If Nature Protests Humanity's Behavior

We don't think much about the natural occurrences in our lives.  We don't think about our heart beating, the sun rising or the fact that nature exists outside our very home building nests, flying south and giving birth.

 What is the purpose of creation, why do any of these things exist?  They exist for one purpose.  For the love obtained from humanity and God.


So, what if you woke up one morning and trees decided to return back into the ground, all of creation went to the north pole and decided to stop living for humanity?  We would then be aware how much a gift is the creation.

There is an Alfred Hitchcock movie called "The Birds" that exercises this point very well.  I think one of the characters mentions that when you see one or two crows it does not make a big difference.  But then when you see the amount of crows that covers the rooftops, playgrounds, cars and the sky, then you start to become alarmed and have stepped into a horror movie.

What if nature decided they had enough with how humanity has treated the gifts it gives everyday and decided to go on the offensive?  Then we would realize how perfect and glorious, God's ideal for creation really is in its giving of itself to His children and in everyday functioning.

All of creation exhibits God's dual characteristics and are connected to Him through the vertical and horizontal position.

God is Spirit and the created world is material. 

The substantial world is horizontal while God and the spirit world are vertical. God's invisible dual essentialities were manifested in visible form, so everything is made in the image of God.

So, where does this place humanity?

Each man is the microcosm of the universe.

Each of us are made of every element that is seen in creation.  This places us near God, but we must not forget to look at it in this way as well: Nature supplied each ingredient that makes us who we are which means that without the universe, humanity could not exist.  How can we be arrogant toward the creation when it is essentially a parent to humanity?

What if nature all the sudden, like the birds in the horror movie, demanded you repay everything that they loaned you.  What would be left of you?  We can feel that the universe gave birth and made us.

Therefore, nature is your first parent.  All the universal formats or formulas can be found in you. You could accurately say that you are a small walking universe that can move, whereas the cosmic universe is stationary. 

In this way, God had planned for humanity to govern the universe which in return the universe would want you to dominate it.  But would nature want to be abused, overused and misused as we are witnessing in the world to this day?  The universe would reject such behavior.

This is why the first duty for humanity to truly achieve the three great blessings is to love nature.  This means, that wherever you are, you will love the creation and appreciate it.

Then, because you love the grass, trees, flowers, birds and running water you would then love your fellow man who is made of these elements as well.

There is this quote that is spreading across the internet that humanity has fallen in love with man-made material things instead of loving man and this is the cause of humanities turmoil.  Another example is when someone drops their phone it seems to affect everyone to the core as a valuable thing of use, but when a young person falls on a crack in the street and lands on their knees we are more apt to laugh at this person.

This is the situation in which society has found itself.

God had such a mind that when man lies on the beach, you can feel that you are lying in the bosom of your parent, or that when leaning against a tree you are leaning against your own brother.

Would nature protest you for living in this manner?

Or, would it sense that you truly love and appreciate it?  Did you know that all things exist for you?  When you observe it, you can take pleasure in them for that reason.  As a man, you are the only begotten son of the universe, and as a woman you are the only begotten daughter of the universe. Then how much love would be possible between the two?

How many songs and words of love have been given to the sun?  Even still, these poems and songs are superficial when compared to the truth of how much nature has given to humanity as a parent.

Love the entire nature as your parent

If nature is your first parent, your second parents are your own father and mother. They represent the universe and labored to bring your life into being.  They, too, gave of themselves in the process of creating you.

Our parents who are representatives of the universe gave us a physical life on this earth, thus we can feel that we are the center of the universe.  Isn't this what every toddler feels in retrospect?

Our parents represent more than just a father and mother.  They represent all of mankind, so when we honor and respect our parents, we are serving mankind, not just these two particular people.  Then when you love and respect your parents, you will be loved by all mankind.

This is the historical background each of us stands on to serve our parents as a filial son and daughter.  When you look at the dynamic of a family, it represents the microcosm of humanity: your sister represents all women, your brothers all men.  

A true person would treat every stranger and look at them in the same way as they do their own family members.  As a true man or woman, you would view every senior citizen as your own parent or grandparent.  You would see other young men and women as your own brothers and sisters.

If you are a true man, then you love not only your own family but also all mankind.

It is against the Principle to care only for your family and not the rest of the world. 

If you happen to be white, then it is a most exciting adventure to become a member of your black family, or to find senior citizens and young men and women whom you love as much as your own grandparents and brothers and sisters.

When you see someone who is in need of help, you want to help them not because they are a fellow man, but because you see them as a brother and sister.  In America, when our parents become old, do go to their childrens' home or to a senior citizens' home?

Which is the more ideal choice when looking at the ideal of the original creation?  Would a grandmother be happier to live where her grandchildren reside or be visited by them in a senior citizens' home?

Are you willing to accept your grandmother into your home?

Would you do it in reality, or are you only saying yes because you are here? As a new wife, would you rather go to live with your husband's family with many in-laws, or to live only with him?

If you want to live up to the public law of the universe, then you want to go live with his family.  American homes before the 50s consisted of grandparents, parents and grandchildren.  This is more like God's ideal.  Many answers to society's problem can be solved in a family of three generations.

Families now consist of barely both father and mother, grandparents live far away.  Grandparents represent the past, parents the present and children the future.  You have your own physical parents, but ultimately you have one most important parent who created you -- God.

Your parents were the instruments that God used to create you. 

Before we search for the original True Parents for humanity, we must first start by loving nature our first parent.  Then we love our physical parents and then we love the ultimate parent which is God our creator.  God is the ultimate destination and eternal Parent.

When we live our lives in the right way, we can't help but end up at the common Parent.  Then the moment of death which we all now fear, was actually meant to be a fulfillment like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon to live in the air.  God did not create this moment for sadness but for liberation to live with Him for eternity.  We were meant to live for eternity with our family and human brothers in sisters and God.  God is the True Parent to us all where His true love never ends.

This life with God is called the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.

Why distinction?

Because the original world of creation was meant to begin with Heaven on Earth which we have called the Garden of Eden or Utopia.  In this world, the atmosphere would be supreme love, a love that is not self-centered, but based on sacrifice and service. Supreme love flourishes in this environment because it is based on the universal law.


Ideal Public Life

You must become people who can manage all things in a public manner. How do you handle the situation if all grains of rice in the world were to organize a demonstration against you because you eat a bowl of rice without gratitude or waste it.

What if creation had a strike and not go into the mouth of any human being because of not exhibiting love?

We should live a public life of gratitude.  When we eat, we should appreciate the grains of rice and think of it as becoming part of your bone, flesh and energy.  Grains of rice and a leaf of a vegetable are alive, so would they want to be part of a greedy person or one who serves the highest purpose?

Do you think grains of rice want to be eaten by evil people?

In fact, creation does protest those who do not follow the heavenly order.  One who is constantly angry or causes pain to others, the food would protest in his stomach or make him sick.  Isn't this the case?

Every grain of rice wishes to be eaten by good people. 

In other words, all things including humanity wishes to be a part of a public person.  What if the air decided to strike humanity and stop providing itself for five minutes?  Then the entire population of humanity would probably begin to obey its demands to love and have appreciation, wouldn't it?

If God decided that He was tired of waiting for humanity to love one another and wants to force their loyalty, He would definitely do so through sucking all of the air out of the earth.  Everyone in the world would surrender to God then - air is this precious.

The air is such a precious thing to all of you.

You hear people are saying that we must not pollute the air in urban areas. Of course, we must not pollute air. Your health will be affected if we don't clean the air. The same is true for water surrounding us. As you see, all created things are public goods.

We are told not to pollute the air or the water systems because it is a life sustainer.  This means that all of nature is for the public's use - not for one greedy individual.  Also, we enjoy the source of life which the sun provides.  The sun has unlimited value and does not demand for us to give anything in return.  What if we had to pay for the nourishment and illumination of the sunlight?

You would buy it even if you have to give your own life for it.  Humanity must not think of nature as it private possession from which to purchase.


What kind of person does God prefer?

God wants to see a person who has and lives for the public purpose.

One  who manages how they use the resources of nature from a public position.  Also, all things of creation loves such a person because this is the Heavenly logic and Heavenly law.  Isn't it true that people love public figures in society for this reason, but the moment they use public goods or funds or live a very self-centered life their life crumbles away from the public?

Therefore, a person who lives such a public life will never perish.  To become such a person, you should handle all things of creation publicly, deal with people from a public position and attend Heaven with a public attitude.

What if every person in society managed all things and people with a public mind?

When people who live a public life come together and form families, this would become the ideal world which God envisioned from the beginning of His model for creation.  It would become a new race of humanity centered on such public-loving families.  Thus, you must be such a person who lives this kind of public life.


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This post was rewritten and taking from the speeches:
Nature is Our First Parent   and
Become a Person Who Can Have Public Dominion Over All Things
Sun Myung Moon
June 4, 1970
Laws of Public Management

Lack of Love Cause of Society's Problems

Sometimes, years down the line in a marriage, a spouse will wonder with pain where the love they imagined for themselves has gone.  To them, it seemed there was more affection at the beginning of their marriage and they lost it as the relationship progressed. People boil this down to the honeymoon stage is over.

The fond feelings have been replaced with something that resembles contempt.  Children and teenagers witness this loss of love in their parents' marriage and react.
Disillusioned by their parents' failing love, they seek love among their peers and mostly in a destructive way such as sex outside of marriage which their parents disapprove.  When people look back on their family relationships, they can only see guilt and regrets.

Lack of love robs us of community among our neighbors and frustrates our desire for peace in the world.
For instance, when we do not exhibit love, when we see our neighbor's children not deserving the love and attention we give our own children, we will not intervene in their mischief to avoid  offending their parents. If we want to begin to resolve conflicts that lead to war, terrorism, oppression of minorities and the poor, and ethnic violence, we have to sacrifice for true love.

How many individuals possess such a love in this day where they would put their lives on the line to stand against the hatred?  Saints and pioneers of the past have suffered greatly for the whole, but in our modern time it is a rare find an individual who suffers greatly for the whole.Somehow, the pipeline of true love has been broken. Love is thus the core of human striving and the raison d’etre of the created world.

No matter how deep the hurt, how intractable the trauma, no matter how profound the alienation or how deep the sin, love can seep in and penetrate like cleansing warm waters to ease the pain, salve the wound, and restore wholeness.

No matter how deep the hurt, how intractable the trauma, no matter how profound the alienation or how deep the sin, love can seep in and penetrate like cleansing warm waters to ease the pain, salve the wound, and restore wholeness.

Love makes life on earth worthwhile, and it presages life in the next world as well.

Everybody, even those who deny it, yearn for love and yet, it eludes us.  We seek it through love stories, relationships and everyday life.
The Centrality of Love
That “mysterious identity” is true love and God is love.
Psychologist M. Scott Peck said that issues of love were at the bottom of all the problems his patients struggled with. He asserted, “The essential ingredient of successful, deep and meaningful psychotherapy is love.”

Dr. Karl Menninger, a towering presence in medicine, observed, “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” Health experts are finding that feeling loved is far more predictive of long life and good health than even such important factors as diet, exercise, and abstinence from smoking.
When a parent must discipline and educate their children of the way of the world, it is impossible and not effective unless one gives priority to the questions of love.  When one sees the value in relation to love in every aspect of life, we can tackle and address any issue in life.

Teilhard described love as a force, mysterious yet binding, even on the molecular level. Within each entity in nature, from the most sophisticated and complex to the simplest, he found an observable attraction to other entities. Teilhard said, “Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other.”He saw the entire universe as bound together, molecule by molecule, by the force of love: “We do not get what we call matter as a result of the simple aggregation and juxtaposition of atoms. For that, a mysterious identity must absorb and cement them.”

Many religions and cultural traditions call the beginning of this broken pipeline "the fall of man".  It is the beginning of evil and sin flooding the gates of a once world of paradise where according to many traditions, man walked in oneness with God's heart. Many religions and cultural traditions call the beginning of this broken pipeline "the fall of man".

It is the beginning of evil and sin flooding the gates of a once world of paradise where according to many traditions, man walked in oneness with God's heart. Still, we have not exactly been able to pinpoint the true beginning of the problem in order to bring about a true solution to lead us toward peace.  There is not enough love in the world, and where it exists, it is rarely true love that is connected to God.  There are two kinds of love, false love connected to the fall and true love connected to God.

Love is a healer. 
Philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote, “In the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.”

When  we do find love, we find out that it is rarely true.  When we see this absence of true love in life, we can identify it as the root problem that colors human life with its dark and ambiguous hues.
If we were to define love, it is living for the sake of the other, which requires one to let go of ego and to sacrifice for the other.

For example, let's look at the relationships within a family.  It is very hard to give and to continue to give to one another and forget what we have given.

When we do not have love for one another, it is hard to back down from blaming others, arguing, become power hungry or refrain from sowing seeds of resentment within each other.

This can be quickly remedied by looking at another's point of view, to listen and really understand their opinions and different interpretations on subjects.  This is almost impossible to do without love being present.
When we look at the national level, patriotism is beautiful, but this level of love for nation falls short of what we need in order to acquire peace.  In a way, nationalism is a form of self-love even though it is on a larger scale.  This can take a monstrous turn.

Paul Tillich called it “a god who certainly proves to be a demon.”

Just take a look at North Korea, the last frontier of communism that wants to exalt its power and beliefs onto the world.  Rarely will you see a nation that is capable of unselfish love that would b able to create lasting world peace on its own.

No matter how rich, successful or aloof a person is, we all desire for true love which dominates all human life.

Philosopher Erich Fromm noted that love “is the most powerful striving in man. It is the most fundamental passion, it is the force which keeps the human race together, the clan, the family, society.
The failure to achieve it means insanity or destruction—self-destruction or the destruction of others. Without love, humanity could not exist for a day.”

Even our very cells which flow through our body unceasingly responds to love, yearns for love and drives to seek for love.  Our face was meant to communicate with others in love.  The face is meaningless in isolation away from love.

From the arched eyebrows that rise in conveyed interest, to lips capable of smiles and words of affection, the old song rings true: “You were meant for love.” As Benjamin Disraeli observed, “We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”



We all yearn for unity with another and others.  This yearning for oneness in love is a glue that binds the universe together, thus, without love there is no existence.

When we search for the understanding of the principles that delineate a true way of life, there is no better way than to study the principles of true love.

When we catch on to true love, we feel that we can give all, risk all, love all for the sake of true love.  It is what motivates a mother to run barefoot over glass to save her child.  It moves an older student  to confess to a teacher, "It is my fault," and to take a punishment that his younger brother may have incurred.
It was the motivator for Jesus to stand against his accusers, to love them after their beatings and taunts and to take the unjust way of the cross.
Love is a sustainer. As Viktor Frankl recounted of his life in a Nazi concentration camp:

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way—an honorable way—in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

“Death, where is thy sting?” Romeo inquired when he realized that his love for Juliet went beyond her demise.
“Death, be not proud,” penned poet John Donne, for love lasts beyond death. Many widows and widowers continue to love, talk to, and pray for their deceased partners, cherishing hopes of meeting again on the other side.  The ultimate experience is that of divine love.

“Man is meant to be intoxicated by the love of God,” Reverend Moon has declared.

“Since humanity lost this original capacity, people seek unnatural, artificial intoxication—getting drunk on alcohol, marijuana, or other drugs. The perfect individual, however, is created to be intoxicated in God’s love. There is nothing that can go beyond this feeling of joy. Every cell in your body will explode with joy. Your eyes and ears, the tissues in your face, your arms and legs—everything will be newly alive in a rapture of joy.”

To paraphrase Saint Paul, no power, no principality, not even the gates of hell, can prevail against it. Inevitably, then, our search for the true way of life will take love as its major theme.

True love alone has the power to breach distances, resolve problems of opposites, and dissolving the complexities into an integrated whole. All of this only comes through true love and that alone.
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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook: Educating for True Love

What Stopped Humans From Perfect, God-like

The restoration of love, life, and lineage

We learn from the bible that Adam and Eve fell and were kicked out of the Garden of Eden, right?  When did Adam and Eve have children?  Was it before or after they were kicked out?  We never heard about children born inside the Garden which represented heaven on earth.  How many months or years later did they have children?  We weren't there so we don't know, but if we think about it we can understand it.  Nine months. 

After Adam and Eve were kicked out and left God's direct presence, they became very lonely.  Before they were receiving a lot of direct love and guidance from God.  After they were alone they had no one else to rely on, but each other, so they had children.

Were these children blessed by God?  Did God follow them to where they were to give them as their parent direct permission and a holy marriage?  No.  They married on their own.  Adam and Eve were not in God's dominion once they were kicked out.  Once God no longer has something, Satan takes over.

If Satan took over Adam and Eve because they followed and believed in his word instead of God, were their children still God's children?  The answer is no.  Adam and Eve had a choice to choose God's word which would bring blessing or Satan's word which would bring curses.  After they chose to follow Satan's words to eat, Satan became the parent of fallen humankind.

What does it mean to be a parent? A parent passes and plants the seed of love, life and lineage.  In this case, Adam and Eve's children received satanic love, satanic life and satanic blood lineage.  However, does this sound like this is part of God's original plan when He created the earth for Adam and Eve?  Would God be proud of this situation of losing a way for His love, life and lineage to pass on to the first human children born on earth?

If the fall was a mistake, then what was the correct path for humankind?  There was a time period for Adam and Eve before God would allow them to partake of the fruit.  God would not create such a dangerous fruit for His children just to test them.  God's plan was that Adam and Eve would grow into maturity before they would be able to eat of it. 

Many people believe that God is watching idly by as His children suffer, but it is God's ideal to restore His love, life and lineage and the ideal of the Garden of Eden.  It is God's ideal to return the children and lineage of Adam and Eve, which is you and me, back to the original position before the fall and bring His children back to Him.

What is the original position? Adam and Eve were to become perfect centered on God, unite with Him and then be blessed into holy marriage.  This would be different from fallen humankind taking a spouse outside of God's direct dominion and marrying and divorcing as they please.  As True Children of God, Adam and Eve would carry the seed of God of perfection and be planted within their children which would bare, without interruption, perfect children as God is perfect.

So, if Jesus having God's seed after he matured, was able to have children, those children would have been from God's direct lineage and would have been perfect.

The War Between Mind and Body

Religion focuses steadily on subduing the fallen body and strengthening the mind through fasting, prayer and giving thanks.  Why is this?  The body was taken by Satan and the mind by God.

Satan always creates boundaries between mind and body. You are the victim of that boundary. Heaven and hell are separated in your body, with your mind on the side of heaven and your body on the side of hell. Until now people did not understand where they are standing. You are standing on the boundary, with God's side on the right and Satan's side on the left. The "public thinking" way belongs to heaven.

Worse than any world war is the war between mind and body. This cannot be overcome without the teaching of the Second Coming. There is one weapon that can win this battle.

Is God a growing God, or was God just there from the beginning?

Even God experiences the growing process. Because God exists for the sake of love, He has to have the interaction of subject and object relationships. He experiences that through relationship with His children; He tastes true love through give and take with man. This is a growing process, resulting in new experiences for God. This makes perfect sense, because love is everything for God. God as the subject of love needs an object of love with whom to interact.

If we had obeyed God's commandment from the beginning, we would have become directly linked to God being born with His direct lineage, and be able to communicate and hear Him as Adam and Eve did before the fall.

 If this is so, would we need to pray to God or need religion or church to learn about God?  If we were born directly into God's lineage, would we need a mediator a savior to be grafted to Him or need forgiveness? 

Those things would not be needed. You, as the son and daughter of God, would be empowered to give birth to a child of God. The Bible states that God is within you and you are within Him. When such a man and woman give birth to a child, that definitely is a sinless child of God.

Satan brought the entire world into his domain and would like to keep his victims permanently. That is Satan's will. God's will, on the other hand, is to take Satan's things from him and restore them permanently to heaven so that Satan has no chance to take them away.

The purposes of these two wills are one hundred eighty degrees different. One direction leads to hell and the other to heaven. One world centers on the mind and the other on the body.

God's world expands from the individual to the family, tribe, clan, nation, world and cosmos. The same holds true for Satan's world. In the end, the world is divided into two blocs. In terms of ideology or philosophy, Satan's world is characterized by secular humanism and communism. The God-centered ideology is manifested in the good religions of the world. One world is nonreligious, and the other is very devout. One world is centered upon a materialistic, decadent, corrupt way of life, while the other world centers on the spirit mind and human soul.

World War II divided the world into two camps. All religions and all ideologies were divided into two camps. How can we make these two camps into one? Only through the Messiah or the Second Coming. The Messiah has the power and the truth capable of bringing unity between mind and body.

On this basis, the family, clan, tribe, nation, world, religion and cosmos can be united. The Messiah converts this world of Satan's false love, life and lineage into the true love, true life and true lineage coming from the Messiah. Salvation means bringing unity. This is the simple formula of the restoration of mankind. The fallen world is helpless until the Messiah comes.

The Messiah cannot come figuratively on the clouds of heaven. The Messiah must be born as a man of flesh. Amen?

In your environment there are plus and minus aspects. Your mind is plus, your body is minus. However, as a consequence of the fall, your body became plus, the stronger attribute. When Satan's love comes, plus fights with plus within yourself. Just as two magnets of plus and minus or positive and negative adhere to one another, two plus fight for position.

Somebody has to come and break up the satanic law; demolish the plus- plus fight, and create plus-minus harmony. Unless someone does that for you, you cannot become a true person or form a true family. Saints, religious leaders and philosophers have taught many things about the universe; however, they failed to point out the core truth. In contrast, True Parents and the Unification Church bring the core truth.

Why couldn't God a perfect God have perfect children?

Because Adam and Eve did not become perfect at any point in history.  How do we know this?  If they became perfect, they would not have fallen.

If there is no individual perfection, how can you expect family perfection, tribal perfection, national perfection? Without individual perfection, greater perfection cannot come. Your body is a most fearful satanic king and monster-more fearful than the satanic powers destroyed in World War II. Your satanic body, this enemy of love, can only be conquered here on earth. Even though you are a good person, if you die with no resolution to this dilemma how can you experience true love eternally?


Love the Archangel

In the Garden of Eden, God, Adam, and Eve were united under God's love. However, the archangel was not part of this unity. If the archangel were obedient to Adam, when Adam and Eve entered heaven the archangel would automatically deserve the same heaven. The archangel must receive God's love and Adam's love in order to be entitled to enter into heaven together with Adam. This is the Divine Principle of creation.

The archangel must love God and God's children in order to enter the kingdom of heaven; likewise, God's children must love the archangel in order to enter into heaven. Satan is always the final judge as to whether you deserve heavenly citizenship. He is always at the heavenly gate. When you come, he will confront you: "Did you love me as God originally intended for Adam and Eve to love me? Before the fall I was the archangel. Unless you love me in that position, you are not entitled to enter into heaven."

The command to love your enemy has a profound meaning. Actually, you liberate yourself by loving the fallen archangel as if he were not fallen. Even great ministers are not free from the need to practice this principle.

Satan attacks on all levels of individual, society, nation and world.

When the Messiah comes, trying to take over this world and convert it into the heavenly one, the entire world naturally takes up arms against him. Then on which side is God standing, Satan's or messiah? Even if the entire satanic world comes against him, he will keep winning.

Any Satan at the gate of heaven will have to bow to the Messiah when he is victorious. They cannot accuse him of not loving them enough. He is the model of love.


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This text was rewritten from the speech: Victorious True Parents, given by the Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon, author of the Divine Principle.