Why Do We Need Religion

We first must understand the true purpose for God creating the world before we can answer why religion came into being.

Many posts on this website mention that God's plan for His ideal world is opposite of the world we see in today.

The Divine Principle focuses this reversal in dominion from God's world at the beginning with the first parents a man and a woman who instead of following God's holy warning to wait for maturity to partake in sexual pleasures, followed the servant archangel to do as they please.

Then we can see that religion was later born to teach humanity to go in the opposite direction of the archangel and to follow Him back into His bosom.  Once all of humanity follows God's ways of love and not the fallen, archangel way of love, then we would naturally observe a world full of love and peace - an Utopian world full of God-like people.

All religions emphasize self-denial and sacrifice in order to achieve the highest form of love.

Without exception sacrifice is necessary for you to form an intimate relationship with God. Why should sacrifice be the highest form of love's fulfillment? There are many, answers but let us analyze this through the major religions.

Christianity has delivered the message of putting the love of God above all for centuries as well as other prominent religions in history.  Each major religion has a foundation in love.

Buddhism preaches a life of mercy and benevolence which is actually in essence practicing love for our fellow man.  Each religion emphasizes that one practices a life of self-denial instead of self-centeredness.  Why does one have to make such effort from our sinful being?

Because sin originated when the first parents of humanity practiced living based on one's own desire leaving out God's purpose.  Therefore, without exception, in order to reverse this fallen deed one must live a life of sacrifice to form an intimate relationship with God.

Why is sacrifice the highest way for the fulfillment of love?


Mind and Body Unity

When we look at the mind and body, which is less evil when it comes to sin?

Christianity along with other religions deem the flesh to be the tool for evil and bring it to submission through being humble before God.  This is why religions practice subjugating the body to weaken it so the body will listen to the good mind and become one.

Religion practices being humble, meek and sacrificing of oneself as virtues so the body is forced to unite with the mind.  God has been leading mankind toward this way of life.  But if man does not respond to God's call, then His efforts are in vain.

God blessed humanity with free will in order to have objects that are on equal footing with Him.  In this way, as humanity has continued to deny God, He sacrifices Himself in wait for humanity to return instead of forcing unity.  Thus, in order for God and man to unite, it is a mutual effort.


Is Religion Necessary?

Many wonder why we need religion.

It is said that if one follows the dictates of the conscious, then there is no further need for education.  But when in our daily lives, living moment-to-moment do we observe ourselves faithfully following our good mind without the need of placing much effort?

The reason is because sin causes an extreme struggle between the mind and the body.

Without going through the path of religion there is no way to reconcile the mind and body, no hope that some day you will even get close to God.

The contradictions within man cannot be resolved without the process of religion.

In this case, religion is absolutely necessary for man to return to their original position before God.  Religion was not placed on earth to last forever.  When we look at the original Garden of Eden before sin was born, God and man communicated freely without the need for prayer, religion or a mediator.

Once man gets rid of this struggle within themselves and unites directly to God, there will be no need for religion.  The ultimate goal of religion is to liquidate sin within humanity and unite him directly with God.

Those who oppose religion have an original mind and conscious that pulls them toward the desire for peace. Such a person will effortlessly try to bring humanity into wholeness just through man's thoughts and efforts alone.  We do not have to look far in history to see that this thinking is impossible.

This is how atheistic communism arose by trying to bring a world of peace without God, but through force, stripping away the very gift God gave each of us.

Even God does not demand that His own children follow Him, but dictators have believed peace could be achieved in this way.  It is not a lasting peace and it is only superficial.  Communism or those who live without God as their base, they try to find their comfort through things in the material world in which they see. Their joys, harmonies and love are based on the material goods in which they can harbor.  Such a life will be easily blown away like a leaf in a storm because material is not everlasting.

All of this brings us to the logical conclusion that religion will not be needed by man for eternity, but will be consummated by the emergence of man in perfection. 

Many church leaders and foundations would not like to hear that one day their position will be liquidated.  Many wars have started between religions and different sects as man placed his own thinking and limited power on God.  This way has brought more confusion and frustrations to God's efforts to bring His children back toward the original way of Heaven.

It is logical that on our journey toward peace we start out from the very bottom of the fallen state. The journey will lead us into the ultimate goal of total and perfected union with God.  The opposite ideology places emphasis on the material world.

Which is more perfected: the mind or the body?

The body is limited but the mind has no limitations only that which we place upon it.  The only way this world has hope to come out of this unfallen state is through the search of God through religion.  This longing for God brings hope for the union of men and God to be accomplished one day.

Father Moon has dedicated his life and body suffering the most for the sake to find the solution to the question of how to reconcile the war between mind and body.  This is an all important question as if every individual was to absolutely live according to God's will and form families, this world would quickly become a world of peace.

What we seek and need most is not God Himself, but God's love.

Religion has existed for thousands of years and yet, the unity between man and God is still a distant dream as conflicts, racial and national barriers arose. Therefore, there should emerge a religious movement that rises above these barriers and unite all people together with the common dream of humanity obtaining unity with God's love.

There should be a movement that erases these setbacks because God Himself embraces all races, levels in society, nationalities.  He does not express His love based on these aspects that only separate people.  If God limited his love based on race, then He becomes an imperfect God.

When a religion exists that can bring people from different aspects of life together in the name of God, then let's observe the religions that have a foundation and where it may be lacking in bringing world unity.



Religions are God's tools and they should be universal





True salvation springs from union with the love of God, which manifests everywhere in a fair and justified manner. Which race you belong to makes no difference at all. It cannot be said that the love of God works only in the Western hemisphere; it shines throughout the earth. Any religion which proclaims the segregation of the races is a false religion.

A new religion is needed which embraces all men equally.

Religion has the goal of saving people.

World salvation comes from union with the love of God which manifests everywhere in a fair justified manner.  God's love is not based on which race or which side of the hemisphere one lives.  God's love shines throughout the earth just as the sun. Any religion that pronounces separatism is a false religion.

 For instance, Jews and Christians should not feel that they are the only people who deserve the love of God. They must feel instead that they are merely servants who must bring the love of God to all humanity.

If we were to view from God's high standard of love, would He think that unity would come from the whole world turning to Judaism, Christianity or Islam?  Would you think that God would limit Himself to just one religion to shine through?  Religion is simply just a tool for God.  God's love is supreme and encompasses the highest possible level.  Everything in creation is a part of it and is surrounded by it.  The love of God encompasses all human existence.

Religion was meant to be universal, not reject the basic principles of God's love.  

When we look at this standard, is modern Christianity perfected?


Christians dictate that at the end of the world of judgement, only Christians will be lifted up in the air to meet the Lord and live there forever and all others will go to hell.  Is this the right attitude to have?  This kind of thinking is based upon a cruel God and an imperfect ideal.

A revolutionary concept must come to Christianity and enable it to meet the criteria of perfection that God originally intended. Father Moon says that is the Unification Church.  There must be a movement that clearly defines God's intentions and bring humanity back on the correct path toward salvation.

What is the Unification Church supposed to do?

"First of all, make one world and elevate it into a world of God. Encouraging self-centered individualism is Satan's final strategy to demolish this world and this nation and we must destroy this satanic concept. What am I trying to contribute to you?

You have never really tasted the true love of parents or of husband and wife and brothers and sisters. I am trying to ignite in you spiritually the ecstatic joy of God's love so that it will not be just a concept to you but be a presence in your daily life.

One phenomenon sets the Unification Church apart: Our members often meet me in dreams or visions and in all kinds of spiritual circumstances. The power of spiritual experience already exists and embraces each one of you every day.

 Those of you who have such experiences, raise your hands. In the mundane world those things may seem abnormal and certainly they have never been seen in any other religion in the past. Physically I am very far from our missionaries all over the world but I am just as close to them as I am to you. This is a most vivid testimony to the significance of our movement.

I want you to know that tremendous sacrifice has been paid in order to come to this level today. Many nations have collapsed and many millions of people have died for this. Since it comes to you without too much effort you don't realize its value and you think that this is common everywhere. It certainly is not.

We are a religion of experience and feeling because God is not a conceptual God to us. He is the master of our daily lives. As soon as you come into this atmosphere you immediately become a recipient of new spiritual power and presence, but for people outside our Church it is an unfamiliar and perplexing thing to grasp." SMM

Do you want to know the secret for meeting God in your daily life?

The most important element in order to reach the love of God in our daily life is to conquer the body.  The body has three fundamental desires:

The first urge is that the body gets hungry and looks for food.  

How to conquer the body was one aspect Father Moon worked hard to answer.

He found that he had to have a love for God more than the love of his body when he became hungry.  This is why many religions place emphasis on subduing the body through fasting, prayer and service to others to weaken the body's cries for attention.

When a person demonstrates their love for God through sacrifice, one sets a superior standard for the love for God as stronger than the love of food.  Jesus was the ultimate example of a person who conquered  that particular desire and went through a forty-day fast for the sake of the chosen people.

Many other saints and prophets led the same way of life such as Moses and St. Francis, leading a life of sacrifice.

Why is this a high standard for religion? Because hunger is the worst kind of suffering the body can experience.  When one forgets their own need for food while in search after God, they make a precious statement about their dedication to their faith.

If you have completed a seven-day fast, when the last day arrives some may have been watching the clock closely and for the moment it was time to eat again.  Others will think that they have felt hunger until praying, loving and going after God more than their desire for delicious food on the last day.  The latter is the true way of thinking when one fast.

One's longing for God over the love of food is the real test.

"Until I was thirty there was no day that I was not hungry because I deliberately went without food in order to test myself. At that time I was so hungry that if someone was eating nearby my mouth hung open and saliva drooled out even without my being aware of it.

When it gets hungry enough, the body just automatically reacts that way. You can't say you have overcome your body until you have conquered desperate hunger by the power of your love of God." SMM

The second fundamental urge is for sleep. 

Can you demonstrate that your love of God is stronger than your body's desire for sleep?

You will pass this test when you think of God and He becomes so real and relevant that your intense love of God conquers your deep desire to sleep.  When we search through history and observe the life of those who seriously pursued God, they all lived an ascetic life that seemed harsh to those in the fallen world.

They fought their desire to sleep hard and would endure all kinds of things to fight the body such as stabbing and cutting their own flesh just to keep awake!

For seven years, Father Moon only slept for two hours a day.  When he was being tortured for preaching the word of God during the Japanese occupation, he was forced to stay awake for two full weeks and was whipped each time his eyes closed.

During this torture technique, he learned to conquer his body and even sleep with his eyes open.  Through this technique of conquering his body, many revelations and secrets held for thousands of years were revealed to him.

We need to win this love of God and show that our love is more intense than anything that tries to separate us from his love.

When you become sleepy at a time you are doing God's work, you should be stronger than your craving for the comforts of sleep.  We all have that feeling when we are performing a mission where we are ready to collapse from exhaustion, but your love should conquer that feeling in such moments.

It is most difficult to go beyond the level of hunger and sleepiness for the love of God.

It may be hard at first, but each day like a muscle we can exercise this need by going to sleep a few minutes later extending it each day and/or waking up a few minutes earlier each day until we finally have a less need for sleep.

Jesus had to conquer all those bodily desires. The Bible said that he fasted for forty days and furthermore, we can well imagine that his life was a struggle both day and night. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus asked his closest disciples to stay awake and watch with him while he prayed desperately, but what happened to the disciples? They fell asleep.

Why was this mentioned in the bible and why is it so significant to why Jesus finally told them that it is done and to finally get their rest.  We will understand Jesus' frustrations in keeping his disciples awake when they kept falling asleep when we know that this means that it shows where their true hearts lay.

A true follower of Jesus in his deepest hour of need would have stood by his side until the final moment, not only did his disciples sleep when he begged them to pray during that hour, but scattered when he needed them the most.  This says sufficiently that satan still had a hold on them that they could not fight their bodily selfish desires for the love of Jesus and God.

Jesus' disciples could not win over sleep and Jesus told them that though their minds were willing their flesh was weak.

This is not some hazy spiritual concept. You must overcome precisely these things in your life. I would not speak this way to you unless I had tested out everything in my own life.

The third desire you must conquer is the urge for physical love. 

The worst kind of temptation for religious people always comes in the form of sex.  The need for sex outside of marriage and away from God is the beginning of sin in the Garden of Eden.  Adam and Eve misused their sexual organs before the time of maturity.

Satan creeps into men's prayers in the form of a beautiful woman.

Men and women have different and distinctive sexual desires. Your intense love for God should surpass the desire and need for carnal love that is not linked to Him.  When we look at this high standard of God in comparison to the young people in America, we see that they have much to overcome.

America's permissive sexuality, "sleep with whomever and how many you want", has killed the moral life of Americans like a dirty rag.  A once prosperous nation has been shocked to its knees due to the promiscuous free lifestyles of its citizens.

This is why every major religion has practiced the life of celibacy.  The body is viewed as the worst enemy and has three formidable weapons: the desire for food, the desire for sleep and the desire for physical love.

"I have fought the same battle that you are engaged in but you have no idea how many tears I have shed to win over these temptations."


Return For Tomorrow's Post: Allow Us to Discover Where Our Hearts Lie

This post was rewriten and Based upon the Speech, Core of Unification

If Nature Protests Humanity's Behavior

We don't think much about the natural occurrences in our lives.  We don't think about our heart beating, the sun rising or the fact that nature exists outside our very home building nests, flying south and giving birth.

 What is the purpose of creation, why do any of these things exist?  They exist for one purpose.  For the love obtained from humanity and God.


So, what if you woke up one morning and trees decided to return back into the ground, all of creation went to the north pole and decided to stop living for humanity?  We would then be aware how much a gift is the creation.

There is an Alfred Hitchcock movie called "The Birds" that exercises this point very well.  I think one of the characters mentions that when you see one or two crows it does not make a big difference.  But then when you see the amount of crows that covers the rooftops, playgrounds, cars and the sky, then you start to become alarmed and have stepped into a horror movie.

What if nature decided they had enough with how humanity has treated the gifts it gives everyday and decided to go on the offensive?  Then we would realize how perfect and glorious, God's ideal for creation really is in its giving of itself to His children and in everyday functioning.

All of creation exhibits God's dual characteristics and are connected to Him through the vertical and horizontal position.

God is Spirit and the created world is material. 

The substantial world is horizontal while God and the spirit world are vertical. God's invisible dual essentialities were manifested in visible form, so everything is made in the image of God.

So, where does this place humanity?

Each man is the microcosm of the universe.

Each of us are made of every element that is seen in creation.  This places us near God, but we must not forget to look at it in this way as well: Nature supplied each ingredient that makes us who we are which means that without the universe, humanity could not exist.  How can we be arrogant toward the creation when it is essentially a parent to humanity?

What if nature all the sudden, like the birds in the horror movie, demanded you repay everything that they loaned you.  What would be left of you?  We can feel that the universe gave birth and made us.

Therefore, nature is your first parent.  All the universal formats or formulas can be found in you. You could accurately say that you are a small walking universe that can move, whereas the cosmic universe is stationary. 

In this way, God had planned for humanity to govern the universe which in return the universe would want you to dominate it.  But would nature want to be abused, overused and misused as we are witnessing in the world to this day?  The universe would reject such behavior.

This is why the first duty for humanity to truly achieve the three great blessings is to love nature.  This means, that wherever you are, you will love the creation and appreciate it.

Then, because you love the grass, trees, flowers, birds and running water you would then love your fellow man who is made of these elements as well.

There is this quote that is spreading across the internet that humanity has fallen in love with man-made material things instead of loving man and this is the cause of humanities turmoil.  Another example is when someone drops their phone it seems to affect everyone to the core as a valuable thing of use, but when a young person falls on a crack in the street and lands on their knees we are more apt to laugh at this person.

This is the situation in which society has found itself.

God had such a mind that when man lies on the beach, you can feel that you are lying in the bosom of your parent, or that when leaning against a tree you are leaning against your own brother.

Would nature protest you for living in this manner?

Or, would it sense that you truly love and appreciate it?  Did you know that all things exist for you?  When you observe it, you can take pleasure in them for that reason.  As a man, you are the only begotten son of the universe, and as a woman you are the only begotten daughter of the universe. Then how much love would be possible between the two?

How many songs and words of love have been given to the sun?  Even still, these poems and songs are superficial when compared to the truth of how much nature has given to humanity as a parent.

Love the entire nature as your parent

If nature is your first parent, your second parents are your own father and mother. They represent the universe and labored to bring your life into being.  They, too, gave of themselves in the process of creating you.

Our parents who are representatives of the universe gave us a physical life on this earth, thus we can feel that we are the center of the universe.  Isn't this what every toddler feels in retrospect?

Our parents represent more than just a father and mother.  They represent all of mankind, so when we honor and respect our parents, we are serving mankind, not just these two particular people.  Then when you love and respect your parents, you will be loved by all mankind.

This is the historical background each of us stands on to serve our parents as a filial son and daughter.  When you look at the dynamic of a family, it represents the microcosm of humanity: your sister represents all women, your brothers all men.  

A true person would treat every stranger and look at them in the same way as they do their own family members.  As a true man or woman, you would view every senior citizen as your own parent or grandparent.  You would see other young men and women as your own brothers and sisters.

If you are a true man, then you love not only your own family but also all mankind.

It is against the Principle to care only for your family and not the rest of the world. 

If you happen to be white, then it is a most exciting adventure to become a member of your black family, or to find senior citizens and young men and women whom you love as much as your own grandparents and brothers and sisters.

When you see someone who is in need of help, you want to help them not because they are a fellow man, but because you see them as a brother and sister.  In America, when our parents become old, do go to their childrens' home or to a senior citizens' home?

Which is the more ideal choice when looking at the ideal of the original creation?  Would a grandmother be happier to live where her grandchildren reside or be visited by them in a senior citizens' home?

Are you willing to accept your grandmother into your home?

Would you do it in reality, or are you only saying yes because you are here? As a new wife, would you rather go to live with your husband's family with many in-laws, or to live only with him?

If you want to live up to the public law of the universe, then you want to go live with his family.  American homes before the 50s consisted of grandparents, parents and grandchildren.  This is more like God's ideal.  Many answers to society's problem can be solved in a family of three generations.

Families now consist of barely both father and mother, grandparents live far away.  Grandparents represent the past, parents the present and children the future.  You have your own physical parents, but ultimately you have one most important parent who created you -- God.

Your parents were the instruments that God used to create you. 

Before we search for the original True Parents for humanity, we must first start by loving nature our first parent.  Then we love our physical parents and then we love the ultimate parent which is God our creator.  God is the ultimate destination and eternal Parent.

When we live our lives in the right way, we can't help but end up at the common Parent.  Then the moment of death which we all now fear, was actually meant to be a fulfillment like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon to live in the air.  God did not create this moment for sadness but for liberation to live with Him for eternity.  We were meant to live for eternity with our family and human brothers in sisters and God.  God is the True Parent to us all where His true love never ends.

This life with God is called the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.

Why distinction?

Because the original world of creation was meant to begin with Heaven on Earth which we have called the Garden of Eden or Utopia.  In this world, the atmosphere would be supreme love, a love that is not self-centered, but based on sacrifice and service. Supreme love flourishes in this environment because it is based on the universal law.


Ideal Public Life

You must become people who can manage all things in a public manner. How do you handle the situation if all grains of rice in the world were to organize a demonstration against you because you eat a bowl of rice without gratitude or waste it.

What if creation had a strike and not go into the mouth of any human being because of not exhibiting love?

We should live a public life of gratitude.  When we eat, we should appreciate the grains of rice and think of it as becoming part of your bone, flesh and energy.  Grains of rice and a leaf of a vegetable are alive, so would they want to be part of a greedy person or one who serves the highest purpose?

Do you think grains of rice want to be eaten by evil people?

In fact, creation does protest those who do not follow the heavenly order.  One who is constantly angry or causes pain to others, the food would protest in his stomach or make him sick.  Isn't this the case?

Every grain of rice wishes to be eaten by good people. 

In other words, all things including humanity wishes to be a part of a public person.  What if the air decided to strike humanity and stop providing itself for five minutes?  Then the entire population of humanity would probably begin to obey its demands to love and have appreciation, wouldn't it?

If God decided that He was tired of waiting for humanity to love one another and wants to force their loyalty, He would definitely do so through sucking all of the air out of the earth.  Everyone in the world would surrender to God then - air is this precious.

The air is such a precious thing to all of you.

You hear people are saying that we must not pollute the air in urban areas. Of course, we must not pollute air. Your health will be affected if we don't clean the air. The same is true for water surrounding us. As you see, all created things are public goods.

We are told not to pollute the air or the water systems because it is a life sustainer.  This means that all of nature is for the public's use - not for one greedy individual.  Also, we enjoy the source of life which the sun provides.  The sun has unlimited value and does not demand for us to give anything in return.  What if we had to pay for the nourishment and illumination of the sunlight?

You would buy it even if you have to give your own life for it.  Humanity must not think of nature as it private possession from which to purchase.


What kind of person does God prefer?

God wants to see a person who has and lives for the public purpose.

One  who manages how they use the resources of nature from a public position.  Also, all things of creation loves such a person because this is the Heavenly logic and Heavenly law.  Isn't it true that people love public figures in society for this reason, but the moment they use public goods or funds or live a very self-centered life their life crumbles away from the public?

Therefore, a person who lives such a public life will never perish.  To become such a person, you should handle all things of creation publicly, deal with people from a public position and attend Heaven with a public attitude.

What if every person in society managed all things and people with a public mind?

When people who live a public life come together and form families, this would become the ideal world which God envisioned from the beginning of His model for creation.  It would become a new race of humanity centered on such public-loving families.  Thus, you must be such a person who lives this kind of public life.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Why We Need Religion

This post was rewritten and taking from the speeches:
Nature is Our First Parent   and
Become a Person Who Can Have Public Dominion Over All Things
Sun Myung Moon
June 4, 1970
Laws of Public Management

We Cannot Deny God's Existence

Did the chicken or the egg come into being first?   A debate easily begins from this simple question. This actually fits in with the post today.  When one speaks about evolution, Darwinism, Creationism, Intelligent Design, it seems fitting to compare these theories to how an egg or chicken came into being.

Let's first look at the origin of the universe through the eyes of the Divine Principle.

Had Adam and Eve married with that genuine heart then their marriage would have been the marriage of God also. For example, the closer an object comes to your eyes, the less and less you see. Why? Because you are fusing into one with it.

Likewise, with God, you are already one with Him and so there is no need to see because you are no longer the object. When you were children did you ever taste the mucous from your nose? (Salty.) That means that you have tried it.

It does not seem dirty to you, because it is part of you and are totally one with it, not divided or separate.  Do you feel the atmospheric pressure which is a tremendous weight?  No, because we are one with it.

Do you know how many times you blink in one day?  It blinks thousands of times, but you are not aware of it because you are one with it. If you try to count how many times you blink it might drive you crazy. It is important that we do not care about these small details as it is a part of us.

If you feel your left chest, you can feel your heartbeat. Are we conscious of how many times our heartbeats in a day?  Even for a year, we do not notice our heart is beating.  But if one other person touches even just a strand of your hair, you feel it.  Then why can't we feel our heartbeat which is much stronger?  We are one with our heartbeat.  We are one with every aspect of ourselves.

God has all of the five senses and, like us, He does not feel them either. Just like us.

We all have love, life and lineage within us. We also have our conscience within us, don't we? Have we ever seen, heard or touched love and life? We may have seen a body filled with life, but we have not seen life itself. We cannot touch life either.

Can we see and touch our conscience? Even with our five senses we are unable to sense love, life and lineage. We cannot even see our own seed that goes to create a baby.

God is no different from us in this regard. Where is God?

This question also applies to love, life and lineage. We cannot see and feel them but, nevertheless, they all exist in a very real sense. God is part of us just as love, life and lineage are.

One can never experience love by one's self. 

Even though love exists within us we are unable to feel it by our own selves. God is the origin of love and the root of the love, life and lineage within me.

This we cannot deny.

God is within the root of our conscience, life, love and lineage. When we expand the love, life and lineage within us, then God will come to the surface.

How do we do that?

We can experience love and life when we invest our whole selves for the sake of others in a completely selfless way.  When we experience this total investment then we can come close to God.  This is why all religions teach sacrifice, humility and giving to others.

Religion and science both place the origin of the universe in different ways.  No matter what teaching denies it, the birth of the universe originated with God.  He invested everything of Himself for the sake of His creation.  The Big Bang Theory can be said to be God giving of Himself to all of creation.  The universe began with God's total investment.  For what did He invest everything?

God had one goal and that was to have a True Love partner: man and woman.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon has written several books about Evolution and Origin of the universe, here he speaks more on the wrong direction of this theory:

"God's partner of love is not a monkey. The evolution theory claims that we originate from monkeys. No matter how wonderful an amoeba might be, it cannot give rise to life that is in a higher form than itself. This is simply impossible unless somebody puts in additional power.

Do you think that the amoebae would be a more likely origin to creation, or the concept of plus and minus, male and female? (Plus and minus.) Even within the mineral kingdom there is the existence of motion. This implies that the plus and minus relationship is in existence; otherwise, motion cannot come into being.

And the amoebae came into being after that.

If there are 108 different kinds of elements, they cannot merge into one another. No matter how they may try, by themselves they simply cannot interact. Do you understand? Even the amoebae must have the plus and minus element within it.

Darwin tried to claim that an amoebae is neutral gender, but this is not so. For example, in the daytime there are both sunlight and shadow.

However, at high noon there is no shadow. It does not mean that shadow does not exist, it simply means that the shadow exists within a person's perimeter. In the same way, even though it may not be clearly visible within the amoebae as with other forms of creation, without the plus/minus concept, no living being exists. 

Certainly without the plus and minus element they cannot fuse together and give rise to a third being.

There are forty-seven differences in construction between a monkey and a man. Suppose we find the most handsome monkey in the whole of the ape kingdom, and we find the ugliest woman in the world and then everybody prays for them to produce offspring.

Do you think that they will produce new offspring?

No. Absolutely, forever no. Whatever gave Darwin the idea that man came from the monkeys? Different species maybe, but how can monkeys give rise to man?

The same family of vegetable kingdom or animal kingdom can give rise to offspring. But if they are different species they cannot reproduce. When you are sleeping with your husband together do you want a third party to come and intervene between you? (No.) Absolutely not.

Male and female elements can horizontally connect very closely, but they can never rise up vertically. Vertically means they cannot elevate their status.

The greatest flaw in Darwinism is the idea that different species can give rise to human beings.

What he tries to do is to deny the element of love in giving rise to the human beings. This is the most devastating thing, because love is the origin of mankind, not monkeys. Just because monkeys bear a physical similarity to man does not mean that a monkey is a man.

In perspective they may appear somewhat similar, but never in essence." SMM


How big is the aspiration of human beings?

God must have an object partner in which to relate who He wants to be greater than He is.  Since humans are God's object partner in love, He knew the need to give human beings limitless desire.  We must recognize this strong desire to be greater within each of us, this is the action of conscience.  Desire inherently is good.

"You can imagine your conscience as a large bag which you are able to put many things into. How big is your conscience bag? You can put God Himself into your conscience bag. Does that make your conscience bag full with no more room for anything else?

If your conscience bag becomes full, then you would like to put more in your other pockets. Once everything is absolutely full then you want to open your mouth and bring it in there. That much. No limit. Do you have that kind of greedy desire or not? (Yes, Father.)

There is no limit to your good greed. In Korean we say yokshim but there is no word that is equivalent in the English language. Greedy usually means something bad. But this means a good greed. Therefore you have to make up a word in English for this.

Such attributes of mankind began thousands of years ago when Adam and Eve were born. Do you think that during this time this has changed? (No.)

Scientists tell us that the universe is made up of energy.

Did energy suddenly arise without any prerequisite or is it generated? (Generated.) You have such immense love within you. Do you think that it suddenly rose up just like that?

In order for love to arise first your eyes have to meet the eyes of either your subject or object. Some kind of action occurs. Your five senses will further accelerate that action. It then explodes in the power of love. In order for power to occur is action necessary? (Yes.)

Before action occurs, first there has to be a subject and object in order for action to begin. Then action takes place and power occurs. The scientists say that before power there is action and prior to that there is an element of action, or subject and object.

The action of the conscience for example, means the conscience has to be touched off, as it were, or evoked. That means there is an action, which in turn means it must have a subject and object relationship. This is logical. Without this no action can take place.

Even if we may not have thought this way, we can now have it in our mind that subject and object has to be very much there before our conscience or our love is evoked. That is plus and minus centering upon God.

We cannot deny the existence of God when we observe the same trait from millions of years ago, flowing down in an unchanging way through mankind. It will eternally continue because there is a subject and object existing within the conscience. We therefore cannot deny that God is present there. Before we consider the theory of evolution, we understand the Principle of Creation.

We cannot deny or do away with God.

Within creation we can conclude that God must be present; within the subject and object relationship we can conclude that God must be present. Do you understand? That conscious action has been unchanging all throughout human history.

Therefore we cannot deny God. Looking at the root of love, life and lineage we also cannot deny God. [Father has drawn a diagram depicting all of this on the board.] Looking at this we cannot deny God.

Conscience is very much present, but we are not conscious of it all the time. God is the root of our conscience, our love, life and lineage. The philosophical concept of, "I think and so therefore I am" has given a great deal of confusion to mankind.


Did the Chicken or the Egg Come First?

We have eyes, [Father draws on the board] eyebrows, nose and mouth. (Laughter.) Before that eye came into being do you think the eye itself knew that there was an object for it to see? Do you think that eye knew that there would be air, sunlight, and dust? (Somebody knew.)

Not somebody, the eye itself?

The eye itself did not know these things. Why did the eye come into being? Eyes came into being in order to see things. Eyes are equipped to look at the sun. Even though the material eye is unaware, the creator behind that eye knows.

Is that true? (Yes.)

Did the somebody who knew come first or did the eye, not knowing, come first? (Somebody who knew.) That's right. Somebody knew that there would be dust and air and so the eyelashes were created, like a fine screen. Somebody knew that dust would exist. Also the eye is constantly bathed in liquid.

Therefore, somebody knew that there would be heat that would dry the eye and that it would need constant bathing in its own liquid. The eye did not know this.

Now we come to the solution of this age-old question: did the chicken come before the egg or vice versa? (Laughter.) Which came first, the entity or the concept? (Concept.) Concept came first. We also have eyebrows to prevent sweat rolling into our eyes.

Therefore it seems reasonable to conclude that somebody knew that there might be sweat on the face. Don't take everything for granted; every day when we wash our face let us give thanks to God. All the wondrous design of the human body God created. Remind yourself daily that God made everything with us and our comfort in mind.

With this evidence can we say that material came first? (No.) Why do you insist on denying it?

Because it is not true. How close is God to us? Knowing all of this we can see how close God is to each one of us.

God is the closest to each of us and that is why we don't feel Him. If we feel only thirty percent of love, life and lineage and our partner comes along with 100 percent of all of these, we naturally feel seventy percent lacking.

We should in fact not feel love until our subject or object appears. Until then we should be at zero point. Then 100 percent give and take can occur. We should not feel love when we are alone.

If God is alone He doesn't feel love. If man and woman are by themselves they also don't feel love. But when they meet each other, then suddenly God will jump like electricity because He feels 100 percent of love towards them.

Do you understand? (Yes.) With the sudden appearance of your spouse or your lover, then your heart pounds, you become short of breath and you perspire until you crash into one another. Thunder and lighting which involves water and electric current are symbolic of love between spouses. That's nature's love in action." SMM


Return for Tomorrow's Post: If Nature Protests to Serve

This Speech was rewritten and derived from the Let Us Find Our True Self