Even an Atom Has Aspirations

The message of today's post is the realm of existence.  The balance of human life is so fragile that it can be compared to hanging on the thread of a spiders web.

Could you imagine inhaling ten times without exhaling?  Even to try to inhale three consecutive times in a row is not easy.  You can try it.

The natural inhaling and exhaling are one simple example of the beautiful balance that characterizes all of existence.  Balance and harmony exists on a very thin line.  In addition to the respiratory system, our body also has a nervous system and a cardiovascular system.

They maintain a tight, narrow balancing act to sustain the life of the human body.  For example, if you close one nostril, of course it becomes difficult to breathe.

If you close one eye, then your vision is incomplete and your face is not symmetrical.  Through just these examples we conclude that pairs are necessary, or complementary aspects, in our life.

Where does human life originate?

It starts from a base or foundation that is harmonized.  Common logic concludes that everything has its origin in harmony.

Since we come from harmony and balance, there must be some element that generates this equilibrium.  From studying the Principle, you learn that God exists in dual essentialities.

Then it is possible to determine the subject and object elements within God.  This is one of the truly great discoveries in human history.

A subject and an object is needed to form a pair or circuit.

Everything in existence participates as a subject or in an object role.  God is the ultimate subject of the universe and created all things in the objective role to Him.

Within any subject, a minus or objects also exists.  In other words, the subject also contains dual elements.

The plus, which is subject and minus are supposed to form a circuit of give and take, interacting in a complementary manner.  This basic truth of the relationship of God and creation is seen in the cosmos.  The universe is divided into small entities trillions of subject and object.

But the relationship is always subject or plus, and object or minus, and each of these always contains complementary elements.

Chemistry has identified over 100 elements.  An element consists of atoms of only one kind and cannot be broken down into simpler particles by ordinary or physical means.  Each element is identified by the number of plus and minus particles it contains.

The relationship of plus-minus is marvelously complex and sophisticated and can be seen in all the beautiful aspects of the universe.  The variations throughout the universe come from different combinations and angles of plus and minus.

If we take an individual for example, he may have a very large plus element and a small minus element.  There are many variation, but the basic principle will stay the same.  Each being encompasses 360 degrees and includes various plus and minuses while its composition is unique.

Imagine drawing a line through a circle.  The two complementary halves which are formed match if you go directly through the center and balance is created.

Every atom can be broken down into protons, electrons and neutrons.  Even within the small atom, there are two kinds of electrical charges of plus and minus.  

We can compare the atom with a heavenly body: there is always a center with elements that are revolving around it.  Even the smallest of atoms has an electron revolving around the nucleus.  It is like a miniature solar system.

All the elements of existence can be contracted into a tiny atom or expanded to the solar system and the universe.  The microcosm and the macrocosm reflect one another.

Today, scientist say that the universe arises from energy, but what is energy and how does it exist?

Energy operates only within the bound of universal law.

Which is the first cause: energy or action?  This is like the question which came first, the "chicken or the egg".

I already stated that energy is no exception to the law of existence. Neither energy nor action can be permanent or solid without the fundamental elements of plus and minus. In other words, energy and action are like the effect, or the shadow; the complementary elements of plus and minus are prerequisites to both of them. 

When we look at the law of existence and say that thought, spirit comes before matter, then that means that energy or action cannot be the origin of the universe.  What created this energy; where did it come from?

Within God there is plus and minus and that relationship is found everywhere. 

When plus and minus create a circuit, the action of give and take immediately arises.

Action creates energy just as flowing water through a power plant produces energy.  How much energy you exert depends on the size of your object. 

An extraordinary object calls forth extraordinary energy.

For example, would you use the same amount of energy to pick up a piece of chalk that you use lifting a rock?  To relate to a small object, you only need a small amount of energy, while a large object requires greater energy.

This is the most logical universal truth:  existence begins with plus and minus forming a reciprocal relationship of subject and object producing give and take action.  Energy is generated through such action.

Scientist use examples of energy so much because it is something that they can see and study.

But science must recognize that before there is energy there are two deeper elements which may not be recognizable by the scientific method of research.

Plus and minus are invisible and often impossible to study in a laboratory.  Energy has a prerequisite which scientists do not study that far.  They are content to conclude that the universe originated with energy and that is that.

However, energy is unable to produce action if it does not have the two elements of plus and minus, in other words a subject and an object.

Do you have love?

Can you pinpoint where it is and show it to someone?

You are not able to see the love within you or show it.  However, once you have an object of love, you will feel a certain power moving within you through the relationship of give and take.  You then feel love growing.  

On the same token, people may not know whether or not God exists.  God is invisible like love.  You cannot pinpoint His location, but as soon as we become an object to Him, we are able to feel His power moving within us.

This method is very scientific, even though scientists do not recognize it.

All action in the universe springs from the dual natures of subject and object.

Apart from subject and object, action cannot take place and energy cannot be generated.  

We each have hopes and dreams that must have a direction or goal as their subject.  Our aspirations and goals, thus must work together as a hand in a glove, as plus and minus.  People naturally want to fulfill their aspirations and reach their goals, because we long to resemble God.

Our ultimate goal is to unite subject and object.  We then become perfect objects to God and can have direct give and take with Him.

Just as humans have hopes, all things of creation do, too, although on a different level.

The aspiration and goal of all the elements was the creation of the universe.

Without that hope, they cannot connect to God.  Without unity or love, the universe would not have come into existence. All things of creation ultimately aspire to resemble God.


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This Post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Realm of Existence

Two Sides to Man

Did you know man has two layers?

There is the mind's side which is God's side and then there is the body which has been stolen by Satan and riddled with sin.  Therefore, if it wasn't for Satan, your mind and body would be united as one with God.

Instead, the satanic body dominates the godly mind.  However, because of Satan this second part becomes another dominate plus. So a double plus has been formed.

Originally, the unfallen body would have followed the godly plus mind.  This is the ultimate goal of the Messiah, to bring the original unity of mind and body.  The seed of the original plus and minus will be generated.

So basically the coming of the Messiah is to bring men and women into the original state where there was no Fall of Man. 

To bring them back to that original state is the purpose.  The worst situation of humanity is that Satan dominated the body of men with his satanic sinful blood lineage.  Through tempting Eve, he multiplied his own fallen children through Cain and Abel which thus led to humanity we see today.

Your blood is stained with the satanic lineage leaving behind God's pure blood lineage.  Satan was in the minus, servants position.  After he dominated God's children, he came into the plus position on earth.  We should then knock Satan's plus down and create a major plus which is the Messiah.

We become the minus in front of the Messiah.  This is the kind of man the Messiah searches for.  Within one seed, there is the plus and minus part, the subject/object part.  This is the love cover.

Man is supposed to be love's universal representative.

When the plus and minus are united within the cover of love, if another plus tries to invade the original godly plus would repel it.  The Universal power would repel the illicit plus.

If Adam and Eve in the object position had united with God the plus, then when Satan came as another plus he would have been repelled.

Love covers such a union to protect the seed from invasion.

The universe is our best policeman, because the universe always protects the righteous thing.  Therefore, when the plus and minus become harmonious and united, with the universe protecting it, illicit love attempts from another minus will be expelled.

During a thunderstorm, you hear the effects of billions volts of plus and minus clashing in the sky resulting in thunder and lightning.  How does the gigantic plus and minus create themselves?  The minus and pluses unite themselves becoming one giant plus and minus.

As long as there is no object formed, the subject always increase itself-uniting plus and plus and plus. 

Minus also increases itself by adding minus, minus and minus.

The iron rule stated in physic books in school is that plus always repels plus electricity and minus always repels minus. This is not found true from the Principle point of view, they do not want to repel.  They would rather unite until each found an object and subject, at which time they repel.

But until then, they unite with each other.

The universal law is that when a plus and minus unite, nobody wants a third party to invade.  Even in the plant kingdom, the insect kingdom or anywhere does not want a third party to invade the union.

This is the same with humans.  When we are young before we get married or get to know the opposite sex, the boy naturally are big bundles of joy and energy together.  On the same token, girls create joy together.

But when it is time for the boys to marry, if the unmarried one say, "Boys, lets play!" the bridegroom will say to them, "Get out of here! Get behind me, Satan!"

If a woman was married, she would push away her friends who are prettier than she is.  No one wants any invasion of their union.  The universal law comes into action to protect a couple harmonized into one.


So men you have two eyes, don't you? You have two ears? But you're not hearing two different words-they are harmonized and equalized. As long as the two eyes, two nostrils, and two ears are harmonized, they only receive the one image.  This is harmony. 



The universe protects the unified weight of subject and object.  If Satan wants to infiltrate a harmonized, unified place, he cannot do that.

Another universal law is that when the perfect plus or perfect subject and the perfect minus comes into existence, the perfect plus creates a perfect minus.  This is the Divine Principles evolution theory.  Darwin's theory says that the plus dominates the minus.

It looks good on the surface the theory of the strong survive, but it does not get to the root problem.  In reality, plus and minus unite, then become either a greater plus to attract a greater minus or a greater plus, then united into an even greater minus or greater plus.

This is  how progress is made.  For instance, in man, the mind is supposed to be in the plus place and the body in the minus position.  When these two unite, they make a perfected man.  This is the big plus that appears in man.  Instead, after the fall, the body became the dominate sinful plus leading to destruction.

The same with God's dispensation.

The Messiah is the perfect plus, the pure subject.  

If another plus was to hit him, they would shatter into pieces, be destroyed, or they become a minus to unite to the Messiah's mission.  This was Jesus' desire to have his disciples to unite with him, instead, they fled. Without a solid foundation, Jesus went the way of the cross alone.

The Messiah who came as a firefighter to reverse the immorality was opposed by America as absolute subject and plus.  This is how the United States was shattered by the Universal Law.

The conscientious and people of faith should unite and follow the Messiah, and become an incredible force of the universe, spreading all over the world.  Ironically, as America opposed Reverend Moon, the satanic nations welcomed him and became a big minus to his mission.

The Messiah gives the Holy marriage Blessing as a True Parent, which the husband and wife become a heavenly plus.  Thus, they will receive all kinds of attacks from minor pluses.  But when you stand strong and take position as the absolute plus to these minuses, they will either be shattered or join you.

When you become a giant plus united with God, you can even challenge invasions on the national level and worldwide level.  This is the Messiah's way of life.  He began the battle on the individual level, family level all the way to the universal level.  The United States has fallen from its great position it observed almost 200 years ago, but the good conscientious Americans rose up in the rubble.


I would like to add that Father wrote two letters to President Bush before the Persian Gulf War and during the war itself. In the first letter that Father wrote he said, "George Bush, President of the United States, you cannot win this battle without the help of God Almighty." George Bush stated the very words that Father had written to him in his own proclamation-quoted verbatim what Father had said in that letter. I was amazed. Father said, "Don't promote it too much".


If we look at human history, there is not much to be proud when we look at it from God's point of view.
  History began when Adam and Eve fell away from heaven.  They were only teenagers and had not been blessed in marriage by God.

Even people of faith mistakenly believe that they were approved by God to start a family and that they carry God's blood lineage after the fall.  Instead, we followed Satan's words and were linked to his blood lineage - not God's true pure lineage.  This has been a tragedy and the origin of chaos and mischievousness of our world.

Satan knows that one day he will have to give back the world he stole to God, so he uses certain strategies to prolong his reign. First, he destroyed all of the evidence of his deed.  He thus was able to make it appear that the way of the world today is the original world and it was meant to center on the body.

Through the fallen body Satan has been able to dominate humanity.  

The other weapon is he created a perversion of sex-the misuse of sex.

God's weapon is the conscience, and for this reason He created religion to reach the mind of his children.  Thus, Satan is always trying to have power of the body making it stronger in order to obscure the power of the conscience.  Satan makes much effort to destroy you and me through our body.  This is the reason why so much immorality is flourishing in this country: the conscience has been diminished by Satan's tactics.

Satan uses rich and materialistic people.  he blesses them with wealth. In order to make extreme amounts of money, you must kill the conscience.  From the standard of God, if you have a conscience, you cannot be a                                
rich person very well.

Money has been another of Satan's weapons to create this immoral culture.  Other weapons is through the destruction of the body.

There are many artificial intoxicants: tobacco is one, alcohol is another, worse is all the different kinds of drugs. Then through sexual promiscuity, homosexuality and lesbianism, satanic weapons obscure the work of the conscience.

Through all of the tools used to dominate the body, Satan's rule has been prolonged, but will undoubtedly end in these Last Days.

God warns through the Divine Principle which this blog is based upon that you must find the way of life where your conscience is happy and satisfied.  You must live this way of life.  That is God's warning.


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This post was derived and rewritten from a speech of Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon centered on the Bible.

Before and After the Marriage Ceremony

Welcome to another week of inspiring words based on the Divine Principle written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.  We'll continue the topic of marriage and ideal couples centered on God.  In the Unification Church, members are taught the principles of the Bible from God's point of view and how He had planned a world of peace starting with the first family of Adam and Eve. 

Once members align themselves to these principles on the individual level, they are ready for what is called the Blessing Ceremony.  This ceremony is the matching of two people who most likely never met before.  It is different from any minister giving two people in marriage.  Unification Church members believe Father Moon is the Messiah who God uses to give marriage DIRECTLY.  Through this, the couple is engrafted to God's direct and pure blood lineage and pass it to their children who are then born without the ORIGINAL sin connected to Satan's blood lineage.  Father Moon believes through the restoration of family through intercultural and interracial marriages, world peace can gradually be achieved. 

This movement is worldwide with millions of members all over the world. The following is a speech he gives about love and the blessing:


"Have you ever thought about why I give such long sermons? I have a dramatic answer: because I hate to leave you. I enjoy every minute of my time with you. I study each of you, looking at your features, observing your reactions, inspecting your eyes, nose and mouth. I think about what kind of person would be your ideal mate. That is why the matchings (arranged marriage Blessing) go so fast: I have already done my homework!

I'm not talking this way just to be charming. I mean it. A godly person should be fond of other people. Godly people should love and enjoy their fellow men. Whether you go east or west, north or south, whether it is day or night, it makes no difference.

You must enjoy people. That is why people feel so drawn to me. If Africans were told not to come here, they would feel very sorrowful. They would try the front door, back door and side door and find some way of entering.

Why?

Because they would be attracted to the person who loves and cares most deeply for Africa. That is the result of my ideology. I want to meet everybody and establish bonds with them. I want to love all Americans; I love America more than the Americans do.

Young people are most sensitive to the magnetic power of love.

Even before I came to the United States, I knew that young people would be attracted to me, and my prediction was absolutely correct. You are young people, aren't you? Actually, what I am saying is simply that young people have purer minds than older people. Young people are more attracted to true love.


Yearning for People

Have you also been longing for other people? Have you been missing others, yearning to care for them?

Throughout my entire life, my job has been to love people and pray for them. I find that my prayers are answered; my prayers become reality.

Whenever I meet someone, I enjoy being with him or her; I can entertain, care for and love that person. When people are in love, there are no strange feelings between them. It makes no difference what habits they may have. It makes no difference whether they eat kimchee and kocheejang, or cheese and butter. There are no barriers between lovers. Their union is the beautiful culmination of love. Nothing else is more important.

A perfect plus is like a dynamo; it always creates a perfect minus. It happens automatically, without effort. Wherever a perfect plus is found, a perfect minus appears. If you are a perfect plus, you can sit in the middle of a village doing nothing, and the villagers will come to you automatically.

People are always drawn to me. Do you feel the same way about me? If I touch your hand, do you feel bad or good? How do you men feel? How do you women feel?

Many members think that if they could only shake hands with me once, their heaven would be guaranteed. But they haven't had the chance yet. My handshake is very expensive! I seldom shake anybody's hand, but still people follow me. 

Love Opens Every Door

Imagine someone who has just met a woman for whom he feels a tremendous attraction. Perhaps the two have just recently fallen in love. But then that man meets the Unification Church and he completely forsakes his lover.

Then he begins to yearn day and night, even weeping with longing to meet Reverend Moon. Only love can explain this. Only God's love can work this kind of magic. Love opens every door, including the door to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Such a person may come to where I am staying and I may yell at him, "Get out of here! Why are you sticking around?" But actually, if he loves me so much, I am already living with him in spirit. I will always remain with him.

At night, such a person doesn't have to worry about walking down a dark road, because I will take his hand and lead him. He could even close his eyes while walking down an alley, and I could tell him to step down and he would automatically do it. If I told him to step up, turn left or turn right, he would do so without even opening his eyes. That is how love works.

Physically, I have only one body; I am physically limited. Spiritually, however, I can be a million persons; such a thing is possible spiritually. I am known as a mysterious person, someone with mystical qualities, but actually it is not unusual.

Many, many times throughout the years and decades of my life, I have shed tears out of longing for God. When I cried out for God, missing Him, aching for Him, the entire spirit world would open up to me.

You should long for me just as much as I long for God. Actually, people in the Unification Church who don't long for me, who don't miss me, who have no tearful desire for me are not really members of the Unification Church. When you do reach that level of longing, you can immediately achieve unity, and the entire spirit world will open up to you.

Lawful, Public Love
My concept is that we should be people of deep longings; we should enjoy every minute we spend with someone. When we care about others, we have no dull moments. Meeting others is the proper job for people of God. That is what my life is all about. I am an expert at meeting others.

Someone who comes to meet me at East Garden for the first time may plan to stay only half an hour, but he discovers it isn't so easy to leave. I never tell anyone not to go, but people just don't want to get up and leave. This is a result of the power of love that draws people to me.

People are supposed to long for and miss one another. If love depended on appearances, an ugly person would have a burdensome life. Therefore, God, who is the king of wisdom and justice, designed us to be lovers. When you are in love, nothing matters; ugliness is no concern; you can accept everything.

However, there is one important principle in matters of love. It should be a lawful, public love; that means unselfish love. True love is definitely public love. Through true love you can gain everything, even the spirit world. Since you cannot go alone to the spirit world, you need to go with your beloved. Therefore, a truly loving person can open up the spirit world.

Those of you who are engaged, raise your hands. Your engagement is unique. Many of you were engaged to a stranger. But even so, when you first looked at that stranger, you didn't hate him or her, did you? After looking at the stranger, you didn't want to go anywhere else.

That is the spirit I live by at East Garden. I cherish everyone who comes to sit with me, considering each as my beloved."SMM


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This text was rewritten a taken from the Textbook: True Love Volume One, The Restoration of Love written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church.