Words for the day : HEAVEN AND MAN UNITE AND CREATE GOODNESS

REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON
HEAVEN AND MAN UNITE
AND CREATE GOODNESS
October 28, 1990
Belvedere
Translator - Col. Sang Kil Han
This is a most difficult translation. Chun In Hap Dok. Individually heaven and man will join together in benevolence or Dok. We have no equivalent in English. Dok is something to give, charity in its utmost sense, embracing, sacrificing oneself to do things for others. It has unification in it, and it has harmony in it. As a result, there is a connection. Even though it has a deep meaning, maybe we can simply understand that heaven and man will join together in every sense.
The symbolic characters in Chinese have the deepest meaning. Heaven is written "two men," that's heaven. And the little extension of this line connotes husband, which means he represents the whole of heaven, humanity. And when you write "In,. it is man, and man means heaven and earth.
Happy means to join or get together under the universe, man or the universe, one mouth, not two mouths, one mouth. Mouth means man. So honest men never speak with two tongues. The mind's tongue and the physical tongue have to be the same. So here, in this case, man and woman or two men join together and should speak with one tongue, never two, so that they are joined. Not like American women, who will exert one thing and their husband will exert another. It has to be always one, one mind.
Dok connotes two men. Fourteen refers to twelve disciples, and Jesus himself and God. This is the significance of fourteen. And the last part is "mind," and there is another "one," unite into one, all minds. So fourteen different minds. So all creation is in a pair system, do you understand? Everything, heaven and man, all unifying, one mind. That is the meaning of "Dok.. Just think, how deep you can go into analyzing it. If you take a dictionary, with each word you can do that. Each word in its own right can represent the universe.
"Heaven" has two persons in it, "man" has two persons in it, and joining together, unification, has two persons in it. So with this thinking in depth, when western and eastern people appear together at a diplomatic table, you guess who has the more far reaching thought. The Westerner represents the horizontal relationship. We shake hands; that's the horizontal connection, equality. The Orientals represent the vertical. You might say there are many vertical lines. No, there is only one vertical line, as we all know. The destiny of western civilization is to go around the vertical line and come back and situate itself in the right position. Or else the civilization itself cannot continue. As it goes around and around the civilization itself will become bigger.
Progress of Civilization
If you insist on a horizontal way of life or relationship, there's no way you can gain the bigness; you just go back and forth. So western civilization will not prosper following its own way; but rather it must go around and around and encompass the whole world and situate itself. There is no way for the material civilization to go around and around with no limit. It must come into some point, getting smaller. This is why it has to take after the vertical civilization. The vertical civilization, so-called, is different. It can expand itself at will.
We see the result of today's civilization. What prospered to no end as the western civilization now seems oppressed by the fast-growing eastern civilization. The eastern civilization just grows and embraces and absorbs everything, to an unimaginable degree. That is already happening. Why? It is because this law is working. This is not a coincidence; it is an inevitability. The way for western civilization to live is not to stop the east but to open up and embrace it with love. Then western civilization will grow along with the world. If we close the door and fight against it, then western civilization will become so stagnant, and the young generation of western civilization will die. The inside body will rot. Do you understand? This is a progressive phenomenon. These are not Rev. Moon's words, but this is the way it is.
We now have a glimpse of how Orientals think and express, and we can understand much better now. This has been evolving and developing thousands of years, before any recording of western civilization. It may be a little bit difficult for you to understand now, but it is true that in the Orient, both Korea and Japan, scholars are finding out and announcing that the root of all civilization came from Korea. Korea is the root, Korea is the origin. Even the China area centering on the Yellow River was cultivated by Korean ancestors. Their migration, through Manchuria, has come to Korea and Japan. Dong, "race," is the word they use. That means "eastern bow. So that's what it says; Dong-eui means "eastern sharp bow shooter " Today, Korea always seems to win the archery competition. Dong, the east, is always the first, it is the number one direction.
Dong as a person has a mouth in it, and a four in it. It also has many elements in it. It is not simple study, is it? At least you have to study a few years, because in heart you must understand. So for valid thinking, the successful, creative thinking, all thinking, unless you understand Oriental linking your thinking will never become strong.
East and West
To address yourself to others, to the other side, English has only one word: you and that's enough for every position. But never in the Orient. have at least a dozen ways of addressing the other person. Not everyone is simply "you." stern people because of the nature of their civilization cannot endure, because they don't have a deep root. So it is difficult to endure. Imagine a, how vast the populations is, 1.4 billion people, but have you heard them make a lot of noise? Like a big wave or current, silently they live on. Sure they fight, occasionally, but while they fight there's a bigger peacemaking behind. Then they make up, and there is a bigger peace.
The western style doesn't seem good. In the Orient when they fight, somehow they make up. Western people don't seem to do that; they just t, and they remain enemies forever and ever. This is a really sad thing. Even western cation church members sometimes just pack and go away. That will never ever happen in the Orient. When Orientals leave they give a reason which they think is a sufficient reason, and say, "When this is solved, then I'll be back." And then they go. So how different it is. So we can see difference in personality of the two civilizations.
Father is a person who most seriously, deeply thought about the unity of the very differing east west. Father came to a conclusion, and acted substantial way with the international marriage. We cannot have real unity without going through international marriage. The western mind arrow; pointed and focused, but narrow still. That's because he only thinks about himself; he doesn't think or care about other people. That's the reason they are narrow. Whereas with Orientals, as you may have experienced, this is not so. They embrace a lot of people in themselves, and still room At least they try, all the time. When are happy, western people shout out in joy, whereas eastern people express that in the batting of the eyes. If you watch the mouth, he shows he is happy or unhappy with the shape of his mouth. So different! And God thought about that too, most seriously, and came to the same conclusion: the international marriage the solution.
International Marriage
When the international couple live together and both have strong personalities, then they fight. Who do you think will run out of the house first? Oriental or Westerner? That explains a lot of the attributes of western minds. You may say, "Oh, Father, why do you denounce me?" It is not denouncing; we have to know ourselves.
Westerners say "getting married," but in Korean it is Si Jip Kada: "one goes to the other." There's no such a word as "get married," at least traditionally. The traditional word is the bride goes to the bridegroom's house; that means they are getting married, exactly that. So Father is asking, "Who should go to whose house? Oriental to western house, or Westerner to Oriental house?" (Westerner goes to Oriental house.) I don't know. (Laughter.)
There are billions of Oriental people living there; a few western people come in and they tolerate, they don't mind. They make them like themselves. But if an Oriental goes to western society, because you are basically individualistic, unless they follow your particular way you will never accept it. They have a hard time joining. Perhaps Father doesn't want us to go deeply and study about these things, spending a lot of time, but at least we must have a general direction, where history is going and why, and how we should be.
(Father draws on the board.) So we see the developing of human civilization starting from a great river; that is a river civilization. Then next in western civilization is the Mediterranean civilization, then it moves to Atlantic Ocean civilization, then Pacific Ocean civilization, now it is a cosmic civilization. So we until most recently were on this stage of western-centered Atlantic civilization. The color is moving this way. The air, too, is moving this way. Now we are on the verge and are entering into Pacific civilization, and are getting ready to join the cosmic world.
The Pacific Ocean has a black current, as you may have heard. This black current flows completely around the world. It goes to all rivers and connects all rivers, even the Mediterranean waters. So, in the Pacific civilization we have to merge together and really become one, into unity, unification, before we enter into the cosmis civilization. Otherwise they all will claim, this star is mine, that planet is mine. They will divide up the whole universe and compete and fight. Imagine, we already know that the universe is immense. Compared to that, the solar system is a tiny speck in a great expanse; it's just a speck. How can he claim it is his, that individual's? The universe will say, "You're kidding.
Bearing Fruit
So democracy is not adequate here, communism is not adequate here; we already know the emerging Headwing thought. Does water have color in it? No color. Does God have any particular color? No. But when the different properties gather together and unite, then it forms lots of colors, a variety of different colors. So the surface of the earth or universe is white people, and the middle layer or middle class is Oriental, and the inner, or the lower side, is black, dark. It is very difficult to tell what is in black people, because they are basically black, so it's difficult to tell what's inside, what he is thinking, how well he is educated. So Father predicts, Father knows, that black people must have patience to tolerate all other civilizations, white and Oriental, patience, patience, patience. When you digest that then you can prosper like no other other. There's a tremendous spiritual potential.
In a tree, the most black part is the root. Then there is a lighter color, then there is upper, more light color; that's Oriental and white people. And where do the blossoms bloom? Blossoms bloom in the white part. The white person is that flower. So because of that reason the western civilization is blossoming, like a flower should. But if they don't understand that, and don't bear the right fruit, then what is the use? It will all be buried down under and just washed away.
The white people have now blossomed; the blossom must have fruit. Why don't they bear that fruit? Because they are not capable of absorbing all the nutrients from trunk, branch and roots. This is because they're thinking about only themselves, their surroundings. Fruit gathers all contents into one: root, branch, trunk, everything. Western civilization doesn't have that kind of contents. That means they didn't make real fruit. What shall be going on in the future time? Real food, we are talking about. We should have that food before we can bear fruit. This is the problem.
We Are The Bridge
So this can be a very necessary and welcome common-sense view. Who would be the middle for the transition between the Pacific civilization and the cosmic civilization? That is Unificationism, Headwing, Godism, mainly working in the Unification church. We are the bridge. Do you understand? Now the Rev. Moon is much more in focus, becoming famous all over the world. All have to pay attention to what he thinks and what he does.
This is a simple principle once you know it. All laws are simple once you understand, but no one can explain this in such a clear way, only Rev. Moon. Your attitude might be, "Oh, today, another day at Belvedere. Oh, Father always speaks the same thing; why does Father make us get up so early in the morning and make us come here?" (Audience: No, no.) "Always he speaks the same thing.. Is it true? (NO!) But can you really understand that value, as spirit world now recognizes that value? Spirit world is really excited, so much that they really don't know what to do. Are we like that? Listening to Father; spirit world is listening to Father too, like us, now. Father is speaking to millions of people.
Spiritual men understand the history going on in the future time. To clearly understand that, how much blessing it is. Historically, the individual never understood where the world was going or where he was going. Now we do! Sitting on the face of the earth we do. Think about it. You may have been the top, top class in every way, in the Christian church or any church, and you graduated Harvard or double Harvard, anything. Of course they have precious knowledge, but it is horizontal knowledge. They don't have an inch of vertical depth. Now what have you been learning here by listening to Father? We must understand and cherish it before we lose it.
Father knows that one day there will not be enough tickets for the people who want to come here. People will fight to pay thousands of dollars to come in and listen to Father. Each family will plan a budget, to determine their assets, calculating how many times they can attend Rev. Moon's sermons. We have to really understand our value. What if Father said after the sermon of three or four hours, I will hand out three or four hundred dollars to each of you? Even if a man giving a normal sermon, said, "come and listen to me for three or four hours and I will pay you three hundred dollars,. would anyone leave? And if he said, If you doze you are disqualified. Do you think they would doze? That's nothing to laugh about, because can we place a value of three hundred dollars on Father's words?
Who Is God?
We know by now that a person such as Father has never existed before or after this time in history. At no time in history has there has been a person like Father, on the face of the earth. Heaven and man joined together in balance, to unify the whole universe who can even think or speak like that, except Father? Those who don't understand that have never learned anything in listening to Father over the years. I have spoken already one hour, and since you've already got the outline of Father's sermon, maybe well record it as the sermon. (No!) Then it's all right? By common sense, if Father goes on like this, Father can go on all day and still not have enough time. So much common sense we have to be equipped with.
Do you really know Heaven exists? (Yes, Father, absolutely.) All right: heaven. That means the heavenly nation is there. God is the center and owner of that. Then our question is, can we elect the center of the heavenly world or country as in democracy, by election, by consensus, by each person's opinion? Yes, no? (No.) Can we say, "Well, God is not up to the correct level, so let us change God"? Or can the Messiah be chosen among the many different colors of skin? (No.) How can you say no? What is your ground for saying no? Who decided in the first place? (God.) Who is God? Origin, origin, origin, origin; forever origin. The origin no one can touch, no one can even say anything.
Can anyone touch your life? Can you touch your life? You might say, "I don't like my physical parents." But have you seen any parents deny their own children? How can you deny your life? Even though you may not like your parents, does it mean you are going to deny your life? If you cannot deny your life, how can you deny your parents? Your life comes from them. We cannot deny our life, no matter how much we might dislike it.
Hating one's parents but loving one's own life is such an absurdity. It's not consistent; it's wrong; it's a contradiction. The origin of your life is who? (God.) Yes, but the immediate origin is your parents, who gave you your life. As long as we love our life, then we should love our parents as well. Here is a woman who loves her own life. Then she should love the life of her husband, the man, also. Because that man, too, takes his life as most
important. And the sons and daughters will get together and they will agree with each other that their lives are more important than their parents' lives.
How Can We Qualify
Then if we reflect on ourselves, the result or fruit of civilization, are we in the position to unify, centering on this life, between husband and wife, between parents and children, between brothers and sisters? Very sadly, the answer is no, we are not capable of doing that, even centering on this precious life, which everyone understands. Can we unify, centering on the preciousness of life? Yes or no? Someone answered yes, someone answered no. Which is the correct answer? No, we cannot in the present civilization.
What about money, then? Can money do it? In American families, one checkbook goes in here, another goes in here. You have many different checkbooks which you have to keep secret from your own mother, keep secret from your husband, and you don't want the children to know about this one; many different checkbooks. There are a lot of insane people who can make peace with money, in America especially. How can you describe that except "crazy" How can you even think that money will pacify, make peace. If this principle is right, then what percentage of American families are crazy now? 100% or 30%? 100% and more! Including the future families, more than 100%.
The young people which heaven had been so hopeful for, if they are going after the same rotten things, then they really are in a bad position. And they are arrogant about being capable, able.
How about power? Western people like power. Can you make unity centering upon power? The essence of western civilization is like a duel. The duel expresses the real core of western civilization. There are two, and there is no way of reconciling. One has to be out, and one rules. The duel, you know: to shoot the pistol at each other to see who remains. If the same principle of a duel comes into the husband and wife relationship, what do you expect out of it?
We are not just talking in a funny way. Society is already entering into that area. American families are like that, more than 70%. Husband and wife exert power with each other, and never yield to each other, to the extent that either you or I remain in this house, and one has to go out or die. So the women are fostering the power as well as men. You, too, plan how much you have to conserve your power in case you and your wife come into disharmony someday. Do you do that?
Guns or Tears
So when this duel goes on and on, there is only one remaining. Who do you think will remain, man or woman? In the animal kingdom, as you know, the female will wait until the males duel each other and see who will win. But in the human case, even if you win, there is no woman to follow you. The man is left alone, and that's the real end of this sad situation. The thought of this duel, of dueling: western civilization started with blood, one killed and chased the other, one was chased and fled, and built another society and nation. Blood and guns play a significant part in this civilization. How can it be? Hundreds of thousands of lives are lost through the use of guns, but there's nothing the government can do in controlling these guns. This is the kind of situation this civilization is in.
What is comparable with guns in the eastern world is tears. Tears. It doesn't seem to be so exciting, but it is formidable. Tears. What is your guess; do you think that is correct? Why do they shed tears? The tears are the outcome of self-reflection, self-torment, and continuing to love the would-be enemy. You cannot come to the actual solution, so you mourn and mourn and shed a lot of tears. And if you really want to retaliate, then you change your position. "If I were him or her, how would he feel if I did that to him or her?" Orientals always think like that. So the only way they can go is just tears, because you cannot give up. In the west, you don't go through that difficult ritual. You just shoot a gun at him and he's gone. And you're there; that's your world.
So this is power. But in the heartistic world, according to the nature of the universe and God, can power play any part? Not so much. What about knowledge, then? Someone might be a graduate of Harvard, so he may advance in life, but that has nothing to do with the surroundings. He may make lots of money. But to preserve that, he gives up his responsibility to the nation, to society, to anything, he gives up his own life, his parents and friends, and he will defy his own nation in order to preserve his so-called profit. So those are the top of the line which comprise the prosperity of this nation.
The Democratic World
What do you guess, the population will increase or decrease in the future? It will increase even by leaps and bounds. So when hundreds of billions of people live on earth and in other parts of the universe, can we make peace or unify with money, knowledge or power? To the outside world now, because of this element, Americans are not so popular. In fact, they say Yankee go home. That's today's situation, a real cold situation. If you try to implant the same democracy in other countries, in the future when billions and billions of people are living on the earth, will the surrounding people welcome it or be against it? Think about it, welcome it or be against it? (Against it.) You have to know that history will not follow the democratic world in the future. It's a problem! How can you solve that problem in the future? From now you have to make preparation for the future. That is the mission of the world's leading country. How can the American country keep going on, given the present world situation? They don't have any way of solution. Do you understand?
We have to know the situation and know what we should do. Which is the more precious, life, power, money, or knowledge? (Life.) But unbelievably, the value is not recognized in that order, here in America today. They manipulate life with money and power and even knowledge. They do that all the time. How can this kind of thing go on under the broad daylight, in the most advanced nation? For not even a million dollars, for just a fraction of a million dollars, the average American woman will sell herself. You go to these resorts, Atlantic City, Las Vegas and all those places. Father investigated. There are literally thousands of people who are in that kind of lowly state.
What should we take as important; what should we value most? Life, knowledge, power? We have seen a good example of "power" in Communism. It exerted lots of power, using power to eradicate life. They did that very much, but today communism is gone. Money, too, the money-almighty civilizations too certainly cannot survive. Nor knowledge. You may have fantastic knowledge, but still you cannot keep going.
Life is Precious
Then have you ever stopped to think that my life is most precious, that I am fit to be a king, or that I don't envy a king, because I have this Life? Have you ever come to that awareness? That means we have to take life more seriously, not grouping it with other properties. That means we have to realize how important our life is today, and that no money, no power, not even a dagger at my throat, can threaten my life; my life is too precious. We have to know that. Compare knowledge, power, money, and your life, and on the universal level, not with a little bit, but with big knowledge, big power and big money. Am I going to trade my life for these? Do we realize that our life is that precious?
Are you going to trade your life for these things? If you say no, raise your hands. You're not so confident. Why are you so slow? Do you really mean that? (Yes!) Are you living that kind of way already, or are you going to live that way in the future, from this point on? Not only physical life, but eternal life. That means we haven't been living that way.
Have we ever come to realize that the fact that my individual life has come into being on the face of the earth is a cosmic miracle; not just a miracle, but a cosmic miracle? The fact that I exist here with life, that my life has come into being here on the face of the earth, is a cosmic miracle. Have we individuals ever come to realize life that way? Not just a miracle, but a cosmic miracle. When you hear that a cosmic miracle and you are equal how do you do you feel, good or bad? (Good ) How good? Very very, very, very!
Then you don't stop there, all of a sudden it occurs to you, "I am a woman! I am born to be a woman, this is more the stuff of a miracle." Have you ever thought like that? Or a man, by the same token. Which is a more miraculous, to be a woman or to be a man? (Laughter.) Think about it. Who stands on the nearer side of life, man or woman? If a child will jump into the house from a playground, does he shout out, "daddy," or "mommy"? (Mommy!) Then does a man feel so reduced? Or is he happy? How can he be happy when the child is tinning to the mother, not the father? What ground does a man have to be happy? If man will not feel happy about that, and be jealous of it, what kind of a family can you envision? Why doesn't he get jealous? He feels love. Why? Is it because he is handsome and he feels superior? What prevents him from being upset? Does life prevent him from being upset? Or what? (Love.) Yes, that love; of course, we know, that is love.
Original Love
Has anyone seen love? Can you touch it? You cannot see it. We cannot see, we cannot touch, but we know from each cell, from the guts of heart, that love is absolutely necessary. The origin is love. Life alone, or all the other things together, cannot make harmony and unity in the family. But love can do it, and love is always needed, and more love will come to be. What kind of love? Is the love which we have a dying love? No, certainly not; it is real love, original love. With original love, that of God, that is possible.
Since life and love came from Him, original love was planted from Him in Adam and Eve, in the family. That family became the fruit, do you understand? Fruit, we have been planted as fruit, making more fruit, too. That kind of power means true love. Do you understand? True love can never change. It resembles original love, with the same face, the same attitude. No power of any kind can change that. Man cannot change it; woman cannot change it; parents cannot change it; children cannot change it; all families, all relatives cannot change love. That is original love. Think about this: do American families have that kind of original love? No! "No" means that God doesn't like that. That means automatically it will disappear. Original love. Any color, any kind of family, any kind of nation, needs that kind of unchangeable true love. Isn't that so? Do we need that original love, all of us and all of our families?
Then we can come to think, is life first or is love first? Because of love, life came, or because of life, love came? (Love.) What about God; was God's life first or God's love first? Same thing. Not because of the life of God did God come to exist, but because of the love of God, God's love, God Himself came to exist. The vertical center of true love is God Himself. Do you follow?
Diagnose Yourself
Who do you take after? Your parents. If you trace up, who is the original ancestor? (God.) True; you said it. And in God, too, are God's mind and body in perfect unity or not? (Yes.) Centering on what? Centering on love or life? Centering on life is God one in Himself, or centering on love? (Love.) So love is first. So mankind, the highest level minds, have come to realize that life is very important, more than average people realize; but they never understood that love is more important than life.
Now here are women; do they have love in them or not And here are men; do men have love in them or not? Assume that you have love, but does the love you have exist on the base of mind and body coming into perfect unity? You have love, but is that based on the unity of your mind and body, that is the question. Which one, no or yes? (No.) You have love, but your mind and body are not in unity, that is the point. This is bad love. Then you can diagnose yourself; you can evaluate your own love. Given that your mind and body are not in complete harmony, not in unity, and you still have love, is that kind of love true love or something other than true love? (False love.) False love! That is the problem.
False Love
How can you solve this, your body and mind situation? This is fallen humankind's homework. It's like homework, comparing with students. Man cannot solve this problem, this situation of love. That kind of man who is ignorant of himself, who is walking around claiming that he is going to love a woman-should we kick him out or leave him there' We should kick him out. But who made him? American society.
Americans have love too, but what kind of love is it? You can classify that love. False love! Who made it? Satan. God did not; Satan influenced. There are such things so unthinkable that they make God's heart explode, like wife-swapping. In the universe, this is the worst, worse than animals. They do that, free sex, because they don't know. You say, you welcome someday when you will choose a woman who is good in free sex Would anyone choose that kind of woman as their eternal wife? (No.) Forever no? or will your mind change as you go along? Forever no! That's a universal law. History will follow that kind of law. Follow that kind of law; otherwise, America will perish.
It's a very reasonable, logical conclusion. Where is true love? How can they seek it, find it? That's the problem. Can the body find that? No. You must separate your mind and body, fighting. Sometimes the flesh body is up, Sometimes the mind is up. Do not make the flat, horizontal way. If you want to lore, openly it's not true love! Understand? It's not true love. False love, fallen love. Who made that? Not God. God did not make that; Satan made that. So we know clearly how to clean that up. This is our mission in our lifetimes. Otherwise you get to spiritual world and cannot clean it up there.
Where is true love? It doesn't matter if you are calling out forever, "I want to welcome you,. can true love come to visit you? No, never. Who is the problem? The problem is you; not the world, not the outside world, not Satan. Yourself; do you understand? Yourself. The problem is "I".
The One Revolution
So what is the topic of Father's sermon this morning? "Heaven and man unite and create goodness.. Is that a possible concept, or an impossible concept? Heaven and man will unite; centering on what is it possible? (True love.) True love. Do we have a glimpse of true love now? What is true love, then? We have to analyze and know clearly.
Once we know, then we can say, "I am number one, I am the center of the universe," no problem When we are in true love, then we can proclaim it to others; that's no problem. But you cannot utter true love unless your body and mind are in perfect unity. Where is the original location of true love? Where does it belong? Me, or my partner? Which one first? Me; me first. That is the problem Everybody wants a partner. Many saints and religious leaders have come and lived here on the face of the earth, and tried to do their vocation. But no one realized that there is a separation of mind and body and a lack of true love. No one has come to take care of that.
Now Rev. Moon for the first time in history has come, clearly defining and explaining. He spends all his life to revolutionize this awareness of the human being. That is the one revolution God wanted, to bring the people up to the lofty standard, overnight. That's what God wanted. That's what everything has been coveting, that revolution. And the Messiah too. What does he do when he comes here? He becomes successful in revolutionizing, lifting that concept up to that high place Then there will be one liberation taking place here, another big liberation taking place there, being liberated from the fetters of money, from the fetters of power, from greed, from knowledge, whatever you have. Even from the wrong life, we have to be liberated, and that liberation will take place every where. (Applause.)
For the Sake of Others
To throw this power and money and things away is not the real question. The question is, if we realize true love, even including life in front of love, these all of a sudden become insignificant. That's the way we ought to be. That's how we should realize true love, ourselves. Even though we may not be in that position yet, do you think it is likely? So isn't it logical that for the sake of one's life, including spiritual life, one should be willing to give up money, power and knowledge, just like that? That person will be the only one to realize this life is so precious. He will even give up his own life so that he can gain true love. All four things together, when we are ready to give these up, then true love is ready to move into us. Do you understand that clear concept? You received that clear concept through Father's speech this morning. Whoever says "Father, I understand that concept clearly this morning," raise your hands.
So now we realize true love is something more precious than all of these things put together, with no comparison. But now, what is true love? What are the attributes and properties of true love? It is the love that we give and give. He gives for the sake of others, even his life is given for the sake of others, and when it is done, later on, he forgets the fact that he has given, and he wants to give even more. How can he forget? He naturally forgets because he wants to give something even bigger. That place is the forgetting place, because there is no room there to remember. Then that which he gave before becomes smaller and he forgets it. No room to remember the small good deeds.
It's not a difficult thing, we see it quite often with a mother's love. The mother gives and gives but never keeps a record, "Oh, I gave you that." She forgets, everyday, and gives more and more, fresh. And feeding a baby, baby after baby, that's sharing her own life to the baby, but she is only too happy. She is not saying the baby is taking her life away. We are not talking about a saint for a mother, but the average mother who is also the result of the fallen generation. If a fallen mother is like that, we have to become like true motherhood. How high a level in giving we should strive after!
God's Mansei
Then we have an idea, at least an idea this morning, what true love is going to be like. Those who are ready to do this in action, day in and day out throughout their lives, true love is willing to dwell in them. How wonderful, how great this true love is, to choose such a person to move into. When true love becomes yours, how proud you will be. Then you can really admire and praise God. Unless you reach there, how can you understand God? We will shout out (Hananim, manse). in spite of ourselves.
And Hananim Himself will shout out "Mansei! Now I have found my eternal object, my eternal son." Will God say "manse)" like you? (Laughter. Father gestures.) That's Hananim's manse). (Applause.)
God says, "I want to become king of the true world center;. how wonderful it is. God wanted that kind of throne of God. Not the throne we imagine. That kind of throne. Can God enthrone Himself, or who would enthrone him? His true love partner. Who is God's true love partner? Me! You! Man and woman, combined into one, completely making centering true love in oneness. That is God's originated partnership of true love. Do you understand? So that man and woman, making one centering true love, forever, that kind of couple is God's forever true love partner. How wonderful that is! (Father demonstrates with Col. Han.) Father is doing these dramatic moves, so that you will never forget, so that every time you think about this morning your life will lift up.
That's our homework: have our mind and body become one or not? Have our mind and body become one? If not, that's our homework. Then you cannot find out true love place. You have to be clear, that problem is in the contents of your mind, inside. not outside. Clear?
True Olive Tree
I want to meet my true husband; I want to meet my true wife. So the individual, the woman must become that kind of woman before she seeks her eternal husband. The man has to be that kind of man before he even starts looking for his own eternal wife. Does that kind of man and woman exist here on the face of the earth?
The one who tries to save his life but cannot do it, he's desperately needing somebody; that somebody he needs is the Messiah. The Messiah comes to help accomplish this. So the wild olive branch finds and engrafts into the true olive tree. We have to engraft strongly. Not at the foot do we engraft; we have to cut off the neck, and graft into the Messiah's tree. The Messiah's eye branch. Make one hopeful place. Find out by yourself. En engrafting. Just cut it off and implant and reconnect to the true olive tree, you know, the baby Reverend Moon. Not the baby Reverend Moon, (laughing) the baby God. Do you follow?
This has been a historical process. History has been working for this one goal, and nobody even knew this was a Problem. That means this has been the task, the eternal task throughout history. ,very saint, every high scholar tried to solve it, asking where is the problem, where is the solution ;o the problem? Nobody knew. For the first time, Father is bringing this out and giving this to us. So, first the Messiah has to cut it off and recreate. Because if you are intact, then you will grow badly. Now we feel the process of our being recreated quite acutely, don't we? When Father gives a sermon like that of this morning, then we feel we are being mended, repaired.
So now the conclusion. The essence of the problem is me. The problem which a person doesn't solve by himself, when the ideal world comes, he will continue to have in the ideal world. We have to solve our problem before we join the ideal world. So Jesus said do not cry for me; cry for your own self and your own generations. Because Jesus could not say what he came here for, he knew that was all he could say. Now the puzzle is solved. That's what Jesus meant: don't cry for me, cry for yourself and your own descendants.
Dominate Yourself
Now we are in a better position to understand ether's first motto in his historical dispensation, which is: "Before you hope to dominate the universe, dominate yourself." This one single sentence. Since Father knew true love, what true love s, Father had to first unify Father's own self. Since we know the true value of true love, with ;hat power we can control ourselves, no problem. When we don't know, we cannot, but when we know, we can. If what Father is professing is true, and of course we know it is true, then Father can wish the whole universe; that means the universe will come at his command. If you occupy that true love, you can catch everything, including God Himself. Now we know how valuable true love is.
Here a man proclaims, "1 am that kind of a man." He stands on the east side, because he is a man. And here is a woman, who says I am that kind of woman," and she stands on the west side. Then they come together, then they meet, with what? True love, meeting, combined forever. One time making unification, they are united forever. That is true love. Then true unification will be realized. So going on like that, east and west going on; which place do they meet? In the central place. Do you understand? At the shaft, the arts. Centering on that, vertical love, God's love, comes down, ultimately, standing at the center. True love origin; do you understand? Standing in that one place, horizontally, making one, then God is inside humankind.
(Draws on the board) It looks very much like a Taeguk flag, which is the Korean flag. About the Taeguk of course there's a lot to learn, later on. It does an eternal revolution of give and take. (Father's English:) God, too, centering on true love, vertical, man's true love, woman's true love, the duality of God, plus and minus, making the new one. Centering, combining, making this focus place is God's place. Revolving, making this like that, focus and God.
So all of our cells started from the minutes" division of the cell, this way, even to husband and wife and all higher, plus and minus. Individual, family, nation, it grows. Then the extension of true love goes up and up.
Connect to the One
(Father draws on the board.) So, the restoration course, rising one step after another, and going into this center. Individual level, family level, and on to the clan and nation and world, and the cosmic level. Everything is centered on true love, do you understand? The individual center is true love, family center is true love, relatives' center is true love, nation's center is true love, universe's center is true love; everything, God-centered mind-body is true love, the same. They ultimately, automatically connect into one. Do you understand? One body, one point. That place can become the heaven and man unified place. Do you understand? Only true love. Perfection of the individual is done like this.
The perfection of the individual means the mind and body of that individual become one and proclaim that one who lives in true love will marry eternally with his spouse, and together, in true love, will give birth to a child, and form a true family, and that family will expand to a clan, and to the society and to the heavenly true love nation. Such a family will prosper thousands of generations and never change. It's one blood, one lineage, that of God in vertical deployment, that of the relatives' position in the horizontal extension. All places we call heaven and man coming into perfect union.
(Father draws extensively) This is a sphere, a globe, of three dimensions. So the upper sphere, like we see in the moon, and the lower sphere, and if you join it, upside down, it fits. That's the right hemisphere and that's the left hemisphere. You take this part, and it fits into any other position, and it fits perfectly.
Ninety degrees right here. That's an individual, the individual is there. All you have to do is keep extending, and you get true love, true love, true love, true love, true love, true love. All that globe is connecting true love. Any place in this area is full of that true love in the globe. Do you understand? So that as you like you can make this place, every time, O.K., you are resembling me, same, every place make this one, same thing, same thing, vertically same, horizontally same. So your place is the same place, just like this, do you understand? I am standing in that vertical same place, horizontal same place there, parallel connecting place. Individual place is my (unclear) place, do you understand? Your characteristics are different. So your mind the same, body same. Do you understand? Parallel line, vertical, horizontal, parallel. Otherwise you can make the ninety degrees. Do you understand?
The Harbor of Life
All humankind is God's cell, one cell. Connecting place same thing. Vertically parallel, horizontally parallel, standing at that place. One body, centering true love.
So therefore, literally, it is heaven and man coming into union. This is heaven, this is earth, combined into one. My left, right same; front, behind same. All connected into one. Do you follow? True love. And nature, too, centering on true love, shows lightning. Lightning is up, plus, electricity. Down, going to one place, that lightning hits. Same thing: at that time showers of water fall down. Same phenomena: making the sound, drop down tears, water. Love place: same thing. Doves, pigeons, love each other, making sounds (imitates sound of birds). Same phenomena.
So those who lead this kind of life on the face of the earth, unmistakably, surely go to heaven in the spirit world. We, the fallen descendants, are in the harbor of despair and sin, but now we have to jump to the harbor of life. Without this knowledge, carrying on our life without this clear way, what should we do? Without knowing this and carrying it out, we can never reach the other side of the river, the heavenly side. This is the harbor of death, and we have to fly over, reaching the harbor of life. We have to jump over, fly over with true love, that is the human homework, accomplishing that kind of work. Flying up, making freely, our hopeful heaven. We will jump up to that place. That is humankind's home. Do you understand?
Those who determine themselves strongly, who can say, "I will overcome all the hurdles that lie in front of me, now I have a clear goal, and I will definitely get there and become a victorious person," those who seriously resolve that, raise your hands this morning. Beautiful hands. God bless you.Words for the day : HEAVEN AND MAN UNITE AND CREATE GOODNESS:

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DECLARATION OF TRUE PARENTS REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

Belvedere, New York Translated by Peter Kim 1st March, 1990 As Unification Church members, we have a habit of using the words "True Parents." They are not just simple words, there is deep meaning in them. Throughout history or from any museum you visit, True Parents will be the easiest words to remember, but we are the only people who know that term and use it. Think about the history of Christianity. For 2000 years, people have known that Adam and Eve fell. It is obvious for them to figure out that they lost true parents and have had only false parents, but no one ever came up with this term True Parents. Only Father came and discovered it and taught it. There might have been some people who guessed that the original parents should have been good, but since the contents of the Divine Principle and the meaning of True Parents were never known until Father came and showed them, no one dared declare the term True Parentism. It is an astounding event that Father came up with the secret to all the contents of human history and Divine Principle. It is extraordinary, not a common event. Once you understand the meaning of True Parents you will understand mankind's parents up to this point have had a false blood lineage, not a blood lineage from God. That is the meaning within True Parents. It is a miracle! An astounding event! The words "True Parents" say that we have cut off the fallen blood lineage from Satan and immediately inherit true life, love and lineage from God. That is in the meaning of the words "True Parents." The term True Parents immediately explains that since man takes after Gods image, like God, who has life, love and lineage, we also inherit that from God. Originally our inheritance would last forever. God is like a root connection to the blood lineage for our life. When we say we live, it means we're directly connected to God centered on true life, love and lineage. We have God tagging along with us wherever we go. We must have that absolute concept in our daily life. Though we say we inherit God's true love, life and blood lineage, it doesn't mean it is for our sake. It is for the sake of others. We have to live for the sake of others, that is the root of it. Is anyone here thinking you want a love partner who is uglier than you, or children uglier than you? No. Everyone is seeking someone better than themselves. Where do you inherit that kind of mind and thinking? We are a result, not a cause. Since we think that way, God who is the cause must also be thinking that way. By the same token, since we think this way, God must be hoping for us to be even better than God. Better in what way, centered on what? True love. To prove that, even when God first created Adam and Eve, he held nothing back, He gave everything and more. Because of that, we inherited that heart. Even in this mundane world, people say they will give their life for the sake of love. That is true love. God was willing to give up everything, life and love when He created mankind In other words, God created a true object and gave everything for the sake of that true object, not for His sake. So we, as created by God, must be that way. God created for the sake of man, not Himself God gave everything, so now has nothing. Even if His side of things is vacant, He wants to give more and that force creates a spinning movement. In electricity you see plus and minus. Minus moves to plus first and causes movement, not plus to minus first. Plus gives everything, then there is nothing left but receiving power which initiates rotation. This universe was created centered on true love. That is living and giving for others, not for your sake. If we truly inherit God's attributes one hundred percent, you will be like God. You could not imagine thinking of yourself, but only living and doing for others. In the original world God created, we should have existed for others, not ourselves. What is the fall? Exactly the opposite. Centered on the self, you seek love saying, "Love me" and "Give me." This caused heaven and earth to separate. God and Satan were divided. That is the cause. Because of it fallen people have their minds and bodies always separated. We didn't know why our bodies and minds were always struggling and fighting, but now we know. The biggest revolution for mankind is clearing, finishing and stopping the battle between the mind and body of mankind. Who is Satan? Satan is the object who thinks all exists for his sake. We inherited life, love and blood lineage from Satan so we have to clear and terminate it. Every individual is like a one hundred year old tree rooted in that kind of selfish foundation. Can you pull your own tree out of the ground? No. In order to solve the mind and body problem, God created religions throughout history. God created religion to punish the body and put the mind above it. Your body is your enemy. Your body pulls you to hell. Your mind is trying to stop your body from being pulled. Where are you now? You know well. So you understand clearly where you stand. You know if you are headed for heaven or hell. Who pulls you to hell? Your body, which is seeking comfort and easy works with its selfish motives. Now we have to attack and beat the body. For this reason religions teach fasting, prayer vigils and to stay away from sex. This is universal truth. All religions teach it. Ever since man was created, all sexual behavior and relationships have been centered on Satan. Not one single action took place centered on God. That is why I declare all sexual desire and behavior mankind practiced centered on Satan. Therefore whatever sexual activity you do is destroying yourself and not helping you. Satan has three major weapons to destroy mankind. Food, sleeping, which means living comfortably or seeking an easy life and using sex freely and abusing it. That is why all religions teach to eat the least tasteful, bitter food. If you eat only tasty food, your body will be fat in the middle and misshapen. You won't be able to bend down to pray. but if you eat vegetables you will be naturally slim and can easily bend to pray. Don't you want an easy life? That is why we have the tendency to have others work hard, while we seek an easy life. We also have the fallen nature that if you find a better looking partner you leave your spouse behind. Those people look like a snake sitting all coiled up to themselves and looking around. There may even be two snakes together, but they are looking someplace else for something better. American women are exactly like that, looking for better everything. It is like a spider web trying to destroy this world. These are the devil's tools. Do American youth like hard work? They say "We're comfortable and have an easy life, but the rest of you should do hard work and support the world". There is a cry in the United States that the Japanese and Koreans are working too hard, so stop them from working. Those Americans are like Satan when they try to stop people from working. Americans won't even work for themselves, but Orientals work for others. Which side will God take? Now the trend is necessary for life to come from the Orient. American people are seeking excitement and fun but it is leading them to hell. A good example is the many Korean residents in the Unites States' metropolitan areas. The Korean residents live and work in places like Harlem, ghetto areas. Residents there become jealous of their success that came from working hard over long hours. The residents rob them and try to kick them out. Not just Koreans, but all Asian people. If you don't work hard, you are doomed to decline. Do black people work hard? Harder than whites? In your town, suppose there are three groups of people, one white, one black and one yellow. In one hundred years, which race will be the owner or the center of that town? The yellow people work harder not just for themselves, but for others. We are the people who know the secrets of Satan and Father has told us the secrets of God. If you know that there is a hidden diamond mine in a certain area, wouldn't you sell all your belonging, your home and car and leave your family in order to go and find it? Those who don't know it is there will criticize you for selling everything and going for an empty mountain. They will think you foolish. But in reality, no matter who says what, you will continue with confidence and do what you have to do to get those diamonds. On your way to the diamond mountain you would be happy and smiling even if persecuted, with no food or a place to sleep. Right? Let's think about our situation. We know the secret of true life, true love and true blood lineage of God from True Parents. Can we compare this to a mountain of diamonds? Would we exchange them? Absolutely not. If that is the case, is the Unification Church doomed to fail or be a success? No matter what beautiful treasure we have, if we cannot work hard God will be distant and go far away. No matter how much you know Divine Principle, true love, life and blood lineage, if you do not connect with God, or become interwoven with God, there is no hope. You need to practice this in daily life. Get close to the original source. Unification Church members tend not to pray enough. Since Father knows these secrets, he cannot leave us idle, but he kicks and pushes us to fulfill our role. [Father draws a picture of the path to the diamond filled mountain. It twists and winds and goes in circles on the way.] The American way is to walk carrying nothing and in a straight line. You don't like the Asian and African way [carrying a heavy load.] You only want to walk the straight way. The heavenly way does not look like a highway. It is narrow and has many valleys to pass through. Satan who knows this secret mountain, puts up hurdles and roadblocks. It is a very difficult path so once you make it, the journey becomes priceless. Throughout history no one even imagined it. If you can tackle this, challenge and make it through, it is so precious. In general, as you follow the path to heaven, everything is painful. No matter how difficult or vicious the roadblocks are, there is one secret to overcoming them. Dig a tunnel underneath! Otherwise you cannot reach the diamond mountain. Even when you dig a tunnel, it should not be for your own sake, to collect the toll, it must be for the sake of others, the public purpose. Father has prepared this tunnel already, but who appreciates it? People think he is Iying. Even along the central tunnel, Satan will create deviated tunnels to confuse us. How do we know the correct one? There is a long thin thread from our heart to the diamond mine. Hold tight and follow it. Even at the final point, just before the mountain, there will be deviating tunnels. Once you grab the thread, don't drop it no matter what. The tunnels aren't straight you see, but go up and down and in circles and loops. You will have to cross rivers. Do you still have hold of the thread? No matter how much material we have around us in America we have to hold the heart thread to Father. Do you like Father that much? Father doesn't feel that. We only have to follow. Think of what destruction Satan created when Father began to dig the tunnel. All the world was against him. But now it is time for Father to travel, anywhere with no roadblocks and no Satan. He can go to Russia, America, anywhere. From Divine Principle, we understand the history of mankind has been a history of restoration and recreation. How many years? No one knows. God created Adam first, before Eve. When people say a perfected messiah will descend from God, they mean Adam, the true father is coming down. As True Father appears, all Satan's world will be shattered. Beginning with Judaism, all religions appeared in order to take over the world. The meaning of the word Israel is victory. God blessed Jacob, but not for himself. He had to overcome everything and win. Even from his deathbed, he had to win. Even when he felt he was dying he did not let the angel go. Heaven's angel had to give the blessing to Jacob in order to get away. That particular angel was from God's realm. Since Jacob won over the heavenly side angel, he won over the satanic side angel, no question. Therefore, Satan could not accuse his blessing. Since then 4,000 years later Jesus came. When the Israelites received blessing it was for the sake of the world, not just Israel. Since then the Jews misinterpreted and thought it was only for themselves. That was the start of their deviation. They expected the messiah to bring blessing only for their sake, not for the world. When Jesus came to Israel, he was to be accepted. They were to work together to restore the entire world. However, they rejected Jesus and so lost the entire world. Jesus came as true father. From the true father's point of view, the rest of the world was Cain. He needed both Abel's and Cain's world to be restored. Who should Jesus have used as a sacrifice to restore the entire world? Abel. But the Israelites failed and did not understand why they have been abandoned and struggling for the last 2000 years. Because of the failure at Jesus' time, religious movements had to start from scratch until 2000 years later, the time of the second coming. In order to play the Israelites role, the Protestants, came from Europe as Abel. The Catholics stayed as Cain. The Protestants started a new religious movement to prepare the United States to receive True Father. That was the responsibility of the United States, which was prepared for three hundred years. Since 1945, after World War II, the entire world was becoming one nation centered on Christianity. That was the time America was supposed to bring unity. Why do you think God allowed so many wars and struggles? Why did he finally give the United States the central role to unite the world? For the sake of America? No, for the sake of the world. It's absolutely clear. God prepared this world centered on Christianity to receive the messiah, True Parents. It was not for the sake of America but for the sake of the world. There was one purpose, to receive the messiah, one man, not millions of men. Every American should bow down and follow that one man. There is no "American way". There are almost 185 nations in the world now. From God's point of view, even if He has to sacrifice over 150 nations, He must secure the messiah. Even if God loses all 185 countries and their kings, He must secure and protect the messiah. Do you think that is right? What if we have to love the Empire State Building or destroy New York City to protect Father. What if we lose nine tenths of America's population? If we are that serious, we can build the kingdom of heaven. Do you have confidence? If it takes money to meet the messiah, how much would you have to pay? Human history has been waiting for this day for hundreds of millions of years. How many billions of people sacrificed for this cause and waste in human history? If you meet the right True Father you can go to heaven, with a false father there is no hope. This is why God has taken this long to establish one true Adam. Look at the religious world. Islam, Buddhists, Confucianists and Christians all fight There is no unity. Do they understand Father's concept? No they each think they are the highest. So Father initiated many world religious conferences. If Father leaves them alone, they will only constantly fight. Originally True Father had no responsibility to dc this mundane work. He was supposed to appear when the world was already clean. All sinful people were to confess and then he was to appear as messiah. During World War II the United Nations was formed. Through the United Nations, America took the initiative to give independence to Japan and other countries which lost in war. this was never before seen in history. The time has come for all nations to have brotherhood on a horizontal level. They must be equal in order for Father to deal with them. Democracy is the ideology of brotherhood. It is centered on liberty and freedom. Can you secure happiness only through freedom? Centered on love you can secure happiness. Love is the center of everything. Once you have love as a root, you can use freedom to secure happiness. Why is the world fighting, even between political parties. They are traveling a zigzag path. The love path should be straight, traveling through every level. The crooked way will not find the ideal foundation. Those who are fighting do not know the secret of living for others. After brotherhoodism, there needs to be husband and wife unity. America is actually practicing that now. The next level is parentis. Parents love can unify husband and wife and brother and brother. Parents stand above, in a vertical relationship, but the relationship between husband and wife and bothers is horizontal. True love seeks the shortest distance. The shortest vertical line is from God. We know the messiah is supposed to come and came but is he necessarily supposed to be an American citizen? What do you mean by messiah? If the messiah comes as your brother, husband or wife, you could fight very easily, but if the messiah comes as a father with true love you cannot fight but must obey. How can you determine that Father comes with true love? This messiah should bring God's ideal to the world with God's true life, true love and true blood lineage. That is the messiah's role to the world. Up to this point there has been no true life, true love or true blood lineage, but the messiah comes as True Father. The messiah bring the true seed for a new world. The fallen world has bad mans seed. Father is the only one in all history who comes with this good seed. Have you receive a true love seed from God? When? I am talking about before the blessing. Even, after the blessing, have you followed my way exactly? Why are your answers different? We still speak a different language from Father. That shows we have a different culture background. We need to mix races. If you don't like one color, you will have that color of children in the future. Then what will you do? If you tell Father at the blessing, that you can be matched to anyone except a black, Father will look and see that spirit world has prepared a black spouse for you. If you still refuse, you are doomed. Is God's mind and body battling? No. How can your mind and body unite? God's true love is the only way. You learned even God obeys and surrenders to true love. When you see love existing between man and woman, you are even willing to die. The same exists within God. Where does unification come from? When Adam and Eve seek God, they must do it for the sake of each other. When all function in that way there is a true love relationship. When Adam goes to God, go for Eve's sake, and Eve should go for Adam's sake. Then there is no fight or competition. When you see something you like, we have the tendency to take it first. If you do that for the sake of your nation, it is okay. Unification of the world comes from this beginning relationship. It is the base of ideological unification thought. If within a group of ten friends, one is always seeking help, the others will run away from him. If one is doing everything for his ten friends, he will become the leader. Living for others is not a sign of declining, but of becoming the leader, teacher, parents for them. Your mind wants to be the teacher, leader and parent. It will lead you and make good recommendations to you. That mind is God's place. Mind and body unity is always a problem. You cannot just use a sword to cut off the problem of your body. You would have to die. God is not far away from you. You agree the mind is your master. Your mind is always with you, trying to correct you, but the flesh is your enemy forever. A struggling life cannot be heaven, only hell. Please make peace between the two. The difficulty is within yourself, not outside. Your body is the most fearful thing to you. We have to create a graft. The true olive tree and the wild olive tree look the same. They have the same form. But we know that the root is different The true olive tree is connected to God. The planting place of the true olive tree is the mind. The body belongs to Satan. The mind is plus, but the body is a plus too. They conflict with each other. Make the body weak. Turn it into a minus. Don't eat or sleep selfishly. God wants to work through religions which teach sacrifice and fasting. Don't play around or use free sex. Don't drink and don't take drugs. Those are Satan's weapons. How can you make the mind strong? Pray. Create one mind, one heart and one will. These three characteristics should all be combined. Our mind is a minus to God's plus. A great power comes if we are in that position. Make it a habit to follow the mind. Then God can control you. There are two ways to do it. One is to make the body weak, the other to make the mind strong. That is why we must pray. Unification Church members don't usually pray enough. Think of the struggles God had to go through to restore one man and send him to the world. Like Israel, the United States is an affluent country, but it is not affluent for America's sake, but for the sake of the world. If America does not know this it will decline. America may have to be sacrificed, but it will ultimately be saved along with the rest of the world. Asians are flooding the United States to try and restore it. If the world accepted Father after World War II, True Mother would have been western, maybe British. Like the relationship between Italy and England, Korea and Japan now stand in those positions. Italy is a peninsula, like Korea and England an island, like Japan. The world failed to receive Father, so he came to America and began as an individual gradually working up to every level. First individual, then family, the national, world and finally the universal level. Father did this, along with True Mother. Farther came here and started and now we have True Parents. If the world accepted Father in 1945, Father could have received Mother, but he had to begin as an individual level Father. Father's family is now growing and widening the spectrum. Father's realm of influence is growing bigger. Satan's world is getting smaller and will eventually disappear. What nationality would you like to have for the spouse of your children? You have to take your children's spouse from your enemy country. For example during World War II Japan and America were enemies. Asians see Westerners as robbers. They came with guns and swords and took everything. Asia's time is coming now, because they were persecuted. If Asian people truly work for the sake of the world, this unity will happen. The first Israel failed because it lived only for its own sake. The second Israel, the United States is declining because it is selfish. The third Israel, Asia will prosper if it lives for the sake of others. How many people of the world truly understand True Parents? It doesn't matter. It will take less than one day for the whole world to be taught about True Parents, once the time is right. Now even the communist countries are welcoming Father. Suppose Gorbachev proclaims that Father is the one the Russian people need? Everyone has heard of Reverend Moon-even the people of Russia and China. Even the CIA will face an emergency if they lose Reverend Moon. Can Bush terminate the drug problem without Reverend Moon? What about the sex problem? The world absolutely needs Reverend Moon. The USSR is now inviting Father to come. If they greet him as a king, will America fight with Russia because they do not believe in monarchies? Once the messiah establishes a foundation the concept of democracy will have to disappear. This concept does not fit the messianic concept. Can you elect the second messiah from the general population? We have no choice of who is God, or Father or Mother. All mankind are God's children. Can they elect their own parents? No! Father has come a long way to establish the world wide foundation. Even Belvedere will soon be too small for this kind of meeting. No one can oppose us. If all mankind understood half of what you know, they would chase after True Parents. They will understand that only through True Parents can they receive true life, true love and true blood lineage. We have a greed for these things and only True Parents can fill it. If God connects to your mind, automatically your body will follow. You must be like two tuning forks that resonate together. The enemy is not outside, but only in your flesh body. It is the most hateful dwelling place of Satan. Now you know it, so you can control it. We have the creative power to belong to God. We can clean this up, no problem. Did you ever really help True Parents? Did you help Father through the time of Danbury? Father used his seventieth birthday celebration to declare True Parents to every corner of Korea. When you hear the name True Parents you don't need the name of the Unification Church. It seems far away. But the "True Parents" is close and immediate. It shows we've been under false parents with false love, life and blood lineage. The Garden of Eden was like a seed. Within it, the father and mother and God were to unite and grow. That seed would have grown into a giant tree of five billion people, all centered on God. Instead Satan created a false seed which grew and took over. It is the same as the situation of our mind and body. Our body takes over our mind. But a small portion of our original mind survived and is reaching out to Father. True Parents come there to that p]ace within our minds. From that place a small stem grows and we can graft on True Parent's bud. That will grow and then take out the entire evil root, leaving only the true seed. Grafting does not happen just once. When you fail, you must repeat it over and over again. Adam and Eve fell as teenagers. Now teenagers follow the same way. That which was sown is now reaped. America is in the autumn time and in autumn is the harvest. The four positions are all mixed up and bound to decline. Men from grandfathers level live with women from the children's level. Everything is confused. True Parents are the only hope. We must educate our family to True Parents. No matter how difficult it is let them come to True Parents. Once Americans become eager to come into True Parents front gate and walk around their home, then America will be saved. Every day we witness a dying America. Father grabbed Nixon and tried to save the country. He tried with Carter and with Reagan. While Father has been doing this we couldn't even declare True Parents. We must testify now to the American people. Father has been doing this work, even while in Danbury prison. He created The Washington Times, Insight and World and 1. He did this all while imprisoned in the enemy country, in order to save this world. What are you American residents doing? From now there will be no persecution, so go out and witness. Tell America they sinned against Reverend Moon. Even then you will not be persecuted, they will just nod. The title of my speech today is "The Declaration of True Parents." Seventy years ago today the entire population of Korea stood up against Japan to declare their freedom and independence. It is an important holiday in Korea. Father's conclusion is there will be hope for the United States if all of you make a re­determination on this significant day­­for a second independence for America to be totally united with Father and march forward. March aggressively. Can you do it? Those who pledge to do so, raise both hands!

THE REUNIFICATION OF KOREA AND COOPERATION BETWEEN EAST AND WEST REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

Second Summit Council for World Peace, February 2, 1990 Founder's Address Crystal Ballroom, Lotte Hotel, Seoul, Korea Mr. Chairman, Distinguished former Heads of State, Prime Ministers of Government, Honorable Legislators and Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am pleased and honored to welcome you to Korea for this important conference. I am very glad that we are gathered together for the second Summit Council for World Peace with the theme of the reunification of Korea and cooperation between East and West. Furthermore, I am very happy that together with this summit conference, we are convening the eighth conference of the Association for the Unity of Latin America, commonly known as AULA, which has a tremendous record of achievement in bringing about the harmony and unity of Latin America over the last seven years. I truly feel that the timing of this conference is very significant. This is the beginning of 1990, and the new decade of the nineties. In ten years, we are going to usher in the year 2000. In our lifetime, we will witness the beginning of the new millennium. We must feel the tremendous importance of living in this time, and not only witnessing dramatic changes in human life, but actually shaping those events. It is a hope shared by all of us that the new millennium be characterized by true peace. For that to be so, the next ten years will be challenging and demanding. These organizations which have gathered here today, the Summit Council for World Peace and AULA, have a very important part to play during the next ten years. I extend my heartfelt congratulations to you for the work you have already done for the achievement of peace. At the same time, I would like to challenge you to become the champions of peace of the new decade From Confrontation to Reconciliation The period between the close of World War II and the present, roughly forty years, can be viewed as the age of confrontation between two camps of diametrically opposed ideologies. There have been numerous conflicts between people and between nations, accompanied by an escalating arms race. There was really no moment in this time when people could have a feeling of peace in their hearts. Then, in 1985, Mr. Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, and began to initiate a series of changes. He encouraged greater freedoms of expression within the Soviet Union, undertook a restructuring of the Soviet economy, and perhaps most significantly, repudiated the Brezhnev doctrine. Within a short time, dramatic political change within the Soviet bloc became a daily occurrence. In the past few months we have seen the democratization of Poland, followed by Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and finally Rumania. These events were accompanied by the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the symbol of confrontation between East and West. With that, a new era of reconciliation has dawned. I would like to extend my hearty congratulations to President Gorbachev for his courage and leadership in bringing about these constructive changes, enabling us to usher in this new era of cooperation. I am committed to support the Soviet Union in their genuine desire to uphold individual human dignity, and bring about both economic reform, and most importantly, religious freedom. As you may already know, I am also committed to working together with the Peoples Republic of China. This giant nation comprises one fourth of the world's population. Certainly we cannot talk about world peace without taking into account the well­being of the 1.3 billion Chinese people. To help in providing needed jobs, technology and income, I am now building one of the world's largest automobile assembly plants in China. This is another aspect of our efforts for world peace. Furthermore, as you may know, in 1981 I launched an International Peace Highway project. When completed, this highway will allow a family car to be driven from Tokyo to London. I am seriously discussing the project with the governments of Japan, Korea and China, and I hope that the Soviet Union will also welcome this project. Of course, this is a lofty dream, but every great undertaking begins as a dream. Not so long ago, no one could even have dreamed of men walking on the moon, but with a vision and hard work, it became a reality. So it will be with the International Peace Highway. Problems in Western Society At this point, having shared with you my tremendous feelings of hope and optimism for the future, I feel that I must also address what I consider to be a dangerous tendency by some people to celebrate prematurely the coming of peace. Although the Berlin Wall has fallen, tremendous difficulties remain in both camps. The leading nations of the free world, along with their vast material wealth, are beset with the problem of moral decay. They have fallen victim to a pervasive materialism and freedom is often abused. Furthermore, the rise to near dominance of atheistic secularism in the West has brought with it the collapse of moral standards. As a result, Western society is afflicted with serious social ills, among them the break up of families, an epidemic of drug abuse, an increase in sexual crimes and diseases, and widespread governmental corruption. To put the matter simply, the current problems of both East and West are ultimately coming from the same source-a confusion of values. Communism has failed because the Marxist value system has proven to be false. It is no secret that I have been ardently opposed to communism throughout my life. I have been so because I know that the militant denial of God and the belief that progress occurs through conflict can never lead to success in building a good society. Through my own life experience I have come to know of a certainty that God is real, and the most important thing in life is true love. Human progress can come about only when God is cherished, and love is given the highest value. Clearly, neither communism nor the free world is presently equipped to lead mankind toward a peaceful 21st century. A Worldview Centered on God What we urgently need at the outset of this new decade is a true value system to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of values in both the free and communist worlds. That new value system must be based on the ideology of Godism-a worldview centered on God. Throughout my entire life, I have been working with members of all religions and denominations to advance the understanding of this God­centered worldview. In this way, it has been possible to create numerous broad based academic and religious organizations dedicated to the search for absolute values, and the establishment of true peace. I have also established news media organizations, as well as institutions of art and education. This entire world­wide foundation has been prepared to assist persons such as yourselves in your efforts to attain true world peace. True world peace cannot be achieved without a clear value system shared by all. When values are clarified, humankind will no longer be in darkness. Godism allows each individual to clearly see the meaning and value of his life. Each person is then motivated to seek his own spiritual well­being by living responsibly and serving his fellow man. This is the ultimate solution to world suffering. A Spiritual Awakening is Needed In other words, what our world needs today to save itself is a spectacular spiritual awakening. The world must be awakened into the reality of God and equipped with a worldview based on God­affirming principles. This worldview will be capable of eliminating the confusion in the value systems of both camps. Based upon such an awakening into higher values, the nature of the relationships between nations must be transformed. Until now, the driving force behind economic development has generally been the desire for profits. In this way, a great amount of human potential has been unleashed, and remarkable world development has occurred However, the desire for profits must be balanced with the fundamental understanding that all people are the children of God. We are all brothers and sisters. Furthermore, the purpose of our life on earth is not to amass material goods. We are alive in this world so that we can develop and perfect our eternal spirit. The only way to do this is through the practice of true love, that is, living for the sake of others. True love must be practiced on all levels of life, including the relations between nations. The developed nations of the world should feel that they have been blessed by God for the purpose of helping others. They must be willing to sacrifice themselves for the underdeveloped nations of the world If the prosperous nations do not think in loftier terms that the desire for profits, their prosperity will slip away in spite of their efforts to retain' The Reunification of Korea Today, Korea is the point of convergence of the key nations of China, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States. At the time of the Korean War, people of many nations made the supreme sacrifice to determine the future of this peninsula. We have gathered here today in the same spirit of concern. It is entirely appropriate that political leaders from around the world should come here to discuss the issue of Korean unification. Historically, this is more than a national issue. It involves the entire international community. I would like to suggest a few guidelines which I hope you will consider in your discussions about the unification of Korea. With regard to North Korea, there are several prerequisites to the process of reunification. First, North Korea must abandon its plans for a military conquest of the South. Second, they must put an end to their extreme isolation, and open their society to the world community of nations. Third, they must carry out their own version of glasnost, thereby giving their people the most important freedom, the freedom to worship as they desire, and the must put a stop to the deification of their leader. Only then will North Korea be ready to undertake effective economic reforms. As North Korea begins to cooperate with South Korea and the other nations of the world, it will become more and more evident to them that unless people are given realistic hope for a better life, as well as incentive to achieve it, it is virtually impossible to increase human productivity. I want to emphasize, however, that there must also be change in South Korea. South Korea has been experiencing an unprecedented wave of prosperity. This prosperity must be seen for what it is-the blessing of God-and it must be shared with others. This nation must now be ready and willing to embrace our bothers and sisters in the north, and help to alleviate their suffering. In the same way, the free world must now totally support the initiatives toward freedom which have been made in Eastern Europe, the Soviet union. and China. A Biblical Analogy The Bible tells the story of two brothers, Jacob and Esau. Though they were both destined to play an important part in the providence of God, there was a great conflict between them. Jacob was blessed by his father, but only after some trickery. When Esau learned of this, he wanted to kill Jacob and Jacob had to flee. It was only after they had lived separately for more than twenty years that Jacob returned with gifts and with love in his heart for Esau. When the two brothers met after this long period of separation, Jacob approached Esau and said, "When I look at you, I see the face of God." They forgave each other and embraced in tears. Esau no longer wanted to kill Jacob, but to live with him, share with him and learn from him. Today the free world stands in the Position of Jacob The communist world stands in the position of Esau. Many communist nations, such as Cuba and North Korea, have been taught that, like Jacob, the free world has stolen the blessing from them. Like Esau, in the past they have wanted to destroy the nations of the free world. Like Jacob, for many years, the free world has wisely stayed militarily strong and avoided falling into a position where the communist world could destroy her. However, I believe that now the time has come for the free world to be reconciled with the communist world. When we see our bothers and sisters who have been suffering for many years in the communist system, we must see in them the "face of God." We must support them, comfort them, fill them with confidence, and allow them to enter the world community of democratic nations. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope your deliberations over the next two days will be productive and rewarding. I am certain that because of such efforts as these, Korea will be one unified nation well before the end of this decade. On behalf of the sixty million Korean people of both the north and south, I want to express my gratitude that you have come. I pray that your efforts will be fruitful. God bless you. Thank you very much.

REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON SPEAKS AT SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION BANQUET

February 1, 1990 Hilton Hotel, Seoul Korea Respected guests from overseas and distinguished Leaders of Korean society. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for taking time from your busy public and private schedules to attend this banquet in celebration of my seventieth birthday. Your presence makes this a truly festive occasion. In particular, I am grateful beyond words that so many distinguished guests who have served as presidents and prime ministers of their countries, as well as former senators and congressmen from the United States, have come for this occasion. I offer you my very special gratitude. Further, I would like to thank the International Law Society of Mexico, which boasts a distinguished history stretching back 180 years and whose authority is recognized widely throughout the world, for awarding me a very distinguished medal. I am particularly grateful that Ambassador Medhat el Masri and Ambassador Mario Antonio Munoz, who are both vice presidents of the society, have honored me with their presence for the purpose of the awards ceremony. It is an infinite honor to me to be awarded a medal which I understand is given only to royalty and heads of state. I am also very happy to have been included among the honorary members of this society. I would also like to express my gratitude to Bloomfield University in New Jersey for awarding an honorary doctorate degree to Mrs. Moon. It is difficult for me to describe in words my gratitude toward Dr. John Noonan, President of Bloomfield University, and Dr. Sal Mazzande, Vice President, who have made a special trip to Korea to present this award. I pray that infinite blessing may be upon your institution. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, the mere fact a man lives to be seventy does not make him successful. Age by itself is not a goal worth striving for. Never during my life did I even dream that someday when I lived to be seventy, there would be such a large banquet and that so many distinguished guests would gather to congratulate me. I was sixteen when I first met God. Ever since, I have just done my best to hold on to God as tightly as I could and stay close to Him. As a result of that, I find myself standing here this evening. God alone has made this evening possible. It is a miracle that He has brought about, and for that reason I must offer to Him my most humble gratitude. The encouragement you have given Mrs. Moon and myself and the praises that you make of my work-expressed through messages of congratulations, medals, academic degrees and all other form`: are rightfully offered back up to God. The glory does not belong to me but to God, and so I offer all of these to Heaven. Looking back, my life of seventy years has been an indescribably thorny path. It has been a path of constant struggle and adversity. I understand the strategy of Heaven, whereby Heaven allows itself to be struck and then uses this condition to take that which rightfully belongs to Heaven. The truth of the universe is that good prospers while being struck, and that evil creates its own downfall by striking at good. For example, in both the First and Second World Wars, the side that struck first finally lost the war. We may consider the confrontation with Communism to be the Third World War; and here too, it is aggressive Communism that is now collapsing. Knowing this truth, I found the energy to persevere even in the most difficult of situations. After meeting the living God, my Father, I have not had so much as one minute, or even one second, for extraneous thought. I have lived my entire life with the singular determination to accomplish the Will of my Father in Heaven, that is, to bring salvation to the world and to establish a true peace among all men. God has been burning with the desire to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth so that all people of this world can live in happiness. The essence of God has been true love and his relationship to humanity has been that of a father to his children. Through history, however, mankind has not only been ignorant of God but has repeatedly pierced His heart with the nails of betrayal. I discovered that God in Heaven, the Father of all humanity, lives with deep resentment caused by the heart­rending sorrow of a parent who has lost His children. My goal in life has been to resolve this resentment of God. My purpose for living has been to liberate the God of sorrow from His sorrow, loneliness and anguish. This has been the fundamental motivation for all that I have done through these seventy years, whether it be related to religious activity, the media, business and finance or politics. I have taken on a great many tasks. I have also invested a great deal of money. Never have I invested money, however, for the purpose of amassing a large fortune for myself. Never have I taken on a task for the sake of my own honor and glory. Out of the sole desire to liberate God from His sorrow and suffering, I have shed blood, sweat and tears in an attempt to bring about the true peace of mankind. I also realized fully that it is impossible to achieve such a peace, unless we first give God joy by liberating Him from His sorrow and suffering in terms of the individual, family, nation and world. I have sought to practice this through my own life. I have taught: "God lives for us and the world, so should we live for the world and God." Surely, the greatest enemy of God is selfishness. Altruism-investing all of oneself for others, for the nation and for the world; living a life of sacrifice and service to others-may be considered by today's society to be a most foolish philosophy of life. As I came to understand the deepest truths, however, it became obvious that altruism is the path most beneficial to human society. It is the secret for living in eternal happiness. That is why I have taught the believers in ;30 countries around the world who transcend racial and national barriers to follow me that they should live lives of constant sacrifice and service for others. I am well known around the world as a leader in the anti­communist and victory­over­communism movements. The purpose I conduct a movement for victory over communism is not to kill communists but to liberate them with truth and true love so that they may live. This is the reason I am working to help the communist world today and rescue it from its current distress. For that reason, I have been welcomed even in the Soviet Union and China. Even Kim Il Sung in North Korea cannot be my enemy. Recently, a distinguished group of Soviet journalists visited Korea for the first time at my invitation. On their return trip, I asked them to visit North Korea. They were at first reluctant, but finally they accepted my earnest request to go to Pyongyang and relay my message to Kim Il Sung. This message contained the following three points: First, I am not your enemy. Second, you must give up your wild ambition to communize South Korea. Third, stop trying to swim against the tide of world events. Throw out that which is false, and return to the truth. When you open your doors and reach out, you and I will become brothers, and we will be able to live together in prosperity and happiness. Kim Il Sung will have no choice but to respond to my proposal. Failure to do so will only precipitate his own downfall. In China I have made an initial investment of $250 million in the project to build the Panda Motor Company industrial city. The purpose of this investment is not so that I can establish a foothold in China as a way of making a fortune for myself. It is my principle that not so much as a penny of the profits from the China project will be taken out of China. These profits will be reinvested in China to construct the International Highway of Peace and to bang China up to international standard in other areas of high technology. Thus, the motivation of my investment is to help the 1.3 billion Chinese people achieve a satisfactory standard of living. I have reached agreement with the government of the Soviet Union to hold the World Media Conference and the International Summit for World Peace in Moscow this April. At these conferences, I will announce a draft proposal on how the 270 million citizens of the Soviet Union can achieve a satisfactory standard of living. Dr. Joseph Churba, who is responsible for the International Security Conference that I founded, recently returned to me from Moscow with a very satisfactory report concerning an ISC conference held there January 25th and 26th. Dr. Churba was accompanied to Moscow by an ISC delegation that included a former U.S. Secretary of Defense, was well as a number of retired generals and other experts in the field of global security. Soviet participants in this conference included the highest military leaders of that country. My purpose in holding this ISC conference was to further East­West reconciliation, and, in particular, to solidify the bonds of friendship and trust between the United States and the Soviet Union. The results of the conference show that these expectations were fully justified. I am determined now that I will do my best to improve the economic situation and well­being not only of the Chinese but of the Soviet people as well. Ten years from now, we will reach the year 2000. The task I have before me now is to see whether I can achieve world peace before that time. When we gather in the year 2000 in the same way we are gathered here tonight, it should be for the purpose of holding a banquet to celebrate the establishment of world peace. We are all brothers and sisters before the one Creator God. As we live together through the next decade, let us transcend racial and national boundaries, break down the walls between religions and denominations, and climb over the barriers of culture and language. Let those of us who have plenty help those who have less, so that we may be the laborers to build a peace that will be remembered in history. If the world leaders who are gathered here tonight will combine your strengths together, we will be more than equal to this task. During this next decade, we will see the fulfillment of mankind's earnest desires for a true reconciliation between East and West and for an economic reconciliation between the richer and poorer nations of the world. Also, our long­cherished desire to see the unification of North and South Korea will be realized. Ladies and Gentlemen, as we begin this new year of 1990 with great hope, I pray that God's blessing and good fortune will fill all of your homes. Let me end my message at this holy banquet that we offer to God by inviting you all to do away with selfishness, practice a life of living for others and be leaders in the vanguard for building a new century of world peace. Thank You very much.