Develop Loving Character On Earth

Your life on earth is only but a short moment in comparison to eternal life in the spirit world.  How important is our life on earth?  You are only given one life.  Earthly life is but a point in time.

During your time on earth, this is the time to prepare for life in the spirit world where you will live after your earthly life. No one is exempt from this principle.

With this idea at the center, you should overcome all difficulties, control and overcome everything.  Otherwise, you will not be able to achieve perfection.  Many people of faith believe that perfection happens once they enter the spirit world, but growth is only obtained through a physical body.

People were created to live eternally.

Life would be simpler if people just ceased to exist at the end of their life.  However, you do not know this for sure because you have not had any spiritual experiences.

Through spiritual experiences, you are able to meet Adam and thousands of your ancestors of thousands of years ago.

You should realize how precious a time it is to live on earth in your physical body.  It is only during this time you are able to grow to perfection and resurrect God from His lowly position.

On earth, you resurrect the universe and unify all of heaven and earth back to the original position at the time of creation.  God and the universe were to be united into one from the beginning, but that relationship was severed through humanity's going the wrong way.

Even the value of God and all of creation cannot be exchanged for the physical world. 

Why? 

Without the existence of a human being with a physical body, perfection cannot be achieved. 

Once you realize that growth is only on earth, you realize how precious the human body is.

The value of our body cannot be exchanged for the universe.  This is why the Bible states, "For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?"

Once you pass to the next world, you are unable to move from the life you lived on earth.

If two-thirds of your life was lived in sin, will you be able to cast off this two-thirds once you pass to the next life?  The unrepented sins lived on earth cannot be thrown away.  It will stay with you.

Perfection is achieved on earth, not in the spirit world.

In order to go to the next level in the other world, you have to take the longer route of suffering through another person you do not know who is living on earth.  This process takes thousands and millions of years.  

Even though humanity has slipped far away from the idea, it is possible to achieve perfection on earth.  How?

Through true love, we can reach the level of God's True Son and Daughter, but not in the spirit world.

Are you absolutely certain that you will be able to wear the shoes in the morning you took off before going to bed last night?

What could be more important in life than settling the issue of eternal life?

People of faith do not understand the law of indemnity.  They are seeking to go to the Kingdom of Heaven without knowing all of the necessary requirements and obligations that must be fulfilled.

If humanity had a glorious beginning and followed God's true way in the beginning, we would not have been banished from Heaven on Earth.  Then when we pass to the next world, we would automatically enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Religion would not have been necessary for we would have united with God from the beginning and would not have to be taught such basic principles.

There has not been anybody who has said that they would go to heaven after taking the responsibility through liquidating all of the historical sins by paying indemnity.

While we have our physical bodies on earth, we should take responsibility and establish condition to resolve everything that has gone wrong in history

If you go to spirit world without paying indemnity for yours and your ancestor's sin which you carry on your body, then you must return to earth to pay this indemnity.

Many people have mistaken this phenomena for reincarnation.

Once you have passed, you do not receive another life through your own earthly body, but you must work through someone of similar circumstances who already lives on earth.

What is one advantage people on earth have over those in the spirit world?  It is the fact that they have a physical body which they can establish a condition to pay for and liquidate their sins.

Every spirit throughout the historical ages had arrived to the spirit world without paying for the past sins and thus they have violated that law.

Therefore, they are destined to return from the spirit world to try again to establish the conditions of indemnity.

There is not a single person who can avoid death.  Death cannot be avoided.

You should clearly determine whether you are the group bound for the Kingdom of Heaven or the group bound for hell.

The way you life your earthly life is a measure of where you will live in spirit world.  What is bound on earth is bound in heaven.

Father knows the spirit world very well.  He knows that it is a place where all sorts of people come, live and go.

Those who lived on the earth only enjoying their time and living just for the sake of themselves will turn around and go to hell.

Those who lived for the sake of others and God will turn around and go to the Kingdom of Heaven.  These two worlds separate at the the time of death - there is no in between.

Hell is a place where one goes, there is no movement or growth and is trapped there.  They cannot get out for eternity.

Nevertheless, many have not realized that their mother, father and relatives are headed to hell.  They just believe that things will work out on their own once they reach spirit world and that is it.

If you were to truly visualize that your parents were going to prison, you would cry your eyes out and try to get them out by doing all kinds of things, right?  This is the natural way of human emotions.

In the same way, if you know that your sons and daughters, parents, relatives and brothers and sisters are connected to your through heavenly affection, and they are on the road to hell which there is no escape, wouldn't you have some kind of reaction?

We should understand how serious an action it is to exploit people.

When you relate to someone, you should not think how you will use them for your profit.

Once a person's original nature has been crushed, it takes from half a year to three years to repair it.  So, your actions are something you should fear.  There is no hell as awful as this hell.

When you see beggars and disabled people in the street you should not speak ill of them.  You should wonder if your spirit is not in the same position as they are.

Why do you get married?

You get married to experience parental love, conjugal love and children's love.  Why are these necessary?

The spirit world is a place that is filled with the atmosphere of love. 

You need to experience the love of a family to help train you for the rhythm of the spirit world.

Those who arrive to spirit world who have not truly experienced the four realms of heart felt through living in a family, will be unable to follow the beat and will suffer there.

Such people are like those without a nose to smell the air of love.

The love relationship between parents and children is vertical, a love relationship between husband and wife is horizontal, and the love relationship among brothers and sisters is spherical. These three relationships are different. 

When you are able to deeply experience these three different ways on earth, you will be able to live without restriction vertically, horizontally and in the circle in spirit world.

For example, those who were unable to get a taste of parental love because their parents died, or they were abandoned, truly miss a very important experience of love.

The same for those who have not experienced a loving conjugal relationship.  They will be very miserable in the spirit world because they lack an important part of life.

Likewise, those who do not have any brothers or sisters are in a lonely position.  They are unable to live a complete life in spirit world since they lack love that spreads in all directions.

Those who enter spirit world that had enough love for their parents, brothers and sister, spouse and children - those who experienced deep love of family life - will be able to enjoy a lot of freedom there.

Since the atmosphere in spirit world is love, they will be able to move in any direction without restriction.

Conversely, those who were unable to experience love, as well as narrow-minded people, will find themselves isolated and alone in spirit world with no freedom whatsoever. 

You should raise and leave respectable children before you pass away.  In the future, they will be the people of the heavenly kingdom.

Your path of faith while here on earth may be difficult, but when you think about how many people you have offered themselves as people of the heavenly kingdom, you see that it became a noble path of glory in the world of eternity.

Life of faith is not valued currently on earth and you suffer in a lowly position, but when you go to the spirit world, you find that the accomplishments of great people who have gone to spirit world are considered as valuable accomplishments on earth.

Exactly what kind of place is earth?

Earth a factory to produce the people of the heavenly kingdom. 

Do you understand?

Heaven is infinite, immense and unchanging.  Heaven is so large that we cannot find it.  People have been coming and going for hundreds of millions of years.

Even if a person produced a hundred children, there is no way to overproduce since heaven is so large.  Heaven can accommodate everyone.

The main question you are asked in spirit world is how many people of the heavenly kingdom are you bringing with you.

When you bring many true sons and daughter of the heavenly kingdom, this determines your rank and they are to your advantage toward earning you honor in the heavenly world.

Your ownership is determined by how many people you bring to the heavenly kingdom.  These are your eternal possession.

Once you reach spirit world, there is no multiplication of children.  There is only one meeting point with God standing in the position of vertical Parent and the axis.

If you were to make a serious mistake, you will be confined in the spirit world.  To get out of that place, you would have to wait thousands of years making a lot of effort to move to the next level.

You go to the place which is appropriate for your level and stay there for a long time.

If you have been blessed by God and thus make a serious mistake binding your children, they would accuse you and wonder why you dragged them to hell.

You ancestors will also accuse and wonder if you could have done better with your life on earth.  You will have to stay in that position of accusation as long as they have a condition.

This is not an easy path.  This is why you should determine to do well while you are on earth.

First you were born from your parents.  Next, you were born from God by borrowing your mother's womb.  This is fundamental.  Then you are to find the True Parents, restored, unfallen Adam and Eve, as your own physical parents.

Your physical parents are parents of passage.

Then death becomes a time of joy when you go to meet the True Parents.  True love of the True Parents is in spirit world.  That place would be called the heavenly kingdom.  The common element of that place is love and is filled with parental love.

That love is not just for our own sake.  It is a love through which you are able to abide by the law under the principle of sacrifice and service.

To pass this course, you need to love the universe and love humankind.

Your earthly life is a training ground for such love.  This is the basic core of the universe.

If you are able to practice love with such an outlook, pass the test with honors and then go to the spirit world, you are sure to return to God.  This is the conclusion.

You will surely receive a payment for the life of faith when you go to spirit world.

For those blessed by the Messiah, the doors to the heavenly kingdom will fly open.  While you ride the rail of heart, you need to be pulled toward the heavenly spirit world.

That world is the world of love, thus you can enter it only when your heart harmonizes with it.

Are you destined to go through many stages of judgement when such a world is revealed?

You are born on earth in order to bear the fruit of love while on earth which God desires.

This is why our life is short.  It is one season.  It is not the final destination.

Do not assume that you will live until you are 100 years old.

Even if you are able to live to seventy years, if you worked three times harder on your path of faith, you will have lived the equivalent of 210 years.

Think in this way.  If you work ten times harder, you will have lived for 700 years.

If you work 20 times hard you will live 1,400 years.

Therefore, work 24 hours a day, constantly throughout your whole life for the sake of God's dispensation to restore the world to peace.  While living for others, you bear fruit in the spirit world and possess a large reservoir of love.

You will have a great wealth of love.

You will have many assets of love.  Your stage of operation will be broad.

Fish cannot live outside of water because water is essential for life.  The fish that lives in the river will not just live there forever, it must go back and forth to the sea as well.

Why?  Because fresh water fish cannot produce young without getting a taste of the seawater.  They have to experience both.  Also, fish in the sea have to go to the fresh water and taste it to be able to produce their young. They must go through the two worlds.

Likewise, the earth and the spirit world were not created to be separate worlds.  They only separated after the fall of man severing the relationship between God and man and spirit world and on earth.

You need to acquire the qualities that enable you to live in the two worlds while you are living on earth.

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True Love Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three Chapter 5 Section 2

Reversing the Fall

The will of God is to consummate the purpose of creation.

Where is the will of God going to finally take place and who will be the one to achieve that goal?  Will God Himself do it?

If it was fully God's responsibility to return the world back to its original position to obtain His will after the fall of Adam and Eve, then He would have immediately reversed the fall at that moment when it occurred.  In order to consummate the will, an object is required.

God's will cannot be consummated within Himself without having relation to another.  Who would play the major role as God's object to bring about His will?

It was Adam and Eve's responsibility to be in the object position to God as subject to consummate the purpose of creation.  How would they have completed this task?  If Adam and Eve had become perfect individually and united with God, the purpose of creation would be established based on their family of goodness as a True Family of God.  Instead, they fell while still not united with God.

Therefore the will of God requires not just God Himself, but more particularly requires man for its consummation. 

What is left in our time to bring about God's purpose for creating man?

Man must become perfected.  That might be a far-fetched ideal that sinful, fallen man can become perfect, but the will of God and individual perfection are one and the same and cannot be separated.

Have you ever thought how far you are from perfection?

The center of the circle is the same distance from the edge in every direction and this represents the perfected position.  If you were to think of yourself inside this circle where would you be in relation to the ideal central position?

How about humanity?  How far has man fallen from that central point after the fall?  There have been billions of people born after the fall.  This caused humanity to develop away from the central point in a circular pattern.

The history of humanity tragically has been filled with men wandering through life trying to come back to the center from every direction.  Every person has their idea of where the point of destination should be.  They do not know where the true central point is to lead us back to the purpose of creation.

If we were to look at our family tree, we would see a family line full of different characteristics.  One branch of our family may have developed in one direction and another may have gone in the opposite direction.  Either way, we are still the fruit of that entire ancestry.

If each family has a different ancestral origin, the position of their fruit cannot be identical.  We have different individual characteristics and varied spiritual heritages.

God is a God of justice, equality and fairness.

If each individual comes from different ancestry can God say that everyone in His sight is absolutely equal?  Is this a correct concept?  If Adam and Eve had followed God's word instead of following Satan's word, every person would have been born equal.

Because of the fall, man's value had changed from one person to another and has entirely different course in his life of wandering.   Because of this varied course of behavior, two different consequences came into being: one is heaven and the other is hell.

God did not create hell.  This is a misleading belief of many people of faith.  Man created hell by not choosing God.  There are different accomplishments like different ranks between heaven and hell.

There are as many levels or different ranks existing in spirit world as there are here on earth.

If a person comes from a particular ancestral line that accumulated goodness, the person on earth is somewhere between heaven and hell.  We each accumulate good or evil through the choices we make in our own lives.  The several different levels of accomplishments here on earth will be reflected or paralleled in the spirit world.

You do not know much about spirit world now, but when you understand its makeup you will recognize the thousands of different levels of accomplishment, from the worst kind of evil existence to the highest, most divine existence of spiritual perfection.

Spiritual growth can only happen while you are here on earth.  

Thus, the Bible states that what is loosed on earth will be loosed in heaven.  You enter the spirit world the way you leave earth.  Thus, many scary movies portraying spirit men as they were the moment of death has some truth to it.

If a person finds himself at the bottom of hell and knows that he has a millennium of effort just to reach to a mediocre level, would he strive hard toward the goal to reach that level?  No, human desire is sparked on when a person can see his own position and the glorious goal clearly.  Then the person would strive toward the goal.

When a person can clearly see where he wants to end up, he must first realize why he has not reached his goal and is 'stuck' at his present point.  A person who has fallen far from God's ideal central point, where would the solution begin?

Would he find the solution at the present position or from God's central point?

This state of being far from God came as a result of man's behavior during his physical life and reflects what his character was on earth. 

This means that the solution begins with men here on earth.  The fundamental problem of spirit men in hell is it is too late once you enter the spirit world.  Once you enter the spirit world for eternity, you can no longer work freely on earth to make any spiritual progress without working through this earthly world.

In order for a spirit to make progress, the entire spirit world must make union with the physical world.  As we have found in history, it is not easy for these two worlds to intermingle or for spirits to freely come down until the Messiah returns to release them on earth.

There are thousands of different levels in spirit world which came about due to Adam and Eve laying the foundation of disobedience.

So, who is then responsible for the tragic situation in spirit world and humanity?

Suffering in the world began with the first parent Adam's misbehavior.  One man began the tradition of suffering to mankind both on earth and in spirit world.  Then who would be the next person responsible for the situation. There is no question that it would be Satan.    

Parents are responsible for the behavior of their children.

Since God is the father of humankind, as the creator of Adam, He also took responsibility for Adam's actions.  Fallen Adam does not have the ability to bring himself to perfection without God's power.  God leads the way and guides Adam back to perfection.  God takes the responsibility, but Adam has 5% responsibility to carry out the goal.

God's throne is in the highest possible heaven. However, God gave up His throne and came all the way down to the bottom of hell to be with His children.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Will of God and Individual Perfection

Perfection of True Love

True Love is at the summit of the world of love; it starts from the highest point in the world. As thunder and lightning come down from heaven, true love also thunders down like lightning from a very high place.



When human beings love one another, their cells are one hundred percent activated.  Even in the satanic world when a man and woman fall in love they say they feel electricity go through them.  This electricity comes from the archangel, therefore it is only uni-cellular.

The original world of love is the lightning of a universal-level love whose power is several thousand times stronger than normal lightning. It is Principle that man and woman cannot meet God unless they put all their energy toward the point where the lightning of love meets.  This is the perfection of the purpose of creation God originally intended to take form.

Moreover, the sound made by all the cells of each organism would be the same as thunder.

From whom do you think true love, which forgives and embraces everything, starts?

Could this high standard of love come originally from human beings?  True love starts from God who is the subject.  God created human beings with true love and He desire to receive true love from humankind.  When God returns that true love once again to man, God and man both perfect true love.

The holiest thing in this world is true love. True love starts from God. 

Any power melts before true love. just looking at or touching it makes you happy.

If God exists, then there is no other way.  God desires to see, listen, eat and touch true love and wishes that we go the way of true love.  We cannot stand before God unless we go the way of true love.  Doesn't man have this desire?  If we receive a kiss from God, we feel as though our insides are exploding with joy.  Would God find happiness by possessing diamonds or jewels?

True love completes the unification of the universe.   Even if you were to view a world-famous masterpiece painting, you would gag at looking at it if it did not include the taste of love.  When true love disappears between husband and wife their relationship is over.

What is the most precious thing for woman? It is man.

Why is it so? Love is an action. A person who only looks at high things cannot unite with low things. Therefore, this person cannot become true. Love can be found through reciprocal action; therefore, if love can relate with high places from a lower place, it can be eternal and can go anywhere. Then, for the first time love becomes genuine. Therefore, we can come up with the concept of eternity when we try to make the love of the lower higher than love of the higher.

Then the quality of man is more important than how he looks or his status.  What is important is if you can find a man who has valuable love and this is the same for woman.  A woman with true love is a true woman. How can we define true love?  True love is love that can love very low things even more than high things.


In this respect, what kind of an existence is God?

God is a God in a high position that can even love those living in the bottom of hell, not just those in heaven.  God must be the one who can love everything.  Because of the principle of action, God should be able to love the lower more than the higher He is the one with the concept of eternity.

True love makes you feel that when you meet a person you want to be with that person for hundreds and thousands of years.  The love between a husband and wife makes them want to love each other eternally.

 In true love, there cannot be any hell or Satan.

The body of a human being has five senses. Man is made to feel and recognize true love through these five senses. An eye looking toward true love would be covered and intoxicated by it. How beautifully an eye shines when it is intoxicated by true love!

God made man to feel and recognize true love through these five senses.  Have you noticed how a person in love eye's shine when intoxicated by true love?  Think of a smiling mouth enraptured in true love.  How beautiful is it for God to see the five senses in harmony moving toward Him intoxicated by true love.  God cannot experience the joy and beauty from this alone; He must experience this through a partner.  This is the purpose of God creating humankind.

If there are a beautiful man and woman who want to touch the eye, kiss the lips, or play the melody of the mind intoxicated by true love, what would God do? If there is an Eve of true love, God would have the desire to at once travel the world of her heart. God would be driven to see how deep and wide is the heart of this beautiful Eve.

God would want to travel in the world of Adam and Eve's heart, which has more beauty than the heaven and earth God created. Definitely, God would want to travel in the world of the heart of a person of true love more than He would want to travel the universe, and God would not want to depart from the world of Adam and Eve's heart of true love.

If God had found this kind of love after creating humankind, what kind of world would this be?

After God created humankind, if God became intoxicated in man and woman's true love, what would have happened to this world? God would have been living in man and woman, and the world which God and they created together definitely would have been a world filled with happiness and beauty.

If this kind of true love had been established between men and women, God would have submerged in that love and would always be happy.

In that world of true love, every human being would have lived happily ever after for the rest of their lives without regret.  There would be no history of war, complaints, divorce or unhappiness.

If true love were perfected in the history of humankind, then all the problems of politics, economy and culture, including struggles and fights, would be solved. All the difficult problems in the world now can be fundamentally solved only through the perfection of true love.

True love is eternal, unchanging and has no day or not.  If it is only for myself, then it is not true love.  True love is not an individual possession.  For instance, a man can love other people and women, but if that love is only for himself with no connection to wife, or others, it is satanic love.

True Love is what ultimately connects family, society, nation, world and the universe.

The Christian ethic of 'love each other' is not about receiving love.  Love is for the sake of the other which means each 'serves for the sake of others'.

What kind of world would it be if in the morning you woke up and all the people served and sacrificed for the sake of someone else and the whole instead of oneself?  This would be a world of peace.

If the whole world came to love each other with true love, even at the price of death, there would be a burning fire of rebirth.  If all people loved each other, the world would be like a flower of happiness and peace blossoming to fill the world with a beautiful fragrance.

A world where everyone actualizes true love is indeed the ideal of humankind.  However, our current world, everyone asks to be loved first, struggles, fights, jealousy and doubts result.

Truth does not exist far away from us, it exists within us.

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The Starting Point of Love

At the beginning of this blog about 9 months ago, I brought up the notion of perfection.  Is it possible for one to be perfected?  Originally, God created Adam and Eve to reach perfection through full maturity before they consummated in the giving of their fruits of love.

Wouldn't an absolute, almighty being want to have an absolute, perfect being in which to have relations or a corrupted being?  Of course, if God had planned for humanity to live in the perfect world known as the Garden of Eden and had no other choice, but to throw us out after humanity's mistake, would He give up His dream and desire to fulfill the ideal of His creation?

I don't think God would give up.  Therefore, throughout history, God strives to bring humanity back to their original position before the Fall.  He brought religion, countless saints, and the Messiah to turn humanity away from the fallen path we have inherited.

Since our first ancestors misused love away from God, what is the starting point of true love?


The Perfection of the individual

An individual cannot attain perfection by knowledge, power or money.

Rather, perfection is realized through love -- not vulgar love, but the original love. By this love everything is perfected.

Perfection can only be realized through love.  Not just any kind of love but the original love.  Through this love, everything is perfected.  We each are born with five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell.  Each senses should be centered on perfected love.  This means that every sensation of our eyes, nose, mouth, hands and so forth should be perfected centering on love.

One cannot abide in that state by oneself. One must be relating ever more closely with a counterpart. One's counterpart is ever changing, and the feelings coming from one's counterpart are ever changing.

When our five senses become one centering on love we then experience the world in a state of ecstasy.  We would be enraptured by our surroundings and lovingly take in the world around us.

God created the mind and body based on love. 

For an individual to become perfect, these must become one. An individual grows to maturity through their eternal give and take action.

The quality of love can fill an enlarged space or shrink to an infinitely small point.  This is heavenly love.  Through the eyes of love, it does not matter if something is big or small.  Small things have their value in small packages and large things have their value in a big package.  This is God's desire to create such a world of love.

To begin the process of perfecting an individual one must start from love then mature centering on love.  This process resembles a bud growing into fruit. Then when the person attains the proper standard of love, God will dwell in his future marriage.  Until his love has matured, there is no basis upon which to bear good fruit.

Everything is created and sustained based upon the law of love. 

Fruit is produced after a flower blooms, the stamen and pistil within the flower engage in give and take action creating a circular motion.  This is the same in the animal world and among human beings.  Everything in creation can only reach completion through the relationship of love, therefore, every entity can become perfect only through love.

When you become one with the core of the realm of God's love, mind and body can be united and become mature.  This is the process how a person who has not fallen grows toward individual perfection.

The perfection of an individual means the unification of mind and body. 

When the mind in the subject position engages in give and take action with the body in the object position, then this unified mind and body becomes the object of God. 

The mind should be unchanging forever.  The mind tends to focus on heaven and the body tends toward the world.

This is based upon the Cosmic Teaching and calls upon us to unite the incorporeal and corporeal worlds.  If a person wants to rule the cosmos, shouldn't they have a united mind and body?  Without a united mind and body, that person will perish.

what should they center on?  The mind and body should unite centered on God and then you become the external God reflecting His inner and outer nature.  How does one unite the mind to a fallen body?  We should center this unity upon love.


You can be your own worst enemy if you cannot unite your mind and body.

The perfection of an individual starts from the point where he or she makes a vertical relationship with God.  It is faith of the parent-child relationship.

What is individual perfection in this day?  As God loves us, this is the law of the Principle. We must also love God because love is only realized when subject and object give and take, there is no separation between God and His children.  This is the starting point for individual perfection.

We should establish a tradition of mutual love, respect and attendance of God as the vertical center.  Then we receive his love as His sons and daughters.

One should fulfill their individual responsibility on their way to individual perfection.  Before God can fully display His love for fallen, unclean man and woman, we must first perfect our character.

What do you think perfection of character means? It means to become a person who can fulfill his or her responsibility. That is to say, one must first be restored to one's original position before the Fall and then reach perfection, finally capable of fulfilling one's responsibility. This process involves a revolutionary change in character.

Since God is the subject partner to love, He requires an absolute object partner in which to have give and take action of love.

Individual perfection means the perfection of character. 

Once you clearly understand that you can obtain true love only after you have perfected your character, you must bear in mind that there is no other way to go besides the way of perfecting your character.

Once a person fulfills their responsibility and become mature people before God in a position to praise and love Him, he or she realizes the perfection of character.    The only way to obtain true love is by perfecting our fallen, sinful character.

People who live externally only in the satanic world has no connection to the realm of heart.

Once you have gone through a revolution of character, then and only then will you be led to true love.  One will never be able to reach perfection as long as they remain selfish, self-centered, have worldly greed, attachment to children, and having cultural superiority.  These are Satan's traps.

To become mature in character we must deny everything in the satanic world, by denying every worldly thing and bear much persecution.  Those who think centered on themselves and not God remain tied to the satanic realm.  Once you inherit God's heart and reached a perfected character, then you can connect with God's standard of character.

We must become people who can meet the standard of the original perfected character by continuously reforming ourselves and fulfilling our given responsibilities.

The Divine Principle, Unification Thought can make you reform and perfect yourself delving into the depths, pains and truths of God's heart.

To reform this world, we must perfect our character one hundred percent. Otherwise, we cannot reach the level of perfect joy.

What if war ended and there was peace all over the world.  Each one of us would not experience perfect joy as long as memories of the Fall remain in us.  How can we call it World Peace if when we go home we cannot be happy or love our wife or children fully because of sin?  We must erase the notion that human beings fell and become beings who are more than one hundred percent perfect.

Where is love's embarkation point, love's encampment, and the place of love's safe settlement?

Among you, some might hope that it is your mind and body. In fact, if your mind and body become the place where God's love can settle safely, then you will become the perfect encampment for unification.

God can safely settle in the mind and body then you become the perfect encampment for unification.  You become the object of God's love and become God's direct son who will inherit the family business which is the enterprise of heaven and earth.  When God witnesses this day wouldn't He cry tears of gratitude welcoming you proudly, "Oh, my son!"?


Where does love start?

We must be able to correspond with the harmony of heaven and earth and carry out our responsibility.

Love begins from a perfected individual after going through adolescence and become qualified to love the opposite sex.  We must correspond to heaven and earth and carry out our responsibility.  However, Adam and Eve did not begin their family in this way.  Their love could not happen where heaven and earth could unite.

They did not have the destined love, but united centered on satanic love.  Every human descended from the first parents who never tasted God's true love.  We do not even understand the concept of a world of true love.  We must each prepare a foundation of true love centered on God, then he comes down for the first time with His love.

God looks down at humans as His masterpiece and cannot help but loving them when He sees them love each other and makes a way for people to join in relationships of love.  God existed first as the Word and thereafter creating all things, created human beings on the last day.  God created Adam as His object partner and the female Eve as Adam''s object partner.

Centering on God, Adam and Eve in the position of subject and object partners are to make a relationship of love. At the same time, God and the two human beings, Adam and Eve, would make a relationship of subject and object partners.

Were Adam to make a subject-object relationship with God, without making a subject-object relationship with Eve, he would not be able to possess God's eternal love, nor could he exist eternally. By only making a relationship with God, Adam would only be able to move in a straight line. The same would apply if he related only with Eve.

Eternity and perfection are obtained not from linear motion, but require spherical motion. To change from linear motion to spherical motion, Adam also needs to make a relationship with Eve as his object partner. Adam alone cannot establish the harmony of life and love.

Everything in creation exists based on movement through three points or it will not be perfect or eternal.    Adam was to approach God through His object Eve and Eve through Adam, not through a straight line.  This way, they would proceed in a spherical movement.  To approach Eve, they would have to have a love relationship, because by himself he does not have the strength to approach God.

We know that Adam and Eve chose love outside of God's realm, but what if they had reached perfection and had completely matured as man and woman to receive the marriage blessing of God instead of getting kicked out.

They would have centered on one love and become Mother and unite with the entire universe.  We see the opposite in our environment in these Last Days.  They would have united with God and have initiated a new beginning in the universe, in heaven and earth.

How could this begin.  The starting point of a cosmos of peace was to be God's love.

Where would be the origin of this God-centered unified love?

God had originally intended that Adam and Eve would mature and embrace all things in heaven and earth.   Their hearts would have overflowed with happiness, enraptured in God's love.    Their love would have hope for tomorrow and be big enough to embrace all future generations.  This would be the starting point for true love to appear uniting man and woman centering on God's love.  By not reaching this level, the starting point of unified love does not appear.

After an individual achieves perfection as a spouse in the conjugal relationship, we should receive public recognition center on God's love to establish the true ideal.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Perfection of True Love

Textbook: Blessing and Ideal Family Chapter, "Perfection of the Individual"

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.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: How to Love With God's Heart


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