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18.9.12
GOD’S MODEL IDEAL FAMILY AND NATION, AND THE PEACE KINGDOM
This speech was given by both Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon during aseries of assemblies for Ambassadors for Peace, Segye Times investigative reporters and other
leaders in Korean society, which took place in March 2006, and in the rallies for the Return of
the Homeland to God, held in 180 nations during the same year.
Distinguished world leaders, Ambassadors for Peace and blessed family members who have come
from all parts of the world in the hope of realizing world peace and building the ideal hometown
in heaven and on earth:
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you for coming together in the midst of
your busy schedules to take part in this rally to expand and elevate the Family Party for Universal
Peace and Unity to a global level, so that it may be reborn as the Cheon Il Guk House for Peace
and Unification; to make the Universal Peace Federation a model UN-type organization; and, to
make Cheon Il Guk the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world through the concerted efforts of all
the nations of the world.
As you may know, this year marks the eighty-seventh year since my birth. On this remarkable
occasion, as the founder of the Universal Peace Federation, which is to open wide the era after
the coming of heaven, I would like to convey to you the essence of the truth of Heaven that I
have taught throughout my life. This message is entitled, “God’s Model Ideal Family and Nation,
and the Peace Kingdom.”
Ladies and gentlemen, on looking back, my life has indeed been like a dream. At the young
age of sixteen, with nothing but the buoyant spirit and aspirations of youth, I was called by
Heaven and began to live for the will of God. This left no room in my heart for any worldly
ambitions I may have cherished. It has never been an easy path, but I have followed it for more
than eighty years, looking nowhere but straight ahead. This was the life I was fated to lead, with
no choice but to shake off the embrace of my beloved parents, and brothers and sisters, who
clung to me, wanting me to stay with them. They endured great self sacrifice and walked a
thorny path of sorrowful suffering for my sake.
It has been a journey through the wilderness that no one among the 6.5 billion people living
on earth could ever comprehend. Even when I persevered through the hardships of prison life six
times, I never let go of the key to the providence; such has been my life.
God’s Heartfelt Sorrow
This was all because I came to know only too well how anguished, aggrieved and full of bitter
sorrow was the heart of God as He waited for thousands of years to find us. I realized that if God,
who is the origin of billions of people and the Creator of everything in the universe, was not
relieved from His sorrow, human life would remain completely without value.
When, where and how did God come to carry such agonizing sorrow in His heart? Who on
earth could inflict this grief upon Him, the absolute and omnipotent Being?
God created Adam and Eve and established them as the first ancestors of humankind. He
invested His whole being in raising them as His son and daughter, and they were connected to Him
through love, life and lineage. The parent–child relationship is the highest and most important of all
relationships, and the only way through which His lineage can be bequeathed and made to last
forever.
However, this parent–child relationship, more precious and important than life itself, was
severed through the Fall of Adam and Eve. As God’s own flesh and blood, and as His eternal,
only-begotten son and daughter, Adam and Eve formed a blood relationship with His enemy
Satan, and became Satan’s children instead. In the face of this, God’s heart has been crushed
and wounded with grief and sorrow throughout history. This still remains the most mortifying and
harrowing anguish, which no one before in history could either know or resolve.
In this way God’s ideal of creation to establish a true family in that first generation through
Adam and Eve, a family through which He could eternally pass on His lineage, was frustrated.
The only way to relieve His sorrow is to restore and establish a true family unrelated to the
lineage of Satan. Herein lies the reason why all of us need to establish true families, which is
God’s ideal of creation. Herein also lies the fundamental object and purpose of the founding of
the Universal Peace Federation.
God’s Purpose for Creating Adam and Eve
Genesis 1:27 of the Old Testament tells us, “So God created man in His own image; male
and female He created them.” From observing God’s creation as expressed in this passage, we
can conclude that God is a being who comprises the essence of one man and one woman.
Having these attributes, God could not enjoy a solitary life. Therefore, He created the universe
as His object partner. That is, He created all things in the universe in the position of object
partners in image, and in the midst of this environment He created human beings as His object
partners in substance.
In this manner, the first masculine representative created by God as His object partner in
substance was Adam, and the feminine representative He created was Eve. God had an objective
in mind when He created human beings as separate beings, one man and one woman.
First, God, who exists as an incorporeal being—though He is the subject being with dual
characteristics in harmony—needed to assume a physical form through which He could relate with
the entire world of substance, and not only the body of the man or the woman. Embodied within
both Adam and Eve, He intended to communicate and work freely in relation to the entire
universe, the world of substance. This is because the incorporeal God, without a physical body,
meets certain limits in dealing with the corporeal world of substance.
Therefore, if Adam and Eve had attended God in their hearts and become one with Him, then
married on the basis of having perfected themselves, had children and created a family, they
would have become the external and horizontal True Parents in substance, while God would have
been the internal and vertical True Parent in substance. If only this had come to pass, Adam and
Eve would have resembled God one hundred percent, both in their inner nature and outer form.
If Adam and Eve, as a perfect resemblance of God, had become the true parents of humankind,
all people would have perceived the true reality of God manifesting through them in their daily
lives.
Second, God created Adam and Eve for the fulfillment of love. He intended for Adam and Eve
to reach perfection and become the embodiments of love in complete union. On that basis, He
would have come and dwelt with them and become the Parent of true love for all humanity.
Adam and Eve, standing in the position of the parents of substance in the image of God, would
have established an ideal family, and consequently an ideal world, through having their own
children and multiplying. If this had come to be, the spirit world and the earthly world would have
been linked through human beings. We can conclude that God created us with the purpose of our
being the connecting point between the spiritual and physical worlds.
By coming to dwell in Adam and Eve based on true love, God could remain as the True Parent,
the parent in substance of humankind. Moreover, when the time came for them to end their lives
on earth and pass on into the spirit world, even in that world He could take on the spirit bodies of
Adam and Eve and manifest as the True Parent through their form. However, due to the Fall of
Adam and Eve, God has not seen that ideal fulfilled.
God does not need money, knowledge or power. Since He is the absolute, almighty Being, He
does not need such things. Though modern science may be accomplishing spectacular advances,
these are all part of the process of discovering new facts and truths within the realm of God’s
creation. The vast expanse of this universe operates in accordance with laws following an order
that cannot be fathomed by human thought or science. In this sense, God is also the absolute
scientist.
God’s Ideal of Creation
Then what would have been the ideal that God hoped to achieve through the creation of
humankind? It was to fulfill the four-position foundation. The four-position foundation
signifies Adam and Eve in a state of complete union with God. This makes it impossible for
them to separate from the realm of God’s love, no matter how hard they may try. In other
words, it refers to the foundation of a family with God as its center, established when the
husband and wife have achieved complete oneness not only with each other but also with
God, and when they have become an ideal couple and given birth to ideal children. When the
family four-position foundation is thus completed, that family becomes a family of the ideal
of creation desired by God.
Generally speaking, a family is formed through the coming together of husband and wife and
of parents and children. At the center of that family group there must be God’s love. At this point,
the husband represents heaven and the wife earth. Although they are two separate beings, when
husband and wife have become one, horizontally speaking, their union symbolizes the unity of
heaven and earth. Simply put, when husband and wife are in unity based on God’s love, the way
to bring unity in the universe opens up.
Ladies and gentlemen, God created the world to receive joy from it. Since even the absolute
being , God, could not feel joy while alone, He needed a partner with whom He could share the
giving and receiving of love. This is because joy cannot be learned all by oneself, but can only be
experienced through a partner.
To put it in another way, God created this world in order to feel joy from seeing humankind
and all things of the creation become one through His love, forming a harmonious and peaceful
world of love. On such a basis, human beings were meant to form true conjugal relationships
centering upon His love, and to establish families, tribes, peoples, nations and a world of true
love. God created this world to participate directly in this process and to feel joy from it.
We can see that human beings are absolutely essential to fulfill God’s ideal of love, and, in light of
this, we can better understand the concept that absolute value is derived from an absolute partner.
God, as the Father, and humankind, as His children, were to form a vertical axis, and this was
the purpose for the creation of human beings. If this axis had been connected perfectly, that is, if
a relationship that united humankind and God as one through true love had been established, that
relationship would have been an absolutely inseparable one, which no force in the universe could
break apart. How could anyone who has been bound to the original love of God, and who has
tasted that love, ever be separated from it?
With the coming of spring, honeybees wake up from their long slumber and get the taste for
the fresh nectar of the blooming flowers. Try pulling the abdomen of one such honeybee while
it is lost to all else but sucking on that nectar. You will see that it cannot tear itself from the
nectar, even if its abdomen is pulled off. How about you? Once you really get to know the taste
of God’s true love, you won’t get far from it before you come back and cling to it once again.
This shows that the power of the vertical true love that connects us to Him is greater than the
power of life.
The Value of the Family
Ladies and gentlemen, the reason we miss the family we have left behind is because 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 and children and close neighbors
are all deeply embedded. It is a place of mutual affection, where all the 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 boldly re-appear before his family once again as a liberated being, and to
embrace mountains, streams and trees, love his relatives and countrymen, and sing songs of
ecstasy. However, the situation of humankind, descended from the Fall, has been different:
banished from their original heavenly hometown and destined to wander around in isolation and
defeat, human beings are unable ever 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, 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 true family. Could there ever be a day of greater blessing for humanity? The
time of heavenly power and fortune has now come, making it possible for us 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. Parents and children will
serve and attend the grandparents, because they represent the family’s ancestors, its historical
root.
The family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The family wherein parents and
children love and respect each other, 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
ideal family. 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.
Such families contain the living root of history and the roots of the kingdom of heaven. In such
families, the kingdom of heaven on earth takes root. They are the soil in which God’s everlasting
kingship is firmly planted. The grandparents, parents, and children represent the roots of the past,
present and future, 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. Through such a family we erect the
palace of peace, representing the harmony of the two worlds, the spirit world and the physical
world.
In this 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.
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 a parent visiting His children. This is what it
means to live in service to God. To 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 back,
left and right be connected as one and spherical motion ensue. This leads to God’s everlasting,
model ideal families and nations, and His peace kingdom.
The Purpose of Marriage
Ladies and gentlemen, why should we get married? It is to restore the position of an owner. 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 sexual organs, the love organs. The owner of the
wife’s sexual organ is the husband, and the owner of the husband’s is the wife. Only when each is
rooted in love for the other can they stand in the position of the owner of their spouse. We marry
to secure this position of the owner.
Then what are we trying to achieve by restoring the position of the owner? It is to fulfill and
embody God’s love from that position. God is the subject of the three great loves. As the Owner
of the universe, He is the teacher, owner and parent of true love. This is the genuine “three great
subjects” principle. All such teachings and truths are created based on the life of true, model
families, and once they expand, the society, nation, world and even heaven and earth can be
transformed into the peace kingdom of the model ideal family.
Distinguished leaders, you are now living in the most blessed and exalted time in history. I
now proclaim the launch of the era of a new heaven and earth, an era after the coming of heaven,
long-awaited and yearned for by billions of your ancestors in the spirit world who have come and
gone throughout history: this is the era of the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. Not only the
four great religious founders but also billions of good ancestors have come down to earth at this
point to guide you on the heavenly path. The age in which the fallen and corrupted world plays
havoc on people’s lives, allowing those who are evil to live better than others, is passing away.
Reverend Moon, who received the seal of Heaven, has come as the True Parent of humanity
and the King of Peace. I will be true to my promise to God.
I will bring to fruition the era of the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world on this earth, without
fail. Therefore, please bear in mind that all of you gathered here today are the central figures in
establishing the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world on this earth, in attendance to the king and
queen of peace, the True Parents.
Under the banner of the “Abel-type UN,” let us sweep away the absurdities and the evil of this
world through true love power. Let us become the proud “peace kingdom police” and “peace
kingdom corps” of the Universal Peace Federation, and protect the blessed families of the world.
Let us fulfill our roles as the sentinels watching over this blessed land that is our planet.
I pray that the blessings and grace of God may be with all of you leaders representing different
areas of responsibility, whose presence has elevated this historic occasion.
I ask you to devote your best efforts, as True Parents have, toward the development and
success of the Universal Peace Federation, and toward creating God’s ideal family, ideal nation
and the peace kingdom.
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 each live up to the standard of a true,
devoted child, a patriot, a saint, and a member of the family of the sons and daughters of God, in
order to create the glorious kingdom of peace and prosperity.
May God’s blessings be with you, your families and your nations.
Thank you.
17.9.12
GOD’S IDEAL FAMILY AND THE KINGDOM OF THE PEACEFUL, IDEAL WORLD – I
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave this speech on the occasion of the founding of the UniversalPeace Federation on September 12, 2005. It was also given in the UPF inaugural world
speaking tour to 10 nations and in the rallies for the Return of the Homeland to God, held in
180 nations in 2006.
Distinguished world leaders, Ambassadors for Peace and blessed family members who have come
from all parts of the world in the hope of bringing about the realization of world peace and
building the ideal hometown in heaven and on earth:
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you for coming together in the midst of
your busy schedules to take part in this rally to expand and elevate to a global level the Family
Party for Universal Peace and Unity, so that it may be reborn as the Cheon Il Guk House for
Peace and Unification; to make the Universal Peace Federation a model UN-type organization;
and, to make Cheon Il Guk the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world through the concerted efforts
of all the nations of the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, as we begin the twenty-first century, we find ourselves at a truly
historic turning point. We are at a point of decision. Can everlasting world peace take root, or are
we doomed to repeat the twentieth century’s dark and oppressive history of war and conflict?
The twentieth century was a period of ceaseless struggle, including that of colonized countries
to gain their independence, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and the Cold War.
Living through this era, I dedicated my life entirely to bringing about the kingdom of God, the
kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. I have always prayed sincerely that the United Nations,
founded after the Second World War, would be an institution for peace, and that it would uphold
God’s will for the realization of eternal world peace.
The United Nations has indeed made important contributions to peace. Nevertheless, around
its sixtieth anniversary in 2005 there was a broad consensus, both inside and outside the
organization, that the UN had yet to discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes. The number
of member states approaches two hundred, but the offices of these states do little more than
represent and even insist on their own interests. They seem inherently unable to resolve conflicts
and achieve peace.
For these reasons, I would like once more to declare today before all humanity the message I
gave throughout the Universal Peace Federation inauguration tour, launched last year on
September 12 in New York, which took me to 120 nations around the world. It is entitled, “God’s
Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World.”
The mission of the Universal Peace Federation is to renew the existing United Nations, a “Cain-
type” UN, and provide a new level of leadership as an “Abel-type” UN. It will unite heaven and
earth and form the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
This message should be engraved on the hearts of humankind. It is Heaven’s special blessing
in this era after the coming of heaven. It is also a warning to us that we should take to heart and
put into action.
God’s Ideal Family
Respected world leaders, what do you think is God’s ultimate purpose for creating human
beings? Simply put, it is to experience joy through relating with ideal families filled with true love.
What does an ideal family look like? First, each person in the family is an owner of true love.
When God first created human beings, He made Adam representing all men, and Eve
representing all women, with the intention that they become owners of true love. The quickest
way for them to cultivate a character of true love was to secure a parent-child relationship with
God, whereby they could live attending God as their Father. They were to have followed the path
of living as one family with God.
I invite you to enter into a transcendent state and prayerfully ask God, “What is the center of
the universe?” The answer you hear will undoubtedly be, “the parent–child relationship.” Nothing
is more important or more precious than the relationship between parent and child. This is
because it defines the fundamental relationship between the Creator God and human beings.
Then, what defines the parent-child relationship? Three things: love, life and lineage.
The first is love. We can love with true love because God, our True Parent, first loved us with
true love. God created human beings out of His absolute love, to be His partners in love. This
relationship forms an axis of love, linking God the Father with human beings as His sons and
daughters.
Could there be anything higher or more precious than to be a son or daughter of God? If
anything were higher, then surely human beings would aspire to attain it. But there is nothing
higher. Do you think that when the omniscient and omnipotent God created Adam and Eve, He
secretly reserved the highest position for Himself and made Adam and Eve to be only second
best? We cannot imagine that God would do that to His children, to His partners who share
absolute love with Him.
As our eternal True Parent, God invested Himself 100 percent in the creation of human beings
and endowed us with the right to equal status with Him, to participate in His work as equals, to
live with Him, and to inherit from Him. God bestowed upon human beings all of His attributes.
Though God is the absolute being , He cannot be happy alone. Adjectives such as “good” and
“happy” cannot apply to any being that lives in isolation. They apply only where there is a dynamic
mutual relationship. Imagine a professional singer who finds herself on an uninhabited island. She
may sing at the top of her voice, but with no one to listen, will it bring her happiness? In the same
way, even the self-existent God absolutely needs a partner with whom to share love in order to
experience joy and be happy.
Next is life. How shall we live to become God’s partner and return joy to Him? In other words,
how shall we live to become children of God, people whom God delights to call “My son,” or “My
daughter,” because He sees in us a divinity equal to His own? How can we become God’s partners
in completing the work of Creation, partners who will inherit the entire creation? This is my
answer: We should emulate the ideal that God set up at the beginning of His creative acts. At the
beginning of the Creation, God acted upon the principle of living for the sake of others. In other
words, everything that He did was for the sake of His creations, whom He hoped would develop
into His partners of true love. The practice of true love is the nucleus of God’s creative activity.
Therefore, to become God’s children, our first responsibility is to resemble Him. We need to
embody true love. The way to embody true love begins with living as a devoted child, then a
patriot, a saint, and finally a divine son or daughter of God. At that stage we can experience the
innermost emotions of God’s heart and resolve the grief that He has experienced for tens of
thousands of years since the Fall of Adam and Eve.
God is almighty. It was not due to any shortcoming or lack of ability that He has been
imprisoned in great pain and has endured immense suffering behind the scenes of history. Rather,
there are provisions in the Principle of Restoration, which He has not been free to disclose, that
called Him to wait with forbearance until Adam and Eve’s positions, lost at the human Fall, were
recovered through the appearance of the perfected “Second Adam.” Although God is all-powerful,
He will not set aside the eternal laws and principles that He Himself established.
The Importance of Lineage
Do you know what has pained God’s heart the most, causing Him the greatest grief over the
long history since the Fall of Adam and Eve? God lost His lineage. And with the loss of His lineage,
He lost His right of ownership.
Let me talk about lineage for a moment. Lineage is more important than life and more
important than love. Life and love come together to create lineage. Lineage cannot be established
if either life or love is missing. Therefore, among the three qualities that define the parent-child
relationship—love, life and lineage—lineage is the fruit.
God’s lineage contains the seed of true love. God’s lineage provides the context and
environment for a true life. Hence, for us to become the ideal people envisioned by God, that is,
people of ideal character, and to create ideal families, we first need to be linked to His lineage. To
take it a step further, only when we are linked to God’s lineage is it possible to create God’s
homeland, the ideal nation. Only when we are linked to God’s lineage is it possible to establish
the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. Please inscribe the importance of lineage in your hearts.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
Without lineage, neither life nor love can endure. You strive to set a good tradition, but it will
endure only through your lineage. Lineage is the bridge allowing the parents’ spirit to carry on
through subsequent generations. In other words, lineage is the first and final condition necessary
for parents to harvest the fruits of their love, the fruits of their life and the fruits of their joy. We
need to know this with certainty.
Yet when Adam and Eve fell, this lineage, more precious than life, was lost. The fruits of true
life and true love never matured. They became the fruits of Satan, lacking any relationship with
Heaven. From them descended the six billion people now inhabiting the earth.
God intended for the seeds He planted in the springtime of the Garden of Eden to grow into
a bountiful crop that He could harvest in the autumn. The ideal of God’s creation was to raise
Adam and Eve, His son and daughter, to the point where they would blossom in true love,
flourish with true life, and bear fruit in a true lineage. God desired to gather up owners—and
families—of eternal life, eternal love and eternal lineage, and to bring about His kingdom of
the peaceful, ideal world as their homeland.
God’s Suffering in Search of the True Parents
Instead, however, it was false love, false life and false lineage that infested the earth. God’s
love, life and lineage fell into the hands of the adulterer Satan, the enemy of love. Heaven and
earth were suffocated and transformed into hell. The world became a wretched place, far from
God’s presence. Yet humanity to this day lives in ignorance of this.
People are deluded into believing that the lineage of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the
world depends. This is the wretched truth about humanity descended from the Fall. That is why
we refer to this world as hell on earth. God views humanity’s tragic situation with a heart full of
pain.
After creating Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, God intended to marry them with His Holy
Blessing and bequeath to them Heaven’s right of ownership. God wanted Adam and Eve to inherit
from Him the ownership of the entire universe.
However, all of this came under Satan’s control because of the Fall. God is like a father who
labored and sweated his entire life to accumulate assets for his children, only to have a thief steal
everything overnight.
Who can comprehend the sorrowful, painful heart of God? God lost His lineage, lost His
children, and was forced to hand over the ownership of the nations and world to Satan. There
was only one way to recover this lineage and ownership. This was the path to win the natural
subjugation of Satan, to have Satan surrender voluntarily. What is the secret to accomplish this?
It can only be accomplished by the power of true love, when we love our enemies more than we
love our own children.
Has there ever been a time when God could rejoice with human beings as their True Father
and True Mother, enjoying the natural bonds of parent and child? Has God enjoyed even a year of
comfort with His children, knowing that what He created was good? The answer is no; God has
not experienced such joy for even one hour. And has anyone been able to comfort God in this
pain? No, because no one has known the reason for the unbridgeable gap that has separated God
from humankind for tens of thousands of years. No one has known why God and humanity are in
such a tragic situation.
The biblical account of Cain and Abel reveals the beginnings of human conflict even within
Adam’s family. It reveals the archetype for humankind’s unending history of struggle, war and
conflict. We are in conflict on many levels, beginning with the war between mind and body within
each individual and extending to wars between nations and even to the global conflict between
materialism and theism.
Extreme selfish individualism threatens our prosperity even today. We deem young people to
be the hope of humanity holding the promise for the future, but drugs and free sex enslave them.
Advanced countries seem to believe that material goods are all that matter. They recognize only
their own interests while ignoring the misery of tens of thousands who die of starvation every day.
Who can untie this ancient knot of Cain and Abel? It has been tightened for thousands of years
and grows ever more entangled. Do you think the United Nations can do it? The UN at its
founding proclaimed a movement for world peace, and for sixty years it has dedicated itself to
this task; yet world peace still remains far distant. Peace among nations can never come when
those entrusted with the task have not resolved the Cain-Abel relationship between their own
mind and body. Therefore, the time has come to launch the Abel-type sovereignty for the
peaceful, ideal world that will set its course according to God’s will.
God longed with all His heart that someone would appear and resolve these tragedies, but no
such person appeared on earth. God waited and waited, looking for anyone who would take on
the role of the True Parent. If someone had come forward, I am certain that God would have
appeared in his dreams, carried the sun and moon to him, and showered him with lightning of joy
and thunder of ecstasy from the heavens.
In this sense, it is a miracle of miracles that for the first time in history a man has indeed
succeeded in attaining the position of Adam. He has secured the status of the owner of true love and
received God’s anointing as the True Parent of humanity. It is an amazing fact that his lifetime
coincides with yours, and that you and he breathe the same air. He is the horizontal True Parent,
who comes to rescue fallen humanity. I, Reverend Moon, gained the victory in that position. And on
that foundation, on January 13, 2001, I dedicated to Heaven the “Coronation Ceremony for the
Kingship of God.” By that ceremony I liberated and released God, our vertical True Parent who has
taken responsibility for the Providence of Restoration. In all of history, this was the highest and
greatest blessing humanity has ever received. This victory was absolute, unique, unchanging and
eternal. Through this absolute providential victory, God’s body and mind are completely liberated!
The Way to Peace through the Holy Blessing Ceremony
Respected leaders! Our bondage to the lineage of Satan has caused so much suffering
throughout history. Let us now boldly step forward to sever it and be grafted onto the root of the
lineage of the True Parents. Why should we foolishly continue to live and die as wild olive trees?
A wild olive tree, even if it lives a thousand years, will only continue producing the seeds of more
wild olive trees. Where can we find the path to escape this vicious cycle? It is through the Holy
Blessing.
The Holy Blessing Ceremony offers the grace of being grafted onto the true olive tree. It was
instituted by the True Parents, who bring God’s true lineage to humankind. Once you change
your lineage to God’s lineage, your offspring will naturally belong to God’s lineage. The Holy
Blessing is received in three stages: rebirth, resurrection, and eternal life. Once you receive the
True Parents’ Holy Blessing, you can give birth to pure, sinless offspring and build an ideal family.
The best way to receive the Holy Blessing is through a cross-cultural marriage. This contributes
to the enormous task of transcending the barriers of race, culture, nationality, ethnicity and
religion and creating one family of humankind. In God’s sight, skin color makes no difference.
God does not recognize national borders. God does not stand behind the barriers of religion and
culture. They are nothing more than the devil’s tricks. The devil has used them to rule over
humanity as a false parent for tens of thousands of years.
Imagine two enemy families who have cursed each other throughout their lives, people who
would never dream of living together. What would happen if these families joined together through
a cross-cultural Holy Marriage Blessing? If a son from one family and a daughter from the other
became husband and wife, loved each other and built a happy home, would the parents in these
two families curse their own children? If that son loved this beautiful daughter of a hated enemy,
and she, as the daughter-in-law, were to gave birth to Heaven’s grandchildren as pure and clear
as crystal, the grandparents would smile with pleasure. In time the two lineages once soaked with
enmity would be transformed.
What method other than cross-cultural marriage will empower Whites and Blacks, Jews and
Muslims, Orientals and Westerners, and people of all races to live as one human family? The
ideal family is the model for living together in peace. The ideal family is the nest where we live
and learn to become one. There we have the foundation of love and respect between parents
and children, shared trust and love between husband and wife, and mutual support among
siblings. For this fundamental reason, you should receive the Holy Marriage Blessing from the
True Parents and establish Heaven’s tradition of ideal families, even if it means risking your very
life.
A Life of True Love
Allow me to repeat myself: To resemble God, the original Being of true love, we should
become the owners of true love. We should embody true love and practice it in order to develop
our character. This is the way each of us can become true parents.
What is a life of true love? True love is the spirit of public service. It brings the peace that
is at the root of happiness. Selfish love is a mask of the desire to have one’s partner exist for
one’s own sake; true love is free from that corruption. Rather, its essence is to give, to live for
the sake of others and for the sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given,
and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and
loving heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True
love is sacrificial love, as with a devoted son who gains his greatest satisfaction in helping his
parents. God created the universe out of just such love: absolute, unique, unchanging and
eternal, investing everything without any expectation or condition of receiving something in
return.
True love is the wellspring of the universe. Once we possess it, true love makes us the centers
and the owners of the universe. True love is God’s essence and the manifestation of His will and
power. When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually
increasing in the joy of each other’s company. The attraction of true love brings all things in the
universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. Nothing can compare to the value of
true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers fallen people have created, including national
boundaries and the barriers of race and even religion.
The main attributes of true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, so that
whoever practices God’s true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to
participate as an equal in His work. Therefore, a life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love,
is the absolute prerequisite for entering the kingdom of heaven.
Respected leaders, you are now living in the age when all marriages can receive God’s Blessing.
God’s promises are coming to fruition. The kingdom of heaven on earth, God’s ideal of creation,
is being established before your eyes.
I have dedicated my life of more than eighty years solely for Heaven. It has been a lonely
path, stained with blood, sweat, and tears. Yet now it is bearing victorious fruit for the sake of
the world’s six billion people. From the spirit world, the founders of the world’s religions, tens
of thousands of saints and your own good ancestors are watching your every move. They will
punish you if you stray from the heavenly path.
In more than 180 countries, Ambassadors for Peace who have inherited Heaven’s will and
tradition are making serious efforts, day and night, to proclaim the values of true love and true
family. They are moving forward with full force to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal
world on this earth.
In the Middle East, one of the world’s tinderboxes, Jews, Christians and Muslims have found
the resources in my philosophy of peace to engage in a new dimension of dialogue. In past
decades my Unification Thought played a decisive role in ending the Cold War. Now I am
successfully leading behind-the-scenes efforts to bring about the reunification of my homeland of
Korea.
But I am not yet satisfied, because I began my life’s work at the command of Heaven. I have
come as the True Parent of humankind with God’s anointing, and I am determined to keep my
promise to Him. I am determined to obliterate all national divisions and barriers that have
poisoned this earth and to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, where all people
everywhere can live hand in hand.
Ambassadors for Peace are Heaven’s Secret Envoys
Respected Ambassadors for Peace, I believe you have learned many things through this
message from God. You represent Heaven, and as long as humanity continues to drift aimlessly it
needs your help. Please take this opportunity to make a new determination to be Heaven’s
envoys, prepared to uphold Heaven’s command. With this in mind, I would like to summarize
today’s message so that we can all take up Heaven’s mission and inscribe it deep within our
hearts.
What did I say we lost by the Fall of Adam and Eve, who were created as God’s children? First,
we lost the lineage given to us by God. Lineage is the most special among all the gifts parents
bequeath to their children. By the Fall, Adam and Eve inherited the false lineage of Satan and
descended to the status of his children. We must understand with certainty that all human beings
today, without exception, are descendants of the Fall and have inherited the lineage of Satan.
When God created Adam and Eve, He invested His entire being, 100 percent. He created them
based on the standard of absolute love, absolute faith and absolute obedience. He gave them His
lineage as the seed for their love and life. Likewise, from this moment on, God is re-creating you
as new people. The path is open wide for you to change your lineage through the Holy Wine
Ceremony that the True Parents have instituted. The Blessing is yours, either as newlywed
couples or as already married couples, that you may establish true families.
Second, the Fall caused the loss of the realm of siblings’ love, when in the family of Adam the
older brother Cain killed his younger brother Abel. God’s original family structure was full of
blessings, including love and harmony among siblings. The Fall degraded the sibling relationship
to a rivalry filled with envy and resentment.
To solve this problem in the lineage, I am leading humanity worldwide to join in cross-cultural
marriages. These marriages restore the original family structure, when those who are “Abel,”
relatively closer to Heaven’s side, take on the subject role and the position of the older brother.
Ladies and gentlemen, because I have spent my life discovering and disclosing these secrets of
Satan, it was inevitable that I would face persecution. At times the suffering was so intense as to
be utterly beyond words. Now, however, I am victorious over all obstacles. I can therefore
declare the era after the coming of heaven, the age when the power of Heaven becomes manifest.
On this foundation, I am building a worldwide Abel-realm that brings together religions and
nations representing 78 percent of the current world population. To create a corresponding
worldwide Cain-realm, I am bringing together all those born with the Mongolian birthmark, which
includes some 74 percent of the world’s population.
Now these two, the worldwide Abel realm and the worldwide Cain realm, must become one and
unite with the Universal Peace Federation, which has been initiated as the Abel sovereignty. To
establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, we must transcend religious affiliation and
nationality and remove all national boundaries and other barriers. I would like to reiterate that
this is the only way humankind will be able to achieve the original ideal of creation. It is our
destiny to fulfill this responsibility. By doing so, we will establish the original right of ownership
lost by the Fall of Adam and Eve.
As you form this new Abel realm, please remember that you are now charged with digesting
the Cain realm throughout heaven and earth. By doing so, you will create the conditions to
establish the new heaven and new earth, the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, with God’s
complete authority.
A Project for Peace
Leaders from throughout the world, we are today marking the precious conclusion of the
history of God’s providence. On this occasion, let me take the opportunity to repeat the proposal
I have made for a truly providential and revolutionary project. This project is for the sake of the
establishment of the kingdom of peace that is the purpose of the culmination of the providence
for God and humankind, and also for the purpose of establishing God’s homeland and original
hometown. From the historical point of view, the divisions of our world into East and West, North
and South were wrought by Satan. I am proposing that we build a passage for transit across the
Bering Strait that separates the North American and Russian land-masses.
This passage, which I call the “World Peace King Bridge-Tunnel,” will link an international
highway system that will allow people to travel on land from Africa’s Cape of Good Hope to
Santiago, Chile, and from London to New York, across the Bering Strait, connecting the world as
a single community.
God is warning us that He will no longer tolerate separation and division. Carrying out
this project will bind the world together as one village. It will tear down the man-made
walls of race, culture, religion and country, and establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal
world that has been God’s cherished desire.
The United States and Russia can become as one. The European Union, China, India, Japan,
Brazil and all nations, and also the world’s religions, can combine their energies to make this
project succeed. The success of this project will be decisive in establishing the kingdom of the
peaceful, ideal world, where people will no longer make war on each other.
Ladies and gentlemen, some may doubt that such a project can be completed. But where there
is a will, there is always a way—especially if it is the will of God.
The science and technology of the twenty-first century render it possible to construct a tunnel
under the Bering Strait. The construction costs are also not a problem. Think of how much
money the world is wasting on war. Humanity needs to realize that we are committing fearful
sins in the presence of history and our descendants.
Let us take one example. How much money has the United States spent on the war in Iraq
during the past three years? It is approaching $200 billion. That budget would be more than
enough to complete the Bering Strait project.
In this age, war is the most primitive and destructive means of resolving conflict, and will
never lead to lasting peace. Now is the time, as the prophet Isaiah taught, to beat our swords
into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks. Humankind should end the perverse cycle of
war, which only sacrifices the lives of our children and squanders enormous sums of money. The
time has come for the countries of the world to pool their resources and advance toward the
kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world desired by God, the Master of this great universe.
Ladies and gentlemen, humanity is traveling down a dead-end street. The only way to survive
is to practice my teaching: the peace philosophy of true love, true life and true lineage. Now that
we have entered the era after the coming of heaven, your good ancestors are activated and the
heavenly hosts are sweeping down upon the earth. Soon the countries and peoples that appear
strong and mighty will change course and shift in this direction.
Our Mission
I leave you with a choice. There can be no perfection in ignorance. The message from Heaven
that I convey to you today is both a blessing and a warning to this generation. I will take the lead
in establishing true families, true societies, true nations and the true kingdom of the peaceful,
ideal world. Will you join me as I rise and gain strength in accordance with heavenly fortune? Or
will you remain captive behind the same old walls, all of them Satan’s handiwork—the wall of
your religion, the wall of your culture, the wall of your nationality and the wall of your race—and
spend the remainder of your time on earth in agony and regret? Heaven is summoning you to be
the wise leaders who will set aright this world of evil and establish a new heaven and new earth,
a new culture and an ideal kingdom.
The Universal Peace Federation, which was born through the concerted efforts of those here,
represents God’s victory, the fruit of the True Parents’ blood, sweat and tears, and the cherished
hope of all people. It will carry out the role of an “Abel-type” counterpart to the existing “Cain-
type” United Nations, representing a new sovereignty of universal peace, which I call Cheon Il
Guk. Please bear in mind that you are given the heavenly mission to build God’s substantial
homeland, the ideal world God envisioned at the time of the Creation.
Think of the peacekeeping work of the United Nations. Sometimes it withdrew its forces before
the mission was completed. The Korean War was one such example. For this reason, on October
20th in the Ukraine, during the world tour of 120 nations inaugurating the Universal Peace
Federation, I declared before the world the establishment of the “peace kingdom police force”
and the “peace kingdom corps” for the welfare and future of humanity.
These two organizations will safeguard order and peace in the new world. Humanity is still
ensnared in the traps of division and self-interest, which are remnants of the era before the
coming of heaven. These two organizations will be the vanguard for educating humanity in true
love in the era after the coming of heaven. The purpose of this education will be to create the
true individual, true family, true nation, true world and true universe.
I hope that you will put on new “true love armor” in this new age and be wise and brave
activists in the universal peace kingdom corps, for the sake of humanity’s future.
Please inscribe this warning from Heaven deep in your hearts. Remember that the only way to
inherit Heaven’s lineage and establish the realm of liberation and complete release is through the
Holy Marriage Blessing instituted by the True Parents. Furthermore, the Holy Marriage Blessing
provides the means to establish God’s ideal family and the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
I ask you to devote your best efforts, as the True Parents have, for the development and
success of the Universal Peace Federation, and toward creating God’s ideal family, ideal nation
and the peace kingdom. Please become true princes and princesses who can attend and live
together with God, the eternal Peace King and True Parent of humanity. Let us fulfill the dutiful
family way of devoted sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and members of the family of God,
and create the eternal kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
May God’s blessings be with you, your families and your nations.
Thank you.
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