Divine Inspiration, Get It

"Before you dominate the world, first dominate yourself."


Actually, I dedicate this post to an experience that recently happened to me a little over a month ago.  After 35 years telling and writing stories, even becoming a journalist, I received divine inspiration and wrote my book in a 24-hour period. 

When I came across this text for this post, I was able to align myself to God's will as "more than imaginary" things were starting to develop, now are explained to me after reading this.  When it happens, you will know for sure that a good, high-level spirit or angel is guiding you along and it will not be a question. The same for the person God sends you to be the one, there is no question that God is guiding you.  But, with a gift comes responsibility.

When you establish in yourself the proper relationship between your mind as subject partner and your body as its object partner, you become the microcosm that resonates with the macrocosm, the spirit world and the physical world. You stand as the mediator and center of harmony between the two worlds because you have set up that harmony within yourself.

For its part, the spirit world rejoices to find in you a channel to work its will on the physical world. Although countless spirits long to do good works on earth, they require a responsive mediator through whom to act. By establishing yourself in the proper position, centered on God, you can meet the needs of the spirit world and become the focus of its attention.


Spiritual Inspiration and Our Response

Let us take some examples. It is well known that the abilities of psychics vary according to their emotional state and the spiritual environment. In the presence of skeptics, they are often disarmed and unable to show their powers. Healers testify that their healing works best when the patient is open and welcomes the work.

Even Jesus, the greatest of healers, said to the ones who were healed, "your faith has made you well" (Mark j:34), and could not do many healings in the face of pervasive unbelief. (Mark 6:5-6) This illustrates the principle that the subject-object relationship between the spirit world and the physical world is mediated through human beings. Doubt and skepticism block the relationship, and hence block the spiritual work. Faith opens the door for receiving spiritual help.

Spiritual inspiration lies behind the creative work of all great inventors, scientists and artists. In Dr. Sung Lee's tour of the spirit world, he saw spirits working in laboratories creating the stuff of invention that would be communicated to earthly scientists years later. Why is it that so many inventions and scientific discoveries are made almost simultaneously by several researchers in different parts of the world working in isolation from each other? When the time arrives for a new invention to be bequeathed to the earth, the spirit world will work through several channels at once.

Numerous accounts abound of scientists receiving the key to new discoveries in dreams or in flashes of unearthly insight. One celebrated example is the elucidation of the structure of benzene by the German chemist Friedrich August Kekule. He had puzzled for years over how its six carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms link together. (Ordinary hydrocarbons are built of straight chains of carbon atoms, but a chain of six carbon atoms with the stability of benzene would require fourteen hydrogen atoms).

One night Kekule fell asleep in his chair, and in a dream he saw snakes biting their tails and whirling around like hoops. He awoke and immediately realized that the six carbon atoms of benzene link together in a ring. With that discovery, all the facts of organic chemistry known up to that time fell into place.

Artists, poets and musicians since antiquity have acknowledged the Muse as the source of their creative genius. The words or music just comes to them, as if from a higher source. Take, for instance, this self-description by Mozart:
When I feel well and in a good humor, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish. Whence and how do they come? I do not know and I have nothing to do with it. Those which please me I keep in my head and hum them; at least others have told me that I do so. Once I have my theme, another melody comes, linking itself with the first one, in accordance with the needs of the composition as a whole: the counterpoint, the part of each instrument and all the melodic fragments at last produce the complete work. Then my soul is on fire with inspiration. The work grows; I keep expanding it, conceiving it more and more clearly until I have the entire composition finished in my head though it may be long.
Mozart was graced with the inspiration of music. He received his melodies from the spirit world. Furthermore, he knew what to do with them. He knew what to keep and what to discard, and how to develop them into a composition in accordance with the best of his art. By the time his "soul is on fire with inspiration" he would already be in the midst of co-creating a work of art whose initial seed had come to him as a gift from heaven.
Spiritual Guidance

Spiritual guidance from heaven often arrives cryptic and vague. Even Rev. Moon's directions, which we believe to be accurate in every respect, often are stated in only a few cryptic phrases. How much more uncertain is the guidance through a spiritualist, medium, palm reader or readers of Tarot cards, who has to hazard an interpretation of words and symbols!

The fact is, spiritual guidance must be couched in this way, with meanings hidden in obscure and ambiguous speech. According to the Divine Principle, people must exercise their portion of responsibility to understand the inspiration given from God and the spirit world. We are not meant to be led around by angels-all spiritual guidance is by nature angelic-but to exercise dominion over the angels as responsible agents through our own wisdom.

Otherwise, if spiritual messages were explicit, we would be little more than servants of those angelic beings, only doing their bidding. To give us the dignity of co-creators, God gave us responsibility to chart our own course with limited information, for example:
God could not instruct Cain and Abel on how to properly make their sacrifices because it was their portion of responsibility that Cain make his sacrifice with Abel's help.
God had directly revealed to John [the Baptist] that Jesus was the Messiah, and... he said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," and declared that he was the one who had been sent before the Christ. Therefore, John should have realized through his own wisdom that he was the returning Elijah. Even if he not did not realize this fact, since God had revealed to him that Jesus was the Messiah, he should have accepted the testimony of Jesus and, in obedience, proclaimed himself to be Elijah. Our responsibility begins with effort to understand heaven's guidance with a public mind. Any selfishness or conceit may blind us to the will of heaven.
Therefore, when Rev. Moon says not to interpret his directions, he means we should not wriggle out of the path of sacrifice by cleverly reducing Heaven's request into something comfortable. We must anyway interpret what we receive in a cryptic and vague form, but we should do so with a public mind, following the Principle, ready and willing to take on whatever burden may be required. Then we will not go wrong. Our responsibility ends with action. In attempting to carry out a spiritual direction according to the best of our understanding, the direction will often become crystal clear.

All spiritual inspiration goes for naught without the training and motivation of the earthly people to make use of it. Everyone has an occasional flash of inspiration, perhaps the theme for a new song or the idea for a new invention. Usually we don't know what to do with them, so they slip in and out of our heads while we carry on with our ordinary lives. On the other hand, those scientists and artists who received the most exceptional gifts of inspiration invariably knew what to do with them. Because they had trained themselves for many years and had mastered the tools of their field, or because they were at such a high level as to be working on the cutting edge of knowledge, their minds could be responsive to the movement of spirit.

When the inspiration came, they understood its meaning and acted upon it. They had the resources and the motivation to work at turning that inspiration into a physical reality. It is said that invention is five percent inspiration and ninety-five percent perspiration. The spirit world looks for such prepared people to entrust with their most precious knowledge. They want to cooperate with earthly people who will strive every day to bring their spiritual design to fruition in the physical world. Such people will complete the link between the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners.


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This text was is based on the teachings of the late Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon and taken from the textbook: True Family Value written by Joong Hyun Pak and Andrew Wilson Chapter 5 - Reaching to the Spirit World Part 1

 

 

 

Our American Culture Praises Lucifer-like Images

The universe was created beginning with an idea in the divine Mind, followed by the expenditure of energy to make that idea a reality. Likewise, artists and scientists give all their heart and effort to create a new existence that manifests the images and thoughts in their mind.  Artists, scientists and inventors take after the creativity of God.

This section focuses on the arts, and so includes scripture and selected passages from famous artists reflecting on the meaning of their art.

Yet, creativity is not the sole possession of these elite personages; we find creativity in the athlete who plays exuberantly for the love of sport, in the merchant who finds better ways to market his wares, and in children as they dance and sing.

Father Moon, which this posts uses his deep teachings of the bible, who has established ballet companies and art schools and who himself loves to sing duets with his wife, is cognizant of the role the arts can play in creating a God-centered culture. 

Topics include: art as harmony of opposites, art’s emotional core and emotional power; the muse, or spirituality of art; and the problem of art and values.

A culture develops from words. It begins with speech; then the words are written down to become literature. Then they are expressed in paintings and other works of art. Art and culture are thus expressions of the invisible word. This is the principle of creation through the Word, emerging as visible form and substantial existence.

Humankind struggles in frustration, longing in the world of the heart, because they have defiled

the heart’s law. People strive to fill that longing through hobbies, art, knowledge, and love objects,
but they are never fully satisfied. This is the sorrow and tragedy of the human condition since the human fall.

Human Fall

After World War II, the trend developed, especially among American women, to worship Lucifer-like

men. Who are they? Movie stars, singers and actors, etc.  Lucifer seduced Eve away from God and Adam.  When we study the bible as symbolic, we see that he seduced her away through the misuse of love - sex without God symbolized by the fruit. 

We see the terminology used today "to eat" of a woman the same way it was meant in the bible, "to eat of the fruit".  Don't most men that are idolized in the media have this same quality?  Wooing many women, accentuate outside beauty only, and have multiple sex partners outside of marriage.  These people are actually last in line to enter heaven, yet women came to worship them.

What is Lucifer-like?  Sadly, Lucifer's way and will is so ingrained in our culture, that we fantasize about obtaining it.  The music industry, fashion industry and movie business have fashioned the lifestyles of these idols around glorifying sex centered around false love, promiscuity (be with whoever you want), free sex with anything and anyone without relationships and outside the family unit. 

Does any of this sound like the creation and culture that God wants us to have or does it stem from somewhere else?  That someone else is the beautiful Lucifer who has the gift of God's beautiful creation as he is a creation of God.  Lucifer used the gifts God granted him and uses it to sway every human being away from God's path by glorifying his ungodly way and making it desirable even though his type of behavior will place people at the bottom of hell.

Lucifer-like is any behavior outside of God path.  Is wanting to be beautiful or worrying about fashion sinful? 

No, but when beauty alone is placed as a measurement of one person's worth and value - they aren't beautiful, therefore let's trash their value - then it is far from God.  It is a fine line.  To see the opposite sex as beautiful and admiring God's handiwork with someone's external being is not sinful.  To lust after it, go after that person to possess their divinity, their essence through sex, to want what is not ours outside of God's dominion is sinful.  For instance, wanting to be with a person who is not our intended spouse whether we are single or married, plants a seed likened to the bible phrase satan is crouching at the door waiting for a way in. 

Fallen Lucifer waits for us to open that door and when we plant seeds that are small it is only a matter of time.  This is how Lucifer thinks.  With even the hardcore religious, this is how he works, through the small ideas we keep to ourselves until they grow and it is hard to stop the temptation when Satan breaks his way through the door we left open for him.

Father Moon, who passed away this year at 92, had a vision for the arts far beyond secular art. He believed secular world’s art is rotten; especially the recording artists and Hollywood set who are immersed in free sex. Many have contracted HIV/AIDS. He promoted absolute sex, and advocated that members of my ballet company should not be involved in immoral love affairs. It is a wedge to protect American people from rotting away because of artists who promote ungodly behavior.

In America, you can watch movies on television 24 hours a day. You can watch any kind of movie: war movies, movies about love, even pornographic movies. Young people are readily attracted to them and influenced. Since they do not have a clear viewpoint of life or thought, they copy what they see in these movies.

Youth today live in a permissive environment and have abandoned traditional values that might restrain them from seeking out the stimulating positive activities that they see in the movies. Since their parents do not pay them much attention, family ties are not strong enough to sway them. Teachers and public officials avoid giving children proper education on these matters. Therefore, there is nothing to stop them from following the wrong paths that movies made for entertainment makes seductive.

God’s Creation and Human Creativity

What can stop young people from trying free sex, drugs, violence—copying everything they see in the movies?

If this continues, the family will disappear and the world will soon be doomed.

Therefore, we should quickly establish the standard of a new tradition for the building of a new culture. It is a most urgent matter.

 God’s heart of true love—to give and give more, and forget and forget again, to give unconditionally and live for the sake of others—is the foundation of the world of heart.

God’s ideal out of which He created the world began from His heart. The arts, which spring from this Origin, should resemble this heart. Hence, in the world of art, there can be no barriers. Art cannot be used as propaganda or the instrument of a particular ideology.  Harmony and unity are its basic principles. Divisions and conflicts are the fruits of fallen nature. Accordingly, in the world of art, East and West should understand and accept each other through art whose character is universal and inclusive.

When professionals in the art world seek for something profound and need inspiration, they fall back on their religious background. That is why the culture of art developed centered on religion. Take Christian culture, for example. If you have a chance to travel in Europe, you should visit the Vatican. You will see the essence of European culture in each work of art.

Art is worthless unless there is profound emotion in the background. A great work of art should be capable of arousing deep emotion, whether one views it today or a thousand years from now. A

painting that can stimulate such a feeling deep in our hearts is called a masterpiece.

To be an artist is to make one’s life a work of art. Children’s education should be imbued with art. A

wife should be an artist of the emotions in the way she honors and shows appreciation to her husband.
I believe that it is a greater art than the paintings that hang in museums. The greatest value of art is to beautify and elevate love in the family.  When God's love is the center of the family, this spreads to the society, to the nation and to a world of heart.


Return for Tomorrow's post: Why Children Rebel

Today's post was taken from the World Scripture II book chapter God Creation and Human Creativity section Creativity and Art

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.