23.9.13

ABSOLUTE VALUES AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER 19TH ICUS & 8TH PWPA REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON August 20, 1992 Seoul, Korea

Honorable chairman, distinguished scholars, respected guests, ladies and gentlemen.

It is my pleasure to speak to you at this Opening Plenary Session of the 19th International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences and the fifth Professors World Peace Academy World Congress. I wholeheartedly welcome you to my homeland of Korea.

Last year, in addition to the ICUS, we had two very special conferences, the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace (IRFWP) and the Federation for World Peace. These two organizations were established to create a New World Order. The Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace, in particular, is dedicated to uniting the world's religions for the purpose of establishing world peace. In the recent Gulf War, we witnessed how the world fell into a religious war. Global disaster continues to flare up.
Until now, many politicians have exploited religious conflicts for their own selfish purposes. Religions have been powerless and confused, not clearly recognizing their responsibility in relation to world peace. Now, through the IRFWP, leaders from the world's religions will harmonize and become leaders for world peace.
In every culture, religion should be the conscience, setting the standard of public righteousness. While each religion has pride in its own teachings each has universal elements, which come from God. The one God is the God of all religions. Therefore, religions must purify themselves and elevate themselves through universal principles. The central value in religion is true love, which can be described by the teaching, "Live for the sake of others." The individual lives for the sake of the family; the family lives for the sake of the community; the community lives for the sake of the nation; the nation lives for the sake of the world. Likewise, my religion lives for the sake of other religions. This principle is true.
The source of this universal principle is God. In creating the universe, God invested Himself totally for the sake of His creation. Throughout history, it is God who has been continually sacrificing Himself in order to save fallen human beings, who have been living just as they desire. The prophets, saints and sages who knew God's will have followed God's principles in their own lives.
Not content to keep the truth to themselves, they have walked the way of sacrifice in order to teach others. Moses, Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, Socrates and Jesus are saints who suffered hardships and were persecuted, even as they taught people. They sacrificed their lives in order to enlighten and liberate humanity.
The Federation for World Peace is a cooperative federation of politicians and national organizations. Today's world cannot be maintained by nationalism. The current flare-up of ethnic violence in Eastern Europe only demonstrates its destructive nature. National pride and self-determination are good and right only when they are dedicated to serving the world community. Nationalism which places "my nation first" and promotes hatred of other nations goes against the universal principle of living for the sake of others. All such "isms" which go against the universal principle are destined to decline.
Now we are seeing a trend where nations are joining to form multinational associations, such as the European Community. This trend will intensify in the coming years. All over the world, nations will unite in regional communities: The United States of Europe, the East Asian community, the community of Islam, the community of African nations, the community of North and South America.
In order that politicians may transcend national self-interest, there must be unifying values which different nations share. What can unite the nations of Europe? Economic policies alone are insufficient. There are still many disputes between industrialized nations and nations with agrarian economies. Social policies are another source of contention. If we can identify a single common factor in the European Community, it is its Christian culture.
When compared with people from the Middle East or the Orient, it is evident that Europeans share much in common: common foods, common social customs and, most importantly, a common ethic and worldview. The root of this common European culture is Christianity.
Christian culture is the foundation for the intellectual, social and political life of Europe. However, European Christianity itself is plagued by deep historical divisions. We realize that conflicts, such as those in Northern Ireland and the former Yugoslavia, stem from an unresolved religious struggle between Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox Christians. Therefore, religious harmony and unity are the necessary condition for political and social peace and unity.
The New World Order will consist of communities of nations, each bound together by a common religion and culture and joined in economic and political relationships. I foresaw this trend many years ago. That is why for more than forty years I have been promoting inter-religious activities pursuing dialogue and harmony. For a New World Order to be realized, we must prevent religious war.
To solve this problem I have been painstakingly laying the foundation that can embrace every religion. Before I began my ministry, I took the principle which was revealed to me before Jesus, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed in the spiritual world, and they attested that it was correct. Now leaders of every religion recognize that to substantiate a world of peace all religious people must center on the original teaching and take positive steps to make harmony with each other. It is my God-ordained mission to bring the world into unity under God.
The Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace and the Federation for World Peace will work together as mind and body. Until now, fallen people have been allowing the body to dominate their individual lives, creating a world of selfish individuals, oppressing others for their own pleasures. This is hell on earth. Only a few people have followed the voice of conscience, emanating from the mind, which teaches them to pursue truth, beauty and goodness and to resist the temptations of the body. Only these people can meet God, and find heaven on earth.
Likewise, few national politicians have listened to the voice of religion. Amid the clamor of politics, the voice of moral and spiritual values was only faintly heard. In the West, as well as the East, politicians have tried to found prosperity on economic and political policies without God. Their efforts have been in vain. No nation can prosper without God's blessing.
God blesses those nations that are practicing faith, morality and the principle of living for the sake of others. Yet politicians still look only to the earth, blind to heaven's influence. Communist leaders tried for seventy years to establish prosperity without God, and now their nations are bankrupt. Likewise, the West is plagued by recession, crime and social decay; its problems will not be solved until its leaders open their eyes and discover their true cause.
When the religious leaders have united for the sake of world peace under God, the politicians will obey the teachings of religion. Then and only then will the social and economic problems be solved, and the nations of the world naturally unite on the path of peace. The Federation for World Peace will succeed where the United Nations and many other organizations have failed because it has this foundation.
The role of scholars for the sake of the New World Order is very important. To insure a well-rounded education for individuals, close communication between all segments of society is necessary. People must constantly cooperate with one another in order to raise up individuals who can develop civilized families, churches, schools and society. The greatest task of our generation is the problem of how to implement this well-rounded education in our pluralistic global village.
You scholars are the treasure-house of knowledge in this society. Your students learn more from the person you are than from the knowledge you teach. Students imitate the teacher's habits, learn the teacher's attitudes about society, and are deeply influenced by the teacher's sense of values. You professors must always, in the teacher's position, become desirable examples for the future. Your mission, which is to set up a new cultural tradition rooted in the absolute value of true love, is a precious thing.
As you know, this conference has been organized as part of the first World Culture and Sports Festival. This is a historical event, guiding the spiritual culture of humanity, searching for true values for humanity's happiness, and leading the way to a new world of peace and harmony among God, people and nature. It is a Festival gathering the world's scholars, religious figures, journalists, politicians and youth leaders, as members of the global community, combining their collective wisdom and practical experience regarding the unity of humankind.
On August 25, approximately thirty thousand couples from all regions of the world will receive the holy blessing, pledging to establish a new family tradition centered on God. The family is the most fundamental building block of society. The solution to all social problems begins with the solution to problems in the family. The ideal of "one world family in true love" transcending races is directly related to the fulfillment of a peaceful world. People pledging to become exemplary God-centered couples, creating blessed families, will provide a substantial model of ethics and morality. In this way, ideal families, societies, nations and an ideal world, representing the fruit of true love, will be realized.
The fact that sixty thousand people of the world are gathering to receive the blessing symbolizes unity under God and True Parents. I invite you all to attend this historical blessing ceremony.
In conclusion, may I introduce to you two projects that I am supporting. One involves the completion of an encyclopedia, by the International Cultural Foundation, to bring humanity's wisdom together in one place for the 21st century. The other is the creation of the World University Federation to promote the worldwide exchange of knowledge, as well as the exchange of professors and students. These two new projects will provide a great impetus for the advancement of the global village culture of the future.
Once again, I want to express my gratitude to all of you for attending this meaningful conference in Seoul. I am very grateful, especially, to Dr. Gerholm who has worked very hard as the ICUS chairman, and to Dr. Kaplan who is giving his utmost effort for the worldwide development of PWPA.
May your discussions at this conference be very fruitful. I pray for God's protection and blessing to be with you and your families.

21.9.13

LIQUIDATION OR THE COMPLETION OF THE DISPENSATION OF SALVATION, REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

Belvedere, New York Translator - Sang Kil HanJune, 7, 1992

We don't have much time this morning, so please listen attentively. Mother and Father are leaving early this afternoon.
We say as every day words, "We love God," but there is a serious question we must ask, "What is the will of God?" For instance, the world of traditional Christianity does not know clearly what is the will of God. People in theological seminaries are supposed to be experts in the will of God but they do not know it. Some famous person said, "God's will is something easy to explain and something difficult to explain." But that doesn't mean anything, it doesn't explain anything.
As Unification Church members, we know what the will of God is. It is very simple: God's will is to complete His purpose of creation. We agree on that, don't we? Then we must ask the question, "What is the purpose of creation?" We know that it is simply the completion of the four-position foundation of Adam and Eve. That means Adam will be completed in love, and Eve will be completed in love-perfected, that is-and both will become united in love and give birth to good children. Those children will grow in love and form a perfect family centered on love. This is the purpose of creation. Do you agree with that?
The will of God, simply speaking, is to complete the four-position foundation. Then comes the question, what is the fall? The fall was something which negated that purpose, something which made the four-position foundation impossible. Therefore, God's will became that of re-establishing His original purpose of creation. It has taken six thousand years of history to do it again, to indemnify and liquidate the problems. To clear it up. To indemnify, (tangam in Korean) means to liquidate or clear up. Indemnity is the only way for God to restart.
One of the most difficult concepts for people in the Western world to understand is this concept of indemnity. They ask, "Why, since God is supposed to be only good in every way, does He make people pay the price of indemnity?" They say, "We are all right. We don't need indemnity. We are strong, we have an advanced culture and we have always been that way. I don't agree with indemnity." But whether or not you agree, success in this world means success within the satanic realm. If people continue to disregard indemnity and its value, then the only way they can go is down and perish.
The remedy is to go backwards. If you have done something wrong, you have to correct it. If you have been using drugs, you have to stop using drugs; if you have been engaging in free sex, you have to stop such activity. Indemnity is the reverse way, and it is something which America and the Western world needs very badly. This world cannot go on the way it is going now. To discover how to deny and to negate the direction it is headed in today is a very important task for us. Otherwise, we cannot accomplish the will of God.
First we must know what happened during the six thousand years of God's dispensational history. Then we must desire to indemnify it and return back to God. Without that, we cannot return to God's schedule, God's track. Therefore, we have to deny. The result of the fall was that Satan came to be in the top position, and God came to be in the bottom position. How can God go back to His rightful position? It is only by passing through that zero point. Without going through the zero point, one cannot be restored to the right position.
Here is the reason for that paradoxical statement of Jesus, "If you die, you will live. But if you want to live, you must die". He said, "Your enemies are the members of your own family. The ones you love the most are your enemies". Why? Because of them, many times, we do not go the way of Principle. This is precisely what has happened to many of us: the ones who stop our advancement toward God are our own family members. Our own relatives kidnap us to take us away from this church because in this church, we come to belong to God's family. They do these things because they do not understand. The purpose of this church is to liberate the sons and daughters of God, as well as all beings.
Even within each person, our mind and body struggle; they always disagree. The mind is drawn to the satanic side. But the mind has more of a desire to go closer to God, whereas the body is further away from God. Both the mind and the body of every individual belong to the satanic side, but they should have been on God's side, as we know. So for the mind to go to God's side, you have to go through here (drawing on blackboard) - that original center point. The body also wants to go to God's side. In order to do that, the individual man must first deny himself. By the same token, if a woman with conflicted mind and body gets together with a man like that, they will conflict with each other, just as the mind and body conflict. That is because they are in the satanic realm. They disagree and lack harmony. In order for such a family to pay indemnity and be restored, each individual must deny himself and stop fighting with the other. No matter what happens, he or she must not fight. Each sacrifices himself in that way.
When an individual is able to harmonize his own mind and body, he will be able to form a family without conflict. That is a family in which husband and wife do not fight. In order for an individual to be able to return to God's side, he must realize this unity not only individually but also in his family. Centering on that family, the clan must achieve the same kind of harmony and unity. Therefore, unless the family attains this unity, the clan can never attain it.
So there are three steps: individual, family, and clan. Through those three steps, we can come completely into God's side. After the clan, we know that the next higher unit is the nation. And the nation can be turned to God's side. We understand the general concept of what steps we have to follow.
We have to fight against evil within ourselves on the individual level, family level, clan level, and nation level. We advance to each higher level as we fight and win over the evil within. At each step, we have to fight and win. These are not just my own words. This is history. History can be described as the succession of this action. Finally, after the national level is won, the world level must also be won.
The world is the same. We already know why the right and left wings came into existence in the world from the very beginning. In order for them to be restored, they have to go the original point, the zero point. They, too, must deny themselves first in order to pass through this zero point. Whether it is democracy, right wing, or left wing it doesn't matter. Without exception, they must follow this formula and go through this zero point.
To liberate hell, we must go the same way. To solve the individual problem of good and evil is difficult enough, but to move hell itself and liberate it is so much more difficult. It is easy to say the words, but how difficult it is to do it!
People talk about the Last Days, they draw pictures of what they think it will be like. What will it be like in the Last Days? One way to discern that the Last Days are here is that everyone will be enemies with everyone else. Even within the family, the husband and wife will be enemies, children turn against parents. Then you can say, "This is the End Time." Since this is the case between individuals everywhere, then no two families will unite. Families will be enemies. Nations, also, will be enemies everywhere, pursuing their own interests. So in that kind of situation, imagine how difficult it would be to turn from that hellish world into heaven. It could never be a simple task. Just imagine.
In that kind of hopeless world, someone bigger is reigning over each person. That is Satan, striding right above each person, telling him what to do, "Do this, do that. No matter how hard you try, you cannot win over me. I am stronger." You all think about yourselves first, don't you? That is Satan. You should think, "My way of thinking about me first is from Satan." Then we have to ruthlessly contain ourselves, "No, no, don't think about myself." We have to deny ourselves, turning ourselves upside down. It is like standing on our head, with our feet in the air. Nobody is comfortable with such a drastic change. Nobody wants that, especially when they don't understand it.
How difficult, how agonizingly painful it must have been for God to pursue these different levels of unity, turning them into heaven. We are in that kind of situation today; God, too, is in that situation today. Over and over again, we tried and struggled against Satan, with God hoping for us to succeed, but we never did. Humankind never succeeded one iota until now, even though God was always hoping for us to succeed. And God is right beside us to witness that, so when we understand that, is God a God of glory and comfort, or is God a sad and miserable God, even more miserable than we are? He is more miserable than we are.
Think about it this way: each person lives only one generation and then he dies. After that time, we are relieved of the pain of this life. But God has existed and lived through one generation after another, over and over again, endlessly engaged in this terrible war. Therefore, God has been in terrible pain. How miserable has been God's situation! Nobody has known that throughout history. If someone could have understood what God was doing, God may have felt better. But nobody could figure out why God was doing the things He did, or understood God's will. How much more miserable was God!
Thus to attain salvation or to be saved, we cannot advance this easy way (pointing to board?). We have to advance that way by going the impossible way. Often, however, we don't know where we are going so naturally we walk this easy, wrong way. God's task has been a desperate attempt to educate people. During the historical time of the individual level of the dispensation, God introduced religion to educate the individual and family. After that, the time of the clan and the national level came. Accordingly, God introduces new religious concepts, and through religion God attempted to educate human beings, paying all the price of educating man.
So America is a nation within the Christian cultural realm, correct? And American people have been proud that they were part of that Christian culture, even though they did not know what position they are on. Did you know that today Christendom is controlled by the left, by those who used to be the communists? That element is controlling Christendom, but the Christians do not even know it. Now, unfortunately as we see, this Christian culture has been reduced to individualism, free sex, drug abuse and so forth. Is that God's original ideal-free sex and individualism? Is that Jesus' idea? No, clearly not. Those are enemies to Jesus. That is Satan's idea.
What good will it do if the individual is saved while the family, clan and nation are being lost? Nothing is gained because the individual has no place to go. The individual is not a unit in Heaven. As a matter of fact, the United States has even lost the individual, as evidenced by the miserable condition of hippies and yippees. Why can the individual not be better than that? America lost everything, even the individual. There is nothing to be proud of in front of God. You are intelligent people gathered here today, but can any one of you say to me, "You are wrong about this country. We are still good." Can any intelligent person say that? It is so simple and clear.
What is the way to solve this problem? It is by denying everything at one time. At the same time. After that, all we remember, all we care about is this: God and the completed four-position foundation of Adam and Eve. That is all we advance toward.
If we speak about "true God," it may perplex some people. They say, "What are you talking about? Do you mean there was a false God somehow?" But we can explain what we mean by that. Until now, almighty God was not the way He was originally. God is now the center of salvation, rather than the original God of glory. He is working for our salvation, but that is not the work He was originally supposed to do and He will not be doing that forever and ever. People ask, "How can God be persecuted? I can't imagine God being persecuted." But that is exactly the case. God is lamenting and suffering. God is in a miserable situation now. That is not God's original position. You cannot deny that. Therefore, God is not True God yet. But now we want to recognize and realize True God.
We are putting "True" to everything: parents, which were not True Parents until now. Now we recognize True God, True Father, True Mother, True Son, True Daughter, True Family. Everything is becoming true, including God himself. This is what we must want because this is our goal. This is where we are going to be saved. But what do the average people, Western and Oriental, go after today in their lives? Comparing this ultimate concept and goal with what they are actually pursuing, how many of these have we been connected with? You know the answer well. You cannot deny any part of that. You may say, "I will get to Heaven my own way somehow." Is that practical or possible? Only after getting in here (pointing to board) can we go over to Heaven, but not before.
Those who say, "Father, that's too complicated! Mankind should not have to go through that," raise your hands. I will ask you the question. Everyone here will agree with me, "Yes, Father, difficult and unfortunate as it may be, it is all true." But are we unfortunate people, or are we fortunate people? (Fortunate.) Only after meeting Parents. We are fortunate only in the limited sense of being here, learning these concepts and so forth, but if we don't live up to that standard, we are just as unfortunate as anybody else in the world.
The topic of my sermon today is liquidation, meaning to clean up. So these are the models through which we can end the indemnity, pay it all out. We not only go through each level, but we also go above them. This is where we should be. Are we there now, today? Yes or no? (No.)
So we see that God introduced humankind to religion, but religion has never gone smoothly. Religious people have always been persecuted. God himself has been persecuted. Religious people have had to live miserably. God felt so sorry for them, and He could not help but give them aid. If this was not so, God does not have to help only miserable people. But today, the reality is that every truly religious person is miserable. So God has to sympathize with miserable people, because He too is miserable.
What is God? God is the miserable king of the world which has fallen into misery. Only because He is in the same situation of misery can He save miserable people. My point today is that this is a reality. It is imperative that you understand the position you are in today. Some people don't want to think about it, but we must. We have to know what position we are in today.
All religious people have been miserable. Look at the Israelites, who were the first and central religious people in God's dispensation for salvation. Were they happy and prosperous people or did they suffer a lot? Even at this time, what is their situation? Why did the people of religion have to be like that, the most miserable, in the mainstream of God's thought. Satan will mercilessly strike those already miserable people because he wants to stop that one in a million chance of succeeding.
This is all Satan's territory. Wherever there is the tiniest area of God's influence in that territory, everybody comes and strikes at it. They don't want God in there. They attack individually, by family, nation. We have already seen this. But as more years go by, everything will be struck by Satan. There will be even that day remaining.
But as Satan strikes you and me to kill us, we don't die. We survive. Then Satan loses and we win. Satan cannot attack the resurrecting God. Satan cannot strike us twice-that's the law of heaven. This is the apex. So the Bible rightfully said that those who are willing to die will live. What does that mean? If we don't understand this general situation, we cannot explain that statement by Jesus, a very important one. Those who want to die for God's sake will live because they will resurrect through God's power. Indeed we will die without question, because Satan is powerful. But while we are dying, we have to cling on to God. Embrace God and then die. Death comes through Satan. I cannot live again unless God lives again. Since God is resurrecting, I resurrect also. So when we go down to the very lowest point, the very bottom, and still do not let go of God and are willing to die with God, then Satan may kill us but when God resurrects, we will resurrect too. We are one with God and Satan cannot touch us. This is the resurrection. To be born again.
The dead person is on Satan's side. The resurrected, born again person is on God's side. This is how the sequence of the birth order can be changed. The first born one can become the last one born.
Now do you have a clear idea of the path history has followed? This is a summary of history. Whose view is this? It is God's view. God looks at us this way, and God looks at history this way. God's purpose is to bring us right here (pointing to blackboard). Then who is God's son and who is God's daughter? God's son and daughter are willing to go where God is, to do what God is doing, and in this misery to plant God's heart, God's tradition, God's lineage-God's everything. While they are doing that, Satan will constantly come against them. They must not only go to the miserable place and do good works of God, but also they must be persecuted. The individual will persecuted me, the family will persecute our family, the nation will persecuted our nation, all the world will persecuted us. Yet I (we) will continue to do that work and will eventually succeed.
As we see, Jesus was the one who did that. He was struck on the individual level, struck on the family, struck by the nation-all levels. Later he was killed by Satan. When he died, he embraced God. He grasped God and said, "I will do your will." And then the resurrection took place. Then Jesus was lifted up to a different dimension and Christendom was spread to the world level.
At the end of World War II, after America had won that great victory and was in the most powerful position in the world, it was the best time to establish God's foundation. America did not know this. America was ignorant of the time. That is when America was ready to serve the Messiah who was coming in the flesh. Just as he left in the flesh, he was coming in the flesh. America was ordained to support him and help him reach out and save the whole world. Just as America fought and lost a lot of lives, a great sacrifice, we have to go through such a struggle-both spiritually and physically-in order to serve the Messiah himself.
That's one point. The second point is that America was not blessed so much for the sake of Americans alone. America was blessed for the sake of the whole world. This was unmistakably God's intention. Clearly this is the reason God blessed America. Yet once the white, Anglo-Saxon people who were so richly blessed here in America started to declare, "This is all for me. I don't care about the rest of the world," then America will suffer. Due to the lack of food on this planet, 20 million people are suffering from hunger and many are dying. And when they die, they die accusing that rich nation of America-American people, American culture, and even Christendom. What is the consequence if Americans continue to live in such a self-centered, uncaring way toward the rest of the world? The inescapable consequence is that American offspring will suffer. The second generation will not grow up healthy.
These conditions are all very real, and at that point there is almost no hope. At this point, Reverend Moon emerges bringing hope. If he does something right, America can live. This is what we have to realize. By clinging to him, he will change this world. Even though everything is occupied by Satan, he will move to where there is less Satan. Now Reverend Moon comes to re-indemnify the individual, to re-indemnify the family, clan and nation. God already built the necessary base of indemnity through religion, but that base was all washed away because of the failure at the end of World War II. If America had understood the situation and had behaved accordingly, then this kind of misery would not have had to happen. There would have been no need to repeat it again.
Today there is only one person in the world who is teaching all these concepts. That is Reverend Moon. There is no other philosopher, theologian or religious leader in the world who understands about these things. Only Reverend Moon has this kind of understanding and is bringing it directly to America. This teaching was rejected and ultimately I was put in jail. In that way, Father was completely denied, rejected. Since the jailing of Reverend Moon, America is becoming even more hopeless. The whole world has no real sense of hope.
Reverend Moon might have given up at that lowest point. But we know why he cannot give up, why we cannot give up. So Father went into jail, came out again and did all over again what he had been doing here for 20 years. Still it was pitch dark and people didn't understand what Reverend Moon was doing. Now that is today's situation. Has anyone of you really welcomed Father, beyond your life prepared to give up their life to welcome him? Even the Moonies didn't respond that way. All the time, taking, taking, taking. Only wanting to get into heaven without fulfilling the purpose and so actually destroying the purpose.
Who is the one who really welcomed Reverend Moon from the first day? Imagine. The presence of Reverend Moon is almost like a miracle by itself, but have you ever stopped to think how much God and mankind had to suffer and pay indemnity for this to happen, for Reverend Moon to come to America and reside here? Do you really know how much suffering and indemnity is there behind Reverend Moon?
You say, "Oh, Father, what you teach is so good and exciting, but I cannot do what you ask." Have you said that? You may not have said those words with your mouth, but what about your mind? Even today, how much do you support Father, how intensely do you embrace me? You just think about your own history-your kindergarten, grammar school, high school, university. Your own family situation, your nation. That is what you always think about. You stand with that as your center and then look at me and compare. You deny but the contents of what I say are truth. You say, "What should I do?" Then you give lip service to the truth. You know well that this is true.
This nation of America went against Father so totally, and Father is still shedding sweat here. For more than 20 years now, Father has been here, 20 years of my prime time, for you-each one of you. What is the value of each fallen person? As of today, it is trash, the trash of mankind. There is nothing within you that you can say, "That part of my body belongs to God." Think about that. You know what a really serious position you are in today.
When I first came here, there was not one individual who could claim to be victorious on the individual level. There was no family, no national level representative. Father represented everything himself. I said to God, "I represent mankind, I represent the individual, the family." Also, when my work moved up to the national level and while communism was still a power, the CIA and the KGB even joined forces against Reverend Moon. America was even willing to couple with the communist forces to try to hurt Reverend Moon. All the while I was working for their sake. Now it is a historical fact that even in the midst of all that persecution, Reverend Moon did not leave this country. Risking my life, I remained here.
Once Americans learn about this, they will become truly grateful for tens of thousands of years to come. They know there is no way they can repay their debt. This trash of mankind was picked up out of the garbage can, brushed and cleaned off, nourished and turned into God's sons and daughters. That is what I have been determined to do in this country. That is God's intention, God's purpose of sending me here-to do just that.
I have done that exactly, teaching you and nourishing you. Now at least Father should have a few of you standing on your own two feet capable of taking care of this country America. And then I will be able to go back to Korea. You think about it. America is in a crisis, as we know well, but what about the rest of the world? What about Korea? What about the unification of the world? We know what effort it is going to take to unify the world. The world is God's agenda, not just a country, not even the large nation of America. I know that as long as we don't die, so long as we stand upright, America will not perish. God will save America so long as we are here standing up righteously. Knowing that, Father can now leave America and go back to Korea and tend to the more important business of the world.
A lot of people want to make use of Reverend Moon, not necessarily in a righteous way. It is like a boat floating on the sea of death. Everywhere is the water of death, but once we climb into a boat, we can start paddling, even with our hands and arms. We know where our boat should go. This is the place of our hope-there (pointing to something on blackboard). That we know, don't we? We know where we are supposed to go after here. Even if we die without completing everything, we must pass this on to our children and other members of the clan, saying, "What Reverend Moon is teaching us is true. Abide by it. Cling to it." Then if we die, they will have to do it since we didn't.
Even though American people might try, they can never uproot all the things we have planted here during these past 20 years, including The Washington Times and others. The way of thinking which has been introduced cannot be uprooted. In all areas, not only religious but also economic, industrial, academic-you name it-there is no area of human activity where Father's thought is not implanted. Can you do it from here on, or not? (We can do it!) If we keep ourselves alive and work hard in this direction, then America will not perish.
Those who say, "Oh, Father, with or without our effort, America will continue to survive. Nothing can cause America to perish," raise your hands. I am asking for those who believe that America will be okay without our worrying about it. Of course, no one here raised his hand.
Until now, all the bad elements of mankind have persecuted and opposed those who pursued this path, this way. But from now, if we don't go the way that God did in the past, then God will be the one who strikes us and persecutes us, rather than evil mankind. That zero point is our route to salvation. Do you understand? Liquidation or ending the salvational dispensation is what God has been working for. This is what the purpose of creation is. Now, anyone or anything that does not conform to this original form will be not only persecuted but destroyed. God will destroy it. He will judge each one and say, "No, you don't pass," if they do not measure up. Those who don't pass cannot survive.
God is the Good One. "Good" means the Double God. Think about it. How many people like that "Good" God. Do you understand this concept of zero point? You have to go through that zero point. Each person has to go through that zero point where we don't feel anything; we are just there.
Now the communist world has been destroyed, yet still remaining is Kim Il Sung, the "Father" of Satan's world. On God's side, the Father is Reverend Moon. Satan cannot do any damage to the True Parents. Kim Il Sung has been the ruler of North Korea for many years now and he has always proclaimed himself as the father of his people. Doesn't it seem strange that this "Father" on the satanic side and the True Parents on God's side are all from the tiny little peninsula of Korea? Why was Korea the site of this struggle? Why not America? Why not England? Why did God choose a miserable, lowly nation like Korea? Korea had nothing, had lost everything. It had no hope after World War II. The armistice table at Panmunjon where the North and South Korean delegates have been meeting for discussions, signifies complete denial, the zero point. "Panmunjon" literally translated means a wooden gate, or meeting place. Now we have to turn it into a golden gate meeting place.
Once Father puts up a golden gate instead of a wooden gate which the communists have used to prevent free thought from coming in, Father will never let go. What is your guess: If Father and Kim Il Sung get into a wrestling match, who would win? I have already sized him up! I know I could lick him. He is known for his big guts, but even there, he is no match for me. It became apparent to both Kim Il Sung and me that I could save him, but he has nothing with which he could help me. If I had had twelve hours in which to speak with him, that would have been the end of it. I could have explained everything to him and persuaded him. Once that happened, communism would have been completely wiped out and replaced by "golden thought."
Kim Il Sung used his power to kill four million Korean people and in so doing he rose to the position of king. But I rose to where I am by being hit and hit, over and over again. I could tell him, "By being struck repeatedly throughout my life, I have been able to come here to meet with you and I can save you." Because this is true, Kim Il Sung has to kneel down. He cannot help but say, "Yes, yes, you are right."
Then he said, "You have a lot of foundation in Japan and America. Please help us. We need that." But Father said, "No, you cannot use me. If you use me, it will be terrible. I will turn around." (English:) Father is going up to Heaven, but Satan goes in the opposite direction, one hundred and eighty degrees the other way, down to Hell. This is God's providential viewpoint.
Until now, America has taken Reverend Moon very lightly. They never thought of Reverend Moon as anything, but they were wrong. They were so arrogant. People didn't even bother to check out what Reverend Moon is teaching. They just listened to Satan's voice and persecuted Reverend Moon according to Satan's instruction. That includes all the governmental figures, such as Carter, Reagan, and Bush. What if any one of them had said, "What is wrong with finding out what Reverend Moon is teaching? I want to know." No matter how strong the persecution was, or they thought it would be, why didn't they check it out for themselves. That was their responsibility. They did not check instead they put me into jail. Did I come here to America for the purpose of having the leader of America do that? It is unthinkable. This is not America's position. It is outrageous in this free country. Is that the way a free country operates, to put someone into jail without good cause?
The plaintiff in the lawsuit was the American government. The defendant was Sun Myung Moon, one individual. The American government was prosecuting a righteous religious leader. The whole country came against one individual. So when they pay this back, they will have to kneel down. Without a doubt, the people who hear the true words which Reverend Moon speaks will not like them.
So they denied all the foundation which God worked to build so painstakingly. Even though America did this out of ignorance, they still destroyed everything. Father came to teach them, but they didn't listen. Big Moon, Big Moon, Big Moon, every step of the way, is a winner. They struck me, even though they didn't know me. Why don't you have a showdown with God? Why don't you ask God whether Reverend Moon is saying the truth or not? God is the only authority for such a question. This is the ultimatum to the Western world on behalf of God. What I have spoken here this morning, even though it is a humble place, will remain forever in the history of mankind. This is a declaration: not the declaration of communism but the declaration of the opening of the Kingdom of Heaven. (Applause.)
Now do you have this formula engraved in your mind: True God, True Father, True Mother, True Son, True Daughter, True Family, True World. True Kingdom of Heaven-on the earth first, then following that, in spiritual world. This is very clear. Do you understand? In order to make this happen, you have to deny yourself-your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, body and sexual organs.
Now let us get an overview of the dispensation. In today's time in dispensation history, Adam needs to be liberated. This should be Adam's civilization, Adam's world. Whatever he wants to do, he should be able to do it. Of course, we are speaking of restored Adam, not fallen Adam. The original Adam from history is dead. He died. Now we need the completion of Adam and the completion of Eve, sons and daughters. Then there is no room for Satan to get anywhere near. If all these family members are completely united, centered on God, Satan is not around. Where there is no unification, there is no freedom, happiness, peace or hope.
Let us examine this. When your mind and body are in severe conflict, can you feel happy? Are you free in such a case? No, not at all. You are coerced. The ultimate ingredient of peace is balance. When you are fighting, you are not balanced so you can have no peace. If husband and wife fight in the morning over some trivial thing or even big things, can they feel happy the rest of the day? Certainly not. Let me repeat: Without unification, there is no freedom, peace, happiness, or hope.
The communists preached peace, but then when they gain control, they fight. They created conflict. Where is the peace in that? Communism is built on the philosophical foundation of dialectical materialism, which is false and doesn't work, as we know. Is there freedom in dialectical materialism? No. Instead, people killed each other under that way of thinking. In communism there can be no peace. Also, people under that kind of system can have no hope. For such a world to go on and on, what could they hope for in the future? Nobody has any hope.
But Unificationists are guided by the concept of united mind and body. That is our goal. When they are united, people feel happiness. Upon that foundation, we can find freedom, we can make peace and find happiness and hope. Isn't that true? You know that now because your original mind has been cleaned up and you have put in a new concept about freedom. From there, you can achieve everything. Otherwise, there is no way. Hell is the place where God's unification is not realized. What is Heaven? Heaven is the world where individuals have completely unified their mind and body. And man and woman are completed unified as couples. It is the place where parents and children are completely one within the unified family wherein world happiness and world hope are begun. Otherwise, there is no way. The first question must be: how can we make family perfection? Only in this can everything good be found. Do you have that kind of unification-of your mind and body, of your family? (No.) No. The answer is absolutely no. NO means forever zero.
When we go out to witness every day, we should visit people with our unified mind and body. Also, we should have a unified couple. After that, parents and children united creates the unified family. Representing the family, that man or woman should go out witnessing. Every time, you should have a unified foundation, not two minds, but a unified mind and body. When you have that kind of unity, you can be proud of yourself, you can assert "Me." Centering on this unity, it is all right to be absolutely proud of yourself, of "me." But because fallen man lost God and lost the ideal, then everything was lost. Now you understand how to restore the lost self, the central, proud position.
You all want to be the number one person in your family, don't you? Even your grandfather will look at you with respect. You want to be treated that way, don't you? Your father and mother, as well as every member of the family will regard you as the number one family member. That is good. That is the ambition which God planted in our original mind. But how can we achieve that number one position? It is only by serving everybody that we can realize that goal.
So we are speaking about perfected and liberated Adam. Have we ever seen before in history an Adam who was perfected and who was completely one with God, or sons and daughters who became completely united with their parents? What is your answer, yes there was or no, there was not. There was not. Therefore, we have to search for that kind of family. And we have to accomplish this. By finding them, then we have to learn the secret. By following the teaching, following the right formula. We have to research and investigate to learn what Satan's secret is and how he has been ruling the world, how he been so powerful. That is what had to be discovered. What Father did was to take Satan's secrets away from him, plundering them, exposing them. Once I proclaimed Satan's secrets publicly, they were no longer secrets. Now everybody knows the truth, particularly about the fall of man. Before this time, no one understood the fall.
By knowing the truth, mankind can turn around and declare to Satan, "You are not the king of this world. You are the king of evil," and they can kick him down into the dungeon of hell. As it says in the Bible, the truth shall set you free. Now Moonies understand clearly the secrets which Satan has been hiding behind. Those who know those secrets, are they happy people or unhappy people? How happy? You are about to occupy the entire world, including God. How happy must you be! You can say, "I don't need the power of money because God is with me everywhere I go. I don't need diamonds and jewels." Likewise, knowledge is no problem. You are king of knowledge. What about power? When you go into the spirit world, do you need money, food, knowledge or worldly power? No, you need none of that. That is our home town forever. No matter whether you like it or not, that is your destination. I know this truth well, so no matter how strongly Satan's world went against me, I could stay strong. I was shot at from all four corners of the world, but I never fell down. Finally, after all these years of being shot at, I have just kept on going and at last I am at the top of the world.
Now Reverend Moon is in the number one position. World leaders cannot understand this. Only you Moonies can recognize Reverend Moon and his teaching. Therefore, the outside world declared that you must have been brainwashed. That is because you are standing on God's side, not Satan's side. That is why you are abnormal people, in the eyes of this world. Are you really on God's side? Really? You don't have that kind of confidence. Father sees that in your eyes. You are complicated. That means you have taken that kind of position, otherwise you cannot take the winner's position, the victor's position. Father is a victorious man. I want to see you victorious too. Victor means "forever," there will be no enemy that can beat you.
So it is a declaration. When Jesus came, he denied the individual, denied all the families, denied the nation, denied the church-he denied everything, then, of course, he was crucified. So he has to come again. The Jewish religion today is still waiting for the Messiah to come, believing that they will be the ones to get recognition from the Messiah. That is what they are thinking. The Jewish people, just like some of the Christian factions, are waiting for the Messiah to come on the cloud. Since Jesus did not come on the clouds, the Jewish people believed that he wasn't the Messiah. Basically, that's what the Jewish faith is. Likewise, many Christians believe the same thing today.
But I tell you, the Messiah will never come on a cloud. If someone comes on a cloud and you cannot touch him, if he is as unreal as that, then can he realize the four-position foundation? Can he ever get married and give birth to good children? No, of course not. Can he ever establish the real world without Satan, a world in which all people will be the sons and daughters of God? If we ever disregard God's goal of the dispensation, namely the God-centered four-position foundation, then God would absolutely be defeated in human history. Isn't that true? We must have that four-position foundation before God can become the victorious God. Logically, no one can deny that the Messiah must come in the flesh, just as Jesus did.
If Jesus had had physical descendants, the religious world today would not be as it is. There would be one lineage recognizing the elder nations. In fact history would not have needed America, England, France. There would be only one nation. Now the situation is so completely opposite from God's original plan. Satan is occupying this world, not God. God has lost ownership.
(Writes on blackboard.) After the fall, these things have come into being-bad lineage, and lack of ownership. Shimjung, or the Realm of Heart is our true root. But now we have the wrong root. We lost the true root. So we do not dwell in the true heartistic realm. Our owner is not God but Satan. Our lineage is from Satan, not God. So how can we recover that lineage? By following Reverend Moon's teaching. Otherwise, there is no way, there is absolutely no way. Do you understand? How can ownership be exchanged? How can love be exchanged?
We need to realize the starting points are different. Reverend Moon's starting point is from God. All humankind's starting point is from Satan. So we need to be cleaned up, one by one. We need to take out the dirt. So don't forget these three concepts: first, whose lineage are you in, God's or Satan's? Which side are you living on? You cannot stay in the middle position. Ownership is the same-by whom are you owned? By whose authority do you own something? The public concept comes from God. The private concept originates with Satan. Centering on "me" is the place where God's and Satan's ownership are decided, and we need to clean ourselves up centering on "me." Taking the public way allows the new, God-centered side to blossom. You have to choose that public way each step of the way through life.
Think about it. What is the true root of love, the starting point? It is not mother, not father, not husband or wife, not children, not the nation. The original root of love is God. Therefore, you have to connect with God as your love root. At that point you can truly be unified into one. Starting from the inside of God's love root, you can sprout out with your own branches. In this there is hope for the world. Flower and fruit stem from there. That means there is hope. Making that branch. This is the natural way of growth, the natural way of expansion when we start from the root, make the main branch, many branches and from there, make the flower.
How many true branches do you have? Only one part? No good! How many leaves, how many branches do you have in your position? No matter how famous you may become, you have to make true branches. Centering upon family, you have to make this into heaven. Out of every new sprout and bud you have to make a victory of the family, then tribe and then nation. Heaven is God's ideal of creation. Don't forget this. All of Father's lifetime, I have followed this concept. I have been pushing Satan's side down-pushing, pushing. I never kicked back. Even after falling down, even when I cannot even put one foot in front of the other, and I just kept going forward-not sideways or back, just forward. No problem for me. Even when an entire country kicked me, including America, I went on. Communism was no problem. I just continued going straight forward. This was God's concept and True Parents' concept. Now this concept is clear. If you understand this concept clearly, raise your hands.
Now compare your position with me. I am standing on the needle-point. That is my kind of life, for seventy years. Not a safe life, not peaceful, not happy, not a hopeful life. Only worried about how to connect the needlepoint with all the places where the fight is waging-in the family, the tribe, the nation. Then Father sought to raise up the world, raise up America, raise up communism, raise up Kim Il Sung. You see, I have no enemy now. In front of Father there is no enemy. Reverend Moon has come to that kind of level. Isn't this true, or not? You know.
During this time, do you really know how much suffering Father has endured? How much pain has Father suffered-Mother and children too. "Moonie!", people yelled. A dark cloud followed you too. Satan was asking you, "Why are you following Reverend Moon? You have no hope. The goal is too far. You cannot reach it. Your habits are already good ones. You eat well. You can drink wonderful wine. You can dance, dance the twist." The twist represents the snake! Drinking wine and smoking. This drinking is always connected with sex. Smoking is connected with sex. For example, a woman comes along, "Please, do you have a cigarette?" "Yes", replies a man. "May I have one?" She replies. "Yes, please." "Oh, do you have a light too?" She lights and Father imitates her inhaling the smoke. "Thank you". The man thinks, "Oh this is a good chance to meet the woman." So they drink together and go out. The thinking is, "Anything is OK, so long as I get what will satisfy me." So they embrace and kiss. After that, they touch everywhere. Satan's world stinks.
Sex is Satan's weapon for destroying God's ideal foundation. People drop down into dungeon of hell. The single thread connecting all the elements destroying God's ideal is sex. Originally the sexual organ was to be the palace of love. That means it was also the starting place. The human sexual organs were to be the true love palace. They were to be the connecting place of all loving actions. In there man's life and woman's life are connected into one. It is where the essence of man's and woman's blood become mixed and from that the blood lineage is made by making sons and daughters. That is the palace of love. That is how important, how precious love is.
Therefore how miserable did love become, how low did love fall? Who can liberate mankind from such a position? That is the Messiah's task. The Christian world believes Jesus will come down on the clouds, separate out the believers and leave behind the nonbelievers and just fly off. But the Bible says, "Whatever is bound on earth is also bound in heaven." It is clear that earth is the place which must be cleaned up. This fallen place is not heaven. This is the reason we need the True Parents. Jesus himself needs True Parents. Confucius needs True Parents. Buddhists need True Parents. Mohammed needs True Parents. All humanity needs True Parents. Why? It is because we have to restore the most precious, most powerful place which is the love palace, life palace, lineage palace. Those three realms must be liberated by the religious world, the educational world. Satan brought that down completely. How can we raise it up again? God wants that four-position foundation re-established.
Now Kim Il Sung respects me, the ex-Soviet world respects me. This summer, ten thousand middle and high school students and teachers will take the Divine Principle training course. So the second generation will belong to Father. Women and the second generation will belong to Father.
In past history, the winners of wars have taken women and children as the trophies of war. Why? In the future God wants them. Man has killed everything. But women embrace women and women embrace children. Satan cannot take away that hope.
At the time of the fall, Eve took two loves, one is Satan and one is Adam. So all women inherit this aspect, this concept. Of divorced couples in America, who is the first to think about such a thing as divorce, man or woman? Seventy-five percent of the time it is woman? Why is that? Adam and Eve started all the current complications. Eve started that idea of two husbands or more. Woman initiates these complications. You have to know that clearly, how much Satan is using that secret weapon. All our ancestors passing until this time. How much destruction! You think about that. Understand that kind of concept cannot continue. We have to end it so we can stand on God's side. You have to have that new kind of standard and stand up for it. So centering on Father, you get married. No matter how much noise people make outside, don't care about it. Know that you are committed to God.
Many world leaders are now saying, "Reverend Moon has made a great foundation for a victorious true love world." Many are praising Moonies, right? That is reality, that is our hope.
You have to remember these three points: Blood lineage-how can you clean it up? Ownership-how can you inherit it, taking it away from Satan? The middle is not God's place. God is absolutely on one side. Third, love-how can you clean up dirty love? How can we make it white and clean again? We need bleach to get it white. You know well how dirty it is, how much we have to bleach it out. You know better than God.
Should I continue? Do you recognize that for the first time in history, the liberation, the perfection of Adam has been accomplished? (Yes.) (Applause) For forty years, Korea wished I were dead. They tried to stop me through persecution and so forth. Now all of Korea has given up trying to do that. Likewise, in America for over 20 years, people have wished that Father would be dead. It didn't happen. Now that persecution is over, too. Those who would persecute now might get hurt. So the communists tried to get together with the intelligence agencies of America and tried to kill Father. Even today there is a trial going on for members of a team of assassins sent to kill me. That trial isn't over yet. Now no Russians will hate Reverend Moon anymore. For the first time in history, Adam has been completed. Even Satan bows down now. Even Satan does not oppose me. (Applause) That proves the completion of Adam, Adam's liberation.
What about Eve, then? With Cain and Abel at her breast, Eve followed Satan and went to hell. They multiplied from individual to family, to clan, and so forth. The whole human race fell into hell on earth. Then God started to work with Israel. God cut this nation into two and guided Israel upward, a little bit at a time, to higher and higher levels from tribe to nation, world, cosmos and finally to God. So this was being restored. Restoration takes place in that order, in that fashion. From hell to heaven.
Reverend Moon represents everything right here (pointing to one dot on the blackboard). You know this meaning, don't you? He is standing right here in the center. He takes all persecution. This is what had happened at the end of World War II. Since then all of this had been established. By fighting in World War II, and by winning, then unification was realized at some level. If America had at that time recognized this dispensation and embraced Father and served him, the world today would have been entirely different from what we see. Already world unification and peace on earth would have been realized. Communism would have stopped at that time. Another forty years would have been the time of complete realization of the ideal world.
Here Father can explain a little bit more. Satan sowed the seed in a particular way, and so the fruit is harvested accordingly. England was in Eve's position. The elder son's position was France. England is an island, which represents feminine countries. England gave birth to America, which developed in the position of Abel. France was the historical enemy to England. On Satan's side, as we know, Japan was Eve, Cain was Italy and Abel was the most formidable Germany. They all fought together to settle this. The world of Satan's fruits fought against the world of God's fruits. World War II was the judgment of fire as a settlement. It was won by God's side.
During the war, America did not know whether they would win or lose. They forgot about everything, they denied their winning confidence, they denied their pessimism, they simply denied everything. They just fought with God in their head. The same was true of Japan. Japan didn't know whether they would win or lose. Whoever would win would go through the zero point and inherit that position.
At the beginning of history, Eve left with Satan, leaving God and true Adam behind. In the restoration, there should be a true nation in Adam's position. And there should be sons and daughters of Eve who will completely obey true Adam, unconditionally. After World War I, that wife wanted to meet the second Adam, and follow absolutely behind true Adam. It should have become a different world. But standing in front of Adam's position was Satan's world. Behind Adam should be women and children.
Do you know that America is the queen's country? Why? Because it has wanted to meet the Adam at the time of the second coming. They're wanting to meet a real husband, real king, on real heaven's side. But until now it has been Satan's side. They have wanted to step on that man's position and wanted to welcome the original God and real husband and parents, brotherhood and children. Man's position is archangel's position. Woman's position is God's daughter's position. That means in the future they will move into God's country queen position. Do you understand?
American woman have ownership of everything-money, power, everything, knowledge too. The other day I went to the graduation ceremonies at Harvard. Women's power was big. Almost half the class were women. Now we have a chance to change everything. You must use all this to save America. You are teaching their children. Woman give true direction.
Now woman's position is a dirty one, like a beggar. But they have to get to the parents' position, one of dignity.
Now is the time to exchange places. Woman's power lies in a different place. Originally God's children were lied to. Do you understand? Now Satan's side children have to completely change places, 180 degrees.
America must be reborn. What is the center? Woman is the center. America must turn around by being reborn again. God's hope for the world is the American foundation. This is really logical. No one can argue with this.
Then being unified and independent here, then upon that there can be freedom. In this there is hope for world peace and happiness. This is the future of the world. Based on unification they can take dominion, then there will be freedom, peace, happiness and hope forever. Centering on God, parents home will be there, original parent. From there they can connect to the original country, world and cosmos. No matter what it is like now, even a back yard type place, there is hope. God is making hometown nation, hometown world, connect with one lineage. Upon that we will make unification. How can you deny this, or must you recognize this as truth?
Realizing this, we must come here, change the lineage, change the love, and changing the ownership. Also people must beg the forgiveness of Adam who will come here. The purpose of this is true love. Restoration means we are connected to the love of God. One God on whom all are centered everywhere. This is the Unification concept.
The concept of independence was created for the first time in history in the midst of Satan's world. There was only one such independent, Protestant nation in this world. Who knew? I know that. I teach you clearly. It was to be used as the future hope of the world. Father was sitting above America's history, and as this did not happen, imagine the whole purpose of having won the War, the purpose was lost.
Anyone can answer this: Who is closer to God, George Washington or Reverend Moon? The answer is simple. So since America's forefathers must follow Reverend Moon respectfully and obey Reverend Moon, then so should their descendants. There is nothing funny or unnatural about that. They are doing that in the spirit world.
Now Father said this and you may not feel so bad as you used to twenty years ago, when Father first came and said, "America is on fire! You cannot provide the fireman for your own country, so I came as the fire fighter. America is sick and since you cannot provide a doctor, I came as the doctor." American people outside the church really didn't accept that, they didn't like to hear those words. They thought, "What do you mean, you are a doctor, a fire fighter?" They said, "I am proud of this country. What are you talking about? You are from that backward country of Korea. How can Korea now be helping America? America has always been helping Korea, so you should take the normal way and say thank you to America. You are bad, bad!" That is how many Americans felt about me.
But the holy man does not come from a holy place. The holy man comes from the dungeon of hell, from the most miserable places. This is understood from history. In that way, the holy man shines brighter. That way he can affect high level people and influence them. Today, after indemnity, Americans may not feel so bad as they used to before.
After World War II, America took a sharp turn down. Now, unless America becomes one with Reverend Moon, it is destined to go down. Reverend Moon is the only one who has accomplished this four-position foundation. For six thousand years, how much patience it took to re-establish the original husband's position. Father did that, centering on God. Be connected and reborn again and get the real children's seed. Then the true family will appear. Otherwise there is no solution. If America had given complete support to Reverend Moon, saying "You came for the purpose of realizing history. Do whatever you wish." If he did that, the whole world would have been into peace and unification in a mere seven years. That is what God intended.
There was a man who was instrumental in destroying Father's work by stopping Father from reaching out to Yong Se University and Ew Wha University, and reaching the second generation. Inheriting from Father. That was Syngman Rhee, and he met his fate because of indemnity. American power also came down and down, making bad rumors and worse. It was terrible. They worked very hard to destroy Reverend Moon's name. All American people followed, Korean people followed, all the free world even connected with communism in order to oppose Reverend Moon. But Father is clever. He didn't fight back.
Now Satan's power is retreating step by step. This is today's reality. Take for example the PBS documentary. They tried to discredit Reverend Moon again, trying to push him into a corner. But as soon as we explained what Reverend Moon was doing, it really looked good. Also the viewing audience, knowing that the program was supposed to make Reverend Moon look bad, thought, "What is so bad about him? He is right! He's great!" Now people are saying, "We have to follow him." Isn't that the way the world is changing now? Who is going up now? It is not the American president, but Reverend Moon.
At the celebration of the tenth anniversary of The Washington Times, I went down and announced that one billion dollars has been invested in The Washington Times for the sake of America. They were really flabbergasted, virtually unable to believe it. They just stood up and gave an ovation. They were unable to stay seated. Why? Because they felt the shameful position of America in front of God. This nation with all its millionaires didn't spend even one dollar for this central purpose. So Father is again grasping America, determined to save this country and not let it fall back down into the trash can.
Satan was about to take America, England and France. The first Israelites were lost, so the second Israelites could easily have been lost. Then everything would have been lost. If that had happened, then the third Israel would have been completely and totally without a foundation to stand upon. So Father took America back for God, determined to save it. This time, it was not God who did that task but Reverend Moon. For the second time, America was held up. This second time is Reverend Moon proclaimed, "I will take America back from Satan and bring it to God."
Actually Satan took everything-England, America. Since Father knew that he could not re-establish that origin where we could take back all the tradition of God's work, so Father decided to take Abel's country, which was America. Even Satan, too, if he does not take Eve or someone in Eve's position, then he of course would have lost the most important thing, that is the head position. Satan's most favorite country, Japan, was in the tail position. To claim the head and the tail was the strategy by which Satan wanted to control the whole world. Realizing this Father, on God's behalf, took it. He took Eve, Germany and Italy. So you know why Father did that-why Father took America, why Father took Japan, why Father took Germany and Italy?
With Korea, being in the position of Adam, and Japan as Eve, America in Abel's position and Germany in Cain's position, Father struck back. He fought back against the whole world which is the harbinger of Satan. Satan's strategy was very clear. They would stain Father's name so bad-worse than that of a burglar, worse than a killer or anything possible to think of-so that the Unification Church and Reverend Moon could not wade out of it. That was their very successful strategy for a long time.
How many people has Reverend Moon killed? The CIA, KGB and everyone had to admit that I never killed anybody, not one soul. Did I ever rob anybody? Certainly not. Did I ever attack any woman? Certainly not. All Father did in this country was to shed tears, sweat and blood to save this country. A billion dollars means one thousand times one million. That is a staggering number. All the while Unification Church members lived like beggars. That was not because Father didn't have any money to give them. There has been money at our disposal, but my goal has always been to liberate God, not to liberate the Unification Church members. That is why I have not given money to Unification Church members. This strategy is the only hope to turn America around. To do that, I knew we had to put everything we had into The Washington Times and all the activities we have been doing here. While encouraging the members to suffer and suffer more. Such a lonely path we have followed until now. But now is the time of dawn, things are becoming lighter. We can see things more clearly. People can look around and see, "Moonies are the righteous people, they are only good and are doing good things." People will begin following you, centering on you more and more. They will say, "No matter how difficult it may be, we are going to follow the way of the Moonies." That is the new America that is being born. This is a new morning. Otherwise, there is no way, absolutely no way.
Since Father took America, who should liberate America? Not God, but Father has to liberate America. Since I came to America until now I have been pushed down, pushed down and rejected, but I never decreased, I never shrank away. I always stood up strongly, teaching and continuing. American people are basically smart and they have potential. If really smart NBC staff studied this seriously and turned around and reported accurately to the American people, so much would change. We know that if nobody does it, we will do it. We have an elaborate broadcasting station in Washington. Since I took America and pledged to save America, I could not let it go, I could not let it get washed out. Father's intention was to bring a rescue party here from Korea, Japan, from seven different nations such as England, Germany and so forth. By having all those formerly enemy countries come here showing the example that there is more than just the American way of thinking, they would exhibit a universal way of thinking. So Father show them and encouraged them to put more heart into this nation than the Americans themselves. Patriotism in other words. We made that kind of foundation, can go back then. Turn around 180 degrees. Kingdom of Heaven.
Creating one country, one heart, true way. True Parents are making one terminal point, not two. Will that be America which God will bring to the terminal point. No. America has its mission elsewhere.
Americans have loudly complained, "Why did you have to bring so many lowly Asians over here. We don't like that. We have a much more sophisticated culture of Christendom!" American youth didn't understand what Father's intent was. They thought America was much better than any other country in the world. But this is why Father brought them over. Do you follow me? Really? Following means every time acting. Can you do it? (Yes!) Doing it doesn't means you have already completed it, in fact the completion is far away. You are going to do it. ... Father knew if the people from enemy nations came to America and dedicated more of their heart here than to their own nation, then Satan would have to retreat. This strategy has worked. I know that. Satanic "common sense" dictates that one enemy will fight another enemy, and nobody showed any other example. Nobody taught that enemy nations should love one another, more than they love their own country. Only by Father's strategy, by the love of God, could we succeed.
With all things considered, the Japanese people gave more to America than the American people themselves. More people came and they worked harder. Europeans, too, came here and really worked seriously, more seriously than Americans. Many Americans didn't like their Korean regional directors, saying, "Why don't they go home! Why can't an American be in that position?" Now, even today if I said, "All you Korean leaders go back home," do you think Americans could handle it from this point on? You American leaders, answer my question: Do you have confidence if that kind of situation arises? Answer clearly! (Not yet, Father.) Not yet! Answer me one more time. (No!) That's not K-N-O-W, is it? It's N-O. The CARP leader must answer honestly "No," or else he is ignorant. Is there an American leader here who can say, "I disagree, Father. I can do just as good a job and even better than any Korean or Japanese"? How formidable is Reverend Moon's power!
Do you understand that the power of Reverend Moon is not centered on myself? It is centered on God. I am not going "Reverend Moon's" way. This is the way of truth which must be followed by everybody in the world. Everybody in spirit world follows this way. Do you follow?
Now the gate of peace is open. Wherever I go, whether in Korea or Japan, America or Russia-staggering numbers of people have been taught about God's way of life. No enemy is now blocking my way. (Applause.) According to the Principle, Adam is the center of everything-and he is the beginning of everything. So even Eve, Mother, until such time does not take an equal position with Father. She has to tag along with Father wherever he goes, whatever he says, she must agree with. This is what Mother has been doing. The tradition which Father established also had to be followed by Mother. There was no Mother's tradition, per se. Because if she claimed that, then Father is fighting, anybody standing there would be hurt. It is not wise to do that. Mother follows Father.
We have seen this over and over again in history. It is the man who comes and fights and wins over, then all the women and children will follow, taking the same position of winner, after winning. So Mother was like my shadow. Wherever Father moved, Mother moved. Father steps on his right foot, Mother steps on her right foot. Now Eve has restored her dominion. After winning over completely, now Father brings the women on his side, on his left side, to represent him and to represent herself, too, to the whole world.
Because of that, the True Familyship has now been restored and we are entering into the family unit of life. Therefore, Father appointed Mother as a formal representative. Then Father organized the Women's Federation for World Peace, where the women become the center of activity. By doing this, then all history from past to the future, anyone and everyone will form their family and work and live as a family unit.
Since Mother followed Father absolutely, Eve followed Adam, without any dissent, she faithfully obeyed and followed, and fought side by side when he had to fight. So now heaven on earth is the expected thing. It is a natural thing. Before the fall, there was Adam, Eve, the three archangels, and God. Three archangels in the sight of God, in the country who is in that position are: America, Russia, and China. Centering on Eve. That's a map of Japan Father is drawing. So Korea also wants to own Eve. Adam wants to possess Eve. And the archangels, China, Russia, and America, all want to possess Eve. Is that true? America does not want the north and south of Korea united, nor does Japan. Did you know they don't want that? But China and Russia, knowing America and Japan don't like it, are eager to see it happen. And who can make a positive influence to see that happen? Not Kim Il Sung but Reverend Moon can do that.
Now I took that kind of powerful role. America cannot do that. Japan cannot do that either. Nor can China or Russia. But Reverend Moon can! (Applause) Jesus' body was lost in Asia. Originally Jesus did not take that cross. Originally Jesus was meant to join with the Oriental world, the religious realms that God prepared in the Oriental world-India, China and all over. They were supposed to combine into one Oriental world. So God's work to perfect humankind is done in the religious world, starting with the Asian world, not the western world. After Jesus died, Christianity went to the West, but the original direction was toward the East. Going to Rome where the western world represented the body, the outside. Not spirit. Completely lost spirit world foundation. That spiritual foundation was meant to come from Asia. This was God's original concept.
Now Western newspapers want to go to Japan and the Asian world, and discover their secrets. American people even want to marry Orientals. No matter what kind of problem they have, they still have strong spiritual power. They stand on God's side. No matter how beautiful the husband is, they are like grasshoppers, American are like grasshoppers. But when autumn time comes, automatically they are destroyed. Anyone doesn't like that. Japanese are like ants.
But Moonies are smart, they have turned around one hundred and eighty degrees and want to marry and connect with the Asian world.
Wintertime, summer, no matter how difficult it may be, you have to follow otherwise you will go down and will perish. You cannot make excuses. American women or American men? You memorize that. No matter who hates me you have to make a strong foundation. That is God's hope for one direction. You cannot accomplish any other way.
In the Garden of Eden, centering on Eve, with beautiful skin, naked body, breasts good, everything beautiful, there were four men standing- the archangels and Adam looked at Eve. They made trouble.
In this time, Korea is in the Adamic position. How can we connect with the three archangels? America is archangel on God's side. The others are on Satan's side. Reverend Moon is going to make a four position foundation by catching Eve. But Japan is fighting to destroy the Moonie foundation. But they have no right to take such action.
Father made an exchange marriage two years ago between Korea and Japan-like exchange students, exchange marriage. Adam took Eve. The Adam's position took the next generation's sons and daughters. Japan and Korea, Adam and Eve making one family foundation. Also the archangel. They thought, "No matter how proud Reverend Moon might be in taking that action, he'll never really be able to do that". Now what do the three archangel position people think about that?
Father had to do this otherwise they could not go the way of indemnity, and then the same fallen patterns would be repeated by the archangels. The unification of Korea and Japan is essential to settlement.
We can say to North Korean Kim Il Sung, "You are not the center of Japan, America you are not, Soviets you are not, China you are not. Only Korea can replace that place lost by Jesus and the religious world-the spiritual center of Asia. Unite elements from both and embrace people from both sides by standing in the parents position. That is fulfillment of Jesus mission. After marriage, people attain Jesus position and then they can have children, multiplying them. Who can do this? Not Israelites, not Judaism, only Reverend Moon-ism. Only Unificationism. In this, Satan's position standing against God is destroyed, washed away.
I met Kanamaru and Nakasone. Father told him, "I don't want to hear your words or anything about your position. I know you well. But you don't know me. You haven't heard me talk." They agreed, "Yes, as you like." Just like a primary school boy. Bless him! He was good. No matter if your country comes against me, or the free world comes against me, you can't take the victorious way. Only Reverend Moon has actually gone the victorious way. The other way is the way of defeat. It is a shadow way. Only the rising sun can cover the darkness. There is no darkness any more.
So who knew Father was indemnifying centering on these histories? No American leaders knew, no religious leaders knew. To consummate this 6,000 years of indemnity, to carry on the history of indemnity and to make this foundation, God had to give away and sacrifice many religious groups, many nations, many families, many individuals. Many had to shed their blood. We are standing on that foundation. Can any intelligent American deny that? You cannot.
We are the harbingers, the ones who learned these things before others. Those who learn before anybody else must fulfill his responsibility or his consequences will bring greater and more severe punishment than others in history. This is the light house in the darkness, and this is the center of judgment. This is the one who saves the declining people. Only through us can they be saved. We should be in the position to represent and save the world, so how can we ever say we cannot save our own country? When we are in the position to represent and save the country, how can we say that the clan is too big for us to save? How can we say our family or our individual self is too big for us to save? We cannot do that because our position is to represent the world and save the world. Namely, you and I, as Unification Church members. This is the privilege of all privileges. This is authority of all authorities. We are given authority and privilege. If we take it lightly, then there should be consequences very different from what we would like. This is the rule Father went by, too. I knew what I knew before anybody else understood. If nobody, not even Satan knew, how could I do anything but what I have done in my life?
Where there is an open guarantee to participate in the celebration in the kingdom of heaven, how more joyously can we go this path of indemnity? There are so many critical, desolate deserts, Death Valleys, that we have to go beyond and win over. But we are on an airplane, God's airplane, so we don't have to trudge on foot through all this. How wonderfully fortunate we are! Some walk for many thousands of years. But now we can fly on an airplane or a helicopter, soaring high above the deserts and going a thousand miles at one time. But the love speed is the fastest of all. It is so fast, we cannot see it.
You like that airplane of the Gospel? You American people are accustomed to good things, so you want that. But the champion usually walks, fighting with both hands and feet. Can you imagine the training of a champion? After becoming a champion, it's different, but until you get to that level, training is so difficult. You can only imagine what it is like. There are twelve different directions of Satan, twelve different months. He will attack this direction, he will attack that direction, and you are supposed to dodge that every single time. So every month Satan will flee.
God wants us to win the championship. Multiplying that championship from champion children to champion family, champion nation, champion world and cosmic champion. God has the same ambition and imagination as we do. He wants us to become such champions.
Those who really pledge, "Father, I learned so much today. I will now do with all my might, I will push myself forward with all of my might," raise your hands. Hold up your hands as you listen to this: Mother is fighting in Korea under the banner of the Women's Federation. By embracing the women and embracing the same women within Kim Il Sung's realm, then together we can subjugate Satan.
Kim Il Sung needs woman, since he is the archangel. Being the archangel, he wants to connect with Mother, and by Mother being successful and resolving more problems, he can stand in his own position. Father can naturally stand in his position, too. Adam.
By the woman's world uniting with True Father, then there is no division between women and Adam. So there is no one left to unite with the archangels' position. Then the archangel does not have the partnership required to perpetuate Satan's realm. Instead, the archangel can then be reborn completely. So with Adam and Eve's family completely dedicated to God, then those women and children from these three nations, combine and say to Mother, "Please, we want to help Father". After that God can bless Adam in the husbands' position. So then man's world and woman's world will be completely on God's side. There will be no place for the archangel in human relationships.
So, centering on the family, this is the beginning of the kingdom heaven. Mother is fighting that kind of invisible war, so to speak. Mother is starting that today, Father's children, too. Daughter and son. So position of the elder is being restored, position of the true parents is being restored, and kingship is being restored. After that, royal family position will be restored. Standing on the family foundation, elder son's country, then true parents' country, and royal family country can be established as was God's original will. This will connect this world with the next world. That is the original heaven on earth, and in the spiritual world too. Completing this four position foundation, completely reindemnified.
This will end the history of the dispensation of indemnity. All the different eras of history will shout Mansei! "Mansei! Mansei! Mansei!" God bless us!

19.9.13

THE DREAM OF THE UNIFICATION CHURCH REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

Belvedere, New York May 3, 1992 Translator - Sang Kil Han

Can you pronounce the Korean word for dream? Goom. What is a dream; what is goom? Is a dream reality, or is it simply a dream? Do we usually dream about the present, or do we dream about something we wish to build or see in the future? Which is more appropriate: for old men to have dreams or for young people to dream? Yes, dreams belong to youth. Young people dream about something they plan to do, to build, to enlarge in the domain of their activities. The dream of youth is something they constantly think of building in the future.
As people age, some of their dreams are realized and thus they are no longer dreams. Gradually people come to have fewer and fewer dreams as they get older. Young people are full of dreams for something they do not have today but which they plan to build or acquire in the future. They work hard for those things. So first they dream hard, then they work hard to realize that dream. By constantly renewing their dream and dreaming new dreams they move toward the future.
Until now, Unification Church members and their families have trod a life full of indemnity. Indemnity means paying a price, as we know. When we pay the price, we get something. In other words, we have a purpose in paying that price. What has been the purpose for our paying a price in the Unification Church? Our purpose was to restore, to get back our lost positions as elder sons, as parents, of kingship, and the royal family. The center of all those positions was shifted to God, rather than the fallen center. So our goal was the elder sonship centering on God; the parents centered on God; the kingship under God and the royal family centered on God. This has been the dream and the wish of all mankind.
We have traveled quite a distance, and the scenery is changing now. As we get out of the sphere of indemnity, we are getting into the new sphere, a new era. The dawn is at hand, even though darkness is still around us. Once the light of dawn comes, the darkness will fade away and the sunshine will become stronger and brighter. We experience no persecution today. As the sun rises, everything gradually becomes clearer, easier to see. The shape of things around us is illuminated very clearly.
Looking back on Unification Church life and history, it was like night time. Everything was dark. No creature enjoys night time; virtually every creature sleeps at night. Night time is rest time. But change has come and now what time are we in? Morning is dawning now. If you compare this to a season, it is like spring which follows the cold and darkness of winter. In the winter time, everything is frozen up, contracted and drawn into itself. There is no active growth, just dormancy.
This is May 1992, and May is the month of dreams. This is true in any year, but it is especially true for us now in 1992. May is the month of dreams. Why is that? It is because this is the month in which every creature rouses itself, gets up and becomes active. They start moving toward their goals and dreams for the future. Every entity-just like each human being-is involved in this quest. Look at the flowers. They have many different colors, shapes and fragrances, but they all show off their blooms. Butterflies, bees and other insects all pursue their favorite flowers according to the color, nectar, and fragrance. All of these little flying creatures have different tastes and appetites, so they pursue different flowers. This variety makes the whole universe abundant with excitement. They all pursue their own goals, but they also work together and ultimately they have the same goals. The universe seems to be growing and heading toward more and more creativity.
We have Japanese and all the other nationalities which are divided into twelve distinct types, just as we have the twelve different astrological signs. Individuals are divided into twelve different categories in that system. As you know, in the Orient the years are divided into periods of twelve so that there is a year of the dragon, year of the monkey, and so forth. Animal names are given to each year. So if you observe an individual carefully, he will have a resemblance to a certain animal. Some resemble an elephant, a donkey, a bear, cat, snake, and so forth.
All people should fall into one of the twelve different categories. Each of the twelve different categories will go to its own different month of the year. All sorts of people will rub against each other and smooth their rough edges, so it is not always bad that a big country has big problems. These problems train them, the rough edges make them learn how to live harmoniously. Your character, in other words, becomes more perfect that way. Your love becomes more rounded. So think, "These problems are for me to train myself to realize the big dream of ours, of all mankind for the future." Training comes to us by hardship. So it is my training field. Everything is helping me to become victorious. How wonderful that kind of world is. That kind of wonderful world is waiting for you, with lots of problems welcoming you, in order for you to become more perfect! Otherwise, life would be too monotonous. Imagine if someone's personality is like a flat line. How uncomfortable he would be to live his whole life that way. So he has to learn to become like this. We have so many people who are like hooks. With the slightest encounter, they just won't let you go. There is such a personality in a man and a woman.
How wonderful it is for white people to have black people whom they happen to hate! It is a great challenge to love them, and in learning to do that, those white people become much better people than they would have been otherwise.
Which kind of life would anyone prefer-colorful, or monotonous? What about white people; don't they just like things simple, just one way? They only like the color white, right? You don't like red and yellow, do you? The personality of the average woman is such that she can have the most brilliant, beautiful white dress and she might wear it for two days in a row. Then she is desperate to get out of it and to wear something different. If anyone is forced to wear just one color all the time, it isn't inspiring.
We know that trees grow, although we can't actually see that growth. Do you think they grow during the sunny daytime or in the darkness of night? Are most babies born during the day or at night? Yes, they are usually conceived and also born during the night time. The beginning of life, the growth, in other words, most of the important activity, happens under cover of darkness, during the night time.
What is the dream of the day time? Is it to be able to hug and kiss one's son or daughter? What is the daydream which most people have? Don't you American people even know that? It is night time, you are waiting for night time. The dream of being in a high place is to visit a low place. America is on top of the world, but somehow they cannot keep that. Somehow something is pushing them down, but they don't understand that the time will come when they have to come down. They will come down rapidly. The more willingly someone comes down low, the more quickly he will be able to go up to the heights again.
Who is a happy person? It is not the person who always laughs but the one who laughs sometimes, cries at other times, then laughs again. In other words, he knows both the ups and downs of emotion. Isn't it true that we cry when we are sad but we also cry when we are happy? Why don't we just cry when we are sad? When there is sadness, tears immediately follow. But after the tears, something good can follow. There is a saying in Korea, "When you exhaust the bitterness, the sweetness begins." Or "After suffering, happiness always visits."
Until now the Unification Church has been suffering through the winter time. What is the dream of winter time? The dream is of spring and summer. When spring comes, we know that summer automatically follows. You can imagine that all the Unification Church will begin a great movement. As time goes forward from here, the Unification civilization will flourish more and more. Where will it move to? It will be moving closer and closer to heaven. We will live for the sake of others, loving and embracing others, working for their sake. By working harder and harder, we will go over the most high and deepest places. We are going further and further down, then jumping higher and higher, flying up to the highest place, into the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you like heaven?
If you want to jump up high, you first have to crouch down. The same is true in our life. Here on earth, if you always remain in the high places, then you will become arrogant and you will end up in the lowest place in spirit world. But if you live on earth in the suffering, lower places, you will be very humble and you will go to a high place in spirit world. It is the same pattern. This pattern applies even when you walk. Your eyes blink continually, open and close, open and close. When you breathe, you take air in and then you expel the air. The barometric pressure in the atmosphere varies from dense to sparse, so the wind is always in motion. Nothing is still. When the upper body becomes cooler, the lower part heats up. When the upper part of the body becomes warm, the lower part cools off.
Why are man and woman divided? Woman is built to receive from man. After she meets with man, then she becomes deeper, twice as deep as she was. After that, she goes up this high [pointing to drawing on the board.] The greatest dream for woman is man. Without man, you have no reason to dream. The same is true for men. Americans have really promoted something very strange, haven't they? Homosexuality is very strange. Does it harmonize with the principle we are discussing? No, it is plus and plus uniting. Actually, it is not that homosexuals don't want a great female. They want a great female, but they cannot find one. Lesbians, too-it is not that they do not want a man, but they cannot find a great man. They try to find love in a surrogate way, but ultimately, false love will never continue. You have to have real love. Thus they are diminishing themselves by the action they are taking. They continue to go down and down the more they engage in that kind of action. It is against nature. The natural world chases them away. The natural world, as we said, is always in motion. The flow of love in the universe chases away those actions which are fake, not natural. If you want to walk on just one foot, you cannot do it. You need your other foot. You can try to walk on one foot, but you will get very tired and ultimately you will lose all energy.
No one should be boastful because they are well off. The day will come when he will have to come down. No one can stay up on top forever. Likewise, no one will stay down forever. Look at the great scholars. Usually their children do not want to pursue that path; they usually want to be something very different. There are people who are buried in stacks of books, with books around them all the time, but their children get tired of that. [Father acts out some funny way of walking.] The person who walks in that fashion will never be a fast runner. But the one who walks like this will become a champion. Women have big hips, don't they? When they walk, they sway from side to side; their flesh waves this way and that way. Some women are definitely unstable when they walk. That kind of person definitely needs a man.
The best way of speaking is with variety. Sometimes loud, sometimes soft, sometimes high, then low-that is pleasing to the ear of others. When a speaker goes up, then down, and is not monotonous, his listeners are not aware of time passing. He can speak for hours and people will not mind.
Now back to our topic. What is a dream? The dream is of reciprocal existences; one seeking the other. Before now, we didn't know that man's greatest dream is woman. One needs the other. Opposite beings seek one another. Man wants to go up all the time, while woman says "No." She wants to dig in all the time, so it balances.
You women, do you think you would like your husband to work in one place forever and ever, or would you like him to change where he works every five or ten years so you can move around? What is your preference? Do you want your husband to change his job position once in a while? Yes? Why is that? How tiring it is to repeat the same thing for a very long time. Do you prefer to change the position once in a while, or stay there a long, long time? (Change.) Well, then, if you prefer change once in a while, what about in your marriage? If you stay with the same old wife forever, does that get boring? Do you need to change wives? There is one good reason why changing wives is not such a good idea: the most precious things are found in the deepest, most hidden place.
Mother gave Father this diamond tie tack, but it is more than a diamond because True Love is in it. What would be the dream of heaven? Heaven is our dream. The dream of heaven is to save hell, to bring salvation to hell. Likewise, the dream of hell is for liberation and to reach up to heaven. Does anybody like a shadow? Wherever there is a light, there is a shadow. Why? Because that's the dream of the light. Does a bad side exist in Father's mind, do you think? You may say no, but I say there is. The difference is that I overcome it. I never treat it well and bring it to a deep place. I always put it aside, and as strongly as I can, I just kick it out. By "deep" I mean the vertically deep points.
The dream of the Unification Church is liberation. For those who are in jail, being liberated from jail is the dream. Once you find yourself in jail, you see how strong the yearning is for the day when you are set free. If the sentence is ten years, then the prisoner waits for ten years for his dream day when he can come out.
Theoretically, if you could keep digging down into the ground deeper and deeper, where would you come out? On the other side of the globe, right? On one side the people are waking up, while on the other side people are going to bed. The sole of our foot goes in the north-south direction. But if you walk sideways, we meet like so, in the same direction. So it is not bad to be opposed. We can conclude automatically that he who overcomes opposition has two worlds instead of one world. That is Reverend Moon's task: how to digest something which white people really don't like and how to digest the things that black people don't like. The opposite of white people is black people, right? Once you unite them, then you have two worlds come behind you and you will become the elder brother. Then you can embrace the whole world, literally. Once both white people and black people like me, putting me at their center, that center can move in any direction, left, right, north, south and everyone can follow. In that way, unification for the world is being made. Isn't that wonderful? Two worlds coming together.
What is the best way for enemies to make up? We all know that it is by marriage. Nobody in the past or in the present has done that before. Only Reverend Moon has brought together people of every race and color-all five colors of skin-and then intermarried them. Father's dream is for everyone to come together. Even if I don't push them, people just get together and then push Father up and up. In the Unification Church, only the men like Father, right? You women don't like me so much, do you? That's not true? Did you hear how fast the women responded? If I had reversed it and said the men didn't like me, the men would not have been so fast!
One way of determining whether or not spring has really come is by observing how the women are dressed. If they are wearing their spring time clothing, then you know spring is here. But the men are always the same-dark colors like gray. Go over to Fifth Avenue to see how the women are dressed and regardless of the weather, you will know when spring has come. Father noticed that those women who are very quick to change clothes with the season, who put on appropriate colors, will stride forward with pride. But the women who haven't yet changed their clothing, will walk sort of sideways, more hesitantly. That's how sensitive they are. The taste of human beings is so wonderful and they love to respond to the changes of nature. Of course, the American people are not so good at living with nature. They build things and make things and they love them, but not so much nature.
When the season changes to spring, Father is waiting for the striped bass to appear in the Hudson River. I can almost swim out there and catch them, but I have to go out on the boat to meet the striped bass and catch them. The fishing pole is pulled so hard. Those bass can fight very strongly. The bass feels annoyed: "I have lived for several years and now I have come here to spawn, to give birth upstream. Who is it who thinks he will catch me?" That bass is angry. What if Father then says, "Yes, I will catch you but then I'm going to give you to the dying King. By your flesh, you can save the life of the King." Do you think that striped bass would mind being caught then? He would say, "This is an honorable fate. Please catch me for this great purpose." This is truly how the bass would feel if he could speak.
This is the great law of nature: the one who has a great dream can absorb the ones with a lesser dream. The other day, Mr. Sato said the fish we caught would command a big price in Japan so why don't we sell them there? What would we do with that money? If 20 million people are dying each year, it means 60,000 people die every day. Have you ever stopped to think about that? Somebody has to take responsibility for them. Here in America, almost all the fish die a natural death, living out their lives and then dying. They live for a long time, but then we can catch them and we actually save them. There is nothing more noble that they could do with their bodies.
There is one type of fish named blackfish in the ocean. The blackfish season comes around in June. For one pound of blackfish, you can get ten dollars, and there is no limit. Sometimes when the fishing is good, Father can catch sixty blackfish, each weighing more than a pound. I directed that the money from those blackfish be deposited in the bank. I won a prize for a tuna fish which I caught-$100,000-and that was put into the bank as well. That account will continue to accumulate and grow with the proceeds from my entire life's fishing catch. How much will it be at the end, when it will be given to Africa to start a fishery or something which can help save the people there? That will be a great help.
I started going out to the ocean at five o'clock each morning, and even the young people tried to persuade me to go out a little later. They would say things like, "Father, we can fish just as well when we go out at seven or eight o'clock in the morning!" But I told them, "No, you don't understand. Nothing doing. We go out at five o'clock." Now the strange thing is that the fish all come to my boat! There are other boats around, but our boat always catches the most fish. By the time our boat has caught twenty striped bass, other boats have caught only one! Don't you know that the fish world realizes who is out there fishing? They know better than the human world. They want to be caught by our boat so they can help save mankind. That is their ideal, as well.
Human beings are like the bass. Our dream is to give our lives, to die for the sake of God. How wonderful human beings are! We know the dream. What is the dream of the head? The dream of the head is the foot. So you want to walk softly, not roughly. The head is always concerned about the foot, not so much the hands or even the heart but the foot. The head says, "If it weren't for you, I would be low but because of you, I am high." And the dream of the right foot is walking with the left foot. The dream of the left foot is walking with the right foot. The dream of one nostril is to become harmonious with the other nostril. One nostril doesn't want to take in a gush of all the air; they need to share the air.
Thus the dream of the right arm is not far away; it is there on the left side; the left arm. The dream of the front is the rear. And the dream of below is above. We can derive a simple principle here: a dream is to be completed by one's reciprocal being. When the world becomes harmonious with the Unification Church, will Father become famous or not? Will it be nice or not when Father becomes famous? When the earth revolves, everything on the earth moves with it. If something tries to avoid that motion, then it is in hell. That's very difficult. In other words, if someone is on top of the earth but then it turns around, he starts to go into the lower position. He doesn't want to do that, so he tries to constantly stay in the upper position. That would be very difficult. He would have to keep running very fast to keep ahead of the revolution of the earth. That's truly hell!
So the earth revolves this way, and he finds himself in this difficult position. [Father draws on the board.] Maybe this looks like a lump. It's okay. When Reverend Moon comes up here, he should be prepared to go down to the bottom and look at his position, not from where he is but from the bottom, to learn how the people who live in hell look at him. If he is the king up here, then he should be a king in hell also. When Father comes up again, then Father will get the Unification Church leaders who are more or less in the high position, and put them down here in the low position. Those who say, "Father, I don't want to go there," will actually have no choice. They will perish if they go against that flow. Blessed couples also will follow that leader.
There is no other country like America, with its ease of life. The life of Kim Il Sung and others in east Asia is a very hard life. Many of you may not understand just how hard life is for those people. Red China, the Soviet Union, all those nations are more like the dungeon of hell. Those are the deepest places, the dark abyss of this earth. After digesting those darkest places, we need fertilizer. There is a lot of adventure there, too, because you don't know how they will respond. As a result of what Father did, each country has to respond. Russia has to open the way for us, and open a position for Father. The same is true of Kim Il Sung. Even the devil knows the law of the universe, sometimes he knows it better than anyone else. So when Father says, "You have to do this," they will have to respond, "Yes, whatever you say." I will point out, "You are bad," and they have to confess, "Yes, it is true." When I tell them they will have to change and do things differently, they will agree and follow me.
Those Unification Church members who have been in the church for many years have been pushed out to return to their hometowns. Is it a good thing to do, or not? Tribal messiahship means making everything clear, cleaning up so there are no more dark clouds. When the sky is clear, we can see everywhere, even at night. Do you follow? Now that people are realizing that the Unification Church is good, that it is even a necessity in the world, should our dream stay the same? Should we continue to dream of going up, never dreaming to come down? Or should we be prepared to come down because we are great? You have to come down! Do you like that? You American women, do you like that? (Yes.) With your mouths, you are making the sound, "Yes," but in your mind you are thinking, "I don't really like that, but Father is asking us, so I'd better say yes." Even though your mind doesn't really know that, your mouth just shouts out, "Yes!" That's a problem.
If America doesn't need anything, then it's a different story. America is going down to the dungeon of hell, so should I push you American members out or not? The United States is like a body with a huge infection, so we have to surgically remove a lot of the diseased flesh. Then we have to transplant new flesh in its place. Is that a good thing or a bad thing to do to save a sick person? What about the flesh that is used to fill up the wound? Is that good? (Yes.) Even though there is a lot of blood dripping on the floor and it is a painful operation, is it still a good thing to do? Why is it good? It is what the universe desires: that the small good would be sacrificed for the greater good, so that great America might live.
Isn't it true that you have known this truth for many years? Who are the sons and daughters of filial piety? They are the ones who sacrifice the most for the sake of the family. Isn't that true? (Yes.) NO, Father says no! (Yes, Father.) No, No! The same principle defines the patriot and the saint. It is the same formula way. It is not changeable, it applies everywhere on every level. That kind of person takes the path of eternal existence. The universe will protect such a person. Do you follow me? Some Unification Church members say, "Yes, Father," but they don't realize how heavy Father really is. Maybe they are thinking of Father as a feather! Do you? No? American people know Father is not a feather. How wonderful American people are!
The answer is not difficult. If you want to be a high-level person, then you study like you are going to die the next day. Study with desperate intensity, and your dream will be achieved. That dream will become greater and greater year after year. As we nurture it, it becomes reality. Once you foster the dream, you must keep it. Don't let the dream slip away from you. There is only one way to keep it intact: by working harder every day. Work to the point of near death today, then tomorrow try to work even harder. When you continue that way, the dream will remain and grow. But if you choose to take the easy way day after day, that dream will fade and disappear. This is truth. Do you understand?
Even though I am getting old, I don't want to be outdone by even the youngest person, including my own children and grandchildren. I still get up and go after only three hours of sleep sometimes. No one can catch up with me. Why should I give a four or five hour sermon, since I don't get any salary for doing this? Most pastors who get salaries only speak half an hour on Sundays, with nice words and in a very refined manner. Why do I not do that? I think, "Tomorrow I have to work harder than today; the next day, I push myself even harder." Therefore, I will never take the easy way.
Some people may say, "Father, why don't you retire?" but those persons stop the dream right there. That kind of attitude turns you into a leaf of the Unification Church which turns brown and drops to the ground, never becoming part of the branch. We have to become a branch after becoming a leaf. Even you women here all promised to me that you would save up $5,000 in order to buy a boat, right? Do you have your bankbook today? If you promised to me that you would do it, why haven't you done it?
You can actually use fishing to make a living. All you need is $5,000 to buy a boat. If you have a boat, you can take it out on the ocean or the river and catch fish easily. You can easily live by catching one striped bass a day. You can have sashimi that way! Many Japanese people will want to learn from you how to make their own sashimi. Tell them, "I will teach you how to do it!" Why not? You can do that kind of activity. Bad guys can't go through that kind of training course. You will gain natural protection if you follow that way. That is the clear and natural conclusion. How does this make you feel, good or bad? (Good.) Gooood! I say "Good" means "Double God." How precious that is-double God! Until now, God has been alone, but you can Double God. That true! Reverend Moon made up that kind of concept. "Double God is good." How wonderful this idea is. (Applause)
If those countries which are suffering try to follow the example of the well-off countries, they will not be successful and will in fact, decline even further. But if they determine to go their own path, prepared to suffer even more, then they can graduate from that suffering faster. Do you think that I always buy the things which are the best, the most expensive? No, that is not the case. When I first came to this country, I always went out to eat at McDonald's. We were riding in a Lincoln Continental limousine, and when we pulled up in the McDonald's parking lot, everybody was staring and wondering who we were. Sometimes when I would go inside the restaurant, I'm sure some of the white people there thought I must have stolen that limousine. They couldn't understand why anyone who owns a limousine would come to McDonald's to eat. Sometimes they would come up to the windows and peer inside, trying to see who was there. Some people would stand around and wait to see who was getting out of the car.
You women love to go shopping at department stores, right? Since there are fifty members of her family, when Mother goes out to the department store to buy a few things, she has to come back the next week. Every week, she has to go out to buy things. I asked her, "Why do you go to the department store so often," because I know that once you walk into a store like that, the money goes out. I actually discourage Mother from shopping because I know how difficult it is to make one or two dollars. Is it a good thing that I do that, or a bad thing? (One brother answers, "Good thing.") You answered me, but I didn't ask you! This is something to think about.
I always think about saving money. You know, if you buy a fat person's suit, you can cut it down and make two things out of it. Why don't you women do that? This is not a laughing matter. Once American women take these points seriously and start doing them, the American economy will be guaranteed. Otherwise, there is no way; chaos is inevitable. Is that true?
If your dream is to become an Olympic champion, do you get to that goal by going out to eat at banquets every day? Certainly not. You have to train with tremendous effort to become a champion. In fact, you have to go the opposite way of eating well and living well, right? That is the only way to realize such a dream. We thought the highest dream to strive for is to go up and up, continually becoming greater and greater. But it does not work that way. In order to realize the dream of greatness, we have to first go down. Then if you have the dream of going to great heights, you have to try again from that low position. Going up and down is the path, not just shooting upward forever.
The individual is willing to sacrifice for the sake of the family, the family is willing to sacrifice for the sake of the nation, and the nation for the world, and the world for the cosmos, and the cosmos for God. God is willing to sacrifice for the sake of mankind. So God will save mankind in that way. After connecting with God in that way, the peaceful world of happiness will be made. No matter how difficult it may be, we have to reach that point, attending God's position in that way. It's not such an easy way. You have to invest everything for the family. Family invests for the tribe. Tribe invests for the nation. Nation invests for the world. World invests for the cosmos, the cosmos invests for God. Isn't that true? The universal subject is God, connecting the world in unity and happiness. That is the way we have to reach to our dream.
Since I have finished the realm of persecution here on earth, I now have to cultivate the spirit world, including the realm of hell. Where is that hell in the spirit world connected? It is connected directly to hell on earth. We need to go in and liberate hell on earth before we can expect to make an influence on hell in spirit world.
Our alternative is to live well on this earth, eating well and having fun. But that is going to end in a relatively short time. How long can anyone live on this earth? Once you have enjoyed a good meal, you are not going to be satisfied the next day with merely a loaf of bread. Your taste and appetite becomes higher and greater, until it is like that of a king. You don't actually become a king, but your palate, your tongue becomes the king, and that is bad. For a person to become a king, he has to suffer and deny his palate. Your appetite has to respect you, not the other way around. Then whatever you eat, that food will taste delicious. After you have done a seven-day fast, how does a loaf of bread taste? It is like the food of a king, right? It is the best food of all. Those people who are constantly hungry don't get sick.
Father does not like to eat snacks between meals. I never eat such things. If all the money that Americans spend on their snack foods was saved, how many starving people in the world could be fed? When you go to a restaurant in this country, they always ask you, "What would you like to drink?" But in Korea, it is different. Water is always the beverage and that is sufficient for everyone. Sometimes you have to ask very nicely before you can even get a glass of water. Water is very precious in parts of Korea. Someone has carry it for a long distance in a jug on top of the head. In those areas, you have to be very cordial and ask very nicely for a glass of water.
The irony is that, although everything is so abundant here in America, people have lost sight of the value of all these things. But in countries like Korea, where food and material things are lacking, those things are very valuable and the people appreciate them so much. They know how precious water is, how great a loaf of bread is. This is why the Koreans have acquired such thrifty habits. When they make money, they save it; they don't want to spend it. This is very difficult to understand here in this country; spending is a virtue here. In Korea, spending a lot is a sin. This explains 99% of the Korean mentality. They are willing to spend, but they always try to save first.
Because of this kind of attitude, the average Korean immigrant to the United States can rise to the middle-class income level within two or three years. Now the produce markets are almost 70% Korean-owned, while in the past they were Jewish-owned. In fact, the Korean people work even harder than the Jewish people. That is the reason there is a lot of resentment on the part of native Americans, particularly Jewish and black people, toward the Korean immigrants. They say, "Those Koreans are no good." Why do they say such a thing? The Koreans simply have hard-working, thrifty habits.
In the beginning, all Americans went against Reverend Moon, too. Why is that? What wrong did Reverend Moon do? Did he enslave people here? No, in fact, Reverend Moon came here to make kings out of American youth. But American people opposed me for a long time. Now honestly, if Father asked you to choose between working hard as a Unification Church member or going to Africa and becoming a king, leaving behind me and the church, which would you choose? Would you rather be a king, or a member of the Unification Church? (Member.) Father doesn't treat you so good. I always push you down and give you a hard time, don't I? What about a family where the mother is always saying, "Study more, study more." Every morning, every evening, that mother is saying, "Why don't you study?" She is always making noise and making you crazy with that noise. That is the same thing which I do to you, always pushing you, isn't it?
You know, I have never once heard God praising me. God never said, "My son, you have done well." Always Heavenly Father is getting after me. On the contrary, God works through other members of the Unification Church, making them burst into tears to testify how pitiful, how miserable a life Father has lived. God makes them testify. Because I have yet to reach the place where I can settle down, God has not yet given me one word of praise. Let's say you start from a certain point and your goal is to come back here, after making this point. You may work very hard all your life, but if you stop here (before reaching the goal) what difference does it make? What is the difference from not even starting at all? It is like a long-distance runner. If he gets tired before reaching the goal, will anybody say, "Oh, you should slow down because you are getting tired"? No, nobody would say that. They would want to push him and help him win the race.
So if Father establishes the good record, when the time comes for God to give the commendation, then God can do that with total pride, no shame. Until that time, God will push Father more and more. I understand that and expect to be pushed like that. "Okay, no matter how hard you push me, I don't mind." Then Father has come to where he is now. What is your opinion-do you think there is any person here on the earth who is higher than Father's position? What about George Bush, do you think I should envy his position? (No.) I actually discouraged Bush from taking that trip to the Orient, but he went anyway. And then what happened? You know, he fell down. If he had followed Father's advice, he would have been much better off. He could have maintained his dignity and pride. Instead, he went over there and said, in effect, "Please help me," like a beggar. This year we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of The Washington Times and I will make a speech. I am really going to give them a straight dose.
Let's see, what was the topic of my sermon this morning? It is "The Dream of the Unification Church." Now we know that those who are willing to suffer more will achieve the higher dream. Isn't that true? That is what I have been doing all my life: chasing and achieving the greatest dream. There is no area in which I have not endeavored, including industry, scholarship, ministry, technology, agriculture, fishing. I have devoted myself in every area. Everyone thinks, "Such a strange man. What is he up to?" Now they are calling me "mysterious," rather than strange, as they are coming to understand me better. People know that God works in mysterious ways, and mystery is a part of life.
We are a mysterious breed also, isn't that true? People checked out the Moonies who were making too much noise and they turned against us. You have all received persecution, isn't that true? This is the reality. You are working in God's position, trying to clean up this country of America. After that, all the people will shout, "Mansei! I was liberated from Satan's realm. Mansei!" That is Father's mission and your mission as well, correct? Until that time, no matter how difficult our lives may become, we have to continue the way of digesting. This is our mission: enduring, going up and up and up.
Can you do it? What about you American women, can you do it or not? (Yes!) I cannot believe you when you say yes. Think about how you sound to me, how easy it is for you to say "yes" when I ask you if you will do it. You shout, "Yes, we will do it! No problem." Immediately you make that decision. But as soon as you go out into the world, you start to forget. Isn't that true?
There are a lot of black sisters in the front row today, more than white sisters. (Speaking to the sisters:) What is your original nationality? (Puerto Rico) (Russia) (England) (Brazil) (Surinam) (Germany) Who will receive the most blessings, those who came here from other countries, or those who are originally from America? How early you sisters must have gotten here, how early you must have had to wake up to drive here from New York. What time did you get here? (4:20, 3:30) It's not going to be easy. If you plan to come here and get the front seats every day for the next ten years, how difficult! If there is fierce competition, you should get here so early that you have dinner here every night. If you are really that serious, would the Unification Church prosper or not? If all the American members were that serious, our church would automatically prosper in this country. That is just the natural outcome.
Goom. Dream, it is simple, it is not complicated. The dream of this right eye is to come into focus with the left eye. Isn't that true? Then what is the dream of the men of the Unification Church? The first step is for your struggling mind and body to come into peaceful unity. Those who say, "Father, my mind and body have come into perfect unity," raise your hands. Nobody? Well, if that step isn't accomplished, what good would a man be to a woman? But at least you are trying. The Unification Church women and men are trying to bring unity between mind and body, while people in the secular world don't even try such a thing. They already gave up and don't try anymore.
Once your mind and body become so united, you will be ready to take in the love of your eternal spouse. That precious man or woman will be able to come into you and stay there eternally. The woman who achieves that unity attains the position of queen in the universe. Have you ever thought that way and maintained that kind of attitude while working toward your goal? If not, that is a problem. This is the most important homework for you to do. You have that heavy load of homework which you should always be thinking about and striving to accomplish.
If you don't achieve that, you can't settle down even if you go into the Kingdom of Heaven. You will have to wander around, without a hometown or settlement. Then what will happen? Anybody can come around and harass you. Beggars and other wanderers will come around and touch you and you will have no house, no place to rest, no parents, no country. No matter how beautiful or handsome you may be, will that be of any value in the spirit world? Actually in the spirit world people can become very beautiful. If you achieve what you should on the earth, then in spirit world you will appear as you did in the prime years of your youth. For instance, you might meet some friend you had when you were a child. You can appear as that age to him. That is the wonderful reality of the spirit world-you can control yourself and appear any age you want to. If you want to be a young person, you will become a young person.
What do you like most? You men might say, "women" while the women might say "men." The question is, what kind of a man or what kind of a woman? The man and woman whose mind and body have come into unity. Each man likes a woman most of all, but you also need to be respected by her. How can you earn that respect? By having a mind and body separated and in conflict, or by a united mind and body? Of course, you must be united in mind and body. Like a sharp object, the woman wants her man's love to come straight to her and to go deep. If that love is dull, then it is not good. If you have a drill to dig a hole in the ground, it has to be sharp, not dull. Man has to be able to penetrate the woman with the sharpness of his unified mind and body.
Without even achieving that unity between mind and body, can we think about love or sexual intercourse? The sexual organ is not ready to encounter the organ of our mate unless it is part of a unified person. Thus each man and woman must become unified. It is the same principle as lightning and thunder. When they come together after building up for a long time, they make a loud sound and create a big thunderstorm.
If your mind and body have not really become one, then you have to achieve that through action and prayer. If you say something which is not worthy of God to hear, then you should apologize to God: "Heavenly Father, I said that because I am not a unified person, my mind and body are not yet one. But when they do become united, I will never say these kinds of things again." When you make that kind of apology, it's okay, and it is an important condition by which you can be forgiven. You should confess everything to God that you have done wrong each day, "I did this, that and the other things wrong. Father, I think I achieved only about 75% goodness today. Tomorrow I will do better." You should keep track of your own performance each day in your nightly prayer. You should train yourself daily in that way.
What is the cheapest meal you can buy in a restaurant? I used to think pizza was cheap, but I found out that it wasn't. Even hot dogs are too expensive. How about sweet potatoes? Perhaps you planned to go out to eat at a nice restaurant one evening, but it might be appropriate to say, "I will stay home and be satisfied with just a potato tonight." We have to train ourselves. If we cannot pray for three hours continuously, how can we ever achieve peace? Three hour peace is not even achieved. So thirty hour or three days; we should be able to pray for three days continually like that. We have to train ourselves to do that. Even more than ten years. God himself has been praying throughout eternity, and so should we.
Without training, you cannot improve. Until such time as you can say, "Now I am absolutely confident that my body will obey my mind," you must stay in training. Sometimes I think about nothing else but my old fishing rod and those striped bass. Then those members who are out fishing with me have to remind me, "Father, aren't you ready for your lunch?" I ask them, "Are you hungry? I'm not even thinking about food." I know that they may be hungry; they are not worrying about whether I'm hungry or not. You see, centering on Father, the spirit world is videotaping everything. How can you let that be videotaped, to be hungry and be calling for lunch?
Suppose this congregation today is being captured on some grand videotape which shows everybody, and also there is a videotape being made of each individual. What kind of mind have you had while sitting here for three and a half hours? You have nodded off, your mind has wandered. How will you bear to watch that videotape later? Always remember that you are never truly alone, even though you are by yourself. Someone is always watching you. Heavenly Father and the cosmos itself is watching you.
Jim, have your mind and body become one? Now that you have been living with your Korean wife for a long time, are you thinking, "I wonder what it would be like to have an American wife"? Do you have complete control over your own sexual activity? In other words, do you have confidence that you can control yourself totally in that area? I hear several people answering "yes" but not everyone. That means they cannot control their sexual organs everywhere in every situation. That is a problem. The most fearful, important gate is the sexual organ. Making a mistake one time means destruction of the nation, tribe and whole family. Everything fell down in that way, right? So it's the most fearful place. American men and women open their gates so freely; free sex is the way of destruction. But now that you have understood God's side, you feel how bad that is. It is most fearful. Who made those things happen? God did not inspire such things. Satan did.
How can it be that free sex and individualism are so widespread in this country founded on Christianity? The Bible never taught that kind of action. Who caused those things to come about? Satan, none other, inspired the individualistic way of thinking. That is the enemy of Christianity and the ideal world. How can we change it? This is the problem. There is no easy way. But we have to change it, turning it around 180 degrees.
Human beings have two kinds of openings that are dangerous: the mouth and the sexual organs. The mouth wants to eat good food, right? That is Satan's armament for destroying God's ideal world in the future.
When your husband is sleeping beside you but you know you haven't brought your mind and body into unity, then you have to pray and repent to God with tears. "God, I am the worst woman in the whole world. From now on, I promise to change. I will turn around 180 degrees." From that point, you can truly change. Satan's realm and influence will completely disappear. Otherwise, there will be no way for change. In that way the holy world can take root in you.
To turn around 360 degrees is the result of bringing your mind and body into unity. So the dream of the mind is to become one with the body; the dream of the body is to become one with the mind. An individual's sorrow comes from the fact that his mind and body are disunited. There is a difference between gymnastics and dancing, right? This is dancing, and this is gymnastics [Father demonstrates.] They have different positions, but reciprocal positions are maintained in harmony in both activities. In ballet, they jump to incredible heights, but then they land on one foot, twirling around. Absolutely one foot, not two. That represents the ideal place. The ideal position is balanced on that one center point.
Likewise in the family, we should have one center, not two centers. Now in the fallen world they have two centers in the family. How can they achieve one true center? That true center is love. Everything has to be balanced around that one center. That is where the dream will continue and grow.
It is time for us to come to the conclusion today. Much time has passed already. The dream of the newborn baby is to learn everything from its parents. Suckling his mother's milk, gazing at his mother's face, he seeks approval from her, right? (Speaking to sisters:) Do you like man or woman? Man actually does not own anything. You may work hard keeping house for your man and he comes home with a salary once a month. But that's all he has. You are at home, taking care of the children, your husband doesn't do anything. So you've got your purse in your hand, your children in your hands. When someone asks a child, "Do you want to go to your father or your mother," which does the child normally choose? Yes, he chooses his mother.
Does the flesh of the child come from the mother or the father? Yes, the mother. The bone may come from the man, but the flesh comes from the mother. Children naturally like soft things, such as the mother's cheek and mother's bosom. Their father's coarse, scratchy face with its beard is much less soothing. It is probable that women don't have beards because it wouldn't be good for the children. Thus, no matter how beautiful a woman may be, it is never for herself. Remember that your beauty is for your children to touch and be comforted by. Your whole body is the property of someone else: your hips, bosom, face. They belong to your husband and your children. No part is yours alone.
Father really learned a lesson from Shin Chul Nim, the youngest born, Heung Jin Nim's new son. Mother is soft, so when she embraced her grandson, he was happy and content. But then I took the baby in my arms, and even though I was trying to be very gentle, cushioning him in my arms, he started crying in less than five minutes. All our grandchildren are really happy to be around Mother, not so much Father. They will give me a kiss, but that's about all they want to do.
Most of the time, the father is just a bystander, just watching the children. That's all he can do. Who is closer to happiness, man or woman? The woman is closer because they have almost everything now. They wait all day long for the return of their husband. She has a dream. The one who has a dream is the happy person. Man is not like that. When he goes out to work, most of the time he has to face struggles and problems. It is constant fighting, in a way. After this exhausting day, he comes back home and is tired. All he wants to do is just sleep. His short dream is to meet the smiling face of his wife, maybe. That's all. If that wife greets him like a tyrannical queen, how disappointed will that man be. So that's your dream after waiting all day long for him to come home: to receive. Embrace him, baby him, ask him about his day, sympathize with his difficulties. Tell him, "I understand, dear. Please sit down and rest." Don't you think that kind of couple is most happy? I like that. Do you like that? (Yes, Father.) Even you American women, do you really like that? That is truly necessary. We have to live like that.
The time to foster the dream-who has more time for that, man or woman? Yes, woman. Life is very simple for man. He has one suit, and that's all he needs. Year in and year out, that's all. Just like you women who are so colorful, your dream is also colorful. You can always go out in public, to the marketplace. You have that time, too. Sometimes you may even sneak into the theater to watch a movie. Do you think any man has the time to do such a thing during the day? No, he doesn't have time. Who is it that goes out to the battlefield and dies? Have you ever seen a professional army of women go out and fight and die? (One sister says: Yes, but who makes war?) [Father laughs.] Anyway, all the difficult things are the man's responsibility. So we must realize how relatively happy the woman's position is.
The house of our dream is our mother. A dream also likes to have a house to live in. Is that our mother or our father? Mother. Suppose a boy and girl are arguing about this, saying "It's Mother." "No, it's Father." Which would be the correct conclusion? (Parents.) That's a cunning grown-up answer, but for the children, it's either mother or father. Which one? You know, it's mother. That means she is representing happiness.
From the individual to higher and higher levels the dream is to occupy God Himself. The only way to get there is to suffer. Not simply to suffer but to suffer for the sake of others. Invest in others, then forget. Invest and forget. That is how to make the foundation of happiness. That is the path of our dream.
Can you imagine how much hardship I had to go through individually and in the family level, especially to find one woman? There are Cain women and Abel women. How difficult it was to find the right woman. And the struggle on all those levels with the Cain/Abel clan, the Cain/Abel country and Cain/Abel world. God and man are in same situation. What is the dream of God Himself? Is God's dream just His children? There are three components of God's dream: children, husband and wife, and parents. God wanted to see the fulfillment of those three: the child's position, couple's position, and parents' position. [Father actually said, "Childrenship, coupleship, and parentship."] That was the formula which was to be multiplied throughout the world.
So what is the dream of God? Perfect man, perfect woman, and perfect children. Everything combined into one. That's God's dream; growing up with brotherhood. Now brothers separate. There is no couples place and no subject and object position. Everyone is alone and separated. Do you understand? First we must grow up, then combine, man and woman. We need mind and body combination. How can that mind and body combine?
That's like springtime, like a colorful flower blossoming. That blossom opens up and gives out fragrance. Deep inside there is honey, nectar. There is color, fragrance, and honey. Those three are necessary for life, the next generation. Connecting both subject and object these elements combine in one place. New birth starts from there and spreads out. So in God's ideal, Adam and Eve are born and grow as children. They were meant to grow up to the perfection stage. Just before that point, they fell. Our ancestors fell by Satan's influence.
Woman's dream resides with man. Man's dream resides with woman. "My dream is partnership with the opposite sex," each one says. Thus both cross to the center point, the vertical line, and connect horizontally. That is the time of marriage. Do you understand? Making that True Love center the connecting place is the ultimate center. That is the focal point. That man and woman combine completely with no resistance; nothing against them.
The dream of God is to see true sons and daughters. All of you here are potentially true sons and daughters of God. Can anyone of you say, "Yes, I am a true son/daughter"? Raise your hand if you can. Why do you laugh? Has God's dream been achieved? No. If God's dream is not realized, can man and woman's dream be realized first? Not likely. A lot of men and women are married, but whom are they centered on when they get married, God or Satan? Why Satan? It is because Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, and after that gave birth to their children. There is no way of denying that man has been born in the lineage of Satan. If man or woman had been born as a child centering on God, then his or her mind and body would have been one and stayed one. They would never be separated. So as they lived like that, they would go to Heaven naturally without doing anything extra. But as it is, we are born a different way. There is no one who can go at all.
That was the case in Jesus' time, too, how to make oneness between mind and body. That was the major task. We have to resemble God. First we have to be born like that. Second, as we grow to completion, we have to be married centering on God. We must become sons and daughters that God would approve of and then God will deploy the vertical relationship. In other words, we give birth to children in the horizontal realm, but God created man and woman vertically. It is the same way. Why? Because vertical alone is not sufficient. Vertical cannot reproduce. There is only one point along that one line. That cannot multiply. But God wanted to enlarge the world. In order to make that horizontal foundation, he established the True Parents so He can produce horizontally. This creates horizontal expansion. Therefore, it is true that here on earth, we find reproduction but not in spirit world. No one in spirit world can give birth to a child. We have to realize that God would discourage the outside world from expanding allowing less and less people in the population. Whereas, here, centering on the Blessed families, the population will become larger and larger. Later on there will be a transfer. So Father had fourteen children, just like rain pouring down. Here in America the white population is getting smaller and smaller. The numbers of white school age children is shrinking, while the blacks and other minority groups are becoming more numerous. Why is that? It is because the whites are more self-centered and individualistic. So no matter how beautiful a white woman may be, no matter how beautiful her bosom may be, her beautiful bosom will blame her: "You are making me useless. You are making the beautiful hips useless. We had a purpose but we are not serving that purpose."
There is not enough population to occupy the vast, immense spirit world, so is it better to have many children or to have a few? Yes, many. Even though I have many children, when one is missing, I feel empty. So I can easily imagine God must feel the same way.
The power of women is great. Mother and I have many children with many different personalities and characteristics. One time, one of the children walked into the house, looked around and saw that Mother was not there. He said, "Oh, nobody's home." But I was sitting there and so were many of his brothers! That made me even more aware of Mother's power. God really created man and woman equal. Representing the earth, woman must be flat, like the ground, so she will never wobble. Man, on the other hand, is vertical so he doesn't have to be flat. So the secret of stability is for you women to become broad and flat. (Laughter.)
Happiness for a woman lies in having a house full of children to love and take care of, not just having a husband who goes out every day and works and comes home at night. So you all need children, don't you? Also you need a spouse, right? And then you and your spouse become a father and mother. The children learn everything from their father and mother. Their dream from birth is to learn everything from their father and mother as they grow and become older. One position is couple's position, the other is parents' position. The child grows up learning, first from the mother who embraces him, and feeds him milk. He learns about his mother's characteristics in that way. He grows up and learns about his father's characteristics. He learns everything from his parents. He says, "My parents are strong and great. I like my parents more than God! They are greater than any king." That's true! The most precious people to the child are his parents.
So there are two positions here, one is parents and the other is couples. Both embrace the children who are growing up to their teenage years. They learn everything, saying, "I want to become that kind of parent, just like my own parents. I want to have that kind of couple." After that, the mature child wants to form a couple and become a parent himself. This is the hope, the dream of the child which is directly drawn from his parents.
Then this dream expands to the clan, and he becomes the king of his own clan. His ultimate dream is to reach to God. Since God lives in spirit world, the spirit world is filled with the air of love. Love is the air we breathe in spirit world. Unless we have lungs, we cannot breathe air on earth. Unless we have the ability to breathe love, we will be unable to breath love in spirit world. How do you develop the spiritual lungs for love? It is only by living for the sake of others.
What is a person's dream after going to spirit world? It is to resemble God Himself. So we start from water here on earth; a fountain, then come back to the fountain for water. Starting from God, born of God, we travel through a lifetime, and then come to this fountain. Our ultimate dream, then, is to become like God.
On the foundation of total oneness between husband and wife, they can return to God. They represent sung-sang and hyung-sang , the duality of God. Centered on True Love, those dual characteristics of God combined into one. That represents God. Do you understand? From the origin, there is a separation into two which is expansion. Everything multiplies then connects. Following the True Love concept, everything combines into one. So representative woman and man combine with True Love, all those creatures are also connected everywhere. This is the root which grows in only one direction. True Love's direction is only one. Centering on the True Love direction as the mainstream, every creature is connected everywhere. Man and woman make up the couple which is the center. Completely united in mind and body-man's dual characteristics and woman's dual characteristics, those four parts become completely combined into one. That is like God's essence, God's construction. True duality characteristics. Spiritual world is the ultimate purpose. How can we liberate God's position? This is the purpose of the life of all humankind. Do you understand? We have to come back to God's original position. So we start here, making many rivers, many streams. After that we become like underground water, then stream out as a fountain. It has the same meaning. You have to go back to God's original characteristic.
So in the spirit world, everybody should come back to God. When you look at a man in the spirit world, woman is in him. If you ask who she is, she is his wife. Return to the duality of God, become a friend of God. When a son grows up and becomes old, he becomes a friend of his own father, right? The same is true with you and God. We live for the sake of others, just as God does. That is where peace is found. That is our dream; to return to God. Does God have two different minds? No, He has absolutely one mind. God is the absolute being, which means only one, not two. The Love Way is absolutely one, not two, directions.
The kind of person who says, "I came into being all on my own," is the kind of person who will surely go to hell. By that standard, the average American will go to hell because he thinks he is entirely self-sufficient. Imagine someone who confidently says, "I will never die. I will live forever." No one has such an opinion. Everyone must die eventually. Each year, new students come into a school after the graduation of other students. Those who graduate can't remain in the school; they have to go out into the world. In just the same manner, people have to leave this world and go into the spirit world. We cannot adjust to life in the spirit world after we get there. We have to learn how to adjust to life in spirit world while we are living here on earth. Then we will be able to have a comfortable life in spirit world when it is time to go there.
Make no mistake about it. Just as people prepare for a big wedding, bringing gifts when they come to the wedding, we must have something to bring with us when we go to spirit world. What must we bring with us? It is to live here on earth reaching out to those within the satanic lineage, grafting them into our own lineage which is that of God, and bring as many of them as possible. That is our property. It is our dream, our goal, that we graft into as many people as we possibly can within the satanic world. That is why we send out missionaries to different countries and localities, and graft them and bring them as part of our clan to spirit world. That is our purpose in life here: the tribe. To expand our lineage on earth is our purpose of life here in the Unification Church.
In other words, it is our dream to connect as many people as possible from the satanic realm to the realm of God, bringing them together as part of our own tribe. I never want to hear anyone say, "Oh, Father, you never told me about that." For that reason, I have given long sermons over and over again making the same point: how we should live here on earth.
What about God, does He have to eat food? He may eat, He may not eat. We too, we may eat, we may not eat. God's main work is not to eat. His main work is to restore the lost mankind into His domain, by recreation. What is our main work? It is the same. Like God, we should create something to cling to, for which we can always cry, something which we always love. That is our work, as well as God's work. Father's words of recreation make you revive and resurrect. They have great power to recreate. With those words, you can recreate outside people. They, too, will be fascinated and will be recreated. Can you do that, or is it only Father who can do that for you? (We can do it.) Of course you can. You have the same meaning, same content, the same power. God always connects with the ideal, the same essence as Father is giving to you. Change everything for the better. You can do that just as much as I can. You have that very armament. If the President of the United States had the same armament as we do, all of America would come to be resurrected, literally overnight. That's the strength of the armament which you have. Until that time comes, until the President is teaching Principle, you have to continue.
It is not political power which America is lacking. It is not economic power, either. No matter how much money this country might make, it would stay the same and even get worse. But Father's words, your words, can save America. Do you believe that? Do you really know that? Since you know this, you cannot stay silent. We want to speak and speak so much that our mouths are bleeding. That will be our pride. When I go to spirit world, will my mouth occupy the king of mouths position, or servant of mouths position? (King.) If there is a museum of lips, where will my lips be placed? Will they be on the top pedestal? In the Five Senses Museum, all five of my senses will be in the top position.
So you must do as I have done and am doing. We all want to stay somewhere near Father, don't we? Okay, you have a way to do that. No matter whom you meet, wherever you go, speak to them. Tell them what I have told you. Day and night. At that point, Heaven begins. Otherwise, your mouth will be accused, "You heard the truth, why didn't you speak?" So you don't have to bring anything to anybody, not even to Father. Keep them yourself because you have to be prosperous before Father can be prosperous.
Now we all know about the dream of the Unification Church. These three dreams are there. They are all possible: to return to God, to bring many people to God, from the individual, family, clan up to the universe all coming to God. We sacrifice for that purpose. All of these dreams will surely be realized. They are not too big for us to achieve. It can be achieved all in one time, when the time comes. That is what we must strive for. From this perspective, are we unhappy people or happy people? We are people of hope, people of dreams. So the members of the Unification Church usually don't ever get old. They age much more slowly. We don't have any feelings of despair. We don't have to worry. We have security. That means you don't waste much energy. You use that energy for courageous, purposeful action.
We are happy people, are we not? (Yes.) Our dream is not a million years away. It is almost instantaneous. Now you can go out on the lawn and caress the blue grass. The dream is already realized there. Your hands touch the grass. You can think, "I am the true owner of this grass." All of nature is respecting your ownership. For the first time in history, they are meeting their rightful owners. How wonderful this is! Wherever you go, you will be recognized as the owner of creation. You will actually be able to hear the sound of "Mansei" ringing out from the creation. Is that a happy situation? How happy? It is like God looking down and saying, "Look at you! You did it!" So happy!
Even when I had to go to jail and endure torture, with blood flowing out of my body, I could feel grateful to offer my blood as a sacrifice for the sake of mankind. It was direct indemnity. I truly felt this because of the power of the dream. Goom. Does the Unification Church have lots of dreams, or just a few, small dreams? Father has lots and lots of dreams. I have done a variety of activities and have surprised many people. They wondered, "How can one individual do so many things and make such a broad foundation?" Everyone has had to bow down to me, once they realized the extent of my activities. Then they follow with humility and meekness. Even if I shouted at you, "Don't you follow behind me!" what would you do? (Follow you!) How powerful the dream you have is!
May glory come to all the members of the Unification Church who have such a rich and tremendous dream, a dream which is reachable. Especially this year, during the spring month of May, as we all sit here in health and pursuit of that dream. That is what Father is wishing for you. All nature is wishing prosperity for you. But in one lifetime, we will bring prosperity to all of heaven and earth. Each of us can say, "How wonderful I am!" (Applause)
Until now, we were working like ants and living like ants, but we don't need to do that any more. We are liberated. Because of the establishment of these critical foundations, now we are liberated. Let us live like grasshoppers. Amen! Those who say, "We will gladly pursue our dream, like the grasshopper," raise your hands. (Laughter) "Grasshopper" means we are working as if we were dancing. Don't be an idle grasshopper but work joyfully like a grasshopper, dancing with joy. God bless you.