What Determines Good and Evil?

We have reached a population of seven billion people living on the face of the earth and still growing.  But they are confused from the beginning not knowing their true history.  Where has this chaotic situation began and where are we headed?

Human history is unclear which makes the process also unclear, therefore the end is unclear.  With all situations situations, the only thing that is prospering is confusion.  If we clearly knew the beginning, there would not be up or down and no confusion would exist in the world because our destiny would be very clear, therefore our end goal would be clear.

Our history is not like this.

Human history is full of confusion and continues in confusion.  People think certain things are good and certain things are evil.  There are no set standard of good and evil which everyone clearly follows.  The standard is always changing and for this reason there is greater confusion.

In history, there are two major parts that are always engaged in battle and confrontation: good and evil.  This conflict has caused bloodshed creating confusion continuing in our time.

In history many kingdoms and empires have risen and left the earth.  Those empires and kingdoms do not measure their destiny when they're going up or when they are going down; when they're going to be flourishing or when they are going to be demolished. No one knew.

Every ruler that came into power throughout history wanted to stay in power.  They wanted to stay for good and continue their goodness.  However without them knowing a logical reason, they had to perish and had to be killed.  They're kingdom had to be demolished.

Centered on men, there is good and evil in the world.  So who is going to determine what is good and what is evil?

If there happens to be a good sovereignty or an eternal good power, then that power would control and diminish evil and make good to flourish and continue to flourish.  However, there has not been such a power throughout history.

No one was able to recognize an absolute good solution, good principle or good ruler of the universe. Throughout history, rulers from different empires and kingdoms had to shape their own rules and principles to determine what was good and evil.One is different from other sets, thus from one place to the other, everyone is operating under different criteria of good and evil.

Every country has its own definition of good and evil rules and certain way of punishing evil.  In order to maintain sovereignty, each country had to enforce their own standard of good and evil.  Each country has a prison, a system of judgement and even capital punishment.

Therefore the standard of good and evil has been fluctuating up and down, according to the thinking and standards of each kingdom's ruler and sovereignty. Therefore all of humanity is destined to choose one way or the other.

People have a natural desire to take the good road which they feel they can flourish, but they end up going another way to follow the evil road.  But by following this way, they will eventually perish.  This has been the reality in history.

Furthermore, the conscience has the power of judgment; the conscience can tell what level of evil or what level of goodness. Even looking at similar countries, the conscience will see which country is the more evil country and which is the relatively good country.

The conscience has the power of judgment. 

The conscience does not only evaluate and judge matters, but is also moving itself toward the best goodness it can find.  What is the purpose of education?  Is it to educate the body or the conscience?  If the conscience has the power to judge good from evil, but the body is absolute mess far from the will of God, then what needs to be educated is the body.

 The body has to be guided, educated and led into the right direction.

So when you contact a good man one time, then the second time, and third time, your mind will know whether or not that person is good or evil or how good or how bad.  The mind and body, the conscience and body are constantly fighting with each other.  Each person has a lot of contradiction within himself or herself, but conscientious people have more harmony and cooperation between their conscience and body.

The principle states that the spirit world concentrates on the eternal, unchanging qualities of the conscience because the body is changing all of the time it cannot center on the body.

Our conscience is like the spirit world.  It is unseen, unchanging; spirit world and conscience do not change.  The physical body does not receive or communicate with the physical world.  In order to enter the spiritual world, the body is left behind.

Spirit world vibrates together with the conscience, you can harmonize and receive a message from the spirit world. 

The conscience has one standard following the one principle which is unchanging.  On the other hand, our five senses constantly change as they obey the body with ten different variations and different ways they react to the environment.  Evil uses this loophole to perform its evil acts on a playground flying in and out to do as it pleases.

When the body makes a demand, then the mind or conscience responds and rejects the idea.
Actually, there are a lot of loopholes which allow evil to come inside of us.  The eyes can view a picture many different ways.  The body will follow that image and act upon it causing the body to go down toward the road of evil.  The body chases things that will make it comfortable.  It only wants to eat good food, wear and touch soft clothes and take lots of rest.

Mind is trying to find its own place and harmonize.

We have never seen or touched our mind, but we know it is dwelling within us.  Do we know where the origin or root of the mind or original mind:?

The mind is absolutely invisible. The root of the mind has absolutely clear goals, clear direction, clear purpose-no problem there.  This means that our mind is always working toward the way and the better goodness all of the time.

Would you rather be a son and daughter of filial piety, loyal subject or a rebellious son?  What about a patriot?

If you had to choose between being a patriot or saint which would you choose?  You would probably want to be a saint because being a patriot is only limited to one country and is not far reaching.

On the other hand, a saint is a universal person who is eternal and everlasting.  Here, there is a direction and a purpose with a mind direction and purpose the mind's purpose.  The goal would not be changed for ten thousand years even million of years because it sprouts from the root of the mind.  That is the root of the conscience.

If a man absolutely obeys the direction of his conscience, he is not only known as a noble character, but he will automatically enter the kingdom of heaven.  He would be respected and admired.  The root of this noble character is the eternal center of goodness.

The original root of conscience and your conscience's purpose and direction are parallel.  So, you must know about both.  You should clearly know the purpose and goal and then there will be no confusion.

Then what is the conscience's ultimate goal?  Is our goal to gain knowledge or to be able to brag that your head holds so much knowledge and have reached the ultimate goal of goodness?

Our purpose cannot be to gain knowledge, because this quality is not everlasting and is always changing.  For example, science will tell is that vitamin B is good for the body, but then turn around years later and discover that Vitamin B is the worst thing for the body.

One study will see that a treatment for cancer is not good for the body while another thinks it is the best solution. How do you determine which is true?  Knowledge changes and is always moving forward.  What is known in our time could never have been thought of thousands of years ago.

There is no absolute truth that is guiding the academic world. 

Is money or wealth the goal of the conscience?

If you had millions of dollars in your pocket, you might feel a wonderful feeling, but the pocket rather go rest and swim.  The pocket would feel that someone will always be around to steal it and will become worrisome and watch the money.

Would the pocket be happy or feel restless and worried to carry so much wealth?

Money is not everlasting.  If a person was told to take a million dollar check for a week, but was told they would have to give it back on the weekend, at first they would feel jubilation, but would feel sad once they went home. That's money - money plays a lot of tricks.

In order to maintain power, you cannot just act normally or be a good man - you've got to be absolutely savvy and cruel in order to maintain that power. Saddam Hussein is a good example.  It is said that one only needs power to do evil, because all one needs is love as the motivator.

Because when you have sovereignty position and power, there is always someone else aiming at you, trying to topple that power.

Therefore, there are gangsters and organized crime and the coup d'etat, the military and all kinds of saboteurs, and even other political parties, all of whom are just trying to character assassinate you. They try to turn you into a vegetable so that they can take power. That's the real world. Therefore, political power has nothing to do with eternal happiness.  It will carry itself to the people as if it performing works to bring about a nation of happiness, but it is only for the interest of the politicians.

If you are in a position of power, there is always going to be an adversary that will use all their power to try to topple you over.  They will try to take all of you to turn you into a vegetable so they can take your power. This is the reality of the world and the reason why political power is not the cause of human happiness.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Let Us Inherit the Realm of Victory

The Important Thing We Need Most

"What is the most important thing, the one thing we need more than anything else? It is not money, power or knowledge. It is true love. True love is more precious than life itself and more important to us than air or water."

Could this be true?  What about eating, or sleeping and especially isn't making love the most important?  In the context of obtaining true lasting happiness, do any of the above have eternal qualities or leave us lacking once we obtain it?

Then why is true love so precious and important?  Each of us, whether we recognize it or not, want to see God and God wants to see true human beings.  God can only interact with humanity through a mediator, but when we acquire absoluteness, we can relate directly to God.

If God chose either man or woman as more important they would complain.  So, God placed love in the center of man and woman.  Through true love, God can touch and share with men and women at the same time once they center their life living for one another centered on true love.

If God placed something else in the center as the most valuable thing in the universe, men and women would fight each other to try to claim it for themselves instead of uniting and becoming one centered on it.  Once we realize that love has the highest value in the universe, we will strive to live for each other.

We will become one with each other in order to share the happiness that this love brings and possess this love together.

"Everyone likes love. Love is the only thing that can satisfy all human desires. God’s providence of salvation stems from the principle of love."

Are you aware that you have a spirit body that mimics your physical body?  Just as much as you hunger for food to keep your body full of energy and alive, your spirit that lives within you also hungers.  It hungers for true love and for God's truth.  Your spirit body grows by feeding it spiritual food such as this.

This explains why no matter how much one obtains in the material world to satisfy their bodily needs, they still feel satisfied if they leave their spirit lacking.  It is almost like starving your spirit mind and body.

Fundamentally, love belongs to God. Yet even God cannot possess love all by Himself. Love requires a reciprocal partner. A man by himself or a woman by herself cannot experience love.

Women exist for the sake of men’s love and men exist for the sake of women’s love. It does not matter how handsome or beautiful a person may appear on the outside. In their heart, every person desires a mate who can give and receive the highest level of love.

Everything in the world exists in pairs of subject and object.  In the plant world, the animal world and in the world of human beings, we see the relationship of masculine and feminine or plus and minus.

Why does God create pairs?

Because God's purpose of creation was to fulfill the expression of love which cannot be obtained alone.  Every person desires love through the relationship of the opposite sex.  Love is the one power that absolutely no one can possess on their own.

Therefore, no matter how much in love a couple is, they have a nagging desire to share their love.  The only way to experience a higher love, a husband and wife need children to experience the profound joy of parental love.  There is no higher relationship than that of parent and child.

This is because God created the universe in order to fulfill the expression of love. All beings desire the experience of true love through a reciprocal relationship. Love is the one power in the universe that absolutely no one can possess by themselves.

Once we have a partner, however, love gives us the power to share the entire universe. Likewise, a husband and wife need children in order to experience the profound joy of parental love.

Thus, we can say that God created human beings and the universe as His reciprocal partners in order to bring about true love.

"All types of love – including love of children, love of siblings, love of husband and wife, and love of parents – come about through the unity of subject and object partners. When two partners become one in true love, it is impossible to separate them. If for any reason, separation occurs, true love is destroyed. Therefore, in true love, there is no concept of divorce."

A man's love in his heart is awakened because of a particular woman.  This feeling in his heart cannot be created alone.  Likewise, the fire of love is kindled in the heart of a woman because of man who is her reciprocal partner.  She does not feel love alone.

This means without our partner, we cannot feel true love.  This means our partner has a great value and our love belongs to our partner.  Because we cannot feel true love without our spouse, we should honor our partners to have even greater value than our love.  We should be grateful for our spouse and live our life for their sake.

A couple who loves and live for one another can never be separated no matter what mountain comes before them.  This is the basic reasoning that makes couples blessed in marriage to live together eternally even after death.

"When husbands and wives live for each other, respect each other and become completely one through true love, it will be possible for the lineage of Satan to be rooted out completely."

True love comes through both horizontal and vertical relationships.

A horizontal relationship of true love is gradually elevated in a vertical direction until it eventually reaches the pinnacle. This point is the position of the "King and Queen of True Love."

Once this true position is reached, everything is balanced and embraced.  Everything is crystallized into love, and everything will bloom centered on this kind of love centered on God in the vertical position.

We are born for the sake of love, to live for the sake of love and finally die for the sake of love.  This is why every person on earth yearns to be transformed by love and live in the midst of love.

Did you know that not only humans desire love?  God created the whole creation for love.  As masterpieces of God's creation, we humans should teach the creation how to love.  The whole creation is groaning while it waits for a true man and true woman.

Creation longs to receive love and experience God's love through a true man and true woman who have become one with God at the pinnacle of true love.

This is the meaning of the third great blessing which is for man to have power over the creation through God.  Yet, we truly have not fulfilled this.  Instead, we see a world full of people misusing God's creation for temporary gain and destroying nature.  It is truly a shame that we have not realized this high degree of love we were to inherit directly from God.

"All beings want this so that they can participate in a higher level of love. Through this process, they ultimately reach the position where they can experience the love that is nearest to God, who is the origin of love. All beings have the essence of true love as their ultimate goal."

God created all beings on a certain level to have a relationship with a partner.  This relationship continues through being absorbed by a higher level of love.  For example, minerals want to be absorbed into plants, which are absorbed by animals and finally all of creation wants to be absorbed by human beings.



From God's point of view, a plant gladly lives for the sake of survival of a higher being the animal and the animal with love wants to be absorbed by a being that is united with God.

This way they, too become a higher being.  Communism wants the world to live for the government absolutely benefiting only itself.  In nature, an animal gives it life to a perfected person through love.


Even the government is supposed to be in a servant position to its people and govern through love not law.

In His wisdom, God created everything with a purpose.

For example, creatures with elongated shapes, such as eels and worms which fish like to eat, provide ingredients for natural medicine. Creatures on a higher level are meant to consume beings on a lower level. Without this process, the universe could not exist.

Darwin's theory regarding the survival of the fittest needs to be reexamined in the context of this logic of love. Even ants and microorganisms want true love so much that they will die to become part of an entity of greater love.

 Because of this principle, human beings, who are created as the highest partners of God's love, can consume all creatures. We can enjoy everything that we desire, but there is one condition: that we do so with a heart that represents the love of God, the Creator.

God's original plan was for the first humans endowed with his spirit to live centered on true love.  After their perfection, they were to become the seed for the world's family and become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.

This can only be achieved in accordance to God's tradition of true love.  The world today is in opposition to God's original plan.

"The words that I am sharing are in direct opposition to the theories of Charles Darwin. Yet it is through these words, not Darwin’s theories, that we will achieve a world of peace. This is because my words witness to the fundamental principles of creation."

Reverend Moon, the author of the Divine Principle, gives a good explanation why the Communist ideal that uses Darwin's Theory of Evolution, is not fully correct:

"Darwin proposed in his theory of evolution that species evolve through a process of natural selection based on random mutations. Such a theory implies that there is no fundamental meaning, order or goal in the development of the natural world.

Today, scientists and others are debating between the theory of evolution and the creation theory. The word "creation" acknowledges the existence of God, the Creator. There is a purpose embodied in God's act of creation. Subject and object partners unite to achieve a higher purpose.

Communist theory, based on materialism, also lacks the element of purpose. God's creation embodies the purpose of true love, whereas Communism only has struggle and destruction. Thus, it is destined eventually to disappear!"SMM


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This text was derived and rewritten from the Textbook: Everybody Wants True Love

Why Celebrities Lives Turn For Worst?

We see it everyday in the newspaper.  The latest celebrity overdoses, divorces, sweet actress does nude scene, cheating incident - you name it.

From the sweet Twilight star's cheating scandal, and going nude, to the poppy Miley Cyrus slithering around like the new 80s Madonna.  Parents must wonder what in the world is going on with the stars. Britney Spears going from sugar to spice by borrowing the boyfriend of a pregnant Moesha star to tearing up property and shaving her head. How can they let their children watch these stars and emulate their every behavior? 

Why do beautiful sweet entertainer's lives eventually go downhill?

Well, one argument says that it only seems this way because they are int he public eye, and if everyone was in the public, our lives would play out the same way in the media.  True to a certain extent.

Celebrities are humans and are no different from others. Why do we place them on such a high pedestal?

 Humans always want an example to follow.  Celebrities are seemingly beautiful people who cracked the code to success, and people want to know how to be successful and follow the lifestyles sometimes. Whether it is through religion or through other means, we all want to be greater in some way and need to see our goal before we can follow it. 

Movie stars, musicians and sports players have been placed in front of our eyes everyday through the media.  They seem to have the answer since they have the money, clothes, confidence, and we give them the glory.  Yet, everday we see through their drug overdoses, bankruptcy, and immoral activities, they are just like us, trying to make it through this crazy world. 


Some people sourly say that celebrities were always the way we see them end up, and the truth is coming out.  Others say that it is only because they are in the public eye that it seems they do many bad things when it isn't that bad as what other people do in private.  All true, but why is it in the entertainment business the majority of the people do not end up with happy lives?  Why do we as a society continue to place regular people on a  pedestal and try to follow their destructive ways which they glorify in their music and movie roles?

It is good to see celebrities lives being exposed more because it demonstrates to children that if they follow the immoral acts of celebrities, no matter who you are, you will lead a life that ends in destruction. 

Remember the account that God told Adam and Eve to obey His commandments in the beginning.  He told them advice that is so profound that it could save the dying lost even in this day and age.

Forget the debate about the fruit in the garden was not literal and symbolizes love, and that they weren't supposed to experience physical love until God blessed them in marriage. 

Let's keep it simple.  God gave them a commandment to wait upon His time when they could 'eat of the fruit'. 

He gave Adam and Eve a choice in that commandment.  If you follow my words, you unlock blessings of the earth, if you do not choose my way you receive curses.  We obviously understand which path our first ancestors endowed with God's spirit chose.  By choosing Satan's word to indulge in love before their time, humanity fell outside of God's realm under Satan's dominion.  All from a certain ACTion of teenagers, the world has been a perpetual hell every since.

One person said the problems of the world can't be that simply answered.  But it can.  All problems can stem from the misuse of love.  Even anger stems from someone inappropriately abusing love by not loving properly in someway.

Love has the power to bring blessing through its connection to God, or curses through its misuse.

We chose curses and we still choose to be cursed or blessed with every moment we make a decision.

Celebrities misfortunes demonstrate what happens when we make a chose without God as our center.  When we choose to be with a person outside of marriage, steal husbands, sleep with many people, choose drugs as our enlightenment only, choose material and wealth to make us happy, we are harming not only other people, but God's heart.  God abhors sin and he told us in the beginning it leads to destruction.

Why are these things bad?  Isn't physical love part of the creation, aren't we as God's children suppose to enjoy the fruits of God's creation?  Yes, but these objects have become our only way to happiness forfeiting God completely as a source of our love.  And love without God as the center is still love, but it is false. 

How is being with a person who is promised to another (God sees single people as people waiting to mature for their intended spouse - which is one person), even if they are not married, a part of God's True Love? 

Why do we follow in the footsteps of people who endure endless heartache over and over as the pass from one relationship and marriage to the other and believe this is the way we should live our lives to find true happiness?  We should clearly see that beauty, money and love alone is not the only way to live.  Celebrities too are looking for True Love as well.

Why would God make Adam and Eve wait to indulge in the pleasures that they were going to have anyway?

It is like giving a gun or a diamond to a three-year old.  You just don't do it.  They don't understand the value or the destruction that can come by possessing these objects too soon. 

In essence, God was telling Adam and Eve to wait until they were mature before He could bless them to enjoy the fruits of love. 

So, as adults, it may be too late, but we finally realize substantially and heartistically what parents meant when they told us we were not mature enough to handle sex and must wait for marriage, and drugs are harmful.

The parents who are enforcing the rules of saving yourself for one person and during marriage sometimes themselves have a history of not waiting for marriage, cheating and drug abuse, and children follow the example of their parents. How can we enforce this to the next generation if we ourselves have trouble living by God's word?

This is hard because of hormones and our feelings of lust and love for the opposite sex is greater than any consequences or warnings and the heartache that sprout from our misdeeds.

This was the problem with Adam and Eve, our first parents, who were just teenagers.  No matter that God had warned them, they had indulged in premarital sex without God's blessing and we have perpetuated this generation after generation.

The sad part is that God's word judges even our thoughts because even though they are not actions, thoughts plant seeds that eventually become real in some way if not counterbalanced.  If we perform in our mind sexual acts with our best friend's husband, the bible says then we have committed adultery even if we are not married ourselves.

No one is beyond this temptation.  Me, you, your children, even the most faithful and devout have this the responsibility to subjugate the desires of our bodies and fight it everyday.

                                                                                                                              "Anarchy" actor
Of course we should pray for our brothers and sisters in our communities and celebrities who can not overcome their struggles instead of just talking about their issues.  If we don't talk about them and ignore them, as we see evident, it spreads wider until it is seen in our own homes. 

Our children are watching these stars in a different light.  Many see these acts as okay as stars seemingly don't pay for for doing wrong - there are no consequences in young people's eyes, and are jaded by their beauty and  money.  It is important as parents we show that the path away from God no matter how it appears always ends in destruction.

Children must understand that God intended for us to live a life of peace and love and what seems commonplace and as an exciting life of the stars is far from peaceful.  They must see that going to rehab, excessive behavior, multiple relationships, divorce etc. may seem fun, but it hurts God's heart.

Fortunately, God is behind the scenes working to help us clear up this mistake.  No one is beyond the love of God.  No one can go too far in the other direction that they can not return down the same path and start anew.

The first step is to educate about the reasons why we fight our evil mind and carnal desires.  This battle of mind and body will end as we conquer everyday to strengthen our good God-given mind everyday.  Just like us, our spiritual body and mind must eat. 

In the environment of today's society, we feed our evil mind and body more than our good mind, making our evil body stronger.  Our ungodly mind becomes subject over the good activities we want to do.

Reading God's words of all religions, praying, acting in faith, and putting God's word and placing it into action daily is a way to strengthen our good mind and lead us back to God.

If the latest trend of celebrities going toward Eastern religions is truly part of their soul, we may see a new celebrity crop up in Hollywood.  Unfortunately, it just seems to be a ploy for some, but hopefully, one day, a revolution of celebrities that live a life led by God in Hollywood will take over.

Why worry about people we do not know?  Because whether we like it or not, our children and society's next generation of leaders follow the lifestyles of celebrity materialism without thinking about it and it is undeniably not the only cause but is definitely a part of the slow degeneration of America's values.

Simply turning off the television does not work as it has become part of our culture, our lives are inundated with the culture of media no matter how religious we are.  There needs to be a revolution of True Love in the industry or the current trend we will continue.  The trend of other countries despising America's trashy ways will increase.  Can we blame them?

One day absolutely, God's way will be more popular than the materialistic satanic way of life - hopefully in our lifetime.  God deserves to be an idol, don't you think?


Photos courtesy of MSN entertainment news.

This message is based on the Divine Principle which uses the study of the bible as its basis.