Love Comes From One's Partner

Love cannot be realized by oneself.  - Reverend Sun Myung Moon

 

Where does love come from?

 

A husband should think, "Love does not come from me but from my spouse.  Since love comes from my spouse, I must bow my head and serve her."

 

This is where the heavenly principle of living for the sake of others originates. 

When something highly noble comes to me, I must honor and serve it in order to receive it. We must live the philosophy of living for the sake of others.

When we are alone, love cannot manifest itself.

 

Love does not appear when man is alone, but only when woman appears as his object of love. Only when the object of love appears, does love finally spring forth.

We say that parental love is good and conjugal love is good because genuine love is not something that is self-centered. Love is not something that starts from me but something that starts from my partner. 

You need to know this. Love comes from your husband and from your wife, and from your sons and daughters and from your brothers and sisters.

 

Love does not start from your own self but from your spouse. Therefore, who is the owner of love?

 

 

 

 

 

Your spouse is the owner of love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where does love come from?

 

It comes from your partner. If your partner is homely or ugly, love recedes; if your partner is nice-looking or lovely, love advances more quickly.

 

The way in which love functions is determined according to your partner's attributes: her speech, her scent, her smell, and her taste.

Where is the base of love?

 

The base of love is not me. The word love must be used in reciprocal terms. No matter how handsome a man may be, if he has no partner, he is stuck because he cannot love alone.

The base of love is not me. "Love comes from me" are words that Satan has been using. I am not the base of love.

 

You may think that you are the base of love, but there will be no progress in the future unless such a mindset is totally dismantled and transformed.

Until now, wives have put themselves at the center, and husbands have put themselves at the center, with both wanting to be served. 

This has been destroying relationships. Since the basis of love does not come from me, but from my spouse, if I am to possess that love, I must sacrifice myself for that love. Love requires patience and absolutely demands sacrifice. 

With this viewpoint, there is no place in the cosmos, other than on earth, where we can defeat Satan.

God is holding tightly onto love because it can be found only in accordance with the God-centered principle of love. 

The word compassion (jabi) cannot be expressed in the absence of love. The word benevolence (in) also cannot stand on its own. The words jabi and in are all used only in reciprocal terms. 

 

 

 

Men and Women Harmonize in Love

Man symbolizes heaven and woman, earth. The two must unite and realize harmony. Men and women are different. Men's muscles are rugged and women's are smooth. Men have beards while women do not. 

Their voices are also different. If we compare men and women, we see their contrasting features fit together well.

 

Harmony unfolds between them. When we look at the physical structure of human beings, their left and right sides form a correlative pair. These two halves are bound tightly together.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you like only high things or only low things? You like things that create harmony.

 

Judging from the line formed by the horizon, fish live below and mammals, birds, and other creatures live above. 

Women menstruate once a month, like tidal variations based on the moon. Breathing is similar. A man and a woman establish a line of balance and create harmony.

 

People like Disneyland, with its rides that go up and down, because Disneyland duplicates the motions of the universe.

Which do you think will be more pleasing, a man harmonizing with another man or a man harmonizing with a woman? 

A man harmonizing with a woman is better because that reflects the harmony of the universe. We should live in step with the beat of the universe, the universe that promotes harmony through the harmony of yin and yang.

When man and woman create harmony, they initiate circular movement. When man and woman become one body through love and bear the fruits of love, God comes down and they go up and they meet in the middle. 

God becomes the center of this sphere, and spherical movement begins. The center of the sphere is the place where harmony of love is realized. 

It is the place where life emerges and moves, and it is the starting point of human equality and communal philosophy. This is so because the power of love is there. Thus, the force that embraces all interactions of the universe is love.

For human beings love is eternal. It is one and never divided. Once a man and a woman are joined in love they are to live together for a lifetime and then eternally even after death. They are two bodies that become one body by uniting and revolving together. 

When the two bodies become one, they revolve as God does and form a four-position foundation of love, the expression of the ideal world of love. Only true love dwells there and false love cannot invade. 

When man and woman become blessed by God and achieve perfection, God comes to them freely. When they form a four-position foundation of love, they will come to love each other's mind through each other's body, and when they come to love the mind their body will follow. (Blessed Family - 344) 

Original Human Beings Are Enraptured with True Love

 

What is the holiest thing in the world?

 

True love is the holiest thing in world. True love originates with God. If God exists, there is no other way than the way of true love.

 

 God truly desires the way of true love, and without traversing the way of true love, we cannot go before God. We have to know this point.

God wants to see, hear, eat, and touch everything in the universe through love.

 

As for human beings, if they receive a kiss of love from God, their joy will make them feel as if they are going to explode from inside.

 

This is where God's desire lies. God does not rejoice because He has diamonds or jewelry. 

The human body has five senses and every human being feels and confirms true love through the sensations of the five senses.

 

If the eyes are directed toward true love, they will be colored by and intoxicated with true love. 

Think about how enchanting the smiling lips of a person immersed in true love are.

 

Try to imagine the intense beauty of the five senses moving in intoxication with true love and the harmony of the five senses moving toward God.

Alone, God cannot experience the joy of such beauty. He can experience such beauty only when He has a partner, and this is the reason God created human beings. 

How would God feel as He observed a beautiful man and woman absorbed into one another through true love-intoxicated eyes, or kissing with true love-intoxicated lips, and playing the melody of a heart of true love?

 

If there is an Eve of true love, God would want to completely traverse her world of heart. God would have an impulsive desire to explore the breadth and depth of this beautiful Eve's world of heart.

God would want to traverse both Adam's and Eve's world of heart, a world more beautiful than the created heaven and earth.

 

It is certain that God would rather travel within the world of the heart of a person of true love than the universe. God would never want to leave Adam's and Eve's world of heart and true love. 

If, after God created human beings, He fell into their true love and became a child lost in that love, what kind of world would we have?

 

Since God would dwell in their midst, the world formed by God and human beings becoming one would be a world filled with joy and beauty.

If the true love of God had been perfected, the God of responsiveness would have no regrets at being totally absorbed by true love. 

God's nature is such that He would be totally happy with anything that happened within the realm of true love.

 

If human beings were to live in this world of true love, they would live a happy life free from regret. Moreover, this world would be without war and free of complaint and misfortune. 

Love Is Realized in a Completely Natural Setting

 

This is a story from my youth:

 

One day, I caught a pair of birds and tried to make them kiss each other's beaks. 

To see them kiss I put them in a cage, fed them, and watched them. I did it out of a child's desire to see them love each other and sing happily together. This was an experiment, out of curiosity, to understand the principles of nature. 

I continued this experiment, which I now understand to have been quite naughty. It was only after a long while that I finally understood that love is realized only in a natural setting. 

Sincere love is realized naturally, in an atmosphere that is natural to the highest degree. Through a long journey of experiments I came to the correct understanding of love.

When someone loses love, will having a university education help him to regain love?

 

He will only accumulate knowledge, become individualistic, and come to worship materialism.

 

Just as Korean bean soup tastes right only when it is served in a thick Korean bowl, character training can reach its purpose only when it is based on love.

The flower of world civilization should blossom on the basis of artistic harmony. In this sense, roasted ribs should be served on a heavy platter and Korean bean paste soup should be served in a thick, Korean earthenware bowl to bring out their proper tastes.

 

Once you have become used to the rough, deep, and refreshing taste of Korean bean paste soup, you will never forget it no matter where you may go.

Likewise, once people have become used to the earthy, deep, relaxing taste of love, they will not change.

 

Just as one easily tires of instant foods that are usually heavily sweetened, if one could obtain love easily and anywhere like instant food, we would be unable to call it true love.

There are people everywhere today who taste love as if they were eating instant food. This is the problem.

 

Love does not deepen because you bathe in a fragrant bath. 

I would say that the love of a couple living in the countryside that washes themselves in cold water before going to bed is purer, longer lasting, and ever deepening.

 

A couple that has to brush their teeth before kissing is not experiencing natural love. 

The toothpaste smell will prevent them from tasting the unique smell of the other. When I look at people who brush their teeth before kissing, I don't know whether they are trying to taste love or taste toothpaste.

When you meet with someone you like and love, you want to embrace and kiss that person. This is a natural instinct between the sexes. You can think you are meeting your partner in order to love your surroundings which is the universe. Finding a partner and establishing a relationship is a natural human behavior.

When man relates to woman and woman relates to man under the ideal of partnership, there will be no acts or incidents that violate the order of love. The true order of love emerges only when man and woman meet on the basis of the ideal of partnership. 

 

 

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Cheong Seong Gyeong Book Four - True Family, Chapter Five Section 4-7

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.

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

Children Complete a Couple

That is such a bold statement, that a couple is incomplete without having children.  You would imagine a picket line being formed with a President making such a comment.  It is the same as saying a person is incomplete without a partner.

There is truth to these statements.

Even though one can be whole on his own, it is only to a certain level of growth.

Everything in creation is created with a partner in order to expand to a larger level of growth and living.

Why should humans think we are any different?

Parents who have raised many children see that their heart of love has grown wide, large and deep.

They can feel on their own that they cannot fight even their wicked enemies.  They stand on that foundation and live according to that broad of a law.

When a baby is born, he follows the electric current of love and automatically seeks out his mother's nipple.

He does not care how ugly or beautiful his mother is.  To witness such a sight of unmatched harmony and holiness.

Each of us are the fruit of our parents' love for one another.  We are born in love, and grow up while receiving love.

You are the visible, real fruit of what your mother and father's love is like. 

Therefore, it is natural that the parents have to love the person who is the fruit of their love.

Through this fruit, the infinite love bears fruit yet again.

This is the path where we can be connected to individual love, family love, tribal love, universal love and even the fundamental love of God.

You are a unique participant and companion in love in front of your parents.

This love makes you equal to your mother and father and you can rise to an equal position.  This is the privilege of love.

Parents want to bequeath everything they own to their sons and daughters, whom they truly love.

You can jump in and inherit a hundred percent of the universe when you have found an equal position of value of love in the tradition of love.

This is why all parents want a child of filial piety.

Children of filial piety pass on the inheritance of love as participants in the eternal love of their parents.

A baby who is born through love can do whatever he wants and you will not dislike him one bit.

Rather, no matter what, you will love your baby because he is made from your flesh and blood and is a second you, created through love.

Even when he defecates or urinates, has a runny nose, he is still cute and adorable in your eyes.

This is because these things are soaked in love.

The love between the parents and children comes from the parents.  We receive our parents' love from the moment of our birth.

After we receive the parents' love and grow up, then we receive the horizontal love between husband and wife.

In order for the love of the husband and wife to continue, they must have children and love them.

Parents can feel genuine love only when they have children.

Through only the love of brothers and sisters, we cannot learn about parents' love.

In other words, we come to know parental love when we ourselves experience the circular course through becoming parents and complete the circle.

The love string of our parents and the string of our ideals are connected to each of us. This cannot be cut off by anyone.  All of the power of the universe protects such a union.

Thus, wherever I go, my parents will follow me. My parents always want to be with me, even in the spirit world. Thus, it is a sin to dislike your parents accompanying you.


The highest value for human beings is to think of and love our parents like they are our own body and practice filial piety.

We are born from our parents' love and are engrafted to their love.

Before the connection of life and lineage are made through love, the connections are in place.

Why are each of us so precious?  Not because we have life, but because we participated together in our parents' love.  Parents have loved, but the individual is the fruit of that love.

Each of us are precious because we are born with the beginning point and the fruit.

True parents strive to continue this tradition of love.

This is the same for those in the East and the West.  All parents want to have an universal tradition of love by transcending our own tribe.

All people want and strive to bring their family into completeness and harmony so they can live a happy and peaceful life.

In this case tradition is the essence.

Only tradition can connect with the future.

Which is greater: conjugal love of husband and wife or the love between parents and children?

Westerners value the conjugal love of husband and wife as greater, but this is not so.  Love for a child is greater than the love of the spouse.

In conjugal love, the husband and wife fight because they think the other does not love them.  But parents and children fight thinking that they must love the other more, this the original heart.

The parent and child relationship is such a way because the love of parents and child is the center and vertical.  It follows the road that is close to the heavenly law.  Thus, we find that the love that serves others is closer to the genuine love.

However strong a man is, or however tough a woman may be, they will bow down to that love.

The reason parents are precious is because they give and sacrifice for the sake of their children.  So things come to be the other way around.

When parents get old, they become children.

Long before, the parents were their children's first teacher, they become seventy and eighty years old they become like children again.

At the same time, the child takes the place of the father or mother as they become elderly and unable to care for themselves.

The child should love his parents just as the parents have loved them when they raised them.  This is the principle of heaven and earth.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the book, Cheon Seong Gyeon Book Three, "True Love' Chapter 2, Section 3

How Can Love Destroy?

In the fallen world, love has turned into the most dangerous element to behold laying destruction and broken ideals and hearts around.

How could something so precious created by the Almighty God cause so much calamity within human society?

This is because the Fall mismanaged love and shattered the world and turned it upside down.

We went in the opposite direction and built a society based on false love.

People have not clearly realized why love, which was originally from God, has become false and dirty.

They have still tried to protect and keep it because of their desire that true love should magically appear in their lives.

But, without the right direction in which way to walk the path of love, true love is just a dream.

In these days, wherever we see a commercial, television show or movie, we are taught the wrong ways of love.  The wrong ways of life.  The wrong ways of using our sexual organs.

We have adapted the lifestyle of using the sexual organs for just anyone one desires for the moment. How can true love dwell in such an environment?

Through the Fall, the sexual organs of men and women have moved in the opposite direction of the original palace.

This gate of death and the laws of death and destruction bringing hell.  The sexual organ has become a wicked agent that has ruined the heavenly way.  This has been a secret that has been hidden in history until now.

If we do not rightfully correct this thinking, the world will become distorted.

If history cannot be fit back together properly, then wickedness will fill the world and remain as we see it today.

I have experienced the agony of delving into the fundamental problem of humanity and the fundamental core of the universe, and the place I arrived at as a result of this endeavor was the sexual organ. When I arrived at the sexual organ as the origin, and thought about it carefully, I found that the harmony of heaven and earth unfolds like a whirlwind from that place. This is an amazing fact. 


When we know the power of blessings or destruction lies within the sexual organs, then we understand why Satan has placed such a focus on distorting the reality of such a holy place.

Why do you think it is more natural for the man to be on top when making love?

Because it is only in this way the true seed from heaven comes.  It comes from true love.

The seed comes from the father, through the convex organ of love.  When the convex fits into the concave, the whole of heaven and earth shakes.

If you delve into exploring your sexual organs because you think it will make you happy and you'll be intoxicated because it is so mysterious, then this is a grave matter.

The door of love opens only when it is time.

You must wait until this time before opening and entering the royal palace of love.  You should be able to open it proudly after becoming the owner of love.

How can this take place when your love is freely given to anyone without God's consent?

Why do men and women like love?

The human body consists of trillions of cells. The time when these cells move as a whole, is when they make love.

Who is qualified to become God's partner in love?  Is it a man who is by himself?  Will a woman alone be His partner?

What kind of partner would God want?

Would He want money as His partner, knowledge or fame?  No, because God wants a partner of love, he needs human beings by being at the place where a husband and wife unite through the sexual organs.

We have come to think that the whole of our bodies belongs to only us, but love is not yours.  Love is completely in the possession of your partner. In the Old Testament, we find words such as 'holy place' and 'most holy place'.

The holy place symbolizes a person and the most holy place symbolizes love.

Every person has a holy place and a most holy place.

In other words, the holy place is a house where you attend God.

As for the most holy place, since God has dominion of privileged love over it, it is a place to make a relationship with God.

You should know that the one who had the key to the most holy place was Adam and the one who had the key to Adam's most holy place was Eve.

You should know that the mouth of the man and woman is a holy place as well.

The mouth is the formation stage in the love relationship.

For women, their breasts are the growth stage and their organs are at the completion stage.  These are the holy places of our body.

The key to these holy places cannot be held by just anyone.  No one can have it without inheriting it through the heavenly way.

Religions should walk a path of tribulation. They should fight against the body's evil desires which can lead them to make a mistake with the sexual organ.

The most serious enemy to the road of restoration is sex that is connected to the pulsating of the devil's blood.

We should be liberated from this lewdness and corruption of the sexual organs.

In order to cleanse the satanic blood that is woven from the lineage you have to engraft to a new type of life.  You must want to build a relationship with God.  Only then will true love begin.

God is the traditional center of love and also the ancestor of true life.

The most fearful thing in the universe is the problem between man and woman concerning the misuse of that love.

Your body heats up when you are in love, doesn't it?

It shakes and there is a mixing.  East west, south and north are mixed.  Also above, below are mixed and become one.  Everything focuses in the direction where love sparks fire.

You move into love freely with no restraint in order to completely invest yourself again and again by investing yourself completely for the sake of the man and completely investing yourself for the sake of the woman.

You then forget about your life and your material possession when you live you life in this way.  Because that is the path of love, and because it is the path that never ends, you will like it forever.

If God was to give you and I a gift, do you think that He would give a bad one?

He gives the best.  Where would that be?

It is something that exists in a deep place.  God would want to take it out from from the deepest, inner place and give it to the one He loves.  This is why love is good.

True freedom embodies responsibility.  If people were to just insist on practicing only the freedom of individual, selfish love without any responsibilities attached, how much chaos and destruction would come from such an environment.

Human being's perfection, who are to manifest the ideal of love, is possible only when they take responsibility to act with true love.

People should be grateful to God who gave them the freedom of love. 

The first responsibility is for one to become the master of true love and become truly free.

We should thank God for the freedom of love and obtaining the knowledge how to cultivate it and control ourselves through religious disciplines and from the Divine Principle, the Completed Testament.

Responsibility of a love relationship should not be carried out merely because one is following a law or social convention.

Instead, we should want to be responsible through one's own self-control and determination and have a committed vertical(spirit) relationship with God.

When someone uses their sexual organs like a blind person who wanders around aimlessly and without direction, it will lead its owner to Hell.

By the same token, one who is able to use the sexual organ according to the standard of God's absolute love, they will be led high up into Heaven.

This is the clear conclusion.

In the Garden of Eden, while in their youth, Adam and Eve had planted the seed of free sex through sharing their sexual organs without God's permission or approval.

In these Last Days, therefore, we are living in the time of harvest.  The phenomenon of an expanding trend where youth explore every avenue with free sex appears.









Love is not something that is learned.

Where did you initially learn about love?  Did you learn at home?

Does your father or mother tell you when you were a child to learn how to love from them?  Also, do the parents learn how to love through their children?

What about the bride and bridegroom, did they learn to love from someone in a certain way?

Do parents receive instructions from someone on how to love their children?  Women here, when you loved your babies after they were born, did you learn the way to love them?

Is there a school that teaches love?  Can you get a bachelor's or doctoral degree in this field?

There may be no such thing, but everyone should reach a perfect score in this.

The more lacking you feel yourself to be, the more complete your love is. 

You do not have to learn something that is complete or anything more does not have to be done to it.

The less that is needed to be added or subtracted from something the more complete it is.

Hence, complete things do not change, but last forever.

Love is hard to study and to understand in the context of words.  No matter how much explanations and study guides are given about the parent's love, people without parents still would not be able to understand the content.

The same for conjugal love, people who live alone would not be able to grasp any explanations which are given.  

Once you are in a relationship with your partner and feel the love, you can have an convergence in your actions that you can perceive.

This can be such as loving what your partner loves or connecting to his or her whole being.

It is through this power of love that a newborn baby finds their mother's milk without having to go to school or train to do so.

Sincere love is heavenly law, thus it is realized naturally before it is taught.

The Parents' love does not become bigger or smaller in accord to how cute their child's face is or how ugly when he or she cries.  Is there is a child who changes his love and respect for his parents because they are good looking or bad looking?

Are there children who say, "What an ugly face you have, you must not be my mother."  There would be no such child.

Also there would be no parents who would deny they gave birth to their child because they have an ugly face.

If there are such parents or children, we would not be able to call them human beings.  Even mothers in the animal kingdom do not exhibit such behavior.

True love is to be attained through experience and understood through feeling.

It is not something that can be mastered through words, writings or education.

It is only attained through daily living.

In their process of growing up into adulthood, Adam and Eve were supposed to reach perfection.  They would have achieved this through experiencing and feeling the heart of their true children, the heart of true brothers, heart of true husband and wife and the heart of true parents.

Through their daily living step-by-step, they would finally become the ideal people who have matured into perfection spiritually and physically.

There would have been no way for Satan to tempt them thereafter.  They would have fulfilled God's purpose of creation when they could deeply learn through experience, God's true love as a whole.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Three, True Love, Chapter 2, Section 5

Importance of the Love of Nature

Just imagine for a moment that you were God before the creation of anything. You are alone with no interactions with other beings and there is nothing to enjoy or look upon. Would you like to spend eternity in this state? So, from God's point of view, why do you think an all-knowing being needed to create things? It was so He could have an object partner and a realm of object partners to love.  They would eat and live in love and return to God's original world and eternal kingdom of love for eternity with Him. In other words, God needed a partner in order to feel the stimulation of love. Today, many religious people believe that because God is all-knowing and powerful that the world was created when simple words were spoken. They do not realize that the world was created in stages or different time periods that correlate to the six days of creation that are referred to in the Bible account in Genesis. God invested all of His being, all the energy He had to create the universe and all of creation. He did so as a gift for His beloved sons and daughters, His beloved family of the future by investing all the power of love He had. Thus, we should look at things of creation with this kind of understanding. God's will in creating the world  God experienced great joy when He was creating all things. After creation was complete, He said that it was good. This means there was joy.  Joy is what you feel when you have finally achieved a certain purpose.  Since all things contain God's consciousness of purpose, He was able to feel joy with them. The world of restoration will be a world that is populated with people who have a connection of heart where they can sing and praise God even when looking at an individual masterpiece of the creation. This is where God sees the value of personality. The story of Saint Francis preaching to animals animals is a dream-like story.  But it is a true story. Everything in creation is made by God as a textbook so that His beloved sons and daughters could learn and nurture the ideal of love. Through observation of penguins int he Arctic, we see how important community and family is to the survival and well-being of the family. By observing nature, we will not only learn about God, but also how to create the world of peace. Minerals function through a relationship of subject partner and object partner. Protons and electrons within atom relate on a subject-object relationship. Without interacting, these elements would cease to exist.  If they are not in motion, they cannot continuously exist. The universe was created to relate to the central point which is human beings. The universe is a mysterious world. God did not create the universe as something to fool around or play with.  He created using the most devoted efforts for the sake of his beloved people. So, when we look at this universe, we should have an extremely grateful heart toward the Father who created it for us. When you walk around a blooming garden in the summer, beholding the trees, plants, flowers, and birds and watch the streams flow, feel the wind blow with this heart of appreciation, you cannot help but be overwhelmed with wonder. Perfection of the universe involves the external and our innermost self to rejoice.  In rejoicing, both our mind and body must be joyful, and all the cells must be delighted. The cells of my eyes and those at the bottom of the feet are different, but this has to be a world where these cells, too, can rejoice. The cells in our hands and all the cells in our entire body including the mind can rejoice as well. While doing so, they should not stay separated but become connected in the resonant joy of love which is based on dual purpose.  Only then will the universe reach perfection. Connections start from extremely small things.  You are a living body which consists of as many as 400 trillion cells which are connected together. In the ideal world centered on God, among all of existence, there is none that came into being from outside God's heart. You are consisted of as many as 400 trillion cells connected together in your living body.  A poet who can feel these kinds of emotions for God's creation would be a great poet once he began to write a sonnet. If there were a poet who could feel and express a cosmic heart when seeing a leaf shake, he would thus become a poet of the universe. We may not know of all the phenomena that is unfolding in heaven and on earth, but without us knowing, there are things that exist together with God's love. When you enter a meditative state, you can see that even a small grain of sand contains all of the principles of the universe.  Even one small atom contains the bottomless and inexhaustible harmony of the universe. Even science cannot deny that all of existence is the result of a complex force, although we are unable to clearly understand it. Atoms exist below molecules and elementary particles exist below atoms. These forms do not exist below molecules and elementary particles exist below atoms. These forms do not unconsciously exist, but have a certain consciousness and purpose. Therefore, we should clearly and fully understand the fact that all things in existence appeared through the loving hands of God and exist in a necessary relationship of heart with God. What kind of people are the enlightened masters? They are those with a heart so deep that they recognize even the value of one stem of grass as equal to their own and can cry out "God!"  They would be of the highest level of enlightened masters. Those who can sing its value this way would be the artists of the highest caliber. If there are people with this heart that could allow them to discover the charm of God's love and heart in every variety of creation, in all their forms and colors, then befriend them and find enjoyment together, they would be the people who could represent the entire universe. If there were people whose cells could move one by one with this type of feeling, they would be the lords of creation. Conversely, if there is a person who knows about nothing but eating, can he become the lord of creation? Nature is a textbook teaching the ideal of love. People observe and learn from nature as they grow up. From playing with and interacting with nature, they will come to understand what the insect world is like.  When you listen carefully on an autumn night while the full moon and the stars shine, then the sounds of the insects are like an orchestra. Why do they like to make such a sound at night? They do so because they are looking for their ideal partners. They are whispering love throughout the night. Birds and all other animals also follow this same common denominator of love when they make happy and sad sounds. They are low on the scale and far away form the axis, and yet they are circling around in parallel.  This is the same for all existent beings. There are three types of bird songs. First, there is a song which expresses his hunger. Second, a song which expresses his love for a mate. Third there is a song which is sun in time of danger.  These are all different.  We ordinary people do not know this small detail about nature, but only know about their own world. Around what does a birds life revolve? Hunger is taken care of simply by eating, and they do not face danger everyday either.  Most of their singing goes back and forth in the give and take relationship with their partner. If you were to sit out on the porch one Sunday afternoon, you could catch the call of two birds separated on different trees exchanging bird calls. It is a beautiful sound. Human beings were also created as a pair - subject partner and object partner. The world of all things also exists for the sake of humankind, creates harmony under the law of love and then manifests its life and ideal through the love of humankind. This would have been the maturing Adam and Eve.  The created world of all things was to be a textbook of love, a museum that infinitely displayed the essence of love. All of nature exists in pairs and harmonizes with each other through love. Flowers and butterflies relate as two opposite poles, yet they find a way to harmonize with each other. This is the harmonious relationship of heaven and earth.  The opposite poles of the universe create harmony through love. It is the same with migratory birds. Birds that live in the south migrate north, and birds from the north migrate to the south, loving each other back and forth as they cross the regions. Through this, they are able to revolve around love. People learn about love through this textbook in the museum God created. When people and God love each other in joy, then all things in heaven and earth will follow their rhythm and harmonize around them. If God likes this, and loves this, the angelic world will also like it. The entire created world will like this, too. It would applaud and offer praise for such unity between mankind and God. Songbirds would sing praises and flower that blossom in the fields would offer praises through their scents. This created world exists in order to expand the fragrant atmosphere in which the central personages of the highest love can enjoy themselves.  Even large ugly toads make croaking sounds when they make love. They kick their legs and move them up and down while they delight in love.  This is the highest art which God created. When it is time for spring to come, whenever you hear the birds sing, as soon as you hear the song, you should think of your wife, your children, your country, the world and even God. When you think in this way, then everything is complete. Birds can only think of their own existence, but people have a sense of being in relationships with other people. This relationship in the human world is the mediator between the animal world, plant world and the spirit world as an exclusive privilege to human beings. Only human beings have this special authority. As Adam and Eve matured, they would have come to understand their purpose through observing the animal world.  They would have understood how to make love. God laid out the world of all things as a textbook for humans to understand how to bring the ideal of human love to maturity. As Adam and Eve continued to grow toward maturity they had different feelings toward each other. They knew that they were brothers and sisters in the past but now they have different feelings for one another. Love is like a nerve. It is the same as pulling on a strand of hair that pulls the entire body with it.  If we pull on the love strand, the universe itself is pulled along with it. As motion is created in love, the entire universe will come into harmony, too. When love is present, we dance. Is this how dancing came about? It was because of love.  So, when there is love, we dance.  It was through the experience of love. Songs came into being because of love and so did laughter. If love was to be taken away, everything would become hard and stiff. People like butterflies more than bees, because butterflies dance as they fly.  Everything which flies has a rhythm and a beat with a melody. Fast-flying creatures fly in time with a beat.  So do slow-flying ones. There are various styles of flight, but everything flies according to a certain rhythm. The way deer run and rabbits lay in the mountains is musical.  The way they hop around has a certain rhythm, too. The way they eat has a musical quality. This is the same for people.  We eat with a certain rhythm as well.  These all express something musically. If we think in this way, we should feel thankful to God that someone made this universe for me to last for eternity and put it in place for me.  We should feel grateful to Him. We should not think as an onlooker as if it has nothing to do with us, but understand the depth of creation. Photos Courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net Return for Tomorrow's Post: Reason Religious Conflict Continues This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book three, 'True Love', Chapter Two, Section 9

Unity Arises Through Love

It is nice just to think about love, to see it and to taste it. That is how love is.

Love is the coming together of East and West, it is the coming together of heaven and earth.

Therefore, love assumes the form of a sphere through these relations.  True love is at the center connecting the vertical and the horizontal.

How enraptured a person's lips would be when they smile as they give themselves over in true love?

How beautiful will the five senses appear when they are enraptured in true love and move toward God?

But God does not experience joy through beauty all by Himself.  He can only experience beauty when He has someone to whom He can relate.

This is why God created humankind.

God's desire is to travel the world of the human heart, with all its infinite beauty, more than He desired to create the heavens and the earth.

Even God breathes. He breathes true love. 

God keeps in rhythm with the universe that continues forever, centering on true love.  Therefore, only when  you are able to reach that level of heart, then you enter the realm of breathing God's love and live forever.

The universe and the sun are both round.  What do round things center upon?

They can only become rounded in a relationship with something else.

The world is a substantial entity that integrates such a relationship.  What is the original source that can form such circular relationships?

The motion of love is the original source of this harmony

Love is like a nerve. 

When one of the hairs are pulled on your head, the whole body moves toward that pulling force.

It is the same way with love.  When you pull on love, the whole universe is pulled towards the pulling force.

When you move love, the whole universe moves in accordance with it.

People must live life enraptured with something. 

A person who is enraptured by something is truly happy.

If you have noticed that artists are enraptured by art.  Those who enjoy literature, are enraptured by the books they write or the great masterpieces they read.  Such people are happy people.

This is why people should live enraptured with the love of God and follow only Him.

Then what is the most precious thing both men and women seek?

It is true love.

Love is something both people and God like forever.  Love is what the whole universe likes most of all and forever.

Although love is invisible, it is the most precious treasure on earth.  This is because love is unchanging in nature the same as diamonds and pearls.

We value gold as precious because it is unchanging in color in any condition.  A diamond is precious because of its unchanging hardness.  A pearl is seen as precious because of the unchanging quality of colors.

Although these are precious treasures, they do not have life in them.  But, true love on the other hand is a treasure that also has and gives life.  Therefore, it is more precious than all of them.

Everyone likes love. Ultimately, through love we come to love more and more. 

Love flows into the heart of individuals.

Love flows into the heart of a family, and of a people.  It flows everywhere.  Wherever love flows, everyone welcomes it.

There is no way to block  love.

Doesn't everyone want something higher than themselves?

God created people to relate with one another through the power of love.

A person connected to the ties of love who lives and breathes along with the universe does not need formalities when they arrive at the palace of God.  A person that lives in love can go to the inner sanctuary where God resides.

He can call out, "Heavenly Father!" And Father would answer, "Come here my child."

What is the only problem of the human world?

The problem is love; whether love burns brightly.  For the light of love to burn bright, that light has to burn internally and externally.

What will make it burn?  It should burn with the desire or want to love.

Then we realize that our life which we deal with in ordinary affairs of the world is just a stopping point on our journey.  Where is God?

To say He is omnipresent means He is not just in one specific place.

God is wherever love is.

We, too can be omnipresent when our central focus is love.  This is a privilege we can enjoy when we possess love.

When we speak about equality, the word is meaningless without love.  True equality is only possible when people live for others centering on love.

Women's equality is based on cutting everything down the middle whether it is possible or fair or not.  Women will say that they are just as strong as men and will assert themselves to enjoy the exact same jobs and privileges as men.

On the other hand, men and women can find equal footing and a mother can be on equal footing with her son  who is president through love.  All things that possess love can have equal status.  We must realize this.

Humankind is at the center at all things of creation.  What then do human beings center upon?

We center upon true love.  God's love forms one vertical line.

To set up the center of heaven and earth, there also has to be lines of love from both man and woman.  The woman's line goes to the man and the man's goes to the woman.

These lines of love thus create a circle.

A man and woman who has true love, it is perfected love with a negative charge. When this perfected love and true negatively-charged love is formed, the positively charged vertical love of God is automatically present.

That is how the principles of the universe work.

You can only form a reciprocal relationship with the universe when you have love.

The reason Love has the quality of gentleness and humbleness is because with those qualities it can be fully put in motion without resistance.

When something is humble and sacrificial, it can relate with anyone and can go anywhere without resistance.

Then in essence, this type of person does not really sacrifice because they can anywhere here and in spirit world.  The key to living without resistance is through living for the sake of others while sacrificing for others and serving others.

Why should we sacrifice and serve others?  

We should live in this way in order to perfect the respiratory organs for our second life in the next world where the atmosphere is love.

All beings that reproduce come together in twos in order to multiply.  Love brings harmony in reproduction. 

This is true for the multiplication of all living things in the natural world.  Even in water.  There is female water and male water where fish do well in areas where these waters mix.

Many fish live in the cold water and warm water mix.  This is ideal.  There must be harmony.

Birds from the north fly south to raise their young while birds that live in the south fly north to raise theirs.  This migrating back and forth follows a rhythm.

Then when they are mature, they return to the place of their birth to have their young.  Fish live in cold water and lay their eggs in warm water.  Fish living in warm water can only lay their eggs in cold water.

A harmonious unity of ying and yang must be established.  This is the process of migration.

Love will not be realized without finding a partner.

This is why God placed efforts to place an absolutely qualified partner in front of Him.  We human beings are the masterpiece of creation fashioned so that even God could find the love He also needs at the same time from us.

When you are intoxicated in the love of God, you would never be bored even if you were to stare at a grain of sand for thousands of years.  The creation has so many deep wonders that any masterpiece in any museum cannot surpass its beauty.  

True love is not something that can be forced.

Love must be willingly expressed.

When you love someone, do not do so with the intention to receive because ideal love is only realized through the action of giving and receiving.

If God created love where it could be seen, touched and its form was known by someone, then you would lose interest in such a love in less than one day.

Fortunately, that is not how love was created.  Love operates the same as a mysterious mirage in all shapes and forms.  Love is something that even if it is not there, it feels as if it is.  And even though it is there it feels sometimes that it is not.

True love perfects the ideal of unity in the universe.

Even though you find a grand masterpiece, if you do not find any flavor of true love in it, you will quickly spit it out.  This is the same with the true love between husband and wife. 

We like love the best because it has the quality to unite everything and make it our own.  People cannot fathom how good love is.

Just as parents who love their children, the more you love, the more your joy increases.

Love brings everything into oneness!

If a person is in oneness with God, noone will be able to separate him from God.  That is how wonderful love is!

 Have you ever observed a bee that concentrates intently on getting the nectar in the flowers?  As they retrieve the nectar their heads are thrust into the flower and their abdomens stick out of the flower into the air.

You would not be able to pull the bee out even if the abdomen breaks off.  Why does the nectar in the flower taste so good?

The nectar tastes good, then the taste of love should be much more powerful and better.  Which would be better.  The taste of honey or the taste of love?

Without love, we cannot obtain unity.  Words alone do not have the power to unite two different people into one.

If those who are united around material things, when the material things disappear, they will immediately separate.

What if a third person introduces them and they unite?  When the third party disappears, they will separate.  Then what is needed for two separate entities to be joined for eternity?

There must be love.

Love has the power to unite the five senses.

Love can make the smell of an old man, which is unpleasant to some, seem sweet and pleasant to a loving wife.  Even if the his face and hands are skin and bones she will like his face and hands.

Love can do this.

When the wind of love blows, the whole world seems beautiful. 

Everyone becomes a poet or a romantic when they fall deeply in love.

A flowing love should form a bond with us and never leave.  It should take place within the very core of our being.  Without love, we do not find anything of value in the world.

But when we are able to vividly feel and sense such a love inside of us, that love can compete with the universe.  A person that holds this kind of love deep in his heart can compete with the universe even though he is just an individual.

Even when we look at a tuft of grass, we must be able to look at it from the standpoint of God.

We should relate to a flower while embodying the heart of God.

We should feel the connection between our inner feelings and the heart of God when we appreciate the things in creation.

Those who live with the love of God within their hearts are the sons and daughters of God.

They are the central figures of the whole universe who can govern heaven and earth.

Love is the essential element needed to enable a person to attain the position.

Our minds infinitely expand through heart rather than knowledge.  A heart full of love is so big that it can embrace the universe.  Once we develop this original and mighty domain, even God will want to come and take naps there.

Since we do not embrace God through knowledge, we must understand how great a heart of love is.

Love transcends all national borders, because God's love know no boundaries.  It transcends two different races drawing no distinction between blacks, whites and yellow races.  This is why the love of God is great.

Despite the environment, the environment adapts to love's flow and develops.  God will be pleased once we have adopted the perspective that makes this happen.   This is why we must walk the path of love.

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This post was rewritten and derived from True Love Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 3, Chapter 1, section 3