Sacrifice for Heaven's Sake

What kind of religion is the true religion? What about a true person or a true nation? What do these look like?



In spirit world, the martyrs who died for the purpose of entering heaven from their sacrifice did not actually get to the Kingdom of Heaven as they believed. 

On the other hand, there were martyrs who thought, “Heavenly Father went the path of sacrifice of blood to find me. 

 I will follow any path that will return His grace.” Then, at the moment of their sacrificial death set on this mind and heart, they were able to die saying, “I am grateful for this moment of glory which enables me to participate in returning this grace.” 

Only with this foundation of heart can they enter heaven.



Such a person does not die for their own salvation or to enter heaven because of their sacrifice, but for heaven and earth's sake.



Those who die thinking, “I will die like this so I can go to heaven,” that person dies for their own sake, salvation.

Fallen people can never enter heaven through self-assertion.

It is stated in the Bible, “Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all of your soul and all of your mind. This is the first commandment.”



Since heaven dwells within our hearts, the what comes of those who disobey this commandment?



Those who are not able to abide by this commandment then, will not be able to enter heaven.



Can you state the second commandment?




The second commandment is, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”



Therefore, those who are able to love God first and their neighbor second are pious children of God.



Is it possible for one who just believes in the doctrine of Jesus but not follow through can go directly to heaven?



Even if Jesus himself came to earth and did not become the embodiment of God's partner in love, he would not be able to enter heaven either.



Can Jesus realize true love by himself?



Even Almighty God needs a partner of love so, therefore, Jesus also needs a partner to realize true love as well. Thus, Jesus must return.



Many Christians believe that they will go to heaven just on the belief that Jesus is God's son and knowing the Bible whether or not they could fulfill the teachings.



They also assert that we go to heaven by ourselves. Only a few will profess that they will go to heaven with their mother, father or children.



Can it truly be heaven without your loving spouse, your children or family members? The movie “What Dreams May Come” was just about this scenario. The Robin Williams character died and went to heaven after his children went into their own separate heavens. 

After his wife committed suicide because she could not handle their deaths, she went to hell. 

The movie demonstrated how he could not enjoy the luxuries of heaven without his children or wife and seeing her suffering in hell caused him to search her in spirit world and save her.

From now, religion should not just be for the salvation of individuals.

A true religion that is founded by God will be universal and remain global until the end.



This ultimate religion will be what all humankind desires. It would state that God does not want individuals to only go to heaven, but whole families. 

 Once this concept of thought is introduced, it will be understood by clan leaders and everyone will follow them into heaven.



When will we see such a day? 



Will it happen if the Messiah returns to the clouds and destroys the earth only taking a few Christians to heaven? 

Is this heaven for God to see any of his children suffering if a human father will go to the ends of the earth to save his own child?


God has the heart that He will not rest until every child of His resides in Heaven with Him, that has been His will throughout the history of restoration.



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

How Did We Come to be?

For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot bring myself to carry out good deeds.  For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do-this I keep doing.   Now, if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living within me that does it.

Romans 7 18-20

This sinful self that is called our fallen nature or human nature.  The self separated from the original heart of God.

How did we come into being in this world?


Our father and mother united in their love, and bring together their lives and ideals. Our parents' love precedes our birth and is a force that unites. When a husband and wife become one through love, this means that the husband's love, life and ideal becomes the wife's and the wife's love, life and ideal becomes the husband's. This is how two live as one and two become one flesh.


Based upon this foundation, this union of love thus generates a new life.


A newborn baby is the manifestation of his or her parents' love, life and ideals. When you look at your own child, you are looking at another you, the fruit of your love, life and the fruit of your ideals. It is as if you are looking at your second self – another visible form of yourself.


This principle can expand to the universal scale. God created men and women as His sons and daughters. Just as we bare children like us, God wants to also see Himself in human beings.


In the Bible, it states, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female he created them.” (Gen. 1:27)




We are created in the likeness of God. In other words, God incarnated Himself in human beings. Therefore, we are the mirror of the living God, and His every virtue, characteristic, and quality is reflected in this mirror.


Wouldn't God want men and women to reflect His true love, true life, and ideal, or will He be satisfied with His children exhibiting a false father's nature full of sin?


We are the fruit of God's love, life and ideal. He desires to substantiate Himself in the world.


He finally reached that point with the birth of original parents Adam and Eve. When God encountered Himself through His children, it was a moment of great revolution for Him. It was a romantic, exciting moment when God was able to see Adam and Eve for the first time.


Before the Fall, Adam and Eve bore characteristics of God in the pure sense, but yet they were still in the stage of maturity.


Adam and Eve's birth was a morning of glory for God in the creation of all of the entire universe. When someone asks what does God look like, the answer is, He looks like Adam and Eve. Before they fell, they were the walking, physical manifestations of God on the earth. They were the visible form of God. In this respect, they were to truly take over Lordship of the universe whereas God would still remain the invisible Lord of the entire spirit world.


The question again, 'why did God create human beings?'. Was it for His enjoyment, to have power over another being or was it for a purer purpose?


God wants to become a physical tangible form. The day Adam and Eve were born was almost like God's own birth. As they grew closer to the completion stage of maturity, God's also spiritually grew into a greater fulfillment together with them.


We are developing toward a fulfillment, both in heaven and on earth, with God and humans beings growing together.


God and His children were one person actually before the fall, therefore, when Adam and Eve laughed, God laughed and when they were moody, God was also moody. When they worked, God worked.

The growth of men and women is the growth of God Himself as well.

What is perfection and why do we believe that it is unattainable?


Perfection means the perfection of true love, without any lack of any kind. This is a perfectly round love.


This explains why we consider Jesus to be the absolute example of a perfect human being, his true capacity to love.

Are you able to say that there is love present because you can see it? No one is able to see love, but we know when it is there. Are you able to handle love, or does love handle and embrace you?


Love does not belong to anyone. Love belongs and ecompasses all. What if there was a dictator that wanted to conquer all the love in the world for himself and control it at his will. No matter how much power this dictator may acquire, love would just laugh at him because it will never come under the control of just one person.


Love is a unique power that has the ability to bring unity between Eastern and Western people. Military power or the power of culture and religion cannot bring about this unity.


This kind of perfect life, true life of joy and love lived for God would bring about constant earthly joy that is unequaled by any other love or happiness.

When you are able to reach this stage of perfection then prayer or religion is not necessary.

Why would either be necessary if you are a living perfect being that has oneness with god and meet Him face to face. You live heart to heart with Him, and converse with God.

Therefore, you no longer will need religion to teach you the true path back to God or need a savior as a messenger between you and God. You will be able

God created religion as part of the mending process of restoring each person back after the Fall created a sinful lineage. A person who lives in perfect health does not need a physician. Also, a person who lives in perfect union with God does not need a savior.

All these things of religion are part of the mending process, the process of restoration. A person of perfect health does not need a physician. The person in perfect union with God does not need a savior.


This is the one great way to live: life in union with God, life in God, and life living in you. This explains the spiritual state which Jesus spoke when he said, “Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?..” (John 14:10

God and human beings will embrace in one all consuming love.

In this spiritual state, then God is made a living reality.


At this point, then you no longer have to just believe, but you know about the living God.

Then you are able to live the truth. When you are able to experience this kind of deep true love and oneness with God, then you have tasted the supreme experience of life.

God did not create humanity for misery, He created us to live our lives in complete intoxication. We are not speaking of narcotics or artificial intoxication, getting drunk on alcohol, marijuana, or drugs. We were meant to be intoxicated by the love of God.

There is nothing on earth that can replace or go beyond this feeling of joy. When you experience this true love of God, every cell in your body will explode with joy. Your eyes and ears, the tissues in your face, your arm and legs will be newly alive within the rapture of joy.

There is nothing else on earth that can match the quality of joy.

Once anyone discovers the way to be intoxicated by the love of God, even if you were to urge him to try drugs or alcohol to reach any type of high, they will refuse. After experiencing God's love, everything else becomes flat compared to the taste of the love of God.

God's love is precisely like electricity. This current can be conducted by any part of the body. 

If the love of God touches your mind, then your mind will jump. If it touches your emotions, then they will jump. If it touches your ears or your eyes, then they, too will jump.

After knowing this, have you deeply experienced God's love that vividly?

When you receive the love of God, it is similar to receiving an electric shock. Once that current hits a person, he or she may appear unconscious, but inside they are actually trembling with ecstatic joy.

Once this living current of love hits you, you feel like you want to close your eyes, but your eyes will not close.

Your whole body will be activated, so you cannot stop reacting to that love.

The Almighty God wants everyone to be a part of such an explosive, gigantic, dramatic love, not a love that is flat and pale-tasting like a beer that has been sitting around for three days.


Let's look from the viewpoint of God and you are capable of doing anything. Wouldn't you want to create a love that is at such a magnitude that when it moves, the entire universe will be excited, not listless.


When God laughs, He does not want to laugh alone. He wants the entire universe to laugh in the full joy of love.

Such a joyful love cannot be created by selfish people.

You can taste such love with you totally release yourself in giving. 

This is God's love. This is His original plan, His ideal of creation which is total opposite from the world we experience today. Do you truly feel vibrant feelings of God's presence when you say, “Heavenly Father.”

Wouldn't you want to hear Him answer, “Yes, my child?”




“Here is my gift to you tonight: I want you to realize that the true relationship between God and human beings is a subject and object relationship. You are His sons and His daughters. Once you have achieved unity with God, nothing can trouble you. Neither sorrow nor loneliness, sickness or anything else under the sun can discourage you.”

God is the ultimate security.

Even if you were to pay many millions of dollars, you still could not buy that kind of security; it is priceless. There is no amount of money that can buy it. This is where you truly experience life.


God meant for all of His children to live fully with Him. When you become men and women who are able to live centered on God, you become the center of the universe. Then, wherever you go, to Mars or to spirit world or the physical world, you are still in the image of God.


No matter how small or large your portion which you occupy in the center, you will fit into any place in the universe and be accepted.


Your life is the most valuable thing in the universe when you live within the realm of God's love.


This is why Jesus said, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?” (Matt. 16:26)
In this passage, Jesus is speaking about living a life with God.

Life without God is like a burned-out electric bulb which will never go out.

A life without God is death.


Jesus Christ is the one man who lived God's ideal to its fullest realization. He was the very first man of perfection to have ever walked the earth. Yet, God did not plan for only one person to be the full image of His being.


Jesus' entire purpose for coming to earth as a human was to restore God's relationship with His children. But, after Jesus crucifixion, Christianity made him into only God. This created a huge gap between God and ourselves, which we have never been able to bridge together.


Jesus is a man whom God was able to incarnate fully, but Jesus is not God Himself, meaning Jesus did not create the earth.


God dwelling within Jesus was a total reality. He is indeed the only begotten son of God, but God did not only want one true son. What about true daughter?


We can summarize the entire purpose for Jesus coming to the earth: Jesus came to bring the resurrection which was needed so human love could be perfected to the point that we could be completely dominated by God's love, not satanic.


This goal is fully attainable by every human being.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the teachings of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, author of “The Divine Principle”.

Where is Heaven?

Where do you think heaven is? The sky? In the fourth dimension?

The Bible states that the Kingdom of Heaven is within our heart. It is not at the end of the rainbow or the world – but in our own heart!

We know that the heart is in our chest, but heaven resides there as well? We cannot find the Kingdom of Heaven in the physical realm because heaven is literally not a part of this world. Therefore, it starts from when we bring the visions of our heart into reality – into this physical world. When we find this place in our heart, then we are able to manifest and see the Kingdom of Heaven.

Therefore, heaven does not start in a far off place, but originates where the heart conquers the world. What if our hearts were only evil? Then our evil hearts would not be able to unite with heaven and would be useless.

To welcome the Kingdom of Heaven on earth as Jesus said his main purpose in coming, is not an external, physical thing but rather it is ourselves.

Humanity is the problem.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not our external environment, but our heart.

When Jesus prophesied his desire to bring the Kingdom of Heaven at that time, even his own disciples did not understand the depth of his teachings. When it came to building the Kingdom based on a foundation of happiness, they were looking from their own self-centered thinking and concerns for their own positions.

Even if someone was placed in Heaven's environment, if they did not have the basis of heaven within their hearts, they would not be able to live in peace there or contribute to the Kingdom.

If your heart and mind is not at peace, how does one enjoy a peaceful environment or add to that peace?

An irresolute heart cannot produce perfect action; perfect action arises only through absolute resolve.

What matter is how much our mind aching for goodness.

Therefore, in order for humanity to overcome this satanic realm and usher in the age of Heaven, we have to overcome our circumstances. While we yearn for this path of goodness, we must overcome no matter how bloodstained or tearful our situations are. We must build a foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven.

In laying the foundation to build Heaven on Earth, we cannot avoid this path, no matter how lonely our struggles are along the way. We must unswervingly blaze a trail with the mind to go forward. God's Kingdom will be brought to earth when we resolve to create an environment for our fallen body to unite with such a determined mind.






Instead, our fallen bodies always struggle and fight against our heavenly mind that yearns to do good. When mind's actions are separated from our sinful body, then the Kingdom of Heaven cannot exist.



Jesus taught that Heaven will come once we rid ourselves of the situations that cause us to veer left or right from our self-governing character that urges us to do good.

The Kingdom does not come through the efforts of others but by our own efforts.

Because we are a product of a fallen lineage, we must deny ourselves.



We often heard people say when they are accused of doing wrong or wrong behavior that 'this is who I am'. They cling strongly to their fallen, sinful ways.



If there is a person who can bring about the heavenly kingdom, he should be followed without any criticism. If he goes east, we should go east and follow keeping in step with him.



Jesus said that heaven is within our heart. So, what kind of place is it? It is one that is centered on God's love. The heavenly environment is centered on God's love.



We see the opposite where our environment is centered on satanic love.



What kind of people will inhabit this realm? They will harmonize with the essence of God's love. Only such people who are aligned with such a standard will be able to be in that realm.



Therefore, those who are self-centered have no true value and will not be able to experience this realm.



is established centered on God's love. Then, what kind of people would reside in that realm? They should be those who are harmonized with the essence of God's love. Only such people can go there.



When one is able to devote and invest their everything for their partner, then they can live continuously in the realm of God's love. Historically, saints were such people that went that way.




Even if people were to attend church for one hundred years, if they were to live in a self-centered way outside of God's love, they still cannot receive salvation. They will never get to live in the realm of heaven.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter Four, Section 1 

The True Value of Love

Did you know that God created the universe based on the concept of male/female.  Based on the ideal of reciprocity.  Until this age, nobody knew this.

What are the fundamentals of the universe? Humankind is subdivided between men and women.  Why did they come into being; why were humans born? To arrive at the fundamentals of the universe, we look at the concept of an object.  Even the tiniest woman gathered here has the power within her doesn't she.  Wouldn't she desire the power of a strong, big man over the power of a small man? This is the case for the man, too.  This is the case for a small man, too.  He would yearn for the power of a big woman.  This is so in order to attain balance.  It is from the issue of balance where the ideal of reciprocity is derived. There must always be plus and minus. Man and woman were created as plus and minus. If you examine any seed, you will see how the two halves envelop together in one outer layer.  This is a demonstration of the fundamental nature of the universe. How did the universe come to be? There is nothing in creation that does not have a cause.  For every result, there is a cause. When we look from this perspective, what would be the cause or creation of man and woman? Did man and woman come into being in order to destroy the other?  No, both were created for the cause of love. Since love is the cause for humanity's existence, then woman came to exist for the sake of man and man was born for the sake of woman.  This is the essence behind the original ideal of the universe. This is the basic law of the universe and the truth which is eternal.  Nothing can change this fact.  Even this simple truth was unknown until now. Women regret being born as women in this society.  So, why were they born as women then?  It is actually a very fundamental point behind the philosophy of life.  The truth about the universe is simple. Everything in the universe was created as part of the pair system in order to create consonance.  This harmony takes place centered on love. When we see the fundamentals of creation in this way, did God establish love for the sake of man and woman, or did he establish man and woman for the sake of love? Which came first? In light of this, the most precious thing is that which cannot be seen. Why was humanity born?  The fact is, no one was born for him or herself.  Human beings are born for a greater purpose than just themselves.  Therefore, those who live only for themselves are acting contrary to the basic purpose and principle behind their birth.  People who live in this way, are deserters, dropouts, degenerates and destroyers. Those who say they were born for themselves are not wanted by this universe.  What belongs to a woman when she is born is not for her own use. Have you thought this deeply?  It is for man.  This being so, nobody owns anything.  Is there anyone who can deny this? It is not shameful for a woman to not have anything for herself but her own name.  Such a woman can harmonize anywhere she goes in the world. You can harmonize with grandmothers, mothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles. Once the seeds have become one, that is, once two seeds have come together as one, there cannot be another seed. The one who breaks this rule would be in the same position as the one who fundamentally destroyed the universe and broke down the entire process of re-creation, that is, Satan. That is why your wives are like  your younger sisters. As a husband and wife, God's children, you are like twins.  The woman is born for the man and them for the woman. The woman is not born for herself, but for her man and vice versa.  Human beings were not born of their own desire.  So, a man cannot also be born for himself.  He needs a woman.  On the same token, the one who loves a woman cannot be herself, but a man.  Is that not so? In order to become mature in true love, it is impossible without a partner. You cannot mature in love without a partner.  You need to understand the preciousness of your partner's existence. Your partner comes before true love.  You must know that your partner comes first.  By rejecting this basic principle, you reject the origin of the universe. Please realize that doing so is a rejection of God and His creation.  True love does not settle where a man or a woman live by themselves, but when the two are unified. By thinking this way about your family and couple, you can say, "The universe resembles me." Would it be okay if men and women were identical. Men and women are fundamentally different.  If men were east, the woman would be west.  If he is south, she would be north. If the woman is weak, the man should be strong, and if the woman is gentle, the man should be tough. Going a step further, the man should swing his shoulders when he walks stirring everything, and the woman should swing her hips as she walks.  This is how men and women differ. By stirring everything, he is in tone with the universe. Man is born for woman, and woman is born for man.  Men and women are born to experience God's love.  This is the point. Man was born for woman and woman was born for man; neither can do anymore than they can do without the other. God needs love and is only pleased when He is drunk in the soup of love. God would not be pleased with having a bundle of money set before Him, but He is bound to fall head over heels if He was presented with bundles of love. Love is the most precious gift humankind can offer. We were not born to live self-centeredly, but to protect this universe, and to live as beings with such value. It is the common characteristics of all creation to have and love that which resembles themselves. Everything in creation wishes to act, to live, and to feed in places where male and female are engaged in the act of love. If there was no Fall and humanity united with Heavenly Father from the beginning, we would have known everything naturally without being taught. Love is the origin of life.  We all seek the origin of the one absolute love; we are not looking for two loves.  Such is the way of universe, the law of heaven. Why do we need love?  What are we meant to do for it?  Don't people live and die for the purpose of love? The law of love is eternal because it is the standard of judgment when you go to spirit world.  When you die, you will be judged by the law of love. Love is the link of the life of the mother and father to blood lineage. Within us is the center of love that safeguards life.  Based on this basic principle, history and tradition are connected through lineage.  This is why you need all three: You combine into one to give birth to a new person. Where is the point where our love unifies with God's love? God stands as the nucleus and Adam and Eve are the two halves enclosing the nucleus.  When you examine a chestnut, you can see this phenomenon - the two halves surround the germ, right?  Likewise, with God as the center, man and woman should become completely one centering on love. The reason man and woman meet is love.  Since, we established that man is born for love and woman is born for love, then having loved what are we to do? Then with this love, we are to occupy God, the origin of the universe.  In other words, cause and effect harmonize. Fruit comes about from the place where cause and result are brought into oneness and unity, then buds shoot forth and produce offspring. Do you understand?  We were born for the purpose of love, true love.  This is true for everyone, for men and women, poor, young, old and ugly. The only basis two can become one is when God, Adam,`and Eve are centered on true love - the absolute love. Even God would be a lonely God without love. "Why does the pumpkin leaf breathe? To maintain life. Why is life sustained? For love. For what does the woman live? For what does the man live? For money? It is only for love." Reverend Sun Myung Moon You finally found your beloved spouse out of billions of all of the population of the world, would you trade them now for ten billion dollars? If you truly understood how precious love is would you exchange it for a nation?  Love leads to the fundamentals of the universe.  Without it, all origins would be destroyed. Do you support the communist ideology or the democratic ideals?  The democratic world believes in putting the mind first.  The Unification Church states that the mind and matter are one, where Communist ideology focuses only on the material world which we can see. This is the fundamental principle of the universe: nothing can continue to exist alone. Even though two beings exists separately, based on their love, they are to become absolutely one. Dualism is then established.  Dualism gives rise to the logic the world will divide into two parts and fight each other. Therefore, even though a man and woman are two separate entities, they need to become one.  In other words, they are intended to become one cetneringo n true love. Return for Tomorrow's Post: How Did We Come to Be? This post was rewritten and derived from the Religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Eleven, Chapter 2, Section 1

Spreading God's Love Worldwide

In Africa, there are many missionaries working with black people even though they are receiving some persecution from the government of those African nations.

Still, many people are receiving revelations and dreams, and they are cooperating with our missionaries.

They are hardworking black brothers and sisters. Over there in Africa if one black sister or one black brother comes, our missionaries treat them as God would.

It is God who is embracing them and bringing them in, teaching them and feeding them the word of God.

Then in America how can we say, "I don't care about black people"? People who would say that are really traitors in the sight of God.

How can we bring about the universal, cosmic warmth of love that transcends national and racial barriers? How can we make this truth universally known? How can we expand it to the world-wide level? This is our task.

The answer is simple:

God is our Parent, both Father and Mother, and embracing them together God loves all races.

"How could I take a position opposite to that of my own parents? Impossible. Our key to unlock the Kingdom of God here on earth is this: you must make a relationship with me, feel a closeness and warmth of love for the True Parents and expand it to every corner of the earth. If you are able to do that, we will have the Kingdom of God quickly. If you can go to other continents like Africa and Asia with parental love and embrace those people, then you are a universal person. Your character is a cosmic character."


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



What is the definition of the ideal family?


The ideal family possesses the eternal love of God; the ideal family possesses the everlasting love of husband and wife, and the ideal family will have love between parents and children.

These three eternal and lasting loves combined together will make an eternal family.

Married people, if you love your own wife, if you love your own husband, then when you look at other men or women, you will respect and admire them just as you do your own family members.

For men, the female world is an extension of the world of your wife. 

One woman was selected out of all the billions of women as a representative woman.

A woman must think of her husband as the representative of the entire male race, the symbol or center of the male race.

When you go to the spirit world, that world works like this: the person who has lots of love toward his own parents, toward his own brothers and sisters, husband or wife, and children, that is, the person who experiences a deep sense of love in family life will have much, much freedom to maneuver anywhere in the world.  This kind of person will have no barriers or obstacles.

He can go horizontally in all directions, everywhere without any limitation.

In contrast, a person who has no experience of love is narrow-minded. He isolates himself in spirit world and has no freedom at all.

The love between parents and children is a vertical relationship; the love between a husband and wife is a horizontal relationship, and the love between brothers and sisters is a circling, surrounding relationship.

These three relationships are different.

If you experience here on earth a deep sense of love in these three different ways, then you will be able to maneuver vertically without limitation, horizontally without limitation, and circle around without limitation.

Those who did not taste parental love because of the early death of a parent, for example, are tragic people in a way, because they lack that very important aspect of experience in which to grow the heart.

Likewise, those people who never experienced family life, the husband and wife relationship, are also in a way very poor in spirit world because they lack one important aspect of life.

Also, those without brothers and sisters are in a poor position because they can not live a full life in spirit world with one whole area of experience lacking.

A wholesome family life, therefore, has grandparents, parents and children.

If one generation is lacking, the family somehow feels crippled. The ideal family alone can serve as the building block of the Kingdom of God on earth.

We have the mission to create the ideal family here on earth.

When those children who enjoy a deep warmth of love with their grandmother and grandfather, they go out into society, into the New York streets, for example, they will feel very close to the senior citizens.

They will be able to look at the senior citizens as their own grandmother and grandfather.

Somehow, they will want to talk to them; they will feel close to them.

When a young person who is used to helping his grandparent at home sees a senior citizen needing assistance, that young person will dash to him and help.

If sons and daughters enjoy their father and mother's love, when they go out and see someone like Daddy, someone like Mommy, they will feel very close to them. They will want to talk to them and help them.

That close feeling will manifest itself automatically. Also, when those who have a beautiful tie between brothers and sisters go out into society, they will have more intimate relationships with their surrounding neighbors and will get along well.

When a sister and brother, who have a deep relationship, go out and deal with the opposite sex, they are very natural.

They don't feel any carnal or unhealthy feeling, but experience a brother-sister feeling.

The Kingdom of God here on earth is the family that can truly experience such loving relationships with God at the center.

"This year, I declared as the motto of the year 1977: The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family. Now we have come to the era when we can physically construct the Kingdom of God here on earth by creating the family.

You individually must become members of a heavenly family on the horizontal level. We must experience this love in our society and our world. For you, Heavenly Father, God, is in the grandparent position."

The True Parents are in your parent's position, and you are in the true son's and daughter's position. Even though there are many billions of people in this world, you are just like Adam and Eve who were born in the Kingdom of God, in the Garden of Eden.

By setting this condition, you can experience your own Kingdom of Heaven here on earth, and you can qualify for the eternal Kingdom of God in Heaven.

We are bringing back the Garden of Eden.

We are bringing the entire world population into the Adam-type family. That's what your job is going to be.

All men of the world are brothers. 

Once you live in the full realization of that, no matter how much Satan may try, he will have no condition to accuse you.

If you recognize Heavenly Father, belong completely to True Parents, and completely make yourself the direct heir of the True Restored Adam, how could Satan have any power to accuse?

If we had the ability to telecast the entire heavenly new truth through the networks by satellite for seven years, within that time we could really turn this world upside down into the new heavenly family.

The important thing is we won't have to ask the people to come and join. Not at all. All we will have to do is let them know the truth, let them know its value.

Once they recognize the value of God's word that can restore His people, we won't have to ask them to come or to do anything, they will gladly volunteer for the cause.

For their own sake, for their own good, they will just fight to come in. They will be able to see clearly that their eternal life depends upon it.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family

Love is the Root of the Universe Part III

Love exists throughout the universe, and there is not a single being disconnected from it.




Reverend Sun Myung Moon






Even something that is seemingly insignificant like a clump of grass exists because of love.


Minerals come into being by way of positive and negative ions, which are all in motion for the sake of love. However small the realm of heart created through true love is connected to the universe. This effect extends everywhere, even to the spirit world. This is because the cosmos, including the spirit world exists under the principle of God's true love where there are no inequities.


The true relationships between God and humankind are the origins of such true relationships that are among between human beings themselves.


The perfection of true relationships can only be accomplished within ideal families that have established The Four Great Realms of Heart (Parents, siblings, spouse, centered on God).


What is the essence of love? What kind of quality does it have? Specifically, what is love?


The love relationships of one-night stands and promiscuous sex, which prevails in the US today, an ideal expression of true love?


That kind of behavior has no connection with the original love. Then what does true love look like? Love is the beginning and the end.




God says of Himself in the Bible, "I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end." What does this mean? He is referring to original love in these words.


Why should you live for the sake of others when you don't want to do so? Because you and your body are bound by the ties of love, which are connected to all of creation.




Do you think that God is happy all the time? Are you able to be happy all the time? No, you are unable to do so. But when you are able to hold true love, even sadness will be absorbed by that love.


At this time in history, everything and everyone has their arms open wide asking to be tied to love more quickly. Everyone is in search of the original love, not the false love that is found easily around the world.


Each being wants to grow rapidly and occupy the universe of love, and possess not just this, but God Himself who is the origin of love.


When we look from this perspective, we then realize that our natural desire is to make the authority of love stand in a position that is superior to anything else in the universe.


Did humankind emerge from a combative concept like communism, or from a concept of harmony?


When we express this in terms of electricity, we can say that positive and negative charges fight one another. So, where would this lead? We originated from a source of harmony and unity, therefore, through the harmony and loving union of a mother and father, we came to exist.


This is an undeniable fact. In this light, we are able to recognize that the origin of the universe was initiated from something that was harmoniously unified.


How do we become a person which the universe is indebted to instead of it debtor? This all depends on the state of mind: you need possess the mind of an owner who can say, “I'm sorry” and “Thank you”. One who can gaze on the waters, the fields and mountains, the plains and rivers of Korea and the whole earth and exclaim, “Thank you!”


You should become a people that can have gratitude toward God and nature and then live in service to them without any complaint. Only people who have such a mind can become true owners.

Humankind is the center of love in the created universe. We are the objects of God's love.

How great is humanity's value? God yearns for humanity after thousands of years.


“I have discovered the nature of the origin of the universe. The two-way relationship between God and humankind has finally led to the recognition of a worldview based on the vertical and horizontal aspects of love. As it developed into a relationship of up and down, and left and right, the worldview of vertical and horizontal love could emerge.


In the center of it all dwells God. That place, which can be bound firmly in the deep valley of the mind, is the center of the vertical and horizontal aspects. If it is not tied down, the vertical and horizontal standard cannot emerge as the ideal form of love. Though there may be any number of vertical standards, the horizontal will not come into being. Thus, you must know that God had no choice but to create human beings accordingly.”


Reverend Sun Myung Moon








God is an absolute being with an absolute idea about creation, and so He seeks after an object of absolute value.


If God was to exchange His relational being with Himself, then He would be left alone as a result. He would be all by Himself. This is why God exhaustively commits Himself, His strength and energy for the sake of His object.

God is engaged in a war of attrition.

It is very clear that this form of existence with absolute value is none other than humankind.


God created humanity as valuable beings with such an idea in mind. He created human beings for love.


Human beings differ from all other parts of creation, because we were created as God's children.


We were created as the object partners to directly receive God's love. This is our


privilege.


Who do human beings resemble? We resemble God.


God also desires true love just as we do. The ideal world of creation based on love signifies this manifestation of God's love in an external form.

When the substantial form is happy, its image form will automatically be happy, and vice versa.

Only love can bring this interchange about.


It has been said that out of everything in the universe, the most precious and sacred of these are human beings. Basically, this means that out of all of the creation, we are the center. Based on what? Love. Then things such as knowledge, money or power are of no importance.


God as the Creator can possess any of those things on His own as He wishes, however, love is something that can possess or seek alone.


Without any exception, love only appears and is fulfilled through an object partner. Not even God Himself can break this principle.


Did God create heaven and earth for Himself to dwell?


He created heaven and earth for His object of love.


If we examine the essential qualities of love, we would see that they include the rights of inheritance, equality, and participation. Since this is the case, if God was to experience love, then He would dance to the tune of love.


We teach that even God needs love. Even though He is all-knowing, omnipotent, omnipresent and almighty, He requires objects of love. Those objects were Adam and Eve.


The noun 'happiness', or the adjective 'good', cannot be used in the context of isolation. These two only can have meaning where there is a reciprocal relationship established.


Who is able to claim that they are absolutely happy when they are alone? Hence, even God Himself claims to be happy when alone.


Let's take for example, that there is a musician who sing extraordinary. He sings in solitude. Would he be happy? Of course not, he needs an audience.

What is good can only come about in the process of giving and receiving.

God cannot be alone when He says, “good!”.


Humanity's process of maturity is reflected within God's own development. Creation shows a renewed development of God Himself in a substantial way. God is able to find interest and stimulation from creation.



Human beings are just like this. Artists draw with the idea of creating masterpieces while fully expressing their inner nature. They are able to squeeze from deep within themselves down to their bone marrow and invest into their works. Where can human perfection be found?



Man cannot be perfected by himself any more than a woman by herself. This is because they are only half-complete.

They can only be perfected through a complete union of love centered on God.

In order for Adam to grow to perfection, what does he absolutely need? He needs God vertically (spirit), and he needs also a horizontal connection. Without both, he could not generate a circular motion. For this reason, he absolutely needs horizontally (physically). Likewise, Even absolutely needs Adam.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong written by Reverend Sun Myung Moon based on his speeches and teachings of the Divine Principle.

Love is the Root of the Universe Part II

True love is crucially important.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon



If we don't have a clear understanding about this, then we can't understand the origin of the universe.


Secular people have the goal to become the number one person in the world through money, power or knowledge. Yet, everything in the universe relates to God. He has hopes for them to become the number one practitioners of true love. This is the path originally desired by both humankind and God.


What is the origin of the universe? God has the power, but power is not the origin anymore than knowledge is. Would it be money? When we look at the next world of spirit, those who try to collect money on earth are like those collecting garbage, useless things.


In other words, saving or collecting money is the same as collecting waste material.




“People like me may have money, but I am not going to use money that has been collected like this.”


You all claim to like love and are looking for love. Then the question is, “What path would you take as the most direct way, or the shortcut to love which is consistent with the basic formula of the universe?




Q: How did God create heaven and earth?

Only human beings, and none other, can be His perfect objects.

Therefore, God committed Himself 100 percent to the creation of the universe for His object of love.


Why did God who has all the knowledge and wisdom of the universe need to invest everything?


Through giving all of Himself, then he reached the zero point, a position of nothingness. Therefore, His object will be able to attain 120 percent in return.


We can explain this through the process of atmospheric pressure. God would eventually stand as a vacuum after investing everything. This is the point of lowest pressure. Then His object, man would become a high-pressure area. This creates a renewed circulatory action.


One who constantly invests themselves in their object, that object will eventually be enveloped, surrounded with love. This takes place because the origin of the universe is love.


Unity is expressed through an individual becoming perfect. This is where the family, tribe, nation and world all stem from. This is the case no matter how small the origin is.




If true love were to spread out in all directions from the origin, then no matter where it was in the universe, the whole earth would nevertheless be unified and filled with true love.




Once this happens, then at any time everyone could say to each other, "Good! You are just like me!" It would be the same both spiritually in the vertical sense, and physically in the horizontal sense wherever you went.

Humans require love throughout their lifetime and even after they have gone to spirit world.

Humanity can never be separated from the concept of love.














No matter how young, old, or passed away, whether it is day or night, we can never be separated from love.


Why?


We cannot help being this way because our origin set this standard.


Love by itself can exude creative ability, this ability cannot come into operation without love.

Everything moves driven by a force of love that is like a powerhouse.

Would you think that God can create love? Even God cannot create or own love when He is alone. Owning love is another matter, but one cannot own love when they are alone. It takes two to do that.

Love should not be affected by the change of seasons.


Love measures all things in the universe, material world and eternal world. This is a fundamental issue.


Why did God create us bound by the ties of love?


God, the universe and humanity seek love because it can harmonize.


Therefore, one who is not bound by the ties of love has no base of mind where they can become happy and expect to lead happy lives. If the basis is wrong, then the result cannot be happiness.


You can attain the same state of mind-body oneness as Buddha where you feel, “in heaven and on earth, I alone am the honored one.”


Nothing in existence could come into being without passing through the axis of love. Every form of energy within the sphere of love cannot engage in action without passing through this center. Everything that is in creation has expanded based on this principle.


The nucleus and axis of love did not come into existence. Not just for humankind. We have failed to understand and practice love according to the standards of the origin. When we express love between each other, within family, tribes, races and nations which stem from families, or taught by saints and sages, humanity falls short of God's ideal of love.


What comes first, life or love? When we look at the origin of the universe, we can see that life cannot come first. Since God is the source of life, based on that foundation, would God want to live and continue to exist without love or peace?


Life is unable to achieve either one. What establishes peace transcends all the stages of creation, and goes beyond the highs and lows of the subject and object partners. Only true love has this capability.


You know about the process of cell reproduction. Even if that was cut off, or another eye, nose or other feature would grow back to replace it. This is also true of hair feet and in fact everything.


The cells that are connected to true love are of the same value as the universe. Why does true love give so much value to what it is connected to?


It is because it is the cause and, at the same time, it is the result. Love is the motive and at the same time the purpose.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong written by Reverend Sun Myung Moon based on speeches and his teachings of the Divine Principle.

Love is the Root of the Universe Part I

The center and origin of the universe is love.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon








Love is the central axis of the whole universe and even the spirit world. It is the origin of life and lineage. As both come into existence through love, their motion conforms to the axis of love.


Motion only takes place between a subject and object partner. It does not happen haphazardly. So, everything moves in their appropriate positions after they have formed a love relationship.


Everything that moves has a purpose: to continue its existence as a result of eternal love.


Action is not carried out by oneself alone.


Since love is the center of the universe, how did God Himself come into being?


We stated that love is the center of all that exists. Therefore, we can conclude that eve the Absolute God needs an ideal which even He will absolutely obey.

Where there is complete obedience centered on God and liberation, there will be complete happiness.

What is the fundamental purpose for the movement of the universe? It does not moved centered on man or woman, or even based on God. Love is the reason that the universe, God, man and woman move.




Therefore, love is said to be both the beginning and the end. In 1 Corinthians 13 it is written, "So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."


This passage has not been fully explained.


Why is it important to practice true love? It is because the universe came from the principle of true love. Therefore, through this love, you will be able to form a relationship with everything of creation in the universe. This is logical.


In this kind of relationship, if one is in the above position, then the other would be below. If one is on the right, then the other will be positioned to the left. This is how everything in the mineral, plant and animal world is arranged.


God created the world where everyone would have the desire to give as was done from the beginning of creation. God gave 100 percent of Himself when He created the universe. Therefore, it is understood that the universe is a place where everything is in existence in order to give to others.


In this sense, everything is therefore absorbed into a being which stands at a higher level than it is. All of existence in the universe carries out actions which are guided by the its desire to give and take based on love from a higher level.


The principle behind parental love connects to the original ideal love, along with attributes of that parental love that belongs to the realm of spherical motion taking place in all directions.






Q: How should you behave in front of the Parent of the universe?


You should return His love as His partner.


In order to unite with God, we need to become His counterpart of true love. This is the only way union can be achieved.

Without true love there cannot be complete unity.

God-centered people resemble His body, and everything else in the universe are modeled after God Himself rather like shadows with substantial forms.




How did the universe come into existence?


Neither the theory of evolution nor the ideal of creation can explain this. Before either concept, there was male and female. So, why did male or female come into existence?




Man and woman came into existence because of love. Love is the formula.




God is in search of a partner of love who is better than Himself. Do not you have the desire that what you love is better than yourself? It is the same for Him.




God consists of the subject and object partners completely united. This is the origin of creation: for the subject and object to become perfected based on love. When both achieve perfection, the ideal for creation, this brings liberation from sin and fulfillment from God.


From this place of love, then the entire world of creation sings, dances, rolls about thus becoming one. Wouldn't such a world be delightful? Like everyday was a scene from the sound of music.


In the process of building a house, we know that the house must first be perfectly leveled and perpendicular. If the foundation is not perfectly leveled, then the whole house will eventually tumble.


This analogy leads us to the the question, how did the universe come into existence?


Also God Himself needs love. But would He just sit on the throne everyday screaming out that He likes His love?


What if a person was just to dance about alone covered in heavy sweat? Everyone would think him to be a crazy man.


But if he was to dance and sing to some object like a handkerchief or anything even a tenth of that size to dance he would not be considered mad.


We need to acknowledge that creation takes value based on the value of the reciprocal object.


God's ideal was for Adam and Eve to achieve full maturity before they were to delve into marriage directly by Him. After they had achieved that high standard of God, then God would have become one with them. Then He would have naturally dwelt in the center of their minds. They would become the perfect, external form of God. In short, we would have become absolutely one with God through love. There would be no struggle of mind and body, war or sin to have come into existence.


Nothing else could create this unity. Not knowledge, power or money. Once humanity had achieved this, centered on true love, then the external form would have been followed by the family would have come into existence.


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This post was rewritten and taken from the religious textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong written by Reverend Sun Myung Moon based on speeches and his teachings of the Divine Principle.

Determine A New Start

The center and origin of the universe is love.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon








Love is the central axis of the whole universe and even the spirit world. It is the origin of life and lineage. As both come into existence through love, their motion conforms to the axis of love.


Motion only takes place between a subject and object partner. It does not happen haphazardly. So, everything moves in their appropriate positions after they have formed a love relationship.


Everything that moves has a purpose: to continue its existence as a result of eternal love.


Action is not carried out by oneself alone.


Since love is the center of the universe, how did God Himself come into being?


We stated that love is the center of all that exists. Therefore, we can conclude that eve the Absolute God needs an ideal which even He will absolutely obey.
















Where there is complete obedience centered on God and liberation, there will be complete happiness.










What is the fundamental purpose for the movement of the universe? It does not moved centered on man or woman, or even based on God. Love is the reason that the universe, God, man and woman move.




Therefore, love is said to be both the beginning and the end. In 1 Corinthians 13 it is written, "So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."


This passage has not been fully explained.


Why is it important to practice true love? It is because the universe came from the principle of true love. Therefore, through this love, you will be able to form a relationship with everything of creation in the universe. This is logical.


In this kind of relationship, if one is in the above position, then the other would be below. If one is on the right, then the other will be positioned to the left. This is how everything in the mineral, plant and animal world is arranged.


God created the world where everyone would have the desire to give as was done from the beginning of creation. God gave 100 percent of Himself when He created the universe. Therefore, it is understood that the universe is a place where everything is in existence in order to give to others.


In this sense, everything is therefore absorbed into a being which stands at a higher level than it is. All of existence in the universe carries out actions which are guided by the its desire to give and take based on love from a higher level.


The principle behind parental love connects to the original ideal love, along with attributes of that parental love that belongs to the realm of spherical motion taking place in all directions.






Q: How should you behave in front of the Parent of the universe?




You should return His love as His partner.


In order to unite with God, we need to become His counterpart of true love. This is the only way union can be achieved.


















Without true love there cannot be complete unity.
















God-centered people resemble His body, and everything else in the universe are modeled after God Himself rather like shadows with substantial forms.




How did the universe come into existence?


Neither the theory of evolution nor the ideal of creation can explain this. Before either concept, there was male and female. So, why did male or female come into existence?




Man and woman came into existence because of love. Love is the formula.




God is in search of a partner of love who is better than Himself. Do not you have the desire that what you love is better than yourself? It is the same for Him.




God consists of the subject and object partners completely united. This is the origin of creation: for the subject and object to become perfected based on love. When both achieve perfection, the ideal for creation, this brings liberation from sin and fulfillment from God.


From this place of love, then the entire world of creation sings, dances, rolls about thus becoming one. Wouldn't such a world be delightful? Like everyday was a scene from the sound of music.


In the process of building a house, we know that the house must first be perfectly leveled and perpendicular. If the foundation is not perfectly leveled, then the whole house will eventually tumble.


This analogy leads us to the the question, how did the universe come into existence?


Also God Himself needs love. But would He just sit on the throne everyday screaming out that He likes His love?


What if a person was just to dance about alone covered in heavy sweat? Everyone would think him to be a crazy man.


But if he was to dance and sing to some object like a handkerchief or anything even a tenth of that size to dance he would not be considered mad.


We need to acknowledge that creation takes value based on the value of the reciprocal object.


God's ideal was for Adam and Eve to achieve full maturity before they were to delve into marriage directly by Him. After they had achieved that high standard of God, then God would have become one with them. Then He would have naturally dwelt in the center of their minds. They would become the perfect, external form of God. In short, we would have become absolutely one with God through love. There would be no struggle of mind and body, war or sin to have come into existence.


Nothing else could create this unity. Not knowledge, power or money. Once humanity had achieved this, centered on true love, then the external form would have been followed by the family would have come into existence.