Pyeong Hwa Gyeong
평화경平和經
BOOK 10
True Parents, the Hope of God and Humankind
1. The Appearance of True Parents and the Ideal Family
1461
2. True Parents
and the Completed Testament Age 1471
3. The Unity
and Complete Settlement of the Parents of Heaven and Earth
1481
4. The
Owners of Re-Creation 1492
5. The
Messiah and True Parents 1502
6. The
Harmonization of Values, and the Liberation and Complete Settlement of the
Realm Transcending Religions and Nations from the Providential Perspective 1508
7. True
Parents Are the Hope of God and Humankind 1525
8. Let Us
Become Filial Children of God Who Liberate His Heart
1536
9. True Parents
Are the Embodiment of God 1544
10. Address at the
Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Gimpo Aviation Industrial Complex
1549
11. Cheon Guk Is the Ideal Heavenly
Kingdom Reign of Eternal Peace >1552
12. The True Owners in Establishing the Kingdom of Cosmic
Peace and Unity in Heaven and on Earth 1558
13. A
Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will I
1572
14. Building
a Peaceful World Based on the Parent UN 1592
15. Establishing
the Truly Peaceful World of the True Parent UN 1597
16. A
Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will II
1603
17. Owner of Peace, Owner of Lineage 1612 (8
Holy Textbooks)
BOOK 10
True Parents, the Hope of God and Humankind
The Appearance of True Parents
and the Ideal Family
Sajik Indoor Stadium, Busan, Korea
Women's Federation for World Peace Leaders Assembly
President Hak
Ja Han Moon, distinguished guests and women leaders:
Today I
received a great deal of comfort from the words of President Han. I have
followed one road in response to the order of Heaven, and have experienced a
life of extraordinary suffering. The road establishing the way of Heaven is
straight; it allows for no compromise. It does not allow one to worry about
honor or human dignity. It is a lonely road on which one can live only for
God's Will.
Just as each
individual has his or her own fortune, the family and the nation also have a
family fortune and a national fortune. Beyond this there is the fortune of the
world, and there is the fortune for all of heaven and earth. Even though a person
may have been born with good fortune on the individual level, if his or her
family fortune declines, that person will have to endure hardship. By the same
token, if the national fortune declines, even a person with both good
individual fortune and family fortune will be ruined.
Going beyond
this, the national fortune and the direction of the world is objective to the
direction and progress of Heavenly fortune, which is above everything and
inclusive of everything. To establish the way of Heaven in the world means to
align the way of the individual and nation with the fortune of Heaven.
Today, let us
think about the evils besetting Korea and the problems of the world. These
problems include economic depression, environmental pollution, political
lawlessness, racial and religious strife, the decay of ethics and morality and
the collapse of values. Is there anyone who can bring a fundamental solution to
these evils and problems? It has not been possible through human wisdom or
effort. We have not been able to solve these problems by mobilizing economic
and governmental power. In fact, the evils of humanity are gradually wreaking
greater damage.
Now humanity
has to humbly listen to the voice of Heaven and find the road of resolution
directed by God. This country and its people must accept my teachings. I say
this not because I am trying to exalt myself; it is because it is the Will of
God. God has revealed the principles of Heaven through me, and He has given me
the answers to the fundamental problems of humankind.
Achieving a
victorious foundation amid adversity
My life has been
truly difficult. I have been beaten, persecuted and unfairly imprisoned by one
government after another. Prejudice and malice on the part of some Christian
leaders led them to spread and then exploit wild rumors about me. However,
thanks to the protection of God, I have miraculously laid a victorious
worldwide foundation. It is a foundation that is without precedent in history.
In America,
which is the prepared nation that represents world Christianity, I have built a
foundation beyond that of any other non-white person. Of course, I had to
suffer from racial discrimination and religious prejudice; I had to prevail
over unfair imprisonment. Nevertheless, I rebuilt America's Christian
foundation, which was shaking at its roots. I educated and trained youth who
were suffering from drugs and immorality, and I gave hope to America. Neither
the government nor the people of America can ignore my foundation.
The same is the
case for Japan and Europe. Unification missions are developing every day in one
hundred sixty countries. Each of these missions represents a powerful religious
activism; it is a global movement to rebuild ethics and morality.
In the early
1980s I called for world-level academic meetings to be held with the theme of
the collapse of the Soviet empire. In 1985 our academic journal published an
article that has now become world famous for being the first to prophesy the collapse
of the Soviet empire.
It was on the
basis of this foundation that I visited the Soviet Union and met Mikhail
Gorbachev. I understand that now, in three of the fifteen republics of the
former Soviet Union, citizens are working to make Unificationism the national
religion. Already tens of thousands of Russian university students have studied
my teachings and have organized branches of the Collegiate Association for the
Research of Principles (CARP), which is the Unification Church campus
organization, in more than seven hundred universities. This year, tens of
thousands of high school teachers and students from the former Soviet Union
will attend Divine Principle workshops.
Do you think
this scale of activity is the result of human power alone? It is real proof
that the living God is working with us. Miracles are taking place as confirmed
atheists, after five days of Divine Principle lectures, convert to a
God-centered view of life and the universe.
I also have
established a substantial foundation in China. I prepared trendsetting projects
such as the construction of the Panda industrial city, and have had
missionaries working underground. Only God knows how much I have done to bring
about the unification of North and South Korea. The reunification of North and
South Korea is not merely a visible and external unification; it is a
providential unification centered on God. It cannot be done other than by
working through my foundation.
The
unification required by God's providence is not for the sake of unification in
and of itself. It is brought about so that on the foundation of unification,
eternal freedom, peace and happiness can blossom. It cannot be unification by
force or where one side is left miserable. It must be a unity in true love, in
which each side lives for the other and gives and gives again. Therefore, the
reunification of the homeland cannot be exploited for the benefit of any
individual, political party or government. Only when our hearts and actions,
colored with love, reach the hearts of our fellow countrymen and women in the
North, will true unification come about.
The
Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace
Women
leaders! Centered on God's true love, I have expanded supra- denominational and
supra-religious movements of reconciliation to the worldwide level. Without
reconciliation and interchange between the divided religions, how can world
peace be realized? Isnt it true that today there is still appalling religious
strife in the Middle East, Ireland, the Balkans and other areas?
On August 27
of last year, I gathered together some of the highest-level religious leaders
of the world and established the Interreligious Federation for World Peace. We
joined together in order to realize world peace through the unity and
cooperation of religious people. This organization has a supreme value. There
may be important differences among religions, yet there are just as many common
points, and all share the same purpose, to seek the Absolute Being.
It is an
important fact that God established all religions with a providential purpose
for the whole. Therefore, they must unite together.
As President Han
mentioned in her address, Christianity teaches that the first human beings ate
of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This means that our
human ancestors disbelieved, committed sin and fell. If our human ancestors had
not fallen, as God's precious son and daughter, namely God's prince and
princess, they would have inherited God's blood lineage and God's possessions,
the whole creation. They would have grown to perfection and become the ideal
husband and wife of love. However, because of the Fall, they abandoned God's
blood lineage, were robbed of God's possessions, and lost God's heart.
We have to
take responsibility for the mission to restore the blood lineage, to restore
the realm of ownership and to change the realm of the human heart, making God's
providence of salvation the providence of restoration and complete recovery.
As a result
of the Fall, Adam and Eve came to be one with Satan and they followed him to
hell. The eldest son, Cain, followed Eve, and murdered the second son, Abel.
God's providence of restoration advances when the condition to separate from
Satan is established through the second son. The second son starts later and
represents the side of goodness. He has to subjugate, by natural surrender, the
eldest son, who starts first and represents the side of evil.
The basis of
the providence of restoration is to send the restored Adam, namely the Messiah,
who will change the blood lineage, ownership and heart. However, the heart
embedded in the position of this original son cannot be restored at once. God
accomplishes the providence gradually, starting from the position of the
servant of servants.
In this world
held under the power of Satan, Abel, who is on the side of good, has to
complete the mission of the servant of servants by living with true love for
the sake of Cain. Then Satan cannot accuse him; in fact, he cannot help but praise
and recognize him. After that, Abel restores the positions of the servant, the
adopted son, the illegitimate son and the direct son, following the way of love
and affection. Restoration can only take place on each level when the Abel side
lives for Cain's side through true love, so that Satan cannot accuse him.
If Abel, in
the position of the true son or daughter, makes Cain surrender and they become
one, the mother Eve can stand on their foundation, and when Eve fulfills her
responsibility, the father Adam can stand on her foundation. Then God can come
to dwell on that foundation and can complete the eight stages necessary for the
vertical course of the providence of restoration. If we look at the stages of
the providence of restoration horizontally, we find there are also eight: the
individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos and God.
Jesus came as
the second Adam, the Messiah, but unfortunately the chosen people did not
recognize him. Will today's Christians be able to recognize the Lord when he
returns? The Lord of the Second Advent will not literally return in the air on
the clouds. There are people who believe this. They are proclaiming that on
October 28 of this year they will be taken up to heaven on the clouds. It will
not happen like this. Please believe me, this kind of event will never happen.
The Lord who departed through the cross will return through the cross.
When Jesus
died on the cross, there were three types of people connected with his
crucifixion. There was the first type, represented by the thief on JesusE
right. He repented of his sins and testified to Jesus. There was the second
type, represented by the thief on JesusEleft. He was a sinner who did not
repent and who vilified Jesus. The third type was represented by Barabbas, a
criminal who was saved when the crowd chose to release him instead of Jesus,
and to crucify Jesus instead.
At the time
of the Second Advent, these three types are realized on the world level.
Western Christianity is the first type, in the position of the thief on JesusE
right. Although they still have original sin, they believe in the Lord and they are in the position of
goodness. The materialistic, atheistic communist bloc is the second type, in
the position of the thief on the left. Islam in the Middle East is the third
type, in the position of Barabbas. Because Jesus died instead of him, and
because Israel's rejection led Jesus to death on the cross, Islam came to
occupy the Middle East, which had been divided among the tribes of Israel. The
Lord of the Second Advent, in the position of Jesus, has to resolve the
dismemberment of humanity that came about because of JesusEdeath.
In order to
guide the world, he has to bring about a religious reformation in Western
Christianity, overcome the atheistic ideology of communism, and bring the
communist world back to God's side. My proposed head-wing thought, Godism, is
the philosophy that can overcome the left-wing and right-wing ideologies and
bring about a united harmony between them.
As I have
mentioned on other occasions, the left-wing and right-wing worlds are already
being straightened out through head-wing thought. Also, we are tapping into the
spirit of reconciliation and cooperation that exists in the religion of Islam.
A miracle took place last April, when representatives from eight countries of
the Middle East took part in a holy marriage Blessing. The Blessing ceremony
that I conduct cleanses fallen people of the original sin. Thus I have solved
the historical conflict and settled the tension between the left and the right.
Furthermore, we witnessed the miracle of reconciliation in the world of Islam.
Heaven's will
for the Lord at his Second Advent Such works cannot be performed through the
great planning or inordinate ability of one individual alone. God chose me to
be the Messiah, and through me He is performing His work of salvation.
I have
fulfilled my mission as the Lord of the Second Advent, Savior and the True
Parent. I am proclaiming this in this place because the time has come to do so.
Those who accept this will be blessed. If the people listen to me, how good
that would be for this country. How good it would be if the statesmen listened
to me. Whether a person listens to me or not is his or her individual
responsibility; nonetheless, the time is coming when all the people of the
world will want to listen to me.
People
generally believe that the Messiah is the Lord of glory wielding the authority
of judgment, but they are incorrect. Of course, God does not want to see this
sinful world and He has often thought about rendering judgment and wiping it
out in an instant. However, the God of true love always worries about the
eternal life of each human being. You have to know God's heart, which has
endured for so long, trying through true love to make human beings do what is
right of their own free will.
From the
point of view of fallen men and women the Messiah is the Savior, but from God's
point of view he is the True Parent, the True Son who will realize the ideal of
true love that was lost at the beginning. The Messiah is the person who has
pioneered the way of sacrifice, dedicating his life to liberate God from the
grievous sorrow caused by the Fall. He is not a person who stands in a glorious
position. He always weeps in concert with God's heart. He is concerned with how
to make Satan surrender. He is deeply concerned and anxious over realizing
God's purpose of creation. He knows better than anyone else the heart of God,
who is like a servant of servants, wandering and shedding endless tears in
Satan's world in search of His lost children. Unless he completely liberates
God from His sorrow, he cannot accept glory from God.
Completing the ideal of a true family
Leaders of
the Women's Federation for World Peace, it must have been difficult for you to
hold a succession of rallies, and you probably complained about being given
only ten daysEnotice that this rally was going to be held. However, if
together with me you devote your heart sincerely every day, God's Will of
goodness shall be accomplished. I have no intention of exploiting you. You need
me. You have to become one with President Han and be like an extension of her.
In your families you have to educate your children and your husband's properly.
I want all of you, under the ideal of true love, to receive God's blessing.
What I am
most concerned about is for each of your families to complete the ideal of the true
family by becoming one through true love. City, town, village, county, district
and neighborhood leaders of the Women's Federation for World Peace, through
you, morals can be restored. Please expand this movement of true love! What
movement could be more patriotic than this?
There is a
mountain of work to do. We have to spread a movement for good morals, a
movement for the eradication of drugs, a no-smoking and no-drinking movement, a
movement to end prostitution, a movement to expose immoral behavior among the
leaders of society and to inspire and encourage the youth. When you women
leaders purify Korean society and achieve harmony through true love, then we
can realize the cherished hope of the Korean people, the .reunification of
North and South Korea. Not only will our nation come to lead the world, we will
see the advent of a peaceful world.
An effective Women's Federation
Women
leaders, to this day I have never directed my followers to do anything that I
have not first done myself. I sincerely ask you to practice true love and
devote yourselves, even if it is only one percent of what I have done, to
raising up a great movement for national salvation. The most effective work of
the Women's Federation is done on the level of the town, village, district and
neighborhood. When the movement of true love builds on the local level, then it
will reach into the community and come to settle in the family.
We have to
recover the original homeland, the world before the Fall, and restore the
family, which separated from God, before we can hope for eternal settlement.
God has worked so hard. He has suffered so much to bring forth the perfected
Adam. That is why the True Father appeared. The true man of Heaven has been
born. Because Satan's world knows that this man is the true bridegroom, the
teacher who comes as the King of the kingdom of heaven and earth, individuals
in the world are trying to destroy him by uniting individuals, families,
nations, the world and the universe against him. Despite having to suffer
enormous persecution, conniving and slandering by Satan, he has gained victory
on the individual, family, national, world and cosmic levels and has become one
with God. As the first victor of history, he has overcome Satan's realm on all
levels: the individual, family, nation, world and cosmos.
The True
Mother, whose position is to follow the True Father, has for the first time in
history come to stand in an equal position. Through her worldwide declaration
of the liberation of women, the True Father and the True Mother will take their
children, go before God, and inherit all the authority and power of Heaven.
They will establish the original family, reclaim the tribe, race, nation, world
and cosmos, and reorganize the perfect world of God's Will.
All men are
in the position of the archangel. Therefore, their responsibility is to allow
all women to return to God. Women stand in the position of the True Mother, as
extensions of the perfected Eve. From the position of the extension of Eve and
on the condition of oneness with the True Mother, they come to a position of
oneness with the True Father. From this position they are to educate their sons
and daughters in the teaching of True Parents.
Becoming one with True ParentsEfamily
On the basis
of this education and their oneness with their mothers, these sons and
daughters come to have the status of true sons and daughters. Then they can
re-educate their worldly fathers and receive True ParentsEBlessing. Thereby
grafted to the True Parents, they will come to learn the family duty of true
parents.
Because Adam
and Eve fell on the family level, we have to accomplish restoration on the
family level. Restoration has to penetrate the levels of county, district and
neighborhood and settle in the family. Next, the family must meet the True
Parents. The True Parents have gone over the individual peak, the national
peak, the world peak and the cosmic peak, and have been victorious. However, in
order to save each family they have to come back through the cosmos, the world
and the nation, and return to the family level. That is the purpose of this
meeting.
The April 10
rally was the True ParentsEworld rally. Its purpose was to provide a
foundation for rallies on the national, city, county, town, village, district
and neighborhood levels, until they arrive at the family level. By becoming one
with True ParentsEfamily, it is possible for you, the leaders of the Women's
Federation for World Peace, to attain family restoration and become absolute
victors.
Then you have
to connect this to your tribe. The True Parents have already assigned tribal
messiahs throughout the world. If you receive education from them and unite
with them, the restoration of the nation will naturally occur. In this way the
reunification of North and South Korea, of the world, and of heaven and earth
will be realized. God, too, will be liberated, and we will see the age of peace
centered on God.
Let the True
Mother and the women of the world join together to meet the True Father who
comes as the bridegroom. With you in the position of the bride, together let us
restore the ideal family of creation.
I pray that
you will become members of the Family Federation for World Peace and create
families that will receive many blessings.
Thank you
very much.
True Parents and the Completed
Testament Age
Dear House
and Senate members, and respected ladies and gentlemen:
I express my
deepest, sincere gratitude to all of you who have honored us with your
attendance. As leaders in this great nation, you all have a responsibility in
guiding the United States of America, and even the world, into the upcoming new
millennium. The promise of a peaceful and prosperous future depends on how we
act today.
As we all
know, our world today is not filled with happiness or peace; rather it is rife
with conflict and despair. We are confronted with broken families and decaying
social mores, among other issues. We have debated these matters numerous times,
but we have yet to find a solution. Why is that? The true solution to these
problems has to come from God, and not only must we deal with the phenomenal aspects
of the problems, but we have to reveal the original root in order to bring a
solution. To reveal this root, we need to understand deeply God's purpose of
creation and realize that we are at a turning point in God's providence.
God created
this world for the sake of the experience of true love. God's ideal in creating
the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, was that they perfect themselves
through true love so that they could then create a good family of true love,
true life and true lineage. A good family like this would have been formed on
the basis of united heart and mind among family members in front of God.
If God's
original ideal had been realized, there would have been no need for a Messiah
or for God's providence to save humanity. Adam's family, though it was merely a
single family, would have been the center of the clan, the nation and the
world. It would have been the blueprint for all families in the future. It
would have been the model for the realization of God's ideal world. However,
this present world is far from the good world of God's ideal.
If you read the
Bible carefully, you will see that the Fall of human beings involved the loss
of Adam's entire family. First, the position of parents was lost through the
Fall of Adam and Eve. Second, the position of children was lost as Cain
murdered Abel. Because the first family practiced self-centered love, they came
to multiply evil rather than goodness, and they bequeathed false life and
lineage to their descendants and thus came to form a false world. Thereupon,
the history of God's providence of salvation was begun.
In order to
restore True Parents centered on true love, God needed a man and a woman who
could stand in the stead of Adam and Eve. Only then could a true family be
formed in accordance with God's original plan. To restore the original family,
God needed to unite Cain and Abel so that the position of true children could
be reclaimed, and then He needed to reclaim the positions of True Mother and,
finally, True Father. To do so, He worked in reverse of the way by which human
beings fell.
This pattern
of reconciliation of Cain and Abel is the foundation and consistent formula for
restoring the True Parents. The separation of Cain and Abel occurs again and
again in Judeo-Christian history. God separated fallen human beings as siblings
into two sides, that of Cain, symbolizing Satan, and Abel, symbolizing God, to
work out the hatreds resulting from the Fall. God established the pattern of
having Abel be struck first and sacrificed. As a result, Abel gained a
foundation from which to stand and embrace Cain and recover the blessing given
to the eldest son.
By virtue of
this principle, the religion that most advances the purpose of salvation always
receives Satan's most severe persecution. It walks the path of receiving
constant opposition, yet continues its sacrificial effort to save the sinful
world. Likewise, good people always stand in the position of being struck first
and sacrificed.
The violation
of the first family and the course of restoration
Ladies and
gentlemen, because illicit, self-centered love invaded the first family,
selfishness and greed have continued to dominate human history from the
individual to the family, society, nation and world. For this reason, God's
work of restoration has to begin at the individual level. Since Satan knows
this, he also focuses his efforts on the individual level.
It is not by
chance that self-centered individualism has become the dominant way of life in
these Last Days. People feel increasingly alienated from those around them, and
bear little sense of responsibility for the well-being of their country, society,
or even their own family. Rising divorce rates indicate that husbands and wives
feel little responsibility for their marriages. Parents do not take
responsibility for their children. Individuals, devoid of any sense of human
dignity, do not even take responsibility for themselves.
America has
seen such phenomena at work, expanding with the youth movement of the 1960s.
Idealistic youth rejected the materialism around them in order to seek peace
and love. Yet in the process they also abandoned morality and responsibility.
Unable to find the true love that they sought, many disillusioned young people
ended their lives through drug abuse and free sex, and the suicide rate rose
dramatically.
Among all
violations, the one that pains God most is free sex. A world of free sex is
absolutely contrary to the Will of God. Love needs to come from the stimulation
of unblemished emotion. However, free sex is totally devoid of purity or true
emotion. How many of us have been touched by the cruelty of infidelity and
divorce? Where is God in a one-night stand? What about the nightmares where
children are sexually abused by a parent or relative? Is free sex worth the
price of a broken child? Where there are homosexuality, free sex, drugs and
alcoholism, the world of true love is far away. In this world, Satan openly
tells people, Drink! Smoke! Take drugs! Have sex!EThe lifestyle of those who
do God's Will, on the other hand, is one hundred eighty degrees different from
this.
Throughout
history, those who chose to walk a spiritual path of self- sacrifice have been
bitterly opposed and persecuted by the rest of the world. It is only God's love
and blessing which have allowed the Unification Church, despite worldwide
opposition, to prosper. The fact that our church has risen from obscurity in
war-torn Korea to become a world-level religious movement in only thirty-eight
years testifies to God's continued guidance and support.
Ladies and
gentlemen, religion teaches that what has gone wrong can be corrected through a
process of restoration. In the Divine Principle, we refer to making restitution
for a wrong as indemnity To make restitution for her wrong actions, fallen
Eve needed to take the entire responsibility. What this signifies is that Eve
must first unite Cain and Abel, her children, so that they can be the
foundation on which the True Parents can be restored.
Through
Abel's love, Cain was supposed to recognize Abel as God's chosen person and
unite with him. However, Cain murdered Abel and thus the opportunity of
restoring Adam's family was lost. This was why God had to wait for a woman who
could reclaim the position of Eve.
In the Bible,
one of God's great heroines is Rebekah, the spouse of Isaac. As the mother of
Jacob and Esau, Rebekah held the same position in Isaac's family that Eve held
in Adam's family. Unlike Eve, however, Rebekah understood God's providence and
helped her second son Jacob, who occupied Abel's position, gain the blessing
destined for the eldest son.
When Jacob
received the birthright and then Isaac's blessing, the eldest brother, Esau,
just like Cain, wanted to kill him. However with Rebekah's help, these brothers
ultimately did not resort to violence, but reconciled in a warm embrace. This
reconciliation was a major victory for God.
This victory,
nevertheless, was not complete, since the reconciliation represented only a
symbolic change of blood lineage. The substantial change of blood lineage
needed to be accomplished in the womb. This is the context for the enigmatic
story of Tamar. By understanding that Tamar, like Rebekah, was in the position
of Eve, we can see why Jesus was born of the tribe of Judah, which was her
lineage.
I am sure
that many of you have read the story about the birth of Tamar's twins. (Gen.
38) Tamar conceived with Judah, her father-in-law, the twins Perez and Zerah.
The Bible tells us that the two sons struggled even in the womb for the position
of firstborn. During Tamar's labor, Zerah's hand emerged and the midwife tied a
red string around his wrist. Then, Zerah's hand disappeared back into the womb
and Perez, the younger, was born as the elder. Thus, the second son reclaimed
the position of the firstborn son in the womb before they were born.
In terms of
conventional morality, the stories of Rebekah and Tamar are questionable at
best. However, we now can see why God blessed them, and how they played the role
of reclaiming His lineage from Satan, to make it possible for Jesus to be born.
From this
same lineage, Mary was born in Israel two thousand years later.
Mary had the
responsibility of restoring eldest sonship on the family, clan and national
levels through paying the indemnity necessary to unite Cain and Abel figures.
At that time, the law was to stone to death any woman who became pregnant out
of wedlock. Mary responded to God's call and conceived Jesus at the risk of her
life.
Because of
Mary's faith, and the providential victories of Rebekah and Tamar, Satan could
not claim sovereignty over Jesus in Mary's womb. Jesus was born in the position
of a true Son under God's perfect, direct lineage. He is the first true Son of
God based on the change of the fallen blood lineage. That is why Jesus is the
saint of all saints and the ancestor of the true blood lineage. His birth
represented the conclusion of the Old Testament Age, the national dispensation,
and the dawn of the New Testament Age, the worldwide dispensation.
Mary, in the
position to restore the original Eve, needed to build unity between Jesus, who
was in the position of Abel, and his elder cousin, John the Baptist, who was in
the position of Cain. John had a large following and was widely respected.
Their unity was crucial if the people of Israel were to identify Jesus as the
Messiah. If they had become one, this would have laid the foundation for the
feast of the Lamb. Jesus would have stood as the True Father of humanity, and
his bride would have stood as the True Mother of humanity. Eventually, the
kingdom of heaven would have been established on earth.
Even though
he had received a clear revelation at the time of JesusEbaptism, John the
Baptist did not become one with Jesus. Without seeing John's public support for
Jesus, it was impossible for the Jewish people to believe in and follow Jesus.
Alone, Jesus then undertook the difficult path of self proclamation.
Confronted by
the faithlessness in Israel, Jesus determined to give his life to bring
spiritual salvation to all who believe. Nonetheless, he said that he would come
again in order to bring salvation on earth, which is physical salvation, on the
foundation of spiritual salvation.
The opening
of the Completed Testament Age
This is why
the mind can draw close to God through Jesus, though the body continues to
struggle with evil. Even Saint Paul anguished over the contradiction between
the desires of the flesh and the desires of the spirit.
Many great
Christian evangelists have also suffered because of this contradiction. At the
dawn of the Completed Testament Age, the crucial challenge is to accomplish
both physical salvation and spiritual salvation. That is why we need the Lord
of the Second Coming.
God's
preparation for the Second Advent included a world-level foundation of
Cain-Abel reconciliation. God carried out this dispensation through events surrounding
the Second World War. The Allied countries of Great Britain, America and France
represented Christianity and were in the position of Abel. The Axis countries
of Germany, Japan and Italy were under the influence of nationalistic
militarism and stood in the position of Cain. This war was the world-level
expansion of the conflict between Cain and Abel.
Immediately
after the Allied victory, great strides were taken toward a world of peace
focusing on Christianity. With Great Britain in the position of Eve on the
global level, and America and France representing Abel and Cain, respectively,
these Allied nations stood ready to receive the Lord of the Second Advent.
Despite this
preparation, God's dispensation was not fulfilled at that time. God's
representative came to bring His word, yet he was met with tremendous
persecution and almost universal misunderstanding. This paralleled JesusE
situation two thousand years ago. Just as the people of Israel in JesusEtime
awaited the second coming of Elijah on a chariot descending from heaven,
Christians awaited the Second Coming by looking for Jesus himself to descend on
a cloud from the sky.
At that crucial
time after the Second World War, God instructed my husband to bring a new
message of truth to Christians in Korea. Korean Christian leaders, however,
rejected the possibility that a humble young man had been chosen to bring a new
message.
Instead of
uniting with my husband, these religious leaders became jealous of him because
of his growing number of followers. They blindly opposed him without hearing
him out. They even spread lies about him. They exploited rumors of sexual
misconduct and greed, the very antithesis of my husband's teachings, to
assassinate his character. The whole world opposed his work and cast him into
the wilderness.
Because
Christianity did not unite with my husband after the Second World War, the
moral authority of Christianity suddenly declined. America, as well as other
nations that are founded on Christianity, came to face severe social and
cultural crises. Thus the Cold War began. Humankind divided again into two
worldwide spheres of Cain and Abel, just as it had during World War II. Denying
God, just as the thief on the left denied Jesus, communism represented the
Cain-type world. Christian democracies, which affirmed the existence of God,
represented the thief on the right, the Abel- type world.
The first
battle of the Cold War was the Korean War, which involved sixteen nations from
the free world gathered under the banner of the United Nations. And then what
happened? Forty years later, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, one hundred sixty
nations that were hostile toward one another could come together at one place
in peace. Following that, in the year 1991, South Korea and North Korea, which
represent Abel and Cain respectively on the world level, joined the United
Nations. Such incidents of harmony and reconciliation have taken place in Korea
because it is the nation to which God has sent True Parents.
During the
forty years of the Cold War period, my husband fought to break down barriers
and rebuild the foundation to receive the Messiah. During that period of time
he was completely misunderstood by others. For doing God's work, he has been
unjustly imprisoned six times, including three years in a North Korean
communist concentration camp. Moreover, the media has vilified him as a cruel
monster who brainwashes people for his own profit.
Can anyone
disagree when I say that Rev. Moon is the most persecuted religious leader in
the world? My heart is broken when I think of how God has suffered to see His
messengers rejected time and time again. His only desire has been to comfort
God's heart; yet he finds that it is God who always comforts him.
He has walked
a path of indemnity and restitution to restore the mistakes of the past,
including those of the Old and New Testament Ages. Korea represents the Old
Testament Age, while America, a mostly Christian civilization, represents the
New Testament Age. For the first twenty years, my husband walked the road of
indemnity through the Old Testament Age, centering on the Korean nation and the
Unification Church, representing the positions of the nation of Israel and
Judaism. In the course of this work, in 1960 we established the Holy Wedding of
True Parents on the national level. Then, in 1971, we moved to America. The
reason America is essential to the providential dispensation is because of her
close ties with the Christian churches, Judaism and Israel. During the next
twenty years in the United States, we walked the path of indemnity to fulfill
the New Testament Age and to begin the Completed Testament Age.
All
dispensations in the Old Testament Age, New Testament Age and Completed
Testament Age have to be completed centering on True Parents. Bearing this in
mind, Israel, America and Korea share a common fate as nations chosen by God.
That is why the United States, which represents the democratic world and the
free world, needs to work to bring about the reunification of North Korea, an
atheistic communist nation, and South Korea, a nation where democracy and
Christianity are flourishing.
People have
to realize that God blessed America not for herself, but for the sake of the
world. The Pilgrims did not come here for wealth. They came here to attend God.
If America does not remember the purpose for which she is blessed, then her
blessing will dissipate and she will perish.
God has
granted my husband an understanding of the forces involved in His providential
history. The truth of God is contained in the Divine Principle. Looking at
history and the stories of the Bible from a providential viewpoint, the Divine
Principle unlocks the answers to questions unsolved for thousands of years.
Those who have sincerely studied its contents have found it to be a true gift
from God, providing solutions to the problems facing our society today. Even in
the formerly communist Commonwealth of Independent States, former Soviet
leaders and thousands of young people have found their lives renewed through
their study of these teachings. Finally free from the oppression of communist
ideology, they are hungry for spiritual truth to guide their nations.
The role of women and the Blessing
Dear friends!
When the foundation of Christianity was lost after World War II, God's dispensation
was delayed forty years until the year 1992. That is why, in April 1992, my
husband and I founded the Women's Federation for World Peace. Last year, with
the heart of True Mother, I visited twelve countries in the world, including
those nations that represented Cain's side on the world level at the time of
the Second World War, namely Germany, Japan and Italy, and those nations that
represented Abel's side on the world level, namely the United States, Great
Britain and France. Just as I had done in Russia and China, in those twelve
nations I emphasized to more than a million women leaders that we have to lay
down the foundation to receive True Parents. Based on this foundation, my
husband and I were able to declare the advent of the Completed Testament Age as
the first True Parents. I hope that all of you who have come here today will
follow our lead and become true parents yourselves.
Ladies and
gentlemen, at the dawn of the Completed Testament Age, the time has come for
each family to take up the messianic mission and complete the work of salvation
all around the world. After restoring your family, the next step is to restore
your community, your tribe and your nation. We call this mission, tribal
messiahship.EIn the Completed Testament Age, the mother's role will be
crucial. She has to unite her children with her husband and link her family
with the True Parents. Already, we have sent thousands of tribal messiah
missionaries around the world. Soon the original ideal of the family will be
achieved worldwide.
In the
completed family, grandparents will be in the position of kings and queens
representing God, parents will be in the position of kings and queens
representing present-day humanity, and children will be in the position of
princes and princesses representing all future descendants. The past, present,
and future will live together in harmony when the three generations are united.
Ladies and
gentlemen, it is my great privilege to announce to you the establishment of the
first true family. My husband and I, together with our thirteen children and
twenty-four grandchildren, are absolutely dedicated to serving God and
humanity. With three generations in one family, we have achieved, on the family
level, the central root, the central trunk, and the central bud of the tree of
life mentioned in the Bible. It is our sincere hope that you will graft into
this lineage and join us in our efforts to create an ideal nation and world.
With the
advent of the Completed Testament Age, we will be able to fulfill God's
original purpose, which was to create Adam and Eve and have them live together
with God. Realizing this, we have to accomplish the unity of our mind and body,
the unity of parents and children, and the unity of husband and wife. Then we
can establish ideal families practicing God's love.
Last year in
Korea, my husband and I officiated at the mass wedding ceremony of thirty
thousand couples. They dedicated their marriages to God, to each other, and to
the world. In today's homes, most parents are unable to guide their children
effectively, especially in such personal matters as love and marriage. My
husband and I, however, brought together young people from one hundred
thirty-one nations in the world and helped them realize their precious dream of
love. In this way, families centered on God can come together and build ideal
nations and an ideal world.
When we are
able to realize such families, social breakdown will disappear. People who have
become God's true children will never become slaves to alcohol or drugs.
Furthermore, by understanding the sacredness of the love between husband and
wife, they will have the moral power to stand strong against illicit and
promiscuous sexual relations. Lastly, when this power is pooled together, it
will carry out the work of eradicating war, racism, famine and disease. On this
foundation, we will be able to build a world where we can fully enjoy true
freedom, peace and happiness.
Esteemed
friends! It is my hope that, as leaders of this nation, you will understand the
meaning of this message with a deep heart and an open mind. I sincerely pray
that, by fulfilling God's ideal, we can all reach the place of His blessing.
May God bless
America! Thank you very much.
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The Unity and Complete Settlement
of the Parents of Heaven and Earth
Distinguished
ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters of my beloved homeland, and the
seventy million people around the world who are watching this historic rally:
I offer my
sincere gratitude to all who are attending this meaningful Rally for the Unity
and Complete Settlement of the Parents of Heaven and Earth.EWe have finally
entered a truly historic and providential era worthy of great proclamation. For
six thousand years, human beings have worked with unceasing effort to bring
about a world of peace yearned for by heaven and earth. The heavenly fortune of
the present era supports our forming it at last. In the end, however,
everything will be resolved through a clear understanding of God's providence
and His heart.
How does a world of peace come about?
Today people talk
about a world of peace, about one world, yet the real question is whether we
can find peace within ourselves. God knows this reality; thus He needs a person
of firm resolve, a great person, who strives to bring unity within him or
herself.
We often
speak of loving, serving and sacrificing for each other. That is admirable.
Loving one another means fervently giving to and sacrificing for another
person, rather than taking or requesting love. The basis of peace emerges in an
environment where people serve one another. Flames of revival blaze when people
sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others. Flowers bloom and spread their
fragrance when people serve one another. Just as the negative pole of a magnet
always attracts a positive pole, we can perceive and understand God through the
power of our conscience. The more we approach God, following our conscientious
minds, the more we can feel peace, happiness and fulfillment within our hearts.
If we follow God's love, which is the womb of peace, our internal organs will
receive stimulation and vibrate with emotion. After living our lives in this
way, we will end them gloriously and with confidence. Even until death, we must
pray desperately as we pledge our commitment to fulfill all our
responsibilities within our lifetime.
An old man's
grave will not be left untended if he has prayed for the salvation of the
world, defended his country and tried to prepare a foundation of happiness for humankind.
His face may be furrowed with age, but the wrinkles on his forehead represent
his efforts to bring peace. Although his posture may be stooped, he represents
a beacon of hope.
We must
overcome the sorrowful situation whereby, as selfish people, we become friends
with evil and offer evil a foothold to expand. We are destined to strengthen
the foundation of goodness throughout our lives. Therefore we must measure our
lives against that standard. We must realize that everyone has an evil self
within, which pursues only selfish interests. Unless you separate from and
stand strongly against this evil being, it will expand its influence with each
passing day. Please recognize that you are on the pressing path of destiny and
must increase your foundation of goodness yet a little more before you pass
away. You must therefore constantly busy yourself, without rest.
In my
lifetime I have shouldered the cross of imprisonment six times. I have been
vilified in countries not my own as the leader of a heretical group, and have
faced intense opposition. Yet the path of sincere devotion I am walking has
been so that people of different races can receive this teaching as their
mainstream philosophy, kneel in adoration in front of God and work side by side
with each other. I have taught this way throughout my life no matter where I
went.
Keep in mind
that God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the saints will rejoice only when we
become the elite cohort of heaven and gain success. Then a time of peace can
arise.
Conflict
within the individual turns into conflict within families, conflict within
families into conflict within clans, conflict within clans into conflict within
society, conflict within society into conflict within the nation, and conflict
within the nation into global conflict. There also will arise conflict between
the spirit world and the earthly world. Only when the battle between God and
the countless evil spirits of Satan's world is over will the era of peace come
to our universe.
You must
understand that God is working through such a process, according to heavenly
principles. The age of cosmic peace will arise only when, after clashing with
Satan, God resolves all problems. Until the moment the core of God's sorrowful
heart is healed, humankind will never find peace and the truth of heaven will
never come to fruition in this world.
If a true
individual were to appear, capable of liberating our Heavenly Parent and this
world from sorrow and bringing the principle to build a nation of peace in
heaven and on earth, that individual would have to pass through every
conceivable difficulty. He or she would experience every level of desperation
and sorrow, through personal tribulations and onward to face all the
tribulations of humankind. He or she would have to delve into the sorrowful and
desperate heart of God in order to find a way to comfort Him. Without this
person, humankind will not be able to put aside its sorrowful and miserable
history and build a world of peace and happiness, a garden of freedom
inviolable by sorrow.
Become eternal leaders for the heavenly kingdom
If you become
a representative of the philosophy of the universal kingdom of heaven,
expanding the movement of God's truth, true love and true lineage, then a
peaceful world can arise. In such a world, your own parents are not the only
parents, your own siblings are not the only siblings and your own children are
not the only children. If you can regard all people as your parents, siblings
or children, then when you look upon the many who are suffering in this world
of death, you will be unable to relate with them without tears. When you look
at your siblings, or younger people, you will feel a strong sense of
responsibility to take care of them, and with tears you will make every effort
to do so. If you truly become such a person, like God, then the kingdom of
heaven on earth will be built around you.
God's
strategy is to receive the first blow from Satan, do everything for his sake,
love him, and later receive everything from him. God does not use force to take
from Satan's world, yet first freely gives love, sacrifices Himself, accepts
blows and is even willing to lose His life. You must understand that God cannot sow the seeds of world peace if He does not
apply this strategy.
You have to
lead your family and live for your nation and the world. Spanning the ages of
the individual, family, clan, tribe, people and nation, you are to fulfill the
role of leading the world's peoples and nations in the right direction, through
your own experience. Having fulfilled this, you must serve God from a position
in which neither of you can separate from the other. Only then will the spirit
world and the physical world become a united realm of peace.
You have to
become guides who can direct others, as eternal leaders of the age when the
heavenly kingdom is established; then you will be awarded glorious official
commendations from the heavenly realm. A person who fights and bleeds profusely
in the harsh process of building a new kingdom of peace, a heaven of freedom,
will not perish. The blood he or she sheds is not the blood of death; it
becomes the power of life. What is achieved in this manner is the foundation we
have to reach, embody in our lives, and bequeath to our future generations.
E/span>Oh, Heavenly
Father! Rooted in the ideal of creation, your divine Will, in which you have
always wanted to take pride, has reached fruition. The man you appointed has
achieved unity within his heart, something in which you have eternally wanted
to take pride since before the creation of the world.EYou have to pray like
this before heaven and long for the day when you can move into the heavenly
kingdom of freedom and peace where God can rejoice.
A new model course centered on God
Who is the
owner of Korea? He is the one who loves and values that nation more than anyone
else. Therefore, if you cherish and love Korea more than anyone else, you will
become the leader of its people, even if you do not ask to be in that position.
Only then will the age of peace that God desires arrive.
We have to
liberate God by dissolving His resentment. Any young person who takes
responsibility to remove even a tiny obstacle blocking God from freely governing
the nation, and who has the heart to serve God as the majestic and absolute
Being who can govern all nations as the heavenly kingdom of freedom and peace,
will become a truly great person. The world will take a new direction in the
future because of this young person. If you vow to be like him or her, no
matter how ragged you may look, you will not appear ugly. Infinite hope dwells
there. That person will become the foundation for God's hope and happiness.
We are in a
position to be harvested, like ripened grain. We have to be able to digest our
feelings and experiences in order to produce happiness. As long as our spirits
do not deviate from unity with God, is it not true that the peaceful heaven
will be connected to this world as we expand this foundation to the nation and
the world?
Where does
the restoration of heaven begin? It begins from prison. Have you ever
experienced being in prison and humming a song of gratitude, as Jesus did, with
an independent and peaceful heart, a heart reflecting the original standard in
the subject position?
When the
apostles went through that same woeful ordeal, did God not give them the
authority to open prison doors and move freely, so that their situation could
be transformed into a heavenly one? God wants all of you to become people in
whom God can have hope and expectation greater than He did for those apostles.
In the Last
Days, there will be no way to survive if the direction of history is not
reversed. At all costs we must find a new direction for history. This is the
new direction of unity. Since history has come to its conclusion through the
sacrifices of others, peace cannot come to this world if men and women do
things in the same way they have done until now.
How can we
overcome the way of the cross? We have to put the good of the nation before
that of our spouse and our self, the good of the world before that of the
nation, and the good of heaven and earth before that of the world. If we go
this way step by step, naturally and without hesitation, the way of the cross
along which all our enemies are waiting will disappear completely. We will
reach a level highway, and attain liberation and freedom. Finally, we will
realize the kingdom of peace in heaven and on earth, the ideal world desired by
God.
A world of peace, unity and true love
We have to
look for God-centered patterns in that world too. The parental duty of loving
children is the moral obligation of humankind. How do we implement the standard
of the ideal, original way, which God designed and the Unification Church
teaches? It is grounded in parental, conjugal and filial ties, and the
principle of the four-position foundation. As we dream of world peace and
unity, this fundamental question remains. If it is not resolved, a world of
unity cannot come.
Please
realize that growing out of the pattern of the individual male and female, a
world of unity will emerge where the family pattern is established. Even if
you, your family and your nation become a sacrifice, the gateway to a new
history will open up before our very eyes, based on the thought system that
imparts new values to benefit all nations of the world. This is as certain as
the law of gravity. Please realize that, although this world is a world of sin
and evil, by following a single direction toward deliverance from sin, the time
will come when we can build a victorious heaven within the evil world.
We are to love
our enemies. This is the secret method of breaking Satan's walls that surround
us. The realm of equality has never existed in this world. The way to create
this is to make those who strike us surrender by sacrificing for them, loving
them and praying for them. By giving them the same blessings that we have, a
realm of total equality will come into being.
Since we have
set the stage for the final showdown with the enemy in this way, we can secure
the concept of a nation of peace for the first time. An ideal model of world
peace and unity will start from here. To shorten the way to Heaven, the
Messiah, a specific individual, and a specific people had to take
responsibility through self-sacrifice. Many saints have given up their lives
for this cause. As a result, the rise and fall of many nations has leveled the
hills and valleys, bringing balance.
The degree of
equilibrium we see in the world today came about in this manner. Equality is
peace. Originally, Adam and Eve, after perfecting themselves based on God's
love and then becoming one, could have come to stand within a God-centered
structure of relationships. In the Unification Church, this structure is called
the four-position foundation. Because we lost the means to complete the
four-position foundation, there has been no way to bring peace, utopia or an
ideal world in any of the historical ages.
An ideal country
can never arise if we deny or try to break away from the Principle.
Christianity developed in a vortex of untold pressures for two thousand years,
starting with persecution under the Roman Empire. Eventually Christianity
absorbed Rome. Why has it declined and fallen away from God in only a few
decades in freedom-loving, modern-day America? This is a puzzle. Judaism taught
belief in God and all Jews loved God, yet they have suffered so much.
This is a deep mystery. The answer to both questions is that these religions
did not go the way they were originally intended to go. In the Last Days, if
the central people do not align with God's original true love, Satan will
inevitably break them apart.
So, to
reorganize the world, where can we focus? There are so many historians and
intellectuals who pronounce on this matter today, but what we need is someone
who can lead the world. Then how would such a person guide us? What would he
teach? There are plenty of people qualified to teach how to live based on
politics or political power. It is not because of a lack of money or
imperfections in their political systems that they cant lead us properly. It
is because they do not explain the order of love that can connect to God and
His ideal. If we find the truth that can explain the order of original love and
expand it throughout the world, there for the first time we will find the
origin of peace, the place where our hearts can rest, and the beginning point
of God's wonderful ideal.
With true
love, the beginning and the end must be the same. In heaven and earth, what is
needed is someone who can connect to God's heart through true love. Peace comes
from a heart of true love. If our minds are truly joyful, the cosmos becomes
our friend. If we have this true heart, when we encounter the cosmos, its vast
expanse will play out within our minds.
In what
manner will the ideal world come to humankind in the future? The world is
doomed to perish if we do not make clear the proper use of our reproductive
organs. We will never discover a world of peace. Look at Rome and America. The
degeneration of the United States is not due to a lack of money. Until now,
Americans have not been able to recognize the origin, creation and ownership of
the reproductive organ. They have not known these things because of Satan. To
clarify this, and to clear up all the chaos caused by the vicious and treacherous
Satan on the cosmic level, I came, hoisted my banner and went forth in the name
of True Parents.
When the
wintry wind blows from a frigid zone into a temperate zone, the trees stand
bare, stripped of their foliage and fruit. In winter, all fruit falls from the
trees. Yet no matter how harsh the wind's blast, it cannot suppress the seeds
that bear life. When these very seeds that demonstrate such endurance and
strength germinate, a new spring garden of peace for humankind will be found.
As the spring garden of liberation and hope is found, as seeds of new life are
sown in the earth in this new age of humankind, let us move into the temperate
zone of liberation where there is no winter. This is a perfect metaphor for the
teaching of the Unification Church.
To improve
ourselves, we have to go the way of hardship. Is North-South unification easy?
Is unity within oneself easy? We may be able to achieve external unification
between North and South, yet still be unable to achieve internal unity within
ourselves. Even if we achieve outward peace in the world, we may still be
unable to achieve inner peace ourselves.
If the world
moves forward in one direction, aligning the past, present and future and
uniting internally and externally, the opportunity for unity can come at any
time. When we examine the past and the present, we see that they must be moving
in one direction, toward one purpose. That purpose is peace and unity. It is
one peace, not two. Then when can we ourselves attain internal unity? Are we
qualified to govern a united world without first uniting ourselves? Logically
speaking, we are not qualified.
If we seek to
identify the most fundamental problem, it is the serious issue of unity. This
is the historical problem of the universe. If a nation perishes, it is not such
a problem. There were no nations in Adam's world. Managing just his own family
would have sufficed. It would have been enough if the family had been intact.
In the end, what matters is unity between the conscience and the physical body,
and unity within the family. The issue of unity between couples, between men
and women, is a global problem. If that can be achieved, the world can become a
place of peace. If they are handled with true love, the world's problems will
not seem difficult. Everything is resolved if there is unity between our minds
and bodies, between parents and children, between husbands and wives, and
between siblings.
In this evil
and belligerent world, everything is in a state of struggle. This is because
the mind struggles with the body. The battle of the sexes has become an
accepted norm. Where in the world is the foundation for peace? It is not in
Korea, not in Japan, not in the world, not in heaven; it is within oneself. If
we do not bring peace between the mind and body that are at war, there will
never be world peace.
How, then,
will the world of peace come? What is the fundamental condition? We must
discover the root of unity. If we cannot locate this, we will remain forever estranged
from a world of unity.
Before
attempting to unite your family, you must ask yourself whether you are united
in mind and body; you will find that you are not. There is a struggle between
body and mind, isnt there? When a man and woman fight each other, there is no
happiness, peace or hope. In the end, with their minds and bodies divided, a
couple splits into four parts, two minds and two bodies, and there is conflict
among them all.
The
Unification Church equips you with a logical, organized system that no religion
or philosophy can imitate. It teaches you to live for others based on internal
integrity and motivated by God's true love. This can become the basis of world
peace, the basis of peace for individuals, couples, families, tribes, peoples,
nations, the world and, ultimately, the cosmos. The ideal of True Parents
brings people into unity with God in true love, thus creating a peaceful, happy
and hopeful world where heaven and earth are one. No one opposes these ideas.
Everyone welcomes them.
What will
become of the world in the future? Regardless of age or gender, all people
living in the world today are longing for global unity. It is not a world of
war they wish for; it is a world of peace and freedom without national
boundaries, racial strife or cultural barriers. The world's people are yearning
for one world of peace and freedom with a culture of true love.
A world of
peace is a world of unity. In aiming for a world of peace there is only one
way, not two. The world of hope and peace for which men and women, young and
old, are craving, is a world of unity. Even within single nations, we see
various organizations, each with its unique thought, methodology and
objectives. Surveying the political landscape of Korea, the ruling and
opposition parties each seek to run their own party in their own way. How many
different directions will there be? Problems stem from this.
Since the
dawn of history, a great number of people have worked for world peace. However
the number of those capable of leading humankind with hope into the sublime,
united world of tomorrow is steadily dwindling.
Where can we
begin to determine the structure of such a society, going beyond all studies,
research and conventional practices? The starting point must be the True God.
From the beginning, the True God made man and woman through a process. If the
True God cannot rediscover the path to the destination, we cannot establish the
ideal of creation, the realization of the ideal world of peace.
The world of
peace is a world of unity. If men and women move in a direction different from
that of God, a united world of peace cannot come. The conclusion is that the
two directions inevitably have to become one.
If we do not
go beyond the humanistic world toward a true God-centered world, we cannot
discover the way to the united world of peace. In the world of mind and body,
setting up a standard of peace is the most essential thing in
life. *
The mind is
battling against the body. In relation to this problem, where is the standard
of peace? Not in the world, in the nation or in a religion. To be religious
leaders, you must have absolute integrity of mind and body to establish the
standard of peace within yourselves. The purpose of all education and all
training and all human thought is for the realization of oneness between mind
and body.
You can
believe in any religious teaching, you may be a wonderful religious leader, or
a great saint reigning over the world; however, as long as you are in this
fallen realm, you will not be able to achieve integrity of mind and body on the
same level as the eternal God.
God's true
love, true life and true lineage and world peace
The problem
is that unless the root of peace and true love is settled in the individual
realm of the heart, an ideal religion and heaven are just a dream. The source of
unity is found in God, in the united realm of the True God's children. God's
body and mind dont struggle.
Then why do
the human mind and body struggle? The Father, the King of peace, and the son
must unite in order to unite the mind and body. The origin of peace lies in the
relationship of father and son, united in God's true love, true life and true
lineage. True love, true life and true lineage must be united where father and
son become one.
We, the
fallen lineage of humankind, must clearly come to know the original God and the
ideal environment of the realm of heaven. The way to heaven will surely be
found if we make a great effort to unite with God. This is the how the world of
peace begins and spreads to every level, from the individual all the way to
heaven, where the father and son live in unity and joy.
Therefore,
the True Parents, who are Christ at the Second Advent, will illuminate everything
in heaven and bring it into unity with the world on the earth. They will
realize heaven on earth and in the spirit world.
It is through
the True Parents on earth that true love, true life and true lineage are
taught. All the saints and sages and all people in the spirit world want this,
yet it must be accomplished through people learning the realm of oneness with
True Parents on earth. Then heaven on earth and in the spirit world will be
established.
Beloved
people of my homeland, and all those who are observing this rally from around
the world! You are truly blessed people. You are welcoming the age in which the
True Parents of humankind have come, the age when the Korean Peninsula can be
united through true love and truth instead of by guns and swords. It is the age
when all religions can be united under True ParentsEteaching, and the
historical and providential age when the saints and our ancestors can descend
from the spirit world and communicate with us directly.
I would like
to introduce the messages of Jesus Christ and the saints in the spirit world,
urging us to go beyond the barriers of race, philosophy and nationality, and
build a world of peace. Please study this content in its entirety through the
books that will be distributed.
I hope you
will live happily and peacefully with the Parents of Heaven and Earth in the eternal
heaven, both on the earth and in the spirit world, where everyone lives as one
great family of true love.
May God's
boundless blessings fill your family, nation and the world!
Thank you.
Little Angels Performing Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
World Peace Summit Conference 2003
Respected
present and former heads of state, world leaders dedicated to establishing the
realm of God's ideal, leaders of youth and university students, ladies and
gentlemen:
I would like
first to give thanks before God, who has left behind the darkness and
melancholy of the past century to bless the new millennium with bountiful hope
and dreams of peace. I have invited you to hold this conference in the Republic
of Korea, the only nation on Earth where the sharp conflict between democracy
and communism continues to this moment. I state this not out of an individual's
perspective, not because it is my homeland, but out of the perspective of God's
providence, because the Korean peninsula, though small in size, is the central
country to bring about peace in the twenty-first century.
I will speak
today on the topic, The Owners of Re-CreationEin order to help you understand
God's providence and to clarify our mission and responsibility in building a
world of peace.
The God of
bitter sorrow becomes the God of joy
Respected
guests, we live in an age of great providential revolution. All nations and
religions now have to transcend past ways of living and understand that, for
very practical reasons, it is necessary to live in exact accordance with a new understanding
of God's providence. This applies in the earthly world and also in the world
after death, the spirit world, where we will all live after we shed our
physical body.
The number of
ambassadors for peace that I have appointed throughout the world now has
reached the tens of thousands. The newly appointed ambassadors for peace
sometimes ask, How must we conduct our lives?E/span>
I answer that
you have to complete the course that the Unification movement has traveled in
its history, which proceeds according to an established formula. You need to
understand clearly the reality of the spirit world and its direct link to the
earthly world. Awareness of this spiritual reality naturally forms the core and
guiding content for your life. You must have conviction to live in accordance
with this awareness and work in harmony with the spirit world. You have to
develop confidence that this is the context in which you are to live.
Throughout
the decades, the contents of my sermons have not changed. When someone lives
for the accomplishment of God's Will for the new world, and if they make these
teachings their basic standard, that person will be a principal actor in the
effort to bring about the ideal kingdom of heaven. We need to live according to
a basic rule. We have based our lives on vague concepts; however we must now
live based on awareness of reality. This will bring us into oneness with
Heaven, including both the spirit world and physical world. We need to unite
the spiritual and physical realms within our own lives and expand this to the
national realm. This is the only way to bring about the kingdom of God on earth
and in heaven.
You need to
understand that the position of the owner of Cheon II Guk, the kingdom of
heaven, is someone who establishes a new standard that enables the peoples of
the nations around the world to transcend their current ways of thinking, which
have been based on traditional philosophies and concepts. The owners of Cheon
II Guk progress to a new and higher dimension.
I was
twenty-five years old when I founded the Unification movement, and I hope you
understand that I founded this association based on the essential points of
God's Principle. The people who joined this movement at that time lived
together with the True Parents and helped usher in a new world. Due to the
Fall, human beings completely lost the world God originally created, and even
lost God Himself. So in pursuing the providence of re-creation, I was
responsible to bring about the world God created, which was lost at the time of
the human Fall. That is, I was responsible to re-create the position that Adam
would have occupied had he not fallen.
Please
understand that we have to liberate the God of grief to become the God of
happiness. On the foundation of the Unification Church, I established the
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and, later, offered God the
Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of GodEand The Enthronement of the
King of Blessed Families for the True Love, Peace, and Unity of the True
Parents of Heaven and Earth.E/span>
Our families are the owners of re-creation
Since the
Fall, God has been unable to engage the created world, and yet now, through the
True Parents, He can restore all things through indemnity and perfect this
world. We need to understand that God is neither the owner of re-creation nor
the owner who pays indemnity for Adam's Fall. These are actually Adam's
responsibilities. Everything must be placed in its proper order within the time
frame of Adam's generation; otherwise, there will be no way to allow God to
stand in His original position. For this reason, even though He is omniscient
and omnipotent, God has worked laboriously through the long course of history
from a position without sovereignty over the creation. We need to come to terms
with this mortifying fact. I hope you each realize that your own spiritual
development occurs only when God's kingdom in the realm of daily life expands
through the eras of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and
cosmos. If you do so, you will gain the ability to travel freely between the
heavenly and earthly worlds. You will be able to attend God.
The mission
of the perfected Adam will not be completed until God's kingdom, starting with
His palace, is created and dedicated to Heaven. The saints and sages now in the
heavenly world are not living in glory. Instead, with that goal in mind, they
work continuously in order to achieve perfection. We need to understand that they
will continue their efforts until they achieve the true love ideal, that is,
the united realm of the liberated earthly and heavenly worlds.
You have to
know that, if you are unable to complete this mission while on earth, when you
arrive in the world after death you will find that you will need to go through
a long training process to overcome challenges and complete what you were
responsible to do on earth. Please understand that the time we have on earth is
an opportunity more precious than anything else under heaven. It is our
opportunity to perfect our love. It is urgent that we understand our work now
is for the sake of inheriting a path that is more precious than our nation,
more precious than the world, and more precious than our own love or life. The
life we lead from now on has indescribable value.
It is
important to understand that it is not God's responsibility to bring about
God's liberation. It is our responsibility. If it were God's responsibility, He
would not even have allowed Adam and Eve to commit the Fall. The staggering
fact is that responsibility for the Fall lies with the family of Adam. During
history before now, not a single person fully understood this point. The owner
of re-creation does not refer to God; it refers to our families. This is the
reason our families are so important. The foundation of Cheon II Guk, which is
the world of God's original ideal, is the family.
Please
understand that when I founded this movement at the age of twenty-five, I did
so with full knowledge of all these facts. As it was then, so it is now. We
need to make a new starting point from this original, Adam- like position.
Bequeath the tradition of purity
Respected
guests, do you know the main point of the speech I delivered at the ceremony
marking the founding of the Family Party? It is an educational movement to
promote good governance, and my speech concerned the recording of marriages and
births. It begins not with the recording of my marriage, but with the recording
of God's marriage and God's birth. God, along with Adam, never had a marriage
ceremony as the Lord who created the universe. God was never able to record His
birth or marriage. Who was responsible for this? It was Adam, who fell.
This is the
reason that the True Parents have to liberate God on the foundation of having offered
to God the Enthronement Ceremony of the Kingship of God. God originally stood
in an autonomous position and could do as He pleased with every object partner
in the creation of the heavens and the earth, from the smallest to the largest.
However, because of the Fall, He could not make a start as the Owner of Cheon
II Guk. He could not assert Himself freely. We must understand this mortifying
fact. Because it was the family of Adam and Eve that ruined the realm of
creation and freedom that was originally God's, the perfected family of Adam
and Eve has to remake this universe anew. Therefore, if from this moment you
determine with a deep conviction to renew your family in accordance with the
direction of God's will, all will go well for you.
Why do we
need religion? Please be aware that religion is needed because of the human
Fall. However, people are sending religions to the sidelines today. Rev. Moon
and Mrs. Moon, the True Parents, are making everything under heaven new with
their own hands. They have even built God's original palace, where He can be
completely liberated, can enter the realm of kingship, and be restored to the
rightful realm as the Owner of the heavenly kingdom. If you understand this
content, you need to mark this day as a new beginning and become sons and
daughters of God with strong conviction and confidence to fulfill your
responsibility.
All that
would remain then would be to have your family centered on God. You must make a
determination also to stand with the political policies on Heaven's side and
set straight the countries that until now have been associated with political
policies on Satan's side and have caused Heaven to suffer by persecuting
religions.
You must
become owners who build the original homelands and father-lands where you would
like to live. You must become people who give true love to all of nature. All
things, even plants and animals, must be re-created. Because of the Fall, they
lost the reciprocal realm of true love in which to exist. The realm of true
love only existed until Adam and Eve reached age sixteen, their age at the time
of the Fall. After their Fall, this realm was divided. We must now take responsibility
as though it were a mistake committed by our own hands that ruined the entire
world. The blessed family that makes the determination to take responsibility
to accomplish restoration will be the owner of Cheon II Guk.
Please
realize that all humanity today stands in the position of having been born
simultaneously into the realms of heaven and hell. However these two realms of
good and evil are now like brothers in a family. Therefore, you need the heart
to embrace a family and help the parents equally love the older and younger
brothers. You need to feel a love that, based on your own experience, deeply
understands and sympathizes with this family's situation. Otherwise, when you
go to spirit world, you will not be able to live in a family qualified for the
royal palace. Instead, you will wander continuously around that vicinity for
thousands and even tens of thousands of years.
As ancestors
of the coming generations, you have to dedicate all your sincerity and effort
to the task of passing on a lineage of chastity and fidelity, a pure lineage
based on pure love. You have a responsibility to your family that you need to
fulfill before you die, even if it means that you offer up your life hundreds
or thousands of times before you are able to go over that mountain. You must
travel this path with a constant spirit of one heart, one body and one thought.
God has had
this level of seriousness, and so Rev. Moon, who founded the Family Federation,
has had unsurpassed seriousness to establish a clear family tradition of purity
and fidelity. Like it or not, you have to do your best and leap ahead on this
path with all your strength in order to achieve the goal. A new age of heavenly
understanding is coming. The age has arrived when we can establish nations
based on blessed families, that is, families that have received God's direct
Blessing. Therefore, you need to set everything right and be on full alert.
Please become families that produce heavenly princes and princesses who are
highly qualified to attend Heaven's ideal purpose of creation.
Please
understand very clearly that the overall purpose is to inherit this foundation
of victory, to live in attendance to God, and return to one nation, one
culture, one world, one brother and sisterhood, and one realm that is an
expansion of the one family that lives in peace on the earth and in heaven
forever and ever. It is incredible that something such as the Family Party
could emerge.
Had Jesus
completed the providence of restoration through indemnity, married and formed a
family, he could have established in one fell swoop a foundation of marriage
Blessing that would have brought the people of Israel into Heaven's realm. He
could have gone on to give the Blessing in Rome. He could have accomplished the
kingdom of God on earth and in heaven by the time he was in his forties. Israel
and Palestine are fighting each other today because the mission of Jesus as the
True Parent was not accomplished. Brothers fight and are not able to unite,
because there are no True Parents. At the time of Jesus, the world would have
come to have one religion, one culture, one nation and one realm of heart. When
that did not happen, Islam, Judaism and Christianity separated. You must know
that these developments brought God into a realm of supreme grief. Currently in
America, a movement of pastors removing the cross from their churches is
underway. Jesus came as the True Parent of humanity to establish God's lineage
on earth; nonetheless, he was killed on the cross before he could complete
this.
The value of
the True Parent is greater than that of all humankind. It follows that
atonement for this sin would not be made, even by the offering of the entire
human race. The suffering of God's people for the past two thousand years was dreadful
and appalling, yet it did not earn forgiveness for the death of Jesus. Even
suffering of many times that much would not be enough. There is actually no way
for any nation to pay for the sin of killing the True Parent. Because humanity
still carried the sin of killing the True Parent, God could not intervene to
prevent cruel persecution and genocide. We have to digest this lesson of how
valuable True Parents are because we are in a similar period of history today.
We have
arrived at a time when Judaism, Islam, and Christianity must overcome their
historical divisions and unite throughout the world centering on the
Unification Principle. The parallel historical periods of restoration through
indemnity are reaching completion. This age is parallel to the age of Jesus,
not on the worldwide level, but on the cosmic level. For this reason, the
returning Lord must be the Messiah and Savior. The Savior must turn this world
into a kingdom of heaven of peace, and in that world there can be no discord
among religions.
The word
returningEmeans that this is the Lord who has come again. This is because the
position of the Lord, as True Parent, was not established to the fullest extent
when he came the first time. The Lord, having come again, must become the True
Parent and bring about the liberated realm in the earthly and heavenly worlds.
Human beings did not understand this historical fact, which is interwoven in
the history of the providence. Now that you know this, you can climb over this
mountain, enter into God's holy presence and dwell in the liberated, ideal
realm.
Our destiny
to register our families for the heavenly kingdom
You need to
know that it remains your destiny to gain respect and praise from the highest
beings of the heavenly kingdom, to register yourselves in Cheon II Guk, which
is the new global nation, and to enter that nation as new citizens. If you die
and go to the spirit world without accomplishing this mission, you will be held
back.
This is the
reason that you need to sincerely dedicate yourselves to accomplishing all your
tasks while you are alive. No one can take responsibility for your life in
providential history if you commit an error on the path.
It is a great
task. Exhausting your five physical senses and five spiritual senses hundreds
or thousands of times over is just the beginning. Can God take responsibility
for it? No, He cannot. As I said earlier, if He could take responsibility, He
would never have allowed Adam and Eve to commit the Fall in the first place.
Who is the
owner of re-creation? It is not God. It is you and your family. That is the
reason we say in the Family Pledge to God each morning, As the owner of Cheon
II Guk, our family...EFrom the minutest organism created by God, to the
heavenly world and the whole universe that is more than a hundred billion times
larger than the solar system, all things are arranged in a pair system. This is
the orderly existence of all things within God's realm of love. Satan destroyed
all this by defiling the blood lineage. So the True Parents need to relate to
all things again and re-create them. You also are responsible to resolve God's
grief by loving the plants, animals, seas and lands with God's true love, and
to resolve the grief that accompanies humanity's inability to become true owners.
That is why a new view of life, a new view of the universe, and a new view of
the cosmos are to be established.
Originally,
there would have been no need for a Family Party. What was needed was a family
that lived in attendance to God as the Parent. Because such a family was not
established, however, it must be accomplished now, bearing all costs during the
course of indemnity. The Family Party was established to educate all people
about the purpose of this task and how to carry it out.
True ParentsElife is a course of deep sorrow
You must go
forward with the self-realization that yours is a family of princes among
princes, princesses among princesses, and filial children, patriots, saints and
sons and daughters of God. We are pioneering the path that God would like to
travel. We travel in His place, as offerings. Even if you are able to receive
God's love and remain in the realm of His heart for thousands, or even tens of
thousands of years, you will shed tears of shame when you face the God who has
suffered unimaginable grief throughout the ages. Even if you shed your blood
and sweat for God to the point that your entire being is on fire, you will
still feel that you are inadequate. This is the path that our families must
follow in order to free ourselves of the mistake of not accomplishing our
responsibility as princes and princesses seeking Heaven.
Fallen human
beings destroyed the heavenly kingdom, even the heavenly palace. So we have to
determine to recreate everything for God. On that foundation, our families will
create filial children, patriots, saints, and sons and daughters of God, to an
extent a thousand, or even tens of thousands of times greater than would have
been achieved if the Fall had never occurred. If we re-create everything, then
how can hell exist? The re-created world will be the core of the royal palace
of the heavenly kingdom, and God will be able to dwell anywhere on the earth in
the same way that He dwells in His palace.
I have
traveled a suffering course in the process of founding and leading the
Unification movement, but to this day none of these experiences really feel
like suffering to me. I can feel this way because I have arrived at a place in
my heart that profoundly comprehends, through my own experience, God's deep,
wide and exalted blessing. With that, I am grateful for everything. Those who
have not had experiences in this position will not understand. God Himself
doesnt stand up displaying pride in front of me, for He has not been in the
position to love me as His son who is liberating Him.
By Himself,
God could not be liberated from His inconsolable grief, nor begin the process
of truly loving human beings as His children. God's position needs to be
recovered. That is, He needs to regain the position of True Parent so He can
give and receive love with His children. Because the children committed the
Fall, the giving and receiving of love did not come about. Human beings were
forced to go through a history of grief. The marriage and even the birth of God
could not be recorded, because His nation did not exist.
The life of
the True Parents has also been a course of grief. The historic work of True
Parents has divine value. There will be wailing and lamentation day after day
when the world comes to fully understand the content of True ParentsElives.
People will weep the same way the people of Israel repent in tears at the
Wailing Wall. We have to go this way to establish the realm of liberation from
grief. We finally have entered an age when God can liberate all of heaven and
earth through His marriage. Because God has recorded His marriage, we, as His
sons and daughters, can record our births. Because God has fulfilled the
covenant of three generations, He is able to return to His original position.
Citizens of
Cheon II Guk are the royalty of Heaven
On the basis
of the realm of the victory of the True Parents, who are the Parents of Heaven
and Earth, you can now completely inherit the authority to register marriages
and births. I hope that you will have faith that when you make your
determination to live in this way, and become citizens of Cheon II Guk, living
with one heart, one body, one thought, and one harmony, you will absolutely
become members of the royal family.
Here at the
Little Angels Performing Arts Center tonight we have leaders who signed the
Jerusalem Declaration, the Washington Declaration, and, now, the Seoul Peace
Declaration, representing the unity of the eras of the First, Second and Third
Israel. Participants in the Seoul Peace Declaration include young leaders of
the second generation, who participated in the International Youth Leaders
Conference held at Sun Moon University, and world leaders who have attended the
International and Interreligious Federation for World Peace Summit of World
Leaders. I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to all of you.
You are
leaders of the first and second generations who can inherit the realm of
Heaven's chosen people. I earnestly ask that you remember that you stand here
today at the site of the Seoul Declaration. You are here to become one with
each other in mind and body, and answer the historic call to renew the United
Nations and so recreate a new United Nations that expresses God's original
ideal.
I offer
gratitude to God for all these things, and pray that God's abundant blessings will
be with each of you, your families, and your countries.
Thank you.
5
January 27, 2004
Shilla Hotel, Seoul, Korea
Distinguished
leaders from around the world, respected dignitaries from Korea and other
countries, ladies and gentlemen:
This banquet
was prepared to celebrate my eighth-fourth birthday and the birthday of my
wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon. Instead of receiving congratulations on our
birthdays, though, the two of us would prefer to offer this banquet to the
saints and sages in the spirit world who are present here now, to blessed
families in the spirit world, and to the participants of the World Summit on
Leadership and Governance.
Humanity
inherited false love, false life and false lineage I understand that you have
been engaged in discussions and meetings during the past few days on the theme,
Good Governance for a World in Crisis.EI know that your hard work and passion
will combine to create the opportunity for new hopes and dreams to be planted
in a world that slides deeper into crisis with each passing day.
I would like to
express my most sincere gratitude to each of you again for coming to my
homeland, Korea, to join me in opening the fourth year of Cheon II Guk, the
Kingdom of Peace and Unification. This is a new year of great hope. Throughout
my life of more than eighty years, I have maintained a tradition of speaking
only the Will of Heaven. This evening, in keeping with this tradition, I would
like to convey to you Heaven's message entitled, The Messiah and True
Parents.E/span>
In the beginning,
God created human beings as His children. They were destined to grow to
maturity, form families with His Blessing, and multiply His descendants for
endless generations in a lineage of goodness unstained by sin. The first
human ancestors, Adam and Eve, were to have attended God as their vertical True
Parent. Then with the True Parent God as their axis, they were to have become
the substantial, horizontal True Parents. In such a world, the word Messiah
would never have come to exist. Their family would have been the ideal family
reflecting God's ideal of creation, and the world would have been the kingdom
of heaven on earth, where God's ideal of creation would have been completed.
After living out their lives in this world, human beings would have automatically
been registered as citizens of the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world, where
they would have lived eternally in freedom, peace, and happiness.
Perfected
Adam and Eve would have communicated directly with God using their five
spiritual senses and, at the same time, they would have worked freely with the
physical creation using their five physical senses. They would have lived as
True Owners, True Parents, and True King and Queen representing both the spirit
world and the physical world.
However, with
the Fall of the first human ancestors, all humanity descended into a hell of
hopelessness from which their efforts alone would never free them. Their five
spiritual senses became paralyzed. They fell into a state similar to that of a
blind person. Their eyes appear to be normal yet do not function at all. Forced
to live with just their five physical senses, they were only half human. They
could not see God. They could not hear His voice or feel His touch. So how
could they experience His love as their own Parent or understand His suffering
heart?
The Messiah
is the True Parent of true love, true life and true lineage
Satan forced
his way into the parental position that rightfully belonged to God, pretending
to be the parent. He placed humanity in complete bondage, making them his
slaves. For this reason, the love, life and lineage that we possess today is
false. It is exactly that false love, false life and false lineage first
planted in Adam and Eve, which persist in us today.
What great
pain God must have felt as He watched human beings, born to be His direct
lineal children, receive Satan's false lineage and descend to the position of
servant of servants! Because God is a God of principle and law, He would not
reject the principles by which He created, nor violate the ideal of creation
that He established. So He has had to wait tens of thousands of years before
introducing the Messiah to the course of the providence of salvation. Different
religions refer to this person by different names, such as the Maitreya, the
Man of the True Way, and the returning Savior. However, the person humankind
needs to open the way, and the person sought by God, is one and the same
person, the Messiah, who is the True Parent.
Who, then, is
the Messiah, and what is he like? He is the owner and substantiation of faith,
hope, and love, for the individual and also for the family, tribe, society,
nation, world and cosmos. The faith and hope that remain on earth will finally
bear fruit only in an age when humanity attends this person as the Messiah.
This fruit contains the life and breath of human history. This fruit links
human beings with Heaven. Our past, present and future are linked to it. The
Messiah comes for the sake of human beings, who became forlorn orphans after
losing their parents through the Fall. He becomes our substantial True Parent,
True Owner, True Teacher and True King. He is the substantiation of God's true
love, true life, and true lineage, coming to restore His lost children who have
been groaning in travail under a false parent, to bring them back to their
rightful position as the true sons and daughters of God.
Ladies and
gentlemen, Heaven sent Jesus to earth two thousand years ago as the Messiah.
Jesus was none other than the one who came to embrace the children who had lost
their parents and to restore them back to the original ideal of Heaven. He was
the True Parent. Through the Fall, Adam and Eve lost their positions as True
Parents. They were unable to receive God's Blessing and so could not form a
union as a true husband and wife and could not produce true children. Their
mistake meant God could not embrace a lineage of three generations, including
His grandchildren. So God tearfully made preparations for a period of thousands
of years, establishing the nation of Israel as His chosen people. He then sent
Jesus, the Savior and Messiah, through the lineage of Abraham. Jesus came as
the leader in the struggle to establish, for the first time in history, the
sovereignty, land and people of the one nation of God. On that foundation, he
could have changed the whole world from Satan's false blood lineage to the true
blood lineage of God's goodness.
Tragically,
the people of Israel whom God had chosen did not receive Jesus, and as a result
he was put to death unjustly. The Messiah, Jesus, who could have restored the
position of True Parents, produced true children, and risen to the position of
King of kings, was prevented from establishing even the position of a true
husband with God's marriage Blessing. Because of this, he could not establish
the position of True Parents or multiply true children. Instead, he died on the
cross.
The marriage
of the Lamb of which the Book of Revelation in the New Testament speaks is none
other than the ceremony by which the Messiah receives his bride and forms the
union of true husband and wife. If Judaism had received and attended Jesus at
that time, the world of God's earnest desire, the world of His original ideal
of creation, the peaceful kingdom of heaven, would have been realized on earth
at that time through JesusEdescendants. As it was, the providence of
establishing True Parents that Jesus, the Second Adam, was ready to fulfill was
stopped in its tracks by the faithlessness of those who had been chosen. As a
result, human beings were told to wait for the Second Coming of the Messiah.
Heaven had mercy yet again on pitiful humankind.
Rev. Moon
received the mission of the True Parent
Heaven gave
its blessing by sending the Messiah of the Second Coming. He appears on the
foundation of the spiritual restoration Jesus carried out throughout the two
thousand years of Christian history. The returning Messiah comes with the
incredible burden of completing the mission of True Parents. To accomplish his
mission, he must first, above all else, achieve victory over Satan's realm. He
then needs to go on to achieve victory in the spiritual realm as well. He has
to fully engage both realms, neither of which can be sensed with the five
physical senses, and be victorious in the life-and-death battle to subjugate
the devil, Satan. Additionally, he has to win over the religious and
philosophical leaders who are in the spirit world. He can accomplish none of
this, however, by means of force. Centering on God's character of absolute
love, he has to convince them by revealing the universal principles of religion
and the universe, and in this way bring them to a natural surrender. Rev. Moon,
who stands here before you, is the one who has appeared in this world bearing
this incredible mission of the True Parent.
The phrase,
True Parents, does not appear in any encyclopedia. It is not a phrase that I
created, nor is it something that anyone in the world easily attached to me. In
truth, it is the destiny and blessing that Heaven has bestowed on my wife and
me. The position of True Parents carries with it the vertical missions of
Savior, Messiah, and returning Lord, opportunities that have never been
fulfilled in history and will never visit us again in the future. For this
reason, people still affiliated with the fallen realm have to fulfill a number
of conditions in order to attend the True Parents and accomplish Heaven's Will.
First, they must
participate in and complete a revolution of indemnity. This means they need to
cast everything aside and follow the True Parents. They have to follow the True
Parents above friends, teachers, and even their parents. It is only when we
have cast aside everything and reached the standard of a total living offering
that Heaven can bestow blessings and grace upon us. This means that all people
need to steadfastly separate from Satan's world, showing not even the slightest
attachment, and return to the zero point to mark the dawn of a new creation.
Second, they
need to complete a revolution of conscience. This means that they have to
maintain a tradition of true love, true life and true lineage in accordance
with the predisposition of the original mind and conscience endowed by God.
They need to do this without compromising with any worldly sovereignty or
philosophy they may encounter. They have to live a life of high noon
settlement,Ein which they neither cast shadows nor carry a speck of shame in
the presence of the spirit world and physical world. The revolution of
conscience is completed when we reach a harmonious state of one mind, one body
and one thought. Thus they will establish the realm of pure love and pure lineage
as an eternal and unchanging tradition. In it, the age of unity and harmony
will blossom.
The third
condition is a revolution of heart. This means that all people will establish a
world of true love, in which God will want to come to us, consult with us and
reside with us. The revolution of heart is a revolution of true love, of living
for the sake of others, the practice of unchanging, sacrificial love. Think of
what it would be like if we each lived for the sake of others more than for
ourselves. God, the root source of true love, would reside within us and would
live for our sake. What greater joy and glory could there be? Where the
revolution of heart has been completed, there will be no such thing as family
breakdown, racial strife, international disputes, friction between religions,
or any other vestiges of Satan's world. An eternal peace kingdom will be
established.
Revolution
through indemnity, conscience and heart
Respected
guests, in 1996, my wife and I declared an end to the Unification Church and
made a new beginning as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification,
to fulfill the heavenly command to build a world of peace on earth. The Will of
Heaven resides not in the progress of any particular church or religion; it
resides in world peace through true families. During the past decades, we have
carried out countless interreligious and international activities. On this foundation,
we founded the Interreligious and International Peace Council, that is, the
Peace UN, in New York on October 3, 2003. This was a substantial beginning
toward realizing a world of peace.
A movement to
remove crosses from church buildings, in accordance with my declaration, is
spreading in many areas of the world. Thousands of clergy have journeyed to
Jerusalem, the epicenter of strife in the Middle East, to participate in
interreligious and international peace rallies. On December 22, 2003, Jewish,
Christian, and Muslim clergy took each other by the hand, sang praises of
peace, and performed a ceremony to crown Jesus as the King of kings. It was a
miracle performed in Jerusalem's Independence Park before a crowd of some
twenty thousand people. This was a day when JesusEgrief was resolved and the
victory of True Parents could be declared to all of heaven and earth.
Ladies and
gentlemen, in the same way that the mission of True Parents, to which my wife
and I have been called, is a matter of heavenly destiny, your mission before
Heaven is to join hands with us in building a peaceful kingdom of heaven on
earth. Heaven's time has now arrived. I pray that you will return to your communities
and work passionately as messiahs and true parents yourselves, in the effort to
bring about world peace.
Thank you.
The Harmonization of Values, and the
Liberation and Complete Settlement of the
Realm Transcending Religions and Nations
from the Providential Perspective
Respected
leaders representing the religious, political, journalistic and academic
spheres of America and the world, ladies and gentlemen:
A thousand
emotions crowd my mind as I stand here today. Thirty- four years have passed
since I first set foot on this land chosen by God. I came here to uphold God's
will, which is to make America a foothold for world salvation by reviving
Christianity and bringing reconciliation among religions.
A call from Heaven to go to America
Some of you
who are sitting here may remember the warning I proclaimed when I first arrived
in America. I boldly declared to the American people, If there is an illness
in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on
fire, do you not need fire fighters? God sent me to America as a doctor to heal
this wounded land. He sent me to America as a fire fighter because this house
is on fire.E/span>
In the early
1970s, I called the two hundred and seventy million people of America to a
great awakening. In my second Day of Hope speaking tour I visited twenty-one
major cities throughout the United States. I warned the people that God was
leaving America. I clearly stated that America had no hope if it did not end
the racial strife between blacks and whites, reverse the moral degradation of
its youth, stem the tide of self-centered individualism, solve the problem of
communism, and bring reconciliation among religions. I said do not look to the
federal government or academia for the answer. I called upon enlightened
religious leaders to come together, surmount differences of religion and
ethnicity, and combine their strength to address these issues. Now, thirty
years later, what do we see in America?
Only God
knows the sweat and tears I shed in America as I labored to establish world
peace. You who are here today are the chosen fruit of that sweat and those tears.
Yet, a thorny path still awaits this nation. I, Rev. Moon, am not an American.
In accordance with God's command, I have returned to Korea to lead His
providence to restore my homeland to God.
The future of
this nation is now in the hands of conscientious leaders such as you. Who else
will save your nation? Where else except among the people gathered here can we
find a politician who would willingly sacrifice him or herself for the future
of this nation, or a professor who would spend sleepless nights anguishing over
its problems? You are the only ones who can do it. You must stand up now and
become the locomotive that leads America's two hundred and ninety million
people.
In this regard,
I would like to convey a portion of a new understanding given by Heaven for
this age, titled The Harmonization of Values, and the Liberation and Complete
Settlement of the Realm Transcending Religions and Nations from the
Providential Perspective.EPlease engrave this message in your hearts. Let its
teachings give you direction and purpose in living for the sake of this nation
and all human beings. This message is not only for you and for the people of
America; it is the new decree of Heaven, the absolute, undeniable truth, to be
declared to all 6.5 billion people of the world, and even throughout the spirit
world.
A world created for mutual relationships
Dear guests,
what was God's purpose in creating human beings? The omniscient, omnipotent and
omnipresent God did not want to live in solitude. He wished for object partners
whom He could love; these are human beings. God created the cosmos in stages to
make an environment for human beings, and on that foundation He created human
beings to receive His absolute love.
God created
us to be His children. God's desire for us is unlimited. Out of love, He
desires that human beings be even better and greater than He is. Dont all
parents wish that their children would surpass them? This is the tradition of
parental love with which God has blessed us.
God's purpose
of creation is to experience complete joy in seeing His children grow to
maturity in a true family, marry under His Blessing, and multiply true children
who will build a true, ideal heaven on earth and in heaven, in which to live
eternally. They would be the fruits of God's true love, true life and true lineage.
Does America
today resemble God's ideal of heaven on earth? Can you Americans say that you
possess God's true love? I am here to teach you the path to ownership of God's
true love.
We become
owners of true love through practice. How do you practice true love? You do
this by giving first, by investing completely for your beloved, and by
sacrificing and forgetting what you have given.
In the
beginning, God practiced true love. Before God created human beings, He
established the standard of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience and then invested Himself one hundred percent. These are absolute
values of love. Thus, God established the principle that we create true
relationships by practicing absolute values with true love.
You cannot
become an owner of true love by yourself. You have to be in relationship with a
counterpart. Thus, a man and woman can never become parents without having
children, and it is in the parent-child relationship that we naturally practice
absolute values and become owners of parental love.
This principle
also applies to God. In order for God to stand as the owner of absolute love,
He needs human beings as His true children. He practices the values of absolute
love as He relates with us as His object partners of love. Ultimately, the
relationship between God as the subject partner and human beings as object
partners becomes absolute and creates a realm of unity and perfection.
This
principle applies throughout the universe, although we have not understood it.
Mistakenly, we have been taught that the strong always devour and exploit the
weak. The theory of the survival of the fittest, the so-called law of the
jungle, is rooted in the Hellenistic worldview. It is fundamentally wrong! Its
proponents overlook absolute values. These values lead to the completion of
every creature. They allow each to be the owner of love by living for the
greater good.
The owner of love
lives for the sake of his or her object partner. They invest true love and
forget ever having invested. The object partner responds to that investment of
love with complete giving in return. If true love were excluded from this
equation, only the concept of struggle would remain. However existence and
development come not from exploitation, they come from God's Principle of
Creation. He creates through a participatory process of giving and receiving
rooted in love's absolute values, in which complementary partners unite to
create an environment of a greater harmony.
Of course,
entities sacrifice for the sake of a greater good, but we must not interpret
this as moral evil. It is an investment for the sake of mutual development. Is
it evil for an individual to sacrifice for his or her family? Is it evil for a
family to sacrifice for the nation, or a nation for the world? No, these noble
acts display love's absolute values. They constitute the path to fully realize
true love. An owner of true love strives, first of all, to lift up his or her
object partner also as an owner of true love.
Satan's self-centeredness and final struggle
Therefore, we
have to rid ourselves completely of an individualistic mindset and the
self-centered behavior that flows from it. This is the root of fallen nature
and the cause of evil. This applies to individual selfish behavior of men and
women and to collective selfish behavior of communities and nations.
Selfish
individualism stands in direct contradiction to the spirit which blossoms when
we live by true love's absolute values. Instead of sacrificing and giving for
the sake of others, self-centeredness makes demands upon others to sacrifice
for me. It leads us to be concerned first with our own interests.
Through the
Fall, Satan diabolically injected self-centeredness into the mind-body
relationship. He planted this poison mushroom in the human heart. Although the
embrace of self-centeredness may lead to a beautiful appearance, worldly fame
and earthly comfort, it is a trap. To enter it is reckless, for it becomes an
addiction and leads to hidden suffering that is difficult to escape.
Consider your
physical body. Its design was present in your parentsEsperm and ovum. You were
born from the love of your parents. On the physical level, your father's sperm
provided 0.001 percent of you and 99.999 percent came from your mother's bone,
blood and flesh. Your entire body is an extension of your mother. No one is an
exception to this. In this respect, there is nothing that we can call our own
and no way to justify self- centered individualism.
Everything
exists in relation to its complement. When we say front,Eit presupposes a
back.EAbove is meaningful only in relation to below. Left is a precondition
for right. By the same logic, masculinity presupposes the existence of
femininity. The moral lesson is that men are born for the sake of women, and
women are born for the sake of men. Without men, there is no need for women. In
the same way, without women, men cannot claim their existence has any value. In
the end, nothing is born for its own sake. All beings exist and act for the
sake of a partner. This means that God created all things to move toward the
ideal of His kingdom through mutual relationships.
Consider a
human being's five senses. Do our eyes exist to gaze at themselves? No. Our
eyes, nose, ears, mouth and hands were created to sense others. What force
energizes our five senses to sustain our life and maintain our activities? It
is the force that exalts the values of true love. Our five senses are tools
essential for the practice of true love. Nothing comes into being for its own
sake. A life for the sake of others, giving and sacrificing through love and
perfecting the ownership of love through willing submission, is a life aligned
with God's ideal of creation.
Today I ask
you to recognize that each of you was created for the sake of your partner. The
law of nature calls you to live for the sake of your partner. Practice this way
of life and you will come to embody absolute values. By this, you will become
an owner of true love.
When God
created the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, in the garden of Eden, He gave
them reproductive organs. Why did He do that? It was so that they could grow to
maturity, marry, beget children without sin, and establish the kingdom of
heaven on earth. Thus they were to perfect God's ideal of creation. Adam and
Eve were to have accomplished this within their lifetime.
The problem
was that Adam and Eve fell. They became people of false love, false life and
false lineage. Instead of embodying and multiplying God's love, God's life and
God's lineage, Adam and Eve received Satan's lineage.
They fell
into disgrace and, what is worse, transmitted Satan's lineage to their
children. They lost love's absolute values and became beings devoid of value.
Hence, God had to watch them leave the garden of Eden.
Adam was
supposed to have become God's body on earth. Eve was supposed to have become
Adam's bride and God's bride as well. However their minds and bodies were corrupted.
They lost their ideals and turned into enemies. How grieved God's heart was as
He viewed that tragic reality! The Fall was Adam and Eve's grave. It robbed God
of what belonged to Him. The Fall is the root of free sex and the origin of
self-centered individualism.
The Fall is the root of free sex
Take a look
around you. We see self-centered individualism of the worst kind.
Over-consumption is nothing but rampant greed. Free sex is out of control among
the young. In the East and West, people are throwing overboard the dignity and
value of the family and pursuing physical pleasure. Millions fall into drug
addiction, contract deadly diseases and meet tragic ends.
Our
conscience abhors a decadent and meaningless life, so even as we pursue paths
of extreme individualism and bodily pleasure, our conscience raises an alarm.
Every person has a God-given original mind that longs to live in a universe, nation,
neighborhood and family wrapped in the loving embrace of parents and siblings.
Still, we
continue to walk contrary to the original mind's desire, and eventually the
conscience burns out. Faced with the inescapable conflict between the body's
selfish desires and the conscience, we deaden the pain with escapist drugs and,
when driven to the edge, resort to suicide. Our lives testify to the truth of
the proverb, you shall reap what you sow.EWhat seed did Adam and Eve sow in
the garden of Eden? They planted the seed of free sex through an illicit sexual
relationship. That is why it is written that after they fell, they hid their
lower parts. It was certain that in the Last Days, the time of harvest, rampant
free sex among young people would manifest throughout the world.
Through
promiscuity, Satan is carrying out his last campaign to deter anyone from
returning to God. Satan's goal is to destroy human beings and perpetuate hell
on earth.
When children
are caught stealing cookies, their natural reaction is to hide their hands or
mouth. If Adam and Eve had eaten literal fruit from a literal tree, they too
would have hidden their hands and covered their mouths. So, I ask you, why did
they hide their lower parts? We cannot deny that the human Fall was caused by
an illicit sexual relationship between the first human ancestors. God could not
do anything in the face of the tragedy of the Fall, because the creation of
lineage was in the sphere of Adam and Eve's responsibility.
Dear guests,
do you know the dividing line between heaven and hell? Is it in the air? Is it
in a church sanctuary? Is it in a national government? No, the dividing line
between heaven and hell is found in your reproductive organs. This is where the
greatest tragedy in human history occurred, which turned heaven and earth
upside-down. If you use your reproductive organ recklessly and blindly, you will
surely go to hell. On the other hand, if you use it in accordance with the
standard of God's absolute love, you will go to Heaven. Who can deny this? If
you doubt it, I ask you to carefully read the Divine Principle, which contains
the laws of Heaven that were revealed to me. If that does not satisfy your
doubts, please pray about it sincerely. I am sure that God will answer your
prayer.
Hundreds of
thousands of young people throughout the world stopped indulging in free sex
after accepting the teachings of the Rev. Moon. The message of the pure love
movement, which advocates absolute sex, is now spreading like wildfire. While
free sex is based upon false love and motivated by selfish desires that come
from Satan, absolute sex is the expression of absolute love centered on God.
Literature, films and the media have been highlighting and fanning the flames
of free sex. Now, leaders of all spheres of life, including politicians,
business people, writers, journalists and religious leaders, must stand as one
to rid the culture of its obsession with free sex. This disease cripples
individuals, families and nations.
We must bear
in mind the importance of Adam's family, the ancestors of humanity. It was
Adam's family that destroyed the path to true love and world peace. Yet Adam's
family also had the potential to establish the absolute values of true love and
lay the cornerstone of world peace. They only had to maintain pure love and
receive God's Holy Marriage Blessing.
Ten years ago
I brought to an end the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World
Christianity and raised the banner of the Family Federation for World Peace and
Unification because the time had come to call people of all faiths to receive
the Holy Blessing. How can we transform this world of conflict and war into a
world of harmony and unity? The only way is by practicing true love and
establishing love's absolute values as a global ethic. These eternal,
unchanging, unique and absolute values are the attributes of God, the owner of
true love. We must inherit them as our own and live accordingly.
The preciousness of the family and true love
Dear guests,
why is the family a good thing? A good family, overflowing with the parentsE
love, is the place where we can express our original freedom. It doesnt matter
whether a family is rich or poor; if true love is at the core, their bond of
heart is liberating. That family can liberate humankind and even liberate God.
Freedom
cannot exist without true love. If you visit someone as a guest, you feel reserved
and inhibited. This is because initially you may lack a deep bond of true love
with that household. In other words, because your love cannot spread in all
directions, you feel awkward. However, after you visit that home many times and
your bond of love with that family grows, you lose your inhibitions and begin
to relate freely.
In God's
blueprint for the family, the parents embody the highest and greatest value. Parents
are the initiators and the center of eternal true love. No bond is closer than
the life-long relationship between parent and child. When a child is born, the
first person they relate to is their mother. Mother and baby share
indescribable joy. When the child is happy, the parents share that happiness.
When the child is sorrowful, the parents are the first to shed tears of sorrow.
Thus God intends parents to be the beginning and the end of their children's
joy. For this reason, we feel sympathetic and compassionate toward children who
lose their parents.
A loving
couple, a husband and wife, is the second most valuable existence in the
family. A true husband and wife give and receive unconditional love. As
newly-weds, their love does not begin as absolute, eternal love. However as
their relationship matures, their love becomes an absolute bond, resembling
God's attributes of absoluteness and eternity. Then their true love will bring
happiness and joy to the family.
Nonetheless,
even when a husband and wife enjoy the most ideal relationship, if it goes no
further than the couple, it will not bring forth the absolute value of eternal
happiness and joy. Couples need to have children. Imagine what would happen if
all couples decided not to have children, saying that they would rather just
enjoy their own happiness? Humankind would be extinct in one hundred years or
less.
When a
husband and wife receive love from their children, they rise to the position of
parents. Only then can they be called a true couple. Therefore, in God's
blueprint for the family, the third most important value is the true love of
children for their parents. Children are to love and serve their parents with a
bright and positive attitude, even as they seek to fulfill their goals and
create a hopeful future for themselves. Their true love for their parents is
original love. It adds pure and genuine value and expands the family's field of
happiness. This is God's design for the family. It extends for three
generations, completely endowed with love: the sacrificial love of parents for
their children, the mutual love between husband and wife, and the filial love
of children for their parents. Anywhere in the world, families that manifest
this pattern will become the paramount, ideal, true families.
Who does the
world consider to be a happy person? What is the basis of happiness? Do power
and authority bring happiness? Does having tremendous wealth bring happiness?
Does happiness come from possessing a unique talent? Does happiness come by
becoming a world-renowned scholar or gaining a coveted position? None of these
guarantee happiness. Nothing external can be the basis of eternal happiness.
Sooner or later, the happiness it brings will fade and the person will renew
their search for happiness. In the end, a person finds genuine happiness in a
family that has loving parents, a couple bonded in true love, and children who
are devoted and faithful to their parents.
Dear guests,
what kind of place is heaven? According to the principle by which God created
the universe, heaven is completed first on earth. Men and women are created to
live in heaven while on earth in their physical bodies. Then, when they
naturally discard the flesh, they will make the transition to heaven in the
spirit world where they will live for eternity. Our task, then, is to build the
kingdom of heaven on earth.
Then what
would the kingdom of heaven on earth look like? The answer is near at hand. The
kingdom of heaven has the same form as God's design for the family. In an
original family there are parents of the original standard, husband and wife of
the original standard, children of the original standard, and siblings of the
original standard.
If the
members of a family unite in true love, they automatically create harmony and
unity. In this way, true love, true life and true lineage are passed on through
the generations. The grandparents convey the tradition of true love to the
parents. The parents bequeath the same life of true love to their children. In
their sibling relationships, the children take after their grandparents and
parents by living for the sake of others and forming original relationships of
true love.
When this
happens, that family becomes a heavenly family. Such a family may be called an
original family or a true family. It is a family that fulfills God's purpose
and ideal. Unfortunately, if even one of these components is missing, it is
impossible to create an original family that can be a unit of the heavenly
kingdom.
In an
original family, love for one's parents would be stronger than the love between
husband and wife, and love for one's grandparents would be stronger than the
love for one's parents. This sets up the tradition and ethics of true love.
The original
family is the model of the kingdom of heaven. The parents are analogous to the
leader of a nation; the children correspond to the citizens of a nation, and
the family's house and property correspond to the land of that nation. When a
nation's governance and social life reflect the values of true love in the
original family, that nation takes the form of the kingdom of heaven.
Individual
perfection begins with unity of mind and body Thus, the starting point of the
kingdom of heaven lies not in the individual or in the nation, but in the
family. Once we enter heaven and are surrounded by our beloved family, we will
not want to leave. We can see each other hundreds and thousands of times and we
will still want to see each other again and again. This is our original
homeland, for which everyone longs.
Yet, heaven
is not created in an instant. Just because the age has changed and heavenly
fortune is with us does not mean that heaven will fall from the sky and appear
before our eyes. We first must become people of character who can create
heavenly families. In other words, we have to begin with individual maturity.
The path to
becoming people of character, to achieving individual maturity, lies in
perfecting the harmony and oneness between mind and body. Originally, God
created us to live without any inner conflict. The mind is supposed to guide
the body and the body act in absolute obedience to the mind. Mind and body were
created to function with this perfect harmony. However, as a result of the Fall
of the first ancestors, Adam and Eve, all human beings inherited fallen nature.
Humankind has lived in suffering because of the unavoidable conflict between
mind and body that has its roots in the Fall.
No one in
history has ever achieved mind-body unity during his or her life on earth.
Despite the steady progress of God's providence of restoration and His
determination to save us, not a single person has been liberated from the
struggle between the mind and body and achieved individual maturity. Although
countless monks and hermits have followed the arduous path of asceticism,
living in caves deep in the mountains and devoting their entire lives to
meditation and prayer, not one has ever triumphed in that struggle. No one has
known the method to win this unrelenting, internal war. The reason that even
enlightened sages have been unable to end the mind-body struggle is simple.
Self-discipline by itself is not enough. One needs to connect with the
providence of Heaven, receive the call, complete the providence of restoration
that God has guided for thousands of years, and gain victory in a position
publicly recognized by heaven and earth.
Two thousand
years ago, Jesus came to the earth as Savior, Messiah and True Parent. As God's
only begotten Son, Jesus had the mission to complete the providence of Heaven
and end forever the struggle between the mind and body. Nonetheless, when Jesus
died on the cross due to the inability of crucial religious and political
leaders to recognize him, he lost the position from which he could bring an end
to the struggle between mind and body. Jesus took every opportunity to call
people to love their enemies, yet his teachings could not bring an end to the
struggle between mind and body.
Rev. Moon has revealed the truth of Heaven
Heaven can
wait no longer. On the foundation of my victory, Heaven is now revealing the
truth. I have completed the mission of the Lord of the Second Advent, Savior and True Parent. Now I
am revealing this truth, bringing to a conclusion the final stage of the
providence for humankind's salvation. The absolute values of true love that I
am teaching you today will bring a revolution of character for all people. Those
who follow my teachings will achieve individual maturity and participate in the
construction of the ideal of Heaven on earth.
Dear guests,
the only way to bring harmony and unity between mind and body is to live by the
absolute values of true love. Live for the sake of others. Invest yourself with
true love and forget what you have invested. Practice this, and you will reach
maturity as the owner of love. You will gain the authority of a subject partner
in relating to others, and they will happily respond to you. Unity of mind and
body is impossible unless you practice love's absolute values, where you give
yourself for the sake of others completely. Please discard self-centeredness.
It is the root of fallen nature.
Ultimately,
the realization of the kingdom of heaven on earth depends upon the presence of
original, true families. Individuals who have achieved harmony and unity
between the mind and body create such families. They will form a society,
nation and world characterized by interdependence, mutual prosperity and
universally shared values, in which people live in harmony focused on the
greater good.
Unity between
mind and body means to live in absolute obedience to the voice of the
conscience. The conscience is the root of the mind. You must listen to your
conscience that arises from within your mind, and be able to modify your course
of action at anytime, anywhere, while remaining as clear as crystal. This is a
necessary condition for becoming a true parent, a true teacher and a true
leader.
Your
conscience tells you to live for others according to the Principle. No matter
how strong your body's desire is, if you intentionally increase the force of
your conscience beyond the force of your body, your body will follow it. If you
cannot, you had better decrease your body's force through fasting and
asceticism. If clear water continually flows into a muddy pond, eventually the
pond will become clear.
Dear guests,
dont give your conscience any more grief. Dont disobey its call. Disobeying
the voice of your conscience only brings sorrow to your heart. It brings sorrow
to your parents, to your teachers, and even to God.
Instead,
cultivate a joyful mind. Although you may be lonely, and appear miserable in
the eyes of the world, create an unbreakable bond with your mind and try to be
your mind's best friend. Within the harmony and unity of your mind and body,
you will discover a world where all of heaven and earth are spread out before
your eyes. In the state of mind-body unity, your conscience and body enter a
realm of resonance. Referring to this dimension of the mind, the Buddha said,
Throughout heaven and earth, I am my own lord.EAsk yourself if God is
dwelling in you, and you will hear the answer. You will reach a state in
harmony with nature, able to communicate freely with animals and plants. You
will be able to converse freely with the beings of the spirit world. This will
thoroughly prepare you for eternal life.
By attaining
this unity of mind and body, and establishing the absolute values of true love in
relating with your reciprocal partners, you will participate in establishing
the peace kingdom on the levels of the individual, family, nation and world.
This is God's most earnest desire.
Absolute faith,
absolute love and absolute obedience
Nonetheless,
in order to attain this state of perfection, as descendants of the Fall, we
first need to shed our fallen nature. How can we do this?
First,
resemble God. When God created all the creatures in the universe, He practiced
absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. Didnt He believe and act
in accordance with the absolute standard of the Principle according to the
order of creation that He had established? He also planted within each of us
the absolute standard of love.
In your life,
too, if you adhere to and practice these three major principles: absolute
faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, your happiness is guaranteed. Your
good ancestors, and even the great religious leaders in the heavenly world,
will assemble to guide your way. See what happens when you practice an absolute
standard of faith, love and obedience for the sake of your parents, your
spouse, and your brothers and sisters. Heaven will protect you to the same
absolute degree. You will feel no attraction to selfish individualism or
unprincipled gratification.
The second part
of shedding the fallen nature comes from the fact that, by no fault of our own,
we are descendants of the Fall and have inherited fallen nature from birth.
Therefore, it is the urgent task of each of us to bring about three great
revolutions in our individual lives. I refer to the revolution of atonement,
the revolution of conscience, and the revolution of heart.
The
revolution of atonement means that you offer up everything. By this offering
you regain your rights of internal and external ownership and establish a
standard that transcends the realm where Satan lays claim. You start with a
revolution in your own life by boldly shaking off all the old habits and ways
of thinking that you acquired during the age when we lived under Satan's rule,
called the age before the coming of Heaven. You make that foundation in order
to practice the absolute standard of true love, which is the standard for life
in the age after the coming of Heaven, and live eternally as God's true children.
In addition,
you go through a revolutionary course and offer to Heaven all your property,
which means your right of external ownership. Then, once you have separated
from Satan by cutting off all ties to Satan's world, you will inherit Heaven's
blessings. Your assets now are Heaven's sanctified assets, over which Satan can
never again claim ownership.
Next is the
revolution of conscience. It is an internal revolution that we carry out by
practicing absolute obedience to the voice of our conscience. I am sure you
cannot deny that you still harbor the unending struggle between the commands of
your conscience, which pursues what is good, and the inclinations of your
physical mind, which follows the desires of your physical body. To bring this
shameful internal conflict to an end, we need to understand the function of the
conscience. The conscience knows everything about you, your every move and your
every thought. It knows them before your teacher does. It knows them before
your parents do. It knows them before God does.
What happens
when you go against the commands of your conscience? You will be attacked by
pangs of conscience. Dust will gather, decay set in, and wounds appear on your
soul. You can never erase these wounds. They are fearful baggage that you carry
with you when you go to the spirit world. Therefore, work in a revolutionary
way to suppress your physical mind and accept the guidance of your conscience.
Then you will become a clear, unblemished and clean soul that is ready for the
day you make your way into the presence of God.
Finally,
there comes the revolution of heart. I have said that God created human beings
as His children. What, then, is the connection that binds each of us to God? It
is the love and heart between parent and child. If there is no communication of
heart between parent and child, how can they maintain a relationship of love and
respect? Yet human beings, having lived for thousands of years under the
influence of the fallen realm, are still slaves in our hearts to false love
rooted in false lineage received through false parents. To escape from this
yoke, constantly pursue a life of true love, practicing forgiveness and always
giving to others. Through this process, we return to the realm of God's
ownership based on heart.
If your
heartstrings are tied to selfish, individualistic inclinations, or are in
pursuit of vanity in Satan's world, you will end up on a path of hopelessness
and grief. On the other hand, if you live for the sake of others, always
constructive, always seeking to be the first to yield and the first to give,
your heart will be tied to the heart of God eternally.
In sum, you
have to completely cut your ties with the false parent, receive the Holy
Marriage Blessing from the True Parents, who have appeared in this world as the
substantiations of the invisible God, and secure Heavens true lineage.
The third
part of shedding fallen nature is to scrutinize your life every moment of every
day. I am sure you all had experiences in school, looking at a problem on a test
and not knowing whether a particular answer was right or wrong. The same is
true with your overall life. I am asking you to analyze and scrutinize the
innumerable different situations in daily life each moment, and determine
whether you are right or wrong. In the same way Korean teachers grade tests,
give yourself an O if you are right, or an X if you are wrong.
When you meet
a situation and act in an affirmative and hopeful way, you get an O. By this action
you set a vertical axis up to heaven and you lived as at high-noon,Ewithout
casting a shadow. Your life undoubtedly had such depth and breadth that you
forgave and embraced an enemy in the spirit of true love.
When you act
shamefully, however, give yourself an X. Most likely your heart was filled with
negative emotions such as insecurity, irritation, bitterness or envy. Your mind
and thoughts were narrow and intolerant, and you were selfish and
individualistic to the point that you did not see what was happening to others
around you.
I believe
that your choice could not be clearer. Every moment of your lives deserves an
O. You must be like an O, perfectly round and not distorted in any way. You
must come to have the form of an O, in balance with the center no matter where
you are. Please pursue the true O, so that you can stand in the brightly
burning sunlight and not be ashamed, face the vast and infinite universe with
honor, and stand before all of creation having nothing to hide.
An O
symbolizes harmony, unity and peace. An X symbolizes death, while an O
symbolizes love and life. When your mind and body become completely one, you
will take the shape of an O. However when your mind and body are in chaos as a
result of conflict, your appearance will take the shape of an X.
Ladies and
gentlemen, today humanity has entered the Era after the Coming of Heaven. The
realm of true liberation and complete freedom stands before us. This is an
event both unprecedented and unrepeatable. Shall we return gratitude and glory
to God and True Parents for making this day possible?
The time has
come for humanity to boldly break out of the fallen realm, covered as it is
with falsehood and blood as a result of Adam and Eve's transgression. Let us
rise up with extraordinary determination in response to Heaven's call!
Please give
careful thought to the reasons you are here today. Is it simply because you
received an invitation from the sponsors and thought you would like to attend a
banquet? Whether you desired it or not, you have been called by Heaven. This is
the same as it was for me when I suddenly received Heaven's call. As a young
man of sixteen, I began an eighty-year course of blood, sweat and tears for the
sake of bringing true liberation and complete freedom to God. For the sake of
releasing humanity from Satan's yoke, you also must go forward and offer your
life to accomplish God's exalted will for the liberation and complete
establishment of a world transcending religions and nations.
Ladies and
gentlemen, heavenly fortune is now shining upon this world. It is the sun that
rises powerfully in the eastern sky. The darkness that covered this earth for
tens of thousands of years is dispelled. The heavenly decree has already taken
root in your heart. It is the path and a destiny that you cannot avoid. Be
strong and rise up. The time has come to truly experience the meaning of JesusE
teaching that whoever wants to find their life will lose it, yet whoever is willing
to lose their life for his sake will find it. All of us without exception,
including myself, are bound to go to the spirit world someday. I sincerely ask
you to engrave tonight's message on your heart, so that from this time forth
you will live a life that will not leave you with any regrets.
This message
from Heaven that I have given you tonight is my last message to God's chosen
nation, America. I pray that God's blessings be upon you, your family and this
nation of America for all of eternity.
Thank you.
7
True Parents Are the Hope of
God and Humankind
Honorable
guests from home and abroad, ladies and gentlemen:
I would like
to extend my gratitude to all of you who have graced us with your fellowship
and have come to participate in the development of the Mongolian Peoples
Federation for World Peace.
This
federation that I have founded does not aim at establishing another nation in
the world. Nor is it the beginning of a new nationalist movement. It is a
movement of harmony and unity to do away with all walls and barriers between
nations and to bring together the 6.5 billion people of the world through
rallying the interrelated people of Mongolian descent.
Therefore, on
this day I would like to pass on to you words of truth specially given by God
to all people, who are still living in a world of complete darkness, unable to
see ahead. It is my hope that you will receive these words with an open heart
and become the chosen people in this era of confusion and chaos. The topic I
will speak on this evening is True Parents Are the Hope of God and Humankind.E/span>
Ladies and gentlemen,
originally, in relation to human beings, God was to have been the Teacher of
teachers, Owner of owners, King of kings and Parent of parents. In other words,
He was to have been the True Parent. However, through the Fall of our first
ancestors, Adam and Eve, we lost God, and we have lived for thousands of years
not knowing we are orphans. The history of human beings has been one of grief.
We lost the True Teacher, through whom we were to learn; we lost the True Lord,
whom we were to serve and honor; we lost the True King, to whom we were to be
loyal; and we lost the True Parent, from whom we were to inherit the eternal
and true blood lineage.
This is why
the desire of fallen people is to meet the true Son of God, who is not of the
fallen race and whom Satan cannot accuse. He comes as the original Adam, with
the true love, true life and true lineage of Heaven. He comes as the Savior,
representing the realm of the son on the national level. His coming is nothing
less than the advent of the Messiah.
The Messiah
comes as the perfected Adam, so he must first choose a true bride whom God can
love according to the absolute standard. God then raises them to be a true
husband and wife. In that position, the ideal of the original husband and wife,
through which God's ideal of creation can be achieved, is completed. On that
foundation, the true husband and wife can give birth to true children who have
inherited the pure lineage of Heaven. These children will then begin the
eternal lineage of goodness and never walk the path trod by the descendants of
the Fall.
True love and the true family principle
However, the
mission of the Messiah does not end there. He has to rise to the position of
the True Parent and establish an absolute and true family. Based on this true
family, the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven can be established, in
which God's ideal of creation is perfected. To achieve this goal, the 6.5
billion fallen people of the world without exception have to be engrafted into
the true family of the Messiah. Not only must their hearts be engrafted but
also their lineage.
How can they
be engrafted? All of you are wild olive trees, born with fallen nature. Even if
you waited hundreds or thousands of years, no miracle or mutation that can
transform wild olive trees into true olive trees would occur. Everyone would
remain wild olive trees forever. What this means is that unless the lineage
itself is transformed, you cannot escape from being wild olive trees.
Therefore, the six-thousand-year-old wild olive tree must be completely cut at
its base, and a shoot from the true olive tree must be engrafted to it. The
engrafted shoot will grow into a tree, and when it matures it will bear the
fruit of a true olive tree.
In the same
way, fallen people must sever their connection with Satan's sinful world, and
receive the Blessing through which True Parents, the true olive tree, can
engraft true olive shoots to them and begin a true lineage. The true lineage
begun in this way will produce true children who are the fruit of the true
olive tree. This is the way fallen people can be reborn through the love of the
True Parents and can inherit true life, true love and true lineage.
True parents
come into existence through the birth of their true children, and thus
naturally establish true families. This is the basis of the true family
principle, the principle that God's purpose of creation is realized by the
establishment of true families.
This true
family principle is based on the principles of God's true love, by which
subject and object partners give to each other and live for the sake of each
other, transcending nationality and all other superficialities. This true love
of God is love that gives and then forgets having given, and serves the other
endlessly. It is love that builds up as time goes on. When the receiver returns
more than he or she has given, the relationship continues endlessly.
When such a
relationship of true love, which is sacrificial and sublime, continues and
spreads throughout the world, humankind will develop into a true tribe, a true
race, a true nation and one true world. Further development will bring about a
true spirit world as the true physical world's counterpart. In other words, the
establishment of a true cosmos will finally be achieved.
The power of
true love, as can be seen, is a great and boundless power, capable of
re-creating the universe. In the end, only the power of true love can establish
the world God envisioned at the time of the Creation, which is the kingdom of
heaven on earth and in heaven.
An ideal
world is not one in which people wield power and dictate to others. It is a
world where all people are brothers and sisters, a world in which our hearts
are automatically moved to respond to God's love in harmony. What else would
the world we all desire be like?
Ladies and
gentlemen: Even God reached perfection after passing through a period of
growth. Because we resemble God, we also need to go through a growth period.
Let us
consider the true family principle in more detail in the context of the first family,
for the family is the base for spiritual growth. In the garden of Eden, the
family of Adam was to have been the model of a true family as envisioned by
God. The invisible form of God was to have materialized in visible form through
the four-position foundation that God intended. God created us to be the object
partners to Him as the subject partner. Children, brothers and sisters,
husbands and wives, and parents had existed only as entities in His heart. He
desired to perfect them in substantial form. Starting with the family of Adam,
God wanted to feel infinite joy by achieving the perfection of the true love He
had envisioned, with substantial children, substantial brothers and sisters,
substantial husbands and wives, and substantial parents.
The four
great realms of heart and the three great kingships Therefore, the core of the
true family principle lies in the perfection of four great realms of heart and
three great kingships. These constitute the fundamental framework for human
relationships, and are absolutely necessary to true families. The four great
realms of heart refers to the realms of the heart of a child toward their
parents, of siblings for each other, of a husband and wife toward one another,
and of parents for their children.
Everyone is
born as someone's child. As we grow up, we form sibling relationships; we
marry, enter a conjugal relationship and bear children, thereby becoming
parents. This is the process we all must pass through. The perfection of the
four great realms of heart and the three great kingships is achieved within the
framework of the family.
Then, first
of all, what do we mean by the perfection of the realm of the heart of a child?
We are born as children of our parents; we have no choice in this. We cannot
choose whom we are born to, whether we are born as the son of a president or
the daughter of the greatest beauty in the world. Nevertheless, from the moment
of our birth, we are destined to grow and develop under the protection of our
parents. We live with and serve our parents. As we grow up in such
circumstances, we learn about and nurture our heart of love and filial piety
toward our parents as their children. We finally reach the point of being ready
to give our lives for them.
Our parents
do not teach us these things, and neither do schoolteachers. The heart of a
child develops as children see their parents living lives of sacrifice and true
love for their sake. As children grow and mature, they perfect their hearts. In
other words, they are perfecting a standard of life in which they are willing
to give everything they have for their parents and serve them forever. It is a
life in which children can often read the minds of their parents before they
even open their lips, and then serve them in the way they need. It is a life in
which the child can know what the parents are feeling just by looking into
their eyes. The child thus fulfills the duties of a true child. It is a life in
which a child offers a heart that has reached an absolute standard not only
toward his parents on the horizontal level but also to God, the True Parent on
the vertical axis. This is the perfection of the realm of the heart of a child.
Second,
perfection of the realm of the heart of a brother or sister also involves the
family. It is the realm of the heart and of true love that is perfected by
brothers and sisters living together in harmony, learning from and
understanding the lives of their parents. It is the realm of heart in which the
children learn to be like their mother and father. When you consider this from
the viewpoint of human relationships, it is a relationship of front and back.
If the older sibling is in the position of the subject partner, the younger is
positioned as the object partner. The younger, object partner is the person who
gives the older one the position of the subject partner of absolute value.
This is the
perfection of a beautiful realm of heart in which the younger siblings serve
and honor the older brother like a father and trust and rely on the older
sister like a mother. This is the practice of true love, with the older sibling
taking care of the younger as a parent would a beloved child, and the younger
serving and honoring his or her elders as he would his or her parents. It is
the perfection of true love between brothers and sisters, in which each makes
up for what is lacking in the other, and in which each fosters good points in
the other. It is the realm of heart and love between brothers and sisters who
are of the same lineage and whom nothing can separate.
Those people
who have perfected the realm of heart of true children and of brothers and
sisters within the context of a true family will lead lives that shine brightly
like the sun, even after they leave the family home. They will become people
loved by all. When they meet elders, they will serve and honor them as they
would their own parents, and when they meet people who are younger, they will
love them as they would their own brothers and sisters. Wherever they go,
whatever they do, and whomever they meet, these children will be respected as
the possessors of true love and heart, under all circumstances giving more than
others, working harder and longer than others, and thinking about others and
sacrificing for them before thinking about themselves. Though they may be
young, they will become central figures trusted and relied upon by everyone,
regardless of gender and age. In this way, the perfection of the realm of heart
of brothers and sisters achieved within the embrace of a family will promote
absolute values for eternal life.
Recovering
the realm of heart between husband and wife
Next, how do
we achieve the perfection of the realm of heart of a husband and wife? Unlike
the relationship between parents and children and between brothers and sisters,
the relationship between husband and wife is not an absolute one, in that they
are not related by blood from the beginning. In fact, the coming together of a
man and a woman from different backgrounds and families to create a new life
together involves a truly revolutionary decision and vow. However, the
relationship of husband and wife, once they become one in mind and body through
true love, transforms into an absolute relationship, stronger even than the
ties of blood. In fact, endless and boundless treasures can be found in the
relationship between husband and wife. Once you become husband and wife
centering on Heaven, you are in an absolute relationship, and you can never be
separated from your spouse.
When we look
at the family of Adam, we see that, although Adam and Eve were created as the
son and daughter of God, Eve began in the position of the younger sister of
Adam, and Adam was the older brother of Eve. When they grew up, they became
husband and wife. In the same way, the relationship between husband and wife
must begin from the level of a brother and sister who are related by blood.
What this means is that everyone is born with God as his or her True Parent,
and they are destined to serve Him forever.
Considering
these points, how can people in a marriage relationship fall victim to divorce?
How can someone even consider forsaking his or her spouse of eternal joy and
happiness, when they know that the eyes of Heaven are on them and the blade of
their conscience is ready to pierce them at the slightest mistake?
In the same way
as the love of God is absolute, unique, eternal and unchanging, the love
between husband and wife is also absolute, unique, eternal and unchanging. This
is how God's principles of creation, or laws of nature, work. A husband and
wife who are one in mind and body and who have perfected the realm of conjugal
heart are the joy of God and the hope of the cosmos. The perfection of the
realm of husband and wife is absolutely necessary to perfect the realm of heart
of parents. It is the foundation, upon which the true family of absolute value
and standards can be established, that will perfect the one body of God and
humankind in love. Therefore, the positions of the husband and wife are also
the positions through which God and the children come together, the brothers
and sisters come together, and the parents come together. They are also in the
position of the absolute subject partner of the four great realms of heart, and
each is also in the position of an object partner. To the wife, the husband
occupies the absolute position through which she receives the ideal son of
Heaven, the older brother of Heaven, the husband of Heaven, and the father of
Heaven. It is the same for the husband; to him, his wife also occupies those
absolute positions.
However, due
to the Fall of the first ancestors, the framework of these sacred relationships
was shattered. What you must understand is that the heart of God, who is the
origin of all principles and fundamental laws, is filled with grief because He
has to restore His fallen children without deviating from the principles and
fundamental laws He established. The moment the true husband and wife are born
through the Holy Marriage Blessing, carried out based on the true love of God
and conducted by the True Parents who have come to earth as the Savior of
humanity and the Messiah, is the moment of liberation and freedom. It is the
moment in which the grief harbored by God for the past six thousand years
starts to be resolved. It is also the point of a new beginning at which family
happiness is promised.
True Parents and the true olive tree
Then what is
the perfection of the realm of the heart of parents, and how can it be achieved?
Even the greatest and most precious husband and wife become parents only when
they give birth to children. The husband and wife are elevated to the position
of parents only at the first cry of their firstborn child. I have already
mentioned that God created us to be the object partners of His joy. In the same
way, a couple's giving birth to and raising children is a work of creation in
itself, in that through their children a husband and wife can feel the same
eternal joy as God. Parents have to give birth to children and, from the
position of the visible God, raise their children as the children of Heaven.
Only by doing so can they experience and inherit that realm of heart of true
parents experienced by the invisible God as He created and raised Adam and Eve.
By raising their own sons and daughters, parents can experience our invisible
God's work of creation. They are given the honor of becoming second creators.
Nonetheless,
after God created Adam and Eve as second creators, it became His eternal grief
that they did not produce for Him His granddaughters and grandsons, whom He had
intended would occupy the position of the third creators. Through the Fall,
their lineage was changed to that of Satan, and their children became Satan's
children. Thus, they could not carry on God's true lineage.
Therefore all
people, born as wild olive trees, have to be engrafted to the true olive tree
through the grace of True Parents, the Messiah. Through the Holy Marriage
Blessing that changes the lineage, all people have to produce children of
goodness. Please realize that this actin other words, offering a third
generation, God's grandchildren, into His embraceis a great act of filial
piety in God's providence. This act is the appearance in history of the third
creators. In this manner, in each family, the paradigm desired by God as His
ideal of creation is perfected. This perfected true family can then expand
throughout the globe in true tribes, true peoples, true nations and a true
world and finally result in the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth
and in heaven.
Parents are
the center of families because they represent heaven. The children, on the
other hand, represent earth. Heaven is in the position of the subject partner,
whereas earth is positioned as the object partner. Therefore, the parents, who
are the subject partner, are responsible to raise their children according to
the Will of Heaven and bless them to a loving spouse. They have the
responsibility to preserve the pure and good lineage that Satan can never
accuse, and to prepare the ground on which this lineage of Heaven can be passed
down from generation to generation. This is the only way the original parent's
position, lost at the time of the Fall, can be restored, and the only way the
realm of the parent's heart can be perfected.
The three great kingships and the true family principle
Ladies and
gentlemen, what do you think I mean by the three great kingships?
Simply put,
if the four great realms of heart are perfected centering on husband and wife
becoming one flesh, then the three great kingships are perfected when Adam and
Eve produce good and sinless children. God is the first generation, Adam and
Eve are the second generation and their children are the third generation. When
you look at your own family, the grandparents are the first generation and so
represent God; the parents are the second generation; and the children are the
third generation. The grandparents are the king and queen representing the
past, the parents are the king and queen representing the present, and the
children are the princes and princesses representing the future world. In other
words, the realms of these three eras can all be established in your own
family.
In this
manner, the process of creation, involving origin-division-union action,
unfolds in the realm of one family. The grandparents are in the position of the
origin, the parents are in the position of division into two, and the children
are in the position of the union of the two. By loving and serving our grandparents,
we can learn about and inherit the past. By loving and serving our parents, we
can learn about and become familiar with the present. And through love for our
children, we can feel hope for the future.
If Adam and
Eve had become perfect, Adam would have been the perfected Father and King of
the kingdom of heaven, and Eve the perfected Mother and Queen. They would have
become the lords of the family, and the kingship of the family, race, nation
and world would have been established. God would have become the King of the
kingdom of heaven in heaven, and Adam and Eve as the visible God would have
become the King and Queen of the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Therefore,
when you look at your family, the grandparents can be said to be the
ambassadors plenipotentiary of Heaven, sent by God. This is why you need to
serve and honor your grandparents as you would God. Moreover, the parents who
serve Heaven are the king and queen of the family, embracing the 6.5 billion
people in the world as one family. The children responsible for the future need
to adhere to the traditions of Heaven and inherit the kingship of goodness by
being devoted and loyal to their parents, the king and queen.
The
manifestation of the true family principle begins when the three great
kingships of Heaven are perfected in one family on the horizontal level. In
this way the original family becomes the model for the kingdom of heaven on
earth and in heaven, as originally intended in God's purpose of creation. In
other words, the family that has perfected the four great realms of heart and
the three great kingships becomes the foundation upon which the peace kingdom
desired by all humanity can be established here on earth.
The family is
therefore the palace of Heaven. All members of this family are the royalty of
Heaven. But if grandparents, parents and children do not complete oneness in true
love, neither the three great kingships nor the four great realms of heart are
perfected.
Respected
leaders, in the Bible there is a verse that says, But new wine must be put
into fresh wineskins.E(Luke 5:38) Even without you realizing it, the Era
before the Coming of Heaven, the old wineskin, has passed away. Already the Era
after the Coming of Heaven, the new wineskin, has opened its gates to us. With
the advent of the True Parents, heavenly fortune has arrived here on earth.
With the beginning of the twenty-first century, we are actively advancing the
predestined, absolute providence to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth,
which is God's ideal of creation. For all of you who have received Heaven's
call, there is only one path to follow and only one task to perform in order to
establish the peace kingdom here on earth.
The spirit
world has its gates wide open, and the four great saints, Buddha, Confucius,
Jesus, and Muhammad, and millions of good ancestors also are pouring down like
a great storm. They are coming to watch over everything you do and are eager to
break down the thousands of barriers and limitations in the world. They are
coming to establish God's kingdom of Cheon II Guk, as we say in Korean, the era
of liberation of the true heart. All of you reborn as true olive trees have to
receive your good ancestors with new eyes, new ears and new hearts, and become
front-runners in the practice of the true family principle.
The hope of
the ages and the arrival of Heaven's Blessing
Ladies and
gentlemen, I clearly understand the Will of Heaven as having placed me in the
position of the True Parent, as ordained by providence. As the Savior, True
Parents have to fulfill their responsibility to save the world. As the Messiah,
they must fulfill the responsibility of cleansing human beings of all sin.
Through the Holy Marriage Blessing centered on true love, True Parents have to
overfill the world with true families who will be the new true olive trees.
This fortune and destiny given me by Heaven is now being fulfilled at
revolutionary speed. This is clearly visible in the work being done for the
establishment of God's kingdom of Cheon II Guk by tens of thousands of blessed
families, international couples flying high the flag of the Interreligious and
International Federation for World Peace or the banner of the Mongolian
People's Federation for World Peace. They are truly the vanguard of Heaven,
risking their lives for the work of God.
Now, no force
on earth can extinguish this beacon of the revolution of true love. Who can
stop this typhoon of the establishment of a new heaven and a new earth, when
heavenly fortune is with us and the entire spirit world is working together
with us? Just welcome the heavenly fortune with a humble attitude as it flows
toward you like a great rising of the seas. We are now living in the era of the
family. No one will get away with selfish, individualistic or unethical actions
that destroy morality and go against heavenly fortune. Please establish true
families that have returned to the realm of God's ideal envisioned at the
Creation. Become true parents yourselves! God will reside in your family.
Eternal peace and happiness will overflow in your family.
The
Interreligious and International Federation and the Mongolian People's
Federation have already become the pillars of cloud and of fire guiding
humanity. From now on, your motto must be absolute faith, absolute love and
absolute obedience. Please become the vanguard establishing God's fatherland
and the homeland for humanity here on earth. Let us transform the Mongolian
spot into a true-love birthmark!EI urge you to put on the helmet and armor of
true love and be brave warriors freeing this world from evil forces.
It is my
expectation that you will accept Heaven's decree I have passed on to you today.
From now on, no matter when it is, where we are or what we are doing, we are
all members of one family centered on Heaven. I hope you will remember at all
times that God works miracles through your conscience.
May God's
blessing be with you and the true family you establish for eternity.
Thank you.
Let Us Become Filial Children
of God Who Liberate His Heart
December 13, 2004
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel,
Washington, DC, USA Address at the Common Legacy Breakfast Summit
Distinguished
current and former heads of state, respected members of the clergy, leaders
from America and around the world, ladies and gentlemen: I come to this
gathering today to deliver a message from God, a warning for the 6.5 billion
people now living on earth. I know all too well God's timetable and the
direction of His providence. Never in history has anyone understood with
certainty God's circumstances or His heart. However today, in this era of the
providential Last Days, I can reveal them to you. In so doing, I hope to
present a correct understanding of the responsibility we need to shoulder and
the direction we need to take. I would like to speak to you on the topic, Let
Us Become Filial Children of God Who Liberate His Heart.E/span>
Why did God
create human beings? God is the source of true love. Yet the joy of love wells
up in the heart only in the context of a relationship. A solitary being cannot
experience love. Even God could not experience any stimulation as long as He
existed all alone. Alone, He could not love. For His love to blossom, God
needed object partners to love. For this reason, God created human beings to be
His children, partners in His true love.
God is the
Parent of all humankind, and we are God's sons and daughters. In creating us,
God invested everything, the bone of His bone, the flesh of His flesh, and the
marrow of His marrow. Parents raise their children hoping to reach that most
exalted place where parent and child come together, that central point where
their loves converge, their lives converge, and their ideals converge. In this
way, the omniscient and omnipotent God created us to grow into a position on
par with Him and equal to Him in rank.
Then, what is
required to complete God's ideal of creation? In addition to everything that
God does, there is the human element. Because God's ideal is the oneness of God
and human beings, God cannot be perfect until human beings reach perfection.
How God must
have yearned for our first ancestors, Adam and Eve, to become beings of
infinite value, reflecting His image! Yet, because Adam and Eve fell, God no
longer had His own true sons and daughters. Tragically, God could not establish
a family capable of creating deep bonds of true love and propagating a divine
lineage.
Instead, the
false parent seduced Adam and Eve. Their family was entangled in the chains of
false love, false life and false lineage. As a consequence we, their
descendants, suffer from incessant struggles between our mind and body.
Adam and Eve
fought constantly, and so did their children, and murder was the result. They
did not become the exalted beings that God could relate to as His eternal son
and daughter. God could not glorify them as the true ancestors and True Parents
of humanity. They were the only son and daughter He had, yet with their Fall,
He lost them.
What happened
between Adam and Eve that caused them to fall? Was it, as the Bible literally
says, that they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
Could merely eating a piece of fruit have been the original sin? Could our
ancestors eating a piece of fruit doom thousands of generations of their
descendants to be sinners? No. The root of sin continues on forever in
accordance with the laws of inheritance because it was planted in the lineage.
The only transgression that can have such lasting impact is the misuse of love,
committed between two people of the opposite sex.
Eve committed
adultery with the archangel Lucifer, and they became one body. When Eve then
joined with Adam, she bound him in that same oneness. As a result, Adam and Eve
built their family on a conjugal relationship that centered on Satan, the
fallen archangel. Consequently, all human beings, because we are descendants of
Adam and Eve, have inherited Satan's lineage.
According to
the Principle of Creation, love determines the right of ownership. In a
relationship of love, the partners have a right of ownership with respect to
each other. By this principle, Satan used his ties of illicit love to claim ownership
of fallen human beings. Satan took over the role of humanity's father, usurping
the position of God, who is humanity's True Father. This is why Jesus, in the
Gospel of John, chastised the people as children of Satan, saying, You are of
your father the devil, and you choose to do your father's desires.E(John 8:44)
Christians
today may think an almighty Jehovah sits on His royal throne and, because He is
omniscient and omnipotent, gives orders as He pleases and has everything go
exactly as He wants. In reality, God sits in a place of wretchedness and
harbors tremendous grief. God intended that Adam and Eve become the ideal
counterparts for His pure, essential love. Can you imagine the sorrow in God's
heart when they fell? It was infinitely worse than the sorrow that Adam and Eve
experienced; indeed, no one in this world has experienced anything nearly as
painful. The pain of loss is in proportion to the preciousness of what is lost.
Carrying this grieving heart, to this day God has pursued the path of
restoration to recover His lost children.
There is
nothing vague or ambiguous about God. He possesses a definite character. He desires
to form a relationship of the highest true love with human beings. He desires
to share with each of us the most exalted love and joy eternally. Nonetheless,
God lost the starting point for this, due to the mistake of our first
ancestors. The Fall of Adam and Eve caused so much damage.
God is the
original True Parent, yet He was robbed of His rightful parental position. How
heartbroken He is over this! God looks upon His fallen children, who inherited
the lineage of the enemy Satan and refuse even to recognize that He exists. How
excruciating must be the pain in God's heart each and every moment, as He
observes humanity's wretched condition!
For God,
nothing was more precious than to have flesh and blood counterparts who could
share His true love. God would not have traded His beloved children for the
entire universe. His sorrow upon losing them was equal to what it would have
been had He lost the entire creation. He felt that His entire purpose for
creating the universe had collapsed. He became a God whose enemy robbed Him of
His cosmic throne. The fact that God invested His heart so completely, in
keeping with the principles of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience, made the results of the Fall even more devastating. God was
plundered of His ideal, plundered of His beloved son and daughter, and
plundered of His sovereignty over the cosmos. And yet, the innocent God has had
to suffer all these years and endure Satan's accusations and slander.
Seeing the
history of lamentation that befell the world following the Fall, the Book of
Genesis says that God grieved in His heart. (Gen. 6:6) Also, the Apostle Paul
said that the creation has been groaning, eagerly awaiting the appearance of
the sons and daughters of God, and that we ourselves groan inwardly as we wait
for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. (Rom. 8:23) All creatures desire to
escape this realm of lamentation.
God's inmost
heart is broken as He surveys people struggling, leading lives of no value,
having lost the glorious value with which they were originally created. God
cries out in grief and agony, saying, You are supposed to be my direct lineal
children, possessing My love, My life and My lineage. You ought to be enjoying
all the glory of the kingdom of heaven. My heart is grieved to see you wearing
the mask of the defeated, struggling in pain and lamenting in despair until the
end of your meaningless lives.E/span>
God's providence of restoration
Do you think
that God, omniscient and omnipotent, seated on a glorious throne, would say to
His children, Come up here; Im not going to leave this seat?EOr is it more
likely that He would kick the throne out of the way and come down to where we
are? It is important for you to know that for tens of thousands of years, even
millions of years, God has been wailing tearfully, crying out, O My son! O My
daughter!EYou may ask how the omniscient and omnipotent God could be in such a
pitiable state. God cannot get over the shock of losing His beloved sons and
daughters.
If there were
a way for God to solve this problem on His own, He would not have had to travel
the long, lonely path of suffering through the providence of restoration. No
caring parent would stand by idly while his or her child suffers. And because
we are His children, it is impossible for the all-loving God to abandon
humanity, and let us perish eternally. God is absolutely committed to
recovering us and, with us, the world that He originally envisioned. This is
the reason that God has ceaselessly worked His providence of restoration to
save human beings.
You need to
be aware of how intensely God has labored to make progress in the providence of
restoration. God is our True Parent. As He carried out the providence, His
heart felt human pain as His own pain. Yet it was excruciatingly difficult for
God to carry out the providence of salvation, because our first ancestors, who
committed the sin that constitutes the Fall, received Satan's false love and
false life. Ever since, Satan has acted as humanity's false parent and false
lord.
You may raise
the question, How could God, who is omniscient and omnipotent, stand by,
seemingly impotent, while humanity went down the path of destruction?EThe
reason is that human beings committed sin in a sphere for which they are
exclusively responsible. Therefore, they must fulfill the conditions needed to
resolve that sin. God cannot liberate us from sin unconditionally. If He could,
He would have liberated our first ancestors in the garden of Eden instead of
casting them out. Furthermore, restoration has been even more difficult because
Satan uses his lineal relationship to enslave people as their master.
The Fall was
something that would never have happened under the original standard of the
ideal of creation. Therefore, God was not in a position to intervene, even
though He was the Creator. Having been robbed of His position as our original
Parent, He could not cover for His children's mistake. On the other hand,
neither can the omniscient and omnipotent God solve the problem simply by
casting judgment on the fallen human world and on Satan. Since God created
people to be His eternal partners in true love, He cannot just annihilate them.
Instead, God has labored with true love to carry out the providence of
restoration. While continually enduring Satan's contempt and accusations, His
response has always been to sacrifice and give endlessly.
Satan has
been mocking God, saying, How can you hold fast to your principles, now that
the lineage of true love, which was supposed to be the foundation of the ideal
world, has been utterly degraded? Your ideal of creation, the absolute realm of
love where true people live together as one, is something You will never see.E
In this situation, how can God reply? It has been an impossible situation.
Why does God
carry on with His work of restoration while enduring such suffering? Is it
because He is omniscient and omnipotent? No, that is not the reason. The ideal
of true love is the reason that He seeks to recover His beloved sons and daughters. With
true love, God ignores His own circumstances and works to understand our
circumstances. If people are sad, God approaches them by comprehending their
sadness. If people are angry because they have been treated unjustly, God
approaches them by first understanding the reasons for their anger.
God's situation and comforting God's heart
Respected
leaders, in your communion with God, have you fathomed His suffering heart?
Have you shed tears for God? Have you ever attempted to take on a task that
would lighten God's load, even a little? Have you struggled to do it even when
it meant that each of your limbs might be torn from your body? You havent. On
the other hand, God ever draws near to comfort us in our difficulties. Through
the long ages, with an unchanging parental heart, He has sought out the
children who betrayed Him. God, our Parent, will remain in suffering until
every last person has been freed from their lamentation. Because He is in this
position, we need to comfort God and bring Him liberation.
How are we to
liberate God? God lost His beloved children. God is confined in a place where
He cannot love humanity with the original love that parents give their
children. Therefore, our task is to establish a realm of liberation for God,
where He can freely love humankind. God's confinement was brought about when
human beings fell, so human beings have to become victorious sons and daughters
who transcend the limits of the Fall. This is what will bring God liberation.
We have been
ignorant of the tremendous pain in God's heart. When I first understood the
pain of God, I wept for weeks. Please know that such profound circumstances lie
behind the founding of the Unification Church. Longing for those who betrayed
Him, those who were enfolded into the bosom of the enemy, God has been calling
out, My son! My daughter!EYet have you even once cried out, My Father!Eso
loudly that it made you hoarse? Have you ever passionately called for your
Father until it dried out your tongue and you began to choke? As fallen people,
what do we have that would enable us to relate with God? Our emotions and the
perceptions of our five senses are entirely profane. Nothing in us is
acceptable. Under the laws of justice, there is nothing that will permit us to
relate to God. Nevertheless, under the law of love there is a way.
God's liberation and complete freedom
Because human
beings fell, God could not be free. Hence, our first ancestors also were
imprisoned; they lost their original freedom. Following this, the angelic
world, all religious people, and ultimately all humanity came to be imprisoned.
God lives in prison. How can we free Him? We must become devoted sons and
daughters of God, more so than the first children whom He lost. We need to do
even better than the first children were supposed to do, had they been devoted
and had they not fallen. I know that even if we were to accumulate ten times as
much merit in every aspect of life and relate to God with great filial piety,
it would not be easy to bring God's heart back to its original state and allow
Him to dwell in true freedom. Nonetheless, at an early age, I resolved to truly
liberate God with my own hands, and I have lived accordingly throughout my
life.
What is the
real mission of religion? It is to truly liberate God, truly liberate humanity
on earth and in the spiritual realm, and truly liberate planet Earth with a
heart of love. People have thought that God will liberate us, but now that we
recognize that God's heart is imprisoned, we understand that we must liberate
God and bring Him into complete freedom.
God has long
been searching for people burning with zeal for true love, having the faith
that says, I see now that God is in prison because of me. I see now that Satan
is accusing God because of me. I see now that Jesus suffered because of me. O
Father, I will carry You to the place of true liberation. I will carry Jesus
and the Holy Spirit as well to the place of true liberation.E/span>
To this day,
there has been no sovereign country on earth where people of true love have
established God's dominion. Despite this, people are singing praise to the
Almighty. Under such circumstances, how can God's heart be free? From God's
perspective, there have been no children of filial piety. There have been no
social and political structures founded upon true love that would enable people
to fulfill the way of the patriot, the way of the saint, and the way of divine
sons and daughters in heaven and on earth. Hence, there has been no way to establish
and protect the heavenly kingdom. These circumstances have left God with no
place to stand. Consequently, He has remained imprisoned until now, in a state
of virtual captivity.
How are we to
resolve this grievous situation? The only way is to carry out a movement
practicing the love that is God's original essence. The final stage of religion
needs to teach people in detail about God's pitiful suffering and injustice,
and connect us to the world of His original heart.
Let us join
in a true love movement to bring true liberation and complete freedom to God.
If we do not set this standard of love, we will not establish the heavenly way
properly and bring the ideal world to exist on earth. This is the true love
movement, and it is bringing an end to the history of division between Cain and
Abel by bringing together the Interreligious and International Federation for
World Peace and the Peace UN in the Abel position, and the Mongolian People's
Federation for World Peace in the Cain position, to form a single body.
I call on
America to take the role of the eldest brother, representing the free world,
and lead all nations toward the fulfillment of God's Will. To do this, America
needs to put aside selfish and individualistic thinking. When political parties
and ethnic groups place priority on their self-interest, they divide and
mislead the people. America needs to build a true nation, blossoming with true
freedom and peace. Then God will want to reside in your families and in your
communities.
For this
noble goal, let us all stand hand in hand and establish the kingdom of heaven
on earth, the peace kingdom, where God's ideal of creation is fulfilled. There,
God will enjoy true liberation and complete freedom.
I pray that
God's blessings may be with you forever.
9
August 1, 2005
Lotte Hotel, Seoul, Korea
World Culture and Sports Festival
2005 Congratulatory Banquet
Distinguished
guests from home and abroad, ladies and gentlemen:
Before I
begin, I would like to ask you to bear one thing in mind. I do not stand here
before you on this momentous day to greet you with a routine, conventional
address. I have come to earth in the capacity of the True Parent, to save
humanity from sin. Although I will speak only briefly, I would like to take
this opportunity to convey to you a message sent to us from God. My speech is
entitled, True Parents Are the Embodiment of God.E/span>
Ladies and
gentlemen, is there anyone here who has seen God? He exists as a being without
form. Even when we pass on to the spirit world, we will not be able to see Him.
Therefore, for God to establish a relationship with us human beings, who are
composed of flesh and blood and jostling against each other, He needs to
manifest as the Father here on earth through a physical body. God created our
first ancestors Adam and Eve according to this heavenly law. Through them, He
intended to manifest Himself on earth, both in spirit and body. Adam and Eve
would have also represented the spirit world and the physical world coming
together in harmony, and so would have represented the unity of the cosmos.
Then how can
human beings, born with a physical body, be the manifestation of God, who has
none? God's nature is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, and He created
His greatest masterpiece, human beings, to reflect fully all aspects of that
nature. The physical body, created based on the principles of the temporal
world of substance, cannot exist forever. Once Adam and Eve had reached
perfection, however, God planned to dwell within them, to have complete oneness
with them. He planned that He would enter a relationship of eternal true love
with them, wherein He would be Adam and at the same time God. Likewise, He
would be Eve and at the same time God. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, if they
had abided by the commandment of God, achieved perfection as individuals, and
come together in a holy matrimonial union with the Blessing of God, their
children and their descendants would have lived forever as His substantial
embodiments, inheriting His nature generation after generation.
We can
achieve the realm of true love's absolute value only when we firmly establish
the sphere of true love relationships. If Adam and Eve had attained such a
standard, human beings automatically would have been elevated to the position
of God's absolute object partners, in which position they and their descendants
would have enjoyed an eternal life of happiness. As things turned out, however,
the human Fall dealt God a devastating blow. From the vertical perspective, God
and human beings were to have been in a relationship of True Parent and true
children. From a horizontal view, human beings were to have been God Himself as
well as His children. Through the Fall, God lost all this.
If Adam and
Eve had become the visible form of God, He would have dwelt in their heart and
reigned over the corporeal, physical world and the incorporeal, spirit world.
In other words, God would have reigned over the world together with Adam and
Eve. Together they would have created the kingdom of God on earth, that is, the
peace kingdom. Adam would have become the King of the kingdom of heaven on
earth and the King of the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world. Having
inherited the nature of God in all its glory, Adam would have stood above all
creation as an absolute being, a unique being and an eternal being. He would
have been the unchanging Parent, Owner, Teacher and King of true love in this
world of substance. Moreover, each of the 6.5 billion people living in the
world today would also have been the visible form and incarnation of God.
What stood in
the way of achieving this? As I have said, the central problem was the Fall.
The Fall drove all people into the sphere of ignorance. It turned them into
lonely orphans. Though their eyes gazed upon the natural scenery spread out
before them, the Fall made them insensible to God, the root of all creation.
They became unable to hear, see or feel His presence.
God, however,
sank into suffering and grief even greater than that of human beings. Satan
arose as God's archenemy, violated His ideal of creation, defiled His beloved
son and daughter, and took away planet Earth, God's ideal garden of true love.
Earth became Satan's playground. Can you imagine how torn with sorrow and
anguish God's heart was? There are no words to describe it. It was simply a
horrid, wretched outcome. How many tears have you shed out of sympathy for God
and His plight?
God was given
no choice but to relinquish His beloved son to His enemy. It was not because He
did not have the authority or the power to hold fast to His son. It was because
God could not trample upon the heavenly way of love, the rules and principles
of Heaven that He had established. Therefore, our Heavenly Parent persevered
and waited, shedding tears unceasingly as He proceeded with His providence to
restore what had been lost. Suffering the indignity of having to deny Himself
as the Creator, God has walked the path for the restoration of His children for
six thousand years. All-knowing and all-powerful though He is, to restore the
true lineage, God still had to follow a course more torturous than if He had
been imprisoned in hell.
The
providence of restoration God is carrying out cannot be random. It cannot
deviate from the principles and rules of Heaven. To succeed in His endeavors, God
has to seek out and anoint the True Parents on earth. They will restore all
people, the degraded descendants of the Fall who have inherited the blood
lineage of the false parent, Satan. God originally intended that Adam establish
the lineage of Heaven after he attained individual perfection and was blessed
by God in holy matrimony. God thus has to install here on earth the visible God
with the mission to begin that heavenly lineage. In short, the aim of the
providence of God is to create, here on this planet Earth, true families, true
nations and a true world, unrelated in any way to Satan.
For this
purpose, Jesus Christ came as the Second Adam two thousand years ago. The nation
of Israel and its leaders, however, did not understand the Will of God,
although God had prepared that nation for four thousand years. They were unable
to believe in Jesus. Although he was sent to the earth as the Savior and
Messiah, the disbelief of those to whom he was sent frustrated the restoration
of our lineage centering upon Jesus. Once again, God sank into a valley of
sorrow and anguish. Again He had to wait for the day of new beginning. He has
been waiting for the day He could completely uproot the false blood lineage of
Satan and begin the true lineage of God.
Ladies and
gentlemen, the man who stands before you here and now, Rev. Moon, is the person
who appeared in this evil world after receiving the ordination of the cosmos.
You surely are not aware of it, but I cannot help seeing my life as one of
innumerable hardships and trials. It has been a great, lonely and desperate
battle. As a lone fighter, armed with only silent resolve, I had to face
Satan's forces, six billion strong. However, I could not lose this battle no
matter the cost. It was a struggle through which I had to bring the enemy Satan
to voluntary submission and recover what Satan had seized, the royal seal of
God.
I searched
far and wide in the spirit world, challenging the four great religious
founders: Buddha, Confucius, Jesus and Muhammad, and even God Himself. I
underwent indescribable ordeals, all to reveal the mysteries of the Creation
and to find the answers regarding the salvation of humanity. I learned that,
according to heavenly law, the salvation of the spirit world had to precede the
salvation of the physical world. Therefore, I completed the salvation of the
spirit world first.
On that
foundation, I have arrived at this stage of accomplishment in full stride. My
path is that of a man of integrity and perfected character, whom God can
utilize as His visible form. I have accomplished the path of the True Parent, founding
the true tribe that carries the true lineage of God that can never again be
defiled. I have walked the path of Savior and Messiah, whose mission it is to
restore all humanity. This path transcends the individual, family, tribe, race,
nation and world levels to include even the billions of people in the spirit
world. The light of truth I sought and finally found is illuminating the path
for the 6.5 billion people of the human race, all of whom are blind.
The path humanity
needs to follow is now more than clear. There are no further obstacles in your
way as you travel at top speed on the superhighway in the Era after the Coming
of Heaven. Open up your hearts, receive the Word of God, and take the path to
individual perfection. Become representatives of the True Parents. Become
horizontal true parents in the Era after the Coming of Heaven, passing on the
Blessing of God to others freely and without reserve. Build the peace kingdom
here on earth and become the blessed citizens of the kingdom of heaven, serving
God forevermore as true parents yourselves.
Even as we
speak, we hear cries of pain throughout the world. I ask you to be aware of the
importance of your roles as leaders who are concerned about the future of
humanity and who are working on the front line for the realization of world
peace.
The message I
have conveyed to you on this formal occasion is neither my own personal
philosophy nor the theory of the Unification Church; it is the law of Heaven.
It is the way of Heaven that God has been preparing for six thousand years. God
is utilizing my physical body, the body of the True Parent, and is carrying out
His works through me as the incarnate True Parent.
Please leave
here tonight with the new hope of Heaven in your hearts. I hope and pray that,
as the people attending True Parents, you will stand at the forefront in the
ranks of those working to establish the peace kingdom.
May the
blessings of God forever be with you and your nation.
Thank you.
10
Address at the Groundbreaking
Ceremony for the Gimpo Aviation
Industrial Complex
June 10, 2006
Gimpo Aviation Industrial Complex,
Gimpo, Korea
Groundbreaking Ceremony
Respected
Governor Hak Gyu Sohn, Honorable Minister Byeong Jik Choo of the Ministry of
Construction and Transportation, leaders of the Korean helicopter industry,
residents of Gimpo, and distinguished guests from abroad, including Sikorsky
executives who have come to congratulate us on this joyous day:
We are truly
grateful to all of you for coming such a distance, in spite of your busy
schedules, to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Gimpo Aviation
Industrial Complex under Times Aviation of Korea.
We would like
to express our gratitude once again to all of you, who have made it possible to
hold today's ceremony for the Gimpo Aviation Industrial Complex, situated
halfway between Incheon International Airport and Gimpo International Airport,
opened more than half a century ago. It is our hope that this complex will
develop into a state of the art aviation industrial complex, both in concept
and in reality, after receiving approval as an industrial complex and
designation as an enterprise approved for foreign investment.
I have
dedicated my entire life to teaching the path of living for the sake of others
through the practice of true love. This is a basic principle that surely
applies to individuals and to all levels of life, from the family to the
society and to the nation. Early on I gained the conviction that my homeland of
Korea, which at the time was suffering in poverty, would prosper and share what
it had with the rest of the world. To be able to contribute spiritually to the
world, Korea needed a strong foundation of technical and engineering skill, and
therefore I inspired the founding of Tongil Heavy Industries Company Limited some forty
years ago. The company imported the most advanced automobile technology from
Germany and thus laid the foundation for the automobile technology of
modern-day Korea.
Pursuing
world peace through efforts that reach beyond particular religions and nations,
I have dared to initiate the large-scale project of connecting the regions of
the world through constructing a tunnel and bridge system across the Bering
Strait between Russia and the United States. Through such an undertaking I am
doing my utmost to inspire all technological experts to contribute to the peace
and welfare of humankind.
After
concluding thirty-four years of work away from my homeland of Korea, I have
returned to my country and decided to lay the foundation for aviation
technology, which of all industries requires the most precise technology. In
the twenty-first century, Korea can become a leader in the machinery industry
and, in particular, contribute to the development of the aviation industry.
Therefore, I have established Times Aviation of Korea and pursued technological
cooperation with the Sikorsky Company, which prides itself on having the best
helicopter technology in the world.
Henceforth,
Times Aviation of Korea will focus on developing helicopters for transportation
of large groups of people. This will meet public demand and open new horizons
for the helicopter industry. We expect it will revolutionize mass
transportation in Korea and improve the quality of life throughout this country
by more efficient use of its territory. It is my hope that on the foundation of
the Tongil Group, Times Aviation of Korea will extend to one hundred eighty
nations across the world through the realization of an even distribution of
technologyEpolicy. This initiative will play an important role in establishing
Korea as an industrial power, and thereby contribute greatly to the nation's
development as well as to the happiness of all people in the world.
Ladies and
gentlemen, I am carrying out efforts for the sake of humanity's welfare and
peace in various fields. After inaugurating the Universal Peace Federation in
New York, on September 12 last year, I traveled to one hundred twenty nations
in order to share my inaugural message. I proposed that the Universal Peace
Federation, in the position of the Abel UN, be developed as a new international
peace organization. The United Nations is in the representative position of a
Cain-type institution. It needs to be reformed by creating a peace council, a
legislative organization consisting of global religious leaders with the same
authority as members of the current UN Security Council. I am referring to the
founding of a peace council that will speak not for the interests of a
particular nation, as the existing United Nations representatives do. Instead,
it will truly work for the welfare and peace of humanity from an interreligious
and universal perspective.
I am
undertaking this awesome project for the sake of peace and for the welfare of
humanity. Therefore, people all around the world call me the Peace King and the
True Parent of humanity. Times Aviation of Korea will eventually become a major
donor to support the purposes of this universal project.
I extend my
gratitude to the governments of Gyeonggi Province and the city of Gimpo. I
thank the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Finance
and Economy, and particularly to the Ministry of Construction and
Transportation. I would also like to express my deep appreciation for the
support of the residents of Gimpo, and last, but not least, for the Sikorsky
Company's firm commitment of technological cooperation.
Thank you.
11
Cheon II Guk Is the Ideal Heavenly
Kingdom's Reign of Eternal Peace
June 13, 2006
Cheon Jeong Gung, Korea
Cheon Jeong Gung Entrance Ceremony
and Coronation of the True Parents, the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and
on Earth
Esteemed
leaders of all nations in the world, honored guests of Heaven who have gathered
from every corner of the earth to celebrate this treasured historic and
providential day, and people of the spirit world and physical world who are
being reborn as citizens of Cheon II Guk.
In the name
of all human beings in the spirit world and physical world, numbering more than
three hundred billion souls, I offer boundless gratitude and glory to God, the
Creator of all things, the eternal True Parent of humankind, and Great King of
the Cosmos.
The path for the people of Cheon II Guk
I ask you to
raise your voices high in praise of the victory of the True Parents of Heaven
and Earth, the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth. They have
personally completed the entire course of restoration through indemnity in
order to save all human beings who, as descendants of the Fall, would otherwise
be eternally destined to wander in evil and suffering, ever sliding down the
path to hell.
You stand
today in the venue of a tremendous event in the history of God's providence.
This event is unprecedented and will never be repeated. It is the day when the
King of Peace finally ascends in glory. Please recognize that, although they
may not be visible to you, thousands and tens of thousands of good ancestors of
blessed families have come here. They are above your heads now, joining with
you in celebration of this awesome moment. All nature is rejoicing, and heaven
and earth resound with choruses of Hallelujah!E/span>
If you truly
understood the infinite value of this day, you would not be able to sit still.
You would go throughout the world singing hymns of joy and dancing in ecstasy.
Do you know
the significance of January 13, 2001? It was the day of the Enthronement
Ceremony for the Kingship of God. For countless years, Heaven had been waiting
for that event in eager anticipation. It was the greatest and most exalted
celebration humanity had ever witnessed. On that day, Rev. Moon, who had been
anointed as the True Parent of all humankind and had traveled a path of
indescribable suffering and pain until he gained the final victory, offered his
entire foundation to Heaven.
For tens of
thousands of years, God had endured an existence full of lamentation and grief,
even as He conducted His providence with a parental heart. When that
enthronement ceremony was offered to Him, it marked the moment of His
long-awaited liberation and inner freedom. On that providential day, we
declared to all heaven and earth that we would attend God as the vertical True
Parent and Great King of Heaven and Earth, that we would unfurl and raise high
the banner of Cheon II Guk, and that the new sovereignty of Heaven had begun.
For the next
three years, we, the True Parents, held firmly to the helm while the winds of
heavenly fortune surged around us like a typhoon. We dashed forward as though
each day were worth a thousand years. Then on the foundation of True ParentsE
victory, we declared May 5, 2004 to be the Day of the Victory of the Number Ten
Combining Two Halves (SsangHab Shib Seung ll). On that day, the True Parents
brought to a close the era before the coming of Heaven with its long years of
grief, and opened the Era after the Coming of Heaven, the new age when we can
build a new heaven and a new earth. This marked the beginning of a great and
historic revolution to return the earth to God as a substantial reality.
Beloved
citizens of Cheon II Guk, today you are receiving amazing grace. You are
participating in the Coronation Ceremony of the Substantial King of Peace in
Heaven and on Earth, and you are being registered as citizens of Cheon II Guk
You and your ancestors by the tens of thousands are receiving this grace along
with you today, and they will thank you throughout eternity.
The Bible
says, But strive first for the kingdom of God and His righteousness.E(Matt.
6:33) Today you are witnessing the miracle of miracles, the establishment of
Cheon II Guk, the substantial sovereignty in the Era after the Coming of
Heaven. God truly works in mysterious ways. By the first day of the new
millennium, God had already placed Cheon II Guk on the horizon. Who could have
imagined, though, that they would see the day when the King of Peace in Heaven
and on Earth would ascend to his throne? You thought it was just a dream,
however you are witnessing it in your lifetime.
Citizens of
the kingdom of heaven, this is a precious and blessed day of victory and glory.
Now, as the King of Peace in Heaven and on Earth, I will declare, on this
thirteenth day of June in the sixth year of Cheon II Guk, the fundamental
duties and mission that every citizen of Cheon II Guk must understand and live
by as they walk the way of Heaven.
First, as God
is the vertical True Parent and you are true children of God, you will
establish the realm of three generations in your family, perfect the four great
realms of heart, and attend God on the vertical axis for eternity.
Further, you
will inscribe on your heart the need to uphold the King of peace, who is the
horizontal True Parent, in heaven and on earth, and to live with absolute
obedience on the horizontal axis for eternity as a citizen of Cheon II Guk. You
will make living for the sake of others, which is the practice of true love,
the standard for your life. You will establish a true family and raise true
children who are sinless and pure, thus protecting God's lineage and
bequeathing it intact from generation to generation.
Second, no matter
what the situation, you will live with your mind and body united as one. In my
case as well, from the day I first determined to follow Heaven's path, I
resolved to keep this as my motto: Before you desire to have dominion over the
universe, you must first gain dominion over yourselfE/span>
God has given
you a conscience as your guide in accomplishing this objective. Your conscience
knows everything about you. It has complete knowledge of every action and step
you take; it even knows your thoughts. Your conscience knows all these things
about you before your teacher or pastor knows. It knows them before your
parents know. It knows them even better than God knows. So if you place your
conscience in God's position over your life, and go the way of absolute
obedience, of high noonEsettlement whereby your life casts no shadows, it is
certain that you will establish a realm of resonance between your mind and body
and perfect their unity.
World peace through cross-cultural marriage
Third, the
unification of the spirit world has been completed. The issue now is the people
living on earth, in their physical bodies. They struggle in agony in the midst
of sin and suffering, yet they are your brothers and sisters. Your third
mission is to educate them and bring them home as people of Cheon II Guk.
You need to
educate everyone to understand that all human beings without exception are
descended from the Fall, and that they have to change their blood lineage
through receiving the Holy Marriage Blessing from the True Parents. You need to
continue the work of engrafting people onto the true olive tree, by having them
participate in the grace of intercultural marriage, until the day when all
human beings, numbering more than three hundred billion souls, are restored to
God's lineage.
Fourth, you
are created to spend about ten months in your mother's womb, about one hundred
years on earth breathing air, and then all eternity in the spirit world. You
need to understand that, just as proper preparation in the womb is required for
a healthy life after birth, you need to devote your earthly life to preparing
yourself for the next stage of life in the spirit world. Never forget that in
every time and place, and no matter what you are doing, your ancestors in the
spirit world are with you. Be ever mindful to live in harmony with the spirit
world. Communicate in prayer with the heavenly world with sincerity and
dedication, so that you may become perfected in your spirit self while you are
living on earth.
Fifth, your
talents and abilities are required for the management and governance of Cheon
II Guk. Now therefore, cut away and cast off your mask of selfish
individualism. It is just a remnant of the Era before the Coming of Heaven. In
order to belong to Heaven, you have to change ownership by participating in the
Ceremony of Returning Ownership, offering everything you own to God and then
receiving it back from God.
In addition,
all citizens of Cheon II Guk will provide funds for the wellbeing and peace of
humanity, by taxation and by voluntary contributions. They will demonstrate the
model of offering the first three-tenths of their income for public purposes.
This cannot be an imposed tax; it has to be a gift that citizens offer
willingly to Heaven with joyful hearts.
The life of citizens of Cheon II Guk
Sixth,
beloved citizens of Cheon II Guk, in the Era after the Coming of Heaven it is
possible to recover the ideal world of creation that was lost as a result of
the Fall. God created everything in the universe as our natural environment;
all things are absolutely needed for human prosperity. Human beings and nature
are meant to share a realm of mutual resonance, with men and women as the
subject partners of love and nature as the object partner thriving under our
management and beautified by our creativity. We can no longer ignore or accept
actions that destroy nature and pollute the environment.
As citizens
of Cheon II Guk, please exercise wisdom to protect and love nature. Return to
nature and enjoy a life of liberation and complete inner freedom. To love
nature is to love God and humanity. When human life resonates with nature,
human character can blossom in perfection. The flowers of a true culture of
heart, a true artistic world, will bloom. It will be the garden of Eden, the
original ideal world where God, human beings and all creation live in complete
harmony and express their original nature.
If you
practice such true love in your daily life, how can God do anything but bestow
great blessings upon you? You will live for all eternity in blessing and
happiness.
Seventh, the Era
after the Coming of Heaven that God and True Parents have opened is a time of
dramatic change. As registered citizens of Cheon II Guk, you have the mission
to make this era blossom and bear fruit in blessing and glory. Therefore,
please become Heaven's emissaries, fulfilling the dual missions of the peace
kingdom police force and peace kingdom corps. Serve humanity under the banner
of the Universal Peace Federation, which is working to establish the position
of the Abel UN. Worthy countrymen and women, if not you, then who will nurture
and protect the blessed families and this blessed planet Earth that God has
given us?
Please become
true princes and princesses who live in attendance to God as your vertical True
Parent, for He is the Peace King of the multitudes. Let us build the
everlasting peace kingdom by attending the King of Peace in Heaven and on Earth
and fulfilling the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters, patriots,
saints, and divine sons and daughters.
Beloved
people of Cheon II Guk, I hope you truly will celebrate and enjoy this precious
and holy day. Brush off your cares and worries and celebrate this day in joy
while attending your Heavenly Father and True Parents with all your heart. The
sincerity and dedication expressed by each of you brings even more glory to
this day. The beautiful mountains, streams, trees and flowers here in the
vicinity of Cheongpyeong Lake are showering their blessings upon you as you
prepare to embark on your ambitious journeys. Your descendants, too, will take
pride that you participated in this long-awaited day, and they will honor and
praise you forever.
I pray that
the abundant grace and blessings of God in heaven may be upon you and your
families.
Thank you.
12
The True Owners in Establishing
the Kingdom of Cosmic Peace and
Unity in Heaven and on Earth
October 14, 2006
Cheon Jeong Gung, Korea
Fifth World Assembly of the
Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace
Leaders from all
around the world who are working hard for the development of the Mongolian
Peoples Federation for World Peace, and of the Universal Peace Federation,
which was established under Heaven's providential call, and which is now living
up to its position as the Abel UN:
As the True
Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, and together with all the members of my
family, I personally welcome all of you to this meaningful event. Thank you for
attending despite your busy schedules.
Ladies and
gentlemen, this assembly has great and profound significance within the
providence of God. This is the fifth world assembly since the founding of the
Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace. It is also a world-level event to
welcome Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who represents the true family in its original
form, and who has returned after successfully completing the third of three
world peace tours that have taken place since the Universal Peace Federation was
founded one year ago.
A victory for
the three generations of the True Family After inaugurating the Universal Peace
Federation in New York on September 12,2005, my wife Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon and I
went on to complete a global tour of one hundred twenty nations with the
purpose of conveying my inaugural message. Carrying the baton on this
foundation of True ParentsEvictory, my wife undertook a second world tour this
spring, during which she held rallies to declare a message of peace to one
hundred eighty nations. It was a tremendous victory, in which two generations
of the True Family, True Parents and True Children, worked together to declare
this message of peace.
This victory,
in which the children of the Cain-type realm and Abel-type realm were brought
together on a universal level and offered to True Parents, enabled the
providential realm of ownership to be returned to God.
On the basis
of this victory, on June 13 of this year, heaven and earth were united. God and
the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind were firmly established in
their rightful positions through the entrance ceremony into the Cheon Jeong
Gung Peace Palace and through the coronation of the True Parents of Heaven,
Earth and Humankind as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and Earth. These
events were a tremendous victory unprecedented in history. It was a day on
which we could liberate and completely emancipate God, who had walked the
providential course for countless years alone, behind the scenes of history, in
bitter sorrow and tears, and firmly settle Him into His position as the King
and Master of Heaven and Earth.
The victory
of God and True Parents, who have entered the Cheon Jeong Gung, is linked to an
outpouring of tremendous grace through which the 6.5 billion people of the
world could return to dwell within Heaven's household. On August 31, the True
Parents, True Children and True Grandchildren assembled for a third world tour
to convey the Word and the Blessing, a tour that I personally launched here in
Korea. The three generations of the True Family have gone to forty nations to
bestow the Blessing. They have returned on this happy day, victorious through
their long journey. This recent world tour was all the more special because it
involved the active participation of three generations of the family of the
True Parents.
It was like
the advance of the cosmic peace kingdom corps, an army that was restoring a
nation each day with the truth and Blessing it was conveying. As the Word and
Blessing were proclaimed simultaneously each day in twelve major cities of each
nation, it brought the greatest joy to all humanity. The mobilization of the
three generations of the True Family is an event that will be recorded in
history for eternity. It is something that no saint in history could ever have
dreamed of, and it is a miracle that will be praised forevermore as a
victorious liberation for Heaven.
In addition
to this, today represents yet another day of historic victory that I will never
forget. It is the anniversary of the day when I was liberated by the United
NationsEforces. I became a free man after spending two years and eight months
in a North Korean prison. I had been unjustly imprisoned for conveying Heaven's
message. I was ministering to the people who were living under the communists,
who had taken over North Korea shortly after the independence and liberation of
my country. October 14, 1950 was a perilous moment, and Heaven was compelled to
perform a miracle. It was on this day that I, the person with the seal of the
True Parent of humankind, was to be led off for execution. There was no way
that Heaven could ignore such an incident.
I declare
that this day, which bears such great providential significance, is an historic
day of victory through which I offer glory and respect to Heaven and blessings
and love to the earth as the True Parent of humankind under the protection of
God.
The Universal Peace Federation and the Mongolian Peoples Federation
Leaders of
the world! Please remember our mission to elevate the Universal Peace
Federation (UPF), now only one year old, to the position of the Abel- type UN.
Heaven is instructing us to develop the UPF as a new international peace
organization. At the same time, we are to reform the United Nations, which
stands as a Cain-type institution, by establishing in it a peace council free
from Satan's influence and of the same rank as the current Security Council. This
council would be a legislative body composed of religious leaders from around
the globe under the protection of God.
I am saying
that we have to establish a peace council that will speak for the interests of
all nations, unlike the current United Nations representatives, and which will
truly work for the welfare and peace of humanity from an interreligious and
universal perspective.
The concept
of the Universal Peace Federation, which was launched according to God's ideal
purpose and goal of creation, could not have emerged from the wisdom of one
human being. It is the greatest and utmost blessing Heaven has given to
humanity and it is ushering in the new millennium. Thus, it is my hope that the
Mongolian Peoples Federation will also fulfill its duty as a partner of the
Universal Peace Federation in achieving its noble goals bestowed by Heaven.
Toward that
end, I would once again like to impart to you today a revelation from God that
is absolutely essential to all 6.5 billion people of the world. It is entitled
The True Owners in Establishing the Kingdom of Peace and Unity in Heaven and
on Earth.EThis is the message I gave at the third Assembly of the Mongolian
Peoples Federation for World Peace. I hope you will all be wise leaders who
open your minds to listen to the voice of Heaven.
Leaders of
the world! God, the Creator of all things under the sun, is the True Parent of
all humanity. He is not a parent in the parochial sense, existing only for a
certain religion or race, or the residents of a certain region. You may call
Him by any name, be it Jehovah, Allah, or any other. What is important is that
He positively exists, lives as the True Parent of all people, and is carrying
on the great work of creation in accordance with the principles and the laws of
nature that He set up at the beginning of time. He governs everything in the
universe and He has carried out His providence through history.
The existence of the spirit world
Ladies and
gentlemen, each person has a mind and body, and a spirit self that is more
elevated than the mind. God resides in the world in which we live with our
physical bodies, and also in the spirit world where our spirits are destined to
live. Therefore, only when we have become completely one with God in true love
are we complete. Such a perfected person, even if physically small, would
represent all of history and all potential future relationships, and so could
be said to possess infinite value. Once we are aware of this cosmic value, we
realize that we must let our minds take the lead in our lives. To aid this, God
created your conscience to know and perceive every action you take and every
thought you entertain. Your conscience is aware of these things before your
teachers, parents and even God are. Hence, if you were to live in absolute
obedience to the commands of your conscience, which is your teacher for
eternity, you would be absolutely guaranteed to have eternal life. Such is the
way of God's creation.
When viewing
the structure of a human being from a different angle, we can recognize that
God created us as beings with dual characteristics. He created our physical
bodies as miniatures of the corporeal, tangible world and our spiritual bodies
as representatives of and lords of the incorporeal world. Accordingly, a human
being is intended to live for a hundred years or so in the corporeal, physical
world and, once the physical body ceases functioning, to pass on naturally and
automatically into the incorporeal, spirit world. In this way, though it cannot
be perceived physically, the spirit world is the automatic and inevitable
extension of our lives on earth, humankind's eternal, original homeland,
created by God.
The spirit
world actually does exist. It is not a world that someone fantasized or imagined
into existence. We do not have the right of choice concerning it. It is not a
world we can go to if we please or refuse to go to if we would rather not. Just
as God is eternal and unchanging, the spirit world He created is also eternal
and unchanging. Just as we live in the physical world in our physical bodies
and form all sorts of relationships with the existing world, even in the spirit
world we are destined to go on living in our spiritual bodies, forming and
maintaining close relationships with all phenomena of the spirit world.
In the
relationship between the spirit and the physical body of a human being, the
spirit is the more important of the two. The physical body lasts for about a
hundred years before it stops functioning. However, the spirit lasts eternally,
transcending time and space. Isnt even a person who dresses and fares
extremely well in the physical world bound to die? Therefore, before you pass
on to the next world, you need to achieve unity between your physical and
spiritual bodies by living your earthly life in such a way that you meet the
standards of both the physical and spirit worlds.
In other
words, you have the responsibility to mature your spirit within your physical
body based on the finite life you live in the tangible, physical world. This
does not mean, however, that the maturing of a spirit self happens
automatically. Your spirit self fully matures only on the basis of complete
unity between your mind and body during your earthly life, which you achieve by
expressing true love through actions.
Ladies and
gentlemen, in order for fruit to ripen and be put into storage in autumn, it needs
first to pass through the growing process of spring and summer and be provided
with the nutrients supplied by nature and the tender, loving care of its owner.
Fruit grown in an orchard by a lazy or ignorant owner will be afflicted with
diseases and vulnerable to foul weather. Eventually it will fall from the tree
before it is ripe, or be worm-infested. Though it is still fruit, it is
different from other fruit since it will never be good enough to sell in the
market. Fruit that has fully matured on the tree, however, will naturally go
into the owner's storehouse.
Similarly,
only when the spirit of a person has reached its full maturation during his or
her life in the physical world, which can be likened to the tree, can it
automatically enter the kingdom of heaven in the incorporeal spirit world. In
other words, a person will enter the kingdom of God in heaven automatically
only when he or she has qualified for and enjoyed the kingdom of heaven on
earth by reaching the heavenly standard of maturity while living in the
physical body.
During your
life on earth your every action and movement, without exception, is recorded on
your spirit self and measured against the public laws of Heaven. Accordingly,
when your spirit self enters the spirit world, which has recorded your life on
earth with one hundred percent accuracy, your spirit will show plainly whether
you have led a ripe life of goodness, or a wormy, rotten life of sinfulness. What
this means is that God will not judge you; you will be your own judge.
If we were
all aware of this astonishing rule from Heaven, would any of us spend the days
of our lives on earth in selfishness and immorality, succumbing to temptations
of Satan and pursuing nothing other than pleasure? No! Rather, we would abstain
from injuring and scarring our spirit bodies, even at the risk of our earthly
lives. Please bear this truth in mind: You determine whether you are bound for
heaven or for hell by your thoughts, speech and behavior in each moment.
This does not
imply, though, that the spirit self leads a life of its own, or that it can act
by itself to express true love. Your spirit self grows, matures, and is finally
perfected only within your physical body, through a life of having actualized
true love on earth, which brings your mind and body into a smooth relationship
of giving and receiving. And yet, your outer self and inner self are in a
constant relationship of conflict and struggle. How much longer will you allow
this fighting to continue? Ten years? A hundred years?
In contrast
to the human condition, there is undeniably a proper order that all forms of
existence in the universe exemplify. God created us to participate in this
order, not to live in this state of conflicted disorder. You need to know that
it is your duty and responsibility as a human being to dispel all temptations
directed at your outer self, your physical body, and to achieve victory in life
by following the way of your inner self, your conscience. Heavenly fortune will
be with those who live in this way. They will accomplish the perfection of the
spirit self.
Ladies and
gentlemen, what kind of places are heaven and hell? What people enter heaven?
If it really does exist, where would it be? Would it be outside the galaxy, on
the other side of the sky? If it does not exist, is it a product of our imagination?
These are questions that everyone has pondered at least once.
In brief,
heaven is a world overflowing with God's true love and established with true
love as its axis. It is a world where true love is the external form as well as
the internal content of every environment. It is a world where true love is
present at the beginning and end of life. It is a world filled with people who
were born through true love, live in the embrace of true love, and follow the path
of true love as they pass on into the next world, the spirit world.
Consequently,
antagonism and jealousy are not to be found in that world, because it is a
world where each person naturally lives for the sake of the other. It is not a
world governed by money, glory or power. It is a world wherein the whole
succeeds with the success of each person, the whole appreciates what each
person appreciates, and the whole feels joyful through the joy of each person.
Heaven is a
world filled with the air of true love, where all breathe true love. It is a
world where life throbs with love everywhere at every moment. It is a world
whose constituent members are all connected to the true God through family
ties. It is a place where the whole world and all people are linked together in
a network of inseparable relationships, similar to that of the cells in our
bodies. It is a world that is governed by true love alone, the love that is
God's essence. Accordingly, God also exists for true love.
What love is
true love? The essence of true love is not to have others serve you; it is you
giving and serving others. True love gives and forgets that it has given and
continues to give endlessly. This is a love that feels pleasure in giving. It
is the heart of pleasure. It is the love of a mother holding her baby to her
bosom and breastfeeding it. It is expressed through sacrifice, as when, with
pleasure, a child acts out of filial piety toward his or her parents. It is the
love that God expressed when creating human beings, an act of absolute, unique,
unchanging and eternal love that gives without any condition or expectation of
receiving anything in return.
Ladies and
gentlemen, true love brings about the order, peace and happiness that support
the common good. True love is love that determines the source, center and owner
of the universe. True love is the root and symbol of the will and power of God.
Therefore, when bound in true love, it is enough just to be together eternally,
for it is a love that attracts the universe, even God. The value of true love
lies in its power, which is strong enough to eradicate the national, racial and
religious barriers fallen human beings created. That is why a life that has
been lived for the sake of others, that is, a life of true love, is the
absolute condition necessary to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Yet, look at
the world we are currently living in. The people of the world are caught in the
trap of extreme selfishness, clamoring for material gain. They have lost all sense
of values and have fallen into the depths of self-gratification and
degradation. The world is filled with alcoholics and drug addicts. As if free
sex were not enough, there are even those who commit incest and still hold
their heads up high. This world has become one wherein beasts with human faces
roam freely, even after violating women, including grandmothers, mothers, wives
and daughters. This world has become polluted by acts such as wife swapping.
These represent the lowest ebb, the very worst of fallen acts, and the
destruction of morality. This world has become hell on earth, where the
perfected world, embodying the ideal God envisioned at the Creation, cannot
even be imagined.
We have come
to know that all these problems are rooted in the Fall of Adam and Eve, our
first ancestors. Adam and Eve, who were at the perfection stage of the growth
period, had a sexual relationship before their rightful time, due to the
temptation of Satan. An impermissible sexual union of man and woman constituted
the human Fall. This is why, for thousands of years, people have continued to
perpetrate all manner of sexual aberrations, traitorous acts that drive a sharp
spike into the heart of God. Human beings have been unable to escape from the
realm of the fallen lineage.
Ladies and
gentlemen, a man or woman alone can only be one half of the whole. That is how
God created us. For that reason, He has interchanged the owners of the
reproductive organs, the love organs. The owner of a wife's reproductive organ
is her husband, and the owner of a husband's is his wife. The position of
mutual ownership is achieved only when each is rooted in true love for the sake
of the other. In other words, regardless of their external status, no one can
be complete, rather than half, until they have secured the position of an owner
through marriage.
The human
reproductive organ is sacred. It is the palace of life where the seed of life
is sown, the palace of love where the flower of love is made to bloom, and the
palace of lineage where the fruit of lineage is borne. We bring forth absolute
lineage, absolute love and absolute life, as well as absolute harmony, absolute
unity, absolute liberation and absolute tranquility, through this absolute
reproductive organ.
Now we know
the reason we need to restore the position of the owner of the reproductive
organ. It is because we can possess God's love from that position. He is the
subject partner of three great loves. As the Owner of the universe, He is the
True Teacher, True Owner and loving True Parent. These form the basis for the
original, three great subjectsEsystem of thought. All these teachings and
truths are created through the life of a true, model family. With the expansion
of the true family into the society, the nation, the world and even the
universe, all of these will be transformed into the peace kingdom founded upon
the model, ideal family.
However,
because of the Fall the first man, Adam, lost the original, true lineage and
consequently was unable to form the original couple and the original family.
Adam, who was to have become the True Teacher, True Parent and True King,
inherited instead the lineage of Satan and degraded himself to the position of
a false teacher, false parent and false king.
When we come
to think of it, the purpose for which Jesus came to earth did not lie
elsewhere. It was to restore the Fall. If Jesus, who came as the second Adam,
had not been crucified, he would have restored the original lineage of God,
free from the Fall. He would have reversed the mistake of the first Adam,
established a true family as the Savior of human beings, and founded on earth
the original homeland. This would have been the kingdom that embodied the ideal
of peace, the kingdom of heaven on earth. However, the disciples, the religious
leaders and the leaders of the nation were not able to recognize the Christ,
and their disbelief brought JesusElife to an end in a wretched and tragic way.
Has anyone
really known the grieving heart of Jesus, whose passing from the earth was so
untimely, and who left no descendants? Though two thousand years of Christian
history have passed, has there been any Christian who truly understood JesusE
sorrowful circumstances? Jesus left suddenly, leaving behind him few traces
beyond his promise to return. His physical body was buried and is no longer
with us.
Finally the
will that God tried to fulfill through him is in the process of completion at
this time, at the conclusion of history. This is through the True Parents, who
have now appeared on earth and have received the seal of Heaven. However, the
life of Rev. Moon, whose task it is to complete the mission of the True
Parents, has been one of sorrow, marked by inexpressible suffering and
persecution.
The third
Adam, the True Parent, must indemnify and completely reverse all the mistakes
of the first and second Adams. I have to complete the mission of the Savior,
Messiah, and Lord at his second coming, and also the mission of all the major
figures on whom religions are based. My life, like the process of God's
creation of the universe, constitutes the great work of recreating humanity.
Not even the smallest error is permitted. It has been a lonely course that no
one can fully comprehend. It has taken me down thorny paths through the
wilderness, often utterly alone. Not even God could acknowledge me. Hovering
many times between life and death, even vomiting blood, I still had to rise again
like a phoenix to remain true to my promise to God.
Though I was
innocent, I had to endure unjust imprisonment six times. I was wrongfully
imprisoned for working in the underground independence movement as a student in
Japan, for propagating the Will of God in Pyongyang that was under communist
rule immediately after Korea's independence, and during the Syngman Rhee
administration after Korea had been reborn as a free nation. Furthermore, even
in the United States, which proudly presents itself to the world as a model of
democracy, I was unfairly accused by the government and was unjustly
imprisoned.
Who on earth
can understand the life of Rev. Moon? It has been a life of misery, which I had
to endure by biting my tongue, in order to comfort God, and for the salvation
of the fallen people of the world who are suffering in the realm of death. Even
now, if one person were to look into my heart and speak a word of sympathy, I
would burst into tears and my tears would flow like a waterfall.
Ladies and
gentlemen, the sinful era of restoration through indemnity, the Era before the
Coming of Heaven, has passed, and the era of the constitutional government, an era
ruled by heavenly law, is upon us. This is the Era after the Coming of Heaven.
You are now living in an era of grace in which, after receiving the marriage
Blessing from True Parents, completing the change of lineage, and leading a
life that is vertically aligned with Heaven, such that no shadow is cast, you
can automatically enter the kingdom of heaven. That is to say, if you establish
a true family on earth and lead a heavenly life, when you die, your life will
be connected to the kingdom of God in heaven, and you will enjoy eternal life.
Therefore, in
the framework of the family, you have to serve God as the Parent in the highest
position. All of you are to become His children, entering into a parent-child
relationship with Him and perfecting yourselves through living together,
closely linked as if by kinship. In short, you need to unite and live in the
realm of a true love relationship with God.
The kingdom
of heaven must first be achieved on earth. What this means is that the kingdom
of heaven being established in the physical world is the prerequisite for
establishing the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world. Therefore, Heaven is
not a world found in outer space on the other side of the galaxy, nor is it the
by-product of imagination, existing only in the human mind. It refers to the
substantial kingdom of heaven on earth, which can only be created when you have
led lives expressive of true love. When you leave the physical world on that
foundation, you automatically enter the incorporeal kingdom of heaven. This
means that only after you have led a heavenly life on earth can you also lead
such a life in heaven.
Only the
fruit that has fully ripened on the tree can be classified as a product of the
best quality. Thus your lives must not be like fruit that is devoured by
insects on the tree, bound for hell. You always must remember that you
yourselves, through your life on earth, determine whether you go to heaven or
to hell.
A family of
three generations living in harmony
Ladies and
gentlemen, the family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The home
wherein parents and children love and respect each other, husband and wife are
grounded in mutual fidelity and love, and brothers and sisters trust and rely
on each other, and all live together as one, is the model, ideal family. This
means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love
emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
In such a
family, the root of history is alive, and the root of the kingdom of heaven
extends into it. In other words, the kingdom of heaven on earth takes root in
this family rooted in God's love. Such a family is also where the everlasting
root of kingship is firmly planted and where the grandparents, parents and
grandchildren represent the roots of the past, present and future. The root of
the past represents the spirit world, the root of the present is the palace
representing the world today, and the root of the future establishes grandsons
and granddaughters as princes and princesses. The family thus erects the palace
of peace representing the two worlds, the spirit world and the physical world.
In such a manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents and
grandchildren live together as one family, serving the eternally living God.
You need to know that to seek and establish such a family of Cheon II Guk,
God's kingdom, is the responsibility of tribal messiahs, the mission of the
ambassadors for peace and the desire of God.
The movement
to realize a society of mutual existence, prosperity and benefit, by making
humanity into one great family through breaking down the walls in our hearts
and eliminating the barriers between nations, begins from each family.
Therefore, we must keep in mind that to form and establish true families is our
providential calling, the calling to advance the establishment of the cosmic
peace kingdom on earth.
You need to
form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away.
You have to raise families to which He can come freely as the Parent visiting
His children. That is what it means to live in service to God. In such a
family, God becomes the subject partner of our conscience, acting vertically.
Following that vertical subject partner, your mind stands in the position of
the vertical subject partner of your body, and brings your mind and body into
unity. This family is where parental love, conjugal love, children's love, and
siblingsElove are completely realized. In other words, this is where the four
realms of love or the four realms of heart are perfected. Only in such a family
can the upper and lower, the front and back, and the left and right be
connected in one dynamic of spherical motion.
If the world
were filled with such true families, that world would be one governed by the
heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no need for lawyers, prosecutors or even
judges. Ponder this for a moment. Who would be most fully aware of your good
and bad deeds? It would be your grandparents, your parents, your spouse and
your children.
Is there
anything that cannot be resolved within the family? When parents and children,
husband and wife, and older siblings and younger siblings live for the sake of
one another, how could they do anything unforgivable? How could they ever
commit crimes? A world governed by the heavenly way and the heavenly laws is a
natural world, an unobstructed world of truth and pure reason. It is a world at
the high noonEof absolute values, devoid of shadows.
Esteemed
representatives of the Mongolian Peoples Federation, all of us must return
gratitude and glory to God and True Parents for enlightening us about the
incredible providential age in which we are living. The mission of the
Mongolian Peoples Federation has now become clear. Serving the Universal Peace
Federation as its vertical Abel, and the religious realm and national realm of
the world as its horizontal Abel, it is in the position of Cain, working as the
central figure in establishing the global kingdom of the peace ideal.
You are now
advancing into the era of liberation and complete inner freedom, which is the
providential era of the realm of the heart of the fourth Adam. In other words,
it is the Era after the Coming of Heaven. This is the time when, metaphorically
speaking, the sun is directly overhead and no shadow is cast. This signifies
that the Era before the Coming of Heaven, including the Old, New and Completed
Testament ages, has been surmounted.
These eras
have required immeasurable restitution and atonement for the sake of
re-creating the ideal. The present time, however, corresponds to the era prior
to Adam's Fall, the time of building the original ideal world. It refers to the
era of true love that is all encompassing, all-powerful and has overall
authority. It is the realm of heart in which the spirit world and the physical
world are bound together as a united realm centered on the True Parents, the
King and Queen of Peace. In other words, it is the era of the kingdom of peace
and unity in heaven and on earth.
Please become
true princes and princesses who can attend and live together with God, the
eternal Peace King and True Parent of humanity. Let us develop the Mongolian
Peoples Federation and establish a Mongolian Shared Lineage Federation by
receiving the marriage Blessing of the True Parents and completing the change
of our lineage. Please take to heart that this is the task God has assigned
you, and become true owners in establishing the kingdom of peace and unity in
heaven and on earth.
May God's
grace be upon you, your family and your nation.
Thank you.
13
A Providential View of the Pacific
Rim Era in Light of God's Will I
August 27, 2008
Cheon Jeong Gung, Korea
Proclamation Ceremony of the Day of
Complete Rebirth,
Complete Resurrection and Complete
Eternal Life
(Fortieth day after True ParentsEhelicopter accident)
Distinguished
guests from one hundred and ninety nations, who have come to celebrate this
significant and providential day:
I would like to
begin by offering my heartfelt gratitude to God, who protected my wife and me
and all who were accompanying us. I sincerely thank all those who prayed and
offered devotions on our behalf.
Today I feel
truly humbled. Through the more than eighty years of my life, I have gone
through countless ordeals, incarcerations and innumerable life-or-death
situations solely for the purpose of fulfilling God's providence. Although the
rest of the world does not know this, my life has been a continuum of intense
battles with Satan that I have fought alone.
Ladies and
gentlemen, God truly carries out His providence in mysterious ways. At the time
of the helicopter accident, which no one could have imagined, Heaven mobilized
the spirit world and made sure Satan dare not harm my wife and me, the True
Parents. Even in the eyes of ordinary people this incident was extraordinary, a
miracle among miracles. It is being recorded as an amazing wonder, incomparable
to any other in history.
I have
publicly announced that January 13, 2013 is the day when the restoration of the
homeland is to be fulfilled, and I am devoting my entire being, day and night,
for that purpose. Could Heaven abandon me? As God's representative in the
flesh, I have accomplished His Will on earth. So if not with Rev. Moon, with
whom will God be able to work in perfecting His providence and returning
humanity to God's bosom?
As my wife
and I can once again stand here before you today, thanks toGod's tremendous grace, our hearts are bursting with
emotion. We were called by God and anointed as the True Parents of humanity.
Human beings are born into the fallen lineage without true parents. They are
orphans who have wandered aimlessly for thousands of years. We have received
the great mandate from Heaven to save all people and bring them back to God.
With four
years to go, and in the final leg of our drive toward 2013, I proclaimed the
combination of two halves (Ssang Hab), the combined jubilee years, which are
the seventh and eighth years of God's kingdom of Cheon II Guk. As I did so, I
ordered the spirit world and the physical world to advance in all directions.
It was at
that very point in time that I was involved unexpectedly in the helicopter
accident. Yet, through this accident, Heaven once again revealed to the
ignorant and unenlightened human race that God is very much alive and active.
Join me now in carrying out an explosive revolution of true love and true
families.
Let us never
forget, even for an instant, that we are positioned at a very urgent point in
time, when we have to bring every single person in this world to become part of
a blessed family.
The
providential era centered on the anointed representatives
Ladies and
gentlemen, on this momentous day, I would like to convey a message from Heaven
to you who have come from around the world. It is a message I delivered at a
seminar held in both Texas and Washington, DC, from April 30 to May 2, which
brought together leaders of nations from North and South America. Humanity is
now entering a new era, the era of heaven that is turning the world upside
down. It is a time when God will work through the anointed representatives
(boonbongwang) that, in my capacity as King of Peace, I am sending to every
part of the world. In other words, it is the time when we will complete God's
kingdom of Cheon II Guk.
Ladies and
gentlemen, if John the Baptist had fulfilled the responsibility he had in
relation to Jesus, Jesus would not have been opposed by the leaders of his
religion or his nation, and he would not have gone the path of the cross. With
John the Baptist at his side, Jesus would have led the people of Israel to win
for God all the authority and power of Rome, in accordance with God's
preparations over thousands of years. Had such a foundation been secured, Jesus
would have sent out his royal representatives, over all the roads leading out
of Rome, to all corners of the world. They would have been the representatives
and ambassadors of Jesus, the King of Peace, and would have fulfilled their
mission of bequeathing to the world the Will of Heaven. They would have thus
created Cheon II Guk, the kingdom of peace, throughout the world, a kingdom
without walls or barriers, liberated and completely free from evil.
However, we
know quite well that humanity has been unable to free itself from Satan's
deception, and instead has walked a path of restoration through indemnity for
the past two thousand years. The mistake of one person, John the Baptist, who
failed to unite with Jesus and then died a miserable death, led to this
disastrous result.
Even so,
heavenly law does not allow God's providence to be permanently interrupted or
abandoned due to human error. Today, God has chosen this land of Korea to
become the homeland in which His providence will come to fruition. This is
because it is the homeland of the True Parents, who were infused with the
spirit of this land at their birth.
I have
already appointed and announced special anointed representatives for the three
central nations of this providence. I appointed Dr. Chung Hwan Kwak, chairman
of the Universal Peace Federation, to represent Korea, which stands in the
position of the father nation in the providence. Rev. Hideo Oyamada, chairman
of the Universal Peace Federation of Japan, was appointed to Japan, the mother
nation; and Mr. Dong Moon Joo, chairman of The Washington Times, to the United
States, which stands as the providential eldest son.
I am
initiating a peace movement to unite the Americas. I would recommend someone
such as former United States President George H.W. Bush as a special
representative of North America, and someone such as former President Julio
Maria Sanguinetti of Uruguay as a special representative of South America. As a
special representative of the Republic of Korea, the providential homeland, I
have selected Dr. Cheol Seung Lee, whom the people of Korea respect as a great
elder statesman.
Ladies and
gentlemen, I am working hard to send out anointed representatives to all
nations of the world. They live in an era in which mistakes such as those
committed by John the Baptist will never be repeated. Unlike Jesus, whose time
on earth abruptly ended on the cross, I will surely complete the restoration of
God's homeland on earth, as I have received Heaven's seal as the King of Peace.
With God and the King of Peace as the central axis, I shall lead the anointed
representatives sent throughout the world and thus create the original ideal
kingdom of everlasting peace.
Please unite
your minds and bodies and engrave in your hearts the heavenly message that God
is revealing to you. Please remember that this message speaks of the heavenly
path that will guide your activities and life from this day on.
The Era after the Coming of Heaven:
A Time of the Sovereignty of Goodness
Respected
President George Bush of the United States, President Julio Maria Sanguinetti
of Uruguay, former and current heads of state from Central and South America,
ladies and gentlemen:
First of all,
I would like to extend my appreciation to you, on behalf of my family, for
taking part in this International Leadership Conference despite your busy
schedules.
I also wish
to express my deep appreciation to the United States of America and to all
those nations that participated in the Korean War, and especially for the sacrifices
your veterans made on behalf of the founding ideals of the United Nations and
the noble cause of world peace. Knowing that this was related to God's Will, I
express my heartfelt gratitude to you.
Ladies and
gentlemen, God's desire is to save humankind from evil and sin, and to
actualize the ideal He envisioned for all that He created. From the viewpoint
of God's providential plan, the Korean War was not a simple war involving one
country. It was a historic, righteous war that played a decisive role in
bringing God's providence to fruition. This understanding will become an
important principle and tradition for the Abel UN. Due to constraints of time,
I cannot explain in detail today the profound providential plan God has had for
my life's work and for the Korean Peninsula. I will therefore speak about some
aspects of God's providence dealing with the Pacific Rim era that I have
recently announced.
Distinguished
guests, I have declared 2007 and 2008 as jubilee years in God's providence. God
has greatly blessed these holy years. It is a time of jubilee, the likes of
which God and humankind have never experienced in thousands of years of
history.
God's heart
has been in pain throughout history because human beings have been confined
under Satan's dominion. Human beings endured oppression under the sovereignty
of evil throughout the Era before the Coming of Heaven. That time has finally
come to an end. From this year on, the gates have been opened wide to the
revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven, ushering in the time of a new
sovereignty of goodness in which humanity can serve and attend God as the
Central Being.
Without your
being aware of it, Heaven's providence has been expanding in extraordinary
ways. Now ambassadors for peace in one hundred eighty- five nations, numbering
in the tens of thousands, have received my teachings and are working day and
night in response to a special decree from God. Hence, today I would like to
convey to you Heaven's message, which is entitled, A Providential View of the
Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will: The United States and the Future
Direction of the United Nations and the World.EIt is a declaration of God's
plan for His dispensation and the direction humanity needs to take.
Ladies and
gentlemen, if you carefully examine the progress of history, you will undoubtedly
discover God's plan and sense His presence as He worked tirelessly behind the
scenes. Consider the history of civilization, which began centering on four of
the world's great river basins. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization
that flourished along the Nile River, the Mesopotamian civilization between the
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Harappan civilization surrounding the Indus
River, and the early Chinese civilization around the Yellow River.
Over the
passage of time, the center of civilization shifted to the shores of the
Mediterranean Sea, where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations flourished
in Greece and Rome. History continued to progress, and the European continental
civilization emerged. This continental civilization in turn gave birth to the
island civilization of the United Kingdom, which flourished in the Atlantic
sphere.
The British
Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded its might as the empire on
which the sun never sets,Epassed its splendid culture on to North America. We
know these facts from history.
Civilization
on the North American continent raised the banner of democracy, which was
rooted in Christianity. It bequeathed to the world the principles of freedom of
religion and respect for equal human rights as it led the struggle against
fascism and communism, which had established atheistic, evil sovereignties.
Through victories in the First and Second World Wars and the third
international conflict, the Cold War, it won victory over totalitarianism and
communism.
However, that
victory does not simply mean that America is great or that it was the ultimate
development of human civilization. Victory came because God had chosen and
raised the United States of America as the Second Israel, in accordance with
His providential plan, and had raised and trained the American people through
Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to its present
stage of fruition.
Ladies and
gentlemen, the present era marks an important milestone in the development of
civilization. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has
now arrived on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. History's course has come to
the point in God's providence where it has to be concluded in the Pacific Rim
region.
No force can
stop God's providence now. Though there were both victories and defeats during
the course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty in the Era before the Coming
of Heaven, now nothing can prevent the rise of the Pacific Rim era. Herein lies
the special reason that Heaven declared this a jubilee year.
Ladies and
gentlemen, the arrival of the Pacific Rim era signifies many things. What do
you think the world would have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic
mission during his life on earth? Jesus came as the savior and Messiah, to save
all humankind. He did not come to save just the people of Israel, a small
nation located on one end of the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, Rome, based
at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome
was ready to rule the seas. Heaven earnestly wished for Jesus to teach and
transform Rome first and then rule her empire. Heaven was eager to bring
salvation to all humanity by working through Rome's strong civilization. Yet
Jesus was cruelly put to death on the cross, as we know all too well through
the biblical record.
After
thousands of years of preparation, God finally had sent Jesus to earth as His
only Son. There is no way to fathom God's heart as He anxiously watched JesusE
each and every action. JesusEdeath was a tragedy that broke God's heart. It
brought Him anguish even more extreme than He had felt at the moment Adam and
Eve, whom He had created as the first ancestors of humankind, were lost due to
the Fall in the garden of Eden.
During the
two thousand years after Jesus died on the cross, God, in the background of
history, has walked a path of suffering beyond human imagination. Through this
course, He prepared the United States of America to serve as the nation of the
Second Israel. As a Christian nation that includes Catholicism and
Protestantism as well as the Orthodox world, the United StatesEmission is to bring
harmony and unity to Christianity as soon as possible and, in the twenty-first
century, to fulfill the responsibility that had been the Roman Empire's, which
was not realized in JesusEtime. On America's shoulders rests the
responsibility, within God's providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the
world's 6.5 billion people and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal
world. These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven's decree.
Then how can we
unite Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev.
Moon, the True Parent of humankind. God has given me the supreme command to
practice a life of true love, to understand completely the reality of the
spirit world to which we go after we die, and to establish a model, ideal
family, a true family. Then what kind of love is true love? And what kind of
family is a true family?
Ladies and
gentlemen, God's absolute true love does not instill a desire to have one's
partner exist for one's own sake. Rather, true love's essence is giving, living
for the sake of others and for the sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets
that it has given, and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives
joyfully. We find it in the joyful and loving heart of a mother who cradles her
baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True love is sacrificial love,
such as that of a devoted son who finds his greatest satisfaction in dedicating
himself to his parents with all his body and mind.
When we are
bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually increasing
our joy in each other's company. The attraction of true love brings all things
in the universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. Nothing can
compare with the value of true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers
fallen people have created between nation, race and religion.
The main attributes
of God's true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal.
Whoever practices true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy
the right to participate as an equal in His work. A life lived for the sake of
others, a life of true love, is the absolute precondition for entering the
kingdom of heaven. This is the new way of life in a family where the members
live together peacefully, centered on God. It is the ideal model of peace for
all creation.
The path is
now wide open for humanity to establish true families. God's true family
establishes the pattern for people to live for the sake of others. The warm
environment of oneness based on true love and respect between true parents and
true children, mutual fidelity and true love between a true husband and wife,
and trust and mutual reliance among siblings, is what is created by the model,
true family.
This means
that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges
from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love. In this manner,
the three generations of true grandparents, true parents, and true children
live together as one family and serve the eternal God. God desires to see such
families, and it is your responsibility as tribal messiahs, ambassadors for
peace, and anointed representatives to seek after and establish families of the
kingdom of God.
If only the
entire world were filled with such true families! It would be an orderly world
where people govern themselves by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no
need for lawyers, prosecutors or judges.
True ParentsEgreat achievements
Peace-loving
leaders, among the 6.5 billion people on earth today, almost 5 billion of our
neighbors, relatives, and brothers and sisters belong to the Pacific Rim
region. At the same time, a large segment of our fellow human beings share a
common root with the Mongolian peoples. If we receive the marriage Blessing and
pull together centering on God's ideal for peace, there is nothing we cannot
do. The future of humanity is in our hands.
God's providence
has now spread from the North American continent and blossomed in the island
civilization of Japan, which is in a position similar to that once held by the
United Kingdom on the other side of the world. This providence is now about to
fulfill its destiny by reaching fruition on the Korean Peninsula, the homeland
of the True Parents, who have emerged on earth in the position of the savior of
humanity and returning Messiah. The Korean Peninsula stands in a position
similar to that of Rome in JesusEtime.
Religion and
politics have the mission of resolving the world's problems, yet the current
conflict on the Korean Peninsula transcends religion and politics. From a
geopolitical point of view, the Korean Peninsula persists as an arena of most
intense confrontation, despite ongoing efforts to secure peace.
The principle
of restoration through indemnity indicates that civilization will bear fruit in
the Pacific Rim, centered on the Korean Peninsula.
Fortunately,
during the Korean War the United Nations mobilized international forces, led by
the United States, to defend the peninsula. According to God's Will, however,
the UN forces were to recover the homeland and hometown of God's desire. They
did not do so, leaving the job half done. As a result, global conflict and
strife emerged, which became known as the Cold War. During this period the
Korean people were deprived of their possessions and displaced, leading them to
search for God.
In order to
restore this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace Federation
(UPF). I then organized the peace kingdom corps and peace kingdom police force,
consisting of women of Heaven's side who have received the marriage Blessing,
who love peace, and who are willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of the
Universal Peace Federation. I have taken the lead in educating those involved with
these organizations, which stand in the forefront to bring about a world of
peace centered on God. They will create the peaceful, ideal world that God
desires.
I have been
assisting the six-party talks currently being held to resolve the nuclear issue
on the Korean Peninsula and to reconcile the democratic and communist nations.
I am presenting a solution based on the principles of peace and harmony rooted
in the new philosophy, the Way of the Heavenly Parent.E/span>
At this
intense time, what exactly is the role of America and the United Nations?
Hawaii in the Pacific and Norfolk on the Atlantic bridge East and West, link North
and South, and represent the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and all the great
oceans of the world. With the support and protection of the American continent,
the Korean Peninsula would become the homeland that protects and defends the
Pacific Rim region by bringing together all the island nations of the Pacific.
I say this because the future of humankind lies in the preservation of the
Pacific Rim region centered on Korea, Japan and the United States.
As I was well
aware of Heaven's plans for this region, I invested thirty-three of the prime
years of my life in the United States, beginning in the early 1970s, for the
sake of world peace. In 1991 when I was on my way to meet Kim II Sung in North
Korea, I visited Hawaii and prayed there, at that critical moment, with the
purpose of bringing an end to the Cold War era. On that victorious foundation I
returned to South Korea, where I am working to complete the providence of
establishing God's homeland and hometown. This year in particular, a jubilee
year in the providence, I again prayed in Hawaii on the first stop of a visit
to America.
Ladies and
gentlemen, I ask that you closely analyze the current state of affairs in the
world. Although the days of communism are gone, even now powerful nations such
as China and Russia are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to
aggressively pursue their own interests at the expense of the powerless and
small island nations. No small island nation by itself can deal with those
nations and their economic, political or even military ambitions. Those nations
are so powerful that, if they wanted to, they could dominate any smaller nation
in a single day, without shedding blood.
Only when
peace and security are settled in the Pacific Rim can we guarantee peace for
all human beings. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves
cannot contend with the incredible tsunami of powerful nations moving into the
region. The time has come, therefore, for these small island nations in the
Pacific Rim to unite and build the homeland of the new civilization. The small
island nations dispersed in the northern and southern regions of the Pacific,
on either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines,
Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries,
need to become as one nation, forming a union to sustain the peace of the
Pacific Rim civilization. This will secure peace and stability for all people.
What I am
saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the
oceanic realm, which is a lifeline on which humanity's future depends, from the
environmental destruction and conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to
shield its natural resources for the sake of peace in the future.
Distinguished
guests, I have surmounted and triumphed over a course of inexpressible
suffering and tribulation. I have not lived for personal glory or comfort. Even
as I walked a thorny path, on the razors edge between life and death, I
received Heaven's seal and was made fully aware of the destination of God's
Will. Thus, I held dearly to Heaven's command to bring salvation to humanity.
Although beaten down many times, I rose up like a phoenix and continued my
demanding work.
In America
and throughout the world, leaders of religion, academia, politics and other
fields have come to recognize me as the champion in eight areas of spiritual
knowledge and discipline.
The first has
to do with knowledge of God. Until now, people have believed in God only as an
all-knowing and all-powerful Being. People have been thinking that God is
sitting on a throne of honor and glory as the absolute Master, having nothing
to do with the created world of all things. There is more to God than this
image. From the time I first embarked on a journey to fulfill God's providential
call, I came to know that the relationship between God and human beings is that
of Parent and child. I learned that God has been the Parent of pain, sorrow and
lamentation ever since He lost His first children, Adam and Eve. Throughout my
life, I have been doing my very best to dissolve God's pain and sorrow and
bring liberation and total freedom to His heart. Finally, on January 13, 2001,
through the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God, I was able to
restore His throne of glory and power and offer it to Him.
The second
area deals with the reality of Satan. Throughout history, people have not known
the identity of the devil, Satan, who caused the Fall and spawned all kinds of
evil. For fourteen years, I labored desperately through many bruising spiritual
battles to discover all the truths of the spirit world. Finally, I discovered
the real identity of Satan, the origin of evil. Taking it one step further, I
exposed and repudiated Satan's strategy and tactics for multiplying his power.
After I
discovered Satan's strategy of defiling the human blood lineage through the
Fall, I became totally committed to restoring God's original lineage. The
heavenly strategy developed for this purpose, and now widely known throughout
the world, is the international and cross-cultural marriage Blessing movement.
I have the
intuitive ability to look into the hearts of men and women and predict their destiny.
That is why many young people from around the world come to me, hoping to be
matched with an ideal spouse.
The third
area has to do with understanding the human condition.
Where are we
from, how should we live, and where will we go? Why are our minds and bodies
fighting, and why do we struggle in conflict? What is the meaning of life and
death? Does the world after death truly exist? If so, how are we to live while
we are on earth? The answers to these questions and others are expounded in
detail in the Divine Principle, which God revealed to me.
The fourth
area encompasses knowledge and understanding of the spirit world. The spirit
world, the world after physical death, is a world that actually exists, and to
which all people are bound to go as an extension of their earthly life. Human
life is one continuous stream from conception and life in the womb all the way
to an eternal life, after physical death ends our earthly life. When their
physical lives have ended, those who have received the marriage Blessing, which
eradicates the original sin and opens the way to spiritual perfection, go
through the sacred ritual of ascension to the spirit world (seonghwa).
Thereupon they are welcomed and celebrated on their path to the heavenly
realms, where they will enjoy eternal life.
We need to
understand clearly that the numerous saints and sages who have lived on earth throughout
history are living in the spirit world. They are assisting God's providence on
earth, having been reborn as absolute good spirits after receiving the marriage
Blessing from the True Parents. Each moment in our earthly life is recorded in
the spirit world exactly as it takes place. On the day we cross over to the
spirit world, our life's record becomes the basis for our judgment. That is why
we all need to practice a life of true love, sacrificing ourselves for a
greater cause.
The fifth
area concerns knowledge of Jesus. I came to understand the terrible tragedy of
the crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus came as God's Son, the Savior and Messiah, but
he was rejected and opposed, even by the people God had prepared. It was God's
Will that Jesus, the second Adam, fulfill the model of a God-centered ideal
family and engraft all human beings onto himself.
Christianity
became the foundation of Western civilization through Rome, and then became the
center of the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean civilizations. It has always stood
in the position of the bride to receive the Lord at his Second Coming. In
particular, Christians need to comprehend the sorrowful heart of Jesus, who was
driven to the cross, unable to carry out the primary Will of God. My teachings
clearly explain the truth about JesusEmission, the limit of
salvation through the cross, and the reason and purpose for his return.
The sixth
area is in the knowledge of the core contents of the Bible and other religious
scriptures. These are books of revelation that enable human beings, trapped in
ignorance after the Fall of the first ancestors, to return to God. Many of the
important issues in scripture are described in metaphors and symbols. Only the
Messiah sent by Heaven can clearly reveal the meanings of these metaphors and
symbols. Hence, Jesus was able to disclose the core contents and deep meaning
of the Hebrew Scriptures. Likewise, my teachings are now revealing God's truth
regarding His providence of salvation, contained throughout the Bible. The
Bible is a book of revelations that contains the truth of God's ideal for the
creation, the Fall, and the path of restoration. The Divine Principle, which
God revealed to me, lucidly answers all the questions that have not been
clearly explained by the world's scriptures.
The seventh
area is in the knowledge and understanding of the goal of human history.
History is not merely a sequence of events that occurred by coincidence. It
flows in a clear direction and with a clear purpose. It is a history of the
providence for the re-creation of human beings in their original state, a
history of restoration through indemnity and of human salvation.
Based on
these insights into the origin and direction of history, I was able to predict
accurately the sudden end of communism and dialectical materialism, which I proclaimed
in a speech at the 1985 Professors World Peace Academy conference in Geneva,
Switzerland, a time when the Soviet Union was still at its peak.
Today, I am
declaring that it is time for all nations and religions to break down the
barriers dividing them. Through this, the era of one family under God will
arrive and last forever. God is leading history. With the help of heavenly
fortune, under the auspices of the Abel UN, we will now make rapid progress
toward a world transcending religions and nations. It will be God's kingdom on
earth, which in Korean we call Cheon II Guk.
The eighth
area concerns true family values. God's ideal of creation is to build
God-centered true families. It is the goal of His salvation providence to
restore the ideal of the true family, the ideal that Adam could not fulfill in
his own family and, in this way, to establish the foundation for the kingdom of
heaven on earth and in heaven. The marriage Blessing, which is at the core of
the movement I have been leading, is not an ordinary wedding ceremony. It is a
sacrament through which to eradicate the original sin and engraft people to the
true lineage of God. True families are the wellspring and foundation of true
love, true life and true lineage. The true nation, true world and true kingdom
can be built through true families. Families centered on the True Parents can
be the base for the perfected relationships within the four great realms of
heart and the three great kingships, and the foundation for the kingdom of
heaven.
On September
12, 2005, I founded the Universal Peace Federation. Then, in order to build one
family under God through the twin strategies of proclaiming God's Word and
conducting the marriage Blessing, I completed three worldwide speaking tours
with my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, our children and our grandchildren. In this
way we were able to substantiate three generations within one family fulfilling
the marriage Blessing ideal.
Afterwards,
one hundred Christian representatives in America as well as twelve hundred
religious leaders and twelve thousand ambassadors for peace from across the
world traveled simultaneously throughout one hundred and ninety nations. They
represented their own nations as they spread the peace messages of the True
Parents and shared the marriage Blessing. These tours helped spread true family
values as the universal values that will establish a new, God-centered
civilization.
Even though I
have become well known as a champion in these eight areas, we who are working
for this cause cannot complete this work by ourselves. The support of all
humanity is urgently needed for everything to be fulfilled. With God's grace,
we will soon win the victory!
Inheriting True ParentsEvictorious tradition
These victories
that I attained through blood, sweat and tears, and on the basis of the unity
of the True Parents and all humankind, laid the foundation for a series of
historic proclamations. First, in Jerusalem in 2003, I had Jesus proclaimed as
the King of kings before heaven and earth, with the acknowledgement of
representatives of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Following this, in 2004, my
wife and I were acknowledged as the King and Queen of Peace in a United States
Senate office building and then at the Korean National Assembly. Subsequently,
in June 2006, we held the Coronation Ceremony of the True Parents as the King
and Queen of Peace in heaven and on earth.
Ladies and
gentlemen, as we begin the twenty-first century, we find ourselves at a truly
historic turning point. We are at a point of decision. Can everlasting world
peace take root, or are we doomed to repeat the twentieth century's dark and
oppressive history of war and conflict? The twentieth century was a period of
ceaseless conflicts, including the struggles of colonized countries to gain
independence, the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War in which
sixteen nations took part under the banner of the United Nations. The UN forces
were mobilized to the Korean Peninsula under God's providence, for the sake of
regaining God's homeland of peace. Even after that, people had to endure a
period of conflict and hostility during the Cold War between nations of the
Eastern and Western Blocs.
Living
through this era, I dedicated my life entirely to bringing about the kingdom of
God, the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. I have always prayed sincerely
that the United Nations, founded after the Second World War, would be an institution
for peace, and that it would uphold God's Will for the realization of eternal
world peace. The United Nations has indeed made important contributions to
peace. Nevertheless, around its sixtieth anniversary in 2005, there was a broad
consensus both inside and outside the organization that the UN had yet to
discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes. The number of member states
approaches two hundred; however the offices of these states do little more than
represent and even insist on their own interests. They seem inherently unable
to resolve conflicts and achieve peace.
Ladies and
gentlemen, on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven and
earth the establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will
enable God's providence to flourish. It is now possible for UPF to serve as an
Abel-type counterpart to the Cain-type United Nations in the Era after the
Coming of Heaven. It will renew the United Nations and lead the way for millions
of ambassadors for peace throughout the world who have taken up my teaching,
the Way of the Heavenly Parent,Ewhich consists of the principles of true love
and the ideal of true family. Absolutely they will fulfill Heaven's will to
re-create the world as one family under God.
Ladies and
gentlemen, through the international and cross-cultural marriage Blessings that
transcend religious denomination and nationality, the UPF will be in the
vanguard of the great revolution to restore the original lineage of humanity,
hearkening back to Adam before the Fall. Some may scoff and say that this is
impossible. Yet where there is a will there is a way, especially if it is God's
Will. Please think about this: What do you think will happen if people from the
United States and Russia marry across national boundaries through international
and cross-cultural marriage Blessings, according to the teachings of Rev. Moon,
who does God's work on His behalf? The two nations will belong to one family
under God, the eternal, absolute Lord of all creation. How could anyone harbor
antagonism toward, much less point weapons at, a nation where millions of their
grandchildren make their home?
Distinguished
guests, you who have been called by God, the holy task of building the ideal
kingdom of heaven, the sacred reign of peace on earth, is being carried out
enthusiastically in all corners of the world, through the recovery of our ideal
homeland and hometown. This is God's hope for engrafting the 6.5 billion people
of the world to the lineage of the true tribe. At this very moment, people are
competing to hold the premiere assemblies to hear the teachings of peace and
receive the marriage Blessing. In all, we will fulfill this responsibility in
twelve thousand locations in one hundred eighty-five nations.
Ladies and
gentlemen, you are attending a truly meaningful occasion today. Please do not
miss your chance to ride on the surging currents of heavenly fortune during
this important and sacred jubilee year. Take the lead in protecting and
developing the realm of the oceans, which cover more than seventy percent of
Earth's surface. Where else will we access the treasure stores of natural
resources by which we can resuscitate the planet Earth, fulfilling our promise
to end pollution and resource depletion?
The oceanic
era has begun. It represents the universal era of women. The culture of the
oceanic sphere constitutes the original women's culture, transcending all
nations and crossing all oceans. To create this culture, all women need to
unite in heart and take concerted action under the guidance of True Mother. You
need to fulfill your mission and take the lead in overcoming every obstacle to
give birth to a new civilization that transcends the Pacific Rim civilization.
Please take this to heart.
On this
meaningful occasion, please engrave this message in your hearts. The families
of your good ancestors in heaven are already blessed. Numbering in the
billions, they have come to earth today to listen to this message with you.
This is because it is only through you, their descendants, that they can
perfect themselves and advance to the positions of true parents, true teachers
and true lords and owners.
Furthermore,
they must become one in heart and body with the True Parent, the King of kings.
From the original position before the Fall, they have to uphold the True
ParentsEstandard absolutely, take an active role in carrying out their work,
and be mobilized for the creation of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in
heaven through a life of service and attendance. Please remember that the
spirit world and the physical world are to unite in this way as one living
entity, and move and breathe together.
There is one
more special request I would like to ask of you today. Please immerse
yourselves in the contents of my peace messages, to the point where you know
them virtually by heart, and make them the guidelines for your life. These
messages of peace are a summary of my teachings, which are contained in the
more than one thousand volumes of True ParentsEspeeches. God will stand at the
forefront. The spirit world and the physical world will unite to protect and
aid you in creating the peaceful, ideal world of God's desire, in which you can
enjoy eternal liberation and complete freedom.
Our
responsibility in the Era after the Coming of Heaven Your families now need to
find their place in history by fulfilling their mission as members of the peace
kingdom corps and peace kingdom police force of the Abel UN, which is advancing
God's providence in the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. History
will forever remember you for leading a noble life of devotion to the wellbeing
of humanity and world peace. I am now developing globally the peace kingdom
corps and the peace kingdom police force, which I founded. Who else but you and
your family can stand at the forefront of these two organizations under the
banner of UPF, the Abel UN?
Ladies and gentlemen
gathered from different nations, at this critical juncture in human history,
what will you do to complete the providence of building God's homeland? It is
to be the culmination of history. Will you live foolishly for the rest of your
life, based on extreme selfishness and individualism, in vain pursuit of your
own comfort and self-interest?
Whether you
like it or not, you are now called by Heaven. You will be guided under the shining
banner of the Abel UN, which was proclaimed before heaven and earth and
launched on September 23, 2007. You therefore need to work quickly to complete
the reformation of the existing United Nations and also fulfill the mission of
the Abel UN. In this way, we will unfold God's ideal of creation in politics,
economics, culture and education, with God's realm of heart as the axis.
No nation can
be exempt from this. All the blockages and barriers are to break down before
the heavenly fortune of the conjoined jubilee years of 2007 and 2008, the
seventh and eighth years of Cheon II Guk. Please become the owners of the era
of God's realm of heart, by inheriting the foundation of victory brought by the
True Parents of Heaven and Earth. With our own hands, we will surely build
God's homeland.
Do not forget
that democracy is a philosophy of brotherhood. Democracy serves a transitional
role in reaching the age of true parents and true families, the era of the
civilization of God's heart. So quickly take a revolutionary leap over the hill
of democracy.
Esteemed
leaders, there is one more thing you need to know. From a providential
viewpoint, the Universal Peace Federation is in the position of Abel, and
another new organization, representing the secular world, the Family Party, is
in the position of Cain. Those who are running for office in the eighteenth
general election campaign in Korea will have to inherit the tradition of the
True Parents, who have already obtained a cosmic level victory.
The Abel UN
was established with the participation of one hundred ninety-four nations. In
order to allow the Republic of Korea to fulfill its role as the homeland on
this stage, all of you need to be active in the forthcoming presidential,
congressional and local elections. Help decide the county heads, mayors,
governors and so forth, and also the appointment of government officials. Please
succeed in this. Your task is to bring all political parties in each nation
together as one, so that we can regain our homeland on earth through public
servants who represent God.
I have
proclaimed and launched the Korea-Japan undersea tunnel and Bering Strait
bridge-tunnel projects before Heaven. Please succeed in these projects as
owners who have accomplished True ParentsEwill and who support the goal of
regaining the homeland.
Cheon II Guk
and the Abel UN stand as Abel. The United States and the existing United
Nations stand as Cain. These two sides can create a cosmic equilibrium when
they are bound together as one. All of you need to become one in heart and body
with God, the great King of kings, who is the axis, with the True Parents, the
King and Queen of Peace, and with their special representatives. You have to
complete the creation of the original garden of Eden, which is untainted by the
Fall; that is, you have to complete the building of our homeland.
Ladies and
gentlemen, each of the entities that exist in this universe, regardless of
size, originated from a single source. This is not easily perceived because all
relationships were severed and human beings fell into ignorance due to the
Fall. However, all things of creation, including the sun, wish to live in the
realm of true love, within the realm of the true lineage. This realm is a world
in which every entity creates a sphere of resonance, and in which everything
lives for the sake of the other according to its own standard and form while
attending the True Parents and True Family.
Ladies and
gentlemen, through the Fall, Adam and Eve yielded their spiritual and physical
bodies to Satan. Jesus lost his physical body through the tribulation of the
cross, although he blazed the path for all humankind to save the spiritual body
by achieving spiritual resurrection after the victory of the forty-day resurrection
period. From this standpoint, this helicopter accident has tremendous
providential significance. Amid an all-out attack by Satan, True Parents
obtained the complete, substantial victory, both spiritual and physical, and
enabled three generations of the True Family, which had been lost in the
history of the providence, to be restored and firmly established without
shedding a drop of blood.
On that
unforgettable day, July 19, the day of the helicopter accident, rebirth was
completed. On the twentieth day after the accident, August 7, the anniversary
of Chil Pal Jeol, resurrection was completed. Now it is the fortieth day
following the accident, and as we conclude this victoriously, I am proclaiming
the day of the perfection of eternal life. I proclaim the new day of eternal
life, on which we can sing praises of eternal liberation and complete freedom
by opening up a new heaven and earth, the final ideal realm of the providence
centered on God.
January 13,
2013, which promises a new time and a new nation, is coming. Let us march on
toward the day of the nation of Cheon II Guk, the substantial kingdom of peace
in which we may enjoy the eternal jubilee year by preserving God's lineage and
complete Blessing and by attending the original God as the Parent of all
humankind.
May God's
blessings and grace be upon you, your families, and the divine task of
regaining our homeland! Aju!
Thank you
very much!
14
Building a Peaceful World
Based on the Parent UN
January 30, 2010
Cheongpyeon g Heaven and Earth
Training Center, Korea
True Father's Ninetieth Birthday Celebration
Respected
heads of state and leaders of the global community:
In greeting a
new year of great hope, my wife and I, and our entire family, welcome all of
you. We thank you for coming, despite your busy schedules, to brighten this
meaningful event today in celebration of my birthday and that of my wife, Dr.
Hak Ja Han Moon.
A lonely and solitary path of life
Ladies and
gentlemen, Heaven carries out its providence in truly profound ways. I embarked
on the way of Heaven after receiving a divine decree at the age of fifteen. It
was an event I vividly remember, as if it were yesterday. On Mount Myodu in
Jeongju, early on Easter morning in 1935, in the face of a cold and fierce
north wind, I held on tightly to God and made the greatest decision of my life.
While in a
trancelike state, although I desperately wanted to decline that fearful
heavenly decree, I felt God's passionate tears welling up in my heart. From
that moment I left behind the carefree years of my adolescence, in the
mountains and fields, at home and at school, and entered a bottomless sea of
life-or-death prayers and challenges.
Looking back
on my life on my ninetieth birthday, I can only declare that I have followed a lonely
and desolate path. Since the day Heaven called me, I have been like a marathon
runner racing toward the finish line of the fulfillment of God's Will,
communicating solely with God. On this path I could not compromise with anyone.
I could not even look around at my surroundings. I could not seek out a
teacher; I could not even show filial piety to my parents as I hastened toward
my destination. It has been a long journey, fraught with tribulations, soaked
in blood, sweat and tears. I had to gasp for breath while embracing the 6.5
billion people of the world in my bosom. This is what Heaven called me to do.
Ladies and
gentlemen, the promised year of 2013, a most serious time, is now approaching.
Heaven has waited thousands of years for the day, three years from now, when
the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, which billions of people have
dreamed of, is perfected, standing on the foundation that the True Parents have
laid by overcoming countless life- or-death situations. The path of True
Parents is a necessary one, which does not allow time for rest. It is not a
path that can be abandoned once it is undertaken. It is a path that we are
destined to travel together under the guidance of heavenly fortune. It is a course
we can complete while living full of hope and joy. On that day of completion
you will see four generations, the grandparents, parents, children and
grandchildren, holding hands and singing Hallelujah!
The UN has to
serve as one family of the world's nations Leaders from around the world, we
are here to celebrate a truly historic day. History will not forget the
magnificent effort and spirit displayed by the United Nations as it exerted
itself for the welfare and peace of humanity for the past sixty years while
standing on the side of Heaven. However, we are at a point where there is broad
consensus that the United Nations is falling behind and the actions it takes to
address the problems of the world fall far short as the currents of human
affairs move ever more rapidly and unpredictably into the third millennium. The
twenty-first century is a time when humanity is desperately in need of a new
wineskin to hold the new wine of the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven.
In response
to this historic need, Heaven has blessed us with the Parent UN, which is the
Peace UN that I am proclaiming today. It is a special gift from Heaven, which I
am conveying to humanity in my capacity as the King of Peace and True Parent.
What is the Parent UN? The answer is not complicated.
The United
Nations, as its name suggests, is a confederation of nations. War-weary countries
created it immediately after the Second World War out of an earnest desire to
create a peaceful world. With more than one hundred ninety member states, it
has the semblance of a world government. It is also like a global corporation
with an annual budget in the billions of dollars.
However, let
us consider this world body in light of the vision of one family under God, a
concept I have taught throughout my life. In the end, the mission of the UN, as
one family of nations, is to bring peace to humanity. Human beings cannot
escape the reality that we are ultimately one family.
The Peace UN is in the position of a parent
The existing
United Nations is Cain-type in relation to the Abel UN that Heaven has decreed
at the start of the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. The existing
UN has one hundred ninety-three member states. By comparison, within just two
years, the Abel UN has already established itself in one hundred ninety-four
nations, where it actively carries out work for peace.
Nonetheless,
Cain and Abel are brothers in a horizontal relationship, and it is necessary to
have parents in a vertical role to establish and maintain guidelines for family
order. Cain and Abel need to follow the way and rules of Heaven, which means to
be obedient to their parents and united as brothers. On the global level the
Cain UN and Abel UN need to become one as the Peace UN and, in the position of
the Parent UN, fulfill the mission of building a peaceful world in this
transitional time.
The Peace UN
will fulfill its mission to advance the day of the completion of the kingdom of
heaven on earth and in heaven by centering on True Parents, whom God has
enthroned as the Peace King of kings throughout heaven and earth. The anointed
representatives (boonbongwang), whom I have dispatched to all nations, will
lead the Peace UN.
The mission
of the representatives and heirs of the True Parents
What is the
significance of these representatives? Think about the time of Jesus. His
disciples were to serve him and realize God's dream of uniting all humanity as
one family. As the second selves of the accepted Christ, they would have been
dispatched to all corners of the globe. They would have followed the roads from
Rome to the rest of the world and fulfilled their mission as JesusE
representatives and heirs. In short, it was their mission to serve Jesus and
establish the kingdom of peace here on earth. This is the significance of the
anointed representatives (boonbongwang).
Similarly,
the leaders from around the world to whom the King of Peace, the True Parent of humankind,
has given the mission of anointed representatives have the responsibility to be
True ParentsErepresentatives and heirs. They have the God-given mission to
settle everlasting peace on earth. They need to perform their mission like a
furnace of true love, eradicating without a trace the barriers between races,
religions, nations and cultures and establishing the kingdom of peace under the
banner of one family under God. To carry out this solemn mission, I will fully
commit the peace kingdom corps and peace kingdom police force that I have
organized worldwide.
Distinguished
guests, the fact that you are attending this historic rally means that you have
received Heaven's call. Behind each and every one of you are standing thousands
of good ancestors. They may not be visible to your eyes if you live based only
on your five physical senses. With grateful hearts, they have come running to
help and encourage you upon your receiving this summons from Heaven. They are
filled with joy and ecstasy and are crying, Hallelujah!E/span>
So try to
develop your five spiritual senses. All the things of creation, which are
essential to our lives, are welcoming you with open arms. This present era,
which sees us already racing toward the year 3000, is an era of true love, in
which we are to live for the sake of others. It is the Era after the Coming of
Heaven. In this era, even a wild chrysanthemum blooming alone in an open field
is awaiting the true owner with whom it can exchange true love.
In this
context, I declared the twenty-first century the era of the Pacific Rim. The
sphere of the Pacific Rim is the final destination of human civilization, which
has continued to develop and move along a central historical axis. It is our
responsibility to safeguard and love the Pacific Rim, which embraces six
continents, and to nurture it so that it can in turn protect the lives of all
people in the future.
Ladies and
gentlemen, our purpose is to serve and attend God as our Parent and to become
one family of love. The words from Heaven that I have brought to humanity fill
the pages of more than a thousand books. This is truly an astonishing number.
It would take a person all their life and possibly more to read them all. They
are the treasure store of the heavenly way, which scholars will eagerly
research and delve into for years to come.
I hope you
will each take home one of the available booklets, in which you will find the
basic content of the heavenly way. I hope you will read it carefully with your
family and abide by it as your family's rules and tradition from this point on.
If your families live according to the teachings of this booklet, God will
bless them with an outpouring of heavenly fortune. Yours will become families
of saints and sages that history will long remember.
May the great
blessing of God, the King of kings, be with your families, your nations and all
of heaven and earth.
Thank you.
Establishing the Truly Peaceful
World of the True Parent UN
June 1, 2009
COEX Convention and Exhibition
Center, Seoul, Korea
Commemoration of the Publication of True Father's Autobiography
Beloved
families that have recently received the new lineage of the absolute, unique,
unchanging and eternal God through the Blessing, citizens of God's kingdom,
Cheon II Guk:
We are
celebrating a truly special occasion in this absolute providential era. It is
deeply meaningful because we are commemorating the coronation and the golden
wedding anniversary of the True Parents, the King of kings, the publication of
my autobiography, and the fifty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Holy
Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. Today, June 1, is
also an historic event in which we are proclaiming before all of heaven and
earth the establishment of the new, truly peaceful world of the True Parent UN.
For these joyful days, let us offer applause in gratitude to God, our Heavenly
Parent, who governs the life, death, fortune and misfortune of all creation. It
is because of Him that we have these beautiful and dazzling seasons and days.
During this
season, vibrant with life, God is beckoning all of you, as lords of creation,
to freely participate, with all created beings, in the creation of new life. He
is blessing us to blossom beautifully like flowers and to live lives that are
as bright as the sun and as clear as the waters of a stream.
Fruition of the providence in history
Dear friends
who are receiving Heaven's love anew, on three occasions, once on January and twice on January 31, we held the historic
Coronation for the New Authority of the Liberation of God, the King of Kings,E
and our golden wedding anniversary celebration. January 31 saw this ceremony
held in the Cheon Jeong Gung Peace Palace in Korea, representing the East, and
again in New York City in the United States, representing the West. In this
way, we set a record by offering an unprecedented and unrepeatable providential
event to Heaven from opposite sides of Earth on the same day.
In the period
since April, my wife and I commemorated the fiftieth observance of our Holy
Wedding. In 1960, students on the Korean Peninsula were crying out in
resistance to the dictatorship of Korean President Syngman Rhee. On the
sixteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar in that year, my wife
and I received Heaven's seal and embarked on the arduous course of the
providence of restoration that the True Parents, True Teachers and True King
and Queen of humankind have to take.
How can I
even begin to explain the path of the providence of restoration through
indemnity that my wife and I have had to follow for the past fifty years in
order to finally bring complete liberation and freedom to God and to attend Him
as the King of kings? Many years from now, historians will verify and record
what I cannot explain at this time.
You are
probably not aware of this, but there is profound providential significance in
True ParentsEcoronation and golden wedding anniversary. Due to the Fall of our
first ancestors, God's true lineage was lost and history came under the
dominion of Satan's false bloodline. I am sure you have learned about this
reality through studying the Divine Principle.
This
corrupted bloodline has been a fact of history. Isnt it because of this that
the physical world and even the spirit world have been mired in antagonistic,
confrontational, good-versus-evil, Abel-and-Cain relationships? No one has been
able to find a resolution to this tragedy, and history's problems have been
unresolved to this day.
Times are now
changing, however. The doors to the realm of complete unity between Cain and
Abel are being opened on the occasions of True ParentsEcoronation and golden
wedding anniversary. We have entered the realm of grace where human beings can
be restored to the level of completion and perfection at which they can inherit
and share the original nature of God's heart. In other words, we can reach the
state God originally intended for us, free from all traces of the Fall.
Using the
symbols OEand X,Ewe can say we have entered a new era when the good
governance of God, who is in the position of an O,Ecan completely embrace and
digest the evil governance of Satan, who is in the position of an X,Eleaving
no trace of it behind. The new era is beginning in which the kingdom of heaven
on earth and in heaven is substantially emerging before our very eyes, and when
there is no longer the need to distinguish between the True Parents, who work
as the embodiment of God, and the incorporeal God Himself.
For this
occasion of special significance, my wife and I celebrated our coronation and
golden wedding anniversary and held the Soccer Peace Cup Cain-Abel Cosmic
Harmony Tournament for thirteen days, starting on April 21. This will be a
festival of peace for all humanity that someday will surpass even the Olympic
Games.
The Atletico
Sorocaba football club from Brazil contributed greatly to this first tournament
by setting aside everything else to come here at True ParentsEinvitation. In
2008, Sorocaba won the Football Association Challenge Cup championship in Sao
Paulo, Brazil. During their short time in Asia, they played four teams,
representing North Korea, South Korea, Japan and China. They displayed an
excellent standard of skill and demonstrated the soul of Latin American
football. Please give a warm round of applause to encourage the Sorocaba team!
Ladies and
gentlemen, I would like to offer to Heaven this precious new ceremony by
reading with you now the message from Heaven that I proclaimed this January, at
the Coronation of God, the King of kings, and thereafter at our golden
anniversary celebration. Please engrave the meaning of today's event in your
hearts.
Beloved
citizens of God's kingdom of Cheon II Guk who love peace as True Parents do!
Today is a truly meaningful and joyful day. Let us all celebrate without
reserve this historic and providential day and sing praises to God, our eternal
True Parent, for His glory and nobility! On this solemn occasion, hundreds of
billions of people living in the spirit world are here with us to honor and
celebrate this blessed day.
Today is the
day God has been waiting and yearning for, ever since He created the universe.
For tens of thousands of years, since the day that Adam and Eve, whom He
created as His children, stained the heavenly lineage and concealed themselves
in the dark, God has endured and waited in inexpressible pain and sorrow. God
has waited impatiently for the day He could ascend to His throne as the King of
kings, embrace His lost children and the creation again, and live in joy in the
sacred reign of the peace kingdom for all eternity.
Ladies and
gentlemen, God is the King of kings; He was so even before He began the
Creation. The heavenly way, however, dictates that after creating all things,
God had to manifest substantially as the King of kings who reigns over the
world of physical phenomena, the sphere of the object partners of God's love.
That is why, with true love, God sought and found the True Parents of this
physical world to become His representatives and heirs.
We are
overwhelmed by the grace of having received Heaven's seal, and my wife and I
are truly joyful to be able to stand here as God's representatives and hold
this coronation for the King of kings. At the same time I am deeply sorry
before Heaven. I have reached the ninetieth year of my life, yet I have been
unable to fully restore the 6.5 billion people of this world to God.
Citizens of
Cheon II Guk who love God! This is an urgent time. Heaven will no longer wait.
God is working with His authority as the King of kings through His
representatives, the earthly True Parents, to establish heavenly law and
restore this world. It is time to accelerate this true love revolution.
Therefore, on
this solemn occasion, I will proclaim to all of heaven and earth the outline of
the heavenly law by which humankind and all things of creation will regain
their rightful positions and be governed.
First, this
era, which is advancing toward the third millennium, will be the era of
revolutionary change after the coming of Heaven. In this era, we will no longer
be entangled by the principles of restoration through indemnity. It will be the
time when the King of kings rules the spirit world and physical world with His
rightful authority. It will be the era of the providence in which the earth
will return to its original state, with the realm of the Pacific Rim serving as
a central axis. People will no longer drift beyond the influence of Heaven's
ways and the heavenly law. Therefore, you have to lead a transparent life with
every action as clear as crystal.
Second, we
have to accomplish a revolution in educating all people on the value of
absolute sex, with God as their vertical, absolute axis. This is the only way
to pass on the lineage of goodness to all human beings. It is the path to
achieving God's ideal of true families. From now on, sexual purity, purity of
lineage and purity of love will be the educational philosophy of the human
race.
Third, the
anointed representatives (boonbongwang) and the Parent UN will be placed at the
forefront of the efforts to completely eliminate the multiple layers of
blockages and barriers that surround this earth, and to reinstate harmony and
peace among political parties, religions, races, cultures and nations. The
existing United Nations, which is in the position of the Cain-type UN, and the
Abel-type UN need to become one and rise to a higher dimension to become the
Parent UN, which is the Peace UN. Centering on the Peace UN, we can address and
resolve war, disease, hunger and all other problems confronting the world. All
people will surely support this because God and True Parents will be with them.
They will do away with individualistic self-centeredness as well as collective
self-centeredness, and this will lead to the realization of a world governed by
conscience and natural reason with no need for elected leaders.
Fourth, the
cross-cultural, international Blessing of marriage is the optimal method to
establish true families that will change the fallen human lineage and build the
Peace Kingdom. In the end, reconciliation and peace will come about through
lineage. By blacks and whites, people from the East and West, Buddhists,
Christians, Jews and Muslims intermarrying and carrying on the blessed marriage
tradition that True Parents have established, this world will naturally become
one family. An ideal, heavenly kingdom based on the ideal of one family under
God will come about. As we melt our guns and cannons to make plows and pruning
hooks, a world of peace will open up before us.
Fifth, God
created us as His counterparts in love, and He prepared the natural world as a
gift for us, His children. God would not abandon His children to live in a
barren desert devoid of beauty and vitality. That is why all people have the
duty to preserve and love the natural world. I am saying that you need to
develop your human nature as it was originally meant to be, such that you
resonate even with a cluster of wild flowers as you share a heartfelt
conversation with them.
These points
summarize the shortcut to restoring humankind to God.
New true
families living according to their original nature
Ladies and
gentlemen who have been chosen by Heaven, I am sure you all feel from the
message I have just read that human beings are entering a new providential era
wherein the earth will follow a new heavenly way and be governed directly by
new heavenly law. It is the new providential era of the realm of the fourth
Adam, who is the original Adam, in which one can enter the new kingdom of
heaven and inherit God's new standard of heart based on His original nature.
Through True
ParentsEprovidential coronation, golden wedding anniversary, publication
celebration and the commemoration of the fifty-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the Holy Spirit Association in this new era, I pray that you may
form wise and new families of citizens in God's kingdom, Cheon II Guk. Families
whose members clearly distinguish between Cain and Abel in their practical
lives, and who integrate into a new realm of Abel by placing goodness at the
center, restore the three eras, the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages, and
the three generations of the family.
I ask you to
form and live as new true families based on original human nature, through
which the new true grandparents, true parents, and true grandchildren can enter
the new kingdom of heaven, hand in hand. Please engrave in your hearts the
meaning of this gathering to establish the truly peaceful world of the True
Parent UN, which we are celebrating today.
I pray and
proclaim in the names of the victorious True God and True Parents that the new
authority of the great Blessing of the True God, the King of kings of all
nations, can flow abundantly into your new families, new nations, and
throughout the new cosmos.
May God's
blessings fill the entire cosmos.
Thank you
very much.
16
A Providential View of the Pacific
Rim Era in Light of God's Will II
March 7, 2012
Hanhwa 63 City, Seoul, Korea
Launch of the Strong Korea CitizensEMovement
Respected
guests, ladies and gentlemen:
I am
delighted to meet you today. I would like to welcome you, on behalf of my
family. The rally today is a ceremony to launch the Strong Korea campaign
activities throughout Korea. Therefore, on this occasion I will explain
something of the profound providential plan God has had for the Korean
Peninsula throughout history, as well as some aspects of God's providence in
relation to the Pacific Rim era.
Era after the
Coming of Heaven and the Pacific Rim era
Distinguished
guests, at the beginning of the seventh year of Cheon II Guk, I declared the
beginning of a jubilee period in God's providence. God has greatly blessed us
since that year. It is a time of jubilee the likes of which God and human
beings have never experienced in thousands of years of history.
God's heart
has been in pain throughout history because humanity has been confined under
Satan's dominion. Humanity endured oppression under the sovereignty of evil
throughout the Era before the Coming of Heaven. That time has finally come to
an end! The year 2007 was the zenith, at which time it became possible for the
gates to the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven to open wide. This
opening will usher in the time of a new sovereignty of goodness, in which
humanity can serve and attend God as the central Being.
Without your
awareness, Heaven's providence has been expanding in extraordinary ways. Ambassadors
for peace in one hundred eighty-five nations, numbering in the tens of
thousands, have received my teachings and are working day and night in response
to a special decree from God.
Today I would
like to convey to you Heaven's message, A Providential View of the Pacific Rim
Era in Light of God's Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the
United Nations and the World.EIt is a declaration of God's dispensation and
the direction humankind needs to take.
Ladies and
gentlemen, if you carefully examine the progress of history, you will
undoubtedly discover (God's plan and sense His presence as He worked tirelessly
behind the scenes. Consider the history of civilization, which began centered
on four of the world's great river basins. We are familiar with the Egyptian
civilization that flourished along the Nile River, the Mesopotamian
civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Harappan civilization
surrounding the Indus River, and the early Chinese civilization around the
Yellow River. Over time, the center of civilization shifted to the shores of
the Mediterranean Sea, where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations
flourished in Greece and Rome. History continued to progress, and the European
continental civilization emerged. This continental civilization in turn gave
birth to the island civilization of the United Kingdom, which flourished in the
Atlantic sphere. The British Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded
its might as the empire on which the sun never sets,Epassed its splendid
culture on to North America. We know these facts from history.
Civilization
on the North American continent raised the banner of democracy, which was
rooted in Christianity. This civilization bequeathed to the world the
principles of freedom of religion and respect for equal human rights as it led
the struggle against fascism and communism, which had established atheistic, evil
sovereignties. Through victories in the First and Second World Wars and the
third global conflict, the Cold War, it won victory over totalitarianism and
communism.
However, that
victory does not simply mean that America is great and the development of human
civilization stopped there. Victory came because God had chosen and raised the
United States of America as the Second Israel, in accordance with His
providential plan, and raised and trained the American people through
Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to its present
stage of fruition.
America will
be the driving force in creating a peaceful world
Ladies and
gentlemen, the present era marks an important milestone in the development of
civilization. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has
now arrived on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. History's course has come to
the point under God's providence where it has to be concluded in the Pacific
Rim region. No force can stop God's providence now. Though there were both
victories and defeats during the course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty
in the Era before the Coming of Heaven, now nothing can prevent the rise of the
Pacific Rim era. Herein lies the special reason that Heaven declared 2007 a
jubilee year.
The arrival
of the Pacific Rim era signifies many things. What do you think the world would
have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his
life on earth? Jesus came as the savior and Messiah to save all humankind. He
did not come to save just the people of Israel, a small nation located on one
end of the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, Rome, based at the center of the
Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome was ready to rule the
seas. Heaven earnestly wished for Jesus to teach and transform Rome first and
then rule her empire. Heaven was eager to bring salvation to all humanity by
working through Rome's strong civilization. Yet Jesus was cruelly put to death
on the cross, as we know all too well through the biblical record.
After
thousands of years of preparation, God finally had sent Jesus to earth as His
only Son. There is no way to fathom God's heart as He anxiously watched JesusE
each and every action. JesusEdeath was a tragedy that broke God's heart. It
brought Him anguish even more extreme than He felt at the moment Adam and Eve,
whom He created as the first ancestors of humankind, were exiled from the
garden of Eden due to the Fall.
During the
two thousand years after JesusEdeath on the cross, God, in the background of
history, has walked a path of suffering beyond human imagination. Through this
course, He prepared the United States of America to serve as the nation of the
Second Israel. As a Christian nation that includes Catholicism and
Protestantism as well as the Orthodox communions, the mission of the United States
is to bring harmony and unity to Christianity as soon as possible and, in the
twenty-first century, to fulfill the responsibility that had been the Roman
Empire's, but which was not realized in JesusEtime. On America's shoulders
rests the responsibility within God's providence to bring harmony and oneness
among the world's seven billion people and to expedite the creation of a
peaceful, ideal world. These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is
Heaven's decree to America.
Then how can
we unite Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev.
Moon, the True Parent of humankind. God has given me the supreme command to
practice a life of true love, to understand completely the reality of the spirit
world to which we go after we die, and to establish a model, ideal family, a
true family.
True families
are the foundation of the peaceful ideal kingdom
Then what
kind of love is true love? And what kind of family is a true family? The
essence of God's absolute true love is not to have others serve you. Rather, it
is to be the first to give, to serve and care for others, and to seek the
greater good. True love gives, forgets that it has given, and continues to give
without ceasing. True love gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and loving
heart of a mother who cradles her child in her arms and nurses her child at her
breast. True love is sacrificial love, such as that of a devoted son who finds
his greatest satisfaction through dedicating himself with all of his body and
soul to helping his parents.
When we are bound
together in true love, we can be together forever, continually increasing in
the joy of each other's company. The attraction of true love brings all things
in the universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. The value of
true love is that it has the power to permanently dissolve the barriers that
fallen people have created, including national, racial and even religious
barriers.
The main
attributes of God's true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and
eternal. Therefore, those who practice true love will share God's pleasures and
pains, enjoy the right to participate as an equal in God's work, and enjoy
equal rights of inheritance. A life of service, which is a life of true love,
is the absolute path to enter the kingdom of heaven. A life of true love is the
way to create all things; it is the way of life for new families that live
centered on God and form the ideal model of peace.
The path is
now wide open for everyone to establish a true family. The family is the model
by which people are to live in service to one another. The warm environment of
oneness based on love and respect between parents and children, mutual fidelity
and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings
is the manifestation of the model, ideal family.
This means
that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges
from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love. The responsibility
of tribal messiahs, the mission of ambassadors for peace, and God's desire is
to seek and set up such families of Cheon II Guk, comprised of three
generations: grandparents, parents and children, a united family that together
serves the ever-present God. You have to form families that God will miss and
yearn to return to after He has been away. You are to raise families to which
God can come freely as a Parent visiting his or her children. This is what it means
to live in service to God. In such a family, God is the vertical subject
partner of each person's conscience. Following God as its vertical subject
partner, the mind of each family member stands in the position of that person's
own vertical subject partner. Each person needs to bring his or her mind and
body into unity by following the mind.
It is in such
a family that the four major types of loveparental love, conjugal love,
children's love and siblingsEloveare perfected. Those four types of love form
the four great realms of heart. It is only in such a family that the
relationships based on upper and lower, right and left, and front and back can
link together and the resultant spherical motions continue. This is how God's
everlasting model, ideal families, ideal nations and peaceful ideal kingdom can
be formed. If the entire world were filled with such families of true
character, it would be a world of natural order in which the heavenly way and
heavenly law would reign supreme. There would be no need for lawyers,
prosecutors or judges.
The future of
humanity depends on the Pacific Rim nations
Dear
peace-loving leaders! Among the seven billion people on earth today, almost
five billion are our neighbors, relatives, and brothers and sisters belonging
to the Pacific Rim region. At the same time, a large segment of our fellow
human beings share the root of the sphere of the Mongolian peoples. If we
receive the marriage Blessing and pull together centering on God's ideal for
peace, there is nothing we cannot do. The future of humanity is now in the
hands of the nations of the Pacific Rim.
Ladies and
gentlemen, God's providence has now spread from the North American continent
and blossomed in the island civilization of Japan, which is in a position
similar to that once held by the United Kingdom on the other side of the world.
The providence is now about to fulfill its destiny by reaching fruition on the
Korean Peninsula, the homeland of the True Parents, who have emerged on earth
as the savior of humanity and returning Messiah.
The Korean
Peninsula stands in a position similar to that of Rome in JesusEtime. Religion
and politics have the mission of resolving the world's problems; however, the
current conflict on the Korean Peninsula transcends religion and politics. From
a geopolitical point of view, the Korean Peninsula persists as an arena of the
most intense confrontation, despite ongoing efforts to secure peace.
The principle
of restoration through indemnity makes it inevitable that civilization will
bear fruit in the Pacific Rim region, centered on the Korean Peninsula.
Fortunately, during the Korean War the United Nations mobilized international
forces, led by the United States, to the peninsula. According to God's Will,
however, the UN forces were to have recovered the homeland and hometown of
God's desire. They did not do so, leaving the job half done. As a result,
global conflict and strife emerged, which became known as the Cold War. During
this period, the Korean people were deprived of their possessions and
displaced, leading them to search for God.
In order to
indemnify this, I established the Universal Peace Federation (UPF). I then
organized the peace kingdom corps and peace kingdom police force, consisting of
women on Heaven's side who have received the marriage Blessing, who love peace,
and who are willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of UPF. I have taken
the lead in educating those involved with these organizations. These peace
organizations stand in the forefront to bring about a world of peace, with God
at the center. They will create the peaceful, ideal world that God desires. I
have been assisting the six-party talks currently being held to resolve the
nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and to reconcile the democratic and
communist nations. I am presenting a solution based on the principles of peace
and harmony rooted in the teaching of the Heavenly Parent.
At this
intense time, what exactly is the role of America and the United Nations?
Hawaii, located at the center of the Pacific Rim, bridges East and West, and
links North and South. With the support and protection of the American
continent, the Korean Peninsula would become the homeland that protects and
defends the Pacific Rim region by bringing together all the island nations of
the Pacific. I say this because the future of humankind lies in the
preservation of the Pacific Rim region centered on Korea, Japan and the United
States.
As I was well
aware of Heaven's plans for this region, I invested thirty- three of the prime
years of my life in the United States, beginning in the early 1970s, for the
sake of world peace. On that victorious foundation I returned to Korea, where I
am working to complete the providence of establishing God's homeland and hometown.
The
responsibility of the Universal Peace Federation and the Abel UN
Ladies and
gentlemen, I ask that you closely analyze the current state of affairs in the
world. Although the days of communism are gone, even now, powerful nations are
constantly on the lookout for opportunities to pursue their own interests
aggressively at the expense of the powerless and small island nations. No small
island nation by itself can deal with these nations and their economic, political
or even military ambitions. They are so powerful that if they wanted to, they
could dominate any smaller nation in a single day, without shedding blood.
Only when
peace and security are settled in the Pacific Rim can peace for all humankind
be guaranteed. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves
cannot contend with the great tsunami of powerful nations moving into the
region. The time has come, therefore, for the small island nations in the Pacific
Rim sphere to unite and build the homeland of the new godly civilization.
The small
island nations dispersed in the northern and southern regions of the Pacific, on
either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines,
Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries,
need to work as one country, forming a union to sustain peace in the Pacific
Rim civilization. This will secure peace and stability for all people. You have
the responsibility to protect and save the oceanic realm, which is a lifeline
upon which humanity's future depends, from the environmental destruction and
conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to shield its natural resources
for the sake of peace in the future.
Ladies and
gentlemen, for the purpose of resolving these problems that afflict humankind,
on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven and earth the
establishment of the Universal Peace Federation, which will enable God's
providence to flourish. Now it is possible for UPF to serve as an Abel-type
counterpart to the United Nations in the Era after the Coming of Heaven. It
will renew the Cain-type United Nations and lead the way for millions of
ambassadors for peace throughout the world who have taken up the teaching of
the Heavenly Parent. That is to say, my teachings on the principles of true
love and the ideal of a true family absolutely will fulfill the heavenly will
of creating one family under God.
The change of
lineage through the cross-cultural marriage Blessing
Ladies and
gentlemen, through the cross-cultural marriage Blessings that transcend
religious denomination and nationality, the Universal Peace Federation will be
the vanguard that carries out the great revolution of restoring the original
lineage of humanity, hearkening back to Adam before the Fall. Some may laugh
and say that this is impossible. Yet, where there is a will there is a way,
especially if it is God's Will. The international and cross-cultural marriage
Blessings, conducted according to my teachings, are God's work done on God's
behalf. Please think about this: What do you think will happen if people from
countries such as the United States and Russia marry across the boundaries of
their nations through these marriage Blessing ceremonies? The two nations will
belong to one family under God, who is the eternal, absolute Lord of Creation.
How could anyone aim any weapons, much less nuclear weapons, at a nation that
millions of their grandchildren, descendants of their own lineage, call their
home? The holy task of building the ideal kingdom of heaven, the sacred reign
of peace on earth, by recovering our ideal homeland and hometown, is being
carried out enthusiastically in all corners of the world. This is God's hope
for engrafting the seven billion people of the world into one lineage as a
God-centered tribe.
Beloved
leaders, ladies and gentlemen, please do not miss your chance to ride on the
surging currents of heavenly fortune during this important and sacred jubilee.
Take the lead in protecting and developing the realm of the oceans, which cover
more than seventy percent of Earth's surface. Where else will we access the
treasure stores of natural resources by which we can resuscitate the earth,
fulfilling our promise to end pollution and resource depletion?
You have come
to a truly significant event today. You need to join together under the Strong
Korea banner. The scope of this campaign shall soon go beyond the Republic of
Korea to the rest of Asia, and become a beacon that shines beyond Asia to the
world. The Universal Peace Federation's thought will engender a strong Korea
because, at the root of Strong Korea, we find God's philosophy of peace based
on true love. Is there an ideology or philosophy that can surpass this
philosophy of peace and the ideal of God's true love? Heaven shall surely be
triumphant!
On this
meaningful occasion, please engrave this message in your hearts. The families
of your good ancestors in heaven are already blessed. Numbering in the
billions, they have come to earth today to listen to this message with you.
This is because it is only through you, their descendants, that they can
perfect themselves and advance to the positions of true parents, true teachers
and true lords and owners. You must not forget the fact that the spiritual and
physical worlds live and breathe together in this way and walk hand-in-hand.
Let us stand
as the vanguard and pillar of the Abel UN Your families now need to find their
place in history by fulfilling their mission as members of the peace kingdom
corps and the peace kingdom police force of the Abel UN, which is advancing
God's providence in the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven. History
will forever remember you for leading a noble life of devotion for the
wellbeing of humanity and world peace, as we globally develop the peace kingdom
corps and the peace kingdom police force.
I pray that
you will engrave today's message in your hearts and share it as material for
educating your children, your young people, and your entire nation. May God's
blessings and grace be upon you, your families, the Pacific Rim and the Peace
UN, and upon the launch of a Strong Korea.
Thank you.
17
Owner of Peace, Owner of Lineage
July 7, 2009
East Garden, Irvington, New York, USA
Commemoration of the 233rd Anniversary of the Independence
of the United States of America
You must know
that we have left the Era before the Coming of Heaven and have entered the Era
after the Coming of Heaven. Now we are approaching the era of Cain and Abel.
Just as we cannot discern the precise moment when day becomes night, and we
cannot discern the precise moment when the seasons change from spring to
summer, so it is at the change of an era. The environment in which you live
does not perceptibly change. Without the aid of a clock, it is very difficult
to tell when one has arrived at midnight and the start of a new day. Yesterday
and today continue as though they were the same day, yet at midnight a new day
begins. It happens in a single second. In the same way, a new age and a new
world have begun, even though we cannot point to the precise moment when the
Era before the Coming of Heaven ended and the Era after the Coming of Heaven
began.
People tend
to believe out of habit that each day is merely a continuation of the previous
day. However, look at history: when a new age arrives, what happens to the old
values that people may have held for tens of thousands of years? No one realizes
it at the time, yet in that single second a way of life that had persisted for
tens of thousands of years is destined to disappear.
People do not
recognize when there is a transition from one age to another. It is the same
for transitions in the life of an individual and for transitions in the family.
For example, there is a time for parents to be focused on raising sons and
daughters, and a time for them to be focused on serving their ancestors. There
is a time when the grandfather has the role of a parent, and a time when he
stands as a king. There is a time when parents are working things out in their
relationship as husband and wife, and a time when sons and daughters are going
through the transition to become husbands and wives themselves.
The Era
before the Coming of Heaven can be compared to a person exhaling, while the Era
after the Coming of Heaven is like a person inhaling. The Era before the Coming
of heaven and the Era after the Coming of Heaven intersect in the blink of an
eye. Still, people continue to live without realizing that anything has
happened. Do you notice when your eyes are blinking? Do you think about the
fact that you are inhaling and exhaling?
The world's
peoples are divided between East and West. Also, just as the geographical North
and South are divided at the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, the
world's peoples are divided between North and South. However, because the
hemispheres are on opposite sides of the world, most people do not recognize
how deep the North-South and East-West divisions are. You must understand this
reality. Within one second, the cosmos could change from the Era before the
Coming of Heaven to the Era after the Coming of Heaven. It could likewise
change from the era above Heaven to the era below Heaven, or from the era in
front of Heaven to the era behind Heaven.
The motion of
a round ball can represent these changes. In Korean I coined the word won-gu,
meaning round ball,Efor the title of the Won-gu Peace Cup. Although you may
not realize it, the cosmos changed as a result of the Won-gu Peace Cup
Cain-Abel Cosmic Tournament. You did not know that heaven and earth have been
divided as a result of the Fall. We live our lives without realizing that the
world can change in a single second. We did not know that an individual of
absolute faith, an individual of absolute love, and an individual of absolute obedience
could all be divided in one second.
Today the
world is divided between those who use the lunar calendar and those who use the
solar calendar. It is one way that the East and the West are divided. How did the
first ancestors of humanity come to have descendants who were divided between
East and West? How did all the separate countries come about? How did siblings
come to be divided against each other? These questions need to be answered.
It is said
that God is the Alpha and the Omega, the cause and the result.
However, the
center of that Alpha and Omega is true love. The fundamental motive of creation
is that two become one. God was acting from the core of that motive when He
created human beings as partners with whom He could become one. But what
happened? The Fall occurred. Humanity was to attain one lineage with God as the
foundation for establishing His family ideal. This was not realized. Instead,
humanity lost its connection to God. Are American families God's families? Life
originates from a father and mother, each a distinct substantiation of God's
dual characteristics. By what means do they then become one? It is love. People
are born from love; their beginning is love. Hence, their purpose must also be
for the sake of love. By himself a man cannot give or receive love. That is why
he needs a woman. By the same token, a woman needs a man. I am promoting a
philosophy of peace that teaches us to be an owner of lineage before trying to
be an owner of peace.
What are the
love of the Alpha and the love of the Omega? What is the love needed as we
proceed from the Alpha to the Omega? Love is supposed to grow, except it cannot
grow properly unless God's love is present. Two people may love each other, yet
if they lose God's love between them, then in the end they will have nothing to
sustain their relationship. It takes only a crack for air to enter that empty
space. It takes only a crack for water to get in. It takes only a crack for
sunlight to get in. You need an opening. Otherwise, if you were to stay in an
airtight room for an extended period of time, you wouldnt be able to breathe.
Air, water and sunlight are the basic elements of life. If even one of them is
missingif water is missing, for examplelife ceases to exist. If air or
sunlight is missing, life ceases to exist. Do you think you could live without
air, water or light from the sun?
How amazing
are the words one family under GodE In these words we find God's lifeline,
God's breath, God's rays of sunlight. The roots of spiritual life, the Alpha
and Omega, are deeply embedded there. Only when we see it in this way can we
say, Wow!EWe then will come alive to find our ideal partner of love.
There cannot
be a united world unless we each find an ideal partner for whom we would not
mind to sacrifice everything. There are West Point cadets here, who I believe
have been taught to be ready to die for their country. The traditional
philosophy of West Point is that a person must be ready to serve his country even
at the sacrifice of his love, his family and his clan.
Where is that
West Point spirit in America today? Are you ready to offer your lives like
those West Point cadets? Where can we find such traditional American thought?
All we can find is individualism.
The world of
individualism will not survive. Individualism is doomed, as are family-ism,
nationalism, state-ism, and even world-ism. Even a philosophy that encompasses
the world will fall short. The only sure way of survival is the way that
transcends the world, which can be termed cosmos-ism.EThe cosmos encompasses
all the nations of the world and also the spirit world. In contrast to
individualism, the ismEof the cosmos is seen in the teamwork and passionate
play of the Peace Cup tournament. When individual elements cooperate for a
greater purpose, they can encompass the entire cosmos.
The textbook that can teach everything
When it was
time for the people of Israel to return to the land of Canaan, God ordered
Moses, Go back to the land of your ancestors! Go back to your hometown, to
Jerusalem!EHad Moses been able to enter Canaan, he was supposed to have gathered
the thirty-one kings of that area and instructed them to follow the Ten
Commandments and revere the Ark of the Covenant. Each of the kings was to
understand clearly that if he did not honor the Ark of the Covenantif he
disobeyed the Ten Commandmentsthen his nation could no longer stand. Moses was
to bring the kings, each representing a nation, to unite with him. A mistake on
the part of the king of a nation would represent a mistake of that entire
nation.
God gave
Moses a family-level standard: the deeds of the king and queen, who stood as
the father and mother of a nation, would determine the rise or fall of the
entire nation. All thirty-one kings of the land were supposed to recognize
their responsibility as national leaders and bow down tens of thousands of
times in front of the Ark of the Covenant as it passed by, in order to repent
for the sins of their nations with respect to the standard of the Ten
Commandments. Without proper repentance on the part of the kings representing
their nations, their nations could not be allowed to remain. Any group of
people that, due to pride and ambition, did not submit to the Ark of the
Covenant would cease to exist. Therefore, those nations led by kings who did
not submit to the Ark would be scattered.
This shows
what was to have happened after the Second World War. It was a confrontation
between Great Britain, United States and France on one side, and Japan, Germany
and Italy on the other. Great Britain represented a mother-type nation in
relationship to America. What did France represent? France used to be
pronounced bullanseo in Korean, a word which sounds like the word for
furnace.EAt the time of the Second World War, France was like a furnace full,
of embers ready to burst into flame at any moment. Japan tried to conquer Asia
while opposing the three nations of Great Britain, the United States and
France.
The First World
War, the Second World War and the Cold War represent the three stages of
formation, growth and completion. The three time periods in which they were
fought represent the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age and the Completed
Testament Age. The purpose of the three world wars was to prepare for the
settlement of the era of the fourth Adam. Did you know that was their purpose?
I recently
published a textbook that explains the most important things you must know to
guide you along life's course. It is called True Families: Gateway to Heaven.
Those of you who are parents need to buy copies of this small book for each of
your children. If you have twelve children, you need to buy twelve copies, one
for each child, making a total of thirteen when you include your own book. Then
you need to educate your children so that all twelve books can be united
centering on the parentsEbook. Teach them absolute faith, absolute love and
absolute obedience. By using this textbook to teach your children, you will
raise them to be totally one with God and inseparable from Him.
The faithlessness of JesusEdisciples
Suppose you
have twelve children. They would each represent one of the twelve tribes of
Israel. Also, together they would represent the twelve disciples of Jesus.
Standing before his twelve disciples, Jesus represented the number thirteen.
However, in JesusEday the number thirteen could not be secured. In the end the
twelve disciples, who could have been as loyal to Jesus as sons, instead
betrayed him. They denied him. They did not protect him from death.
Human beings
are not aware of their sinful lineage, and this caused them to make a mess of
heaven and earth. One example can be seen in the history of the Vikings. They
began as hunters, yet when they were short of food they became Cain-like and
went south to conquer the plains and river valleys. They could have become a
people of Heaven, yet they could not accept their miserable situation, so they
fashioned weapons with which to conquer the land.
Those Viking
hunters were like thieves. They liked spilling blood. If four people started
out on a hunting expedition in spring, sometimes only one would return in
autumn. Do you want to know why? Each man knew some good spots to catch
animals, so together they would traverse peaks and valleys in the mountain
forests to make their kill. Although they may have been four people when they
started out on the expedition, perhaps at some point three of them grew
suspicious of the fourth and said, This fellow is going to steal our skins and
run off with them. We had better kill him before he has his chance.EIn this
way, one person might be killed in spring, another in summer, and a third in
autumn. The last person remaining would then take everything for himself. He
would take the meat and keep it to survive the winter. Once that hunter
returned after a long expedition, he no longer cared about sharing his spoils
with his relatives, his friends or even his children.
If a hunting
party caught something as large as a moose or a bear, they had to return early.
If they returned from their expedition when it was still spring, they would
need to plow the land and plant crops to have enough food for winter, but many
hunters did not know how to farm. So instead they would set off again to seek
higher mountains, higher domains and deeper fishing grounds.
Fishing
grounds have no owner. During the flood judgment at the time of Noah, although
all the land animals suffered, fish were not affected. So what happened when
those Vikings went out fishing? They became pirates. Did you know that Sweden
and Norway were once pirate bases?
Hunters and
pirates are always looking for better weapons to give them greater advantage in
hunting and in warfare. That is why Europeans kept developing ever-deadlier
firearms. Did you know that a type of machine gun was invented in
Czechoslovakia? When Czechs took their guns out on hunting expeditions, they
used them to protect and sometimes to kill their Czech brothers, for instance
when two hunters dueled over who made a kill. What used to be Czechoslovakia is
now split into two states: the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in a relationship
of Cain and Abel.
Who does the
actual hunting? Often, hunters get dogs to do it for them. With their keen
sense of smell, Hogs can tell when there are wolves, bears or elk nearby. On
the plains, hunters can use trained hounds to track animals by scent. In the
Arctic, however, hunters track their prey by following tracks in the snow.
Animal tracks are very important for hunters. In warmer climates, when tracks
are less visible, hounds can recognize animals by scent and track them.
Some animals
that live in water are also hunters, among them alligators and anacondas. The
anaconda is so powerful that it can devour large animals such as deer, boar and
even jaguars. The snake's head stays immobile while it wraps its body around
its prey and strangles it. An anaconda emerging from the water to devour a
large land animal is a reminder of the flood judgment in Noah's time, when the
sea devoured everything on land. This is not a meaningless discourse. You must
heed God's warnings. The most blessed area in New York is the area surrounding
East Garden. There are many notable properties in the area, including the
birthplaces of famous poets and authors. It has abundant wildlife and there are
many lakes and places to fish. It abounds with natural springs. Bear Mountain
and the Catskills are nearby.
Why did I
make a headquarters for fishing in New York? In New York you can catch striped bass
even in winter. In New York you can catch fish during all four seasons, and the
fish are plentiful. New York could potentially serve as a place of refuge. One
sign of this is that in New York there are oak trees, which live long lives. Of
all trees, the oak tree produces the greatest number of seeds.
Democracy is
being destroyed by the current trends in America. Everyone is becoming
self-centered and individualistic. We must return to God-centered idealism.
Although God may be a demanding King, His goal is to benefit the world. Satan
is the evil king, who uses his control over human affairs to destroy the world.
Therefore, the King of Heaven has sought to lift up and protect a family on
earth that would show the standard of leadership over three generations.
The
Israelites were unable to protect Jesus, the Savior, from death. Also in the
United States, which in a religious sense represents the Second Israel, there
were people who tried to eliminate me. Under the banner of the Abel UN, we can
and will establish the one true and ideal family, a family that everyone in the
world can become part of. There are more than six thousand languages in the
world, while in a family only one language is needed.
I believe
that the best language with which to integrate the world's languages is the
Korean language. By using the consonants in the Korean alphabet: ga, na, da,
ra, ma, ba, sa, ah, ja, cha, ka, ta, pa, haEyou can print words used by any
language in the world, forwards or backwards. Each letter in the Korean
alphabet is an illustration of the shape the vocal organs must assume in order
to pronounce the sound represented by that particular letter.
Who were the
people of Dong Yi, the ancestors of Korea? They were warriors and skillful
archers of the eastern country who won wars using superior military tactics.
With thousands of strategies at their disposal, they won every battle. They
established the kingdom of Goguryeo, which endured for approximately one
thousand years. The spirit of Goguryeo has never died. It is now returning to
life in Korea, although China does not want to see Goguryeo reestablished.
Some people
used to claim that the world could only be united through the efforts of China
and the Soviet Union. However, even if those two nations had worked together,
they could not have united the religious realm. The way for China and the
Soviet Union to succeed was to become one and act in partnership to serve the
religious realm. That is why when I met Mikhail Gorbachev, I urged him, If you
serve God and the religious realm, Moscow will become the center of the kingdom
of the united world.E/span>
However, the
kingdom was not established in Moscow or in Beijing. Nor was it established in
New York or in Washington, DC. Where can it be established now? My conclusion
is that the only place that remains for the establishment of the kingship
centered on God, the homeland and hometown of God, is none other than my
hometown, Jeongju, in the North Pyeong-an Province of North Korea. It is True
ParentsEhomeland. Only through the True Parents can the True God appear. From
True Parents there can appear true ancestors, one true people, one true nation
and one true world.
Bringing
about one united world through engrafting all of humanity onto the true lineage
must happen naturally, not by force. Once people know the full value of the
Blessing, they will not want to miss out on it. When electing a leader, they
would want to vote for a candidate who has been blessed. People whose lives embody
the Divine Principle will win the election every time.
The time will
come when people will eagerly listen to what I say and follow my teachings. I
will stand at the forefront and proclaim what the nations of the world need to
do. If the United Nations does not listen to me, I will say, See what happens
if you ignore me and keep fighting among yourselves.EThe United Nations is
currently at the lowest state of equilibrium, completely ineffective. The
Pacific Ocean represents what a healthy state of equilibrium would look like, a
state that is full of life.
What if, due
to global warming, the Pacific Ocean were to rise to its highest possible
level? The last island to remain above water would be the island of Hawaii. Do
you know the name of the tallest mountain on that island? It is called Mauna
Kea. The highest astronomical observatory on the planet can be found on its
summit. It is the world's tallest mountain if you measure its height from the
bottom of the ocean. Its peak is about forty-three hundred meters above mean
sea level, and more than ten thousand meters above its base on the floor of the
Pacific Ocean. Mt. Everest in the Himalayas is only eight thousand eight
hundred fifty meters above sea level, right? The island Hawaii is like a shoot
sprouting from the bottom of the Earth, and its peak is Mauna Kea.
Nearby is
Kona, which sounds like corner.ETo me, Hawaii represents the furthest corner
of the world. It was in Kona that I established the Hawaii King Garden and
Hawaii Queen Garden. Kona produces superior coffee. Do you like coffee? The
best product of Kona is its coffee.
It has
already been more than forty years since I first went to Hawaii. It was in
Hawaii that I offered prayers prior to my trip to North Korea, where I would
meet Kim II Sung. While in Hawaii I planned out what I would say to Kim II
Sung.
The name Gorbachev,
the leader of the former Soviet Union, sounds like the Korean for to narrow
evenly among all.ESo I told him that I am the only one who can actually narrow
or widen the world, and urged him to listen to me. Because he did listen to me
and allowed religion into the Soviet Union, his nation could be liberated from
communism.
Underlying
the Third World War was a conflict between the cultural sphere of Eastern
Christianity, centered on Soviet Russia, and the cultural sphere of Western
Christianity. It was a fight between two brothers. The Soviet Union stood in
the position of the first son, and Europe, rooted historically in Italy, stood
in the position of the second son. The cultural realm of the united world will
stand in the position of the third son. The overall progression of history and
all historical events occur in accordance with God's providence, internally and
externally.
The great encyclopedia and textbook
I am a living
encyclopedia. I put forth ideas that cannot be found in any other encyclopedia.
Many of the terms and concepts I have introduced are not in any existing
encyclopedia. That is why I prepared the New World Encyclopedia. We have
audiotapes of my words that will need to be incorporated into the encyclopedia
in the future.
The New World
Encyclopedia is needed to create the world of one united culture. If there were
two cultural spheres, there would have to be two encyclopedias. If there were
three cultural spheres, there would have to be three. If there were four
cultural spheres, there would have to be four, each representing a distinct
cultural sphere, such as the Soviet cultural sphere, the American cultural
sphere, the Islamic cultural sphere and the American Indian cultural sphere.
I am
resolving everything and the communist realm can barely even open its mouth.
They would have to admit, We lost. We lost against the teachings of the Old
Testament Age, which represents the formation stage. We also lost against the
teachings of religions that represent the growth stage.EAlthough communists
have traditionally denied the existence of the spirit world, now communist
ancestors in the spirit world are testifying that they are united around me as
the Second Coming of Christ. How then could the communists on earth ever think
that they could rule the democratic world, which is based on Christianity?
Raise your
hand if you are a second-generation blessed child. You took part in the
Blessing through your father and mother. You represent the flesh and blood of
your parents coming together in one concave cauldron of love. Neither your
mother nor your father is in such a position. You are part of the tradition
that has inherited God's lineage. You need to understand this.
I have
created the textbook, True Families: Gateway to Heaven, to tear down all false
leaders and ideologies. Second generation blessed children: you need to teach
your friends and acquaintances about the contents of True Families: Gateway to
Heaven by holding hoondokhae sessions with them, together with your parents and
grandparents and in the presence of our King, the Almighty God.
When everyone
in the world inherits the standard of being a hoondok family as part of their
tradition, the entire world will immediately come within the realm of the royal
family of the heavenly kingdom. That is the power of True Families: Gateway to
Heaven. Who will become the owner of this textbook? Some of your mothers and
fathers drink, smoke, have affairs and do all kinds of things, right? Even some
of your fellow blessed children live promiscuously. How will you save such
people?
You must
first come to clearly understand the contents of True Families: Gateway to
Heaven and become one with True Father and True Mother. Because you received
God's lineage at the same time as your parents, and your life began on the same
level as your parents, it is possible for you to rise up and take the parental
role in your family. Up until now you have been in the servant's position. With
this book you can reach the owner's position. You must be willing to take
responsibility to embrace and educate the families of this world, even if your
mothers and fathers are unable to. As owners of the True Families: Gateway to
Heaven, you will be able to do so.
Children who
are educated with these teachings will unite all things that have been
separated by mothers and fathers, and by the democratic world and the communist
world. The second-generation realm of liberation is arriving. Because this
teaching liberates all people, carrying this book when you go out to educate
people will surely create people of the kingdom of heaven. This will make these
teachings into the teachings of the heavenly kingdom.
Second-generation
members lead family hoondokhae
The fastest
way to learn Korean is to quit your school here in America and attend
kindergarten, elementary school, middle school and high school in Korea. A year
in a Korean kindergarten, six years in elementary school, and six years in
middle and high school add up to thirteen years. If you graduate from high
school in Korea with a full understanding of these textbooks, then you will be
able to understand pretty much everything there is to know about the world.
Thirteen years ought to be enough time. Then you could go to university and to
graduate school. There are Cain-type and Abel-type universities you could
attend.
Children can
understand most of what their parents are saying to them at eight months to one
year of age, right? Even for those who learn late, it doesnt take them more
than three years. Within two-and-a-half to three years, most children can
communicate in their native tongue. From when they are in kindergarten,
children in America need to learn the language of the one nation, the one
language. People who cannot speak that language, the mother tongue of God's
homeland, will be unable to enter the heavenly kingdom.
You must
publish these precious books in the original language that True Parents use.
The version in the original language is what will last for thousands and even
tens of thousands of years. In the future, these books will be printed on paper
made with diamonds, gold and platinum. These books set the standard, as does
the standard meter that is housed in the Louvre.
The Louvre is
a museum in France that contains the standards of all units of measurement.
When I saw them, I asked myself: Why are they here in the Louvre, and not in
Britain or the United States?EWhen you say LouvreEin Korean, it sounds like
the word ends with the syllable bool, which means, to display something.E
France displays many things. It collects all kind of things from different
cultures and civilizations of the world, and then generates profit by
displaying them in fancy museums.
America is
now going to ruin because it did not attend Christ at his Second Coming,
although it had the opportunity for the past thirty-four years. I even went as
far as to arrange it so that the Third Israel could inherit from the nation of
Israel, and then I brought all three nations of Israel into the era of the
realm of the fourth Adam. Are you going to boycott that and live according to
your own thinking? Many second-generation youth have come today. How were all
these second-generation born? They are fruits of the Unification movement,
which is unique in the history of religion. And the entire Unification movement
started from the efforts of one person struggling to fulfill the Will of God.
When I look
at these second-generation youth, my worries go away. Although I am leaving
America now, these textbooks remain behind. They are textbooks for your mothers
and fathers, and they are textbooks for you. If your mother doesnt follow
their teachings, if she goes against them, then you must have the guts to say,
Mother, you need to repent. There is no way for you to live unless you receive
the Blessing again, through me.EWith these textbooks, you will be able to
re-bless your parents if they have lost their Blessing. Therefore, you must
become hoondokhae ancestors. The second-generation must become family
hoondokhae leaders. If they do not, then no one will.
The
Korea-Japan Tunnel and the Bering Strait Bridge-Tunnel
For some time
now, communists in the former Soviet Union and China have been uprooted. They
have been drifting, and now they are trying to return to power. If that
happens, the Bering Strait will be taken. I initiated the Bering Strait Project
ten years ago, although it has yet to be completed. Japan was against the
building of the Korea-Japan Tunnel, so the religious sphere and The Washington
Times had to take responsibility and publicly announce the Korea-Japan and
Bering Strait Tunnel projects.
We will make
all the necessary preparations and then dig the Korea- Japan Tunnel. What will
we do if Japan does not help? Why dont we dig a tunnel to Tsushima Island
instead? A tunnel can be built to Tsushima anytime. Tsushima is a part of
Japan's Nagasaki prefecture. If a tunnel to Tsushima has been built, Japan will
open its doors. The doors to Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya and Kyoto will open. Once
the door to Kyoto opens, the door to Tokyo will open next, and finally the door
to the Japanese government will open.
Building the
Korea-Japan Tunnel is so important that the people of Japan need to be willing
to sell their property so that it can be built. Once it has been built, it will
connect Japan to the Asian continent, and it also will connect Korea to the
Pacific Ocean. My leadership encompasses the entire Pacific region. Once the
tunnel is built, it will also be easier to travel between mainland China and
Hawaii.
Hawaii is
just south of the Tropic of Cancer and forms something of a border in the
oceanic realm. If I could connect the North and the South to Hawaii, then
Hawaii could become a gateway. People could travel anywhere in the world, using
Hawaii and the Bering Strait as gateways. Our golf course in Hawaii would then
become the favorite of North and South Koreans, and also of Russians!
If the Korean
people only realized that I am working to liberate their homeland, they would
not oppose me. Whenever people come to understand my teaching, they realize
that it is the truth. When people come to know for a fact that what I am
teaching is true, they will have no reason to oppose my teachings.
Korea is the
absolute homeland and hometown. The Korean word for God is Hananim, which
means, the Unique Being.EThe etymology of this word signifies that Koreans as
a people have traditionally believed in one God. This belief will allow the
Korean people to endure.
I have
founded a kingdom on God's behalf and put it in order before coming here. The
nation I founded is the nation that God desires. Bringing all into a
God-centered lineage, it is the liberated heavenly kingdom on earth and in
heaven, where God can do whatever He wants freely and without any barriers. As
citizens of that nation, you too can work as God's representatives.
Who is in the
Cain position? The democratic world, which was the first to research and build
a foundation, is now in the Cain or older brother's position. Suppose Cain
trades places with Abel, lifting up the younger Abel as his elder? Then
grandfathers will become like grandsons, fathers will become like sons, and
elder brothers will become like younger brothers, practicing absolute faith,
absolute love and absolute obedience. What will happen to the Cain-type realm
that fulfills such a role? Those who exalt Abel higher than their tribe,
honoring Abel as if he were God and True Parents, belong to the heavenly
kingdom. When they donate their national funds and taxes to the heavenly
kingdom, then they can receive passports. That must happen before God's
homeland and hometown will appear.
Do you think
we need to seek God's homeland and hometown, or not? Im telling you these
things. If you dont want to take part, you can leave and say, From this day
forth, I dont need True Parents.EHowever, the only center that will remain is
True Parents, the King of kings. God, the One Being, is now able to take His
proper position for the first time. Is there any room for complaint? You need
to attend True Parents as if True Parents were God. We can now take down all
the banners of religions and nations.
The textbooks
providing passage into the kingdom of heaven Beyond True Families: Gateway to
Heaven, I have given you middle school textbooks, high school textbooks,
university textbooks, graduate school textbooks, and textbooks to guide you in
fulfilling your responsibilities for the nation.
We live in
the midst of a world that is quite different from the kingdom of heaven. How
will we establish the sovereignty of God and True Parents so that this world
will become the original garden of Eden as it was meant to be before the Fall,
the kingdom of heaven on earth? How will we make this world so it is no longer
Satan's palace? When the lineages of the older and younger siblings are in
conflict, the father and mother must work together to bring harmony between
them. If the parents cannot do it, then neither can God.
Satan became
the bones, the essence of a person, instead of God. Now, however, True Parents
have become one with God, and God has become the flesh and bones of True
ParentsEbodies. In this manner, God has taken the position He was supposed to
have had in the garden of Eden.
God's seed
never died. It survived, buried in the bones of God's chest. It is being
planted again on the earth through your sons and daughters who, after they
reach seventeen years of age, are coming together in true marriages. Once the
heat of their passion rises to forty, forty-three, even fifty-three degrees
Celsius, no viruses or bacteria can survive to infect their offspring.
Parents need
to do everything possible to prepare their children for that day. They need to
sell even their property and land, if necessary, in order to provide them with
these spiritual textbooks. It may take ten or twenty years for their children
to master the textbooks at each stage and go through all the stages, from the
kindergarten level to the doctoral level. Up until their children have
completed their education, the parents need to continue to provide them with
the textbooks. When they are well versed in my teachings and have attained
sufficient secular education; whether in kindergarten, elementary school,
middle school, high school, university or even at the graduate level, at
whatever level they operate, they can teach my words as representatives of the
True Parent, the True Teacher and the True Leader.
The 6.5
billion people on earth who are educated using these textbooks will not need
any textbooks in the spirit world. They will be well enough equipped to live as
citizens of the heavenly kingdom. Anyone who still needs to learn from a
textbook cant enter the heavenly kingdom. To raise people who have graduated
from needing textbooks, parents and elders have to provide these textbooks for
their children to study on earth, from kindergarten-level textbooks on up to
high school-level, university-level and graduate-level textbooks. So spend your
money to buy these textbooks for your children. Have your children read them
while they are eating and while they are working.
Ultimately,
when the heavenly kingdom becomes a living reality, then these textbooks will
no longer be needed on the earth. Families that have digested their content
will educate all their relatives, so that their entire clan and seven generations
of ancestors will all come to embody their teachings. There will be whole
nations of such clans, composed of families in whom God delights. This will be
the heavenly kingdom, where peace will reign for tens of thousands of years,
where God and all creation will be liberated, and where everyone will shout,
Eok mansei!
It will be
God's homeland and hometown, and it will be our homeland and hometown, where
everyone is manifestly bound together in one blood, one lineage. No one can
deny the importance of lineage. That is why everybody must receive the
Blessing. From now on, you must understand how valuable the Blessing is.
These
textbooks represent your parents. They represent the Unification Church. If you
master these textbooks, one day there will be no need for the Unification
Church. If in your family three generationsrepresenting God, your ancestors
and your descendantspossess these textbooks, the realm of the heavenly kingdom
can expand from your family to a nation, world and universe under God's
sovereignty. Is that not so? Let lawyers, prosecutors and judges of Satan's
world come and try to dispute with me about it, if they dare! In an hour, I can
make them all look like foolish people and kick them out!
Everything
that I have described will come to pass. Therefore, we are left with one
conclusion. If you welcome it, raise both hands in mansei twelve times. You
need to become free and liberated people who will give up your life if God asks
it of you, who will live in His service and go wherever God asks you to go. You
need to be ready to sell everything and relocate anywhere. Are you members of
God's family, God's princes and princesses? Have you inherited God's
liberation? Are you going with Him to the heavenly kingdom, to God's original
homeland? Then you must follow this law. The heavenly kingdom can begin for the
first time only when people start upholding this law, for it is the eternal
constitution of the heavenly kingdom.
Buy a copy of
this book, True Families: Gateway to Heaven, today, and keep it in your coat
pocket. It is like a mirror; when you read it, you ought to find that you are
already living in accordance with all the teachings within its pages. There can
be nothing about you that differs from those teachings. Once you have
determined to live that way, you must not change your mind or change your
colors. Parents need to raise their children using this textbook so their
children will grow up to attend God as His sons and daughters.
The life True Parents can guarantee
How could anyone
who knows how to distinguish the directions of north, south, east and west, and
who can guide themselves by the Big Dipper and the Southern Cross, get into the
mess of divorce? Marriage must only happen once. This is a revolutionary
teaching. America especially needs this kind of revolution. There must be a
revolution of true love families. People need to read this book and live
according to what it says. If they do, they will certainly go to the heavenly
kingdom.
This is the
standard, testified to and guaranteed by the True Parent, True Teacher and True
Leader, by the man who liberated God. It is the absolute constitution among all
constitutions. The lawyers of heaven, the prosecutors of heaven and the judges
of heaven recognize its law. So please understand that there can be no excuse
for living contrary to this teaching. You must live your lives in total
agreement with it.
I am grateful
that you say you will live this way. Now I will return to Korea. Two or three
years from now, I will be able to do anything I want in Korea. If the
Korea-Japan Tunnel is not built, then Korea will build the Bering Strait
Tunnel. I can easily do this alone. If I take charge, it will easily be done.
Perhaps you dont believe that I am able to gather the CEOs of Korea's biggest
corporations on short notice? Just wait and see.
When you live
in absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, there is no room for
personal glory or personal excuses. You did not stem from your own seed or grow
in your own soil, so how can you claim anything? There is no way for God to
remake you from scratch, is there? So when your parents provide you with
collections of my sermons, World Scripture and the New World Encyclopedia, you
blessed children have to study them.
All the
material that can stop the fighting between the communist world and democratic
world has been put into these textbooks. They provide us with a foundation to
live forever. Just as God does not die but lives forever, so we, the
descendants of God, will never die. We will live forever, together with our
ancestors in the eternal heavenly kingdom. It has always been God's purpose and
desire that everyone without exception will one day dwell in the eternal world
of the heavenly kingdom. It is a basic rule that we all will become citizens of
the heavenly kingdom.
The age of
connecting heaven and earth centering on God All right! You have been given
authority as heirs to the heavenly kingdom. You have the right of ownership in
the place of your mothers and fathers. God, your Parent, has given you the
right of inheritance. When you claim this right, are there not things that you
can do in the new heaven and new earth without asking your ancestors for
permission? In this time, when property has no power and politics has no power,
I am telling you to stand in the place of your parents in practicing hoondokhae.
Once you stand in the position representing the parent, the position
representing the teacher and the position representing the king, everything
will become possible.
I have been
kicked out of countries, yet every time I was kicked out I went to a larger
place and considered that I was God's representative and heir to that place. I
can go before the president of any country, even the president of the United
States, and say, I am God's heir who can act in your place. Have you become
the representative and heir of God, the True Parent of humankind? Then you sell
everything you can, based on your authority, and offer it to God through me!E
The laws of Heaven guarantee that I can make this incredible statement. Having said
this, I would like to make a final request. It is something you must remember
and put into practice.
We are living
in an age when we cannot look at things with humanistic eyes. If we look with
the eyes of God's providence, we see that we are living in the most important
and serious time in all of human history. It is the greatest transition point
humankind has ever faced, a watershed moment. To meet this age, I will
introduce several associations. The first will be an association linking the
earthly world and the spirit world centered on God. The second will be an
association to link God and human beings in love. The third will be the
Association of the Parents of Heaven and Earth, or the Association of Cheon II
Guk.
Humankind
will seek out and establish God's original homeland and hometown, and bring
about the heavenly kingdom where God and human beings have complete liberation.
We have entered an era where we can eternally benefit from God's blessings and
rejoice under the special grace of Heaven.
Therefore, I
ask you to please keep yourselves pure in mind and body. Respond to the calls
of Heaven, and always live your life with your heart aligned straight up to
God, such that your life casts no shadow. If you are determined to live with
this entreaty of Heaven in your hearts, please welcome this message with a
round of applause.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
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