Control Fleshly Desire, Gain the Universe

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

The mind that is governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh/body cannot please God.

Romans Chapter 8:5-8



Mind and Body Unity

There was a time that man could communicate directly to God.  This was the state of sinlessness that we witnessed before the Fall.  This is the state of having mind and body unity; a state of the spirit leading the body or flesh.

Is it possible for us to have mind and body unity - for the flesh and spirit to unite into one?  If so, when and where will this happen?  It's not really a question of if it will happen because man must absolutely return to the state of sinlessness.

If the mind and body are moving in different directions they will never find unity.  On the other hand, if the mind and body can welcome each other and move in the same direction, then they will work in harmony instead of be in conflict.

Many ask why God does not make our mind and body unify if He is such a powerful God.

The author of the Divine Principle which this blog is based on discussed about his time in prison for teaching about God during the Japanese occupation in Korea which he relied on this principle of mind and body unity:

"I have experienced the harshest life in a prison labor camp and I found that actually the greatest suffering is not found in prison but in the conflict between mind and body. Sinful man always regrets the consequences of his body struggling against his mind.

I ultimately came to the conclusion that my enemy is not the world or even the communists but my own body. Your worst enemy is your body. 

Do you believe it? I established one very firm principle for myself, that I must conquer myself before having dominion over anything else.

Each of you is also committed to a ruthless battle of subjugating your own body. Your job is to have your body surrender to your mind and then bring it in the same direction. That is why a religious life is the pursuit of conquering your body.

If you have not conquered your own body then you haven't reached the standard yet.

Religion teaches the importance of a life of penance; when your body wants to rest then you should wake up and pray. Your body wants to eat delicious meals but religion teaches the value of fasting.

What the body wants the mind rejects.

What is gained by living that way?

By giving up your body you can receive the entire universe, so it's a very good deal in a way. By giving up a little bit of your flesh you can gain the entire universe.

This is absolutely true.

Why is it that you cannot feel the love of God all the time?

Your body is the barrier preventing the love of God from reaching you. God's love is shining forth but your body is blocking it, so by sacrificing your body and liquidating the barrier so the shining love of God can freely reach you.

Once this happens nothing will be in your way and the total unity between God and man and mind and body can become a living reality. Once you can receive God's love, God will certainly dwell with you. God needs true love and cannot leave it once He has found it.

Do you really understand this now?

What you ultimately need the most is the love of God. Do you know how beautiful and how powerful the love of God is?

In this world men and women have romances and say they could die for love of each other, but suppose they were to fall in love with God first. 

That's the key.

I searched and found how that love of God can be reached. I not only found the answer but have experienced how the love of God can reach man. With the love of God the mind and body can unite in total oneness.

The love of God needs an object in order to manifest; man is that object. When will this become reality? Religions have been teaching that the end of the world will occur when one central figure comes, or in Christian terms the Lord of the Second Advent.

The love of God will be seen where the Messiah and his bride meet for the heavenly wedding ceremony.

Is that place a horrible scene of judgment or a scene of cosmic spring and the fulfillment of love? God works logically and through your own mind you know that the first heavenly family will bring the cosmic spring."SMM

The Messiah will first reconcile the body and mind

The family is the building block of the kingdom of heaven on earth first.  We believe the road to world peace will begin through the nation or on the world-wide level, but it starts with the husband and wife.  The ideal of the heavenly four realms of heart or four-position foundation is a strong point that should be taught: God, man and woman and heavenly children centered on God's love.

When the four realms create a relationship centered on God's love, this completes the circuit for the expression of His love.  This is where the perfection of love is born and the heavenly kingdom will expand over time.  This four-position relationship in each family is duplicated and expands.

What is the Lord of the Second Advent or the second messiah's mission when he returns?

Jesus Christ was to realize a physical Heaven on Earth, not just a spiritual path to Heaven.  Are we currently able to live in a Utopia?

No, Christians surmount that we can only have true peace once we shed our bodies and enter the realm of spirit.  This is why the Messiah returns.  To bring physical salvation.

When he comes it is asked in the bible, will he find faith?

So, will he be spending his time visiting countries to heal people with cancer and feed the poor?  In a way he will be.  He will be giving spiritual food to humanity in order to unite their mind and body with the fire of God's love.

That's the job of the Messiah. If he can ignite the love of God in your heart so that your body and mind can become one, then he has done his job. 

After the mind and body are united you can follow his pattern and create a family, tribe nation and world and ultimately the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven. If that is indeed possible the world will see salvation. If God is really God and if His love is really burning then that must all take place here on earth.

God would not create such a world to only be recognized and loved in the world of spirit only and He has never given up the fight to bring restoration back to earth and His children.

He cannot build the Kingdom of Heaven without reconciling the body and mind's contradictory elements.  Jesus said we join him in Paradise which is not Heaven.  The Messiah will give the word to teach us how to subjugate the body which is blocking God's love.

What else does God really need from man?

God has lots of love within Himself so why should He need more?  Is He greedy?


"I am a man so I have love in my heart and in my body, but can I say that I don't need any more love, that I have enough love to be happy? It is a profound truth that love will never become real love until it finds an object."


Even though God is almighty, He still cannot activate love without having an object in which He can have a give and take relationship.

An object ignites love.  

Who is the highest object of God's love?  A monkey?

What else but man can be qualified as God's object of deep love?  Then, does the universal God choose to love just any kind of mind or does He long to deal with one who has a universal mind? Is the mind or body God's real object?  Which one does He relate with love?

Your mind is so big that you can even trap God inside.

Your mind feels like it is big enough to challenge the world.  Every human has the qualification to be the object of God because we are endowed with such a mind that God can deal with.  When God loves you, will He complain how dirty you are after you dealt with the satanic world and push you aside?  Is God's love conditional, partial or total and unreserved?

When God fervently embraces you, this burns away all your sinful past in order to try to give you all of His love.

One who is enraptured in the total love of God, every cell will be filled and there will not be a want for anything further.  You feel totally intoxicated in this state and do not want this goodness to end.  This is the real world in which we live.  Every human is supposed to be host to such a love.  Don't we want to have even a taste of such a world now?

This is why we desire and long for World Peace.

The teachings of Reverend Moon is for the purpose to lead humanity toward such a world of peace and love.  But many people believe him to be a hustler or that he is deluding members and people to a beautiful idea in order to enslave everybody for his own selfish purpose.

How do you know this is not so?

Even if he is a swindler, a better solution has never been found in all of history in order to bring about Heaven on Earth.  He is like the plus pole trying to put a fire under the cold and sleepy minus world.

Plus and minus instantly spark when they first unite, but this world has become so numb that this connection has been lost.  It takes a lot of effort to wake up this sleepy world and put a spark that will jump us awake.

Both God and man are in the same tragic situation because their common purpose has not been fulfilled.

What kind of God is He, and why does He approach man?

God and man definitely need one another so there is a common goal or purpose that they both want to achieve to seal this bond where we can meet or else we cannot unite.  We need to know the importance of the relationship of God and man.

Man have used money, knowledge and experience to be able to survive on this earthly plane.  But, does God need these things from man?

No.

There has to exist a common purpose where God needs man and man needs God.  This common purpose has somehow not been fulfilled.  This is the tragedy of both God and man.

Where can we find a remedy for the conflict between our mind and our body trying to dominate the other.  There must be something wrong in our hearts to cause this conflict.  In the original world before sin sprouted, there was a place where both God and man dwell, but somewhere along the way man separated himself from this place and lost connection to God in the process.


Concluding that there is a perfect God and realizing the imperfect state of man today we must come to one logical conclusion: Man is the one who is out of order, not God. Man deviated from his original state and is thus prevented from reaching perfection.


If we reconcile this imperfection of man we can soon connect to the perfection of God.

When we acknowledge the repercussions of the Fall of man, we realize the existence and perfection of God.

This information is very precious.

Many blame God for the situation and state of the world today, but the fault does not lie within God, but in man.  At the same time, through this knowledge we can explain the imperfection and the self-contradiction dwelling in man.

God lives in a perfected state while after we lost our direct connection to God we experienced struggle between our mind and body.  Once we know the true fault of the fall, we can logically justify the existence of a perfected loving God and sinful man.

It is from this point that two worlds came into being instead of just the original pure one God intended.

The world of goodness is governed by God and the world of evil is the result of the fall. 

We cannot accept the premise of atheists that there is no God due to the imperfection of man. We know the Principle. After knowing this we can recognize how the God of perfection has been making efforts throughout history to restore the corrupted world into goodness. Religion testifies to God's efforts.

What is the purpose of religion?

Religion is God's tool to communicate to this imperfect world and raise up good men.  In other words, religion strives to bring this fallen world closer to God.

So, what is goodness?

Anything that tries to bring unity between God and man is good.  People are in the dark about how to define goodness.  

Is hard work, eloquent speech, fasting an example of goodness?

Good springs from love. 

All religion teaches love as the source because it is the common purpose shared by God and man.  Religion has been making effort toward unity between God and man by stressing the common purpose of love.

God's search for men of goodness has love as the ultimate goal and man is searching for God for the very same reason.



Return For Tomorrow's Post: Control Fleshly Desire, Gain the Universe part II

The text today is rewritten and based on the speech Core of Unification.

The Language of Love

"There is no proper arrangement for the words of Father's speech. You cannot find this arrangement in the dictionary. But love imagination perspective makes acute sense for our life. It is Unification terminology." 

We have heard the saying the "language of love".  In the Western world, letters do not hold as deep as a meaning as the characters in the Asian society of the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.  To learn the rich context of each stroke takes many years of learning and the significance of each is extraordinary when we understanding the meaning.

Oftentimes we will see someone bearing a Chinese character for the beauty of its appearance without knowing the meaning or creating no meaning at all when coupled with a non-related character.

The author of the Divine Principle who was born in Korea speaks more on this topic of Korean characters in relation to the language of Love:


"As you know the oriental language is symbolic. The characters are actually pictures that explain what they mean. In English, the letters L O V E in themselves do not mean anything.

But the character for the word love in Korean has lines and shapes representing heaven, the three stages, a house (meaning embraced by) and mind and other lines representing the original two people.

All these concepts come together to make one word, love. This is very revealing. A revelatory character. "Heaven" is written with the sign for two persons. "Righteous" means "sheep like myself". "Goodness" also has a sheep and two people who support each other. Each word itself teaches us something.


Love Imagination

You cannot omit even one stroke in the word "love" and feel that it is right. What about the character for "imagination?" It is a tree. Man resembles a tree more than he resembles grass. A tree always grows to be round. The shape starts out long but altogether has a round effect with the leaves and branches.

The history of a tree very much resembles the history of man.

It starts from a root, then the trunk starts growing, and then the branches and leaves. Man is the same but inverted. His roots are up in heaven with the leaves reaching to the ground. We do not exist haphazardly, but in a balanced way.

A tree has water and man has blood. Blood and love is what makes us go.

Love is an important ingredient of life leading us to bear fruit. We love with the result or the fruit in mind. Synthesis, division and synthesis is the process. Man and woman are brought together with love to bear fruit.

We unite and divide for the sake of love. All functions are for love. Communists take the same way but explain it as unity and antagonism. But antagonized beings can never come together to unite again.

In love we do not make so much noise.

All five senses go numb in love. Only love is active in every cell. Unless we can explain human life like this, we cannot explain who we are.

We embrace with our eyes closed. If you don't, you are either a spy or not really in love. That spy can only represent evil existing to hurt their partner. It is a simple explanation, but is half of what human beings are.

What about Moonies?

Do we keep our eyes open when we think about serious things?  No, we meditate with our eyes closed. If you hate someone you keep your eyes open. Antagonism does not bring fruit. A crucial concept is the understanding of unity, division and synthesis.

Through it we can explain humanity. The Korean character for "tree" looks like a cross with a man next to it. There are vertical and horizontal lines. The eyes represent three stages meaning we see in three stages or in total.

No one knows how these characters were developed. But when Father analyzes them they fit completely. If you draw two big persons and two small persons, it looks like a family. Next to the tree are lots of eyes. These characters combined together mean "imagination".

"Thought" the Korean character is two words. Vertical and horizontal lines together. This shows a mind that can reach all four directions.

Other languages based only on phonetics cannot compare with this. Compare the characteristics of oriental and western minds. Westerners are concrete. They want to take everything apart. Orientals are deep in thought, embracing and more round.

If you meet three different westerners you can predict exactly what they will be like. They are all very similar. In the orient people are all different. Westerners are simple and easy to fathom, but not Orientals.

Now the west is coming to search for the east, but not so much the other way around. The Orientals already know what they can gain from the west.

White people represent the north pole and blacks represent the south pole.

For whites to reach the warm climate they must embrace the other extreme.

The twentieth century is a warm climate civilization. England and Asia are in moderate climate zones. Without embracing blacks, whites cannot stay in the warm climate. Even the sun moves, it does not stay in just one place.

The law of the universe is that there are four season. It does not matter if you like them or not, they still come. God likes them that way.

Western civilization is in an "exhaling" time in history. Next is the "inhaling" time, the time of embracing. Exhaling means giving everything away. We have exhaled everything and are now in a deadlock. There is nothing left.

Which way should we go?

Next, the inhaling time comes to draw all back in. So western people should not refuse to go the other way now. If white people say "I do not like Koreans, Reverend Moon or black people, they cannot continue. The wise man will want to quickly inhale as much as possible.  Moonies are like that."SMM

World Unity Imminent

We are being shown that this is the time for embracing all races, cultures, religions and countries. Whether the white people with a history of dominating and intolerance for differences like it or not they cannot stop history from going forward.

Reverend Moon teaches which direction history should go away from the fallen historical problems of the world and help others to become just as healthy and prosperous.  Those who follow his teachings always feel good and have hope for a bright future full of peace.

When people listen to any of his speeches they cannot deny this is true.

We cannot embrace just what we like. We have to embrace everything. With eyes of love we can see that everything is so precious. We do not want to miss even one hair on a person's head!

A small grasping American hand cannot grab Father.  It takes a big net and would be like catching the whole world. 

We have to embrace everything with the eyes of love and we will see that all is precious.  When we embrace, we do not even want to miss one strand of hair on a person's head.  This is how God loves.

God spent 4,000 years preparing the Israelites to accept Jesus Christ and prepare a land and people for his coming.  Since Jesus' mission was left incomplete, God prepared America as the second Israel.

When we look at the history and foundation of America, we see it was built upon sacrifice and the word of God.  Then America began to turn toward an individualistic country losing its vigor for God and its people. Americans still do sacrifice, but only in one direction.  Now all three directions of the world are coming against America saying they do not want to deal with them.

Those who sacrifice for God may be kicked down.  Father has been kicked from behind by all people so he had determination to advance.  Those who oppose those of faith cannot move forward, so they must kick the enemy forward.

All devices have been used to kick Reverend Moon down from his heavenly mission of bringing about the mission of the Messiah and the Completed Testament Age.  Arrows and bullets have been used to try to stop him from victory.


"He has scars everywhere, but still no arrow could penetrate. Father feels like he is an entity on display in a museum entitled "The Most Attacked Human Being". He endured that for the sake of God in order to represent God and His ideal and to create a God-loving world."


God cannot stay away from such a museum.  He wants to visit such a man.  All of spirit world follows God's way, so they too are concerned for Rev. Moon's situation.  Then all of the world will be paying attention to the teachings of Father because all of spirit world is in which we are connected.

If we are rich and well established we should next humble ourselves.

America will be born when it can sacrifice and die for the sake of the world.  Do Americans like this idea?

But if we as Americans do not undertake this task, we will repeat the downfall of the Romans and Sodom and Gomorrah that were societies that lived in decadence and fell from within its own social immorality.

Americans need to embrace all of humanity, the cosmos and even nature.  Then we will be welcomed once more.

Father has already taken a long time to speak, but who is counting time? Mother is! For our sake she tells Father not to speak too long. But in love, the longer it takes the better! You do not care. So as long as Mother watches the clock with love, we love her more.

These aren't just the ideology of Rev. Moon or his words; the universe protects the righteous man forever.  The universe have eyes and ears and it is sensitive and will protect you.


Reverend Moon explains the word Perspective in relation to Korean Characters:

Korean word for "love"

"'Perspective' is the most complicated word you can write in Korean characters. It is very stylish. It has two symbols representing grass, two representing man, with lines representing God on top of them. Then there is an eye, divided into three stages. It is very interesting!

Women use makeup in order to be noticed by others. We feel good if others pay attention to us. When it is with much love and respect we are even happier!

But if someone sees you and tried to lead you the wrong way and use you, you do not like them at all.

Many times the word "perspective" is abbreviated in Korean characters. People use a character that means "moon" - literally Father's family name.

The original mind of man already knew that one day we would look to Moon for the answers! This character literally says "Look at Moon". This is actually history and all humankind's terminal purpose."SMM


Father sweats from the heat, but feels good to explain this concept of love imagination(language) perspective means.  Now there is enough foundation to fly, but travelling by boat, air and train is the best.  Great men are said to travel on boats.


Man and Woman's Love

What is the most important element to man?  Life.

It means man's and woman's life. Which one is most important? [Both.] What is the center if you say both? How can man and woman be the same?

Our parents' life started our life and we eventually return to our parents.  When the parents love their children equally, then they are all the same.

The measurement of the angle has to be ninety degrees. No matter how big or how small it is, they must have the same ninety degree angle.

The women's movement began in the 1920s and exploded in the 1970s with women wanting to be equal in every facet of life.  But there is a limit to this equality.  We spoke about this in a previous post that no matter how much a woman protests to be exactly equal to a man, can she claim to grow a beard or stop her menses just because she doesn't like it anymore?

Man and woman were not born to compete with one another, but to be complementary to the other.  If we women continue to demand to be just like a man, in a century no more children will be born.  Women would soon protest, "Men don't have to go through the labor and pain of carrying a child, so why should we women, let's stop having them".

This behavior is a shame to the animal, plants and fish kingdom.  There is no power in the women's movement.

Man and woman were born to come into unity.  They were both born for the sake of love.  Once they embrace in love, they would be able to occupy each others position and change places.  In this original context of the Principle, we see that there would not be any room for competition between man and woman.  This is only accomplished through love and after love has been established.  There is no other explanation for the unity of man and woman.

Men were born for the sake of women and love and the reverse is also true.

What is the root and origin of the universe?

Religious people say heaven and Secular humanists would say man.  The democratic world stands in that position now.

How does Heaven function?  Does it use power and calamity or impose its will on others?  Heaven also uses the rules through love.  True love reaches north, south, east and west allowing everything to be equal.

The most basic question is does God exist and what is man.  We can observe the relationship between God and man.  Love is the center of everything and is the origin of life itself.  Only love has the ability to open up our eyes, ears and mouth in the happiest of excitement.




Why does God exist?  Is it to sit on His throne forever and never move from it exalting His power and Will upon His children?  Does God search for diamonds, silver and gold like humans?  No, he can create those things - His search is of of a true object.



"This is the kind of time Father longs for the sea, then the breeze would be blowing and I would not be sweating. Father is so tanned, he is becoming a cousin to black people! Father will start painting his face with black paint when the winter comes.

He will visit the white blessed couples in the middle of the night, without calling them first. He will sneak in and wake you and ask for something to eat! Father will check to see what kind of person you have become."


It is normal for men to use their right hand.  The universe welcomes right-handed people more than left-handed.

Why is this?

God is on the right side, so man wants to grasp heaven with the right side.  Man needs his right hand to protect the woman who stands on his left.  Man is always on the right side.  The Oriental civilization makes clear the sense of right and left.


God and Man Living Together

In America, loving couples fight over money and famous female stars get richer through marrying and divorcing richer men.

The worst person is that who cheats on their spouse.  Such a person will be accused by the universe, heaven, spouse, children and all of the spirit world.  If we see that we have done this kind of thing in the past, we have to repent to God, heaven, husband, children and the entire universe.

You should ask God how He would like to live.  He would answer, "I want to live with all mankind".  Instead when we look at the religious world, we see that everyone only prays for their heaven, for their own blessing.

We should pray, "If the country is going to die, please take my me and my husband instead and let the country survive in our place".  This is a Moonie prayer of daily sacrifice for the whole and how we become the center of this country.

This person's children will prosper.  This kind of love is 10, 000 times stronger than others.

Is God the kind of God that distinguishes good and bad people and send the 'bad' ones off to prison?  Even on the earthly plane, no one wants to be a judge.

All things want to follow a loving master. 

God wants to live by love.  If we separate from love, then we separate from God.  Even a dog understands this principle by wanting his master to love him more than he loves his wife.  even if they are a loving couple, when the master shows love to his wife the dog will sit on the wife's lap and share in their love.

A preacher's wife might not really want her husband to speak softly to other women, but all women want their husbands to use what is necessary to teach other people.

Any textbook Father chooses to teach a certain point is okay. We all want to be used as textbook material! Father can touch and give a kiss and for the point of teaching it is okay. Centering on love what can you not do?

If God lives for the sake of love, what does He need first?  He needs an object.  This is the purpose for all creation.  From our standpoint, with all the different levels of creation - man, plant, and animals - God's life looks very complicated.

God created all levels of creation to work together harmoniously.  Each level lives for the sake of the other level.  In this way, the opposite side is the center not the 'me'.  God does not even love centered on Himself.

God is the love king that dwells here to live for the sake of His love partner who is man.  This is the ideal of the equalization of love.  In this context, it is okay to be either a subject or an object just for the sake of love.  There is no dominance, cry for equality or room for competition in this reality.

Why am I born?

We are born with love imagination perspective. I represent life and parents centering on true love. Mother represents Father and woman represents man. Do not say your life is not connected to me. God's love connects parents and children.

God had in mind that we would embrace the whole world like a radio station broadcasting love.  He knew this from the beginning.  He is the king of wisdom.  Each created being lives for the sake of each other and thus expand the area of love.  We must go the center way.  We have to reach the origin.

Our conclusion is that the universe is centered on love. 

There are three very important points to remember:

One is love which is most important, two is life and three is blood. The blood is the blood connecting parents and children in one lineage.


The family has a lot of value.  We have everything.  We have God and we have parents.

All men on earth have a family consisting of grandparents, parents and children.  Our families represent all humanity past (grandparents), present (parents) and future (children).  God and parents with love at the center.  

We have everything. The blood lineage connects us.  First we must inherit the tradition in order to go in this precious path.  You should know that you always represent love, life and blood lineage. By following we gain resurrection.

Reverend Moon came to America in 1973 and he spoke about his observations of the city and the self-centered lifestyles.  He said then that the country would soon began to go down, but no one believed him and said he didn't know what he was talking about.

Especially since America was the most prosperous country in the world.  But now we can surely witness that America even with its wealth is diminishing and going to the bottom.  There is hope it will start back up and then things can equalize on a worldwide level.

The shortest way for America to regain its vision is through true love with God on top with His vertical love going down.  Reverend Moon feels like the most lonely man painfully pushing forward as he completely makes a highway all alone.  But when he looks back, he sees a mountain of love accumulating that is growing bigger and bigger.

We shouldn't think that the Messiah is the only one who can go this way.  This was the disciples mistake during Jesus' time.

In our mind, we can think we can go this difficult way, too, forsaking our lives to build the best foundation to bring the world back to God's bosom.  Satan forced his way to dominate man's mind, but we have to gain it back naturally through love.

Even business people learn they need to go through the way of investing.

Embrace love thinking about Father and parents.  We have the desire to be the best love champion by following the footsteps of our parents.  Unite with your spouse centering on your mind and go forward in the parents' way.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Family is the School of Love

This text was rewritten and derived from the Speech Love Imagination Perspective

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Belvedere, Tarrytown, NY USA 

West and East Must Unite

The author of the Divine Principle which this blog is based upon has gone through insurmountable obstacles to found content which brings the Completed Testament Age:

"Everything he has done so far, and every foundation he has laid, he has done all by himself, and he will do it again and still more. Nothing is done by chance; everything has very complicated yet very solid reasoning behind it.  Although you cannot see it, it is there. It is not only talk, but it is all reality, that he has achieved.

If you happen to witness the work of some individual or group which excels this, then you can go ahead and oppose him; but not until. Can you understand?"

Someone who thought about this first, and worked on it, and achieved it before any other individual or organization, is Master Moon. We have to acknowledge this because it is a fact. The conscientious and intellectuals will perceive this.

There is no teacher to him, but God is the sole teacher.  He didn't consult in other individuals before taking action, because he wasn't working with mankind.  He consults with God directly.  God is alive; God is here.  Therefore, you can talk to God about any matter and get the solution, you don't have to consult with individuals.

One country needs to act as a mediator between the East and the West and Japan is the one. As far as God's dispensation, Japan's existence is for this sole purpose.

Now, the Japanese must stand fast against losing pride and becoming shaky. Japanese families and people can open up the future of the world for them.

Koreans will see the Japanese called for certain mission and wonder why this is so.  It is God's strategy to sacrifice the ones closest to Him and bring the farthest ones closer.  Therefore Japanese students must be grateful for God's benevolence.

The Japanese members of the Unification Church already know this; so no matter how hard the work they go through and the hardships they experience, they never complain. There is not one single word of complaint. They obey.  This is their culture.

That's the only difference between the godly people and ungodly people.

Never forget, behind all of these events there have been mass labors and sufferings. You must never forget that today the fruit of all the sacrifice -- significant and small -- in the history, is all combined. 

Those ones who do not recognize this immediately will be the ones who will deny every sacrifice and everything that was good in the past. For the purpose of goodness, we mobilize all of our conscience.

The culture of the East and the West must become one.  Through whom?

Through God.



We must open our conscience and mind wide and observe this heaven-given knowledge.  Eastern people and Western people together should make a determination for the work of the future.  We should build the world of eternity where the world will be one in the Unification realm.

An ideal young person that has perfected themselves and met the perfect mate, such a man and wife and family will want to have everybody in the world as their friend.  In this sense, the world will become a happy multitude which will be happy just looking at all their brothers and sisters in the world.

When such people become friends it will be such a beautiful sight to see.

"Those are the multitudes who will make their credo to love God more than their own nation. It will be those people who can love their God-centered brothers and sisters more than anything else they have in the world. Wouldn't that be the highest ideal for which youth can aim."

When a person extends his love beyond his own spouse and family and on to his sisters and brothers of the entire world, he will be a successful person; the only successful person.  He must be centered around God because without God, we do not exist.

If you condense man to a seed, what would that seed be?  Before the child were the parents, so the parents are your origin or seed.  From the origin you are born.

What is the origin of your parents? Parent, parent, parent and so on...then it goes back to the ultimate cause and that is God.

The only hope and purpose of every living being's life is to resemble its own source. Let us examine a seed. 

When we observe a seed, we notice that it is surrounded by a pouch and always splits into two.  No matter how small a seed is, it is always divided into two.  This resembles the ultimate cause.  The ultimate cause is God; God has a dual capacity or essentiality as one character.  Everything else in creation also because it takes after the origin the principle which is God.

To take another example, even an individual has two elements: the body or flesh and the conscience. That's the plus entity and minus entity. When they go against each other they perish. When you take the example of the seed, do the two elements within the seed fight each other? They never fight. If they did there would be no plant.

What about mankind?  Are we one as an individual?  Are we perfected.  If not, then you have no life.
This is because we haven't even become a seed yet.  A perfected man or woman must become on.

When man and woman become one, then they are truly happy.  Why are they happy together?  Because in that way, they resemble and come closer to God; this is why they are happy.

All seeds contain all the elements of a plant. So when you plant a seed, a root comes. It comes from something, because there is something in it. The trunk comes because a trunk was already there, and it has leaves. The leaves come because there already have been leaves.

We as individuals each have a root, and a trunk...then this means we must have leaves.  These three will comprise a tree.  Who is your root?  Your parents are your root.  Are you a perfect trunk?  This is your problem.

When you look at a tree, it resembles a closed circle. Why?

Because God is like that. God is round, so it becomes round. The base is round, the trunk is round, the branches are round. Round things rotate. They run easier anywhere.

A tree resembles a closed circle...why is this?

Because God is like that.  God is round, so the base is round, the trunk is round, the branches are round.  Round things rotate.  It is like a ball.  If you kick it, it will go very easily in any direction and anywhere.

This is why we need something round and complete in our character and why everybody resembles this round shape.  Everybody is working and living these patterns.  Those who are very athletic can make himself very round.

We see these three steps: root, trunk and leaves because that is the principle of God.  When you live in conformity with these three elements, the world can be yours and God will not protest.

Even the finger has three steps or joints, the arm has a hand and upper and lower arms and the head and body and trunk.


Are American people precious individually or as a collective unit.  Collective.  Is your own value temporary or eternal?  Eternal.  Is it an absolute value or something that can be diminished?  Absolute.  Everyone has ambition as if he was a thief trying to rob everything from God.  But God doesn't mind.  As long as you live withing principle, He doesn't mind.


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This text was rewritten and taken from the text The Hope of Youth