Hell Has no Relationship w/God's Love

Truly, what was the Fall?

Humanity fell into the darkest of nights because of the Fall, transforming our ticket to heaven to a ticket to hell.

Hell is a place that has no relationship to God's love, life or lineage or even to God Himself.

Hell is a place where you are alone and you are shut of from everything.

You have a longing for what you cannot attain.  You will feel the happiness in the large realm of this universe, but you will not be able to move one inch.

“So what is it that I am doing? I am initiating a movement to love God, heaven and earth, based on a universal system of thought: the Principle.

“This is so that from now on, you have to prepare the way you will take when you go to the spirit world. You are doing great things by making such preparations.”

Do you know how vast the spirit world is?  Since it is such an infinite world, you must have a global and universal mind to keep up with the pace of that world.  Therefore, you are making that world the stage for your activities while you are here on earth.

This is impossible if you are individualistic and worry only about your own needs.

If you are not able to connect to the whole, what greater hell is there than that?  It would be the same as catching an eagle and locking him in a dark hole where he could not move or feed.

The eagle symbolizes America.  Wouldn’t it be miserable to live just to eat and satisfy the stomach?  Is that happiness or unhappiness?

To commit suicide is the worst sin of all sins. It is an atrocity that destroys the universe. 

A person who commit’s the crime of killing themselves will go to the lowest of hells.

What if one of your nostrils was plugged and you could only breathe just a little bit through your other nostril?  That would be hell.

Hell is where you are unable to receive when you want.  It is also when you cannot give when you want to.

How long can you endure holding your breath?  How long can you go without exhaling or inhale when you need to?  That is hell.

You cannot eat without God's love in the spirit world. 

Without God’s love in the spirit world, you do not have the right to eat.

Hell is a place where you watch others eat, but cannot eat.  Only those who have experienced the life of heaven on earth with their mind and body united can take ownership in the Kingdom of Heaven.

What do you do when you are in spirit world?  Do you still eat?

You eat food based on love.  Therefore, a person who doesn’t have love will not be able to open his mouth no matter how much he wants to eat.  The food will jump from his face.  This is his punishment.

The world on earth is in chaos.  What about spirit world?  Since humans go to the spirit world in confusion, then the spirit world ends up in chaos as well.

Stealing something becomes a habit.  Once a person who steals a lot on earth goes to spirit world, he naturally wants to get something for nothing on the other side.  Since it is difficult to deal with an unprincipled person such as this, hell was created to separate them.

God did not create hell.  It is a storage place for waste and has nothing to do with God’s love.  All of humanity who begins from false love inevitably go to hell.

God also does not send people to hell, people go to hell on their own accord.

If a person who lived an evil, selfish life on earth was to go to heaven, they would not be able to breathe because the air there is God’s love.

Since they were not able to exercise their love lung while on earth, they will have to go to the lower parts of spirit world where they are comfortable.

Therefore, the person who goes to heaven lives with God eternally.

Since God’s mind and body are united, if a man and woman and their family can do the same and live together in front of God, and become His object partners, they will naturally go to the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world after leaving the earth.

Those who lived a life with God while on earth could not live in hell.  They would not be able to breathe and the smell and taste would be repulsive.

If you reach heaven, you would be able to freely come and go from there even visit hell.  Would you rather be a person who is limited to a space in hell or a liberated person who is free?

You have to think of difficult people as the gate keeper and think that you are going to touch and melt their heart so they will guide you when you reach those gates.

Hell is a place without a future. 

Heaven has a future.

The Fall began in the place where there is no future in the public sense.  The self became the center and living for humanity’s own sake forsaking god is the way to hell.

Living for others is the way to heaven. That is the concept of heaven and hell. 

A flattened balloon slowly rises when it is filled with hydrogen.  It seems that the balloon can rise to any height, but it has limits.

A balloon stops at the place where it finds a balance with its own weight and remains at the same level of atmospheric pressure.

This is the same case in the spirit world.

Those who are greedy go down. They are heavy. 

For that reason, hell is where heavy things gather and collide with one another.

What if a racist white person went to the spirit world and the gate keeper to heaven was black?

If a person was blocked from entering heaven and made to go back, he might cling to the gatekeeper at that time and cry out for them to have mercy on them.

He would experience a living hell that is hundreds and thousands of times greater than any suffering they caused the black people in his lifetime.

“If I were God, I would also put such keepers by the gates. “

Everyone lives under the rule of the universal law.  No one can free themselves from this law.  This affects the order of love and morality from the family level to universal and then God.

One who has violated heavenly law is not free to go anywhere in the universe.

There is nowhere to run or go where you wish.

To attain a life that is supported by all the laws including the laws of nature, the true path is the one giving love and living for the sake of others.

You should realize that hell does exist. Hell is a place one goes who does not follow the way of carrying the banner of love.

“I hope that you can stand in court and be victorious.”

When you do not have the discipline to practice love, when you go to spirit world a reaction comes against you from everyone there, nobody will tell you or send you to hell.


Public or Private

Being public means living for the greater good, doesn't it? Being private means putting yourself first. Living for your own sake leads to hell. Public-mindedness leads to heaven.

Unification Church members are not without value.

We may look simple, but we are not a simple group that believes that we go to heaven by just going to church on Sunday or through just holding a Bible under our arm or giving tithing every now and then.

As a people, once we believe in something, we do it till the end.

Even if our spouse grabs us from following this path we are intense and follow the path of faith even at the risk of divorce.

The reason you suffer now is for the sake of finding the freedom of heaven. 

Even if you go to hell, after living such a courageous life on earth, no one in hell can hold you there after they have judged your life.

Going down to a lower position is something that would never happen in a society of brothers, but is only possible within the realm of the parental heart.

God can go to the bottom of hell where His children suffer; this is the example of a parent - a true parent.


Return for Tomorrow’s Post: The Self is Ticket to Hell

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

The First Love Triangle Was Between...

The original love triangle was between Adam, Eve and the tempter Lucifer.


The corruption which took place in the first family, set the dynamics that wreak havoc in male and female relations to this day.

One of the most agonizing symptoms of the first love triangle is for one’s partner to be attracted to someone else and succumb to infidelity.

The premise of one being torn between two lovers fills many classic literature and films worldwide.

The story of the duchess Anna Karenina all the way to the film “Casablanca” as well as soap operas and many blues and love songs mimic the realities of being betrayed by a lover.

The original Godly family was destroyed by the first illicit sexual encounter.

In this relationship, you can see various attributes of abuse and betrayals.

Since Lucifer was very wise about God’s plan and was thousands if not millions of years older, this was the first sexual abuse by a trusted elder.

Since Adam and Eve were God’s children, they betrayed the parent’s trust and commandment.  Lucifer was a servant to King and rebelled against Him by seducing and taking away the King’s children.

Adam and Eve were the first dysfunctional family.

We may believe that dysfunction we see in today's society was brought into the family by the ‘free love’ movement of the 1960s, but humanity began in this unfortunate way.

Even though the Bible uses metaphors and hidden messages to convey the Fall of humanity, many great cultural narratives, suggest that more than just an illicit sexual relation happened between the first human couple.

Genesis shows that the woman fell under the sway of the Tempter.  She yields to his seduction and then she instigates this betrayal to her betrothed.

This pattern and other deceptive games that may occur in relationships was established from the beginning of humanity.

Christianity also alludes to a double treachery.  Not only do Adam and Eve betray each other, but they betray the Creator.

By disregarding God’s warning and concern, Adam and Eve, and Lucifer initiate sex and parenthood outside of God’s blessing and participation.

This is a heartbreaking scenario which still plays out in many families ever since.

In some depictions of the Fall, the Tempter is depicted as a servant and friend to God.

He has been trusted, but he refuses to respect his Lord’s children because he was jealous of God’s love for them.

He sought revenge by getting God’s children to follow him instead of God through tricking the children into a premature and illicit affair.

Thus, the first children were seduced by their elder and their Parent’s friend.

This is the origin of the tragedy of sexual abuse of children by their caregivers, relatives and even clergymen.

This is also the foundation for those who use sex as a weapon and a way to gain illicit power.


Another Kind of Adultery

If we take the story of our first ancestors tragedy, we can see the basis of many legendary tales.

We can compare God to a King and the woman as His bride or Queen.  Therefore, God was to be her central focus of love and loyalty.

 Thus, when the servant seduces the queen this becomes an adulterous act that betrays the King.

The European story Tristan and Isolde, the heroic Tristan, the beloved of the king, arrives to take Princess Isolde as his wife.

However, the young man and maiden take a love potion and cannot resist their passion for each other. Unfortunately, Tristan and Isolde run off together in betrayal of the king.

Similarly, the British legend of King Arthur revolved around the theme adultery between the King’s first knight, Lancelot, and his Queen.

This one act of treachery brings down the Utopian Camelot.

Folk religions around the world tell of a parallel conflict triad.

Greek myths are full of infidelities.

Oedipus Rex involves not only mortals, but a foretold incident of incest: the son kills his father to win the love of his mother.  Reverend Moon has suggested just this kind of dynamic behind the fatal dysfunction of the first family.

Adam, Eve, and Lucifer all chose to evade the moral challenge before them and misused love.

As the elder Lucifer was to attend to the immature children of God.

His position called to have unconditional love and obedience.  He knew that as Adam and Eve grew that they were destined to receive a special divine love and have authority beyond what he as a servant could ever possess.

He had the moral challenge to be content with his role.

Lucifer could look to have eternal praise and gratitude from his beloved King after he was a good caregiver to the prince and princess and they matured to assume their rightful position as God‘s heirs and Lucifer’s masters.

This duty asked for him to be humble to those who were presumably younger and less experienced than himself.

Also, the royal offspring themselves would have paid him unending respect and admiration as well as their countless descendants.

Instead, Lucifer was not able to trust and remain faithful to his lord or His children.

As he could only focus on his own situation and not see Adam and Eve from God’s point of view, it looked unfair in his eyes.  Therefore, he decided to turn away from God’s guidance and steal the affection of the young girl in order to soothe his own hurt feelings and feeling alone.

Eve, who was lonely as Adam learned about the creation, she was very flattered to have his attention and over time, lost interest in her fiance in favor of the elder more fascinating mentor.

Once Eve replaced Lucifer as her god, he believed that if he could seduce the girl he could possess all her love and beauty for himself.

At the same time he could act out revenge to his ‘unjust’ Creator by stealing the Heavenly Father’s most precious treasure, thus destroying His whole purpose for creating the universe.

As a final nail in the coffin he placed God in a deep grave and he humiliated his would-be master by degrading him through the Fall and become his rival.

Eve gave too much of her heart to the charming elder.

Once Eve succumb to his seduction, she was ridden with extreme guilt and realized that the act was wrong and that her lover had taken advantage of her.

To add to her painful feelings, she had deeply betrayed her loving Father and her mate and violated her own purpose.

Out of desperation and to ease her guilt and fear, she went to Adam for comfort, therefore re-enacting the same selfish act of seduction which Lucifer used to trap and destroy Eve.  Adam also abandoned His Father’s will for the allure of his fiancee’s premature love.


Disastrous Template

These corrupted relationships that happened at the beginning of humanity, explains why infidelity and promiscuous sex has such a hold to enslave humanity to this moment.

Because humanity inherited this fallen history, a relational template so deeply embedded
within the human psyche and soul, people are inclined towards it as second nature.

Reverend Moon teaches that this adulterous relationship in the beginnings of human ancestral family life has set a pattern for the profound and pervasive disorder of love that we have witnessed ever since.

Freud had a sense of this when he proposed that the family tensions which arise from the ‘Oedipus complex’ were based on some primordial event that caused the disorder of  family love.

Research shows that infidelity is indeed passed on from generation to generation: One study found that eight out of ten cheating spouses also had a parent that did the same.

The study may find more such cases because the parent may have kept their indiscretion secret.

Adam and Eve’s mistake implied more than just an act of infidelity.

This act was the remote source of all the destructive patterns of interactions between males and females which plague our society today.

For example, Lucifer and Eve both refused to use their resources of unselfish love and remain faithful to whom they were responsible and entertained their infatuations instead.

Instead, they sought to please their immediate gratification and comforting embrace of the opposite sex.

This plays out in sexual involvements in contemporary society today.

 

Males act like Peter Pan and flee responsibilities in favor of maternal acceptance from girlfriends and gain reassurance through sexual conquests, thus escaping paternal rules and requirements.

Women and girls do the same when they overly indulge in the intoxicant of sex and promise and romance and use the closest male audience.

They do this at the cost of fully maturing into daughters of God.

Because the first couple introduced the disorder of love, this led to another phenomenon - the allure of ‘forbidden love’.

There is an insidious attraction to people who are off-limits or out of reach: another woman’s husband, the sister’s boyfriend, the blossoming daughter, celibate priest, ‘bad boy’, the same-sex friend.

A syndrome that has men honoring the purity of a woman, but at the same time pursue the fallen, loose woman at the bar or have a provocative mistress on the side.


Distorted Gender Relations

Psychologist David Kasbow also sees as Reverend Moon has the negative male-female ‘war of the sexes’ played out in the Genesis story.

He describes the three characters, Lucifer, Adam and Eve, involved are the archetypes of masculine and feminine forms of irresponsibility, exploitative on one hand and the foolishly naive and yielding on the other hand.


Predatory type

Lucifer plays the Don Juan, Playboy role surrounded by the compliant Playboy Bunnies.  He is the immature man who uses and discards the opposite sex in order to prove his worth.

Another dynamic is the man who dominates other men through conquering and winning their women.

This is almost like a parasite, a rapist and the vampire who feeds off of what other people possess.  The Eveic figure is the seductress who uses her sex to dominate men for money, security.  She may be thought of as a man-eater.

Lilith is another myth, the first wife of Adam is portrayed as a demonic feminine.

He is under the influence of the foxy counterpart of the male ‘wolf’, the Siren, Samson’s Delilah.

She is the woman who keeps a list of boy toys for her amusement and delight to show off her power by stealing men from other women.  The incestuous father, the pedophile and the aging man who takes on a younger trophy wife.

Lucifer was the trusted teacher and parental figure who preys on the fresh, virginal individual of the opposite sex in order to compensate for his own failures, frustrations and inner deadness.

Christian writer Sarah Hinckley says the virgin is so attractive to the worldly one because of the “lightness of heart that is the companion of sexual innocence”.


Return for Tomorrow’s Post: The Impact of Sex Without Commitment 


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

A Loving Family Expands to Loving World

The ideal family alone can serve as the building block of the Kingdom of God.

—Sun Myung Moon

What if every human was raised in a godly, ideal home? 

Where brothers and sisters respected each other, mother and father were devoted to another and were the examples of true love? Abuse, fighting and separation did not exist?

We can easily see that this would mature into the Kingdom of Heaven. Such people raised in a family would understand how to love others in the world based on the teachings of exemplary love within their own family.

When they encountered younger people their sisters and brother's age they would treat them just the same. When they encountered the elderly who are their grandparents' age, they would treat them just like their own flesh and blood.

The family is the primary means through which most people learn about love.

Unfortunately, this is also how evil entered the world.

Through the first family of Adam and Eve, thousands of generations later followed in their footsteps. What if Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel were to have followed in God's ways? 

What kind of society would we be born into in this day and age?

In order to cultivate true love over a lifetime, we need to establish loving relationships and family. The family packs a double punch in a life of love more than any other relationship.

The way one was raised in their family trains him or her in love as a child and sibling. This leads them to their own personal growth and maturity. 

Then, each individual based on their upbringing, takes what they learn to cultivate love in a new family with a spouse and children.

All of these experiences come full circle to educate a person in true love.

Many religions and moral traditions equate a loving relationship in the family as a template for a person's relationship with God.

In the Talmud, for instance, it is written, “When a man honors his father and mother, God says, ‘I regard it as though I had dwelt among them and they had honored me” Kiddushin, 30b

Jesus was the first to encourage his followers to think and relate with God as their father.

Confucius said, “Surely proper behavior toward parents and elder brothers is the trunk of goodness,” Analects 1.2 and “Filial piety is the root of all virtue” Classic of Filial Piety

Hinduism, Shinto, Buddhism, Islam and the traditional Native American and African faiths also echoes this sentiment.

Family life may be seen as a vocation for growing closer to God and allowing Him/Her to manifest and dwell in true love.

A Buddhist master stated that the family is demanding of members responsibilities as any monastery.

From this viewpoint, the family can be a vehicle of holiness and an instrument of salvation.

People within a community of faith refer to one another as 'brothers and sisters' or 'brethren.' Priests lead the members of the Catholic Church and they call him 'Father', and the title of the head of the Catholic Church is the “Holy Father.” 

Such communities are led by nuns who are called 'Sister' and sometimes 'Mother'.

The importance of the family in raising good human beings is corroborated by the findings of social scientists.

Family enhances human and moral development in numerous and positive ways.

Social scientists and policymakers uphold the family as the crucial factor in the physical as well as the mental, emotional, and moral well-being of the children. Therefore, the family is the backbone of social order.

Unfortunately, the status of the family in society in our times have come into question.

Even though times have changed, the fundamental patterns of father, mother and children are still in place showing that the members of the family has basic need for its structure.

Couples live together and raise their children even if they are from previous relationships. Even though there are are the non traditional relationships of same-sex couples, there is still a masculine and feminine role in each relationship. 

Many still want to have their union recognized through a traditional marriage and even adopt children.

Those who do not have a family form surrogate and substitute families. Gangs are joined by youngsters in order to get the same strength and protection they get from the feeling of a family from their 'home boys'.

A convicted criminal leader of the L.A. Crips notorious gang had said in an interview that he turned toward the streets because he did not have a proper family upbringing. 

The same with homeless children, or teenagers of the street, they also form 'families' and band together.

Still, none of these substitutes for the missing qualities in their own homes can fulfill the same benefits as a basic family structure of a father, mother with their biological children.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, anthropologist Margaret Mead affirmed about the centrality of the traditional family, human beings have always lived in families. There is no period where this was not so.

Even though modern society has made proposals for change and there have been actual experiments to dissolve the family or displace the traditional roles, human society still reaffirms their dependence on the family as the basic unit of human living. This is a family with a father, mother and children.

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

Mankind's Godly Responsibility

This speech was given in 1992 in Seoul, Korea by Reverend Sun Myung Moon's wife:

Distinguished guests, representatives of the Women's Federation for World Peace from seventy countries, women leaders and members of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia:

By your presence, you bring many blessings to our Federation's future, and inspire us to multiply our determination to achieve world peace.  

This may be the first time that women have taken the initiative by bringing so many women together in one place.

I am certain that from this day forward, women around the world will come to understand their noble role which has been ordained by God, and that a road will be opened for us to build an ideal world filled with peace, happiness and freedom.

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon

The following declaration is based upon the heart of God that transcends the past, present and future.

These words are a declaration before heaven and earth, with history as a witness.  The following words may seem unfamiliar to some, but they deal with the secrets of heaven that all women today need to understand in order to usher in the new era of peace, not only for their own family, but for the world.

History Began in a Diseased State


We have come to live in a diseased world whose destruction of its evil is inevitable.

This is the true meaning of 'The Last Days'.

Every day we hear the ugly sounds of its final death rattle.

We can trace the origin of this disease to the original ancestors who had the responsibility to lay a tradition in paradise that would lead the rest of their descendants directly to Heaven on earth.

Instead of following God's Words, they followed another.

Our original ancestors thus contracted a serious disease.  In religious terms, this even is referred to as the human fall.

This disease caused by Satan, who told our ancestors to follow his word instead of God's, has been the focus of human history in restoring the world back to its original position of heaven on earth.

The tragedy of human history was that it originated with Satan's will.

The lord of evil stole the central position to God's ideal of creation.

Adam and Eve's union resulted in children of evil, instead of children of goodness bearing God's original pure blood lineage.

We inherited Satan's love, Satan's life and Satan's lineage.  Our reproductive organs were intended to join together in virtue, to be the temples of true love, true life and true lineage.

Love was supposed to be experienced betwen a husband and wife in a virtuous union to procreate children who carry on the pure lineage.   The center of life is love.  The human lineage is transmitted by means of the love and life of a husband and wife.

The connecting line of love, life and blood lineage is what continues throughout history.  We have been held as prisoners by satanic love, satanic life and satanic lineage bearing any link to God's pure love, life and lineage.  Adam and Eve were in their youth when they sowed the seeds of this false love, false life and false lineage.  

Therefore, in these Last Days, we see a decline in morality among the young people around the globe.  

Satan uses his fallen love as a way to create a den of sin where a blow struck against God's ideal of true love.    

Standards were relaxed concerning sexual behavior, the plague of drug addiction and the decline of the family structure and traditional values have turned this world into an earthly hell.

It is impossible to find a true man, true woman, true brothers and sister, true husband and wife or true parents anywhere.

Before this age, there was no hope of creating a true society, true nation or a true world.

Mankind Must Engraft Onto God and True Parents

Adam and Eve formed a trinity of evil.

It is up to us to restore Adam and Eve that is in accordance with the ideal of creation.

In order to resolve this historical disease, someone has to testify to the fact that Satan committed sin and be able to explain the fundamental truths concerning the sin which our original human ancestors committed.

Satan and God have known the details of the fall which has been hidden from humanity and repeated to this day.

Adam was still young and did not understand many things about his environment.

In the Last Days, when Adam and Eve will finally reach perfection and discover this information and share it with the world is the biblical account of Revelations to how God will surely reveal all secrets in the Last Days.

Thus the exact crime which Satan created throughout history will be revealed.

Then it will be possible to expel Satan from the world.

For the first time, humanity will be able to make a fundamental change in direction toward hope, peace, happiness and freedom.

For us to be able to break free form false love, false life and false lineage we inherited from Satan, it is necessary that we leave behind our wild olive roots and engraft onto the true olive tree of the Messiah.

This will make it possible for our blood lineage to return to God's unstained, pure blood lineage and rebuild a heaven on earth and in spiritual world.

This is God's final purpose of God's providence of salvation, restoration and recreation.  Therefore, this is the era where the True Parents come to earth to reverse the mistake of the first parents.  

This is of the greatest historical importance.  The True Parents, who reverse the fall of our first parents, represent the final fruit of human history.

True Parents embody the completed form of human cultural history.

They signify the victory of religious efforts and philosophy within history.  Before True Parents could come, there was a period of indemnity and restoration through sacrifice, suffering and blood.

God's Providential History of Restoration

I would like to speak for a while about this historical period, based on the biblical record, to illustrate the difficulties. By understanding this, we can understand how important it is that we fulfill our responsibility today.

In the Old Testament, history worked through indemnity such as an eye for eye, tooth for tooth and life for life.  This responsibility of the fall passed from Eve to Adam.

Satan was at the center of that union.  From Eve's standpoint, after she had received the seed of false life and love from Satan, the fall occurred where Satan took over God's position.

Satan became Eve's father.  Eve placed the archangel in the position of father and Adam in the position of her son.  

Women who stand in the position of Eve in the course of restoring the world through indemnity, they have had to risk their lives in order to assure God's will would pass to the next generation.

When we look at the historical record in the Bible, we see a number of events that seem to defy explanation.

God's original intention in His creation was that Eve would become one with God.

Because Eve followed Satan's command, she became one with him.

Immediately after the Fall, God began the work through the family of Adam in order to undo the wrong course of history by going through the reverse course.

God worked through Adam's family because by them not linking to God, the fall deprived members of this family of eternity which they were given this privilege at their creation.

This is the process God used to bring about restoration of the first parents:

Cain was the very first fruit of love linked to Satan who took Eve which was on the side of evil.  Abel who was the second fruit of love, was placed to resemble the side of heaven.

This was the beginning of the history of struggle between good and evil which was aimed at the fundamental restoration through indemnity.

Cain and Abel made offerings to God at the same time, but God received only the offering from Abel, the second son, who represented God's side.

Cain represented Satan's side and God refused his offering.

The reason for this was that the second son should restore the birthright of the first son who represented Satan who was the first 'son' in relation to Adam.

Cain was to make his offering through Abel.  This is the orderly path of restoring the mistake of their parents.  This would have restored their mistake.

But because Cain could not humble to Abel and killed his brother, heaven thus worked through Seth who worked on behalf of Abel.  This providence was extended to his descendants.

Because of their failure to restore the Fall, while outside of their mother's womb, God had to accomplish His dispensation beginning within the womb.

Once we know this simple fact, we understand when Rebecca asked God why Esau and Jacob fought within her womb, God said, "Two nations are in your womb..the elder shall serve the younger." Genesis 25:23

After she understood the providence of God's will to return the mistake of Cain and Abel, she came to take greater care of the second son, Jacob.

Jacob had the responsibility to restore through indemnity the birthright of his brother Esau, emulating Adam and Abel to take back the birthright of God from Satan and Cain and bringing it back to the correct position.

That leaves one position left for this to be successful.  Rebecca needed to fulfill her responsibility in the position of Eve.

Now, we can understand the biblical account of why the firstborn was struck in Egypt during the course of Israelites' exodus and Jacob's switching of his hands over Manasseh and Ephraim at the time of their blessing.

These all contained the hidden will of heaven in order to bring about the reversal of the mistake of the first and second sons.

God's Providence to Send the Messiah


Eve deceived, God, her Father and Adam, in her fall.  To restore this, Rebecca stood on heaven's side and deceived the father Isaac and her son Esau so that Jacob could receive the blessing.

Jacob bought the birthright of the first born and initiated the lineage of Israelites on this victory which was won with the cooperation of a mother and her son.

However, when Jacob was successful in fulfilling God's will of taking full control of the birthright of the firstborn, he was already forty years old.

Therefore those who were forty and older were in the realm of victory over Satan.

But those under forty did not have a condition that gave them victory over the control of Satan on that level.

Therefore, a new dispensation was carried out for the purpose of gaining victory within the womb.  Tarmar and her twins Zerah and Perez.  Perez was the younger brother, but he pushed Zerah aside in order to become be the first born.  In fact, the word "Perez" is derived from this event.

At the beginning of history, Satan's lineage was planted within the mother's womb.

How was this possible when humanity was created by God?

We saw in the previous post that the misuse of the sexual organs was the actual cause of the Fall.

The archangel had tempted Eve with fallen love that was outside of God's dominion.  Through a sexual relationship passed on this sin to Adam, thus bearing children that were connected to Satan's blood.

The only way that the blood lineage passes from one to the other is through the action of a sexual encounter.

This mother's womb was restored to the side of God through Tamar following the will of God. Therefore, heaven took control over the first-son realm and the second son realm to God's original lineage which had caused the fall.

This was the way that the tribe of Judah formed a pure foundation where the Messiah could be born through that lineage.

This was not a simple reversal.

Tamar, as a woman fulfilling Eve's mistake, had to place herself in the position of deceiving her father and son.   She had to deny her father-in-law and his sons, whom she eventually would marry, in order to separate the position of Eve from Satan.

After this was accomplished, a basic tradition was established where God's children could be conceived without the original sin. The womb was purified from Satan's invasion.

Then it was up to the Israelites and Judaism to carry on this standard of victory in the womb until the time of the Messiah could be sent.

But by then , Satan had already had an established nation in the world.  Therefore, to send the Messiah at that time, there was not a safe national foundation for him to stand where the dispensation for restoring the world.

God had to wait 2,000 years until there was enough of this national foundation, where a woman could stand in the position of Eve, for Him to carry out His providence.

This finally took place through Mary who was Jesus' mother.

When Adam and Eve created the fall, they were engaged at that time, but they were not married by God yet.

In the same way, Mary and Joseph were betrothed to each other centered on God.  Just as Rebecca and Tamar, Mary was a revolutionary woman.  She was called by God to take part in the process of recreating Adam.

Since, Eve had deceived God and Adam, Mary had to place herself in a position to reverse Eve's mistake by deceiving her father and son.

This is the process where Jesus was conceived.  Therefore, Satan could not invade Mary's womb during the time of Jesus.

Jesus was born of a womb that belonged to a victorious woman who reveresed the reverse is the first fruit of the first love.

This was the first time in history that the bond to love Satan's children was established.

During the time that Jesus was in Mary's womb, Satan could make no invasion through lineage.  Even though saints dedicated their lives as individuals.

This is true today.  There, the Christian point of view was able to be used and was able to spread.

Finally, God has worked to use the victory in the Second War and the Christian cultural sphere to be able to accomplish unification of the world.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook for World Peace, Chapter 3

Does God Exist?

Throughout history mankind has been pondering the fundamental question of whether or not God exists. But history has developed until the present time without a definitive answer being found to that question. However, if God exists and is a personal God as well, whatever God may think and plan is the ideal which all mankind ought to seek.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


What would be the most basic question to God?

What is the true relationship between God and mankind and whether or not God exists would be the best questions.

To answer whether God exists, we can for the time being take the philosophical approach about ourselves, or 'I'.  Throughout history, philosophers had different answers for whether "I exist and how to know if 'I' exist.

"I think, therefore I am. I cannot doubt that I doubt" is what has been asserted.

Then where did thinking originate?

Some answer that it comes from the brain while others will assert that man's spirit is the origin of his own thought.

Whatever answer we find, man has a separate origin than thought.  So we should answer the two questions separately.

Evolution has been the answer to where man originated which answer that man came about by chance and through the slow progression from apes.

This answer is expedient, but is is not actually the fundamental one.  If this is the case, then evolution has to have an origin somewhere.  Even science is becoming aware of this fact.

This process alone does not answer where did man's spirit, mind and thought within man begin if an animal does not possess these same qualities.

In order to begin to answer this question we would have to start at the beginning of creation and observe the elements of that creation.

The amoebae is the simplest organisms.  What if the amoebae has the capacity of a simple thought/  How would this simple conscious evolve into the complicated human mind?

Can we truly say that our noble spirit of humankind came from this simple organism alone without any help to reach the more complex species?

We know that the human mind has a greater capacity.  This is not a logical solution.  Through the development of man's body, there should have been something that brought the human spirit into being.

Through the explanation of evolution, we must conclude that the elements of greater and greater thought were added bit by bit to the simple consciousness of the amoebae until we reached the level of the human mind and spirit we possess in our day.

Does the amoebae, which is the beginning of the evolutionary point, contain the kind of energy necessary to propel itself forward into a higher being on its on natural course of evolving?

If not, then there must have been some extra energy that was supplied from the outside.  Then man did not come from just a natural , or automatic occurrence which is explained through the process of evolution.

Those who observe the phenomenon of the evolutionary development do not try to figure out the question and only just observe the end result and call it evolution. But when each step of the process is analyzed, there are clearly some missing factors.

When we look at the internal aspect more deeply, we know that there had to be some additional power besides just the object which is changing.  When amoebas today collect in greater numbers do they somehow produce the human spirit?

Every element, even the amoeba possesses an inner form and an external form.  These two aspects work together as a joint unit, with the internal aspect behaving as the central point.

The two major schools of philosophical thought: materialism, which considers matter as the essence of the universe, and the metaphysical idealism, which considers spirit as the essence around which everything else in the universe revolves.

The age-old philosophical question is whether consciousness precedes existence or existence precedes consciousness. 

When we observe the external aspects, it looks like existence came before conscious and developed naturally.  But when we look at the internal point-of-view, there had to be an awareness or consciousness first, from which sprang being or existence.

Two entirely different viewpoints emerge depending on how this question is answered.  Which is the true one?

Materialist philosophy is on one side and the other side has the clear acceptance of a Creator or God as the origin.  Between these two ideologies there are thousands of different theories.

When we look between these two opposing viewpoints, which is 'internal' and 'external', struggle arises.  This simple fact is important to know because once we know the true order of things, there is the end to this struggle.

We must know the truth which came first, consciousness or existence of matter itself and then which is the subject and which is the object.

But if we continue to believe that matter and spirit coexist on an equal level, there will always be struggle between ideologies and mankind.

Marxism is founded on the belief that the universe sprang from the essential element of material and that consciousness is a by-product of matter coming into existence first preceding it.

We can break down the most basic component of matter which is the atom into smaller particles.

The atom consists of the neutron and proton with the electron circling around it.  This proton occupies the center and takes on the subject position; however, within the proton there is another give and take action where further breakdown can occur.

All of these elements come together beginning with some motion.

Whichever particle created the motion becomes the subject.

The nucleus is the central point and beginning of motion within the atom.  Within the amoebae the same thing applies.  The amoebae has an internal nucleus character and an external character.

Also, each of the billions of cells within the human body has a nucleus as well.  If there is a concept of a center, then all four directions must exist.  What is the purpose served by the central point within?

The central position determines the location of the axis; it is the position of the starting point. Without it, nothing can move.

What determines the shape and characteristic of each atom is its nucleus?  The characteristic of the nucleus determines the substance of the outer body, so the central nucleus is the key determining factor for the entire being.

This is true for the development of the different forms of existence.

As atoms move about together into different types of nuclei, the outward characteristics become markedly different.   One direction consists of the vegetable world, in another is the animal world, then the mineral world.

The central nucleus character is determined first then the outward phenomenon, or the external form, is determined.

Evolution is based on the assumption that life just happened by chance or accident on its own, automatically.  But there is no way for such development to just happen automatically without an outside force.

When there are two different types of nuclei there will be two different types of external forms.

For example, no matter how hard a Chinese cabbage and a radish try, a radish cannot become a Chinese cabbage and the cabbage cannot become the radish.

It is impossible for them to come together and create a new form.  By observing the basic elements we see that they have two different nuclei with totally different characteristics.

Unless the element of the nucleus are changed, the external forms cannot be changed.  The monkey and the human resemble each other.  Also, other animals such as the dog, cat and cow have eyes and ears similar to the humans.

Does this mean that the cow becomes a man and a man becomes the cow because of the similarities?

This is impossible because the determining fact of anything in existence is its nucleus, which is the center.

Humans have the determining factor of humanity; cows have the cow-determining factor; and dogs have the dog-determining factor.  As long as these each carry different nuclei, no matter the effort spent on external unity, they can never become interchangeable.

To begin with, the monkey and human beings have different items.  The monkey has the monkey-determining factor and the man has the man determining factor.

The two have entirely different purposes, as well.  Should we conclude that the monkey automatically evolved into a man?

By looking at the internal aspects we see this does not hold true.

The nucleus is in the position to relate to all four directions.  It can exert influence in all four direction and receive energy from all four directions.  The nucleus determines the overall character of the external form.

In other words, the nucleus determines its shape and its substance.  When we view from the concept of a central nucleus, the internal and external aspects of man can be more understood.

The theory of evolution cannot explain the internal and external because it does not have the understanding of the core or center at the most basic form.

The elements might not have occurred in all four directions at the same time. Maybe they began with one direction; but ultimately they covered the entire four directions. The four directions of east, west, north and south have different characteristics from each other.

Every essential element of matter has a different origination point. 

Between the nucleus and the body, the nucleus comes first in the subject position and it determines the nature of the objective body.  Even though it is invisible, the internal is first.

Whoever takes the initiative is the subject.

For instance, in order for you to sit in your chair you had to have the initiative to get up in the morning and then sit down where you are now.  This motivation for an action comes from within the nucleus, which is the center point.

You first had to determine within your thinking to get up and get ready.  Your body, which is material, did not push your mind to come to where you are right now from your bed.

Since that core-nucleus exists prior to objective embodiment(external), the internal occurs before the external. 

This core makes the external embodiment, which we can observe, possible.

This is not the other way around.  This same principle can be applied everywhere.  So, the internal reality and the internal character comes first and then is the subject position.

The theory of evolution falls apart simply because it does not explain how one nucleus change itself into another nucleus containing totally different elements.

If a scientist tried to command the several elements with differing nuclei to come together, no matter how hard he tries to manipulate the union if there is no mutual interaction or possibility for reciprocal relationship, those nuclei can never come together.

By knowing the internal aspects and that the nuclei determines the external form how can we just accept the information that the universe developed through natural occurrences without planning?

There must be some external source of power, will and initiative.  Some universal nucleus-idea which is the governing factor of the entire universe must have had a hand in the manipulation of several different aspects of the creation.

Each of us has a nucleus that went through the process of gathering up the substance that makes us who we are.  Our nucleus has its own characteristic.

The central nucleus determines liking or disliking, willing and not willing.  Therefore, each nucleus is different from others; it is unique.

Our nucleus has already determined our size and character.  We cannot go beyond our own characteristic nucleus, nor can he become anything less than the nucleus requires.

Exactly what the nucleus was, we became. 

Also, nothing can be added to it because it would be foreign.  No matter how much other elements try to enter that character, it will not be accepted unless the nucleus ordered certain substances.

We can view all men as 'cells' for some universal nucleus character.  We are a part of something that is bigger than ourselves.

The central characteristic of man is heart and this central characteristic is common to all. 

We cannot relate equally with the animal world because we are human beings and they are animals.

Man is man.  We are each a part of the human family as one cohesive group.  We have a common character within each of us.  We strive to become better and pursue goodness.

Because of this, we always reach out for new horizons, and greater and higher universal character.

In other words, we want something better and some way to progress.  This is why the whole of humanity continually heads toward betterment because such character exists within the common human nucleus.

Since we all have a basic common search to do good and become better, there must be something bigger than our own character within this universal character.  We recognize as a collective group that we are objects to some greater subject.

Because there is a common human search for goodness and betterment, there is something bigger than our own character within the universal character.

As a collective group we recognize that there is some greater nucleus; we recognize ourselves as objects to that greater subject. The human consciousness involves this collective effort to reach out to that universal consciousness.

Because of our human consciousness, we can reach out to that greater consciousness and we can communicate with it.

In that way, universal consciousness becomes subject and we become the object or substance of that universal consciousness. We are glad to become the objective consciousness of that nucleus conscious.
We would want to communicate and align ourselves with that central consciousness.  That consciousness has many several different names throughout religion, but it would be the true originator of all existence.

We call this originator of such consciousness and human beings, God.

This central consciousness would be the center of all existence.  Man stands uniquely as the microcosm of the macro-cosmic universe.


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This post was rewritten in conversational form and derived from the speech God and Us.

Adam and Eve Were the Seed

When you look at the first children of God, you can view them as the seed of the universe.  

They contained the initiation of the ideal of one family, one tribe, one nation and one world.  When the first parents fell away from God, that seed was contaminated as they followed Satan's words and spread a family of evil.

It is now very difficult to cleanse this world.  It's not just one man, one family, but billions of men are infected by the disease of sin.

We are no longer dealing with the original seed and containing the contamination is not that easy. We have the work to change everyone one by one into the form of the original cell, the original seed of Adam.  We are to restore our lineage through individually becoming a seed with that original, God-centered core.  Then that core will multiply in a chain reaction.

In order for us to embody truth or perfection, we must reach out and draw vitality from all over the world, just like fruit on a tree. 

Like this fruit, we are at the end of world.  That fruit at the end of a branch draws energy not only from that little branch but from the entire tree in order to be perfected.  Our energy must come from the entire world not just one area of the universe.

When we speak of restoration, we deal with the entire universe in order to become perfected.   Then we recreate our own family, society, nation and world out of our own core, our own seed not having anything to do with sin.

We will tackle the world's problems and make them ours.

We must have the pride to say, "The world will be perfected because of me since I am a branch of the Messiah; I am one important component of the Messiah's work."

Do you have that kind of conviction and pride?

Doing this work, you can be like God.  You can then see God's will as your will, and God's work as your work, God's ambition and anxiety as your own.  When God looks at this world, do you think he sees it as small or big?

God views the world as the size of a ping pong ball that he can put in his pocket. He can toss it, grab it and do whatever He wants with it.  This is the way you should feel while doing God's work in the providence.

You can look at this world and say, " I can put this world in my pocket. I can claim it; I can cleanse it; I can toss it around."

Since you view the world from God's point-of-view, you perceive Gods will and ideal as your own.  You can think that the world moves because of you and you can move the universe.  When such speeches are given they are misconstrued to say that one can conquer the universe.

We cannot move this world or any mountain without having this conviction.  Even if God did not exist, we would still need a concept even in hypothesis of one God, one creator in order to unite the world into one. But because we know that one God exists, we can be even more confident that unity is going to be fulfilled.

Our real joy is in knowing there is a God.  If we truly perceive His ideal on earth, then there is no way to fail in the mission.

If God is real, then you just go ahead because what needs to be done is obvious without instruction. 

Anybody can leave at any time during their hard work and run away, but because God is really there, they do not want to be separated from Him and lose this wonderful opportunity to do His Will.

You have only one opportunity, one life time to employ your all here on earth.  How can one waste even one second of their life when they realize the seriousness and reality of God's providence to restore every man back to their original form?

Billions of people are waiting in the wide world.  Time is so precious and everything must be done now.

There is much negativity toward those who do the greatest work of restoration for God.  

Some are greedy and in another way they are ambitious.  Ambitious people are actually needed in this work if they know how to do the right thing.  It is actually God's strategy to spread negative rumors and allegation so that only those people who are genuine and determined to give even their lives for the sake of God come to do His work.

When outside people say, "Don't do the work for a certain group, you will ruin your life," it is like advertising for the movement.

Good people have heard many good publicity about things in this world and are later disappointed by things in this world.  Then when they hear bad things about people like Reverend Moon whose followers believe he is the Second Coming of Christ, they say that there must be something there or otherwise people wouldn't oppose him so much like a fan club against him.

They will then want to weigh in for themselves in the face of adversaries that try to discredit him. Such negativity will be like a challenge to God and he will then prove to the world that Reverend Moon is good since they try to make him look bad. Then God will make an extra effort to polish His own commodity and show it to the world.

Then we can conclude that someone who is truly searching for the truth of God in these last days, they should go and knock on the door of the group that receives a lot of persecution for no reason.

"My life here on earth is very limited, and in this short span of time I have tremendous work to do so I do not want to waste even a split second. I just run, run, run. I am responsible not only for America, but also for Europe, Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. I am worrying about the whole communist world. I have the whole world to worry about in the short span of one lifetime, so I am always running.

Because my physical body is limited I sent out missionaries to 120 nations. The people in the physical world and the spirit world have a right to protest or complain to me if I do not visit their countries for at least three months. They can say to me, "You have the mission to bring salvation to us and to the universe. Why did you stay in America for so long? Why didn't you come to visit my country just once?".

However, here on earth I have physical limitations.

If I were to visit 120 nations of the world for three months each, it would take 360 months to come back to the United States. Just to make one visit around the world with three months in each country would take 30 years! Is it realistically possible?

I had to tell spirit world, "You know it would take 30 years to visit each country, and I have to finish an important ministry in certain places."

Then spirit world said, "You are right. You cannot make such a tour, but then at least send your representatives."

I accepted that offer from spirit world and sent the missionaries out to 127 nations. However, some of these nations instead of welcoming them, persecuted our missionaries and put them in jail. But the fact remains that my representatives have been sent.

If those nations did not accept them, that is their responsibility. Now no one can accuse me of being unconcerned about those nations.

Furthermore, I am well-known, not only here in America, but all over the world. Even though I was not physically in every nation to proclaim the truth, my name and work has still been spread all over the world, fulfilling the necessary condition.

Now, I am in a position to accuse those nations.

I sent my ambassadors, my representative, to those countries, and they have heard about me. If those people never even listened to us, how can they say that we have not done our part? They must not judge us without investigating the situation, listening only to allegations and rumors. They must draw their own conclusions. If people just accept rumors without investigating us, they are in the wrong.

Whether as good or bad, whether as controversial or not, I am known all over the world.

Now, I can say that I have done my job, and I am free from any accusation of the people. Now, I am putting responsibility into their hands. They cannot complain to God that I did not declare the truth to them. There is no condition for accusation existing.

Satan has no way to accuse and the people have no way to accuse. If they come to oppose me even more, the condition exist for God to let us reap more and more blessings. They must pay the penalty. I am in a position to bring a libel suit against Satan, "What you have done is character assassination, and now you must pay the penalty.".

The amazing thing is that the people who oppose me, including the media, are actually helping the Unification Church to receive greater blessing. If 1 had not been opposed in the most horrendous way by the Washington Post and the New York Times, we would not have created our own newspaper, the News World. We would not have needed it.

Therefore, they brought us the blessing of the News World.  Accusation coming from the white community in America gives a chance to all the minority groups to come, which is a blessing.

Any accusation or opposition is matched by equal blessing. 

Because most of the white community is opposing me, the black people are coming to take my side in indignation at my being mistreated. But actually, as far as I am concerned, white and black are the same in the sight of God."

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

Now that you understand God's will and individual perfection, then who would be your enemy to oppose this?  It is not Satan who is your enemy.  It would be you yourself that is your own enemy.

Is your mind and body one in serving God?  Would it be more difficult to unite the entire universe or your own mind and body?

Unity must first begin between each of our minds and body.  This is the principle that can unify the rest of the world.  The key to unification of the entire universe is not the universe itself or spirit world, but the key is you yourself.  Then who is your true enemy?  Your own eyes and ears, your nose, mouth, thoughts are your true enemy.

Thus it is imperative to recreate your five senses and your arms and legs to work centered on God so you can live entirely for God and His providence of restoration. That is your revolution.


War Within

Did you know that there is a borderline within yourself that divides the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of hell?

These two world meet in you.

If you move to the left, you end up in hell; if you move to the right, you end up in the Kingdom of God. Many people begin on the borderline where they are neither with God or Satan's kingdom, but then they shift to the left and fall all the way down to the dungeons of hell.

Then there are some people who make effort and keep pushing themselves to the right until they are entirely dwelling on the side of God.  Then the there is the third type of person who does not know which side they will reside and  wander along the line with one foot always on the other side.

Your conscience knows well which type you are.

If it was easy to become the right type then the world would be easy to restore within one generation following the true way of life. In order to follow the true way, your own eyes must be revolutionized, because they see something beautiful and you have lustful thoughts wandering around.

Your new eyes will see straight to the will of God.  Your ears need to be revolutionized along with your mouth, nose, hands to focus only true things - your whole body must become entirely different.  This is why the true religions teach about ruthlessly disciplining the fallen body.  In a way, this is cruel.

Religion teaches the self-sacrificial way of life, because Satan must separate when you are cruel to your own fallen self and worldly ways. The most important question is can you do it?

In order to build the Kingdom of God on earth, you first start by going down to the dungeons of human misery. There in hell, you create your own spring, your own heaven.

In this way, your own heaven is guaranteed.  Many people of faith have become selfish praying for their salvation, their small corner in heaven.  The true way is to work for world salvation.  Are we living in a world of paradise or a world of misery?

If this world of misery is to change into the world of the Heaven on earth, will it be brought by singing and dancing only, having picnics only laughing and having a good time with the best foods?  Is relaxing only going to make the world less miserable?

To bring some hope and happiness to this unhappy, chaotic world, you have to conquer misery and unhappiness.

To transform the world of misery, you must begin at the bottom of human misery leading an even more miserable life for the sake of happiness, for the sake of God.  This is the only way to liberate the misery out of the world: transform the bottom of hell on earth into the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

If one was to work hard in the lowest place on earth to transform it back to God and the principle does not work, then there is nothing more to worry about.

In that case, no victory after following this heavenly principle means there is no God, no spirit world and no hope.

"I came to this conclusion a long time ago and I determined to liberate this unhappy world. In order to do that I determined to bring myself down to the most miserable life, and to bring about the liberation there.

What can bring hope and light and some promise for the future down to that miserable world? The person who can live a real life down on the bottom himself is the person who can bring real happiness that people can rely on. People can trust that kind of life."


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The Will of God and the Individual