God’s Homeland and the Peace Kingdom Are Built on the Foundation of the Realm of His Liberation and Release

The Reverend True Father Sun Myung Moon Address on the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the  Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity May 1, 2004 Seoul, Korea  Respected present and former heads of state, distinguished guests from around the world, leaders of all fields of Korean society: I am sincerely grateful that such a large number of you have taken time from your busy schedules to attend today’s event. It seems like yesterday that on May 1, 1954, in a humble dwelling known as the “House of Three Gates” in Seoul’s Buk-hak Dong, I and a few disciples who were with me raised a signboard that read “Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity” and offered a most serious prayer to Heaven. Today, this has become the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, which continues its steady development and has mission headquarters in 191 countries. How could anyone say that this is anything other than a miracle of Heaven? I received God’s call when I was a vibrant youth of 16 years, and started out on this path of Heaven with unbending determination. It has been a path of indescribable pain and suffering. At each climax of indemnity, sacrifices were made that led to pools of blood, sweat and tears. It was the path of a lonely man. I swallowed desperate tears of blood and hid them within myself to comfort the heart of God, who was grieving over the tragic situation of the son He had sent forth. My life of over 80 years has been lived to teach the truth that I received from Heaven. As a way of summing up what I have taught, I would like to speak today on the topic of “God’s Homeland and the Peace Kingdom Are Built on the Foundation of the Realm of His Liberation and Release.” Distinguished guests, everything I have ever taught is permeated with one point above all else. That is that we must know God and spirit world with certainty. It is not enough to have God vaguely in our head, like a mathematical formula that we once memorized. Instead, we must carve His existence onto our hearts, even into our bones. We must know the relationship that God has with us, and the attributes He possesses. We must know about the ideal world that He desired in the beginning, and when that world will be brought about. We must have the same degree of knowledge of spirit world. The world after death definitely exists independent of human beings’ will, and we must know it accurately, if we are to use our time in this world to prepare thoroughly for the next. Ladies and gentlemen, please quietly place your hand on your heart and think seriously. If everyone truly knew that God exists and always lived in attendance to Him, what would keep us from solving the problems in today’s world? I declare to you very bluntly today: God exists and He is our Parent. He lives and carries out His work within each person’s life. He exists without form. If you think of Him as large, He is infinitely large, but if you think of Him as small, he is also infinitely small. Every human being possesses a mind, but can anyone locate the mind with confidence and certainty? Energy clearly exists and sustains life, but energy is invisible. In the same way, God absolutely exists with attributes of eternality, changelessness and uniqueness, but He cannot be seen with the human eye, which is one part of the human physical body. Because God is the original body of energy, we will not be able to see Him even in spirit world. This is why we say that God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Because He has no form, there is nothing to keep Him from going anywhere He pleases in the world of existence. He could pass right through your body without you feeling anything. He could step on you as He passes by while you doze off, and you would not know it. Think how convenient that is. What would you do if God were to appear and involve Himself in every little thing you do? If you had to live with God visible to your eyes, what would you do? Probably you would not last a day before having a nervous breakdown. You cannot see the incredible amount of air that is passing through your body even as you sit here. So how could you possibly know how God, who exists without form, passes through you as He carries on His work? Rather than foolishly saying, “Show me God and I’ll believe,” you should be grateful that God is invisible to our eyes. Leaders from around the world, do you have love? Do you have life? Do you have a lineage and a conscience? Then, have you ever seen love? Can you say that you have seen life, lineage or conscience? You clearly know these exist, but you must acknowledge that you cannot feel or see them. You only know them because you sense them with your mind. A similar logic applies to the question of whether God exists, or whether a person has or has not seen God. No one can say that they have not seen God or that He does not exist. When God enters into the mind, the mind knows it. When the omniscient and almighty God is with you, you can call for saints who died thousands of years ago to come to you and you can clearly see who is sitting on the other side of a thick wall. When the eternal God enters your heart, such things are possible. Eternity cannot be grasped in the context of time, but time exists within eternity. The universe in which we live is wrapped in mystery. The size of the vast universe is as great as 21 billion light years across. If a light year is the distance light travels in a year at a speed so fast that it can go around the Earth seven and a half times in a second, then try to imagine what God, who created the universe and manages it, must be like. How large would He have to be, and how heavy? God is the great king of wisdom, so He made it so that He would exist without form, enabling Him to go anywhere in the universe instantaneously or enter even into the eye of a needle. When we search within for the best place to receive God, our greatest treasure, the natural conclusion is, “The heart is the only appropriate place.” No place can be safer or more comfortable for Him. The heart is able to stand in the position of God’s object partner and exist for eternity by engaging in spherical motion, and this is the reason that human beings can have eternal life. If humanity had not committed the fall but had been born through parents possessing an original nature of goodness, then it would not have been necessary to argue with each other about whether God exists. We would have known this naturally from the time we were born. Just as an infant does not learn how to suckle its mother’s breast while it is in the womb, but naturally learns how to do so as soon as it is born, so also people born into a world where the fall of the human ancestors had not occurred would have naturally attended God as their Father throughout their lives. When God created Adam and Eve as the first human ancestors, He wanted to establish them as substantiations of Himself. So He arranged for His masculine nature to be placed within the mind of Adam and His feminine nature to be placed within the mind of Eve and remain there for eternity. This did not mean that God would be divided in two. Instead, while residing in the minds of Adam and Eve, He would exist as a harmonized being of dual characteristics and as a unified being centering on love. As a result of the fall, humanity lost everything. We fell into a false world. We appear to have sight but in fact are blind, not even knowing whether God exists. What could be more tragic in the history of humankind? If Adam and Eve, created in the image of God, had grown to maturity without falling, achieved perfection, and acquired the position of the parents of humankind, all human beings would have been able to recognize the reality of God’s existence through Adam and Eve. It would have been impossible even to imagine people arguing with each other, saying, “God exists,” and “No, He doesn’t.” God would have lived with us and shared our emotions for eternity as the Parent of humankind. He would have been the center of our life and the root of our existence. We truly know God only when we feel Him in our heart and understand the reality of His existence in the course of daily life. We know God’s existence only through experience. When we understand the reality of God’s existence directly through experience in our daily life, we will be able to sense God’s will from moment to moment naturally. We will be able to act in accordance with His will without being told. We will become people who cannot sin even if we try. It was intended that the formless God would take on substantial form as human beings and exercise dominion with the character and appearance of an owner, not only over all of creation in this world, a world of form, but even over the sprit world. This is why our highest priority in life is to know God with certainty. Ladies and gentlemen, let us think for a moment about human life. We spend our first lifetime in the womb of our mother. The ten months that we spend there as a fetus is a period of water-borne life, because we are bathed in the amniotic fluid. We cannot speak or move about freely, but this does not mean that our term in the womb is not life. During this period, we clearly possess a life given to us by Heaven, and it is a period for us to prepare for life on the earth, which is the next phase. The fact that we don’t breathe through our nose during this period doesn’t mean there is no life. The human being as a fetus in the womb cannot imagine what life will be like in the next phase, on the earth. It cannot imagine a world outside its mother’s womb. It cannot imagine not receiving all nourishment from its mother through the umbilical cord. Human beings, though, are created so that when the time comes we bring our life in the womb to a close and begin life on the earth. Irrespective of our wishes, this happens in accordance with the laws of the universe. A new, vast world that we could never have imagined appears before us. Our water-borne life ends, and our new life on earth begins. The ten months of life in the womb transitions into an earthly life of 100 years. Human beings then live in a wide variety of unique ways and prepare for the final phase of our existence, in the spirit world, that is, the world after death. A world that is eternal and endless awaits us, but human beings living in a physical body are no more capable of imagining the spirit world that we were of imagining life on Earth while we lived in the womb. Our lives of some 100 years on Earth will transfer into an eternal world that transcends time and space. In the womb, we received nourishment from our mother through the umbilical cord, and during our time on earth we receive the three basic elements, the universe’s water, air and light. Once we enter the spirit world, however, we will no longer have need of physical nourishment. We instead will breathe love as we live eternally. So human beings, without exception, live through three stages: ten months in the womb, 100 years on earth, and an eternity in the spirit world. This is not something that we do by our own choice. It is a blessing and grace given by Heaven. What could be a blessing and grace greater than this? So when I say you need to know the spirit world well, it is not enough to live with a vague faith in the existence of the spirit world. On Earth we must know how to prepare for life in the spirit world, where we will live eternally, and then prepare ourselves thoroughly. Just as a child that develops a problem while in the womb may spend his entire life after birth in poor health, so too if we fail to recognize Heaven’s will during our short life on Earth and commit sin or carry out evil deeds, we will eventually pay the price in the spirit world according to the principle of cause and effect. It means that our spirit self will have to suffer indescribable pain and indemnity in spirit world. Once the physical body has been shed, it will be too late. When the physical body dies, it returns to the earth as a handful of dirt, but do you think that our life, our mind, our heart, and our hopes are also buried? It is absolutely not so. Our 100-year-long life is recorded, photographed and automatically evaluated without fail in our personal computer, built by God, called the spirit self. This is why all of us, during life on earth, will stop and check ourselves again and again, and ask our unsteady mind and heart: “Where are you going?” The saints, sages and spiritual masters are those who spent their entire lives wrestling with such issues. None of them, however, were able to present clear answers. It is true that their teachings have remained with us, allowing religions to be formed and sacred texts to be published, guiding the mass of people for their lives. It is also true, though, that humanity still lacks even the ability to have dominion over our own mind. I have toured the world hundreds of times to declare Heaven’s truth and educate people. No matter where I go in the world or what kind of audience I face, I always ask one question. I issue a challenge, saying, “If there is anyone here whose mind and body are not in conflict, please raise your hand.” So far no one anywhere has dared to raise a hand. What does this tell us? It means that human beings are still slaves to the fallen nature that we inherited from our first ancestors, Adam and Eve. We have not yet escaped that yoke. This is evidenced by the confessions of saints and sages who spent their lives in fasting and abstinence and consistently pursued paths of incredible suffering. Their confessions that they could not root out the desires of the flesh before they had to leave this world remain as pitiful cries to their disciples who still insist on following in their footsteps. Those who are counted among the saints and sages are now declaring with one voice that I, Sun Myung Moon, have brought for the first time from Heaven the truth of true love that they could not grasp, and that their followers and descendents on Earth should follow my teachings absolutely and practice them. People in spirit world who regret that they could not meet Rev. Moon while they were on earth and attend him as Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord, and True Parent during their lives here are sending a flood of messages. The resolutions that these people adopted in the spirit world now echo around the world. In the near future, all religious people will begin to receive revelations directly from the founders of their own religion, and there will be a great migration of people being guided to attend Rev. Moon as the True Parent. They will gather as the clouds to learn from Rev. Moon the truth of true love that enables them to unite their mind and body. They will learn the way of the true family, leading to their singing together the praises of eternal happiness as parents and children on Earth and in Heaven. Communists of the world who insisted there is no God and passed away as sacrifices to materialism, intellectuals of the world who as journalists commanded an entire generation, and even dictators and emperors who brandished the sword of absolute power and sacrificed countless lives, have shed tears of repentance before me and begged for forgiveness through their messages and resolutions from spirit world. Any among you who still cannot believe with certainty the reality of the spirit world may still not be sure whether to believe these messages. To you my advice is this: “You will see for yourself when you pass on to spirit world!” But once you go down that path you can never return, no matter how much you may strike the ground in lamentation. Once in the spirit world, a person cannot do anything on his own about the sins he committed while on earth. So your ancestors now are observing your life in tears, waiting for an opportunity to help you in a way that indemnifies their sins. I am telling you clearly that thousands, even tens of thousands, of your ancestors’ eyes are watching your every step and every action, sometimes with tears of heartbreak and other times with joy. Is there still anyone who cannot believe the reality of spirit world? Distinguished guests, once we come to know God with certainty and know not just the concept of the spirit world but also its reality, our life can move forward as smoothly as a car on an expressway. Just as the car will reach its destination safely if the driver follows the rules of the road, keeps his hands on the steering wheel and doesn’t fall asleep, so too we only need to live in line with the direction from our conscience, which is given by Heaven. This is where our mind and body become one and where the blossom of human perfection blooms and bears fruit. Going deep into the mountains will not perfect one’s character, and extensive reading of sacred texts and philosophy books that line library shelves will not unite the mind and body. God is the great King of wisdom. He did not place the path to perfection in some far off place. Instead, He placed it in the place that is nearest to us, the place that is most private and safe. He prepared and placed that path inside your conscience. Ladies and gentlemen, your conscience is your master. It is your teacher. It stands in the place of your parents. Your conscience is the first to know everything about you. Your conscience knows all your thoughts. It knows before your teacher, before your parents and before even God knows. Think how much advice your conscience gives you over your lifetime. Day and night, every time you have an evil thought, it scolds you, saying, “Hey you!” It never grows tired as it works constantly to pull you over rivers and mountains. The conscience always stands as the true master, protecting you and trying to help you. Yet, how often have you gone against your own conscience? What should be done about your body, which has thoroughly mistreated this precious irreplaceable teacher that the universe bequeathed to you? Your conscience was given to represent the Parent who makes it possible for you to inherit the original love. Do you intend to idle your life away, embracing only your physical body and enslaved by its desires, allowing it mercilessly to trample the conscience? That is why I, too, as I began to pioneer the way of truth, set as my slogan, “Before seeking dominion over the universe, perfect dominion over yourself.” I discovered that there is only one way to resolve the conflict between mind and body, and that is “the way of true love.” Unity between mind and body can be achieved only when the mind sacrifices itself for the sake of the body time and again, thus practicing “true love that lives for the sake of others.” When you follow the path set out by your conscience, your mind will come to embrace the universe. When this happens, you will be able to communicate with your heart. Whenever you start to do something, your conscience will immediately show you the effects of that action. This experience proves that God resides within your heart. The person who attains this position will enter the state of being of one mind, one body and one thought with God. He or she will live in a world of one circle and one harmony. This is the ideal world, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth that God desired in the beginning when He created Adam and Eve. Respected guests, it is now more than 80 years since I began my search for such incredible secrets of Heaven and began to walk the path to lead humanity. It has been the path of a lonely and pitiful man pushing my way through suffering and difficulties that are unprecedented in the past and unrepeatable in the future. It has been a path that has proven and taught the reality of an omnipresent God. Every one of the six billion people in the world are blind. Though they appear normal, they cannot see even an inch in front of themselves. But this has not kept people from pretending to be philosophers and theologians with respect to Heaven’s truth, bringing grief to God throughout history. The providence of restoration that sought to live for the sake of God and take pity on God never even had a chance to begin. I cannot count the days I spent in tears and lamentation after I came to know this world of God’s inner heart. Who could even dare to imagine the grief-stricken God? He has carried out His providence for thousands, even tens of thousands of years after the first human ancestors, whom He created as His children and tried to place in the eternal position of His object partners in true love, fell into the path of the human fall. God was sorrowful and mortified. Anger exploded within Him, and His heart overflowed with grief as He walked this course. He came as the Father and King of glory, but the enemy Satan stole His throne and His position as Parent. Though He was clearly alive and carrying out His providence, people said “He’s dead,” and they mocked and mistreated Him. Still, He persevered on the path with patient endurance, waiting for the day when human beings would themselves understand the truth. Please understand that it is because God conducts His providence on a foundation of true love, which lives for the sake of others, and on the basis of eternity, that He did not just annihilate the universe and begin again after witnessing His children descend into the bottomless pit of the human fall. With the power of His omniscience and omnipotence, He could have judged the world and Satan at once, smashing them to pieces. Though He has this power, He has chosen until now to absorb all the contempt and accusation into Himself. He has placed Himself in a prison-like environment, because He is our Father. Ladies and gentlemen, have you spent even one day before our Father God, shedding tears of sincere sympathy and repentance? Can you stand before God and close your eyes as if to block out how He bites His tongue and endures humankind that inherited the lineage of the devil and became the tool of Satan, and how He waits impatiently for the day of His liberation and release? This is the reason that my life has been more serious than any other in history. As I walked this fateful course of restoration through indemnity, I had to go the way of the perfection of character in order to stand as the Lord of judgment and determine the sin of the devil Satan and judge him. I had to send as many as four of my young children, whom I loved deeply, to the spirit world, and I have had to cast even my remaining children out into the wilderness. I stand before you as one who has received Heaven’s appointment as Savior and True Parent for the sake of liberating and releasing God and, on that foundation, liberating and releasing humankind. I do not come out of a need for money and power, or honor and fame. For more than 80 years, I have lived oblivious to morning or evening, day or night, even weathering the coldest winters and harshest snow and rain, in order to move as quickly as I could along the heavenly path. Even in the torture chamber, where my flesh was torn from my body and I was made to vomit blood, I never prayed for God to save me. Instead, my life has been that of a filial son, patriot, saint, and divine son of Heaven and Earth who sheds tears to comfort God’s heart as He weeps to look upon the tragic state of His children. I left my parents and homeland behind to follow the straight and narrow path to human salvation, that is, the path of true love that lives for the sake of others. My life of never compromising and never acting in a cowardly manner may seem incredibly pitiful and bleak from a worldly point of view. No torture or punishment could make me compromise from the heavenly path. Neither could six imprisonments stand in the way of the True Parent’s search for his children. As I sat in a cold prison cell and watched drops of water fall from an eave, I pledged to myself, “Just as those droplets will eventually bore a hole through a boulder, the day will certainly come when these hot tears that fall from my eyes will melt the heart of God frozen in grief and liberate and release Him.” That is how I have lived. It has been a sacrificial course of practicing a love that loves the enemy more than my own children and of offering everything to teach all six billion people in the world. In line with this, I went to America in the early 1970s, and announced, “I have come as a fire fighter to extinguish a fire and as a physician to cure a disease.” It is important that we understand that, more than 30 years later, humanity has entered a new age. Finally, heavenly fortune is settling on the planet Earth. The blood, sweat, and tears I have shed on the course of restoration through indemnity for the sake of human salvation are now beginning to bear fruit. In 2001, at the opening of the 21st century, I dedicated the “Coronation Ceremony of God’s Kingship,” offering to Him the day of His liberation and release. This marked the beginning of the opening of the age of God’s direct dominion. On that foundation, the “Coronation Ceremony of the King of World Peace” was held this year on March 23 in a Senate building of the United States Congress. World leaders of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and members of the United States Congress gathered to crown me as the king of world peace. How can this possibly be a human work? Just as the French prophet Nostradamus prophesied, and as is clearly recorded in the Orient’s greatest book of prophesies, “Kyeok-Am-Yu-Rok,” Rev. Moon has come as the one who has received Heaven’s appointment and fulfilled the responsibilities of humanity’s True Parent and the king of peace. So now, leaders from all walks of life and from all over the world are surging forward in a giant wave to join the ranks of people working to build the Peace Kingdom on this earth. They are acknowledging that peace cannot be achieved without my help. This is true not only on the Korean peninsula, the only place in the world where the conflict between democracy and Communism still divides an innocent people and land, but also in the Middle East, which has become the most serious and bloody conflict threatening world peace. On April 10 this year, I declared the “release of the angelic world,” the “release of Cain and Abel,” and the “release of the Parents of Cheon-ju, Cheon-ji, Cheon-ji-in.” [Parents of the Cosmos, of Heaven and Earth, and of Heaven, Earth and Humankind.] By marking May 1 with the declaration, “God’s Homeland and the Peace Kingdom Are Built on the Foundation of the Realm of His Liberation and Release,” I am completing the spiritual conditions on many levels that are needed for God to exercise His authority of all-immanence, all-authority, all-power and all-transcendence. Together with God’s liberation and release, a world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness is spreading across this land. In this respect, there is a special meaning to today’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, which I established. Heavenly fortune is with each of you present here today. Though our time together is short, you can become people of the Kingdom of Heaven simply by living according to what I have taught you today. That is, first live in the certainty of God’s existence to the point that you can feel His presence against your skin. Second, be certain of the reality of the spirit world and use your life on Earth to prepare for your eternal life in the spirit world. Third, live in attendance to your conscience as you would your teacher, your God, or your parents. The flames of true love, now fanned by the spring breezes of the 21st century, are spreading like a wildfire across the Earth. Exchange marriages are becoming accepted among young people belonging to traditionally enemy countries as a matter of faith. Just as water, air and light will flow to fill even the smallest space, the movement of true love is flowing and covering the Earth. Young people of intellect who will inherit God’s love, God’s life and God’s lineage and settle the Peace Kingdom on the Earth are now waking from their sleep. Eminent world leaders, I hope that you, too, will join the ranks of the owners of Cheon Il Guk [the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth] who are to “establish His Kingdom and His righteousness,” and become a revolutionary army of true love, putting into practice the truth of true love that grows larger the more that it is given. Thank you.

Declaring the Era of the Peace Kingdom Address to the United States Congress

Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon Declaring the Era of the Peace Kingdom Address to the United States Congress March 23, 2004 The United States Capitol Washington, DC Respected members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, religious leaders from around the world, distinguished guests, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your presence here this evening in such a large number, in spite of your busy schedules. Ladies and gentlemen, The starting point to unravel the problems humanity faces today is the certain knowledge of God, the Father of all creation and, on that foundation, the building of true families that live in attendance to God. This calls us to establish and attend God in our families, not as a concept but as the substantial Parent of us all. To do this, we first must clarify the relationship between God and humanity. God is the original entity of true love, true life and true lineage, and He is the True Parent of all people. If human beings had not fallen, we would have reached perfection in God's true love as His true children and lived in attendance to Him as our Parent. God's plan was for perfected human beings to bond as true husbands and wives, bear and raise true children so that they would live in a Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, and then live together eternally in the heavenly world as families in the Kingdom of Heaven. Think about it for a moment. If your father went to hell and only your mother went to Heaven, what kind of Heaven would that be? If your parents were to go to hell and only you children went to Heaven, how could that be called Heaven? The Kingdom of Heaven is where the whole family lives together in an eternal peace kingdom. On earth as well, God will reside where a whole family has established a kingdom of heaven. In such a family, the world of God's original ideal, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, takes root. How, then, are we to bring about this family heaven on earth? First, each member of the family needs to complete his or her individual character. Each person has to shed the fallen nature that has passed from the fall down through the generations, and achieve the perfection of his or her character. In other words, each person must be victorious in the struggle between mind and body. Then the world of harmony will bear fruit in each individual's perfected character, a state of one heart, one mind and one thought. Fallen nature, which causes jealousy, envy, greed, hatred and all other evils, will never again take root in the person who has achieved this state. Shedding the fallen nature is not easy. The reality of fallen human beings is that we vacillate even when trying to break habits formed over the relatively short span of a few years or decades, like smoking or drinking alcohol. We cannot expect, then, that it will be easy to cast off fallen nature, which we inherit through lineages going back thousands, even tens of thousands of years. It is impossible by human effort alone. We need to stand on the foundation of absolute faith, establish God as our vertical axis, and struggle our entire life. Even then, it is a difficult fight. We cannot even think we will gain victory unless we enter a state of absolute love for God, loving Him even more than we love our own parents and children, and attending Him as our True Parent. We cannot hope to win this fight without a foundation of absolute obedience to God, following Him even at the cost of laying down our life. Herein lies the reason that religions place fasting, sexual abstinence, sacrifice and penance in the uppermost position. We must be born again, recast as new persons in whom Heaven can reside and with whom the spirit world can cooperate. We cannot betray an iota of shame even if our entire life and being is exposed before all God's creation. Our character should be like a "high noon settlement," on the straight vertical line of God's grace without the slightest shadow, so that Satan will flee from our presence for eternity. Second, individuals who achieve such completion of character come together to form true families, and the members of these families work together to establish what I call the "four great realms of heart." Such families resemble, in form, an individual who has accomplished the complete oneness of mind and body. I have said that the Kingdom of Heaven is a place we enter family by family. Not every family, however, is qualified to enter Heaven automatically. You need a foundation to be a true family and to complete the four great realms of heart. A true family that can enter the Kingdom of Heaven is composed of true individuals who have completed the four great realms of heart in themselves and who are of a lineage centering on God. What do I mean, then, by the "four great realms of heart"? I refer to the perfection of the heart of parents, the heart between a husband and wife, the heart of children, and the heart of siblings. This is found in a true family bound by God's original true love, true life and true lineage through a chaste three-generational lineage of grandparents, parents, and (grand) children. Here, the love between parents and children establishes the vertical relationship between upper and lower; the love between the husband and wife establishes the horizontal relationship that brings left and right into definitive oneness, and the love between siblings establishes the relationship between front and back. In this way, God's ideal of creation is no longer a mere concept or dream. It is perfected in reality through the completion of the four great realms of heart centered on true lineages, family by family. The realm of parental heart is acquired naturally as parents go through the process of bearing children and then raising and educating them with true love. In other words, it is the heart that enables the parents to own true love with respect to the children. Without children, no one can own love as a parent. Next, the realm of conjugal heart is the love relationship that extends true lineage. In this, husband and wife each are grateful for the other having established them as an owner of love, and each learns true love through giving and receiving with the other. They enjoy learning of true love when the husband lives for the sake of his wife, even if it means sacrificing his own life, and the wife attends her husband with the heart of attending God. The perfection of the husband-wife relationship is possible only on this basis. The moment a bride and groom share love on their wedding night with God's blessing, they inherit the palace of true love, the palace of true life, and the palace of true lineage. The wife, through her husband, receives God's ideal son, who is also Heaven's older brother, Heaven's husband, and Heaven's parent. The husband stands in the corresponding position in receiving his wife. When the realm of conjugal heart is perfected, the relationship between the husband and wife also becomes absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, because God is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal. So the term "divorce" cannot even exist. Theirs will be a life of happiness, filled only with the blossoms of mutual respect and love. Next, how can we describe the heart of children, and how is it obtained? The parents are the center, in God's position in the family, and it is impossible for a child to be born without parents. For these reasons, the relationship between parent and child is established not by human morality but by a heavenly morality. Thus the parent-child relationship is a vertical relationship, not horizontal. It is not a relationship of destiny, which means that human effort can change it, but it is a relationship of absolute and eternal fate. Children experience and learn the heart of true love as they attend their parents in daily life, placing their parents in a position higher than themselves. Through a natural process, they come to understand that the love, life and lineage that they inherit from their parents originate in God. Children who watch and learn from their parents in this way will grow up to become husbands and wives who have no fallen nature, and ultimately they will obtain the position of true parents themselves. The spherical motion of the family unit that continually repeats the three-generational pattern in this way is the basic model for building the Kingdom of Heaven. Lastly, the realm of the heart of siblings arises through brothers and sisters who live as a family in attendance to the same true parents. I said earlier that the heart between brothers and sisters establishes the relationship between front and back. True parents are a husband and wife living in truth, and children who attend such parents will naturally learn the discipline of heavenly morality and ethics among siblings. It will be a beautiful sight, where a younger brother attends and reveres his older brother as he would his father, and the older brother looks after his younger brother with a loving heart. The older brother represents "front" and the younger brother represents "back." The older brother represents the father, while the younger brother represents the mother. The perfection of the realm of heart between siblings is the foundation for all people to live for the sake of others through love and service. Respected guests, as the number of "true peace family kingdoms" perfecting the four great realms of heart increases, "true peace tribe kingdoms," "true peace nation kingdoms," and ultimately the "true peace world kingdom" will appear. In this way this will become the original world of God's ideal, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the eternal Kingdom of Peace on Earth. I am declaring this here today. Humanity has lived without the certain knowledge that establishing true families is the most serious, foundational commandment of Heaven. A new era has arrived today. The number of people around the world who have received my teaching and are standing resolutely for the sake of building the Kingdom of Peace is growing by leaps and bounds. Heaven and earth are shaking with the cries of bright young people who are determined to build true families even if they must offer their lives in order to protect their purity. Already, we find hundreds of millions of blessed families around the world. These families are shoring up a world in which ethics and morality are rapidly deteriorating. That is not all. The spirit world is one step ahead of us in breaking open the age of the peace kingdom. Starting with the five great saints, more than 120 billion blessed families are working day and night to cooperate with us on earth and prepare for the day that is to come. According to the Principle of Creation, God's ideal world should be completed first on earth. Although people today are descendants of the fall, God's unending love and the spirit world's cooperation now allow us to understand the nature of the heavenly kingdom. Please recognize that it is time to accomplish a true love revolution of overwhelming proportions, taking as our example the miraculous accomplishments of the spirit world. The time has come for you as well to open your hearts and receive the secrets that Heaven is disclosing in this age through me. In one sense, I am a human being living with a physical body like each of you. But in the context of Heaven's providence, I am God's ambassador, sent to earth with His full authority. I am sent to accomplish His command to save the world's six billion people, restoring them to Heaven with the original goodness in which they were created. The five great saints and many other leaders in the spirit world, including even Communist leaders such as Marx and Lenin, who committed all manner of barbarity and murders on earth, and dictators such as Hitler and Stalin, have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and been reborn as new persons. Emperors, kings and presidents who enjoyed opulence and power on earth, and even journalists who had worldwide fame, have now placed themselves at the forefront of the column of the true love revolution. Together they have sent to earth a resolution expressing their determination in the light of my teaching of the true family ideal. They have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent. This resolution has been announced on every corner of the globe. Respected guests, it is now only a matter of time. Look at the world. Do you see anything that gives you real hope for the future? Sooner or later, we have to give what we have to our descendants and leave this world. What gift could be more precious than that of completing the family ideal in your family, so as to guarantee eternal peace and happiness for your children? Surely no one who has such an opportunity should hesitate to take up the task of building the peace kingdom on earth, for which God has waited thousands of years. I have reached the advanced age of eighty-five, by the Korean way of counting. But I will continue to work harder than anyone else until the day the Earth overflows with God's true families, guns in the Middle East fall silent and give way to fireworks of peace and joy, and shouts of mansei [eternal victory] celebrating the unification of my homeland Korea echo across the Pacific to be heard in America. I hope that you leaders representing the world's six billion people in this ceremony will join hands with me. I call you to take the lead in building what is God's original ideal and the desire of all humanity, the peace kingdom on the Earth. Thank you.

World Summit on Leadership and Governance Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon Special Remarks God's Fatherland and the Peace Kingdom

Chamshil Gymnasium, Seoul, Korea,  January 27, 2004 Respected Current and Former Heads of State, Distinguished World Leaders, Ladies and Gentleman, I would like to convey deep appreciation for your many expressions of congratulations on this occasion of the birthdays of my wife and mine. But this is not for us. I would like to offer all of this as glory to God who has protected us until today. Early in our lives we were called by God and have devoted our entire lives to fulfilling His will. Therefore I cannot accept your congratulations without including God in this celebration! For my address this evening, I would like to talk about "God's Fatherland and the Peace Kingdom." Ladies and gentlemen, what kind of world would have been realized if Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors, had not fallen? Adam would have become the head of that family, the tribal leader of that tribe, and the king of that nation. That world would have begun from that ideal of Adam, and would have become Adam's world where only the tradition, language, culture, and lifestyle of Adam would have existed. That world would have been Adam's fatherland as well as God's fatherland. But unfortunately, human history began with the fall of the first human ancestors. Our world was reduced to being under the dominion of Satan, a world that had nothing to do with God. Humankind was originally meant to establish and live in a peace kingdom for eternity, with God as their True Parent. But instead, the human race became enslaved to Satan, the origin of evil, residing in a world ridden with sin and suffering. This has brought great anguish to God. Please think about this in the context of your own life. Contrary to the will of the Creator, our minds and bodies are in constant struggle and conflict. Has there been anyone who has completely unified his or her mind and body? Among the six billion people of this world today, has there been anyone who has lived according to the original relationship, where the body is in complete submission to the mind? What about the societies and nations of today's world? The barriers of conflict and selfishness rooted in the mind and body of the individual exist even between societies and nations like an impregnable fortress. Human beings were supposed to live as brothers and sisters, yet the interracial strife that we see today still remains as a crucial problem threatening world peace. Religions originally had the mission of reviving human spirituality, thereby accomplishing the will of God by bringing humankind back to Him. But religions have abandoned their original mission and instead are lost in the swamp of prejudice and conflict. This has escalated to the point where today, we see them being used as tools for bloodshed and war. Where does our original mind lead us? Does it indicate that we desire to live oppressed within the many walls and boundaries that surround us? It does not. The world that we desire is a place where no barriers or borderlines are seen. It is a world of freedom and peace. All people long for that kind of original fatherland. It is the fatherland that for thousands of years God has sought to establish. Likewise, it is the fatherland that humankind has longed for throughout history. Of course, when we talk about a "fatherland" it may denote a particular nation, but the original fatherland cannot be compared to any nation of the today's secular world. To establish a nation there needs to be sovereignty, people and territory. When we look at history we can see the rise and fall of nations, the countless transitions of sovereignties and a great many lives sacrificed in the process. All these martyrs died in the hope that the original fatherland would someday appear. But that does not mean that the United States, or Korea, or any other nation can become the fatherland which these people have longed for. It would be a place where there is neither democracy nor communism. Such a fatherland would have no need for any religion. It is a world that does not commit the folly of trying to measure the value of a person by the color of his skin. It is a place that does not allow any form of boundary or national border, including the barriers that divide the mind and body within each individual, bringing pain to them all. Ladies and gentleman, this very planet earth on which we live, the entire globe, is the very fatherland that humanity has longed for. It is the fatherland for which God has longed for tens of thousands of years. Humankind now has the responsibility to establish a global nation in line with God's standard and to remove evil from this earth by rendering judgment upon Satan who has been the archenemy in front of heaven until now. In so doing, a heavenly kingdom of peace on earth, with goodness at its center, will be brought about. We must never forget that this has been the desire of God, the desire of Jesus, and the desire of our ancestors who have contributed to the course of God's providence by going the path of martyrdom. But that kind of ideal world is not created automatically. It is not something that anyone can have by just wishing for it. It is impossible to attain unless we, the offspring of the fall, receive a new blood lineage through the Marriage Blessing and practice a life of true love. Then what is a life of true love? In a nutshell, it is "living for the sake of others." It is living for the sake of others before you even wish for the other to do something for you. It is a life of living for the sake of the others and forgetting that you ever gave. It is not giving in hopes of receiving something in return. It is a life where you give and give, regretting nothing for not having given more. Even as you give, you bow your head in humility. Thus, Jesus said, "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." He also said that "For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." Even our almighty Creator, God, would not engage in creation and destruction at whim in disregard of the very principles of creation that He Himself set up. Therefore, this is the reason why I have been conducting the Marriage Blessing providence throughout the past several decades. Humankind, who had inherited false life, false love and false lineage due to the fall of the first human ancestors, had no choice but to live this false kind of life. Thus my wife and I began our God-given mission as the True Parents. Throughout our lives we have walked a lonely path to carry out this heavenly decree to eliminate Satan, the devil, through the Marriage Blessing providence and, as the True Parents, to bequeath true life, true love, and the true lineage to humanity. We knew that God could not do anything about the false blood lineage because it had been planted by the false parents. Upon this victorious foundation of having fulfilled all the necessary indemnity conditions, my wife and I stand as the True Parents. We have been multiplying the true blood lineage by separating humanity from the blood lineage of the false olive tree and engrafting them to the true olive tree. A false olive tree will always remain as a false olive tree, even if a thousand years pass. Only by engrafting to the true olive tree can the lineage be changed. Ladies and Gentlemen, the bright age of heaven is upon us now. Please accept my message with hope. The Marriage Blessing history began with just three couples in the 1960s has now reached 400 million couples around the world. Furthermore, there are more than 120 billion blessed couples living in the spirit world. The field of the true olive tree has now overwhelmed the field of the wild olive trees. All these blessed families are united in the life of living for the sake of others. The life of the true olive trees, through the true blood lineage, is now spreading like wildfire throughout the entire world. In this way God's Fatherland and Peace Kingdom, a nation of joy and happiness, a nation of freedom and equality with no walls or national borders will be realized on this earth. For this purpose I founded the Peace United Nations' in New York, U.S.A. on October 3rd 2003. In doing God's providence, this Peace United Nations is developing initiatives of a revolutionary dimension that will rock heaven and earth. By educating each and every one of the six billion people on this earth, and giving them the Marriage Blessing, we are building God's fatherland, our fatherland, where the entire globe becomes our home, my home. Our goal is already set. The flag of the Peace United Nation is already waving high. The battle cry of victory is erupting across the world. Victories are won in America, Europe, Jerusalem, Palestine, Japan and Korea. Nothing is impossible with God and the numerous martyrs, patriots, saints and sages in spirit world running with us at our side. They say, "blessed are those who have faith." On this meaningful day, I would like to ask you all to engrave this message in the deep center of your heart. I pray that you all join in the grace of the Marriage Blessing and create a great revolution of lineage. I dearly hope that you will all become the brave soldiers of heaven, courageously standing on the front line of God's providence in order to build God's fatherland on this earth, so that the Peace Kingdom can prosper for all eternity. Thank you very much.

REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON SPEAKS ON RESURRECTION AND LIBERATION OF THE WORLD’S WOMEN - PART II

February 1, 1993 Belvedere, New York Translator - Sang Kil Han Today’s sermon is a continuation of yesterday’s. On one side we have earth and the other side heaven. Men represent heaven and women represent earth. Together they form the ideal purpose of God in creation. Earth is horizontal, and heaven is vertical. In the western world there is not so much understanding of the concept of vertical and horizontal, heaven and earth. But this concept is daily fare for orientals. In ourselves we have mind and body, analogous to heaven and earth. Mind and body must become one, whether the person be a man or woman. The mind is vertical and the body is horizontal. The mind is the vertical self; the body is the horizontal self. If we are actualized like that then we connect to the whole world. One should wish that the whole horizontal world belongs to him or her. One’s mind should have the whole vertical world. We want the biggest and best. The better is vertical. So we must keep both elements in mind. That is what makes the world. When everyone thinks this way it creates a stairway. In order to have three dimensions you need right and left, up and down, and front and back. Always keep these three relationships in harmony. Man who stands here has a spouse on his left. When we move or turn, even if we turn 360 degrees, the axis does not change. The direction changes but not the axis. So the vertical is the center, not the horizontal. The vertical is always vertical and is thus the center of the universe. Our mind occupies that vertical position. Western civilization is a material civilization. They take it apart and study it and analyze things, expanding their knowledge. But the east puts all things in perspective. What belongs in one place goes where it belongs. The irony is, if man had not fallen, the more materially prosperous a man would have become, the more prosperous would have been his spirit. But because of the fall the reverse is true. Here in America, where abundant blessing has been given, the spiritual quality has declined. The fall created the greatest irony. The former Soviet Union, which boasted of being the most materialistic, actually has nothing materially, but instead their spiritual strength is greater. The countries which boast of having a strong spirit actually have little spirit, but they do have much material blessing. This is an expected phenomenon of the last days. The problem remains concerning how to balance these two extremes. Who will balance the spiritual and material? For the vertical and horizontal, heaven and earth, to become one, man and woman must become one. In a man, his mind represents God and his body represents True Parents. His spouse has the same internal relationship. Two such united people can form a perfect vertical and horizontal relationship. When they internally unite mind and body then they can unite perfectly. Extending this to its conclusion, if you own one you own the whole universe. What makes you eligible to own this? It is neither man nor woman but love which both man and woman covet. The fallen world has never seen true love. The owner of true love is God and True Father. So God and man will become one, then if his spouse unites in the same way, the whole universe can unite. Who did God create first, man or woman? (Man.) Man represents heaven. So in the Bible we see the symbolism that God took the rib of Adam and created Eve. This did not happen literally; it only means that Eve was created in the image of Adam. The plus is heaven and the opposite is earth. It is like two spheres: the upper, the right and the front represent heaven; the lower, left and rear represent earth. This is the way the universe is connected. So we see that all these objectives can be realized through love. Without love we cannot do this. So when a child is born, it is protected and loved. Who embraces the baby? The mother, who is on the horizontal level, does. Then the mother and all the children are protected by the father. The mother must all the time, day and night, love this vertical love of the father. The whole family must together then turn around the vertical. Mother and children must turn. What makes this? Love. The mother must receive ample love from the father to give to the children. If the father does not give her enough love, she cannot love the children. In this way the vertical love is deployed horizontally. As we can see we have enough elements to cover all 360 degrees. Bringing them together is not the man or woman, but the power of love. Is that true? (Yes.) Once we know this for sure, there can be no such thing as a broken family. In the West, we have an erroneous concept that man and woman are equal. If men turn one way and women another, how can they be equal? How can we have two axes? When you see two babies, one boy and one girl grow, the girl grows horizontally and the boy grows vertically. As a result boys are taller than girls; also look at the hips of the woman. They have to be stabilized so they can give birth; this is natural. Also woman have an abundant bosom, big hips and a soft touch. All are not for her, but for her children. Women can boast of their bosom and hips. Men have no hips, but instead have broad shoulders. This is the way God built us. When we enter the family we can immediately identify the center: it is the woman who takes care of all things in the house. It is she who loves the earth and the universe. She takes care of everything and absolutely loves her husband. We must become like this before we can expect for me and my family to be able to go to God’s warehouse, the Kingdom of Heaven. Man’s mind represents heaven and woman’s mind represents earth. So together their growth is similar. However when they are mature, man represents heaven and woman earth. Women must try hard to gain spirituality. Men must also work to gain this harmony. Women make friends very easily, but not men. Men should not bow down so much. Woman are expected to bow down to make peace, to promote religion and godly qualities. Look at the existing Christian men. They do not try as hard at evangelizing as woman. But yet are there many great women religious leaders? No; most are men. The women all worshipped, loved and followed the man. What is the significance? There is none, except that man is subject and woman object. But man has one thing more than the woman. Amongst brothers, the one who has one more thing will be the leader. Look at a mountain with many trees. If there is one huge tree it will dominate all the other trees. Is there one woman determined to become greater than men? No. So the religious leaders are men and women then follow. So God and man must come into unity. If they do not there is no base for unification. In the subject position, Satan replaced God, and man became one with the evil father. That evil father has a very changeable center, because Satan moves him around. The original good man should settle in one place. That evil father will not bring unity, but division. Look at all the different skin colors, white, black and yellow. If you have a choice, you would like to live in a moderate climate zone. The north is too cold, the equator too hot. The white people come from the north, like polar bears. But the black people come from a hot place. If all men had lived in the temperate zone, their skin color would not be different. But instead, there was division and one was pushed out to the extreme cold, the other to the hot. What made that happen? Satan. The ancestor of the white people must have done something wrong and fled. Something like that must have happened. When they fled to a cold climate zone, they began a pirate civilization. The early history of Scandinavian countries was a history of piracy. They shed blood and killed many people; it was bad. The white civilization has caused a lot of bloodshed. What about the ones who were pushed south? It was hot and they rested under trees. Food was plentiful, so they become lazy. They danced well because they danced a lot. When that happens there is not so much discipline between man and woman. The pirates plundered them, killed all the men and took all the women. Is a pirate a man or a woman? (Man.) Is he good or bad? A bad man takes a good woman. How can such a pirate race get God’s blessing? The women who were kidnapped must have prayed and put a lot of heart into the race. The woman brought to the island nation of England must have prayed and put a lot of heart into the nation, thinking that even though I received the seed of a pirate I will raise you to be a better son. Even though this is not orthodox history, we can speculate that this happened. Where did the worthwhile religions spring up? Not in the west but in the east. Every major religion comes from the east. Countries such as Germany, England or France, which colonized the world, did not raise up men but women. Through women they tried to control the African countries. In the Opium war, who was the target? Women or men? The reason they brought the opium was to subdue the men. The women were becoming westernized, but the men didn’t want to follow the western ways. So the English wanted to get rid of the men. To do this they fed them opium. We know very well the law of cause and effect. Their own descendants are now plagued by opium. Look back at history: which race did more evil things-white people, black people or oriental people? Whites. They always attacked and caused bloodshed. They killed blacks, orientals and other whites. This soil itself, in America, does it belong to whites or orientals? Orientals were living here; the white people took it from the orientals. More and more this will be revealed. This racial problem is very formidable; it may escalate into religious wars, with one religion fighting the other. Without God we have no chance. How did white people, with this background, come to accept Christianity? It was not because they were good, no. It was the women, the women accepted God’s religion and invested much heart into it. They became good and influenced the men to be good, and thus they came into God’s realm. We must understand that the fall took place through a woman. But God has been fostering religion through women. Who prays more, men or women? (Women.) Why? Why not men? Because men do not have so much to pray for; but how about women, who have been subjugated by men’s force? Upon whom could they rely? God. Who was hurt more? Women were incredibly hurt by men. This is true for all age groups of women. In terms of love, who has been misused most? (Women.) What is a woman’s inclination? Does she want love in many places or does she only want one husband to love her? (One.) But men are different. They will move around and wherever they go they start a new family. Fallen women look for men who are better than their husband. This encourages men to wander more and be more immoral. But men do not want their wives to wander. We see over and over again that the fighting within the family is caused by the men wandering afar. Women ask, “Which woman did you see this time?” Women do not travel so far, they stay at home because their hips are heavy. If man tries to sit still, he cannot, because his shoulders are too heavy. You may laugh, but this is important. In history all things have happened with love. There are many trains in history. But look at the love train. This train carries the most blood, tears and misery. Can you find a train with more misery? (No.) Overnight a man and woman who are so deeply in love can be shattered apart and lose everything. Can a human being experience more misery than that? Through that happening, one generation can destroy the ancestors’ work of many generations, and also destroy the descendants. Where is a pure heart of love? Where is the lineage of the one pure woman? Where is purity? Where is chastity? Look at all our ancestors; there have been many kinds. You may have a burglar or a killer. Have you ever stopped to think how to start a pure lineage and keep it? In this world, it is not possible. The only way to keep the purity of your descendants is to build a cage and isolate them from the world. But that is impossible. None of us can start a new lineage. How can God make a pure blood lineage when everything is so bad and desolate? Do you think your ancestors are as good as you or a bad as you? How do we behave? As if no one is better than me. Satan made this enormous complication of love. Man made it bad and woman retaliated and made it worse. Ethics, with a very weak muscle, tried to slow down the decline. But then along came free sex. Who made that happen? (Man.) But man has been involved in free sex all the time. Take American soldiers. Wherever they went, they lived with other women. This brings animosity, so now in order to defend themselves, they say “let’s have free sex.” Satan has no other way. So now that you have seen it for a few decades, is anyone satisfied with it? Can any woman or man say that it’s a good idea? Free sex has even evolved into incest and relationships between grandfathers and granddaughters. Of course they feel guilty, but then they say, “Do not feel guilty.” When different colors of water come together, it becomes dirty. With free sex are men or women comfortable? Is free sex practised by age group? No; the inclination is to cross age groups. The old attack the young, even the infant is not safe. It is the grandparents’ responsibility to see to the welfare of their offspring. For those who practice free sex, do they want free sex with another who has had many sexual experiences or one who is pure? (Pure). We see that they look to the younger. This is worse than the animals. Professors and teachers always look at their students. Can any concept of family exist here? This is exactly what Satan wants. Does God love that? God hates that the most. Who sobs more because of love, men or women? (Women.) What are we going to do about that? Can the President of the country do anything? This President does not look to be strong in that regard. Religious leaders in America make the same mistake. Who will repair this? Is this normal or sick? It’s very sick, sick, sick. Everyone is affected by this. So the women of the world are in this situation. Should we repair men or women first? Who suffers more from the bad results of love? Women are about to die because of it. Who will mend them, who will repair that? What shall we do? All the world is worrying about that. In this desperate situation, what if we wipe all the men out? That is not good for the women. Even a really hurt woman would say please don’t kill him. Just send him away for ten years and beat him and educate him. That is not something that God or we want. But shouldn’t we do that? At any cost should we repair this? (Yes.) If that will work, we should do it. Of course, God is thinking about this too. He wants to do it with as little change as possible, without using any extreme measures. Would God do that through religion or through the non-religious realm? Through religion. Throughout history we can see that God has been developing the bride through Christianity, centering on women. So now the world is ready, we have the bride ready. The bridegroom appears. From where will he appear? If he comes from the earth all will oppose him, so he must come from heaven. Women have prayed throughout history, please send us one true eternal man, who will bring the true thought and ideal, and I would like to receive the truthful seed from him. That is every woman’s deep prayer. You all want to meet pure men, not ragged-looking ones in tatters. Ever since the fall, even though this was the desire of all women, none have received a pure man’s seed. It is their highest and deepest desire, but they have never seen it in the satanic world. Nevertheless they still pray for it. Millions and millions of women through out history have prayed for the one pure man, the one pure seed. God, thinking of women, cannot help but answer that prayer. Men have through out history trampled and mutilated love. So at the end of the days there should be a women’s movement to totally deny fallen man’s value. There should be a religion where all women come together to deny men continuing tyranny. God, who knows the situation, cannot blame women for that. We all want true love, a true father, true parents, and true family. Men and women want this; all Americans want this. Of course we want this, but do we have it? (No.) If you examine closely, they don’t pray for true love, their father or their parents. Should we erase this? (Erase it.) It will bring only confusion and chaos. Before He erases the bad, God prepares the good. Who brings this to earth? The saviour, the Lord of the Second Advent, the True Parents. Now the environment is prepared, because they have denied all the evil ways. Individualism has only one good side: it denies all the bad things. An individualist doesn’t need a father or parents, God or anything, only him- or herself. But as we know we need all of these. We should live joyfully with the other people, other countries and the world. This is how God has created us. History has advanced from the feudal ages to two blocs and now to one huge bloc. The Unification Church is sitting on top of that, understanding it all. All racial, economic and national problems can be transcended with the almighty power of love. The mass wedding is the direct implementation of this. No other religion does this. It goes beyond all cultural, racial and national problems. Are there many white people who would like a black spouse? No, but in the Unification Church, even though the bride and groom have never seen each other and cannot even talk to each other, they are happy with Father’s choice. The world looks at that and fiercely opposes it at the beginning. As time goes on they will not oppose so much, it is the shock they have to get over. How complicated it is to solve the world’s problems. If you take them one by one, they are overwhelming. But the real solution is true love and the true individual and family. Does Reverend Moon like this system so much that he wants to do it? No; this is how God created it. All creatures together want this. Satan is opposed to everything that God does. The fight between God and Satan has never been more visible. Everything that God wants to accomplish, Satan wants to stop. Starting from the individual and going up to the cosmos, no one can solve this. No one but God can work this out. But through this gospel which has come down, we can save the world. What happens when we mix all the colors of the world? Will it be black, white or yellow? (Yellow). Among the 5.5 billion people, 3.2 are yellow, 1.2 are white and 1.1 billion are black. So the Pacific era will come. The Asian culture and people will become more dominant. We will see in the future 3 out of 4 people in a mass wedding will be yellow. This is not because Father wants to promote them, but objectively this is likely to happen. Nowadays, all in the west look to the east and deeply desire to get closer to the oriental people. When two want to marry, who is the one to propose? (Man.) What happens if all men only propose to orientals, and western women do not get proposed to? Western women will have to become more humble, like oriental women. Well, Father knows that, so what can he do? Father thinks that maybe if western women can become humble to oriental women, and become like oriental women, there is hope. If you have to do it by yourself, it takes many many years. But here in America you look around. There are many Japanese women. Do you despise them or do you wish that you become like them? Father is looking at only one thing, as should you. He is looking at the faith standard. Otherwise there’s nothing to look at. The American woman of over fifty years ago won over the Japanese, but there’s nothing that American women have to be proud of over Japanese. Who has the higher standard of faith? Generally, Japanese women’s standard is higher. You hate to admit it, but we have to admit it. Do you know what happened to Father because of that? Father was persecuted so much for doing this. That is the only way to learn. Now especially Father brought American men to the highest standard. So there are many American men who thought silently. Do you think that American men thought that Father was good? Before, Father was the symbol of evil. As they understand more and more they become lower, and conversely Reverend Moon becomes higher. In a very objective view, who is higher, the President of United States or Reverend Moon? American people will listen to Reverend Moon or Clinton more? (Reverend Moon.) That’s a reality. Reverend Moon is against evil and shows why he is against it. Praise rather than complaint is due. The conclusion that mass wedding is very good is because the way of life after being through the mass wedding is far superior to anything else. Wife and husband are married for 10 years yet live separately, yet the wife doesn’t even worry about her husband even though they don’t live together. They are so worry-free that they gain weight. It’s an Oriental expression that if you are worry free then you gain weight. Is that bad or good? Man and woman both deserve credit for this but who is the center of religious life, woman or man? (Woman.) Yes. Who follows the central religion, women or men? Now this is the time of transition. We have to transfer. Until now, during the evil history men led the way and women had to follow. Now we have to change, because women are more religious and religion is the right direction. The whole Christian realm is the bride’s realm. Should the bridegroom’s realm be one or two? (One.) He is only one, however, and there are so many brides. How can we balance this? Restoration is to return to the round shape. Even though the man is here, however, before a man appears woman should be there. So first, Adam, second in Jesus’ time, and third the Second Advent. Then who is Sun Myung Moon? (Applause.) Does anybody believe that? Which one, did the world nod or shake? They opposed. Now they are shaking, but not so confidently. Restoration is not so easy; it’s so difficult. That’s the course-always changing, going up and down. The true man’s seed comes out here. Satan coupled with Adam made the fallen civilization but here God and Reverend Moon will start a new generation-a new seed. Father taught this on the first Sunday of January. Eve becomes one with Cain and Abel. England being in Eve’s position and America and France in Abel and Cain’s position. Abel is the small messiah. At the end of World War II, America became the center-the Abel. Abel is the child of the saviour, planted as an individual but harvested on a world-level at the end of World War II. That’s the historical formula which historically must be met. This is the way the fall took place, and restoration must take place this way. God, starting from here, has worked tirelessly, and by doing that He is coming back and settling into the original position. That means Cain and Abel’s position reverses. While it is being done, Eve too must come to reverse the fall, because the result of fall was to bring the three against each other. Now restoring by reversal brings Eve and Cain and Abel together. God planted this thousands of years ago on an individual level and now restores it, not on the family-level but on the world-level. Historians now agree that 1960 was the historical transition time. After World War II then many small nations gained independence. All the victors of World War II gave independence to those small countries according to their desire. Because in 1960 parents were installed on the earth, the children prepared themselves. Until now the brothers, 12 tribes and 12 nations, all fought, but after the allied victory they gave independence to many countries. The Lord of the Second Advent is coming again. The Father of the Second Advent is coming again. Satan invaded the first Adam, and the second Adam came from God. After restoring all the different Abel and Eve positions on every level, the Second Advent can come. The Eve representing all the women and the second generation must gather together and become one with the groom and after that they should embrace all of the world. In the Old Testament era there was Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. So these nations, unlike the first family which fell, should have restored the fall. This is what was to have been achieved on the national-level at Jesus’ time when the Messiah came. After this, on the world-level, the same pattern takes place centering on the Mother. Cain and Abel come together as brothers to meet the Second Advent. In Jesus’ time when the father ascended then the Holy Spirit, which is the mother spirit, descended. As Father explained earlier, man is vertical and women are horizontal. Woman as holy spirit came down on earth. At the time of the Second Advent the Messiah should come. This was at the end of World War II, in 1945. The Kingdom of Heaven should have taken seven years to build, which would have been 1952. However, because Christianity opposed the Second Coming, a 40-year indemnity period was necessary. Father indemnified the failure in 1945 centering on the Unification Church. Father was cast out into the wilderness with the whole world mobilized to oppose him. What Father did in this 40 years was to pick up Japan and Germany and America to replace the countries (England, America and France) which had failed. So this 40 years of re-indemnification of 4,000 years took place. America had failed so God could not take it again, but Father as the second generation could. Father had to take America again, because it is the only country to inherit the foundation of the Old and New Testaments. The Completed Testament could not begin without this foundation. During the last 40 years Father has gone over all 8 stages. Twenty years represent the Old Testament and 20 years represent the New Testament. The 40 years represent the 4,000 years of history. Father crossed over all 8 barriers to reach God. At the end of World War II, when the bridegroom appeared, the foundation was lost. Father re-indemnified and with these three countries, during the last 40 years, has now restored the situation. Father has cleaned up and resettled everything. Father has reindemnified all 8 walls and comes back to the beginning and brings God down. Wherever Father walks, God will follow. God could not follow Adam after he fell, but God can now follow Father. It was to have taken one generation to achieve Adam’s perfection, and Father has now done this in one generation. God created from the individual up, and as each level perfects itself God can dwell within it. Father has established this, so God can come back and forth freely. In 1968 the completion level of the formation stage took place. Father for 7 seven years had built the foundation and restored the family level. Father then went on to restore the nation and world levels. Recently Mother has restored the foundation of the bride who is waiting for the groom. She visited 7 countries: Korea, Japan, America and 4 countries in Europe (Germany, England, France and Italy). She also went to Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the land of fugitives and jailbirds. Mother has liberated this Christian realm. Mother, centering upon the Women’s Federation for World Peace, accomplishes this restoration, reconnects to the Christian foundation, and now goes to meet Father. Father is right here to greet Mother. This is where we are in history, and it liberates all women. This is simple, in the sense that it should have been done in Jesus’ time. Father has restored all this and, as a result of the crucifixion, restored the realm of the Middle East as well. However, the Messiah cannot do everything, Father sends out the tribal messiahs, who by restoring their tribe and clan, can bring this world to Father. (Father draws the Chinese characters for “mother”.) Mother has Cain and Abel in it. Originally Eve conceived two sons as the result of the fall (Cain and Abel). Originally Eve conceived Cain and Abel, now Mother has to bring Abel and Cain, who is close to Satan, back to God. That Abel and that Cain must become one in Mother’s bosom. The restored Eve must then come into the mother’s position. Until the Second Advent, history was the war of Cain and Abel. All plus and minus must become one before they can unite with a larger plus. At Jesus’ time that was Judaism and the nation of Israel. Today it is Christianity and the nation of America. Cain and Abel have to become one then unite with the mother and then all three unite with the father. It takes three stages for recreation to happen. We have to do all steps. In the garden of Eden, God should have become one with Adam and Eve. But it didn’t happen, so we need to be re-created in the mother’s womb. Cain and Abel must be reborn. Thus today the democratic and communist worlds must both go back into the mother’s womb. This is similar to the twins of Rebekah and the twins fighting in the womb of Tamar. This time they should not fight. Japan is the Eve nation because it fulfilled the condition attached to the mother’s position. In Japan there are two Korean associations fighting in the womb of the world mother, one free, one communist. The same principle applies to the free and communist world, however, they should not fight but become one. It is up to Japan to unite these two Korean associations. There is only one Mother and Father; there cannot be two. What we did last year was to become one with Mother. Centering on true love all must become one. The two children must go through Mother to the bone marrow of the Father. Then they can be born again through Mother. This must take place before the revival of women in the world. All women must be born again to gain revival. This takes us back many years to when Ye Jin Nim and Hyo Jin Nim were born. Mother ate seaweed soup after their birth. Father allowed us all to eat the same food at that time, to represent that we were being born again at the same time. To be born again is easy for Christians to say, but it is difficult and involves many things. All Unification Church members must be clear. We, representing the whole world, must return through Mother’s womb to the bone marrow of Father and be born again at the same time as Father’s own children. So this formula is the same. Originally Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were to inherit the father and mother’s life to go to heaven. So we must go through Father and Mother, who have won victory over Satan’s world, to be born again. This is the meaning of rebirth. Where does that place us? We are completely different from the satanic world; we have nothing to do with that world. Alcohol, drugs, free sex and homosexuality all are habits of the fallen world. We have nothing to do with those things. However that process of being born again is simple compared to the agony and tears that God has invested to bring it about. We must not think that I have been in the church 10 years and I can easily get blessed. Think about the background of the blessing. Religion is a highly spiritual practice. But all the major religions do not advocate marriage; they suggest you to keep celibacy. Why? This is because the True Parents of mankind had not been married. If parents are not married, how could children get married? The Unification Church happens to be the first church in history which encourages and recommends marriage. In Buddhism, Buddhist monks never get married. A new faction came into being,; they get married but with a lot of guilt. In Catholicism, they do not encourage marriage. The satanic world, which encourages free sex and homosexuality basically also denies marriage. The marriage that we are getting into is different from any throughout history. So the blessed couple cannot live as any other couple in the world. It should be our goal that our own children get blessed to Father’s own children. That will be the goal of all people. For three generations Father’s children will marry only Koreans, but after that it will expand. Father now has 43 members in his family. That is a number of liberation. Father’s children will give birth to many more children. You should too; this is the hope of the Unification Church families. So who will live the best tradition of all the blessed couples? Our goal should be to live the best. Father’s family will be the highest but there will be order throughout. From now on the blessed couples should lead a good, wealthy, prosperous life. The children of the blessed couples cannot marry with the satanic world. We should be given birth twice. We must go through two mothers, our physical mother and the True Mother who gives us rebirth. We go through the holy wine ceremony to signify that we are being born again. There are three stages of growth and all the fruits of the earth should be in the wine. All the contents of the Divine Principle are in there. We must also go through two fathers. True Parents are absolutely necessary. Even though we have our own parents, we need True Parents in order to gain rebirth and be able to go to God. If the Lord comes again on the clouds these things cannot happen. He must come in the flesh as a human being. We must have the love of two fathers and two mothers. God cannot deny the love of the first father and mother. It is incredibly painful for God to recognize the fallen parents who gave us birth. However, He cannot help but recognize them. If He did not, the True Parents would have no foundation on which to stand. Satan and Adam are father and son. Satan and Eve became one and gave birth to Adam. God has to restore the fall through the mother-son relationship. In God’s world there is no enemy. If there is a concept of enemy in God’s world, we have to accept the philosophy of dualism. Thus this is impossible; God cannot have an enemy. If an enemy remains, no restoration is possible. When Cain and Abel, because of their mother’s love, unite and love each other, there is no enemy. These two must love each other so they can bring the archangel with them when they go to heaven. Satan has always claimed and asserted that the qualification to be the true father and mother is loving the archangel. In order to do this we must love the enemy. Also it is important that even though we are reborn, we must love Satan too or else we cannot go to heaven. Even though you may be free from the satanic lineage, there are many around who will continue to oppose us. We must pull them to God, loving them as your elder brother. The crucifixion showed us the deep love of God. God gives us His only begotten son on the cross. God must go through this incredible pain. Jesus has to love the enemy soldiers who were killing him. If he had cursed them, the entire dispensation would have failed. Through this, Satan was separated and God’s resurrection could come. So though that incredible manifestation of love, Jesus as he was dying bore all the pain of the cross and prayed for his enemies. Because of that love, Christianity has flourished throughout history. When many of Jesus disciples died in similar circumstances, they had to pray to God in the same way. Adam and Eve and everyone following must love the archangel. This is true before and after the fall. He is the enemy but we must not think of him as the enemy. Father too, when he was imprisoned unjustly and almost killed by the Japanese, did not curse the Japanese but has continued to pray for them. At the end of World War II, Father did not want to kill the Japanese in his village. Now today Japanese members are coming back to pay their debt. Father has opposed communism very staunchly, not to kill them, but to save them. The same is true in relation to America: Father attacks all the unrighteousness in America. In prison, where Father could have burned with revenge, he did not. He instead established the important organizations to save America. Have we praised and thanked Father for this? Father has been a better son, husband, and father to America. Sung Jin Nim’s mother and True Mother must not fight; they must love each other. Jacob’s desire was Rachel, but he was given Leah. Laban who is on Satan’s side gave him Leah. Jacob thought he was married to Rachel, but in the morning found out it was Leah. He then had to work another 7 years. How can you call this justice? When the children were born, was this something Jacob wanted? Rachel and Leah fought each other. In order for them to be on God’s side, they must love each other from God’s point of view. If Father had been there, he could have taught Jacob one word and he would not have had to make this mistake. Leah was the first daughter and Rachel the second. So centering on Laban’s wife they should have become one, but Laban’s wife did not take care of this. Jacob with Leah had 10 sons and Jacob with Rachel had 2 sons. If these two had made harmony, the children would have united too. They all had the same father; they should all have united. But because these two women fought each other, they divided into ten children and two children later on, and then the 12 tribes divided into ten and two. The unity couldn’t come because of women. Women failed to bring unity among their sons. In Jesus’ time, John the Baptist and Jesus, and Jesus’ mother Mary and John’s mother Elizabeth, should have become one. Similar to the situation centering on Jacob, everyone should have united with Zechariah. Who is the father of Jesus? According to this principle Zechariah should be the father. Father doesn’t know, but the logic from the Bible is unmistakable. John the Baptist was Jesus’ elder brother. All they have to do was unite, then everything would automatically have become one. If this had happened would John the Baptist have betrayed Jesus? (No ). The key was here. What was the most important thing for Jesus? To get married. Who would have been the likely candidate? John the Baptist had a sister. Or, it doesn’t have to have been like that-if there were someone very close to Jesus, and if she had married Jesus, still it would have worked. This would have been an automatic realm of unification on a world level. That’s what God intended. If Mary and Elizabeth had become one and Jesus and John had become one, they would have protected Jesus and he would not have died. They could have embraced the East and the Roman empire. The world would have been restored. When this victory was established, the restoration would have happened easily. India and China would have followed. Christianity and Jesus could have easily restored the orient and then gone to the west. God works the restoration through a formula, and so will we. We all have grandmothers, aunts and cousins. If these women play the crucial role and bring unity, things will happen easily. It is so difficult for a daughter-in-law to attain unity with her mother-in-law. But if women know such a principle, they can bring unity. It is also difficult for a brother-in law to love his sister-in-law, but once we know this and are trained, we do not want to fight; we will bring peace. Until now we never had a reason to tolerate hell, but now we do. God has tolerated it. You can tolerate it. Your agony compared to God’s agony is small. You can repeat it to yourself. We have a small enemy in our family, but we must learn to love them. So understand that the reason the twelve tribes fought, and the reason Jesus had to die stems from the failure to love each other. We refer to the God of sorrow, the God of pain. Why? Because, who is Satan? Satan is the illegitimate husband, where God is the legitimate husband. He is the love enemy. Think about if somebody stole your wife and is living with her, yet you are in the position to love both of them. That’s God’s position. We didn’t know, so we didn’t feel it. We must understand. If you understood Father’s point clearly this morning, going back your family and making peace within your family is no problem. A person who achieves this is welcomed in both heaven and hell. If you go to hell, millions of people will crowd around you and say, here comes saviour. From this time on, actually, in reality we are getting into that point. Now this brings us a point of inevitability. It is relatively very easy to enter into heaven on earth and heaven in heaven because this formula has been established. This condition has been met. Even the textbook, “How to Manage a Family,” has been completed. Now the liberation of women takes place. In the history of restoration, when women spoke loudly, or when women had a voice, always there were complications. This is a result of the fall. So, during this restoration time of history, women have to be obedient and feel reserved. This is a virtue. That was the beginning of the fall, because Eve asserted herself. So to go backwards, she has to be unusually obedient. If there is any group who hates this course the most, you guessed it, it’s American women. But you must enforce this 100% and more. American women have a tremendous edge. If American women decide to follow this direction, everybody will follow. That’s true. Father isn’t criticizing these American women here today. You are the ones who can show the first example in history. You American women here have an internal content completely different than outside American women. You must be the banner bearers, the flag bearers. After being born again and resurrecting, a woman leads to all levels of liberation. Actually, Eve was the key to the fall. Therefore, it is dependent largely upon women to restore. In divorce, who is the cause? Women. Why? Because they are less tolerant. They express complaint faster than men. About 75% is the woman’s fault, because they pack up faster. That’s true. They don’t like it and they pack up. They thought it was an act giving them freedom, but the result was staggering. They not only destroyed their family, but destroyed the entire world because everyone followed their pattern. So this is an inevitable conclusion. In order to do this, who plays the key role? Women. Who becomes the key person to attain unity among the family, and all levels? Women. Women play the key role. The Divine Principle agrees: because women failed, they must now restore. Everything checks. Women fell and they lost God and True Parents too. Now it is up to her to restore God and the True Parents. She must love even the satanic world people, just like her own husband and just like her own father and mother. So, that movement is the movement of the Women’s Federation for World Peace. The women become one with their children and one with the husband, and thus the family is restored. Mothers play the key role. Become one with the True Parents’ family and inherit the tradition from that family. In outside families, the mother and children must get together and save the father. After you are blessed, you must become completely one with True Mother and connect with the True Parents’ family. When this happens, liberation takes place and heaven comes. Resurrection of the world’s women will lead to the liberation of all the world, not only women, but also men and the children. It is the responsibility of women who brought death to man and the children. Men represent God’s side, and children represent the whole world, the horizontal development. This is the main task of the Completed Testament era. We know clearly, this is what we must do in the Completed Testament era. So how about the outside world? Through the Unification Church blessed couples, the salvation pattern is clear now. Outside people don’t have a Messiah, so Father sends out the tribal messiahs whose main role is to educate them the same way Father educates us. No one will oppose this movement of Women’s Federation for World Peace. They have a clear public to appeal to. What can they say? They can say until now men operated the world and brought the world into such misery. Now it’s time for women to restore that with the coming Messiah. There is one Messiah as a man and 2.5 billion women in the world. It is relatively simple. This is all we have to do. So, the typical movement will be to teach women in such a way that they bring their children together, become one with the children, and then bring the husband back. We only need to do half. So, Women’s Federation will need to play only half the role, to bring the children together on a world-level. The tribal messiahs will connect that to the Messiah. Now this is done on a small scale, but then it will be a worldwide movement. Each family is working for re-creation. So the liberation will take place and in this women play the main role. Liberation affects all the family, but with the women leading the way, these things will take place. This is today’s mission. The Messiah comes; he establishes the typical family and we copy him. So how can the women of the world resurrect? They have to go back to Mother’s womb and Father’s bone marrow. The ones who were born after 1960 will be on God’s side. Why 1960? Because 1960 was the year when the True Parents’ marriage took place. After that all humankind needs to go back to the mother’s womb, pretending that they are not born, even though they are 30 or 40 years of age. What is taking place today should have taken place in 1945, but it didn’t happen. Father had to go through 40 years indemnity; now this is happening. Who plays the key role? Women. All men have to do is follow after the successful completion of the woman’s role. The world’s women must absolutely obey Father, and all men should follow you. How can we enter into heaven? Ignorance can never lead to heaven. First we must know clearly what happened. So this is why we are much, much closer to heaven now. All that remains is to do it. So, revival and liberation. Be born again, restore the family and bring liberation to all. This is the women’s era. Now the men must win salvation through the hands of women. What does that mean? There will be more and more good women in politics. The President of our country should be a woman also. That day must come soon. Women must do that and bring the victorious results to men. Not an individual President, it should be a family President. The criterion for eligibility for President will be the level of unity in the family, which establishes a good tradition. Everybody will know who has the best tradition, so elections will become automatic. The utmost traditional family will become the President. What about democracy? Well, the day of democracy is past. Democracy is transient. You must understand that Father’s recent speech centering on Father’s birthday is a summary of father’s history. We must familiarize ourselves with this speech thoroughly and not only teach this to ourselves, but teach all the people we come with whom we come into contact.