To Go to a Higher Realm in Spirit World

This sounds like an easy question, but what is truly the difference between those who are religious and those who are not?

Simply put, religious people believe in setting a standard of how they will live in the higher realms of spirit world their entire lives. In other words, they live their to set up a good life in the other world.

Religion begins from making a decision that you will live with God and meet in the future and living a life that leads to this reunion.

All religions teach substance of discipline, but do not dwell deeply in the details of how to live in society.  Content was taught about substance relating to the eternal, spiritual world based on the realm of God's existence.



The determination of proprietary rights in the spirit world

During this speech, Reverend Moon, reminisced about the days when he had to shiver in a cold room and sometimes go without eating even a measly meal.

He said in those days, he was closer to God.  During those times, he and church members, worried about the nation and the world, even though they did not have any position in the world to do so.

As the foundation they laid grew, they begin to care more about how to attract more people to work for the dispensation of bringing about world peace.

Father knew that knowledge, power or money was a means to bring people to hear such things, but these qualities soon wash away and the things they attract with it will disappear as well.

When we die, no matter how much of these things you acquire in life, you have to leave them behind.  All that you can carry with you to the other side is how much you expand God's love to the world.

The only record that remains in the end is how much you loved humankind and God.  This becomes the standard to decide what you own in the next world.

Every person born on earth came to this world alone, but we cannot go alone.

We must take a lot of people with us.  How many people you witness to God decides how much property you own in spirit world when you get there.

There are no signs that you wear that shows that you were a glorious leader on earth.

Love people

What is important to know is that if you did not have God's love while on earth, you cannot eat when you get to spirit world.

Spirit world is based on the life of living for another person.  The selfish individualism we witness here in society is based on the sinful, archangel's false life and false love, not God's original world.

Hell is in the opposite direction of God's ideal.  It is a place where people only can see food and good things but cannot touch or eat them.  They will have knowledge of circumstances, but will not be able to act upon them.

It is a literal eternal prison where limits and boundaries are abundant.

Yet, if one is able to live a life on earth that is centralized on God's love and is able to have a balance of good spirit world and physical world and live heaven on earth, they will automatically enter heaven in spirit world.

Others who do not live this way or do not unite their good mind to command the evil body centered on God, will not be qualified to go there.

What can we be proud of when we go to the spirit world?


When you enter spirit world and God asks you what did you do with your time on earth, would you be able to brag to him that you spent a lot of money while on earth?

Your pride in front of God on that day will be that you have lived longing for and loving people.  You lived for others to reach the temple of God.

Love God even more

The only thing that is necessary in the other world is to love God more than you love the world, nation, your spouse and your children.

This is the Principle.

When you go to spirit world, will you be able to earn a living or do you do nothing but sleep for hundreds of millions of years?

The answer is neither of these.  According to the standard you acquire while on earth, determines how free you will live in spirit world.  Therefore, a life lived for others allows you to move freely throughout spirit world and have the freedom to eat anytime you want.

Establish the family foundation

Why do we need to have children?

Surely because love is present.  Since God exists, man and woman exist, husband and wife exist.

Next, the descendants are born with God's blood, His love blood.  Here the vertical(heavenly) and horizontal(earthly) blood is mixed.  Therefore, if you are not able to have such children, you will not have a place to rest or play in the other world.

Do you think a couple can have true happiness, if they are just staring at each other face to face for 80 years?  There is a limit to this happiness.  They will be unable to live an interesting full life in this way.

It is necessary to be a daughter-in-law and have grandchildren.

There is no greater happiness for grandmothers and grandfathers than holding their grandchildren.  Those who are unable to have grandchildren, they will not be able to achieve harmony with heaven and earth or be able to keep in step with north, south, east and west in spirit world.

Once you experience many delightful experiences in spirit world, life here on earth is dull in comparison.

If you open your eyes to spirit world, you can see it and eat meals there spiritually while you are still on earth. When you reach this standard, you will never go hungry, even if you do not eat all day.  Your body will feel light and you will never get tired even if you run around all day.

So, why did God even create this world, if living in spirit world has no limits that are experienced on earth?

It is necessary to live on earth in order to give birth to children.  Once you reach spirit world, children are no longer born.

Because you are required to take your whole family with you in order to go to heaven, you have no other choice but to stay this way.

Live centered on the tradition of the realm of the heart

Do you think that you will attend church services while in spirit world?  Will the teachings of religion be necessary in the next world?

It will not.  Catholicism, Buddhism, Christianity will not be necessary.

You will be in the realm where you will be living with God, so religion teaches how to live with God and will be unnecessary.

What will be necessary?

The most precious gift is to be able to receive God's love.

We speak a lot about the realm of heart.

Where is the base?

The world of heart is where there is parental love, true conjugal love and true fraternal love centered on God's love where it can be universally expanded.

In the original world, the conjugal love or love of spouse centered on heaven and earth and the cosmos of a husband and wife is primary.  Instead, the husband and wife living for the sake of one another without a center or base became primary.

Conjugal love is important to practice, but it must be centered on the world.  Our most important question is where do we build and find the foundation of love that meets the standard in that world.

We are working to build that foundation in this world because of that.  We are the only place that has started to build this kind of foundation out of all the different religions.

So, what do we teach?

We teach people how to be successful candidates in the coming world of heart.

When you go pass to spirit world you will meet many people who love their race, you will find many couples, patriots and loyal subjects and saints.  But what about those who have lived centered on the tradition of God's original realm of heart.

The pass with which to enter the spirit world

From now on, when you start something, do it based on God.

This is a basic principle.  You are connected to all realms in spirit world based on how much you lived in accord with or have assimilated that principle.  This is from the realm of hell through the middle realm to paradise and heaven.

Does a person go to heaven when he enters spirit world just because he is a world-famous scholar?

No, he cannot.  This is why religions teach how to deny everything and go forward.  You have to give up everything and go the true way of life.  That is the logical way.

Then what is most precious?  What matters most is how much you have suffered for heaven and how much tears you shed for the world.  That is the ticket to pass through to the other world.

From God's point of view, do you think He feels a lot of joy when He sees a couple centering on themselves leaving Him abandoned?  The ones who think such a way do not have the right thinking or any common sense.

The main one that is the most sorrowful about the situation of the world is God.

His tears which He has suffered and shed until now were not for Himself.

God is still shedding tears for the universe which He created to glorify His children.

Why does God suffer?  Because He is a God of heart.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: What Kind of Place is Spirit World?

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

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

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

A World of Peace

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so much that they do not see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.  We do not preach that of ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.  God said, "Let light shine out of darkness." He made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:4-6


We have heard Jesus tell the disciples "you are of your father the devil".  They had no understanding of these words.  This means that Jesus had an understanding that we were to inherit God's direct blood lineage, but instead we inherited Satan's fallen blood lineage by following his words instead.

His words reveal the deep pain of the tragic consequence of the Jewish people not following the right path of God which was to absolutely believe in his words as the Messiah.  He would have led us toward the Completed Testament in his day and perform Holy Blessing Marriages based on the victory of his own Blessing to return the blood lineage to God.

How could an archangel become ruler of this world?

It began in the Garden when God gave the commandment to wait unto maturity to partake in the fruit which was the sexual organ.  Satan gave his word that it was okay to give in.  Since Adam and Eve followed Satan's direction, even though they were children of God, God could not intervene since He had endowed us with free will to do his will or not.

If that evil god had existed from the very beginning, we would have a world based on dualism. If the root had had two separate origins in history, there could not be a world of oneness, an ideal world or a world of unity - ever. The world would have no choice but to develop through conflict. God would have been unable to design the ideal model of a world of oneness, peace and the ideal.

The absolute God has to subjugate Satan, but not with the weapons of the world. He has to reveal the origins of goodness and evil, centering on the Great Principle of heaven and earth. There was only one absolute God in the beginning, but subsequently an evil god appeared.

The communist world views God as something that man made up.  It developed its society centering on materialism - those that can only be seen.  If Satan is a reality, then surely the communist world is his final attempt at the end of the world to deny God's existence.

If mankind continues to follow Satan's claims or commandments and follow his selfish ways, the world of peace designed by God can never be realized.

To those who say that God does not exist: if there were no God, you would still have to set up a false god to manage this world.

How can humanity alone rule the democratic world or the decadent world without having even a fake god larger than themselves?  Man cannot be extended.

If the world denies God, they will be brought to ruin like Sodom and Gomorrah.  The world will survive if they even have a concept of a hypothetical god in which to follow.  But this imaginary god is imaginary and will never be absolute.

He has to be in the center of everyone's mind.  The way to do this is through religion which persist in absolute love, absolute ethics and absolute morality.  Even if humanity followed an imaginary God, they would have to discover the real God.

When God begins to teach man about peace, His teaching material would be love.  He would look for a man and woman who have love because love is invisible.

How does God dig up the notion that a woman can love a man more than herself? That is an important issue. Man has to elevate his object partner? Position through love by denying himself. What does God have to seek and put forth theoretically?

If we do not establish the logic that God created all things out of love at the time of creation, we cannot discover the origin of a unified peace. 

How does He search for the beginning of unity and peace?

Only through the force of love can that happen.

Even God has to be obedient before the face of love.  Even though He is the subject partner of absolute love, He needs an object partner to give and take with this love and He must be obedient to this.


No More Barriers

How will humanity demolish the wall between races and realize the ideal world?  Is it even possible to erase all of the obstacles that have confounded the path toward peace in history?  Peace begins in the family. If you have seen meetings of the different individual minds and opens converse, how much difficult it must be to harmonize even within a family.

Mankind must finally find a solution.  How will we resolve the conflicts in order to live as one great family that is overflowing with happiness without the need for war?  We need a starting off point in order to harmonize the world with its diversified cultures and traditions.

Man needs to remember that his source and root is in God and not within himself.  He is the foundation of the universe.  Man must seek the basic answer as they follow the heavenly principles.  We all want to live the best life in the best world.  This desire cannot be satisfied in the human world.

A world of peace cannot exist as long as that unfulfilled desire is there.

As we climb higher, our competitive mind emerges.  How do we remove this when we do not know why it is there.  Since we cannot solve the problem, many just deny that God exist in this fallen reality.  We will realize a peaceful world where freedom and equality is overflowing once we seek God as the source of true love, and unite with Him.

When every person on earth begins to live in attendance of God and establish a true family based on his ideals, then a free, peaceful, eternal world will be built for the first time.  We call this Heaven on Earth.


Peace Only With Love As the Link

"Who are the three great subject partners?

God is the owner of owners, parent of parents, and teacher of teachers.

This is different from the Juche Sasang (Subjectivity Thought) of North Korea's late premier, Kim Il Sung.

Centered on the ideal of creation and love, the Three-Great-Subjects Thought encompasses the concepts of owner, parent and teacher.

From the perspective of the nation, the parent is in the family, the teacher is at school and the master-owner is in society. How can they be linked? There doesn't seem to be anything that harmonizes them with love, but the Unification Church (Family Federation) has the logical answer.

Applying them to the nation, a world of peace in the nation will come.  Applying this to the world, a world of peace in the world will come. Applying this to heaven and earth, a world of peace in heaven and on earth will come, centering on true love.

God, our Creator, has a Will. That Will is to restore this world into the world of true peace. In other words, He will restore the world of His original nature and the ideal by re-creating the present world. For this reason, there is hope for true peace in the future. God's Will is to eradicate selfishness from each individual, then transform or re-create that person into His own temple, and make all men holy." SMM

Then this means that to begin true world between nations does not begin on the national level, but with the perfection of the individual.  Each person becomes a true temple of God.  This is where world peace germinates.  Each of us is the true beginning point of world peace.  Just as the Michael Jackson song states about the Man in the Mirror.

God brought about religion for the perfection of man and we should repent that religion, representing the realm of the spirit, have not fulfilled their responsibility of bringing about a peaceful world.  Who can deny that religions in these day lacks the energy to help lead toward a purified world?  Sometimes religions are going against their original mission and have become about following leaders and rituals leaving behind the culture of heart.

Human logic placed the content together, but God is not attached to these doctrines.  God as the Original Parent does not discriminate between races or between religions such as humans who run religions.

Therefore, in order to go the way of the Parent, religious leaders should completely follow God's will of true love to realize the ideal world of peace and the salvation of all people.  Given the current situation of the fallen world, religious people should not lead comfortable lives, but must go the way of living a life of faith.

They should center their activities on giving true love unceasingly and true-life energy while conversing with God constantly.

What is the origin of the existence of the universe?

It is not an absolute existence, but an absolute love that can bind the absolute existence.  This being the case, heaven and earth can create a world of peace. 

If it is correct that everything in creation moves based on that love, then the next logical step is that peace and the ideal we have longed for are also derived from love.

In the history of religion, has there been any saint or leader that asserted that the ideal of unity of mind and body is the basis of the unity of all things?

Harmony in the family is the accomplishment of all things.

If there are ten members of the family, all of them should have harmony with their own mind and body and then become one as a whole.  But in the fallen world in which we live, these ten people live in mind-body conflict forming 20 different entities.  Peace can not be created in such an environment.

Why do we suffer such separation?  Because the body goes and does what it wants and the mind does what it wills going in different directions.

People all have a separation between their mind and body.  Within a people, there will be some who are centered on materialistic things, others on honor, and others on their own power and authority.  There is no way to find peace among a people whose body and mind move in opposite directions based solely on their own self-interest.

Peace dwells within oneness and this one source is the unique God.  A family or individual who centers on God's ideal is on His side and their mind and bodies are united.

Korea as a unified country has to be a part of the realm of world peace.

Peace is not going to be just enjoyed by a religious group.  By connecting to the God-centered heavenly tradition set forth, peace must settle finally upon the earth because God exists.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Love is the Foundation for Peace and Happiness

This post was rewritten and taken from the Textbook: Sun Myung Moon's Philosophy of Peace, Chapter What is Peace?

Don't Doubt in Dark What God Told You in Light

The following text was given by Rev. Tom Cutts is the District Director of the six Southern states of Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He and his wife, Angelika, were matched by True Parents and Blessed with 2075 Couples in Madison Square Garden in 1982. They have three sons and one daughter:

My friends, you were chosen to be free. So don't use your freedom as an excuse to do anything you want. Use it as an opportunity to serve each other with love. All that the Law says can be summed up in the command to love others as much as you love yourself. But if you keep attacking each other like wild animals, you had better watch out or you will destroy yourselves.

If you are guided by the Spirit, you won't obey your selfish desires. The Spirit and your desires are enemies of each other. They are always fighting each other and keeping you from doing what you feel you should. But if you obey the Spirit, the Law of Moses has no control over you.





People's desires make them give in to immoral ways, filthy thoughts, and shameful deeds. They worship idols, practice witchcraft, hate others, and are hard to get along with. People become jealous, angry, and selfish. They not only argue and cause trouble, but they are envious. They get drunk, carry on at wild parties, and do other evil things as well. I told you before, and I am telling you again: No one who does these things will share in the blessings of God's kingdom.

God's Spirit makes us loving, happy, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled. There is no law against behaving in any of these ways. And because we belong to Christ Jesus, we have killed our selfish feelings and desires. God's Spirit has given us life, and so we should follow the Spirit.

Galatians 5:13-26

“…what God has spoken to you in the Light.” Has God spoken to you? I have neighbors and relatives who don’t believe there is a God. There are others who believe that God created everything, but they cannot imagine that this Creator can personally relate to them, care about them, wants them to be happy, and wants the best for them.

I was in Las Vegas last month for an International Leadership Conference, and one participant from our district told me he was an atheist. I’ll call him Steve, though that is not his name. Steve does not believe in God. He certainly does not believe that there is a God who can speak to him. But while he was in Vegas he had a curious experience.

When Steve arrived at our hotel, he saw three teenage girls get out of a car. They wore high heel shoes, bright colored hot-pants, fishnet stockings, tops that exposed their tummies, and lots of make-up. They were teenage prostitutes.

Steve has two daughters himself, and when he saw these girls he actually started sobbing. Right there in his taxi, he broke down in tears. He surprised himself by how upset he was. Steve shared this experience with me, and challenged me saying, “How can you say there is a God? If there was a God, He wouldn’t let these young girls’ lives be ruined this way.”

I said to him, “Steve, your reaction, proves to me that there IS a God. You could have lusted for the girls, or judged them in disgust, or simply ignored them. Instead you felt the heart of a concerned father. Don’t you find it amazing that you cried for kids whom you had never met before? Where did that emotion come from? It didn’t just come out of the thin air.”

There has to be a source of our personality and our emotions. Not only did God create our physical bodies, but he is also the source of our personality and emotions. That means that God is a Being of Personality and Emotion. That’s why we refer to God as Heavenly Father.

He is a real Being who suffers when any of His children are abused. Through Steve’s emotions, God was speaking to him. Steve was experiencing the heart of God when he shed tears for those three girls. I don’t think I convinced him that God exists, but I did get him to wonder about his own passionate reaction, and where those powerful feelings came from.

The founder of our church, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, has established a special mission in Las Vegas. Right now there is a saying that, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” This means that people go to Vegas to do all sorts of things. Things they would rather the folks back home not know about. So, their naughty secret “stays in Vegas”. Rev. Moon wants to change the whole environment there. He wants Las Vegas to become known worldwide as a good place for families.

To make that change Rev. Moon is promoting Absolute Sexual Morality. Fundamentally, this means that people remain sexually pure until they are married, and when married, they only have sex with their spouse.

Absolute Sexual Morality is a lot more than not having sex with the wrong partner. It is a lot more than “no spare keys” to your sexual organ. It also means that you direct all your sexual desire and feelings toward your spouse.  No seductive thoughts and behavior for anyone else.

I am very concerned about young men who are involved in pornography. Easy access on the Internet has made pornography a big problem. Pornography addiction makes it really difficult to establish a loving and sexually fulfilling relationship in a marriage. One of the leaders in our youth movement, CARP, said that she found that the older teenage boys with the strongest addictions to pornography started looking at pornography when they were 8 and nine years old.

Of course, at that age boys don’t have strong sexual feelings. But as they get older, hormones kick in, and if they masturbate looking at pictures, that delicious feeling becomes powerfully imprinted in their minds. Hormones bond them to that first sexual experience. They “fall in love” with sex.

They need to repeat the same kind of experience in order to feel sexually satisfied. This makes it really difficult to be sexually fulfilled with a wife. Several of the marriages of our Second Generation (children born into the movement through parents matched by Rev. Moon) have ended in divorce because the husband was addicted to pornography.

God intended for your first delicious sexual experience to be with your eternal spouse. Then you fall in love with the person who made you feel so wonderful. You won’t fall in love with “sex”, but with your spouse. Some kids think that if they don’t “go all the way” there won’t be any problem. But making out stirs up those same bonding hormones. And again, we fall in love with sex. This is why dating is not allowed in (the Unification Church) Absolute Sexual Morality.


God wants us to have tremendous joy in our love relationship with our spouse. The Absolute Sexual Morality is not a curse from God where he tells us “Don’t do this” or “Don’t do that.” Based on the way we are designed, Absolute Sexual Morality is actually a gift from Heavenly Father.

Practicing Absolute Sexual Morality can help us establish wonderful lasting marriages. So, please protect not only your body but your heart.

The sermon title today is “Don’t Doubt in the Dark, what God has spoken to you in the Light.” God speaks to us in many ways. He can speak to us through our feelings as he did with Steve. Or He can give us intuitions to go stand in a particular spot in a ballroom. Or He can give us powerful insights that help guide our lives. Some people hear God speak with an almost audible voice. God also speaks to us through other people.

God can speak through the most unlikely people. One time I was leading a fundraising team in Connecticut, and I couldn’t decide on the next area to go to. We were in a little town, and I pulled the van off the road and searched the map for our next area. I couldn’t decide and was becoming paralyzed by indecision.

Out of the corner of my eye, I caught sight of some movement outside my window. There was a drunk looking in at me. He had dirt and leaves in his hair, a scraggly beard, and his head wobbled around unsteadily.

His eyes were not focused. Carefully, I cracked my window to see what he wanted. I was shocked by what this drunk said to me. He slurred, “Just make a decision.”

Has God ever yelled at you through a drunk?

I hope that God will speak to you today. In the Bible, it is recorded that God spoke to a prophet through a donkey. Hopefully, He can use me to speak to you today. Two weeks ago, our second son, Daniel, called home from Australia. He is on the Oceania Leadership Team (OLT). He was calling to say he was flying to Fiji the next day. He would be leading a team for the next forty days. In a couple of emails he mentioned that he was having experiences with the heart of God. So, I asked him how God had spoken to him.

He shared how he was the team assistant for the past forty days. The team was fundraising, but his teammates were bad about getting out of the van to go fundraising. They would reach their drop off point, and spend a lot of time getting out. Daniel was trying to get them ready before reaching the drop off point. One day he thought he had everyone ready, but they were worse than ever. He got so angry with the team. He felt they were not concerned about the team, but were focused only on themselves.

Later that day, Daniel had a showdown prayer with God. Daniel realized that his being upset toward his team was a tiny taste of how God might feel towards His rebellious children. But more profoundly, Daniel realized that he himself had caused God to suffer, when Daniel was more focused on himself and his own schedule. Daniel repented deeply with tears. And in his tears he even found a more parental attitude toward his teammates.

Our movement (Unification Movement) has a number valuable programs for our young people. Programs like STF, OLT, and Jr. STF give our sons and daughters opportunities to put the Divine Principle into action. We are not called to just believe, but we are to mature our character. And that takes time, making good choices and practice.

I am really grateful to the OLT experience my son is having. We talked for nearly two hours. At the end of that Daniel told me how much he enjoyed talking with me. In the past, our conversations were rarely longer than a few minutes. Parents will understand what a joy it is to have a longer conversation with your child. I hope all of our youth can participate in programs like OLT and STF.

And parents, it is not enough to just come to church on Sunday. All of us need to mature our character. Spiritual maturity is not automatic. It takes intention, making good choices, and practice.

Our Bible reading today (above in Galatians) lists the qualities of spiritual maturity and good character. If we are in God’s Spirit we are to be loving, joyful, kind, patient, peaceful, self-controlled, and faithful. So, how does God produce these fruits of the Spirit in us?

If you want to be a loving person, do you think God will just “abracadabra” make you a loving person? No way? If God is trying to make you a loving person, do you think He will put people around you who are easy to love? No way? It doesn’t require much maturity to love people who are easy to get along with. To help you grow, God will put you in the exact opposite circumstance, where you have to make a choice, and practice loving. Then your character will mature.

Heavenly Father has each of us on a character education course. And this explains one aspect of the “Dark” mentioned in the title of our sermon. If God is maturing the quality of peacefulness in you, you might be thrown into the darkness of chaos. Or if God is maturing the quality of joyfulness in you, you might find yourself in the darkness of sorrow.

The key to growth is making the right choices. God gives us opportunities to mature our character. We can respond in fear and run away, or we can take a risk, and gain the victory. After winning smaller victories, God gives us opportunities for larger and larger victories.

King David didn’t just go out one day and slay Goliath. God gave him opportunities while tending sheep. David could have been afraid and run away, but he took the risk, and was victorious. Based on this small victory, God sent a lion to threaten the flock.

David could have been afraid and run away. But he took the risk, and got a bigger victory. Then God sent a bear to threaten the flock. David could have been afraid and run away. But again, he took the risk, and got an even bigger victory. Based on this training, God prepared David to face the giant Goliath. And in the end, David was ready to tend not only sheep, but all the Hebrew tribes.

I am sure that David had some failures. He probably lost some sheep. But he did not focus on his failures. He kept his victories foremost in his mind.

Have you ever bought a car and then the next day notice how many other cars have the same color as yours? The number of cars with the color of yours did not change overnight. But your mind was attuned to the new color, and began seeing more cars of the same color.

Your mind is a powerful tool. We tend to find what we are looking for.

When I was on MFT, I had a great time. Of course I faced rejection and physically it was hard work. But I focused on the joy I experienced with the last sale. That was what kept me going, and of course, the next sale always came.

One brother in our district came to me and said he was having trouble finding a job. He mentioned that the economy was tanking out, and he was being rejected everywhere he went. He was worried that he would be rejected again. He knew that with that attitude, he probably would be.

As we spoke, I was reminded of a story I heard about True Father (Reverend Moon) and one of the church businesses in Korea. The manager wanted to fire one of the older employees. But Father said the employee could not be fired. The manager said the old man was not producing and paying him was a waste of money. Then True Father explained that the old man was bringing God’s blessing to the company.

And this brings us to our conclusion. As God’s sons and daughters, YOU are bringing God’s blessing to your tribe, to your neighbors, and to your workplace. Have confidence that God wants to bring his Blessing to others through you. Build confidence by remembering your victories, and finally never forget, “Don’t Doubt in the Dark, What God Has Spoken to /you in the Light."

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Don’t Doubt in the Dark, What God has Spoken to You in the Light

Tom Cutts