Belvedere International Training Center, March 14, 1993Translator - Sang Kil Han  We all know that because of the human fall, mankind has not been liberated. However, that is not all: God also is not liberated. As a result of the fall, man must overcome his circumstances in order to be liberated. God, too, must go through those eight steps of liberation, starting from individual liberation. After He accomplishes that, He returns to the domain of kingdom and establishes that condition. Then He goes up to the next level and after that is done, He establishes that again in His domain, and so on.
As we know, if mankind had not fallen, these things would not have been necessary. Adam and Eve would have simply grown up and that would have commenced the natural history of mankind. In Adam and Eve's time, the eldest son was to reach perfection within twenty-one years. That is the elder son's position. That elder son must accompany God. Together with God, he would have reached here.
As Father said, in the original history the elder son should have reached completion. Now, because of the fall, the second son must do it. As we know, it is vastly more complicated for the second son to do that. Satan is already pushing his influence over the first son's first step to perfection. What the second son must do is win over Satan and the elder son must be subjugated naturally. The second son must then support him and push him up. The second son must do all that and reach towards perfection.
Why is this so? It is the way the elder sonship is set. The process must be repeated again. In order for the second son to come into the elder son's position, he must win over Satan on the next level. That position is already occupied by the elder son, too. So the second son must go up one level at a time, fight there and be supported, and go up, and so on. That creates a solid foundation. Doing that will make a solid foundation or condition. Even Almighty God cannot do this just like that. Instead, man must accomplish this, and when he does, he opens up the way and then God can come in.
Let's make an analogy. Look at the country of America. Let's put America in the position of God in our analogy. America is God, but she cannot make that condition happen all at one time. Instead, America must go to Africa, for instance, and subjugate the people to the point that they are willing to be brought up to the top level country of America. Then America can come back and advance one step higher and then you will have one level of foundation achieved. Then you must repeat that again, in many different ways. Not even America, not even God, can accomplish that in one run. It cannot be done.
If God is carrying out this restoration by indemnity, then what role should we play? Why should mankind be involved in it? God has been making this foundation, and man has been following in God's wake, somehow making the condition for God to say that man did it. But God has always been doing things ahead of us. Otherwise, we cannot restore our ownership. This is what our Father has been doing all his life-not just for one or ten years-along with God. Father could have done it easily after World War II, but as we know, we lost all the foundation built at that time, so it had to be redone all over again.
In order to do that, what do you need to do most? Above all, we must love our enemy. That is something we must do. Restoration history is always backwards. In other words, here is God, here is Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel-in that order. There is a strict order. Abel must become one with Cain, together they must become one with Eve, and the next will be Satan. To do away with Satan, Eve connects with Adam and all together, they will connect with God.
We look at history and the time we are living in today. Mankind has gone up but people do not know which direction they are heading or where they should be heading. Actually, they should be heading this way. That's where confusion is today. That's the transfer time, the time of exchange. Going this way instead of going that way, is to deny everything.
Whatever we regard as very dear, whatever is most precious to "me" is the question now. This includes the family and the country. Centering on his own country, the benefit to his own country, is the problem now. Whatever an individual or country thinks is most dear to him is the very condition by which one is to be judged. Therefore, the only way is to deny that, deny one's own family, for instance. How can you deny your own family, since the family is such a precious entity? Yet because of this principle, once we deny that family, which is on the illegal side, then we will be given the right family here. God helps mankind to deny these things by letting Satan attack and destroy and damage them. Then man has a clear sign and understands, "Oh, I must go this way. This is the way God works."
The first rule is to love one's enemy. Next, we must go backwards and transfer. The next principle by which to pass through this is to invest and forget. This is very paradoxical, but we must do it. Why? We invest and then must come back. We must forget that we invested and come back because we need to invest even more, even bigger, even further. You have to invest and forget that you did, and then you are ready to invest again. For instance, if you are to restore the nation or race, then you must do that here. You must come back here and make that foundation. Then you are ready to do the bigger work here. You must first do it here, and it will be accomplished here.
After Father accomplishes here, he must return here. Now that all conditions for the restoration of the world are complete, he walks over here and only after coming back here has he accomplished his mission on earth. It is because the position of the second son and first son must be exchanged. That's the whole purpose of doing this. Each step of the way there is not only war or conflict, but a fierce war at that. Without going through that, restoration cannot be accomplished.
No living human being is thinking that one must go through this complicated and very difficult process-not only one time but repeatedly-to restore and reach and create Heaven on earth. This is what Father has already done, yet even to this day, people have no idea how the Kingdom of Heaven can be accomplished. Do you follow?
Without being aware of the Principle, the Israelites, through the Old Testament, were following this pattern, too. Therefore, they had to go out of their home, beyond the boundaries of their own village to some other country. Then they had to leave the boundaries of the country, go to the world, and then come back. Every time they go, and fight over, and win, and they come back, the level of victory was higher and higher. They had to do that.
That is why many of the people in the time of Old Testament were taken prisoner. When taken prisoner, whether one likes it or not, a person is moved out of his own circumstances and taken to a far distant country. He will be persecuted and opposed there. He will work so hard in misery, then eventually come back successful. Consider Jacob. For seventy-two years, he was away.
Up to 430 years, this formula is taking place. People carried out this pattern, but they had no idea they had to win over the enemy.
Their enemy had been persecuting them. Like 600,000 people of that big country, they had been persecuted in all kinds of ways. Something told them that they had to persevere. So they said, "Even though they are doing us a grave injustice, we must persevere." They survived, and they returned, but they did not know their position should be exchanged. So more or less, they were dragged, or they were going like they thought this was the best thing. They did not clearly know these two points. When God was with them, He was like that man's clothing. They had that kind of relationship. God was there. That served as a condition. Even though God did it, because man was very close to God, it was man's credit.
Then the Israelites went into Egypt and suffered so many hundreds of years, but they should not keep that in mind or hold any grudges. They should forget about that. By going into Egypt for so many hundreds of years they were persecuted, did everything, and now they have made some foundation. They must forget that. If, as they are about to leave that country they said, "No, I won't leave this country unless I can retaliate against those who have done this injustice to me. I'm going to pay them back before I go," they could never leave.
We see this: their ultimate goal is not to retaliate, not to keep what small foundation they made. These are peripheral. The most important thing is that they get out of there-that they get out of Egypt. Then the next step is to establish the independent country of Canaan. To God's dispensation, this is more important than anything. Therefore, they had to forget what happened in Egypt and be ready to invest again.
Once they established Canaan, their country, that is payment of the price. Once they established a Canaan, then Egypt would come under this new country. That was God's plan. Even though religious people are persecuted, mistreated, made miserable so often by non-religious people, by the satanic country, by evil people, what can the religious people do? They can only forget.
There was a time which was the culmination for religious people. Right after World War II was a great victorious time for religious people. Religious people, centered upon America, were at the pinnacle of the world. Yet that time was very short-lived after World War II. Today, look at the difference only fifty years later. We see secular humanism running rampant, destroying families, destroying nations and everything. We can see that with our own eyes. Satan's side was beaten by religious people, but now they are taking their revenge. Now they deny God, and Satan is doing exactly what God should be doing. Now Satan is God to them-that is what we see today. There is nothing they cannot do. They will try everything, just like God. That's what Satan is doing. That's secular humanism, which is exercising all the rights. Anything that a man wants to do, he can do. They deny God, deny God's ideal, deny everything that is Godly. Man is God-that's what secular humanism preaches. Man can do anything, since he is God. He can kill anybody if he wants to, he can plunder anything he wants. Human beings are doing that. Religion? They say, "Rubbish, trash," because it is kind of ragged. Religious people have a lot of things which they don't understand and they think some things are precious, but secular humanists laugh and scorn those things. This is what man is doing under secular humanism.
Human beings trying to be like God is the last thing which humankind can do. For a man to just deny God, to say, "There is no God," is all right, compared to what man is doing now. When man tries to be like God himself and then does the complete opposite of what God would do, means he is about to destroy even God. Denying God may be all right, but stopping God's way, stopping God's advancement creates very real trouble, very significant consequences. Mankind is in real trouble now.
If you extend that secular logic a little bit, then any large country, such as America, could attack a small country simply because they have mightier weapons. People think they can do that and get away with it because they are God, because they do not know any other God. The question is still how will we return to God's path, God's direction? At one time, we must proclaim, "This is the way we must go." Centering on the Unification Church, there must be a big proclamation at some time. So far, human history has been coming this way. So far it's all right, but now when we reach perfection, we must go to Adam. We must go to this way, not to Satan like mankind has always been doing. Man's direction must change. It's like coming this way, ever broadening the foundation, but now we must come in here, and be connected with Adam, as human history should. At this point, man will recover everything he has worked for. They are not losing anything, they are recovering everything.
From the level of kingship down to the son's level, all must be recovered here, and still be connected to Adam, and through Adam it must be connected to God. Now is the time when people realize that separating from Reverend Moon or opposing Reverend Moon will reap a bad result for them. They realize that they will lose by doing that. Somehow they want to find a way to come closer to Reverend Moon and closer to the Unification Church. This is what is happening today. Until now, God let Satan or secular mankind do anything they wanted. Those on the side of secular humanism are coming to realize that they have now lost everything. They have lost their family, they have lost love, they have lost all the valuable things, even their property. Parents, children, everything-all these things they have lost. Yet look at the other side, the side of God, the side of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. It seems there is more there than anyone could have thought: they see True Love. All the men and women are chaste and pure before marriage. They form solid families. And they have the blueprint for an ideal nation and ideal world of peace. They are going strong in that direction. This is becoming more and more obvious. What the Unification Church stands for and has already accomplished will become more and more tangible. This will become more and more obvious to the secular world, while they realize more and more that they do not know where they are going.
Today we see that Western civilization has risen to its greatest heights. We have seen the brilliant results of this civilization. If Jesus had not been crucified, the Asian civilization would have been what Western civilization is today. Today we see the route of Western civilization. Christianity was not taken where it was originally supposed to go. If Jesus had lived, then his followers would have come to India or the East, China, where religions already flourished, and there would never have been bloodshed. But as we saw in history, there was much martyrdom. Followers of Jesus had to shed lots of blood because Christianity went to the West, instead of the East. Merging and expansion, merging and expansion-this is what would have happened if Jesus had not been killed and they would have moved toward the Eastern civilizations.
Had that happened, the Asian civilization would naturally and gradually have merged into Christendom. Instead of shedding blood, they would have been strongly influenced by Christian culture. This is what the Eastern civilization would have been. It would have been done in less than seven generations time. Think about it. If Jesus had conducted mass marriages, just like Father has been doing today, in India and China, as well as in the Middle East, they would have been cross-matched and married. What Father is trying to accomplish today would have been much more easily accomplished at that time, and also much faster. But instead, the whole process went backward. The Oriental civilization was like the mind, while the West was like the body. Instead of following the mind's direction, it followed the body's direction and therefore there was a lot of bloodshed. Western civilization has come to its height, yet they are being drawn back into the direction of the Pacific. This is the Pacific Era. It is coming because of this reality.
The mind is constant. The mind treats different people, different seasons such as spring, summer, fall and winter all the same. But the body or material world treats different circumstances differently. In the summertime, wintertime, spring and autumn, it responds differently. It is not like the mind. Look at the Western civilization today. Money rules all. The slightest difference in the interest rate causes the people to become ruthless, to negate, to kill. This is certainly not how the mind works. Especially in America today, we see individualism and materialism on top of that. When something comes that does not please the individual, he cuts that off, denies it. That is not the way of the mind but of the body.
Originally, the world of mind must first think of which way is up, which way is down, which way is right and left. The mind operates to keep balance in certain things. But for individualistic and materialistic thinking, it is different. Given a certain set of circumstances for the day or the year, that period, the person sees only one direction. He doesn't know or care about balance. Above and below, right and left-he doesn't think about all these things. That is the way of the body. We see exactly this kind of dynamic today in American society. A person denies his grandfather, denies even his parents, who are closer to him, and denies the members of his own family, such as his spouse, even his children. Finally, he will deny even himself and feel like killing himself. That is not the way the mind works. That's how the body works.
But now they have one hope in this desolate Western civilization. Nobody knows where the world is going, where he is going, where he should be going except for one entity: The Unification Church. That is unique. That is different. This is where anybody can come and live, such as a Jew, a Christian, and all can pursue their own ideal. Already, every element is represented in the Unification Church, but still there is plenty of room for everyone to come in. We sit here and listen to Father speak every Sunday morning, but we really are not aware that we have that kind of value within us, because we are not able to comprehend the whole world, the whole history.
So we must have these four different directions, these four positions, because this is the position of stability. Everyone wants to be stable, with four different directions of support. Now living in America means to just see one direction. Even in one day, we have four different times of the day: morning, mid-day, evening, and night time. We should not think, "Morning is the only good time." We should not think that spring or summer are the only good times. Americans like only those times. Instead of thinking that way, think about the night, even though it hasn't come yet. Even though morning has already passed, think about morning. Balance yourself. It is the same with the different seasons. Americans just take things as they come. That's not enough. You have to be able to comprehend everything in a balanced way. You must think of the world yet to come, the world that has passed already.
Everything that is comfortable and easy for us happens to belong to Satan's side. People, not knowing the Principle, just want to follow that way. They want to go the easier, more comfortable way, without knowing that they are drifting deeper and deeper into Satan's side. That's the easy way, the more enjoyable way. That's the way of so-called freedom, although it is not really free. But Principle is not like that. A man of Principle doesn't live like that. Even in the Principle, once we go, we must come back. Certainly we will have no way of coming back if we live like others live today. We may go one day, but never think about coming back.
This must be the spiritual foundation of any country. Any country must be situated right above this foundation, but today we don't have that. Instead, if something comes along today, we react to it. If it comes tomorrow, we react tomorrow and in a certain way. The currents of the times, of the world, cause people to become changeable, to adopt new ways. They long ago lost the Principle which shows them they should be like this. They have forgotten. I have often cited the fable about the grasshopper and the ant. Winter is coming for both insects, but the ant works hard throughout the summer because he knows that winter is coming. He prepares himself. But the grasshopper just likes to enjoy the summertime, singing, dancing and drinking, never thinking about what is coming next. Typically, Americans like to tell jokes, particularly jokes centering on sex and such things. They laugh very readily and frequently. When you see laughter everywhere in a society, that's a very dangerous sign. We must compose ourselves, prepare ourselves, because we are in that position. If we hear too much laughter, it signifies something is wrong.
Silence is more a characteristic of Oriental people. You could see an Oriental person keeping silent all day long, never saying a word. Even all year long, he might say very little. That puts them in a very advantageous position. Why? Because they are preserving, they are not spending. The Oriental people are very conservative with self-expression, like laughing or crying. But Western people are very dramatic in their expression and gestures. They show their emotions very clearly. They overstate their feelings, saying how much they "love" something. These things are very consuming. As a concrete example, observe the way a woman laughs. Some Western woman may open her mouth so wide when she laughs that you can see her tonsils. This kind of behavior is unthinkable for Oriental women, who are very conservative, sparing, economical in gestures. Do you know the code of conduct for Oriental women? A woman can smile and even laugh, but she should not show her teeth! That's how they are taught and how they live. Since they are trying not to show their teeth, they will close their mouth when they laugh.
Imagine two women living together in the same home for three years, one Oriental and one Western. It is very clear what would happen. At the end of three years, the Western woman would have to bow down deeply, saying, "I am so sorry," to the Oriental woman. Why? It is because the Oriental woman who never spoke would never make any mistakes, but the Western woman would speak a lot and therefore half the time she would make mistakes. Because she made so many mistakes, she would have to say, "I'm sorry." By the time she says "I'm sorry" so many times, then she would have to bow down every day, as well. She would become the Queen of Sorry. Being King or Queen of being sorry means he or she doesn't own anything anymore. How can such a person be proud of himself or exert any rights if he is so much in debt? Do you understand what I am trying to point out?
We must learn to have perseverance and not speak so much. We must think about the future for ourselves. Always think like, "Oh, how my grandmother, how my father made mistakes, what kind of mistakes they made. How I must compensate for that," and she always thinks about the future and today's situation, and the future of her own family. Now she's on the mainstream. Instead of talking she must be thinking. That's exactly what she is doing. When she is analyzing all the time, even though she doesn't speak she already knows who did good deeds, and who made a big mistake, even though she doesn't say so, and she will try to make up for that. She will have a plan for the future for herself and her family. All these things she is doing.
Who becomes the center of the family, including the grandfather, the father, mother, brother, and everybody? If the grandson thinks this way, then he will eventually become the mainstream of that family, no two ways about it.
We can see that the trend is already there for the Western civilization to be influenced, subtly as well as boldly, by Eastern civilization. That is why we are in the Pacific Era now. What Father said to us in the past year right here at Belvedere has been a well-kept secret. Did you feel that? There is such a depth and magnitude to these things. Father knew these things all along, for at least fifty years, yet he never spoke about them before. Can you imagine? Only lately has Father been speaking about these things to us. That is because the time is getting near. How the world will become, which way world events may go-Father has an idea about these things. Father is in the position of leading the world. That's his responsibility. There are three ways: the way of rapid change, the medium change way, or the slow, mild, non-revolutionary way. "Which way should I adopt?" is the question in Father's mind all the time nowadays.
So far this morning, I have stated that God is like the clothing for human beings. God has been wrapping around individuals and doing many different levels of work. But today we should not be like that. We should be able to understand and appreciate what God has been doing through these thousands of years since the Fall, and we should be able to become independent from God. We should not let God wrap around us all the time. We should treat God properly. We should become the partner to God, not the body of God, or let God take our clothing's position. We should not do that.
We must understand this first, and then we can console God. We must talk to God and console Him, saying "How much You have suffered up to this time. I must repent for that and I will serve you better from now on." We must do that from now on. Don't let God continue to be clothing to mankind anymore. That's how we can liberate God and at the same time liberate ourselves.
Father prayed every day for forty years centering on seven countries which he selected. By the same token, you too must pray as I did, and you must go through seven different countries in your course of training. I feel that way. You know which were my seven countries, don't you? Of course, based on World War II, they were America, England, France, Japan, Italy, Germany, and Korea. The Korean representative is only me. At that time, it was connected to Satan. The only center is Reverend Moon. Do you understand? The Second Advent, the True Father's position. There is only one. There was no nation base, the family base did not exist. Do you understand? Tribe, nation, world, did not exist. After World War II there was a victory for America, which is a Protestant-based country. America is a unique country. It is the only Christian-based country which has complete independence. Incredibly enough, this great and gigantic nation of America was prepared for one purpose and one person: the coming Messiah, the True Father and therefore, the True Mother. They must be incorporated in, too. Of course, we all know that, but we are being reminded again.
This is our destined way, small or large, big person or small, this is still our destiny. If we do not follow this formula course here, then we will find our path blocked in spirit world. But we will have to do it anyway. God is the center of sovereignty, He is the Zooche. Zooche means He has kingship, while we are in a position like the queen or that of partner. By the same token, if Father has kingship, then you all are in the position to have queenship. World kingship, nation kingship, tribe, family, couple kingship. This applies from the individual all the way up to the cosmos. The central point of kingship is always at a ninety degree angle to the horizontal.
The elder son always inherits the kingship, isn't that true? For the second son to inherit the elder son's position is very difficult. Thus, he wouldn't go the regular way but instead sort of a backward way in order to inherit that. We must know the time of transfer. Doing this took thousands of years. But Father knew Principle, and therefore it took Father forty years to reach this point. We must do this also, just like Father, because if we don't do it, we will certainly have obstacles in the spirit world. Then we will be unable to go directly to Heaven but rather will have to be waiting in Paradise until we achieve it. I don't want that to happen. That is the spirit world's wilderness. All these things are like conceptual things to us, just big concepts, big dreams. But that is not the case. This is reality I am talking about. If it is hard for you to understand the reality of what I have done, then how can you ever do it yourself? You've got to understand quickly.
You think you may be going straight to Heaven by doing something right here, but if you don't do this like Father, you will find spirit world to be like a desert, a wilderness, not an enjoyable place. That is Paradise, where you will have to wait. You won't be alone. Your family, your wife, sons and daughters, grandchildren may blame you, "Because of you, we are in this miserable position. True Father taught you clearly. Why didn't you live that way?" Look at Adam and Eve and how much we blame them for our misery. Mankind has done that throughout history. So we must understand this point clearly.
Today we are having an incredible winter storm, but this teaching is more important than any hardships, right? Thus those people who did not come today may miss this very important part of Father's teaching. At the height of the storm yesterday, I went to Barrytown and came back. I felt very good driving through those impossible road conditions. The Barrytown students said, "Today is the most memorable day," and the same is true of this morning. These are very important points to remember. Do you follow?
Perhaps you can forget those things which are too complicated for you to understand, but don't forget this one thing: instead of God being our clothing, we must become the clothing for God. That's what Father has lived for until now. No matter how difficult my situation was, no matter what I was about to do, I never lost sight of God. I really, desperately hung on to God. I never allowed myself to worry about my own mother or father, to whom I was deeply attached. Instead I only worried about never losing sight of God. So I really followed God, no matter how impossible the situation. In the same way, you, too must do this. Even in prison, when being tortured, no matter how difficult my situation, my main thought was about God.
That is the relationship between subject and object. The subject is God, and in this reciprocal position is where I always stayed, hanging on to God all the time. As I said, plus and minus become completely one but that is not the end. Then together we are ready in that reciprocal position to become one with an even greater plus. Husband and wife must become united, and that's not the end of it. Most important is that they become connected in relationship with God. The universe is made of the pair system, from smaller pairs to larger pairs. Each pair serves the larger in order to return to God.
Eventually of course, God is our goal. For all women, God is in the husband's position. For everyone, He is in the subject's position. We should take the friend's position to God. Why? Because we inherited our life from God Himself. Our life's seed originated from God. Therefore, we resemble God. It is the same as children resembling their parents. Is this clear?
You all need your spouse, you need your children, family, relatives, nation, world, spirit world, and God. You need to return to God, becoming a friend to Him. We all need this and must accomplish this. When God is looking at every one of us individually, He says, "He resembles me, she resembles me," and so forth. There is no one who doesn't resemble Him. Why? Because we are His own children. Except for our fallen characteristics, everything about us resembles God. If someone asks any of us, "What is your highest desire?" the most honest answer would be, "To meet the most ideal spouse and to love each other. To have a wonderful family and to rule the world." Everyone has such a dream or desire because we are in the position to accomplish that. Every one of us has that king's desire because God is King of Kings. Therefore, that position is not only God's but it is also belongs to God's children, each and every human being.
Father followed God, so what must you do? You must follow Father. Never lose sight of him. Even if you forget everything else, remember that point. When I went to Danbury prison, you didn't follow me there, did you? If everyone had gone to Danbury with me, centering on what had happened in Danbury, there would have been explosive success, advancement and development of the Unification Church, or members. When Father went to Danbury, if every one of us followed him, it would have been the perfect chance for expanding explosively. Like Father said many times, after coming out of prison I was thinking about how to protect all of you.
In the Bible, Jesus told the story about the different men given different amounts of money by their master and how they were expected to expand that. Father did that exactly, but you didn't even earn interest on that, let alone multiplying it thousands of times. In other words, you didn't do anything to multiply it. Instead of depending on us, Father developed America all by himself. When we know these things, at least we need to be ashamed and even listen to Father, like obedient children. We should at least do that, but instead you say, "Oh, we are different from you, Father." How can you say such things? Now you understand about God, and how tedious God would have felt in accomplishing this for such a long time. Think of this reality: God could wipe this out, do this over in one minute, one hour or day. Certainly He could do it, but instead He took thousands of years, fostering carefully each individual, another individual, and so forth. Can you understand? We must do the same thing here.
Remember this important point. Now history has progressed to the point where it is the time to exchange, to transfer the course. Today we can no longer think, "I am white and he is Oriental, and they are something else." Don't think that you belong to one country and someone else belongs to another. Likewise, no matter how great you may be in science, for instance, even holding a Ph.D. degree, you must still eat three meals a day. This is a very basic and simple need which everyone in the world has. We must train ourselves to think, "This is my life-supporting food, but I must give it to someone else so that he can live." Therefore, we must forget that need and give this most precious thing to someone else. This is the only way we can follow God.
If we plant a certain seed a certain plant always sprouts up. If we want to eat beans, then we plant bean seeds. In just the same way, if we want to harvest life, we must plant seeds of life. It is our destiny. Until God's work is over, there is no way for us to escape this work. We must do the same thing that God is doing. That will take our whole life and even beyond. How can we accomplish this? First we have to realize what we must do, what our destiny is. Secondly, in order to accomplish that destiny we have to go through prayer, we have to dedicate a lot of heart to it. These are the most basic things: dedicating our heart and praying about it.
Now God is doing the world's work. It is like a sine curve. How big the magnitude would be! We must at least pretend we resemble Him. At least we have to mimic Him. (Father draws on the board.) Like so. A pretty similar shape. Anyway, this is our peak, and that is our depth, the deepest part of our mind. If we do not do this, we must do it in the spirit world. When you go to spirit world, you can discern whether or not I taught you the truth. At that time, you will say, "Oh, Father taught me everything so clearly and I didn't do it. Why didn't I follow him?" Then you will be so unhappy. Do you understand?
Going to prison is not really the problem. Even death is not the problem. The problem is how can we accomplish this. We know that even Joseph and Jesus, the dead body, the corpse became a problem. In the same way, even though we die along the way of doing God's work, still we should die while doing His work. Which would be more desirable: to die in your own home, or to die in a foreign country while working to restore that country? Yes, even though we may die, as long as we died while working for the sake of a foreign country, glory will come one day in the future to your own country. Therefore, it is more valuable to die working for the sake of a foreign country.
By this standard, we can evaluate ourselves. How many dollars and cents are we worth? We all know, don't we? It is based on what we are thinking and doing today. When we all see Father in the spirit world, do you think you can just dash towards him in a straight line, looking at him straight in the eye? Or will you be looking at him sideways, or will you be looking down to the ground, not daring to raise your eyes to him? Can Father go straight to God and embrace Him? Because Father already knew things, he often did not wait until God gave him a direction but before something happened, Father would always prepare a few steps, and do a few things beforehand. Therefore, God comes to Father and shows the road He is going Himself. Since he already knew the road God was taking, he already went by himself very close to God. Therefore, God cannot help but usher him the rest of the way. Do you follow?
This is our inevitable course. We all have to die one day. We will go to spirit world at some time. Does anybody say, "No, I am an exception to that rule"? Can you say that? No matter how high up in the mountains a stream of water may be flowing, no matter how fast it may be moving, no matter where it is, it doesn't matter. All flowing water must end up in the ocean eventually. Even though the color of all clear water is the same, the water in the ocean is salt water. We, too, will all go to spirit world, but we don't know what spirit world is like. The taste is different there, too. Just like fresh water and salt water taste different.
It is that decisively important. I knew that and therefore I long ago gave up every other career, gave up my life for this purpose. The only thing for my life is God's work. What do you want your life to be? Do you want your life to be like God's life cycle? (Father draws on the board.) Do you see this? What do you notice about it? While you are going up, you are below God, and while you are following that, it's above God. Like so. What happens is that you must come to serve God, not to be served by God.
We must serve Him more than we serve our own parents. If you are thinking about balance, if you are lower than Him, then you have to go higher than Him. That means inevitably we must suffer more than anybody else. Nobody wants this position, but we must suffer more than anybody. That is an iron rule. When that iron rule is followed, wherever we go, we cannot help but become successful. We know the way we are treading and the way God has been treading is the restoration course, but that course can never be achieved without paying indemnity. Why must we pay indemnity? It is because we are going backwards. We must do everything backwards. Therefore, it is the way of hardship, difficulty. That is the price we pay.
We say "Love thy enemy." To God there are original children and there are restored children, similar to Rachel's family and Leah's family. How to bring them into oneness is the question. Abel should not strike Cain and then expect him to follow. Instead, Abel has to love and serve Cain to move his mind to bring him to Abel's side. That is how they come into one. These two women-Leah and Rachel-were enemies of love to each other; therefore, they are archenemies. This is similar to Adam and the archangel. The position of Abel is that he should be willing to help in a loving way at any time. Namely, the love we must exercise is a stronger and deeper love than Satan's love. There is no way of denying him because his love is greater than Satan's love.
Jesus' position is the same, Father's position is the same. Right-wing and left-wing, Barabbas' position, have always been fighting. Look at how Christianity and Islam have fought. We see that so clearly in Jesus' path. The twelve disciples, centering on the three disciples, had so much difficulty uniting. What did Jesus do? He ended up washing their feet, trying to win their hearts, showing them how to unite. If we do not love our enemy, there is no way we can achieve peace. Also, the concept of enemy has to be a temporary thing. It has to cease to exist eventually. If the enemy relationship continued eternally, it would mean that God consisted of both good and evil, that there were two Gods, in essence. But that is not the case. God is not two, God is only one. He didn't create any enemy.
There is no stronger indemnity than that of loving one's enemy. As I have already told you, God was in the position of sacrificing His own child, Jesus, in order to save the children of His enemy, Satan. What an impossible situation God found Himself in. He had to love the enemy of His love, like loving the man who snatched his wife away from him. Can you imagine seeing the very person who stole your wife away from you, and instead of killing him, you have to let your wife continue to be with him? Not only that-if the three are sleeping together-let this bad person, his enemy, not only love her, but also you have to watch over them and protect them in the archangel's position. That's exactly God's position. He has to let that man embrace his own wife, just give his own wife to the enemy and protect them so that they won't be hurt. That's exactly God's position, becoming a watchman. Unless we reach that point, we cannot understand God's heart.
Imagine, your own loving wife-not just any wife but a loving wife-giving her to your enemy, and letting him embrace her. And you watching over them in the archangel's position. We know that the ordinary response would be to want to throw the atomic bomb at him, right? You American women must understand God's feeling in this regard. To understand God's feeling, we must do this. Is God's position an easy one or a difficult one? How difficult? We already know it is impossible. For Jesus to become the messiah and accomplish what he did, he had to go through that kind of impossible situation. By the same token, Father also had to go through a similar position to understand God's position.
Joseph's wife was Mary, right? And God took her away from him, didn't He? Then God expected Joseph to allow Mary to be embraced by God and for Joseph to remain in the watchman's position. But Joseph could not do that.
What is your answer: Is God a very miserable God, or is He a happy God? In Father's own time, how important it is that I can be uncovering all these deep, hidden secrets and by doing so, liberate God. How grateful God is for that. What about you? You, too, must liberate Father in America, isn't that true? It is the same situation. Not only in America but in every country. At least you have some idea of God's realm of heart.
Through Isaac's offering, he could begin a new course in God's dispensation of restoration. We must understand this heart of God: He is giving His own wife as an offering to His enemy in the effort to bring that enemy around to Him. When you extend that a little bit, you come to the practical problems of bringing unity between white and black people in America. There is so must antagonism. How about all those families which have fought among themselves? The only way for them to correct these attitudes is by understanding God. Once we understand God, each one can be corrected.
We see these are the formulas which will last until the whole world is restored. If Unification Church members settle down comfortably, can we achieve this destined course, or not? So we have been like heavenly Gypsies and Father is like Moses leading his people out into the wilderness. It is the same situation: you must follow Father and that means you must go wherever he is. We are about to establish our own country, God's fatherland, and that cannot be done easily. We must suffer to achieve that, from a difficult position, almost like dying. This is the destination we are going toward. We must register into Father's own family.
After you go back to your hometown, you have to register your own family and parents into Father's family. A big movement takes place. If you really understand that it is imperative to unite Africa and the United States, what is the best and fastest way? It would be for Africans to come to America and for Americans to go to Africa. That great movement of race would bring unity. Therefore, we must not settle down because once we are settled, we cannot accomplish our goal. Once we are settled, we cannot be moving, we cannot be a part of this great movement. Do you follow?
What is the first principle? Love your enemy. We must understand how much we love our enemy. By loving him, we will determine the liberation, it will determine everything. Ownership and sovereignty are determined that way.
The second principle is how much we dedicate to another country, helping them to transfer to the right course. That, too, will decide how much your ownership will be. Property. Ownership is a more abstract word, but we are talking about real property: how much property will belong to you?
The third principle is to invest and then forget. Do the right thing and then forget that you have done it. Do more and then forget that you have done it. If we don't forget, then we can't invest more. The purpose of forgetting is to enable us to do greater things. To invest more means after winning over hard-won America, Father is willing to give for the sake of Africa, which is so remote. But Father has to do that because God has been living that way. Father already invested a lot in America. To invest more means to invest what he has already given in America and more in service to Africa. What about Africa becoming as great a nation as America? Then together they work for the sake of the world. It is the same principle.
If there is a good business, certainly this is it. There is no better business than investing. How hard for God to plant and gather His harvest. Yet God gives up all His hard-won harvest in order to plant again. Do you think I keep a lot of money in my pockets? What about my personal bank account? Am I in debt? Not only do you invest what you have, but you also borrow money from other people at great cost, and invest it. That's even greater investing. This is more than a cross to bear. It's a double cross to bear.
Last night, Father talked to Mr. Joo all night about what would have happened if Father had not done what he has done. If Father had not been here in America, this country would have been washed out long ago. And the whole world, as well. You Americans don't even dream of such things as whether Father has debts, or Father will be able to recover from debt. You just live day to day. That's not right.
We have a saying in Korea, "To be a parent is to be a great sinner." It's to become a man who owes people; in other words, he's simply a sinner, someone who committed a crime. God, too, has invested and invested. What is the result? His children become more comfortable. When we are in a similar situation, don't worry about it ever, just like Father. In other words, if we borrow a lot of money and become greatly indebted to other nations, and we suffer from that, don't worry about it because so much liberation will take place. So much property will return to us. We are not losing anything by doing that. This is the Principle. It always works. In the same way, God invests and forgets. What is the result of that? His property (His ownership) becomes bigger and bigger.
We see each individual's path is revealed soon enough. Like Reverend Kwak and Dr. Pak, both are taking responsibility in Korea. The one who goes the road of Principle will finally be the winner. He will liberate more. Even though they may work very hard, still Father pounds on them and calls them bad names, even. But they still remain faithful and obey Father's directions. Just as God has been working so hard and has been called names, and He tries to forget that. What about Americans? Suppose an American has been working very hard and then Father comes and pounds on him, how would he respond? You already know, right? He would become angry, he would even want to retaliate. American's education consists of how to protect yourself, not to protect God or anybody else. You would ask, "Why did Father hit me?" You don't have any contents. Why? Your mouth is always moving, talking.
Liberation and the ownership of property: we all want to have these two things, don't we? Is there anyone who would say, "I don't need them"? No. Once you understand these deep underlying principles, then you can just forget about what Father may think about you. Forget it, don't pay attention. What you must do, you must do. In the same way, if you owned vast amounts of property, you could exert a great amount of influence in this world, like a king, right? You could go anywhere, like a king, and not be bothered. You would be liberated. It is the same way in God's world. If your ownership becomes like that, you feel like a king. We know.
So we know these three precious principles: Love your enemy. Take over the opposition and transfer.
When we think from these deep principles, whatever Father says, such as, "Go to your hometown, do this, do that," it is really nothing compared with what we must do. Do you understand? Therefore, complaint is not possible. Already, the King of Kings, Almighty God, has been going this path which we are about to go, for thousands of years. He is doing it today. We know that. Also, the True Parents have been doing this all their lives. Now it is your turn to follow that pattern with your life. How can you complain, since you will be one with them, reaching to them? God is your Parents, True Parents are your parents. Isn't that true? You belong to one family, then. Absolutely obeying parents is the way, then, isn't that true? No complaint can be possible, then. The children are not in the subject position but the parents are. So the children have to absolutely obey the parents. That is the absolute Unification foundation.
Look at Ukraine in the former Soviet Union. People there are yearning for Father to come over. I have been weighing this in my mind. Going there would certainly have some gains, but I also have to consider the losses that would occur. That is why I don't just jump to go there. Mr. Yeltsin also invited Father to come over, but I didn't immediately respond. My feeling was that I must meet with Mr. Bush first, and then go to Yeltsin. Yeltsin wanted me to come, and it didn't happen, and then Bush was cast out, and now Father has to find a different course.
But Father is doing everything properly toward America. This is chemyun. American people don't have a clear idea about this chemyun. It means you know what you are supposed to do, you don't just do something on a whim. Father already knows what he has to do towards certain people. Father always keeps his face towards America, in other words. Father has already done what he is required to do by God for the sake of America. You must do indemnity from God's and Father's position, not centering on yourself.
To establish conditions from Father's position means only one way. Father already told you that there are already many more hills for you to climb. In order to do that, you come to higher and higher slopes, coming even to the Himalayas, when your work becomes more and more heightened. We must follow Father.
Here is the conclusion. Why is God working so hard? Why is Father suffering so much? For whom? You must realize that it is for only one person: you. Each one of you must say, "It is for me." We must come to realize that in order for God to place you in this position you are in today, how many people actually had to die for this benefit you are enjoying today? How much do we owe to Him? If God has been working so much, as we know, now we can volunteer, "I will do it for You, God, in Your place." Then God will look at you like you are His God. What more could God ask from His children than for them to say, "I want to do your work for you"? God even wants us to stand in His impossibly honorable position, too. "You can do it in My place." He may give us authority, too. God wants to give everything He has to us.
What a glorious position we would be in. How much more of a winner could we ever be? We will be completely free. You could come up to God and say, "I would like to sit in your throne, Father." He would say, "You want that? Okay, come on. Sit here." That is the concept. How much happiness, how much satisfaction. That means total freedom in God's world. Even your Creator freely inviting you onto His throne. How wonderful! Do you understand?
We are going to that goal, and while we are on the way, even though you may not fully understand what is happening, how can you talk and complain? American women, especially, want to speak out what they are thinking. They never can just keep their thoughts to themselves. Look at Jesus' demeanor when he was being accused in Pilate's court. What did he do? He was silent, wasn't he? Why can't you women behave the same way? Jesus didn't speak until the question was asked, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Then Jesus broke his silence and said strongly, "Yes, I am." How courageous that was, how wonderful. That's when it is all right to speak out, never in complaint.
When you are asked, "Are you a Unification Church member?" do you respond, "No"? Do you dislike hearing that kind of question? Do you take that kind of defensive attitude? Or do you answer "Yes" like Jesus? "I am a Unification Church member." You know well what is the proper way for the Unification Church member to go, isn't that true? You must repent for mistakes.
The topic today is very important: ownership is in proportion to liberation. The more liberation you achieve, the more ownership and property you will have. The more property you come to have, that means more liberation must have taken place. Therefore, you can even forget about restoration by indemnity. That's not pleasant thinking. It's a really sad part of God's thinking. Forget about indemnity. What is it for? Instead, just think about doing what God and True Parents have been doing until now. If you simply do that, and when you die doing that, still you can die shouting "Mansei!" because you are full of hope. The more you accomplish, then that much less will have to be done later on. We have to live like that. That's the attitude Unification Church members must live by, from now until the time we go to spirit world.
When you get confused, think about Father and Mother as your role models. Do like him, hold onto him tightly no matter what. By holding on tightly to my own principles, did I perish? No. So, if you follow the same principles, will you perish? You know you won't. You will just digest, then go ahead, preferring death to avoiding it. Why? Because that is the way God thinks.
Every one of you has the ambition to own a lot of property, don't you? Even you small women feel that way, don't you? Big men, small women have the same hope and ambition. True Love is the equalizer between you.
Unless we achieve liberation, we will have no freedom. Liberation comes before freedom. Look at this in perspective. We go to Africa and pay indemnity and what do we achieve? Just Africa, that's all. Can we complain at that? No, we are going beyond Africa, going beyond the whole world and history. We must digest and liquidate, rearrange now. Therefore, in the months to come, we will have a new, larger movement. We must have our mind prepared.
A huge snowstorm hit New York and authorities recommended that everybody just stay home today. Everything is quiet. But we are making a big bang in this world and we know how to do it. We will do it by going out and working harder when everybody else is dormant and resting. This day is very memorable. It is quiet because of the storm. Everybody is trying to protect themselves. Our only protection, however, is our understanding and our acting upon it and accomplishing. Are we going to do that? Yes? Yes? (Father speaks in a softer voice the second time.) When I speak "Yes" in a smaller voice, how should you answer me? Should you also lower your voice, or should you make your answer bigger? As my voice becomes smaller and smaller, your voice should go the opposite direction, becoming stronger and stronger. Then how great the hope for the Unification Church will be in the future! Can you do it? (YES!) (Smaller voice:) Can you do it? (YES!!!) (Even smaller voice:) Can you do it? (YESSSS!!!!!!!) Okay, I will let you do it! God bless you.
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13.8.13
LIBERATION AND MY OWNERSHIP, REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
11.8.13
I WILL LIVE WITH TRUE PARENTS, REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
Belvedere International Training Center, March 7, 1993Translator - Sang Kil Han Please be seated. The topic of Father's sermon this morning is rather unusual, in the sense that it has two forms of expression. One is oral and the other is written. This is in the form of speaking rather than writing. "Nanun Champumonim Gwa Kachi" In English it won't make so much difference. It translates to, "I Will Live With True Parents.".jpg) When we hear "True Parents," we immediately perceive the meaning in two ways: one in the vertical sense, and one in the horizontal sense. This is because, as we know, there are two sets of parents: one spiritual, from heaven, and one set with physical bodies. In the secular world when we hear of father, mother, or parents, we think of them only in one dimension. We think of only one person or two persons. But here, we immediately think about three or four persons, both vertically and horizontally. We also see a vertical father and vertical mother, while the secular world sees only the horizontal form.
If we know the Principle and nature, we cannot deny the existence of God, who is our Father. He is our vertical Father. Immediately we come to know this after knowing Principle. But there is always an order to things, so which comes first? Should the vertical come first, or the horizontal? Always, we know, vertical comes first and then horizontal. That is a kind of duality. There is only one, but there are two within it.
 Centering on love, here are the parents, and here is the son (pointing to blackboard drawing). As we see, centering on love, when the offspring is born, the boy goes one way and the girl goes another. They grow from childhood through elementary school, into their middle years and their teens. Then they go to college, graduate, and then as man and woman, they meet right at the center of the horizontal line. These two represent the physical world and the spiritual world. The man represents the spiritual side, and the woman the physical world. Where do they meet? Right here, at the center point.
They start from the position of sons and daughters, experiencing that type of love. Then they go on to brother and sister love, then to couple or spouse love. Then when they have their own children, they have parental love. These are the four levels of love. Where is the focal point; where are they all united? That is the question. What is their center point? Centering on what do they come together?
Each level of love has its own perfection. What is the perfection of son's love? We must achieve perfection of son's love, and we must have perfection of brotherly love, the perfection of couple's love, and the perfection of parental love. These four different levels of love comprise each person. Where do these four different levels of love become one in me? Right there, when you grow up and you and your spouse meet together.
The man who has attained the state of perfection has all these four different levels of love perfected. Likewise, woman has four different loves. They grow up, but they are not together yet. Where do they get together? First, son's love, then brother's love, then couple's love, and they come closer. You cannot see, but it's diagrammed like so. God's original ideal of creation for son's love, brother's love, couple's love, and parental love now become perfect here. By marrying, we have perfected son's love, brother's love, and couple's love, right here, which then resembles God. Therefore, we carry out the act of creation, just like God did. This is the whole crux, the nucleus of existence for human life. Now the couple is ready to give birth to a child. That means to create life just like God.
Then we can state that we are like the visible God, while God Himself is still invisible. Until we get married, we are still in the process. It is when you marry that this perfection takes place. Do you follow? This is the crux or the origin of the universe, the base of the universe. There we are recognized, centering on love. That is where we get the seal of recognition, so to speak, from God. Originally, that of course, was supposed to occur between Adam and Eve. We, too, must go through the stages of children's love, or love as son and daughter. This model of perfection we can now deploy by millions and billions horizontally. That is another form of creation. Each one forms the four position foundation, with himself or herself in the child's position. They formed it with their parents and connected with God. Looking at this separately as the model, we are exactly in the same form and position as Adam and Eve.
Thus, the value of the first love accomplished by Adam and Eve, right here at the center, and many millions of others who take the same form, is equal. They are all equal. Not only Adam and Eve's father is God, but also, every individual's father is God. God is Father of all other couples. We are saying this centering on first love. Isn't it a little odd when you say, "He is the father of my generation, but he is also the father of ten generations later"? In the horizontal way, God must be thousands of generations, grand-grand-grand father. How can we say God is Father to every couple's first love, in every generation? It is because the first love is the same. That is the way the ideal of creation was set up.
The most precious one is the first love. Does anybody forget his or her first love? We human beings are meant to inherit first loves. Where do we perfect True Love? It is right here, at this point. If you connect all the different levels of True Love through their axis, that is oneself. The self has all these four within. What is the highest point of education? Nobody has known before. It is not gained by going to some institution and spending many years there in order to graduate. Of course, that can be helpful, but this love training is by far the most important crux of education. Why is it so significant? When we achieve this, we become one with God. What more can we strive for? In that position, God is in the mind's position and the individual is in the body's position. Humankind has always sought for God, and even though they couldn't find God, this is God. All religions sought the education of perfection, but no one knew what life is all about. This is what it is all about, the essence of life.
In this position centering on True Love, man and woman have the same value. There should be a standard for perfection centering on love. God recognized the state of perfection in woman, that is it. In the man, that is it. How do we conduct ourselves, how do we avail ourselves to be recognized? Right here at this point. Without the son's love and the brother's love, we cannot reach couple's love. Therefore, we have to reach here first. In order to do that, we go through son's and brother's love, then reach here, the center point.
Also, we are reminded that we have five senses, each working in its own way. But they must have a focal point also. Actually, we have to regard our five senses in the dual sense; we have physical senses and spiritual senses as well. All together, we have ten senses, then. Where can I become one? Is it centering on the eye, the nose, or the other senses? All these senses with their dual composition are centered on True Love. True Love is the center of these two worlds, the physical and spiritual.
Since the mind and body are in the position of plus and minus, why has our body taken the plus position after the fall? What is your answer? We must always remember that the vertical one is first. The deepest root is True Love. The deepest root is vertical. The body is like so and it does not reach to the spiritual depth. As a result of the fall, we have reached a certain depth by centering on the body, but didn't quite reach to the deepest point possible. This one does not exist in the fallen world. Even though one has fallen, still he is made up of Principle. Therefore, because of that characteristic of the parents, it reaches here but not here.
Originally, this is to go deeper, without the body. Because it reaches only here and not here, our body regards itself as the plus. We do many things to try to improve ourselves as human beings, such as meditation, reaching a goal by doing penance, going through difficult times, voluntarily suffering. For what purpose? In the Oriental culture, this is an everyday thing. It is to reach here, going deeper and deeper to the origin or root of the spirit. This is a very simple explanation of why the body acts as plus. I don't have much time today. But at least remember that there is such a situation and that is why the body claims itself as the plus in the fallen world.
Just as we get married and give birth to a child, we place ourselves in the children's position again, the vertical thing. We must always think of that first. When we love our own children, we cannot love with body and mind separately. Our mind and body must first become perfect and then start loving children. The vertical standard of True Love was supposed to be the way which God could come back and forth, up and down, into human beings because He is the center of True Love. No fallen man or fallen world can do that. Because of this impact, re-creation is possible. Where do we connect on the vertical line? Father formed the diagram of the diamond, with the vertical and horizontal axis aligned, which forms a perfect triangle. The distance here, there and there is equal, exactly equal. When children grow up as brother and sister, they are supposed to always think of each other centering on the parents. In kindergarten, grammar school, middle school, even if they go to college, it's the same. When they go to college, as sons and daughters or brothers and sisters, they think of each other, centering on their father and mother.
Spirit world is the same way. God, too, had a time of growth. Of course, this is reasoning, but perfect reasoning is now possible. "Oh, God must have gone through the same growth stage like human beings, starting from a single cell. Then that cell multiplied and multiplied and became a perfect child, and then grew to become a perfected adult man or woman. God must have gone through the same stages." What is the conclusion of that? The conclusion or implication of that is that human creation, from birth to perfection, exactly takes after the process of God's own growth process. In other words, God is looking at a child each step of the way of his growth. The way God grew is the same way that each child, millions and billions of children, are growing when God looks at it.
So there was a time for God equivalent with childhood, grammar school age, middle-school age and college-age. God, too, corresponds to a child's growth through His own growth. And God comes down and the child grows up, and the two meet right here at this point. What can you say now? When a man grows up and reaches his perfection and gets married, it is not only that individual's perfection, but also God's perfection at the same time. Amazing!
Centering on that moment, centering on True Love, the whole ideal is now moving forward. If someone asks you about God, how would you explain? Certainly the worst answer would be, "Oh, I don't know." Or you could say, "Oh, God just came into being." That's not much better. But God has grown. Don't you see? A child grows, you grew, and just like that, God grew. Each individual human being born to his parents is testimony to the growth of all things that are created, including God, too. Of course there are some short periods, some longer periods, they may have different forms, but basically the process is the same.
There is only one point which meets this specification. The distance from here to here is the same, the length here is the same, and this is only one point, not two or more. (Pointing to blackboard drawing.) Right here becomes double or dual line, and right here the dual line, too. This is where the spirit world and physical world become one. Therefore, we see so clearly that without man, woman can never be perfected. Likewise, without woman, man can never be perfected.
Until now, nobody had the foggiest idea about perfection. People think the individual can somehow become perfect alone. Even in the spirit world, there is no library which contains this knowledge. Now Father is announcing all this compiled knowledge and it will be gathered and stored in the library in spirit world. Why? It is very simple. Spirit world is simply a warehouse, a spiritual warehouse where the perfected fruit of True Love is stored. It is the storehouse for the fruit of perfection. Where is that fruit perfected? It is not done in spirit world. That fruit is born and must be perfected right here on earth. Therefore, spirit world is the second place we go, not the first.
Now, at this moment, we are extremely proud of ourselves. We say, "How wonderful I am!" You see, no part of the hemispheres, the semi-arcs above and below, can be taken away. Everything is needed. This is the plus hemisphere, for instance. Without the minus hemisphere, can perfection take place? No, obviously not. Therefore, women absolutely, no matter how they may try to get around it, absolutely need men. And vice-versa: men absolutely need women. Each one's highest hope and ideal is, "I want to be capable of being with my spouse to make this perfection possible." These are the highest goals for each individual.
When such a perfected man here on earth goes to spirit world, he can go anywhere and become a perfect friend with any person, any being, or any situation. This is one perfect model with which to make the ideal, holistic perfection. This is the ideal textbook for holistic perfection. Once you know this, you know the greatest philosophy. Once you make perfection, you are the greatest philosopher, and you are the greatest man and woman of religion because you have attained the goal already. That type of man is God, he has the same value as God, the same level as God, the same everything as God. Wherever the perfected son goes, then the whole world and universe will follow in his wake. Here is one daughter from a small family, and where that daughter goes, the whole family follows, don't they? Yes. But not in confusion as we see in this world. The world is in confusion, of course, because we do not understand this. Once we know this clearly and follow this clearly and perfect it, do it-first we know and then we do it-then no other thing is necessary. You don't need to go to school, you don't need to meditate. You don't have to do anything in the world. (Laughter.) Because he already has the universe in his hands, he doesn't need any more. He is "of love."
In this humble stable of Belvedere, such a historic announcement and proclamation is made. Imagine. What did you do to deserve to be here? All the greatest kings, saints, and the greatest of all people on the earth and already in spirit world should be in the position of where you are today to hear this. Have you ever heard this? Have you ever imagined this?
It's like a crystal. If we perfect it here in woman, and in man, and together such a couple forms a family, this is heaven automatically. This is what we are saying when we speak of "heaven." This is heaven. Here the whole universe has come together in perfection. Like this, they got married and perfected, and formed the entire sphere. And if one of them says, "I don't like this. I'm going to go away," that means he or she will die. Can any possibility of divorce exist here? He and she will both die, and everything will die here. It's the most complete destruction. We know how formidable it is by understanding Principle. Even in the fallen world, there is no one who is happy about divorcing. They always cry. That kind of person is not suffering alone for just that time, but eternally. What can she or he do? He has to simply turn around from heaven and stop looking at heaven and look at the other side. How miserable.
There is such a thing as forgiveness. "To err is human," they say, and, "To forgive is divine." Why? Because God cannot help but forgive because He knows that man doesn't know this truth and therefore makes mistakes. The pottery maker will make his pots and if he doesn't like the way one looks, he can just put it back into the clay and start over again. But once you make a perfected article and finish the process, you cannot return it to clay. If it is perfected and connected to proper parties and after that you destroy it, you are blamed for destroying the whole thing.
When American youths come to know this Principle and are inspired and decide they want to live like this, will America turn into heaven overnight, or will it remain as hell? It will become heaven, literally over night. If you are to pay for this, how much material must we prepare? You can imagine, you are the proper judge. If you sell all of America and you set the price, can you buy this? Think about it. Throughout history, humankind has paid a price in search of the truth. They have sacrificed for the sake of truth, they have been righteous, many things, and all that price was paid. As the result of that, standing on that foundation, this truth has come out.
This truth has been produced. When we understand that, this model will laugh at us, spit at us. They say, "You don't understand." They will spit at us if we don't understand this. This pattern will beckon all of us to come. We must understand. This model is very much alive. To repeat this, to do the same everywhere, this is constitution. This is our standard, the measure. We can take this and apply it to any woman, "How much percentage of perfection does she have?" We can measure even to a fraction of an inch. We will say, "One hundred percent, eighty percent" and so forth. This is our everyday criteria. That's the only way of walking. You can't jump in order to walk, and limping is not walking. That's not the standard for walking. Everything except the normal way of walking is abnormal.
That is completion, the normal standard point. How valuable it is. How much value it has! How much more important it is. You can lose your life, you can lose everything in the universe, but this cannot be lost. This is with God, and because of this, based on this, creation was made. Therefore, Satan also knows this. Satan also has to value this. There is no way we can deny that we have the power to transmit the counterpart to all the relations. You can never deny your spouse. Living alone as a celibate person will make you very lonesome, no matter what your philosophy or belief. Whoever conforms to this is protected by the universe, but whoever does not is not only not protected, but is actually repelled by the universe. Because we feel that repulsion, then we feel lonesome and sad, painful and unhappy. Here is the place where you get recognition, your degree, your diploma, so to speak. When you attend a course, you get a certificate when you finish, don't you? Right at this point, since we perfectly resemble God, we can start the action of creating, like God Himself. Therefore, each person should give birth to as perfect a child as himself or herself. Therefore, unless we give birth to a child and help them grow to perfection, we cannot go to heaven, because heaven is God's dwelling place. Without going through love's history course, we cannot go to God's country, which is heaven. Do you understand? This is clear, very clear.
Think about this all the time: marriage. Why is marriage a source of great joy? Because everything is catching, everything is fulfilled, everything is connected to the center. Forever, every part, every cell is connecting at that point. Man's cells belong to God's cells connected to True Love. Plus and minus, horizontal parents. Man and woman are surrounded by God. Children surrounding parents, father and mother. The children stand in a position surrounding that. This is the point where vertical and horizontal meet. From that combination, there is unification of everything. So you need True Love. How much? Absolutely!
Father is going to erase the blackboard now. Don't ever forget what I have taught today. Have you memorized it? No matter how difficult a situation we are in, we have to reach that purpose, that point of perfection. If you cannot reach that point, you cannot have hope for the ideal. That focal point is the point of hope for the ideal. Now many Western and American members say, "We like freedom more than anything." Where is freedom? Upon this point, you can catch everything, happiness, peace and hope. Otherwise, no way. Now you understand clearly, right? Huh, huh, HUH? (Laughter.) Don't forget.
So Father even taught this at the theological seminary. Once Father teaches this, there is really nothing more to teach you because it's the most important thing. Without this, there is nothing we should learn. It's a waste of time. The man who lives like this, who perfects this, becomes like the president, so to speak, of your nation. You can go anywhere, everywhere, with a free pass. When you appear, then God of the White House, will make way for you. Do you need that seal, that certificate, now? (Yes!) If we live like that, becoming perfected like that, then wherever you go in the world, you would not starve. If you feel hungry, the whole country will rise up and blame the people around you. That is real freedom; such a person is truly free, isn't he?
How necessary is that for you? Absolutely! You have to incorporate that word into your vocabulary: Absolute, absolutely!
My sermon this morning is titled, "I Will Live With the True Parents," and if you do this, you will indeed live with the True Parents. This was the stumbling block for Father, too, and for God, too. Because of this, God is like the most incapable person. He just cannot do anything. People blame God, curse Him, and do anything against Him. We never do what He wants us to do. Still God cannot do anything because of this. And Father, too, could not retaliate against somebody who opposed him. What can he do? Those who do not know and do not even think like this, you cannot stop talking with them. This is what made Father and God most powerless in the universe. Most powerful beings became most powerless because of this criterion of the perfection of True Love.
Which is first, vertical or horizontal? Absolute vertical. In the absolute dual system the horizontal comes right here, too. There is only one intersecting point, which is ninety degrees. Absolutely ninety degrees. In the Western world, we shake hands, up and down when we greet one another. That's the horizontal greeting. Come to think of it, why don't we shake hands by doing this? [Pulling each other's arms back and forth.] It is because we have to follow that vertical way. Oriental people greet one another in the most vertical way, don't they? Like so. [Father bows.] If you put the greetings in order of best, second best, and the like, which is more stylish and better? This way, or that way? When you bow correctly, your body's movements represent the whole universe, grouping it up and offering it as if saying, "I'm going to occupy your love," or "I am at your disposal," or whichever. You know, this is the proper way of bowing. When you see Western people just bowing down like that, that's not so good. You have to form your body into a rounded shape when you bow. Like so. Do you see how round that looks? (Laughter.) As round as you can make yourself. If you bow down but with the legs stretched, it's not round. He makes a big cavity right here, as if saying, "Yes, I am going to embrace all of you, and the whole universe I am going to occupy in love, even God."
Western civilization will follow Eastern civilization without fail now. That trend is already obvious, isn't it? This is the Pacific Era. It isn't the American Era. The East is beckoning to the West, "Come to us." When we write in Korean and also in Chinese and Japanese, we write from up to down, from right to left. All the books are like that. Did you know? Whereas, English is written from left to right and up to down, like so. This has to meet here.
There are many examples of differences. For instance, when an American beckons to someone else to come to him, he does it like this. [With the palm of the hand facing up.] The Oriental people beckon like this [with the palm down]. When we make that motion to Americans, they go away! With the palm up it means, "Please give me something," or "I'm going to receive from you." This way, with the palm down, means "I'm going to give to you." These kinds of hidden meanings are contained in all the simple things we do. Can you imagine how very different Eastern and Western people are? When Western people sleep, many of them, even adults, sleep on their stomachs. When a child sleeps like that in the Orient, the mother will not like it, she will worry about it. We don't even bury people like that when they are dead! We bury them in the proper position with stomach side up, so what do you mean by sleeping like that!
If you know the basics of these principles, even if somebody tells you to do that, you won't do it. The insects of the field may sleep facing towards the earth, but human beings should always face toward heaven.
Everybody agrees that America is on a crash course towards destruction. Somebody has to intervene, somebody has to begin the re-creation. Father is recreating. An Oriental person came here to recreate America, saying, "Leave behind your horizontal ways and follow me." Let's assume you don't understand complicated ideas, but let's just ask a simple question: Have you become better or worse after meeting Father? (Better!) You say "better" because you feel you have become better, or by Principle? Without mistake, you have become better? Which one? Until now, we may have gone in a certain direction with a lot of effort. But without a focal point, without clear criteria, one just drifts away. You must have this point in mind always, then you can go anywhere and do anything. Eventually you will come back to this point, but if you don't have this place, and you go far away, then you are in trouble, aren't you? That's why we should not drift too far away, if you are not confident. If America loses Father, in other words, if Father stops living here or stops returning to America, then America would be without its center. Father is right here in the center, and everybody wants to cluster around him, like all the Japanese leaders and their wives. Why do they come here to Father? It is because of this. Centering on Father, they want to cluster around.
When Father goes to Korea, we all want to follow Father, don't we? That is because it's the shortest path to perfection. Our spirit knows, so that's why we want to be near to Father. He teaches us and he works and acts with True Love, which we can follow. So we want to live near him, spend time with him, being close because we can go the shortest cut to perfection in ourselves. Do you follow? This is why our mind always moves towards Father.
Isn't it true that religious people have been rather eccentric in the eyes of the secular world? They do just one thing. That is because it is all-important to find the center and find God, to find the Principle. After that, everything else is secondary. Therefore, religious people have given up everything for the sake of that one purpose. In order to do that, they give up worldly things. The more faithful a person is, the easier it is for him to give everything up. He gives everything in the search for truth. Because God is here. Oriental philosophy is trying to reach this. Even the highest goal of Western philosophy is here. Because of that, they give up everything willingly to reach here.
When couples are in the act of love, they aren't thinking about Japanese ways, or American ways. You forget everything, don't you? International couples do not think of themselves as representing different countries, do they? You Western women don't love your Japanese husbands as a Japanese representative, do you? You forget everything but the loved one, and your focus is love. The only strong power is True Love. How wonderful! All are the same. It is a vertical feeling. How much excitement, how much strength! It is like you are inflating a balloon, and finally it bursts. A balloon doesn't make any sound while it is being inflated, but once it explodes, it always makes a big noise, like thunder. God may be dozing somewhere, but when He hears that sound, He will be awakened! And then He will gaze upon the place where that sound comes from. The sound of love even wakes up the dozing God. It's so important.
Do you need that power of True Love? Yes? (Yes!) Excellent! You know that well! More than me! If you know this, you can forget everything else. Husband and wife will come together, embrace, and you tumble down, and become one. You don't have to stand in any position, but you can roll.
God lives this way, and True Parents live this way. All sons and daughters live this way, and when all the rest of the world lives this way, then the world will inevitably become heaven on earth. When you are perfected in this pattern, then it goes to the top, most lofty place in spirit world.
We already know how many percent of perfection I have as son, as daughter, brother and sister, and as parents, as spouse. Starting from son's love, right at the center of this circle, it connects by axis horizontally. It is the same way, horizontally and vertically; it is an equal distance, too. There is no way we can go individually. We know that, don't we? We must have our own children, we must have our own brothers and sisters, we must have parents of our own. We must have a spouse. Therefore, this "couple-ism" which we see so much here in America, how far away from God's ideal, we know already. "Couple-ism" means they deploy horizontally, but that's all. They will go farther and farther away, but where will they end up? They certainly cannot come back unless they have a place to come back to.
Actually, this is the reason America became such an individualistic country with so much free sex. They went this way, then after this, there is no other way besides individualism, free sex. Do you understand how they became like this? As they go farther and farther away from this crux, then everything gets in their way. At least that is how the individual feels, so he gets rid of his wife, his children; he gets rid of this and that. Then he finds himself all alone. This is the fate of individualism. Each one has a certain aspect of individualism within themselves. We all know where we are or how much percent perfect we are.
We must think, "Am I looking at my spouse, my children, my parents, in the place of (from the perspective of) God?" Each child must resemble his parents because his parents are not only his parents, but they are also brother and sister to each other. Because they are brother and sister they will learn the brother and sister relationship through their parents and what they are doing. And the couple, too. They will look at the parents' couples' life. By loving their own children, from the standpoint of parents, they do the same. Do you follow? In other words, parents must play the lead role, the model role. Parents must show their children how to love other children, and how to love brothers and sisters, how to serve parents. The father and mother must show the children all these things. The children can only learn from them. Therefore, all education takes place in the family. When children become as perfect as their own parents, then their parental perfection is also attained.
In the Garden of Eden, the brother and sister, Adam and Eve got married. But after the fall, in order to embrace everybody, the farther away your partner, the better. Therefore, Father has been matching people internationally. We all know how much we benefit from that. So we all know we don't have to go more in detail, we already know about ourselves through this measure, this principle. Do we or do we not understand this about ourselves, centering on this formula? (Yes.) Because, "I know faster than God does, I know this first, and then God knows."
Until now, nobody knew. We didn't know and therefore we were forgiven and we were not blamed so much. But now we know. If we still don't do that, then that is where the real anger comes from. Reprimands come. Now that we come to understand this, everyday life should be different. In the morning, when we are washing our face, say, "I have to resemble God. God invested and forgot, He gave and forgot He gave. He was always persecuted, but loved even more. Are my eyes going to do the same things, is my nose going to do that?" We have to continually ask the same question of every part of ourselves, "Is my body, my hand resembling God's?" We must always have this focal point in mind.
American people don't want to live like that, do they? Do they say, "That's too much effort"? This is why the Bible says it is very, very difficult for the rich man to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Poor people, who are more humble, can be more focused on this than anything else. Do you follow?
There is such a thing as a ticket to heaven. It is a one direction course, straight. You will bump right into God and meet with Him if we have that straight route. The individual is there, family is there, clan is there, the nation and world are there. Starting from God, it has been deployed. Now we are returning to God. Therefore, in there is everything. God is my friend, God is my subject, God is my partner. We are that close to God centering on True Love. The grandchildren and grandparents are so close to each other, like dear friends, like brothers and sisters, even. If that happens, is that a tragedy or is that happiness? Inside, we are so respectful of our grandfather and grandmother, isn't that true? But that loving child will just climb up on the grandfather's head, and even perhaps lose control and wet his head, even. The loving grandfather would be only happy. "Oh, this is warm," he would say. He would laugh and be so happy, and say, "Nobody else has this much love toward my grandson." He would laugh and laugh. Do you like that? (Yes!) I don't know. Liking something is up to you, not me.
This is so simple. I, like my parents, with the vertical in mind, will live like this and the re-creation will become complete. When we live like this, that's the end goal of our life. That is what our life is all about, to live like Father, to live like Mother. Now we know clearly the standard of perfection. Here on earth is the easiest place to achieve this. Now that we have the standard, how soon we realize it is up to us. We have to realize it here on earth. If we go to spirit world, we will have to come back to realize it, which is enormously more difficult. Therefore, we must do it here, very quickly.
Earth is the center, not spirit world. Whatever is done here, is done up in heaven. Whatever is entangled here is entangled up there. Therefore, earth is the center. Think about some rich man, some millionaire, even billionaire who always spent his money for the sake of his community, his clan and country. If he lived that way all his life, and then came back to his homeland and died, would he go to heaven or to hell? (Heaven.) Even though he gave everything away and then went back to his homeland and died with nothing in his hands, would he still go to heaven? (Yes.) Why, through what Principle does that happen? It is because he followed God's standard. God still is alive, He is not dead, and He continues doing the same things after thousands and thousands of years.
God's position has always been like a vacant place, like a low pressure zone. One time a high pressure zone comes in and blows down that empty place. That's God's hope, the end of time, the time of the Second Advent. Do you understand?
Raise your hands if you can say, "Now, Father, I understand clearly and you have helped me so much already. But now that I know this, I don't need any more help. I can do it, all by myself, and surely I will get there. Don't worry about me." Father gathered all the men together, and Korean residents here in America. They are lonely people. They are kind of miserable because they are away from home, trying to do God's work, without anyone knowing. So Father gave this talk to them. Today is the time of the Women's Federation, so all the women gathered together and received the same message. Father encouraged all the Korean residents here, "Teach this to every person in this country." Now American men and Korean men know this. Are you American men, you proud, first-rate nation, going to be outdone by the Koreans? Or are they going to be outdone by you? Father says keep your hands up for one hour, but you know you will do it without fail? Until now, whatever Father taught you was virtually forgotten by the time you got back to the New Yorker. Not this time. Okay?
Those who say, "I won't forget, Father, I will never forget!" can lower their hands. That means you will do it! (Yes!)
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