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Channeled by Young Soon Kim (The
Reporter) 7. The Final Destination of Human Beings We human beings come from dust and return
to dust. This is how simple our final destination is. For us, the earth is a
momentary world, while the spiritual world is an eternal world. We are
created in such a way that our body lives on earth, and our spirit in the
spiritual world, so we live in the momentary world on earth and then proceed
to the eternal world in the spiritual world. We are supposed to return to the
eternal world and live with God eternally. We cannot go there with our body. Then what do we bring with us? Only our
spirit self goes to the eternal world and takes with it the values and fruits
we have produced through our lives on earth. In this world, no one issues
commands or provides a guide as on earth; each person is to find his own way.
Just as the four seasons do not come by someone's orders, this rule has been
in effect without change ever since God's creation of the universe. We take
with us the standards and fruits of our lives in entirety to the eternal
world. This is a heavenly principle. Who can replace winter with spring when he
dislikes winter? As we cannot stop the heavenly principle, our place in the
eternal world is determined through our earthly life. Therefore, in planning your earthly life
you should be more concerned with your place in the eternal world rather than
your momentary position on earth. This is the significance of our earthly
life. (1) Life on Earth As I have already mentioned, from birth to
death human beings live in the body. We need our body only during our life on
earth, and not in the eternal world. Hence, for the sake of the eternal
world, on earth we should prepare for the growth of our spirit. Unlike the
earthly life, there is no distinction of first and last in this world. Your
accomplishments themselves will become your reality in the spiritual world.
The spirit self can hardly grow after being separated
from the physical self, nor can it make restitution for its wrong doings once
it has left the earth. Gypsies, because they do not know when
they will leave their dwelling places, always live in temporary huts. What if
Gypsies have built and decorated a house like a palace when they find
themselves forced to leave? Who would be more foolish than this? Our lives on
earth are similar to that of Gypsies. It is proper that we live on earth with
this kind of heart in preparation for our lives in the spiritual world. What
we are not to forget is that on earth we should prepare a house for our
spirit self rather than for our physical self, and that the house of our spirit
self is built while we are on earth. If you only build a house for your body
on earth and come to this spiritual world, you will find yourself with no
shelter and thus end up as a beggar. And there is only one sure way in which we
can secure our eternal home, and this is to receive the Messiah, our True
Parents, on earth and live earnestly according to their direction. Then, a
palace of golden colors will be your eternal home. Therefore, you should never fall out of
the Messianic realm of living. As long as you are within this realm, although
you may be covered with all sorts of filth or you may be hanging on at the
end of the line, you will still be able to escape the fate of a beggar. As
for myself, although I have not been able to benefit from the merit of the
age, I still had an opportunity here in the spiritual world to meet the new
truth and be converted. You myriad of people of faith! You Catholics,
Protestants, Buddhists, Confucianists, and
followers of other religions! I strongly wish that you transcend
denominational boundaries and produce a sweet fruit in your earthly life. I
wish for you that you make a good choice in your short earthly life so that
you can live eternally with God in the golden nest. (2) Everlasting Life in the Spiritual
World We human beings live on earth for a short
while and then proceed to the spiritual world for eternal life. Very few
people would be content with a mediocre life on earth, and most people work
hard to improve their lives as if they could live on earth forever. If such
people should suddenly die someday totally unprepared, they would find no
place to stay in the spiritual world and end up as beggars. Earlier, I mentioned many times this
reality of the spiritual world, and yet I want to emphasize it again now. We have
an eternal world to go to, and this is the final destination of our lives.
When we arrive at our final destination after a long journey, we unpack, feel
relief, and settle down. But if the journey is not yet over, we will be
unable to unpack or relax our mind and body. This spiritual world is the
final destination of human life, a nest where we are to build our everlasting
life. But if your place of settlement and
eternal home is not prepared, what are you going to do? You build your
eternal house, not while you are in the spiritual world, but while you are on
earth. You should plan and build while on earth a beautiful house for the
spiritual world. For farmers who have toiled and sweated from spring to fall,
the autumn harvest will bring them riches, and they will not go hungry over
the winter. No one will be able to take their harvest away from them because
it is the fruit of their hard work over the past seasons. In like manner how
you live your earthly life will determine whether you have a palace or a
shack in the spiritual world. There may be people who do not have even a
shack or a small patch of land in the spiritual world. Do you understand what this means? If you
have lived only for your individual benefit, no one will prepare a place for
you here. On earth, poor people can manage to live on charity and neighbors'
help, but here, no one will pity or help you because
all your heart will show even if you try to cover it in many different ways.
Who can send back winter by saying, "Go away winter for I do not like
you?" If you said to autumn, "I like your atmosphere and scenery,
autumn, so stay with me all the time," would it really do so? No one can
stop the heavenly principle. The spiritual world operates according to the
heavenly principle without a fraction of error. You people on earth! Please heed my
earnest plea. Do you know about The Unification Principle is truly life's
tonic and a formula that any human being should know and follow without
exception. Who is Rev. Moon, who has revealed the Unification Principle?
Study him deeply. Since he is living with the same body and in the same
environment as earthly people, they can judge him only through their physical
eyes. I, Here, Jesus also came to serve him as the
True Parents and receive the Blessing. Earthly people! In these pages I am
conveying to you the reality of the spiritual world as clearly as I can in
order to help save your souls. I emphasize again and again that the Messiah
to come is none other than Rev. Moon. I ask you to serve him and live by his
teaching. For your eternal soul, I earnestly wish that you reform and purify
your earthly life before coming here. This is my last message. Part II Correspondence between 1. (1) To the True Parents Parents of Heaven and Earth, I am From Augustine in heaven, 10 p.m., March
10, 2000 (2) To Lady Hyun Shil
Kang Hi. I am Augustine. I am truly grateful
that you have received me respectfully and made precious spiritual conditions
for me even though I am full of defects. Although I have many shortcomings,
let us honor our True Parents wishes and work hard together in a cooperation
of the spiritual and physical worlds in order to restore Catholicism and
Protestantism. As for the works I have left on earth, I am simply sorry to
the Parents of Heaven and Earth. Although I myself did not have the privilege
of receiving the True Parents on earth, you have had the joy of serving the
True Parents, and what woman could be more blessed than this! Then, however,
am I not also blessed, to have become the husband of a blessed woman? I will
give faithful replies to the many questions you have sent and faithful
accounts on other matters. Let us work together to make a good textbook for
the people on earth. Lady Kang! I love you and respect you. I am grateful to
God and the Parents of Heaven and Earth. From Augustine in heaven, 10 p.m., March
10, 2000 2. Lady Kang's Inquires and (1) To what degree do you love and believe
in God and True Parents and how faithfully are you following their
directions? I truthfully love, believe in, and follow
God and True Parents and am willing to give my life to carry out all their
orders. Doing so is my life itself. To speak more frankly, God is my parent,
my life, and the whole of my being. It is indescribably painful that I have
not been able to serve the Parents of Heaven and Earth on earth. But the
Parents of Heaven and Earth have given me the grace of the Blessing, which is
more precious than my life, and how can I be able to express my gratitude in
words! I only desire to fulfill my duties as a parent and a child, and would
this not be higher than obedience? I wonder if this clearly answers your
question. March 12, 2000 (2) What is the authority and stature of
Father in the spiritual world? Each person will be affected differently
according to the depth of their faith. How do you see it and believe it? During my life on earth, I understood the
existence of God and its value. After this awakening, I almost never pursued
individual directions for my life or lived an individual life. I spent the
rest of my life with one determination: to live for the sake of God. It would
be meaningless to deplore my not having known about the value of the True
Parents while I lived on earth, for I was not living in a time in which to
benefit from the merit of the age and serve the True Parents. But if I could
be reborn and serve on earth the Parents of Heaven and Earth even for a
month, or even for a day, and then return to the spiritual world, I would be
able to live here with much more pride. But even here, I have understood the will
of the Lord and met you in the holy name of Blessing through the grace of the
Lord, and so what more can I ask for? When I go to the upper level of the
Unification Realm of the Spiritual World, where Dr. Lee lives, I cannot but
envy him and have regrets. I feel this more intensely to the heart especially
when I listen to President Eu's Divine Principle
lectures or Dr. Lee's Unification Thought lectures, as they make me strongly
wish I had been born in the same age as the Messiah. If I had lived in such
an age, just like Dr. Lee, I would have left many writings on the teaching of
the True Parents and their vision of humanity. But I can only console myself
by thinking about my immense gratitude for receiving special privileges in
the spiritual world that are not available to most other spirits. Here, there
are many famous people with different Yanks, and yet many of them do not know
the value of the Lord. God, True Parents, Father, and Mother, I
am truly overwhelmed with gratitude. From now on, I will try to spread the
news about the True Parents to the multitude of believers here in the
spiritual world, distributing messages, small booklets, leaflets, etc. to
them according to their situation. I am hesitating a little now, however,
because I feel that it might be impertinent of me to do it right away. For a
certain period, I intend to focus on broadly conveying the profound meaning
of the True Parents here. March 15, 2000 (3) How deeply do you understand the value
of the True Parents' Blessing and how much gratitude and joy do you feel
about it? Earlier I have talked about the noble
value of the True Parents; after having invested my utmost into serving God,
I think that waiting for the One who is to come is itself very precious. Now
that I have come to know the Savior of the heaven and earth and the True
Parents, how can I express my joy so you can understand it? Furthermore,
since I have even discovered the truth through the teaching of the True
Parents and the Divine Principle, my life now is nothing but joy and
gratitude. I am so ashamed, however, when I look at
the large volume of work I left on earth. When I was introduced to the
teaching and truth of the True Parents through elder church members such as
President Eu and Dr. Lee, who had been spiritually
raised personally by the True Parents, I felt a deep inspiration and thought
that I was truly blessed even though I had not personally met the True
Parents yet. And now that I have even received from them the Blessing, which
is most precious in the cosmos, I am simply overwhelmed with gratitude. I do
not know how to convey this heart, and I feel so much pressure for not being
able to do so. Since I have received such a great and uncommon blessing, I
have made a determination to live for the purpose of repaying the True
Parents' grace. I have heard about the value of the Blessing through the
Unification Principle, and firmly believe that it is truly a marvelous grace
and that the greatest tragedy of humanity is the loss of the Blessing. In
this sense, I am sincerely grateful to have received through the Blessing
you, Lady Kang, who have worked hard and accumulated great merits in your
life on earth, while I feel so sorry about my unworthiness. In the past, I could not offer my mind and
body as wholly God's, but now that I have consecrated my mind and body
through the Blessing, I will invest my best efforts to be a true child worthy
to serve God and True Parents. Before God and True Parents, I want to
thoroughly repent of my misguided life on earth. And by taking the grace of
Blessing deep to my heart, I will strive to return glory to God and True
Parents and create an exuberant family. March 20, 2000 (4) Many Christians on earth adore and
respect you. What is your relationship with God in the spiritual world and
what are you currently engaged in? Did you say that many Christians on earth are adoring Augustine? When I was on earth, I lost myself
in the love of God and gave my utmost to serve God, and yet did not think
deeply about the Second Advent of the Lord, although I was not totally
nonchalant about it. But I always wish I had been born and
worked in a better age. The place I am in at the moment has a good
environment as a land of sacred blessing. But in my relationship with God, I
still cannot experience the deep heartistic bond of
the parent and child; in fact, here, as in my life on earth, I am just
keeping the Principle that I should serve God as my parent. Although God's
love toward me seems unchanging, past or present, it seems, to be honest,
that I have not yet become God's child of heart. After realizing the
existence of God while on earth, I created a large corpus of humble work
about Christianity. On the other hand, the True Parents have come in the
Completed Testament Age and shed light on the fundamental issues concerning
the providence of restoration and God's love for human beings. As I compare
them, my work seems so poor and shameful. Before God and True Parents, the
perspectives and opinions in my meager work embarrasses
me. When you say that many Christians take delight in my philosophy and adore
me, I can only take it as a praise out of your warm
regard for me. Before I understood the value of the True Parents and the
Unification Principle, I devoted myself to studying God from the standpoint
of Christian thought; however, now, since I am now living in a realm where I
can hear the Unification Principle and be near God, I am able to study the
True Parents in a heart-filling adoration for them. Moreover, through the
devoted philosophy lectures of Dr Lee and the heartistic
Principle lectures of President Eu, I am gaining a
great deal of material with which to study the value of the True Parents. Now I am preparing to lecture the
Unification Principle, for it is the truth, and there is no job more
important and precious in the universe than spreading the truth. I do not
know whether they will use me as a Principle lecturer, but I will strive to
be a good Principle lecturer by making the same efforts as I invested on
earth in my books. God once said, "Although Augustine loves God, he has
not experienced God's heart." At that time, I did not know what this
meant, but now its meaning is becoming clearer to me. This makes me even more
sorry and at a loss before God. Lady Hyun Shil
Kang! Frankly speaking in reply there are too many shameful things in my
life. I always feel that had I known the Unification Principle on earth and
created some works on it, I would not be as ashamed as I am now. From now on,
however, I will leave this silly thought behind, and by studying the
Unification Principle hard, and bearingwitness to
the True Parents, I will do my best to be able to stand in the position of
the true child. March 25, 2000 (5) The good and truthful guidance you
gave to many people of faith on earth have raised your stature as an object
of admiration by both Protestants and Catholics. Now, how strongly do you
feel the responsibility to lead them (through spiritual work) to the True
Parents? It has been an incredible glory in my life
for me to have known the great will of God and True Parents, an opportunity
rare to most people. I did not accept the teaching all at once, however, but
only through many hard steps. Until the heartbreaking stow of the providence
came home to me through my endless prayers, and careful and detailed reading
of the Unification Principle, I had to struggle fiercely in my heart and
spend considerable time. One problem that was especially difficult
for me was the part on the advent of the Messiah: it was very hard to digest
the fact that many truly devout Christians could not enjoy the merit of the
age when the True Parents of mankind came, whom we
human beings need the most. I, myself, had also been concerned just
with sewing God, without worrying about how to wait for and receive the
coming Lord, for I had thought that serving God well would automatically give
me the privilege of seeing the Lord. In fact, however, God's providence has
been proceeding in a totally different direction from my faith and hope, and
this posed no small difficulties for me. Lord Jesus said that he would come like a
thief to the faithful and make known the day of his coming to those who were
awake, and I believed it literally, having no way to know any providential
facts other than this. I did not know the truth at all until I heard the
Unification Principle. I think there are many people on earth and in the
spiritual world who think the same as I used to, and so I obviously have the
responsibility to bring them the knowledge of the True Parents. I strongly
feel that it is my mission to connect them to the True Parents through
spiritual works. I think, however, that it is very difficult to start a
spiritual work if there is no relationship whatsoever between people on earth
and people in the spiritual world. If earthly people are nonchalant about
spiritual phenomena, it makes the job very difficult. Just like Dr. Lee, I
thought that sending So I will concentrate on bearing witness
to the True Parents in the spiritual world. When you focus on the Christian
ecumenical movement on earth, I will visit and work with the people on earth
who have the suitable circumstances and backgrounds and help your ecumenical
work yield splendid fruits. Through such cooperation between heaven and
earth, I want to resolve my sorrow of not having been able to receive the
True Parents on earth. I wonder if this answer is satisfactory to you. April 1, 2000 (6) Our True Parents desire that you
return to earth to Protestants as well as Catholics to bear witness to the
True Parents, and what do you think about this? If Catholicism and Protestantism are
God-centered churches that respond to the divine call, there must be many
clergy members and devotees who have been waiting all their lives for the One
who is to come. It is very difficult, however for me to move their hearts
towards the True Parents through the work of earthly return. It is impossible
to achieve it just through my spiritual work in the spiritual world. There is
a preliminary condition necessary before it can happen: a relationship of
mutual exchange between activities of people on earth and people in the
spiritual world must be established. Without such a relationship, it seems
that the job is very difficult to do. Nonetheless, if it is what the True Parents
desire, I will try to make it possible through all the channels available. First of all, for this, the Protestant and
Catholic groups must unite and form a group in the spiritual world that
naturally bears witness to the True Parents. The members of this group can
return to the people on earth with whom the members
have a common base. Some members of this group can also help behind the
scenes where you are working. So you will have to prepare a foundation for
their operation on earth; if that happens, then I will mobilize the group in
the spiritual would to that place, hearing about the meaning and direction of
your earthly activities and explaining it to them. Thank you very much for
giving me new material and inspiration with which to carry out my activities
here in the spiritual world. April 3, 2000 (7) If our True Parents are the Parents of
Heaven and Earth, our most urgent task is to save Protestants and Catholics
through them, and we should assume our portion of responsibility for this.
What do you think about this? Lady Kang! You keep pressing me with the
same question, but my heart is unchanging. When I know the fundamentals of
faith, just because the right path is lonely and stormy, can I take another
route? I will give my utmost to try to save them, although I feel that I am
doing this very late. However hard I may try, however, I would
not be able to do the job as well as the Unification family members and
leaders who have been serving the True Parents on earth. If they come to know the motivation of my
conversion of faith, they might be able to refresh their own faith. When I
came to know God, insuppressible fire and courage rose up in my heart, and
this is why I have been able to live for the sake of God only. Unfortunately, however, it was only after
I shed my physical body that I came to understand the true will of God and
became reborn to a new dimension in the process of the providence of
restoration. If someone on earth recognizes me, then I will confidently
appear to them and convey God's will to them. I have a genuine desire to
transmit with all my strength the incredible content of the Divine Principle
and announce the appearance of the True Parents and the Parents of Heaven and
Earth. I am going to become crazy for it. Now that I have seen the troubles
faced by the True Parents, who must resolve the sorrow of God, who has been
waiting and enduring throughout the providence of restoration, and must bring
conclusion to the grief-ridden history, I will never turn a coward in the
place of suffering or disgrace the name of St. Augustine. (8) You should help turn Christianity on
earth into the religion of the True Parents, and now that the Federation of
the Cosmic True Parents has been organized, we should stage a great
revolution to transform heaven and earth while our True Parents are living on
earth. What is your opinion about this? The Christians hope of life is to receive
the Christ at the Second Advent. They always harbor this dream as the
fundamental basis of their faith. Rev. Moon has come as the Christ and True
Parent and already had his eightieth birthday, and yet most of the truthful
believers having no idea about his coming or his being the True Parent, still
eagerly await the day of Christ's coming with prayers every morning and
evening and services every Sundays. This is the reality of the Christians. Contrary to their stubborn belief, just
like Jesus, Christ at the Second Advent had to be born in the flesh to be
able to save people, and yet they are only thinking about the Christ who will
come on the clouds of heaven. Hence, it is very hard for me to change their
ways of thinking. Considering the era of Jesus, when he was supposed to come
on the clouds, and this era, Christians might be able to reason that the
returning Christ cannot but come in the flesh rather than on the clouds.
However, it would be almost unimaginable to them that the Christ has come in Here in the spiritual world, there are
many spirits who understand this reality and regret their old ways; on earth,
however, people rely on their physical senses only, refusing to go beyond
their narrow boundaries and recognizing and accepting no other way as greater
then their own. This attitude is characteristic not just of Christians but
also of other people of faith and even non-believers. Since this place is
infinitely vast, everyone cannot but live according to their
own position and their own opinion. If they manage to go beyond such
narrowness and stand in the position of God's children, however, their views
and vision will surely expand widely. If they come to live in God's light,
they will be able to understand what they have been unable to before, and
become very quick in catching the reality. As they compare the events occurring in
such an environment and their old bodily lives, they will be able to discover
their mysteriously changed selves. Moreover, as their self-realization in
God's light confirms their progress, their attachment to earthly joys will disappear.
In fact, what happens on earth and what happens in the spiritual world are
causally connected, and thus they are supposed be known to us, and yet now,
their relationship is cut off; this is why I am giving you such a detailed
account. If the two worlds are to be united, they must go through a certain
process. If the people on the same earth mostly fail to recognize the True
Parents, how much more will the spirits, who are without physical bodies and
living in a different world? There should be a common base if people on earth
and people in the spiritual world are to work together so is it likely this
can be realized easily, all at once in a morning? Now is the Completed Testament Age, when,
empowered by the merit of the age and the triumphant foundation of the True
Parents, the spiritual world and the earth come close and become one. A huge
number of spirits are being Blessed. Furthermore, as you know, the True Parents
have become the True Parents of heaven and earth, and thus can easily move
the spiritual world with their word. Unlike the past, the stages of action on
earth and in the spiritual world have radically changed. In order for a
common base to be concretely laid between the two worlds, however, we need
time. When you say that we should transform
heaven and earth while the True Parents are on earth, it comes to me as a
heavy responsibility. I am not saying that it is utterly impossible. I would
like to actively support the cause, investigating many different avenues of
achieving it. Please, Lady Kang, pray constantly for this cause, for that
will provide stepping stones for my spiritual work and a stage for my
activity. April 8, 2000 (9) Now, a very urgent time has come. You
will have to consult and unite with many saints and people of wisdom in the
spiritual world and return to earth especially to witness to the Christians
about the True Parents. What is your opinion about this? Both on earth and in the spiritual world,
I have always lived in awe of God. However, there was one thing about which I
always felt sorry in front of God, and this was my not having had a family to
offer God. Although the basic principle of God decrees that we establish a
family and return beautiful conjugal love to God, I did not achieve it. In
this sense, I saw that I was not a dutiful son, although I even gained the
title of I have not yet become a Divine Principle
lecturer, nor have I achieved a complete heartistic
oneness with God. I am now centrally concerned with the question of how to
grow beyond the position of a shameful child. Instead of just keeping the joy
and excitement of the Blessing, should I not develop my abilities and achieve
a heartistic harmony to do something for God with
my unique talents? Lady Kang, you have advised me to consult
with the four great saints, but to be honest, it hurts my pride a little.
Although I wholly exerted myself in the service of God, I still did not
become one of the four great saints. So please do not urge me too much. I
will try to keep the dignity of They are still new and unfamiliar with the
Divine Principle lectures of President Eu and the
Unification Thought lectures of Dr. Lee, and they will need to have endurance
until they have grown away from such moods. About helping the Christians, I have
mentioned that several times before. I think your high expectation for me is
desirable and natural. I am certain that your expectation will be realized,
so please make many prayers for me. Please pray that I can soon stand in the
front-line and that God's Holy Spirit can be with me. Thank you, Lady Kang. I
will do my best in order not to disappoint you. April 9, 2000 (10) On earth, you walked a road of
tribulation for seventy-six years, and so God and True Parents remembered you
and Blessed you with me, despite my unworthiness. From now on, experiencing
gratitude in mind and body, why do we not work together, you from the
spiritual world and I from earth, to liberate and comfort God and bring joy
to our True Parents? Although I served only God in my life on
earth, after I understood the Divine Principle, I could not help feeling
ashamed and unworthy. First of all, I felt so before the heart of God, who
had to lead the providence of Restoration. As I thought about the sorrow and
suffering of God that He had to experience after the creation of His
children, I felt so sorry for my past life, when I did not know the
Principle. When I learned through the Principle about
the relationship between human beings and God after the fall, Adam and Eve's
motivation behind the fall, and so forth, I felt so embarrassed about my
title, Also, it will be a great mission for us as
a couple to offer God our conjugal devotion and beauty. Let us fill the
emptiness of our past and present defects with our practice of true love. I
would like to set my life goal as practicing true love. Although I am a
sinner who cannot be forgiven by God and the Messiah, I will consider myself
forgiven and exert myself for the restoration of all Christians. I know that
the great mandate I have received from you is not only to cherish and fulfill
the grace of the Blessing but also to carry out my filial duty so as to be
remembered eternally by the True Parents. I am truly grateful to you, and I
will eternally keep this heart. This way, let us join our forces from earth
and heaven in order to bring shining glory to God and True Parents. (11) I have many defects in many aspects
and have made many errors in my past life. I have not been able to walk the
path of a dutiful daughter to the True Parents. So please give me your warm
understanding and spiritual guidance. Lady Kang, we are all sinners and wayward
children who cannot appear before God and True Parents. Moreover I am
unworthy of any woman as my wife, like you, Lady Kang. However, I think that rather than
lamenting and shrinking over our errors and defects, it is much wiser and
desirable to follow the way of the child and try to remove the pain and
sorrow Of our parents, thereby standing boldly in the position of the child
where they originally hoped us to be. If we always agonize over our failings
in the past, this will bring move pain to our True Parents' heart. Hence, if
we boldly rise up and transcend our lamentations and anxieties, to walk the
path of the true child before God and True Parents, would this not eventually
make us genuine sons and daughters? Since you have me as your husband despite
my defects, with you I will no more talk about my defects and unworthiness,
for doing so would not at all help me overcome myself. I do not wish to be
stuck with my regrets and frustrations over the things of the past. Lady
Kang! Let us worry about the future rather than the past, and seek
opportunities to develop ourselves and study those materials so that we as a
couple can turn our past faults into a shining offering and return glory to
God. Since you have your body, please cover my portion of the duty to serve
the True Parents and prepare a foundation on which I can provide spiritual
help. This requires assiduous prayers and spiritual effort. Please help me be
able to visit the earth and stay there always. I am sure you know what this
means. April 11, 2000 (12) I hope that you receive Dr. Lee's
guidance and hear President Eu's lectures as much
as possible In the spiritual world. How about studying the Divine Principle
through this? It was in a Divine Principle seminar held
by the Unification group that I first encountered the Unification Principle.
In this seminal; I heard the Principle lectures several times. This opened my
eyes to some extent to the essential truth, and yet there were still quite a
few lingering uncertainties. At that time, my heart did not open up so that I
could ask questions. After a while, many of my problems were further resolved
through several Unification Principle seminars and lectures, but my ultimate
question still remained unanswered. I could not ask this question because my
heart was not open. Although President Eu gave us
impassioned Principle lectures here in the spiritual world, at that time I
neither remembered the lecturer's name nor had an interest in the content.
Little by little, however, his loyal heart and systematic presentation drew
my interest to the Principle and opened my eyes to the new truth. On the
other hand, Dr. Lee's Unification Thought lecture made possible a detailed
understanding of the Principle. DR Lee's fine and detailed lectures and his
humility and single-mindedness were something I truly wanted to take after. When President Eu
and Dr. Lee started giving lectures, they continued regardless of the
situation of the audience. In this atmosphere, I discovered many new things.
Both of them made me wonder how they could speak with so much wholehearted
zeal and fascination with the content. Their respect and service toward their
teacher their resonance with their teacher's heart, and their humility,
kindness, and use of respectful speech in lecture struck me with great
inspiration. I asked myself if I would have been able to speak with such a
fire had I met Jesus in Bethlehem of Judea. Through their lectures, I came to deeply
understand the background of the age, the providence through parallel ages,
God's hearts of hope, sorrow, and suffering, and so forth. Also, I came to
understand a great deal about the value of the Blessing and rebirth. So I am
truly grateful to Dr. Lee and President Eu. Also,
through the true love of many Unification family members, including these two
teachers, I have honestly experienced my heart boundlessly opening up and in
passion. I am growing day by day in such an atmosphere. I have seen a big difference between
hearing a Principle lecture with my mind closed and hearing it with a
determination to be a lecturer I am really fortunate to have understood the
essence of the Principle even now. The more deeply I delve into Unification
Thought, the more new things I discover about academic knowledge. Dr. Lee has
a strong determination, and receives a great deal of love from God. I am
learning from him as he serves God closely and consults with Him. In order to
study the Principle deeply, I have to serve these two teachers closely. Lady
Kang, do not worry about this. I will learn a lot from these two teachers as
far as the Divine Principle is concerned. Always with gratitude towards God
and True Parents, I will devote myself to the study of the Unification
Principle. April 12, 2000 (13) Especially, I beseech you to appear
to the major leaders of Christianity by all means and witness to them about
our God and True Parents and testify to the truth of the work of our True
Parents. It is the hope of God and True Parents
that the earth and the spiritual world become one. I have clearly understood
through the Principle, however, that their failure to be one has caused the
prolongation of the providence and directly led to God's sorrow and agony. Now, in order to connect the spiritual and
physical worlds, the True Parents of heaven and earth and the saving Messiah
is Blessing a myriad of spirits and transmitting messages to earth through
Dr. Lee so that earthly people can have a clear idea of the reality of the
spiritual world, where all human beings are to stay forever Since God has
created us as an organic unity of the physical and spiritual selves, the
physical and spiritual worlds must become one in this image. We should have
seriousness before this absolute mandate. We must understand this fundamental
principle to be able to live eternally in the original garden desired by God.
If people on earth see and believe this, they will be able to truly feel that
their family members, friends in faith, and relatives who have left for
heaven are helping them from their eternal abode. Since this world is
invisible, however; people on earth will disbelieve and doubt it. This is why
our True Parents are providing an education in the spiritual world. If
earthly people can see this, they will come to realize the truth of the True
Parents' words and Unification Principle. Even without my bearing witness to
the work of the True Parents, soon there will come a day when its truth is
revealed to the whole world. Seeing the importance of this, Dr. Lee is
always communicating the reality of the spiritual world to earth by preparing
textbooks. The content of these textbooks is true and factual. It will bring
about a great change in the future. Since Christians do not know who Dr. Lee
is, however they will respect and trust my influence more than words. In my
opinion the truth is what clearly teaches people on earth the reality of the
spiritual world and the fact that their eternal dwelling place is prepared in
the spiritual world. The True Parents of heaven and earth are the Messiah,
who moves freely between the spiritual and physical worlds and who should be
upheld as the standard for absolute obedience in our lives. This Messiah
instructed Dr. Lee to reveal the reality of the spiritual would, and Dr. Lee
absolutely obeyed the Messiah's order, studied and analyzed the truth of the
spiritual world, and prepared textbooks for the people on earth. Then, can we
deny the truth Of this textbook, when it has been produced according to the
Messiah's orders? The countless words uttered by the True
Parents on earth will be an eternal truth for humanity. Hence, we should
spread this Unification Principle and the words of the True Parents to many
Christians. I believe that the first-priority mission of earthly people is to
widely disseminate the words of the living Messiah. What could be more urgent
than this? In order to stage a revolution in the spiritual world, we need
help from people on earth, and in turn an earthly revolution requires help
from the spiritual world. But it is the people on earth who should take
responsibility for the words spoken by the True Parents on earth. Lady Kang,
the mission of our couple is to spread to the whole world, especially to the
Christians, the three hundred volumes of True Parents' speeches and the
thematically organized volumes of their speeches. As for my writings on
earth, do not try to hold on to them because they will bring no substantial
benefits. Lady Kang! Let us invest ourselves into
carrying out our mission from our given position. If Augustine works in the
spiritual world and Lady Kang acts on earth, I am sure that miracles will
happen in the spiritual world and on earth. April 13, 2000 (14) You left many writings on earth, and
many people in later generations have been enjoying them. If your work has
differences from our Principle, however are you willing to correct your work? Lady Kang! Until I became I have thought that if I had known about this
and, based on this knowledge, written in detail about God's heart of anguish
and grief, the history of God's tears would have been shortened. As for my
writings, however, I have no intention at all to revise them now, for they
have meaning in themselves based on the circumstances of the age and my
experience at that time. Through the Principle, I have learned and
experienced such things as God's heart of sorrow and pain, the value of the
Messiah as the Savior of heaven and earth, the relationship between God and
human beings, the relationship between human beings and nature, the human
fall, and the providence of Restoration. Hence, based on this new experience
and understanding, I would like to transmit new messages, with a heart of
repentance over my erroneous past views on the universe, life, and the world.
I wonder, however, whether this can be done properly, for, as you know, I
have no body. And although this task is accomplished properly, I do not know
how much the people on earth will trust it. But I will do my best in order to
make it happen. I will analyze the materials for earthly people, especially
the Christians, and prepare my message. I think this is the least Z can do
for God and True Parents. If I were to correct and rewrite my work
done on earth in light of the Divine Principle according to your suggestion,
it would not be a holy offering to God. Rather, if I faithfully record what I
have newly felt and experienced in the spiritual world, this can be my candid
confession of life and my pure offering to God. Only then, I think, will my
message serve as an edifying insight for the people on earth just like the
spiritual communications of Dr. Lee. Such a work will, I hope, be able to
serve as a textbook that can enlighten many people with the knowledge of God
and True Parents, and when earthly people enter the spiritual world, it can
serve as a guide to lead them directly to the original place of God. Then,
when the True Parents come to the spiritual world, would they not praise me,
saying, Augustine, you have played a good part? In teaching the truth of the
spiritual world, I would like to stand in a position to offer at least a
small condition to the True Parents. Lady Kang, now I would like to conclude
answering your fourteen questions. I know that my answers fall short of
satisfying you, but please understand that this is the best I can give from
my current position. Please pray for me. April 14, 2000 |