[Editor’s note] This is the keynote address given by the Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon during the Third Assembly of the Mongolian People’s Federation for World Peace,
which took place on April 10, 2006 in the Republic of Korea.
Leaders from all over the world who are working hard for the development of
the Mongolian People’s Federation and the Universal Peace Federation, which was
launched as the Abel UN!
Hand in hand with the heavenly fortune, a new spring has finally come to my
fatherland, on the Korean Peninsula. I welcome you all personally and on behalf of
the members of my family to this meaningful event, which you are attending despite
your busy schedules. I hope you will fill your hearts with the new spring of
heavenly fortune and take these blessed words back with you to your nations.
Distinguished world leaders:
This is the third Assembly of the Mongolian People’s Federation. After
inaugurating the Universal Peace Federation in New York, on September 12, 2005, I
went on to complete a global tour of 120 nations in order to pass on my inaugural
message. I proposed that the Universal Peace Federation, in the position of the
Abel UN, should be developed as a new international peace organization and that at
the same time the United Nations, as a Cain-type institution, should be reformed by
having a Peace Council—a legislative organization consisting of global religious
leaders of the same rank as members of the current UN Security Council—
established within it. I am referring to the founding of a Peace Council that will
speak not for the interests of a particular nation, as the existing UN representatives
do, but which will truly work for the welfare and peace of humanity from an
interreligious and universal perspective.
The concept of the Universal Peace Federation, which was launched with such a
grand purpose and objective, could not have emerged from any human brain. It is
the greatest, the utmost blessing given by Heaven to humanity and is ushering in
the new millennium. It is my hope that the Mongolian People’s Federation too will
fulfill its duty as a partner of the Universal Peace Federation in achieving its noble
goals.
Toward that end, I would like to pass on to you today a revelation from God that
is absolutely essential to all 6.5 billion people comprising humanity. I hope you will
all be wise leaders who open your minds and listen to the voice of Heaven. I will
impart to you this extensive message of Heaven under the title “The True Owners
in Establishing the Kingdom of Cosmic Peace and Unity.”
Leaders of the world!
God, the Creator of all things under the sun, is the true parent of all humanity.
He is not a parent in the parochial sense, existing only for a certain religion, a
certain race, or the residents of a certain region. You may call Him by any name, be
it Jehovah, Allah, or any other. What is important is that He positively exists, lives
as the true parent of all people, and is carrying on the great work of creation. In
accordance with the principles and the laws of nature that He set up at the
beginning of time, He governs everything in the universe, and He carries out His
providence through history.
The Actually Existing Spirit World
Ladies and gentlemen:
The human mind is more elevated than the human body and the spirit is more
elevated than the mind. God resides in a place more elevated than the spirit world,
where our spirits are destined to pass on. Only when we have become completely
one with God in true love are we complete. Such a perfected person might be a
small individual but would nevertheless represent all of history and all potential
future relationships and so could be said to possess infinite value. Once we are
aware of this cosmic value, we realize that our lives should be led by and carried
out in service to our minds.
That is why your conscience knows and remembers not only every action you
have performed, but also every thought you have entertained. Your conscience is
aware of these things before your own teachers, parents or even God is. Hence, if
you were to live in absolute obedience to the commands of your conscience, which
is your teacher for eternity, you would be absolutely guaranteed to have eternal life.
Such is the way of God’s creation.
When viewing the structure of a human being from a different angle, we can
recognize that God created us as beings with dual characteristics. He created our
physical bodies as miniatures of the corporeal, tangible world and our spiritual
bodies as representatives of and lords of the incorporeal world. Accordingly, a
human being is intended to live for a hundred years or so in the physical world and,
once the physical body ceases functioning, to pass on naturally and automatically
into the incorporeal, spirit world. In this way, though it cannot be perceived by the
eyes in our physical bodies, the spirit world is the automatic and inevitable
extension of our lives on earth, humankind’s eternal, original homeland, created by
God.
The spirit world does actually exist. It is not a world that has been fantasized or
imagined into existence. We do not have the right of choice concerning it. It is not a
world we can go to if we please, or refuse to go to if we would rather not. Just as
God is eternal and unchanging, the spirit world created by Him is also eternal and
unchanging. Just as we live in the physical world in our physical bodies and form all
sorts of relationships with the existing world, even in the spirit world we are
destined to go on living in our spiritual bodies, forming and maintaining close
relationships with all phenomena of the spirit world.
The Relationship between the Spirit and Physical Body
However, in the relationship between the spirit and the physical body of a human
being, the spirit is the more important of the two. The physical body lasts for about
a hundred years before it stops functioning, but the spirit lasts eternally,
transcending time and space. No matter how well a person dresses and fares in the
physical world, he is bound to die. Therefore, before you pass on to the next world,
you should achieve unity between your physical and spiritual bodies by living your
earthly life in such a way that you meet the standards of both the physical and
spiritual worlds.
In other words, you have the responsibility to perfect your spirit within your
physical bodies based on the finite life you live in the tangible, physical world. This
does not mean, however, that the perfection of a spirit self happens automatically.
Only on the basis of your having achieved complete unity between your mind and
body during your earthly life, by expressing true love through actions, can your
spirit self fully mature.
Ladies and gentlemen:
In order for fruit to ripen and be put into storage in autumn, it must first pass
through the growing process of spring and summer and be provided with the
nutrients supplied by nature and the tender loving care of its owner. Fruit, raised in
an orchard by a lazy and ignorant owner, will be afflicted with all kinds of diseases
and be affected by foul weather. Eventually it will fall from the tree before it is ripe
or be classified as worm-infested. Though it is still fruit, it is different from other
fruit since it would never be good enough to sell in the market.
Fruit that has fully matured on the tree will automatically go into the owner’s
storehouse. Similarly, only when the spirit of a person has reached perfection
during his life in the physical world, which can be likened to the tree, can it
automatically enter the incorporeal spirit world of the kingdom of heaven. In other
words, a person will enter the kingdom of God in heaven automatically only when
he has qualified for and enjoyed the kingdom of heaven on earth by living a fully
matured life in his physical body.
While living on earth, your every action and movement is recorded on your spirit
self, without exception and with the public laws of heaven as the standard.
Accordingly, you will enter the spirit world in the form of your spirit self, which has
recorded your life on earth with 100 percent accuracy. Your spirit will show plainly
whether you have led a ripe life of goodness, or a wormy, rotten life of sinfulness.
What this means is that God will not judge you; you will be your own judge. If a
person is aware of this astonishing rule from Heaven, would the latter days of that
person’s life on earth be spent in selfishness and immorality, succumbing to all the
temptations of Satan and in pursuit of nothing but pleasure? No, rather you should
abstain from injuring and scarring your spirit, even at the risk of your earthly life.
Please bear this truth in mind: Whether you are bound for heaven or for hell is
determined by your thoughts, speech and behavior in each moment.
This does not imply, though, that the spirit leads its own life or that it can
express true love through actions on its own. Your spirit self grows, matures and
finally becomes perfected only within your physical body, through an earthly
lifetime of having actualized true love, bringing your mind and body into a smooth
unified relationship of give and take.
Nevertheless, undeniably, your outer self and inner self are in a constant
relationship of conflict and struggle. How much longer will you allow this fighting to
continue? Ten years? A hundred years? In contrast, there is undeniably a proper
order for all forms of existence in the universe. This indicates that God did not
create human beings in this state of conflicted disorder. You need to know that it is
your duty and responsibility as a human being to dispel all temptations directed at
your outer self—your physical body—and achieve victory in life by following the
way of your inner self—your conscience. Heavenly fortune will be with those who
lead their lives in such a way. They will attain the perfection of their spirit selves.
Bounds of Heaven and Hell
Ladies and gentlemen:
What kind of places are heaven and hell? What kinds of people enter heaven? If
it really does exist, where would it be? Would it be outside the galaxy, on the other
side of the sky? Or is it only a product of our imagination? These are questions that
everyone will have pondered and asked at least once.
In brief, heaven is a world overflowing with God’s true love and established with
true love at its axis. It is a world where true love is the external form as well as the
internal content of every environment. It is a world where true love is present at
the beginning and end of life. It is a world full of people who were all born through
true love, who live in the embrace of true love, and, following the track of true love,
finally pass on into the next world, the spirit world.
Consequently, antagonism and jealousy cannot be found in that world, for it is a
natural world where each person lives for the sake of the other. It is not a world
governed by money, honor or power. It is a world wherein the success of a person
represents the success of the whole, the likes of a person represent the likes of the
whole, and the joy of a person represents the joy of the whole.
Heaven is a world filled with the air of true love, where all breathe true love. It
is a world where life throbs with love at any place at any time. It is a world whose
constituent members are all connected to the true God through blood ties. It is a
place where the whole world and all people are linked together in an inseparable
relationship, like the cells in our bodies. It is a world that is governed only by true
love, the love that is God’s essence. Accordingly, God also exists for true love.
A Life of True Love
You should lead a life that is completely devoted to true love. Your life should be
one in which you love God more than did Adam, Eve or Jesus. By thoroughly
actualizing true love, you should perfectly unite your mind and body and find and
establish the realm of the relationships of true love. To put it another way, you
should perfect a true family on earth, and the three generations of grandparents,
parents and children should live together in true love. Only then will you be eligible
to enter heaven.
What kind of love is true love? The essence of true love is found not by having
others serve you, but it is found when you give, serve and live for the sake of
others. It is love that gives and forgets that it has given, and continues to give
endlessly. It is love that gives with pleasure. It is the heart of pleasure. It is the
love of a mother holding her baby to her bosom and breastfeeding it. It is love
expressed through sacrifice as when, with pleasure, a child acts with filial piety
toward his or her parents. It is a love just like that God expressed when creating
humankind, an act requiring absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal love that
gives without conditions or expectations of receiving anything in return.
Ladies and gentlemen:
True love brings about the incorporeal order, peace and happiness that serve
the common good. True love is love that determines the source, center and owner
of the universe. True love is the root, and the symbol of the will and power of God.
Therefore, when bound in true love, it is enough to be together eternally; for it is a
love that can attract not only the universe, but even God. The value of true love lies
in its power, which is strong enough to eradicate the walls of national, racial and
religious boundaries, created by fallen human descendents. That is why the
absolute condition necessary to enter the kingdom of heaven is a life that has been
lived for the sake of others, that is, a life of true love.
Yet, look at the world we are currently living in. The people of the world are
caught in the trap of extreme selfishness, clamoring for material gain. They have
lost all sense of values and have fallen into the depths of self-gratification and
degradation. The world is filled with alcoholics. As if drugs and free sex were not
enough, there are even those who commit incest—an act not even seen in the
animal world—and still live with their heads held high. This world has become one
wherein beasts with human faces roam freely, even after violating women—
grandmothers, mothers, wives and daughters. This world has become one wherein
the swapping of spouses between couples is rampant. Such circumstances are
without a doubt the pinnacle of the destruction of morality and the very last of
fallen acts. This world has become hell on earth, where the perfected world,
embodying the ideal God envisaged at the Creation, cannot even be dreamed of.
Results of the Fall
We have come to know that all these problems are rooted in the Fall of Adam
and Eve, our first ancestors. Adam and Eve, who were at the perfection stage of the
growth period, had a sexual relationship before their rightful time, due to the
temptation of Satan. In this manner, an illicit sexual union of man and woman
constituted the Fall. This is why, over thousands of years, people have continued to
commit such indecent acts, traitorous acts that drive a sharp spike into the heart of
God. They have been unable to escape from the realm of the fallen lineage.
Ladies and gentlemen:
A man or woman alone can only be one-half of the whole. That is how God
created us. For that reason, He has interchanged the owners of the reproductive
organs, the love organs. The owner of the wife’s reproductive organ is the husband,
and the owner of the husband’s is the wife. Only when each is rooted in true love
for the sake of the other are they in the position of the owner of their spouse. In
other words, irrespective of who they are, all human beings can become perfected
individuals—and not just mere halves—only when they have secured the position of
an owner through marriage.
The human sexual organ is sacred. It is the palace of life where the seed of life
is sown, the palace of love where the flower of love is made to bloom, and the
palace of lineage where the fruit of lineage is borne. Through this absolute sexual
organ, the absolute lineage, absolute love and absolute life are brought forth; and
absolute harmony, absolute unity, absolute liberation and absolute tranquility are
brought about.
For what reason, then, are we trying to restore the position of the owner of the
reproductive organs? It is to possess God’s love from that position. He is the
subject of three great loves. As the owner of the universe, He is the true teacher,
true owner, and true loving parent. These form the basis for the true, “three great
subjects” system of thought. All these teachings and truths are created through the
life of a true, model family; and with its expansion, the society, nation, the world
and even the universe will be transformed into the peace kingdom of the model,
ideal family.
However, because of the Fall, the first Adam lost the original, true lineage and
consequently failed to form the original couple and the original family. Adam, who
should have become the true teacher, the true parent and the true king, inherited
the lineage of Satan and was degraded to the position of a false teacher, false
parent and false king.
When we come to think of it, the purpose for Jesus’ coming down to earth did
not lie elsewhere. It was to restore the fall. If Jesus, who had come as the second
Adam, had not lost his life on the cross, he would have restored the original lineage
of God, unrelated to the Fall, and would have reversed the failure of the first Adam,
established the true family as the Savior of humankind, and founded on earth the
original human homeland, that is, the kingdom of the world embodying the ideal of
peace, the kingdom of heaven on earth. However, the disciples, the Jewish leaders
and the leaders of the nation of Israel all failed to recognize the Christ, and their
disbelief caused Jesus’ life to come to an end in such a wretched and tragic way.
Has there been anyone who knew of the grievous heart of Jesus, who had to
leave earth at an untimely moment, leaving no descendants? Though two thousand
years of Christian history have passed, has there been any Christian who stopped
to imagine Jesus’ sorrowful circumstances? Jesus left suddenly, leaving behind him
few traces other than a promise to return. Though his physical body has long been
buried and become dust, the will that God had tried to fulfill through him is finally in
the process of being completed at this time, at the end of history, through True
Parents, who have received the seal of Heaven and been manifested on earth.
However, the life of Rev. Moon, whose task it is to complete the mission of True
Parents, has been one of sorrow, marked by inexpressible suffering and
persecution. The third Adam, the True Parent, needs to restore through indemnity
and completely reverse all the failures of the first and second Adams. It is a mission
to complete not only the mission of the Savior, Messiah, and Lord at his second
coming, but also the mission of all those major figures on whom religions are based.
With similarities to God’s creation of the universe, his life has constituted the great
work of the re-creation of humanity, where not even the smallest error is permitted.
It has been a lonely course that cannot be fully comprehended by anyone. It has
been a course that took him down thorny paths through the wilderness—paths that
he had to follow while utterly alone. Not even God could acknowledge him.
Hovering many times between life and death, and vomiting blood, he has still had to
rise again like a phoenix to remain true to his promise to God.
Rev. Moon, though he was innocent, has had to endure unjust imprisonment six
times: for working in the underground independence movement when he was
studying in Japan in his early days; for propagating the will of God in Pyongyang,
which was under communist rule immediately after Korea’s independence; during
the Syngman Rhee administration, after Korea had been reborn as a free nation; and,
furthermore, even in the United States, which proudly presents itself to the world
as a model of democracy. Who on earth can understand the life of Rev. Moon? His
has been a life of misery, which he has endured by biting his tongue, for the sake of
comforting God, and for the salvation of the fallen people of the world who are
suffering in the realm of death. Even now, if one person were to look into my heart
and speak a word of sympathy, my tears would become an explosive waterfall.
Heaven Begins from the Family
Ladies and gentlemen:
The sinful era of restoration through indemnity, the era before the coming of
heaven, has passed and the era of the constitutional government, ruled by heavenly
law, that is, the time after the coming of heaven, is upon us. You are now living in
an era of grace in which, after receiving the marriage blessing from True Parents,
completing the conversion of lineage, and leading a life of the settlement of noon, a
life without shadows, you can automatically enter the kingdom of heaven. That is to
say, if you establish a true family on earth and lead a heavenly life, once you die
your life will be connected to the Kingdom of God in heaven, and you will enjoy
eternal life.
Therefore, in the framework of the family, you should serve God as the Father
in the highest position. Everyone of you should become His children, entering into a
parent–child relationship with Him and perfecting yourselves through living together,
closely linked in blood ties. In short, you should form and live in the realm of a true
love relationship with God.
Who would be the greatest grandfather of the universe? The first human
ancestors, Adam and Eve, call God “Father.” Should their children call Him
“Grandfather”? No, they too should call Him “Father.” Why is this so? From the
viewpoint of God, the vertical center, all object partners of love are equal. His
object partners, who are produced through the horizontal expansion and
multiplication of His love, assume equal value regardless of who they are,
transcending time and space. Simply put, everyone has equal value in perfected
love.
The kingdom of heaven must first be achieved on earth. What this means is that
the kingdom of heaven being established in the corporeal world is prerequisite to
establishing the kingdom of heaven in the incorporeal world. Therefore, heaven is
not a world found in outer space on the other side of the galaxy, nor is it the byproduct of imagination existing only in the human brain. It refers to the substantial
kingdom of heaven on earth, which can only be created when you have led lives
expressive of true love. When you leave the physical world on that foundation, you
automatically enter the incorporeal kingdom of heaven. This means that only when
you have led a heavenly life on earth, can you lead such a life also in heaven.
Only the fruit that has fully ripened on the tree is classified while in storage as a
product of the best quality. Herein lies the reason why your lives should not be
ones bound for hell, like fruit that is devoured by insects on the tree. You should
never forget that you yourselves, through your life on earth, determine whether
you go to heaven or to hell.
The Value of Family
Ladies and gentlemen:
The reason why we miss the family we have left behind is that at home there is
love for one another. It is where the love of mother and father, the love of elder
brothers and sisters and younger siblings, and the love of one’s spouse, children
and close neighbors are all deeply embedded. It is a place of mutual affection,
where all relationships and affinities are brought together through mutual love. This
makes you want to cherish each and every member of your family. It is the
yearning and desire of any wanderer who has left his family behind to reappear
boldly before his family one day as a liberated being, and to embrace mountains,
streams and trees, love his kith and kin, and sing songs of ecstasy.
However, the situation of humankind, descended from the Fall, has been
different: banished from their hometown and destined to wander in isolation and
defeat, human beings are unable to go back, no matter how much they miss their
family, for they have lost the root of the heart of their original homeland.
However, with the ushering in of the era of a new heaven and a new earth after
the coming of heaven, human beings have been pulled out of the swamp that was
sucking them down, and the way has been opened for them to return to their
hometowns— hometowns that they could not forget even for a moment—and meet
with their family. Could there ever be a day of greater blessing for humanity? The
time of heavenly power and fortune has now come, a time to reestablish the original
family that was lost through the Fall of Adam and Eve.
A Family of Three Generations Living in Harmony
When seeking after the lost original family, you should set out from the position
of the perfected Adam, the position of the perfected Jesus, and the position
representing the perfected Second Coming of the Lord. God will dwell in such a
family. That family would be one of three generations—grandparents, parents and
children—living in harmony. In such a family you need to live in service and
attendance to the grandfather as the historical root of your ancestors.
The family sets the pattern for all people to live together in harmony. The family
where parents and children love and respect each other, where husband and wife
are grounded in mutual trust and love, and brothers and sisters trust and rely on
each other, and all live together as one, is the model and the ideal. This means that
you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the
root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
In such a family the root of history is alive, and the root of the kingdom of
heaven extends into it. It is in such a family that the kingdom of heaven on earth
takes root. It is also where the everlasting root of kingship is firmly planted, and
where the roots of the past, present and future are represented by grandparents,
parents, and grandchildren, respectively. The root of the past represents the spirit
world; the root of the present is the palace representing the world today; and, the
root of the future establishes the grandsons and granddaughters as princes and
princesses, and erects the palace of peace representing the two worlds, the spirit
world and the physical world.
In such a manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and
grandchildren should live together as one family, serving the eternally existent God.
You should know that to seek after and establish such a family of Cheon Il Guk
(God’s kingdom) is the responsibility of tribal messiahs, the mission of the
Ambassadors for Peace, and the desire of God.
The movement to realize a society of mutual existence, prosperity, and benefit,
by making humanity one great family, breaking down the walls in our hearts and
eliminating even the boundaries between nations, begins thus from one family.
Therefore, we should bear in mind that to form and establish true families is our
providential calling, advancing the establishment of the cosmic peace kingdom on
earth.
You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has
been away. You should raise families to which He can come freely as the Parent
visiting His children. That is what it means to live in service to God. In such a
family, God becomes the Subject of our conscience, acting vertically. Following that
vertical Subject, your mind stands in the position of the vertical subject of yourself,
and brings your mind and body into unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love,
children’s love, and siblings’ love—in short, the four realms of love or the four
realms of heart—are perfected. Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front
and behind, left and right be connected as one and circular motion continue.
If the world were filled with such true families, that world would be one
governed by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no need for lawyers,
prosecutors or even judges. Ponder this for a moment. Who would be most fully
aware of your good and bad deeds? It would be your grandparents, your parents,
your spouse and your children.
Is there anything that cannot be resolved within the family? When parents and
children, husband and wife, and elder siblings and younger siblings set an example
of living for the sake of one another, how could they do anything unforgivable?
What chance would they have to commit crimes? A world governed by the heavenly
way and the heavenly laws is a natural world, an unobstructed world of truth and
pure reason, and a world of the settlement of noon, where no shadows are cast.
Esteemed representatives of the Mongolian People’s Federation:
We should all return gratitude and glory to God and True Parents for
enlightening us about the incredible providential age in which we are living. We
should give praise and thanks for eternity to True Parents for opening the time
after the coming of heaven, which is unprecedented in history and which will never
be repeated in the future, and for bringing about the era of the settlement of the
realm of true liberation and complete freedom. Just as the sun rises with brilliant
light in the eastern sky, heavenly fortune is now shining upon all people. The
curtain of darkness that shrouded us for thousands and tens of thousands of years
is lifting at last, as Heaven’s will is taking root in your hearts. This is a path of
destiny you cannot avoid. Therefore stand up with courage and shout out,
“Whoever wants to die will live, and whoever wants to live will die!”
Ladies and gentlemen:
The mission of the Mongolian People’s Federation has now become clear.
Serving the Universal Peace Federation as the vertical Abel, and the religious realm
and national realm of the world as the horizontal Abel, it should be in the position of
Cain and work as the central figure in establishing the global kingdom of the peace
ideal. I hope you also will participate actively in the Bering Strait Tunnel Project,
currently being promoted as a Universal Peace Federation construction project.
Through the completion of this project, humanity will become one great family and
the establishment of a war-free world of the peace ideal, espousing the blessings
of eternal peace will come to be.
Please become true princes and princesses who can attend and live together
with God, the eternal peace king, as the true parent of humanity. Let us restore the
Mongolian People’s Federation to the Mongolian Shared Lineage Federation by
receiving the marriage blessing of True Parents and perfecting the conversion of
our lineage. Please take to heart that this is the task assigned to you by God, and
become the true owners in establishing the Kingdom of Peace and Unity in Heaven
and on Earth.
May God’s grace be upon you, your family and your nations.
Thank you.
