Corrupted Love Decrease;God's Love Increases

The western world places such importance on fashion without tradition, but really important things are not subject to fashion.

The earth has its own tradition; it is unchangeable.

The population of white people compared to the over 4 billion living in Asian countries amount to only 25% of the Asian population.  That is one to four which equals yellow power.

If there was a war to break out, it could not be a nuclear war.

What if problems were solved through martial arts?  Karate has the technique for taking your opponent's guts out.

We should never be confronting, but harmonizing.

In the Unification Movement, Reverend Moon performs international marriages where members from other countries do not mind marrying Orientals; they even love it.

Each person has their own heavenly fate to follow.  This fate goes up and down over thousands of years never on a straight line.  So, the family that is enjoying the upper trend now, will later have to come down.

Knowing this principle, no one should be arrogant about their position, because everyone who is up knows they will eventually come down.

Those, who refuse to come down, will crumble anyway. Everyone has to come down.  If your lives are difficult right now, don't worry; always think, "My day will come".  Those whose generation has been doing well, prepare yourself and expect to come down.

Every major religion started in the low position and went up.  This is the natural way.

There has been persecution on the world scale, therefore, it raises up on the world scale.  Who is the greater person: the one who sacrifices their life for God's will or the president?

The current of heart began from God at the beginning of history.

Since God is the center of the heartistic tide, that tide itself is omnipotent and omniscient. 

It knows everything.

If you understand God's intention and dispensation centering on Divine Principle, the Completed Testament, you know everything.

After obtaining knowledge from this content, you would have minimal question, not major ones such as "why do we exist?".

When we know Gods love, which is a very secret part of God, then there is nothing more we need to know in the world.  Would God like to keep this secret to Himself?

Until humanity reaches perfection, there is a lot of secrets and deceit.  Once we become perfect, then there are no more secrets and nothing we do not know.  Before, other cultures did not expose their legs before being influenced by western revealing fashions through movies and the media.

Fallen man essentially is like a thief. 

He sees something good and he takes it away.

Men see a woman who keeps a secret as more attractive.  Love needs to be planted in the deeper places instead of flowing around freely. Thus, if you cover only a little of your body in public with little secret to the imagination, is this attractive?

It is less interesting once you expose it.

How much more stimulating would it be if a man did not see a woman's bosom or skin for many years until they get married?

Western women do not keep secrets.  Even statues are undressed and show everything.

For a woman to qualify as a bride, she should not have seen the entire body of a man in her life. Even living in a small room with sisters who are strict and should have never seen any male figures before.  Until then they are mystified.

So, when they join together for the first time, the mind and body will tumble into oneness.
Korean tradition for married couples was to never talk with each other at all in public, train or on the bus.

If they talked, people would look at them strangely.  It was unthinkable for them to talk and laugh.  Therefore, they would hold in all kinds of expressions.  Those expressions could later be used in the bedroom.

Love starts from the deepest place, in privacy. That is the true nature of love. 

A love king and love queen take action in the most secret place.  The most deep is secret.  Deep means secret.  Which is better, western women, the deep one or the short one?:

Deep means secret.  Who is the owner of the original love of creation: God or Satan?

Satan proclaims that the way that he loves is the original love.  Today's society is so confused that they do not know the difference between God's pure, true love and Satan's corrupted, sinful love.

How do we know that God's love is true?   First, it was absolute, and also because it was first.  

Corrupted love starts big, but diminishes, whereas, God's love starts small and becomes bigger and bigger.

The satanic world has come as far as it could and bore its sinful fruit.  God's world of love is just beginning. This means that God's love is descending from above to below.

Satan is the center of the satanic world's love. 

When we compare God's and Satan's love: Satan's horizontal (physical/bodily world) love is hell, and God's vertical love is heaven.

Satanic love gets smaller and smaller, while God's love becomes larger and larger.  Satan's world eventually comes down because it is centered on the self without God.  It does not center on the whole including others, or for the sake of everyone.

Satan places himself in the highest position in his world of love and comes down.  God's love is just the opposite.  It starts small, and at the base of love is everybody, the public.  This is historical indemnity.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Tide of the Heart

God is the Center of Love

God is the center and subject of true love for eternity. 

While living the religious way of life, if you knew about the suffering you would have to face, would you refuse to go any further when you met such hardships?

Maybe you could think that your suffering is nothing compared to the suffering God has had to endure for thousands of years when He lost His children.

Who put God in the suffering position: God Himself or man?

God suffers because of the disobedience of man.

Yet, God does not blame man at all.  He takes the beatings and still tries to save man from his wretched position he has fallen.  When we understand God's miserable position, how can we refuse to go this difficult path of carrying our own cross?

We should think that even if death comes to us, that we will be able to praise God for His faith and endurance.  We should see that we have received little persecution compared to Him. That should be everyone's position.

Is it better to give up when it is difficult, or to comfort God and tell Him you understand his suffering and you will bear His burden as His representative and suffer on His behalf?

God is the subject and master of all of creation, the King of the universe, yet He has never once claimed His authority over everyone.  Instead, He gave us choice, free will to either serve Him or not.  This is evidence to the true greatness of God.

God is always trying to reach us, but Satan set up blockades.  

God has no way to communicate directly with His people and give His true love.

God has been suffering in this way without having honor or fame.  He waits for the moment of victory when He could have give and take with the center of true love.

This is not just a fantasy or a speech.

Think about it.  Throughout history, God has been rejected, deceived, betrayed by many, many people, yet He still believes and has hope to find the true one, the Messiah.

In order to communicate and have a mutual understanding of God, you must suffer and really pursue the same tasks as God has done.  How else will you have a true relationship with God? When such a person appears, He does not inherit everything at once.

There is no easy way to reach out to the center of true love; it is a road of suffering and pain. 

Even if you meet God without following the path of suffering, you would feel uncomfortable instead of happy because God was unable to fully open His heart all the way to you.  Therefore, the road to the center of love is a thorny one.

When we stand before true love, we must be conscious of how we appear in front of it.  Are we mediocre, do we love our spouse with a pure mind, do we have lukewarm love toward our children, or do we perform our church mission with half a heart?  This evaluation of ourselves in front of love is a serious thing.

You should not feel that you are ever alone, or by yourself in this dispensation.  

If the entire world becomes your enemy, but you know that this is the only way you can acquire the center of true love, nothing will stop you. This path that you walk while trying to reach the center of true love will destroy all your dignity and honor at once to make you humble, but for true love you still go in this way.  You must be willing to go this way even if you must lose everything in the process.

If you were to fail along the way, at least you can tell God that you never left this true path.  When you go with this attitude, there is no way you will betray God or give up.  Not even death will stop you from accomplishing the goal of obtaining true love.

If you have any thoughts of betrayal, this is the best time to repent.  We see people complain about the smallest things everyday, and they must repent for that.

First, check which -ism you have; second, you should check what love you have.

If you want to be linked to the center of love, you should already possess love within yourself.  Your love should be linked to the center.  

Adam and Eve should have served God, their Father, during the engagement period before they joined to Lucifer to have their family.

During the time of engagement, a couple should be careful how they relate to one another.  This time is for getting closer and love the Parent, God first.  It is fine to care for one another, but the way you communicate to one another is very important.

 Again, to reach the central true love a period of discipline is necessary. 

This is not a technique to make things difficult for people waiting to get married.  This is the shortest route to true love, and the best way to link to the center of love.

Third is position. Who owns your husband or wife? God is actually loaning you the person who is your husband or wife. Since their true owner is God, unless you are united in God's love there is no way you can have partnership with your mate. 

When you look at your husband or wife, look at him or her as being in God's position, on loan to you, and not your private property. Since you are united in one love with God and love Him most, you can love the person in God's position, your husband or your wife. That is natural. Then you can love them as much as you love God.

Some people coming to the Unification Church might see someone they think would be a good mate for them, but then they are matched with a person they consider insignificant.

How can they deal with the situation? Some of those people are conditional followers, who accept the Divine Principle, but not our way of marriage.

Without Principle there is no marriage, and without marriage there is no Principle. 

The two are one, all following the center of true love. In some rare cases people might wish their fiancée would die in the three years before the wedding comes so they can get another match.


Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon explains complaints of the matching for arranged marriages:

Why do I assume the heavy responsibility of matching everyone? I get no money or fee like any other professional. All the criticism comes to me while all the happy couples feel they are lucky and are not grateful enough to the True Parents. 

Why should I volunteer?

When I am matching people I can see their futures and what kind of life they will lead. Some people will have tragedy in their life, and in order to prevent such tragedy I must match them with certain types of people. I am not just looking at people horizontally, but vertically.

I have a philosophy of balance in matching, a harsh person needs to be balanced with someone softer needs someone strong. In machines, both hard and soft metals are needed to complement each other. 

People look only at the surface appearance in evaluating people, but a pretty woman and a handsome man together may lose everything and leave nothing behind.

In matching people I try to make a permanent base. I match from the viewpoint of central true love. Sometimes my methods look strange, or labyrinthine, and you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. But if the end result will be true love, I will go that way.

I have been controversial everywhere, in whatever I do, but I never volunteered for that. My goal is not fame; I am only looking at one thing, central true love. I never aimed at knowledge, money or power, but in pursuing true love everything else automatically came to me as a fringe benefit.

People have to recognize that now I am successful from the worldly point of view. If you truly believe in God and know He is almighty, then you have to accept that as naturally being the case. People reject me for many pragmatic reasons and feel threatened by me, but even though they oppose me, their original mind still knows that I am right. 

Suppose I consummated my life here and went to spirit world; God knows more than anyone how I lived to fulfill true love, and He would be the first one to feel I should no longer suffer and be lonely here on earth. At the same time, all people pursuing true love would know my value and would mourn my death.

Even the people who have never seen me on earth can understand true love through my teachings and way of life, and they will come to Belvedere (headquarters) to feel close to me, remembering how I spoke here.

Will they doze off? Why did you come this morning? You want to see central true love.

Why do you need me? I am the bridge which will lead you to the center of true love. Without me you cannot cross the river, so when I am away you want to know where your bridge is. Even if only a handful of people are here, if I am also here then the room feels full, but if I am not present then it feels empty, even if hundreds of people are here.

Once every several thousand years the rope passes overhead. The Unification Church is that rope, so we are the ones who grabbed it first. It is a once-in-a million opportunity, so would you just casually grab it with one hand? Or would you bite it and wind it around and around your body and legs so you can't be separated? 

You all have the rope, so how intensely would you become one with it? You are winding it not only around your body, but around your 360 homes you witness. and even the root of the rope will come down that is Home Church.

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Liquidation and Blessing

Reality of Lucifer

The Reality of Fallen Lucifer

First of all, who still believes that Eve fell for a real snake's lies, or an ugly, demonic looking angel?  When has Lucifer ever used something ugly to tempt God's children to follow him?  We need to understand that Lucifer is a very, very beautiful being.  How else could he hide so well in our day and time and continue his misery?

 Just look how he tempts even the most devout.  Scoffers just shove it off when a faithful person falls into illicit sex as that person was never really a faithful person.  How about looking at reality?  Lucifer uses beauty to get even the most devout saints to fall.  Look closer at any television show or watch any movie these days.  We see fallen acts of beautiful people as acceptable even if we wouldn't allow common people to do so.

Fallen Lucifer even makes fallen sex without God look beautiful, and masks it as true love even though God said in the day we eat of it we would die!   Why do today's people follow the false ideals perpetuated on television with fallen sex, ungodly behavior?  We fall for this theory of false love, and our children fall for this no matter how much we know that false love leads to destruction.

Lucifer is beautiful and uses the extremely beautiful creations of God and twists its beauty to tempt us in order to keep his dominion over God's children. 

Yes, false love, is truly love.  But it is not True Love.  Yes, a  beautiful woman can be beautiful inside as well as outside, but if she's trying to get you who is a married man, or your son to do what is outside of his own morals, then the act that follows no matter how beautiful, is not of God.  I'm not going to lie.  Even with all this knowledge, if I am not careful, I fall for "Wow, I want a relationship like theirs, because it is so beautiful". 

How can we tell the difference between Fallen Lucifer's tricks and God's ideal? 

It is a very fine line, because fallen Lucifer knows how to twist the truth.  He even told Eve, "Hey, you won't die".  He said this because he knew that it did not mean physical death.  He was half right, because Eve and Adam did not die after they disobeyed even though perfect God said they would.  Does God ever give false words?

This is how Lucifer destroys the truth - by telling the truth with his own agenda attached.

 

Adam and Eve did die before they left the Garden of Eden.  In Genesis, God asked where Adam was when we all know He could see all - except fallen Adam and Eve who had been corrupted.  Leaving God's dominion is death, it is a spiritual death likened to a person who is addicted to drugs who is still living but we know what type of living this is.  It is spiritual death.  Sadly, good lies have truth laced within them, and are hard to distinguish from godly truth. 

We need to know the identity of fallen Lucifer and, we need to have a deep understanding of God's characteristics, and place this measurement up against every decision we make. 

Also, we can look at the fruit of actions.  This kind of measure is of course after the act.  By using God's point-of-view of a situation, all matters become clearer.  With God, there is no idea of in between.  You either follow His way or not.  We as individuals and Americans have believed for too long that by ignoring God we have freedom to have sex with whomever, be wild, and we are free from living inside a box.  These individuals are not free, they just freely allow Lucifer to do all he desires to their bodies and minds.

God is the parent of vertical true love; Adam and Eve should have been the parents of horizontal true love. We should have been born inheriting the love, the life and the blood lineage of these two types of parental love; then my mind becomes the vertical "me" and my body becomes the horizontal "me."

When my vertical "me" and my horizontal "me" become unified at the point of ninety degrees, then a person can become the companion of true love of the eternal God.  God has true love, true life and true blood lineage. Because we originated from God, we also should have true love, true life and true blood lineage.

Centering on the true love of God, an individual was born to be one body with God. Just as God's mind and body, centering on true love, are naturally united, the mind and body of all humankind also should have been naturally united through true love. However, fallen humankind inherited Lucifer's false love, false life and false blood lineage.

Our body is like a battlefield.  The body is the front line for Satan and the mind is the front line for God; both continually struggle against each other. In other words, our mind and bodies are constantly fighting the battle of good and evil.  The love which an individual has today does not center on an individual's mind, but on his body. Our bodies became Satan's dance hall.  This is why religion concentrates on how to dominate our bodies and strengthen our relationship to God by following His words completely.


How to Conquer Satan With God's Word

The Bible exhorts us to pray ceaselessly. The Devil can attack us and even work through us twenty-four hours a day. Although God is with us, He stays in a vertical relationship with only the mind as His base; how effectively, then, can He work with us? Satan can come at us from any direction, from 360 degrees; hence we are bound to be overwhelmed.

Evil activity in the spirit world had been increasing gradually ever since the Human Fall. But the situation changed drastically in the 1980s, when hosts of evil spirits descended to the earth and greatly increased their activities here. 

Even the bible tells us in the Last Days that there would be an increase in spiritual phenomenon.  Thousands of spiritual movies and television shows declare this outbreak in activity as well.  Writers who write these tales are no doubt experiencing these types of episodes in their own life.

Why did this happen? In former times, when the central figures of the Providence, such as Moses, did not know the identity of Satan, the root of sin, or the nature of the Original Sin, Satan felt at ease and could take his time creating his self-centered world.

However, when the True Parents, the Messiah and his True Wife, came to reverse Adam and Eve, our first parents mistakes, the world the situation began to change. The True Parents revealed the identity of Satan, the root of sin, and that the Original Sin was fornication. They figured out all of Satan’s traits and all his tricks.

Then the Messiah returned in the 20th century and began making conditions so that Satan could no longer stand on the earth. After the 1960s, the Messiah and his True Wife achieved victory after victory in the Providence of Restoration reversing fallen history, Satan was taken aback; then he began to get nervous.

In response, Satan mobilized evil spirits in the spirit world to work with evil spirits in the bodies of people on the earth, by stimulating their resentment and their desire to take revenge on the descendants of the people who had caused them pain. This seems as mere fiction or a graphic novel, but it is the reality in which we live. Why else is it so hard for even the most devout christian to stay the righteous path no matter how ardent his faith?

Even evaluate your own life.  One habit that is hard to overcome and even though it harms us and others, we still delve in it. Such contradiction would be better understood by the fact that spiritual beings that had once walked the earth were hurt by one of our ancestors.  When these people died, they get revenge through inflicting pain through us - the descendants. Why?  Maybe a great,  great, great aunt stole this person's husband and they can get revenge through you by causing you to not have successful marriages.  This is reality even greater than any horror movie ever written.

Why do great men fall?

They didn’t look deeply at themselves to check whether they had anything for which Satan could accuse them. They didn’t reflect on whether they still had any fallen nature. Therefore at least from now on, we must work on ourselves to not have any conditions that let Satan through the door for attack.  We must remember that he is couching at the door waiting for an opportunity for us to invite him into our house - our soul.
 

 Satan Attacks Through Our Body

Our body is the path to which Satan's anchor is attached. The mind is in the position of being a plus representing heaven,which was to be a minus, became another plus and is toying with the mind. It is our duty to rectify this situation within our own lifetime. God knows this and so He made religion as the repair shop. This is why religion teaches us to deny the body through fasting, sacrifice and service.  Religion teaches the mind to overcome the body.

In order for the desires of the body to be weakened so that the body follows the faithful mind, we need to live a life of faith through which the mind conveys good habits to the body for at least three to five years. Religion tells us: do not rest, pray constantly. God stands only in the vertical position, so He can only be active through the mind. Satan is active in all directions. He can be active in each one of the 360 degrees and so fallen humankind is bound to fall prey to Satan's activity.

Because the mind is in the vertical position, it is one.   Because it is easy for the mind to be dragged along by the body, the mind in the vertical position has to lead a life of devotion and prayer, through which it can receive three or four times more strength. Then it can dominate the body freely and lead the body along the right way for three to five years, creating good habits.

There is no method to repair the body other than the union of the vertical and horizontal. Unless humankind goes through the door of a religion that teaches people to lead such a life, humanity cannot go back to its original position. The road of philosophy, knowledge or conscience alone is not enough. The vertical mind and the horizontal body have to become one.

What is the cause of the fall of man, which led to an individual's mind and body not becoming one with God's ideal?

The Bible tells us that it is because man ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, what part of the body did Adam and Eve cover after they had eaten of the fruit? They should have covered their mouths and hands, but they covered their lower parts; after that, did God bless their marriage?  Adam and Eve's marriage was based centered on fallen Lucifer.

This is the origin of how Satan's evil blood lineage multiplied. However, the origin of true love, true life and the true blood lineage for a person are the sexual organs of love. Because of the fall, the organs of love, which should have been the most holy place, became the most abominable place, destroying the way of heaven.

The organs of love became the headquarters of evil. And from here, they sowed the seeds of false love, false life and the false blood lineage. The ancestors of man, Adam and Eve, fell when they were teenagers and still not mature.  This is another reason why in the Last Days the age of teenagers returns to the time of the fall where we must reverse the act of teenagers centered on false love, free sex, to the ideals of God.

Historically, the evil blood lineage of humankind started because Adam and Eve had sown the seeds of evil. So when the time of the Last Days comes, the youth all over the world will destroy the ethics of love as Adam and Eve did, and the tide of corruption will flow throughout the world. When we see these phenomena, we must know that the age of Satan's dominion has arrived.

It is at this very time that the day of judgment, when God rules with His rod of iron, has arrived. History teaches us that any city or country which ignored God and engaged in wantonness was destroyed. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone; Rome was destroyed because the people became morally decadent and did not keep their chastity.

Look at America, Europe and Japan, the advanced nations of the world. Who is able to stop free sex, which is rampant everywhere? This world is becoming full of corrupt love and drug abuse. This is the method by which the body is being dragged to its death. It is not the path our mind wants; it is crying out in despair.

All the people who were called to lead humanity back to the embrace of God failed. Somebody must appear who can lead the people of the world out of the fallen environment to the road of truth. We can compare fallen man who came to stand on Satan's side to a wild olive shoot. From among fallen men, God has separated the wild olive shoots.

Those wild olive shoots which are in the sphere of religion belong to God. God can dominate these wild olive shoots freely. He has prepared the Providence so when the Messiah came in our time he would be able to cut down the trees in one stroke and graft them onto him. In this way the wild olive shoots become the true olive, returning back to their original state.

That is why the people who already believe in a religion must find the original true father - Adam and Eve are the false mother and father of this world. This is because they were not born with the original seed of life from the true father - Jesus. They were unable to fulfill God's ideal and connect with God's blood lineage centering on the original true love; therefore, the Messiah had to come again.

Do You Know Who the Messiah Is?

The Messiah is the person who has come with the tremendous responsibility of the True Parent, pulling out and throwing away the roots of all those born from the false parents and restoring them to their original state. He has the responsibility to banish Satan, liberate humanity and build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and thus be welcomed by all.

If you become sons and daughters who can inherit God's love, God's life and God's blood lineage and also inherit True Parents' love, True Parents' life and True Parents' blood lineage, then like God, your mind and body will not fight, and you will become the true unified origin of world peace.

The point where the mind and body become unified will be the starting point for the eternal world of peace.  Let us all fulfill our duty as servants with the heart of parents. Let us shed our sweat for the earth, our tears for humankind, and our blood for heaven.

And let us liberate our Parent, the Lord and Creator of the universe, from His grief -- and in order to build one world of peace, let us march forward along the road of salvation bearing the cross.  Please do not forget that, even though our destination may be in the world, our starting point must begin when our mind and body become one, centering on true love.

Each of us must remember that not until my family becomes the place of eternal happiness and true love will our hope for the ideal country, the ideal world and the ideal Kingdom of Heaven on earth bear fruit. In the not too distant future, we will build a world of true love in which all races will live for each other for eternity. Let us determine to rise up and take the lead to complete this historical mission. I pray that God's blessing may be upon you and your families.


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Today's topic was snatched from the Textbook For World Peace Chapter 4 written by the wife of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon who wrote the Divine Principle. To learn more about the organization, please visit www.familyfed.org.