How to Prepare to Go to Heaven

The closer we are to the truth, and the more we come under its spell, the more it will become our center which nobody can snatch from us.

If people's minds are securely centered on the truth, no matter if the earth were to fall into chaos millions of times and the universe was destroyed, they will never be changed or shaken.

On the other hand, if you are not prepared to accept such a central truth in your heart, however genuine the truth may appear, you would not recognize it when it comes to you.

Even if true love appeared, you would not be able to understand it because it did not come alive in your heart.

The stronghold of heaven

If Christianity wants to become a religion that establishes the mind's center that nobody can make fall and seek a genuine truth of life and love, then it must completely deny itself to the end.

Religion must deny itself to discover new truths and pathways.  Make sacrifices.

When mankind were discovering new continents, it seemed as if the continent was constantly expanding.

Now, as every facet on earth has been discovered and partially destroyed, it is as if the earth is shrinking day by day.

In other words, as civilization was still developing, the world seemed huge, but as history and civilization expanded, the world seemed to gradually shrink.

In that regard, you can know the ideal world, realized through history of truth.  It will become the universal era where everything in creation forms direct ties with humanity.

What standard should we as citizens of heaven follow?

Our love and life of the Kingdom of Heaven should follow truth.  Our life and the truth should follow love, and likewise, love and truth should necessarily follow life because truth, life and love are like a family. They are inseparable.

These must bear good fruit within us.

Why are truth, love and life connected to one another this way?

For something to exist there should be an above and below front and back, and right and left, centering on existing things.

No part of creation can escape the realm of number three, which is the fundamental form of existence.  The three growth stages are:  formation stage, growing stage and completion stage.

Love, life and truth get together and make an unified form.

However, if a force proceeds in the reverse direction, then an action of force different from the original one occurs.

God is the origin of love, life, and truth. 

After we did not follow God's original formula, we have been unable to form a triangle that holds love, life and truth in equal balance.

Thus, God could not fulfill His will through us.

Jesus' disciples thought that Jesus would just automatically dominate the Roman Empire with his truth and become King of Israel, and they would hold high positions.

But we have to first make a foundation for God's Kingdom within our mind.

Then centering on the good mind, we should make a foundation for unity between our body and God.

This is the foremost issue.

The Kingdom of Heaven begins from within us. 

Our mind is its stronghold.

Where is God's stronghold?

Many people of faiths say that they just believe in Jesus and will just automatically go to heaven.  Where is that stronghold?

When Peter asked where the Kingdom of Heaven was, Jesus answered, "It's not in heaven, but in your heart." Where is that stronghold located?

Can it be formed from a sadden or hateful heart?  Or a selfish, arrogant mind, or a mind that denies society and lives only for self?

These are not the kind of content we desire, or the kind of Kingdom which God can approve.  If you seek the stronghold of God's Kingdom, you must meet with solitude more than anyone else on earth.

Why?

God is solitary, the too must be solitary.

When serving the church we must be determined to bear the responsibility of solving the problems of sin and evil in this world.

If we are unable to have a single direction of determination to bear that responsibility, then the stronghold of heaven cannot exist.

People mistakenly are confident that just because they are conscientious and hold a respectable social position that they exhibit the beginning of Heaven from such a mind.

But unless one is perfected, he still holds evil within him.  How can heaven and hell dwell in the same place?

This thinking is based on the understanding that good and evil begin together.  Yet, these dual qualities cannot begin together.

When evil goes east, we good must go west, and when evil moves, good has to stop.

Moreover, when evil has a desire, good must not have that same want.

Good and evil are opposite.

In God's original world, Heaven was a place we would reach automatically centered on a life with Him.  But we started our search for the heavenly nation where God lost all His hope in the world of humankind after we had abandoned Him.

Therefore, people who are satisfied with their present fallen lives, cannot be truly religious people.

You should not be attached to your satanic habits, and lifestyle, but instead you must proceed to seek new values, deny even your life when confronted by intersecting fortunes of life and death that can cause you to sink into despair.

By proceeding in this manner, then the way of true goodness can start from here.

When we see the way for true restoration or salvation, are there people who can therefore confidently say that their character is the stronghold of heaven?

Have you met a religious leader or person who was the pillar of standard for the way to heaven?

There is no one who would claim that God would recognize their family for living in their satanic, habitual lifestyles while in a comfortable environment.

There is no tribe that exists that God can recognize their achievements.  There are no races, nations, ideologies or philosophies that can demand God's recognition.

When you truly look at God's situation of bringing the world of peace to fruition with no family, tribe or nation from which to work, you are probably dumbfounded.

Those who work to protect themselves from the evil world for more than a millennium can dream such a dream, and only those who gratefully sacrifice themselves for more than ten thousand years can find hope to live for ten thousand years.


If there are those who cry out to see such an eternal Kingdom of Heaven, eternal life and eternal happiness must be able to overcome the current situation with eternity as their main focus of all activities.

They must endure the present circumstances, sacrificing themselves.  Only from such a standpoint can the eternal stronghold emerge.

The standard for going to heaven

Without setting a standard of loving God, we cannot free ourselves from the satanic realm.

Thus, we must love Him with all of our heart more than our spouse.

We are trapped within the snares of false love within the satanic realm.

Fallen people must emerge as far as the edge of that hellish realm and come out of it completely.

Hence, we cannot love our parents more than God.

What kind of people enter Heaven?

They are people whose mind are in harmony with God.  To what extent?

Our mind must be in harmony with His for eternity as He works toward the eternal ideal based on His eternal purpose.

Therefore, our minds must eternally be in harmony with the eternal God.

What must we do to achieve this high standard?

We must become children who can be liked by God and who like God.  Therefore, we would not be children of sadness or regret.

Next, we must walk in step with God's body.  here, 'body' means direction.

The body is manifested through the direction it takes.

In order to become children who walk in step with God's ideal, when He goes east, we must go east with Him.

If God liked something warm, but Jesus liked something cold, would this be a right relationship between Father and son?

If He wanted to laugh and talk, and Jesus wanted to sleep, would this feel right?

Everything manifested through the external body must be in step with God.

Would everything be fine with just that?  No.

If God is amiable, He would not be hot-tempered at the same time.  Therefore, if God is amiable, we should be amiable, not angry.

The internal and external must match.

Would this attitude alone make everything work out?

Next, we must do things which are in line with God's will.

For that to happen, can there be things we are reluctant to do which God would want us to accomplish?

Can there be things that our bodies detest that are good for us?

We must do things that both our good mind and body like to do.  As God exists, there must be things that He likes.  Also, as Jesus is God's Son, he also has to like such things.

We can never go to heaven without sacrificing our fallen, humanistic lives.

This is how it is with the essence of faith, if you were to go to spirit world you would see whether this was true or not.

The starting point of the Kingdom of Heaven

Where does the Kingdom of Heaven begin?

If we are not able to dissolve God's anguish at losing His children, how can we enter heaven with a peaceful heart knowing how the Father suffers?

Since humanity has woven a history of sorrow since the Fall, we must restore all of its ties from the sinful lineage to the Godly pure lineage without the trace of the Fall.

All of the six millennia, since Adam and Eve have to be restored to the point before the Fall.

Secular people dislike sorrow and run away from it, but we are taught about God's sorrow which is more miserable than any other sorrowful situation we have encountered.

If something tragic happened in the world, most people would avoid it and run away from it.

But our motto is to go through such places of sorrow and restore it to the Kingdom of Heaven.

The more that we understand God's sorrow and misery, the stronger the force that actually emerges to dissolve His anguish.  That force becomes the motive of unlimited explosive action.

That great force is the foundation of the Messiah.

The essence of the Kingdom of Heaven

What kind of world will the Kingdom of Heaven be?

Since it is the original world of creation, then individuals, families and tribes who are still attached to the fallen, satanic bloodline still accused by Satan cannot go there.

In order to enter heaven, these three levels must become one - three generations become one.

In Adam's family, Adam was the first generation, Cain and Abel the second and their children the third.  From God's standpoint, God was the first generation, Adam and Eve the second, and Cain and Abel, the third.

As heaven is a world of living for others, we must go forth making that notion our first consideration.

Those who have the idea that others serve them will be destroyed.

Heaven is the world filled with God's love. 

Love's essence is not to be served, but rather live for the sake of all.

Thus, heaven differs from the lower standard of the secular world.  This religious teaching of living for the sake of others, which is being absolutely obedient, sacrificing self and serving does not exist in the selfish, secular world.

To serve others are perceived as beggars who know nothing of this world.

Yet, this was God's secret strategy against Satan so that people could still be blessed even if they were ignorant of heaven's laws.

The framework of the Kingdom of Heaven

We have not restored the original homeland.

We lost our original hometown, by which means God's Kingdom on earth.

When we speak of God's Kingdom, we are referring to the realm which is on earth and that which is in heaven.

There are three major elements required to establish a nation: first sovereignty, next territory, and then citizenry.

Yet, God has not been able to establish a sovereignty over which he can govern.  He has no people whom He can govern.  This amounts to not having a homeland where to rest.

We live in a world that is not the world which God's original people should live.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook: Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter Four, Section 2

Search for God in the Conscience

All five senses should function in the intoxication of love. 

This means that whatever, you taste see or smell should be done through the eyes of love.

No matter what adjectives you use to describe someone, as long as you speak from love there will be no disharmony between  you.  At any time of the day, you will welcome that kind of love.  

What quality would create such a permanent interest and intoxication?  Only true love.

This is not a daydream, but something real. I searched in all directions and in all philosophies, but I couldn't find the answer there, so I had to find it on my own. I knew very well what path I had started on, so it didn't matter how America or the government criticized me. I know myself better than our critics do, and I just go where I am destined to go. For that reason, I can be bold and strong. 

We speak about the ideal world or Heaven on Earth, but unless we have true love or live by our conscience, then we have no way to reach that true ideal.  If true love didn't exist, we would have to make something up to take its place.

The Principle explains about the duality of God, how the subject and object create a circuit, and how the energy that pours from that give and take can bring about the perfection of creation.

Everything in creation has dual aspects of a mind and body.  In order to be such person of conscience and true love, we must first unite our good mind and our fallen body.

There are only two directions to go: the heavenly way or the secular way.  This means that each person is between heaven and earth.

The mind is the center with the physical world on one side and the heavenly world on the other side.

The  mind is a buffer between the visible and invisible worlds.

The conscience and spirit are two different things, but sometimes the spirits looks like conscience and vice versa.

The foremost part of the conscience is spirit, but they are a continuation of each other.

When you follow your conscience deeper and deeper, you inevitably make a deeper spiritual connection.

When God visits, He will land in the foremost position of your conscience.

Therefore, the only place to search for God is deep in your conscience.

Today we see many psychics and people who possess spiritual power, but they lack knowledge of this simple basic truth.

In experiencing these phenomena, most people overlook the reasons behind them.  They do not understand why psychic phenomena even happens.  

When you go all the way in pursuit of the true standard of conscience, you will connect with spirit world.

God is always in the position of axis whenever you makes some turn in spirit world.

Love is the factor around which the whole thing will turn.  Not just the spiritual world, but the physical world is meant to turn centered on love.

The body should be centered on love and harmonized with all things of creation. 

Love is the central factor which can harmonize all of creation.

Thus, when man is able to become a beacon of love, he is the supreme creation of God.  Without that love, man is no different from an animal or plant that lives based only on instinct without a spirit.

The center of the two worlds is the same love and same God, making a gigantic turn together.

They are centered upon true love and you.

Man can ask for nothing more.  There is nothing greater or higher than this love.

At that point, man is totally fulfilled, then your conscience is totally filled and you feel complete satisfaction and happiness.

Then you move as an unique, everlasting and unchanging entity in the universe, on your eternal journey.  When you have this as a standard, you have an universal goal to reach and you will shout out 'Amen!'.

I am introducing you to the taste of true love, so even if the entire world comes against us, nothing can stop you once you taste that love. If people are even willing to die for their secular love affairs, how much more would people be willing to give everything for heavenly love? 

If someone pinches you, you say 'Ouch,' and you might get mad, but when you are pinched with heavenly love, it hooks you and you say "Ouch, love!"

When you are traveling with the love of God, you can be accepted anywhere, even in Hell.

We are front-line soldiers in the war to restore true love to the rest of the world.

There are all kinds of commotion when the world sees these flag bearers marching forward, and people accuse me of taking their children or their husbands or wives. People around the world have accused me of being a love thief. "Our standard" is true love and conscience. "My standard" is also true love and conscience. 

To make it the "world standard", we have to give to to the world by serving all mankind through fundraising, eating, marrying, witnessing, having children and all else for the sake of the world restoration back to the ideal of Heaven on Earth.

We quickly want to reach the nation and world level in order to achieve the standard of God.  

When we center upon this standard, everything is consummated by following the goal from the family level to the universal level.

This is the beauty of it.  It is truly a supreme ideology.  What other preacher teaches this level of love?

I am not just speaking about it, but living it, and you too can become deeper and deeper.  When your spiritual state nears mine, then I will appear in your dreams and give revelations. 

It is the law of love that when you pursue this goal of serving the world, God will definitely intervene in your life.  This is our permanent, supreme standard.

Have you lived that way?

This standard has been victorious in the past, it will conquer the present and it will be victorious in the future.  It will bring permanent, eternal happiness.  That is the goal.  Have you lived that way?

Totally empty yourself like a low pressure in a vacuum and be filled with this new command.  When you listen to the voice of your mind, then tears of joy and liberation will overflow.  Then, at that moment you will feel that universal love has touched you.

When you become loveable, the universal love will want to touch you the same way you like to touch flowers and butterflies.  Once you are united with that love, you can give it to all things.

When I teach you here at Belvedere, I am always thinking that I speak to you so that you can reach the same goal. My fervent desire in teaching you is for you to become intoxicated in that deep love also. When I am away you feel that Belvedere is empty, but when I walk in, the room feels full. Why is that? It is because I am a messenger of this love. 

Your privilege is to come and be ignited. It is completely possible.

You want to be the sons and daughters of the True Parents, become children of true filial piety, true patriots and then true saints.

I view the family as the formation stage, the nation as growth stage, and the world as perfection stage. In order to be accepted by the heavenly world, it is not good enough to be only a child of filial piety or a patriot. You must be a saint, a child of God. 

Religious leaders throughout the ages have taught various moral codes, but they have not dwelt on true love.

But Father teaches about sainthood based on love, and teaching a way to achieve it.  This is the first such group in the world.

We are therefore known as the love race.

In that race is all the five colors of skin assembled.  We live together and feel as close to other races as we do our own race.

Your brothers and sisters are like your clothes, when you are with black people, you can feel as if you are wearing a tux; when you are with white people, it is like wearing white clothes; when you are with yellow people it is as if you are wearing spring flowers.

If a white object is to stand out it needs to be placed against a dark background, so we can say that its brilliance and value comes from the background.  If whites don't like black people, then they shouldn't wear black clothes.

In our world of living for the sake of others, we transcend these race problems and we want to marry internationally and between the races to create a greater beauty.  

We want to live with that standard forever.  

Whoever wants to live to that higher standard that will lead toward a world of peace, raise your hand.

God Bless.

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This post was rewritten and taken from the speech, Our Standard

Mind Wants Principle, Body Pursues Addiction

A constitution is the base of all laws of a nation.  It is the yardstick for determining what is good and what is evil.

You make a judgement based on a standard which you hold within yourself

If you are a person that does not have principle, then when you view something as good or bad, your judgement has no value.

Random judgments are based on self-centeredness.

A true judgment can only come from a basic law or principle within yourself.  The mind has an unchanging quality, while the body always changes.  The mind should have a permanent foundation.

The body follows the direction dictated by your five senses which are always changing direction.  If your eyes see a lovely flower, then your body will walk over to it.

But the mind is not bound by the five senses.  The mind can refuse to obey, and it gives direction to your body.

Your mind tries to bring the body to the place where all the five senses can be contented.  If the mind favored only the eyes, then the other senses would complain.

The mind takes in account all the five senses.  The mind decides how it will respond to the desires of each sense.  The mind can only make these decisions based on principles.

Actually, we should thank God that we have a conscience as a command post for the body.  Before knowing this, you may have felt bothered by the mind limiting your activities.

Americans look for the comfortable and convenient way of doing things in life.  To those who just want to party and enjoy sex, the conscience seems to be an obstacle to those activities.

When it is time to eat, the body craves delicious food.  It prefers to have delicious pleasures all the time.  Why does the mind put certain limits on what the body desires?

Habits and customs are hard to change, no matter how logical it is to change them.

Addiction to drugs, alcohol and sex are hard to cure.

Have you ever thought how we can truly cure these addictions in our society?  Our lives must be planted on a firm foundation of principle.

If we do not already have one, then we have to create one.  Without standards or principles, we will only cause and see destruction around us.

If there are no principles that bind the parents and children or husband and wife, then the family will fall apart.

The mind wants a principled life, but the body pursues all kinds of addictions. 

Don't you feel the war between your good mind and your sinful body?

This contradiction is a terrible burden.

People feel sorry for mentally ill people, but the reality is, those whose mind becomes sick is even harder to restore.  Religion deals with that world.

A grasshopper doesn't plan ahead for the winter, but instead enjoys the warm weather thinking about how sweet his life is.  Spring and summer always come to an end, however.

We must come to a standard law and principle that should be followed by everyone in their homes, society, nation and world standard based on your conscience.

This standard will be acceptable by everyone and it will be unchanging, eternal and unique.

Thus, we conclude that the conscience provides such a standard.

Everyone appreciates material treasure, but would material things like everyone?

If treasure could speak, it would tell you that it would like to be possessed by someone that has a higher standard than it holds.  You feel this way because you yourself are like that.

We like things that are higher and nobler than ourselves. So do material things.  A diamond would like someone who shines brighter and is harder than it is.

Gold's deep color represents peace, and it wants to be loved by someone more peace loving than itself.

A pearl will respect and love someone with a more harmonious color than itself.

Would a diamond like some unworthy person who just grabs it or prefer to be possessed by someone with a moral ethic?

A diamond also has a preference and would resists the thief who reaches to snatch it.

This is also how we would react.

One person does not consider if he is worthy to possess a diamond, while the other considers whether he is really entitled to it.

If you have this quality, then the diamond would have that inclination, too.  This is elementary, but necessary education.

America's problem is that it doesn't really know the power and existence of the world of conscience.

How large do you think that the conscience is?

Seven billion people live in the world today.  So that means there are 7 billion different kinds of conscience.  Then if we were to include people in the spirit world that is billions more.

If you did the work of ten people today, the conscience would not tell you to do the work of nine tomorrow.

There is no such conscience.

The conscience will tell you to do more work the next time.  If you gave ten people ten dollars, would your conscience permit you to give nine people ten dollars the next day and keep the ten for yourself?

Your conscience will tell you to give the money to eleven people instead.  As you can see, the conscience is never satisfied.

Even if the whole planet earth was contained within your conscience, you would want to reach out farther and possess the whole galaxy.  Then if you had the whole galaxy, you will want to have God.

Even then your journey would not end until you owned the heart of God and had His love.

Even if you contained the whole planet earth in your conscience, it would still want to reach out farther and possess the whole galaxy.

Even if it had the whole universe, it would still want to have God. Your journey wouldn't end until you owned the heart of God and had His love.

That is how the conscience works.

When you try to set a standard for this extraordinary kind of conscience, it is not easy.

Who made the conscience so big?

God did.  If He had nothing that He could put into it, He would run away.  He is responsible.  What can fill the conscience?

God knows you like diamonds.  Would He be satisfied by filling everyone's conscience bag with a lot of diamonds?  Why not?

God can make all the diamonds and gold at will, but there is one thing He cannot control.  True love.  True love is only activated in a reciprocal relationship of subject and object.

Without an object, love is not created.

Can you show the love that you have?  Man's love is only activated when he finds a partner.

When you are sitting by yourself, your love cannot be activated.

God has been sitting all by Himself, lonely just like you would be, so can He enjoy His love alone?

Even if He was holding a piece of chalk and can laugh with enjoyment, then it would make a little better sense.

No matter how much potential love God has, by Himself God cannot feel its excitement. 

An object is always needed in order to activate love through give and take.  When a woman has a man to relate to, the vibration of the give and take can begin.  How about between woman to woman?  Even God needs an ideal object.

What was the purpose of God creating the whole universe?

For the perfection of His object.  Since God is gigantic, He needs an equivalent object who can stand side by side with Him.  Therefore, He created man with a conscience as big as God's conscience.

When man completely fills his conscience and starts to laugh, then God can respond.

Then the whole universe can laugh together with them.  That is God's design.

Nothing else except love can fill that conscience, however. Love alone can excite God.

In love, God is an enormous plus and man is an enormous minus, when they come together a giant spark will flash.  How much power do you think that will generate?

The entire universe will jolt at that connection.

Then God, men and women will be totally intoxicated and melt within the power of that love.  From the one-celled amoeba, the insects all the way to the galaxies, all of creation will be affected by the unity of God and man.

You might think that God is too far away for us to unite and cause such a great spark.  Electricity can speak between any distance.

God's electricity travels faster than the electricity we know on earth.

When He is totally happy and intoxicated in love, then all of mankind can respond that they are happy, too.  Then the entire creation will echo around the world that they are happy.


I like the word "too."  The cross bar on the "t" represents the horizontal absolute; the vertical line represents you-you are a pillar of love. The "oo" means everything is OK. Americans say OK; the O means perfection, and K comes from "keep." So OK means that you keep perfection, that everything is going well. You didn't know I had a definition for this!



Conscience is OK, but what is it centered on?  Life?  That is good.  Knowledge?  That is also nice.  Power?

These are nice, but are not the central things.

What is one substance that everyone likes and participates in?  Love alone has that universal character.

When the cornerstone of existence is conscience that is based on true love or true love is based on conscience, then everything is in the right place.  That is the standard.

This is not a temporal standard, but it has an eternal, unique, and unchanging quality.  The essentialities of love is the same, but the components are different from person to person, depending on where love appears.

Each individual is a truth body with unique love and characteristics.

They all share a common essentiality in God.

Each person is a cell of love. 

Each person has love that is unique to them which cannot be duplicated by anyone else.  Yet, it is unchanging and eternal.

If you have true universal love within you, then you have become a standard man or woman of the universe.  The conclusion we have come to is that we need the standard of conscience which is true love.

Through just this standard alone, we can digest the world and bring it into our consciences.  We can even bring in God with our invisible true love.

As long as you have that true love, you can go in any direction.  The world of true love also transcends time and space.

The five senses will cooperate with that standard of true love instead of repelling each other, for they do so out of happiness, not duty.

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This Post was rewritten from the speech Our Standard

Man Become Less Valuable Than Material

When we narrow down 'our standard' it becomes 'my standard'.  When we broaden it, then it becomes the 'world standard'.

Where would we find the standard?  In the past, present or future?  What would be the central factor that sets the standard?  Would the standard be set by money, knowledge or power?

Could a person set the standard?

We can say that the standard should be based on the mind.

It would only be natural that the standard be based on the mind, but the mind also varies.

Sometimes it is beautiful and other times it is ugly.  Would the standard be based on a school record, or on religion, or on God?

Through this topic, we need to determine what has value for our lives.

The Korean word for treasure literally means "material treasure".

In talking about value we often are referring to material value; usually a treasure is based on material value.

What determines a standard of value?

First, something of value will last for a long time, has an unique eternal and unchanging quality.  Gold for instance is not easily changed.

These are the quality of value for material things.

People talk about the value of material things, but do not see a person as a treasure.  Minimum wage is still under 9 dollars an hour.  How cheap a man is!

Why haven't people been regarded as treasure?  People will go to war and kill other people to obtain material treasure or territory.  This is a real problem.  How did a human become less valuable than gold?

A pearl has a harmonized color which is beautiful.

Gold and pearls are very soft, while diamonds are very hard. Would you exchange your loved one for gold?

Would you give up your loved one's little finger for an equal amount of diamonds? Is that a good deal?  If someone offered you a diamond as big as your wife or husband, would you trade them in?

Then this means that men and women are more valuable than gems.

What do men have that makes them more valuable than diamonds?

It is his sparkling eyes or his skin?

Do you have the three qualities of value?

Men and women change.  Do you have valuable quality only when  you are young and pretty, or also when you are old?  Why do you prefer a warm, embracing person over an aloof and distant person?

When it is warm, people tend to relax, but when it is cold everyone automatically tries to protect himself.

Warm weather causes people to be more expansive and relaxed.  Do your favorite things change or not?  People are changeable, particularly women!

Changeable women are less liked than more stable women, right? 

Would the changeable quality be true for men also?

The three qualities of value apply to people as well as material things.

Therefore, a person who has a changeable quality has no everlasting value or uniqueness.

Man has two aspects: a mind and body.  Which changes more?  Does your conscience change more than your physical desires?

People who believe in the theory of evolution, say that there is not much difference between the make up of men and animals.

By holding to this belief, one tends to believe that animal behavior and conflict is also inherent in men, is natural and will last forever.  With this kind of ideology, a world of true, everlasting peace where man has freedoms within principle cannot exist.

They also say that the mind's desires are an illusion and that there is no such thing as an absolute standard of conscience.

They feel we are just material and there is no such thing as a permanent ideal.

In other words, if we are no better than animals just existing without a true purpose, then there is no room for a permanent standard for which to live.

Therefore, no permanent quality of value can exist.

If you and I are truly descended from monkeys, then man is also only an animal.  Do you think that monkeys live by moral standards or ethics?

There are no such standards as keeping one's purity in the monkey world.

But man is more advanced culturally, but seems to be changing into more like the monkeys because men and women just have casual sex together like the monkeys.

Those who uphold moral values seem to be losing the debate with evolutionist because they cannot show how men and women are really different from animals.

In order to be able to distinguish men from animals, even though evolutionists do not believe in God, we would have to create even an imaginary God who could be the embodiment of some absolute standard.  Otherwise there is no other way to win the battle.

Without an absolute standard, mankind cannot survive.

God has been neglected by mankind throughout history, but now we have reached a deadlock.

In the animal world, the stronger animal attacks the weaker ones.

Is this natural in the human world?

Do humans naturally need power in order to protect themselves?  There is certain conduct that needs standards.  To determine those standards, we need a foundation.  Would this be formed by the body or the conscience?

Moral quality has to pursue a tangible value, such as justice and honor.

The mind works by combining intelligence, heart and will power.  

 

Human value is based on conscience, which has an everlasting quality.

At the same time, everyone will like and agree on the value of the conscience.

The conscience should be needed morning and night and every moment of our lives.  That is the kind of standard we have to come up with.

The quality that defines a person of treasure, comes from his conscience and mind, which is eternal and unchanging.

In the Orient, when there is a bad person, we say he has a bad mind, we never say he has a bad body.

When you value someone, you value his mind saying his state of mind or thinking is good, not his appearance.

In criminal law, it is important the person's motives to commit the crime, motive is intangible.  Motivation comes from the mind, and the body reacts to that.

Does the conscience pursue good or evil things?

The answer will be the same 1,000 years from now.  If you ask someone from 10,000 years ago, their answer will be the same.

This means that the conscience has an unchanging quality.  Thus, we say that the conscience is at the base of value.

Therefore, the man's unique value comes from his conscience.

Why do we appreciate the three qualities of value in material things?

There must be some corresponding aspect in man which include those qualities.

We appreciate those qualities in certain things because we have them within ourselves.  That reciprocal relationship is the key to determine value.

We can see the same principle in the relationship between man and God.

We are not the universal subject of creation, so we cherish these qualities of values because there is a first cause which initiated this.

Evolution tries to deny the power of the conscience by saying that it is only the by product of material which came about by itself.  That material came into existence first and conscience is like a side effect.

Evolutionists don't accept the idea of a first cause, or God. 

Evolutionist say that conscience is like animal instinct which evolved to a higher status.

Do you feel good to hear that you descended directly from monkeys?

Evolutionists do not have any solutions to the human problems of today.  In order to distinguish ourselves from the animal world, we need to have God and if no real God exists we still have to make an imaginary one.  Otherwise there is no solution to the deep problems of humanity.


For the last ten years I have been spending an incredible amount of money inviting the world's leading scholars to come and think about absolute value, but they don't even want to think about it. Everyone wants to deny there is absolute value, saying there is only relative value; they keep saying they are tired of hearing about absolute value. They are asking me to change the subject of the conference, but I have refused.  I know that, no matter how great these academics are, they cannot find absolute value because it can't be observed in a laboratory or test tube.


Scholars try to determine everything through their physical senses.  They do not recognize anything that does not come their way or is intangible.

The physical senses cannot perceive the spiritual reality or anything beyond the material world like God.

There is no way you can reach conclusions about value and conscience through the analytic method. 

Today's scientific world is confused about what is reality.

There are five senses, but you need to employ one more sense to perceive the complete reality of the universe.

Thinkers say that we must conquer reality if we are to advance.

But there is such confusion of what reality is.  Religiously and philosophically there is confusion.  We have to clarity this confusion by setting the standard.

We need philosophy and religion, but what do 'I' need most of all?

An active conscience.

To determine what is reality, we have to restore our consciences to be true ones.  Have people throughout history lived with true conscience?

All men have the common desire to live with true conscience, but how can that be realized?

An important quality in a moral code is filial piety.

We place value on this, but what is it and why should we exercise it?

Filial piety is loyalty to the unchanging value of the family.

A son that practices filial piety will serve his parents and brothers and sisters even if they do not reciprocate.

Our conscience dictates that this is the right thing to do.  But if you are not able to recognize the value of conscience, you will not recognize the value of filial piety.  You have to have some starting point.

Conscience values your parents' welfare more than your own.

On a larger scale, a patriot follows his conscience by serving his country and caring about its welfare.

There is the common ground that the conscience dictates the benefit of something higher than yourself.  The conscience pursues something of higher value not caring only for the self first.

What is a saint or a holy man?

The saint follows the same principle, but he obeys his conscience for the sake of mankind.  He recognizes that the subject of all is God.  In history, holy men have always been religious leaders.

Like evolutionists, the materialistic communists say that awareness, or consciousness, is merely a by-product of the material world.  So, where can we find the moral code in that?

Communism is destructive because it is based on materialism and recognizes consciousness as only a by-product, not something that has value or needs a standard to follow.

Within communism, there is no ideal of a person of treasure.

Since communists do not place value on the spiritual element, life is expendable in their political system.  Humans are only viewed as material.

We see throughout history that they freely sacrifice people's lives to attain material.

There is no such thing as an everlasting moral standard in the world of communism.

Which is first, consciousness or the material?

How do we determine that consciousness came first?

As stated in earlier posts as an example, the eye is material whether it is in man or some animal.  Would the first eye in existence have known that it would encounter sunlight or dust therefore develop eyelashes and tears itself?

Whoever designed the eye would have understood these phenomena.  Anyone who tries to argue that the eye randomly came about into existence, you can show him his error with this short example.

Are the tear ducts to keep the eye clean and moist a random event?

Then it is logical to say that long before the eye came into being there was an universal conscious that designed the eye according to the environment.  So, we can say that conscious came before the material world.


I don't deny the process of evolution in development, but I am saying that there is a creative process going on behind it. In the theory of evolution there are sudden occurrences called mutations, in which something new comes from its parent body. But we have to say that there must have been some energy or willpower that authorized that occurrence. Could evolution itself create a new awareness and make a new design? Absolutely not.


Then there must be something that is outside evolution that supplies creative energy.

Development occurred between the highest and lowest stages, but it did not just happen automatically.  Each stage was the result of a design and input of additional energy.

Evolutionists do not want to recognize that creative energy.  Evolutionists need to acknowledge an universal consciousness that provided the know-how beforehand.

When you talk about the conscience of man, then you have to recognize that there is an universal truth that ties into it.  Therefore, they must recognize God who is the first cause.

Does conscience also evolve?

If you do not recognize the unchanging quality of conscience within yourself, then you cannot begin to look at the unchanging and unique characteristics within gems.

If you do not have this quality within yourself, then you have no reason to seek it outside  yourself.  You appreciate precious things because you have that quality within yourself.

You cannot compare two things unless you have the capacity to appreciate both.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech, Our Standard

Prisoner of God's Love

How do you differentiate between the world of good and the world of evil?

Does it begin with two different people or with the division of one person into two parts?

Each person also has an internal part and an external part.

A central characteristic of evil is that it is changeable in quality. 

Therefore, an evil person is always changing.

A person with satanic tendencies will betray your trust, stab you in the back, have two tongues by speaking of something in a favorable way and at another time say the opposite.  It all depends on what benefits him.

Would a man or a woman be more likely to have a changeable character?

This is a touchy subject.  What is the greater possibility?

After evaluating all of the circumstances, it looks like women are more susceptible to being changeable in nature.  Women usually never miss out when good times or good things are being pursued.

A man would be content to wear the same suit every single day, and all year long, but women on the other hand would want to wear a new fashion.

All the men in the audience are basically wearing the same style of clothing, but women are wearing all kinds of blouses and dresses with different shapes and colors.

The men's world is just one dull color, while the women's color is like visiting the colors displayed in a flower garden.

We can say that the men's world is like the soil and the women's world is something growing above the soil.
Therefore, women are more prone to the changing world of evil which came about into existence.

The Bible states in Genesis that the fall of man was initiated by a woman.  Women wear all kinds of colors on their nails.  If a trend started where each nail was painted a different color, that would catch on like wildfire.

Women pay attention to such things.

However, men are not so wise that they avoid following women.

In the world today, do women follow men or do men follow women?

It is the feminine nature to attract attention through color.  A flower attracts insects through color and fragrance.

When it is time to shop, the distinction between men and women boldly comes out.  A man will pick out a tie, while the woman wants to shop around in many places and compare before she buys one specific item.

In the process, she looks at many different departments looking for the perfect weapon sending out signals to make herself more colorful.

The function of a flower is to attract the attention of insects.

Men always replay to signals women send out.

Thus, men duplicate the changing nature of women by responding to the signals they send.

This nature is the cause of the fall.  In the Bible, Eve first committed sin with Lucifer.  Then she tempted Adam by offering her fruit (sexual organ) and he took it.

Do we see men do this more to women or women do this more to men?

Eve sent out artificial smiles and messages which is more obvious.

Father seems to be harder on women during his speeches, but then you must think whether it was man or woman that sent out the false signal first.

It was woman.

When we say that a nation is very colorful, we are saying that the women are colorful.  Men may say that the house needs repainting every few years, but women would want to change the color every season!

The first impression of Germany is that it is a sober, dark country because the women wear dark, uncolorful clothes.  Then when we come to America, the feeling is entirely different.

There is always a new fad and American women are always at the head of the line.

This is not to say that the women's world is bad and the men's world is good.

There is both good and evil within the world of women.  Some women are always on the lookout for the freshest, newest thing while other women are trying to preserve tradition.

Which side is the closest to good or evil?

Of course the side of tradition has a more unchanging quality, so that represents the good side.  There are all kinds of national traditions, so which would be the center?

Would you want to preserve internal things or follow external things?

Without question, you rather pursue the internal things.  We commonly speak about conscientious people.  Men of conscience have life, and also love.

Tradition should be based on the qualities of conscience, life and love.

Which is more preferred, life or love?

Each of us preserves our own life, but we cannot think of perfecting love on our own.

You need a circuit in order to perfect love.

Is it possible for the power or love to unite society and the world, or would it have to be the power of love?

It must be through love, but love should be added to life because love needs energy.

The root of life is the fruit of the love between your father and mother which comes vertically down to you.  Thus, the energy of your life should be directed toward love, becoming a seedbed of love.

Your parents' love is consummated in your life, so your life is spent searching after that origin. 

You should then associate with people in society to consummate your love.

You are in pursuit of the tradition in which your parents' love created your life.  Thus, your life is directed toward fulfilling love which will bear fruit.

Only through the power of love will man and God's ideal be allowed to blossom.  Love is the common goal of every person.

Everyone loves love.

Do you need food more than love?

We need food to not only preserve life, but for the power of life in order to give energy to your love.

From food, you get the energy for life.  Then that energy will be directed toward the blossoming of love.

Not only man, but also all things of creation are pursuing love. 

What is the ideal for men of conscience?

Men of conscience highly value tradition.  They thrust their whole life into perfecting themselves in love.  If a tradition is erected, it should continue for eternity where everyone will recognize its value.

God wouldn't hesitate to place His stamp of approval to the tradition that bears the fruit of love.  A good man upholds the unchanging quality of the tradition of love.

This tradition of love can be used on the individual level, family, society, nation, spirit world - everywhere.  This tradition is valued universally.

A man of love is accepted as a good man on every level, including spirit world.

What kind of person do you think God is?

Of course He, too is a God of conscience.

If we have a conscience as a resultant being, then certainly God, the Creator must also be a God of conscience.

We feel that the energy of life will blossom and burn into love, and our ambition is to fulfill love.  If we think this, then our first cause, God, must thinks so, too.

Do you think you meet every criteria for the universe of love?

Would you swap love for the British crown?  If you could exchange love with the most expensive diamond in the world you should think that this is only an ornament.

When your eye is shining in the power of love, that eye is priceless. 

If you walk with the eyes of love, all things of creation will want to be seen by you first.

If you have the power of love, all sounds will want to be heard by you, competing with each other to enter your ears first.

All the smells and fragrances of the universe will want to compete to be appreciated by your nose.  If you have the power of love, all food will want to be chewed by your mouth.

Even though food will be crushed by your teeth, it still wants to be connected to the power of love through you.

Food would rather be in the mouth and stomach of one who holds the power of love than continue as it is.  All the fish in the ocean would rather leave the water and enter the mouth that represents love.

All creation responds to love.  Everything wants to be a prisoner of love.

The ultimate satisfaction of creation is to be caught by true love.  Mankind is also a part of creation of God, so we find ultimate satisfaction in becoming a prisoner of God's love.

We all want to enter the mouth and ears and eyes of God.  We want to become instruments of God by becoming prisoners of His hands.

Why does this bring such joy and satisfaction?  There is nothing greater than God's love.

By becoming His prisoner, you are becoming part of His love.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Two Worlds of Good and Evil

Can We Build World Peace?

God is the high pressure air and when we become humble as low pressure air of the nation, you are the best patriots.  Everybody will pay respect to you, including the president.  How do you become the lowest pressure air; go live for others; serve others to create low pressure air.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


We know the core beliefs of communism and democracy.

What is Unificationism? It is the harmony of everything through the power of love.


My children know the universal truth and they pray according to it. You, too, know what to pray for. Then God will heed your prayer. Otherwise, your prayers are just mumbling and bumbling-beating around the bush, in God's opinion. People say many things about me, but one thing is absolutely true, I am the one religious leader who will make you suffer the most! 


You may protest to Father's instructions, but this is why he pushes us out to suffer for the cause.

If you are able to work harder than everyone else, with a loving heart of suffering for the sake of the family, even your parents will come and bow down to you and thank you from the bottom of their heart.

Through living that way, you become the child of God.

When you are truly one with God, living with Him, you attain God's position in your family.  As members that understand Unification Thought, you shoulder the worst problems of the United States with a loving heart, then the entire country will eventually bow down to you.

This is heavenly law.

You become the patriots of patriots when you live this way.  But in order to become that standard, you must suffer for the sake of the nation, with a loving heart more than anyone else in history.

There are quite a number of patriots in every country, but only a few saints. 

The realm of the saint is different from that of the patriot: he works for the universe and for God.

There are three levels of spiritual advancement: children of filial piety, or good members of the family; patriots; and saints or holy people.  How high is Father's ambition for the members?

He isn't just teaching merely how to be children of filial piety, but how to be saints.


I am ambitiously seeking to take on the worst problems of the universe, asking to bear the universal burden. Is that good? People have had high ambitions and have tried to establish Utopian ideals, but no one has been able to accomplish them.


Why haven't we been able to bring about a better world of peace?

Father sought out to understand the greatest problems in the world.

God's worst headaches are the expansion of communism, the rapid decline in religion and the degradation of the youth and collapse of morals in the nation.  These are the major problems of the world that have to be tackled.

God has been working day in and day out through people of faith to solve these problems.  Father volunteered telling God not to worry that he was going to take away His heavy burden and solve the problems for Him.  He came up with a source and method with the quality of hope to unify the world and establish a true Utopia.


This was the motivation behind the International Conferences for the Unity of the Sciences. God's original plan was for people to be perfected within approximately 20 years. I am thinking that if I lead these scientists and eminent scholars for 20 years, they will have reached a pretty good level. Every year they give their unflagging attention to absolute values. When they could find no answer to a certain question, they decided to ask me about it!


Father had many accusations and criticisms thrown at him, but he continued on moving forward able to digest anything that came to hinder his mission.  We are engaged in a war against communism, confronting face to face.

He is opposed by many established churches in the Catholic and Christian communities, but he just tells them that they are not able to digest him and they need him if there is any hope for the future of the world to become the ideal world God envisioned in the beginning of creation.

Father was not only able to digest opposition along the way, but he created a logical explanation for all these phenomena without any hazy areas.


I can be calm even in the midst of suffering. If I am sentenced to prison and have to face hardships, I am filled with peace even as I enter jail. I can sleep well, eat well, and even digest sand if necessary. There is never a cause for worry once you know universal truth. I am absolutely confident of my destination, the heavenly world, and I want to take as many people along as I can. I can invite you to accompany me without any doubts, since I know our goal and destination.



To the degree that I am a perfect minus to God, I am a perfect plus to you. Whenever you create the perfect minus position, I will be with you.

The Unification Church is grounded in the truth of this principle. We see throughout history that any new truth that emerged and outshone the current truth that the other one would fade away.

Unless there is a greater truth that emerges higher than the Divine Principle, there is no way anyone can push us back or put us on the defensive.

We should be the ones resolved to suffer more than anybody else.  The principle does not change whether you have a Ph.D or are a famous actor or actress.

I am setting a new tradition, and those who give themselves to the best of their abilities for the sake of others with a loving heart shall form the mainstream.

It does not matter if one does not like this way or not, it is truth.

You are pushed out to live for the sake of others because the results will be glorious.

Great blessings await you at the end of your course.

Then you will be grateful.

Is this just to win you with cunning and sugarcoated promises?  This is the absolute truth.

So many people have wanted me to disappear, to be taken to heaven or hell-or wherever! Many people have actually prayed for my life to be taken away, so why does God keep me here on earth? Regardless of what the entire world might think or pray for, God needs me and the members of the Unification Church.

You should have no fear going this way, as God has the power to protect you.  So, you should move forward with a bold and strong heart.  You are a living being and should have the powerful life force that can move the whole universe.

Once you are fortified with this ideology, no challenge is big to you.  When Father first came to the US, do you think that he was overwhelmed?

Once you become the perfect object to God, you then can act independently.  In that case, you might say, "Father, I don't need your help or the church.  I will take responsibility for this country."

You can pledge that you will become perfected then reach out to bring along the rest of the church because that is your goal and destiny.

Opposition is a test to see whether you can do these things on your own.  If you cannot overcome opposition, you have nothing to be truly proud of.

But because you have learned to withstand and overcome opposition, this is proof that you can accomplish great things on your own.  This is beautiful and dynamic.

During the heaviest of battles, Father never was afraid. He never prayed to God that he was perishing and help him.

He told God to let him do the work and sit back and enjoy the show and take delight in the accomplishment to come.  This is the way he teaches us to be.

You shall become people of dynamic boldness and strength. 

We shouldn't lose motivation, become discouraged over our chose of spouse or lose our energy. With such thinking, you will not go far.

Those who pledge, "Yes, Father I will follow your principle, become a dynamo and perfect myself on my own, helping to create the nation, world which God desires,' raise your hands, please.

Let us Pray.



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