15.4.12
Excerpt from the Cheon Seong Gyeong
Peace-loving citizens of the global village!
Introduced in this book is a part of the historical and
providential special messages from Heaven. They are the
messages from Heaven that Rev. Moon, who received the
calling from Heaven at the early age of 16 and set out on
the path of the salvation of humanity, has declared and
taught before all humanity in the world in his 90 years of
lifetime.
The teachings of Rev. Moon have already been published in
more than 1000 speech books. This pamphlet is an excerpt
from the Cheon Seong Gyeong, a volume of 16 books
comprising “the holy book for the Kingdom of Heaven,” as
it is described by Rev. Moon. This pamphlet’s first chapter
is the first section of the first chapter of Book 5, “Earthly
Life and the Spirit World.” This pamphlet’s Chapter 2, 3 and
4 are the third, fourth and fifth chapters of Book 4, “True
Family,” of the Cheon Seong Gyeong.
Out of the many teachings imparted by Rev. Moon in the
last few decades, the contents of this sums up the
love as originally created, that is, the love between a true
man and woman centered on true life and so forth. It is a
collection of the words given from the 1950s for decades
until now, under the same given subject, and so it is
somewhat repeated, and the reader may feel that the
same words are given again and again.
However, if the reader were to deeply saver the essence of
the words on each of the occasions as he read the words,
he would be able to realize that they are the words of the
profound truth and that even each of the words exude
deep and abstruse meaning. This is because they are not
the words thought of in the head of a human being, but the
truth of Heaven declared through the mouth of Rev. Moon.
This can be compared to the fact that, though Spring
comes every year, no two Spring seasons are ever alike.
I hope that you will not give up the great grace of Rev. Moon
in allowing this to be published especially to illuminate
the dark-seeming future of humanity. He has received
the heavenly seal as the True Parents of humanity and is
bestowing this book as a gift to the humanity with the love of
a parent. I also hope that the readers will read this
carefully to its conclusion, and let it serve as the indicator in
your future lives. Those who wish to learn further may also
purchase and study the Pyeong Hwa Hsin Gyeong, the Cheon
Seong Gyeong and the speech books of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
to be enlightened of even greater truth.
May the grace of Heaven be with you, your families, and
your nations.
Editor
Our Course of Life
Beloved Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your grace, and for
having shielded me in my struggles from my childhood until now;
during those years I have been apprehensive of any humiliation or
shame that Heaven might suffer. Among all the good things on
this earth, there is nothing more precious than connecting to Your
original heart. Knowing this, we must infinitely long for that
relationship. We must keep in mind that those who experience
Your love will have no regrets even if they forget about all the
things of this world. Now we must seek the ideal world, the
original homeland where we live by Your love. We must prepare
today on earth for the day of our birth as liberated children
endowed with the authority of freedom of our third life.
We must know that just as we needed to be healthy in the womb
to be born to lead a healthy life on earth, we need a wholesome
earthly life to have a wholesome life in heaven. As the world today
is one of conflict under the dominion of evil, we must we must be
resolved to fight to the death in order to be blessed with the
cooperation of heaven and earth and to keep in step with the
dynamic fortunes of the universe. We must resolve that our
descendants will never be placed in the same position as we have
been. (49.308, 1971.10.17)
Beloved Father, when we think of how You exist and have toiled
unremittingly to usher in a new spring, we must become Your
infinitely grateful and joyous sons and daughters who lament the
fact that we have yet to offer our entire life and love to You. In our
predestined relationship with You, our lives are meant to be
harmonized, and completely absorbed in and by You so that we
too, may greet the new spring.
We must realize that only when we greet spring for the first time
will the flowers bloom. We must not become such pitiful souls
who have never done so. Just as a flower goes through summer
and autumn before blooming and bearing fruit, we too are to
undergo a similar process to bear fruit.
We know that for a tree to bear fruit, it first absorbs life elements
through its roots, trunk and branches in summer, concentrating a
perfect life force to bring forth a second life. Similarly, we must
become the sons and daughters who are introspectively
determining whether we have a life force welling up in our hearts
one that is capable of rebirth in a new world even if our bodies
should die.
No matter how much time flies by no matter how fiercely the
storms rage; our inner life force must withstand the intrusions of
the environment and persevere persistently on the path of growth.
Only in this way, can we welcome the new spring and become a
seed, the original source of a second life, which can be planted
again.
Likewise, no matter how pathetic we may look externally, if we
maintain our value as the original essence that can enhance the
spiritual life force and as a seed that can he planted in the infinite
world, we are not miserable people even though we may think we
are. Please allow us to realize that the more miserable we may
appear externally, the more our internal value is complete and
guaranteed.(32-36, 1970.6.14)
Father, we have realized that without the desire to serve and bow
down humbly to You, we can have no relationship with You in the
eternal world. Open the doors of our hearts to feel Your heart and
hear Your voice welling up from the depths of our hearts, and
guide us to regain our lost bodies today. Help us to appreciate
Your historical course of toil and trouble to find each one of us,
that we may humbly bow our heads before You. (?-280, 1958.9.14)
God does not have a body. Therefore, in order to manifest His
body, God used Adam as His body, showing His face through
him. That is the ideal of creation.
God is the original spiritual focal point and Adam is the original
physical focal point. These two focal points generate a 90-degree
angle. This is God's purpose of creation and the purpose that
people desire. Had Adam and Eve not fallen, they would have
occupied the positions of father and mother eternally in the spirit
world; yet, due to the Fall, this was not possible. Had there been
no Fall, everyone could have gone to Heaven simply by attending
their parents as though they were attending God. (119-109,
1982.2.1)
This created world is round everywhere: the sun, the earth, and
the stars; everything is created round. Even our mouth, if we
analyze it, is round. No matter what, everything is created that
way. Then, the universe makes relationships by going around and
around, making circular, cyclical movements. Even if one
individual thing has a round shape, it does not exist by itself
individually but makes a relational connection with the whole.
Then, why are we born? We are born to beat in rhythm with this
vast universe. Ocean waves lapping against the shore lap against
our hearts as well. Gentle breezes sighing serenely lull our hearts
into serenity. Flowers in bloom release rich fragrances and stir the
fragrances in our hearts. (104-122, 1979.4.22)
If we are born, raised, live and die in love, then we can be grateful
for our birth, life and death. You were all born by having
participated in the place where your father and mother loved and
treasured each other exceedingly. You are participants in this love.
Since you were born through your parents' love, you consider
yourselves born as the flags planted through your parents' love.
These flags flutter to express love. We are all meant to live for the
sake of love throughout our lives. So you should wave the flag of
love for your mother, wave the flag of love when you see your
father, and wave the flag of love for your siblings. (103-258,
1979.2.25)
Your living body cannot be perfected unless your entire existence
becomes a foothold for absorbing nutrients. This phenomenon
occurs in the natural world. The crossroads of life do not appear
over a long period of time but in a single moment.
People who ignore a moment fail to obtain something precious.
They cannot become great people, nor inherit God's throne and
crown. Thus, for the sake of one bright shining moment, exercise
care with each word you utter, each action you take, and even
each thought you entertain. Deal with life and solve problems,
believing that the contents of your daily life will all remain as
phenomena in relationship to the world. That is the only way the
realm of victory is determined.
In this way, the realm of victory is determined in one moment. It
is the same with the historical realm of victory and the cosmic
realm of victory. Those who know the infinite value of one bright
shining moment and live accordingly can become great people,
even saints or God's sons and daughters. In this way, the junction
of life and death is crossed in a single moment. (31-217,
1970.5.31)
Today, our attitude is the problem. Of course, it is necessary to
first desire the coming of the kingdom and wish for the Will to be
done. Yet, what is more important is how we ourselves can
personally become one with God's will.
If we take this one hour, we see that how we use it to become one
with the Will is more important than to desire the Kingdom of
God to come. Therefore, we must first create environments as
individuals, families, tribes and peoples that will enable us to
inherit God's will, whereupon we can then proceed to establish a
relationship with God's Kingdom. Then, centered on God, how do
we make a relationship with the Will in this one hour -- if you are
given an hour -- within the sphere of your daily living? This is a
very important issue.
Looking at the history of the providence of restoration, there were
four thousand years from Adam's family through Noah's,
Abraham's and Moses' families down to Jesus' family. Here,
however, what led to their failures did not occur over the span of,
say, a year. In Adam's family, the Fall of Adam and Eve was not
something planned out and put into action over the span of a year
or a decade or even several decades. Their mistake happened in a
flash, and when we think about how that failure of one moment
has been perpetuated over eons of time, we can understand the
fearfulness and dreadfulness of that instant.
Due to the failure of that one moment, so many people who
walked the path of righteousness in the course of history had to
undergo untold suffering, and many races that could not follow
the Will fell into the abyss of destruction. All these became the
origin of a tremendous offering of indemnity. When we
understand this, a single hour that we ordinarily live so casually in
our daily life becomes fearful; but even more, we have to feel how
fearful a moment is, even one second of one hour that goes by as
the clock steadily ticks. Even the eternal Kingdom of Heaven does
not exist without having an integral relationship with the single
moment.
Eternity does not start when we die, but at the moment we come
to know God's will. Here, if for even an instant there is a leap in
the relationship of time or an abyss created, eternity will be
interrupted. Therefore, while walking the path of faith in the
course of your lives, do not procrastinate by deferring your
providential responsibilities from this year to the next, and then to
the year after that, or from your youth to your midlife and finally
into your old age. We cannot live like that. People with such a
lifestyle will die without having ever spent even one day of being
one with the Will over the course of their lifetime. They cannot go
to the Kingdom of Heaven.
However good your country of residence may he, you cannot go
to the Kingdom of Heaven if you were unable to live even one day
by a victorious standard; you cannot enter the eternal world if you
failed to live even one year victoriously. Hence, while it is
important for believers to go forth dreaming of eternity, what is
even more important is how they actually eradicate evil and
whether they become the standard-bearers of goodness. This is
preeminently crucial.
From this perspective, Adam's momentary lapse led to eons of
anguish. It was in Adam's family that Cain and Abel had to
dissolve the anguish of their parents and demolish the wall that
existed between the brothers and create the origin of one family.
Yet the murder of Abel, who was set up as the representative of
the providence of restoration, was also an instantaneous incident.
In the 120-year course during which Noah toiled to build the ark,
in only a brief moment God issued the command, "The day to
fulfill My wish has come: all aboard!" Those who followed this
order were able to receive the blessings of the eternal God; those
who did not were buried within the realm of eternal judgment.
It was the same with Abraham: God's promise that his
descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and as
the sands on the seashore" (Genesis 22:17) was bestowed in the
twinkling of an eye. Abraham's sacrificial offering did not require
decades but rather a mere day's work. The time it took him to cut
the offering and place it on the altar was not more than an hour,
yet that single hour historically bore the seeds of all life and death,
curse and blessing.
Today, what believers should dread is not the visitation of
judgment in the Last Days but the question of how they will
harmonize their daily activities and face life's crossroads in
alignment with God's will. (37-217, 1970.12.27)
How did God create Adam and Eve? If He used clay, what kind
was it? Where did He begin? From which point did Adam and
Eve's lives start? We cannot think that God created them as adults,
but rattier as babies. Without the notion that God behaved as a
pregnant mother who subsequently gave birth to, nourished and
nurtured a baby, we cannot logically explain the formation of all
existence through the three orderly stages of growth. Logically,
Adam and Eve passed through infancy before entering the growth
and completion stages. This is heavenly law.
What was Adam and Eve's infancy like? We must proceed from
the concept that the invisible God nurtured a baby whose
beginnings were in the world without form and who could pass
through the course in the physical realm. (225-198, 1992.1.20)
Since the society, nation and world in which we live are far from
ideal, all manner of suffering occurs, and good and evil are at
cross-purposes.
If we took a random sample of a hundred men, it would reveal
that one hundred percent of them jostle among themselves in "an
every man for himself" struggle within their circumstances to cope
with the demands of their mundane affairs.
Therefore, in our daily lives, we all acutely lack the confidence that
we can complete the day's work that we planned in the morning.
With a wider scope of activities we would need proportionately
more drive and determination to bring a victorious result in our
everyday life. Lacking these, that day cannot be victorious. Such
days turn into months and months into years.
We also lack environments conducive for meeting our monthly
goals. To end a month victoriously, we need the drive and
determination necessary to achieve breakthroughs in tackling
both the details and complexities of that month. Without them,
we cannot conclude our monthly activities victoriously.
Getting through a year successfully requires us to be equipped
with a fighting spirit or driving force that can thrust aside all the
challenges of each and every one of its 365 days. We can then
celebrate that year victoriously. If we live a year like that, and
continue in this vein, it will eventually add up to ten, and then
twenty, and then thirty years, and that eventually becomes our life
path. (31-30, 1970.4.12)
People living on earth today cannot escape from the constraints of
time. That has been true throughout history. Individuals, families,
tribes, people, nations and the world all move within the realm of
time.
Wherever people exist, there is always some goal to attain. We are
to focus on such a goal for ten, twenty, thirty, seventy years and,
indeed, our entire lives. The greater our goal, the stronger our
internal commitment needs to be. Unless we maintain an internal
determination that surpasses the goal through the process called
time, the goal will be unattainable. (31-149, 1970.5.24)
You may not know of the reality of the spirit world, but I enjoy
the special benefit from God of having a clear insight into that
unknown world. Digging into the root of that world, I found its
principles to be quite simple. In the spirit world only those who
lived altruistically in line with God's universal principles can enter
the higher realms. The world structured along those lines is the
ideal heavenly kingdom. That place is the original homeland that
humankind must seek. Today, although we are exiles from our
original homeland and live a fallen life, we are destined to return
there. God had to create a path for this in the course of history
because we could not do so by our own efforts.
This is why God raised up many different religions. They are
training grounds through which He has been directing all people
along that path, whatever their race, cultural background, customs
and traditions. Religions are the training grounds for training
people to become eligible to return to the original homeland.
Taking into account the diverse cultural backgrounds ranging
across the four corners of the earth, God is leading humanity
toward a unified world of religion that can progress upward onto
higher ground.
What does religion which guides people to the original homeland,
centrally teach? It is to live for the sake of others. As highly
developed religions tend to emphasize this principle, they teach us
to be gentle and meek, to stand in a position to elevate others and
live for their sake, and to serve them sacrificially. All this serves to
instill discipline in us to abide by the laws of the Kingdom of
Heaven. (78-115, 1975.5.6)
What should be our life path? It is the path of possessing God's
love. Possessing God's love is life's highest and final destination.
Everyone, men and women alike, must go this way. Our life path
must lead us to the infinite God of love. The greatest life path
consists of finding God's love by crossing over the peaks of death
tens and even hundreds of times, and continuing in that search
even after death.
What is the endpoint of our desires? It is the possession of God's
love. If, in that regard, we possess love more precious than our
own, God cannot be ours. Thus, we need to possess God's love. If
we possessed only God's love, then it would be all right even if He
were not present. When His love becomes mine and mine
becomes His, the internal and the external become one for the
first time. A nation based on such love becomes an ideal
homeland without upper and lower classes.
When we lie in that place of love, we feel that there is nothing
under the sun that does not appear good and that does not exist
for our sake. Since God's love is like that, the heavenly world,
which is humankind's destination, namely the Kingdom of
Heaven, is a place filled with love. (19-210, 1971.1.10)
People in today's world who flaunt their pedigrees and parade
their degrees as marks of social distinction, are unaware that their
births were spiritually sullied. They do not know that they were
born with the love, life and lineage of Satan; God's enemy. This is
a serious problem.
Due to the Fall, people have been born from Satan's love which
was passed down to their parents. Satan's blood has made its way
down through the lives of our mothers and fathers to us in the
present day. The fruit of those three then, is you. As such, you all
belong to the satanic lineage. In other words, Satan's blood is
running through your veins. Therefore, he automatically bears his
ideal fruit while God strives to redeem those very men and women
and transform them into originally pure and perfect people. You
all began from Satan's love and are born from his lineage.
Since your start was all wrong, you must return to the original
point. As we originated from false parents, we need to return and
start anew from true parents. How serious is this? It is imperative to
inherit God's love, life and lineage afresh.
That is why, when you receive the Blessing, you undergo the
ceremony for changing the lineage. You must believe in this more
than your own life. Just because it is a Unification Church ceremony,
you should not think of it as some ordinary ritual. It is like a wonder
drug, an antidote, to restore the dead back to life.
Our ancestors committed an error so grave that countless people
fell victim to its aftereffects throughout the course of human
history. Knowing this, we cannot tread that same path again --
ever again! We paid a ghastly price throughout history for having
perpetuated illicit love in the fallen spiritual and physical worlds,
with far-reaching consequences for individuals, families, societies,
nations and the world. (216-109, 1991.3.9)
When I say life here, I mean eternal life. I am not referring only to
the spirit world, but to a life to live for eternity. Each individual
was created to be an object of God's love. You are the object
partner of the absolute God, and the partner in His love. God
cherishes the notion of true love more than He values Himself. He
is the absolute and eternal center of life. His ideal is even more
eternal and the center of that ideal is true love. The partner of that
love is you.
The attribute of love promotes unity between partners. Such love
can unify a nation. Thus, one partner can accompany the other
partner in any position and follow unconditionally. You can inherit
God's entire fortune and even His entire heart. I went through a
miserable course to discover this and now stand on that foundation.
It is sublime and lofty and cannot be exchanged for anything: it is
an amazing grace. For that reason, I stand in the same position with
God. I share the eternal position of true love. The spirit world is in a
different dimension from this limited earthly world. We cannot
move freely within mundane confines, but as the spirit world is a
higher-dimensional place, you can do anything there; you can leap
across time. if you want something based on love, you can have it all
anytime, anywhere.
We were originally created as eternal beings. If we become eternal
beings of true love and go to the spirit world, we will be free. The
first standard of life is the standard of good and evil, the second is
the original starting point, and the third is eternal life. (216-107,
1991.3.9)
The Family Is the Model for the
Kingdom of Heaven
When you stand in the world of space, you need top and bottom,
left and right, and front and back. Only then is the status of your
position stable. Your shape will vary depending on the position in
which you stand: top and bottom, left and right, front and back.
When dealing with matters that concern the relationships of top
and bottom, left and right, front and back, and also problems in
the family, nation and world, there is only one solution. Just as
there has to be top and bottom, left and right, and front and back
with the individual at the center, there also have to be parents and
children, husband and wife, and brothers and sisters.
The same applies in a nation. With the leader of the nation at the
center, all families should embrace the civilizations of east and west,
and the civilizations of north and south, and all the people of the
world as their brothers and sisters, and eventually establish a family
model. This model is the same for all. You yourselves are the center
of that model. This model represents a principle that requires that
from you should come your family, which then expands to the
nation, world, heaven and earth, and all the way to God.
You not only want to be the center of the universe, you can be the
center. In the same way, the family is the center of the universe. If
you think of heaven as the parents, then earth represents the
children. When considering east and west, the east symbolizes the
man and the west the woman. So after marriage, the woman goes
to the place where her husband is wherever it may be. This is
similar to the west reflecting the sunlight that shines from the east.
It is the same with the relationships of brothers and sisters. When
the eldest brother leads a task, the younger brothers and sisters
will cooperate. Therefore each person should be in a parent-child
relationship, a conjugal relationship and a sibling relationship. In
other words, these three relationships must meet at one point. The
central point is one. The centers for top and bottom, left and right,
and front and back should not be different.
If their centers are different the relationships of top and bottom,
left and right, and front and back will all be unbalanced. So top
and bottom, left and right, front and back, and the common
central point add up to the number seven. To form the number
seven in this way means to be a family that is united in true love
with God at the center and where all these things form a complete
sphere bringing about harmony and unification. We often say
seven is a lucky number. So when we hear this about the number
seven it seems believable. As long as true love never changes, this
central core will turn forever without changing, realizing the ideal
of the true family.
Also since everything is connected to the core, then each position,
one, two, three, four, five, six and seven from this central core are
equal. If the grandfather and his sons and daughters want
something and the grandchild is not against it, then all three
generations will come to want it. The grandfather and
grandmother, husband and wife, and sons and daughters all
follow the center. In terms of love, we say that the parent-child
relationship is one, the conjugal relationship is one, and the
sibling relationship is one. They are one body. What are these
relationships revolving around? They are revolving around the
true love of God who is the center of love. Based on true love, the
parents and children, husband and wife and brothers and sisters
all become one. In this way the value of everything becomes equal.
(299-114, 1999.2.7)
What is the universe? Everything in the created world is designed
as a sort of training aid to help God's beloved sons and daughters
find the ideal of love. This is why everything exists in reciprocal
relationships. Minerals are based on the reciprocal relationship of
subject and object partners and so are atoms. Protons and
electrons also exist based on the reciprocal relationship of subject
and object partners. Without reciprocation they cannot continue
to exist. Without give and take action they cannot exist eternally.
Therefore, the universe is a world created in such a way that its
center can only be reached through human beings. (137-59,
1985.12.18)
What is the universe? It is an expansion of the family. If you look
at a family that has completely realized the ideal of family love, it
has a top, middle and bottom (parents, husband and wife, and
children), left and right, and front and back. This is the principle.
So when we talk about top and bottom we mean the parents and
children, when we talk about left and right we mean the husband
and wife, and when we talk about front and back we mean the
brothers and sisters.
Through what do they all become one? It doesn't happen through
power, knowledge or money. Then what can bring it about? It is
love. This is an absolute truth. Otherwise the sphere cannot be
formed. Then what are the top, middle and bottom in our family?
They are a textbook of love. They are a textbook of love through
which we can encounter universal love. Go out into society and
put it into practice. How should we love? Jesus said, "Love your
neighbor as yourself." How should we follow this teaching? We
are not sure.
When you go out into the world and meet a grandfather, treat him
as your own grandfather. Treat people like your own mothers, like
your own fathers or like your own sons. When you go out into the
world you should all live like this. The people of the top, middle
and bottom, front and back, and left and right are all displayed in
the exhibition hall of the world. You should know that the world
is an exhibition of people. If you can love everyone with such love,
God will dwell in the midst of that love. (128-22, 1983.5.29)
What is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is the place where you love the
people of the world as your own family, and people who do this
are the people of the Kingdom of Heaven. Your grandfather and
grandmother, your mother and father, your wife, your brothers
and sisters, and your children -- what are these four generations?
They are the textbook through whom you can deeply experience
love, the true love of the universe as people of the Kingdom of
Heaven. The family is the foundation, a type of textbook that
teaches you this love. (129-96, 1983.10.1)
We can not live without learning the love of the universe. God has
prepared things such as a textbook or scripture containing
promises which openly say, "Love your grandmother and
grandfather. Your grandmother and grandfather on earth are sent
as representatives of the grandmothers and grandfathers in the
spirit world. Therefore if you love them, I will take it as if you had
loved all grandmothers and grandfathers."
Next God says, "Since your mother and father represent the
countless mothers and fathers of the world, as a textbook and
model of love, if you love them to the utmost, I will take it as a
condition of you having loved all mothers and fathers.
Furthermore if you as a man, representing all men, love a woman
who represents all women, it will be a condition of having loved
all women." Next He says, "I will take your loving your sons and
daughters as you having loved all sons and daughters." Therefore
the family is the training center to receive such training.
It is a training process for loving the world in accordance with the
scriptures. We can ask the trainees if now they will go out to the
world and love the grandmothers and grandfathers of the world in
place of their own grandfather and grandmother, and if they say
"yes," this will save the world. (130-273, 1984.2.5)
God's will is to realize the kingdom of love. If God's will is to
develop and globalize the ideal world of love, the family is the
experimental ground where you earn credits, all the way from an
elementary school certificate to a bachelor's degree and PhD. The
family expands to the world. If you look at the world carefully,
you will see that it is a world where grandfathers and
grandmothers live, a world where adults like your uncles and
aunts live, a world where people like your elder brothers and elder
sisters live, a world where youths live, and a world where children
live. So these places where old, middle-aged, young people and
children live are larger expansions of the family. (147-281,
1986.10.1)
The family is the smallest unit within the training center and is
also a textbook for entering the Kingdom of Heaven. It has all the
levels: the grandfather's level, mother's level, couple's level and
sibling's level. These levels expand into larger groups of
grandmothers and grandfathers, mothers and fathers, your own
peers, and your sons and daughters, and together they form
humanity.
Only families that can love all human beings as their own spouses
and as their own parents, and serve them as their own sons and
daughters, can inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. This is amazing.
The right to inherit all the power and authority of heaven and
earth created by God lies here. (143-285, 1986.3.20)
The family is a textbook of love through which at the time of
death you receive the right to be registered at the Palace of Peace
and the Kingdom of Heaven. The family is a training ground of
love. The extension of this family is the world. The world is made
up of smaller worlds: there is a grandfathers' world, a
grandmothers' world, a world of fathers and mothers, there are
husbands' and wives' worlds and sons' and daughters' worlds.
When these combine we have the whole world.
Thus if you love the people of the whole world as you love your
family and as you love God through the family, this will make a
straight road to the Kingdom of Heaven. Thus the first
commandment is, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." And the
second commandment is, "You shall love your neighbor as
yourself." If you love God and love humanity, everything will be
accomplished. If you cannot do it, your spiritual training will have
been in vain. No matter how great a religion's spiritual discipline
may be, if it does not know how to love God, humankind and the
whole universe it will fail the test.
In the family you should deeply experience love by going through
the official course of the training center which is an encapsulation
of the whole universe and then expand this and love the world.
You have inherited this from your family, your training ground,
where you were raised with your mother and father. Therefore if
you love your parents more than your wife, love your sons and
daughters more than your wife, love humanity more than your
wife, and love God more than your wife, everything will be
accomplished. This doesn't mean that you should abandon your
wife. If you love in this way, all the recipients of that love will
come to love your wife as well. Is there a more glorious place than
this? If you want to love your wife, follow this way. (143-285,
1986.3.20)
What kind of fortune should a person in the child's position
receive? They should inherit the fortune of the grandparents and
parents. Why does one need grandparents? We need grandparents
because they represent the living history of the past. The parents
represent the present and the children symbolize the future.
Children contain east and west and also north and south. They are
also the center of the whole. The center of the grandparents, the
center of the parents, the center of the children and the center of
God -- all these are founded on true love.
Thus, loving your grandparents and respecting them means to
learn and to inherit all the past. You learn the present from your
father and by loving children you learn about the future. What do
you inherit through your grandfather and grandmother, and
mother and father? You inherit true love.
Although your grandfather and grandmother are old, they are
united in true love and so your mother and father are united. So
you should be like them and inherit the future. We absolutely
cannot inherit the future without becoming a true family. When
we look at these three generations, it is like looking at the
universe. The love of the universe resides in the true family that
represents the present and future.
When we look at the animal world, male and female animals love each
other, and this is a textbook from which we learn about the love of the
universe. Without a grandmother and a grandfather we feel unstable.
Only with them can we move straight to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Grandparents, mother and father, and children will all go to the
Kingdom of Heaven.
Those who have loved the true grandparents, the true parents, the
true children, the true family, the true nation and the true
universe will go to the Kingdom of Heaven. The model and
textbook for all this is the family. (162-140, 1987.4.5)
The family is a type of educational material which teaches us how
to establish the Kingdom of Heaven. It comes from heaven. If a
person loves all the people of his grandfather's age in the world as
his own, he will go to the Kingdom of Heaven. If he loves the
people of his parents' age as his own, he will be able to travel freely
throughout all the nations. He will have no boundaries even when
he goes to the spirit world. If he thinks of the young people of all
nations as his own sons and daughters, he will be able to travel
freely within the Kingdom of Heaven even though there are
twelve pearly gates and directions.
Therefore, the family is a textbook which shows us how to make a
connection with the Kingdom of Heaven. When you apply it to
the nation, you will become a patriot, when you apply it to the
world, you will be a saint, and when you practice it in heaven and
earth, you will become God's children, or holy sons and
daughters. People have such a desire. (137-77. 1985.12.18)
You should be able to embrace the sons and daughters of all races as
well as their grandsons and granddaughters. In this way, you should
stand in the position to become the owners of the family who, as true
parents, love the people of the world with true love. By standing in the
position to represent the family that practices true love and is
connected to the original parents through God's love, you can finally
enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (176-209, 1988.5.9)
The family encompasses history, the present and the future. So
what is the ultimate point that God has sought for six thousand
years? It is the family -- the family where love is interconnected
and where all are united in love. Everything that exists comes
under its dominion.
We cannot cut our relationship with this absolute source of love.
The establishment of such a family was the original mission that
God gave Adam and Eve at the time of creation. God did not want
them to merely end up as a man, Adam, and a woman, Eve, but
instead dreamed of a new family where they would be united. This
is the first starting point towards establishing men and women.
Thus to be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven safely, you have
to find a family and within the realm of that family in this world,
enter and live in a place where you can feel satisfied in God's love.
Only then can you go beyond this world as well. (30-85,
1970.3.17)
In order to form the family realm of love you have to be
unconditional. The parents represent the past, the husband and
wife represent the present, and the children represent the future.
Loving one partner during your lifetime is the equivalent to God
loving the world. It is a place where in oneness the parents, a
couple, and the children offer their love as an example
representing heaven and earth and tell their descendants to follow
them. The original homeland of the heart, the place where
heavenly affection is felt will be remembered in heaven and earth.
(30-78, 1970.3.17)
What has God been looking for up until now? He has not been
seeking a subject partner; rather He has been looking for an ideal
object partner. He has been looking for those who resemble God
and posses the inner and outer aspects of the world He created.
What is the starting point that leads to such a result? It is the
family. There is nothing that can represent the universe better
than the family. To be one with the parents is for past and present
to meet. Here, you can love the past by loving your parents, love
the present by loving your partner, and love the future by loving
your children. Therefore, you can deeply experience the love of
three generations. The place where these three kinds of love are
concentrated is the family. (30-80, 1970.3.17)
Then where does life in the Kingdom of Heaven begin? It is the
family. It does not unfold somewhere else. The Kingdom of
Heaven is just a three-dimensional expansion of the family and
not something that goes beyond the family realm. Therefore when
you embrace your husband or wife, you should think that this is a
man of the world becoming one with a woman of the world. The
place where you can make the condition of having loved mankind
is none other than the family.
You should live your life this way. To love your parents is to
connect history with the present and to pave the road for God to
come to you. Therefore you have to love your parents. To love
your parents is to connect the human beings of history with
yourself as an inhabitant of the present, that is to unite the past
and the present. Furthermore loving your children centering on
yourself is to connect the present with the future. And the
philosophy that practices and sings the praise of such love for a
thousand and tens of thousands of years is Unification thought.
(30-82, 1970.3.17)
We cannot live separate from the heart. Even if you are the president
of a country or possess global authority, you would not be able to live
if you had no place to express your heartfelt joy. You would not be
able to feel the deepest satisfaction from the people who are under
your command, your officers or the people who follow you. You must
feel it in your family. You should be able to return home and feel joy
through your wife and children. In such a way you should be proud of
this joy in front of others. This joy is a primal joy; not a secondary joy.
It is the same with God. Even if He was to restore the whole world,
without a family He would not feel joy. So we need our families after
all. (25-85, 1969.9.30)
Parents should be the head of the family and teachers should be
the head of the educational institutions which represent society.
Parents raise you by giving you milk thereby assisting your
physical development as well as helping you emotionally. Then
what is school for? It trains you for your future life in society. If
the family is the training ground of the emotions, then school is
the experimental training ground of society.
But society is not where training ends. Where does it end? It ends
with the nation. The nation has a president. Why is it that people
miss the president and want to be near him? When they have
experienced everything, from the family to the society, they go on
to the next level. The president is the fruit of the third stage after
the formation and growth stages. A seed divides, sends roots
down and a shoot up, and then, through circulatory action,
growth begins. After such division comes a synthesis when flowers
and fruit are produced.
Schools raise the people needed by the nation by educating the
qualified elite to serve the nation. They are training and
experimentation sites. Training is not real life but a preparation
stage. You should not make the wrong preparations. What is the
family? It is a training ground for the heart. It is a place where you
train your heart to love. This is why you should live affectionately
like brothers and sisters at school and also live affectionately like
brothers and sisters in the nation. Parental education is needed at
school, in society and also by the nation. Parents should pass
everything in the realm of heart on to their children. They should
create a foundation of heart for their children by teaching them to
follow their parents' footsteps in living in certain ways in the
family, the society, and in the nation. (180-130, 1988.8.22)
When you look at a family, it is not necessarily a good one just
because it has a good house and a good environment. Conversely,
no matter how bad a family's environment may be or how shabby
its house may be, if it offers you peace and you are able to connect
all things in your life to it, then it is a good family. It has a
foundation of heart upon which the parents and children live for
the sake of each other. This is the original homeland for our
memories and the source of motivation for all living. Therefore it
becomes the basis for determining our happiness in life. (29-16,
1970.2.15)
Family, the family is a good place. Why is it good? It is a good
place because my mother and father are there. It is a good place
because my elder sister and elder brother are there. It is a good
place because my younger brother and younger sister are there,
and it is a good place because my relatives are there. Thus, human
beings feel nostalgia for their hometown and the land of their
original hometown. They feel more deeply about their hometown
than they do for the nation. The place you long for even when you
live in the Republic of Korea is your hometown.
What place do you long for even though you like Korea, even
though you want to live in Korea, and even while you are living in
Korea? It is your hometown. Hometown, what kind of place is
your hometown? It is a place where your heart is lifted up in four
directions and three dimensions. What is that heart? It is a place
where you are tied up by love. Upward, your mother and father
are tying you up; left and right, the bond between husband and
wife is tying you up; downward, your sons and daughters and
relatives are tying you up tight with three dimensional love. This
is the original hometown.
People cannot help but long for their original hometown because
they look upon this starting point of happiness based on love as
the best. Then, what kind of place do you think God's original
hometown is? What do you think God's land of original
hometown is on this earth? We should think about these
questions. If God is the God of love, He must surely have prepared
a starting point for living on this earth, and where is this starting
point? To know this, we must understand how God has prepared
that starting point. What kind of place can become the starting
point of the original hometown where God's family can be
created? It is none other than a place where a son dwells who
understands God as his real father. In other words, it is a place
where the son, the only-begotten son who can monopolize God's
love, exists. Also it is a place where such a daughter dwells. It is a
place where such a son and a daughter marry and form a complete
family. (23-151, 1969.5.18)
Then who should be in the original hometown? Those who you
miss should be there. Your parents should be there and your
brothers and sisters should be there. And those who you long to
meet should be there. When you want to live with them there,
would you be satisfied if you just saw them for a moment? Would
you be satisfied if you met and just saw them for a short time?
When meeting and living with them, you should not be tired even
if you live with them for eternity. You should go and find such a
place. This is the Kingdom of Heaven that today's religions
pursue. (23-80, 1969.5.11)
Today, the reason we long for the land of our original hometown
is that in that hometown there are parents, brothers and sisters,
and relatives, who are closer to us than anyone else. They always
guide us; they welcome us as they did in the past whenever we
visit them, and they sympathize with us, console us and receive us
with joy when we are having difficulties. Without this welcome
though, even if you longed for your original hometown and
returned there, your desperate longing heart would vanish, and
you would go back with feelings of deep regret. You should know
this. In the original hometown there have to be people who will
welcome you. (23-80, 1969.5.11)
Everything divides from one into many, which eventually merge
into a larger whole. In other words, one divides into many and
then unites again into one. From here it divides again and
becomes something even larger. Families exist within this larger
created object. These families all have the same form as each
other. The family is the place where the relationship of husband
and wife is established and the place that unites the husband and
wife. The tribe is a place that unites families, and the race is a place
that unites clans. Races combine to form one nation. Here families
play the central role. (26-189, 1969.10.25)
When the family is expanded, it becomes the horizontal world.
This is why no society can manage without the family. If families
cannot be restored, the world cannot be restored. Next we must
realize the cosmos-centered ideal through these families. The
word cosmos combines heaven and earth. Heaven and earth are
like a person's mind and body. The mind and body must become
one. Just as a subject partner needs an object partner, one man
needs one woman. The union of a man and a woman leads to a
family. God's foundation of love will not be attained without
working through this family. (26-189, 1969.10.25)
The cosmos-centered ideology is a philosophy that unites the
mind and body forming a family as the main body of love, and
connects that idea to the spirit world and physical world. The
character ju of cheon ju (cosmos) means a house. This is why we
are using the word cosmos-centered ideology. Cosmos combines
the spirit world and the physical world. What relationship does it
have with us? We need a family. If you fail to be at one in your
family, you have nothing to do with the cosmos-centered
ideology. The family serves as the final standard for completing
the cosmos-centered ideology. Those who cannot sing songs of
peace and sing praise for happiness here will become miserable
people either on this earth or in the spirit world. (26-189,
1969.10.25)
From where is the Kingdom of Heaven realized? It is realized
from our families. Then what kind of ideology do we have? We
have a family-centered ideology. The word cosmos-ism (cosmoscentered
ideology) contains cheon meaning heaven
and ju meaning house; so it means the ideology of heaven's house.
Only then does the meaning of the cosmos (cheon ju) become
clear. The sixty-six books of the Bible are filled with words that
desire an ideal family. Furthermore what is it that all men desire?
It is to have an ideal wife. Also the greatest desire of a woman is to
meet an ideal husband. No matter how proud and famous a
woman who has a doctorate may be, her desire is to meet an ideal
man, an ideal man she can love and with whom she can have her
beloved sons and daughters. This is the root of happiness. The
ideal of the Unification Church does not lie somewhere else. The
beginning is the family and the conclusion is the family. (26-102,
1969.10.18)
What kind of ideology is the cosmos-centered ideology? It is the
true parent-centered ideology. After all, these are both ideologies
upholding parents. This is the ideology of our house, the ideology
of our nation, and the ideology of your individual self. Had
human beings not fallen, whose ideology would rule the world? It
would be the Adam-centered ideology. This ideology is none
other than the way of true parents. It is the ideology of the mother
and father. There cannot be an ideology higher than this. Hence
the Unification Church should link matters of the heart with
heavenly ideology through the way of true parents within the
boundary of the original ideal family. As long as families that have
internalized such an ideology remain, the Unification Church will
not perish. (26-201, 1969.10.25)
Our Course of Life
Centered on Love
If we ask ourselves whether life or love is first, we can claim each
to be first. But which do you think really comes first? It is love that
comes first. Relating this to the core of the universe, in order for
something to have value, there must be an original flow of love.
043-277, 1986.3.20)
When we examine where life comes from, we must ask the
question as to which comes first, life or love. Until now we have
not been able to discern this clearly. Love comes first, then life.
Because what comes second must meekly surrender to what
comes first, it is natural that we offer our lives for the sake of love.
This is the way things are. This then provides an answer as to the
true course for our life. Since our life is born in love, the
conclusion is that we must walk the way of love and die for love.
The purpose of human life is to find the love that the macrocosm,
not the microcosm, is able to welcome. It is to be born, to love and
to die in the midst of the great universal love that God, creation,
our parents, and the angelic world all acknowledge. This is how I
see it. (Blessed Family - 1062)
Human beings are not born based on their own choice. Then, are
they born due to their parents' wishes? No. They are born due to
God's desire. They are born through the love of their parents,
which represents God's love. The person, who is born as a new life
through parental love, representing God's love, is I. Love has the
power to create everything. The one who is born as the center of
the whole universe by receiving all the love of the universe is none
other than I. The highest purpose of life is to be born through
love, be raised in love, live by love, and to leave love behind. The
most valuable thing to do is to fulfill, in the family, the rules of
love that lie at the center of the universe. (Blessed Family - 1062)
You should understand why human beings are born. They are not
born for the sake of knowledge or political power. They are born
because of love and from love. Then what makes love so great? It
is the fact that love is the original source of life. You are born in
the midst of your parents' love.
You are not born out of your parents' desire for money or
knowledge. Since you are born in love like this, you should bear
fruits of love. This is why you need children. A husband and wife
become complete when they become one and have sons and
daughters as their object partners. (Blessed Family - 1062)
Human beings cannot exist apart from love. Therefore, we can say that
"I" live on the foundation of love. All things also originate in God's love.
The existence of all things began on the foundation of love, so it is
undeniable that human beings, as the center of the created universe,
must also have begun in love. (Blessed Family - 1062)
Since human beings begin in love and mature through love, they cannot
live separated from the standard of love. (Blessed Family -1062)
What do you think is the cause of human existence? The cause of
human existence is love. Then where do you think the purpose of
human existence lies? The purpose of human existence lies in
completing the ideal of love. Human beings came into being
through love, and so their purpose is to perfect love by forming a
foundation of love and expanding and connecting it. In other
words, since the beginning is love, the purpose has to be reached
through love as well. For this, a man and a woman in partnership
must become one in love and connect front and back, left and
right, and above and below. (Blessed Family -1062)
No matter how firmly we have determined to become an absolute
being and establish an absolute purpose, this will be useless unless
we are happy. Our daily life should be happy. We live for this
purpose. When we have achieved the purpose, something new will
exist that is greater than existence itself. What is it? What is most
precious for a man and woman? It is love. Love is the key element
needed to experience happiness. No matter how lofty a person's
purpose may be, if he fails to establish a love that can take
dominion over his purpose, he will have to pursue a new purpose.
Purpose cannot stand above love. (29-130, 1970.2.26)
What are you living for? There will be some who say they live to
eat and there will be some who say they live to work or they live
without a purpose. What do human beings live for? If you say you
live for the sake of love, how great this answer is! Human beings
are born as the fruit of love, live in love, and return to the eternal
love of God's bosom. This is the original life of creation. (Blessed
Family -1064)
One is born through love and grows up in love. Next, he leaves the
love of his parents and finds and connects to the love of a partner,
which is a love in another dimension. We can call parental love
the formation-stage love and conjugal love the growth-stage love.
No matter how much a couple may be in love, they cannot see the
completion of their love until they have children. This is why they
want to have children. This is completion-stage love. Therefore,
the process of going through parental love, conjugal love, and
children's love is the fundamental core of human life and the
original path of God's ideal of love at creation. (48-11, 1971.8.31)
Life is born from love. One is born from love, grows up in love
while being loved by his parents, meets a beloved wife and loves
her, and dies in that love; this is what is called human life.
Therefore, originally there should have been no sorrow or pain in
human life. (Blessed Family -1062)
Originally, the focal point of the universe is the place where all
vertical and horizontal combinations of love come together so that
parental love, conjugal love, and children's love can unite. This
becomes the point upon which the entire universe is focused and
where the directions of all cells in the universe are oriented. All
the spirits in the spirit world will be focused on this. Moreover,
they will protect this place so no one can invade it. If this place is
destroyed, it will be catastrophic. So a certain form is needed in
order for it to remain intact. In the Unification Church, this form
is called the four-position foundation. (Blessed Family -1062)
You shouldn't forget that while you lived as an embryo, you not
only received nutrition from your mother but you also received
love from her. Likewise, people living on earth are not only
receiving physical nutrition from the universe but also love from
God, who is the essential element of life. (Blessed Family -1062)
Just as all plants absorb sunlight as an element of life, love is an
element of life for people. Our hope is that the Kingdom of
Heaven on earth or the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven be built
where we can live eternally in love and in adoration. (Blessed
Family -1062)
Human beings are born through love and grow through their
childhood while receiving love. After a certain stage of growth,
parental love is not enough, and their love expands horizontally
through the love among brothers and sisters and the love of the tribe.
In other words, they grow to maturity while receiving all kinds of love
in heaven and earth. When they reach young adulthood, they
particularly thirst for love with the opposite sex. Engaging in this love
leads them to a more comprehensive love, through which they finally
find the center of love. (Blessed Family -1062)
The paths that man and woman walk exist because of love and for
the sake of love. My path is the path of love. I move in order to
attain love, keep love, and form an environment of love. It is also
for the sake of love that women put on cosmetics and receive
massages. Wanting something and doing work are all for the sake
of love. We overcome hardship and move on in order to attain
precious love. (Blessed Family -1066)
From the time we are born, we are receiving parental love. As long
as our parents are alive, they love us at any stage of life, be it the
period of childhood, the period of youth, or the period of middle
age. When we grow up receiving parental love, horizontal love of
husband and wife is bound to happen to each of us. (Blessed
Family -1062)
What do you think marriage is? It is a school, a place where the men
learn something they did not know about women, and women learn
something they did not know about men. All their grades should be
A's in order for the husband and wife to be pleased. You have sons
and daughters for the sake of learning how to love the world.
Without them, you cannot be connected to the future.
Your sons and daughters are given to you as educational materials
through which you can be connected to the future world.
Fulfilling your filial duties to your ancestors and grandfather and
grandmother is like receiving education from the spirit world. All
these things are connected through love. The grandfather and
grandmother, husband and wife, and sons and daughters are all
connected through love. Just like the blood vessels in the human
body flow up and down, you can go up and down all the way to
your ancestors of 10 million generations in the spirit world and
also reach your distant descendants through this. So you should
know that this is how spirit world and the universe are organized.
All things will be governed in this way. We can say that becoming
a servant of love and a slave of love is the greatest happiness.
(Blessed Family -1062)
Try to discover God's love. How can we characterize God's love? It
can be compared to a warm spring day where white clouds gently
float in the sky, heat rises from the ground, insects fly around, ants
crawl in and out to see the world, pussy willows shoot out by the
stream, frogs sing new spring songs, bees swarm and butterflies
flutter. You feel intoxicated in such an environment and feel
sleepy, but in reality you are awake and feeling so good that you
want to stay like this forever. When God finds His ideal object
partner, He gets the same feeling, as if He is in a beautiful garden
of flowers where butterflies and bees fly around. When thinking of
this, do you feel good or bad? These dull-witted men may not be
aware of this. It feels good.
When you run into someone you are pleased to see, you hold his
hand firmly and shake hands. When someone joyfully says, "Long
time no see!" and holds your hand firmly, do you feel good or
bad? If there is someone who says he feels bad, just kick him,
saying, "You jerk!" When you are glad to see someone, do you
hold hands tightly or not? Do you like it when someone grasps
your hand firmly? You want to like it, but maybe you really do
not. You have to know something to like it, and if you do not
know it, then how can you like it?
Be honest! If your husband loves you, you do not need anything
else. You live clinging tightly to your husband. It is always great to
see a man and a woman firmly holding hands, especially when the
man's hand is as rough as a cow's front hoof. When watching
movies, we enjoy seeing scenes like that. If the woman says to the
man, "Oh, you have pretty hands," the man will be offended. This
is how things are. Love is eternal. Love is united, not divided. You
become one. When a man and a woman become a couple and love
each other, they are bonded together. Of course this does not
happen literally, but in heart they reach a level even higher than
this. That is God's love. If you live with such love, will you be
united or not? Think about it. Everything is destined to become
one. (Blessed Family - 106)
When a man and a woman fall in love, all kinds of things happen,
right? But if you find a way to know God's love and really taste it,
then His love cannot be compared to anything in this world. If
there is someone who has tasted this love, no amount of difficulty
or sorrow can defeat him. Such a realm of absolute liberation
should exist, should it not? The question is how to find it. (39-240,
1971.1.15)
God's love can largely be divided into three great forms of love.
They are parental love, conjugal love, and children's love. The
center where these three forms converge into one is God's love.
(173-278, 1975.11.23)
A glorious new morning will dawn when God assumes a physical
body. The time He can love His grandchildren is a time more
glorious than the time He can love His sons and daughters. How
do you think God expressed His joy to Adam after having created
him? God had to teach Adam about His parental joy, but that can
be learned only when the children have their own sons and
daughters. Children cannot know what parental love is like, but
they do come to understand after having babies and a family.
They understand that their parents loved them while raising them.
Therefore, the day when your child takes a spouse is a day of
glory, and the day your child has a child is a day of glory. (Blessed
Family - 934)
You should know God's love. You should experience your parents'
love and learn how to serve them. You should all experience
conjugal love with your spouses and learn how to serve them. You
should know your children's love. Do not just give orders to your
children, but learn how to understand and serve them as well.
Only then can you understand God's love. Without children, you
are in an incomplete state. You cannot understand God's love.
You cannot understand how much God loved human beings, His
children. Furthermore, without being a husband, you cannot
know the wife, and without being a wife, you cannot know the
husband. Children do not know what parents' love is like until
they become parents. So without sons and daughters, you cannot
be true parents. (133-138, 1984.7.10)
Parents want their children to be married because they want to
bequeath to them and completely teach them of parental love.
When parents die, they leave their real selves behind with their
descendants. This is why they need descendants. Love is
something that continues forever. Since love is the highest human
desire, everyone wants to inherit it with their arms wide open.
When parents bequeath their love to their descendants, they can
stand proudly before God in the spirit world. It is through the
family that love becomes complete. Going to the heavenly
kingdom through the family means that the realm of oneness of
love has been realized. (Blessed Family - 934)
People should follow this principle. Seeds are sown in the spring;
in summer, plants develop fully; and in autumn, they bear fruit. In
winter, you should put things in order and carry the essence of
this new seed of life deep within your heart. Only then will you
have seeds to plant again when spring returns. This means that in
the future you should be parents and raise sons and daughters like
yourselves. (26-158, 1969.10.25)
Why do people feel sorry when they do not have sons and
daughters? They feel sorry because they cannot form a circle.
When you see birds feeding their young, you can recognize the
deep love of the mother bird. Western people may not know this,
but in the Orient, children are liked more than adults. People
show polite respect for adults, but they show the utmost love for
children. You can realize how much your parents loved you when
you have your own sons and daughters and raise them. (Blessed
Family - 934)
Everyone should get married and have and raise their children so
they can know both children's love and parental love. It seems that
western people are not like this. They avoid having and raising
sons and daughters. They hesitate to have children because the
children may limit their freedom to marry and divorce. But when
people fail to establish the four-position foundation, they cannot
go to the Kingdom of Heaven because they do not know God's
heart of loving people. (Blessed Family - 934)
Human beings are born through love, grow up in parental love,
and mature while broadening love horizontally. Horizontal love
reaches the completion of the first stage when man and woman
meet and grow together to the state where they can represent the
love of heaven and earth and bear children as the fruit of that love.
Children are born from the heart's core as a result of love.
The child who is born from a man and woman who share love
based on heart creates a path to the center of love. This center will
lead them directly to God. By having children as a fruit of love,
human beings come to deeply experience the love with which God
created all things and human beings. By loving their children, they
deeply experience the love they received from their parents and
the parental heart. The love parents have been pouring into their
children is not a materialistic love but an intrinsic love.
The love that parents give their children does not change even if
heaven and earth change and historical ages change. By becoming
a parent and loving your children, you will understand and deeply
experience how God has been loving human beings. By becoming
a parent and loving your children, you will feel and realize how
much your parents have loved you.
This is why we revere our aged parents even more and fulfill the
duties of filial piety with love. If you do not fulfill these
responsibilities, you are unqualified to be parents and your love
towards your children can only be considered hypocritical.
Human beings should feel and realize how much God has loved
them by becoming parents themselves and loving their children.
Furthermore, they will love God even more sincerely. A person
should love their aged parents more than they love their children
and love God more than they love their parents, knowing that this
is the order and law of love.
Because heaven and earth has a spherical shape, they share
horizontal love and rotate, forming a circle on the first level.
When they take a partner of the opposite sex and share love, they
have children as the fruit and become parents. When they love
each other and rotate, vertical love is realized following the
horizontal love. This forms the spherical world and establishes the
center of love at the same time.
The center of love that emerges through the movement created by
these love relationships is also the core of existence of the entire
world of creation. The earth exists because it is also moving
continuously around this center of love. The center of love is
where infinite force is gathered that enables continuous
movement. The center that appears through the sphere of love in
this manner is also a place where God dwells. Therefore, all
creation existing in the world is born and exists through God's
love and moves in search for the center of God's love. God is a
furnace of love. (126-245, 1983.4.24)
Human beings are born after developing in the mother's womb.
They live on earth for a certain period of time, and then die. Prior
to birth, the fetus spends ten months in the mother's womb where
it has limited freedom. It grows by receiving nutrition from the
mother through the umbilical cord. It opens and closes its hands,
opens and closes its mouth, and wriggles its feet. This is all it can
do. Nevertheless, for the fetus the mother's womb is a world of
freedom and the whole world. After ten months the fetus is born
into the contemporary earthly world, or human society. (Blessed
Families and the Ideal Kingdom of Heaven - 1062)
Why are human beings born? They are born for the sake of love.
For this reason, they are grounded in true parental love and grow
in the mother's womb, which is a bosom of parents' protection
and love. Children grow to maturity embraced by parental love
that digests with joy all the hardships without complaint. Upon
reaching maturity at about twenty years old, the child should meet
their eternal love partner and be engrafted into heavenly love in
which they live entirely for the sake of one another. Following this
life course, this new couple should have their own sons and
daughters and love them. Only when they experience the depth of
God's love can the substantial realm of God's love of the object
partner be completed. (143-283, 1986.3.20)
Human life can be compared to the life a fetus lives in the
mother's womb. People will live a one hundred year span in the
womb of the universal mother. Just as the fetus is ignorant of the
world outside the mother's womb, the people living a physical life
today are ignorant of the reality of the spirit world that awaits
them after death. They can venture a guess. They have a vague
sense that, just as they did not know about the human world while
in the mother's womb, a world after death must also exist.
Regardless of people's feelings or convictions concerning the
world after death, the spirit world really does exist. Because the
world after death cannot be perceived by our five physical senses,
we must overcome the unbelievable through religious faith.
(Blessed Family - 1062)
Human beings go through three ages. The animal world also has
the water age, land age, and air age. Everything must go through
these three ages. For human beings to stand as the lords of
creation and be qualified to rule over all things, they must be a
complete life form, more complete than any other creature, in the
water age and live therein. Next, they must exist in the land age
and be the highest being among all creatures there. Then there has
to be the air age. But human beings have no wings. How can they
fly without wings? They should be able to fly higher and farther
than any bird or insect. Then what do they have to do?
This cannot happen when they are in a physical body. They
cannot get far no matter how high they jump. However, because
human beings are to be the lords of creation who have dominion
and because they stand in the reciprocal position to God, a
spiritual being, their stage of operation should be the same as
God's. Human beings can travel faster than light that travels 300
thousand kilometers in a second. This is none other than spirit.
(112-201, 1981.4.12)
We live in this world, but it is not everything. There is the spirit
world. Then what is the place we are to go to and live in? It is the
eternal spirit world filled with the air of love. Our physical life is a
time of preparation for life in the eternal world of spirit. (140-121,
1986.2.9)
I have a depth of spiritual experience. The spirit world is a place
enveloped in the elements of love. On the earth, we breathe air,
but in the spirit world, people live by inhaling love. The love you
share in the spirit world is not secular human love but true love.
(145.267, 1986.5.15)
When you go to spirit world, you will find that those who have fully
loved their parents, brothers and sisters, spouse, and children -- that
is, those who have experienced deep love in their family life -- will
be able to enjoy great freedom. They can go everywhere without
restriction. Conversely, those in the spirit world who have no
experience of love are narrow-minded; they find themselves isolated
and alone, with no freedom whatsoever. The love between parents
and children is a vertical relationship, the love between husband
and wife is a horizontal relationship, and the love among brothers
and sisters is a relationship that circles and surrounds.
These three relationships differ from one another. Therefore, only
when you experience deep love through these three mutually
distinct interactions on earth can you circulate freely vertically,
horizontally, and in a circle. Those who have not tasted parental
love because their parents died early are in a rather tragic position
because they are missing an important experience of love.
Likewise, those who have not experienced the conjugal love
relationship of husband and wife as well as love in the family,
become poor people in the spirit world because they lack a crucial
experience of life. Those who have no brothers and sisters will also
be in a poor position in the spirit world because they lack this
experience. (Blessed Family - 1062)
The reason to marry is to deeply experience parental love, conjugal
love, and children's love. We need these experiences because the
spirit world is filled with the air of such love. You need to have a
family to train yourself to be in rhythm with the spirit world. Those
who go to the spirit world without these experiences of love cannot
follow the rhythm there. They will be as one without a nose to
inhale such air of love. (Blessed Family -1062)
You are born from your father and mother. What is more
fundamental is the fact that you are born from God by having
borrowed your mother's womb. You find true parents through the
universal parents and through your physical parents. Your
physical parents are temporary, so the moment of your death is a
time of jubilation when you go to meet the True Parents. The true
love of the true parents is there. This is the Kingdom of Heaven in
heaven, where the atmosphere is composed of love and filled with
parental love. That love is not for me; it is a love that is in keeping
with the unilateral law under the principle of service and sacrifice.
In accord with this principle, you must love the universe and
humankind. Your life on earth is the training ground for the
development of such love. (105-108, 1979.9.30)
How important is your life on earth? You only live it once. It is a
short moment that only comes once. When compared to eternal
life, the earthly life is but a point. It is too short a moment. At this
moment, we must go beyond our physical life and make
preparation for the spirit world. (207-99, 1990.11.1)
The Love of Man and Woman
in the Original Creation
When man and woman are in love, whether their love is in accord
with God's will and the standard He requires of them is the
question. Is their love in accord with the model of love in God's
mind? We come to the conclusion that if the first man and woman
had become one in love based on the love of God, then their love
would have become the universal model of love. God must have
desired such love from human beings. Likewise, man and woman
must have wanted this love from each other. Such true love must
be the core of the universe. It becomes the standard of
measurement. (Blessed Family - 334)
God's love and human love are the same in essence. Love causes
oneness. Why do a man and a woman long for each other? It is
because a man can possess God only through a woman, and a
woman can possess God only through a man. In other words, they
long for each other because God comes and dwells where a man
and a woman have become one in love. (Blessed Family - 334)
Considering that the source of the dual characteristics is God, we
should simultaneously sing praises for the noble value of God and for
the dignity and value of men and women. (Blessed Family - 334)
When God's beloved woman lives in a man's heart and God's
beloved man lives in a woman's heart as well, these two become
his object partners, and when they love each other, God will be
delighted to see this love and all things will rejoice. Heaven and
earth will rejoice to see a man and woman with these values
embrace. When man and woman embrace each other in mutual
fondness, this mutual fondness becomes the point where the
universe unifies. This is how the original image unfolds in God's
ideal. (Blessed Family - 334)
Originally, a man should meet a woman with whom he can rejoice,
and a woman also should meet a man with whom she can rejoice.
More than this, it should be an encounter over which both God and
all things of creation can rejoice. Then, all creation will be mobilized
for this couple and want to be ruled by them. Birds will sing and
butterflies will flutter and dance with joy. God will rejoice, people will
rejoice, everything will rejoice. Had the first human ancestors started
history by establishing such a position, the world would be the
original, ideal world. (Blessed Family - 334)
What is the original purpose of a man's birth? We cannot deny the
fact that he is born for the sake of a woman. Likewise, woman is not
born for her own sake. We should know that a problem will arise if a
woman fails to comprehend on her own that she is born for the sake
of a man. Because God, the great owner of heaven and earth,
established this as a principle of creation, we cannot enter the world
of goodness, truth, happiness, and peace or the world of love and
ideal unless we follow this principle. (Blessed Family - 337)
A woman is born to meet a man, and a man is born to meet a
woman, are they not? This is the highest truth. Therefore, we
should find the realm of blessing that conforms to this principle.
Deviating from this highest realm of truth constitutes the highest
evil. (21-201, 1968.11.20)
Men and women are physically opposite. Whereas women are
one-directional, men are three-directional or four-directional.
Women are more likely to enjoy staying at home, and men are
more likely to enjoy traveling the world. The characters of men
and women are opposite. How can men and women become one?
They become one through love. Love unites human beings and
God. (38-255, 1971.1.8)
Why is man born? He is not born for the sake of academic
pursuits, money, or political power. He is born for the sake of
woman. Man is born for the sake of woman. Men have larger
physiques, not so they can earn a living only for themselves, but so
that they can earn a living for their children and wives. Man's
sexual organ and woman's sexual organ are different. For whom
do they exist? They did not come into existence for their own
sake. Man's sexual organ came into existence for the sake of
woman. Likewise, woman's sexual organ is for the sake of man.
Have you ever thought like this? This is not something to laugh
about. What is the symbol of the love of man and woman? Where
is the final destination of love? It is the sexual organ which makes
them one body. (143-275, 1986.3.20)
The sexual organ becomes a channel through which the mind and
body can completely merge through love. That which man has is
not his, and that which woman has is not hers. Man has what
belongs to woman, and woman has what belongs to man. Men
and women are not born for their own sake. They should know
clearly that they are born for the sake of their partner. Why are
men and women born on earth? They are born in order to love
each other. Since God is the great king of wisdom, He switched
ownership of their love organs. (132-146, 1984.5.31)
A man has a sexual organ, but that does not mean that he is its
owner. The same is true for woman. Those who have acted
carelessly with no regard for their sexual organ's ownership will be
judged. If men know that they will receive punishment under the
most fearful law, would they dare think of other women instead of
their own wives? Conversely, can wives think of other men instead
of their own husbands? (Blessed Family -340)
Love is something you absolutely need, isn't it? Is that right?
Human beings, a man and a woman, are an absolutely necessary
element for love. Man needs woman and woman needs man. How
much do they need each other? They need each other more than
Korea, more than the world, and even more than God. Also, if
there were no women, the entire human race would perish within
a hundred years. No matter how much man boasts of unifying the
world, all would be gone within one hundred years if there were
no women. Therefore, women are absolutely necessary. (25-180,
1969.10.4)
When we say "human beings," we mean man and woman. When
we look at a man, he has to be with a woman, and when we look at
a woman, she has to be with a man. Man is not born through his
own desire, nor is woman born through her own desire. Both
need each other. After their birth, they discover they are either a
man or a woman. (67-267, 1973.7.22)
When you were born as a man, were you born with or without the
knowledge that there are women? If a man were born and found
out that there are only men, would he not feel bad? And if a
woman were born and found out that there are only women, she
would feel bad, wouldn't she? So when a woman is born, is she
born with or without the knowledge that there are men? Although
I was born without knowing it, the one who gave birth to me
knew it. The reason one is born as a woman is that there is a man
who needs her. Likewise, the reason I am born as a man like this is
that there is a woman who needs me. Isn't that right? We are all
born like this, with God's knowledge. (37-19, 1970.12.22)
Man absolutely needs woman. Man absolutely needs God, but
before this he needs a partner called woman. Human history has
been miserable because men have failed to correctly understand
the absolute need for women. Conversely, women have not
understood that they absolutely need men. Tasting true love
requires a realm of ideal, and for this man needs woman and
woman needs man. You should know that an absolute man and
absolute woman pursuing true love are joined through their
efforts of becoming one in heart. When such a man and woman
are joined as one, God comes and dwells with them. (Blessed
Family - 340)
God does not like to see a couple joined by true love separate;
therefore, the love of an absolute man and woman is eternal.
Although God is omniscient and omnipotent, God's existence
absolutely has no meaning when He is alone. Similarly, no matter
how handsome and healthy a man may be, these things have no
meaning if he is without a woman. A man living in fascination with
his own good looks and health leads an ugly existence and has no
value before God. The problem is that there are many men in the
world who have sunk into such narcissism and this constitutes a
reason why history has moved toward tragedy. You have to know
that God's providence works to change and improve the world
immersed in such self-centeredness. (Blessed Family -340)
Love cannot be realized by oneself. Where does love come from?
Love does not come from me but from my spouse. Since love
comes from my spouse, I must bow my head and serve her. This is
where the heavenly principle of living for the sake of others
originates. When something highly noble comes to me, I must
honor and serve it in order to receive it. We must live the
philosophy of living for the sake of others. (143-277, 1986.3.30)
When we are alone, love cannot manifest itself. Love does not
appear when man is alone, but only when woman appears as his
object of love. Only when the object of love appears, does love
finally spring forth. (Blessed Family - 342)
We say that parental love is good and conjugal love is good
because genuine love is not something that is self-centered. Love
is not something that starts from me but something that starts
from my partner. You need to know this. Love comes from your
husband and from your wife, and from your sons and daughters
and from your brothers and sisters. Love does not start from your
own self but from your spouse. Therefore, who is the owner of
love? Your spouse is the owner of love. (34-331, 1970.9.20)
Where does love come from? It comes from your partner. If your
partner is homely or ugly, love recedes; if your partner is nicelooking
or lovely, love advances more quickly. The way in which
love functions is determined according to your partner's
attributes: her speech, her scent, her smell, and her taste. (Blessed
Family - 342)
Where is the base of love? The base of love is not me. The word
love must be used in reciprocal terms. No matter how handsome a
man may be, if he has no partner, he is stuck because he cannot
love alone.
The base of love is not me. "Love comes from me" are words that
Satan has been using. I am not the base of love. You may think that
you are the base of love, but there will be no progress in the future
unless such a mindset is totally dismantled and transformed.
Until now, wives have put themselves at the center, and husbands
have put themselves at the center, with both wanting to be served.
This has been destroying relationships. Since the basis of love does
not come from me, but from my spouse, if I am to possess that love,
I must sacrifice myself for that love. Love requires patience and
absolutely demands sacrifice. With this viewpoint, there is no place
in the cosmos, other than on earth, where we can defeat Satan.
God is holding tightly onto love because it can be found only in accordance
with the God-centered principle of love. The word compassion
(jabi) cannot be expressed in the absence of love. The word benevolence
(in) also cannot stand on its own. The words jabi and in are all used
only in reciprocal terms. (46-35, 1971.7.18)
Man symbolizes heaven and woman, earth. The two must unite and
realize harmony. Men and women are different. Men's muscles are
rugged and women's are smooth. Men have beards while women do
not. Their voices are also different. If we compare men and women,
we see their contrasting features fit together well. Harmony unfolds
between them. When we look at the physical structure of human
beings, their left and right sides form a correlative pair. These two
halves are bound tightly together.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you like only high things or only low
things? You like things that create harmony. Judging from the line
formed by the horizon, fish live below and mammals, birds, and
other creatures live above. Women menstruate once a month, like
tidal variations based on the moon. Breathing is similar. A man
and a woman establish a line of balance and create harmony.
People like Disneyland, with its rides that go up and down,
because Disneyland duplicates the motions of the universe.
Which do you think will be more pleasing, a man harmonizing
with another man or a man harmonizing with a woman? A man
harmonizing with a woman is better because that reflects the
harmony of the universe. We should live in step with the beat of
the universe, the universe that promotes harmony through the
harmony of yin and yang. (Blessed Family - 344)
When man and woman create harmony, they initiate circular
movement. When man and woman become one body through
love and bear the fruits of love, God comes down and they go up
and they meet in the middle. God becomes the center of this
sphere, and spherical movement begins. The center of the sphere
is the place where harmony of love is realized. It is the place where
life emerges and moves, and it is the starting point of human
equality and communal philosophy. This is so because the power
of love is there. Thus, the force that embraces all interactions of
the universe is love. (Blessed Family - 344)
For human beings love is eternal. It is one and never divided. Once
a man and a woman are joined in love they are to live together for a
lifetime and then eternally even after death. They are two bodies
that become one body by uniting and revolving together. When the
two bodies become one, they revolve as God does and form a fourposition
foundation of love, the expression of the ideal world of
love. Only true love dwells there and false love cannot invade. When
man and woman become blessed by God and achieve perfection,
God comes to them freely. When they form a four-position
foundation of love, they will come to love each other's mind
through each other's body, and when they come to love the mind
their body will follow. (Blessed Family - 344)
What is the holiest thing in the world? True love is the holiest
thing in world. True love originates with God. If God exists, there
is no other way than the way of true love. God truly desires the
way of true love, and without traversing the way of true love, we
cannot go before God. We have to know this point.
God wants to see, hear, eat, and touch through love. As for human
beings, if they receive a kiss of love from God, their joy will make
them feel as if they are going to explode from inside. This is where
God's desire lies. God does not rejoice because He has diamonds
or jewelry. (Blessed Family - 380)
The human body has five senses and every human being feels and
confirms true love through the sensations of the five senses. If the
eyes are directed toward true love, they will be colored by and
intoxicated with true love. How beautifully those colorful,
intoxicated eyes will shine! Think about how enchanting the
smiling lips of a person immersed in true love are. Try to imagine
the intense beauty of the five senses moving in intoxication with
true love and the harmony of the five senses moving toward God.
Alone, God cannot experience the joy of such beauty. He can
experience such beauty only when He has a partner, and this is the
reason God created human beings. How would God feel as He
observed a beautiful man and woman absorbed into one another
through true love-intoxicated eyes, or kissing with true loveintoxicated
lips, and playing the melody of a heart of true love? If
there is an Eve of true love, God would want to completely traverse
her world of heart. God would have an impulsive desire to explore
the breadth and depth of this beautiful Eve's world of heart.
God would want to traverse both Adam's and Eve's world of heart,
a world more beautiful than the created heaven and earth. It is
certain that God would rather travel within the world of the heart
of a person of true love than the universe. God would never want
to leave Adam's and Eve's world of heart and true love. If, after
God created human beings, He fell into their true love and became
a child lost in that love, what kind of world would we have? Since
God would dwell in their midst, the world formed by God and
human beings becoming one would be a world filled with joy and
beauty. (Blessed Family - 380)
If the true love of God had been perfected, the God of
responsiveness would have no regrets at being totally absorbed by
true love. God's nature is such that He would be totally happy
with anything that happened within the realm of true love. If
human beings were to live in this world of true love, they would
live a happy life free from regret. Moreover, this world would be
without war and free of complaint and misfortune. (Blessed
Family - 380)
This is a story from my youth. One day, I caught a pair of birds
and tried to make them kiss each other's beaks. To see them kiss I
put them in a cage, fed them, and watched them. I did it out of a
child's desire to see them love each other and sing happily
together. This was an experiment, out of curiosity, to understand
the principles of nature. I continued this experiment, which I now
understand to have been quite naughty. It was only after a long
while that I finally understood that love is realized only in a
natural setting. Sincere love is realized naturally, in an atmosphere
that is natural to the highest degree. Through a long journey of
experiments I came to the correct understanding of love. (Blessed
Family - 353)
When someone loses love, will having a university education help
him to regain love? He will only accumulate knowledge, become
individualistic, and come to worship materialism. Just as Korean
bean soup tastes right only when it is served in a thick Korean
bowl, character training can reach its purpose only when it is
based on love.
The flower of world civilization should blossom on the basis of
artistic harmony. In this sense, roasted ribs should be served on a
heavy platter and Korean bean paste soup should be served in a
thick, Korean earthenware bowl to bring out their proper tastes.
Once you have become used to the rough, deep, and refreshing
taste of Korean bean paste soup, you will never forget it no matter
where you may go.
Likewise, once people have become used to the earthy, deep,
relaxing taste of love, they will not change. Just as one easily tires
of instant foods that are usually heavily sweetened, if one could
obtain love easily and anywhere like instant food, we would be
unable to call it true love. (Blessed Family - 353)
There are people everywhere today who taste love as if they were
eating instant food. This is the problem. Love does not deepen
because you bathe in a fragrant bath. I would say that the love of a
couple living in the countryside that washes themselves in cold water
before going to bed is purer, longer lasting, and ever deepening. A
couple that has to brush their teeth before kissing is not experiencing
natural love. The toothpaste smell will prevent them from tasting the
unique smell of the other. When I look at people who brush their
teeth before kissing, I don't know whether they are trying to taste love
or taste toothpaste. (Blessed Family - 353)
When you meet with someone you like and love, you want to
embrace and kiss that person. This is a natural instinct between
the sexes. You can think you are meeting your partner in order to
love your surroundings -- the universe. Finding a partner and
establishing a relationship is a natural human behavior.
When man relates to woman and woman relates to man under the
ideal of partnership, there will be no acts or incidents that violate
the order of love. The true order of love emerges only when man
and woman meet on the basis of the ideal of partnership. (Blessed
Family - 353)
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