ORDER NUMBER
94-04-17-17
REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON
THE SETTLEMENT OF TRUE LOVE
BEGINS FROM THE
TOP CENTRAL POSITION
April 17, 1994
Belvedere, International Training Center
Translator - Sang Kil Han
As you may see, the topic of Father's sermon this morning is unusually
long: Cham Sarang Eui Ahnchak Eun Choaego Eui Dae Pyo Ja, Joong
Shim Ja Jariaeso -- The Settlement of True Love Begins from the Top
Representative's Position and the Top Central Position. Do you
understand what this means? Before Father begins his sermon today he
would like to mention that there are just three more universities that
True Children will speak at in order to cover all of the major
universities in the U.S. This is a critical time of transition to see
who will lead all of the youth of the world, the second generation.
This is a very crucial question. Through the Bible we are reminded that
all of the first generation faltered in the wilderness after the forty
years of wandering, but the second generation were the ones who went
forward into Cannan. At that time the second generation were to have
envisioned a new nation and undertaken the building of that new
nation. Now is the time in history when the Unification Church must
re-indemnify that. Envisioning the new nation means the Kingdom of
Heaven on earth. This enormously important work rests on Mother's
shoulders. It means that all mothers should have educated youngsters in
preparation for this end.
American families are in great crisis and the responsibility for
healing this lies with the mothers of the families of this nation. In
spite of the difficulties, if the mothers were alert and had gone
straight forward embracing their children, then we would not have had
to face the present crisis in this country. Uniting mother and children
is so important, and now is the transition time. At the time of the
Fall mother and children did not unify in this way, rather they
followed Satan's way and fell into Hell. This needs to be restored
today. The expansion that has taken place since the Fall has not been a
good expansion, rather Hell on earth is being expanded day by day. The
mother of the original family did not fulfill her responsibility.
Therefore, now is the time for mothers, as the center of the family, to
embrace children and lead them into the right direction. Therefore
Father established the Women's Federation for World Peace for this
purpose. The mothers are taking responsibility at this time and the
purpose of the Federation is to embrace the children and follow the
path of God and True Parents.
Father proclaimed the settlement of True Family which means the same
as how to nurture the second generation and how to lead them to the
right direction. Here in America representing Parents, we are to
embrace the second generation. This country, together with True
Children, has begun the crusade of covering 3,000 universities and
addressing the students. We now stand in the historical position,
centering upon the mothers of the Blessed couples together with their
children, joining with True Parents' family to address the whole second
generation of this nation. [Father draws on the board] True Parents
family and Blessed families together with the children, representing
plus and minus, uniting together to fulfill our mission. This is the
mission God is calling us to do at this time. We have to complete it no
matter how difficult it might be. Now we have begun to establish, and
are undertaking the establishment of the Youth Federation of World
Peace together with the alumni and students of the universities. Those
two positions represent Cain and Abel and when they come together and
unite then the Parents can settle upon them. Then God can reside there
and we can do anything. This is the formula which God and Parents have
been preparing so hard for, and we are right in the midst of it now.
Reverend Pak and Dr. Baughman have been called to organize the
events to cover 3,000 universities. Korea has already made and is
undertaking the schedule of covering 220 universities and Japan is
undertaking 1600. As Father has told us many times, if the Adam, Eve
and Archangel countries conform to Parents' wishes then all other
countries of the world will follow their example. America is cozily
settled and to separate from the children is difficult. Once you become
greatly involved in it and not able to take care of your families so
much, you appear almost like beggars. That is how the chosen nation
looked when they were on the verge of entering Cannan. This is exactly
what happened in the days of the Israelites when they were about to
enter into Cannan, they wanted to get married with the more affluent
levels of pagan society and surrounding countries and then they simply
lost their direction. The most important point was that they failed to
educate the young children at that time. They were about to enter
Cannan and amidst all the other difficulties they failed to see that
the difficulty was temporary, and that in order to determine their
eternal life, they needed to educate their children with tears. That is
what had to be done at the time of the Israelites. The Unification
Church is passing now through this stage of time forearmed and aware of
the time that we are living in. It is such a strikingly similar
parallel of history that we find ourselves in today.
All the second generation who have graduated from universities,
together with their own mothers will participate in this crucial
activity. Those who are sixteen years and above are ready to think in
such a manner and to take on that kind of mission. Sixteen or seventeen
is the same age that Adam and Eve were when they fell. Do you
understand? What is the motto of this year? (The Safe Settlement of
True Parents and the Completed Testament Age.) Not just settling, but
settling safely and comfortably. This means that Parents literally
settle down, not wandering about in search of settlement. Now is the
time to settle. The Israelites did not have a nation at that time, and
today Korea is divided between North and South. However, once they
become united then the country will come into being. As we all know,
North Korea with the worst kind of Father and South Korea with True
Father are confronting now. Only True Father can bring about unity
between them. Everyone in Korea now knows that only Reverend Moon can
unify North and South Korea. The Korean people commonly think this
way. America may have a difficult time in understanding where to begin
in order to bring about the unification of North and South. However,
they begin to have a lead to understanding Father's connection with
both countries now. South Korea has tried and tried to bring about
unification, but they are silently giving up.
Think how difficult it is to translate, Father has to always
supplement for us otherwise the meaning will be incomplete. Why have so
many different languages and customs emerged throughout history? Since
Satan knows that God is to unify the whole world and bring it all into
the Kingdom of Heaven, then Satan has been dividing people and creating
wars and enmity. If there are five billion population in this world
then all five billion do not understand the correct direction. Only one
direction is correct and yet they do not know that. There is only one
direction through which we all must go and yet all five billion are all
going off in slightly different directions. There is no one accepted,
understood way that everybody can comfortably follow. Everything is
divided, including Christendom; and all other religions as well are
divided and fighting each other. Whenever there is division and
fighting God cannot reside. Satan can always claim that position.
History has been one of war and fighting. The reason we have wars on a
global level is because at the individual level the mind and body are
fighting. We are the beginning point of all war. When our mind and body
will become united then the world will be united. When will this take
place? As men of religion we must always come to this point: it is
myself and not somebody else who is at fault. The mind is connected to
God and the body is connected to Satan. There is a crossing point of
life and death and that demarcation line is right within each one of
us.
What we have to do is to have our mind pull our body into the domain
of the mind. How to break that boundary within me is the question. With
this premise Father always fought, at the individual level taking a
certain direction, and the family, the nation all going towards one
direction. Father has been fighting and preparing in this way and this
is the history of the Unification Church. Family connecting with the
tribe, the tribe with nation, and the nation with the world and even to
God in a consistent direction. No one has this idea except the
Unification Church members. Unification Church stands on one line, the
individual, family, clan, nation and world also stand on that same
line; God is also on that same line. Since this has been accomplished
we will have free travel back and forth between God and the
individual. God will have the same freedom of travel just as between
parents and children. What should an individual do? An Individual
should connect to the family. In order to do that what do we have to
do? We have to invest and sacrifice for the higher purpose of the
family. If five members of the family all want to go in different
directions then I, as an individual, must sacrifice for the sake of all
other members of the family. We have to sacrifice and invest. The
smaller number should sacrifice for the sake of the whole and this
concept is so important and yet so foreign to us. We cannot sacrifice
many families for the sake of one family. Rather an individual family
should sacrifice for a greater number of families. This principle
applies all the way up the scale, even at the world level. No matter
how many nations there are in the world, God is One and we have to
center upon God. Each country should sacrifice for the sake of other
countries to obtain this goal.
God also invests for the sake of True Love as a partner. All have
sacrificed for the sake of God and it then becomes God's turn to
sacrifice for the sake of all others who have sacrificed for Him. This
is exactly what God is doing. This plus and minus will make give and
take action. Do you follow? What is True Love to do? True Love, and
only True Love can make peace within the conflicting self. Mind and
body are fighting constantly even though they try not to, but only True
Love can make the peace within us. So far mankind has had love within
themselves, but it has not been True Love and therefore was not strong
enough to make peace within ourselves. With the help of True Love
however, we can make peace within ourselves. Since the Fall took place
with false love, consequently it will take True Love to restore mankind
and unite them again. True Love is that force which can make unity
between mind and body. With True Love husband and wife come into
perfect union; the same applies to parents and children. Without True
Love the unification between parents and children cannot come about. Do
you understand?
As you see we already have the grand solution to the peace of the
world. The original starting point for world peace is myself and my
family. However, today we observe a nation with a mistaken idea. We see
how nations think that they can maintain peace and unification through
military power or political power. However, these are quite inadequate
to bring about world peace. There is no True Love within the reliance
on military and political power and we cannot hope for peace in such
circumstances. In order for the safe settlement of True Love to come
about we must have a representative and central person. Who is that
highest central figure? (True Father.) On the side of the mind, which
we cannot see, is God and He is the highest representative and highest
central figure. God is True Parents and He has a body which is in the
object position and God is in the mind's position. These must become
one. [Father draws on the blackboard to demonstrate.] Here we have to
achieve unity between mind and body and as a unified being, unite
together with True Parents and God. True Parents and True Love [Father
draws on the board]. This is mind side and this is body side, subject
and object. Do you follow?
The result of the Fall brought about the worst parents and the worst
love. The world is now residing in the atmosphere of the worst kind of
love so that God cannot exist in this world, Satan always takes all
sovereignty. The world needs True God, True Parents, True Love. True
God has always been sacrificing again and again but at the time of
harvest we will bring all to the warehouse of God. As mankind fell so
did the archangelic world and the material world together with
humankind. The whole world came into the realm of Satan leaving God all
by Himself. It means most specifically that God lost all women, and all
children. The fallen world is like a toilet. (Laughter.) That is
true. (Laughter.)
What is the qualification of this representative and central
figure? It is the Adam who did not fall, the Adam and Eve that did not
fall. Adam whose mind and body have been united through True Love, and
the Eve whose mind and body has been united through True Love. The
salvation promise that God has always been giving to mankind has always
been centered upon this. Such individuals would be the bride and
bridegroom who were to come. Christianity's position and role is that
of a bride who is awaiting the advent of the Messiah. That Messiah is
in this position [indicating on the board] of bridegroom. The hope for
the bride (Christianity) is to eradicate her fallen nature and sin and
become the perfect bride to be wed by the groom (the Messiah to come).
Satan made the separation between the two and now God should come and
cause them to be united. Once they become united then Satan will no
longer have a place to occupy. That is why unification is important,
that is why the Unification Church is important. Once unification
occurs at all levels then Satan will be chased away forever. Do you
follow? (Yes.)
This is plus and minus [indicating on the board] and they are to
become one. The representative stands in the position of God and the
plus and minus realms. He stands here and then he settles down in True
Love. Beginning with the individual it is connected to the family,
clan, nation and world and all will go into the same direction. Adam
and Eve are in the top position. Even though he stands here
[indicating to the board] he is still the center of the world. He is
the center of the individual, the family, the tribe, the nation. Do you
follow this? (Yes.) He is the top representative but at the same time
the center of all. Top and center of the whole universe and cosmos.
Mind and body become one and men and women become one and between men
and women who is plus and who is minus? Who is in subject position and
who is in object position? Man is in subject position. Even for
American women this truth stands. How can we say this is so? Because
there is always subject and object. Why? We think of God and man
existing separately and independently. But God has no meaning without
man and man has no meaning without God. However, God and man are not
the same, one is subject and one is object. Like God, man is in plus
position because man represents the vertical position. The upper and
lower spheres connect through a vertical line which is man. Do you
understand? (Yes.) God will connect mind and body through the vertical
line. God is in the upper sphere and man is in the lower sphere and God
connects them through the vertical line. That means it is not woman's
role to become vertical here. [Father draws on the board.] Just as man
stands in a minus position to God, likewise the wife stands in the
object position to subject. Women go around the subject or central
position of man. Why? Because the woman does not carry the seed within
her. Man stands in the visible God's position and only man carries the
seed for a child within him. Is that true? (Yes.) The vertical line
alone does not afford God room and space. God needs room and woman
affords Him that room as man and woman interact together and woman goes
around man. God needs space and room for the multiplication of children
in many different directions.
Women do not possess anything which they can call their own. A
woman's breasts and hips do not belong to herself, her face belongs to
her husband and also her sexual organ belongs to husband. The empty
space is as valuable as that which fills it. Within that space woman
can give birth to God's children, not only five or ten but even more.
God will even be amazed at that value of a woman, but it is still an
empty place. If she gives birth to a bad man, that is a bad child; if
she gives birth to a good man that is God's child. This is why the
fruit of knowledge of good and evil is referred to in the Bible.
Originally woman gave birth to a bad seed and this became the problem.
You cannot deny what has happened in history. When a woman looks at a
beggar, so long as he is a man, you should feel his value and bow
down. Why? Because he has the seed of life which you do not. This is
true. This is not what Father is saying to us in order to make us
laugh, this is God's stolen creation. What woman has exists for the
sake of everybody except herself.
Now we know who the top representative is. Let us imagine if mankind
had never fallen. Then would my ancestors and myself have been the sons
and daughters of God or not? (Yes.) Yes, that is a happy yes. The
result of the Fall brought misery to us because we don't have the clear
idea of myself as the representative and center of all things. This is
the result of the Fall. All women, in spite of all the complications,
want to be the highest and most beautiful queen in the whole world
don't you? Don't you? (Laughter.) Don't laugh answer truthfully to
me. (Yes!) YES, emphatically yes. By the same token, all men also want
to be the king of the whole world don't you? (Yes.) That means that men
and women together can be kings and queens? That is the question. You
are blessed in marriage, so do you feel that you became kings and
queens? (Yes.) I mean literally, that all of the kingdom will come and
bow down before you because you are getting married. What is wrong in
our world today is that it has not become the kind of world that
recognizes you as kings and queens because of your marriage. Who
endorses you as king and queen? The people within the kingdom and also
the ancestor of the king. Who is the ancestor of king? God Himself is
the ancestor of the king. The descendants become the next generation of
the king and the immediate next generation of king and queen would have
been Adam and Eve.
The original position was like this, very simple. Do you
understand? (Yes.) Every child which Adam and Eve would have given
birth to, and for future generations, would have been kings and
queens. The kingship would have been inherited down to thousands of
generations. The eight stages are here [drawing on the board] starting
at the individual level to the world and God's level. All eight levels
are here and millions and billions of people are down here. No matter
how many people there may be, still they are united with the king and
queen because that kingship and queenship is connected horizontally to
all children, to all brothers and sisters. Do you follow? Those who
are born first are elder brother kings and the younger are younger
brother kings. Both are kings. Plus and minus but they are one. God can
travel freely within such a kingdom. Do you understand? Everyone is
equal; no matter where you would go, there would be a kingship. All
men and women would be born with the quality of conscience of
understanding that all men and all women are to focus their position on
top. No matter how enormous, centering upon one God all are brothers
and sisters.
Every single one of us, no matter what position we are, wants to be
kings and queens because originally we were supposed to be. No matter
how many people may live in the kingdom, still he is the brother or
sister, the son or the daughter of the main king. This means that he
has inherited everything from the king himself. The same applies to
women as queen. In that position one should be confident that "I
am a son or daughter of God Himself and the king himself." Each
one claims that everyone belongs to him. What makes him or her so
confident that everything belongs to them? It is True Love. After
restoration we can see that we are newly restored Adam and Eve. I can
say that I represent God, king, all things and the whole universe. I am
the representative of all that. Connected through True Love we are able
to stand in that position. We want to love the utmost don't we? Who is
number one? Completed Adam and completed God. We should feel confident
and proclaim that I am perfected Adam who did not fall and I am
perfected Eve who did not fall. Through what can we claim to be
perfected? Centering upon True Love you are able to connect to
everything. With what? (TRUE LOVE.) True Love can make mind and body
united without problem, husband and wife, parents and children and all
the brotherhood can be united without problem with True Love. God
created this formula way and you have to use the formula way. This is
the principled viewpoint. We should invest as God has invested.
Clear? (Yes.)
Always you need to have this clear idea that you are the
representative. Top representative position and center position is my
position. Man's position is only one and woman's position is only one
not two. Man's space and woman's space connects with and represents
everything connecting with True Love. Ultimately God will come down
vertically here at this point [indicating on the board] and connecting
into one with the same value. Do you understand? Same value. We should
be always conscious of the fact that we represent all of the historical
beings in history and all beings on earth. By doing so we stand in this
perfected Adam and Eve's position. We should always have this strong
consciousness and we all want to, don't we? (Yes.) We all want to stand
in the original position. Why did God give me that desire within me?
Because God's original creation was this. [Father draws on the board.]
In the spiritual world it would be connected in such a manner. In
going to the spiritual world we will add this vertical motion, if we
had the horizontal motion here on earth we will be able to make a
motion in all different directions and make a gigantic globe.
You may be certain of the fact that even though my eyes may be
small, still my eyes are the ancestors of all the eyes of the world. My
eyes are representative of all creatures' eyes. My face represents the
whole universe. However, the fallen world does not have this kind of
concept, but the new world is beginning. Until now everything was at an
individual concept, but now Father is teaching that we can do
everything. Eternally expanding. When you were blessed in marriage,
you may have thought that of the 240 million population here in
America, as a man I am one of 120 million. Then as woman you may have
thought you are one of 120 million. But this is so wrong. Then what is
right? There may be 120 million men but you represent every single one
of them. We should think like that because that is God's original way
of thinking. You should invite Heavenly Father to please come down to
our marriage place because we represent them all. Then God will be so
happy to do so. You are a couple representing America whom God has been
waiting for so long. How about you Jim? [addressing Dr. Baughman.] (I'm
working on it Father.) You have to all clearly understand the position
you are standing in now. Public position people will go up and up all
the time whereas individual position people will go down and down all
the time.
When a person stands in a central position then he is the center of
the whole world, at all the different eight stages beginning from
individual to cosmic levels. The entire world population will look at
you as the center. Your couple's lifestyle must be worthy of this
position and if you follow this formula way you can get into Heaven and
stand in the king and queen position. God's property belongs to me,
God's absolute love belongs to me, everything belongs to me as the
center of the cosmos. [Father indicates on the board.] This is the
central position and the top position. All central representative's
have the responsibility for all. In the place of God we, as the central
representatives, take responsibility for everyone. This is the
representative's responsibility. We have inherited the position of
becoming kings and queens but we have also inherited God's
responsibility over all the subjects. The central person must take
responsibility. Secondly, the central representative must protect all
that comes under him. Thirdly, the central representatives
responsibility is to ensure the growth to perfection of those under him
or her. In place of Adam and Eve, as perfected Adam and Eve, we will
take on the responsibility of all mankind; take on the responsibility
of protecting them all from falling away and make sure that they grow
to perfection. This is the pledge we must make as the central person.
If each and every one of us is standing in this original position,
willing and determining to put everything we have into that goal, then
the whole world cannot help but become the Kingdom of Heaven. As God
has been historically investing into us, if we inherit that tradition
and do the same then the whole world will rise higher and higher and
never perish. The only way to prosperity is to invest and invest and
forget that we gave. Do you understand? (Yes.) This is most important
in order to create God's prosperous world. You have to know clearly
this point. Do you understand? (YES!) (Laughter.) Very sharp sound like
a canon firing. (Father laughs. Laughter.) Amen. We have to say that
we will be like Father and even better than Father, standing in front
of him and not behind him. When we do that like crazy then we will
become like God Himself. Father took all of the responsibility of
protecting us, he even went to jail in order to protect us, but I don't
have to do that. We are able to proclaim and shout out as much as we
like because we don't face the danger Father faced. We are free of
persecution now. We have to march on as a victor. This is the spirit we
need to have now. When we all do that then we will take the work away
from Father and he will have nothing more to do but to settle down.
Father is a grandfather now, you are all young guys; how can you
compare yourself to Father?
We should understand that the settlement of True Love can only begin
from this position of central representative and central person. Today
in your family you should challenge your husband and your wife and even
your children, if they have truly become a representative person to the
whole world, representing God, our Parents and taking responsibility
for all things. We should challenge the members of our family then the
whole thing can become perfected. Now Father's position is to encourage
us to rise up to Father's and God's position. You may feel you have
done enough, but that kind of thinking has no place in us. We have to
climb up to God's position. Father has nothing better to say to us than
to tell us to come to God's position. This is the top position, there
is no one who is higher than God. When you are determined to go to that
position, and only too happy because it is the purpose of our life,
then God will visit us here. Through True Love we must accomplish
this. We have not accomplished this in the past because we did not have
True Love. But now with True Love we must accomplish this point. You
can proclaim to the whole world and all things that they cannot see God
because He is invisible, but here I am; you can see me and I am the
visible God. You can be assured that when God needs something which is
visible, touchable, material He cannot create Himself, I can create it
for Him. Only through me God can have whatever He wants to have. We
have to have that kind of confidence in ourselves. We can say that God
cannot create His sons and daughters by Himself, but I can reproduce
sons and daughters and dedicate them to God. God, you are the vertical
being so you only gave birth to one couple, Adam and Eve, but I on the
other hand can create dozens of children and I am better than you. God
will be happy and tell you mansei! Can you imagine? We have to have
that kind of responsible position.
Isn't it true that God created us better than He? We also have that
kind of Godly quality of wanting our husband or wife and children to be
better than we are. Even the worst wife wants her husband to be better
than herself. Isn't it true? (Yes.) God wants to follow us rather than
we follow Him, because He gave birth to only one couple and you can
feel confident to give birth to a dozen couples. We are better
creators. Not in the pattern of the fallen world but the original
world. We are the originators, the first ones to be born. Therefore we
should never think as an individual, this is the result of the Fall.
This is something we have to truly go beyond because we are not
individuals, we are representatives of all. When you take on that
responsibility and you are happy because your life has that value, can
you even imagine divorcing? Divorce destroys your wife, your children
and the country. This is actually taking place. Adam and Eve got
married individually, they did not get married as representatives of
the universe. This is what the Fall was and this is what we have
inherited. Therefore, restoring means going back to God's position and
representing all mankind and protecting them in God's place. Can a
president's wife, Kennedy's wife, marry other people? Of course she can
as an individual, which is fallen. But we have no place as an
individual, fallen or not fallen. Now this morning we should resolve
ourselves to be the banner bearers for the first time in history, the
true representative of all mankind on behalf of God. Let that flag
hoist as high as possible and be visible to all four corners of the
world. Do you understand? (Yes.) Have you lived in that kind of a
fashion until now? Did you hoist the Unification flag high and let it
be seen by people? Have you done that? Do we have our Parents' picture
in our household to make sure who our center is? (Yes.) Did we hoist
our flag in our household? That is the symbol that this house
represents the entire universe, it is the house of the universe. Satan
cannot live there where that flag is flapping in the wind.
Is Father an insane person or not? (NO.) Without following True
Parents there is no way for people to find freedom, hope, liberty,
peace and happiness. Until we inherit the Completed Testament Age and
True Parents' position we will not find these things. How to inherit
this is our mission. Until now we lived in all manner of ways, but
there is only one way of living and that is with God. We should not
live by listening to our husband or wife, but we have to listen
carefully to the calls of today. You have five senses with which to
perceive. From now will you follow this kind of way or not? (Yes!)
Raise your hands if you want to follow that kind of way. Thank you.
(Applause.)
Let us pray