Heaven is a World of Pure Love

Heaven is the world of living for the sake of God

“If I say that heaven is empty, people will think I am demented. But Jesus could not enter heaven. You cannot go there alone. Our original ancestors should have grown through adolescence, established the ideal of love in which God dwelt, become parents and bequeathed the seeds of true love.

“Then the first place they would have entered would have been heaven. But up until now, there have been no parents embodying God's love, who were able to leave the seeds of true love.”

Adam and Eve did not leave such a glorious foundation to have such descendants.  Thus, heaven is empty.
“I have been going this way, enduring persecution for forty years, because I too am greedy to grasp the line of love that leads to the global heaven.

"This was so I could grasp the line of love beyond the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world. Then, with this in my grasp where will I go?

“After finding the love line of the world, we must go back to our hometown because we have received many blessings and succeeded in life. Shouldn't we go to our hometown and save the unfortunate people there?”


The way to heaven is opened by loving your brothers as God does. You are trying to follow me, but while keeping such a heart you should strive to reach out and bring your brothers with you.

We can conclude that the one who teaches the highest, quickest and best way to go to heaven is neither God nor me, but your brothers.

People of faith scream out about going to heaven, but can people just automatically go to heaven without encountering it first on earth?

In order to enter heaven on earth, you have to go through the law of love.

A family that has many children can restore many sins and the greater the additional cross of loving God’s Kingdom.

A family has many children because they have many responsibilities for the sake of the kingdom.  Children will be born in this family who can inherit good fortune in the generation to come.
What kind of person can enter heaven?

The person who can enter heaven is the one who is one with God’s mind.  They should center on God to the point when God works on His will that person should be in harmony with God’s mind for eternity.

This harmony should not last for just ten years, but eternally align to the eternal God.

How can we find unity with God and be like God?  In order to be His son, you should not appear to be a sad person.  Heaven is established from removing the satanic lifestyle and denying everything that is related to his will and thinking.  Futhermore, we should eliminate him.

To enter heaven, a person must not sin, must receive God's love directly.

A person who can unite completely with God and eliminates Satan, does not need a savior because they will be directly linked to God.

Only when a person such as this goes to heaven can a peaceful world be established.

The future descendants will unite this world and all heaven.  God, the first one, and these descendants are connected by the family.  Not the nation or individual.

When you go to heaven, no one will recognize you because you are an American and you will not be rejected for being from a poor nation. Only the family that can exhibit a true family will be acknowledged. This is the formula.

The warehouse where the fruits of such true families are stored is heaven.

You must practice a life of attendance before attending God.

Those who wholeheartedly attend God while on earth go to heaven.  This is our destiny to follow the course that advances toward the world of heavenly purpose.

You cannot enter heaven without being joined in heart. 

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Heaven is the original nation, the which can have dominion over the whole of humanity.

This nation had the original godly nature, not the fallen nature of today.  

Only people who have a deep bond of heart can posses such a nation.  Christianity deals with heart.  God is creating a foundation where we share our heart beyond our personal circumstances and live for others.

What kind of place is heaven?

Is heaven for those who just want to seek blessings?  No, it is for those who prepared themselves attending God with their whole heart while on earth.  They leave their life of attendance as their legacy and continue to push forward even if they were to die in the process.

It is where you can take pride in what you prepared during your life on earth, and where you take pride in your life of attendance?

We should think seriously about the importance of how we should live from now on in this life of attendance.
Dr. Lee Sang-hun talks about the reality of the spirit world.  He saw heaven and said it is bright wherever you go.

Heaven is where God's light of love shines into all  corners of the universe, and all creation within its bosom. 

If we are liberated from Satan’s hold and let go of all their resentments, we should shout out for liberation!
To enter heaven, you must be united with God and the Messiah of the Second Coming’s true love.

Now that the True Parents have emerged and restored the fallen act of the first parents on earth, those related to children who are born from God’s lineage can go to heaven.

Up until this era, no one has been able to live such a life and go to spirit world.  Therefore, heaven is empty.

Even one who goes to church service for a hundred years, but they have a self-centered mind, they can never enter heaven or salvation.  A person who centers everything on him or herself has no value.

What kind of person is a true person?

Only the one who invests all of themselves including is own life for the sake of other people can live continuously in the realm of God’s love.

The great people of history and saints lived in this way.   This is the way we were all meant to live.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

Childhood Relationships Needed to Mature the Heart

There is also an individual order by which individuals govern themselves, which is significant in how they relate to others.

The orderings of these relationships, affects the way the realms of heart function.

The love of a mother and child nurtures and harmonizes the developing relations between the child and his or her siblings and peers.

The harmony of the child's realm of love affects the sibling's or peer's realm of love.

For example, one Saturday afternoon, Erica's 8-year-old son, Tim, and his friend were playing with Lego blocks.

Usually Tim gets along with his friend, but this particular afternoon they were quarreling.  Tim did something out of his character.  When he and his friend disagreed over a Lego piece.  He tore apart his friend's Lego construction and threw the pieces all over the floor.

His mother recognized that this behavior came from the busy week's toll on his relationship week with her and his emotions were running on empty.

Because of her motherly instinct, she took him aside and spent time alone with him.  She spent time holding him on her lap, speaking gently to him, and getting him involved in funny little finger plays.

After only a short time, Tim became calm and happy again, and went back to apologize to his friend.  He even offered to help his friend rebuild his toy construction he destroyed.

Tim needed this vertical connection with his mother in order to relate smoothly with his peers on a horizontal plane.

Often, a family’s problems involving children can be remedied by improving and solidifying the marriage. 

Psychologist John Rosemond testifies that when he and his wife shifted the center of their family life from the children to their marriage, getting the vertical order right, their children were more obedient, more respectful, more compliant, and—importantly—happier.

Rosemond likened a happy, healthy family to the solar system:   “The marriage was the nucleus of the family, the children were satellites that revolved around the nucleus like planets to a sun.”



A Healthy Ecology of Love

Relationships between the vertical and horizontal create a greater ecological system that encompasses all four realms of heart (parent's, children, siblings, spouse).

This becomes a support system that surrounds the individual and stimulates him or her needs to internally grow.

When this ecology is imbalance, people feel vulnerable and often try to fill this need in a substitute way.

This explains why a child latches onto her cousin as her 'older sister', the widower joins a dance club, and the infertile couple adopts a son.

For example, 14-year-old Elena is in the children's and sibling's realm.

When her complementary partners of parents, grandparents, and brother and sisters and maybe cousins, she enjoys a wealth of possibilities in terms of giving and receiving love and thus develop her character.  These relationships are necessary for growth in Elena's stage in life.

Jon, on the other hand, who is 27 year old may have different relational needs than Elena who is still a teenager.  He may be more challenged and fulfilled to mature by being invested in the spouse's and parent's realms.

He thrives best by having a good friend and children as reciprocal partners to relate with.

But this is in addition to the parents and siblings with whom he continues to have a relationship.  Jon's ecology of love includes all the four realms of heart.  The absence of any of these aspects will make Jon feel an emptiness in his life.


Ecology of Love

In an ideal world, people would progress naturally from realm to realm, nurtured by their partners in the realm and nurturing them back in turn.

We would achieve the necessary level of heart that resembles God's heart.

The reality of course is that humanity is far from the ideal.  There are forces that seem to prevent people from attaining the growth of heart they need in each realm.

A daughter who is becoming an adolescent may need her father's reassurance and support more than ever before, but he is struggling with finances and turns to alcohol to cope.

A mother who just gave birth to twins, may not be able to stretch her love resources to her husband and her babies which causes the marital relationship to breakdown just when she needs her partner the most.

An older sibling may say something to a younger brother or sister that was biting and stay with the children for years affecting his or her self-image.

We see that people are imperfect in their ability to love.  Yet, the realms of heart march on.

The abilities of other-centered love or love others than yourself are still too underdeveloped to cope with the demands of the realms.

This causes many difficulties.

Because of this, divorce, domestic and child abuse may result.  This inability to love can emerge as more subtle problems such as a mother who rather be her daughter's best friend and live vicariously through her

Many people may feel that they lack the heart to have concern and compassion, and do not have the ability to be refreshed from naturally giving true love.

Then people find themselves depleted.  This pattern of people who are immature in relationships raising immature people has multiplied ever since the disastrous interruption of the love relationships of parents, spouses children and siblings in the Garden of Eden.

Reverend Moon has said, “The Fall was initiated when one person claimed self-centered love. 

The one who proclaims love centered on himself, they deny the value of all other relationships in his desire to make himself the center of the universe.

Such a person seeks to bring benefit only to himself, and the disease began when this desire entered ther ealm of love.

The first parents were thus cut off from God and from one another and started a negative pattern from their brokenness and immaturity.

We see these patterns continue and proliferate to this day.

People who are not able to fulfill the earlier realms of heart, they must perform the later realms of heart and do so badly.

Psychotherapist Arthur Janov writes, “The major reason I have found that children become neurotic is that their parents are busy struggling with unmet infantile needs of their own . . . In this way the sins of the parents are visited on the children in a seemingly never ending cycle.”

The family needs great infusions of God’s love in order to repair the brokenness and restore health. 

A society that had families who exhibited true love, this would be a world of peace and harmony – a true Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

Religious history has been one of God and humankind desperately seeking to repair and restore the original love relationships where individuals, families and societies from.  Thus, they can be healed and made whole.

Therefore, it is important to understand how the four realms of heart in the family work and need mending.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook “Educating for True Love” which was written by a team of writers to explain the philosophy of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Whispers of Love can Cool Hatred in the World

The invisible God is precious because invisible love is precious.



Reverend Sun Myung Moon







In order to find God, we have to enter a state of complete absence of ego.



God lives deeply and quietly in the invisible world rather than in the visible world where we live.

If we were to observe the love in America, we can say it looks very hot, but it is actually lukewarm.


Americans kiss each other every morning like a fly touching the skin and then it flies away.


Traditionally, Oriental couples on the other hand stare at each other before kissing and then they both drop their head slightly due to shyness.


This is a beautiful scene that is comparable to one of the greatest masterpieces.


It is a mysterious scene when a wife carries a husband's suitcase with her loving heart to see him off before a business trip. But most American women do not even turn their heads or leave the room to see their husband's off.


This is why many Orientals who know the Western lifestyle do not want to marry an American woman.


The conversation between a loving couple is more beautiful than any poem or picture in the world.


Words have such beauty such as, “between lovers,” “between ourselves,” or “you and me”!


When God blesses human beings, He creates an environment where the couple can be happy. A couple who enters the door of such prepared blessing don't fight with one another right away.



Once they enter the door of love, they are too busy exchanging whispers such as, “I've been waiting to meet you for a long time. 

My life will bloom with the blossom of value through you. I was born to love you and waited to love you until this moment.” There is nothing sweeter than the confidential talk of love.


A loving married couple's whispers of love are more effective to cool off any fatigue and the hatred in the world.

A couple shouldn't demand love forcibly from each other.

Love is natural, so the talk of love in confidence is soft and beautiful.


Once the wife knows such a love, she is stimulated to take a nap in her husband's lap because she is so addicted to this happiness. She will not be able to control her heart.


But before the wife married her husband, the man looked creepy and scary, but her heart changes rapidly after marriage.


She will do whatever it takes to be as much with her husband as she can. For example, she will encourage him to come home to see her during his lunch break. 

 Likewise, once a man knows such a love, he also wants to sleep in his wife's lap whenever he finds leisure time. So, he rushes home during his coffee break or at lunch time.



After a couple of love marries, the man will do whatever the wife wants without hesitation - even things he formerly thought traditional were the duties of women.


How do a woman and man who meet through God as the mediator express their love?


This is the developmental process of love: love is first expressed by the mouth, second by the breasts and third through the sexual organ.


Before making love, the woman hides her mouth because of her shyness because love starts from kissing.

As love matures, sons and daughters are born as the fruit of love.

The woman's holy place of love is her sexual organ.


The husband should hold the only key to the door of his wife's love. If the husband holds two keys to the holy place, then he is Satan. A wife's holy place should only be opened by her husband. If it can be opened by any other key, then the woman is Satan.


When a husband opens his wife's holy place of love, then the most precious and valuable children will be born from there.

The children are the crystals of love.

When human beings have a child, they are able to have the same experience which God exhibited during the process of creating Adam and Eve, His first children.


Because the baby is the incarnation of both their parent's flesh and love, a baby looks cute all of the time.


It doesn't matter if the child has a runny nose, is urinating or defecating, all of these actions are soaked in love.

A couple whose relationship is based on a strong force of love, no matter what action they take, it looks joyful and lovely.



If a woman complains about her husband's body smell or the husband complains about his wife's gestures, we can tell that this is not a perfect love between this couple. Such a couple relate to one another based on what the other can gain from the relationship.


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This Post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Blessing and Ideal Family Part 2.

Will Jesus Return in the Flesh?

In light of those things, do you think the Messiah should come in the flesh or just in spirit?





In the ideal world we are going to build, we will be liberated from sin both on the physical and spiritual levels, under the actual guidance of God as our parent.



The Lord must come again in the flesh to accomplish his mission of saving the physical world.

The fall began by one physical man and woman on earth and can only be rectified through man on earth.

If he comes on the clouds of Heaven, spiritually, he cannot accomplish his mission of restoring the whole world both on the spiritual and physical levels. The problem is the sin and corruption of this world, and not of heaven.



 Q. How will the Lord come at the Second Advent?

We can see through the parallels of history repeating itself that Christianity is in the same position as the elders, scribes and priests at the time of Jesus.

At that time, the people were waiting for the return of Elijah in the sky.

Why did they hold onto this kind of belief?

They were simply following the Bible prophecy written down in Daniel 7:13:

"I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him."


Because of the great prophet Daniel, the people of Israel had every reason to expect the arrival of the Messiah to return on clouds of heaven. Christians are expecting the arrival of the Lord in the same way today, in a majestic show on the clouds.

Many people were denying Jesus as this Messiah because he was in the flesh - to them an ordinary man.

John condemened these people as the anti-christ in II John 7 "...many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the decevier and the anti-christ."

How, then will Jesus in our day and age if Elijah returned through the works of Jesus?  Still today the Jewish people wait for such an arrival and deem this second coming as the first coming of Elijah.

Unless we know the whole truth, we like the people of Jesus' time may fall victim of the words of the Bible by taking them in the literal sense.

In Jesus' time, the people were waiting for the return of Elijah upon the clouds and could not accept Jesus as the Son of God.  They would say that he had a mother and father, Joseph and Mary, how could he be the Son of God?

The disciples and the faithful of Israel argued this point all of the time.

Those who believed in the letter of the Old Testament and not the spirit would miss the Messiah.


Q: Then how will the Lord appear in the last days?

Believe it or not, we are in the exact same parallel to that of the time of Jesus Christ.  If we become slaves to the letter of the New Testament, we will commit the same crime that the elders, scribes and Pharisees committed 2,000 years ago.

What would you do if the Lord did return in the flesh?  If one told you that the Son of Man already returned with flesh and bones?  You would say I was a heretic.

It does not matter how one looks at the world, a man's views, or what one thinks, what matters is how God looks at the world.

The Bible states two prophecies: arrival of the Lord on the clouds and another that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

What do you do with these two prophecies?


If the Lord comes on the clouds, then he surely can't appear like a thief  unseen in the world.  There would be a lot of attention around his arrival on the clouds and could not be hidden from anyone's eyes.




When you see the signs of the Last Days, the Bible urges you to go into a dark room and pray. Who can tell you the time of the Last Days?

The angels do not know that day. Jesus said not even the Son of man knew when that day would arrive. Only God knows the time of the Last Days.

"That is why we have our answer from God. I am not saying you must believe me. I am just revealing what I know to be the truth, but you must verify this truth with God."

Christians simply believe in the words of the Bible and that Jesus will return on the clouds and only true Christians will be lifted in the air.


That is horrendous, empty, hollow. Religion is not out there, up in the stratosphere.

I am testifying that the Lord cannot appear in that kind of supernatural fashion. Jesus Christ could not return that way because the work of God is to be done here on earth.

The mission of the Messiah is a physical, realistic one. As a man he must come up from the bottom of human misery just as Jesus had done.



He must come to the most miserable nation and lift the human status from the slave position, to the servant position, to the adopted child position and to the direct child position by physically putting together the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. That is the mission of the Messiah.

Do not rely on anyone's answer.

In the Last Days, the Bible says, do not just believe anybody. Do not believe me, and do not believe someone just because of his or her official status in church or society.

Famous leaders will not necessarily give you the guidance God would want for you. Heaven is so near, and you can be lifted up by the spirit so high, that you can speak with God and receive the answer directly from Him if you are earnest enough.

 Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." (Matt. 11:15) And he said to his disciples, "But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear." (Matt. 13:16) He was not referring to physical sense organs.

When you use your spiritual senses and listen for the Word of God, you will find His direction and guidance. But it is not easy to become a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven.

It is very difficult for a foreigner to go through the process to become a citizen of the United States.

How much more difficult it is to remove ourselves from our corrupt life and transfer ourselves into the Kingdom of Heaven. But we can achieve this very thing.

We know that even after Adam and Eve fell in the garden of Eden, they still were able to communicate directly with God.
The only way we might miss that day is if we look for the Lord to come from one direction, and he appears from another direction in an entirely unexpected manner, just as Elijah did at the time of Jesus.

This is the reason you may not see the Lord at the time of his second coming.

Another mysterious prediction was given by Jesus Christ himself He declared about the Lord at the second coming: "But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation." (Luke 17:25) If Christ at his Second Coming appears in the glory of the clouds of heaven, who would deny him?

Nobody would cause him suffering and pain. The only way this prophecy can be fulfilled is if people expect his return from the clouds and he suddenly appears as a humble man in the flesh.

Do you think that Christian leaders of today would make the same mistake that the priests and scribes and elders committed at the time of Jesus? Yes! They may very well deny him and reject him, because the manner of his coming would be very difficult for Christian leaders to accept. However, in this way the Bible will be fulfilled. He will first suffer and be rejected by this generation.

Jesus once asked a most important question: "When the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?" (Luke 18:8)

Although we do have faith today, it may be mistaken faith based on a belief which expects the Lord must come on the clouds of heaven.

There are few men or women on earth with the kind of faith ready to accept the Son of Man appearing in the flesh.

If this were not the situation, the Bible prophecy we are discussing here would not be fulfilled. Please note that Jesus did not say there would be no believers, but he said there would be no FAITH.

Jesus also said: "Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them. 'I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.' " (Matt. 7:21-23)
This prophecy cannot be realized if his second coming is on the clouds of heaven.

At the time of the second advent, people again will be crying out, "Lord, Lord." At the same time they may be in the process of trying to crucify the Messiah if he appears in a manner different from their expectations. They will then be the worst evildoers.

This is the Bible. Those who truly have eyes will see Those who truly have ears will hear. Throughout history God has sent His prophets before the time of fulfillment. He warns the people of His plan. No matter how devout Christian faith is today, no matter how many millions of people are in the Christian churches, they and their churches and their world will decline once they fail to accept the Lord, however he may appear.

This was the tragic fate of Israel and the Roman Empire when they denied Jesus Christ, regardless of their righteousness otherwise.

We must therefore also be open to a new message. Jesus Christ did not come to repeat the Mosaic Law.

Just as Jesus revealed himself with the new expression of truth, the Lord at the second advent will reveal himself with God's truth for our time.

That truth will not be simply a repetition of the New Testament.

I hope that you consider these ideas seriously, and pray to God. He will answer you.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the text, Jesus and the Second Coming God's Warning to the World -message from prison

Hobbies Industry is the Future

The future world is the age of hobby life Many wonder that if this new millenium is just the beginning of a life lived for God's Will, what kind of life and world will that be? Will it be like the Jetsons, with flying cars and push-button jobs or will we return to living off the earth finding alternatives ways to use the earth's energy as a resource? However, the new world may come, everyone envisions a world of incredible development and a better economic way of living. Human beings will be able to have enough time to enjoy their leisurely pleasures and have enough wealth spread among them to do so because of technology. As a result, humankind will learn and understand about the greatness of nature. We will have more appreciation for God as we will try to overcome the differences of culture, race and national borders. Isn't that the kind of world we are enjoying at the moment among the accounts of chaos? We are at the crux of a new era as the world of evil and destruction of the world falls away. After we have gone through this process in the world, then the ideal world will come.  We will enjoy the true life, a life of loving and caring for one another. The leisure industry will be the big enterprise of the future. The technological industrial age is an age where people do not have the need to suffer the need of hard labor due to automated technology. It is even almost that way now. Just like the Jetsons, machines work once the person pushes a button.  A time will come when there will be three or four machines that can produce products day and night where before it took thousands of people to do the same labor. Then what kind of industry will flourish in that age? It would be such things as the entertainment and fashion industry which both fall under the category of the industry of leisure. We have already entered this age. It has influenced the world already in not such a great way.  If these industries were centered on God, the world could be quickly influenced by His standards. This will be the time to build an economic foundation. The leisure and tourist industry are bound to develop and flourish. We have already passed the age of the slave labor where the president of a company worked at the desk in the office. The computer age has already made it where we can work anywhere outside of the country using man-made satellites. Orders are given while the executive is fishing on a boat while on vacation.  We are getting closer to a heaven on earth step by step. The boss can run the business from a position of freedom where he can enjoy his hobbies  and get rid of stress. The coming age where more countries, races and communities will unite, will need to have a way for families to travel around the world by car. An international highway is in the works to connect the four continents around the world.  This project seems impossible like the Panama Canal in its day and age, but is a necessary link to physically unite the world. This leisure industry will help people to feel God's happiness toward creation.  Artists will be influenced by the good spirit world to uplift the beauty of God's creation in their works. There is a system in development that will bring farmers who live close to nature to unite with those who live far from nature in order to develop and educate them.  We see this happening in many established corporations. People in urban areas can support them both through the best scientific technology. This is why developing the hobby business is important in order to enjoy many hobbies around the world. God did not create the world for His children to suffer, but for them to enjoy all the luxuries of His creation. The hobby culture will be able to help in that development. A life of leisure is the kind of life God likes.  You probably didn't know that your hobbies are connected to the creation. So many different hobbies are waiting for me. I never get exhausted. By enjoying one hobby after another, I automatically come closer to God's world. This is the best life that men can hope for. The hobby industry is the shortcut leading to the world of peace We must enjoy leisurely pursuits.  God did not create the world for His children in reluctance; He made creations so that He could feel its excitement. We also must experience this same joy when we experience God's creation. We should not do hobbies because someone tells us to do so, but we should do so because we enjoy them. All of these industries - leisure time, the hobby industry and hobby research and so on - should be centered on God. Only then can those be things that belong to God and used regularly by the beloved sons and daughters of God.  Otherwise, they become Satan's possession to destroy and distort away from God's purpose. I am not doing this for the money; in fact, I am investing a lot of money in order to develop these ideas. We have a lot of preparation to do in order to enter the spirit world. At the age of sixty you should go back to the farming area of your hometown and prepare by digging the land and exert yourself with devotion. Through fulfilling your responsibility in guiding the farming areas you fulfill the purpose of the hobby industry and leisure time iself. You then become a caring, warm-hearted person who is able to live in the upper level of the spirit world and make good use of your time there. We must develop the hobby industry not leisure industry from now on.  We have normally thought of the leisure industry based on how much profit can be returned. Fishing and hunting can be pursued for profits and commercial interests. That is what makes the leisure industry different from the hobby industry.  The hobby industry can spread to the smaller cities where people can enjoy themselves in each of the four seasons. We each have our own path and different tasks in which to fulfill. There are people who work at a factory, company and such with various jobs. There can be groups from 100 to 360 that are assigned to various jobs, in this way, different groups would do this work. Then fifty percent will be returned, therefore, the entertainment business is the best. The leisure industry is for profit while the hobby industry puts the hobby itself as its purpose. People say that people without money can't enjoy a hobby, but that is not true.  You can enjoy going on vacation once or twice a year; this is what the hobby industry would be able to do in the future. I believe that being the first to make such a worldwide organization is the short-cut in leading to peace in all fields, including the world's money market and human resources. That is why I have been preparing this ocean plan for twenty years.  So along with this hobby industry, I am thinking of doing farming as a hobby.  Back a hundred years ago, people spent most of their time surviving, cultivating and finding food and such.  This day and age, the youth and people have a more free time - this can be a problem as well for the world. Now, is the time to encourage people to live off of their hobby. Our job in the Completed Testament Age is to mobilize a great number of people.  In order to create this hobby industry, a large number of people will be needed. Which industry is best for interconnecting all of the people of the world which will be able to transcend the national boundaries and go beyond our cultural differences we experience coming from around the world. We will have the need for church activities. The only industry that can connect people of different background is the hobby industry, the industry of enjoying God's creation. We must prepare for the age of the hobby industry The hobby business is a term that has recently developed in the last three decades.  The age of urbanization will soon end and people will disperse out more widely. Men are made to live centering on hobbies. The hobby industry includes sports, hunting and fishing.  These were enjoyed at the World Culture and Sports Festival. We are opening up the tourist business worldwide. I am preparing the worldwide tourist business now. The establishment of our American bus company "Go Tour" was an essential link in the preparation for this.  From now on, the tour-leisure business will develop worldwide.  In the future, people will ride on our boats at tourist attractions around the world. We will attract tourists from any country and guide them with lots of money because we have a worldwide organization.  This is possible. Let us travel around the world while working and distributing goods. We can develop tourist areas and make a fishing ground. This area will be beautifully landscaped and kept free by making sure people do not throw cigarette butts or trash anywhere. This place will be a place free from environmental pollution. We will also make an area where people can sight see and enjoy their hobbies well.  We will create a tourist area that anyone will love instantly and wish to come and visit. By building such a heavenly place, then all the 7 billion people on earth would visit even compete to be among the first to get there. When have we as people of faith who work hard for the dispensation taken a vacation? I have made the foundation for you to have vacations in the warmer areas when it is cold, and in the colder areas when it is hot. The time has come now to do so. This is what is referred to as the hobby industry. I have climbed up to this position by receiving much persecution, but you will not be persecuted. Father Moon has prepared a foundation in South America. You can take responsibility, and take your tribe there and train them.  All fo the families in that country and their ancestors will come based on that foundation. All the families and the ancestors in spirit world can unite based on that kind of tribal foundation. I am preparing sites in Alaska and in Texas, and trying to make fishing areas and hunting grounds in 160 countries. Fishing and hunting are hobbies. They are hobbies of the upper class, of the people who live well. That is why I am promoting the hobby industry. I am going to lead it directly, by making a tourism organization. This is not just a dream, but if we are thinking of achieving God's dream of a heaven on earth, the hobby industry is the best industry to bring this to reality. We will connect these sites to the tourist industry that is already established around the world in order to create a people that can harmonize with one another. If you can influence the people, you can influence the world.  Instead of living within a small circle of relationships, you should live as champions of the diplomatic world who can relate with prominent people. All people need to have a hobby. In the future, people will no longer have global food problems.  In this future world of enjoying the creation, would you spend your time in fighting one another? Of course, when God created the world He did not envision disunity and suffering, but he had dreamed that we would all enjoy life having fun. You should be able to ride on the river on a boat with friends fishing and diving in the world of water.  Yet, majority of the world has yet to do these simple activities. This is why the hobby industry is necessary to broaden. We do not spend our time enjoying casinos, but we will organize a group and visit the casinos for two or three days. Historically, casinos are considered evil because of the crime rings that have secretly controlled them in Las Vegas. Those who have lost tens of thousands of dollars have brought ruin to their families, so if a person was to receive a lottery ticket worth 30% of that amount they can turn that misfortune around.  Those who visit the casinos should be given ideological education for a third of that time. The Messiah has turned the casinos into instruments that are able to draw on the dreams of others by centering it on the hobby industry. Those who are not turned in the right direction, they will continue to gamble even if their own fingers were cut off and even after making a determination not to gamble. Academic education represents the mind, while physical education represents the body. The hobby business was opened to lead the future direction toward the perfection of love. The world went in the wrong direction due to the wrong use of love and in the future we will enjoy our lives with fun activities. The world of the ideal family has evolved into the hobby industry. You can view everything of creation as a hobby. When you go where there are mountains, where there are rocks and trees, those are all of great interest.  For whom was all of this world created? God created so He would be able to embrace everything.  God created an environment for us that was an ideal place to live. The entire world today is a world of science, in which through the best technology, people are moving the world. For this reason, people take a serious view of the production process, calling it the hobby industry, whereas I call it the hobby life. There are several kinds of hobbies: the hobby for your eyes, for your nose, for you mouth, for your ears, to touch, for your body, for your mind, your love and so on. The ocean, land, animal preserves -  all of these will be connected to the hobby business.  Instead of killing animals in the wild, we will raise them. This foundation will become the blood, the body and bones of God's true son. As fallen men, we are like thieves robbing everything for our own blood, bones and skin.  This has to stop in this new era of living for God. The hobby business will be able to unite the original love in accordance with the highest turning point in history which is the blessing marriage of 3.6 million couples. The value of the arts continues to exist.  The hobby business is external because of this. Families should be fun as well. We are able to continue to live because of joy.  A hobby refers to certain conditions of joy. Fun is something that is possible to take root in the ideal love between a subject and an object partner. Have you ever been able to have fun all by yourself?  If you are able to do so, then you are out of your mind. There must be a subject of love.  God created everything in relationship within the realm of love. God created everything in order to be the fuel for the Subject of love.  This is why you must love all things of creation. We have come to live in an environment of pollution and contaminated food.   We need to create an environment where the individual can live with everything necessary to grow healthy. Five family members can do their own farming and eat the food you have worked to harvest. You will be able to grow your own vegetables and crops.  Otherwise the world will perish due to pollution. The time will come when the biggest issue is to develop the tourism industry. The distribution channels of the tourism industry will move quickly and circulate all the time. It will expand to stretch to include all places.  Everything is being prepared for the distant future to make all of this possible for a better world. When you think that one hundred years ago, our ancestors and forefathers were dreaming of a world where it was easier to go from either side of the the country or world and to be able to take care of themselves with better medicine. What we dream will be the norm in a hundred years as well, but we have to put in the work of recreation of this world. Unfortunately, there are not many people who have such a futuristic way of thinking. Return for Tomorrow's Post: Why Did God Create Night/Day, Seasons? This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeon, Book 12, Chapter 2, Section 2

Attend the Messiah to Liberate Your Sin

Liberation of your forefathers will take place in proportion to your efforts.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

We have entered the era where the unification of North and South Korea is possible.

Everything is possible.

Now, there is a welcoming environment in which heaven's law can work.

You should feel mortally ashamed if you are unable to witness your tribe in such an environment toward the heart of God. 

History is a course seeking the truth. 

The truth should show the true path of the true individual and a true family should live.

How a true society, a true nation and a true world should establish.

Therefore, the perfection of the world, nation, tribe and family and the individual is possible when the focus from the individual  level to the world level is one.

The person who brings these logical key words, the truth, is the True Parent.

The truth is God's true love.
Now, people of the world must listen and pay attention to this truth.

The teachings of Rev. Moon is the truth for the salvation of the world.  They are humanity's words of true love and life which are needed for eternity.

If the Savior comes to save the world, then he should not come to judge humanity with a rod of a real iron in the real sense.

Not even one person would give in by being hit by the messiah to submit to God.

The sacrificial love of a mother, with hands as tough as a toad's back, whose fingers are so bent from working hard for her children they cannot be straightened out, can have the power to make the disobedient child repent and come back to the right path.

Even though God is the mighty king of judgment who leads heaven and earth according to His will, the cosmic unification is impossible without true love.

In other words, we are living in the time where we can bring about humanity to God through love - not through war, fight or force.

Difficulties are not an obstacle in true love. 

While in true love, there is the vigor to go forward at the sacrifice of one's own life.

We fail if the people can say, "In that church, the words are good, but the people are bad."


Did I give you only words? No, I did not just speak. I have done all the things that I am teaching you now. Therefore, there should be no doubt about them. I am teaching by creating a system of thought that is free of inconsistency and contradiction in both its intellectual and the practical aspects. No one can say anything about that. Both Satan and God approve of it.



God is calling us with His words.

Therefore, we must go according to His words.  What is the way that True Parents and true children can meet each other?

It is through true words.  Those words are my words.  You cannot be children without knowing Father's words.

My words are absolute and true. You won't feel tired even if you listen to the same words for a thousand or ten thousand years. You'll never get tired of them. We must search for such words.


Just finding words is not logical enough.  It is a dominant principle that can give life even after one hears them again and again for eternity.

You must seek such words and live such a way.

The words of the True Parents are eternal and transcend time and space.

Therefore, God's words transcend history.

These words transcend time periods, principles, and ideologies.  They are more precious than the words of others.

These words whether you listen to them at night or during the day or read them at night, flow into your heart endlessly.  You must seek these words.

What is my bitter sorrow?


I failed to fulfill my duty as a filial son; I should have cried  and pleaded with my parents to join the Unification Church. I am trying to resolve this through you. I could not even witness to my family. There were eight brothers and sisters, but I could not say one word of the Divine Principle. My older brother obeyed me completely whenever I said something. I have restored Cain completely. If I told him to sell the house, he sold the house, and if I told him to sell the cow, he sold the cow. My mother and father could not be like him. To that older brother, I could not speak about the Divine Principle once.

From now on, don't keep quiet.

When people gather around, try teaching for seven years as I taught you for seven years in the 1950s, without sleeping more than two hours a night. You don't have to do this for seven years. It won't take four years, either. It will all be done within four months. When I return to my homeland, I will unite it in an instant. Therefore, you must teach your parents well.


Also, teach your brothers and sisters the true significance of these words.

Through your own blood sweat and tears, you should teach this yourself without the help of others.

Then you will become the precious uncles, younger siblings, older sisters, and sons and nieces and nephews who follow the model of the sincere attitude you have when you are teaching.

You must confidently proclaim these words from now on.

From this moment, you must proclaim the Principle to your neighborhood for eight hours or however many hours a day, even staying up through the night as I have done for seven years. You must do so. It won't take seven years; it will probably be restored in seven months. When this happens, I may load up a truck and come and see you. I am sure your families will invite and welcome me.



Father made the national leader, Mr. Eu lecture for sixteen hours a day for three and a half years.

When Mr. Eu was tired, Father felt his heartache when he would tell him, "Who are you trying to kill by lying down?  You lay down without even asking me?"

Why did they live in such a way?  They lived that way in order to establish a tradition.

Organize Reading of God's Words/Hoon Dok Hae

Words of the Messiah's speeches, which this blog is based upon, can be considered Hoon dok hae or reading of God's words. Reading The Divine Principle or various books by Reverend Sun Myung Moon has the same spiritual effect.

Why?

Father's words are never spoken directly by him, but they are words spoken by God through him.

Your hearts will be moved no matter where or when you hear these words.  There will be a great revolution within your body, when the heart is inspired.  There is such a power in those words.

Whenever there is a meeting, this is an opportunity for studying.  Whenever you find that you have time, this is a time for studying the word.

You should continue to read material hundreds and thousands of times until it becomes yours and you can embody its substance. 

Our members will become sick if they are inactive.

In order not to become sick, you must read hard, be tested and put forth the effort.

In other words, don't just read the word, but become the embodiment and put them into practice and spread it to others.

True Parents are the ancestor of words, character and heart.

Hoon Dok Hae, the reading of God's word,  is the treasure chest that I stored up under all sorts of hardships and deprivations and that I have opened up to the people. I have told everyone not to translate it; it cannot be translated. You should do Hoon Dok Hae until I say otherwise. You must know that. You should do Hoon Dok Hae whenever time permits. You should always keep a speech book in your pocket and do Hoon Dok Hae even when you are alone, even in the bathroom, and keep a record of the part you have read, even if it was for a couple of hours a day.

You should read the Divine Principle, but you should also read Blessing and Ideal Family and all the other major speeches because they are the records of victory over the satanic world.

We should become one with these speeches which include all past battles of the True Parents up to the present point.

By uniting with and following these contents, you will become one with True Parents.

These speeches and posts should take root in yourself, in you family up to seven generation, and then 160 or 180 families horizontally, all united together.

Between husband and wives in the Blessed Families, Hoon Dok Hae should be done for one hour every morning. If you cannot do it in the morning, then you should do it in the evening before midnight or 1 am.

Father has done Hoon Do Hae every day.

When he had to do a tour in South America, even though he was tired, he still did Hoon Dok Hae, even after midnight.  He did not miss even one day.

Therefore, he instructs us, too, to try to read it every day without fail.  Since he has built the super highway road to restoration to bring a world of peace, we should be able to become cars filled with gas and go at the maximum speed.

Talk about the contents of the Divine Principle until it makes you sick to even think about it.

When you keep going until you get sick of it, you will find that it is very interesting and exciting.

You should clearly know that sermons have the ability to create. 

Because God is with you, then your heart will influence the people directly.

Do you understand?


If you have not read the entire collection of my sermons, you are a dreadful bunch of people.


Father did not even speak the deepest contents in those speeches and he is unable to express them now.

You must understand how precious these words are that are held captive in text with the source of life within them.

This source of life is flowing away.

It is our responsibility to find a way to have this eternal water of life, finding a way to connect the water pipe to this source.

 But what have you done?

Are all of those books something that you can just sell to an antique book shop?

The contents of these words hold a greater value.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Grandparents Have Value

This post was rewritten and derived from Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Thirteen,  Chapter 4, Section 4,5

What Kind of Place is Spirit World?

What is the center of the spirit world and physical world? One may questions why worry about a place many people do not believe exists?

But we must be concerned about the spirit world.

There are many religions that take the path to search the world where we live eternally in relation to the spirit world.

The next world is a world where we will live eternally with God.  

This is religion;s destination and purpose.

However, do religions of today teach such a standard of living?

Religions around the world are on the decline.

We have entered the era in which people think of religion as weak and unnecessary. Or they believe that it was created by people as an idea to help in their times of troubles.

Even the central religion has declined.

America represents the Christian nations of the world. Those who grew up in Christian homes have now lost their faith and are living according to their own faith and rules outside of God will.

Heaven, the dwelling place of God, has been idealized by Christianity which is now being abandoned.  There are three reasons.

First, this is happening because they do not have a clear understanding of the existence of the life hereafter.

We favor, of course, a better situation than a bad one.

Through an innate capacity, we are ever in search of a higher dimensional realm of greater value.

This is the original human nature.  Second, it is because they do not truly know God.  Third, it is because they do not know that love is central and binds us to both God and spirit world.

These three points are not known.

Even though people of faith might know of God and the spirit world, they do not fully understand that it is a world which is centered on love.

When you are in a place of love, you will be happy whether you go up or down or stay in the middle.

Does a true wife dislike her beloved husband if he is in a higher position in society than she lives?  Does a husband dislike his beloved wife because she is in a lower position than he shares?

When you live in unity, you can go anywhere from below to above, and vice versa - even stay in the middle.  In that state, there are no restraints.

Thus, many people in the world want one unified world of peace.

This also holds true for spiritual and physical worlds and for spiritual and physical beings.

God and His love are both central to both worlds.

Fallen people on the other hand usually do not see God in this way in their mind.

Our mind and body exist in different dimensions.

The mind differs from the spirit world.

We speak of these two worlds in terms of God's love.  In order for spirit world and physical world to be united, God must be involved.

Without God's love being involved, the spirit world cannot exist.  Spirit world is linked to God.

How does our conscience differ from the spirit world?

Many people may be confused at how the mind and the spirit world differ.  They may think that the mind is in spirit.

Because of the Fall, the mind does not have anything to do with the spiritual world.

In other words, the mind of a fallen person is like a boneless body.  

This gives a realistic picture of what kind of form the mind has.

The spirit has a spirit body and a spirit mind.

It requires spiritual food in order to stay healthy and grow just like the physical body.  The spirit mind corresponds to the spiritual world.

It definitely relates to God.  Therefore, if we do not have a relationship with God, then this spirit mind will not come into being.

We must clearly understand that the spirit and mind are two different things.

Each of our fallen minds does not have a relationship with God.  

God has left that.  He cannot either relate or control our mind directly.

Your mind changes, by going one way and then it goes in another direction.  But the spiritual world and spirit beings do not.  They are able to set an eternal goal and them constantly move in that direction.  Why is this so?  Because they stand on the side of God.

Our mind that lives within each human vacillates.

What is the spirit mind?

It is the mind and the spirit uniting.

It is moving toward its new goal.  It is a motivational mind which has the ability to direct us to become our ideal selves by uniting with our conscience centered upon God.

Well, if we were not created with a spirit mind, we would not be able to search for its origin which connects us to the spirit world and to true love.

When our spirit mind sprouts, then our body experiences joy and everything follows after it.  There, everything starts to unite automatically.

Humanity's biggest problem is the separation of the mind and the body.

Our mind and body naturally become one when spiritual good energy comes into the body and creates the origin of our spirit mind.

Unless there is a revolution that occurs at the root and we discover the origin that rectifies everything from the root then there is no way to find the ideal.

How can there be result if there is not a motivating cause?

Religion's purpose is to implant within us a spirit mind.  There are several forms of religions that are centered on the spirit mind.  

Unity of the spiritual and physical worlds

If God is such a majestic being and His creation takes after His qualities, then the spiritual and physical world must be unified and not separated.

Because true love was absent, these two worlds had no substance on which to unite.

Our minds and bodies became separate; also, between religion and politics.

When we center upon love, all things become united.  This includes individuals, family, society, nation, world and cosmos can all be united.  But the work of this unification must be created with our own hands.  Otherwise, we will not be able to inherit God's original kingdom in heaven and on earth.

So, how will we be able to unify the spiritual and physical worlds?  Only through true love. Nothing else can bind the two for eternity.  Love has such a power.

The spirit world clearly exists

Unfortunately, the reality of the spirit world is not known for sure by 80% of the world's population.  Even believers, people of faith are unsure of its existence and even of God's existence.  But it is for sure there.

Without having this knowledge or ability to unify and work with the good spirit world, unification of the world is at a standstill.  We are limited at best.

We can think of a person who has a lot of money who is prepared to invest all of their assets into creating the most beautiful architectural garden of happiness.

Then we can see how God, who created the beautiful heaven and earth, created such a dwelling place.

Spirit world is such a world of beauty and depth and beyond human imagination.

One can never get tired of experiencing it or gazing upon it.  The most prized possession on earth cannot compare to even a corner of the spirit world.

Therefore, I do not want to own this earth, that is to say, I would rather go back because it does not conform to my purpose.


But, many people do not even know about or think about the world in the hereafter, and even fear such a place.  People just continue to live their life just because they were taught to follow this ungodly way.

What is the center of such a mundane lifestyle?

People are born to think that food, shelter, clothing is the most important elements of life.  These issues have become the central reason for living.

Of course, there are some elements in human relationships such as morals and morality that enable people to improve, develop and find satisfaction with one another.

But the standard of each person's morality varies, just as the races and nations.

Moral standards and social systems all vary in accordance with the world's diverse cultural backgrounds.

Because of the standards we each adopt in our lives are different from the original standard which God set forth, the existing moral and ethical standards are scattered in all directions.

These standards we have away from God's standard have not been systematized into a whole, causing much confusion and disunity among humanity.

So where are we headed?

We are not clear about this, therefore, secular people do not know whether the spirit world and God exist.

However, we are clear on the point that spirit world exists.

We not only believe it, we know it.  How?  Because since coming to the truth of the Divine Principle, you each have had spiritual experiences.  Therefore, we are in no position to deny the existence of the spirit world.

So, what path should we take?  We must follow the path which God desires.  We should follow the path of God's will, but what is His will?

There is the path of God's will that individuals must go, and the path of God's will that families must go, and also the path for the society, nation, world, and spirit world. I am the specialist. The spirit world definitely exists. 

What consequences arise from the existence of God and the spirit world?

Some people try to have nothing to do with God even though they think He exists, but this is wrong.

When we deny the spirit world and just live the worldly way, it is the same as denying the family, the nation, or the world despite if a person is a part of these.

Therefore, we desire to enter into a relationship with the greater God and the greater spirit world.  Instead of just being a part of their existence, we should strive for unity with God and spirit world.  We are moving forward toward this single purpose.

The spirit world is the driving force for faith (Saint Paul's vision of the third heaven)

Paul explains in the Bible, how he gained experience for fourteen years to see the third heaven.

After he walked a path of 14 years, he was able to know more about what he was talking about when he spoke about the third heaven.

His experience in seeing the third heaven in spirit world became the driving force which empowered him to do his missionary activities for fourteen years.  We also must have such experiences.



That also holds true for me.  I do not fear death. What made this possible? Love did. I can digest even being put in jail. Thus, I must digest and conquer today's adverse circumstances. I will conquer everything with my own hands.

When God created the spirit world

Spirit world is the equivalent to the angelic world.  The world today is in the same position as that of Adam and Eve.

God created the spirit world and angelic world before He crated His children.

Since the satanic world came to exist through our choosing to follow the archangel Lucifer's words and deeds, the spirit world also went against God's will.

Therefore, that world can only be restored after the spirit world welcomes God's will.

Also, the Lord of the Second Coming could not come to the earth until this world was able to subjugate the evil spirit world which was dominating humanity until now.

This is why we have worked until today to subjugate the spirit world and consequently, the spirit world has helped us in our mission for unification with the spirit world and physical world toward a world of peace.

Where is the spirit world?

Spirit world is in your bodies.  Therefore, you cannot escape it.

The spirit world exists.

You attend it.

Spirit world exists for this world, this world exists for the sake of the eternal world.  People may ask where is God in the world.

Some people wonder if there could be a god that exists in such an evil world.  God lives in the spirit world.

What kind of place is the spirit world?

If life only exists where we live for only eighty or hundred year on earth, then we wouldn't have to worry about problems.

But since we live eternally, this is a different story.

We have no idea how much of an unchanging world it is.

We experience racial discrimination, cultural clashes and other issues, despite these problems, we maintain values which do not pass away.  These values continue on vividly into spirit world.

Scientific advances and space exploration act like lubricants which will create the ideal world of love.

In this same way, the world is filled with the electricity of love.

There is nothing we cannot do with the electricity of love. 

We can govern the realm of spirit world through our way of thinking.

Then what is the spirit world?

It is a place that desires eternal elements.  It is the world of harmony, where everything is filled with love.

Thus, the universe gets into operative mode through just a push of a love button.

Then what is God's kingdom on earth?

Heaven is a place where all the love bulbs light up.  What about God's Kingdom on earth?  It is a place where these love bulbs light up completely.

As long as you keep a loving heart and pull the rope of love, everything else will follow.

When you pull love back, it goes back, when you pull it sideways, it moves sideways.  You can steer it however you like it.

Love does not resist, but moves automatically.

Thus, we find this concept where the spirit world is filled with the air of love.

If God's love wants to feed all of humanity at once and says in order to make them happy "Let there be food", then food will appear.

You eat the food of love in the spirit world.

The more you hear, the more you want to hear.  Within spirit world, there is no concept of being sleepy or tired there.

You look at each other with the eyes of love there.

No words have been created that can express the mystery of the spirit world.  People today try to link everything to love.

Why?

This is to be in sync with the spirit world.

Since the spirit world operates in this way, all of creation cannot help but respond to that.  They cannot abandon that position.

When you see me in your dreams, I appear to you through the waves of God's love. 


For you to have such experiences, you have to let go of ego there.  You have to sacrifice yourselves and create a vacuum.

In this vacuum, there is no memories of the fallen past, regrets or ideas of revenge or hate of another.

Once you create this vacuum, you have to become like pure gold.  Gold does not contain any other element; it is pure in itself.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: How Do We Experience Spirit World

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Five, Chapter 3, Section 2

Why Do We Like the Concept Family?

As we witness the chaos of the world, instability in jobs, and relationships, there is one relationship that never changes no matter what - family.

Your siblings, mother, father and extended family will always be tied together by blood ties.

God made this unit of relationships that teach us how to love brothers and sisters, the elderly and the young of the world.

So, why do we like the family?

It is because family provides a base to freely exchange happiness.

This is why we yearn for our hometown where we grew up.  It is the place where our parents and siblings live.

The family is originally a good place.  Why is it good?

Because your parents, siblings and relatives are there.  Therefore, we become homesick for our native land, our hometown.

People think more about their hometown than they think of their nation.  Even living in a large city like New York, people long for their hometown.

Why do you like your families?

It is because the family becomes a free activity center for their parents' love.

God must be able to act freely there.

When God comes upon a society full of people who are more driven internally, and have the shining core of love no matter how shabby they may be, God will be able to act freely around them.

Do you feel uneasy when you visit someone else's home?

Like you are out of place?  This is because there has not been a bond of love established there for you.
You will feel awkward in someone else's dwelling because the love between the people there does not emanate in all four directions but just between the family members.

This was not the original role of the family. Thus we are destined to walk a path in oneness, unity.

The best thing is not decided by you?

Then what would hold the highest value in the family?  

The parents.

You as an individual could have great wealth, knowledge, respect and power, but none of these attributes are superior to the parents' position.

Your spouse would come next and then your children.  When it comes to your family, is there anything more valuable in life than your parents, spouse or children?  There is nothing more precious.

Why do we like our spouse, our parents and our children?

Because love is there.

Parental love is something absolutely needed by the children. 

Also, fraternal love and filial love of the children are absolutely necessary in the family.

Then who are the most beloved people in your families?  Wouldn't they be your parents?  Why do you like them most?

This is because throughout your lives, they are the closest to you in a relationship of love.  Then your beloved spouse comes next.

If husband and wife come to love each other unconditionally rather than set on conditions or circumstances, that love will be the greatest thing that will bring happiness and harmony into the family.

Even if it may not be closely related to an eternal love that is absolutely given by Heaven.  If this love becomes one, that reciprocated between the husband and wife, that is the greatest love in the family.

This is how I see it. Filial love, the love children have toward their parents, is next. If children can sacrifice themselves for their parents and love them with a bright and positive attitude rather than despair, while longing for ideal circumstances in which their love can sprout as the hope of tomorrow, that love will be one with pure and true value for the happiness of that family. 


Thus, if the family that is complete with true parental love, true conjugal love and true filial love, centered on God, then we can only conclude that it is the most ideal family in the world.  A true family.

The Family Is the Base of Eternal Happiness

On what basis can we say that someone is a truly a happy person in our daily life?

Is someone happy because they have some special talent, hold any power or authority?  Do these things alone make a person happy?  They cannot.

Also, can a person that has a lot of money be totally happy because they do not have to envy what others have? No.

Could a person become happy because they obtained a global amount of knowledge or hold some control over the world at will?

As we see in today's climate that, this is not the case.  People cannot truly become happy with just those things.

Even if they do so momentarily, happiness will not be eternal by going this route.  What happens the moments that these material objects are lost?  Can they maintain that state?

Such external things will never be the source of eternal happiness even if a person acquires enough wealth that they do not envy anyone in heaven and earth and sing songs of joy.

They will still feel a gaping hole in their soul and yearn for even more.

Material things may be a means to find happiness, but they are not able to be happiness itself.

Then, what is determined in order to feel happiness?

You must have a beloved spouse, parents and children.  Nobody can deny that the original way to happiness is through the creation of a true family.

We may see that if we lack one of them, we feel sorrow and dissatisfaction will inevitably remain in our hearts.

All people on earth generally feel that the family is a base of happiness. 

A family must have parents as the head of it, like the president of a nation.

People who grow up without parents are called orphans and are seen as pitiful people.  It is pitiful for one to not have parents or a spouse.

The family has parents and a conjugal bond at the same time.

However much the spouses may have loved each other, there will be utter pain and misery when one of them loses the other.

It is the same for when a couple cannot conceive children.

The family must have parents, spouse and children in order to become the foundation for eternal happiness.

God's original purpose for seeking to restore humankind was for His own happiness.

This establishment of happiness cannot take place apart from human beings.  At that point of convergence, it can only be brought about through God's relationship with them.

When all of the ingredients needed for our emotional well-being are present in our family, God also wants to feel happiness in such a setting.

From where does happiness arise?  What kind of setting will allow us to sing songs of joy?  It is in the setting of the family.

This family happiness cannot be attained if there are emotional problems, or if there is no heart or love experienced between the family members.

If a couple cannot have children, also, there cannot be any happiness there.

This is the same for children who do not have parents.  There will be no joy for them.

Where there is a man, there will have to be a woman as his partner. 

This same truth is for the woman.

The husband and wife desire to keep their love at a higher dimension within their subject-object relationship.  Further, they must have children.

A unified family is only realized once a couple has parents above them and children below them.  A family is united vertically (spirit) and horizontally (physical) in this way.

Then upon whom does this family center?

We already know that we center the idea of unity based solely on human beings.

But this method is impossible for two separate beings to come together eternally since they alone cannot pursue a higher value.

But if there is an absolute Subject Partner of love, then the parents will want to become one with this Subject Partner as their center.

That center where all of the family members become one in love, is a place of happiness and hope.

Everything must then be brought into oneness and unified through something more valuable and stimulating.

This is not possible based on our human love alone, but only from God, the true subject partner.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: We Enter Heaven as a Family Unit

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four Chapter Eleven, Section 1 and 2.