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

Everything Can Be Lost in a Moment

You could build a foundation of faith that is very strong like many ministers and saints of the past, but it can all be lost within one moment.  Once we realize this fact, we are ever striving to be careful with our words and decisions in every moment.

There is no better way to learn this simple fact than through the record of religious accounts.  The Bible alone can be thought of as a record of God's work to bring His children back to His bosom after we disobeyed through numerous saints, sages and people of faith.

Account after accounts, shows how God had planned victory through His people only for in one single moment of selfishness or lack of faith lost 40, hundreds and thousands of years of foundation laid for such a victorious moment.

Through the people of Israel following Jesus as God's son and raising him as a true king, God planned to bring about heaven on earth through His people conquering Rome during Jesus' life.

Instead, through countless mistakes, this victory would take place 400 years later with thousnds of Christian lives and sacrifices to pay for Jesus' death on the cross.

The purpose that people desire

God does not have a physical body.

Therefore, He manifests through Adam as His body, showing His face through him.

This is the ideal of creation.

God is the original spiritual(vertical) center and Adam is the original physical (horizontal) center.  When these two meet, they generate a 90-degree perpendicular angle.

This was God's purpose for the creation and it is people's desire to have this unity with God.

Had Adam and Eve had chosen to follow God's direction, they would have occupied the positions of true father and true mother eternally in the spirit world.

Yet due to their mistake in following the archangel's desires, this was not possible.  Had there been no Fall, everyone could have gone to Heaven just by simply attending the True Parents, perfect Adam and perfect Eve, just as if they were attending God.

The reason for birth

Everything is round in the created world: the sun, the earth, and the stars.  Even our mouth upon further analysis is round.

No matter what, everything is created that way.  Then the universe makes relationships by going round and round in circular, cyclical movements.

Even if one individual thing has a round shape, it does not exist on its own, but makes a connection with the whole.

This helps explain why we are born?

We are born to beat in rhythm with this vast universe.

The ocean waves that lap against the shore, lap against our hearts as well.  Gentle breezes softly and serenely lull our hearts into serenity.

The flowers which bloom release rich fragrances and stir the fragrance in our hearts.

If we are born, raised, live and die in love, then we can be grateful for our birth, life and death.

Since you were born through your parents love and treasure each other exceedingly, you consider yourselves born as the flags planted through your parents' love.

You are participants in this love.

Being born from that place of your parents' love, you consider yourselves born as the flags planted through your parents' love.  These flags flutter to express love.

God created humanity to live for the sake of love throughout their entire lives.  So, you should wave the flag of love for you mother, your father and for your siblings.

The relationship between a moment and a lifetime

The crossroads of life do not occur over a long drawn out period over time, but it happens in a single moment.

Your living body cannot be perfected unless your entire existence becomes a foundation for absorbing nutrients.  This phenom occurs in the natural world.

People who ignore such a moment, fail to obtain something precious.

Thus, they cannot become great people, nor inherit God's throne and crown.

For the sake of one bright, shining moment, exercise care with each of the words you speak, the action you take, and even each thought you entertain.

You should believe that the content of your family daily life will remain in the relationship to the world as you deal with life and solve problems.

In this way, the realm of victory or failure is determined in such a moment.

It is the same with the historical ream of victory on the cosmic realm.  Those who are able to understand the infinite value of such a bright moment and live accordingly, can become great people, saint, or more importantly, God's sons and daughters.

This point where life and death meet, is just a single moment.

It is necessary to first desire the coming of heaven continuously with faith and wish for His will to be done.

What is more important, is how we become one with God's ideal.

Attitude is the problem.

Of course, first, we must desire for the coming heaven on earth and wish for the Will to be done.  Yet, what is important is how we can personally become one with God's will and take it as our own desire.

We must create environments as individuals, and people that will enable us to inherit God's will.  This is where we can then proceed to establish, a relationship with Heaven.

Throughout the history of God's providence, there were three thousand years beginning from Adam's family  through Noah's Abraham's and Moses families down to Jesus.

In the Adam's family, the fall was not explained just because the fall was not something planned out.  This plan was to be put into action over the span of a year.

If you were given an hour, when centered on God, we make a relationship with His Will.  This is an important issue.

When you look at this failure, we see that, no matter what is presented, it did not occur over the course of a year.

It was not something that was planned to put in action over the span a year, five years or a decade.

Their mistake happened in a flash.

When we think about how that failure of only one moment has been perpetuated over eons of times within humanity, we can understand the fearfulness and dread of repeating that instant in our own life of faith.

Even if we live 40 years as a saint, we can fail God's will in just one moment of weakness.  When you look at the biblical story accounts of many people of faith, it is a record of many failures of God's people to restore God's heaven on earth.

The point Adam and Eve believed in the archangel's words over God's, these became the origin of a humanity needing to make a tremendous offering of indemnity or redemption for this mistake.

When we understand this importance, a single hour that we ordinarily live so casually within our daily lives can become just as fearful for such a mistake to take away years of foundation.

Even moreso, we have to feel how fearful even a moment is, even one second of one hour that goes by as the clock continuously tick.

Even eternal heaven has to exist having an integral relationship with the single moment.

We mistakenly believe that eternity begins when we die, but it begins at the moment we come to know God's will.

Eternity will be interrupted if there is even a short jump in time even if it was just a moment, then eternity will be interrupted.

We should, therefore, not procrastinate while walking this path of faith in the course of our lives.

Do  not procrastinate by deferring your responsibility.  A person such as this will die without ever having spent a day of being one with the Will over the course of their lifetimes.

Then they cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven.  However good your country of residence may be, you cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

If you are unable to live even one day by a victorious standard, you will not enter the eternal world if you fail to live even one day out of the year for God's providence.

Since we cannot stop and must move forward, believers go forth dreaming of eternity. It is important for believers to go forth dreaming of eternity.

What is even more important for believers is how much evil can be eradicated and whether they have become the standard of goodness.

This is very crucial.

When we look from this perspective, Adam's momentary lapse in judgment led to thousands years of anguish.  God, thus planned for Cain and Abel to dissolve this anguish of their parents and demolish the wall that exists between brothers and create the origin of one true family.

Yet, Abel's murder was also an instantaneous incident that changed God's plan.

During Noah's 120-year course, he toiled to build the ark.  In only a brief moment, God gave the command to board the ship.

Those who followed this order were able to receive the blessings of the eternal God.  Those who did not were buried within the eternal judgment.

The same with Abraham: God's promise that His descendants would be numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. Gen. 22:17

This was bestowed in a twinkling of an eye.

Abraham's sacrificial offering did not require decades, but rather a mere day's work.  The time it took him to cut the offering and place it on the altar, was not an hour, yet that single hour historically bore the seeds of all life and death, or curses and blessings within it.

Today, believers should not dread the visitation of judgment in the Last Days, but the question of how they will harmonize their daily activities and face life's crossroads with God's will.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the book Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter One, Section 1, 1-4

Witnessing Teaches True Love

Many Americans believe that the times which we are living are much better than the olden days, but the truth is the days of the past are much purer and better.

Of course there was much blood shed and many wrongs of the past, but from the viewpoint of values, we must restore this to the present time because this opposite direction leads to destruction.

But Americans will not just simply accept such statements.  We must be able to clearly explain why we must live a purer way.  We must do so quickly because the time is short and unless we cand do this, America cannot be saved.


There have been many changes in public opinion taking place without you even realizing it. Righteous Americans have joined the staff of the Washington Times, even taking a cut in salary, because they felt inspired to join the new conservative movement.


How responsible do you feel for following these words?

Many speeches speak about witnessing to the home church providence in your area comprising of 360 homes.  How many homes in the past week did you visit in your home church area?

Throughout history, many religious people have made tremendous sacrifices and millions have been martyred for their belief in God.  Because of this collective merit of sacrifice and blood, home church is now possible.

There is a value and meaning to this providence because the 360 homes in your area represent all the people in the world.

By witnessing to them, you are doing the same work as working with people all over the world.  Through this, you are able to restore your  family.

If you are not able to do the work of home church, you will be severely judged later.

On the church level, we have not been able to go beyond the family level.  There are many families, but in comparison to the ultimate goal this accomplishment is small.  Unless we are able to go to the larger levels of society nation and world, our level of freedom will not be complete in the spirit world. We will have limited movement there.

As we do the work of restoration every day, corresponding areas in spirit world open and are created at the same time.  At best we have the freedom, right now, to move about at the community level.

There are many borders and boundaries in areas of the spirit world just as there are here on earth.

We witness to people on a one-to-one basis, but at this rate how will be able to expand to the world level?

Your responsibility is to expand to the highest levels.

This is for the sake of your clan.  When you do home church and the people there understand God and His will through the Completed Testament, Divine Principle, then they will be able to educate your clan.  They will become better teachers than you are.

You can think of it in relation to Cain and Abel in your clan.  Your responsibility in the Abel position is to stand on the central point guiding others, living the heavenly, vertical standard yourself.

When you are able to do that, you are able to inherit the position of a true parent.  By standing int hat position, you receive God's love directly, Father love.  Mother's love and the love of brothers and sisters.

If we were able to see with a spiritual microscope, we would be able to see that every one of your cells reflects one of those kinds of love.

They would not be able to just see you alone in your cells, but that you have achieved unity and selflessness.  You can then confidently claim that your 'I' now is different from the 'I' before, because it is reflecting the love of God, parents and brothers and sisters.

Have you thought before about your cells carrying all these different elements of love?

People will automatically like such a person when they see him.  When a person lives only for himself, however, it is hard for anyone to like him. It is even more difficult for God to be pleased with him..

But when you are full of love of others, God will love everything about your eyes, nose and everything else that belongs to you.

Your parents would love you more than you love yourself and will want to share everything they have with you.


Whenever anyone comes to visit me, I try to show love to that person and treat him better than anyone has ever treated him in the past. This is the attitude I want to teach you; whenever you take any position, you should take it with the most loving heart. If you become the president of some organization, be the most loving president that group ever had.


When it is time for the blessing, arranged marriage, many may wonder why they were given the spouse that was picked for them and they want a better one.  If you think that your fiancee is very difficult to love, then when you are able to love them, you will be the king and queen of love.

Do you think God would like such a complaint and think you should have a different fiancee and will change you around?

We each have an endless realm of love to connect with if you make a success out of your relationship.  Certainly, then, God will want to fill you with everything you need.

Every bridegroom should think of his bride as more precious than royalty as if she was his queen and  vice-versa.

The blessing is given to reverse the position of the fall and connect man and wife to the direct blood lineage of God.  How tragic would it be if you knowingly or unknowingly stopped it?  Your ancestors and all of creation will accuse you if you prevent them from being connected to God.

Sometimes, people join the movement with such zeal, but after a few years of hard work, their enthusiasm diminishes.  On the other hand, there is the member that doesn't get much attention at first but gradually build up his accomplishments.

Which member would you like to be?

Naturally, you want to go up, not down, but if you do not follow simple directions like working for the home church providence, you are going down.  You may say that you will carry out your responsibilities as a person of faith, but how much have you actually carried out?

Maybe the American youth have not lived up to all their promises, but another country will.  If the time comes when the white people fail to complete God's time table, then the black people will rise up and become the leaders of the world.

We must realize that America has been helped because it is at the center of God's providence for restoring the world.

If America is not able to do as much as they can and fulfill this mission of world salvation, there will be accusations by your ancestors and all the white people there.

Americans have been taught this material through public speeches and lectures more than any other country and any other religion.  The consequences of missing this opportunity will be much more serious than you think!


This morning I am dressed in a suit and tie because of Sunday Service; normally, however, I prefer to wear less expensive clothing. I have trained myself to conserve water which is so plentiful here in America, because I know how little clean water is available in other parts of the world, especially Africa. If you consistently try to look at things from God's viewpoint, these things are very basic ways of living.


This is why other members from poorer countries do not accuse Father or believe negative information even though they have suffered deprived lives and he is living in comfortable surroundings.

He doesn't feel proud of those things and always thinks that he will see to it that everyone around the world has this kind of environment.

Each of us must live according to the true vertical standard and continuously widen the sphere of influence.  You mustn't think, "Just let the world take care of itself. I am satisfied just as long as my family is doing fine."

The idea is to expand in all four directions, so you need to be moving from the East to the West securing both ends.  Maybe in the future, Western students will want to travel to the Eastern Universities and vice-versa.

If these students' desire is to truly learn from another culture, they can't just have a few small experiences just for purpose of reference and take it back to their native culture.  They can only expand themselves by taking the culture seriously trying to learn from it.

Families that have lived a sacrificial lifestyle for God, should be proud of their sons and daughter going to the remote parts of the world because in this way, cultures of the world can be linked to the families of the highest vertical love of God.

They will also be linked to the deepest horizontal love between people.

Thoughtful and conscientious people around the world will agree with this.

Americans should be the first to reach out and learn from people around the world.  Some Americans are only able to think that the Western way is only good way.

Once America is able to exhibit such an universal attitude, then the rest of the world will follow.

We should not just form and focus only on our family becoming comfortable with our way of life.  You should understand that if you only have a small influence, then your level of freedom to mobility in spirit world will be also small.


In Korea today, people from all professions have come to respect me, while in America I am still treated as an outcast. Since I fought a legal battle in the Orient, I feel that it is right to face a similar battle here in the West. I will never be exhausted; even though every kind of person may oppose me, I must carry out what is necessary.


Is it ideal to say that only blonde, light-skinned people are the standard for mankind?  Of course not.  Within each single individual, there are all different colors of materials.

The different species of geese, such as the Canadian and Alaskan, do not fight with each other when they cross the border.

They do not fight over color or nationality.  If a geese was to lay a colored egg, the mother would not abandon him.

Geese are not aware of color and do not base their decision off of them.  However, the person who is conscious of his own color and other people's coloring creates barriers and obstacles in his life.

Even though many people may shout for you to go home and you receive much persecution as you walk this pathway, you must recognize your true value.

One day you will be sought after by the whole world.

The earth is divided into the North and South pole.  But, human civilization is divided between the Eastern world and the West.

The two poles of the earth are the vertical line and the East-West is on horizontal line.  When humanity is able to finally unite globally with harmony between the East and the West, Heaven on Earth will be achieved.

Americans have been opposed to Reverend Moon without actually knowing anything about Reverend Moon. Soon, however, the time will come when Americans will quickly change their minds.

Would you like to go to the other part of the world?

The person who refuses to budge becomes stagnant and eventually will decline.  We must widened the individual influence to all the higher levels to the clan, nation and world.

If you are not able to literally expand to the highest levels, then you can connect yourself with the Messiah and follow him.

This ideology of the Divine Principle, the Completed Testament, which this blog is based upon has been persecuted on the worldwide level because it has reached to that position.  Any conscientious person who hears this teaching will see the greatness of its ideology.

You each recognize this, but sometimes you say you wish this path was easier and less difficult and you would be more motivated.  However, if the hardship was eliminated, the there could not be any true restoration accomplished.

The normal course for a champion is to go through many hardships. 

To become a world champion boxer or a supreme martial artist, would you expect to do it without fighting or any amount of training?

You would not be able to win the moment you stepped into the ring just from the first blow of your opponent if you ran out.

The normal course of a champion is to get beaten, to bleed and to have many scars.  But just when things look the worst for him, he is able to stand up and knock out his opponent.  This is the way the champion must go.

Our work on this path of faith is a real challenge as well.

At the time of difficulty, serious people stay and weak, uncommitted people fall away. 

If you are able to continue this endeavor and keep running all the way to the goal, no matter what happens, you are assured of being a true winner and champion.

The Messiah's true work of world restoration is so arduous, those who know his path would not be hungry for that central position.

No one is willing to take over that position.  Actually, within the world of love, there is nobody who can take the position.

Was God's position elected through popular vote?  What about the Messiah?

Certain positions were created before there was a political process conceived.  Likewise, you did not have any decision or chose in who was your parents, brothers or sisters.

Some things in human society will never be changed.

Through the election process, it is possible that a communist is elected president of this country.  If that was possible, Satan would be able to win tremendous influence over the earth.  God has been fighting Satan's influence throughout history and now we are at the culmination point.

The Messiah's responsibility is to achieve and protect the vertical position of love.

We already know that no military power will be able to stop the spread of communism completely.  The battle must be won within the communities and families, where the ideology has been implanted and embraced.

Home church of witnessing to 360 people in your area is the way to fight the influence of communism.

Communism is the enemy of God because it believes salvation through material gain and not through God.  If you have built a strong foundation in your area, you will be able to know if someone enters the community preaching communism.

You will then be able to prevent such unwholesome ideas from invading your area.

New York is in a pivotal position for the world; if it turns toward goodness, the world will follow. If it turns toward evil, so will the whole world.

The movement has focused energies and resources to New York for decades for this reason while others were deserting the city and giving up on it.  We went against the tide at that time.

The young people of the movement have been pushed to be humble and deny themselves to reverse the fallen ways of the secular world.  Even fiancees do not hold hands while other kiss and express their love publicly.

In secular society, people often live together before becoming husband and wife, but we get married and wait a time to do mission work before we consummate as husband and wife.

When you are able to go this way, you go beyond your physical appetites in order to achieve a greater goal.

We may appear to be the lowest people and continue to deny our worldly pleasures, but we are actually becoming greater and greater people.

Those who constantly indulge their appetites will discover that they have not gone up, but down in value.

Likewise, those without the strength and determination will not be able to persevere through the most difficult times.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Completion of the Ideal