Spirit World is Now Here on Earth

Every Sunday morning worshipers sing about "God is on His throne" as we praise him. Would any father enjoy His high position as His own children suffer?

God gave up His throne and came all the way down to the bottom of hell.

After the Fall of man, Satan stole God's children from their original birthright as true owners.  There at the bottom of hell, God Himself paved each step toward the accomplishment of human perfection.  God has been pulling and pushing mankind through each step of the providence.

Who fulfills God's will? By man.

When God is down at the lowest part of the world, would he say that He doesn't need you and He can fulfill His will all alone?  It is impossible to fulfill God's will without man's participation.  Man is an important component to fulfill God's will.  Therefore God embraces man in this mission.

God instructs man in accordance with man's acceptance or his level of understanding.  God cannot teach the highest possible truth to men with inadequate awareness.  With many failures of saints and people of faith to fulfill God's will, His providence has been prolonged for thousands of years.

God could not reveal the contents of the Bible or Divine Principle to primitive tribes who did not know anything about the world or universe and only had concerns for themselves.

God has a method of teaching and gives guidance that differs according to each man's perception.  Still God had a method to teach each generation of man to their own level of understanding.

For example, through Shamanism, God asked people to worship the creation of trees, the sun and moon things in which they could relate and see directly.

Would God have been able to teach people of a simpler time in a classroom and blackboard setting?

God already has all the knowledge and resources necessary to teach each person who can perceive the universe through other teachings.  Yet, God is limited in all the knowledge that He can teach man all the time.

The human mind turns every moment of the day both day and night just like the universe and the earth.  God can only reveal His teaching to a person's mind that is in the daylight or one whose mind is uplifted.  Only in those moments can God capture and teach each of us.

No individual's mind travels in a straight line.

Instead the mind progresses in waves up and down.  You may feel this.  Some days you feel like a million bucks when you wake up and feel like flying.  Other days, you feel so gloomy that you can barely get the strength to make yourself wake up completely.

In those moments that your spirit is uplifted and shining, you are ready to contact the spirit world and God.  A spark can jump between God's spirit and your spirit.  This is the very reason as people of faith that we should strive very hard in each moment to be bright and happy all the time.

When you keep your spirit uplifted all the time, you can meet God. 

This is the most basic and important mode of life for those who want to reach God for which we can be thankful.  If there is something troubling you, then somehow take care of it right away.

So why is it important to monitor and make effort concerning your behavior every moment in life?

By living in this way you open yourself to God and prolong the time which you are able to be with God directly.  In this way, there is more chance that God can approach you.

This is why our religious life is so important in our spiritual progress.  The true definition of a religious life is making yourself readily available to receive God's revelations.  In living a religious life, we pursue the hope of seeing a grandiose future ahead with God even though our present situation only involves suffering.  By doing this you create an atmosphere where you can meet God.

When something deeply troubles you in your heart, don't you seek out a good friend to talk about it and get it off your chest?

This is the same reason religion stresses communication with God and trusting Him with our problems and forgetting about them.

You can go to God and tell him, "God, I have a problem here.  Let me talk it out with You so You can see it and I can get rid of it.".  This is better, because your good friend may not be capable to help or understand you and will eventually forget your situation, but God is capable to handle your problem and will never forget your situation.

Spirit world and God will always approach you when your awareness is high. 

In your awareness, the spirit and God can touch you and teach you, not in a classroom, but through dreams, visions and revelations.

You also may be guided by a spirit guide on a tour and be opened to the reality of the spirit world.  God uses dreams as an important medium to reveal Himself through important revelations in some dreams.

Because of the fall of man caused by the first parents of humanity, we belong to the satanic lineage or bloodline of Satan.  This stained sinful or fallen blood is not pure.  Therefore, there is only one way that a higher spirit can contact you.

Each time we move, that satanic blood circulates through our bodies.On the other hand, when you sleep at night and your body is not in motion, your blood does not circulate as rapidly.  It is the same as a muddy lake that is sitting still allowing the dirt to settle to the bottom bringing the pure water to the top.

This same kind of phenomenon happens when we sleep; our bodies quiet down and in that way our spirit is in a position to be touched, which is why revelations usually come at night. This is common sense; it may be new to you, but in religious life these experiences are very important.

Can you distinguish your dreams whether they are from God or from Satan?  A satanic dream does not have a clear focus, direction or central theme.  Korean slang labels this as "dog dreams".  They are jumbled and easy to forget upon waking up. In contrast, a heavenly dream has a system and a clear theme or message.

Heavenly dreams may continue a message from one dream to the next. 

If you have an uplifting dream three or more times that has the same theme or atmosphere, then you can consider this and receive it as a revelation.  A heavenly dream is so clear in your mind that upon waking you can clearly recall it vividly.

Why is that?

God's purpose of creation was that God and man were supposed to be completely united for eternity after completing the growth stages of formation, growth and perfection of self.

When God gives you something in this true atmosphere, you would not soon forget it.  Because satanic relationships are illicit and unprincipled, however, they are quickly forgotten.

If you are in constant contact with the spirit of God and good spirits, you cannot be swayed by the temptation of Satan.

You would have an unforgettable relationship with God.

Even if you were to go down to the dungeons of hell in a satanic environment, Satan can not claim you because you would be so deeply meditating on God's revelation.  Did you know that 70% of the Bible came through the revelation of dreams?

 In the Old Testament Jacob's eleventh son, Joseph, once told his parents about a dream, in which the sun, the moon and eleven stars came and bowed down to him. This little boy vividly recalled his dream. Later on, Joseph became the Prime Minister of Egypt and his father and mother, who were represented by the sun and moon in the dream, and his eleven brothers, the stars, came and bowed down to him.

Jesus' mother Mary received an important revelation testified in the New Testament.  Joseph was approached by an angel one night that told him not to fear taking Mary as his wife for the baby was conceived in her was of the Holy Spirit.

Every human dreams at night, but usually people forget them.  But if there is a vivid, unusual dream that you can remember more than three years later, such a dream is a revelation and the work of God.  Many people get the revelation about the Messiah of the Second Coming will be an Oriental man born in the flesh.    

Why do these phenomena have to occur?

The spirit world has descended on earth and they are trying to teach you through many distinct types of messages.  Sometimes, God Himself comes, or the spirit of Jesus or a noble spirit.

Sometimes your own ancestors come to you or even an evil spirit.  Therefore, it might not be that easy to determine how true these messages or from who they originate.

It is important to get the help and support of spirit world, but we can be misled and confused by it if we don't know the fundamental principles governing it.  You may witness that in today's time, more and more people are suffering from psychological disturbances.

This occurs and is more prevalent in these days because the lower spirit realms of spirit world also assault the physical world always trying to affect people on earth in one way or another.  The lower realm spirits always have an adverse effect on people.

Even those spirits from the lower realms are trying to assist you in your work on earth, but because of their lower energy, they can destroy you or at least disturb you.  Conversely, good spirits from the higher realms can guide and assist you by bringing you divine truth and power.

This is the reality of the world today whether people believe in life after death or not.  Psychologist and professors try to study dreams extensively to determine the cause and come up empty handed.  Some people believe that dreams come from the depths of our subconscious, but those kinds of dreams do not originate from God and easily are forgotten.

A God-given dream is very significant and vivid and are never expected.  All of a sudden a dramatic event will occur in a dream, that cannot be forgotten.  They are often times not related to familiar things.  This kind of dream is the intervention of the spirit world.

When we make an effort to concentrate on spirit world and God through praying all night or meditation, our spiritual nature can surface.  There, our dirty and foreign elements will settle to the bottom.  This is similar to when we are in a state of sleep except we are wide awake.

In a state when we are really tired where we are on the verge of sleep, yet we are still awake and can still hear sounds and see things not clearly, this is the moment where a vision can come.  This is a wonderful opportunity for God to reveal a clear vision and message to us.

Prayer is emphasized in discipline, in order to quiet our bodies down and increase our spiritual alertness.  This allows God to speak to us very clearly and manifest Himself in our visions.  When one becomes disciplined in this kind of prayer, one will be able to see visions with their eyes open.

As you sit down to pray, you will automatically see visions and hear voices.  Your ears will hear sounds from both the spiritual and physical worlds.  The movie 'The Sixth Sense' described this phenom perfectly.

Everyone has this ability.

This practice is called religious discipline.  When the missionaries get tired from working so hard all day, heaven will then open up and show them astonishing things as they are momentarily dozing.  Even with one second of time, God can reveal to them ten years of history or give them some kind of forewarning.  This is an almost daily diet.

There are two systems within our bodies: one deals with the physical world, another with the spirit world.  There is so much to be talked about spirit world for days and nights because it is so fascinating this world that one will not want to return to earth.

Of course,there are those whose spirit self is unsettled once they go there because of the unclean life they lived, but those closest to God who lived in love while on the earth can breath the air of the love of God while there.

Before you can speak about individual perfection, you must have a basic understanding of the spirit world.

The person selected by God is a pathfinder who can lay a superhighway for all the people dwelling in those lower realms and thereby free them to go to a higher level. We call that person a prophet.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon



God has been working in the lower realms of spirit world to bring multitudes of spirit men up to a higher level.  To do this, God will raise up a prophet or a central figure to open the path for even the lowest spirit in hell.  This is the pattern which God follows.

God chooses a pioneer on earth, not a spirit man, to first work in the lowest and most primitive reams that will open a path that other spirit men there can follow up tot he next level.  Spirit men work through a person on earth of their choosing to elevate when they elevate to a higher level on earth.

Then they will be able to live in a higher realm of the spirit world.  Everyone will benefit from God's pioneer who paves the path and become a recipient of his accomplishments.

In our times of the Last Day, spirit men from all the levels of spirit world come down to earth to assist people on the same level they are and inspire individual to follow God's central person the Messiah of the Second Coming.  These spirit men will then benefit from the person's accomplishments.  Spirit men will reap the same benefit by assisting the person on earth.

The key to man's situation is here on earth; whatever we loose here on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 

This means that salvation is only brought about on earth; once in spirit world, there is no solution to restore wrongs of the past.  Spirit men must have to work through someone who is in the physical world.  Some religions such as Buddhism has a similar theory called reincarnation.

The Divine Principle teaches that there is only one life and there is no way to reincarnate.  There is only one Buddha.  He cannot return and become another Buddha on earth born again in the flesh.  The confusion may begin because Buddha can appear in spirit and assist people on the spiritual level.  Then, people mistaken this phenomena of the second coming of someone as reincarnation.  Reincarnation is not possible.

Sometimes a spirit man influences an individual so much that he even behaves like that spirit man like Buddha or Confucius, for example. People may think that the individual is the reincarnation of Buddha, but actually it is only the spirit of Buddha assisting him.

Throughout history, God handpicked numerous prophets to extend the highway in order to further develop man's spiritual progress to teach them higher content.  Therefore, God made spiritual progress possible for all of mankind.




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The Will of God and Individual Perfection

God Brings Union to Man and Woman

Yesterday's post focused on the attitude one needs to have of their spouse before marriage.  One of full acceptance and love for their spouse and not rejecting their spouses based on looks or educational background.  God himself puts Himself in a position of absolute love. 

What is man's relationship to God?  We are the substantial object to the invisible spiritual God.  Man and woman are eternally in the object position to God's love.  Love comes from and begins with a relationship with God.  God used love to create the first man and woman.

Moisture is ever present in the air and presents itself as condensation.

"Adam and Eve are like the droplets that appear from moist air when the temperature drops. When the temperature rises, then it is gas, and that is invisible, analogous to God."

The difference between man and woman is likened to a magnet;man is plus and woman is minus.  In order for energy to be generated, man needs woman and woman needs man.  Man and woman need absolute faith, love and obedience centered on God to come together as God's ideal of creation.


Adam is in the subject partner position and Eve is the object partner.  Why did God creat man and woman as convex and concave?  Can they fit perfectly without God's intervention?

God intervenes between convex and concave to meet each other and man needs God's permission as together man and woman are in the object position to the Heavenly Father.  Dialectical and communist theory would deny this reality. 

Their theory is that spirit and God does not exist, only material exist and is the reason for all existence.  Divine Principle crushes this theory. God as the origin of man and woman bringing them together and working through them and multiplying through His good lineage.

Man and woman truly fit one another through true love by first receiving heavenly true love, then man and woman meet each other.  Before they meet, they are each half perfect.  Man and woman alone cannot be perfect. 

Individuals nowadays try to obtain perfection on their own, but why did God create man and woman as convex and concave?  Because of love, God created man's and woman's sexual organs.

For love to stimulate the life of a man and woman, they need harmony with one another.  Man and woman are motivated to unite with each other when they center on true love.  Without the attraction power of love, they will run out of energy to sustain life or marriage.

Man and woman are not to just live for their own generation, but connect the next generation to their love activity.  Man's and woman's love are not two different entities, but are connected to one true love.  Centering on this one true love, then unity comes between them.  This love originates with God.

A man and woman meet each other centered on God.  They connect to one another to create one blood lineage.  A wife may have ten thousand generations connected to her physical cells.  Ancestors from thousand years ago are still connected to her body.  Through her life on earth, she connects these beings to the future.  Blood lineage never dies or disappears because it will always be connected to descendants. 

Do women believe in their man 100% absolutely these days?  We usually find that they are complaining about their man based on their own self-centered ideas.  This is an important issue concerning marriage.  To go the opposite way of this trend is to have absolute pure love for the spouse.  No matter the situation or the difficulty, your mind should be unchanging toward following the spouse who is centered on God.

Because we are descendants of a tainted blood lineage and are fallen individuals, we have become valueless people. Without knowing God, you don't know absolute obedience.

"Did you wear your best clothes today? When you wear it, you may feel you have the best clothes of anyone here. You never think you are second best. But you should think about how God looks at you. Then what idea comes?"

If God looks at you dressing up, is He positive or negative about it? I am looking at the woman’s side in all history. Did they use their sexual organ proudly or not? I am looking for such a woman in history. Maybe you want to be the woman with the number one sexual organ in the world.

Which side is greedier, man or woman?  When we look in history, can we evaluate if there has been women who have used their sexual organs properly in the sight of God?  What about man?  Have you ever wondered if there was any woman like Hitler who killed 6 million people.  Only man has led such atrocities.  It seems then that man is greedier than woman.

God has both convex and concave, feminine and masculine attributes.  This is why both man and woman love God.  This is also why a pregnant woman have three persons inside of her:  God, the father, and the mother. 

"Which is first, convex or concave? The rain falls down and the ground is flat. Think about concave: it expects the convex, that is why it is called concave. So convex is first. Why is this important? The sexual organ is God and Adam’s organ."

All men have two testicles. What is the central point? God. Woman’s sexual organ accepts the man’s. So it is soft but strong. Man and woman have love, and through that, life is transferred. True love is not enough; the relationship is important for the transfer of life. That’s why the sexual organ is the foundation of love, or base of love and the palace of love.

The  palace of love originally was to be Adam and Eve.  This may be weird if you are hearing this for the first time.  The author of the Divine Principle talks about the man and woman's sexual organs as the palace of love.

A nation can fall due to the misuse of the sexual organs, just take a look at kings and religious leaders of the past.

Without a great husband or wife, you cannot expect great children.  The man's palace of love is only accomplished through the woman's sexual organ and vice versa.  A man's life connects with woman's love and woman's life connects with man's love.

 

"In Korean, a woman’s sexual organ is called jago, which means the palace of children. The woman’s sexual organ gathers the blood lineage and connects it with life. All kinds of things happen there. Blood lineage is connected with the universe. There are two different lineages meeting there in the sexual organ; they mingle there and create a new one."

Originally, there was only supposed to be one lineage, instead, the satanic blood lineage runs through our veins.  God's idea was for His blood lineage was supposed to be for all of humankind.  Our lives were meant to live for the sake of others.  Through this lifestyle, we can bring selfless love.  A woman's love is not owned by woman herself.  Her love is connected to all of her ancestors.  This is why tradition is important to follow.  We need tradition.

When one woman connects her sexual organ to two men, this destroys the center.  Without a central point, it can not be eternal and clear.  Remember the account of Adam and Eve after they had given unto the "fruit".  They covered their sexual organs.

Why?

If the fruit they ate was an apple, they would cover their mouths, but the fruit was the misuse of their sexual organs so they covered their parts.  You hide your transgressions.  They were naked and unashamed before the fall, but they partake in love without God's permission and before their love was mature.

This is why we repeat over again, "absolute faith, love and obedience".  It is the most important in our relationship with God. If beside your husband there was another beautiful woman, could you be happy?  Free sex with a different lover every night is ruining this country.

You must absolutely love your husband.

Yet still as people of faith we contain fallen nature within us.  This is a source of self-destruction and a fearful thing, a thief within us.  You are against God's will when you complain about this and that.  Do you understand the meaning of absolute faith, love and obedience?

Even if we invest our lives to understand this concept it will still not be enough.  Future leaders should be pointed to Unification theological Seminary.  Even if a child goes to Harvard, they should still graduate from UTS to show church leadership.
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No matter how many master's one obtains, if they do not understand the spiritual side of matters, they did not prepare well.  Even if one can lead a business, leadership means to prepare to lead the church as well.  some people hesitate learning more because they do not know how much the spirit world affects our lives.

Money means nothing. If one does not follow the direction of the  higher true teachings of the spirit world in relation to man, no matter how much pride or money one has, they will fall at the end of their life.  The Completed Testament known as the Divine Principle should not be taken lightly.  The author invested all ideas in ways to save the world and sacrificed his life for the sake of humanity.  His whole life is an exemplary course.  Young people should be willing to follow this idea.

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This text was rewritten and  taken from the speech: Standing on My Foundation, given by the Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Before and After the Marriage Ceremony

Welcome to another week of inspiring words based on the Divine Principle written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.  We'll continue the topic of marriage and ideal couples centered on God.  In the Unification Church, members are taught the principles of the Bible from God's point of view and how He had planned a world of peace starting with the first family of Adam and Eve. 

Once members align themselves to these principles on the individual level, they are ready for what is called the Blessing Ceremony.  This ceremony is the matching of two people who most likely never met before.  It is different from any minister giving two people in marriage.  Unification Church members believe Father Moon is the Messiah who God uses to give marriage DIRECTLY.  Through this, the couple is engrafted to God's direct and pure blood lineage and pass it to their children who are then born without the ORIGINAL sin connected to Satan's blood lineage.  Father Moon believes through the restoration of family through intercultural and interracial marriages, world peace can gradually be achieved. 

This movement is worldwide with millions of members all over the world. The following is a speech he gives about love and the blessing:


"Have you ever thought about why I give such long sermons? I have a dramatic answer: because I hate to leave you. I enjoy every minute of my time with you. I study each of you, looking at your features, observing your reactions, inspecting your eyes, nose and mouth. I think about what kind of person would be your ideal mate. That is why the matchings (arranged marriage Blessing) go so fast: I have already done my homework!

I'm not talking this way just to be charming. I mean it. A godly person should be fond of other people. Godly people should love and enjoy their fellow men. Whether you go east or west, north or south, whether it is day or night, it makes no difference.

You must enjoy people. That is why people feel so drawn to me. If Africans were told not to come here, they would feel very sorrowful. They would try the front door, back door and side door and find some way of entering.

Why?

Because they would be attracted to the person who loves and cares most deeply for Africa. That is the result of my ideology. I want to meet everybody and establish bonds with them. I want to love all Americans; I love America more than the Americans do.

Young people are most sensitive to the magnetic power of love.

Even before I came to the United States, I knew that young people would be attracted to me, and my prediction was absolutely correct. You are young people, aren't you? Actually, what I am saying is simply that young people have purer minds than older people. Young people are more attracted to true love.


Yearning for People

Have you also been longing for other people? Have you been missing others, yearning to care for them?

Throughout my entire life, my job has been to love people and pray for them. I find that my prayers are answered; my prayers become reality.

Whenever I meet someone, I enjoy being with him or her; I can entertain, care for and love that person. When people are in love, there are no strange feelings between them. It makes no difference what habits they may have. It makes no difference whether they eat kimchee and kocheejang, or cheese and butter. There are no barriers between lovers. Their union is the beautiful culmination of love. Nothing else is more important.

A perfect plus is like a dynamo; it always creates a perfect minus. It happens automatically, without effort. Wherever a perfect plus is found, a perfect minus appears. If you are a perfect plus, you can sit in the middle of a village doing nothing, and the villagers will come to you automatically.

People are always drawn to me. Do you feel the same way about me? If I touch your hand, do you feel bad or good? How do you men feel? How do you women feel?

Many members think that if they could only shake hands with me once, their heaven would be guaranteed. But they haven't had the chance yet. My handshake is very expensive! I seldom shake anybody's hand, but still people follow me. 

Love Opens Every Door

Imagine someone who has just met a woman for whom he feels a tremendous attraction. Perhaps the two have just recently fallen in love. But then that man meets the Unification Church and he completely forsakes his lover.

Then he begins to yearn day and night, even weeping with longing to meet Reverend Moon. Only love can explain this. Only God's love can work this kind of magic. Love opens every door, including the door to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Such a person may come to where I am staying and I may yell at him, "Get out of here! Why are you sticking around?" But actually, if he loves me so much, I am already living with him in spirit. I will always remain with him.

At night, such a person doesn't have to worry about walking down a dark road, because I will take his hand and lead him. He could even close his eyes while walking down an alley, and I could tell him to step down and he would automatically do it. If I told him to step up, turn left or turn right, he would do so without even opening his eyes. That is how love works.

Physically, I have only one body; I am physically limited. Spiritually, however, I can be a million persons; such a thing is possible spiritually. I am known as a mysterious person, someone with mystical qualities, but actually it is not unusual.

Many, many times throughout the years and decades of my life, I have shed tears out of longing for God. When I cried out for God, missing Him, aching for Him, the entire spirit world would open up to me.

You should long for me just as much as I long for God. Actually, people in the Unification Church who don't long for me, who don't miss me, who have no tearful desire for me are not really members of the Unification Church. When you do reach that level of longing, you can immediately achieve unity, and the entire spirit world will open up to you.

Lawful, Public Love
My concept is that we should be people of deep longings; we should enjoy every minute we spend with someone. When we care about others, we have no dull moments. Meeting others is the proper job for people of God. That is what my life is all about. I am an expert at meeting others.

Someone who comes to meet me at East Garden for the first time may plan to stay only half an hour, but he discovers it isn't so easy to leave. I never tell anyone not to go, but people just don't want to get up and leave. This is a result of the power of love that draws people to me.

People are supposed to long for and miss one another. If love depended on appearances, an ugly person would have a burdensome life. Therefore, God, who is the king of wisdom and justice, designed us to be lovers. When you are in love, nothing matters; ugliness is no concern; you can accept everything.

However, there is one important principle in matters of love. It should be a lawful, public love; that means unselfish love. True love is definitely public love. Through true love you can gain everything, even the spirit world. Since you cannot go alone to the spirit world, you need to go with your beloved. Therefore, a truly loving person can open up the spirit world.

Those of you who are engaged, raise your hands. Your engagement is unique. Many of you were engaged to a stranger. But even so, when you first looked at that stranger, you didn't hate him or her, did you? After looking at the stranger, you didn't want to go anywhere else.

That is the spirit I live by at East Garden. I cherish everyone who comes to sit with me, considering each as my beloved."SMM


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This text was rewritten a taken from the Textbook: True Love Volume One, The Restoration of Love written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church.