ORDER NUMBER
94-11-23-32
REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON
FIND YOUR TRUE SELF
November 23, 1994
East Garden
Translator - Peter Kim
According to Father's time he has been awake for the past twenty-four
hours. How about you, are you sleepy also? (No.) Father will give you a
straight two hour talk and then finish. [Father writes on the board the
title of his speech.] Can any non-Korean read and understand this
title? [One brother stands and attempts to read the title in Korean
which is followed by laughter.] But his reading is correct, though.
"Chamdoen chashineul chatja - Find Your True Self". This is a
simple title. Do you think that the world out there is good or bad?
(Bad.) Why bad? The human history has been one of struggle and war. It
doesn't matter what history we refer to, they are all mixed up with the
history of war. What about American history? Is America a good society
or a bad society? What about American people? What about yourselves?
Father gives you only two choices: bad or good. (Laughter.) (Good.)
Why do you say 'good'? If the world is bad and America is bad then are
you alone good? Why do you think that fighting and war is bad? Because
through struggle you always decline below the normal line. On the other
hand when people work together in unity their level is always going
up. However, you responded that you yourselves are good. But in
reality you are still in a bad state because your mind and body are
still struggling. Is that not true? (Yes.) But since when did this
fight between mind and body start? From the time of the first human
ancestors. If we reach beyond our original ancestors we reach to God,
so is God struggling between mind and body also? (No.) Why not? When we
come to the concept of God we refer to an absolute being. That concept
of an absolute being denies fight or struggle. But if God is not
struggling and fighting, then why has mankind been struggling all this
time? This struggle between mind and body began with our original
ancestors.
Where is the place from which we were born? My life started from
the very place where my father and mother made love. Therefore we can
conclude that when our father and mother made love to give us life,
that love was not made with total unity centered upon God. Rather there
was an element of struggle and confrontation in their union. The love
itself was not pure enough. Therefore a false life emerged, and a false
lineage emerged. When it comes to the concept of false love, false life
and false lineage, then we can easily draw the conclusion that this is
the position which is contradicting God's original love and life. That
is what we call the human fall. But without the Fall of Man then
humankind would have begun with True Love, True Life and True Lineage.
Our conscience is directly related to God vertically, but there is
also another false plus present. That is why there is always
contradiction and conflict within yourself. How can we conclude that
there is another false plus position there? We can draw this conclusion
from our love relationship, because there is false love there. The
conclusion is that humankind has been receiving false love, false life
and false lineage up until this point. We can trace back to Adam and
Eve, our original ancestors, to see if something went wrong beginning
with them. In the Garden of Eden how many men were there? (One.) What
about the archangel? (He is not a man.) But suppose you had to include
the angel figures? (Four.) Including God it makes five male figures.
What about female figures? (One.) Tell me how many? (Two.) Where do you
find another one? Answer clearly, two or one? (ONE.) From God's point
of view what is that particular woman's position in the Garden of Eden?
As we know, God created man because of love, but when it comes to the
love relationship between God's love and man's love should there be any
confrontation there or should there be unity? (United.) Through what
should the relationship between God's love and man's love be united?
(Man and woman coming together in love.) Where? Have you thought about
it? Through our love-making organs. Have you ever touched love or seen
love with your own eyes? Is love an object which we can touch upon or
we can see? What is it? We cannot touch and see love but we can feel
love. What about life? Can you see life? You cannot see and touch life.
How about our blood lineage, can we see the seed of the human lineage
with your eyes? It takes place when man and woman make love. Concave
and convex is called in Korean "omok bolok" that represents
the love relationship between man and woman.
Are you able to see or touch your conscience? Are you able to touch
and see God? We cannot touch or see Him, so where is He? Up in the air
some place? The earth itself is rotating so heaven up here may become
heaven down below tomorrow in terms of space. If we look at the planet
earth from far way, people at the bottom are standing upside down. For
Chinese people, heaven is America because they are standing in China.
(Laughter.) Where is heaven then, where does God dwell? (In the
conscience.) Heaven explains the state of holiness, highest and most
glorious place. God is the root of love, life, lineage and conscience.
Do you agree? (Yes.) Therefore, Father concludes that God dwells in the
innermost depth of your conscience. Do you understand? (Yes.) If you
pray really seriously and reach a state of real spirituality, you will
be able to communicate with God directly. In this state when you say,
"God, where are you?" Heavenly Father will respond from the center of
your being, "I am here. Why do you call me?" (Laughter.)
We have love and we have life. How about blood lineage? How about
conscience? If anyone denies this he may be considered as a crazy
person. When you sit alone and close your eyes do you feel that you
have love, life and conscience all within yourself? When you are
sitting alone, without moving at all, do you really feel your love,
life and lineage actively within yourself? Why are you unable to feel
them? Every one has five senses, but these senses do not exist for our
own sake alone, but rather for the sake of others. In the same way,
everything that is existing within this universe is existing for
something or someone else. When God created the world He created the
environment first. Within this environment we can see sun, air, water
and soil. When it comes to our five senses, the sun represents our
eyes, our nose represents air, our mouth represents water and soil.
Your face is a representative of these elements. Your forehead
represents God, your nose, Adam and Eve, and your mouth represents the
creation. Also in terms of the number of teeth which you have, there
are four different directions, four corners times eight which is the
number which represents new beginning - in total, thirty-two teeth.
We all have love, life and conscience within ourselves. Suppose
that you alone feel joy and excitement because you possess all of these
and try to kiss yourself for having all of these within you. Do you
think that others will observe you as normal? (Laughter.) That is why
you have to appreciate how precious your partner, your object is. The
same principle is applicable to God; even though He possesses
everything, still He needs a partner, an object of love. When you place
your fingers very close to your eyes you cannot focus them because once
two things become too close, then you can no longer distinguish between
them. When you were a child did you ever try to pick the wax out of
your ears, or the mucus from your nose and taste it? What did it taste
like? (Salty.) Everybody agrees that it tasted salty so it means you
tried to do it. Why don't you feel that it was dirty? Suppose somebody
else offered you their ear wax to taste, would you taste it? (NO.) Why
don't you feel that your own is dirty? Because it is part of yourself.
Have you ever tried counting how many times you blink in one day? (No.)
If you try to count for one hour you would become so exhausted from it.
Why is it that we are unaware of this constant blinking? Because we are
totally united with the action; it is part of us.
When you go to the bathroom and make a smell you don't seem to
mind. However, if somebody else comes and makes the same smell you
want to run out of the bathroom. (Laughter.) Why don't you feel that
your own smell is bad? Because it is one with you. Once you become
totally united then you feel no difference. Raise your right hand and
place it on the left side of your chest. What do you feel? (Heartbeat.)
How many times are you aware of your heart beating during the day? Once
you are involved with activities of the day, you become oblivious to
the beat of your heart. But if you listen to your heart through a
stethoscope it sounds like a loud thumping. If somebody touches even
one strand of your hair you feel it, but when it comes to your
heartbeat it is a hundred times stronger than that touch, yet you don't
feel it. Why? Because you are totally one with it. Historically,
Father is the first one to describe this kind of oneness within
ourselves in terms of our different organ functions.
It is crystal clear that we possess love, life and conscience and
yet we don't feel them because they are totally one with us. By the
same token, God is within the depth of our conscience and yet we don't
feel Him because of the oneness. This is a great revolutionary vision.
People have been seeking for God all throughout history, but failed to
realize that God was within them. Why is it that we cannot feel
something when it becomes totally one with us? We know that we have
love, but if we feel only fifty percent of the love that we have, then,
if somebody comes along with l00 percent of love, still we are only
able to feel fifty percent of their love as well, because of our
limitation. [Father and Peter Kim speak back and forth in Korean and
then Peter Kim says, "This is very complicated to me."] (Laughter.)
Originally we are not supposed to feel love within ourselves because
love is totally one with us. However, if you feel thirty percent of
your love, and somebody comes along with 100 percent of love, due to
your feeling only thirty percent, then that amount will be deducted
from the 100 percent of love, thus enabling you to feel only seventy
percent of somebody else's love. Do you follow? (Yes.) However, if we
do not feel that totally, zero, then if somebody else appears with 100
percent of love we can feel 100 percent also. Do you understand? (Yes.)
There is a strong stimulation there. Do you understand? (Yes.) Once
you feel love 100 percent, then your life and your conscience become
generated into movement. Once you find that 100 percent counterpart of
your love, then your life and your partner's life and conscience can be
stimulated and motivated into action. We can observe this between a
young girl and boy when they find the real oneness through love. Even
their look is different.
Only True Love can generate life, conscience and even lineage.
Since God is the root of True Love, if you fully utilize True Love you
can even activate God Himself. Don't you agree? Because God is the root
of True Love and once His love is activated then your mind and body can
be totally united. It is like a tuning fork [Father draws on the
board]; once you hit this one without even touching the other, because
of this resonance, the other fork can make a vibratory sound. After you
hit this tuning fork and then stop it with your hand, still the other
fork can vibrate and make some sound. Isn't that so? (Yes.) By the same
principle, without the Fall, if God's True Love touched your body, your
mind was supposed to resonate to the impact of that True Love. When
your love partner touches your body, the unseen love and unseen God
within yourself can be motivated and activated. Do you understand?
(Yes.) Do you follow Father? (Yes.)
Suppose Adam and Eve had married as True Love subject and object,
do you think that God within them would have been activated or
motionless? (Activated.) (Father laughs.) It is a serious matter. But
due to the Fall, even though they married physically they were unable
to experience God's True Love. There was no resonating vibration
between this true plus and false plus. The relationship became cut off
by the Fall. Do you understand? Without the Fall, if Adam and Eve had
married, is that the place where True Love would take place or not?
(Yes, it would have.) If that is the case, do you have to feel the root
of that True Love first, or the branch or the stem? (Root.) If that is
the correct answer, then whose marriage would that be in reality?
(God's.) Yes, God's marriage. This is a logical conclusion from which
there is no escape. Because unless God's True Love and man and woman's
True Love have the same original starting point, there will always be
two different directions of love, eventually ending up in different
places. Therefore, no concept of unification, peace, happiness, freedom
and faith can exist there. Nothing can exist there.
Freedom should occur where total unity occurs. For example, if as
husband and wife you had a bad fight with one another, do you feel free
all day long? We have to make sure that everything becomes one and then
that ideal concept can come into place. Without having a True Love
foundation you cannot begin to contemplate freedom and happiness. While
our mind and body are fighting, how can we even talk about freedom and
happiness? As long as our mind and body are fighting, even though we
live as husband and wife together, it means that four different people
are dwelling there. Do you follow? (Yes.) The conclusion is, only upon
the foundation of True Love, which brings total unification, can we
even dare to think about peace and happiness. Who needs freedom,
happiness and hope? God and man both need love, peace and happiness. It
means love without fighting. As long as you continue to fight within
yourself then there is no love, peace and happiness.
Throughout the history there have been many different kinds of
wars, but eventually all of them have come to an end and there has been
a truce. However, the war that has existed between man's mind and body
throughout history has never ceased. This is the most dangerous and
fearful battle. On this battlefield how can we talk about peace?
Because of this ceaseless fight God has been chased out. He has been
unable to dwell with His children. When we chase God out of ourselves
who comes in? Satan. Was this evil force existing from the beginning?
(No.) Many people don't know this. If the devil existed at the same
time as God from the beginning, then we are referring to dualism. We
know that the archangel became Satan. What then is the position of the
archangel after the Fall? False husband and love enemy. It was as
though God was about to marry and this archangel came like a thief and
took His bride, Eve, away and made her into his own wife. Imagine this
scene: the bride of God, Eve, was taken away by Satan. They married
and produced children. Then they come before God as a couple together
with the children and tell God that even though they ran away from Him
they now return and bring these children. Do you think God would be
happy about that? (NO.) Our common sense tells us that if we had to
confront that kind of situation, we would feel like striking them. But
God is still telling us to love our enemy, even that kind of enemy. Can
you do that? We can't find that kind of love in the Principle of
Creation. Can you love that kind of enemy?
If God has to truly love such an adversary, it means that God
considers Himself dead in heart. Why does God love even that kind of
enemy? Because God has to restore them first and bring them to the
Kingdom of God together. In order to do that, God has to restore them
first and have them live their lives as a restored family. Then only
after that can He bring them to the Kingdom of God as the direct
lineage of God. Do you follow? Originally, without the Fall, man was
supposed to live in accordance with God's love and principle and
establish a sinless family. As a family they were supposed to enter
into the Kingdom of God. But due to the Fall they became Satan, and the
enemy of God. In order to restore them back to the original position,
God has to offer more love than to His own children. Without offering
that kind of love, God cannot bring them to the level that He can love
them as His own children. Do you follow? (Yes.) That is why God began
the history of restoration from Jacob's family 4000 years ago. Even
though human history may have been 100,000 years in length, God waited
until then. Do you understand? (Yes.)
Originally God's children were supposed to live united in this way,
following Heavenly Father and entering into His kingdom. However, due
to the Fall, God's position, which was supposed to be on the top, came
down to the bottom. Satan's position, which was supposed to be at the
bottom, came up to the top. That is why there was confrontation. That
particular relationship began from the individual level, family level,
tribal level and expanded in this way to the worldwide level. Only
after this relationship is totally restored, right side up, can the
True Life of God's children begin. God is climbing up in this way
[Father draws on the board to explain] back to the original top
position. If this takes place, then naturally Satan goes to the bottom
and disappears. We are now in the Last Days and so we see confusion,
turmoil of all kinds in the world. Faithful Christians, who started
out on the right track of trying to be restored back to God, in these
Last Days, because of their wrong turn, may go with Satan and fall back
again. On the other hand, maybe atheistic people began at the wrong
place, but in the Last Days if they become lucky and follow God, they
can receive the blessing of God. In the Last Days a religion should
emerge, which has a logical explanation to enable everybody to agree
and understand. Otherwise people are left without an opportunity to
truly understand.
In medieval history there existed a God-centered time period. But
gradually, as we reached the modern period, more humanistic thought
became dominant. Even when it comes to the individual level, because we
have this invisible mind and root we are still able to connect
ourselves to our ancestors and God. Because of this kind of blessing we
can find the medieval time where they were absolutely centered upon God
by faith. But as history progressed, people became spoiled and abused
their church power, and evil things began to take place. This caused
some people to conclude that God did not exist. That is why humanism
began. After the French revolution this humanistic thought became
rampant until finally the materialistic ideology emerged. Strictly
speaking, those who practice humanism cannot find the origin of it nor
the end. They are practicing a temporary kind of ideology and so it
cannot last indefinitely. We see today the practice of a more
flesh-based humanism which will continue for a while and then it will
end.
Communism was based upon materialism and viewed the entire world
from that perspective. They claimed that the origin of this universe
had to be material. Material cannot be the subject and origin and, as a
consequence, Communism has met its demise. After the demise of
Communism in Soviet Russia, how can we now control the worldwide
problems that exist? Father proclaimed Godism and Headwing ideology
which is the True Love ideology. This teaches the total unity between
God and man. Since man is the mediator between the physical and
spiritual world, then man is in the position to be totally united with
God. In the physical realm, man is united with the entire universe.
True Love is the mediator which causes everything to come into oneness.
Everything can be embraced and melted here with True Love.
As soon as God reaches again to the top position, then human
history will continue in a normal pattern. Here Father is drawing the
different levels of love, family, tribe, nation and world. We have to
make everything right side up. While history is going through this
period religions proclaim that we should deny ourselves absolutely.
What is your name? Did you possess your name even before God's
creation? Was America born after the Fall of Man or before the Fall?
(After.) That means that America still belongs to Satan. God has
nothing to do with the birth of America. Do you agree? God never
established a True Love relationship with mankind as yet. But ever
since God-centered ideology, centering upon True Parents, appeared,
then now we have the foundation for God to be united with mankind
through True Love. This foundation is now set. Then man now stands as a
mediator, with our mind connected to God and spiritual world, and our
body connected to the physical world. That is the way the vertical and
horizontal connection occur. [Father draws on the board.] Vertically
God is positioned here and horizontally Adam is positioned here. Where
do they meet?
The most difficult question that Father had to answer was, where do
God and man's love meet? After many years of prayer God told Father
that True Love meets at the perpendicular angle, that is the shortest
distance. When the horizontal line and vertical line meet together the
shortest point is the ninety degree point, not eighty-nine and not
ninety-one. Do you understand? If that is the logic then when it comes
to man's practice of True Love it should go through the shortest
distance, which is ninety degrees. That concept can be expanded from
the individual level to family, tribe, nation and so forth. That is the
formula. The same principle applies at each level. If we divide them in
this way [indicating to the diagram on the board] with the upper
section and bottom section, left and right, we can see twelve different
sections. But any piece that you choose will be identical to any other
of the twelve pieces. There is no loss, no addition, no contradiction,
no confrontation; everything fits perfectly. Because they are all
identical they are totally united as one. That is what we refer to as,
the ideal family.
The family can be identified as the basic unit to bring the entire
universal unity and harmony. This is the starting point of universal
love and harmony. Within an individual family we can see children,
brothers and sisters, husband and wife, children and parents. Four
different relationships are represented there. But actually it is not
restricted to one family. The world is made up of these four
relationships. When you visit a village or state you can observe these
relationships. Therefore, the family is the ideal unit which brings all
different levels of community into oneness. Without this basic unit of
family it is impossible to think of anything else. Therefore, as long
as you can train your family members as citizens of the Kingdom of God,
the Kingdom of God in this world can be established. It can be
multiplied and applied universally. If you live this kind of life
within your family and America becomes the Kingdom of God on earth,
then even if you travel to the European continent or some other place,
it is just a matter of expanding it. When it comes to the worldwide
level, this is one level higher than the national level. This basic
bottom level unit, which is the family level, is the key to all of
this. Because of this particular reason the relationship between Cain
and Abel has to be restored within a family. Cain represents the
satanic world and Abel should embrace the Cain world and be united.
In order to embrace the satanic Cain world, you have to invest
yourself and practice the Principle in the way in which Father
explained to you earlier. We cannot stop at the family level. The
family level is the key unit, but this then needs expanding all through
eight different stages, just as Father indemnified 4000 years of
history of restoration in forty years. Centering on Father's own life,
he went through these eight stages and has established his foundation
in 160 nations. Therefore, we have to come out of these eight stages
and bring at least 160 families with us. This is how you can indemnify
160 nations just as Father indemnified 4000 years in forty years. The
size is small, but because of Father's victorious foundation of
establishing 160 nations, you can be lifted up to that level. Whatever
parents own can be inherited to their children. Therefore you should
feel closer to Father than to your own physical parents because they
still belong to Satan. Do you understand? (Yes.)
Do you think we have to do tribal messiah mission or not? (Yes.)
Usually Father spends three nights and four days talking on these
subjects and so he cannot just summarize everything in a few hours. Now
you know who God is, what God is and where God dwells, don't you?
(Yes.) Why is it that we don't reahze that God is with us? Because He
is one with us just like love, life and lineage. What was Adam and
Eve's marriage meant to be? (God's marriage.) Suppose Adam and Eve's
marriage had been in fact the marriage of God. If that had taken place
their sexual organs would have become the original palace of love.
However, other families' would have been the palace of love, but Adam
and Eve's would have been the only original, vertical palace of love.
Where is that? Our sexual organ. How precious this place is. Secondly,
it would have been the original palace of life, and thirdly, the
original palace of blood lineage, and fourthly, the original palace of
conscience. But due to the Fall our conscience is not really crystal
clear yet. It has not reached completion.
This particular organ is so precious that you would not dare to
trade it for the entire universe. This belongs to God. The concepts of
happiness, freedom, hope and all good ideals, have their beginnings
here. This is the original starting place where the Kingdom of God on
earth and in Heaven begins. Is this clear? (Yes, Father.) How wonderful
this place is and, at the same time, how dangerous. As Father already
mentioned, originally in the Garden of Eden there were five male
figures and only one female figure. God knew the preciousness of the
human sexual organ, so do you imagine that He was worried about it or
did He just relax? (Worried.) He was particularly worried about Eve.
That is why God gave them the warning to be careful. God referred to
Eve as the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. She could have produced
the prince of goodness. However, due to her taking a wrong turn, a
Mafia-like human race has been produced. God gave a clear warning that
if they would eat of the fruit they would die. And after they ate they
covered their lower parts. If you go into this kind of explanation with
people without getting into Chapter Two, you can actually convince
people as to how the Fall took place.
Nobody can deny that the Fall occurred through the misuse of love.
Once they recognize that this world is evil and that True Parents have
appeared, they have to follow True Parents in order to restore this
evil world to good. True Love power is stronger than satanic love and
so there will be no problem once we restore it. God is stronger than
Satan. But we need to reflect upon how precious is this love palace
and, at the same time, how dangerous. If we misuse it everything will
become broken apart and your life will be destroyed. Homosexualism,
free sex, alcoholism and all these things are tools to destroy God's
original love palace. God sent Father in order to restore everything
back again. The time has come when we need to have our True Parents'
picture in our family home, together with the Unffication Church flag,
because your family home represent the heavenly nations' embassies.
When you visit foreign countries and see the American flag displayed in
a building, then you know that this building is an American Embassy. If
you have any difficulty you would go there. By the same token, when the
spirit men come down to this world, and they see the Unification Church
flag, they would naturally come to your house. By mobilizing good
spirits to your home in that way, then all the bad spirits who might be
hanging around will be chased out. Then your home will be occupied by
good spirits which will be good for you.
By bowing to True Parents' picture and having the Unification
Church flag displayed, Satan will have to go far away from your home.
Satan and evil spirits do not like the sound of the flag fluttering in
the wind. It drives them away. This kind of powerful foundation exists
upon the earth at this time. Do you have your flags hoisted on the
outside of your homes? (Yes.) Wherever Father travels around the world
many good spirits accompany Father. Many good spirits are coming down
in these Last Days. When Jacob wrestled with the angel, when the dawn
was breaking the angel was forced to leave. But now, when the good
spirits come down, as long as we have Unification Church flags they
don't have to go, they can remain with us. In this way we can mobilize
more good spirits down to our level. That is the way we can chase this
evil force from this world step by step.
As Mr. Joo of the Washington Times testified this morning, since
Father's declaration of the Safe Settlement of True Parents and the
Completed Testament Era, change has been taking place rapidly in this
country, even politically. Don't you agree? (Yes.) Even though America
has tried to chase Father out of the country it has failed. Now the
Republican party has taken control. The Republican party represents the
Christian culture and power. This Christian culture represents the
bride culture, and this culture will unify the world. They will connect
with the bridegroom and unify the world. Do you understand this
concept? (Yes.) Every morning and every night do not misuse your love
organ because God is the owner of that. God dwells there. Your wife's
organ belongs to God. It is like a body and mind relationship; you are
in the position of mind to own that. It is part of your body, but it
is not just your body. Do you understand? (Yes.) That is why God found
the safest place in your body and placed it there. (Laughter.) He was
hiding and protecting it, in a way. That is true. This is a
miracle-making organ. Since you know that, then you cannot even dare to
think about free sex. But have you not thought about following a
beautiful woman or girl at times? Your spouse is absolute -- only one
for eternity. Just as Adam and Eve. Without practicing this you cannot
remain in the Kingdom of God. Do you understand? (Yes.)
Father has told you that you have to sacrifice yourself and serve
others. This is the principle of your life. But as a man, don't you
want to obtain the highest position in the world? Historically it has
been said that mankind cannot satisfy their desire and hope. But
ideally man is supposed to fulfill and reach that desire without
exception. Without the Fall we could have enjoyed that reality. Where
is that goal? Once your conscience occupies God totally then you will
reach your goal, no matter what your goal may be. If you want to truly
practice the principle which Father has taught you, give service with
respect and sacrifice yourself. Is that the place that you can feel
comfortable or is it the place where you will shed your tears, sweat
and blood? (Sweat and blood.) Father has always taught us traditionally
that as Unification Church members we should have the heart of parents,
in the shoes of a servant, and shed sweat for the earth, tears for man
and blood for heaven. That is the formula and without practicing this
you will not reach the goal. This is the final conclusion of Father's
teaching. We have to shed our tears. If you go into the mountains there
are always high mountains and deep valleys. What do you see in the deep
valleys? All the dead trees and waste accumulate there which in turn
invites many insects in such a place and consequently many birds and
animals. Such a place may become a famous sightseeing area.
If you want to become a really famous person you have to be able to
stand up like a high mountain that can also embrace these low valleys
and make them as your own. This principle applies to our lives. When we
sow seeds we have to provide fertilizer and topsoil in order to create
the environment for the seeds to grow. Fertilizer doesn't have a good
smell but the seed needs to digest it in order to grow. What part of
our body is the most precious? Our love organ is also the place through
which waste is excreted from our body. Bad smell comes from that place.
It doesn't tell you how it dislikes that smell, but it digests that
smell. God created them together in such a way so as to educate people
how we have to go through different circumstances and digest them. We
should think about this every time that we use them. If everyone begins
to think daily that whatever is dirty and smelly in this country they
will embrace and digest and clean up, then the Kingdom of God will soon
be here. If you continuously practice that kind of principle then you
will become the president of your country. In this sense has Father
been living a good or bad life? (Good life.)
Father has been imprisoned many times and people have persecuted
him, then how can you call that a good quality of life? All of this
persecution and mistreatment have been like insects and birds in
Father's life, creating the environment which can attract the tourists
and create the most famous mountain in the world. The same principle is
operating there. (Applause.) While Father was searching for the truth
for mankind, during his struggles and suffering he suddenly had an
awakening. He had been sitting on top of the right answer all these
years and, in a way, Father was very disappointed. The topic is
"Finding Your True Self". That means that we are false selves and we
need to find our true selves through practicing what Father has been
teaching us. Remember that our conscience has not fallen yet; it still
belongs to God. But when it comes to the relationship between your body
and mind, which one is controlling which? What is the proportion? Is
the mind dragging your body all the time, or vice versa? If your body
follows your mind completely then this world will become a good world.
But it is obviously the other way around. Answer Father: does your body
control your mind or does your mind control your body? (Mind controls
the body.) If everybody says so then this world would be a good world.
Because you have to admit that you are not a good person then you
cannot answer.
If you are hungry right now and there is some nice food available,
your conscience tells you to give it to somebody who is more hungry
than you. However, your body doesn't listen to that and just takes it
and eats it. Which of these directions do you follow? You don't want
to admit it so that means you are bound to hell. In reality, our body
has been dragging and controlling our mind all of these years. So many
times our body has made our mind cry and suffer. People do not even
realize this, but we know this to be true. How did this kind of tragic
event occur? At the time of the Fall, man and woman were at the top of
the growth level. That time the power of love was stronger than the
power of conscience, that is why it was reversed. Even if it was
satanic love, it was stronger than the power of conscience. Do you
understand? If the power of conscience had been stronger than the power
of love at that time, then, no matter what, the power of the conscience
would have triumphed. We realize this logically now. But if you truly
know that reality then we have the ability of creation. Do you agree?
(Yes.) Since we know the origin of it, now we have to restore back and
rebuild.
In the satanic world, if teenagers feel love for one another and
decide that they want to marry but their parents do not give approval,
they sometimes even commit suicide together. The power of love is that
powerful. We have to be aware of this extreme level of power. If we
truly understand the consequences which mankind has been facing
throughout history due to the Fall between Adam and Eve, then we can
control our body. No matter what kind of strong desire that our body
may generate, our conscience can suppress it. Do you agree? (Yes.) Even
God cannot interfere and eliminate this kind of bodily desire. If we
truly understand this, then we can utilize our conscience fully and
crush this desire. There can be millions of scandalous problems all
over the world, but at the bottom of them all is usually man and woman
problem. As long as we eliminate this man and woman relationship
problem then most of the other problems in this world can be solved.
Then world peace is before us. Is this not true? (Yes.) That is why it
is a very serious and critical matter.
If we truly understand how serious this is, starting with myself,
then beginning with the individual the door to the Kingdom of God can
be opened here on this world. Don't you think that you can be more
serious if you truly understand that? Our flesh-body desires are the
problem. God has allowed so many different religions all throughout
human history. It was not because God wanted to bring people to the
Kingdom through these religions, but through the influence and power of
religion God wanted to have people control and eliminate their bodily
desires.
These various religions don't realize this. We have to proclaim to
the world the liberation of conscience. Up until this point, everybody
has been achieving their life goal, but our conscience is still deep
inside and misunderstood. Do you follow? (Yes.) Religions usually
provide methods of how to control the bodily desires such as fasting,
service to others, self-sacrifice and denying the original desire of
the body. The Bible tells us that those who seek their lives will lose
them and those who give their lives will find life. Also in the Last
Days your own family members will become your worst enemies. Some
religions even teach that we should leave our families behind and
follow the spiritual path and become like a beggar. Also the ascetic
life is emphasized in many religions. This is because of the problem in
the man and woman relationship. It has been the worst problem in the
world. The purpose behind all of this is to destroy your bodily
desire.
As long as you control your bodily desire then your mind will
naturally go in the right direction. If your mind is going up to the
level where God's love can be tapped directly, then your life will
become enriched. Do you follow? Then why do we marry? Because as an
individual man and woman are only half of a whole human being. If you
truly want to conquer the concept of love and perfect it, then you need
both the convex and concave sides to become one in perfection in order
to create perfect love. Your mind goes into your body and becomes one.
Where your love becomes totally one, God's love can be grafted on there
and you can be united with God in that very place at that very moment.
Do you understand? (Yes, Father.) In order for man to be perfected you
have to go through the love of woman. And vice versa, in order for
woman to be perfected she needs to go through man's love. It is the
only route.
Once you become totally united through the love between husband and
wife which represents the horizontal line east and west, then
vertically which is north and south, dealing with God's True Love you
can be connected and united. [Father draws on the board.] This is upper
section, lower section, front section and rear section; all have to be
viewed as a sphere. Centering upon this love, man can occupy woman and
woman can occupy man. Only when that condition takes place here
[indicating to the board] then God can come down and occupy man and
vice versa, man can occupy God through this love relationship at this
point here [indicating to the board].
We can say that woman occupies the western sphere, and man occupies
the eastern sphere. Once they marry and become one, then their goal is
to occupy God centering upon True Love. Until this time there has been
no axis of True Love in this world. Because of the fallen world's
situation the axis of True Love has always been shaky, never set
permanently. The meaning of marriage is that through love man occupies
woman and through love woman occupies man. They then become totally
united into one and that is where happiness begins. When you offer
totally then you expect return. Once they become totally united into
one in this love marriage, then with happiness and joy you may return
to God. If you set that condition then you can declare that your
conscience and God's love become totally united into one. Consider how
large the scale of your conscience in fact is. But which is bigger, the
scale of your conscience or True Love? (True Love.) Why is True Love
bigger? (Because it is connected to God.) Well, even our conscience
orginates from True Love, that is its root. If through your conscience
you occupy God's love. Your conscience still wants to rest in the bosom
of God's love.
The question is how can we occupy God's love through utilizing our
conscience. Until now nobody was successful in doing this, and so the
Kingdom of God in Heaven is still vacant. Now True Parents are here
with us and therefore the door of the Kingdom of Heaven is open. This
is not casual talk given to you by Father. Rather this is the life
experience of Father after winning all of the victories. Do you
understand? (Yes.) Do you realize now just how much you need True
Parents? (YES.) Do you consider True Parents more precious and valuable
than the entire nation of America? (YES.) How about the entire world?
(YES.) Not just by shouting, but you should truly, deeply feel that.
That is how we will be able to liberate God. Even though the Kingdom of
God in Heaven is still vacant, if we truly live up to His standard then
we can fill it up in one go with the entire humankind. Do you follow?
(Yes.)
We need to continuously destroy our bodily desires every moment of
our llfe. Since Father had taught you clearly in detail, even if you
fell into hell in the future you will not be able to blame and
criticize Father. Father has taught you the truth; if you fail to
follow that truth and live that truth, then that truth itself will
judge you. The time has come that there are no restrictions whatsoever.
This is why Father reveals all of these truths to you. Now we know that
as long as we are able to crush this bodily desire we are on the right
track. We also understand, that no matter what any religion may be
teaching, none of them can take you to the Kingdom of God. Only by
reaching God's True Love through our conscience will we reach to there.
The True Love way is the only method. You must not forget this. The
world out there is filled with mixed up, distorted love relationships.
How can we reach that restored love? We need a ladder in order to reach
there. There are many different steps. We need our conscience ladder.
The world is so mixed up and complicated, that once you begin climbing
up the ladder, don't let it go. Use your conscience to take you up
higher, one step at a time. Without ceasing, you have to constantly
strive forward. Do you understand? (Yes.) That is the way we will be
able to liberate our conscience. How precious is our conscience? God is
our True Parents, True Teacher and True King. God has these three
roles. God gave all of those three roles to us. Do you understand?
(Yes.)
Your conscience is in the position through which you can be
connected to your vertical Parents, who is God. Therefore your
conscience can never leave you, whereas your physical parents may be
able to leave you because they are related to you horizontally, not
vertically. Therefore your conscience is more precious than your own
physical parents. It protects you forever. Do you understand? It is
better than your parents. This conscience is the one that can lead you
to the Kingdom of God. Teachers in the horizontal world do not stay
with you after a certain time. Your conscience never leaves you
twenty-four hours a day for eternity. That is why your conscience is
more precious than your teacher. Did you hear anybody here in America
come up with a statement about the conscience? (No.) Your conscience
is the representative of God. Through your conscience you can desire an
even higher position than God. Do you understand? As God's partner, you
can desire to become more than God.
If you take some action, who perceives it first, God or your
conscience? (Conscience.) Why? If God is in the subject position and
located on the eastern sphere, He still has to travel to the central
point in order to meet the object from the western sphere. Therefore
man and woman are different. Every woman has different characteristics
from men. Man is in the position of the object of God. Our conscience
dwells within ourselves and leads us to the correct direction, in the
place of God. Man and woman are supposed to be the ideal objects of
God's love. Every single person has different characteristics,
different virtues. Between the subject and object they have different
standard of characteristics, but through this love they become united
into one. Therefore, your conscience will know what you are doing even
before God knows. Once man and woman become totally one, then mind and
body become totally one and God immediately perceives that. Whatever
your conscience perceives as taking place within yourself is
automatically recorded in the spiritual world computer, the memory
system there. What is your name, sister? (Wendy.) If we punch the name
of Wendy into that memory system, many generations past of Wendy's
family will be shown on the screen. What has happened, what kind of
person she is, etc. Whatever you may have done throughout your entire
life, don't you think that your conscience remembers that? Everything
is stored there. Once we truly understand that such a world exists as
a reality, we cannot commit any sin.
Just as America sends rockets into space, we as human beings after
death, are naturally led to the spiritual world. Once you reach to the
spiritual world you are able to travel anywhere. Do you understand?
(Yes.) That is the way that the world is composed of subject and object
reciprocal relationships. We know that we have to be totally united
with our conscience. [Father draws on the board.] We call this three
great "sam dae jooche sasang" Subject Ideology. God is our
Parents who gives us birth; then we go to school and learn under our
teacher's supervision; and then we have to serve our King. God is our
original Parent, original Teacher, original King all combined into one.
Do you understand? As long as you continue to follow the direction of
conscience you will become an absolute object of God. Then you will be
able to occupy and connect with God's True Love. These three different
characteristics -- Parents, Teacher and King -- those three roles
become united and occupy God. Because God has the same characteristics,
one is internal and one is external. Is this clear? (Yes.)
In Korean your conscience is "yang shim" and conscience
came into being even before your parents, because your conscience was
given by God. It is your pipeline to God. But this body is always
pulllng you down from the ladder so that you cannot climb up. But your
conscience is always providing the ladder to God for you. Do you
understand? Therefore "yang shim eun boomo boda apae yitda".
Repeat after me: "yang shim eun boomo boda apsuh yitda". Again
repeat: "yang shim eun" that means our conscience; "boomo
boda" that means prior to your parents existence; "apsuh
yitda" that means prior to your teacher's existence. Repeat it
loudly. Just as when you marry you wish for your spouse to be far
superior to you, in this same regard, your conscience pre-existed to
God. Now repeat these phrases one more time and shout them out. Once
you truly understand this meaning and live up to this standard, we
don't need religion, we don't need God, we don't need whatsoever here.
That is the very spirit of our Family Pledge. Do you understand? (Yes.)
Once we clearly understand what our Father has taught us here
tonight, then your bodily desires become as nothing. We can control
them, right? (Yes.) We can destroy them, right? (Yes.) No problem?
(No.) Now let us end for today. (APPLAUSE.) Tomorrow, all the the
regional directors should return here to meet with Father again.
Everybody else should return to their mission and practice what Father
has taught you tonight. Through the regional directors, the rest of the
teaching that Father was going to give to you today, may be given to
you later in the future. Let us all stand. Since Father has taught us
everything so clearly, no more teaching is necessary. (Yes, Father.)
Let us offer Father a full bow.