows, but love is yet to come. His mind and body have to take action and then he grows, becoming older and older.

When he meets his spouse, a tremendous power takes place. Before that, there is action, but even before the action something else must exist first. That is subject and object relationship. In a man, he gets power when his mind and body come into unity.

He has two eyes instead of one, and two nostrils; everything comes in two. We see that subject and object relationship is everywhere and it exists for the sake of love.

We see development in this order: love between subject and object, then love action gives rise to the force. That is the order."SMM



Love Creates Joy

As soon as a husband and wife who exhibit True Love and their eyes meet, they are attracted to one another and nothing can stop them.  When all of the five senses meet each other, nothing will stop them.  Embodied with this love power, the couple can go through fire, water, anywhere.  That is the power of True Love.

This cannot be exchanged or converted into any value of money.  Even if the woman has millions and billions of dollars and is the wealthiest woman on earth, once she is captured in love then all things don't matter anymore.  God will be filled with joy and laughter at the sight of such a scene.  This is how we feel, too.

God invests His whole being and forgets, then He invests again and forgets all too willingly and happily because of love.  Without this kind of heart of not looking to receive, He would not be able to continue to do so.

For the man of love, the more he adds to this pool of love, the happier he becomes until later he can fly.  He will cruise the universe like the world of stars.  If you embrace a star while enraptured in love, it will start to dance and God will dance, also.  This is the power of love.



Do we Value Love?

How much do we value this love of God?

Imagine a kid that is in grammar school -  a boy or girl who receives a large chunk of a diamond but they do not know that it is a diamond or know its worth.  How will they treat this diamond?  This is the problem we see in the world situation today.

On the other hand, one who works hard and experiences the pain of dying to obtain this object, then you readily learn and understand the value of that diamond.  The only way that we can understand this is through suffering and sacrifice.  Nobody likes this, just as no student likes the act of studying to get the top grades.



Love Creates Peace

Love has the power to purchase, sell or unite a nation.  It is that powerful.  You have heard of the political marriages they used to perform centuries ago.  Two countries united in exchanged marriages between royalty of either country.  King Edward forsook the throne for a marriage to Wallace Simpson.

People get excited and laugh at the jokes and commentary of entertainers whenever they speak about the topic of love.  Other topics do not capture laughter from the bottom of the audiences hearts as much as the topic of love.

"No other church ever talks about love so much as the topic of this sermon."

It becomes a very legitimate statement that anyone or any minister whose sermon centers on love and makes everybody elated, happy and laughing, would become the source of peace and happiness.

When a teaching focuses it center on love, it can be the source of peace.  Peace will come from that.  Politicians, philosophers, economists and people from all different walks of life would come together for the topic of love because it is the root of their lives.



'Love Me' is False Love

We hear all talks about love and different kinds of love, but have we heard about love for the sake of other people?

People say, "Love me.".  This kind of person wants to draw love from other people.  There are even books and advice columns on how to attract love from others.  This is not the kind of love we have been talking about.

We are only talking about how to give love, that is what makes it different.

All these divided things now move toward being united because of this teaching and the knowledge of how to love for the sake of others.

From True Love, new hope, a new idea, and a new starting point have appeared.

Love was destroyed and divided.  The history of humankind has turned into a history of self-centered love away from God's original ideal.  How can we realize a peaceful world when all the broken situations are surrounding us.  We can only go this path through True Love that has the power to mend the past.

God's viewpoint of True Love is that the root comes from True Parents (restored fallen parents Adam and Eve).  Now that we have entered the age of True Parents or Enlightenment, brothers and sisters are being taught a new kind of love in which we live for the sake of others.




Free Sex and Drugs

Man needs to constantly be satisfied.

He has a spiritual antenna that communicates with the high level of the spirit world.  Man cannot live without the love, emotion and enlightenment that this antenna picks up.

Now all communication has been cut off from the spirit world and man does not know where to get that fulfillment.  So, what do they do instead?

They do drugs, drink alcohol and indulge in risky behavior to maintain an equivalent high to excite the body.

We as the human race have lost our emotional attachment to True Love on the vertical plane(spiritual) and can only find it through the horizontal way(physical) to compensate for this lack of communication with spirit.  Every family and nation have been touched by this tragedy.

It is called free sex.  Teens and even adults find out too late that when they indulge in sex without any connection to God and outside of a God-defined marriage that it never fully satisfies them as they had expected.

Sometimes leaving a bigger hole in which they were trying to fill in the beginning.  Then they turn to drugs to try to forget about this pain.  But everyone knows that the drug world is also a bottomless pit that will never fulfill our human desire for God's love.
         



The Universe Protects Love

What Father is pointing out is that everything that comes into power, everything that is subject and object in the pair system, is protected by the universe.

If there is an imbalance, the universe eliminates it.

Man and woman are a pair.  They become a pair at the universal level embracing point.  The nation's center it the president or the king as a plus and the people are a minus.

They combine into one and then they attend the world which is the next level up.  Then as a whole, they embrace the larger heavenly fate or destiny.

Americans should change their direction from the individualistic way toward this true standard way of living.  If the presidential administration and the American people do not change, the heavenly fate will chase them out.  No matter how rich or how strong America is, they will immediately break down.
Don't we see that this is already the case?



Individualism is Hell


Individualism has made a great nation of America into a small one that is full of bickering and complaints.  It can be compared to the nation's symbol of the great eagle.  It was created to spread its wings and explore the great plains around cliffs to capture its food supply.

But if you were to catch the eagle and just give him the bare minimum of rations so it could live, how great would the eagle be?

This is what individualism, living for oneself, has done to a once prosperous nation.  Are people exploding with happiness here in  America or unhappy?  They are miserable.  They are living like in the dungeons of hell even with such prosperity surrounding them in their daily lives.

On the other hand, how happy would an eagle be that had once been captured and now is finally released from its cage and is liberated?



True Love is Eternal

No matter how old the earth becomes, the principles of True Love continues.  The direction and action of True Love will remain the same throughout history and into the future.  Even before creation, this concept of True Love existed.

After Adam and Eve were created and after the fallen world came into being, the same concept of absolute pure love was the center of hope for all of the surrounding things to be taken away and cleaned up.


Then they can be connected to the new world.



The Church Restores True Love


Why was the Family Federation formerly known as the Unification Church founded?  It was so all that was lost through the actions of the first human parents can be restored and to bring liberation to God when the ideal is completed.

This is the church's mainstream thought.  In order for restoration to take place, all ideals should be realized centering on True Love.

Should people reject or welcome such a movement?  This is God's ideal and the tool which He brought the Messiah as the Second Advent.  It is to make the four-position foundation of the family centered on God with True Love as the core.

That is the purpose of the Unification Movement.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: We Come From One Root

This text was rewritten and taken from the speech: The Establishment of the Unification Church and the Mainstream Thought of the Dispensational History," the sermon given on May 1, 1993, at the Belvedere, International Training Center.