Lunar New Year
January 24, 2001
East Garden, Irvington, New York.
Translation by Rev. Jeong Phyo Hong;
Unofficial notes by Tyler Hendricks
[Some 300 members gathered before 6 a.m. at East Garden to celebrate the
first day of the lunar new year with our True Parents and True Family.
It is year 4334, the year of the snake. After hoon dok hae, Father and
Mother joined us for a breakfast and singing. We enjoyed performances by
children of all ages, the True Family and True Parents. This was
followed by an exciting yute tournament, won by the True Children's
team. After that, we heard reports on the January 19 prayer breakfast,
that united Christian leaders black and white, including Robert
Schuller, Jerry Falwell, the leader of the Southern Baptist Convention,
a representative of the Billy Graham organization, and many others. The
candidate for Attorney General, John Ashcroft, attended and spoke. I was
not there and I hope that a complete report comes out soon. After the
report, Father spoke.]
The lunar calendar is centered on moon, on mother.
The foundation of faith has three component conditions; then one makes
the foundation of substance, and then foundation to receive the Messiah.
Do you know the thousands of years of restoration? The principle is
unchanging. The principle teaches how to achieve the foundation for the
messiah. This is why the registration workshop was important. It was to
achieve the level of the nation. Therefore it is time to embrace the
nation.
What is the blessing? I wanted to give it to connect to the nation, not
just one or two families. I have overcome persecution to do this. The
blessing started with 36 couples, 12 couples in each of three groups.
Then 72 and then 120 representing the world level. If Jesus didn't
experience persecution he could have made a foundation in 120 nations.
The failure to accept him led to the division of Cain and Abel. Then 430
couples were blessed, represented 4,300 years. Then 777, then 1800, a
multiple of the number 6. Then 6,000 couples in 1982. All those
blessings moved through nine stages. Then the 30,000 couples was the
10th stage, returning to the beginning point. Then I opened the blessing
to the world: 360,000 couples, then the blessing developed horizontally.
On that foundation I could forgive saints and criminals and bless them.
Even God couldn't solve this problem. Only True Parents on earth could
match enemies, saints and criminals. Everything is turned upside down,
like the tide changing the water every 12 hours, mixing everything.
On that foundation, True Parents renew all people. Neither Satan nor God
could solve it. I am mediating to solve the problems. God invested,
because as Creator He could not ignore the earth. He cannot curse Satan.
Only True Parents here can solve the problem. God sent the Messiah to
the earth to do this. If True Parents are not involved, then the
problems will be eternal. God even begged True Parents to get involved.
Satan also begged True Parents. Heavenly Father knows and is involved in
the blessing. His idea is to solve all the world's problems in six
months through the blessing. The time will come to repent by themselves
and connect with True Parents. Even the criminals in the hell of hells
can return to the original position.
I declared the standard of absolute faith, love and obedience in South
America. God Himself has absolute faith. When He says the word,
everything is done. His idea is to set up absolute love, God's love.
True love is God's idea. We cannot separate from the earth. It maintains
our life; without eating, we cannot maintain our life. Water is
important, fish, all things. Its purpose is to support the perfection of
Adam and Eve through absolute love. Even God puts Himself in the
absolute love position. What is the relationship of Adam and Eve? They
are the substantial object to the invisible God. In the air, there is
moisture; we can see the condensation. Adam and Eve are like the
droplets that appear from moist air when the temperature drops. When the
temperature rises, then it is gas, and that is invisible, analogous to
God.
What is the difference between man and woman? Man is plus and woman is
minus. To bring energy and to explore, man needs woman and woman needs
man. So we need absolute faith, love and obedience. Adam and Eve are in
the eternal objective love position to God. He created them that way.
God used absolute love to create Adam and Eve. Adam is in the subject
partner position and Eve object partner. They are convex and concave.
What is the function of this? To look at each other? To fit each other?
When do they fit each other? Without God's intervention, do they fit?
Man needs God's permission. God intervenes for convex and concave to
meet each other. So, they together are in the object position to
Heavenly Father. Dialectical theory would destroy this, but we have the
origin-division-union interpretation, a different idea.
How can we fit each other? Through true love. The point of true love is
that we can fit each other. So first we receive heavenly true love,
therefore man and woman meet each other. Man and woman alone cannot be
perfect. Each are half-perfect. Nowadays we can see individuals trying
to be perfect. But why did God create convex and concave? Because of
love. If I test you on this, you will get lower than 50%. Because of
love, man's and woman's sexual organs were created. We need harmony
between man and woman. That love is to stimulate the life of men and
women. Centered on the true love of man and woman, there is attraction
to unite with each other. Someone without that attraction power has run
out of energy to live.
Man and woman are not just for their own generation. They are to connect
to the next generation through true love activity. That is why man's
love and woman's love are not two different things; they are connected
to one true love, and centering on that, unity comes. So man and woman
meet each other centered on God and create one blood lineage. Both sides
connect to the other. Mrs. Han here has ten thousand generations
connected to the cells of her body. These ancestors are related bodies.
The ancestors are connected to my body, so I connect the past and
future. Blood lineage never disappears, never dies. It connects to
thousands of generations of ancestors.
Who am I? I am the condensed body of all my ancestors. My character is
connected to all the ancestors. That is why I am a historical being.
What is my desire? It is to be a historical person. Thousands of
different cells come down into my body through inheritance. I cannot
separate from those ancestors. One seed is planted, then the fruit comes
and hundreds of thousands of different fruits come, but they come from
the same seed. Whatever is the desire of the ancestors is connected to
the descendents, so my desire should connect to the ancestors' desire,
and ultimately to Heavenly Father's desire, which is ultimately to
connect to me. Human beings have infinite desire, as does God.
We have 80 years on earth. What do we do while we are here? We fight,
which leads to so many complications. We have no hope. Humankind is
eternal, and the true purpose is only to connect to Heavenly Father. We
have a short lifetime to accomplish that. It comes only through absolute
faith, love and obedience. This is unlimited obedience. We are trying to
be obedient. To dominate the unlimited world, we need unlimited
obedience. So we link to the unlimited world through an unlimited
person. We should become zero by totally investing, like God did. Invest
and forget, and we will get back more than we invested later.
We say true love; true love is "unlimitedism." Our desire should be
beyond the cosmos. That is God's desire. That is what we understand
absolute obedience to be; it is unlimited obedience. Did you think of
this before? The idea of my true love's desire should be connected with
this original point from God, and it connects with it through absolute
obedience. You can see the core of a big tree, which is usually hollow.
Even in high voltage electricity, the center is neutral. So too, God is
zero at the center. The total size of the creation is 130 times bigger
than what we can see of the cosmos. There are planetary systems one
thousand times bigger on the other side. The cosmos is 20 billion light
years across. That much unlimited cosmos exists. If you have a small
mind, it doesn't work. If you follow God, your mind will get bigger, to
embrace the whole universe. Originally God created mankind that way.
When did you join the Unification Church? Those above 60, raise your
hands. I see many National Messiahs here. Repeat after me: absolute
faith, love and obedience. Can you carry these three things all your
life? People who practice kendo (a Japanese sword sport) do
the same moves thousands of times. If you do not have that dedication,
you cannot make it. Did you pass the suffering course? Do you know the
indemnity course? Absolute obedience is to be repeated thousands of times,
then you can become a genuine, pure person, like the kendo swordsman.
In this room are about 200 people. We compare you and God. I wonder the
percentage of your realization of being absolute. It is easy to say
absolute faith, love and obedience, but how much do you understand it?
It is easy to say it, but to achieve it is very difficult. We are the
substance of true love. Have you seen love? Also we cannot see
obedience. If you like absolute faith, love and obedience, raise your
hands. You should own at least one of these three. I am wondering if you
have the qualification to call God your Heavenly Father. Without your
heart of absolute obedience, how can you call Him, Abojee? Humankind
does not have the concept of absolute obedience. So we should invest and
invest to catch up to that standard. Otherwise, it is impossible. We
cannot truly understand it unless we connect with God's explanation.
Then we can understand how God is great.
I will prepare my UN speech about the sexual organs. Even Rev. Kwak
misunderstood when I started talking about sexual organs. We need the
concave and convex, the sexual organs, definitely. Is concave the bowl
or the head? If woman is above the man, they are out of position and it
doesn't work. Concave is the bowl, which receives. Woman should follow
the man. American women don't know their position. This is a problem. If
I start to speak about this, I will lose track of the time and we will
miss dinner. I gave you a free lunch; do you expect dinner too? If you
don't get dinner, maybe you will not feel so good. Maybe you will leave
cursing this house, not blessing it. I am wondering. If the kitchen
didn't prepare dinner, I will go out and buy dinner for you at McDonald's.
What I've said today, do you believe it as you believe your own eyes,
nose and face? Can you digest everything? Can you digest what you heard
today? If not, you are not an absolute being. From the mouth to the
intestines is a path of 10 meters. Each body part has a unique mission.
Each organ has a mission as part of what amounts to a fertilizer
factory. How much do you believe this idea? I do not know the size of
your faith, but it determines how much God can dwell in you. God can
come into your mind and dwell there eternally. In the process of
creation, He invested 100% and had zero, nothing left. Easy to say, but
practice is not easy.
Women, do you believe in your man absolutely? If you one time
believe, 100% ... Usually women are complaining about their husband,
and self-centered ideas show up, with all kinds of ugliness. Do you
believe, as a woman, and trust your husband 100%, absolutely? [Father
asked one specific wife.] Do you believe with absolute faith? [She
answers, quietly.] Huhhh??? This is a big issue. Absolute love means
that whatever difficult situation comes, your mind is unchanging in
following your spouse. That is absolute love. You are good? Woman's
sexual organ -- everyone's is unique. There are a variety of shapes. Are
you absolute concave? Are you absolute love and obedience concave? Mrs.
P---? With an unchanging mind, do you absolutely follow with obedience?
If you're not sure, then you don't know absolute obedience and you don't
know God. Then you are valueless people. We are descendents of the fall.
So we are of no value and cannot claim anything toward anyone.
Did you wear your best clothes today, your hanbok? When you
wear it, you may feel you have the best clothes of anyone here. You
never think you are second best. But you should think about how God
looks at you. Then what idea comes? If God looks at you dressing up,
is He positive or negative about it? I am looking at the woman's side
in all history. Did they use their sexual organ proudly or not? I am
looking for such a woman in history. Maybe you want to be the woman with
the number one sexual organ in the world. Which side is greedier, man
or woman? I am wondering if there is any woman like Hitler, who would
kill six million people. It would seem that man has more greed than woman.
Do you know that God also has concave and convex? God has both. That is
why man and woman both love God. That is why when a woman is pregnant,
there are three persons inside of her: God, the father and the mother.
How many children did True Mother bear? I am old and I have forgotten.
[Fourteen.] Which is first, convex or concave? The rain falls down and
the ground is flat. Think about concave: it expects the convex, that is
why it is called concave. So convex is first. Why is this important? The
sexual organ is God and Adam's organ. All men have two testicles. What
is the central point? God. Woman's sexual organ accepts the man's. So it
is soft but strong. Man and woman have love, and through that, life is
transferred. True love is not enough; the relationship is important for
the transfer of life. That's why the sexual organ is the foundation of
love, or base of love and the palace of love.
The palace of love is Adam and Eve originally. When I spoke like this
first, many of you looked at me strangely. You thought, "Why is the
Unification Church founder talking like this?" Do you really believe
that the sexual organs are the palace of love? Man's palace of love is
accomplished through the woman, and vice versa. Without a great husband
and wife, you cannot expect great children. With this love, you can
expect ... Man's life connects with woman's love, and woman's life
connects with man's love.
In Korean, a woman's sexual organ is called jago, which
means the palace of children. The woman's sexual organ gathers the blood
lineage and connects it with life. All kinds of things happen there. Blood
lineage is connected with the universe. There are two different lineages
meeting there in the sexual organ; they mingle there and create a new one.
Originally there was only one blood lineage: God's blood lineage for all
humankind. That was God's idea. We should live for the sake of others,
and through this we can bring selfless love. We can see the woman's love
is not owned by woman herself, but is connected to all her ancestors.
That is why we need tradition. Tradition is important. Women should
follow tradition.
For one woman to connect to two men destroys the center. With no central
point, it is not eternal, not clear. We can see in Genesis, Adam and Eve
covered their lower parts. Why? Do you understand this whole point
clearly? That's why we repeat again, absolute faith, love and obedience.
It is most important. You must love your husband. If beside your husband
there is another beautiful woman, you are not happy. The free sex in
this country is wrong.
Still we have a certain fallen nature. This is a fearful thing for
humankind, a source of self-destruction, a thief. Some are against God's
will, complaining about this and that. I am wondering how much they
understand absolute faith, love and obedience. This is the point we
should understand. We can totally invest our lives to understand this
concept, and even that is not enough. The children who do not go to UTS
will not be used for leadership. You should point future leaders to the
course that I guided. True Children are following this course. Hyun Jin
Nim studied at Harvard, but I sent him to UTS also. Without that, the
spiritual side is not prepared well. To show church leadership, he
should graduate UTS. I know he can lead a business, but leadership means
to prepare to lead the church as well. If your children avoid going to
UTS, that is wrong. I know that they are avoiding it.
Some of them are not certain because they don't know the spirit world.
No one beats True Parents. If you cannot follow my direction, you will
fail at the end of your life, even if you are full of pride and have
money. Money means nothing. I investigated all ideas to save the world.
I made an exemplary course. Young people should be willing to follow
this idea.
The final goal and purpose was the coronation ceremony for God's
kingship. All Unificationists must understand this ceremony. I prepared
the conditions to liberate Heavenly Father. Without those conditions, He
could never be liberated. I plan to teach the people about spirit world.
I'm sure this truth will be understood someday, as water naturally finds
the place of settlement. Our position is to guide people in the areas of
politics, business, and all areas. How can we overcome this world? We
have God's word. It is the end of the indemnity era. The perfect seed is
planted and it will automatically grow. When it is time to harvest, only
the perfect ones are taken. I do not expect our second generation; they
must pass the course at UB or SMU. I don't care about anything else. You
should think about the right way. This is the tradition. I have invested
my blood to settle the educational institutions. Do you not understand?
This is the first day of the new millennium. I am serious. God's
providence is developing after restoration. The providence has ascended
from the level of nation to world. We should settle God's sovereign
nation. We are working hard to connect with the UN. I am sure that one
system of God's nation will be founded somewhere, soon. Without our
absolute, total self-denial, we cannot bring in a new idea and new
creation. As Unificationists, we should invest ourselves more than
Americans and Europeans do, to create God's Fatherland. We have many
things to do. After God's coronation ceremony for kingship, we should
have new government buildings, new schools, new churches, centering on
God's kingship. We should make the new nation's system. You are
representatives of Adam and Eve. That is why this coronation ceremony
concludes God's providence. You don't need to meet me; you yourselves
are in the position of True Parents to develop all these issues.
Do you remember 1999, when we changed the end of the prayer? As blessed
couples, you were allowed this by True Parents, to pray in your name on
True Parents' victorious foundation. The spirit world was liberated, and
it was time to make the kingdom here on earth. Centered on God, we are one
blood lineage, brothers and sisters with one Father, God. I say Heavenly
Father, and you say Heavenly Father. My children and grandchildren say,
Heavenly Father. We all are one family centered on Heavenly Father,
brothers and sisters. I hope that everyone is well-prepared to enter
the Kingdom of Heaven. It is time to seriously repent. Before the True
Children were living here at EG, but it is now time for them to live by
themselves, independently. So they are doing so, one by one. I directed
the grassroots foundation, tong ban kyok pah. People can influence
the direction of their nation through electing good leaders.
The truth is clear; we just need to follow it. I gave you Tribal
Messiahship. You have energy to develop your tribe. I have given you the
victory foundations necessary to found God's Fatherland. We are trying
to reach the Republicans, Democrats and all VIPs. The time is serious;
it is time to wake up. I really want to make our own land before I go to
spirit world, our own sovereignty. Continental leaders should work hard
and headquarters should support it. Your blessed couple is centrally
important. You connect the past and future. It is time for new
management, new leadership, for God's kingship. We are blessed couples;
we should have filial piety and loyalty. Whatever you have, you should
offer it to God. Through that, you can inherit everything from God.
Without offering everything, you cannot become true sons and daughters
of Heavenly Father.
Centering on you, develop your Messiahship. It goes up and down; I
have taught you everything from the family to the world level, what you
should do. If you still do not know, go back to HDH. You can catch the
whole idea. If you do not read all 320 volumes, you cannot be a leader of
this movement. Thus, HDH is not just one hour; you can do it 12 hours if
you need to. Invest your jungsung, heart and effort. Search for the
truth. Our weapon is True Parents' words. You know the ALC conferences.
More than 420 participants read my words for 3 days. They appreciate
them; do you? I believe some of you are not qualified to be leaders yet.
Some do not even come to church but you received the blessing. You
destroy the quality of the blessing. Before now I wouldn't touch this,
but now I will.
Three points of God's kingship: 1. purity of blood lineage [Note: Father
only referred to one of the three points]. Keep your purity. It is much
easier now than when Sung Jin Nim's mother was with me. Because of that
failure, North Korea and South Korea divided. It was the failure of that
one woman. She is that much an enemy, but I must love her; I cannot kick
her out. Once I connect to someone, I take responsibility. I cannot kick
such people out.
From now, within 12 years we are going to solve the world's problems. So
I have no time to deal with individual issues. North, south, east, west,
wherever you go, you should get victory. The globe is our hometown. That
is why the coronation ceremony for God's kingship started the era of
God's kingship. That's why everyone must do the living offering fund.
Even if you don't have the money, do it conditionally. It is important
to take responsibility in some way. I couldn't understand that some of
the National Messiahs haven't even gone to their countries. What kind of
mentality is that?
Now I am asking for results from your responsibility. Now it is past the
time for me to directly guide all this. Now divine law will act. We will
conduct right and wrong through divine law. It is a fearful time. They
should pay their own indemnity in the era of God's kingship. Until now,
I paid all the indemnity, but now the time has changed. I forgave
whoever was against God's will, even in spirit world I liberated and
forgave them and even blessed them.
Do you believe that Heung Jin Nim is the general of the entire spirit
world? If you truly believe it, you are great. When I first talked of
it, it was just a story, but now you are so serious about this idea.
Heung Jin Nim received great heavenly fortune, but he died. Don't lose
your heart of love for even the breast feeding of true children when
they are born. The physical way of their growing, born here, was the
heavenly way of fortune. But I never cried when he went to spirit world.
Even Mother cried, but I didn't shed one tear. The Day of the Victory of
Love -- how much do you understand it? It is a fearful day. What I have
explained about spirit world is not just a concept; it is reality. Our
activities have this as the main business (or objective). We are not
just developing; we are flying. I feel that way this new year. So
I ask you to develop your own family foundation well, with a new
determination. Faithfully and truly develop and guide your children.
This way, we don't need saints and sages. You are more than their position
now. In your family you should have a high degree of loyalty and filial
piety. You should fulfill the past history, achieving in reality what
the saints and sages held as ideals. Through that, you can bring God's
sovereignty and kingship.
I taught everything you should do in your entire life. I gave everything
to you. If you do not follow, that is your will. Your level in spirit
world is decided by how much you fill up here. From now, what do you
want to do to follow God's will? Angels will come down and support you.
You should be loyal for God's kingship as Heavenly Father's sons and
daughters. Centering on you and your nation, you should liberate it
through your own body. All Unification Church leaders should find the
Messiah and in that way develop upwards. When you go to that kingship,
you need to mobilize your tribe. This 12 years, until 2012, we should
mobilize and develop all these ideas.
We should use the media to spread this message. By now, I have made the
foundation here and I hope America can stand on this foundation. I have
done everything for America and it is time for the American people to
respond. I have God's kingship. I did everything. I set up the heavenly
law and I follow it. You are now setting up family kingship and you
should follow heavenly law and show your own dignity. Please do HDH
more, day and night. Even go without sleeping two or three nights; do
HDH continuously, break the record. Again, if you do not read all 320
volumes of my speeches, you cannot be a leader.
This is serious. In the future, headquarters will assign pages to be
read each day. If you don't have all the speech books, you will be in
trouble. You should have all the speech books. If you do HDH, you can
carry this message wherever you go and can stay a week anywhere for
free. Like a family, all will help you as your brother and sister. I had
made many plans to make the leading couple of this nation a "true
family" exemplar couple, and through them to multiply this ideal. So
that family would be great.
Day and night, focus above the level of saints and sages. I concluded
the coronation ceremony. Now is the time of the cosmic federation. All
the saints in spirit world, centering on True Parents, will unite into
brother and sisterhood. The unity of religions therefore is to happen on
earth. Small nations should consolidate centering on a common purpose.
Educate people in each state and multiply through them. Continue the HDH
conferences.
We lost our own nation. Unificationists are special task soldiers to
find God's sovereign nation. Thousands feel God's longing desire to find
the nation; we are doing it with pride. You should make your own little
foundation. I gave everything to you. What is a blessed central family?
The blessed central family is a representative of the perfect couple,
Adam's family. I paid so much indemnity to bring this to you. Through
the HDH conference, keep the heavenly law. Make your family an exemplary
family. Then I would like to give this message on the first day of the
lunar calendar. True Parents' birthday is the 29th. The first day of the
new millennium starts Monday; this is the first day of the new year. I
don't know where to go after this birthday. But I have many things
to do on the world level. You invest as I am, on the jungsung
level. Searching for the right idea. You are a leader to embrace
heartistically all other people; otherwise you are in debt. I myself
support and give many things. Each family has a certain authority and
can compete with each other. Which family is best?
It is time for dinner. I prepared a special gift for True Parents'
birthday. Who will receive it?