The Root of Promiscuious Sex

The Bible reports that the fruit was the cause of evil.  It never said what the fruit was, but popular culture would say that it was an apple.

Either way, why would God even create a fruit which first could kill His children and secondly, if creation was made for humanity's enjoyment, why create something that was for the purpose of their death?

Would the God you love create such a contradiction?

Through the teachings of the Divine Principle, we learn that indeed the fruit was symbolic for something else entirely.

Adam and Eve were likened to the trees in the garden.

If we are to compare a man and woman to a tree, in the center is their sexual organs which bear fruit.The fruit that come forth from a man and a woman's seed are children.

When we realize that the fruit was the sexual organs which we were not to eat or touch of, then the history of the root of sin makes sense.

Secondly, if the fruit was to mean sexual organs, did He mean for them to abstain forever?

Adam and Eve were teenagers who had not reached physical maturity or spiritual maturity yet. Thus they had not become perfected beings which God could relate.  Therefore, to prevent the Fall, God gave the warning to not eat or touch of one another in their immature state before uniting with Him.

Once they were to reach perfection, been blessed in marriage directly by God, then they would have been able to delve freely in the fruit of each other with God as the center.

Since there was such a danger from partaking of the fruit before maturity, why did He make it part of creation before they were ready?

The Fall changed the blood lineage from God's pure blood to Satan's lineage whose word and will they followed.

This is why they were driven out of Heaven.

If they had perfected themselves, they would have become God's body and wife respectively.

By introducing another element, false word of do eat now, this introduction led to a disease inside God's body or temple and ideal.

God lost His original ideal for a world of peace flourishing with His love and His everything and humanity went into the other direction.

Adam and Eve acted as God's enemies when they ignored His warning.

How miserable was God's heart when He witnessed this taking place?

The Fall is the grave in which Adam and Eve buried themselves. 

The Fall became the root of free promiscuous sex and the origin of individualism.

What kind of nation has America become today?

It overflows with extreme individualism, excessive pursuit of privacy not public life and free sex.   Do you think that God is in favor of these lifestyles when He looks down upon His children?

Is He happy to build such a heaven on earth to turn into a perpetual hell for Satan's will?

What has America's extreme individualism brought about?

It is like they are saying that they would abandon heaven and earth, the world, their nation, their society and family to pursue endeavors that only help themselves.

People who live in such a way are like gypsies who begin wandering around with no place to go.

They may end their lives in suicide.

The original mind which God endowed to humanity does not desire such extreme individualism or privacy.

It rather dwells in receiving love from the universe and the nation, from our neighborhood and village and from our parents.

But, because people walk the opposite path of their God-given conscience, it is stricken and they are able to feel the pang of a contradiction with their original mind.

Without God, this empty hole and wanderings about in their soul will never be filled.

Because they are unable to fill this 'hole' within them, more and more people would rather die than live and so they commit suicide through drugs.





You Reap What You Sow

What did Adam and Eve plant in the Garden of Eden when they gave into their sexual organs outside of God's dominion and followed Lucifer's advice?  They sowed seeds of free sex.

Can this fact be denied?

This is why when God came into the Garden, they covered their sexual parts and not their mouths.  If the fruit was literal, then they should have covered their mouths when God confronted them.  We naturally hide our transgressions.

Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were naked and free.  Afterward they hid their private parts and God asked them how did they know that they were naked.

It cannot be denied that the Fall was caused by fornication.

When we know this simple fact that has been hidden and masked throughout the ages, we can plainly see how Satan has used fallen, unclean sex to keep God's children bonded to him and away from God.

Where is the dividing line of heaven and hell?  Is it in the mid air?

It is none other than your sexual organ.

This is a serious matter that must be understand so one does not repeat the mistake of our first ancestors.

Those who use their sexual organs aimlessly will be bound for hell.

Those who use theirs according to God's absolute standard of love will be led high up into heaven. This is a clear conclusion.

Absolute, pure sex has God at its center, whereas free sex is centered on oneself and Satan.  God's absolute standard of love will be led high up into heaven, this is a clear conclusion.

Historically, world literature and the media have often used images of free sex to stimulate the audience.
Therefore, from now on, all of us including politicians, economists, writers, and journalists must unite to lead the way to prevent promiscuous sex from further destroying the youth and this nation.

Free sex should disappear completely if we are even thinking about a better world.

Who has ever declared such a statement?

Chastity for Woman and Purposefulness for Man

Do you just love whomever you want, even a man who calls you on the the street?  Do you follow him or not?  You should not.  You should not have that kind of tendency.

You each should protect your bodies until the time is right.

You should not just hand over your pure love to devilish men who strut and loiter on the street.

Why place your fate into the hands of such a man?

This is a simple matter.

Since you have only one life, once you take the wrong step, you would be unsettled for life.  Therefore, women should strictly directly maintain their chastity, from now on, men should do the same.  In only this way will they be restored to their original position before the Fall.

However evil and heartless this world may be, you should not do things which will lead you astray from the principled path.

You should not defile your purity during your adolescence.

This is a precious time when you are able to overcome the bitter failure of Adam and Eve who lost their purity in their teenage years.

When preserving that purity, which has a pristine value, you should have the mind and determination that even if you have to live alone for a thousand or ten thousand years, your love organ won't ever be misused.

When certain men see a pretty woman, they would wish that she was their wife even though they already have a wife at home.

These kind of men have two minds of a thief.

Since Satan was the first to have two minds, it is not wrong to call men with two minds Satan.  Such people are no different from Satan who defiled the sexual organs, too.

The time is coming when not just women, but men should keep their chastity.  

If a man errs in this regard, it is as if his whole clan committed a serious crime against God's will.

Even if a person has a respectable position, it does not mean that he is permitted to be unfaithful to his wife.

If he does, his whole clan is useless to God and will perish.

We have now entered the age where men must remain chaste in order to bequeath a historical tradition of purity.

Christian communion is for the sake of establishing the tradition of Jesus' pure flesh and blood which is connected to God's pure blood lineage.

There is a saying that goes, "Chastity for woman and purposefulness for man." 

This saying means that chastity is for fulfilling God's will concerning keeping pure love.

Since it is said that chastity is for women, they should know only one love.  Since it is said that purposefulness is for men, men should go forward unwaveringly for the sake of one purpose only.

Adam and Eve should have known the correct path and have maintained their chastity, yet they fell.

A man that loves a woman with God's love should stand in a position where he can say, "I have loved her totally with eternal and unchanging love from beginning to end."

Also, a woman in order to stand in such a position, should seal her body tight.

Just as a peony flower blossom formed from many layers of petals, she should hide herself deep inside.

Then when the springtime of the harmony of heaven and earth comes, she would harmonize with it and start a new life.

We should all know this well.

Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Your Conscience is a Second God

This post was rewritten and derived from the book, Cheon Seong Geyong, Book Four, Chapter Twelve, Section 5,6

We Come From One Root

"The root of the individual, the root of the family, the root of the clan, and the root of the nation are all the same. What this means is that if you look from the world's viewpoint, and you trace the root up or down, we all come back to the same root." 

This is true for the nation, the clan, the family, and even the individual. 


All countries eventually can trace back to one root.  The root is all the same.  Through this one root, all families, nations and even the world must be connected.  Since there is only one root for all, then we have only one trunk and a unity of branches.  There aren't different trunks or different roots.

When we accomplish this connection and unity in deed, the world will come into unity. 

If we were to ask people of different nations where their root lies, they would give many different answers.  Their answers may only be local.  For example, if you ask an American this question, they would say, "My root is Washington".  This does not apply to the whole world.

Does God think that the root of mankind is Washington?

Japanese people would say they trace their root to the goddess Amaterasu Omino Kami.    But now we know that everyone can be traced to the same root.

There is only one root, but humanity has not been able to see the root of it all.  Since no one can identify the true root, the Messiah returns to identify where the false root of division began.  Also to reveal what we think our roots are and then present the true root.



The Root is True Love

What is the completion of the ideal of creation?

The Messiah clearly defines God's will in simple terms.  God's will is to accomplish the ideal of creation.  Period.  Simple isn't it?  God is an absolute God.

Since He is absolute, does he have two different ideas or just one?  Absolutely one ideal.  Even if peace seems impossible to humanity, God has never wavered away from His dream of accomplishing Heaven on Earth.  This is the logical conclusion.

When we complete the four-position foundation (parents' love, siblings' love, childrens' love, each centered on God's love) then the completion of the ideal of true love is accomplished.  Everything important is there.



Creating True Love

The amazing fact is that the Family Federation has achieved these.

All of the thinking, teaching and action of the Unification Church is founded on these consistent lines: True Love, the four-position foundation and the ideal of creation.

The ideal of creation is to create the four-position foundation(sibling, parent, conjugal and God's love).  Then we must understand deeply the descriptions of all relationships of creation and the importance of the main ideas.

Even though it begins from a concept, it is reality. If you open up your spiritual eyes, you can go ask a big tree, "What is your purpose in life?

To accomplish this idea, first, we perfect heaven on earth and through this, heaven in spirit world will automatically appear.  Currently, there is only Paradise in which Jesus spoke.

We cannot enter heaven alone without our family.

As we discussed before, what wife would enjoy heaven while her husband spent eternity in hell?  When we catch a hold of God's True Love, then wherever we go and what we do will be connected to God.  This is reality and not just a concept.

What about a big rock, and belongs to the mineral kingdom? If you were to ask why does it exist, it  would answer you, "I exist for the sake of love."

Why did you come into existence or why do you breathe?

You exist for the sake of love.  Even a large rock that belongs to the mineral kingdom and doesn't seem to have much value would answer and say, "I exist for the sake of love".  Even the atomic kingdom, electrons and neutrons would answer the same way.  There is no way to deny it.  This is the reason all things were created in pairs: it is for love.

Love is the Beginning

Because of True Love and starting from True Love, the whole world came into being.  True love was the beginning of the concept of the universe.

We can even extend this and say that God came into existence for the purpose of love.  If love did not come into existence, then God, too wouldn't have a reason to exist.  Before thinking of the universe, we can think of True Love.

Before we can understand the deep meaning of True Love, we can see the concept of the male and female or the subject and object concept conveyed in all of creation, even at the subatomic level.  Everything in existence has that dual characteristic.  Take time to think of one exception, but you will find none.

Scientists maintain that the universe is held together by a force or a power, but they stop there.  They do not bring into account the logical steps that force only comes about because there was first an action that brought it about.

Without action, there is no force.

Which is first:  force takes place because of action or action takes place because of force?

Which one is first?


Reverend Sun Myung Moon gives an example to answer this question:

"When a man grows up, real love power does not act upon him. He has no involvement in love action. He grows up by the energy of man. With that he grows, but love is yet to come. His mind and body have to take action and then he grows, becoming older and older.

When he meets his spouse, a tremendous power takes place. Before that, there is action, but even before the action something else must exist first. That is subject and object relationship. In a man, he gets power when his mind and body come into unity.

He has two eyes instead of one, and two nostrils; everything comes in two. We see that subject and object relationship is everywhere and it exists for the sake of love.

We see development in this order: love between subject and object, then love action gives rise to the force. That is the order."SMM



Love Creates Joy

As soon as a husband and wife who exhibit True Love and their eyes meet, they are attracted to one another and nothing can stop them.  When all of the five senses meet each other, nothing will stop them.  Embodied with this love power, the couple can go through fire, water, anywhere.  That is the power of True Love.

This cannot be exchanged or converted into any value of money.  Even if the woman has millions and billions of dollars and is the wealthiest woman on earth, once she is captured in love then all things don't matter anymore.  God will be filled with joy and laughter at the sight of such a scene.  This is how we feel, too.

God invests His whole being and forgets, then He invests again and forgets all too willingly and happily because of love.  Without this kind of heart of not looking to receive, He would not be able to continue to do so.

For the man of love, the more he adds to this pool of love, the happier he becomes until later he can fly.  He will cruise the universe like the world of stars.  If you embrace a star while enraptured in love, it will start to dance and God will dance, also.  This is the power of love.



Do we Value Love?

How much do we value this love of God?

Imagine a kid that is in grammar school -  a boy or girl who receives a large chunk of a diamond but they do not know that it is a diamond or know its worth.  How will they treat this diamond?  This is the problem we see in the world situation today.

On the other hand, one who works hard and experiences the pain of dying to obtain this object, then you readily learn and understand the value of that diamond.  The only way that we can understand this is through suffering and sacrifice.  Nobody likes this, just as no student likes the act of studying to get the top grades.



Love Creates Peace

Love has the power to purchase, sell or unite a nation.  It is that powerful.  You have heard of the political marriages they used to perform centuries ago.  Two countries united in exchanged marriages between royalty of either country.  King Edward forsook the throne for a marriage to Wallace Simpson.

People get excited and laugh at the jokes and commentary of entertainers whenever they speak about the topic of love.  Other topics do not capture laughter from the bottom of the audiences hearts as much as the topic of love.

"No other church ever talks about love so much as the topic of this sermon."

It becomes a very legitimate statement that anyone or any minister whose sermon centers on love and makes everybody elated, happy and laughing, would become the source of peace and happiness.

When a teaching focuses it center on love, it can be the source of peace.  Peace will come from that.  Politicians, philosophers, economists and people from all different walks of life would come together for the topic of love because it is the root of their lives.



'Love Me' is False Love

We hear all talks about love and different kinds of love, but have we heard about love for the sake of other people?

People say, "Love me.".  This kind of person wants to draw love from other people.  There are even books and advice columns on how to attract love from others.  This is not the kind of love we have been talking about.

We are only talking about how to give love, that is what makes it different.

All these divided things now move toward being united because of this teaching and the knowledge of how to love for the sake of others.

From True Love, new hope, a new idea, and a new starting point have appeared.

Love was destroyed and divided.  The history of humankind has turned into a history of self-centered love away from God's original ideal.  How can we realize a peaceful world when all the broken situations are surrounding us.  We can only go this path through True Love that has the power to mend the past.

God's viewpoint of True Love is that the root comes from True Parents (restored fallen parents Adam and Eve).  Now that we have entered the age of True Parents or Enlightenment, brothers and sisters are being taught a new kind of love in which we live for the sake of others.




Free Sex and Drugs

Man needs to constantly be satisfied.

He has a spiritual antenna that communicates with the high level of the spirit world.  Man cannot live without the love, emotion and enlightenment that this antenna picks up.

Now all communication has been cut off from the spirit world and man does not know where to get that fulfillment.  So, what do they do instead?

They do drugs, drink alcohol and indulge in risky behavior to maintain an equivalent high to excite the body.

We as the human race have lost our emotional attachment to True Love on the vertical plane(spiritual) and can only find it through the horizontal way(physical) to compensate for this lack of communication with spirit.  Every family and nation have been touched by this tragedy.

It is called free sex.  Teens and even adults find out too late that when they indulge in sex without any connection to God and outside of a God-defined marriage that it never fully satisfies them as they had expected.

Sometimes leaving a bigger hole in which they were trying to fill in the beginning.  Then they turn to drugs to try to forget about this pain.  But everyone knows that the drug world is also a bottomless pit that will never fulfill our human desire for God's love.
         



The Universe Protects Love

What Father is pointing out is that everything that comes into power, everything that is subject and object in the pair system, is protected by the universe.

If there is an imbalance, the universe eliminates it.

Man and woman are a pair.  They become a pair at the universal level embracing point.  The nation's center it the president or the king as a plus and the people are a minus.

They combine into one and then they attend the world which is the next level up.  Then as a whole, they embrace the larger heavenly fate or destiny.

Americans should change their direction from the individualistic way toward this true standard way of living.  If the presidential administration and the American people do not change, the heavenly fate will chase them out.  No matter how rich or how strong America is, they will immediately break down.
Don't we see that this is already the case?



Individualism is Hell


Individualism has made a great nation of America into a small one that is full of bickering and complaints.  It can be compared to the nation's symbol of the great eagle.  It was created to spread its wings and explore the great plains around cliffs to capture its food supply.

But if you were to catch the eagle and just give him the bare minimum of rations so it could live, how great would the eagle be?

This is what individualism, living for oneself, has done to a once prosperous nation.  Are people exploding with happiness here in  America or unhappy?  They are miserable.  They are living like in the dungeons of hell even with such prosperity surrounding them in their daily lives.

On the other hand, how happy would an eagle be that had once been captured and now is finally released from its cage and is liberated?



True Love is Eternal

No matter how old the earth becomes, the principles of True Love continues.  The direction and action of True Love will remain the same throughout history and into the future.  Even before creation, this concept of True Love existed.

After Adam and Eve were created and after the fallen world came into being, the same concept of absolute pure love was the center of hope for all of the surrounding things to be taken away and cleaned up.


Then they can be connected to the new world.



The Church Restores True Love


Why was the Family Federation formerly known as the Unification Church founded?  It was so all that was lost through the actions of the first human parents can be restored and to bring liberation to God when the ideal is completed.

This is the church's mainstream thought.  In order for restoration to take place, all ideals should be realized centering on True Love.

Should people reject or welcome such a movement?  This is God's ideal and the tool which He brought the Messiah as the Second Advent.  It is to make the four-position foundation of the family centered on God with True Love as the core.

That is the purpose of the Unification Movement.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: We Come From One Root

This text was rewritten and taken from the speech: The Establishment of the Unification Church and the Mainstream Thought of the Dispensational History," the sermon given on May 1, 1993, at the Belvedere, International Training Center.