To Be a Leader Live for Others

All the members of the church have difference in light of the service each has done for humanity, or for the whole.  There are some members who belong to spring, others to summer, still others belonging to autumn and the rest belonging to winter.

These four seasons put together we call one year.  The church is like a body where some have the roles of the eyes, some the ears, the other the mouth, limbs, or legs.

They each have one aspect in common.

The eyes do not live just for the eyes themselves, but for the whole.  The same with the nose.  We must realize this point.

We should not go in different directions as individuals, this movement has the goal of saving the whole world, so our thinking should not be individualized.

We should see through "Unification eyes", hear with "Unification ears" and smell and talk through "Unification nose and mouth".

If we are able to have this unity with each other in that way, we will be the strongest group.  Then what we do is in the will of God.

We all go together a certain way directed by God.

The whole body moves, not just certain parts.  If you are willing to live this way for eternity, then the movement will prosper through eternity and never perish.  We exist as a whole for the sake of the whole world not for the individual.

When the whole world is restored, the individual and family is saved as well.  Just as God had sent Jesus for the sake of the world, He sends the Lord of the Second Advent for world salvation.

We should not live for our own small family or ourselves, but for the sake of all humanity to be restored back to God's bosom.

Do you live this way yet?

We may wonder that if we live totally giving our whole to others that we disappear and we think that we are losing.  But if we are able to deny our own desires and think and invest our whole being for the sake of the whole, then the whole in turn will support you and will live for you.  This is Principle.


As I always say, those who live for the sake of other people become the central figures. If you say that person is the central figure, without exception, that person is a sacrificial person, living solely for the benefit of others.


Every man and organization would support the man that is a sacrificial person living for the sake of the whole.  The definition of a central figure is the person who lives for the sake of other people.  God is like this.

Do not try to figure out your identity in yourself, but in the whole world.  If you are able to live for others and reap what you have done, it will come back to you and you become the central figure.

You must never forget that you are the representative of the whole ancestral past.

You represent your past ancestors. And you represent your family, your relatives, your neighbors, the nation, and all humanity on the horizontal level.  This is for the present.

To the future generations, you must represent them.  You must be the good start or seed from which to be multiplied.

Who is the representative person?

The representative is the person who has lived a life of total sacrifice for others.  The central figure is the person who has not only lived for the past, present and future generations, bur for God in the past, present and future.

Isn't this what we strive for?

When you are in that position, this would make God proud of you before the ancestors of the past, and before all of humanity living in the present, and before the people of the future.

Of course you are born to your parents and are part of your parents.  If all of your ancestors were each to claim a part of you, there would be none of you left for yourself.  You must know that you do not belong to yourself.  The concept of yourself comes about in relation to other people around you.

You can only find yourself and place value on yourself on the basis of your being a product of your past ancestry.  This is the only way to find your value.  Then, only in this way can you consider yourself as a central figure.

You are in the center of the cosmos with all the rest of the people around you. 

That's all right as the basis of the idea.

If you begin by wanting others to serve and you be sacrificial to you, you will have nothing from those people, and you will have lost the whole world.  If your whole existence is for the sake of other people, then you can say you are a central figure and others will support you.

In order for you to claim yourself, you must put yourself in the central position, being sacrificial and doing things for the sake of other people. Then alone you can claim yourself.

If you forget about everyone else and think of yourself alone, then you come to nowhere. And you will have lost everything.

In God's ideal world before the fall, man was to live for others; so this world of harmony and unity has to come about.  But because of the fall, man began to live for the sake his own selfish desires and thinking, doing all things in a self-centered way.

Selfishness, putting self first, is the primary character of the fall.

Because God has been investing His whole being for the sake of the cosmos and is at the center, He can claim Himself as the center, or nucleus.  After you have served other people, you as well can come back to yourself to locate yourself, place yourself in the central position and think that you are important.

After knowing this, where are we all headed?  To the center.

To become the central  point, you must be willing to be a living sacrifice.

When it is time to eat,it is natural to reach for the best food, the most rich food.  We, also, want to wear better clothing then others, get the good things, what is convenient and you want this all for yourself.

This is not the way it should be.

Now, you have a clearer understanding of the responsibility once you are the central figure.  You should put it into practice.

You have a natural way of wanting to give orders to others, or have others do something for you, but it is not easy for us to do something for others.  You should go the reverse way.  Do things the opposite way as you have been doing.

When you receive orders from others, in utter humbleness, and do as you are told, then you can have dominion over those people, and over their minds.

You can dominate the heart of God., because God is constantly giving orders to us to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of humanity.

If you are able to live up to that standard, then you can dominate God's heart, too.

Now that you understand this, and pledge to begin living in this way, then you will be pushed hard from now on and you cannot object or complain.

It is natural to think that our bodies needs eight hours of sleep, and three meals a day, so there should be limited work of only eight hours, but you will be pushed beyond that standard to work through all the 24 hours a day.

Will you be able to be grateful in that case, or would you complain?

If you are able to live like this, then God could not help but to dance about for joy and live with you and visit you all the time.


You must remember this -- I must repeatedly say that you must be living for the past ancestors and present humanity and future generations; not only that, but also for the God of the past, the God of the present, and the God of the future. Then you will be living through eternity with God as your Father. God is looking for one like that. Human history of the past, present, and the future is looking for the person like that.


Of course we would all like to meet such a selfless, universal person.  With such a person setting the example, you want to be just like him.

To really become like him, he must teach you.  He would teach you how to become a sacrificial person who lives for the past ancestors, present humanity and for the future descendants.  Also, you would live for the God of the past and the future.

In other words, you will learn how to deny your fallen ways, your worldly habits.  You will learn how to die, to kill your sinful self.  Jesus' teaching was that those who wanted to live would die, and those who wanted to die would live.

All people of faith go this way of death.  If someone dies for his nation, then the nation comes under his dominion, and if he is able to die for the sake of the world, then he can dominate the world.  What other group professes such a ideology?

When we speak of dying for others, we are not speaking only of the physical.  Those who want to live for the world and stay in sin are actually like dead corpses with no life within them.  And those willing to sacrifice their worldly desires and walk this bloody path of faith, find life through the word.

What you have done, your deed, is what you alone can claim; and with what you have done, you will live through eternity.

When  you look at how you should die for the nation, world and God, you cannot say that you are tired after having fought for several months or years in this way.  You can never dream of complaining on this path.

Religions have taught this on a smaller scale.

We have been taught that we as humans exist for mutual benefit.  Parents live for children; children live for parents.  A family as a whole lives for the relatives and the tribe.  And so forth leading up to living for God.

In this way, we are able to erect the kingdom of heaven on earth.  Would you rather stay living in the kingdom where people live for themselves or the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth where everyone recognizes others as brothers and sisters of the One Family under God?

Then we can safely define that those who live self-centered lives are doomed to hell; and those who live unselfish lives, for the sake of other people, are destined for the Kingdom of Heaven. 

You have nothing which belongs to you in the real sense.

You cannot claim your eyes are your own, because they are created for the sake of other things and other people.  You inherited your eyes from your ancestors.

First of all, you should never complain.

We should learn how not to complain or become discouraged during the times of difficulties.  We should learn how not to be exhausted after a long day.

It is only during the times of difficulty, that God is able to see what kind of character you have.

At that moment, God takes out His notebook and grades you when people are more apt to grumble and complain.  Instead, you should smile at that time and go through difficult situations in that manner and you will feel victorious.  You are victorious.

God thinks of beauty in a different way from our thinking.

Suppose there is a beautiful woman that has worked hard in the sun all day and does not have any make up and looks rather ugly and dirty.  But this is the utmost beauty that God esteems in you, too.

If you were to work this way for just your own self, there is no merit in that.  But if you are able to work this hard for the sake of other people, then there is value to your work.

Sometimes you go door-to-door selling candy and you are rejected by many people.  You're called many names and you may cry.  But because you fundraise for the sake of others, that is the time that your tears are something of beauty.

If you are grateful and happy in your heart to do this hard work of restoration for His sake and the sake of humanity, then that merit is yours and God will be proud of you.  For generations to come, mankind will have to be grateful to you for your work.

If your attitude is like this, doing the same thing, that becomes heaven on earth. But, if your attitude is the opposite, that becomes hell.  So, even though you are crying, don't cry for your own situation, but cry for the whole, cry for God.

Also, if you must complain, do not complain for the sake of yourself, but complain for the sake of God.  For instance you can complain about what to do with this evil world and how you will destroy evil from the world.  This kind of public complaint is acceptable.

Every moment, you must be careful not to be accused of something by Satan.

If you continue to live your life for the sake of the whole, you can be proud of yourself.

We put this into practice everyday, sacrificing our own desires for others.  We will live for the sake of restoring humanity back to God's bosom.

You should be proud of what you are doing and proud of the church.

In this way, you will succeed in this mission and build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth with our own hands.  While others are waiting for the rapture to carry them to Heaven, we live this way in restoring the world toward Heaven on Earth and can be proud of ourselves.  Do you understand?  Let's pray.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Whole and Myself.

Adam & Eve Followed Satan's Will

Any person of faith has been taught that the world in which we live is not the original creation God had planned for His children.  If this is the case, then there has been some cause that has turned the creation away from God's original plan.

Many religions have their own version of this cause.

The Divine Principle teaches that evil came about because God's servant Lucifer went against Him creating Satan.

Satan was not the creation of God.  Evil came about because of Satan's will which is the opposite of God's will.

Thus, sin came about when man acted in accordance with Satan's will instead, which is totally against God's Will.

The Source of Evil is Satan.

Satan came into being when the archangel rebelled against God.

God created the archangel as a servant who was originally in a position of obedience to God.  This position was not eternal, but temporary once he aided in the perfection of God's children, Lucifer would have been able to choose the best mate among Adam and Eve's offspring.  Instead, Lucifer abandoned God and stole Eve for himself.

We must understand how adamant an enemy Satan is and how easy it is in our daily lives to side and sympathize with Satan, thus following his ways.

We currently live in a satanic culture where Satan's will is glorified and made to look beautiful, such as promiscuous sex, lustfulness and bad behavior.

Satan is the one who stopped God from carrying out His will. 

Adam and Eve, the first parents of creation carrying God's spirit, are incarnations of God's ideal.

They were originally created as temples of God in whom God would abide forever.  Through fulfilling God's will of unity with Him, they could have become the true ancestors to later generations passing on the true tradition of God's sinless lineage.

Instead, Adam and Eve followed the tongue of Satan and fell far below God's will and united with Satan instead.

In the position as God's children, they could have realized God's ideal in the position of God's children.  Through them, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth would have been established in their lifetime.  Instead, the first children of God were kicked out of heaven creating an alternative hell on earth led by Satan.

Originally, Adam and Eve were to not eat of the fruits (sexual organs) and God would have been our source through Adam and Eve passing down this true tradition of following God's Word from the beginning.

Thus, religion would not be necessary if the first True Parents of history followed God's will connecting humanity to God for eternity uninterrupted.

God was to be the source of human goodness from the beginning.  Then you and I would have been born directly into God's lineage free from sin and free from Satanic attack.  This would have automatically been Heaven on Earth.

Just imagine how free the world would have been if Cain and Abel were true brother having True Children and passing this godly lineage on to your family.  Abel would have been a humble servant of God allowing Cain to easily follow his brother instead of becoming the first murderer of history.

We would live in a world without division and where everyone was seen as brothers and sisters in one family under the true God.

When we see the world God originally planned, we see how far away from the idea we have fallen.

Then all mankind would have known of God's existence never doubting that God existed.

Atheism, corruption and Communism would not have risen in society to try to destroy God. God's arduous work through religion to teach His children about Him would not be necessary.  We would not have to just 'believe' in God, but we would live with Him.

As father and son, we would have a relationship of true give and take never questioning God's existence and His presence within us.  In this kind of life, we would rejoice forever in dancing and singing and in everything joyful.

If your mind is not happy, your body cannot respond to it. 

On the other hand, if your physical body is not happy, your mind cannot respond to it.

What if Adam and Eve actually followed God's word and waited until marriage to partake in the fruit of each other?

Then God would have been the source of everything good, virtuous, joyful and happy.  There would not be any confusion of what is wrong or right.  As God's object, you could directly respond to Him causing your joy to be great and varied.

It would not be necessary to be taught how to live righteously, how to act or think in the proper manner that does not separate you from God.  Most importantly of all, you would be well aware of the existence of the spiritual world.

But because we fell away from God, the door is closed to the spirit world.  We have ignorance to the world of spirit.

Any individual does not just exist as an individual but he exists in the position of an object to the whole universe. 

Adam was just one man, but had the responsibility to represent all male beings.

Eve played the role as the representative of all female beings.  They laid the tradition for the world to follow whether it was good or for bad.

Adam was able to have the sight to feel what would become of later generations.  He should have known that he was supposed to be the object of God.

If Adam was in the position of object to a God that is omnipresent, omniscient, transcendent of time and space, then he was in the position of representing the spirit of God in the external.  He would thus feel the same as God.  Wasn't this true for Jesus?

Since Adam and Eve were intended to be the external God and He lived directly in them, He thus would not be ever separated from them.

We as religious people, always say that we are God's children and God lives within us and He is always there.  But this is only a conditional behavior.  Being that God is a good, perfect God, He could not truly dwell where sin is exhibited.

Because God created Adam and Eve as the external God and intended to live in them, He could never have been separated from them. The result should be an ideal kingdom of heaven on earth.

Fulfillment of this ideal was barred by Satan.

Because God is considered the generating station, we must connect to God in order to act right.

Anything that uses electricity to work, must be connected to an electric source if it is to fulfill its purpose.

Without electricity, electric mechanisms would never work.

Because Satan disrupted this connection between humans and God, we cannot work properly either.  Because of this fact, we should see how fierce an enemy Satan is to us.

Satan has deprived you and me of experiencing God's true love.

He is the enemy who has cut off God's love from us.

A being like Satan to those outside any faith sounds like fiction, but he works through even the people close to you.  Your own mother can work on the behalf of Satan in your life.  This is why Jesus set the standard that one should love him more than his own family to be considered worthy of him.

Satan destroyed God' ideal of creation and is still active today in each of our lives.

The core teaching of Christian ideology is forgiveness.  We are taught to forgive other's sins seventy times seventy times.  Then why does God not forgive Satan for all of his misdeeds done to society?

Man struggles daily to separate themselves from the grasp of Satan.  Because of this, God feels pity for His children and feels inclined to forgive man seventy times seventy times.

But God cannot forgive Satan Himself.  This is because he is the enemy of God's love.

Satan deprived God's family of divine, true love, so God cannot forgive him now.  Once all men are restored and man wants to forgive Satan, then God might in the future have to forgive Satan for turning the ideal upside down.

Satan came into being through Adam giving him power by believing in his unholy words.  Thus, it is only through Adam or man that God can separate Satan from him, deny him, and at last forgive him.

Due to the human fall, Satan is abiding in us, in place of God. 

Therefore, we are the incarnation of Satan.

Why do we stubbornly stand by the idea that we are born of God's lineage when God is perfect, yet we carry sin within our own blood and carry about ungodly acts with ease?

If God created us in His image, this means He created us to reach perfection, not fall from His standard.

We are in the lineage of Satan, instead of God.  Wouldn't this go against God's law of creation?

When we look at religious history of martyrs, even in primitive religions, men were sacrificed or killed before God.

This was the symbol of shedding the satanic blood that flows within man.  The age of animal sacrifice had the same meaning. Nature is closer to the ideal because they follow the laws of God.  Bird do not discriminate against other birds who come from a different territory.

Since we live far from the ideal, there is a way to return to God's lineage.

We must live an ascetic life which presents difficulties and hardships if we want to change our satanic lineage.  This is the course each of us has to take in order to be restored to God's standard.

This is how God restores us to the perfected beings He envisioned in the beginning.

When we look through God's eyes, He doesn't see us as men of His creation.  We do not even look like original human beings.  We are satanic beings that stand in the position of His enemies.

Isn't this true when you look at the world's situation and in the history of mankind?  Is it a glorious history, or one full of pain, violence and heartache.

This is because we are truly the children of Satan who we followed and caused the fall.  We are God's enemy.

God has worked throughout history to reverse this problem and restore us to our original state which He created.  Every moment that we breathe, it is a constant fight against the satanic power which is established on this earth.

Can you imagine the difficult job of restoring us to the position before the fall to nurture us to grow into mature beings without any trace of the satanic blood lineage?

We think we are truly God's children even though we are imperfect, but it is likened to if you adopt a child from a friend.  No matter how much affection and love you give, you still cannot love him as your own children who are of your own blood, flesh and carry your spirit and character.

This is the situation God is in.  We are more like adopted sons and daughter of God since we do not carry His true, sinless blood lineage.

How is it possible for God to love us as His own children the same way He loved Adam and Eve before the fall?

God tries hard during this course of restoration to love you and I born into sin by imagining that we are immaculate beings and has the potential to return to our position before the fall.

Since we are the children of Satan, who is God's enemy, God naturally feels a sense of resentment towards us at first.

It would be likened to a father whose wife had a child her first child with his brother, yet has to care for and raise the baby as if he was his own.

Likewise, Satan stole the true father position from God.

We are able to ease this painful heart of God by receiving hardship and difficulties coming from Him.  Once you are able to become completely obedient to God's will, He will feel like forgiving you.  Thus, we must determine to win the sympathy of God by going through difficulty as though it was natural.

When we are able to bear this, compassion for our position will swell up in God's heart for you.

God places us as the offering and checks to see if we are able to obey Him in that difficult position.  No matter how difficult or hard the situations you have to endure, you must go through them with a grateful heart.

The only way to win God's heart is to go through difficulty and get over them alone.

So, in the Bible we read that those who persevere to the last will win the love of God.

Human history has been one of restoration.  There has been many rises and falls of nations and people with good and evil woven throughout.  Through this process, our sins have been indemnified or cleared away.

However strong the faith that you have, it does not matter if you fail to believe in God at the end you
are destined to go to hell.

Since your blood is stained with Satan's blood lineage, you cannot restore yourself to the true position all by yourself.  To be saved and restored, you must be placed in a position of a living sacrifice on the altar of God.

Yes, Jesus died for our sins, but we are still born into a sinful lineage.

However hard you may struggle to restore yourself, you cannot do it all by yourself, because your blood is stained by satanic lineage. Only by putting yourself in the position of a sacrifice, a living sacrifice, on the altar of God, can you be saved and restored.

It is hard for a non believer to understand the concept of sin when our external body does not show signs of sin.  Jesus was sinless, but it was hard for people to believe because he looked like any other person.

Since God is a good God and we were made in His image, then there is a way for us to return to our original position before the fall.

But, even if we cannot see it, satanic blood that we inherited runs through every part of our body including our limbs.

Our eyes have been accustomed to seeing evil things.  How do we go about restoring our eyes to recognize virtuous and good sights?

What do we have to do to restore our five senses to recognize the good in our environment?

Also, how are we going to restore our limbs and every part of our body for the purpose of goodness?  We must first deny ourselves and love God more than we do anybody else.

Just as Jesus said, you must deny your family and your sinful way of life before God can have His object as pure as before the fall.  When you have a traditional marriage that is still tied to the fallen lineage with your own children, then your fallen family and surroundings are all elements that make God grieve.

From God's viewpoint, this multiplication of the fallen lineage is not acceptable and is against God's will.

The Bible stated that in the Last Days that it would be burdensome for those with children and family for this reason.  Satan would have even more hooks to work through the fallen family and make it harder to restore each individual.

The Messiah comes to reverse the fall and to give his faithful followers into marriage that erases the fallen blood lineage and connects us to God's direct blood lineage.  This was Jesus' desire.  This makes more sense why Jesus was grieved and not happy at fulfilling the way of the cross.

Jesus carried God's true blood lineage, which he would have been able to pass this lineage on through the a True Marriage and leaving True Children on earth carrying God's blood.

Thus, humanity connecting to this true lineage through following his path and what the Bible calls the Marriage of the Lamb.  This is the Marriage blessing which the Messiah gives to his followers that is given directly by God.

A true religion must teach you to deny yourself and to sacrifice yourself, to drain the satanic blood out of you. 

Once you completely yield yourself in total obedience to the altar of God, you utterly deny yourself and are re-created by God's hands.

Once you deny yourself, you will finally feel that you have cut the satanic chains and separated yourself from Satan's grasp and return to God.

But as fallen people, we turn around and deny God and rebel against Him through our actions.  Then God has no choice but to place you back into the satanic world and test you many times.

Before each of us can be fully restored and recognized by God, we must get rid of any signs of betrayal of the fall.

Even though we are chased away for our disobedience, we must return to God with tears in repentance for our sins.

He may get rid of His resentment of being treated poorly even though He only gives us love through putting you through hardships.  You must endure these times and cling to God without leaving Him.

We must be like Jesus who is always symbolized as a lamb because he represented the whole of mankind.  The lamb is a creature that is obedient to his master's call and will obey him even at the moment of death.  We are each symbolized by a lamb as followers and we should be obedient to God.

Through Jesus going to the cross, God was teaching mankind how to be obedient to Him even at the moment of death.  Jesus went tearfully the way of sacrifice, because he knew that it was not God's original plan.

Only through the Jewish people not believing Jesus was God's son and not following him to the end did he have to go to the cross.  Even though he knew it would prolong God's will of heaven on earth, Jesus obeyed God all the way to his last breath.

What is more virtuous than faith and actions?

Your heart toward God, the pure love of God is more valued.

You then must first understand God's heart and how much He has suffered in the work of restoring the world of peace He originally planned.

Are you in a position where you can receive the love of God?  Can He can rely on you?

Is God happy with your actions in your life?  Are you where He can really love you?  Since we know that we are not of God's blood lineage, then we should understand that it is difficult for God to love us naturally.

If God is going to love us at all, He has to go through difficulty.

We are the sons and daughters of God's enemy.

Thus, we should try hard to win His heart and turn it towards us.  We must clearly understand what has caused God grief throughout history and we must reverse what we have done in the past including our ancestor's tradition of sin and restore the original state within ourselves.

Through this course of restoration, we should bring ourselves into a position that is better than Adam and Eve before the fall.  Thus, we would be obedient to God not repeating the fall through our selfish desires.  This is our ultimate goal.

The Fall, caused God so much grief.  God has been imprisoned not able to work freely without a direct connection to His children who were stolen.  We are in the position to help liberate His heart.

Even God's own happiness has been wrapped in bondage.

What Father could be happy seeing His children stolen and destroyed?

As His adopted children, we also should not sit by and watch Him suffer because of our disobedience.  Therefore, we should liberate Him and relieve Him from this grief.

Because we have not known this, throughout history, people of religion have been asking God to help liberate them.  They pray for God to do this and that for them without having the notion of our responsibility to liberate God instead.

The Unification Church was created on this earth with that mission, to liberate God's broken heart.

We teach the grief of God and whose people feel such grief, and then teach others how to liberate God's heart.

The most important question or problem is how to relieve His heart by restoring ourselves on the individual level, family level, nationwide level, and worldwide level.

We should know that this world is not the world God wanted, and He does not want it to stay the way that it is.  He does not want Christianity to stay as it is either.  God wants the world of Christianity to relieve Him from His sorrow.

How many Christians have thought of this?

Who has thought of comforting God in all of the betrayals and heartache He has suffered throughout the work of restoring the world?

Has there been a nation that has thought of liberating God's heart from sorrow?

This must be taught through religion.

In order to this, one man must be restored to the position of Adam before the fall, who is not born into sin.  He will work through his family without the fall up to the level of the whole world.  This is what God wants.

This man will set the tradition completing the teachings of Jesus to lead people through the restoration course.

A rebellious son may run away and return with billions to his father.  But for this father to be consoled, he would have to see that his son has more piety and obedience.  Without this attitude, the father's resentment toward his betrayal will not be cleared away.

This is the same for a wife whose husband has stopped loving her.

Even though she might have a huge diamond ring and lots of money, nothing can restore the love she has lost.  What is more important than that diamond is love.

Jesus had the mission to restore God's love through his family.

Thus, the Lord of the Second Advent returns to carry out this same mission.  Jesus left us an example how to be a true son and brother.  The Messiah returns to give the example how to be a True Parent and True Husband through his sinless family on earth.

The mission of the Unification Church is to restore our love towards God, then restore God's love for us. 

We advocate liberating God's heart first and winning His love before liberating ourselves.

Many may not accept this notion, but what religion has truly been able to reverse the acts of the fall and bring about a sinless society?

When you first come to God, He would view you the same way He views Satan at the beginning.  He would want to see the love you have for Him is more than your love for anyone else.  This is the only way to clear away His resentment.

The Messiah, who is not born perfect, also has to grow to maturity in spirit.

Even the Messiah has been rejected by God to restore the fact that we have rejected God many times.
Even though he was put in an even more difficult position, he would go back to God's bosom and cling to Him in prayer and love, then God would accept Him.

But after awhile, God would send him back into satanic hands to go through even more tribulations and hardships.  After conquering these things, he would go back to God. And so many times he has had such things happen to him




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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Day of Resolution of Victory.

We Must Get Rid of Barriers

When we speak of heaven, we speak of God; when we say earth, we speak of human beings. If God is all alone, He cannot be fulfilled, so He needs to come together with human beings. The purpose of creation can be fulfilled only when love is fulfilled, and love cannot be fulfilled by one alone; there must be two, in the relationship of subject and object.


Rev. Sun Myung Moon


When love is fulfilled, both the upper and lower areas are fulfilled equally.

This was God's ideal for the world, but because of the fall true love could not be completed.  Therefore there are several different barriers and walls which separate heaven and earth. When the highest point comes down and the lowest point comes up, they can meet in the middle.

In Oriental philosophy, the word 'heaven' connotes huge noble aspects, while 'earth' connotes small, lowly things.  The distinction between the two only came about through man's selfish love.

If the fall did not occur, there would not have been a difference between heaven and earth.  Heaven would thus be on earth; world peace would have been established from the beginning if the seed of misused love had not been planted.

Even though man fell, God cannot go down to the point of the fall.  Therefore, man must bring himself by uniting mind and body.  The most important thing is for man to know God and to conquer the ignorance of the fall and his horrible situation.

God has worked thousands of years to bring people out of darkness so we can know God's true nature.  Yet, wherever God goes, Satan plants his seeds of hate, doubt and lust to trip up God's people.  Therefore, God uses alternative means to reach His children.

God had made two major efforts throughout history to do this.  He used science, which is the external level, and religion is on the internal level.  When we know the purposes of both, then we know where would science and religion be headed.

The two  will meet at the point where love is fulfilled.  This would not be the level of human love standard, but the pure, high standard of God's love.  Any effort to find and discover God will ultimately reach the one point of the true love of God.

Every entity has two aspects: internal and an external.

The two must meet at one point. This means that the mind and body should share the knowledge each possess and unite.  To become one, the two should know each other.

In order for science and religion to unite, they both must understand each other.  Everyone possesses a mind and body which is in a horizontal alignment, side by side.  God also has a mind and body which are in the same position.

Here on earth man should have unity between his mind and body.

We can meet God, not only through religion, but also through science.

This fact may be hard to take in, for both sides, that unity is imminent between science and religion.

Have you noticed that you are at your happiest when your plans or ideals are finally fulfilled?  This realization is not enough, it is the coming into oneness with a subject or object in reciprocal give and take that creates happiness.

Then what makes God happy and what is the work of God?

God's work after the fall has been in perfection of human beings.  This has been God's goal and true masterpiece.  When that goal is met, that will be the point of ultimate joy and goodness.  This would not be the point of secular, lustful love, but the original pure love of God.

I want you to understand that unless your mind and body are united, you are not eligible to meet God. 

We have two eyes that do not work independently, but they both have one focus that produces one image, not two.  The same with ears, the nervous system coordinates those impulses into one sound.  This focus is between the two, not in front of one or the other.

When two different focal points meet, they will discover that they are actually alike.  When they discover their likeness, they will be able to stimulate each other in give and take and fellowship.

When your mind and body no longer war for domination and are totally united with the godly mind at the center, then that focus is upon God.

God's united mind and body is united into one and people would be the focus of these two.

The common goal that excites them both would be true love.

Therefore, unless God finds love, He cannot find completion; and unless man finds his ultimate goal, which is the true love of God, he cannot achieve completion either.  When God focuses upon man and man focuses upon God, and the two are united, the entire universe is united.


In human love, the nervous system focuses to transfer sensation to the whole system. If the mind is willing to live this way, but the body is lethargic and doesn't obey, then the mind/body alignment is askew. Then the person is crippled, just as if he were missing an arm.

It is most important that we focus our life. 

The focus of the entire spirit world is God, and the focus of the physical world is man.

We see many horrors in these days, but you must understand that God would not arrange His creation in a sloppy manner.  God being perfect and of love, God must have organized the creation to focus upon one point on both earth and in spirit world.


There are two aspects to everything in the physical world: positive and negative. Within those positive and negative aspects, there are also internal and external elements, or mind and body. Once positive and negative electrical charges meet, you can't tell which is which. Likewise, you can't tell where positive starts and negative ends in a magnetic field. But there is action in the magnetic field and energy is created.


Men and women are different, but they are not enemies.

Instead, each focuses on the other to win his or her love.  Every senses focuses on love.  Even in the nonreligious world today, people see the fact that men and women meet and love each other, but this is only the beginning point.

Just like energy from the power plant works wonders, men and women work wonders together to tap God's power plant.  When you understand this, then living becomes a joy.

Even electricity follows this Principle.

Would electricity refuse to the light up the house of a smelly country bathroom?  Electricity works universally, once it is hooked up.  Do your nerves refuse to provide sensation to your smelly, dirty feet?  Does your blood refuse to circulate through arteries and veins there?

The oceans of the world are really one body of water even though sections of it are given different names depending on location.  In the same way, once love is activated, it is able to go anywhere in the universe.

Young people would like to travel the entire world with their husband and wife, and then along with their children thereafter.  Wouldn't a true king also like to see all of the beauties of the world accompanied by all of his subjects?

Don't you envy the birds who have the freedom to fly off to any parts of the world without a passport?  Humanity has such senseless barriers such as immigration restrictions and hangups about nationalities which are man-made barriers.

Once we are able to get rid of all of these barriers, we will be able to live in a world as free as the birds.  

Do ducks from the north discriminate against ducks from the south?

Would they refuse to marry and mate with one another just because they are from different parts of the world?

Nature in this respect has a higher standard than humanity by following this basic principle of the universe.  To ducks, it does not matter whom they marry just as long as they are ducks!

You are constantly told that you should serve others and focus your love and attention on other people because by living in this way you create unity.

A good athlete focuses all of his energy and distributes it perfectly in the pursuit of his sport. If 1, 000 people were able to do this, they would generate great energy and power.  This pushing and pulling force must harmonize to create tremendous power.

The greater the power of give and take, the greater the wonder it can create. 

God can stretch His arms from one pole to the other pole while embracing the entire universe in give and take.  If God is great, then it is logical that His creation which is man is also great.

Your ears "focus" within your brain, but actually you want to hear sounds that are universal, not selfish.

We take exhaling and inhaling for granted, but have you ever thought that the air we breathe travels all around the world linking you to it?

In daily life we are dealing with one universe, one air, one water, one sunlight and one land.

Do you focus all of your attention just on your husband or wife without taking interest in your society, nation and world?

When man and woman attain unity, they would then focus on the larger entities such as society, nation and world.

The greater the vision and the greater the distance this couple focuses on together, the greater your life becomes.

Has anyone else ever thought like this?  We know that as individuals we represent the entire universe, and furthermore you think that God looks like you, not that you look like Him?  Is this pompous thinking?

Through the teachings of the Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, a small person would think that he was big enough to embrace all of America and the world.  This would not be possible through any physical means, of course.  But through love he would be able to do it.

There is no nationality in the world of love because love travels all over, like air. 

Can love reach all the way to God? Love will penetrate God's system and reach His heart.

If someone was to lock God's love in a vault, your love would be able to penetrate even that wall.  This means that your love is the greatest secret key of all.  Everyone no matter what their status is focused upon love, even God hangs onto it.

All things cling to love as well.

Everyone, young or old, Eastern or Western wants to be in possession of beautiful things.  If we were to think what the most precious thing in the universe would be, it would have to be love.

Even all of the spirits in spirit world would have to agree.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Heaven and Us