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title: "I WILL LIVE WITH TRUE PARENTS"
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type: "speech"
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published: "2018-06-26T13:50:59+01:00"
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source: "/blog/2018/06/26/i-will-live-with-true-parents.html"
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">March 7, 1993<br />
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Belvedere International Training Center<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>Please be seated. The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is rather unusual, in the sense that it has two forms of expression. One is oral and the other is written. This is in the form of speaking rather than writing. “<i>Nanun Champumonim Gwa Kachi</i>” In English it won’t make so much difference. It translates to, “I Will Live With True Parents.”</p>
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<p>When we hear “True Parents,” we immediately perceive the meaning in two ways: one in the vertical sense, and one in the horizontal sense. This is because, as we know, there are two sets of parents: one spiritual, from heaven, and one set with physical bodies. In the secular world when we hear of father, mother, or parents, we think of them only in one dimension. We think of only one person or two persons. But here, we immediately think about three or four persons, both vertically and horizontally. We also see a vertical father and vertical mother, while the secular world sees only the horizontal form.</p>
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<p>If we know the Principle and nature, we cannot deny the existence of God, who is our Father. He is our vertical Father. Immediately we come to know this after knowing Principle. But there is always an order to things, so which comes first? Should the vertical come first, or the horizontal? Always, we know, vertical comes first and then horizontal. That is a kind of duality. There is only one, but there are two within it.</p>
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<p>Centering on love, here are the parents, and here is the son (pointing to blackboard drawing). As we see, centering on love, when the offspring is born, the boy goes one way and the girl goes another. They grow from childhood through elementary school, into their middle years and their teens. Then they go to college, graduate, and then as man and woman, they meet right at the center of the horizontal line. These two represent the physical world and the spiritual world. The man represents the spiritual side, and the woman the physical world. Where do they meet? Right here, at the center point.</p>
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<p>They start from the position of sons and daughters, experiencing that type of love. Then they go on to brother and sister love, then to couple or spouse love. Then when they have their own children, they have parental love. These are the four levels of love. Where is the focal point; where are they all united? That is the question. What is their center point? Centering on what do they come together?</p>
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<p>Each level of love has its own perfection. What is the perfection of son’s love? We must achieve perfection of son’s love, and we must have perfection of brotherly love, the perfection of couple’s love, and the perfection of parental love. These four different levels of love comprise each person. Where do these four different levels of love become one in me? Right there, when you grow up and you and your spouse meet together.</p>
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<p>The man who has attained the state of perfection has all these four different levels of love perfected. Likewise, woman has four different loves. They grow up, but they are not together yet. Where do they get together? First, son’s love, then brother’s love, then couple’s love, and they come closer. You cannot see, but it’s diagrammed like so. God’s original ideal of creation for son’s love, brother’s love, couple’s love, and parental love now become perfect here. By marrying, we have perfected son’s love, brother’s love, and couple’s love, right here, which then resembles God. Therefore, we carry out the act of creation, just like God did. This is the whole crux, the nucleus of existence for human life. Now the couple is ready to give birth to a child. That means to create life just like God.</p>
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<p>Then we can state that we are like the visible God, while God Himself is still invisible. Until we get married, we are still in the process. It is when you marry that this perfection takes place. Do you follow? This is the crux or the origin of the universe, the base of the universe. There we are recognized, centering on love. That is where we get the seal of recognition, so to speak, from God. Originally, that of course, was supposed to occur between Adam and Eve. We, too, must go through the stages of children’s love, or love as son and daughter. This model of perfection we can now deploy by millions and billions horizontally. That is another form of creation. Each one forms the four position foundation, with himself or herself in the child’s position. They formed it with their parents and connected with God. Looking at this separately as the model, we are exactly in the same form and position as Adam and Eve.</p>
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<p>Thus, the value of the first love accomplished by Adam and Eve, right here at the center, and many millions of others who take the same form, is equal. They are all equal. Not only Adam and Eve’s father is God, but also, every individual’s father is God. God is Father of all other couples. We are saying this centering on first love. Isn’t it a little odd when you say, “He is the father of my generation, but he is also the father of ten generations later”? In the horizontal way, God must be thousands of generations, grand-grand-grand father. How can we say God is Father to every couple’s first love, in every generation? It is because the first love is the same. That is the way the ideal of creation was set up.</p>
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<p>The most precious one is the first love. Does anybody forget his or her first love? We human beings are meant to inherit first loves. Where do we perfect True Love? It is right here, at this point. If you connect all the different levels of True Love through their axis, that is oneself. The self has all these four within. What is the highest point of education? Nobody has known before. It is not gained by going to some institution and spending many years there in order to graduate. Of course, that can be helpful, but this love training is by far the most important crux of education. Why is it so significant? When we achieve this, we become one with God. What more can we strive for? In that position, God is in the mind’s position and the individual is in the body’s position. Humankind has always sought for God, and even though they couldn’t find God, this is God. All religions sought the education of perfection, but no one knew what life is all about. This is what it is all about, the essence of life.</p>
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<p>In this position centering on True Love, man and woman have the same value. There should be a standard for perfection centering on love. God recognized the state of perfection in woman, that is it. In the man, that is it. How do we conduct ourselves, how do we avail ourselves to be recognized? Right here at this point. Without the son’s love and the brother’s love, we cannot reach couple’s love. Therefore, we have to reach here first. In order to do that, we go through son’s and brother’s love, then reach here, the center point.</p>
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<p>Also, we are reminded that we have five senses, each working in its own way. But they must have a focal point also. Actually, we have to regard our five senses in the dual sense; we have physical senses and spiritual senses as well. All together, we have ten senses, then. Where can I become one? Is it centering on the eye, the nose, or the other senses? All these senses with their dual composition are centered on True Love. True Love is the center of these two worlds, the physical and spiritual.</p>
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<p>Since the mind and body are in the position of plus and minus, why has our body taken the plus position after the fall? What is your answer? We must always remember that the vertical one is first. The deepest root is True Love. The deepest root is vertical. The body is like so and it does not reach to the spiritual depth. As a result of the fall, we have reached a certain depth by centering on the body, but didn’t quite reach to the deepest point possible. This one does not exist in the fallen world. Even though one has fallen, still he is made up of Principle. Therefore, because of that characteristic of the parents, it reaches here but not here.</p>
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<p>Originally, this is to go deeper, without the body. Because it reaches only here and not here, our body regards itself as the plus. We do many things to try to improve ourselves as human beings, such as meditation, reaching a goal by doing penance, going through difficult times, voluntarily suffering. For what purpose? In the Oriental culture, this is an everyday thing. It is to reach here, going deeper and deeper to the origin or root of the spirit. This is a very simple explanation of why the body acts as plus. I don’t have much time today. But at least remember that there is such a situation and that is why the body claims itself as the plus in the fallen world.</p>
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<p>Just as we get married and give birth to a child, we place ourselves in the children’s position again, the vertical thing. We must always think of that first. When we love our own children, we cannot love with body and mind separately. Our mind and body must first become perfect and then start loving children. The vertical standard of True Love was supposed to be the way which God could come back and forth, up and down, into human beings because He is the center of True Love. No fallen man or fallen world can do that. Because of this impact, re-creation is possible. Where do we connect on the vertical line? Father formed the diagram of the diamond, with the vertical and horizontal axis aligned, which forms a perfect triangle. The distance here, there and there is equal, exactly equal. When children grow up as brother and sister, they are supposed to always think of each other centering on the parents. In kindergarten, grammar school, middle school, even if they go to college, it’s the same. When they go to college, as sons and daughters or brothers and sisters, they think of each other, centering on their father and mother.</p>
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<p>Spirit world is the same way. God, too, had a time of growth. Of course, this is reasoning, but perfect reasoning is now possible. “Oh, God must have gone through the same growth stage like human beings, starting from a single cell. Then that cell multiplied and multiplied and became a perfect child, and then grew to become a perfected adult man or woman. God must have gone through the same stages.” What is the conclusion of that? The conclusion or implication of that is that human creation, from birth to perfection, exactly takes after the process of God’s own growth process. In other words, God is looking at a child each step of the way of his growth. The way God grew is the same way that each child, millions and billions of children, are growing when God looks at it.</p>
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<p>So there was a time for God equivalent with childhood, grammar school age, middle-school age and college-age. God, too, corresponds to a child’s growth through His own growth. And God comes down and the child grows up, and the two meet right here at this point. What can you say now? When a man grows up and reaches his perfection and gets married, it is not only that individual’s perfection, but also God’s perfection at the same time. Amazing!</p>
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<p>Centering on that moment, centering on True Love, the whole ideal is now moving forward. If someone asks you about God, how would you explain? Certainly the worst answer would be, “Oh, I don’t know.” Or you could say, “Oh, God just came into being.” That’s not much better. But God has grown. Don’t you see? A child grows, you grew, and just like that, God grew. Each individual human being born to his parents is testimony to the growth of all things that are created, including God, too. Of course there are some short periods, some longer periods, they may have different forms, but basically the process is the same.</p>
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<p>There is only one point which meets this specification. The distance from here to here is the same, the length here is the same, and this is only one point, not two or more. (Pointing to blackboard drawing.) Right here becomes double or dual line, and right here the dual line, too. This is where the spirit world and physical world become one. Therefore, we see so clearly that without man, woman can never be perfected. Likewise, without woman, man can never be perfected.</p>
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<p>Until now, nobody had the foggiest idea about perfection. People think the individual can somehow become perfect alone. Even in the spirit world, there is no library which contains this knowledge. Now Father is announcing all this compiled knowledge and it will be gathered and stored in the library in spirit world. Why? It is very simple. Spirit world is simply a warehouse, a spiritual warehouse where the perfected fruit of True Love is stored. It is the storehouse for the fruit of perfection. Where is that fruit perfected? It is not done in spirit world. That fruit is born and must be perfected right here on earth. Therefore, spirit world is the second place we go, not the first.</p>
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<p>Now, at this moment, we are extremely proud of ourselves. We say, “How wonderful I am!” You see, no part of the hemispheres, the semi-arcs above and below, can be taken away. Everything is needed. This is the plus hemisphere, for instance. Without the minus hemisphere, can perfection take place? No, obviously not. Therefore, women absolutely, no matter how they may try to get around it, absolutely need men. And vice-versa: men absolutely need women. Each one’s highest hope and ideal is, “I want to be capable of being with my spouse to make this perfection possible.” These are the highest goals for each individual.</p>
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<p>When such a perfected man here on earth goes to spirit world, he can go anywhere and become a perfect friend with any person, any being, or any situation. This is one perfect model with which to make the ideal, holistic perfection. This is the ideal textbook for holistic perfection. Once you know this, you know the greatest philosophy. Once you make perfection, you are the greatest philosopher, and you are the greatest man and woman of religion because you have attained the goal already. That type of man is God, he has the same value as God, the same level as God, the same everything as God. Wherever the perfected son goes, then the whole world and universe will follow in his wake. Here is one daughter from a small family, and where that daughter goes, the whole family follows, don’t they? Yes. But not in confusion as we see in this world. The world is in confusion, of course, because we do not understand this. Once we know this clearly and follow this clearly and perfect it, do it-first we know and then we do it-then no other thing is necessary. You don’t need to go to school, you don’t need to meditate. You don’t have to do anything in the world. (Laughter.) Because he already has the universe in his hands, he doesn’t need any more. He is “of love.”</p>
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<p>In this humble stable of Belvedere, such a historic announcement and proclamation is made. Imagine. What did you do to deserve to be here? All the greatest kings, saints, and the greatest of all people on the earth and already in spirit world should be in the position of where you are today to hear this. Have you ever heard this? Have you ever imagined this?</p>
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<p>It’s like a crystal. If we perfect it here in woman, and in man, and together such a couple forms a family, this is heaven automatically. This is what we are saying when we speak of “heaven.” This is heaven. Here the whole universe has come together in perfection. Like this, they got married and perfected, and formed the entire sphere. And if one of them says, “I don’t like this. I’m going to go away,” that means he or she will die. Can any possibility of divorce exist here? He and she will both die, and everything will die here. It’s the most complete destruction. We know how formidable it is by understanding Principle. Even in the fallen world, there is no one who is happy about divorcing. They always cry. That kind of person is not suffering alone for just that time, but eternally. What can she or he do? He has to simply turn around from heaven and stop looking at heaven and look at the other side. How miserable.</p>
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<p>There is such a thing as forgiveness. “To err is human,” they say, and, “To forgive is divine.” Why? Because God cannot help but forgive because He knows that man doesn’t know this truth and therefore makes mistakes. The pottery maker will make his pots and if he doesn’t like the way one looks, he can just put it back into the clay and start over again. But once you make a perfected article and finish the process, you cannot return it to clay. If it is perfected and connected to proper parties and after that you destroy it, you are blamed for destroying the whole thing.</p>
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<p>When American youths come to know this Principle and are inspired and decide they want to live like this, will America turn into heaven overnight, or will it remain as hell? It will become heaven, literally over night. If you are to pay for this, how much material must we prepare? You can imagine, you are the proper judge. If you sell all of America and you set the price, can you buy this? Think about it. Throughout history, humankind has paid a price in search of the truth. They have sacrificed for the sake of truth, they have been righteous, many things, and all that price was paid. As the result of that, standing on that foundation, this truth has come out.</p>
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<p>This truth has been produced. When we understand that, this model will laugh at us, spit at us. They say, “You don’t understand.” They will spit at us if we don’t understand this. This pattern will beckon all of us to come. We must understand. This model is very much alive. To repeat this, to do the same everywhere, this is constitution. This is our standard, the measure. We can take this and apply it to any woman, “How much percentage of perfection does she have?” We can measure even to a fraction of an inch. We will say, “One hundred percent, eighty percent” and so forth. This is our everyday criteria. That’s the only way of walking. You can’t jump in order to walk, and limping is not walking. That’s not the standard for walking. Everything except the normal way of walking is abnormal.</p>
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<p>That is completion, the normal standard point. How valuable it is. How much value it has! How much more important it is. You can lose your life, you can lose everything in the universe, but this cannot be lost. This is with God, and because of this, based on this, creation was made. Therefore, Satan also knows this. Satan also has to value this. There is no way we can deny that we have the power to transmit the counterpart to all the relations. You can never deny your spouse. Living alone as a celibate person will make you very lonesome, no matter what your philosophy or belief. Whoever conforms to this is protected by the universe, but whoever does not is not only not protected, but is actually repelled by the universe. Because we feel that repulsion, then we feel lonesome and sad, painful and unhappy. Here is the place where you get recognition, your degree, your diploma, so to speak. When you attend a course, you get a certificate when you finish, don’t you? Right at this point, since we perfectly resemble God, we can start the action of creating, like God Himself. Therefore, each person should give birth to as perfect a child as himself or herself. Therefore, unless we give birth to a child and help them grow to perfection, we cannot go to heaven, because heaven is God’s dwelling place. Without going through love’s history course, we cannot go to God’s country, which is heaven. Do you understand? This is clear, very clear.</p>
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<p>Think about this all the time: marriage. Why is marriage a source of great joy? Because everything is catching, everything is fulfilled, everything is connected to the center. Forever, every part, every cell is connecting at that point. Man’s cells belong to God’s cells connected to True Love. Plus and minus, horizontal parents. Man and woman are surrounded by God. Children surrounding parents, father and mother. The children stand in a position surrounding that. This is the point where vertical and horizontal meet. From that combination, there is unification of everything. So you need True Love. How much? Absolutely!</p>
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<p>Father is going to erase the blackboard now. Don’t ever forget what I have taught today. Have you memorized it? No matter how difficult a situation we are in, we have to reach that purpose, that point of perfection. If you cannot reach that point, you cannot have hope for the ideal. That focal point is the point of hope for the ideal. Now many Western and American members say, “We like freedom more than anything.” Where is freedom? Upon this point, you can catch everything, happiness, peace and hope. Otherwise, no way. Now you understand clearly, right? Huh, huh, HUH? (Laughter.) Don’t forget.</p>
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<p>So Father even taught this at the theological seminary. Once Father teaches this, there is really nothing more to teach you because it’s the most important thing. Without this, there is nothing we should learn. It’s a waste of time. The man who lives like this, who perfects this, becomes like the president, so to speak, of your nation. You can go anywhere, everywhere, with a free pass. When you appear, then God of the White House, will make way for you. Do you need that seal, that certificate, now? (Yes!) If we live like that, becoming perfected like that, then wherever you go in the world, you would not starve. If you feel hungry, the whole country will rise up and blame the people around you. That is real freedom; such a person is truly free, isn’t he?</p>
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<p>How necessary is that for you? Absolutely! You have to incorporate that word into your vocabulary: Absolute, absolutely!</p>
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<p>My sermon this morning is titled, “I Will Live With the True Parents,” and if you do this, you will indeed live with the True Parents. This was the stumbling block for Father, too, and for God, too. Because of this, God is like the most incapable person. He just cannot do anything. People blame God, curse Him, and do anything against Him. We never do what He wants us to do. Still God cannot do anything because of this. And Father, too, could not retaliate against somebody who opposed him. What can he do? Those who do not know and do not even think like this, you cannot stop talking with them. This is what made Father and God most powerless in the universe. Most powerful beings became most powerless because of this criterion of the perfection of True Love.</p>
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<p>Which is first, vertical or horizontal? Absolute vertical. In the absolute dual system the horizontal comes right here, too. There is only one intersecting point, which is ninety degrees. Absolutely ninety degrees. In the Western world, we shake hands, up and down when we greet one another. That’s the horizontal greeting. Come to think of it, why don’t we shake hands by doing this? [Pulling each other’s arms back and forth.] It is because we have to follow that vertical way. Oriental people greet one another in the most vertical way, don’t they? Like so. [Father bows.] If you put the greetings in order of best, second best, and the like, which is more stylish and better? This way, or that way? When you bow correctly, your body’s movements represent the whole universe, grouping it up and offering it as if saying, “I’m going to occupy your love,” or “I am at your disposal,” or whichever. You know, this is the proper way of bowing. When you see Western people just bowing down like that, that’s not so good. You have to form your body into a rounded shape when you bow. Like so. Do you see how round that looks? (Laughter.) As round as you can make yourself. If you bow down but with the legs stretched, it’s not round. He makes a big cavity right here, as if saying, “Yes, I am going to embrace all of you, and the whole universe I am going to occupy in love, even God.”</p>
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<p>Western civilization will follow Eastern civilization without fail now. That trend is already obvious, isn’t it? This is the Pacific Era. It isn’t the American Era. The East is beckoning to the West, “Come to us.” When we write in Korean and also in Chinese and Japanese, we write from up to down, from right to left. All the books are like that. Did you know? Whereas, English is written from left to right and up to down, like so. This has to meet here.</p>
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<p>There are many examples of differences. For instance, when an American beckons to someone else to come to him, he does it like this. [With the palm of the hand facing up.] The Oriental people beckon like this [with the palm down]. When we make that motion to Americans, they go away! With the palm up it means, “Please give me something,” or “I’m going to receive from you.” This way, with the palm down, means “I’m going to give to you.” These kinds of hidden meanings are contained in all the simple things we do. Can you imagine how very different Eastern and Western people are? When Western people sleep, many of them, even adults, sleep on their stomachs. When a child sleeps like that in the Orient, the mother will not like it, she will worry about it. We don’t even bury people like that when they are dead! We bury them in the proper position with stomach side up, so what do you mean by sleeping like that!</p>
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<p>If you know the basics of these principles, even if somebody tells you to do that, you won’t do it. The insects of the field may sleep facing towards the earth, but human beings should always face toward heaven.</p>
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<p>Everybody agrees that America is on a crash course towards destruction. Somebody has to intervene, somebody has to begin the re-creation. Father is recreating. An Oriental person came here to recreate America, saying, “Leave behind your horizontal ways and follow me.” Let’s assume you don’t understand complicated ideas, but let’s just ask a simple question: Have you become better or worse after meeting Father? (Better!) You say “better” because you feel you have become better, or by Principle? Without mistake, you have become better? Which one? Until now, we may have gone in a certain direction with a lot of effort. But without a focal point, without clear criteria, one just drifts away. You must have this point in mind always, then you can go anywhere and do anything. Eventually you will come back to this point, but if you don’t have this place, and you go far away, then you are in trouble, aren’t you? That’s why we should not drift too far away, if you are not confident. If America loses Father, in other words, if Father stops living here or stops returning to America, then America would be without its center. Father is right here in the center, and everybody wants to cluster around him, like all the Japanese leaders and their wives. Why do they come here to Father? It is because of this. Centering on Father, they want to cluster around.</p>
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<p>When Father goes to Korea, we all want to follow Father, don’t we? That is because it’s the shortest path to perfection. Our spirit knows, so that’s why we want to be near to Father. He teaches us and he works and acts with True Love, which we can follow. So we want to live near him, spend time with him, being close because we can go the shortest cut to perfection in ourselves. Do you follow? This is why our mind always moves towards Father.</p>
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<p>Isn’t it true that religious people have been rather eccentric in the eyes of the secular world? They do just one thing. That is because it is all-important to find the center and find God, to find the Principle. After that, everything else is secondary. Therefore, religious people have given up everything for the sake of that one purpose. In order to do that, they give up worldly things. The more faithful a person is, the easier it is for him to give everything up. He gives everything in the search for truth. Because God is here. Oriental philosophy is trying to reach this. Even the highest goal of Western philosophy is here. Because of that, they give up everything willingly to reach here.</p>
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<p>When couples are in the act of love, they aren’t thinking about Japanese ways, or American ways. You forget everything, don’t you? International couples do not think of themselves as representing different countries, do they? You Western women don’t love your Japanese husbands as a Japanese representative, do you? You forget everything but the loved one, and your focus is love. The only strong power is True Love. How wonderful! All are the same. It is a vertical feeling. How much excitement, how much strength! It is like you are inflating a balloon, and finally it bursts. A balloon doesn’t make any sound while it is being inflated, but once it explodes, it always makes a big noise, like thunder. God may be dozing somewhere, but when He hears that sound, He will be awakened! And then He will gaze upon the place where that sound comes from. The sound of love even wakes up the dozing God. It’s so important.</p>
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<p>Do you need that power of True Love? Yes? (Yes!) Excellent! You know that well! More than me! If you know this, you can forget everything else. Husband and wife will come together, embrace, and you tumble down, and become one. You don’t have to stand in any position, but you can roll.</p>
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<p>God lives this way, and True Parents live this way. All sons and daughters live this way, and when all the rest of the world lives this way, then the world will inevitably become heaven on earth. When you are perfected in this pattern, then it goes to the top, most lofty place in spirit world.</p>
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<p>We already know how many percent of perfection I have as son, as daughter, brother and sister, and as parents, as spouse. Starting from son’s love, right at the center of this circle, it connects by axis horizontally. It is the same way, horizontally and vertically; it is an equal distance, too. There is no way we can go individually. We know that, don’t we? We must have our own children, we must have our own brothers and sisters, we must have parents of our own. We must have a spouse. Therefore, this “couple-ism” which we see so much here in America, how far away from God’s ideal, we know already. “Couple-ism” means they deploy horizontally, but that’s all. They will go farther and farther away, but where will they end up? They certainly cannot come back unless they have a place to come back to.</p>
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<p>Actually, this is the reason America became such an individualistic country with so much free sex. They went this way, then after this, there is no other way besides individualism, free sex. Do you understand how they became like this? As they go farther and farther away from this crux, then everything gets in their way. At least that is how the individual feels, so he gets rid of his wife, his children; he gets rid of this and that. Then he finds himself all alone. This is the fate of individualism. Each one has a certain aspect of individualism within themselves. We all know where we are or how much percent perfect we are.</p>
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<p>We must think, “Am I looking at my spouse, my children, my parents, in the place of (from the perspective of) God?” Each child must resemble his parents because his parents are not only his parents, but they are also brother and sister to each other. Because they are brother and sister they will learn the brother and sister relationship through their parents and what they are doing. And the couple, too. They will look at the parents’ couples’ life. By loving their own children, from the standpoint of parents, they do the same. Do you follow? In other words, parents must play the lead role, the model role. Parents must show their children how to love other children, and how to love brothers and sisters, how to serve parents. The father and mother must show the children all these things. The children can only learn from them. Therefore, all education takes place in the family. When children become as perfect as their own parents, then their parental perfection is also attained.</p>
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<p>In the Garden of Eden, the brother and sister, Adam and Eve got married. But after the fall, in order to embrace everybody, the farther away your partner, the better. Therefore, Father has been matching people internationally. We all know how much we benefit from that. So we all know we don’t have to go more in detail, we already know about ourselves through this measure, this principle. Do we or do we not understand this about ourselves, centering on this formula? (Yes.) Because, “I know faster than God does, I know this first, and then God knows.”</p>
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<p>Until now, nobody knew. We didn’t know and therefore we were forgiven and we were not blamed so much. But now we know. If we still don’t do that, then that is where the real anger comes from. Reprimands come. Now that we come to understand this, everyday life should be different. In the morning, when we are washing our face, say, “I have to resemble God. God invested and forgot, He gave and forgot He gave. He was always persecuted, but loved even more. Are my eyes going to do the same things, is my nose going to do that?” We have to continually ask the same question of every part of ourselves, “Is my body, my hand resembling God’s?” We must always have this focal point in mind.</p>
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<p>American people don’t want to live like that, do they? Do they say, “That’s too much effort”? This is why the Bible says it is very, very difficult for the rich man to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Poor people, who are more humble, can be more focused on this than anything else. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>There is such a thing as a ticket to heaven. It is a one direction course, straight. You will bump right into God and meet with Him if we have that straight route. The individual is there, family is there, clan is there, the nation and world are there. Starting from God, it has been deployed. Now we are returning to God. Therefore, in there is everything. God is my friend, God is my subject, God is my partner. We are that close to God centering on True Love. The grandchildren and grandparents are so close to each other, like dear friends, like brothers and sisters, even. If that happens, is that a tragedy or is that happiness? Inside, we are so respectful of our grandfather and grandmother, isn’t that true? But that loving child will just climb up on the grandfather’s head, and even perhaps lose control and wet his head, even. The loving grandfather would be only happy. “Oh, this is warm,” he would say. He would laugh and be so happy, and say, “Nobody else has this much love toward my grandson.” He would laugh and laugh. Do you like that? (Yes!) I don’t know. Liking something is up to you, not me.</p>
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<p>This is so simple. I, like my parents, with the vertical in mind, will live like this and the re-creation will become complete. When we live like this, that’s the end goal of our life. That is what our life is all about, to live like Father, to live like Mother. Now we know clearly the standard of perfection. Here on earth is the easiest place to achieve this. Now that we have the standard, how soon we realize it is up to us. We have to realize it here on earth. If we go to spirit world, we will have to come back to realize it, which is enormously more difficult. Therefore, we must do it here, very quickly.</p>
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<p>Earth is the center, not spirit world. Whatever is done here, is done up in heaven. Whatever is entangled here is entangled up there. Therefore, earth is the center. Think about some rich man, some millionaire, even billionaire who always spent his money for the sake of his community, his clan and country. If he lived that way all his life, and then came back to his homeland and died, would he go to heaven or to hell? (Heaven.) Even though he gave everything away and then went back to his homeland and died with nothing in his hands, would he still go to heaven? (Yes.) Why, through what Principle does that happen? It is because he followed God’s standard. God still is alive, He is not dead, and He continues doing the same things after thousands and thousands of years.</p>
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<p>God’s position has always been like a vacant place, like a low pressure zone. One time a high pressure zone comes in and blows down that empty place. That’s God’s hope, the end of time, the time of the Second Advent. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Raise your hands if you can say, “Now, Father, I understand clearly and you have helped me so much already. But now that I know this, I don’t need any more help. I can do it, all by myself, and surely I will get there. Don’t worry about me.” Father gathered all the men together, and Korean residents here in America. They are lonely people. They are kind of miserable because they are away from home, trying to do God’s work, without anyone knowing. So Father gave this talk to them. Today is the time of the Women’s Federation, so all the women gathered together and received the same message. Father encouraged all the Korean residents here, “Teach this to every person in this country.” Now American men and Korean men know this. Are you American men, you proud, first-rate nation, going to be outdone by the Koreans? Or are they going to be outdone by you? Father says keep your hands up for one hour, but you know you will do it without fail? Until now, whatever Father taught you was virtually forgotten by the time you got back to the New Yorker. Not this time. Okay?</p>
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<p>Those who say, “I won’t forget, Father, I will never forget!” can lower their hands. That means you will do it! (Yes!)</p>
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title: "INVESTING IN THE COUPLES WHO ARE BLESSED BY HEAVEN"
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type: "speech"
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published: "2018-06-26T13:45:43+01:00"
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updated: "2018-06-26T13:45:43+01:00"
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source: "/blog/2018/06/26/investing-in-the-couples-who-are-blessed-by-heaven.html"
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speechYear: "1993"
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 7, 1993<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>When we say heaven, what are we referring to? When we say heaven, centering on God, it means all spirit world, except hell. As we see, the Hudson River flows in one direction. It flows into the sea which is the deepest part of the earth. All water flows from high to low; the opposite doesn’t happen. Air, too, flows from a high pressure area to a low pressure area. What about human society? Do we see a similar relationship between high, middle and low classes? Does it flow from high to low, or the reverse? All nature shows us that things flow from high to low, but as we look at human society it is backwards and disordered. There is struggle and war. The heavenly spirit world also flows from high to low. The natural flow is from high to low, but man struggles against this. Why is this? Because of the fall.</p>
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<p>Our mind represents heaven and the body, earth. The mind always wants to give to the body, but the body fights and struggles against the mind. Why is this? The fall. And, who is the master of the fall? Satan. All nature wants to get rid of Satan so it can return to normal. What is the one thing that always works? Man. Even going against nature, he still wants to go to the highest place. This is especially true of evil organizations. We see the Mafia, which does not allow the natural flow of the mind, but rather threatens and coerces people. They feel that in order to survive with that wicked goal, they have to strike first. We also find individuals who hate others. Satan is against the laws of nature, whereas God upholds them. Satan tries to reach the top by going against the order of nature. God tries to reach it in an orderly way, but how difficult it is!</p>
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<p>It is not that Satan does not know God’s will. Satan knows about God very well. Satan, however, tries to go in an unorderly way. We can classify all human beings into two categories: conscientious and not conscientious. Satan makes relationship with an unconscientious person and God with a conscientious person. We see that they contradict each other. What is the point of origin? Is it an individual or family? (Individual.) Yes, it is man and woman. We see all contradictions, struggles and wars begin from the individual. Because of the fall, all trouble begins from the individual. This is a great awareness, an important thing to know. Roughly, my body tries to go against my mind. The body belongs to Satan’s side, and our mind to God’s side.</p>
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<p>We have five senses in the body and also in the world of mind. My mind has an eye for seeing and a nose for smelling, just like the body does. Therefore, do I belong to Satan or to God at this moment?</p>
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<p>The mind directs to go one way, and with much energy we go. Then the body complains and resists. We go back and forth, but over much time are we going forward or backward? Am I going to be a bodily person or a mind person? Which one? (Mind.) If that were true you would be an individual who did not fight within himself. However, as you go back and forth, chances are you will end up as a bodily person. Often even when we know what is right, a person asserts what is wrong. When you know what is right you have to bow down to it. An individual knows better than God which is right or wrong. At the judgment there is no way for us to defend ourselves. Without religion this is that way of perishment for all people. To save them, God has given religion. Religion says, “Whatever you want-do not do it. Deny your desires.” This is because the bodily five senses are always going against the wishes of God.</p>
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<p>Is self-denial a natural thing or not? Is it normal for God to force us to deny ourselves? It is only normal because he has our best interest at heart. Isn’t it true that deeply religious men in the past didn’t even know this? Once Father points this out, then of course we know it, but if it were not pointed out, nobody would know. What chance did they have to succeed?</p>
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<p>How much mankind has gone against God and religion! From this perspective, what is America like? It is a Christian nation which is supposed to follow God’s teaching, but it has ended up as the kingdom of individualism. This has settled down in the middle of Christianity. God worked for thousands of years, but has He failed in America or not? Clearly failed. Now we see the 180 degree opposite direction. If America continues to live as it does, will we all go to heaven or hell? Therefore, we see very clearly that the Christians have come to an ungodly place. Do they work against good things or bad? They work against good without their knowing it.</p>
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<p>All religions sprang up in different circumstances. Their cultures, languages and customs were different, but God made them universal. Today we see lower, middle and higher religions. We should be able to identify the religions corresponding to these levels. We know that this law works. Any religion which only works on the family alone will be rejected by the clan. A religion which is specific to a nation will be rejected by the world. This is not only true for religions, but applies to the secular world, too. If a family is confronted by a strong clan, they will be driven out. A nationalistic country can be isolated by the world. With each step we go upwards. Once we reach the top level, the whole world will be divided into two, one good, one evil. So we see the communist and democratic worlds. The democratic world has tried to follow God, whereas the communist world has denied even God. They should be done away with, but they still bring trouble. Even atheism and theism begin with the individual.</p>
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<p>Each religion in the world starts its own ideology. In the free world we have many ideologies, whereas the communists have only one. Actually all religions should come together, because their purpose must be the same, to bring communism down. It would have happened much sooner had they united. Why has communism come down, and not the free world? It is because the free world, through sacrifice, tried to live for others. The free world also tried to love their enemy. Amongst all religions, only Christianity is like that. Buddhism is not like that. In order for God to save us, He must let us know that our body is our mind’s enemy. In order to save all we have to save ourselves first.</p>
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<p>We can clearly see why God had to let Christianity be the central religion. It is because they love their enemy. Christianity had the chance to save all the world at the end of World War II. But what if a stronger religion, which loves its enemy more, arises in the last days? In that religion a man will have the attitude to sacrifice even his own family. That religion will stand on top of the whole world, asserting more influence than any other religion in history, including Christianity, and will be supported by God.</p>
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<p>There is no denying this through reason. The family that lives for the nation will prosper. The nation that lives for others will prosper. The true history of the Unification Church is for Abel to sacrifice for Cain. We have the tradition where Cain will push Abel up because Abel is working for the sake of Cain himself. Abel will voluntarily push Cain up.</p>
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<p>God has done so much; has He ever raised His voice showing what He has done? No. He just does more. Unification Church members live for the sake of the whole and even want to get a nation for the sake of the world. Why are they right to do that? For example, water has the responsibility to reach to the deepest depth. No matter how big a river is, when it flows into the sea, does it stay fresh or does it become salty? (Salty.) Likewise, all men will go to the spirit world; none will stay. The habits and customs of fresh water do not matter; we will all end up in the salt water. Religious people, while living in the fresh water, go against the fresh water and prepare for the salt water. What would happen if we went unprepared?</p>
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<p>Everyone starts from individualistic thinking, then becomes a family man. When they realize this is not enough, they will live for their tribe, nation and world. Are we going to get closer to Satan or further away? Is there anything that Father asked you to do, that you like: fasting, fundraising or witnessing for the sake of others? Before, we did whatever we did and our conscience didn’t bother us. Today we know enough, but we don’t do enough. Does our conscience bother us or not? When you drink alcohol, does your conscience bother you? It used to be that it went down freely. Not any more. When Father says do this and we don’t, then we feel uncomfortable, don’t we? Even though we may not go straight ahead, we at least walk like a crab. We have changed from the first day. Is walking sideways like a crab the normal standard for a Unification Church member? Each one of us knows which angle we are going in. There are very few who are confident and going exactly 180 degrees opposite from where they used to go. We have no choice. There is only one way to go whether we go willingly or unwillingly.</p>
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<p>Which is more salty, the deep ocean or the surface of the ocean? (Deep.) Why? Because salt is heavier than water. Then where would the palace of the Kingdom of Heaven be? In the deepest salt water. So where should I be? In the deepest part of the ocean. God is in the highest, the cleanest and purest place. The higher a religion is, the more they know of God and His ways. They must help the other religions. This is what the higher religion must do. The fact that we live for others, even the enemy, is because that is how the spirit world is. That’s why we have to do that here. Religion is to love the satanic world, not to fight each other. If they fight they will end up in a very difficult place. How can two religions reach up to God if they fight each other? The Unification Church has to treat all religions the same. We cannot call other religions heretical, we must love them. Even Shamanism, which is a very low religion, was fostered by God in the beginning. Reverend Moon and the Unification Church fought against communism for their sake and Father is now teaching them, to save them.</p>
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<p>What Reverend Moon has done is what America should do for the religious world. However, they are not even thinking about it. Only Reverend Moon is serious to save the communist world. God must love Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. God cannot help but support the Unification Church when He sees this. Do you agree? These walls must be happier than us. The wall has a fixed mind, whereas our minds are still wandering. We are thinking that Father is speaking too long. So compared to the wall, you are in a low position. Stay awake.</p>
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<p>Father has not talked about investment. How much have we been given by God? We owe so much to God. All religions have been persecuted. As they were persecuted, they grew. Among all religions Christianity was the most persecuted and sacrificed the most. All the fruit of that sacrifice is now in America. Are Americans aware of that? Americans must turn and embrace all the world. Instead, America is turning away. The universe will spit at it and it will fall. But we Unification Church members must hold America and apply the brake and turn America around. Are all the Unification Church members strong enough to do that, to bring America to a screeching stop? This is a serious point. How serious this is when America is on the brink of dying. How can we be comfortable?</p>
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<p>Father may bring guests to Atlantic City where there is gambling. That’s a very difficult place to survive, too. So, we have to stay awake how long? Father tries to stay awake longer than anyone else who sets foot on that place. By exerting a strong power, try to apply a brake to the direction America is going. Then no matter what you use, you must investigate and you must apply a tremendous energy to accomplish this. Free sex must go. Hollywood and the immoral media must go. We must shed light on the dens of prostitutes. Should Father visit there or not? The thing that is different from Reverend Moon and any other person is that Father can stop at any time. At any moment he can turn around, but not everybody else.</p>
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<p>A good doctor also experiences the sharpest pain of the patient. Without that he cannot be a good doctor. Drinking alcohol itself is not a sin, but once you start drinking alcohol it gets the better of you and makes you sin. It takes an extraordinary person to get over that. You must control your body, control yourself. Even in the matter of love, we have to control.</p>
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<p>Has there ever been a true man and woman, until now? Here is God who is an absolute plus, an absolute subject and He demands that discipline and says, “Man, you must become a complete minus, a complete object.” For women it is the same. Father is the plus of the Unification Church. How much have we united with Father? What is the reality? What about the closest person to Father, who is Mother? Is that one hundred percent or not? What about woman? They all want their husbands to follow their desires. It is not necessarily bad, because in love we are equal. However, when rotation stops the woman should be below. American women want to end up on top. We must be very aware of this. We are on a rail and we do not want to derail. The rail is not always straight. We must consider the speed and the curve. To stay on the rail we must know these things.</p>
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<p>What are we, good, bad or mediocre? We want to be the highest, but sometimes we are low. How do we know this? When we tell someone he is low, he will get angry. This is Satan’s way, Satan’s temper. When we are criticized we should keep silent and try to improve. Never try to fight back. That is a serious point. God knows the standard of the world. He is a pain-filled God; He cannot find anyone who resembles Him.</p>
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<p>Compare men and women. Which is slightly better than the other? Can you solve this problem? Each one of us here thinks that “I” am the center of all men or the center of all women. Does your mind think like that? Even though our mind desires that, we must find a way to that point. By the time you reach the center, you don’t even know you are the center because you have been betrayed and disappointed by all people. For everyone you see, you think is there to betray and deceive you. Father came to America with the sole purpose of saving America, but all Americans think that Father has come to exploit us. Has Father come here to make a slave out of you? No. Father tried to make us better people, even to the point of sacrificing his children.</p>
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<p>When God wanted to be the center of women, God was betrayed by the person He was working with, and He had to start again. This was repeated many times. All the time Satan denies God and He has to start all over again. This is why religions have to sacrifice and build a foundation to continue, to continue, to continue. The same is true for the man’s world. God only needs one prototype man. Only one perfect man and one perfect woman. Once all women know which woman is to be the prototype, they all come against her. What is women’s favorite thing? Jealousy? Talkativeness? Men. What do they want most? Money? Power? Knowledge? Among these what is it that women want? Man. Rightfully so because that’s what they were born for. That means that everybody has a purpose. If it weren’t for man, women would have no purpose for living. So naturally, her first purpose is man. Yes, woman needs a man.</p>
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<p>If we encourage homosexuality, and are successful in making everyone homosexual, will humanity perish? Yes. The most effective way for Satan to prevent man from returning to God is drugs and homosexuality. We already know that Satan’s purpose in working and existing is to turn 180 degrees around against God’s direction. Who wants to go to bars and dancing places? If God told you to go and dance, how happy would you be? You can dance with no clothes on. If you were in love with your husband and danced naked at home, would God complain? No. Would God punish you? No. He would support you. He would say, “Go ahead and do more because that’s what you were born for.” But, the question is, if that same woman did the same thing with another man, would God mind or not? (Yes.) Is that a problem? It’s a very simple principle.</p>
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<p>So, what is salvation? Before my family can be saved, I must be saved. We should follow a straight line back to God. However, if we follow a zigzag course, it is permitted provided we are going forward and getting closer to the goal. We can’t go backward. Those who have been in the church only one year often go faster than those who have been here much, much longer. The one who is in the church for only one year goes in a most straight line. They go ahead of those who have been in the church twenty and thirty years. What do you think happens? Do you think they say, “Even though you are a young person, I respect you, do more”? Do you think they do that? No. Instead, they will probably say, “You don’t know about seniority. You can’t be ahead of me.” Do we see that happening in our church, or not? (Yes.) What about Father? If someone went in front of Father, he would promote him.</p>
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<p>You Americans feel more comfortable when you speak to Americans. Father feels the same with those who speak Korean. We must know the importance of our customs and language, to promote goodness. It is not a small thing any more. In order to do that, language plays a large role. Father explains that almost every day in Father’s long table with Korean and American leaders, Father speaks in Korean, and American leaders don’t know what to do. They just sit there and maybe get one word if someone translates. But how much can you get from one word? Everyone is busy trying to understand Father’s words. There’s no time to translate for Americans. Unless we solve these problems, that effect will be lasting to the rest of mankind. Don’t you feel that way? It’s a very important factor now. How ineffective and confusing it is. Americans and the British have been very happy, because all the world is learning English and has been focusing on them. But, how about God? Do you think God will follow that crowd? (No.) What about True Parents? Are they going to follow the language of the satanic kingdom? (No.) Who does God love the most, America or Reverend Moon? He loves them both, but must choose Reverend Moon, for apparent reasons. So, should all of us who are English-speaking people learn about Reverend Moon and introduce him to English-speaking people; or should Father follow all English people and teach them in English, so in that way all English-speaking people can learn and change faster?</p>
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<p>There are 200 or 300 books of all of Father’s sermons in Korean, not in English. In the scholarly world, already that’s the way. We must learn our ancestors’ language too. Imagine, the devoted Christian, and other religious people, who have been living for fifty years following the Bible exactly. Now they come to the Unification Church and learn the Divine Principle. How long will it take? Maybe one year? He will compare the Bible and the Divine Principle and see that the Divine Principle is a higher teaching. He will know the value immediately, and shoot forward like an arrow. Can we match those people? We never witnessed so much, we never prayed so much, we never did anything so much. When the Christians are celebrating with the True Family on the top of the mountain, will we still be struggling up the hill? Should we expect Father to come down to us and apologize?</p>
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<p>Up until now, American members have thought, “Well, Father favors Korean first and secondly he favors Japanese. Americans are just a remnant.” That’s the way American leaders often think because they don’t understand but one word in two or three hours. How can Father help it? Each one of us must try not to think about other people so much because we are busy. We should be busy with our own goal and schedule. The one who comes in place of God is the Messiah. The Messiah does exactly what God tells him to do, die, get up, go east or west. The Messiah knows how hard God worked, how miserable God’s position is and no matter how miserable his position is, thinking about God, he cannot complain. All he can do is follow and try to console God. Thus we can know how much suffering God has endured from the wounds of history. There is not even one piece of God that can rejoice. The Messiah knows the root of God’s suffering and tries to uproot that. Not even once during prison did Father pray to God for help. Father now has a problem with Japan, but he doesn’t ask God to help. Father feels that even if he goes to hell, God will protect him. When Father lands in a happy place, all he will do is stay in the corner. That’s all Father will do in front of God. God needs Father when he is in difficulty and also when he is happy.</p>
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<p>Now we know what the Messiah is. We know what is needed to be the Messiah. True Parents are the Messiah. True Children are the Messiah. Father has a certain idea about the standard of the tribal messiah, but when the children don’t live up to that standard, Father realizes there’s a problem. In the spirit world Reverend Moon will be the standard of judgment. Anyone who falls short of Reverend Moon will be judged if they don’t reach it. Reverend Moon’s standard is 100 percent. God doesn’t mind if ours is 120 percent, but it should not be lower than 100. Father wants all of us to become better. Have we been supporting Father by doing many difficult things, or are we pulling him down when he’s trying to go up?</p>
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<p>Father has proclaimed his Messiahship. Are we claiming our tribal messiahship? If we identify ourselves as disciples of True Parents, as Father goes higher we go higher, too. When people find out we are Unification Church members they pay attention to us.</p>
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<p>If you ever go to a conference, put on your name card that you are Reverend Moon’s disciple. Walk everywhere with this on. People will stop and talk to you. How many times a day are you witnessing and talking? All the media is broadcasting news about your president. Is Father less important? Do you understand what it is to be a Messiah? What about the bride to the Messiah, she must completely obey the groom. This is the greatness of Mother. Father took the leaders of the women’s movement in the car, yet told Mother to stay at home. She did not complain. Rather, she embraced them. No matter how hateful a woman may be, Mother still has to embrace her. That means not only son, but daughter, too. God wants a daughter who will introduce another woman who is an enemy to her, to her own husband. God wants that kind of broad-minded women. That doesn’t mean we have to do that literally, but our mind should be as broad as that.</p>
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<p>For the last thirty-three years, Mother has had to untangle Jesus’ regret. She had to indemnify a lot of women’s past. She has to make all her rough edges very smooth so that old women or young women who might try to scratch her, or upset her, cannot. All women thought that Mother took their position as Father’s wife. Mother was only a teenager. Everyone blamed her for taking their husband. The whole spirit world was like a tornado. Every woman was crazy for Father. You, too, would have wanted to marry Father. If Father was a bad person, he could have behaved as a secular person would have done, but Father knew Adam’s responsibility. Father took everybody as his own sister and raised them up and matched them as they were supposed to be. At the same time Father raised up Mother as True Mother. Father treated her as his own daughter, sister, spouse and mother. Father restored all these positions which Adam and Eve lost.</p>
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<p>The spirit world worked through the older women. Spirit world revealed the whole thing to them. So, when Father would go some place for that day, the grandmother already knew where Father was going and she went there before him. When Father arrived she smiled very sweetly at him because she was embarrassed and said, “I’m here.” Spirit world told her, so she just believed what the spirit world told her.</p>
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<p>They boasted to all that, “Reverend Moon is my husband.” In other words, there was a time in history when God allowed an equal chance to everybody, no matter how old or young. They sincerely believed that the spirit world told them. At that point God allowed all to run for that position, just as in an election. Forty years later Father can laugh and talk about this. But can you imagine how irritating it was? The old women came up to me and said “You are my husband.” How bad that was! Father had to laugh it off. These women all moved to the neighborhood of Father’s church. They watched day and night. Each one prepared the meal for Father. They cried for Father. They made his bed for him. It was to such a degree that it was actually fearful. But Father knew the principle and could survive. Father teased them when everybody was there, “Grandmother, even if you get married to me, you cannot have a baby.” They would say, “Look at Sarah, she was over one hundred, I’m only eighty.” But then spirit world had a reason. Father gradually taught them, and they gave up.</p>
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<p>Father brought it down to the younger age and Father inherited all that spiritual foundation. Father said to them at last, “Is it up to you or up to me to choose my bride?” They admitted it was up to Father. In the meantime, Father collected all that scattered foundation into one to select a bride. Each one knew who the candidates were, but then Father chose someone from far away. Everyone then tried to find Mother. It took six months to a year trying to figure out from where Mother was coming. During this time an exchange took place. Each woman had an absolute trust in Father. Now True Mother should have more trust in Father than they displayed.</p>
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<p>Abel’s position must love Cain more. Mother, too, as Abel must love all women in Cain’s position. If Mother had behaved differently, she would have been poisoned by these women. The strong jealousy from the spirit world would have said to them, “If you erase her, then you can become Father’s spouse.” So Father had to chase Mother out, too. When Father and Mother were walking, if someone came, Father would push Mother away and embrace the other person. If Father had not done this, the other women would have come against Father. He couldn’t hold hands with her, or kiss her. Father had to treat her completely as a sister.</p>
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<p>All persons have historical regret, not just personal regret from many, many generations. All women’s regrets were dumped on Mother. What could she do? The golden rule is to be silent and digest them. Father told Mother what to expect and prepared her. He told her stay close behind Father and do not leave. If she followed exactly behind Father, Satan had no claim on her. Satan could then attack Father. All women tried to accuse Mother, but she stayed very close to Father, like a shadow. With this tradition, Father paved the road for women to follow. So the way to the perfection of Mother was to follow Father exactly. Once she has done that, Satan has no accusation. All he can say is, “You are a great woman.” All women must know how difficult that road is. There are so many things Father would like to share and talk to you about. This is necessary for American women to know, so they may become humble. All American women, too, want to be in Mother’s position. Father has to give us the blessing before our perfection, so now he has to teach us more.</p>
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<p>Father has been damaged by man, blaming him and accusing him before he can pave up man’s role. The worst that can happen to him is go to jail. Who put father into jail? Man or woman? (Man.) Why? Because when man saw how women behaved, centering on Reverend Moon, they did not understand what was going on. They did not understand history, that’s how it was possible for them to put Father in jail. It happened in Korea when an ordinary housewife no longer stayed at home, but instead followed Father completely. The husbands could not understand that. Looking at that kind of wife, it was difficult for a husband to bear. If Mother had not been selected and Father was still selecting a bride, the same thing would be happening even now.</p>
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<p>Mother accepted this challenge and digested it. She now has her position today. Father stands representing all men, and all men go against him, accusing him of taking their dear wife away. “You came here on earth to snatch her away from me.” But then all women are so close to him. Father has to collect, harvest the blessing that was given to woman a long time ago and she’s held it, kept it. Now she has to return that to one who’s on top.</p>
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<p>The servant, stepson, adopted son, and son all go against Father who comes to represent them. So Father must think and behave just like God has in the past. Father has to make them as Cain, the elder brother to him. Otherwise each one cannot stand in their own place. At that time even beating Father was unthinkable, but it did happen actually. In the secular world, even in prison, it simply was blinding. Father went into prison to give them blessings, yet they beat him. Now many years have passed. Thirty, forty years later, today, all men bow down to him. Then no one knew, but now we are grateful to you. No one forced men to bow down like that; it is a natural subjugation. America, too, more and more despised Reverend Moon, but as time goes by they realize he is their benefactor. He is one who gives blessing to us.</p>
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<p>So, what course did Father take? Eye for an eye, or did Father embrace them, continue to love them and they were naturally subjugated? It’s the second one isn’t it? (Yes.) Do you American women know enough about why we should bow down to Father? (Yes.) What about you American men? (Yes.) Father did everything to pave the road back to God so now he stands on top of the world. Even God would give up all religion and even all mankind, but not Reverend Moon.</p>
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<p>All great men in history have been challenged by Satan but not one survived. Satan has spread a large net. You cannot survive by fighting with weapons, only by love. First you have to be beaten. Satan can only beat you unjustly three times. After that he must retreat. Satan casts so many nets. As Father avoids the nets, Satan cannot use them again. So who would Satan follow? Satan’s people. Would Satan’s people follow Satan, or would Satan’s people follow Reverend Moon? (Father.) Why? Because in the beginning when they hear the teaching, they feel the impact and magnitude of it. They also understand the truth of Father’s teaching. They start to follow Father, not Satan. Satan has nothing to teach. So how about us? Will you follow 100 percent or less? (100 percent.) Why? By doing that, God can love our children 100 percent. God has many children in Satan’s world. Father must embrace them all.</p>
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<p>Between Father and son is True Love. Centering on True Love you can call God Father. True Love is the same for all people for eternity. In the Garden of Eden, God could not embrace his grandsons, but now He can. In order to have sons and daughters we must become one with Father completely.</p>
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<p>Father has gone over all eight barriers. As you go over one wall you have to pay indemnity. Satan is waiting for you to pass at each level, from the individual to the cosmic level. If Adam had not fallen we would’ve naturally arrived at the end, but because of the fall, we have had to reindemnify everything.</p>
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<p>Even the communists, whom Father fought against so much, now love Father. So there are no enemies in front of Father. Father can go anywhere – Russia, China, or North Korea. Could the United States President’s wife go to China and have a rally for the people? Mother has done that. Women’s time has arrived. The women go ahead of Father and Father will follow. In America they know better than anybody else what we are talking about. Those who are successful in this country, always have a woman in front of them.</p>
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<p>All women can now untangle their regrets through the man. Both in the spirit world and the physical world, all women can combine and make one women’s rally for man, for all the bad things men did against them. They can resolve all their bad experiences with men. All women who have been betrayed, mistreated, cheated, you name it. Men have done very bad things to women throughout history. When a woman goes to the spirit world she knows what kind of things man did even though she was faithful. She never knew while living. So, they all come down to you and pound on you men. But instead of fighting back all you men can do is say you are sorry, apologize. She will try to enslave you, drive you like a servant. She was at the beginning, so now she is trying to do that back. No matter how terrible she treats you, you must be thankful. Why? Because you have to be saved by her. So obey woman even though she persecutes you. No matter what she does or says. Even 360 degrees, all around, in all directions of persecution, you become only thankful. Now you stand in the archangel’s position; follow thankfully.</p>
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<p>Father has been giving the position to all American women here. Teaching them and raising them in front of all the Christian women in this country. Father is treating you like a queen. The Christian world want to become the bride, and you are one step ahead of them. Christianity is the bride’s religion, isn’t it? So, American women should really appreciate this present day position. American women can obey Oriental women and indemnify that position and responsibility they couldn’t fulfill. Otherwise, there is no way to go back. No way to reconnect.</p>
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<p>If we resemble our Father and Mother, Satan cannot accuse us anymore. We will be liberated. This is how liberation comes. Now such a couple has come to exist for the first time in history, and in the family level too. Like a stamp, we can mass produce it. It is that kind of a time now. God and all things will give the same value to each couple. Father was the first, but all the later ones will have the same value. The main factory is the True Parents, who have the blueprint, but the tribal messiahs, who are the branch factories, can produce many copies. They all have the same horizontal value, and all connect vertically to True Parents. All tribal messiahs have that formula. That mission is the mission of the tribal messiah. You can save the whole world that way. Horizontal expansion is no problem. When the Christian world understands these concepts, how wonderful it will be.</p>
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<p>So, this is how much God has invested to bring about True Parents. Now True Parents give away the Blessing freely. We have to understand the value and try harder to teach this. To arrive at this destination God tried through Jesus, but failed and now through the Second Coming. How much investment God made! We must understand. When Christian nuns and priests meet the bridegroom, would they be married? Yes. What about Buddhists, who practice strict celibacy? How difficult it is to start from scratch.</p>
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<p>After World War II, the Christian world represented the bride’s position. The bridegroom would come down vertically. After World War II England, America and France stood in the positions of Mother, Cain and Abel. Japan, Germany and Italy stood in the same positions on Satan’s side. If the three Allied nations had accepted Father, all could have received the Second Messiah. The Messiah is vertical and comes down with nothing except True Love. This is then manifested in True Children. If those three nations had united and believed in the Messiah, within seven years the kingdom of heaven would have come. The year 1945 plus seven years equals 1952.</p>
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<p>Woman represents earth and man heaven. If they united with True Love all could have been solved, and during the seven years could have spread all over the world, but it failed. All four thousand years of God’s history was lost. In 1945, the Allied nations controlled all the world and if they had connected to the Messiah they could have created one world under God with no problem, but everything was lost. Only Reverend Moon and God were left. Father had to restore everything in forty years. He could not sleep. Father had to go over every level, tear down every wall.</p>
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<p>At Jesus’ time the nation was lost. Jesus returned and restored spiritually twelve, seventy-two and one hundred and twenty disciples. Father had to do the same with the Blessed couples. This broke down Satan’s world. The 30,000 Couple Blessing destroyed Satan’s number six. The tribal messiah goes in True Parent’s position to connect their tribe to the true blood lineage.</p>
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<p>So centering on the tribal messiahs, God is restoring Adam’s position through their parents. The tribal messiah stands in Jesus’ position. The True Parents stand in the Second Coming’s position.</p>
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<p>Secondly, by going to their hometown, the tribal messiahs must change their hometown from Satan’s to God’s hometown. God’s home is Adam’s family. They must restore their parents and ancestors and restore their hometown. They can do this by changing their blood lineage through True Parents. Satan cannot do this. We do not need religion. Once we restore a nation, the world will be no problem. We do not need a specific nation. We don’t need police. There will be no fighting or war. We absolutely do not need this. Do you want this ideal world? It’s not so easy. The problem is the individual.</p>
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<p>Centering on Mother we proclaim the women’s world. The Korean women are elder sisters. They can connect to Mother, then the younger sisters can connect. You have to know these things clearly, otherwise you cannot restore these things.</p>
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<p>Anyone born after 1945 can be claimed by Father, not Satan. This is the same as the Israelite nation. Those who were born in the wilderness survived, all those born in Egypt died. You were born through fallen action, but because Father was on the earth, it can be considered as a mistake, not a repeat of the fall.</p>
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<p>This is different from Satan’s world. Those people can come more easily to me. Those born before 1945 are in Satan’s realm. Those born after, are in the Parent’s realm. If you make one mistake, you cannot go into heaven.</p>
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<p>After World War II the Christian bride world did not invite in the groom. How much difficulty, pain and sacrifice it caused. During the last forty years, the free world and the Christian world have been wrecked. The big churches became empty. Look at Fifth Avenue and the Empire State Building; God is not there. During the two thousand years history of Christianity, their sacrifice built them up, but then in the last forty years, there has been so much decline. Look at Judaism’s decline after Jesus’ birth. They have been wandering for two thousand years. How miserable was the death of six million people during World War II.</p>
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<p>How much is owed by the Blessed couple to True Parents!</p>
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<p>We have to combine the Federation for World Peace and the Women’s Federation for World Peace. Also, we have to combine the religious world, or else there can be no peace.</p>
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<p>How much investment has been made by the True Parents towards the Blessed couples? What is the biggest United States corporation? IBM. It is no comparison to this foundation. We must understand this value before we can understand our own value. The main root can connect anything. We will become a branch to this tree of life; this is a tribal messiah. How staggering it will be when this huge tree grows in the next thirty to forty years. It will be millions of times more valuable than the fallen tree. Are we going to live this life with all of our might? We must cherish it. Get hold of your clan with your teeth, hands, gums, whatever. Hold on to them. Once you let go, to catch it again will be harder. Think about the historical value of this investment. This is our destiny. Mission is destiny. No matter how hard it may be, you cannot escape it.</p>
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<p>God put so much into America, but didn’t God invest more into the Blessed couples? Yes. Is that reality or imagination? What about the whole earth? God put more here. We can understand the value of true man and woman. They have more value than all creatures. It’s so huge, it’s awesome, isn’t it? Each one of us, with that confidence, can face any opposition. All opposition is so small. This is how Father thought. God said, “I never saw anything like it before. You are like a mutation.” Has he been successful or a failure? (Successful.) Even though Father thinks he is special, his deep wish is that his children will do more. This is the parents’ wish.</p>
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<p>In the last twenty years we saw with our own eyes and heard with our own ears, what Father has done. Are you going to shoot to perfection? (Yes.) When I look at you I believe in your perfection. Father wants to give you the gift of the title of Holy son. How much confidence you can have in the investment that was made in the heavenly Blessed couple. You have received True Parents’ name. This was the first Sunday of the month and Father will teach chapter by chapter.</p>
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<p>Will the Japanese couples please raise your hands? Almost half. This is not America, but Japan. Father has merged Japan into America. Do Japanese women work harder than American women? Why? America belongs to fair hair girls. Remember salt water will change fresh water to salty. Try not to be outdone by Japanese. Which is more efficient, the Japanese way or American? Japanese. Do you feel good that Japanese take the head and you take the tail? You are like a grasshoppers, but Japanese are like ants. The grasshopper and ant fable is pertinent here. Why do Americans laugh so much? What are they so happy about? They are like grasshoppers. Grasshoppers don’t mind what others do, they make something new. Grasshoppers will dance too much, then they get tired. Orientals enjoy it to some extent, but then are ready to work again.</p>
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<p>All those who are going to go this way, please raise your hands. Thank you very much.</p>
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title: "LIBERATION AND MY OWNERSHIP"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">March 14, 1993<br />
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Belvedere International Training Center<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>We all know that because of the human fall, mankind has not been liberated. However, that is not all: God also is not liberated. As a result of the fall, man must overcome his circumstances in order to be liberated. God, too, must go through those eight steps of liberation, starting from individual liberation. After He accomplishes that, He returns to the domain of kingdom and establishes that condition. Then He goes up to the next level and after that is done, He establishes that again in His domain, and so on.</p>
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<p>As we know, if mankind had not fallen, these things would not have been necessary. Adam and Eve would have simply grown up and that would have commenced the natural history of mankind. In Adam and Eve’s time, the eldest son was to reach perfection within twenty-one years. That is the elder son’s position. That elder son must accompany God. Together with God, he would have reached here.</p>
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<p>As Father said, in the original history the elder son should have reached completion. Now, because of the fall, the second son must do it. As we know, it is vastly more complicated for the second son to do that. Satan is already pushing his influence over the first son’s first step to perfection. What the second son must do is win over Satan and the elder son must be subjugated naturally. The second son must then support him and push him up. The second son must do all that and reach towards perfection.</p>
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<p>Why is this so? It is the way the elder sonship is set. The process must be repeated again. In order for the second son to come into the elder son’s position, he must win over Satan on the next level. That position is already occupied by the elder son, too. So the second son must go up one level at a time, fight there and be supported, and go up, and so on. That creates a solid foundation. Doing that will make a solid foundation or condition. Even Almighty God cannot do this just like that. Instead, man must accomplish this, and when he does, he opens up the way and then God can come in.</p>
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<p>Let’s make an analogy. Look at the country of America. Let’s put America in the position of God in our analogy. America is God, but she cannot make that condition happen all at one time. Instead, America must go to Africa, for instance, and subjugate the people to the point that they are willing to be brought up to the top level country of America. Then America can come back and advance one step higher and then you will have one level of foundation achieved. Then you must repeat that again, in many different ways. Not even America, not even God, can accomplish that in one run. It cannot be done.</p>
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<p>If God is carrying out this restoration by indemnity, then what role should we play? Why should mankind be involved in it? God has been making this foundation, and man has been following in God’s wake, somehow making the condition for God to say that man did it. But God has always been doing things ahead of us. Otherwise, we cannot restore our ownership. This is what our Father has been doing all his life-not just for one or ten years-along with God. Father could have done it easily after World War II, but as we know, we lost all the foundation built at that time, so it had to be redone all over again.</p>
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<p>In order to do that, what do you need to do most? Above all, we must love our enemy. That is something we must do. Restoration history is always backwards. In other words, here is God, here is Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel-in that order. There is a strict order. Abel must become one with Cain, together they must become one with Eve, and the next will be Satan. To do away with Satan, Eve connects with Adam and all together, they will connect with God.</p>
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<p>We look at history and the time we are living in today. Mankind has gone up but people do not know which direction they are heading or where they should be heading. Actually, they should be heading this way. That’s where confusion is today. That’s the transfer time, the time of exchange. Going this way instead of going that way, is to deny everything.</p>
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<p>Whatever we regard as very dear, whatever is most precious to “me” is the question now. This includes the family and the country. Centering on his own country, the benefit to his own country, is the problem now. Whatever an individual or country thinks is most dear to him is the very condition by which one is to be judged. Therefore, the only way is to deny that, deny one’s own family, for instance. How can you deny your own family, since the family is such a precious entity? Yet because of this principle, once we deny that family, which is on the illegal side, then we will be given the right family here. God helps mankind to deny these things by letting Satan attack and destroy and damage them. Then man has a clear sign and understands, “Oh, I must go this way. This is the way God works.”</p>
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<p>The first rule is to love one’s enemy. Next, we must go backwards and transfer. The next principle by which to pass through this is to invest and forget. This is very paradoxical, but we must do it. Why? We invest and then must come back. We must forget that we invested and come back because we need to invest even more, even bigger, even further. You have to invest and forget that you did, and then you are ready to invest again. For instance, if you are to restore the nation or race, then you must do that here. You must come back here and make that foundation. Then you are ready to do the bigger work here. You must first do it here, and it will be accomplished here.</p>
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<p>After Father accomplishes here, he must return here. Now that all conditions for the restoration of the world are complete, he walks over here and only after coming back here has he accomplished his mission on earth. It is because the position of the second son and first son must be exchanged. That’s the whole purpose of doing this. Each step of the way there is not only war or conflict, but a fierce war at that. Without going through that, restoration cannot be accomplished.</p>
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<p>No living human being is thinking that one must go through this complicated and very difficult process-not only one time but repeatedly-to restore and reach and create Heaven on earth. This is what Father has already done, yet even to this day, people have no idea how the Kingdom of Heaven can be accomplished. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Without being aware of the Principle, the Israelites, through the Old Testament, were following this pattern, too. Therefore, they had to go out of their home, beyond the boundaries of their own village to some other country. Then they had to leave the boundaries of the country, go to the world, and then come back. Every time they go, and fight over, and win, and they come back, the level of victory was higher and higher. They had to do that.</p>
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<p>That is why many of the people in the time of Old Testament were taken prisoner. When taken prisoner, whether one likes it or not, a person is moved out of his own circumstances and taken to a far distant country. He will be persecuted and opposed there. He will work so hard in misery, then eventually come back successful. Consider Jacob. For seventy-two years, he was away.</p>
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<p>Up to 430 years, this formula is taking place. People carried out this pattern, but they had no idea they had to win over the enemy.</p>
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<p>Their enemy had been persecuting them. Like 600,000 people of that big country, they had been persecuted in all kinds of ways. Something told them that they had to persevere. So they said, “Even though they are doing us a grave injustice, we must persevere.” They survived, and they returned, but they did not know their position should be exchanged. So more or less, they were dragged, or they were going like they thought this was the best thing. They did not clearly know these two points. When God was with them, He was like that man’s clothing. They had that kind of relationship. God was there. That served as a condition. Even though God did it, because man was very close to God, it was man’s credit.</p>
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<p>Then the Israelites went into Egypt and suffered so many hundreds of years, but they should not keep that in mind or hold any grudges. They should forget about that. By going into Egypt for so many hundreds of years they were persecuted, did everything, and now they have made some foundation. They must forget that. If, as they are about to leave that country they said, “No, I won’t leave this country unless I can retaliate against those who have done this injustice to me. I’m going to pay them back before I go,” they could never leave.</p>
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<p>We see this: their ultimate goal is not to retaliate, not to keep what small foundation they made. These are peripheral. The most important thing is that they get out of there-that they get out of Egypt. Then the next step is to establish the independent country of Canaan. To God’s dispensation, this is more important than anything. Therefore, they had to forget what happened in Egypt and be ready to invest again.</p>
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<p>Once they established Canaan, their country, that is payment of the price. Once they established a Canaan, then Egypt would come under this new country. That was God’s plan. Even though religious people are persecuted, mistreated, made miserable so often by non-religious people, by the satanic country, by evil people, what can the religious people do? They can only forget.</p>
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<p>There was a time which was the culmination for religious people. Right after World War II was a great victorious time for religious people. Religious people, centered upon America, were at the pinnacle of the world. Yet that time was very short-lived after World War II. Today, look at the difference only fifty years later. We see secular humanism running rampant, destroying families, destroying nations and everything. We can see that with our own eyes. Satan’s side was beaten by religious people, but now they are taking their revenge. Now they deny God, and Satan is doing exactly what God should be doing. Now Satan is God to them-that is what we see today. There is nothing they cannot do. They will try everything, just like God. That’s what Satan is doing. That’s secular humanism, which is exercising all the rights. Anything that a man wants to do, he can do. They deny God, deny God’s ideal, deny everything that is Godly. Man is God-that’s what secular humanism preaches. Man can do anything, since he is God. He can kill anybody if he wants to, he can plunder anything he wants. Human beings are doing that. Religion? They say, “Rubbish, trash,” because it is kind of ragged. Religious people have a lot of things which they don’t understand and they think some things are precious, but secular humanists laugh and scorn those things. This is what man is doing under secular humanism.</p>
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<p>Human beings trying to be like God is the last thing which humankind can do. For a man to just deny God, to say, “There is no God,” is all right, compared to what man is doing now. When man tries to be like God himself and then does the complete opposite of what God would do, means he is about to destroy even God. Denying God may be all right, but stopping God’s way, stopping God’s advancement creates very real trouble, very significant consequences. Mankind is in real trouble now.</p>
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<p>If you extend that secular logic a little bit, then any large country, such as America, could attack a small country simply because they have mightier weapons. People think they can do that and get away with it because they are God, because they do not know any other God. The question is still how will we return to God’s path, God’s direction? At one time, we must proclaim, “This is the way we must go.” Centering on the Unification Church, there must be a big proclamation at some time. So far, human history has been coming this way. So far it’s all right, but now when we reach perfection, we must go to Adam. We must go to this way, not to Satan like mankind has always been doing. Man’s direction must change. It’s like coming this way, ever broadening the foundation, but now we must come in here, and be connected with Adam, as human history should. At this point, man will recover everything he has worked for. They are not losing anything, they are recovering everything.</p>
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<p>From the level of kingship down to the son’s level, all must be recovered here, and still be connected to Adam, and through Adam it must be connected to God. Now is the time when people realize that separating from Reverend Moon or opposing Reverend Moon will reap a bad result for them. They realize that they will lose by doing that. Somehow they want to find a way to come closer to Reverend Moon and closer to the Unification Church. This is what is happening today. Until now, God let Satan or secular mankind do anything they wanted. Those on the side of secular humanism are coming to realize that they have now lost everything. They have lost their family, they have lost love, they have lost all the valuable things, even their property. Parents, children, everything-all these things they have lost. Yet look at the other side, the side of God, the side of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. It seems there is more there than anyone could have thought: they see True Love. All the men and women are chaste and pure before marriage. They form solid families. And they have the blueprint for an ideal nation and ideal world of peace. They are going strong in that direction. This is becoming more and more obvious. What the Unification Church stands for and has already accomplished will become more and more tangible. This will become more and more obvious to the secular world, while they realize more and more that they do not know where they are going.</p>
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<p>Today we see that Western civilization has risen to its greatest heights. We have seen the brilliant results of this civilization. If Jesus had not been crucified, the Asian civilization would have been what Western civilization is today. Today we see the route of Western civilization. Christianity was not taken where it was originally supposed to go. If Jesus had lived, then his followers would have come to India or the East, China, where religions already flourished, and there would never have been bloodshed. But as we saw in history, there was much martyrdom. Followers of Jesus had to shed lots of blood because Christianity went to the West, instead of the East. Merging and expansion, merging and expansion-this is what would have happened if Jesus had not been killed and they would have moved toward the Eastern civilizations.</p>
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<p>Had that happened, the Asian civilization would naturally and gradually have merged into Christendom. Instead of shedding blood, they would have been strongly influenced by Christian culture. This is what the Eastern civilization would have been. It would have been done in less than seven generations time. Think about it. If Jesus had conducted mass marriages, just like Father has been doing today, in India and China, as well as in the Middle East, they would have been cross-matched and married. What Father is trying to accomplish today would have been much more easily accomplished at that time, and also much faster. But instead, the whole process went backward. The Oriental civilization was like the mind, while the West was like the body. Instead of following the mind’s direction, it followed the body’s direction and therefore there was a lot of bloodshed. Western civilization has come to its height, yet they are being drawn back into the direction of the Pacific. This is the Pacific Era. It is coming because of this reality.</p>
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<p>The mind is constant. The mind treats different people, different seasons such as spring, summer, fall and winter all the same. But the body or material world treats different circumstances differently. In the summertime, wintertime, spring and autumn, it responds differently. It is not like the mind. Look at the Western civilization today. Money rules all. The slightest difference in the interest rate causes the people to become ruthless, to negate, to kill. This is certainly not how the mind works. Especially in America today, we see individualism and materialism on top of that. When something comes that does not please the individual, he cuts that off, denies it. That is not the way of the mind but of the body.</p>
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<p>Originally, the world of mind must first think of which way is up, which way is down, which way is right and left. The mind operates to keep balance in certain things. But for individualistic and materialistic thinking, it is different. Given a certain set of circumstances for the day or the year, that period, the person sees only one direction. He doesn’t know or care about balance. Above and below, right and left-he doesn’t think about all these things. That is the way of the body. We see exactly this kind of dynamic today in American society. A person denies his grandfather, denies even his parents, who are closer to him, and denies the members of his own family, such as his spouse, even his children. Finally, he will deny even himself and feel like killing himself. That is not the way the mind works. That’s how the body works.</p>
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<p>But now they have one hope in this desolate Western civilization. Nobody knows where the world is going, where he is going, where he should be going except for one entity: The Unification Church. That is unique. That is different. This is where anybody can come and live, such as a Jew, a Christian, and all can pursue their own ideal. Already, every element is represented in the Unification Church, but still there is plenty of room for everyone to come in. We sit here and listen to Father speak every Sunday morning, but we really are not aware that we have that kind of value within us, because we are not able to comprehend the whole world, the whole history.</p>
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<p>So we must have these four different directions, these four positions, because this is the position of stability. Everyone wants to be stable, with four different directions of support. Now living in America means to just see one direction. Even in one day, we have four different times of the day: morning, mid-day, evening, and night time. We should not think, “Morning is the only good time.” We should not think that spring or summer are the only good times. Americans like only those times. Instead of thinking that way, think about the night, even though it hasn’t come yet. Even though morning has already passed, think about morning. Balance yourself. It is the same with the different seasons. Americans just take things as they come. That’s not enough. You have to be able to comprehend everything in a balanced way. You must think of the world yet to come, the world that has passed already.</p>
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<p>Everything that is comfortable and easy for us happens to belong to Satan’s side. People, not knowing the Principle, just want to follow that way. They want to go the easier, more comfortable way, without knowing that they are drifting deeper and deeper into Satan’s side. That’s the easy way, the more enjoyable way. That’s the way of so-called freedom, although it is not really free. But Principle is not like that. A man of Principle doesn’t live like that. Even in the Principle, once we go, we must come back. Certainly we will have no way of coming back if we live like others live today. We may go one day, but never think about coming back.</p>
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<p>This must be the spiritual foundation of any country. Any country must be situated right above this foundation, but today we don’t have that. Instead, if something comes along today, we react to it. If it comes tomorrow, we react tomorrow and in a certain way. The currents of the times, of the world, cause people to become changeable, to adopt new ways. They long ago lost the Principle which shows them they should be like this. They have forgotten. I have often cited the fable about the grasshopper and the ant. Winter is coming for both insects, but the ant works hard throughout the summer because he knows that winter is coming. He prepares himself. But the grasshopper just likes to enjoy the summertime, singing, dancing and drinking, never thinking about what is coming next. Typically, Americans like to tell jokes, particularly jokes centering on sex and such things. They laugh very readily and frequently. When you see laughter everywhere in a society, that’s a very dangerous sign. We must compose ourselves, prepare ourselves, because we are in that position. If we hear too much laughter, it signifies something is wrong.</p>
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<p>Silence is more a characteristic of Oriental people. You could see an Oriental person keeping silent all day long, never saying a word. Even all year long, he might say very little. That puts them in a very advantageous position. Why? Because they are preserving, they are not spending. The Oriental people are very conservative with self-expression, like laughing or crying. But Western people are very dramatic in their expression and gestures. They show their emotions very clearly. They overstate their feelings, saying how much they “love” something. These things are very consuming. As a concrete example, observe the way a woman laughs. Some Western woman may open her mouth so wide when she laughs that you can see her tonsils. This kind of behavior is unthinkable for Oriental women, who are very conservative, sparing, economical in gestures. Do you know the code of conduct for Oriental women? A woman can smile and even laugh, but she should not show her teeth! That’s how they are taught and how they live. Since they are trying not to show their teeth, they will close their mouth when they laugh.</p>
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<p>Imagine two women living together in the same home for three years, one Oriental and one Western. It is very clear what would happen. At the end of three years, the Western woman would have to bow down deeply, saying, “I am so sorry,” to the Oriental woman. Why? It is because the Oriental woman who never spoke would never make any mistakes, but the Western woman would speak a lot and therefore half the time she would make mistakes. Because she made so many mistakes, she would have to say, “I’m sorry.” By the time she says “I’m sorry” so many times, then she would have to bow down every day, as well. She would become the Queen of Sorry. Being King or Queen of being sorry means he or she doesn’t own anything anymore. How can such a person be proud of himself or exert any rights if he is so much in debt? Do you understand what I am trying to point out?</p>
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<p>We must learn to have perseverance and not speak so much. We must think about the future for ourselves. Always think like, “Oh, how my grandmother, how my father made mistakes, what kind of mistakes they made. How I must compensate for that,” and she always thinks about the future and today’s situation, and the future of her own family. Now she’s on the mainstream. Instead of talking she must be thinking. That’s exactly what she is doing. When she is analyzing all the time, even though she doesn’t speak she already knows who did good deeds, and who made a big mistake, even though she doesn’t say so, and she will try to make up for that. She will have a plan for the future for herself and her family. All these things she is doing.</p>
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<p>Who becomes the center of the family, including the grandfather, the father, mother, brother, and everybody? If the grandson thinks this way, then he will eventually become the mainstream of that family, no two ways about it.</p>
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<p>We can see that the trend is already there for the Western civilization to be influenced, subtly as well as boldly, by Eastern civilization. That is why we are in the Pacific Era now. What Father said to us in the past year right here at Belvedere has been a well-kept secret. Did you feel that? There is such a depth and magnitude to these things. Father knew these things all along, for at least fifty years, yet he never spoke about them before. Can you imagine? Only lately has Father been speaking about these things to us. That is because the time is getting near. How the world will become, which way world events may go-Father has an idea about these things. Father is in the position of leading the world. That’s his responsibility. There are three ways: the way of rapid change, the medium change way, or the slow, mild, non-revolutionary way. “Which way should I adopt?” is the question in Father’s mind all the time nowadays.</p>
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<p>So far this morning, I have stated that God is like the clothing for human beings. God has been wrapping around individuals and doing many different levels of work. But today we should not be like that. We should be able to understand and appreciate what God has been doing through these thousands of years since the Fall, and we should be able to become independent from God. We should not let God wrap around us all the time. We should treat God properly. We should become the partner to God, not the body of God, or let God take our clothing’s position. We should not do that.</p>
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<p>We must understand this first, and then we can console God. We must talk to God and console Him, saying “How much You have suffered up to this time. I must repent for that and I will serve you better from now on.” We must do that from now on. Don’t let God continue to be clothing to mankind anymore. That’s how we can liberate God and at the same time liberate ourselves.</p>
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<p>Father prayed every day for forty years centering on seven countries which he selected. By the same token, you too must pray as I did, and you must go through seven different countries in your course of training. I feel that way. You know which were my seven countries, don’t you? Of course, based on World War II, they were America, England, France, Japan, Italy, Germany, and Korea. The Korean representative is only me. At that time, it was connected to Satan. The only center is Reverend Moon. Do you understand? The Second Advent, the True Father’s position. There is only one. There was no nation base, the family base did not exist. Do you understand? Tribe, nation, world, did not exist. After World War II there was a victory for America, which is a Protestant-based country. America is a unique country. It is the only Christian-based country which has complete independence. Incredibly enough, this great and gigantic nation of America was prepared for one purpose and one person: the coming Messiah, the True Father and therefore, the True Mother. They must be incorporated in, too. Of course, we all know that, but we are being reminded again.</p>
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<p>This is our destined way, small or large, big person or small, this is still our destiny. If we do not follow this formula course here, then we will find our path blocked in spirit world. But we will have to do it anyway. God is the center of sovereignty, He is the Zooche. Zooche means He has kingship, while we are in a position like the queen or that of partner. By the same token, if Father has kingship, then you all are in the position to have queenship. World kingship, nation kingship, tribe, family, couple kingship. This applies from the individual all the way up to the cosmos. The central point of kingship is always at a ninety degree angle to the horizontal.</p>
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<p>The elder son always inherits the kingship, isn’t that true? For the second son to inherit the elder son’s position is very difficult. Thus, he wouldn’t go the regular way but instead sort of a backward way in order to inherit that. We must know the time of transfer. Doing this took thousands of years. But Father knew Principle, and therefore it took Father forty years to reach this point. We must do this also, just like Father, because if we don’t do it, we will certainly have obstacles in the spirit world. Then we will be unable to go directly to Heaven but rather will have to be waiting in Paradise until we achieve it. I don’t want that to happen. That is the spirit world’s wilderness. All these things are like conceptual things to us, just big concepts, big dreams. But that is not the case. This is reality I am talking about. If it is hard for you to understand the reality of what I have done, then how can you ever do it yourself? You’ve got to understand quickly.</p>
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<p>You think you may be going straight to Heaven by doing something right here, but if you don’t do this like Father, you will find spirit world to be like a desert, a wilderness, not an enjoyable place. That is Paradise, where you will have to wait. You won’t be alone. Your family, your wife, sons and daughters, grandchildren may blame you, “Because of you, we are in this miserable position. True Father taught you clearly. Why didn’t you live that way?” Look at Adam and Eve and how much we blame them for our misery. Mankind has done that throughout history. So we must understand this point clearly.</p>
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<p>Today we are having an incredible winter storm, but this teaching is more important than any hardships, right? Thus those people who did not come today may miss this very important part of Father’s teaching. At the height of the storm yesterday, I went to Barrytown and came back. I felt very good driving through those impossible road conditions. The Barrytown students said, “Today is the most memorable day,” and the same is true of this morning. These are very important points to remember. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Perhaps you can forget those things which are too complicated for you to understand, but don’t forget this one thing: instead of God being our clothing, we must become the clothing for God. That’s what Father has lived for until now. No matter how difficult my situation was, no matter what I was about to do, I never lost sight of God. I really, desperately hung on to God. I never allowed myself to worry about my own mother or father, to whom I was deeply attached. Instead I only worried about never losing sight of God. So I really followed God, no matter how impossible the situation. In the same way, you, too must do this. Even in prison, when being tortured, no matter how difficult my situation, my main thought was about God.</p>
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<p>That is the relationship between subject and object. The subject is God, and in this reciprocal position is where I always stayed, hanging on to God all the time. As I said, plus and minus become completely one but that is not the end. Then together we are ready in that reciprocal position to become one with an even greater plus. Husband and wife must become united, and that’s not the end of it. Most important is that they become connected in relationship with God. The universe is made of the pair system, from smaller pairs to larger pairs. Each pair serves the larger in order to return to God.</p>
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<p>Eventually of course, God is our goal. For all women, God is in the husband’s position. For everyone, He is in the subject’s position. We should take the friend’s position to God. Why? Because we inherited our life from God Himself. Our life’s seed originated from God. Therefore, we resemble God. It is the same as children resembling their parents. Is this clear?</p>
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<p>You all need your spouse, you need your children, family, relatives, nation, world, spirit world, and God. You need to return to God, becoming a friend to Him. We all need this and must accomplish this. When God is looking at every one of us individually, He says, “He resembles me, she resembles me,” and so forth. There is no one who doesn’t resemble Him. Why? Because we are His own children. Except for our fallen characteristics, everything about us resembles God. If someone asks any of us, “What is your highest desire?” the most honest answer would be, “To meet the most ideal spouse and to love each other. To have a wonderful family and to rule the world.” Everyone has such a dream or desire because we are in the position to accomplish that. Every one of us has that king’s desire because God is King of Kings. Therefore, that position is not only God’s but it is also belongs to God’s children, each and every human being.</p>
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<p>Father followed God, so what must you do? You must follow Father. Never lose sight of him. Even if you forget everything else, remember that point. When I went to Danbury prison, you didn’t follow me there, did you? If everyone had gone to Danbury with me, centering on what had happened in Danbury, there would have been explosive success, advancement and development of the Unification Church, or members. When Father went to Danbury, if every one of us followed him, it would have been the perfect chance for expanding explosively. Like Father said many times, after coming out of prison I was thinking about how to protect all of you.</p>
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<p>In the Bible, Jesus told the story about the different men given different amounts of money by their master and how they were expected to expand that. Father did that exactly, but you didn’t even earn interest on that, let alone multiplying it thousands of times. In other words, you didn’t do anything to multiply it. Instead of depending on us, Father developed America all by himself. When we know these things, at least we need to be ashamed and even listen to Father, like obedient children. We should at least do that, but instead you say, “Oh, we are different from you, Father.” How can you say such things? Now you understand about God, and how tedious God would have felt in accomplishing this for such a long time. Think of this reality: God could wipe this out, do this over in one minute, one hour or day. Certainly He could do it, but instead He took thousands of years, fostering carefully each individual, another individual, and so forth. Can you understand? We must do the same thing here.</p>
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<p>Remember this important point. Now history has progressed to the point where it is the time to exchange, to transfer the course. Today we can no longer think, “I am white and he is Oriental, and they are something else.” Don’t think that you belong to one country and someone else belongs to another. Likewise, no matter how great you may be in science, for instance, even holding a Ph.D. degree, you must still eat three meals a day. This is a very basic and simple need which everyone in the world has. We must train ourselves to think, “This is my life-supporting food, but I must give it to someone else so that he can live.” Therefore, we must forget that need and give this most precious thing to someone else. This is the only way we can follow God.</p>
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<p>If we plant a certain seed a certain plant always sprouts up. If we want to eat beans, then we plant bean seeds. In just the same way, if we want to harvest life, we must plant seeds of life. It is our destiny. Until God’s work is over, there is no way for us to escape this work. We must do the same thing that God is doing. That will take our whole life and even beyond. How can we accomplish this? First we have to realize what we must do, what our destiny is. Secondly, in order to accomplish that destiny we have to go through prayer, we have to dedicate a lot of heart to it. These are the most basic things: dedicating our heart and praying about it.</p>
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<p>Now God is doing the world’s work. It is like a sine curve. How big the magnitude would be! We must at least pretend we resemble Him. At least we have to mimic Him. (Father draws on the board.) Like so. A pretty similar shape. Anyway, this is our peak, and that is our depth, the deepest part of our mind. If we do not do this, we must do it in the spirit world. When you go to spirit world, you can discern whether or not I taught you the truth. At that time, you will say, “Oh, Father taught me everything so clearly and I didn’t do it. Why didn’t I follow him?” Then you will be so unhappy. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Going to prison is not really the problem. Even death is not the problem. The problem is how can we accomplish this. We know that even Joseph and Jesus, the dead body, the corpse became a problem. In the same way, even though we die along the way of doing God’s work, still we should die while doing His work. Which would be more desirable: to die in your own home, or to die in a foreign country while working to restore that country? Yes, even though we may die, as long as we died while working for the sake of a foreign country, glory will come one day in the future to your own country. Therefore, it is more valuable to die working for the sake of a foreign country.</p>
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<p>By this standard, we can evaluate ourselves. How many dollars and cents are we worth? We all know, don’t we? It is based on what we are thinking and doing today. When we all see Father in the spirit world, do you think you can just dash towards him in a straight line, looking at him straight in the eye? Or will you be looking at him sideways, or will you be looking down to the ground, not daring to raise your eyes to him? Can Father go straight to God and embrace Him? Because Father already knew things, he often did not wait until God gave him a direction but before something happened, Father would always prepare a few steps, and do a few things beforehand. Therefore, God comes to Father and shows the road He is going Himself. Since he already knew the road God was taking, he already went by himself very close to God. Therefore, God cannot help but usher him the rest of the way. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>This is our inevitable course. We all have to die one day. We will go to spirit world at some time. Does anybody say, “No, I am an exception to that rule”? Can you say that? No matter how high up in the mountains a stream of water may be flowing, no matter how fast it may be moving, no matter where it is, it doesn’t matter. All flowing water must end up in the ocean eventually. Even though the color of all clear water is the same, the water in the ocean is salt water. We, too, will all go to spirit world, but we don’t know what spirit world is like. The taste is different there, too. Just like fresh water and salt water taste different.</p>
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<p>It is that decisively important. I knew that and therefore I long ago gave up every other career, gave up my life for this purpose. The only thing for my life is God’s work. What do you want your life to be? Do you want your life to be like God’s life cycle? (Father draws on the board.) Do you see this? What do you notice about it? While you are going up, you are below God, and while you are following that, it’s above God. Like so. What happens is that you must come to serve God, not to be served by God.</p>
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<p>We must serve Him more than we serve our own parents. If you are thinking about balance, if you are lower than Him, then you have to go higher than Him. That means inevitably we must suffer more than anybody else. Nobody wants this position, but we must suffer more than anybody. That is an iron rule. When that iron rule is followed, wherever we go, we cannot help but become successful. We know the way we are treading and the way God has been treading is the restoration course, but that course can never be achieved without paying indemnity. Why must we pay indemnity? It is because we are going backwards. We must do everything backwards. Therefore, it is the way of hardship, difficulty. That is the price we pay.</p>
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<p>We say “Love thy enemy.” To God there are original children and there are restored children, similar to Rachel’s family and Leah’s family. How to bring them into oneness is the question. Abel should not strike Cain and then expect him to follow. Instead, Abel has to love and serve Cain to move his mind to bring him to Abel’s side. That is how they come into one. These two women-Leah and Rachel-were enemies of love to each other; therefore, they are archenemies. This is similar to Adam and the archangel. The position of Abel is that he should be willing to help in a loving way at any time. Namely, the love we must exercise is a stronger and deeper love than Satan’s love. There is no way of denying him because his love is greater than Satan’s love.</p>
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<p>Jesus’ position is the same, Father’s position is the same. Right-wing and left-wing, Barabbas’ position, have always been fighting. Look at how Christianity and Islam have fought. We see that so clearly in Jesus’ path. The twelve disciples, centering on the three disciples, had so much difficulty uniting. What did Jesus do? He ended up washing their feet, trying to win their hearts, showing them how to unite. If we do not love our enemy, there is no way we can achieve peace. Also, the concept of enemy has to be a temporary thing. It has to cease to exist eventually. If the enemy relationship continued eternally, it would mean that God consisted of both good and evil, that there were two Gods, in essence. But that is not the case. God is not two, God is only one. He didn’t create any enemy.</p>
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<p>There is no stronger indemnity than that of loving one’s enemy. As I have already told you, God was in the position of sacrificing His own child, Jesus, in order to save the children of His enemy, Satan. What an impossible situation God found Himself in. He had to love the enemy of His love, like loving the man who snatched his wife away from him. Can you imagine seeing the very person who stole your wife away from you, and instead of killing him, you have to let your wife continue to be with him? Not only that-if the three are sleeping together-let this bad person, his enemy, not only love her, but also you have to watch over them and protect them in the archangel’s position. That’s exactly God’s position. He has to let that man embrace his own wife, just give his own wife to the enemy and protect them so that they won’t be hurt. That’s exactly God’s position, becoming a watchman. Unless we reach that point, we cannot understand God’s heart.</p>
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<p>Imagine, your own loving wife-not just any wife but a loving wife-giving her to your enemy, and letting him embrace her. And you watching over them in the archangel’s position. We know that the ordinary response would be to want to throw the atomic bomb at him, right? You American women must understand God’s feeling in this regard. To understand God’s feeling, we must do this. Is God’s position an easy one or a difficult one? How difficult? We already know it is impossible. For Jesus to become the messiah and accomplish what he did, he had to go through that kind of impossible situation. By the same token, Father also had to go through a similar position to understand God’s position.</p>
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<p>Joseph’s wife was Mary, right? And God took her away from him, didn’t He? Then God expected Joseph to allow Mary to be embraced by God and for Joseph to remain in the watchman’s position. But Joseph could not do that.</p>
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<p>What is your answer: Is God a very miserable God, or is He a happy God? In Father’s own time, how important it is that I can be uncovering all these deep, hidden secrets and by doing so, liberate God. How grateful God is for that. What about you? You, too, must liberate Father in America, isn’t that true? It is the same situation. Not only in America but in every country. At least you have some idea of God’s realm of heart.</p>
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<p>Through Isaac’s offering, he could begin a new course in God’s dispensation of restoration. We must understand this heart of God: He is giving His own wife as an offering to His enemy in the effort to bring that enemy around to Him. When you extend that a little bit, you come to the practical problems of bringing unity between white and black people in America. There is so must antagonism. How about all those families which have fought among themselves? The only way for them to correct these attitudes is by understanding God. Once we understand God, each one can be corrected.</p>
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<p>We see these are the formulas which will last until the whole world is restored. If Unification Church members settle down comfortably, can we achieve this destined course, or not? So we have been like heavenly Gypsies and Father is like Moses leading his people out into the wilderness. It is the same situation: you must follow Father and that means you must go wherever he is. We are about to establish our own country, God’s fatherland, and that cannot be done easily. We must suffer to achieve that, from a difficult position, almost like dying. This is the destination we are going toward. We must register into Father’s own family.</p>
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<p>After you go back to your hometown, you have to register your own family and parents into Father’s family. A big movement takes place. If you really understand that it is imperative to unite Africa and the United States, what is the best and fastest way? It would be for Africans to come to America and for Americans to go to Africa. That great movement of race would bring unity. Therefore, we must not settle down because once we are settled, we cannot accomplish our goal. Once we are settled, we cannot be moving, we cannot be a part of this great movement. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>What is the first principle? Love your enemy. We must understand how much we love our enemy. By loving him, we will determine the liberation, it will determine everything. Ownership and sovereignty are determined that way.</p>
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<p>The second principle is how much we dedicate to another country, helping them to transfer to the right course. That, too, will decide how much your ownership will be. Property. Ownership is a more abstract word, but we are talking about real property: how much property will belong to you?</p>
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<p>The third principle is to invest and then forget. Do the right thing and then forget that you have done it. Do more and then forget that you have done it. If we don’t forget, then we can’t invest more. The purpose of forgetting is to enable us to do greater things. To invest more means after winning over hard-won America, Father is willing to give for the sake of Africa, which is so remote. But Father has to do that because God has been living that way. Father already invested a lot in America. To invest more means to invest what he has already given in America and more in service to Africa. What about Africa becoming as great a nation as America? Then together they work for the sake of the world. It is the same principle.</p>
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<p>If there is a good business, certainly this is it. There is no better business than investing. How hard for God to plant and gather His harvest. Yet God gives up all His hard-won harvest in order to plant again. Do you think I keep a lot of money in my pockets? What about my personal bank account? Am I in debt? Not only do you invest what you have, but you also borrow money from other people at great cost, and invest it. That’s even greater investing. This is more than a cross to bear. It’s a double cross to bear.</p>
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<p>Last night, Father talked to Mr. Joo all night about what would have happened if Father had not done what he has done. If Father had not been here in America, this country would have been washed out long ago. And the whole world, as well. You Americans don’t even dream of such things as whether Father has debts, or Father will be able to recover from debt. You just live day to day. That’s not right.</p>
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<p>We have a saying in Korea, “To be a parent is to be a great sinner.” It’s to become a man who owes people; in other words, he’s simply a sinner, someone who committed a crime. God, too, has invested and invested. What is the result? His children become more comfortable. When we are in a similar situation, don’t worry about it ever, just like Father. In other words, if we borrow a lot of money and become greatly indebted to other nations, and we suffer from that, don’t worry about it because so much liberation will take place. So much property will return to us. We are not losing anything by doing that. This is the Principle. It always works. In the same way, God invests and forgets. What is the result of that? His property (His ownership) becomes bigger and bigger.</p>
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<p>We see each individual’s path is revealed soon enough. Like Reverend Kwak and Dr. Pak, both are taking responsibility in Korea. The one who goes the road of Principle will finally be the winner. He will liberate more. Even though they may work very hard, still Father pounds on them and calls them bad names, even. But they still remain faithful and obey Father’s directions. Just as God has been working so hard and has been called names, and He tries to forget that. What about Americans? Suppose an American has been working very hard and then Father comes and pounds on him, how would he respond? You already know, right? He would become angry, he would even want to retaliate. American’s education consists of how to protect yourself, not to protect God or anybody else. You would ask, “Why did Father hit me?” You don’t have any contents. Why? Your mouth is always moving, talking.</p>
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<p>Liberation and the ownership of property: we all want to have these two things, don’t we? Is there anyone who would say, “I don’t need them”? No. Once you understand these deep underlying principles, then you can just forget about what Father may think about you. Forget it, don’t pay attention. What you must do, you must do. In the same way, if you owned vast amounts of property, you could exert a great amount of influence in this world, like a king, right? You could go anywhere, like a king, and not be bothered. You would be liberated. It is the same way in God’s world. If your ownership becomes like that, you feel like a king. We know.</p>
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<p>So we know these three precious principles: Love your enemy. Take over the opposition and transfer.</p>
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<p>When we think from these deep principles, whatever Father says, such as, “Go to your hometown, do this, do that,” it is really nothing compared with what we must do. Do you understand? Therefore, complaint is not possible. Already, the King of Kings, Almighty God, has been going this path which we are about to go, for thousands of years. He is doing it today. We know that. Also, the True Parents have been doing this all their lives. Now it is your turn to follow that pattern with your life. How can you complain, since you will be one with them, reaching to them? God is your Parents, True Parents are your parents. Isn’t that true? You belong to one family, then. Absolutely obeying parents is the way, then, isn’t that true? No complaint can be possible, then. The children are not in the subject position but the parents are. So the children have to absolutely obey the parents. That is the absolute Unification foundation.</p>
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<p>Look at Ukraine in the former Soviet Union. People there are yearning for Father to come over. I have been weighing this in my mind. Going there would certainly have some gains, but I also have to consider the losses that would occur. That is why I don’t just jump to go there. Mr. Yeltsin also invited Father to come over, but I didn’t immediately respond. My feeling was that I must meet with Mr. Bush first, and then go to Yeltsin. Yeltsin wanted me to come, and it didn’t happen, and then Bush was cast out, and now Father has to find a different course.</p>
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<p>But Father is doing everything properly toward America. This is chemyun. American people don’t have a clear idea about this chemyun. It means you know what you are supposed to do, you don’t just do something on a whim. Father already knows what he has to do towards certain people. Father always keeps his face towards America, in other words. Father has already done what he is required to do by God for the sake of America. You must do indemnity from God’s and Father’s position, not centering on yourself.</p>
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<p>To establish conditions from Father’s position means only one way. Father already told you that there are already many more hills for you to climb. In order to do that, you come to higher and higher slopes, coming even to the Himalayas, when your work becomes more and more heightened. We must follow Father.</p>
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<p>Here is the conclusion. Why is God working so hard? Why is Father suffering so much? For whom? You must realize that it is for only one person: you. Each one of you must say, “It is for me.” We must come to realize that in order for God to place you in this position you are in today, how many people actually had to die for this benefit you are enjoying today? How much do we owe to Him? If God has been working so much, as we know, now we can volunteer, “I will do it for You, God, in Your place.” Then God will look at you like you are His God. What more could God ask from His children than for them to say, “I want to do your work for you”? God even wants us to stand in His impossibly honorable position, too. “You can do it in My place.” He may give us authority, too. God wants to give everything He has to us.</p>
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<p>What a glorious position we would be in. How much more of a winner could we ever be? We will be completely free. You could come up to God and say, “I would like to sit in your throne, Father.” He would say, “You want that? Okay, come on. Sit here.” That is the concept. How much happiness, how much satisfaction. That means total freedom in God’s world. Even your Creator freely inviting you onto His throne. How wonderful! Do you understand?</p>
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<p>We are going to that goal, and while we are on the way, even though you may not fully understand what is happening, how can you talk and complain? American women, especially, want to speak out what they are thinking. They never can just keep their thoughts to themselves. Look at Jesus’ demeanor when he was being accused in Pilate’s court. What did he do? He was silent, wasn’t he? Why can’t you women behave the same way? Jesus didn’t speak until the question was asked, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Then Jesus broke his silence and said strongly, “Yes, I am.” How courageous that was, how wonderful. That’s when it is all right to speak out, never in complaint.</p>
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<p>When you are asked, “Are you a Unification Church member?” do you respond, “No”? Do you dislike hearing that kind of question? Do you take that kind of defensive attitude? Or do you answer “Yes” like Jesus? “I am a Unification Church member.” You know well what is the proper way for the Unification Church member to go, isn’t that true? You must repent for mistakes.</p>
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<p>The topic today is very important: ownership is in proportion to liberation. The more liberation you achieve, the more ownership and property you will have. The more property you come to have, that means more liberation must have taken place. Therefore, you can even forget about restoration by indemnity. That’s not pleasant thinking. It’s a really sad part of God’s thinking. Forget about indemnity. What is it for? Instead, just think about doing what God and True Parents have been doing until now. If you simply do that, and when you die doing that, still you can die shouting “Mansei!” because you are full of hope. The more you accomplish, then that much less will have to be done later on. We have to live like that. That’s the attitude Unification Church members must live by, from now until the time we go to spirit world.</p>
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<p>When you get confused, think about Father and Mother as your role models. Do like him, hold onto him tightly no matter what. By holding on tightly to my own principles, did I perish? No. So, if you follow the same principles, will you perish? You know you won’t. You will just digest, then go ahead, preferring death to avoiding it. Why? Because that is the way God thinks.</p>
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<p>Every one of you has the ambition to own a lot of property, don’t you? Even you small women feel that way, don’t you? Big men, small women have the same hope and ambition. True Love is the equalizer between you.</p>
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<p>Unless we achieve liberation, we will have no freedom. Liberation comes before freedom. Look at this in perspective. We go to Africa and pay indemnity and what do we achieve? Just Africa, that’s all. Can we complain at that? No, we are going beyond Africa, going beyond the whole world and history. We must digest and liquidate, rearrange now. Therefore, in the months to come, we will have a new, larger movement. We must have our mind prepared.</p>
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<p>A huge snowstorm hit New York and authorities recommended that everybody just stay home today. Everything is quiet. But we are making a big bang in this world and we know how to do it. We will do it by going out and working harder when everybody else is dormant and resting. This day is very memorable. It is quiet because of the storm. Everybody is trying to protect themselves. Our only protection, however, is our understanding and our acting upon it and accomplishing. Are we going to do that? Yes? Yes? (Father speaks in a softer voice the second time.) When I speak “Yes” in a smaller voice, how should you answer me? Should you also lower your voice, or should you make your answer bigger? As my voice becomes smaller and smaller, your voice should go the opposite direction, becoming stronger and stronger. Then how great the hope for the Unification Church will be in the future! Can you do it? (YES!) (Smaller voice:) Can you do it? (YES!!!) (Even smaller voice:) Can you do it? (YESSSS!!!!!!!) Okay, I will let you do it! God bless you.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 28, 1993<br />
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Belvedere International Training Center<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>Here all races are gathered together. There are white, black, and yellow people. Since Adam and Eve were real people, what color of skin did they have? What climate zone did Adam and Eve inhabit? If they had wanted a nice place, it would not have been too cold or too hot. If they were in a hot or cold place they would have moved to a nicer area. Most great civilizations have been built in the mild climate areas. What color of skin has prospered the most? (Yellow). These are Mongolian type people. Out of 5.5 billion people, 3.2 billion are yellow. This is now termed the Pacific era. Is this referring to America? No, it is elsewhere. People now say that Western civilization is in decline, whereas in the east it is rising. This is due to the formula that history goes back to where it started and begins again, this time on a higher plane.</p>
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<p>We are all born from parents. As we sit here, we know that we exist. However I am not independent; I am connected to my ancestry. I am connected to all white people and ultimately to all people and eventually we come to Adam and Eve. That is not the end of the pursuit. Adam and Eve did not create themselves; the Creator made them. Thus we can say I came from God and that God gave birth to me. When I say ‘,I”, there are two kinds, man and woman. In looking at man and woman, why were they created as a pair? Man and woman came into being, and what are they to do? Should the man follow the woman or the other way around?</p>
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<p>What is my whole life? As a man should I live a man’s life? Should a women live a woman’s life? No. There is no such life as a man’s life and a woman’s life. They should live together. As a woman we have five physical and five spiritual senses. What do these five senses want to do? The eyes do not want to see themselves. The ears do not want to listen to themselves. We are created for others. If your eyes were created for yourself, you would look at yourself all day. Do my ears exist in order to listen to my own voice, or my mouth, just to express myself? Are hands created just to feel one’s own body?</p>
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<h3 align="center">The Focal Point</h3>
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<p>What do I want to touch? For a woman, after she grows, she wants to look at a man, listen to a man, touch a man, and even smell a man. Most people say they live for themselves. However, we can see that is not true. Do women dress up for themselves? No; nor do men. Do they want to succeed for themselves? What reciprocal values are they looking for? Because both are born with a body that can transmit and receive love, they are very valuable to each other. When the thread of love is created, he feels the highest goodness and most of all peace. When we think about the five senses, we know they are ultimately seeking love. If we talk about everything except love, there is nothing. What is the focal point of my birth? Was I born as a result of my parents fighting each other? No. What then? I was born from their loving each other.</p>
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<p>Let’s look closely at love. Were my Mother’s and Father’s eyes looking at something else? No, they were completely meeting each other. When this happened, they closed. What about their ears? They heard the sounds of love and then closed. If you are completely moved, you don’t speak When you touch, something spiritual comes into being.</p>
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<p>When you clap, sound is produced at the zero point, when there is no space between the palms. After the noise, the hands separate and clap again. This is like exhaling and inhaling. Man and woman in love return to the original point and then start again. It is like a sine curve, thus waves and spheres come into being. Everything moves into an ideal rhythm. Love regulates the rhythm. The eyes are horizontal, the nose is vertical, the ears are all around. The mouth represents the mind and body. All of these have different natures, but their deepest focal point is love. No matter how physically tired, when man and woman are in deep love, they forget their tiredness. When you meet the person you love, you gain power through talking.</p>
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<p>If during your entire life, you remove love, you will feel desolate and lonely. If you are alone, can you be happy? No. Everything in love comes to a focused point. What is the reason for that? It is to make a relationship with the rest of the world. If the focus is big, that is good, for it extends to the larger world. If everyone does that, we will fill the earth and more. That is the desire, wish and ambition of our mind.</p>
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<p>even an alien from outer space who visits us, he must also be focused. Otherwise he would get lost. What good is it to reach to the other end if you cannot come back? Even if you have great desire and ambition, if your focus moves, what good is it to you?</p>
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<p>Everyone longs for their hometown and country. Why does a man want his hometown? It is his way of focusing. No matter how prosperous we become, each man also has consideration for his ancestors. How? By love. For our ancestors this is also true. It is the focus of love that is important to them. Our ancestors lived as couples. They loved each other and had a family whom they loved. In this respect they were no different from us. From Adam and Eve, all the intervening generations had the same focal point. There is no need for improvement in this area. This is the one eternal focus of humankind. This is the whole purpose of making a family. Our family is the fruit of all of history. We are the center of the modern age. Our family is the beginning point of all future families.</p>
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<h3 align="center">The Tree of Life</h3>
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<p>On a tree the point at which a branch and a leaf emerges is a focal point. Thus the leaf represents not only itself, but the branch, trunk and root. The leaf represents the whole tree. This is the result of cell multiplication. Theoretically, one cell can be cloned into the whole original being.</p>
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<p>Where do the blossoms bloom? Between the leaves and the branch. They always blossom after the leaves begin to come out. What is the flower? It is the part that wants to represent the whole tree. It is beautiful and fragrant. That is the smell of love. When men and woman are in love, they are fragrant too. Today, out of ignorance, we think love starts with ourselves. But this selfish thinking has no place in God’s way of life. If we have a perfect apple, it represents all of the apple tree. The purpose of the apple tree is to produce one perfect fruit. What does the owner of the tree want? He wants to store perfect fruit. We all want perfection. Everyone immediately agrees with this.</p>
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<p>The most precious part of the tree, the sap, flows up the tree into the fruit. So in thinking of the tree of humanity, an individual is like a leaf on the tree. When we say my family is the result of all of history, we want to bear the most beautiful fruit. All of the leaves of the tree feel they represent the tree. All men feel the same; ‘1″ represent all of humankind. In order to become like that, I must reach out to all of humankind. Additionally I must be focused, and think like that all of my life. We must have that goal throughout our life. We should always live as a representative of humankind. We must force ourselves to do this because of the thread of love which connects all. All people are the fruit of love. If there is a museum where all the perfect fruit is displayed, what would we find? Some would be flat, but perfect. Some like a needle, but perfect. Some like a triangle, but perfect. Among many different shapes, if we have to find the perfect one, what shape would it be? (Round). Why? Because all points in a spheres are equidistant from the center, and all parts are in unification.</p>
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<p>Who is like that? Immediately, we can say God is like that. Whether of small, medium or large size, God is like that and thus can fit into any size of world. When God wishes to see the perfection of the individual, He can fulfill that. God can fulfill the perfection of the family, and also the perfection of the nation-God is the center of that, too.</p>
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<p>There are many races and color of skin here, but if asked, each one desires to be the best. All people have this basic desire. What is the foundation for each to fulfill that? What is the starting point? It is not me; rather, it is my family. In order to become like that you must represent the entire universe. You must be able to say, “I am the family which represents the universe. I am the focus of the cosmos. I am the focal point of the country.” When you become that confident, you cannot move away from the center. You can never be here one day and there the next. You cannot do that. You must stay in that one point from the day you were born. Learn to stay in one point to become a perfect circle and you maintain the focus.</p>
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<p>Should you be a fighting, angry family or a joyful family? [Joyful.] Centering on what are you joyful? Everything is based on rhythm. For example, if this is a thing my wife loves most, I must love that. This is something my son happens to love most, yes, I love that.</p>
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<p>Even objects think like that: “I’m so fortunate because my owner loves me so much, therefore I am of great value.” All things feel the same way as human beings. You must relate with love to all things. There should be nothing to which you do not connect with love. This will bring complete unification forever. Thus the entire history is looking at you, because you are representing the universe. We become the focus of the entire world, and the focus of the past and the future.</p>
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<p>In this perspective, many religions have played a role. In the past, present and into the future, religion has been playing this role. I am the model and prototype.</p>
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<p>If one woman is well connected in love to the whole world, she can say she is the center and focal point of women because she is connected in love with all different parts of the world. Therefore she can bring them together, work with them in rhythm, and she can claim, “I am the prototype of all women. Everyone must live like me.” Men must be like that, too. So now, even if it is for the first time, we must think like that. Even if it’s the first time in our lives, let’s think like this. Without thinking like this, how can we become like that? Not living like that, what is my justification for being here; on what basis to I have a right to live? Someone who does not live like that, representing the whole universe, is bad; worse still, he is a thief. He is trying to take things away from others and destroy order. The one who claims all of this as his own without fulfilling his relations with others is a thief. It’s true, the one who denies all except himself is a thief. When you arrive in the spirit world, if you deny this it will be a major problem. How can I negate, how can I deny and erase the fact that I am the center of the world? To avoid hell we must destroy our selfcentered view.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Go High and Low</h3>
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<p>We are now talking about true love. What is true love? It is to invest and invest and then forget that you have invested. In a circle we have 360 degrees. If we start at the vertical position and then rotate each of the 360 degrees, going through each degree, then we can fulfill. We must go around and return to the zero point. Then you can say, “Yes, I have gone around 360 degrees.” That means that you have covered every point. If you just stay in one place and say I am 360 degrees, you cannot claim that. As you go around do you embrace all or deny all? [Embrace.] You must embrace all. This is the reason man must embrace a women and vice versa. So, man and woman will embrace and pull themselves toward each other. Once that happens, they become selfless, reaching the zero point. Then for the first time, the revolve around the center.</p>
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<p>In a perfect dance, two must become one. There must be harmony of pulling and pushing. An arrogant woman who is very proud wants a perfect man, but will he come? She says, “Don’t you see how perfect and beautiful I am? Are you all blind?” But will a man come to her? No.</p>
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<p>God is a high being; we know that. But is He high all the time? No. Sometimes He will exhale. He is sometimes high and sometimes low. Father is sometimes very severe at other times very generous. He will go to the very bottom, the greatest depth, before going up again. He does so in order to reach a higher point. Thus it is good to be with Father, but it is also fearful. The grandfather can be very fearful because one word he says can ordain a lot of punishment, but everyone goes to him because he is always giving and loving. So people can feel secure and live easily with him. Otherwise, if grandfather were only fearful, how could you live?</p>
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<p>Isn’t it true that people who live in hot climates want to go to the cold, and vice versa? People in warm climates want to live in a cold climate once in a while.</p>
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is my whole life. So in your whole life you must ask, ‘`How am I going to live like this?” You must connect with all things in the universe. Be aware that you represent all of history. All things follow me. I indeed represent the whole universe. All of us, especially the blessed couples, must think like this. You are living as one degree, but you must know that all the 360 degrees are connected. If you separate, you only represent one degree. But if you connect, you can represent the entire universe. You must experience all lifestyles, embrace all 360 degrees. If we are to really connect, I can live my one degree but I must visit 360 homes and make them aware of this teaching. We must not only stick to my way of life, but become involved in every way of life. Even the president will come and say you represent everyone.</p>
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<p>Consider God one more time. God lives his own style, but He has visited all people and knows them all. He is not separated from the past and present. What about True Parents? As the son and daughter of God, they know how God lives. Third, the True Family lives centering on God and True Parents. We must live and eat in haste, so that we can connect to all 360 degrees. Then what is accomplished? This person becomes the essence of heaven and the resource for the building of heaven. If you live this way on earth, you will live this way in the spirit world. My whole life should be like this. Wherever we go, some will welcome me, some won’t. Still when I go to North Korea or Russia I go to love them.</p>
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<h3 align="center">End up with God</h3>
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<p>In order to absolutely conquer the absolute God we must follow His way completely. Completely obey and follow. To obey is simple but to follow is not so simple. We must spend our entire life following. There is no private or individual life there. We must obey the King. Wherever that person may go, he will always fit. In the vast spirit world of many dimensions that person will be at home anywhere. That is the world where I represent God and True Parents; I represent all of the kings of history.</p>
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<p>When you live that confident way all will follow you. God and True Parents will follow you. For such a person, wherever he goes the best blossom and fruit will come. We should try to live like God. Experience all of His hardships and think of all the good things that will come. There would be no borderline or limit in my thinking or actions. No matter how miserable, I can go this way and repair it. Have the utmost confidence, as God does. In this heavenly army all are focused on one point. Where will I be in that army? The destiny of all blessed couples is to live like God. The couples are like a regiment commander, responsible for about 3,000 people. This is the size of a small village. Think how to be responsible for them. We only have one precious life. Think carefully about how to live it.</p>
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<p>If Father had not understood this principle, he need not have gone through all the trials of the last 40 years. Think pragmatically. If Americans are not saving their own country; why should a man from Korea come here to try? You may not cover all 128 countries, but you should work in four countries, your home country and three more. This is the same as dawn, day, dusk and night. North, south, east and west.</p>
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<p>Then you can live in harmony with all. But now, if an American ends up in the spirit world with a German, he would rather be in hell. God loves the enemy. Thus all things come to live under God. Satan wants to come to a man who has experienced all things. This is the place where he can gain forgiveness.</p>
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<p>We live this way of life in order to end up with God. All of us know where we are on this circle. God is at one point. We must go there. If we don’t reach this point it will take many, many tedious years. In the spirit world you will remember Father’s sermons. Father can teach you, but you must go your own life. The student can learn from the professor, but he must also become a teacher. We must learn and digest this. We know now what life is for. We must pray and pledge this. Tomorrow is the beginning of the new month. So today, the last day of February, all of us know how to live our life.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON<br />
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 17, 1993<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>The word “Completed Testament”: only we use it. All the families here in are America are what? Old families. And who has been controlling the old families? Satan has. Why did God let that happen, why could he not control his own creation? It is because he did not have a family of his own. Not even one.</p>
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<p>In one family how many members are living? Two. It starts from two. So two have to unite and become one. It is that important for two to get together and unite. Man represents heaven and woman represents earth. So the two coming together represent heaven and earth coming together. Or you can look at it in a different way. Man is the eastern hemisphere, woman is the western. So the whole world comes together. Heaven and earth is vertical and east and west are horizontal. Now we have a problem of east and west. Also we have divisions between religious people and secular people. The human problem consists of man and woman. There are only two types of human. When man and woman unite there will be the solution. Very simple. We think we have many problems in the world but all of them can be traced to this very point. All problems in the world can be traced to this disunity in the family.</p>
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<p>Neither man nor woman can live without the emotional side of life. Mankind needs knowledge; when we know something it feels good. Secondly we need emotion; when you are filled with emotion you feel happy. Which is more important: Do we seek knowledge or emotion and happiness? In the Bible God created the world and said it is good, which means the subject and object are in harmony. When you are happy something good is already included. But good does not necessarily include happiness. In the Orient we say knowledge, emotion and will. But actually it should be emotion, will and knowledge, in that order. Here in the west knowledge is most important. That is wrong; emotion is first. The characteristic of the west is knowledge, the east is emotion; therefore they are closer to the essence of religion. Eastern people have been searching for happiness and peace, whereas in the west it is knowledge and intelligence. Which is more worthy for you to pursue, what makes you good or what makes you happy? Happiness is inclusive of good, but not the other way around. You cannot say it is good and as such embrace happiness. Happiness is larger than goodness.</p>
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<p>Something of emotion and heart is more important. And certainly heart, not knowledge, is the center of the family. Do you agree? (Yes.) And we all love Mother, don’t we? (Yes.) Did you love Mother because of her looks or her loving heart? She is the Mother of heart. She accepts you no matter what you do. Even if she only has one eye, still you love her. So this rich, abundant heart overrides many things such as beauty. This world of emotion does not change so much. There is no revolution possible in this world of love. An animal’s love towards its offspring cannot be changed. You cannot change your offspring.</p>
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<p>When you’re happy, when the husband and wife are united and children are harmonious, then you can say the family is happy. You must understand this clearly. The emotional points are the most important. We can simply conclude by saying that the world’s problems will end when man and woman unite harmoniously. Where can we find a beginning to all these problems? Many people claim they have a solution. Some say the world’s problems must be solved first. Others will say, “No, it is a social problem.” But not so; we know it begins in the family. Let the American government become more prosperous, but can they solve the world’s problems? With force can they solve these problems? No. Where can world peace come from? It is not even the clan level; the family is the key. Do you think that is true? Stop to think. If you look at your family, you immediately see many problems. Grandparents, parents, brothers all have problems. Couples have problems. Relatives have problems. All eight people have problems. They also individually have a mind and body problem. So the grandparents’, parents’ and children’s generations all have problems. So world peace cannot be found except by looking at the individual.</p>
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<p>All the women sitting here: Can you say you have no problems? What is your problem? It is mind and body disharmony. We can complain, “Why did God make me so?” If you do not understand the Fall, you cannot explain it and you will conclude that there can be no God. You will seriously reason, if God is perfect, loving and good and yet made this world, you can only conclude that God does not exist or is a bad being. Without referring to the Fall nothing makes sense and the conclusion that God does not exist can easily be drawn. Goodness, happiness, peace and hope are only empty rhetoric if you do not understand the Fall. Within the individual the mind and body are not harmonized. This is not only for western people, but everyone in the whole world has the same problem. Even a man of religion is no exception. They struggle just as much as others. So that enemy of peace, happiness and hope is in me. No one else. If I cannot solve my problem it is very unlikely that I can build a good family. If the mind and body fight, freedom will make it worse. Americans like freedom. But that freedom is meaningless and freedom will laugh at him: “You like me?”</p>
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<p>If you are talking about constructing a building, you must start with perfectly level ground. Is a leaning building enjoying freedom? No, it is trying very hard not to fall. Everyone wants to build a big house on sloping ground. When the mind is not in peace with the body, you have no motivation to do anything. If a woman whose mind and body are not united tries to love her husband, she ends up fighting. People are all seeking happiness, but they end up fighting. We must not visualize the world in big turmoil. The atomic bomb is not exploding in the world, but in my mind and body.</p>
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<p>If the body fights against the mind, will that man go to heaven or hell? Hell. If they become one then you can go to heaven. Heaven or hell. So what is our chance of going to hell? Eighty % or twenty %? You know the state of your mind very well. What about your eyes, are they balanced between left and right? Your eyes and nose are located along a center line, in pairs. Do the eyes fight each other? No. All the five senses work as one, but why does the mind and body fight? If that is the rule, God should have built everything to fight, but that is not the case; only the mind and body fight. Why? Due to the Fall.</p>
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<p>Look at the Christians. They say, “I will go to church, listen to a sermon and pray a little, then my sins will be erased and I will go to Heaven.” They also say the Moonies are teaching heresy. But we are lucky to understand the Fall; we now have hope to find a solution. Therefore understanding the fall is important and gives us hope. Even God cannot solve these problems; only individuals can solve them. Historically no one has been able to do that. Not even God. Man and woman according to the original formula must unite. In English language you have M and W; it looks easy to become one. Is that true? (Yes). I don’t believe it. There is more fighting in the west. The women always claim that they are higher than men. The fact that men let women go above them means they are not worthy to live. But a woman will not become prosperous if she goes above a man. In America who is above whom? Man or woman? It’s a problem. Who is up now? Woman. Thank you. That’s true. (Laughter). They all laugh their silent support.</p>
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<p>After Jesus was crucified, who ascended to heaven, man or woman? Man. Man represents heaven, woman represents earth. If you put it upside down it becomes dark with not so much hope for the future. Jesus’ spirit ascended to heaven and the Holy Spirit, representing Mother, came to earth. Women are a receptacle and are to receive. In the west, when you love, the women go above the man. That is wrong; it is not natural. Man who represents God and heaven should be above woman. Should this society dominated by women be corrected or left alone? No.</p>
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<p>It’s very important that we abide by natural law in order for us to prosper. Why does a man have a beard? It symbolizes power and force. A man with a heavy beard is wild. Women like that. He is strong. But one with a little beard is not so masculine, perhaps a eunuch. Unification Church women know this. Some may not be happy, but this is nature. So the problem is with the individual. When someone says world peace comes from an individual, is this wrong? No. Man is an individual and woman is also an individual. Is that not true? Before you make a family you are individuals. World peace through families is correct but world peace through individuals is more essential.</p>
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<p>Unless the individual becomes unified in mind and body, he cannot unite with another. So both have to unite their mind and body and then they can be united with each other. World peace and happiness come from an individual and hope and freedom all begin with a perfect individual. We must keep unification of mind and body in mind. Unless we have unification we cannot have freedom, hope or peace, no matter how hard we try. If you go in the street and demonstrate for hope, peace and freedom, you do not know what you are talking about unless you unite your mind and body. It is simple but true. Unification Church is not a haphazard name. It is important and serious. So the church which advocates and has unification has hope, freedom, happiness and peace. It has everything.</p>
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<p>We start with individual unity, family unification, clan unification, racial unification, national unification, world unification, spirit world unification and unification of God. When we go through all these stages we will bring peace on earth, and bring heaven into being.</p>
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<p>This is our destination. But we cannot reach there if there is fighting on the lower levels. So in mankind there are 2.5 billion men and 2.5 billion women. Look at New York City at rush hour, so many people. But you cannot order them unless you divide them into men and women. Imagine a world of only men. What could they do; how would they behave? Would they be able to sleep, or would they be afraid of the night? What if they are all women, maybe it would be worse because there would be many rumors. There would be a history of rumors. Rumors would abound, they grow small but they inflate. No matter how many millions of people come to work in the morning, but at night man and woman go home. But without men or without women, this world would be chaotic, there would be no order.</p>
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<p>We must know that man and woman exist together, and because of love between man and woman, we can have order in the world. Love is absolutely essential. Love puts everything into order. What problems would you expect if all men were in love with all women? There would be no problems. So how should man love a woman or vice versa? There is no prototype from God. There is no prototype from God of how a man or woman should love. Also there is no perfect description from God of how a man or woman should be.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we have the blessing. What is the meaning of that blessing? Become a perfect individual and a perfect family. What is the formula to become perfect? That original standard is absolute and unchanging eternally. If there are two, one is wrong. We have to compare both. If we look at one, but it does not measure up, it must be false. The perfect prototype of man or woman must be in God. The one perfect woman should come from earth and the perfect man come from heaven. They should be matched; then heaven and earth will come into unity. In woman and man there is mind and body. The individual mind and body become one; then man and woman can become one.</p>
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<p>Then for that woman whose mind and body are not one, and yet she goes to her husband hoping for her mind and body to become one – does she have a right to do that? She is not righteous. The same for man: he is not righteous, and is a destroyer of that woman. Man has a conscience. In this perspective, can anyone say, “I am perfectly qualified as a perfect woman”? Yet still these women have carried on with their family life and had children. Is that true love or false love? But we did not know that. The children, like God, will know how true or false their parents are. How much sin are we committing by lying about this basic point? Is there any fault with this reasoning? How could we get away with this? Because we were ignorant. These are thief-like Blessed Couples. God will say to this man, “Stop. Are you qualified to go to your wife’s room? Are your mind and body united?” We must repent about this, very much. Likewise, if a woman tries to disguise her disunity, but still goes to her husband, there is no worse sin than that. How much God is waiting to see a united man whose body follows his mind, and a woman and family like this too.</p>
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<p>For a woman whose mind and body are fighting, are her eyes God’s or Satan’s? God created her eyes perfectly but they are now Satan’s vampire, snake eyes. Her nose is more wandering than an elephant’s. Her ears too. What about her mouth? Our hands are a problem. So we live a long lifetime. During those long hours how many hours were your mind and body unified? Maybe one hour, 24 hours or one month during your entire life. This is a serious question. How many hours of your life did you live in unification? Each of you should calculate that and think about it. This is the most crucial thing.</p>
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<p>Until now all saints taught unification from without. But for the first time in history, Father is now teaching unification from within. Imagine how much sacrifice and suffering throughout history there has been to bring about the perfection of one man and one woman. That suffering is to make me perfect. We see in biblical history, the entire work of 2000 years of the New Testament was to create one bride. For whom? The groom. That man who appears is the Messiah. Earth must provide the bride; heaven will provide the groom. Mind and body unification is vertical. Man and woman unification is horizontal. If it is planted this way this is the fruit that it will bear. This is the purpose of the Unification Church work, and the mass weddings that we have. In the Old Testament era, the bride begins in hope to meet the groom. Who are the chosen people? It is through these chosen people that we find the woman. Centering on Satan we have Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel. Originally it should have been centered on God. But because of the fall the family became centered on Satan. This is hell. It expands from the family to the clan, nation and world. This must be recreated. Each level has a subject and object. If Cain and Abel unite they both become object to the higher subject. So there are always corresponding subjects and objects at each level. Centering on the mother, Eve, there are Cain and Abel. Then united with their mother, Cain and Abel center on Adam. The heavenly groom should come from heaven, because the earth is Satan’s domain. The bride should come from the unity of Judaism and the Israel nation. These two represent Cain and Abel. Perfected Eve unites with her children and they become a minus to Adam. They can then become a minus to God and unite. This recreates the original world. The indemnity to restore this was paid in the Old Testament era.</p>
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<p>Jesus came under these circumstances to achieve this goal. But what happened? Jesus came as a restored Adam and the goal of God on the national level was to restore the nation. However, Jesus was expelled rather than welcomed. As a result, centering on the cross, the left wing and right wing came into being. Barabbas, whose life was saved, represents Islam and Jesus who died represents Christianity. Christianity and the right wing became one. Islam, the descendants of Barabbas and the left wing united and still today these two are enemies. The Old Testament dispensation failed and moved into the New Testament era. The same purpose remains only that it is now on the world level, not the national level. Because of the Cross, salvation is only spiritual. In the same way the world now waits for the bride again. Where Judaism stood, Christianity now stands and the country is now America. Before this came to pass, World War II had to be fought. At the end of World War II, England, America and France were on God’s side. Japan, Germany and Italy were on Satan’s side. Why should this pattern appear? Jesus brought spiritual salvation, but salvation needs to be done physically with countries on the world level.</p>
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<p>Satan’s side and God’s side fought each other. In World War II the allied side won the victory. If England as the mother, Eve, and America and France as Cain and Abel become one on the world level they can go to meet the groom who comes as the restored Adam. They are restored in mind and body and are ready to meet the groom. This is the end of the New Testament era. At Jesus’ time the spirit and mind were separate, because of the crucifixion, but at the end of World War II this was restored. These three united countries should wait for the groom to appear. Who is that bridegroom? He is one man.</p>
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<p>So at Jesus’ time, everyone in the family knew he was an illegitimate child. At that time, no one believed he was conceived by the Holy Spirit. Jesus was in a miserable situation. He was a target of despise. Even the children mocked him. All his relatives despised him. Everyone gets married, but Jesus could not even though he was 33. No one wanted to willingly give a bride to an illegitimate child. The whole world knew, but no one wanted to give him a bride. This was Jesus’ position. He came as the groom. This is the way the groom comes at this time too. He does not come on a cloud. The groom these three powerful countries have to meet has nothing, no clan, tribe or country. Because he comes down from heaven, the groom is almost a beggar. Could these powerful, great nations come down to meet this miserable groom? But how much sacrifice God and history have paid to establish this. Could anyone from these great nations believe Rev. Moon is the groom, then or now? At the end of World War II no one understood. God had made this foundation and was with England, with America and with France. But when they do not understand, where does God go? He goes with Rev. Moon. This brought about so many problems. Problem after problem after problem. In hindsight we can see that it was more natural for them to reject Rev. Moon. However, when they opposed, Satan immediately moved in and became their owner.</p>
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<p>Since this entire foundation crumbled down, as at Jesus’ time, we now have to re-indemnify this mistake. Imagine how desolate and how deeply distressed, how miserable God and Rev. Moon were at this point. They had lost everything in history. Since we have lost this, we now have to go back and repeat it successfully. They were only two against the whole world which was owned by Satan. So now there is an even bigger cross, a world level cross which includes mind and body, the left and right wings of Christianity and Islam. But the bride’s realm was destroyed, due to unfaithfulness, so the coming messiah has to make this foundation again. In this incredibly difficult, hopeless time he has to restore all that was lost from the 4000 years of history in 40 years. If he did not do that no one could tell what history would be like. Because Jesus died and lost his body, Barabbas or the Islam realm controls all twelve tribes of Israel in Canaan. It is the very land where the Israelites returned from Egypt and recovered it, but now must give away to Moslems, because Jesus lost his body. The body was given out to Satan; likewise this land has to be given to Barabbas who lived in place of Jesus’ body. So comes the Unification Church. This was originally Christianity’s role, but because they opposed, Father has to recreate this realm of victory centering on the Unification Church. This is so the bride can reappear. This was Father’s mission, taking indemnity during the 40 years. From 1945 to 52 is 7 years. From 1952 + 40 is 1992; in 1992 Father finished the work of re-indemnification and recreation.</p>
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<p>So at the end of World War II, the whole universe was in Satan’s domain. God had to give up all religions, including Christianity. No matter how many thousands of years he had worked on them, they were useless. Now at this time God cannot select twice, but Rev. Moon could select again 3 nations – Japan, America and Germany – and recreate the realm of the bride. Japan and Germany were like a wilderness after World War II. America was fit to be executed; why did Father take America again? Because that was the only country were Judaism and Christianity met. Father thought about it and did not want to do it. Father leniently took America in again. The right wing and Christianity and the left wing and the Muslim world must unite to recreate the realm of the bride. For the last 200 years America has prospered and prospered, but since the last 40 years America has plummeted down. Why? Because it rejected Rev. Moon. There was only one chance for Christianity to unite with Rev. Moon. God gave all the blessings to America. He wholeheartedly supported, nurtured and selected it to become an Abel nation. The Protestants were put in Abel’s position over all the other denominations of Christianity and Catholics were put in Cain’s position. God unreservedly gave the blessing to America, to serve the purpose of the bride’s foundation for the one He sends. This is history, which only God and Rev. Moon know. Now we know and this is the qualification to be a tribal messiah. We know what the satanic world is about and what we are, so we can work hard. Then there is no borderline between heaven or hell, because everywhere now is heaven.</p>
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<p>It is now in our hands. Until now we did not know. But look at Russia; they understand this better and will fight for it. America has had more than enough chance. Father spoke 20 years here and brought Japanese and Koreans who are much more faithful to restore America. Still Americans don’t understand and don’t want to move, so now Russia is moving in. God cannot select America twice, but the second generation support Rev. Moon even though the first generation oppose Rev. Moon. After choosing America again we must restore America. America itself cannot do that, but the Unification Church, centered on Rev. Moon, must educate America.</p>
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<p>We have worked hard to unite Christianity and communism which Christianity was supposed to do. Father gave a big blessing to the Moslems and with this unity was made.</p>
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<p>The 30,000 couples represented every country, including Russians and Red China, as well as Moslem countries. Today communism is a force no more. So those who were hopelessly divided by the death of Jesus can now be reunited. All levels of opposition of the world have been erased. Father single-handedly fought against America. Who won? Father. Father told them they will decline and perish. In the churches today there are only old people; they look like a cemetery. But in the Unification Church there are only young people. The First generation is going down apparently and the next generation is lifted up to the top level. So young and old people, non-believers, do not have hope in any one country, but they may think Rev. Moon has a solution. It’s not “may” but “must.” No one has heard of converting hippies into first class patriots and citizens. No one has ever heard of 30,000 couple weddings, but Rev. Moon is not crazy. Rev. Moon recreated the realm of bride and reconnected them to the realm of the groom. Those impossibly strong walls were torn down one by one. Now there is no wall in any part of the world. What does this mean? If you go to preach there will be no martyrdom. So here by choosing Japan, America and Germany, America has another chance to be in the position of the bride. They can restore what was lost at the end of World War II.</p>
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<p>We also see what happened last year: Mother’s speech tour. Mother took her own initiative and spoke 131 times to women to bring them into unity. It was like a storm. All around the world, they felt the presence of Mother. This brought into being the Women’s Federation for World Peace.</p>
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<p>From the end of 1992 we begin the era of the Completed Testament. Mother has restored the bride’s position and reconnected it to Father. The result is that these seven nations – Korea, Japan, America, Germany, England, France and Italy – now stand again on God’s side. Everything could have been done in 1945, but it wasn’t and we needed 40 years to restore this. But now the satanic world has gone and it is time to enter into God’s realm. It is the Completed Testament era.</p>
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<p>The new family is the True Family. Centering on the True Family the five billion families of the world are in the object position. We have a true plus, and the minus should obey. Is the world in despair or does it have hope? Hope. Satan is the one who works directly against God. Satan knowing that this is what God will do at the end of the times, tried to make the whole world into hell, especially the family hell, because the Fall took place in the family. Restoration must take place in the family. In the world the family is still satanic. The whole family is fighting and are enemies of each other. They are simply confused. Grandfathers marry their granddaughters. This crazy reality, which we don’t want to hear, comes to Father. This is Satan’s weapon to completely destroy America. When love is degraded like that, the realm of emotion is degraded, you become numb and have to use drugs in order to continue. Emotional activity is almost wiped out by false love, and that is why they use drugs. Drugs are like a crashed automobile. Alcohol is bad too. The worst is homosexuality, the most fearful action in front of God. That’s Satan. We look but we don’t even know that is Satan’s action. That is the reality. Satan doesn’t care and only wants to put an end to mankind. AIDS has appeared and may be hopeful in that people will change.</p>
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<p>America is the arena of Satan. When we see hell we know what heaven will be like. It is completely opposite. You cannot deny Satan exists. Is God for the individual or the whole? “For the sake of the whole!” What is individualism? It is completely satanic. “I am content, I don’t need the world, nation, grandparents, parents.” This is what individualism is all about.</p>
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<p>There is no hope for an individualist; he must eventually commit suicide. Satan is saying to God, “You cannot do anything with this destroyed world.” But God says, “You don’t know what one Oriental man, called Rev. Moon, will do. He is breaking out.” The conclusion is that the ones who are opposed most by Satan are on God’s side. Father told America and communism that they are wrong. He also tells Satan he must follow Parent’s way. Do you understand? Yes. You must be crazy. The contents sound crazy and those who understand must be in the same category of crazy.</p>
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<p>The kingdom of heaven starts appearing when Father proclaims it. The library of heaven is being created by Father. These contents are important and cannot be exchanged. So Father recreates the True Family, and all the tribal messiahs are planted around. This is the last strategy to work on. There is no other way, except occupying the satanic world. This morning we have understood that it took God 6000 years to create that Messiah and send him down. The Messiah is expanding horizontally through the True Family and the tribal messiahs. They will compete with each other. Soon there will be so many tribal messiahs and they will become kings of their families. The formula is simple: centering on Mother the children will unite. Teach the mother of the family; they can teach the children and together they can bring their father. That was God’s original point. In America, because of the women’s leading role, they can bring all the men to God but they didn’t do that. It is still our work; for mothers to become one with their children and connect with the True Family and again reconnect with their husbands, even though they are fallen and after the age of sixteen took in Adam’s body and made this multiplication as we see today. True Parents are absolutely one. The husband is in the archangel’s position. But there is a process of connection to be made. All they need to do is to be re-educated, consistent to the way and the tradition of the True Family. Then Father will give that blessing of being reconnected without the fault of the Fall. So that means all the newborn babies, the second generation, will be all on Father’s side.</p>
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<p>Now there is no Satan. What about those who are under the age of sixteen? Father is in the position of the completed Adam. After age of sixteen he went through all the indemnity and restoration. Up until the age of sixteen, Father chased out Satan; now he should inherit everything from Satan, all which is over sixteen years of age. So since Satan is out Father can treat everyone, not as Satan’s descendants, but as children who got married before they were sixteen. It is not the Fall, just early marriage. The second generation being born now automatically belong to Father.</p>
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<p>Leah and Rachel centering on Jacob always had problems. Leah must serve Rachel. For her to do that the mother must help. Mother – daughter cooperation is needed. The three represent formation, growth and perfection stages. Formation and growth stages are on Satan’s side but as it comes to the completion stage, it is on God’s side. The mother and Leah should become one and cooperate with Rachel. This was repeated at Jesus’ time. Mary and Elizabeth should have cooperated and found Jesus’ bride. Elizabeth and Mary did not understand this. God clearly had John the Baptist’s sister in mind for Jesus’ bride. So the family would have been unified. Because that didn’t happen the 10 tribes became the enemies of the 2 tribes. At the end of the days that pattern will be repeated.</p>
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<p>There is a restored mother and a mother in the fallen position. As we see, there is the possibility that they fight with each other. They are women and they are close to each other, so they fight. These two, mother and daughter, become very close and become one and must cooperate.</p>
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<p>Father has two women around Father. Song Jin Nim’s mother. Satan is making her oppose Father to the end. Song Jin Nim’s mother should help. True Mother knows this and must help Song Jin Nim’s mother to understand. The only way she can turn this mother’s mind around is to love her son more than her own son. That is extremely difficult, but very important. Father has to make unity, no matter what, and in order to do that you have to love. There is no other way except love. So to prepare for that God has fostered one concept, love thy enemy. Song Jin Nim’s mother really loved Father. She opposed him because she loves him so much. She opposes him, but says there is no greater man than Song Jin Nim’s Father. Who divorced whom? Father said, “Don’t do it, you must persevere,” but when Father was in prison she divorced him. And Mother still has to suffer until now. For her to transfer heaven to earth she has to go over this kind of hardest hill. This is a culmination of human restoration. The individual, family, tribe and nation, all these levels of restoration – in order to bring everything up, Mother has to take care of them.</p>
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<p>In Jesus’ time the disciples could not be wed. But this must be done here and Mother must help. The 12 disciples, 72 apostles and 120 elders did not marry. We have to indemnify that now. How complicated a process it is to accomplish! Only when we reach spirit world will we understand how we can pay back the debt, and then it’s too late. You must understand now. But this is the parent’s heart; they want to forget, no matter how much they did for the sake of the children. Even though it is so precious. The power of true love is so powerful that it forgets. Forgetting and not mentioning it does not mean that we did not receive that much love. You have to untangle the problems in your tribes. This is why Father plans for us to clear everything through tribal messiah providence. But you have to do more even for strangers. Our partners who had free sex, we must restore, too. It is Abel’s responsibility to bring Cain back and raise him up. Cain always tends to go to hell. The women in Abel’s position must go to hell and bring them up. How difficult it is.</p>
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<p>In the beginning it is hard but later it becomes easier. As Satan’s walls come down the ground will become level. Many times our parents cried and cried when we joined. If we cry for our parents even 1/10th it will be enough to restore them. When you understand that the parents have gone to the length of loving the children of their enemy, you know that is the hardest thing and it has been done.</p>
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<p>You represent the vertical and horizontal True Parent’s love. You are their fruit. You have the same contents, you are from the same tree. Never forget how hard your parents worked to restore you.</p>
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<p>The new families are in the corresponding position to the True Family. The five billion families of the world will become the new families born in the Completed Testament era. Clearly this is better than Jesus’ own family. Do you think Jesus wanted to become a parent and a grandparent? Yes.</p>
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<p>This new family should be where the elder sonship has been restored, where parentship has been restored and where kingship has been restored. Through this pattern everyone can be restored. For one country if the king comes the whole country can be restored at one time. The root has one center root. The tree trunk is the Messiah, the branches the tribal messiahs and the leaves the family messiahs. They should all be grafted onto the Messiah. So when man and woman unite they become the tribal messiah and are directly connected to Father’s body. This is the settlement of the new families. So with the appearance of the new families it is the era of the Completed Testament.</p>
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<p>So those who were born during the last 40 years of Father’s work automatically belong to him. Those who are over 50 will fade away. But they can still be saved by the tribal messiah. Especially those under 33, the age of Jesus, belong to Father. The younger people will never agree with the older generation. So the world knows that in the Unification Church are beautiful young people growing up. Then the world will come wanting to marry them. Even if a king comes asking to marry you daughter, don’t even look at him; your children are much more valuable.</p>
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<p>We are entering the great time of judgment. First there will be judgment by truth, secondly by character and thirdly by heart. The Fall took place because Adam and Eve did not obey God’s truth, but we are different and will obey. The truth we have learned is so vast and wide-ranging, so consistent and so deep in contents. That means we understand well. We have the capability to defeat Satan because you know what is good or bad. Would you ever, even for curiosity, take drugs? No. We know it is Satan’s weapon to destroy God’s will. So, even if you only have the truth, that is enough to repel the satanic world. You know when somebody is being pulled by his body. You can judge him, then he is liberated from Satan. With the standard of love you can be judged.</p>
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<p>Now we know we are ready to enter the four great heartistic realms and the three great kingships. Do you know and can you explain this? KNOW or NO. You know this so Father can save half an hour here as Mother is expecting Father for Shin Jung Nim’s birthday.</p>
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<p>Man becomes a good son, a good brother, husband and father. Woman has to grow the same way and then connect and make a family.</p>
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<p>Adam’s family is the king family. Tribal king, race king and nation king.</p>
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<p>This new family is not individual but represents the entire world and being equipped with the four heartistic realms and the three great kingships will go into the world in this new era of the completed testament. So the motto of this year is “The New Family and the Unified Fatherland.” The fatherland is not Korea: When the families gather together we will create a fatherland which will bring a world of peace. We have to have a fatherland before we have a homeland. So the whole thing will be accomplished. When North and South Korea unite, the whole world will unite. North Korea also has a father. In South Korea Rev. Moon is the True Father – they have both appeared. But one is going up and one is going down.</p>
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<p>So the world’s problems come from the family. When the new True Family and True Parents appear all the problems will be solved. Father is perfected as a son, perfected as a brother, perfected as a husband and perfected as a father. Perfect in all four heartistic realms. Now is the time that God can be proud of this perfect son and daughter. So now the Kingdom of Heaven is so visible. Satan has to disappear from the face of the earth. Thank you very much.</p>
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title: "PARENTS' DAY - TRUE PARENTS AND BLESSED COUPLES"
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published: "2018-06-26T13:52:10+01:00"
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updated: "2018-06-26T13:52:10+01:00"
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source: "/blog/2018/06/26/parents-day-true-parents-and-blessed-couples.html"
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">March 23, 1993<br />
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Grand Ball Room, World Mission Center. New York<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>Please raise your hands, if you are not yet blessed. In the traditional religious world, there is no substantial, clear concept of marriage. We see this everywhere. In Buddhism, most of the monks remain single and celibate. Likewise in Catholicism, the priests must remain celibate. Also, one very common rule or phenomenon we see in all high-level religions is that the adherents must leave their home and go elsewhere in order to train in the way of God. There are many biblical examples which are consistent with this. We see the significant biblical figures leave their home and go through many experiences which seem to be following a certain rule. This is typical of all the higher religions, not only individually, but also as a race. Look at the Israelites. They went into Egypt and remained there for 430 years before they could return to their home. This again is part of the indemnity course which is typical of the high-level religions. The concept of indemnity is better understood In the Orient than here in the Western world. The idea of paying a price for success is everywhere in the Orient, but in the Western world people do not understand indemnity very well. This morning, we must come to a clear and deep understanding of this concept of indemnity.</p>
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<p>In the original world, if the human fall had not taken place, the natural order of things would have been God, Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel. But since the Fall occurred, everything became upside down. In the original world, heaven is on top, but today we see it is upside down. Adam is on the bottom, instead of on the top. Satan rules in the place of God, and Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel, follow in that way. Satan has the top and God has to get hold of the tail, instead of the head. Restoration means that the younger brother must play the role of the elder brother. In other words, he simply must become the elder brother. This is not natural.</p>
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<p>In the family too, the younger brother takes over the elder brother’s position. Here we can understand that the younger brother becomes the elder brother, and the elder brother becomes the younger brother. The higher the level we go to from the family to the nation, each step of the way, God has to make us pay a price, or indemnity. There are many nations but they must turn upside down. What we must do in the religious world is not to take things as they are. In fact, we go the reverse and unnatural way. The rule is that we have to give up this world. This is very difficult for people of the Western world to comprehend because they don’t want to give up anything. They want to hang on to this world. So we must understand indemnity, which is the law of the religious world.</p>
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<p>The goal of all people is to return back to their original position. In order to do that we have to pay indemnity. To be restored we must first pay indemnity. What is the dispensation for salvation? It is the path of restoration. To be saved means to be restored, isn’t that true? The only way we can do that is by paying a price which means paying indemnity. Why is that? Satan exists and we have to severe our relations with him. We see plenty of examples in the religious world where people are called upon to sacrifice, persevere, serve others and endure great difficulties.</p>
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<p>Most religions began on a good path, but as they continued they lost sight of this very important principle. Then they stopped serving others. We see that Jesus consistently and clearly taught people to go through difficulties, be persecuted, and to be grateful for that. He told his followers to serve others and to love their enemies. Ordinary human beings don’t want to do any of these things, yet these are exactly the things Jesus stressed that people should do. It is because of the need for indemnity. No one can be elevated spiritually, without paying indemnity.</p>
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<p>The most extreme example of Jesus’ teaching on this subject was, “Those who want to die for my sake will live, while those who want to live will lose their lives.” How paradoxical this has seemed to many people. What has Satan been doing to fallen people? He has taken possession of their lives and unless they are ready to give up their satanic life, they cannot be claimed by God. This teaching of Jesus seems shocking at first: those who want to live will die. People wonder why Jesus would say such a thing.</p>
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<p>Why is it that the first-born must take the position of the second-born? Those who are first born eventually become proud of themselves, just as many religious people forget their need for indemnity and become arrogant. Then the second-born, who is more humble, would become the first-born. That is Cain’s position here. Those who are born second-in other words, Abel, who then takes the elder’s position-must raise and serve Cain. But if Abel instead wants to be served by Cain it becomes a problem. Then Abel will go down to the position of Cain.</p>
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<p>We see this even among the members of the Unification Church. Those who were blessed first, such as the 36 Couples, must also abide by this rule. Holding themselves up proudly, thinking, “I am always greater than others because I was among the first,” they violate this principle. Restoration is the same as re-creation. This is the formula. This concept is of course not yet understood by other religious people within the traditional religious framework. We are the first ones to understand this concept clearly.</p>
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<p>When God created the world, He first created the environment. The first thing we notice about this environment is the plus and minus relationship, or the relationship of subject and object. There is always subject and object. Let’s take a look at all existence, including the mineral realm. There is an element of plus and the element of minus-male and female-in all living beings. These two take reciprocal positions and thus when they become one, this one eventually becomes minus and this one eventually becomes plus (pointing to drawing on blackboard). We must understand the law of re-creation. Creation was done according to a certain law, and likewise, re-creation follows the same law or formula.</p>
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<p>Here in our church, we observe in our environment of re-creation that, of course, there is one in the subject position, the plus, who is Reverend Moon. All of you are in the corresponding position as object. We understand Father’s words only very conceptually. In the world of creation, every young being just born, have no preconceived ideas. In God’s creation, all beings were just waiting to be created by God. We have no idea of what we are going to be, what we want to be, or anything. The created object does not have any concept of its existence. It begins with a zero concept. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Here the created object has no preferences, no preoccupations. They are just obedient, absolutely obedient to God, accepting whatever He will make of me, or him, or her. God, or in this case Father, may make someone stand upside down and he would stay upside down until he was put right side up again. We have no concept of what is convenient or inconvenient. This is the zero concept. We are waiting to be re-created.</p>
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<p>We are just like earthenware. When the potter molds the clay, he does whatever he wishes. Whatever he wishes to do with the clay, he molds it that way. Likewise, we must do that. Here, the one who is subject always invests. Nothing comes automatically. He invests with a lot of sweat and energy. In the early times of the Unification Church, people may have said, “Oh, Reverend Moon just uses that principle because he wants to form a dictatorship. He just wants to hush up everybody else so that he can do as he wishes.” But after twenty years, this principle is still enduring. We know that this is the way re-creation is done.</p>
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<p>Here is an absolute plus. The minus must become an absolute minus before it can become valuable. When it has too many of its own ideas, then it negates that much of the subject’s idea. Father’s work cannot be done by the criticism of Harvard graduates or by those who are so-called educated persons, saying, “Reverend Moon, you are wrong. You should do it this way.” It doesn’t work that way. We must be like babies at the mother’s breast. All we need to do is drink plenty of milk. Drink up Father’s words like mother’s milk. That is the best we can do to grow up healthy and strong.</p>
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<p>We must remind ourselves this morning how much we have been complaining without realizing the consequences. When you complain that way, you are acting like the cousin of Satan! Who can say, “Father, I am far from Satan. I am not related in any way with Satan!” Raise your hands, if you have that much confidence. (Someone raises his hand.) He may not understand English! It is an unmistakable standard. Why is Father pointing this out? It is so you can understand clearly what your life should be, as well as what your life was before.</p>
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<p>When God is re-creating something and the satanic world rises up in revolt against Him, trying to stop His work, what can God do? The only thing He can do is persevere. He pretends He was not revolted against and just keeps His silence.</p>
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<p>Here we have raw material. No matter how the subject kneads or molds it, that raw material should not express ideas of his own. He must just keep silent and wait. So God allows all this persecution, this revolt, to happen to the righteous and religious people so that they can experience it and they won’t want to do the same thing to God. So God does not necessarily think of persecution as a bad thing. The guy who endures that kind of persecution doesn’t have any concept of his own. No matter how hard Satan pushes against him, he will not move, he will not take any action.</p>
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<p>He becomes an original resource like land. He becomes an original point. No matter what Satan puts in front of him, he will not budge. God can use that kind of resource to begin a new creation. This is the Principle, yet there is no one in the traditional religious world who understands this concept. How much happier are we who do.</p>
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<p>Our mind and body are separated, as yet, and they struggle against each other almost all the time. You know the relationship between your mind and body-the body should always follow the mind, but that doesn’t happen. Satan gets hold of this body and acts as the plus, whereas the mind is the original plus. You have these two pluses repelling each other. We must understand that the only way for an individual to become united, which is what we must achieve, is for his body to always, in every situation, listen to his mind. That is the only way. Yet there is no minister or traditional Christian evangelist who understands this clear idea and preaches it. No one is doing that.</p>
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<p>The man whose mind and body became united is now ready to meet the higher plus, in this case, to form a marriage relationship. Such a family will gather together and act as the minus to the greater plus of the tribe. They must become one with the tribe, and then the united tribe will take the minus position to the country or nation, which is the plus. Then the united nation will become one with the whole world in the plus position. The whole united world will become one with the spirit world and eventually will form unity with God. All these plus and minus, subject and object relationships are involved.</p>
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<p>God is the King of the universe, isn’t He? Therefore, His children, Adam and Eve, and also our own children for that matter, will become God’s own princes and princesses. And then their offspring-no matter how many millions and billions they come to number-will occupy this position, once we are restored. Originally we were, just like our own True Parents, meant to be born as princes and princesses of God Himself. This is why we all have that desire. Every one of us has that desire to be God’s prince or God’s princess.</p>
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<p>How this works is through True Love, as we already know. Through True Love, we become completely united within ourselves, and then one with God. Through this love relationship with God, we are part of God. That means we are princes and princesses of God, the great Almighty King.</p>
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<p>Human beings do not have any ideals which were not meant to be attained. All human dreams and ideals, which are shared by all people, are meant to be attained and fulfilled through the achievement of True Love. Complete unity within yourself and your family will completely unite your clan. That clan wants to move the nation and the world. That is a legitimate desire for human beings. Man is born to be like that. Of course, we are not talking about the fallen world’s standards where people simply wish to center on himself or herself. We know we must go beyond that. In the legal world of God, each person is supposed to achieve his true desires.</p>
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<p>We must understand that though we happen to be in the Unification Church, it didn’t actually just happen automatically. We have a vast background in our ancestry which allowed us to join the Unification Church. We have a strong basis to stand on especially because of Father’s work after we joined. You are standing on the vast foundation-both visible and invisible-of True Parents’ work and investment. You should appreciate and live up to that standard. To do this, you have to enhance your own character, don’t just passively follow but understand Father’s words and improve your character and raise yourself up.</p>
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<p>As I pointed out, restoration is the same as re-creation. God first created the environment. In the environment the first thing we notice is plus and minus. The smaller plus and minus will become united and then search for unity with a larger plus. When that unity is achieved, they move on to search for unity with a higher level of plus, moving up and up until they finally reach all the way to God. That formula applies right here in the fallen world. We have to go back up. In order to do that, since we are traveling backwards, we have to indemnify the past. We have to pay a price.</p>
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<p>For the person who is at the bottom of the hierarchy to move up from his Cain position, he has to serve others. It cannot be done easily. He has to resemble True Parents and God Himself in their actions of service. God’s method is to invest everything all the time, to serve and forget it, meanwhile enduring persecution. That is the same method a person must use in order to elevate himself spiritually higher and higher. Every time we endure difficulties, we must be grateful that God loves us so much that He wants to lift us up. That is what happens in the Unification Church. When God looks at us being persecuted, how indignant and angry He must feel towards those who are persecuting His own sons and daughters, or those who are on the way to becoming His sons and daughters. By this standard of reaching to heaven, what is your opinion? Do you think anybody here deserves to go to heaven? Is there anybody here who really invests so much, like God Himself, for his own younger or elder brothers? Do you think there is someone like that who is eligible to go to heaven? We are all in the process of going that way, aren’t we?</p>
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<p>Are these new words, saying that Heaven is empty today? We know that it is true. There may be Paradise. God didn’t create heaven to be empty. God wants to fill up Heaven. With whom? With such people as I have described here. That is the law of creation.</p>
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<p>We see that the dispensation to save mankind means the dispensation to restore mankind. That means we must be re-created in order to reach God. To initiate the re-creation system in our lives, paying indemnity is necessary. You have to memorize this: the providential way is the restoration course, and that means the indemnity course. We absolutely need indemnity because we have to go the reverse way. Satan took a powerful authority over the father’s position, mother’s position and elder son’s position. These in turn built their country over God’s base. Now, the younger Abel brother appeared. Satan knows that and says, “Do you want the original world? You have to go back to the original position.” You can’t have any concept when faced with the task of Abel. To do that, you can have no concept of America, no idea of culture, language, skin color or race. You must be at the zero point. Until you reach the zero point, you cannot achieve the re-creation of yourself. Do you follow me? This is the formula!</p>
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<p>The first thing we should remember in all circumstances is that indemnity is the key. Through indemnity, we are elevated. Father even told us why: because this is the original order of the creation, which didn’t last very long because of the fall of Adam and Eve. Therefore, God has to start from where we are now and lift us up from the bottom to a new position on top. He must apply the indemnity law, in order to do that, .</p>
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<p>Satan is now in the plus position, while the sons and daughters who need to be restored are in the object position to him. So Satan exercises his full right and power, saying, “You obey me.” But then the person who is working for restoration will work and serve others and say, “I cannot obey you because I am from God.” Also, if God tries to lift up someone and tells him to go through the indemnity course and that person responds, “No, I don’t want to. I’ll revolt against that,” then he is not material that can be re-created.</p>
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<p>Abel doesn’t have any concept of “Abel’s position.” That cannot be the original resource place. How can we find the original resource? Satan is against the original concept. Satan says, “You belong to me. You cannot go restoration course.” God cannot recreate a person who thinks that way.</p>
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<p>God Himself has been persecuted until now. Can we believe that God has been persecuted? Furthermore, God could not utter a word about it. Look at what billions of traditional Christians today are believing and praying: “God just wipe out all evil and let goodness prevail.” They pray that way and they think God can do things that way. But we know that God cannot do that because He has to abide by this law which He created, His original law of creation.</p>
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<p>Jesus himself was killed and paid so much indemnity and those early Christians were persecuted so severely that they were even thrown to the lions and eaten alive. All that happened and God could not interfere. How angry do you think God felt to see those things? But did God do anything to stop it? No. He persevered and encouraged all the religious men and women to persevere. Today, although we are not being thrown into the lions’ den, we are persecuted. When we are in the process of being re-created, we do not revolt against God. The good raw material is even willing to die and to offer its life. That means that each individual, as the raw material which God is going to reshape, cannot say, “God, I don’t want You to do that with me.” Again, this illustrates the concept of, “Whoever is seeking to live, will die.” We must say, “Yes, God do whatever You will.” Then we illustrate the person who is willing to die and who will instead find his life. Who of you wishes to be that way? Raise your hands if you have that willingness. Naturally, you understand that this is the law of indemnity.</p>
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<p>Why is it so necessary? We can understand this: It is so that we can separate from Satan. Do you think Satan will leave you when you are comfortable? Satan will hold on to you until you die. When even Satan helps in the re-creation process which God is doing, then that serves the indemnity conditions for Satan himself. Even Satan can establish conditions by which he helps God to recreate. I have said these words very easily, just as you have heard all my sermons, but this law, this very point, has been hidden up till now. Nobody knew this except God, Satan, and Reverend Moon.</p>
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<p>What do you think, does Father belong to Satan or to God? What is your opinion? It is God! When someone belongs to God, then that person must do as God does. He cannot help but do that. Reverend Moon was put into prison and never complained to anyone, not to Satan and certainly not to God. He did his very best to recreate them, investing all he had to serve the prison inmates to such a point that even Satan bowed down to him saying, “I have no claim over you.” As I said many times, we start from the individual level to the family, clan, nation, all the way through the cosmos up to God. We know, there are eight steps in all. When did you fulfill those eight stages of indemnity? You didn’t. Only Father fulfilled those eight stages, and you are privileged now to become a part of it. You must understand this.</p>
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<p>Let us learn a great lesson from history. The Israelites were following Moses who was suffering a great deal and having lots of difficulty. The people following Moses should have thought to themselves, “Well, Moses is suffering that much so I must also suffer, in fact I must suffer even more.” If the people had had such an attitude and had not complained, being ready to sacrifice even more than they were called upon to do, the Israelite nation would be ruling the world and more today.</p>
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<p>Therefore, when we are being persecuted like this, we should not give in to Satan and say, “I will not do God’s work anymore so please don’t persecute me.” We must be willing even to die, to go beyond everything, in order for Satan to release us. Then God can reclaim us. This is where we begin True Love. We must go beyond that threshold. After going that far and being released from Satan, then we can start exercising True Love. That is what we all must do. This means we must sacrifice for the sake of somebody other than myself. We must do more and forget about it. When you invest with your life and you don’t die, you should forget that investment. Then be ready to do even more and more. True Love begins at that point or threshold. Otherwise we cannot go along our course.</p>
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<p>Here is the crossroads. The elder son becomes the second son and the second son becomes the elder. This is not coercive or compulsory subjugation. Satan must be subjugated willingly; he must say, “Yes, you are my Abel.” The world believed at one time that Reverend Moon was the worst of all dictators, the king of dictators. They talked about that and imagined it was true. Maybe they were right in one respect. Everybody in the world under the satanic domain is a dictator himself. Satan is the king of dictators, but he is about to be eaten up by a greater dictator than those who follow his lead who are dictators. So maybe they can call Father the greatest dictator. Do you understand? That means they are dictators themselves. That’s why they are afraid. They somehow connect everything bad to Reverend Moon-bad concepts and every bad thing you can imagine. But if Father negates that and tries to confront them squarely, then Father must give up the world of re-creation. Then they are no longer the resource material to be re-created. Father cannot make them like that. Father must stay silent and not confronting them. Silently he overcomes, and step by step he is getting closer and closer to God’s throne. God is in the plus position at that time and Reverend Moon is in the complete minus position, connecting and making the world into one. Father took on that cause for his whole lifetime. He has been working the restoration course with that kind of attitude continually. The whole world can reach restoration with that kind of attitude.</p>
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<p>This morning we have all the leaders not only from this country, but also the leaders of the world-wide mission countries. This one point we must not mistake. We must have a clear understanding of what it takes to restore or re-create. It is only through indemnity. Why indemnity? First Cain and Abel become completely one, then they become one with their mother Eve. The mother is plus and all the brothers and sisters are objects. The mother and all the family would become one with yet a bigger plus, representing Adam. When they become one together, this big minus will become one with the biggest plus, representing God. Even Satan is testing us to see whether we are qualified to be the material which will be re-created. Satan will test us first. If we revolt against it because we don’t want to suffer, they say, “Oh, you failed to become the material to be molded again by your new creator.” Satan will say to God, “I tested him and he always revolts, so he is not ready to become material to be re-created. So, God, please put him in the furnace again and then I will take him out again and try.”</p>
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<p>We must understand that those who have gone through this indemnity more than their own share, will later be raised up as the model case of restoration history. That person later becomes the model. Just like Job in the Bible. We see the story of Job in the Old Testament. He was persecuted, denied and negated to a ridiculous extent, but he never uttered one word of complaint. He always said, “Yes, Yes” to God, and then God later was able to give him the greatest blessings. By this yardstick, has America become such a moldable material after World War II? We are talking about the second Israelites’ domain. The second Israelites, which is the Christendom represented by America, is in the bride’s position. The absolute plus to the bride is the bridegroom. The bride has to take the absolute minus position, which is the no-concept position.</p>
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<p>Have America and the free world now taken that kind of attitude? No. This is the problem. All over the world, Americans are trying to lead, thinking that they are connected to God. Yet, people want to kick out Americans. They are going a different way from the formula so America cannot reach the completion place. They will go down to dungeon of hell. Israel and the Roman Catholic church were in the same situation. England was in the same situation. They controlled the whole world at a certain time but they didn’t take the complete minus position, they did not reach that kind of attitude. They remained a plus. Ultimately they turned around to Satan’s position. Do you understand? You have to know this formula, the original point.</p>
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<p>The traditional Christians would be right and God could do His will overnight, if God did not have to follow this law of indemnity. Of course, this is not true. God could put Satan into the dungeon of hell right away. Did God do that? “Oh, Lord, you have come on the clouds and we are waiting to serve you.” That is nonsense. Do you understand this formula clearly?</p>
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<p>Indemnity, why indemnity? It is because restoration means we must go through the reverse path. Look at the valuable tradition of America itself. They started from being persecuted by the so-called Orthodox church. The Protestant church fled to America and paid a lot of indemnity through suffering, loosing many lives. They set this tradition. We must understand that the American forefathers were proud not to be outdone by what they considered to be an evil, morally corrupt religion, namely the Catholic Church. They took great pride in being Protestants. America was successful doing that and God approved of it.</p>
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<p>So right here (referring to the drawing on the board), when Eve becomes one, she will not go back to fallen Adam. She will instead come to this true Adam, and in doing that, she comes to crossroads. We must deny ourselves, at the crossroads. Without denying ourselves, we certainly cannot go to God. Even Satan does not welcome that. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>If we do not go through this course while on earth then we must continue in the spirit world, and this takes much more time and effort. Let us determine the greatness of our sons and daughters not by any other standard except this formula standard: whether he or she is fulfilling this formula or not. There is no way we can go to heaven without going through this principle. Take Father for example. In Korea, Father is considered to be the man of all men. He is a real, real man. Everybody sort of understands that. The closer he lives with them, the better they understand him. He can wrestle better, he is smarter, he can sacrifice more and he is handsome, too! (Laughter)</p>
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<p>Then Father sees his disciples, brothers and sisters who are kidnapped, deprogrammed and “brainwashed” by their own parents. This is unheard of in history. All these things cause Father to feel very angry, and he wants to retaliate against them. But why did he keep silent? He kept silent and everybody felt, “Well, he must be doing something wrong.” But Father was following the formula way of investing, forgetting, investing and forgetting. Father could not take the way of retaliation or reaction, because of the formula. Is that clear to you? Can you take the same attitude as Father? Can you be persecuted and not retaliate? This is such a difficult way. How difficult? Very. How much? A hundred times. Can you do that? You have to understand this clearly from now on.</p>
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<p>When Satan strikes us and we persevere, we stay put so that we can pass his test. How do you respond, when Father assails us? Do you say, “Oh, that’s Satan! I revolt!” Should you revolt? We should not say anything or revolt, when Satan strikes us. When Father assails us, even more, we should not say anything. Does Father assails you because he hates you? No, it is so that he can bring you something better than what you have. Or to save you. Did you know Father is known to be the person who professes and preaches and at the same time uses a lot of four-letter words? (Laughter) I don’t know if “four-letter words” is correct, but anyway, the words he uses are very strong. Yok in Korean means “calling names.” Father can really call names! To professors, to anybody. Believe it or not, some professors, say, “Ha, Ha, we professors really deserve to be called names. We are nothing. We are fakes.” Those who say such a thing, will be blessed directly from God. Those who revolt against Reverend Moon, “Oh, he criticized me so harshly, he must be a fake,” lose everything.</p>
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<p>Father was put into prison, for which Father was very indignant-we all know that. I took the right attitude, every time God put me into jail. I never, ever uttered a word of complaint or revolted against it but persevered and planned ahead. Then God always gave me the bigger reward after I came out of prison. When Reverend Moon was put into prison and God asked Satan, “Did he revolt?” Satan said, “No, he didn’t, he just stayed put.” When God asked, “Don’t you think Reverend Moon deserves something?” Satan had to answer, “Yes, yes indeed.” So God could raise up Father and Satan could not say anything.</p>
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<p>In fact, Satan had to sign the paper to authorize Reverend Moon to rise up. The same principle applies to you. We have a lot of Ph.D.’s and you know they are all head-heavy. They have a lot of ideas in their heads and are very unbalanced. (Laughter) And they don’t have the right concepts all the time either. They have a lot of enemy concepts. But even those Ph.D.’s don’t have to worry about it. Understand these principles, and you can kick off your burden and go straight to heaven. Only Father can explain it like this. Right? Father has the authority and know-how to do that. Because, literally, no one can enter into heaven unless he understands the Principle which Reverend Moon teaches. It is not difficult, but simple. In this perspective, this very important criteria, you be the judge: do you think there will be a larger population going to heaven here in America, in China or in those nations where the people are starving every day? More people are potentially going to heaven from where: America, China or the Third World? (The Third World.) By this principle, yes. Americans think this way, “I want to go to heaven. Where is my heaven?” But instead of going forward they are going backward, and they don’t even know.</p>
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<p>How can we change them? That is the problem. Nobody understood this kind of formula. “I don’t need that. Only Unification Church members need that. American people don’t need to know that. It is not valuable.” But this principle applies universally and not only to the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>What does it mean to be saved? It means to be restored. How are we to be restored? By indemnity. By restoration through indemnity. Invest and forget. Move on to higher levels. Otherwise, there is no way. The restoration course means indemnity. American people don’t want to do that.</p>
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<p>Second generation, do you also understand? This applies to you too. You have to follow your parents absolutely. People of high religions and blessed couples too, with no exception, must leave home and suffer for the achievement of the goal. In the truest sense, they are actually not even entitled to get married. But for the first time, within the Unification Church and because of this foundation, Father has been teaching differently, hasn’t he? He is saying, “You must get married in order to get into the Kingdom of Heaven.” Also, instead of leaving home, go back to your home and work there. This is the other way around from the traditional religious teaching. That is why these religious people call Father a heretic. That means Father is now completing the earlier history and beginning the first page of the new history.</p>
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<p>What higher ideal or ambition can you have than to say, “I am going to get married now centering on God and True Parents. And for the first time in history, I am going to go to my God-centered home.” Home means that we have to have a home town. You don’t have a home town now. It was always Satan’s hometown and not God’s hometown. God’s hometown is appearing, from now on. What greater dream is there than this? We must know the formula.</p>
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<p>We must understand how precious the Blessing is. Before the Blessing can come into existence, we must have Parents. We cannot be Blessed, if we do not have Parents. Now Father has instructed Reverend Kwak and he is working very hard. Father suggested through Reverend Kwak to all religious leaders, to launch a new movement where all the religious denominations will get together and resolve; “Let us bring them all together through marriage.” Not just in their own denominations, but among all the different religions. Immediately those religious leaders were thinking, “If that happens, I will be ruined by the Unification Church.” But I felt differently. I said, “No, not ruined by the Unification Church.” Father is going to share this Blessing to all around the world and not keep it just in the Unification Church. (Applause)</p>
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<p>When Father finishes teaching this, Father’s role as initiator of the Federation of World Religions will have been accomplished. It is up to them to listen, but Father is welcoming them to follow Father. Father knows the time. Father knows exactly what he is speaking to them. If Father does not encourage the celibate Catholic priests and nuns to marry now, as well as the Buddhist monks in monasteries, they will very soon become the arena of free sex. When the Buddhist and Catholic religion brings hundreds of thousands, even millions, of monks and nuns to get married, then they will come alive and they will find the goals of their religion.</p>
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<p>A lot of Catholic priests are getting married anyway. Why is that? The time has come so that their mind is pulled in that direction. Father understands them clearly. When a person stands up against the low tide, he is okay, he can still get air. But when the high tide comes in and he still tries to stand up, what can he do? The only thing he can do is drink the water. He can’t help it. He has to back down so that he won’t be drowned. They have to keep backing up and backing up, if they don’t want to get married . Still the tide will come in high. That’s the situation today.</p>
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<p>The champion of this exchanging is the Messiah. He knows how to exchange and when to exchange the individual level, family, tribal, society, national, world, cosmic and God’s level. No one can return to God, without taking that exchanging way.</p>
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<p>This law is so practical that we can even apply it to today’s situation. Let’s take the example of America. There is a practice of denying our own family members, our own father and mother, and going alone. Denying everything. If one accepts the precious relationship of father and mother and the value of family, America would go to heaven overnight. We are in the transition time. The Messiah wants that kind of exchanging place. First deny, like we are denying today and then turn around and meet the bride and groom. That person is then in a position to go to heaven because he is all alone.</p>
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<p>This morning Father was speaking in greater detail than this, but Father is just giving us his conclusion: there is a great deal of incest going on in today’s America, which has some historical basis. There were very close relations with Zecharias’ family, in Jesus’ family. Of course God wanted to go in a certain positive direction, but it didn’t happen. Rather, it went in a negative direction, which is culminating today. Jesus was supposed to marry Zecharias’ daughter, the younger sister of John the Baptist, who was also Jesus’ own half-sister. So God intended that very close relationship. Do you follow? America today is reflecting this in a perverted way. That transition time, if it had been done right, would have led right into heaven. But it didn’t happen and instead we have seen 2,000 years of history, which is today manifesting in such a negative manner in modern America. But even that could change overnight if we go in God’s direction. Even that is not beyond restoration.</p>
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<p>We might say that twelve o’clock sharp would be the deadline, but who understands when it is exactly twelve o’clock? Standing where we are and then turning around 180 degrees will point us towards perfection. But how can you be confident? Father is teaching the Divine Principle to you and through that you can be confident to take the right direction. Why did I ask all you Blessed couples to raise your hands earlier? It is because Blessed couples should have gone through this path before you got blessed, but didn’t. As it is, you already got Blessed, but you have to go through this principle the same way.</p>
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<p>Father already explained as a general rule, that Champumonim means Parents in the plus position. Chupokijong is Blessed couples in the minus position. Obedience means to become completely one and united. If my mind and body fight all the time, and my wife’s mind and body fight all the time, and my wife and I fight all the time, we can never become one. We can never become the true minus for the big plus. We cannot. When a family becomes like that, they will become exempt. While Father is still alive here on earth is the very time where we have to fulfill this. We will have no recourse in the spirit world, if we don’t do this. There is no second way of doing this. When someone will shout out in a big voice, “All Blessed couples present here, are we going to listen to Parents or not,” what would the answer be? Would it be yes or no? (YES!) When you say yes, does that mean, “Yes, Father, I have my own concept and my son has his own concept”?</p>
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<p>Those members of the four position foundation must forget every concept. Remember only the zero point. Do you understand? No matter how Father is teaching, we must follow everything. Otherwise, you cannot follow the way of re-creation.</p>
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<p>This is our new resolution. But what about all the past? Many of you Blessed members have been Blessed for ten or more years. What kind of attitude have you been taking up till now? Compare it with this formula. Have you taken the position of this absolute zero point? Yes or no? Not just as individuals but as families. Then when we stand in the corresponding position to this plus as the perfect minus, a tribal messiah, we must assume this plus position and teach all the other families in this tribe. Then you fulfill the role of tribal messiah. Standing upon that, you become the tribal messiah.</p>
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<p>This is absolute. You must exercise your absoluteness because you cannot bend the Principle. Otherwise we lose all the families in our tribe. Is there any real way for America to go to heaven, if we really practice tribal messiahship in this country of America? There are eight steps. Father starts from the individual level and goes all the way to cosmos and God. As we see, everybody opposes the individual while he is building the foundation and making the family. But after that, they give in. That means God’s realm becomes so much wider, so many walls have been knocked out.</p>
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<p>So this is the realm. You saw already, even though you don’t hear any explanation, this is what it has become step by step . After the confrontation between communism and democracy is over, then the whole area becomes God’s domain where we can go up or down as we please, and God can live anywhere we may be. This is the Completed Testament era. This is not the New Testament era anymore. This is center. There is only one vertical center. All eyes are watchful for Reverend Moon’s going and coming. So this is where it is happening. Here the whole horizontal level can come up to an equal basis on the horizontal level and can be restored. It is very quick, very fast, en masse. In other words, Father knocked the wall down on all these eight levels, from individual to family and all the way up to the cosmic world. God could not travel here freely because there was no highway for Him, but now Father made one, and God always followed Father in his wake. God could follow, wherever Father went and wherever he knocked down the walls. Now God can travel freely back and forth in this realm.</p>
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<p>Father wanted to open this door wide and give women the opportunity to stand on the same level, equal to Father. Therefore, he initiated the Women’s Federation. Through this, each family now has this chance. The woman, or the mother of that family, is the bride and is ready to meet the groom. Once she meets the groom, this family can stand the same way as Father’s own family stands. God can live there just as well as you. It took thousands of years of foundation and Father’s own forty years of fierce struggle to reach here. Not everybody has to go the most difficult way. Instead, Father is going to deploy that foundation horizontally. All five billion people on earth can quickly be restored. This is why heaven on earth can be formed quickly.</p>
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<p>This can also be achieved on the national and world level. This is everybody’s dream and desire. Sons and daughters will come together, and centering on the mother, they will meet the Messiah, the bridegroom. Then they will follow his wake and God can live in every family, with all five billion people of the world. Humankind had an earlier chance, as we know, right after World War II. That time, it was the national and world level, not even the family level, where England was in the mother’s role and position. America was Abel and France was Cain. If they became one and met the bridegroom-to-come, then the whole world could have been united overnight. This family type level of unity could have come and heaven on earth could have been achieved at that time. Seven years is what Father figured it would take. But it did not happen. They opposed the coming of Reverend Moon.</p>
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<p>Father has been providing a ready explanation. Of all the countries, America was in the highest position in the whole world. It had experienced phenomenal success and was at its peak. Only forty years later did America come down. Why? The Christian world started under persecution. No matter how difficult it was, they reached the position to overcome the world base. They had that kind of course but God protected them and raised them up. After World War II, the whole world was in a unified position under those three countries. Why have we seen that the free world under the Christian leadership has come down in the past forty years? Satan is taking them down, diminishing them to the dungeon of hell. Why? Nobody so far has been able to explain. The Christian world was the bride’s base and foundation. After the creation, God has been taking the providential way. He invested hundreds of thousands of years, a long time making the bride position on the world level. That was established and completed after World War II. Those nations with a mission have to meet the Messiah. The Messiah is not a country leader or a powerful dictator, nor some kind of Olympic marathon champion. He doesn’t have anything, only zero, zero.</p>
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<p>With Jesus it was the same. At that time, Judaism and the nation of Israel were eager to meet their Messiah. The Messiah appeared and he proclaimed himself. The people heard rumors. They went to check Jesus, to analyze and understand him. He was an illegitimate child. He had no father! At that time, the Israel law authorized the stoning to death of women who committed adultery. Rumors spread all over the country, “Jesus was born as the result of illicit love. No matter how famous he is, how can he possibly be the Messiah?” The Israelites paid so much sacrifice to receive the Messiah, during forty years. His coming had that kind of value. But after he came, even the girls surrounding Jesus didn’t want to marry him. It was a miserable situation.</p>
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<p>Compare the present with 2,000 years ago. Judaism now says Jesus was a heretic and that he was not the Messiah. Among the Israelites, only ten percent are Christian. After 2,000 years they feel that way so how could those who were contemporaries of Jesus believe in him? The Messiah was supposed to be Israel’s king. First, Cain and Abel should have welcomed Jesus’ position. Did the leader of the Israelites do that? The Old Testament taught that Elijah would come down to the earth before the Messiah appeared. Elijah was expected to descend from the sky. All the religious believers believed in that kind of concept. Think about it. Elijah was to descend from the heavens to the earth. Elijah didn’t appear like that. Jesus’ disciples went out and preached everywhere and then John the Baptist’s disciples asked them, “You say that your teacher is the Messiah, but Malachi has written that before the Messiah appears we will see Elijah. Elijah hasn’t appeared, so how can you say that your teacher is the Messiah?” Every time they rejected Jesus’ disciples, spitting on them.</p>
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<p>We see the same situation today. Now at the time of the Second Advent, all the Christian world is believing and expecting to see Jesus coming back to the earth from the sky. They have the same concept as those in the past. They are expecting a king of earthly power, a man of absolute power. Satan cannot stand in front of that kind of Messiah. Think about it. That’s like indemnity. The Old Testament disappeared. In this time, success will come in the same way. Jesus did not appear on the clouds, descending to the earth. Just as John the Baptist came in the role of Elijah, if John the Baptist had followed Jesus absolutely, then the country could have followed and the whole nation would have been quickly connected and dedicated themselves. No problem.</p>
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<p>The situation surrounding Father has the same meaning. Only one man appeared with no foundation. Korea had no foundation at that time, only one man. There were many churches making preparation. For what? The whole Christian world was making preparation for the Second Advent. Who is the Second Advent? The Messiah, Reverend Moon. Those three nations were like the three wise men at Jesus’ time who brought gifts. Those three visited me, saying, “All countries, all the world is dedicated to you. Please do your will freely.” Can they do that? Is that an easy way or difficult way? American people like to say, “Easy way.” Those three wise men who bowed down and represented all mankind, was that the easy way or difficult way? Nobody was treated the same way that Father was when he came here.</p>
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<p>After forty years, no matter how much people opposed Reverend Moon, they did not tear him down. Now all around the world, those who made proclamations against him crashed down. Nothing can stand before the teachings of Reverend Moon. People everywhere recognize this. Look at the people in the former Soviet Union. Many leaders on the national level are receiving the four days training program. They are being completely won over and are turning around completely from their former ways. They denied God before, but now they are receiving and believing in God. They are following behind Reverend Moon. Think about that. This truth has already completely covered the world. America, representing one side of the world, has been standing in the God-centered position and is now against me. The other side, formerly the side which denied God, is welcoming Reverend Moon. Which side will take the upper position? America was first, but is now lost.</p>
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<p>In the time of Jesus’ crucifixion, there was a thief on the left side and thief on the right. One side represented the communist world, the other side represented the free world. The Islam world was represented by Barabbas’. The time of the Second Coming is the time to unify those three. Isn’t that true? At that time, the three thieves represented the world foundation. Jesus was not able to make completion in his time. In these Last Days, we have to make the completion. God wants to see the re-creation starting point. Do you understand? Father did it through the organizations he founded. The Federation for World Peace and also through the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace. The two organizations represent body and mind respectively. The Federation for World Peace represents the political world. Those two combine with Reverend Moon at the center. It is as if the position of mind and body are connecting. Also the communist world, Christian world and Muslim world were brought together on April 10, 1992. Eight country leaders from Islam came together and were blessed by Father. This is making a new order. Communist world members, Islam world members, and free world members were together embracing at that place. That means the condition was fulfilled which was established at the time of Jesus on the cross. At this time those thieves disappeared. After that, the unified world is starting.</p>
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<p>To become the Lord of Second Advent is to continue to do what Jesus did and make the free world and communist world come into unity and harmony. That was Jesus’ mission. One side is plus and one is minus. Satan is denying the harmony between these two sides. Now Father must bring these two worlds into unity. The situation in Korea is the same. North Korea and South Korea are divided. South Korea the free side should be the plus. The communist world should be the minus. Between the Israelites and Arabs-the Arabs think they are the plus. This is on the religious base. God’s ideal is for one to become a plus and one to become a minus. There is no one in the whole world who can unite these two. No one except Reverend Moon. This is why Reverend Moon gave George Bush a proposal for how this could be done. But he did not listen and he is no longer in power.</p>
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<p>Father told him, “We must have a model nation to play the model role to show after uniting these two worlds. And this is the way you must do it.” But Bush did not listen at all.</p>
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<p>Jesus’ physical body was separated from his spirit body. In the same way, unity must be brought in Asia between the spiritual and physical world. Only Reverend Moon can do that. America and Asia are coming this way and they meet right where Korea is today. We know it is inevitable because Jesus lost his physical body in the East. That situation is now restored in the East. That’s why we say, “Today we are living in the ‘Pacific Era’.”</p>
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<p>This is the realm of Christianity (drawn on board). They must become one with us. To unify is more or less Father’s entire work. Father must unite the inside and the outside, creating unity everywhere. Where is the world going to go? The answer is simple. The solution to the problems of the world and the new direction of the world is the family unit. When the family unit comes into this model, everything is completed. We don’t have to do anything more. The solutions to the ultimate problems of the world rest on the family unit. Father has already given us a very simple way to achieve this. We had many chances to achieve this on the national level before but they all failed. Now we are doing it through family restoration. Father has already achieved all the formulas to connect the different levels of the clan, world and cosmos. Therefore, we must do tribal messiahship. This is exactly what the world rests on. That will automatically indemnify the Old Testament Era, the New Testament Era, and the failures of both those eras. This is the time when we are in the first page of the Completed Testament Era. Its essence is family and tribal messiahship.</p>
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<p>In tribal messiahship, which Father toiled so much to achieve, people can now partake in a very easy way. Even though the family is not united and opposes the Parents, Father still forgives them and lets them stand in the same position on this horizontal line. Any family that unites with Father, centering on their mother, can now achieve instant unity and instant Kingdom of Heaven. This is the formula that works.</p>
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<p>Now check on yourself. Have your mind and body become united according to this formula of re-creation; compare your own mind and body. There is always a plus and minus concept. It is because the Creator has these two concepts. Mind is what, plus or minus? (Plus.) Body is what? (Minus.) But after the fall, the body came to take the plus position. Behind the unity of mind and body is the authority and power over the family, tribe, nation, world and cosmos. There appeared only one man in the Abel position, on God’s side. How can the plus and minus positions be used to restore the cosmos? The political world hits the religious world. Is that true? That is a problem. How can they unite? You didn’t find the Messiah. You cannot make a completion of your creation purpose without the Messiah. You have to absolutely understand that you need the Messiah, the True Parents.</p>
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<p>True Parents means understanding the contents of the different positions. Please understand this. It is like being a doctor. This is a course where you must analyze everything. No matter how difficult it is, after hearing the Divine Principle you have to control your body with your mind. Otherwise you cannot stand in front of God. Do you understand? What about those of you in the back of the room? Yes or no? (Yes.) When you say “Yes,” it means “Jesus” in Korean.</p>
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<p>How can I unify myself? This is the most central problem and the hardest homework for everybody on God’s side. Your enemy is your own body. The enemy’s kingdom is your body. It is the military site for your enemy. Do you understand? A woman’s body is her enemy and a man’s body is his enemy. Those bodies like Satan’s way, Satanic attitudes and satanic habits are ingrained in the body. Satan likes free sex. Sexual action is Satan’s ideal. That power breaks down God’s foundation. The physical body likes free sex. Those who follow that way are part of Satan’s brood.</p>
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<p>You have to know yourself clearly. You are now restoring history going toward eternal life. How can you stop that satanic way and cut away? Push out Satan. Push your body out of the ring. Make a plus and minus unity and after that you will increase and make advancement. Using this formula you will occupy God centering on True Love. Connect with the subject up and down, and all will become one centered on True Love. The center root goes up and down but it has unchanging value. Man’s ambition is to get to that point, “I want to occupy God.”</p>
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<p>No matter how absolute and great God is, God absolutely needs True Love. Which is more strong: God or True Love? Even though God is the absolute being, He absolutely needs True Love. You never knew that concept of God’s absolute True Love. God wants absolute love and obedience.</p>
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<p>God’s children will become couples and marry. God teaches them, “You have to completely unify centering on True Love. Otherwise, I don’t like it.” That is how God teaches His children. Children ask, “Father, you teach us that we absolutely have to obey True Love, so how about you?” He says, “Of course, of course, me too.” God says, “I need partnership.” Do you understand? Father is a lonely guy. Does Reverend Moon have that True Love or not? No love power can appear alone. You cannot feel, imagine or act on that strong power. The eyeballs work in partnership. What kind of power creates such phenomena? Not just one, which would be phenomenon, but five senses, which is phenomena. That’s true. Right?</p>
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<p>When Mother says, “I want to take your hand”, how wonderful it is. The vertical position comes first, then turning around and there is the horizontal position. This dance is the ideal contents course, with one upward motion and the next downward motion. The high level peak meets the lower level peak. The dance step moves fast and then slow and it is a good feeling. You have all ridden a roller coaster, haven’t you? It’s very exciting. How many degrees is the angle that the roller coaster goes up? It goes up and then drops down at almost a ninety degree angle! You scream when you fall, making that partnership most enjoyable. You laugh, when you go downhill centering on True Love. The action is enjoyable. Even God absolutely needs God’s True Love. No matter how mighty God’s position may appear without True Love He is not happy and has no power. No matter how famous Reverend Moon might be, no matter how much he stands here and talks about strength and expressing deep concepts, if he lacked True Love he would have no value. Isn’t that true?</p>
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<p>Mother absolutely needs True Love. When this love disappears we see the emergence of people like feminists immediately taking place. They ask, “What made that kind of concept?” You need True Love. Is that true? You can connect your mind and body, by centering on True Love.</p>
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<p>The quiet Oriental woman will come to control other women of the world. Why? In a village, everybody persecuted one woman. She is not bad. She has good characteristics and makes good action. She makes good result every day. But the surrounding women gather around her and say things and hit her. At last, God will say, “Why are you making that kind of action against this woman?” The surrounding women will be strongly pushed down, and the other one is protected and lifted up. She will be lifted up to the center to where all the others will have to follow her standard and attitude. “We have a model, we will follow her! Mansei!” That is a natural action. God takes that kind of attitude.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon is the same. The whole world, individual, family, tribal and nation-all together came against him at one time. They were shooting bullets and arrows everywhere. During the day, at night, through every season and for more than four decades they have been shooting at Reverend Moon. Yet Reverend Moon never disappeared. In fact, he just became bigger and bigger. The CIA cannot understand it and the KGB cannot understand it. They worked hard to analyze him and they found out that Father is not a bad man! In fact, he is a good man. Only good! All the nations of the world have come to understand. In fact, they are coming to discover that Reverend Moon is the number one good guy in the world. That’s true. Why? They see that Reverend Moon is only doing good everywhere. They ask, “Since Reverend Moon came to the United States, what has he done?” The answer is that he has spent much money for the sake of this country. He and his members have received a lot of persecution. They work hard and never take much rest wherever they go. Do you like that? Reverend Moon has been teaching all the time that you have to take the way of persecution. Go down! Go down. Why? Because you have to subjugate your physical body. Your physical body is Satan’s kingdom. It is the individual foundation for Satan to control everything, including the family, tribe, nation, world, spirit world and hell. Unless you change your physical body’s position, you cannot get into heaven. At the terminal point and last station, Satan will be waiting and say, “You will have to receive my permission, to get into heaven. It is given based on whether or not you passed the indemnity course formula way.” Satan learned this rule well. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Now that Father is teaching you clearly, will you learn and understand, or not? You will learn more than Satan! Think about how clever Satan is. After the fall he accused God for thousands and thousands of years. “God, You should stop Your action. You cannot progress until you solve this point.” Satan accuses God and God has to answer, “You are right.” That’s true. If you cannot go over that level of accusation and occupation by Satan you cannot go up. This is formula. It is a contract between God and Satan.</p>
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<p>If you want to take Satan out from your family, children and your race, you have to know this formula. Unless you fulfill that contract, Satan will say, “No matter how famous a revival meeting leader you are and no matter if you are as famous as Reverend Moon. You belong behind me.” You will be hooked. This contents cannot be explained anywhere else. Occupying the right position, you must follow it, with no complaining.</p>
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<p>Do you understand? I speak in broken English, because I am not an Englishman. How can you understand these contents? That is the question, isn’t that true? To understand the contents is the most important thing.</p>
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<p>Father has explained the most important things and has not kept anything to himself. The dispensational course of restoration history is that of indemnity. The course of restoration is absolutely the indemnity course. Why? We are going the opposite way, the reverse way. The younger brother has to take the elder brother’s position. Is it easy or difficult to accomplish this? It is difficult. But it is a proud course because we must act like God. Otherwise we will not pass.</p>
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<p>By the same token, unless you act as True Parents act, you cannot become true parents yourselves. I agree with you, if you don’t like indemnity. I don’t like indemnity either, but without understanding it and passing through this course, we don’t pass anything and we have no victory. We get a big zero, no grade at all, not even an F.</p>
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<p>This whole world is directed by the relationship between plus and minus. The smaller one is in the position to sacrifice for the sake of the larger one. In other words, all mankind should offer themselves for the sake of God. Look at the food chain where the smaller fish are eaten by the bigger fish. The bigger fish may then get eaten by an eagle. A fox may eat the eagle, then a tiger may eat the fox. As they go up in the food chain, they come closer to God and everything is fair and balanced. Look at the sardines and the small fish and the millions and millions of eggs they lay. Most of them get eaten up by the bigger fish. But the tiger and the lion can only have one cub every two or three years.</p>
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<p>The tiger feeds only in the middle of the night. He would eat more than necessary, if he ate in the daytime. Many other animals come out to eat, including the deer, at dawn. They do not have to worry about meeting the tiger and lion, at that time. The tiger eats in the middle of the night and must run miles before he can get his prey. Do you know how difficult it is for the tiger to get his meal? He has to work very hard for every meal, whereas the deer wakes up early with the sun and goes to bed when it gets dark. In the daytime, they graze and move around and enjoy life. They have big ears that can detect the slightest sounds of warning. The same is true of the rabbit. The rabbit may protest, “God, why did You make me so vulnerable? I am the prey of almost everybody. The tiger is after me, the fox is after me, even the raccoon is after me.” God will spank the rabbit and say, “That may be, but I gave you those big ears, didn’t I? Whenever the enemy approaches you, you can hear him coming and you can flee.”</p>
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<p>All the creatures are like that. Animals with the longer legs are those who have to be able to run away fast from their enemies. What about the white people? They must have done something wrong so they fled to the North Pole, where they became white. White people must have originated close to the North Pole, isn’t that true? Look at the polar bear. It is totally white. The white people love blood. They use weapons and kill animals and people, so they have to flee all the time. Actually, Christianity prospered on this foundation. There was a lot of plundering and pirating.</p>
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<p>This way is how the Japanese walk, but don’t laugh at them because they are proud. They are honest people. America, France and England really have little to be proud of. Much of what they have, they took from somebody else. Just like women who are tall but want to have even longer legs, so they wear high heels. Everything in a museum comes from having been plundered. The white people didn’t produce anything themselves. Look at the museum in London. Were those things presented to the English people, or didn’t the English people just take all those things and put them in their museum? They have taken things and that is what robbers, swindlers and cheats do. Isn’t that true?</p>
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<p>What about this very country of the United States, whose country is this truly? Is it the country of the white people or of the Oriental natives? You have to know that Oriental people were the original settlers in this country. You have to know this history and make it clear. That is the indemnity way. First the Western world came in to occupy this country and now you have to receive the same treatment. Now you experience the opposite side. This is the natural way, the law of cycles, evolving law or rolling law. Sometimes within the cycle it goes high and sometimes low. It is not high or low all the time. Oriental people are not low all the time. Look at those small Japanese people. They are occupying the world’s economic power. Who gave them that kind of power? The Japanese people may think they did it, but God gave that grace and power.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon is called the terrible dictator. Everybody talks about him. The white people don’t want to hear it. “Why does he say those kinds of things? We don’t like that.” But no matter if you don’t like it, it is the natural phenomenon leading God’s concept. If you don’t go in God’s direction, you are immediately diminished and you go down to hell. You must then take the way of repentance. You white people! Wake up. Look at heaven and God. Otherwise there is no hope. Darkness will come more and more, day after day, year after year. America will become dark like the dungeon of hell. You white people cannot escape that.</p>
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<p>Father has been here in America for twenty-one years, investing everything to extend the hands of salvation, trying to save America. You need to save yourselves. I have been here for twenty-one years. What could America have become today, if you had understood this law of indemnity twenty years ago, and had carried it out? But they didn’t listen and they didn’t understand. Did we have to wait for America to become like this in twenty years? God cannot exist alone either. He needs His object of love. Please understand this indemnity formula of absolute plus and minus making unity and creating higher and higher unity. This is the formula course, reaching at last to God and occupying God. God said, “I am the beginning and I am the end.” Do you understand? God is Alpha and Omega.</p>
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<p>Now we understand restoration by indemnity. We must understand that what Father has been teaching has been this principle. No matter how difficult the situation is, you absolutely have to follow and obey Reverend Moon. Otherwise you cannot make that equal partnership centered on True Love. Subject and object must be combined in one place and connect with True Love at that time. Otherwise there is no way. “No way” means that it will forever despair. True Love centering on God is absolute. Absolute means forever. God is a plus True Love center. Humankind is a minus True Love center. The two combined into one makes one equal partnership centering on True Love. That connecting point is the unification place. It represents the mind’s side and body’s side. They cannot then separate. God is the ultimate eternal Being, the opposite partner of humankind, centering on True Love. Forever. It is a reasonable conclusion that humankind will forever be united with God centering on True Love. How wonderful this is. Centering on what? True Love. Spirit world is full of the concept of True Love. In spirit world you are sensitive and can experience True Love with your five senses. After that you pass into heaven. After getting into heaven you can catch everything. It is the ideal living environment. You don’t know how wonderful that is. Father knows well. How awesome that place is! Your imagination cannot measure that kind of heaven. It is big, big, big! The biggest words cannot contain that concept which stretches for thousands and thousands of miles. No matter how far away he may be, if I call for somebody I want to hear from, he would immediately be able to come to me. Why? We are enabled to travel with great speed throughout heaven, because of love. The fastest speed in all the universe is with True Love. Do you understand? Time or space are not a problem. Things can happen or move immediately. Even if only one word is said, somebody can immediately appear in reality. So the person of the highest love can do everything. It depends on your love level, how much love you have. That is like God centered love. Comparing ourselves, what is our percentage of love? Are you a high percent guy or low percent guy? Every time you want to meet with someone, it is no problem. Thousands of people can gather together, at one time. You can see that center love and want to touch it and you can participate. You will automatically be set up, by desiring it. Your imagination can travel freely.</p>
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<p>Father is teaching you, and if you follow, you will go to that level. You can control everything. That is how valuable it is. Nothing can compare to it. Do you want to attempt to get to that kind of place, or not? Yes, absolutely? Absolutely means you have to become an absolute being yourself. Absolutely means completely one. Have you achieved that position or not? That’s the problem. The mind is at a low level too. The original mind occupies the perfection position. Automatically, original mind has the best love power to lead the body. You have to pray, if you want to reach that powerful position. Not play but pray. Pray to God. Do you think, “I want to play, have fun, go dancing. Ha-ha-ha!” That won’t work. You have to have tearful and many prayers. You are Moonies. Satan’s world made up that name. But you are Moonies, right? That means you are like Reverend Moon. Reverend Moon’s brood, right? The True Love race. That brood is the so-called True Love race and tribe. Tribe means race. The True Love race cannot be occupied by Satan. You are free absolutely in Satan’s world. Satan’s world is going down to the dungeon of hell. That gate is automatically open there and it is very crowded. Going there and stepping down, Satan is there pushing people down. The doors are open there and you can freely go inside. You know that. But the high-level, victorious True Love guy is going to get into heaven and meeting no obstacles. There will be no barriers, it is just free. Do you want to follow behind Father and go there? Can you complain all the time about the hard work and the persecution you have to go through? No, you just have to say, “I want to follow Father.” The time for you to train is now, in this world. Otherwise there is no way. You must be well trained.</p>
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<p>Now you are leading the soldiers who are going one day all over the world without problem. Is that true? Especially Blessed couples. A Blessed couple will have lower value without Reverend Moon. There will be no way, no success. Your way will become dark and confused, if you don’t follow Reverend Moon. Father went to God and said, “You have to teach me everything!!” We must do the same to Father. That’s true. Jacob wrestled with the angel and it was the same thing. The angel hit him so hard that it dislocated his hip bone, but still Jacob held on and demanded the blessing. The angel gave up, after that.</p>
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<p>Gathering here, you are immediately blessed. That is a problem. Your mind is making that kind of decision. You must decide, “No matter how difficult the circumstances are that surround me, I will overcome them. No problem.” Which one is it: “No problem”, or “Yes problem”? There are many “Yes problem” guys gathered here. I don’t want to see that kind of attitude and neither does God. That means we must repent at this time. That means every couple here must repent.</p>
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<p>You see that Father is getting older and older. And I am going up and up. What about you? You have also been going up, up and up? How much have you been elevated in spirit since you first joined the Unification Church? Have you forgotten everything else except your forward march toward God? Have you gone down or up since you became associated with the Unification Church? (UP!) Have you really been going up, after ten years of membership? I say down! (UP!) Reverend Moon has been going up more and more, all the way to the highest mountain peaks of the Himalayas. You must go over the peaks because you are following that same course. Your course is not as high, but you are going up in the same way, climbing your own mountain. You must continue climbing all the time, going over and over and paying your indemnity. You must climb your own indemnity hill which is waiting for you. That is the teaching of the Divine Principle. That is your five percent portion of responsibility in fulfilling your mission. God cannot help there. It is your mission. It is like God’s own restoration course, when you complete your own mission, going that kind of hard way.</p>
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<p>So you understand that power. Every morning and every evening you have to seek it. Bow down and pray, “Please God, help me, I have to climb that hill. I need True Parents’ help too.” The only leaders you need in this are God and True Parents. There are not two formulas or two ways to get there. There is absolutely only one, not two. This is true for everybody. Everybody has to follow that formula. God doesn’t want exceptions to this indemnity way. There are no exceptions. Everybody is included and God doesn’t want to hear “But.”</p>
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<p>Who is the plus and who is the minus between True Parents and Blessed couples, according to this law of re-creation? True Parents are the plus. Then together we will form a bigger minus in front of the bigger plus God. We all want to rise to a high position in the world, don’t we? From the family, we want to rise to the national level, the world and cosmic level and go all the way to God. This is true not only here, but after that, we want to do the same thing in spirit world. We will be able to see clearly that we must rise up like that in spirit world, but we will not be able to. The step we must take is clearly visible but it is very difficult to take that step once we have gone to spirit world. Therefore, this is a serious matter. Now is the time, we must do these things today.</p>
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<p>We need to be taught the right way. Who are our teachers? Our Parents, a king or school-teachers? God sent the Messiah to teach all mankind. He is the absolute plus guy, sent to the world which should take the absolute minus position before him. We want to become absolute minus so that we can occupy God. The only way to go about this is through True Love. There is no other way. A truly loving husband will take a strand of his beloved wife’s hair and cherish that. God feels the same way towards us. I gave an early Blessed woman a handkerchief, one day a long time ago. For thirty years until it was ragged and almost falling apart, she kept that handkerchief in her bosom close to her heart. I was deeply impressed with her dedication and her love.</p>
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<p>It is Father’s characteristic to want to become friends with people wherever he goes. The same is true with God. God needs friends too. Father wants to make himself available as a friend among the members, because of that. You should do the same. You should become friends to everybody. We have to work very hard to become friends with God. When Father talks in a sweet, small voice to his son or daughter, Mother is not jealous. Mother is only curious about what is so important. In the same way, sons, daughters and parents become so close to each other that they become like friends. That is good to see.</p>
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<p>Why does the watch move so fast? What do you think? This is the last chance for us to observe and learn this precious knowledge. Don’t you think that the ticking of each second is therefore precious? You are sitting out there thinking, “I’m so hungry, why does Father talk so long?” Are you complaining like that? [No?]
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<p>Do you understand this concept? We start with God and we go back to God. God is the main subject. That is like the mind’s position. Owner and guest become combined into one; that kind of meaning. I want to become God’s partner. We cannot separate, centering on True Love. Father and children cannot separate either. No power can change this relationship. When couples are centered on True Love, nothing can separate them. This is the ideal motivation or formula. How wonderful is this concept! Think about children saying, “Our parents are at such a high level. Too high a level. We cannot look at them!” That’s the truth. No matter how absolute God is, if He cannot find His partnership with human beings, He will not be able to find His own True Love.</p>
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<p>I don’t know. You know more than me. You are younger, Father is an older guy! My head forgets things and I forget English vocabulary. Sometimes it is good to forget concepts. You will forget concepts you have now, when you get old.</p>
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<p>If Father raises his right hand, which hand will you raise? (Right!) Maybe your left hand will complain, at that time. Maybe you can raise both hands clasped together. When Father raises your right hand, your left hand will come along. Suppose Father makes a loud growling sound, what would you do? GRRRMMMMMM. Make the same sound! GRRRRRRMMM. (Applause) We need to become one with Father, but the most important thing to understand is what it is that makes us become one. We are indeed one.</p>
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<p>Now I will give you some excerpts of the things I said the other day to the Unification Theological Seminary graduates. First, centering on God, our first love is the love as sons and daughters. Second, we love as brothers and sisters. Third, we love as husband and wife. Fourth, we love as parents. Those are the attributes of the love of God. Where do these emotions and loves come from? They did not spring from ourselves alone but came from God.</p>
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<p>The second type of love among brothers and sisters is not mentioned in the Divine Principle, but it should have been. It was omitted but we should put it in. We read in the Divine Principle about the love of children, couples and parents, but we also should include the love of brothers and sisters. Love as sons and daughters and love as brothers and sisters is almost the same, but they are distinct. We can distinguish between the two types of love. The question is, what kind of perfection of love is required for the children’s level of love? What is perfected child’s love? What is the perfection of love among brothers and sisters? What about couples? Should these four different categories of love be manifested in four different ways or in only one way? What would connect them if they were to be treated separately? These are questions we can ask.</p>
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<p>The answer is, they should be one. This is the four position foundation. At the bottom is the children’s position. On the sides are two separated positions, representing spirit and body. At the top is God’s position, in which the two are united, while on the sides the two are separate. We have to grow up by ourselves, each person individually. As we grow from infancy to childhood, through all the levels of schooling, the center of our life is parents. Father is talking about Adam’s family at this point, because there were only two people in the whole universe at that time-Adam and Eve. There were only those two as children, and there were only those two as brother and sister, wife and husband, and as parents. Both Adam and Eve, man and woman, must become perfected as individuals, as a boy and a girl and as a brother and a sister. Adam must become perfected as a husband and as a father. Likewise, the woman had to become perfected as a daughter, sister, wife and mother.</p>
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<p>What is the level of perfection in True Love? That is the question. Where do these two loves meet? Where do the vertical parental love and the horizontal children’s love intersect within Adam and Eve?</p>
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<p>Adam, the man, must travel this way, while Eve, the woman, must travel this way to God. This is because she is also a spouse to God. Therefore, she also has to grow from this point. The man grows in the easterly direction and the woman grows in the westerly direction. That is the feminine direction. This is why Western civilization is in the position of bride, the bride’s cultural background. It is the bride’s culture. The East is the culture of the bridegroom. And when the bride gets married, she has to completely inherit the philosophy of the bridegroom’s culture.</p>
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<p>Why is the man’s direction eastward? Because that is where the sun rises. Thus the religious cultures all began in the East, not the West. The East represents the mind culture. That is why many saints appeared from the Oriental region.</p>
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<p>Adam, the man, must travel this way, while Eve, the woman, must travel this way to God. This is because she is also a spouse to God. Therefore, she also has to grow from this point. The man grows in the easterly direction and the woman grows in the westerly direction. That is the feminine direction. This is why Western civilization is in the position of bride; it is the bride’s cultural background, the bride culture. The East is the culture of the bridegroom. When the bride gets married, she has to completely inherit the philosophy of the bridegroom’s culture.</p>
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<p>Why is the man’s direction eastward? That is where the sun rises. Thus the religious cultures all began in the East and not the West. The East represents the mind culture. That is why many saints appeared from the Oriental region. The woman was not born for her own sake, nor does she get married for her own sake, correct? The woman is born for the sake of man and man is born for the sake of woman. This is such a simple truth, yet nobody for the past hundreds of millions of years has been able to alter this truth. So what is most important for man? Is it himself or perhaps another man or is it a woman? Is the absolute need for a man another man or a woman? I say it is another man! (Woman!) Man, man! Homosexuals say that man needs another man. Lesbians say that woman needs another woman. Those people have a different concept from the original purpose of creation and they are leading themselves into hell.</p>
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<p>This is the simple truth, yet most people don’t know it. Why was woman born? Many famous women say, “I was born to please myself for my own purposes.” Think about that. That is what Satan’s brood says. What woman was born for the sake of? Man. What man was born for the sake of? Woman! True Love connects everything and creates the ideal embrace. There, you can find the most high place here, the most low place here, the most deep place, the most shallow place. It connects all those points. Everything is connected, reaching everywhere. On the opposite side is Satan. True Love can occupy people completely and nobody complains. Isn’t that right? You Blessed people can understand this well. When you are loving your spouse, you want to embrace with more and more strength. You completely occupy one another, crushing each other. No matter how strong you love, you want to be even more and more strong. (Laughter)</p>
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<p>That’s true! Have you experienced that? You Blessed couples must know what I am talking about. No matter how strong your expression of love, it doesn’t feel painful. The power of love is stronger than any pain. How happy you feel! At that time, you make sounds, like “Oh, ah, Ahh!” and you feel like you are being lifted up like a helicopter. True Love has that kind of power. Zigzagging, no problem, going this way, that way, horizontally, vertically, no problem where ever you go. Rolling around, going everywhere, you both feel so happy, and no complaint. You act that way in your love action. Father, Reverend Moon, that religious leader, is talking about lovemaking? That kind of concept is appropriate for the leader of the Unification Church? At that time, your five spiritual senses are open, connecting, inhaling, exhaling. Your spirit body is centered on True Love, making that kind of love action between woman and man. Who created that? So enjoyable! It is like going beyond all the boundaries. That kind of ideal world is what everybody wants to have. Do you like that?</p>
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<p>This means that once the special parts of woman and man, their sexual parts, are connected through love, that man and woman can never be separated throughout their whole lifetime. That is the purpose. Grandparents who live like that are living according to the ideal way. That is the family system. The parents go the same way, your couple goes the same way. Once you have made unity, you are connected forever. You cannot separate. That is the ideal, True Love standard. Do you understand this clearly? The grandpa looks at the grandma and feels pleasure to see her. No matter how old they become, they want to express their love. The younger couples do the same thing. That is a joyful, grateful atmosphere. When your parents and grandparents live like that, your couple feels admiration: “My great parents! You are our standard. We want to follow in your footsteps.” First the grandparents live like that, then the parents, and ultimately the children. When we are surrounded by such a family, then that is what is called heaven. Is that true? You cannot separate. Grandpa is not ever going to separate from Grandma or from the rest of the family. Of course, the parents will always be together and love the children. Of course, the children will always know they are loved. When that kind of relationship is experienced, what a wonderful family you have!</p>
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<p>What about the American family system? Many times the American grandparents are not even welcome to visit the homes of their grandchildren, no matter how rich or well-off the grandchildren may be. They always have to call first and ask, “May we come and visit your home today?” Only after calling first are they going to be welcomed. That is the normal way for American families. Think about it. What if the husband had to call his wife on the phone before he could make love to her? They just get into the bed and lie under the same blanket. Then they just reach over to each other and begin to make love action. That is okay. Every time it is okay. This is the couple’s mission, isn’t that true? Can one or the other say all the time, “Oh, I’m too tired. I don’t want to.” No, you cannot say that. Your sexual organs are not your own. The owner of the woman’s organ is the man. The owner of the man’s organ is the woman. Can you deny that? Of course not.</p>
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<p>If a woman is always analyzing her husband, “How much are his mind and body united?” and if the husband is always analyzing his wife, that attitude will bring about breakdown in your relationship, and your family system will decline. The owner is absolutely one, not two. This is the ideal Unification home system. Do you like that or not? Yes? Yes?</p>
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<p>So after they are born, the boy and girl separate and go their different course. Eventually the boy becomes mature and perfected as a man. The girl grows to perfection as a woman. This is the textbook course. Adam and Eve are first brother and sister. Until now we did not understand this textbook model. The parents love them, but the brother and sister add their portion of love on top of that. God loves her, but the brother adds his portion of love on top of the parents’ love toward his sister. They were one but they were separated. That’s a greater love because there is the added element of love here. This love combined together is greater than just the parents’ love. Parents love the daughter, but the son adds his portion of love on top of that.</p>
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<p>Even though God and parents love her the best, he will add the brotherly love towards the sister, on top of God’s love. They grow through middle school, high school, and to college, then eventually they know that their goal is to meet the other. In other words, man’s world is not his world alone. His world is to seek the other side, the world of woman. And the same is true for woman.</p>
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<p>For a man to get a Ph.D. degree means you have to study hard and get recognition from the school. That was for the sake of his parents and at the same time for his wife. For a woman, it was for her parents and for her husband. Until now we didn’t know this. We thought we gained a degree for ourselves. For oneself alone. That is wrong.</p>
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<p>By the time he or she finishes the Ph.D., they will fully understand the reason they did that was for the sake of the other person here. She studied and got her Ph.D., not for herself but for her parents and her spouse. Repeating again, the reason that she went through her courses for her Ph.D. was not for her sake at all. This has nothing to do with her pursuing the school. It is for the sake of parents, it is for the sake of husband, and it is for the sake of the forthcoming children, that they can have good children. The sons and daughters will be happy to have such well-educated parents, loving each other.</p>
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<p>What about the world? The world today does not operate according to this principle. Many people seek status and title in vain. How can you compare True Love with any degree or title? Does a college degree have life? Does it have any ideal within? Does it have something in common with everybody? No, it is his or her own, at best.</p>
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<p>When we become true parents, we are free to go anywhere. There are no boundaries anywhere. Wherever we go we can pass freely through. There are no limits of time and space. This is true now and it will be true two hundred years from now. The most valuable, number one treasure is True Love. Do you understand? True Love here in the Unification Church is what makes us different.</p>
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<p>By the time he reaches here, he realizes that he absolutely needs somebody. That somebody is her. If God thought what the man needed was another wonderful man, then He would have created a brother for him, instead of a wife. Partnership means absolutely, only one, not two or more. Certainly that means no free sex! Free sex means a person could have a different partner every night, throughout the year, 360 different partners. That is despicable. Even animals, so-called beasts, have better discipline than man. They abide by the laws of creation. Do some species of animals change the laws in regard to mating? They never do. Can’t you say then that the human being who does have multiple sexual partners is lower than the animals?</p>
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<p>God has allowed AIDS to prevail in the world at this time because it creates a lot of fear in people which keeps them from being so promiscuous. Do Unification Church people love AIDS? Absolutely not. It is something we absolutely and forever abhor. And we are proud that we do. We are proud of our attitude toward the purity of man and woman. Think about how precious our pure couples are in this world. When man and woman combine as a couple, you have to think about your purity. Pure love, pure woman and pure man connect their bodies in love, combine and complete the unification base. From there you bear children. How very pure that is, how beautiful. We say, “I want to bear a child that is even more pure than the children God made in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve.” How wonderful that concept is. How wonderful Unificationists’ blood is. It is not dirty, only pure. Do you like pure? Purification and Unification sound similar. They are cousin words, related words.</p>
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<p>By the time Adam grew up, he had observed a lot of animals and other aspects of nature. He saw the deer romping around and coming together to mate, as well as the other animals, large and small. He came to realize that he, too, needed somebody as his own partner. He could look at Eve. You know, the horses jump around, but Eve just walked around, not so excited. Does a man have a monthly menstrual cycle, or not? What about a woman? Girls as young as twelve or thirteen begin that cycle, right? As they grow, they develop in the bosom and their hips become wider. Likewise, their monthly cycle causes the bloody color to appear. Her cheeks become the color of peaches. Each animal seeks his own mate by smelling the air, as well as by appearance. So to Adam, it became very obvious that Eve was the mate for him.</p>
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<p>Eve herself was the first one to sense that change, and she felt that Adam was kind of dumb because he didn’t notice things so quickly. The archangel took notice first, before Adam. The point is that Eve was in the position to notice the difference first. Can you understand that? It’s not man, it is woman. What do you observe in young people today? Do boys spend a lot of time looking at themselves in front of the mirror, fixing their hair and doing all those fussy things? Isn’t it girls who start doing that first? Girls pay more attention to how they look than boys. The woman, then, is the person in question, the potential problem. Is the flower the instigator, or the bees? Which causes the action? Do the butterflies and bees come because the flowers bloom, or does the flower bloom because of the butterflies? We know the answer; the flower is the one that makes the action begin. The flower makes the problem. Once that flower blooms, it is surrounded by the bees and butterflies, coming down to gather the pollen.</p>
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<p>It is the same with woman. You are the one making the problem. Be careful! The love leader is man. Why is that? Man is representative of God. Why? Man has the child’s seed. He has ownership. Do you understand? He represents God. American women have to learn this concept. Here you say, “Women first,” but that is wrong. The first one God created was Adam. No matter how proud the woman’s side may be, still she is the second one! Isn’t that true? That is natural law. Is that true or not? Women, listen to me clearly, especially you American women. Was the man first or the woman? Which one? I say woman! (Laughter) No matter how much you try to oppose the idea, the first human was a man. You have to follow that truth. Do you American women understand this? Once you understand the truth, you will be free anywhere you go. You are no longer bound by ignorance or falsehood but are free.</p>
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<p>All the disorderliness in the world tells us that something is wrong, but there has been no textbook, no standard, no criteria by which to determine what is wrong. Now we have the textbook. Who is the leader of love, man or woman? Who initiates? It is because he contains the children’s seed. The woman’s body is always in the process of preparation to receive that seed. Then when the owner of the seed, the man, visits and they combine into one, that is what we call marriage. Wedding time is the time of marriage. Do you want to have that kind of time, or not? The central point of the exchange between man and woman is marriage. The man occupies the woman’s world, and the woman occupies the man’s world. Both need that place, that position of absolute unification. They will absolutely never separate, because of True Love power. They have forever power. Their five senses combine together, both their spiritual and their physical senses. The woman’s physical and spiritual senses become completely centered on True Love, so that they are one. The sounds they make in the action of love are different. The man makes a deep and strong sound, while the woman makes a higher sound. That is a base of harmony.</p>
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<p>Man is usually taller than woman. Think about how it would be if things were reversed, and the man was short and the woman was tall. God is a great scientist and He created us so that we could be well-balanced as couples. Man’s voice is deep and bass, while the woman is high and soprano. Together they make harmony, and they do not clash. The cycles of nature show us this harmony. The wind blows from areas of high pressure to low pressure. We inhale the air and have high pressure inside, then we exhale it and have low pressure inside. From the high mountain, the waters flow down to the valley. These things illustrate the partnerships that are everywhere in the universe. This revolving, cyclical action is everywhere.</p>
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<p>While Adam and Eve were growing up, they played together but Adam was more rough. He liked to climb into the lion’s den and get on top of his head, or ride the fastest horse. Every time he did something like that, Eve would feel shocked. She didn’t feel comfortable doing those things. She worried about him getting hurt. She would stay behind then and have conversations with the archangel, which ultimately led to the fall. The whole point here is that woman has that potential. Woman always has that potential.</p>
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<p>We could draw this circle which looks very big, but that is only half of the world. This is the right hemisphere, and that is the left hemisphere. Imagine a man walking down the street hand in hand with another man. That is strange looking, isn’t it? But when a man and woman are walking down the street that is natural. In fact, Unification Church couples should inspire people to applaud when they walk down the street. They would say, “Oh, how wonderful to see that kind of ideal appearing in this world!” The worst thing is when women say, “That is such a handsome man. How can I entice him away from her?” Or, for a man to say the same thing about a woman. The worst offender in this sort of thing is the woman. Women should not behave like a fox lying in wait to capture its prey.</p>
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<p>Who is more likely to sell his or her body in the street, man or woman? Of course, the man who patronizes her is just as bad, but who began it? The woman.</p>
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<p>What is marriage? Marriage is the bringing together into unity that which was separated before. The two hemispheres which were previously separated come together in marriage. Also, where do the upper and lower hemispheres meet? That, too, is a very important question. How to unite these two is the question now. The frontal arc and rear arc must come into unity. When all these are united, where does that unification take place? That is the essence of the question now. We must understand that the upper and lower must become one, and centering on that line, the left and right must become one, as well as front and rear. The whole thing must have a meeting point.</p>
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<p>When both take their whole life into perspective, they come to realize, “Oh, this is where we are supposed to end up. We are supposed to meet with each other.” Where do man and woman become united? Is it by kissing each other? Where do they ultimately join together? This is not a laughing matter, but they start by kissing and then after that, the man will stumble onto the woman’s bosom, and then move on to the lower parts. Those are the three stages. Isn’t it true, according to biology? Once the lips are kissed, they become stimulated and then the breasts are stimulated. Also for man, since he does not have breasts, the stimulation goes straight down to his sexual organ, skipping a step. Immediately he becomes prepared. This makes the point about who must control love. It is man. Who is slower in responding? Of course, woman responds far more slowly. Is that true? I don’t know. You couples experience this every day, so you know better than I. I am asking you. How about that? Is it true that woman is slower in responding? Yes or no?</p>
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<p>In cooking rice, you have to heat the pan before the rice can start to boil, not the other way around. The woman is like the pan. She has to heat up first. Father is teaching the men. When you start kissing, you are already excited and want to move fast, right away. But you shouldn’t do that. You have to take time and prepare her, going all around her body. You have to cause her whole body to blush first. Why are you laughing! I am teaching the original way of True Love. True sex education, right? Then the woman relaxes her whole body. Then she becomes the receptacle, ready to receive the man fully. Even though you close your eyes, you see everything rosy, like a dream color. Nothing else matters to you at that time. This is the way you should engage in love. Wouldn’t all of you sisters like to have that kind of husband? You very cute sister here, would you? Yes. Everyone says yes. Any woman wants to have that kind of husband.</p>
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<p>Who is the model? The husband and wife become the model for all the children who will come into existence through them. After becoming perfected as a child, as a brother or sister, as a husband and wife, where do they meet? How do they inherit all the properties of God?</p>
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<p>When God completed the creation, he felt happy and contented. A couple should feel that way, too, when they give birth to a baby. They must feel as happy and contented as God was when He brought Adam and Eve into the world. Even though we cannot create our children in just the same way as God created our first ancestors, God has given us all the properties or attributes for perfection because God wanted to share with His children, with all of us, the right to create our own offspring in this way. Therefore, we are creators of our own children, who are in the image of God.</p>
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<p>The parents are always the pattern, the model. They had to become perfected as son and daughter to God, then perfected as brother and sister. As they grew up, they became perfected as husband and wife, eventually becoming parents by giving birth to perfect children. Those children will follow exactly the same pattern as their parents. Therefore, the conclusion is that parents are the pattern. Why is it so sad to see an orphan? We say, “He is so sad, and I am sad to see him.” It is because that orphan does not have anything to inherit from his parents. He doesn’t have parents to inherit from. We see in the secular world, too, that someone may be very rich, having billions of dollars, or someone else may be a world-renowned scholar, but if such a person doesn’t have a wife, then everybody else will feel sorry for him. Why is that? It is because of this formula. He has a serious lacking, a deficiency which is very sad.</p>
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<p>The position of children becomes added to the position of brother and sister. Together that adds on to the position of husband and wife. On this base, they can stand as perfected parents giving birth to a child. The question is, in the American family system, is there that kind of brother and sister feeling? Many children feel they don’t even need their parents, but they become isolated from True Love in that way. Families are fragmented, and the individual doesn’t care about anyone anymore, except perhaps his or her spouse. That vertical line concept has to be made straight. Otherwise, how can they connect with the top point; how can up and down be connected with one line? The parents’ position is the vertical line. The husband and wife relationship is on the horizontal line. American people think they only need to be a couple, and no other relationship. They greet each other with a handshake, representing the horizontal world. But along with the horizontal, they also need the vertical way. When Oriental people greet one another, they bow, right? That represents the vertical way. Your body becomes small and low when you bow down.</p>
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<p>In Western culture, people write from the left side of the paper to the right. The Oriental way is up and down, moving from right to left. When the Oriental person beckons to someone, he does it this way with his palms down. The Western person does it like this with his palms up, which looks like he is saying “I want to receive something from you.” All minds follow the natural world, this kind of direction. This is very interesting. Nobody could plan these things.</p>
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<p>Actually, when you look at man and woman and take love out of the picture, there is nothing that could bring them into unity. They are so different. The woman wants to go after one thing, while the man has another interest. It is impossible for man and woman to unite except through love. If it weren’t for those love organs in your body, how do you suppose you could unite with your husband or wife? Isn’t this true? It just so happened that those precious organs are the only means by which we can come into perfect unity. You have to always remember that your sexual part is your True Love palace, your True Life palace, your True Lineage palace. That is why it is your most important part. It is the point where God and man come into unity. That is the crux, the core point, of the universe.</p>
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<p>(Father draws on the board.) God is here, and He is watching Adam and Eve grow. He feels Himself in the child’s position. Then He experiences their feelings in the position of brother and sister, then as husband and wife, and finally as the parent Himself. God experiences all these, just like Adam and Eve. As His children grow, God also experiences growth. You see here the couple now stands having intact the perfection of the children’s love, the perfection of the brother and sister love, and the perfection of the spouse’s love, but in this order. The single line represents the children’s love. They go towards this way, in that order. Here you notice there is a double line because God is there too. Their mind side and body side unite into one and connect with True Love. They analyze and combine with one place making the completed unification settlement.</p>
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<p>Where does it combine? The upper sphere comes down this way, as you can see. The lower sphere goes up this way. The right sphere goes this way, the left sphere goes this way. And the frontal sphere goes this way, while the rear sphere goes this way. All meet in one place. So the love of children, love of brothers and sisters, love of husband and wife all meet together; this way and this way and this way also. All meet here. Then in one moment, they explode. Centering on what? Centering on True Love.</p>
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<p>Since love divided from here, now it meets again here. Man and woman divided here, meet again here spiritually, divide physically here, and meet here physically. Then the mind and body side combine into one by True Love. When the True Love connecting place has been achieved, God can exclaim, “My children are now perfected. My brotherhood has been completed. My couples have been completed. All the contents of My creation have been completed.” After that, the world goes back to the original plan. Thus God’s re-creation system requires that we bear children. All four aspects of love have to reach completion. Unify at this one point, the position of marriage. That is why marriage is the most important time. This is the meaning of marriage, the true importance of marriage. That is where everything is completed.</p>
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<p>All children, all offspring, covet that kind of children, brother and sister, spouses, and parents. They say, “I want to become that way,” for each level. Our neighbors cannot help noticing when we become the perfect children, the perfect brothers and sisters, the perfect couple, and perfect parents, if we take after this pattern perfectly. The parents are the original model for the children. They are perfect children themselves. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>This is the place of our eternal settlement. We grow up this way, after we are born, we meet here and we settle eternally. Right here, the time when they get married. This is our lesson, our textbook, our model for all our ideals. Anyone can come into this kind of house and feel satisfied, whether that be the grandchildren, the children, anybody. Would you become jealous of any member of the family here in such a love? When you have some treasure kept there and one of your children or grandchildren come in and take it, would you be angry? No, because it belongs to everyone. There is no concept here of the isolated individual. Nothing belongs to an individual. Everything belongs to the whole.</p>
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<p>Just like all men are born for the sake of woman, and all women are born for the sake of man, likewise all perfection takes place for the sake of the other. We do not perfect ourselves for our own sake but for the sake of our spouse. This will become very apparent once we go to spirit world because the spirit world is arranged in this fashion. Actually, there are no strangers in the spirit world. Everyone is basically brother and sister to one another, sharing this same tradition we are describing.</p>
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<p>You can reduce every human relationship into brotherly love, spousal love, or children’s love, and through that ever more refine yourself to become like God. Therefore, we must go through these steps here on earth by growing like so, and experiencing brotherly love and children’s love and spousal love, and by giving birth to a perfect child. We need to have the childbearing experience before we go to spirit world.</p>
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<p>Have you ever seen anyone who was so beautiful that she is willing to die for herself? Or any picture? But if you fall in love with someone, you are willing to go beyond your life. Love makes people willing to give up their life for the sake of their loved ones. This proves beyond any doubt that human beings are born for the sake of love. True Love is for the sake of each other. Getting married is to occupy east and west, and then what does it mean? What happens next is that God comes down and wants to live with them. Getting married is to seek the eternal settling place. It is called the eternal settling place, because God comes down to live with us. Where else can you go, or want to go? Do you understand? This is what marriage is. This is God’s position, this is the position of the perfection of Adam and Eve and this vertical principle never changes. It goes on and on, generation after generation. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>What did we lose as a result of the Fall? We lost four things and therefore we must restore them. These four things are: 1) Elder son ship; 2) Parenthood; 3) Kingship; 4) Royal Kingship. These positions will be restored based on the contents I’m sharing with you today. The restored man is King in the elder son’s position. Through that formula we enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Those who pass this criteria, who pass through this experience, are eligible to attend whenever God calls all His children to assemble. When all the brothers and sisters assemble, we are qualified to attend that meeting. Centering on this formula, I, realizing each individual step of perfection, will become perfected. I will become like God and give birth to a child. By repeating this, that person will go to heaven. So by the time Adam and Eve become a couple, they are perfected. Everything is perfected. How precious, how necessary and valuable marriage is! We now know.</p>
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<p>To bless means to bestow this immeasurable value upon a couple. We must understand this clearly today. It is the duty of all Blessed couples to become perfected so that they can be the example to all the children of the world. Become an example of the brother and sister relationship, become the example for all the spouses in the world, and an example for all the parents in the secular world. That is our mission as Blessed couples. We must represent God’s position in the world. We have to recover what was lost in the past.</p>
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<p>Why don’t we have just one child, like in some countries where the government allows only one child per couple? In a way, the couple living here on earth within their physical bodies should reproduce as many offspring as possible to fill up the Kingdom of Heaven. Once we get to the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world, we can no longer bear any children. That is the vertical realm. There is only one dot, one point where the vertical line meets the horizontal. The horizontal realm is the line where we want to see many dots, many children. Many dots represent many brothers and sisters. We want to multiply these children with the same value as God. Do you understand? Therefore, we can enjoy a huge heaven in spirit world. There is wide space there. How can we fill it up? We have to bear many children, right? Dozens, dozens, dozens, and dozens more, for eternity. One child cannot connect with many generations. You should multiply, filling heaven up, up, up. God enjoys seeing that.</p>
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<p>When we get to spirit world, we will have no physical worries. What to eat will be no problem. What clothes to wear will be no problem. There are no automobiles or highways, no factories. Everything is set up and prepared for us. We can fly around and travel a thousand miles instantaneously, like taking one step. The universe is filled with so many stars. There are stars of gold and stars of diamond for us to visit. You can explore all the universe, it is our field of action. You want to do that, don’t you? Our physical body is our limitation now, but once we are freed from this body we are free to go anywhere. That is the way it is in spirit world. We can immediately meet with God in that world. In this world, we might pray for a long, long time and still not be able to meet with God. How difficult it is. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>We are talking about the restoration of the elder son ship, of Cain and Abel, and restoring parentship and kingship and the royal family ship. Only after accomplishing these can we go to spirit world and avoid being caught in a “traffic accident.” You won’t collide with anything there when you have accomplished all these things. Automatically, you are free to pass. But if you don’t accomplish those levels, you will be constantly colliding with barriers. As the member of the royal family, with the plus/minus here, the Kingdom of Heaven becomes bigger and bigger. Since this is the indemnity course also, we must understand it clearly because we have to indemnify and restore all the positions. Who has these now? Satan has them. We’ve got to restore them.</p>
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<p>Until now God Himself had to be struck and mistreated by Satan, in order to restore these. He has been persevering for millions of years. That is God’s strategy: be hit first, and finally win. But Satan’s pattern is the opposite: hit first, and ultimately lose. The whole world has come against Reverend Moon, who has received persecution patiently. Finally, he is inheriting the property of the world which persecuted him. The real meaning of the way of persecution is that the one who is persecuted the most by the world becomes the receiver of the property of the persecutors. This is God’s secret strategy by which He has been defeating Satan’s method of attack. Reverend Moon understood that. That is why I could freely receive all the persecution I have. When I was surrounded and attacked by all the nations of the world, I knew that Satan was hitting me. The result was that Satan was the loser. The Soviet Union attacked me, America attacked me, the established Christian churches hit me, every major religion hit me. Every family and individual in the world attacked me. That means every possible part of this world attacked me and was against me. Therefore, the property of this whole world was destined to eventually be passed on to Reverend Moon. What a wonderful point of view this is.</p>
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<p>When someone hits you, or says, “Don’t go to the Unification Church! I don’t like that!” you should just take it, be silent. Do you know that rule? Inside you are laughing, thinking, “The time is coming when you will lose and I will gain. Go ahead and hit me.” The elder brother seems to be like the leading nation’s president. The younger brother looks beaten down, like the sick one. Which side should the parents side with, the elder brother’s position or younger brother’s position? When the parents see the elder hit the younger, immediately they would not like that. They would stand with the younger brother. He is working hard. The surrounding people ask, “Why are you working so hard?” They make noises and make a persecution situation. They continue and continue and at last, the president will understand and immediately go to stand on the younger brother’s side. Is that true? That is the way of following God’s strategy. The religious world must take this formula way, believe us, and at last receive ownership in the position of elder brother and parents and kingship.</p>
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<p>The Bible has already said to us, “Those who persevere to the last, very last, will be saved.” That is what salvation is.</p>
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<p>Where do man and God meet? Right here at the seat of marriage. And in the seat of love. Through the sexual organ, that is where real joining takes place. But today, we are embarrassed to even talk about that in private, much less in public, because this was the real root of the problem and corruption of mankind. People choose not to talk about it because there has been no solution to the problem. But now we have the solution. With God’s ideal and truth, we learn firsthand. When man and woman meet together in the bond of True Love, we must immediately think about God. We have to look at our own sexual organs as the means by which we can achieve True Love, centering on God. God is welcoming and dedicating our sexual intercourse to True Love. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>We have to pull everything with our body. We should think about that all the time. The woman and man make love with that kind of thinking toward their body, “I have to welcome God in this way. By connecting with God, how deeply can I love at this time?” You think about the whole love system, and the connecting part is right there. In the love system childhood, brotherhood, couples, true parenthood all connect. God can enjoy this stimulating, electric touching. When you become the kind of couple who is truly stimulated, truly loving, then God wants to dwell within your family. Do you understand? This is the very ideal of God’s creation! The original breakdown which caused the world to become fallen was centered on these sexual organs. All the ideals of creation were broken down because of this organ. The original foundational teaching was restoration of the dwelling place of True Love. How valuable it is. Everything is completed here, right and left, front and rear, up and down. Everything reaches completion and connection. Marriage is the time of first love and first sexual intercourse. What a valuable thing marriage is, then. How can we ever reach completion of the ideal True Love without woman, without man? There is no way. That would be the place of despair and darkness.</p>
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<p>Grandparents, parents, and your couple are together forever. For all eternity, human beings will be going this same way, centering on God’s love. One father, one mother, one couple, one set of parents. One brotherhood. Father is now in Adam’s position. How can the woman’s world grow to the original woman’s side? Father thinks about that. How can the younger sister, in Eve’s position grow up? That is Father’s mission. You don’t know the ideal of couples. Father has been teaching you men, helping you become good husbands. I give you and your couple new dignity. Teaching that original foundation for restoration, God is standing there forever. You are now going on to your world of eternal happiness. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Father is teaching you now. All women are sometimes a child, sometimes a sister, sometimes a parent. In the future, many parents will be appearing from this woman’s world. How valuable that is. Ideal man is appearing on earth for the first time. The opposite sex partner is woman. You have to understand that clearly.</p>
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<p>Would God want to become a grandparent, too or would He not? God has never before been in the grandparents position because Adam and Eve didn’t have true children. Here, another four position foundation must be made in this level before God can be Grandpa. That is the ideal system where you cannot separate. Grandparents, children, and grandchildren live together in one family. These three can never separate. When you look at the world, no matter how big it is, every person comes within these categories: elderly persons are in the grandparents age group; middle-aged people are in the parents group; younger people are in the children’s group.</p>
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<p>Many children are born here on this level. There are many families comprised of children on the third level. Then God not only becomes one with the parents, but also when the children marry, God comes down to them as well. The grandparents, parents and children are all equal, in that sense.</p>
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<p>That means no matter how many generations flow, and no matter how many families multiply horizontally, God still occupies the same position. Therefore, we call God “Our Father,” and not our Grandfather, or Great-grandfather. That is because we are centered on our first love, and our first love is with God, too. Therefore, we call God “our Father”. God is Father to this family, to this family, and so on and so on, including all the different levels of family. Adam and Eve are the present, and this is the past, and here we come to the future. Here is the grandfather’s position, here is the father’s position and the children’s position, if you position this horizontally by tilting it ninety degrees. The past, present, and future are all in one perspective.</p>
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<p>Grandpa is the past king. He is like the ambassador plenipotentiary, with special privileges. The parents are the current king and queen of the families and the grandfather is always representing the king of the spirit world. The grandfather and grandmother, father and mother, and the children must always come into perfect unity. Let us look at our own situation. We are in the exact same situation as Adam and Eve themselves. Therefore, what do we inherit? We are truly the princes and princesses of God’s kingdom – literally, not hypothetically or figuratively. We are like our True Parents, ourselves.</p>
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<p>The children must serve their own parents more than a king, within the family. They must serve their grandparents, too, because God reigns in the spirit world, and the grandparents represent the king of this world. Can you believe that there is only one country in this fallen world which is included in this category, that description? The only family system like this in the entire world is the Korean family system. It looks almost exactly like that. Only their root is different. In the large, well-bred Korean families, there are all different age groups. Sometimes an uncle will be younger than his nephew. Or sometimes the elder son of the elder son of the elder son will be very young. He is the main line offspring. No matter how young he may be, or what his social status is, the rest of the family will center on him, including the elderly, middle-aged and so on. They center on this elder son ship. It is very strict.</p>
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<p>Your family is the palace, truly and realistically, of the kingdom of this earth and the spirit world. Two kingdoms come together in one place-God’s spiritual kingdom and this earthly, physical kingdom-in which our parents are king and queen. The mission of Blessed couples is to connect that spirit world kingdom and that physical world kingdom into one. Your mission as Blessed couples is, to allow your children to inherit those two kingdoms. Do you understand? This is not just a concept, this is reality. This is your reality and you have to make it happen in your own family. Those families who are centered on True Love will connect with one place, experiencing that love for their whole life. They will pass away to spirit world and the Kingdom of Heaven, after that. The original base must be established on earth; otherwise, you cannot get into heaven.</p>
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<p>The Christian world teaches, “Only believe in Jesus Christ and you will be saved.” What level of salvation can that be? What kind of value can that have? They don’t know. You know well, and you understand clearly. God’s viewpoint is to see the completion of childhood, brotherhood, couples and parenthood connecting with God Himself. Those four levels make completion combined with mind inside and body outside, connected with the central True Love. It is the place of perfection. Without it there is no way to go back to God.</p>
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<p>Which part connects both worlds? The sexual organs. Do you understand the central importance and sacredness of your sexual organs? The first ancestors made the mistake with their love and became centered on Satan. Then Satan took God’s position. How much agony must God have felt! How many years and what a long, long time God must have endured suffering, agony and pain. God has always been working behind history watching the same mistakes being repeated over and over. Fallen mankind doesn’t know the truth about history. Once you truly understand this concept, you can understand God’s deepest heart, God’s position and the true position of humanity. How can you go over, how can you solve this after reaching that kind of deepest place? This is humankind’s ultimate purpose. Do you understand? No matter how hard you may try to deny that, go to the spirit world and you will see clearly how true it is. This is not just a concept. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>No matter how much power someone may have on this earth, no matter how famous he may be, it will have no value in spirit world. How can you love humankind, like God? Couples must embrace the world with a True Love concept like Mother and Father embracing the universe. You need a universal concept. You are universal True Love partners. You are in the position of Blessed couple-parents’. Look at your children, that is like God’s position. You have the same feeling God has looking at you, embracing them and nursing them. You are God’s True Love partner in that relationship. That is your role as Blessed couples. You have to follow the way of True Parents. The children will grow up in that way. That will bring completion to everything. Otherwise you cannot be free.</p>
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<p>When you American people hear this concept, you say, “How wonderful that kind of family would be.” All the people of the world would agree, no matter where they come from. Everyone wants to bring this kind of family to their own country. Do you think America would continue to decline, if that kind of attitude becomes common? No. America will go up. Isn’t that true?</p>
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<p>All you leaders who are here from overseas, you missionaries, you have to know that the mission of the Blessed couples has those two parts. Do you understand? Just as the topic of Father’s sermon is True Parents and Blessed Couples, we must become both. We need to accomplish the four levels of heart foundation and the three kingships. You have to leave the mainstream and, as an elder son, inherit kingship. Then horizontally, you must gain opposite partnership. That is the royal family system. When you pass away you will go to heaven, after accomplishing that This is the original viewpoint and perspective.</p>
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<p>Do you understand clearly? Even if Father disappears from here, will you be able to achieve that kind of value in your life, that kind of result? Yes or no? You understand this clearly, so there is no problem, right? So you can make it happen, no problem. This is your blueprint. Anybody who knows about technology can understand that once you have a plan, a blueprint, you can just follow it and it will come about. You have to have a blueprint, in order to build a machine. You have the blueprint for your own completion and the blueprint for the completion of your family. That is all you need. Do you understand clearly?</p>
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<p>Today is the 34th Parents’ Day. That means we have completed thirty-three years of Parents’ Days, which was the age of Jesus when he died. At that time, he should have been making the family system. He could not make that position but instead had to die on the cross. Then he could reappear and create the spiritual Christian world. But the Christian world has no base in the physical world, no country base. They are like the clouds in the sky. The east wind blows and they go toward the west. They have no country. Israel at that time had the country foundation. But, because of the rejection of Jesus, he had no country foundation. The Christian world had to endure almost four hundred years of persecution at the hands of the Roman world. They had no country. Everywhere they were accused, in every country.</p>
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<p>Now God’s side has no country! America is not God’s country; Korea is not God’s country. We may have to build that country and our true family system, from now. First we have the family, then tribe, next nation and world. That is the way. You have to build up to the nation and world. Father has made the highway for you. Many obstacles have been cleared to build that highway. You have to get your own car to travel in. You have to learn to drive that car. You have to supply the gasoline. Then you can travel along that highway. Otherwise, there is no way. This is your mission; it has the same meaning as the five percent responsibility from Divine Principle viewpoint. No matter how great may be the highway out there waiting for you, if you don’t have any automobile, you do not have any use for that highway. Likewise, you have to digest this making it your own. Father’s house is like a car. You control that. You are the driver, you have ownership, and you have to earn the money to buy your gas and food. Don’t get into debt.</p>
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<p>Debt is the shameful way in spirit world. How can we go the opposite way? Otherwise, you cannot go to the royal family place. The most organized, scientific place is heaven.</p>
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<p>By restoring elder son ship, parenthood, and kingship, the family should resemble this. We should have a grandfather and grandmother, we should have a father and mother, and we should have children. Those are Blessed couples. What if you don’t have your grandparents living with you in your home? Maybe you should invite some from the senior citizen home, invite some to live with you. You white couples, bring the black grandfather or grandmother to live with you from the senior citizen home, and serve them like God. Would that family perish or prosper? They would prosper. What about the country filled with families like that? Would other people praise them or accuse them? You will be universally praised and admired for doing such a thing.</p>
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<p>America already has plenty of blessings. What we must do is maintain them, don’t let those blessings go. The only way America can keep her blessings of today is by living in such a way. We can keep the blessing forever and ever. How can one person from the Orient come here and speak to 200 million proud Westerners, saying whatever he wishes, and nobody utters a word? Why? Because everybody realizes, “He’s right. He’s telling the truth from the historical viewpoint.” Otherwise, someone would come and confront me and challenge what I am saying. Nobody can do that because they know it is truthful.</p>
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<p>You members of the congregation have been sitting here for one, two, three, four, even five hours so far today. Other people may think, “What could possibly be so great?” But still you all sit here and want to continue listening. Why is that? What if Father never taught all these things to you and I was killed in an accident tomorrow? How could I go to spirit world with a peaceful mind if I didn’t teach everything I could to you while I was on the earth? Think about it from that perspective. Father must teach you what I must. We cannot be limited by time. You understand that, don’t you? Father’s position is that serious.</p>
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<p>Are you hungry? (No!) Even though you have been sitting here for almost six hours, your hips ache and you have been yelled at and chastised by Father, but still you feel nourished, still you want Father to continue. That is our great mystery. But Father has often spent even seventeen hours kneeling in prayer, praying for all of you, praying for mankind. I was shedding tears, sweat, and feeling the miserable situation of the world, during ten years. Compared with that, sitting here and listening for seven hours is an easy thing. No problem. Do you understand? You can think about my situation. I have to teach everyone and help them understand these contents. How can I pass on these things to them, how can they inherit them? God wants True Parents to pass on everything. Father cannot sleep, cannot eat. He has forgotten sleeping, playing, and eating. He is thinking only, “How can I teach and help them experience this truth?” And that is every day, day in and day out, year after year. Father’s whole life has been absorbed by his mission. Just like that. If you want to follow Father, you have to do the same things as Father, the same activities, in the same way.</p>
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<p>(Father speaks in Korean to regional leaders.) So this part of the sermon is over now, and Father is addressing the regional directors briefly. Father has done all he has to do here in America during the past twenty-one years. Now there is one area to which Father hasn’t yet attended. There are sections of the world where 20 million people are starving to death today, at this moment. Approximately 60,000 people die of malnutrition and starvation, on any given day. Who is going to take responsibility for them? Will America? They say no. What about other advanced nations? The most basic concept is that we should all treat our fellow man as our brothers and sisters. That is what God expects of us. The name of True Parents is fearful because Father has to extend his hand to the starving people, and that is why Father is involved in the fishing industry. It is not to make any money. The immense fields and flatlands of Texas are important. There are no owners of those lands, either. People come and work the lands, but they get tired and they pack up and go away from that country. Nobody is the master there. They want to strike oil, strike it rich and become millionaires. Then they plan to leave. Father thought, “I will become the master here and all the Unification Church members will pay attention.” All we need is land and water, and then we can produce food. No problem. Also we can farm fish.</p>
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<p>The European people never taught the Africans how to farm; they just sold them farm products. We have to indemnify that, too. Do we welcome that or not? Let’s say that we will just eat two meals, instead of eating three meals a day and still accomplish our work. Would you welcome that, or not?</p>
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<p>Father is speaking very strongly in Korean now. Do you understand what I was saying? One side is hearing that and so serious, the other side just imagining what I said. You have to understand clearly and digest everything. Do you understand? Father’s language is only one, not two. Absolutely one. Two is the enemy. This is not Reverend Moon’s concept, it is the truth of Divine Principle, of the original world which God created. Isn’t that true? So you have to learn the language of True Parents in order to understand. Otherwise, you will have to face your ancestors when you get to the spirit world and they will say, “You met the True Parents on the earth, right?” You will answer, “Yes.” They will say, “You were taught the secrets of heaven by Father himself, right?” You will say, “Yes.” But when they ask you, “Did you learn Father’s language, the mother tongue of Korean, so you could understand Father deeply?” What shall you answer then, yes or no? Tell me, yes or no? You will have to say no if you don’t understand Korean. You need to be able to talk personally to True Parents, frankly in conversation. Think about how proud your ancestors would be to look down upon you to see that. So your ancestors will also be angry and hit you if you don’t learn Korean; they will criticize you! How can you escape that kind of situation in the spirit world? Do you understand?</p>
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<p>When you pass away, you will encounter your ancestors in spirit world. They will ask, “Did you learn Korean?” If you have to tell them no, you will have to hang your head. It is bad. True Parents’ words are more valuable than the Constitution of America. There are only one True Parents, only one forever. There will be only one True Parents, in the past, present, and future. They will never appear again, because they live only once. True Parents exist in the flesh only one time on this earth, and this is that one time. True Parents are teaching you the secrets of heaven, feeding truth to you. Father could never teach those concepts until I fulfilled them. I never taught you something unless I had not already fulfilled it. Therefore, Satan could never complain against me. You should go and pray hard for forty days, if you don’t believe the things I am teaching. Even do a fast, and then you ask God if what I am teaching is correct. You will hear, “Yes, Father’s teaching is correct. You have to follow him forever.” This is the main judgment.</p>
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<p>You Blessed couples have to teach Father’s concept.</p>
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<p>The central gathering place for the heavenly system is the true family system, connecting heaven and connecting the physical world and connecting the future world. That is kingship. Our base is our family. Grandpa is the one you have to treat like God. He is the heavenly king. The grandpa has the absolute power, in the family. Your parents are in Adam and Eve position. The higher position is that of the king of the family.</p>
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<p>All you Blessed couples, is this very clear? While you are here on earth you must gain the completion of the philosophical world, the religious world purpose completion, the individual purpose completion, and the completion of history. You need to accomplish the completion of everything, every terminal point. True Parents are the prototype of the formula family. You have to follow Father’s family. You have to complete this concept. This is the mission of the Blessed couples. Do you understand? (Yes.) What about the second generation? How can you do this? No matter how difficult our way is, we have to go over this original textbook teaching. Now you clearly understand this.</p>
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<p>Five Hundred people from each country, from 160 different countries, equals a total of about 80 to 100 thousand people. How to educate them quickly is our question now. Father is planning to become self-sufficient in providing food in those areas while training these people by growing potatoes and other vegetables, in Texas. I tried to eat a large potato for lunch and couldn’t finish it. Also, there are cornfields, as well as wheat. So growing staple foods is no problem. Vegetables are also possible. You can grow them on the side. Building a house from prefabricated parts is no problem. You can build any number of houses. We will extend to the Texas/Mexican borders and continuing this effort beyond those borders, maybe all the way down to South America.</p>
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<p>We will buy perhaps 1,000 acres from each state in the fifty states. It doesn’t have to be all in one place. Of course, we cannot disclose where we are going to buy since that would drive the land prices up. We could even bring Mississippi River water to that area, if water is needed. We could use seven hundred bulldozers. Each bulldozer could dig a one mile canal and therefore we could dig a 700 mile canal. We could produce those bulldozers with our own hands through the heavy machinery factory in Korea. That is no problem, right? If 700 bulldozers all go to work at the same time, big things could be accomplished quickly.</p>
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<p>Calculate everything according to the formula way. Are you going to be a part of that or not? Are you going to participate? How about this: each Blessed couple can come to Texas for forty days for three years, bringing their own food and supplies to work for this project. Can you do that? We have to work in such a way in order to save the millions of people who are starving in the world. How can you save them, if you can’t work that hard? The mathematics of the problem are like this: if every 200 people in the world took care of one starving person, that would eliminate all starvation in the world. What is America doing? What about Japan and Germany, which are likewise so blessed with material? What are they going to use it for? If they don’t do this work, should the Unification Church members do it? If we do, we might suffer so much that we might be pushed to the edge of existence. We can’t die because then all would be lost, but we just barely survive. Are we going to work so hard that we get to that point? Are you going to do that?</p>
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<p>(I cannot believe in America.) Can you American people do that too? (Yes.) I don’t believe that. How many times have you said, “Oh, we will do it! We pledge to God we will do it! Absolutely we will do it!” Already you have forgotten, as soon as you get outside of the gates of East Garden. That kind of people live in America. Those of you who are gathering here, you are not average Americans, right? You are different, aren’t you? You are colored Americans, you are Moony-colored Americans, isn’t that true? America is proud to be a melting pot, full of people of different colors and cultures, but Moonies do not melt in the American pot becoming colored like America. Instead, after twenty years, the American people start to become the color of Moonies. America has come the opposite way. Many times I have heard “Reverend Moon, go back home,” which is like “Yankee, go home.” Is Father’s teaching a good concept or a bad one? How good is it? Absolutely good. Just as in the Bible, it says, “Truly, truly I say to you, believe in what I say, believe in Christ.” I am telling you the same thing now.</p>
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<p>Those who support my idea, and say “I want to be a part of it,” raise your hands. How much money are you going to raise for this purpose? How much will each family donate to support this? Will you donate $100 a year, $500 a year, $1000, or $10,000 or more? You will decide. There is no limit. A hundred million dollars is okay! We welcome that.</p>
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<p>This is a serious time; this is a serious project. The world is in a desperate position. Who can solve the problems? No one in the world except Reverend Moon knows what to do or how to do it. Reverend Moon is now making that kind of atmosphere in this world. We are subject, plus, and the world is minus. We are liberating the world. It is the same formula; isn’t that true?</p>
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<p>We have the individual level formula and know how to make the vertical relationship so we can grow and grow to completion. We must feed all the starving people. No problem. We will go up, up, up. Have you made a decision in your mind, at this time? Which one, $1000 or $10,000? American people don’t like small things, right? You like bigger things, right? More, more. That is the way God’s true children are, growing closer and closer to God.</p>
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<p>Can we all pledge, “Yes, Father, I will be willing to serve forty days a year for the cause”? We are much indebted to our Parents. This is a way for you to begin to repay that enormous debt. Father guarantees that wherever there is good soil and plenty of water nobody will have to go hungry or starve. Father’s plan for the fishing industry was based on a twenty-year plan. This is the twentieth year. We have very much expanded our fishing industry, centering on Kodiak. Even though we experienced a lot of economic hardship in the meantime, and there were lots of rumors flying around, Father still held on, and Father went over the hill. Now we are making it a success.</p>
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<p>People thought I was bragging when I said, “I will make it so that the Mercedes-Benz automobiles will be dependent upon a certain part which we manufacture in our factories. Also the BMW.” Those are the most high-tech cars made in Germany. They will not be able to make that kind of perfect car, without Reverend Moon’s factory-made part. Only one factory has produced it during the past forty years. Father can make anything. We have that kind of high-technology capability. The German engineering world combined against me for ten years and hit, hit, hit. They said, “You are like the worst Mafia guy. We don’t need you in our German factory world. Go back home.” How strongly they came against me! At that time, West Germany connected with the Soviets for the future. They wanted to move that kind of factory into the Soviet Union. Business spies were connecting with Germany. The underworld was fighting against Reverend Moon’s members and their activities. You didn’t know about that. Why? I have to save the underdeveloped countries. European people think, “Reverend Moon is our enemy. He is giving technology and resources to the African world so they can develop and connect into one.” They are worried that then Africa will not give resources to Europe, and in that case, Europe will have difficulty. America has been taking resources from South America and using them to take power. They are not helping South America, but trying to control them forever. God doesn’t want that.</p>
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<p>The resources of the world belong to all the people of the world, not just Germans, Japanese, or Americans. Every country is equal. Look at nuclear power for example. Americans think nobody else should have that kind of power. They think, “Only we have the authority to use nuclear power. North Korea shouldn’t have that kind of power.” Who should decide? Father says, “No, Nuclear energy should be controlled by a representative committee from the world community. They should have the power to control it, not American people alone.” Father will lead that kind of committee from now on.</p>
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<p>America should look at the Asian area. Red China has nuclear power. Japan has no problem to make that kind of power. The Soviets have it. North Korea has that power. The Asian area has this kind of power. America, on the other side of the Pacific, says that these countries shouldn’t have it. I understand that problem clearly. If North Korea took that position, immediately all the other Asian nations will combine into one against America. What shall you do? I will control and make it an equal way. Do you understand? Reverend Moon can advise the world community how to employ nuclear power. I made a recommendation to the Bush Administration. I told them, “You have to do this,” but they didn’t follow me. Bush lost the election, now he has a big problem.</p>
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<p>There would be no hope for America, if The Washington Times was not there. This country is in a miserable situation. How can we protect it? Only Reverend Moon thinks about that. The Washington Times takes up the sword to fight against mistakes being made by government leaders. Reverend Moon was speaking out against his mistakes, in the time of Carter. Now we have the second-generation Carter people. They support homosexuals and free-sex and abortion. Imagine the army taking in openly homosexual people.</p>
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<p>Father speaks straight, since he is a man of religion. That is the law here. We can say anything from the pulpit. That is our religious right. So the U.C. members have to be brave and audacious, bold and strong in proclaiming their faith. When Father is ready to recruit you and say, “Let’s go out and save the 20 million starving people,” are you going to go forward or not? (Yes.)</p>
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<p>There will be a time in history when those mobile homes Father bought for you ten years ago will have a price tag of $100,000 or more. Nobody will be able to buy them. Father bought 200 trucks. He will continue that project, as long as Father is here. We should never let them get rusty or unused. We should be using them, working them.</p>
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<p>We really support and go along with that, don’t we? If so, raise your hands. We must understand that for more than ten years, until Father reached thirty years of age, there was not a day in his life when he didn’t feel hungry. You cannot lead a religious life, if your stomach is full. One of the most unbearable pains is hunger. We must challenge ourselves to say, “I will love God so much that it will give me the strength to tolerate hunger and lack of sleep and thinking about sex. All these are the physical challenges, the three greatest enemies to an individual. Those are the three main parts of Satan’s armament.</p>
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<p>That is why Father always took only two meals when he was training himself during his school days. That is a holy undertaking. All the members of the Unification Church could do that to save the 20 million starving people. Father does not use any towel bigger than the size you use to wash your face. He uses a small towel, not a big huge towel like a blanket, for a bath. Resources can be saved, in ways such as that, for the sake of the starving. Father always bickers with Mother. She wants me to send my underwear to the laundry every day, but I tell her, “No, I’m going to use it one more day before I send it to the laundry.” Did you know that Father will not flush the toilet until he has used it three times? What change we would see, if everybody in the Unification Church did that and dedicated the money saved to feed the hungry. Such an effort will not succeed in just a few days. It will take many years. I have gone to McDonald’s in a Lincoln limousine, as you know. I am the McDonald’s champion. Did you know that whenever my limousine pulls into the McDonald’s parking lot, the people are speculating, “They think that must be some high level government person,” and they look and look to see the dignitary expecting some white person. When they see that the passenger in the sedan is Reverend Moon they really register their surprise. They are surprised to see an Oriental person coming to McDonald’s in such a car. They may think he is showing off and they think, “He is actually a poor person who cannot afford to eat anything better than McDonald’s. He spent all his money on that car.”</p>
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<p>Father doesn’t feel comfortable riding in fancy, expensive cars. Whenever I ride in a car, any car, I think about the 20 million starving people of the world. My thinking always goes there first. Do you follow? Even if we fast and donate the money we save that way, we must still raise our own money for this project. Father is not begging. But Father does not mind begging in order to help these people. We moved out of the old house at East Garden, because it became too small to accommodate the family as we grew. A lot of people gave us presents, unbeknownst to me. I was surprised to see it when we moved in to the new house. I didn’t use much of that. In fact, I gave most of it away to other people. That is how a religious person should be.</p>
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<p>My conscience does not bother me over money matters. God knows that and supports Father. Father can relate with millionaires and feel natural around them. I do not feel out of place. I am undaunted. When I see penniless people, I can also relate well with them, and I don’t feel any guilt toward them. Now in Washington some strange phenomena have occurred. When Father announced a certain project everybody got inspired about it and a lot of rich companies wanted to become involved. They have said they want to be partners. But I don’t go along with them easily. I don’t want to play the rich people’s game. I tell them, “Most of all, you have to respect Reverend Moon and his ideas about business and the purpose of business. You have to agree to follow that kind of concept. If you do, then I will consider you as a partner.” They say, “We will do it!” I tell them, “Yesterday you didn’t want to have anything to do with me, but today you are welcoming me? I don’t go for that.” Father is that famous, do you understand?</p>
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<p>What do you think? Father has ability in every area or not? Yes? How can you understand me? Look at the results of Father’s foundation in this country and around the world. People will follow me, absolutely, if they really look at it and experience it. People will support me with that kind of attitude. Do you want to invest into this project to save the Third World? Those who do may get their statues erected in the villages which you help. Not a penny of your money will be spent in any way which you would not want it to be spent. Those who really welcome and will do that, with your mouth wide open in a very happy and excited expression, saying, “That’s a darn good idea, Father. I will do it,” raise your hands. (Applause.)</p>
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<p>In one day you can raise $100, so a $100 donation for the year is out of the question. How about $1,000, or would you prefer to donate $10,000? Either one. If you give $1,000, that is the value you will derive back. If you give $10,000, that will connect you to that much more value. Which one do you choose, the first or the second one? I can’t hear you! Even if you had to borrow money and go into debt, still we must do this. If we make a donation of $10,000 to this cause, we will have the foundation to train our children and later they could go to Africa and be respected as great leaders there, too. So $1,000 is too small; at least we have to give $5,000 a year and go beyond to $10,000 a year and more.</p>
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<p>(Discussion with Regional Directors in Korean.) Father thinks about you, from now. Fundraising team leader, stand up. What will you do? Will you follow me? (Sure.) Sure? Really? Yes? Absolutely? Father is so powerful! (Laughter.)</p>
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<p>Those present here today, plan on raising $5,000 a year for this project to save the Third World. Maybe $10,000 is too much, but $5,000 should be possible for you. This is a holy undertaking, and if we do it, God will return to us ten and even a hundred times the value of what we donate. Those who are the regional leaders of foreign missionaries, please stand up. There are 160 mission nations. We will buy at least 500 acres per country. If the cost is $400 per acre, multiplied by 500, how much would that be? $200,000 per country, correct? We have three years’ time. (Talks to Japanese leaders in Japanese.)</p>
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<p>Also, we must send enough people to serve for forty days each year. Father already made enough foundation to save five billion people. Therefore, to save 20 million from starvation will only be supplemental.</p>
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<p>We should be so ashamed, if all the children of True Parents get together and are not able to provide for 20 million starving people. We will fulfill this goal.</p>
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<p>We can build an enormous deer ranch. Elk and red deer usually live only in the cold climates of Canada and the Arctic regions, but in this particular part of Texas we see those kind of deer. Father feels inspired that God provided this land for us. It has a unique geography. The Rocky Mountains are just to the west of this area, so the cold air from north is pushed all the way down to this area. It cannot go over the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. So this area in Texas is very hot in the daytime but it becomes very cool at night. That is why the big red deer dwell there. Not only that, but we also can buy 5,000 more head of deer at less than $100 a head if we want to. Also there are fox and partridge. We let go about 400 partridge and they scattered all around. Maybe we will let out another 4,000 partridges.</p>
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<p>This land is incredibly fertile and rich. Any sort of game animal can prosper there. You can grow just about any crop and it will become jumbo size. My direction to all you men in the Unification Church is that you must go down to Texas three times a year, bringing your own food, raising your own funds to get there. Go there and serve. Father will teach you how to hunt, shoot, fish, and grow crops. I will make all of you very versatile people. Do you understand? You will be able to go and talk with anybody including the governor of your state and explain how to develop land. You will say, “Now, I want you to help me in this development project for the sake of the Third World. You will receive greater prosperity if you help. Will you do it?” And they will say, “Yes, yes. Please come to my state.”</p>
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<p>Our location in Texas is very nice. The residence is like a palace, very big. It is more beautiful than the Louvre palace in France. People look at it and are just amazed. It is just waiting for all the U.C. members to come and visit. Do you want to visit that beautiful place? Raise your hand, please, if you do. But when you visit that place, you have to bring a lot of money to spend! (Laughter.) You have to take your own money. “Money” means “much, much” in Korean. You say “Mani, mani”, to say very enjoyable. So bring mani money. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>The horizon is so big, in Texas. The light takes a long time to spread in the morning. The sunsets are long, too. It is a beautiful sight to behold. Every day the sunsets are different, it is so beautiful. When you see it, you will think, “This place is amazing. I didn’t know such a beautiful place existed. I am so fond of it, I don’t want to go back home!” You will want to stay for a long, long time. It is a good place.</p>
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<p>So it is decided, right? (Applause) Ah, we are feeling so good! (Laughter) That’s true! How enjoyable! Father wants all of you to fill up, swell up with the great dream of working hard to chase out all the poverty and starvation from this world. When we are full of hope for the ideal and we are working very hard for that, then God’s blessing will eternally be upon us. The Unification Church Blessed couples will prosper and prosper forever.</p>
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<p>There are a lot of rattlesnakes down there in Texas so you have to wear long boots to protect yourself. Also, there are big poison spiders and scorpions that are very dangerous. Once you are bitten, you have to get the antidote right away or you will fade away. You children have decided to take over some of the burdens which Parents have been bearing single-handedly for the last thirty years and more, on this memorable 34th Parents’ Day, the 33rd anniversary day of Parents’ Day. When you now decide to do that, in Father’s place, then the Unification Church will have lots of hope in the future. Lots of blessing will come from God to the Unification Church. What Father is literally saying is, Father has been doing that much and now we are about to do that much of Father’s work. If we say, “Well Father, it’s going to be difficult,” you may as well die. What use will you have if we can’t do at least that much? Thank you, Father. Let us pray.</p>
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title: "RESURRECTION AND LIBERATION OF THE WORLD'S WOMEN - PART I"
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type: "speech"
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published: "2018-06-26T13:43:45+01:00"
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updated: "2018-06-26T13:43:45+01:00"
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source: "/blog/2018/06/26/resurrection-and-liberation-of-the-worlds-women-part-i.html"
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speechYear: "1993"
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 31, 1993<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>The resurrection of the women of the world will bring liberation to all humankind. Is it convenient or inconvenient to have multiple languages? (Inconvenient.) How can you surmount that? (Learn Korean.) Yes. We have to recognize the inconvenience, and the stronger we deny the present impasse the faster we will get to conveniency. Is there any better solution than that?</p>
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<p>We have to deny many things. The life that is not good must be denied. To resurrect means to be born again. We cannot be born again until we deny the old life. Then we can give birth to new women. That is the center of the Bible’s teaching: deny the sinful world. “To deny” is the main biblical teaching.</p>
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<p>Look at the world which Satan has invaded. He has connections and elements everywhere. These all must be denied before God can move in. If there had been no fall, up and down relations would not be changeable. They would be permanent. What is up must be up. What is down is down and must be down. Even if it revolves in an orderly way, what was up would stay up, it would not come down. In Father, for example, up is up and down is down. He may rotate on his central axis, but up always stays up. But if the head goes down and the feet up, that is not right; it is inverted. The right-hand side is always to the right, never to the left. The right side can come to the left by rotating 180¡. So in the process of change you have to turn around completely, 360¡. If you turn around 180¡ the front will be back. This is the essence of the fall: what was up is now down and what was down is now up.</p>
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<p>Because of the fall what was down went up, and history has been moving to bring it down. We can also see that what was down has been coming up. As what was wrongfully up goes down and what was wrongfully down goes up, there will be a transition point. That point must be crossed on all the levels, individual, family, tribe, nation, world and cosmos. The crossing occurred on a given level according to the stage of history.</p>
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<p>We can see that history is a succession of denials. To deny things leads to war. There has been one war after another. That is the reason for war in history. Until we reach the crossing point on the world level, war will continue. We who are living at this time are the result, the fruit, of historical development. All of us, all individuals, families and nations, must focus our attention on the world level at this time. Therefore, my mind and body is working to solve this transition, this crossing. Look at the individual “I”. We all have a mind and body. Our body has many strings attached to it. Many of us have undesirable habits. The mind, centering on religion, is bringing us to a greater awareness of ourselves. We have to harmonize ourselves and bring the good things out and throw away the bad. As does a body, a nation has many habits. We have to adopt what is good and throw away what is bad. In religions we also have to judge and choose the good. There is a lot of work to be done.</p>
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<p>The individual can see how he is living and must decide to move to a higher way of life. The family has to look at how it has been living and it too has to throw away bad habits and form good new ones. So in order to liquidate chong sang – these bad habits – the whole world will try to throw away the bad and adopt the good. When the universal day of liquidation comes, the whole world will try to solve its problems. It will work on all levels and throughout the world. There is a lot of work.</p>
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<p>These are the last days of human history. This ideology and thought, which is the main essence of all religious teachings, is trying to capture the individual and influence him or her in good ways. The individual and all the families of the world must go through the crossing point according to the time of history. The individual age will allow the individual to change; the family age will allow the family to change. Even though the time and level are different, they all cross the same transition point.</p>
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<p>The direction history takes is a straight line. What does Father mean by saying history has gone in a straight line? What has caused that? The conscience is the cause of that. The conscience has taught filial piety and love of parents. Only love working with the conscience can harmonize the relationships of up and down, right and left, front and back. It is the conscience which has kept this line straight.</p>
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<p>The fall resulted in two directions based upon two loves. When we see two different directions and powers, we should recognize that it is the result of the fall. Do you realize that? (Yes). It is extremely complicated. Man is always changing direction, due to the influences he receives from these two powers. Although there were many possibilities, if God exists, God must have one idea for a perfect man and for a perfect family. In order better to understand God’s formula we must know: did God have the world in mind? Should the individual have to adapt to the world or the world to the individual? He had the world in mind first, and the individual must adapt to the world. God had in mind one perfect individual who would represent the perfect standard.</p>
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<p>Consider the fall itself. Man and woman committed the fall. The woman’s individualistic thinking and the man’s individualistic thinking caused the fall. One must follow the other, but today both man and woman want to lead, never yielding to each other. Neither your mind nor body wants to yield to the other. The individual is like that, the family is like that, each nation makes the same claims and so it leads inevitably to war. That has been the course of history. Today, at the time of world transition, this is taking place on the world level. The communist and democratic sides have been fighting. We see that the communist world has fallen, so should everyone follow America now? That is the question.</p>
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<p>Everything is in a relationship of subject and object. How do we re-establish a correct order on all levels around one central point? Starting from the individual, the world is made up of men and women. Women should be on one side and men on the other. After everything is in proper position it should turn around. But which is the center of rotation, men or women? In order to maintain order naturally, an individual cannot insist on turning around himself. He has to turn around a center. There is only one correct position, and he has to find this right position and remain there eternally. That means we have to find an individual who takes that position. That man represents all men: I am a man who represents all men in the whole world and cosmos. He should also think: I represent all the women of the world. This is true for all women too: each should represent all women of the world.</p>
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<p>The pair system is very important. Even if we are in the upper position we must keep the lower position in mind. If we are on the right side we must consider the left side. This is so that we can harmonize. This is an important concept: whatever position you have you must keep the other in mind. All creation lives for the sake of the other. So at the time you say up, first recognize down, then recognize up. When you say right, recognize left first and then right. And in circular motion too, one moves for the sake of the other. The down-person moves for the up-person. Without this you cannot have motion. If one individual does not have the other in mind it will lead to destruction.</p>
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<p>Everything we see, including motion, is the expression of the desire to serve the other. So the more we move, the greater we serve. Here we see the principle of God’s creation. We can also see Satan’s way which is different and says “Live for the sake of me.” Are women born for the sake of women? (No.) When we say woman, we already have a man in mind. Women are born absolutely for men. And men absolutely need women. Not only men and women, but everything in the whole universe works this way. Without this principle, the development of the universe is not possible. We see that it is possible; this is God’s creation. If in a family we see a grandfather saying, “Live for the sake of me,” there will be no harmony, only separation and destruction. But instead, if we live for the sake of the other, the more we move the greater the other becomes.</p>
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<p>We have many members here, but who is the real Unification Church member? That will be just one person. If Reverend Moon is the subject, who is the perfect object? If the object and the subject each demand to be treated best, there will be fighting and decline. However, the more they say, “I should live more for the sake of the other,” the greater the good that will come to the church. If each says “I will live more for the sake of the other,” they will rotate faster and grow. Is that true? (Yes.)</p>
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<p>Now consider the individualistic kingdom of America. No one thinks anything is wrong; they all think things are fine. But the universe spits at it, because it defies the principle. The universal fate is that those who claim, “You live for me,” will perish. The ones who live for others are protected by universal fate. That fate is connected to the entire cosmos and can see forever. Its sight is unlimited. When it sees one living for the other, it is good.</p>
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<p>When your mind and body unite and live for the other, that is good. It will grow larger and larger and connect to all the universe. Denying yourself is principle number one. This principle of living for the sake of others is cardinal. When you do that, you will feel good because universal fate will support you. When you roll with this you are dancing. But look at dancers today: are they dancing for the other or are they trying to pull others to themselves? If someone drinks a lot of wine in order to give money to another, that is good, but there is no such drunkard. They all drink for themselves. If there were a drunkard who drank so as to give money to others, there would be lines of people following him.</p>
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<p>Is that true? (Yes.) I don’t know, you know better than me.</p>
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<p>What a wonderful concept this is. Everywhere Reverend Moon goes, people will come to like him more and more, because he lives for others. But if someone tries to destroy him, they will be destroyed by universal fate. Do you like or love Rev. Moon? (Love.) Do you mean that? (Yes.) Does love mean taking or giving? This applies to God too. Everyone loves God. When you pray to God, does He try to take advantage of you? (No.) Because God is like that, He does not like a person who tries to take advantage of others. Look at America. God gave lots of blessing to America. If Americans live for others, God will love them. But if Americans live for themselves, universal fate will crush them, no matter how much they would like to prosper.</p>
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<p>Individualism is the worst disease, and that unfortunately is now with us. Women, do you consider a man’s appearance or his mind to be more important? (Mind.) How can you see his mind? How can we distinguish a good mind from a bad mind? Look for the mind that lives for the sake of the other. That is a good man. If you find such a man and marry him, no matter what he looks like, your future will be good. Isn’t that right? (Yes.) So wouldn’t the champion of the world’s women want to live for the sake of the world? She need not make up her face. There is no way to deny that living for the world is the best policy.</p>
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<p>What is a truthful woman? When a man loves a woman so much and a woman tries to pay him back even more, that is a truthful woman, and vice versa. What happens in the couple, both of whose partners cannot be outdone in loving the other? True love will grow. There is an infinite potential, which will bring infinite prosperity. Is it morning or evening? (Morning.) I think it is evening, but you know better. Jim, do you understand? (Yes.) If you are willing to work for your company for less, you will become the head. The American way is different; it is the opposite of this. In America people sue if they must work for less, but God does not have that concept in His mind. If God decided to sue then the whole of the human race would be wiped out. God’s mind absolutely denies the idea of lawsuits.</p>
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<p>After all the money that has been invested in the Washington Times, there are individuals there who are trying to sue. They are trying to cling to their high-paying positions. They want to bleed the Washington Times. That is satanic. If you had a lot of money would you want to offer it to God? (Yes.) This cannot be America. Father’s pocket is always empty, but whenever he comes to America he always wants to give. Do you want to help or to receive help? So who is winning? The world will say, “He must be losing, because he gives everything away.” But America must realize that they have to give back or else they will perish. God is the one who says to all who want to serve Him, “Don’t serve me, serve the world!” If America wants to prosper it must give more to the world. Is this a wrong and crazy idea? (No.) Don’t you feel good when listening? (Yes.) But then you say it’s not so good to do it. So we need a revolution. We must change our thinking from bad to good.</p>
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<p>In one hour the very principle of true prosperity has been shown to us. Everyone wants a peaceful world, but no one will get it without this principle. Is there anyone who does not want to be the center, the top person of the universe? No, everyone does. When the one appears who is the representative from the level of the individual to that of the universe, then the universe will be saved. Why? Because God exists and God is like that. Even if that is only invisible and only exists in the mind, it will come about, because God will create it for us. How wonderful. That gives endless prosperity. People may blame Father for this or that, but Father continues to give. So eventually Reverend Moon will be accepted. Reverend Moon goes deeper and deeper into the core position. You think that’s good, but your actions are not so good.</p>
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<p>Father has spoken one hour. Sermons are supposed to be 40 minutes long, and already this one is over one hour long and Father hasn’t even gotten to the topic of women. Father spoke 14 hours the day before yesterday, so Father doesn’t feel himself. We have to meet tomorrow, and if Father stops now more people will come tomorrow. Father has not even removed the underbrush; he has to do that before he can till the soil.</p>
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<p>Even if Father spent hundreds of hours he cannot get to his topic. So let’s finish for today. Tomorrow the men can stay home and all the women can come. (No.) If you say no, one of you can come and speak. We have already agreed that all American men want to be number one, so one of you come and speak.</p>
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<p>Americans say, “We are number one, you must follow us.” But America is spreading AIDS all over; is that good or bad? Bad. So we now hear “Yankee go home!” They are being kicked out by the world.</p>
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<p>To be in the correct position we must always be responsible to represent the entire universe. God will praise you. There is no one except God who is living like that. Even if a small child appeared thinking that, God would treasure him. But history has never seen such a person. Even toward America, which is going against God and ignoring its responsibility, God looks and says “I must save and re-educate these people.” So even Americans thus can love God, and can go and love other countries.</p>
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<p>The awesome conclusion is that each person wants to become the best. To do that, each must think, “I represent the entire world and live for the sake of the world.” If you think that, you think that you represent the past, present and future. Such a man loves women the best, and can come to the conclusion that there is no woman who does not love him. All women will want to marry that man. In order for you to have that kind of husband, you must be that kind of woman. In that way you can be the best. When you learn about this, you say to God, “I will do not only that but better.” If you are anxious to do better than God, you can climb on top of God and God will say, “That feels good.” Frankly, none of you wants to be outdone by Father, do you? (No.)</p>
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<p>Here is Reverend Moon, who says, “Go and save all women.” Then one small woman responds and works like crazy and gets many women and is educating them. Will Father stop her? No, he will tell her she is better than him. If one small member of the family says, “I have to bring God here,” and goes out and does that, then everyone will bow down to her. They may ask her how she did it. She will say, “I learned from Father to live for the sake of the world.” God will be astonished and His ears will open. God will follow her anywhere, even to hell. If you do more than what Father is encouraging you to do, Father will fall in love with you. She is a lovable person. We are all capable of being like that. How wonderful that concept is. Do you understand that you must become the center, focal point of the universe? (Yes.)</p>
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<p>So let us finish here and continue tomorrow, the first day of February. The interpreter should be the happiest person. This title is very important, especially for women. Leave the title on the board. Let us pray.</p>
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title: "RESURRECTION AND LIBERATION OF THE WORLD’S WOMEN - PART II"
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type: "speech"
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published: "2018-06-26T13:45:03+01:00"
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updated: "2018-06-26T13:45:03+01:00"
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source: "/blog/2018/06/26/resurrection-and-liberation-of-the-worlds-women-part-ii.html"
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speechYear: "1993"
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 1, 1993<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>Today’s sermon is a continuation of yesterday’s. On one side we have earth and the other side heaven. Men represent heaven and women represent earth. Together they form the ideal purpose of God in creation. Earth is horizontal, and heaven is vertical. In the western world there is not so much understanding of the concept of vertical and horizontal, heaven and earth. But this concept is daily fare for orientals. In ourselves we have mind and body, analogous to heaven and earth. Mind and body must become one, whether the person be a man or woman. The mind is vertical and the body is horizontal. The mind is the vertical self; the body is the horizontal self. If we are actualized like that then we connect to the whole world. One should wish that the whole horizontal world belongs to him or her. One’s mind should have the whole vertical world. We want the biggest and best. The better is vertical. So we must keep both elements in mind. That is what makes the world.</p>
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<p>When everyone thinks this way it creates a stairway. In order to have three dimensions you need right and left, up and down, and front and back. Always keep these three relationships in harmony. Man who stands here has a spouse on his left. When we move or turn, even if we turn 360 degrees, the axis does not change. The direction changes but not the axis. So the vertical is the center, not the horizontal. The vertical is always vertical and is thus the center of the universe. Our mind occupies that vertical position. Western civilization is a material civilization. They take it apart and study it and analyze things, expanding their knowledge. But the east puts all things in perspective. What belongs in one place goes where it belongs.</p>
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<p>The irony is, if man had not fallen, the more materially prosperous a man would have become, the more prosperous would have been his spirit. But because of the fall the reverse is true. Here in America, where abundant blessing has been given, the spiritual quality has declined. The fall created the greatest irony. The former Soviet Union, which boasted of being the most materialistic, actually has nothing materially, but instead their spiritual strength is greater. The countries which boast of having a strong spirit actually have little spirit, but they do have much material blessing. This is an expected phenomenon of the last days. The problem remains concerning how to balance these two extremes. Who will balance the spiritual and material?</p>
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<p>For the vertical and horizontal, heaven and earth, to become one, man and woman must become one. In a man, his mind represents God and his body represents True Parents. His spouse has the same internal relationship. Two such united people can form a perfect vertical and horizontal relationship. When they internally unite mind and body then they can unite perfectly. Extending this to its conclusion, if you own one you own the whole universe. What makes you eligible to own this? It is neither man nor woman but love which both man and woman covet. The fallen world has never seen true love. The owner of true love is God and True Father. So God and man will become one, then if his spouse unites in the same way, the whole universe can unite.</p>
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<p>Who did God create first, man or woman? (Man.) Man represents heaven. So in the Bible we see the symbolism that God took the rib of Adam and created Eve. This did not happen literally; it only means that Eve was created in the image of Adam. The plus is heaven and the opposite is earth. It is like two spheres: the upper, the right and the front represent heaven; the lower, left and rear represent earth. This is the way the universe is connected. So we see that all these objectives can be realized through love. Without love we cannot do this. So when a child is born, it is protected and loved. Who embraces the baby? The mother, who is on the horizontal level, does. Then the mother and all the children are protected by the father. The mother must all the time, day and night, love this vertical love of the father. The whole family must together then turn around the vertical. Mother and children must turn. What makes this? Love.</p>
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<p>The mother must receive ample love from the father to give to the children. If the father does not give her enough love, she cannot love the children. In this way the vertical love is deployed horizontally. As we can see we have enough elements to cover all 360 degrees.</p>
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<p>Bringing them together is not the man or woman, but the power of love. Is that true? (Yes.) Once we know this for sure, there can be no such thing as a broken family. In the West, we have an erroneous concept that man and woman are equal. If men turn one way and women another, how can they be equal? How can we have two axes? When you see two babies, one boy and one girl grow, the girl grows horizontally and the boy grows vertically. As a result boys are taller than girls; also look at the hips of the woman. They have to be stabilized so they can give birth; this is natural. Also woman have an abundant bosom, big hips and a soft touch. All are not for her, but for her children. Women can boast of their bosom and hips. Men have no hips, but instead have broad shoulders. This is the way God built us. When we enter the family we can immediately identify the center: it is the woman who takes care of all things in the house. It is she who loves the earth and the universe. She takes care of everything and absolutely loves her husband. We must become like this before we can expect for me and my family to be able to go to God’s warehouse, the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Man’s mind represents heaven and woman’s mind represents earth. So together their growth is similar. However when they are mature, man represents heaven and woman earth. Women must try hard to gain spirituality. Men must also work to gain this harmony. Women make friends very easily, but not men. Men should not bow down so much. Woman are expected to bow down to make peace, to promote religion and godly qualities.</p>
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<p>Look at the existing Christian men. They do not try as hard at evangelizing as woman. But yet are there many great women religious leaders? No; most are men. The women all worshipped, loved and followed the man. What is the significance? There is none, except that man is subject and woman object. But man has one thing more than the woman. Amongst brothers, the one who has one more thing will be the leader. Look at a mountain with many trees. If there is one huge tree it will dominate all the other trees. Is there one woman determined to become greater than men? No. So the religious leaders are men and women then follow. So God and man must come into unity. If they do not there is no base for unification.</p>
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<p>In the subject position, Satan replaced God, and man became one with the evil father. That evil father has a very changeable center, because Satan moves him around. The original good man should settle in one place. That evil father will not bring unity, but division. Look at all the different skin colors, white, black and yellow. If you have a choice, you would like to live in a moderate climate zone. The north is too cold, the equator too hot. The white people come from the north, like polar bears. But the black people come from a hot place. If all men had lived in the temperate zone, their skin color would not be different. But instead, there was division and one was pushed out to the extreme cold, the other to the hot. What made that happen? Satan. The ancestor of the white people must have done something wrong and fled. Something like that must have happened. When they fled to a cold climate zone, they began a pirate civilization. The early history of Scandinavian countries was a history of piracy. They shed blood and killed many people; it was bad. The white civilization has caused a lot of bloodshed. What about the ones who were pushed south? It was hot and they rested under trees. Food was plentiful, so they become lazy. They danced well because they danced a lot. When that happens there is not so much discipline between man and woman. The pirates plundered them, killed all the men and took all the women. Is a pirate a man or a woman? (Man.) Is he good or bad? A bad man takes a good woman. How can such a pirate race get God’s blessing? The women who were kidnapped must have prayed and put a lot of heart into the race. The woman brought to the island nation of England must have prayed and put a lot of heart into the nation, thinking that even though I received the seed of a pirate I will raise you to be a better son. Even though this is not orthodox history, we can speculate that this happened.</p>
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<p>Where did the worthwhile religions spring up? Not in the west but in the east. Every major religion comes from the east. Countries such as Germany, England or France, which colonized the world, did not raise up men but women. Through women they tried to control the African countries. In the Opium war, who was the target? Women or men? The reason they brought the opium was to subdue the men. The women were becoming westernized, but the men didn’t want to follow the western ways. So the English wanted to get rid of the men. To do this they fed them opium. We know very well the law of cause and effect. Their own descendants are now plagued by opium. Look back at history: which race did more evil things-white people, black people or oriental people? Whites. They always attacked and caused bloodshed. They killed blacks, orientals and other whites. This soil itself, in America, does it belong to whites or orientals? Orientals were living here; the white people took it from the orientals. More and more this will be revealed. This racial problem is very formidable; it may escalate into religious wars, with one religion fighting the other. Without God we have no chance.</p>
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<p>How did white people, with this background, come to accept Christianity? It was not because they were good, no. It was the women, the women accepted God’s religion and invested much heart into it. They became good and influenced the men to be good, and thus they came into God’s realm. We must understand that the fall took place through a woman. But God has been fostering religion through women. Who prays more, men or women? (Women.) Why? Why not men? Because men do not have so much to pray for; but how about women, who have been subjugated by men’s force? Upon whom could they rely? God. Who was hurt more? Women were incredibly hurt by men. This is true for all age groups of women. In terms of love, who has been misused most? (Women.)</p>
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<p>What is a woman’s inclination? Does she want love in many places or does she only want one husband to love her? (One.) But men are different. They will move around and wherever they go they start a new family. Fallen women look for men who are better than their husband. This encourages men to wander more and be more immoral. But men do not want their wives to wander.</p>
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<p>We see over and over again that the fighting within the family is caused by the men wandering afar. Women ask, “Which woman did you see this time?” Women do not travel so far, they stay at home because their hips are heavy. If man tries to sit still, he cannot, because his shoulders are too heavy. You may laugh, but this is important. In history all things have happened with love. There are many trains in history. But look at the love train. This train carries the most blood, tears and misery. Can you find a train with more misery? (No.) Overnight a man and woman who are so deeply in love can be shattered apart and lose everything. Can a human being experience more misery than that? Through that happening, one generation can destroy the ancestors’ work of many generations, and also destroy the descendants. Where is a pure heart of love? Where is the lineage of the one pure woman? Where is purity? Where is chastity? Look at all our ancestors; there have been many kinds. You may have a burglar or a killer. Have you ever stopped to think how to start a pure lineage and keep it? In this world, it is not possible. The only way to keep the purity of your descendants is to build a cage and isolate them from the world. But that is impossible. None of us can start a new lineage. How can God make a pure blood lineage when everything is so bad and desolate? Do you think your ancestors are as good as you or a bad as you? How do we behave? As if no one is better than me.</p>
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<p>Satan made this enormous complication of love. Man made it bad and woman retaliated and made it worse. Ethics, with a very weak muscle, tried to slow down the decline. But then along came free sex. Who made that happen? (Man.) But man has been involved in free sex all the time. Take American soldiers. Wherever they went, they lived with other women. This brings animosity, so now in order to defend themselves, they say “let’s have free sex.” Satan has no other way. So now that you have seen it for a few decades, is anyone satisfied with it? Can any woman or man say that it’s a good idea? Free sex has even evolved into incest and relationships between grandfathers and granddaughters. Of course they feel guilty, but then they say, “Do not feel guilty.” When different colors of water come together, it becomes dirty.</p>
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<p>With free sex are men or women comfortable? Is free sex practised by age group? No; the inclination is to cross age groups. The old attack the young, even the infant is not safe. It is the grandparents’ responsibility to see to the welfare of their offspring. For those who practice free sex, do they want free sex with another who has had many sexual experiences or one who is pure? (Pure). We see that they look to the younger. This is worse than the animals. Professors and teachers always look at their students. Can any concept of family exist here? This is exactly what Satan wants. Does God love that? God hates that the most. Who sobs more because of love, men or women? (Women.) What are we going to do about that? Can the President of the country do anything? This President does not look to be strong in that regard. Religious leaders in America make the same mistake. Who will repair this? Is this normal or sick? It’s very sick, sick, sick. Everyone is affected by this.</p>
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<p>So the women of the world are in this situation. Should we repair men or women first? Who suffers more from the bad results of love? Women are about to die because of it. Who will mend them, who will repair that? What shall we do? All the world is worrying about that. In this desperate situation, what if we wipe all the men out? That is not good for the women. Even a really hurt woman would say please don’t kill him. Just send him away for ten years and beat him and educate him. That is not something that God or we want. But shouldn’t we do that? At any cost should we repair this? (Yes.) If that will work, we should do it. Of course, God is thinking about this too. He wants to do it with as little change as possible, without using any extreme measures. Would God do that through religion or through the non-religious realm? Through religion. Throughout history we can see that God has been developing the bride through Christianity, centering on women. So now the world is ready, we have the bride ready. The bridegroom appears. From where will he appear? If he comes from the earth all will oppose him, so he must come from heaven. Women have prayed throughout history, please send us one true eternal man, who will bring the true thought and ideal, and I would like to receive the truthful seed from him. That is every woman’s deep prayer.</p>
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<p>You all want to meet pure men, not ragged-looking ones in tatters. Ever since the fall, even though this was the desire of all women, none have received a pure man’s seed. It is their highest and deepest desire, but they have never seen it in the satanic world. Nevertheless they still pray for it. Millions and millions of women through out history have prayed for the one pure man, the one pure seed. God, thinking of women, cannot help but answer that prayer. Men have through out history trampled and mutilated love. So at the end of the days there should be a women’s movement to totally deny fallen man’s value. There should be a religion where all women come together to deny men continuing tyranny. God, who knows the situation, cannot blame women for that.</p>
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<p>We all want true love, a true father, true parents, and true family. Men and women want this; all Americans want this. Of course we want this, but do we have it? (No.) If you examine closely, they don’t pray for true love, their father or their parents. Should we erase this? (Erase it.) It will bring only confusion and chaos. Before He erases the bad, God prepares the good. Who brings this to earth? The saviour, the Lord of the Second Advent, the True Parents. Now the environment is prepared, because they have denied all the evil ways. Individualism has only one good side: it denies all the bad things. An individualist doesn’t need a father or parents, God or anything, only him- or herself. But as we know we need all of these. We should live joyfully with the other people, other countries and the world. This is how God has created us.</p>
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<p>History has advanced from the feudal ages to two blocs and now to one huge bloc. The Unification Church is sitting on top of that, understanding it all. All racial, economic and national problems can be transcended with the almighty power of love. The mass wedding is the direct implementation of this. No other religion does this. It goes beyond all cultural, racial and national problems. Are there many white people who would like a black spouse? No, but in the Unification Church, even though the bride and groom have never seen each other and cannot even talk to each other, they are happy with Father’s choice. The world looks at that and fiercely opposes it at the beginning. As time goes on they will not oppose so much, it is the shock they have to get over. How complicated it is to solve the world’s problems. If you take them one by one, they are overwhelming. But the real solution is true love and the true individual and family.</p>
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<p>Does Reverend Moon like this system so much that he wants to do it? No; this is how God created it. All creatures together want this. Satan is opposed to everything that God does. The fight between God and Satan has never been more visible. Everything that God wants to accomplish, Satan wants to stop. Starting from the individual and going up to the cosmos, no one can solve this. No one but God can work this out. But through this gospel which has come down, we can save the world.</p>
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<p>What happens when we mix all the colors of the world? Will it be black, white or yellow? (Yellow). Among the 5.5 billion people, 3.2 are yellow, 1.2 are white and 1.1 billion are black. So the Pacific era will come. The Asian culture and people will become more dominant. We will see in the future 3 out of 4 people in a mass wedding will be yellow. This is not because Father wants to promote them, but objectively this is likely to happen. Nowadays, all in the west look to the east and deeply desire to get closer to the oriental people. When two want to marry, who is the one to propose? (Man.) What happens if all men only propose to orientals, and western women do not get proposed to? Western women will have to become more humble, like oriental women. Well, Father knows that, so what can he do? Father thinks that maybe if western women can become humble to oriental women, and become like oriental women, there is hope.</p>
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<p>If you have to do it by yourself, it takes many many years. But here in America you look around. There are many Japanese women. Do you despise them or do you wish that you become like them? Father is looking at only one thing, as should you. He is looking at the faith standard. Otherwise there’s nothing to look at. The American woman of over fifty years ago won over the Japanese, but there’s nothing that American women have to be proud of over Japanese. Who has the higher standard of faith? Generally, Japanese women’s standard is higher. You hate to admit it, but we have to admit it. Do you know what happened to Father because of that? Father was persecuted so much for doing this. That is the only way to learn. Now especially Father brought American men to the highest standard.</p>
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<p>So there are many American men who thought silently. Do you think that American men thought that Father was good? Before, Father was the symbol of evil. As they understand more and more they become lower, and conversely Reverend Moon becomes higher. In a very objective view, who is higher, the President of United States or Reverend Moon? American people will listen to Reverend Moon or Clinton more? (Reverend Moon.) That’s a reality. Reverend Moon is against evil and shows why he is against it. Praise rather than complaint is due. The conclusion that mass wedding is very good is because the way of life after being through the mass wedding is far superior to anything else. Wife and husband are married for 10 years yet live separately, yet the wife doesn’t even worry about her husband even though they don’t live together. They are so worry-free that they gain weight. It’s an Oriental expression that if you are worry free then you gain weight. Is that bad or good? Man and woman both deserve credit for this but who is the center of religious life, woman or man? (Woman.) Yes. Who follows the central religion, women or men?</p>
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<p>Now this is the time of transition. We have to transfer. Until now, during the evil history men led the way and women had to follow. Now we have to change, because women are more religious and religion is the right direction. The whole Christian realm is the bride’s realm. Should the bridegroom’s realm be one or two? (One.) He is only one, however, and there are so many brides. How can we balance this?</p>
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<p>Restoration is to return to the round shape. Even though the man is here, however, before a man appears woman should be there. So first, Adam, second in Jesus’ time, and third the Second Advent. Then who is Sun Myung Moon? (Applause.) Does anybody believe that? Which one, did the world nod or shake? They opposed. Now they are shaking, but not so confidently. Restoration is not so easy; it’s so difficult. That’s the course-always changing, going up and down.</p>
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<p>The true man’s seed comes out here. Satan coupled with Adam made the fallen civilization but here God and Reverend Moon will start a new generation-a new seed. Father taught this on the first Sunday of January. Eve becomes one with Cain and Abel. England being in Eve’s position and America and France in Abel and Cain’s position. Abel is the small messiah. At the end of World War II, America became the center-the Abel. Abel is the child of the saviour, planted as an individual but harvested on a world-level at the end of World War II. That’s the historical formula which historically must be met. This is the way the fall took place, and restoration must take place this way. God, starting from here, has worked tirelessly, and by doing that He is coming back and settling into the original position. That means Cain and Abel’s position reverses. While it is being done, Eve too must come to reverse the fall, because the result of fall was to bring the three against each other.</p>
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<p>Now restoring by reversal brings Eve and Cain and Abel together. God planted this thousands of years ago on an individual level and now restores it, not on the family-level but on the world-level. Historians now agree that 1960 was the historical transition time. After World War II then many small nations gained independence. All the victors of World War II gave independence to those small countries according to their desire. Because in 1960 parents were installed on the earth, the children prepared themselves. Until now the brothers, 12 tribes and 12 nations, all fought, but after the allied victory they gave independence to many countries. The Lord of the Second Advent is coming again. The Father of the Second Advent is coming again. Satan invaded the first Adam, and the second Adam came from God. After restoring all the different Abel and Eve positions on every level, the Second Advent can come.</p>
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<p>The Eve representing all the women and the second generation must gather together and become one with the groom and after that they should embrace all of the world. In the Old Testament era there was Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. So these nations, unlike the first family which fell, should have restored the fall. This is what was to have been achieved on the national-level at Jesus’ time when the Messiah came. After this, on the world-level, the same pattern takes place centering on the Mother. Cain and Abel come together as brothers to meet the Second Advent. In Jesus’ time when the father ascended then the Holy Spirit, which is the mother spirit, descended. As Father explained earlier, man is vertical and women are horizontal. Woman as holy spirit came down on earth.</p>
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<p>At the time of the Second Advent the Messiah should come. This was at the end of World War II, in 1945. The Kingdom of Heaven should have taken seven years to build, which would have been 1952. However, because Christianity opposed the Second Coming, a 40-year indemnity period was necessary. Father indemnified the failure in 1945 centering on the Unification Church. Father was cast out into the wilderness with the whole world mobilized to oppose him. What Father did in this 40 years was to pick up Japan and Germany and America to replace the countries (England, America and France) which had failed. So this 40 years of re-indemnification of 4,000 years took place. America had failed so God could not take it again, but Father as the second generation could. Father had to take America again, because it is the only country to inherit the foundation of the Old and New Testaments. The Completed Testament could not begin without this foundation. During the last 40 years Father has gone over all 8 stages. Twenty years represent the Old Testament and 20 years represent the New Testament. The 40 years represent the 4,000 years of history. Father crossed over all 8 barriers to reach God.</p>
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<p>At the end of World War II, when the bridegroom appeared, the foundation was lost. Father re-indemnified and with these three countries, during the last 40 years, has now restored the situation. Father has cleaned up and resettled everything. Father has reindemnified all 8 walls and comes back to the beginning and brings God down. Wherever Father walks, God will follow. God could not follow Adam after he fell, but God can now follow Father. It was to have taken one generation to achieve Adam’s perfection, and Father has now done this in one generation. God created from the individual up, and as each level perfects itself God can dwell within it. Father has established this, so God can come back and forth freely.</p>
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<p>In 1968 the completion level of the formation stage took place. Father for 7 seven years had built the foundation and restored the family level. Father then went on to restore the nation and world levels. Recently Mother has restored the foundation of the bride who is waiting for the groom. She visited 7 countries: Korea, Japan, America and 4 countries in Europe (Germany, England, France and Italy). She also went to Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the land of fugitives and jailbirds. Mother has liberated this Christian realm. Mother, centering upon the Women’s Federation for World Peace, accomplishes this restoration, reconnects to the Christian foundation, and now goes to meet Father. Father is right here to greet Mother. This is where we are in history, and it liberates all women. This is simple, in the sense that it should have been done in Jesus’ time. Father has restored all this and, as a result of the crucifixion, restored the realm of the Middle East as well. However, the Messiah cannot do everything, Father sends out the tribal messiahs, who by restoring their tribe and clan, can bring this world to Father.</p>
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<p>(Father draws the Chinese characters for “mother”.) Mother has Cain and Abel in it. Originally Eve conceived two sons as the result of the fall (Cain and Abel). Originally Eve conceived Cain and Abel, now Mother has to bring Abel and Cain, who is close to Satan, back to God. That Abel and that Cain must become one in Mother’s bosom. The restored Eve must then come into the mother’s position. Until the Second Advent, history was the war of Cain and Abel. All plus and minus must become one before they can unite with a larger plus. At Jesus’ time that was Judaism and the nation of Israel. Today it is Christianity and the nation of America. Cain and Abel have to become one then unite with the mother and then all three unite with the father. It takes three stages for recreation to happen. We have to do all steps.</p>
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<p>In the garden of Eden, God should have become one with Adam and Eve. But it didn’t happen, so we need to be re-created in the mother’s womb. Cain and Abel must be reborn. Thus today the democratic and communist worlds must both go back into the mother’s womb. This is similar to the twins of Rebekah and the twins fighting in the womb of Tamar. This time they should not fight. Japan is the Eve nation because it fulfilled the condition attached to the mother’s position. In Japan there are two Korean associations fighting in the womb of the world mother, one free, one communist. The same principle applies to the free and communist world, however, they should not fight but become one. It is up to Japan to unite these two Korean associations.</p>
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<p>There is only one Mother and Father; there cannot be two. What we did last year was to become one with Mother. Centering on true love all must become one. The two children must go through Mother to the bone marrow of the Father. Then they can be born again through Mother. This must take place before the revival of women in the world. All women must be born again to gain revival.</p>
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<p>This takes us back many years to when Ye Jin Nim and Hyo Jin Nim were born. Mother ate seaweed soup after their birth. Father allowed us all to eat the same food at that time, to represent that we were being born again at the same time. To be born again is easy for Christians to say, but it is difficult and involves many things. All Unification Church members must be clear. We, representing the whole world, must return through Mother’s womb to the bone marrow of Father and be born again at the same time as Father’s own children. So this formula is the same. Originally Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were to inherit the father and mother’s life to go to heaven. So we must go through Father and Mother, who have won victory over Satan’s world, to be born again. This is the meaning of rebirth.</p>
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<p>Where does that place us? We are completely different from the satanic world; we have nothing to do with that world. Alcohol, drugs, free sex and homosexuality all are habits of the fallen world. We have nothing to do with those things. However that process of being born again is simple compared to the agony and tears that God has invested to bring it about. We must not think that I have been in the church 10 years and I can easily get blessed. Think about the background of the blessing. Religion is a highly spiritual practice. But all the major religions do not advocate marriage; they suggest you to keep celibacy. Why? This is because the True Parents of mankind had not been married. If parents are not married, how could children get married? The Unification Church happens to be the first church in history which encourages and recommends marriage. In Buddhism, Buddhist monks never get married. A new faction came into being,; they get married but with a lot of guilt. In Catholicism, they do not encourage marriage. The satanic world, which encourages free sex and homosexuality basically also denies marriage. The marriage that we are getting into is different from any throughout history. So the blessed couple cannot live as any other couple in the world. It should be our goal that our own children get blessed to Father’s own children. That will be the goal of all people.</p>
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<p>For three generations Father’s children will marry only Koreans, but after that it will expand. Father now has 43 members in his family. That is a number of liberation. Father’s children will give birth to many more children. You should too; this is the hope of the Unification Church families. So who will live the best tradition of all the blessed couples? Our goal should be to live the best. Father’s family will be the highest but there will be order throughout. From now on the blessed couples should lead a good, wealthy, prosperous life. The children of the blessed couples cannot marry with the satanic world.</p>
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<p>We should be given birth twice. We must go through two mothers, our physical mother and the True Mother who gives us rebirth. We go through the holy wine ceremony to signify that we are being born again. There are three stages of growth and all the fruits of the earth should be in the wine. All the contents of the Divine Principle are in there. We must also go through two fathers. True Parents are absolutely necessary. Even though we have our own parents, we need True Parents in order to gain rebirth and be able to go to God.</p>
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<p>If the Lord comes again on the clouds these things cannot happen. He must come in the flesh as a human being. We must have the love of two fathers and two mothers. God cannot deny the love of the first father and mother. It is incredibly painful for God to recognize the fallen parents who gave us birth. However, He cannot help but recognize them. If He did not, the True Parents would have no foundation on which to stand. Satan and Adam are father and son. Satan and Eve became one and gave birth to Adam. God has to restore the fall through the mother-son relationship.</p>
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<p>In God’s world there is no enemy. If there is a concept of enemy in God’s world, we have to accept the philosophy of dualism. Thus this is impossible; God cannot have an enemy. If an enemy remains, no restoration is possible.</p>
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<p>When Cain and Abel, because of their mother’s love, unite and love each other, there is no enemy. These two must love each other so they can bring the archangel with them when they go to heaven. Satan has always claimed and asserted that the qualification to be the true father and mother is loving the archangel. In order to do this we must love the enemy. Also it is important that even though we are reborn, we must love Satan too or else we cannot go to heaven. Even though you may be free from the satanic lineage, there are many around who will continue to oppose us. We must pull them to God, loving them as your elder brother.</p>
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<p>The crucifixion showed us the deep love of God. God gives us His only begotten son on the cross. God must go through this incredible pain. Jesus has to love the enemy soldiers who were killing him. If he had cursed them, the entire dispensation would have failed. Through this, Satan was separated and God’s resurrection could come. So though that incredible manifestation of love, Jesus as he was dying bore all the pain of the cross and prayed for his enemies. Because of that love, Christianity has flourished throughout history. When many of Jesus disciples died in similar circumstances, they had to pray to God in the same way. Adam and Eve and everyone following must love the archangel. This is true before and after the fall. He is the enemy but we must not think of him as the enemy.</p>
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<p>Father too, when he was imprisoned unjustly and almost killed by the Japanese, did not curse the Japanese but has continued to pray for them. At the end of World War II, Father did not want to kill the Japanese in his village. Now today Japanese members are coming back to pay their debt. Father has opposed communism very staunchly, not to kill them, but to save them. The same is true in relation to America: Father attacks all the unrighteousness in America. In prison, where Father could have burned with revenge, he did not. He instead established the important organizations to save America. Have we praised and thanked Father for this? Father has been a better son, husband, and father to America.</p>
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<p>Sung Jin Nim’s mother and True Mother must not fight; they must love each other. Jacob’s desire was Rachel, but he was given Leah. Laban who is on Satan’s side gave him Leah. Jacob thought he was married to Rachel, but in the morning found out it was Leah. He then had to work another 7 years. How can you call this justice? When the children were born, was this something Jacob wanted? Rachel and Leah fought each other. In order for them to be on God’s side, they must love each other from God’s point of view. If Father had been there, he could have taught Jacob one word and he would not have had to make this mistake.</p>
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<p>Leah was the first daughter and Rachel the second. So centering on Laban’s wife they should have become one, but Laban’s wife did not take care of this. Jacob with Leah had 10 sons and Jacob with Rachel had 2 sons. If these two had made harmony, the children would have united too. They all had the same father; they should all have united. But because these two women fought each other, they divided into ten children and two children later on, and then the 12 tribes divided into ten and two. The unity couldn’t come because of women. Women failed to bring unity among their sons.</p>
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<p>In Jesus’ time, John the Baptist and Jesus, and Jesus’ mother Mary and John’s mother Elizabeth, should have become one. Similar to the situation centering on Jacob, everyone should have united with Zechariah. Who is the father of Jesus? According to this principle Zechariah should be the father. Father doesn’t know, but the logic from the Bible is unmistakable. John the Baptist was Jesus’ elder brother. All they have to do was unite, then everything would automatically have become one. If this had happened would John the Baptist have betrayed Jesus? (No ). The key was here. What was the most important thing for Jesus? To get married. Who would have been the likely candidate? John the Baptist had a sister. Or, it doesn’t have to have been like that-if there were someone very close to Jesus, and if she had married Jesus, still it would have worked. This would have been an automatic realm of unification on a world level. That’s what God intended.</p>
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<p>If Mary and Elizabeth had become one and Jesus and John had become one, they would have protected Jesus and he would not have died. They could have embraced the East and the Roman empire. The world would have been restored. When this victory was established, the restoration would have happened easily. India and China would have followed. Christianity and Jesus could have easily restored the orient and then gone to the west.</p>
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<p>God works the restoration through a formula, and so will we. We all have grandmothers, aunts and cousins. If these women play the crucial role and bring unity, things will happen easily. It is so difficult for a daughter-in-law to attain unity with her mother-in-law. But if women know such a principle, they can bring unity. It is also difficult for a brother-in law to love his sister-in-law, but once we know this and are trained, we do not want to fight; we will bring peace.</p>
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<p>Until now we never had a reason to tolerate hell, but now we do. God has tolerated it. You can tolerate it. Your agony compared to God’s agony is small. You can repeat it to yourself. We have a small enemy in our family, but we must learn to love them. So understand that the reason the twelve tribes fought, and the reason Jesus had to die stems from the failure to love each other.</p>
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<p>We refer to the God of sorrow, the God of pain. Why? Because, who is Satan? Satan is the illegitimate husband, where God is the legitimate husband. He is the love enemy. Think about if somebody stole your wife and is living with her, yet you are in the position to love both of them. That’s God’s position. We didn’t know, so we didn’t feel it. We must understand.</p>
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<p>If you understood Father’s point clearly this morning, going back your family and making peace within your family is no problem. A person who achieves this is welcomed in both heaven and hell. If you go to hell, millions of people will crowd around you and say, here comes saviour. From this time on, actually, in reality we are getting into that point.</p>
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<p>Now this brings us a point of inevitability. It is relatively very easy to enter into heaven on earth and heaven in heaven because this formula has been established. This condition has been met. Even the textbook, “How to Manage a Family,” has been completed. Now the liberation of women takes place.</p>
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<p>In the history of restoration, when women spoke loudly, or when women had a voice, always there were complications. This is a result of the fall. So, during this restoration time of history, women have to be obedient and feel reserved. This is a virtue. That was the beginning of the fall, because Eve asserted herself. So to go backwards, she has to be unusually obedient.</p>
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<p>If there is any group who hates this course the most, you guessed it, it’s American women. But you must enforce this 100% and more. American women have a tremendous edge. If American women decide to follow this direction, everybody will follow. That’s true. Father isn’t criticizing these American women here today. You are the ones who can show the first example in history. You American women here have an internal content completely different than outside American women. You must be the banner bearers, the flag bearers. After being born again and resurrecting, a woman leads to all levels of liberation. Actually, Eve was the key to the fall. Therefore, it is dependent largely upon women to restore.</p>
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<p>In divorce, who is the cause? Women. Why? Because they are less tolerant. They express complaint faster than men. About 75% is the woman’s fault, because they pack up faster. That’s true. They don’t like it and they pack up. They thought it was an act giving them freedom, but the result was staggering. They not only destroyed their family, but destroyed the entire world because everyone followed their pattern.</p>
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<p>So this is an inevitable conclusion. In order to do this, who plays the key role? Women. Who becomes the key person to attain unity among the family, and all levels? Women. Women play the key role. The Divine Principle agrees: because women failed, they must now restore. Everything checks.</p>
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<p>Women fell and they lost God and True Parents too. Now it is up to her to restore God and the True Parents. She must love even the satanic world people, just like her own husband and just like her own father and mother. So, that movement is the movement of the Women’s Federation for World Peace. The women become one with their children and one with the husband, and thus the family is restored. Mothers play the key role. Become one with the True Parents’ family and inherit the tradition from that family. In outside families, the mother and children must get together and save the father. After you are blessed, you must become completely one with True Mother and connect with the True Parents’ family. When this happens, liberation takes place and heaven comes.</p>
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<p>Resurrection of the world’s women will lead to the liberation of all the world, not only women, but also men and the children. It is the responsibility of women who brought death to man and the children. Men represent God’s side, and children represent the whole world, the horizontal development. This is the main task of the Completed Testament era. We know clearly, this is what we must do in the Completed Testament era.</p>
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<p>So how about the outside world? Through the Unification Church blessed couples, the salvation pattern is clear now. Outside people don’t have a Messiah, so Father sends out the tribal messiahs whose main role is to educate them the same way Father educates us. No one will oppose this movement of Women’s Federation for World Peace. They have a clear public to appeal to. What can they say? They can say until now men operated the world and brought the world into such misery. Now it’s time for women to restore that with the coming Messiah. There is one Messiah as a man and 2.5 billion women in the world.</p>
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<p>It is relatively simple. This is all we have to do. So, the typical movement will be to teach women in such a way that they bring their children together, become one with the children, and then bring the husband back.</p>
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<p>We only need to do half. So, Women’s Federation will need to play only half the role, to bring the children together on a world-level. The tribal messiahs will connect that to the Messiah. Now this is done on a small scale, but then it will be a worldwide movement. Each family is working for re-creation.</p>
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<p>So the liberation will take place and in this women play the main role. Liberation affects all the family, but with the women leading the way, these things will take place. This is today’s mission. The Messiah comes; he establishes the typical family and we copy him. So how can the women of the world resurrect? They have to go back to Mother’s womb and Father’s bone marrow.</p>
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<p>The ones who were born after 1960 will be on God’s side. Why 1960? Because 1960 was the year when the True Parents’ marriage took place. After that all humankind needs to go back to the mother’s womb, pretending that they are not born, even though they are 30 or 40 years of age. What is taking place today should have taken place in 1945, but it didn’t happen. Father had to go through 40 years indemnity; now this is happening.</p>
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<p>Who plays the key role? Women. All men have to do is follow after the successful completion of the woman’s role. The world’s women must absolutely obey Father, and all men should follow you.</p>
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<p>How can we enter into heaven? Ignorance can never lead to heaven. First we must know clearly what happened. So this is why we are much, much closer to heaven now. All that remains is to do it.</p>
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<p>So, revival and liberation. Be born again, restore the family and bring liberation to all. This is the women’s era. Now the men must win salvation through the hands of women. What does that mean? There will be more and more good women in politics. The President of our country should be a woman also. That day must come soon. Women must do that and bring the victorious results to men. Not an individual President, it should be a family President. The criterion for eligibility for President will be the level of unity in the family, which establishes a good tradition. Everybody will know who has the best tradition, so elections will become automatic. The utmost traditional family will become the President. What about democracy? Well, the day of democracy is past. Democracy is transient.</p>
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<p>You must understand that Father’s recent speech centering on Father’s birthday is a summary of father’s history. We must familiarize ourselves with this speech thoroughly and not only teach this to ourselves, but teach all the people we come with whom we come into contact.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="center">August 1, 1993<br />
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Belvedere International Training Center<br />
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is <i>Kwong Ku Gul Oui He</i>. That means <i>Returning to the Home Country</i>.</p>
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<p>As we know, the Israelites [chosen people] are separated on the national level. Their lineage is God’s new lineage. They stand upon God’s heartistic foundation in terms of lineage, ownership and the realm of heart. These three areas must be separated from evil for God to work. On the individual level, as well as the family level, the Israelites [chosen people] must, together with Adam and Eve, live with God.</p>
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<p>Simple as this may seem, it has great power. It will automatically expand into tribes, a nation and to the worldwide level. God with Adam and Eve comprised two generations. The fall means that God had to occupy the third generation and make it His own, but this did not come to be. Since God lost this, He has to recover this third generation in the fallen world. Even though there are three generations, they come under one category. Three generations constitute the four position foundation. The four position foundation can be divided into upper sphere and lower sphere, right sphere and left sphere, and front and rear. Each of these positions is occupied by different members of a family.</p>
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<p>In the affairs of the world, does vertical or horizontal occupy the primary position? The vertical does. When building a house the ground is leveled first. To make level ground you must have the vertical clarified, otherwise you cannot make horizontal level. All ideal beings must stand upright in order than the mind move closest to that ideal. The mind wants to go as high and lofty as possible. Does the mind have a limitation in its desire to soar? No, it never stops. The world, of course, is not consciously thinking about these things, but in the Unification Church we know these are basic. Thinking about such things is already advanced, but we must not only think, we must some day put them into action. By acting, that center comes into existence and begins to be broadened. In the Orient we often talk about lofty ideas.</p>
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<p>On hyang means word and action must both take place. When we look at the human face we see that the vertical line divides the left and right. All parts of the face point to one center and are deployed harmoniously. The nerves which serve all parts of the face meet at one focal point. It just does not happen that the eye focuses on one place and the nose focuses on another. There are not many centers; there is only one. In God’s mind the same thing occurs. We must all focus on the same point.</p>
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<p>The spiritual center, which is mind, must be straight. We have a common saying in the Orient that one’s mind must always be straight. This indicates that Adam and Eve are vertical beings. Through our vertical being we inhale air. Even though we are unable to see the air, we nevertheless inhale it, and this renews life. Without air we are unable to live. The mouth is horizontal and it absorbs nutrition which supports the body. If you pinch your nose and close your mouth and push the air out, you can feel how all these organs are connected and unified. Your nose symbolizes Adam and Eve. The eye does not have the ability to take in nutrition or air, but the eye absorbs the information of what is around us.</p>
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<p>In the Orient, when a baby is first born the nose is so flat that the father and mother worry if the nose is going to be alright. But as the child grows the nose gets higher. The nose is straight. It is located on the central line of the body which continues down through the navel and the sexual organs. This is the central, vertical, dividing line of the body. In the Orient, we observe that a person whose nose is a little crooked will have a little rougher path in life. This is so true. When Father looks at a man for the first time, with a glance he observes these things. Also, the pattern of walking that an individual has reveals many things about him.</p>
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<p>Then how lofty is the spirit? It wants to go as high as is possible. Both men and women want to be number one, the best in the whole world. Father would have to admonish the person who said he does not want to be number one; but he is unable to find such an individual. In reality such a person does not exist. This was so in the past and it is so today and in the future it will be so eternally, because each one desires to be the highest and best.</p>
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<p>When can we find eternal peace and happiness? Looking from our own perspective, eternally it is not going to be possible. This is the logical deduction that we will reach. Then people will say that there is no such being as God, but they are missing the one very basic fact: humankind fell. That is why it looks as if there will be no peace or happiness. It looks like there will always be struggle and competition, but it is due to the fall that we lost God. The correct response would be, “I’ll make God my own.”</p>
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<p>Let us assume that we have caught hold of God. Then, what is the most precious attribute within God? Naturally, it is love. We go as high as we can go and on that very peak, God exists. Since God is absolutely one, everyone wants to occupy Him. Then comes the question, “Is there only one person who is eligible to reach that point?” If the answer is no, then how is all humankind going to reach that point? (Father draws on the board.) If you reach the peak and draw a straight line, then the entire area below will be excluded. The only way we would be able to encompass everything would be to create an immense globe. Then reaching the highest point would allow you to encompass the whole area. Because the universe is constructed this way, the universe is large enough to embrace everyone. Resembling the universe, everyone’s lofty ideal also must be like that. Then the universe will be big enough to hold them. Everything resembles the spherical shape. It isn’t pointed, but round. Father and mother, husband and wife, all get together and try to make a sphere, to be round like a ball. That is the basic shape of all things.</p>
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<p>What is the ideal realm of unification? It is the place where individuals desire to become as tall as possible, as wide as possible, as deep as possible, expanding to the front and rear, so that they can embrace the huge universe. We all are anxiously going up the highest vertical level. Now Dr. Hendricks here, would you like to do that for one thousand years or for ten thousand years? [Ten thousand years.] The universe is limitless and everyone is limitless. Each one wants to be as high and as wide a possible. God embraces in exactly the same way as we are trying to. He embraces the entire cosmos, which has hundreds and hundreds of solar systems within it. God tells us we can have as much as we want. It is true that no matter how far and wide we go as a human being, we still are within that universe. In order to do this we first need to have a big mind to desire it. Second, we need an object through whom we may accomplish it. Through give and take of mind and body, an individual becomes bigger and then takes a spouse. There is give and take between the two of them and this results in something larger, and so it proceeds. There is no limit to how much one may expand. There is no limit to what you can do. Now we know why everything living in the universe has a round shape. The sun and moon and stars are round. We know that the solar systems are round, even though we are unable to see all the solar systems with our physical eyes. You may think you have achieved a great deal, but there are even further realms to which to aspire.</p>
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<p>If God is embracing the universe, what is the individual embracing? Is it good if our mind is limited and anything that goes beyond our mind makes us angry? Some women’s minds are so narrow that they cannot embrace their husband even after one hundred years. After one year she wants to chase him out. How narrow her mind is! The universe, which tries to think of each of us as a high being – so big and able to embrace everything – now sees this woman chasing her husband out after one year. Looking at her, do you think the universe will laugh at her or respect her? Yes, it will laugh at her and despise her so much that it would expel her as gas.</p>
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<p>It is very reasonable to observe that the universe is composed of these elements and that we therefore are to expand until we reach the limits of the universe. This is to climb up the ladder of love, step by step. Each of us has a ladder. Without it we would be unable to reach a high level love. Each ladder has steps. How many steps does your love ladder have? How high have you climbed? You may care only for your own house; that is only one step. Or you may care for your own country. If that is the limit of your concern, you have advanced two steps. How about American people? Isn’t it typical that an American would climb only two steps? Sometimes they don’t even make it up one step. The reason would be that they don’t have families; they are the free sex breed. Their family is not the object of love but rather an enemy. Let’s compare two people on their ladders of love. God has a love ladder and so do we. Do we want to reach God’s level on the ladder of love or does God want to reach ours? We want to reach God’s level.</p>
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<p>What does the presently existing theory of evolution say? Is input equal to or smaller than output? Physical science observes that input is smaller than output. If what goes in is smaller than what comes out, how can anything become bigger? Someone must have invested some additional power. What is that additional power which makes the result bigger and bigger? That is the power of creation. If you are a painter, you know that you don’t create a flat painting but rather a round painting, eventually making it completely round. People will feel that your work is alive.</p>
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<p>You know now that your mind is big and should be bigger. If your mind reaches this sphere and acts to the extent of the sphere, the entire sphere becomes your asset, your property. That means if you have the idea to achieve something and by acting you accomplish it horizontally, then you become that big. Why should man and woman become one? By doing so, they can expand their realm and embrace a larger area. Man’s eye is the same as woman’s eye, their mouths and nose are also the same. They constantly have give and take with both the mind and body involved. That is what creates excitement. As they go around, a wind comes in. In Korean we say shim na da. It means we are uplifted, we are excited and the spirit is with us.</p>
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<p>Does a wheel roll randomly? No, the wheel of an automobile moves only forward or backward, but there is a subject and object also. Even though we cannot see, it does give and take and has this round shape. Some force must then push it faster and faster and then this zig zag will become less and less. What if you push one side and pull one side? Would the wheel go faster or slower? Faster. For wheels, is faster or slower better? Faster. You might even forget God in that moment for all you want is to go faster. That is the truth. That doesn’t mean that God goes away but rather that He is with us.</p>
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<p>In the morning, do you fight between husband and wife? When you get up in the morning is your thought to do something for your husband or to have your husband do something for you? This is a very practical problem. Between man and woman, which of them wants the spouse to do more for them? Would that be the woman or man? When an American woman sends her husband to work in the morning, does she stand somewhere expecting her husband to come and kiss her before he leaves, therefore burdening him, or does she run and kiss him to send him off? In the former case, this is a problem and the husband is going to have a long and perhaps difficult day. Does it take so much effort to move a few steps and kiss him? If you go to kiss him to send him off he will go off dancing and flying to begin his day. Such a husband, a “floating-on-the-clouds” husband, will cause his fellow workers to wonder about him. If there are two or three or four persons in the world like that, the world becomes the Kingdom of Heaven. Suppose there are two enemies. Who would become the subject and winner? The one who extends his hand first becomes subject in that relationship. Do you welcome Father speaking about these things or not? Are you in a small closed space or a huge wide open space? You know yourselves. Because of the natural force at work, all development and restoration becomes possible.</p>
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<p>Almost one hour has passed. Father asks you how long this sermon should last. Imagine if you really understood the point Father has explained. This small part merits a whole day’s sermon, don’t you think? [Yes.] Father talks of women’s minds becoming bigger and bigger, but bigger might not always be so comfortable right? For example, if you have a huge embracing mind and just three small children then of course you have to become smaller at times. Broadening and expanding one’s mind is difficult, but becoming smaller is easier. You need this flexibility. If you want to become large and small at will, you need to substantiate this content. This is exactly how the universe operates. Did you know that the earth itself sometimes expands and shrinks, as if it is breathing? Our eyes move and blink in harmony. Our whole existence needs not only vertical but horizontal, too. We must live like this, starting from this moment. Share your most prized possession with someone else and see how much more joy you receive. It is because that is where multiplication begins. If you keep something for yourself it does not multiply, but if you give and share then multiplication occurs. If you truly give with a sincere heart then it will be returned to you even bigger. If we give with a willing and happy heart, then when it returns it is much bigger. Then you want to return again, even more than you received.</p>
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<p>In witnessing, for example, it is more exciting for white people to witness to black people than to white. White people represent day time and black people represent night time, so if a white person witnesses to a black person, it makes him the master of both the day and night. The dividing line between day and night is there. If a white person wants just to stay as day and have no night, it means he has nothing. The same is true for a black person who would stay as night. Only by having each other do you have day and night. Without each other you have nothing. No matter how proud you are as a day-time person, if you don’t have night-time then day-time will disappear. If you combine with the night-time then you will be the owner of all twenty-four hours.</p>
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<p>To occupy God’s love right at this highest point is our desire. As high as we can go, there is God’s love. Do you think the top is easy to reach? God created the horizontal and vertical worlds so that everyone could reach God and He could embrace everyone. The Reverend Moon of the Unification Church first acts and then he speaks or preaches. After acting and teaching he becomes a globe. Until this time the saints in history spoke and taught much, but they did not necessarily practice what they taught. Our mind and body must first become one. This means you must make your mind and body completely one before you can teach somebody. It is the same for the family and the country. We must first act. As the result of the fall, humankind lost itself, lost the family and the nation. We lost everything that is precious.</p>
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is “Returning to the Home Country.” That country needs not only an upper hemisphere, but a lower hemisphere, right and left hemispheres and front and rear hemispheres. This country needs all aspects fulfilled. You can compare this country to an individual and family, so this country has everything. It has individuals, families, and lots of property. The legacy of thousands of years are also in that country.</p>
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<p>Do you think revolution is possible in the spirit world? Do they demonstrate there? Why would demonstration be necessary in the spirit world? The difference between this earthly world and the spirit world is that here we have to be concerned about three major things: food, clothing and a place to live. In the spiritual world we do not need these things because they are given. According to your level, you have enough to eat, wear and a place to dwell. In the communist world they artificially made up classes, but in the spiritual world it is very rigid and very fair. You cannot go below or beyond your rightful place; whatever you deserve is what you get. If you want to reach a higher place you have to go through the steps necessary to reach it.</p>
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<p>Here on earth, who partakes of welfare more: black people or white people? Black. Why is that? Whatever the reason may be, one works less than the other. In the spirit world, the notion of welfare does not exist. Welfare means even though you are not working, you are receiving money. In that status you will never become rich, because if someone gives you something then you are expected to return it. We must see that if we only like to receive but not give, then we end up in the spirit world which is dark. If somebody joins the Unification Church in order to receive benefit from the church, he will eventually drop away when there is no more benefit to be had. But the one who joins the Unification Church with the desire to make it bigger and better, as does Father, automatically goes to the spirit world that he or she deserves and will never perish.</p>
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<p>Wherever True Mother goes, she draws many people to her. All the members that did not come before must now appear here. Father and Mother worked so hard to make this happen. If someone joins now and reaches a high level without participating in the necessary effort, it is really bad for that person. The spirit world will simply not condone it.</p>
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<p>Father already proclaimed a return to the homeland and now Father is declaring a return to the country. Homeland or home country, which is more important? Home country. In 1991, Father declared the homeland. Now Father is declaring the home country. Did we go to the homeland? We are to serve God in our homeland as tribal messiahs. Our first goal is to claim the land, second, to claim our ancestors, third, to live with God. This is our homeland. God must have the land in which we can love Adam and Eve. Also, God wants to be able to call the ancestors of Adam and Eve His own. In restoration we must accomplish this. When we return to the country, we must return with our tribes. Both here on the earth and in the spirit world, we must bring our family back to the country. We cannot go there alone.</p>
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<p>After forty years in the wilderness, the Israelites [chosen people] must come back. The Israelites’ purpose in coming back was to establish the country. By losing Jesus’ body, God lost all the tribes and the tribal land. Through the loss of Jesus’ body, the Israelites lost the lands of the twelve tribes. These lands were distributed to the Islamic world. Israel lost its land when Jesus’ body was lost and ever since has been fighting with its Islamic brothers. Cain and Abel continue to fight even today. Also, the land of Korea is divided vertically north and south, between Kim Il Sung and the Reverend Moon. Kim Il Sung declares himself as father in the north, and in the south the Reverend Moon declares himself as father. How do we combine these two blocs into one? Father’s way is by surrounding Kim Il Sung, the satanic father, and bringing about a natural subjugation of heart. This happens naturally, not by using external power. If it is not voluntary, you cannot build the foundation for the heavenly side’s national kingdom. Is this clear?</p>
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<p>Recently in Texas, David Koresh, an illicit guy, stirred up the nation. He went against the government using armaments. Even while this problem was going on, Father stood up and said, “We have to speak!” It was time to make the proclamation. At that exact time we decided to give a speech across the nation. All the American leaders told me, “No, no, no, this is not the right time. This is a dangerous time!” They said, “Father, don’t do it. Please delay the time.” If I had, we would have lost the chance. Where there is death, there is also resurrection. The Reverend Moon will stand up as the real Messiah. People can analyze both claimants and choose which is the real one. People have to know the truth. It was time to proclaim this. Father has always lived in a life and death battle. We had to take advantage of the time period. If we do not, we cannot reach God’s ideal.</p>
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<p>Many different types of people gathered for the speeches. Some welcomed me, some came to analyze me, some were against me, some wanted to kill me. Both sides were represented – heaven and hell. All types of people were in the audience. They wondered, “What will Reverend Moon talk about?” The contents of the truth were poured out to them, one by one, eventually covering all fifty states. If even one man stands with our side, completely, automatically the surrounding Christian world becomes very serious. All Christian people feel guilty about the actions they committed against us in the past. They know well that what they did was wrong. Compare Unification members to the high-level Christians. They went down and down, while we have been going up and up. They cannot even look up. This is spontaneously happening throughout the Christian world. Is that true? (Yes!) Who did it? (Father.) Not Father only, Parents did it.</p>
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<p>This victorious foundation has been created by Parents. Is this great or gray? (Great!) No one on Satan’s side throughout history, no country and no organization, can stand above our side. You have to know this point clearly. Now Mother’s message has been proclaimed. America’s capitol city has been very powerful, but they did not inherit the time. The owner of the time has power, and can inherit the way of the future. Act with decisiveness. People who seize the time have all the power. Now America is diminishing and going the way of death, straight down to hell. However, it won’t die. From whom did it receive its new life? Look around. It wasn’t from the Christian world. No matter how terrible they thought the Unification Church to be, now they say, “We must look at the Unification Church.” Even a Grandpa will open his mouth now and say, “All my property, all my things, I am bequeathing to the Unification Church.” That’s all; it is finished. American people will look at that and compare. American people will look at the secular people, the Christians and the Unificationists, and ask, “Which one is more good?” Is secular humanism number one in America? No, it is on the devil’s side. Christianity is in the middle, sort of a gray color. Black color, red color, yellow color, are all connected to it. That’s not so good, but the Unification Church has only one color. We don’t have a racial color, nor do we have the variety of colors of differing denominations or faiths. We don’t have any kind of religious color or coloration from any earthly concept.</p>
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<p>Father and Mother have made the foundation we now have. Unificationists are on God’s side and have only one color. Is that true, Dr. Hendricks? [Yes.] Dr. Hendricks is the number one representative guy of the Unification Church, and he said, “Yes,” so I believe that. Unificationists don’t have different colors, but are always a white color. We are not just the American race, but a world race and more than that; we are a cosmic race. We are God’s race. God will ask, “What race are you Unification Church members?” We are the love race. What kind of love? The True Love race, abiding forever. Do you like that? [Joking: God doesn’t like that; I don’t like that.]
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<p>What will you do – escape or stay here? (Stay.) Forever? (Forever.) What will you say if even God escapes and goes around trying to find an unchangeable color elsewhere, but cannot and turns back, crying, “Please, will you accept me?” Will you accept Him? (Yes.)</p>
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<p>You say you are Unification members, yet you all have a variety of ideas. How difficult it is to work with you. “Restitution, indemnity, ooooooohhh! I don’t like those words!” Think about it. No matter how much you deny it, we need that concept. You cannot be saved without it. No matter who you know outside, compared to Reverend Moon he is not smart. Nor are you! The world had knowledge and power throughout history, but humankind didn’t find the truth of Divine Principle. It is a tremendously higher concept-reaching vertically, horizontally, to the front and to the rear. It is one concept which embraces all the concepts of history. Even putting them all together, no other concepts can surpass the concept proclaimed by the Reverend Moon. No matter how great it was, it is nothing compared to our value. No matter who proclaimed truth before, no matter how proud they were, they will follow us. If they do not, they will stay at the bottom. What is that opposite world? It is the dungeon of hell, where there is no partnership. The Unification Church is in partnership everywhere. They all invited me, “Reverend Moon, live here.” The Kremlin palace is waiting for me. The Russians are saying, “Please cast out America and come to our territory. We admire you and are preparing for you. We respect you and are ready to dedicate ourselves to you.” They ask me, “Why don’t you come back?”</p>
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<p>People of the world tell Americans, “Go home”. But there is no home for American people. Does any American have a home? To have no home means to lack parents. They don’t have husbands, wives, or children. Everyone is separated. So everywhere in America we see hippies, homosexuals and lesbians practicing free sex. This is what they have. Does this give rise to hope? American people themselves are not happy with it. It is like the dungeon of hell. Therefore, Americans are not welcomed. Are Father’s words right or wrong? (They are right.)</p>
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<p>Until now, American people have been in the position of the elder brother, but now things have turned around, and they know it. Reverend Moon’s side is now in the elder’s position. Who retreated? Father visited everywhere in America. Now American people will turn around. They know they are living in hell and have no hope for the future. With one false move they go rolling, diminishing and heading toward destruction. You can ask any American leader if they have hope for this country. They all will tell you no. The only option is to follow Reverend Moon’s guidance. Until now, America has been the leader in opposition to me. But when they looked down, they saw Father standing there as the center bud, on the central pillar. No matter what he is not moving. The American side is younger; they are in the position to follow. Reverend Moon’s side is in the elder position.</p>
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<p>Americans have no home. America does not have a family base, a home base, a national base or a world base. They are at the complete zero point. They have lost everything. How can they ignore this reality? It pervades the atmosphere. Only through the Reverend Moon can they turn back towards the ideal world. If they do so, it will be the dawning of the Completed Testament Age. Father made this a reality. No matter how proud they feel of themselves, Americans do not have the real family ideal. Also, America does not have the national ideal. The Reverend Moon has both. A grandfather and grandmother are in the king and queen’s position. Parents are in the king and queen positions and children are princes and princesses. This is already set up centering on the True Parents ideal and nobody can move it. It is now established eternally in the Completed Testament Age. It is as if the sun was rising over the whole world. Sunlight is covering all creation. All Americans must unite with True Parents’ concept. It is not just a concept.</p>
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<p>True Parents have made a victorious foundation in all fifty states. God blessed that root and this morning we can connect with the king’s foundation on the level of the individual, the family, the tribe, the nation, the world, the cosmos and God. These are all connected into one at East Garden today. This is the content of the ceremony taking place today, the first of August. This is the number of new beginning. This is a memorable day. Proclaim it: from now is the Unification Church’s time. We are now a rising sun. Unification Church members and secular people cannot be compared. We are completely subject. Since American people don’t have tribes, I made a tribe. The Israelites were made into tribes and following their tribal leader they went to their villages. But they did not take the right action after that. They gave up to the local owners and connected with the seven satanic tribes. Their tradition was lost there.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, clearly understands the point of failure of the past history and is now pointing it out so that it can be cut away. We have a new point of view from now on.</p>
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<p>Americans have a proud spirit. Everything is “number one.” Centering on the Christian world they were connected to God, but they lost God. After World War II the entire Christian world was subverted by the communist world. The churches became Satan’s base. They all positioned themselves against Reverend Moon after World War II. During this past forty years they have been diminishing. The free world is perishing. Why? During the two thousand years, no matter how severely Christians were persecuted, they overcame it and prospered. Christianity overcame the world. For the first time the entire world was occupied by one idea. All the world, while maintaining independent parts, was unified through Christianity.</p>
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<p>From the beginning, the purpose of Christianity was to create one world under God, but they did not know who the true owner was to be. The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. He is the king as a true son, as a true father, a true leader of a tribe, the true national leader, the true world leader, and the true center of the cosmos. God had authority on every level. He bequeathed it at the Second Advent, when Jesus was sent down. God’s authority is the ownership of the real family, real tribe, real world, real cosmos. The Lord of the Second Advent makes the foundation through victory on each level. All that had been lost. Satan’s side took everything, and everything came against Reverend Moon at the end of World War II. Satan took God’s world and Father was chased out into the wilderness, into the dungeons of hell. But God did not follow America or Christianity at that moment; God followed me into the wilderness.</p>
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<p>Everything was lost. What was Reverend Moon to do? The position which had been prepared had to be reclaimed. There was no easy way to restore the four thousand years represented by the lost foundation of Christianity and to untangle the mistakes of that moment. But without doing it, there would have been no hope. Father was the only soldier to bear the heavy load of that mission. At that time, God did not have the completed foundation on the family level. Do you think it was easy or difficult? It was such a bloody path, and did Father do it or not? [Father did it.] You don’t know how serious that situation was, nor do Mother and the children. There is no way to describe how difficult it was for Father to make a highway back to God. But now it is paved with asphalt, and it’s not just a four-lane highway, it has twenty-four lanes. All you need to do to stay on the highway is to open your eyes and shut your mouth. You’ll have no problem. There are soft embankments on either side, so even if you hit the side you will be okay. To make that highway was not an easy task.</p>
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<p>If Father made that foundation, then who is the owner, Reverend Moon or humankind? God is the first owner, the next owner is Reverend Moon and the third owner is humankind. If the first generation and second generation, God and Adam and Eve, are firmly on God’s side, then the fallen family cannot remain on this earth as the third owner. God and Reverend Moon inherited the third generation as their children.</p>
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<p>“True” parents means parents who are forever unchangeable. No power of any kind can change them, no matter to what extent it stands against Reverend Moon’s teaching. There is only one way. If you pull onto that road, automatically the road itself will move you forward. You do not really have much of anything to do with it. Have you made restitution on the individual and family levels? You did not even secure the individual foundation. You didn’t make restitution for any level of the foundation. No, Father did everything as True Parent. The reason is that Adam and Eve made the mistake on the level of parents. This had to be indemnified by parents, and I stand in that parental position. You have to know this.</p>
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<p>How can you return to the nation? To do so you must have the foundation of the original ideal. This means you must be perfected men and women. Since the fall, man’s mind and body were separated. The mind and the body have been fighting. The fall was the beginning and the battle has been continuing until now. On the world level we have seen the expansion of this problem in the development of right and left wing thought. The right wing represents the world of the mind and left wing represents the world of the body. These two fought and expanded level by level, until they manifested as two blocs, Satan’s side and God’s side, centering on Jesus. Jesus was the True Parent. The True Parent has to pay every kind of indemnity necessary to solve all the problems. God, standing in the complete subject position, must make partnership with the one who stands in the opposite position.</p>
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<p>God’s ideal for Adam and Eve never changed. Like God, it is absolute and unchanging. Unification thought teaches absolute faith, absolute truth and absolute love. Absolute faith is the way of the Old Testament. Absolute value, centering on human value, is from the New Testament age, and absolute love is revealed with the Completed Testament Age and True Parents’ mission. The Old Testament represented the creation (all things). The New Testament represented the children and the Completed Testament represents parents. Parents are taking ownership and building heaven’s property. There are three concepts: (1) property, (2) ownership, and (3) all things, children and parents. These are the ingredients necessary to make the family-level foundation. The center of the family with this foundation has nothing to do with Satan. This family is connected vertically with God, having children as the horizontal expansion.</p>
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<p>The life seed originally came from God. Man inherited God’s seed, became the owner of the seed and expanded horizontally by having children. The meaning of True Parents is that there is a beginning point for true expansion. There is one formula. Many seeds create a family, which grows wider horizontally. The most blessed parents are those with many children. They have the most blessed foundation and automatically inherit the same value as True Parents. In the past, God has been wondering how to make complete children, how to bring about the completion of brotherhood, how to complete the heart of husband and wife and how to create the parents’ heart. (Referring to a diagram on the board.) The position of the completion of children is here; the completion of brotherhood is here and the couple’s completion position is here. All this is the foundation for the visible God. These different aspects of love are bequeathed to the children. It was God’s hope at the beginning of creation to have the visible parents position, the conjugal ideal, the brotherly ideal and the children’s ideal. Parents are to bequeath these ideals to their children. The system of bearing children makes the corners of the four position foundation round, representing God and re-creation. The ideal husband and wife visibly represent the invisible God. Marriage is the crucial factor necessary for the inheritance of the positions of true sons and daughters, true brothers and sisters, true conjugal partnership, and True Parentship.</p>
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<p>Adam and Eve were God’s children. God wanted children who would one day marry with His blessing. God had the concept of creating love. From that concept the invisible subject and visible subject appeared, centering upon True Love. The spirit world is the right hemisphere and the human world is the left hemisphere. Man and woman are like two halves, and so are front and rear. With this love and training parents can experience expansion to the world level. Marriage means bearing fruit.</p>
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<p>God originally created so that man could connect to Him through love. Why is it necessary for man and woman to love? Man represents the eastern hemisphere, which is only one half. Therefore, no matter how famous he may be, he needs the opposite part of himself. Between man and woman, which side would be east and which side west? Man represents east. American women don’t like that idea. Man represents God and holds the life seed. Does woman carry the life seed? [No.] Who has the life seed? Man. Therefore, centering upon the life seed, we understand that man is in God’s position.</p>
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<p>American women have the idea that they don’t want to marry, but they still want to have children. Why have American women come to that miserable conclusion? Because of incest. The American family is completely confused. Centering on the man’s line a grandfather may misuse his daughter-in-law. He thinks that sexually misusing his granddaughter is no problem. This is worse than the conduct of animals. Women abused in this way will absolutely not like men. Grandsons are abused, too, as well as nieces. No children like being abused. As they grow up, they will reject everything. Therefore, children come to feel they don’t need grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters or children. Through this breakdown of family morality and ethics, men and women come to hate one another. This leads to homosexuality and lesbianism. Men take comfort with other men and women take comfort with other women. Where did this phenomenon of separation begin? This all began with incest. It is the result of free sex. How can people affected by this return to the original world? All these people feel that love is the enemy, that love is destructive. Think about how terrible is the very act of homosexuality. Animals do not behave in that dirty way. The human sexual organs were originally to be the palace of sacred love, the center in which God wanted to dwell.</p>
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<p>The place of origin cannot be changed. The parents tradition will remain forever. Through that palace, the ideal parents, ideal family, ideal nation and ideal world are connected, with that palace as the eternal root. After the fall, humankind lost everything. Everything was separated. It is a miserable situation.</p>
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<p>What is your sexual organ? (The love palace.) It is the palace of eternal love and hope. You physically live for only one generation, not forever. But through that palace, man’s life and woman’s life can connect. When a virgin man and virgin woman meet for the first time, there is an exciting electric power in their minds and bodies. Touching each other, that current connects them. Love is the only way for there to exist a connection between man’s life and woman’s life. Otherwise, their lives cannot connect. A man and woman who have received the blessing can connect as one body. East and west can connect in one global position. How wonderful this is! Have you ever thought about this before? In the past you didn’t realize this, did you? Dr. Bergman, is what I am saying true? [Yes.] I don’t know, but you are a doctor. Doctors usually require too much analysis in order to reach the correct conclusion.</p>
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<p>Then what is your sexual organ? First, it is your love palace and second it is your life palace. It is the most precious place; it is the place of True Parentship and true ownership. It is the place upon which is the focus of all true teaching. True ownership means True Love ownership. All these points are found in sexual intercourse between the ideal couple. For a woman, her husband is her absolute truth. For a man, his wife is his absolute truth. How do you like that? Is that okay? Maybe you don’t need True Love, saying, “I don’t like women, but I want True Love.” The man who thinks that way will never find love. It is only from your True Love partner that you can find love.</p>
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<p>Men and women’s minds, bodies and blood make oneness, and this is the place where the creation of children occurs. In this act of exchanging ownership and occupying each other, there is high level of excitement for both man and woman. A woman feels, “This is the highest level standing. I am a happy queen!” The man thinks, “I am a happy king.” All five senses, smelling, hearing, touching, tasting and feeling, focus on one point. A wave of True Love passes through both partners and afterwards, children appear. You experience formation, growth and perfection. The world doesn’t understand these three big waves. One is here, two is here and three is here. Do you understand the three phases of electricity? After love, your breathing is hard, maybe six or seven times. After that, your breathing is completely flat. Seven has that meaning. There is no admixture of concepts in True Love.</p>
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<p>In the fallen world people experience not only first, but second and third love. Father spits on this dirty lifestyle. Free sex is the worst behavior and carries AIDS with it. Do you like AIDS? Do you like free sex? Do you like homosexuals and lesbians? [No.] These lifestyles immediately expose one to the AIDS disease. It is their death sentence.</p>
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<p>Is Father speaking to you in English or Korean? [English.] Father is beginning to forget which language he is speaking. True Parents should use only one language, not two. Language automatically creates a true cultural background, true tradition, true habits and true lifestyle. No matter how difficult it may be, you must learn Korean. Then within three generations you will see a complete change. Can you do it? You’ve got a Korean wife, so it shouldn’t be so difficult. That’s the easy way. This is a help for your life, making the flat, safe way. No matter how much you may try to deny Father’s words, what I say is correct. Once you have passed away to the spirit world you will realize that Father taught exactly the correct concept, and then what shall you do? In this world, you think, “Father talks about indemnity too much.” Americans like freedom. They are joyful, like grasshoppers. Father tells you, “Don’t live like a grasshopper. You should become an ant.” American people like dancing and joking, and don’t want to become hard working ants. Ants are too thin! No matter how proud you are of American culture, you must acknowledge that the Japanese are occupying everything. You don’t have a value system. You don’t own property and the Western world is giving way to the Eastern world. The tide is changing between East and West. Heavenly fate is going in the direction of East. No matter what Americans like to think, this nation is dropping down to the dungeon of hell. Reverend Moon is taking the youth of this country and saving them for the sake of the Western world. Everyone else is denying this with all their effort, but for twenty-one years, Father has been patiently enduring in this country so that the springtime will come.</p>
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<p>America doesn’t have a vertical pillar. The universe exists by combining the two concepts of vertical and horizontal. That place will not give way, but will stand fast at a ninety degree angle. Do you understand? (Father draws on the board.) This horizontal line is flat. With the vertical line and another to the front and rear there are altogether three lines. From these you can make a globe. There are seven points [the center point plus up and down, right and left, front and back]. Everything combines in the center, taking the central position. This is the way the natural world exists. No matter what part gets put where, there is no complaint. You can accept any combination with no complaint. Man has two characteristics. One, the body, is horizontal and the other, the mind, is vertical. Until now humankind did not know this, but now it is clear that the mind is vertical and the body is horizontal. Unification teaching says clearly that mind is the “vertical me.” Which one comes first? The mind comes first. This is the correct position, so that everything has only one central, vertical orientation.</p>
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<p>What is in the central position, occupying it forever? It is not property, knowledge, things, or authority. The secular world considers these things most valuable, but True Love is subject. The True Love pillar is the king’s pillar. Nothing can ever dislodge it. It holds the subjective position forever. If you can take that position, then all people will automatically connect to you. Father took that position and every Unification Church member has to understand this. Is it true? What does your mind say? [Yes.] Once you become part of this relationship you will never forget it. That means you become our seed. The atmosphere changes and you grow up bigger and bigger. Automatically, you think, “I love True Father. I want to stay close to him forever. This is the ideal basement.” No, not a basement that is under a house. [Laughter.] When Father says basement, I don’t mean an underground room. I mean a base or foundation.</p>
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<p>Do you like me? [Yes!] Well, I don’t like you because you create too much complication for me! You’re sitting too close, trying to touch me, so I’ll set a limit of one meter. American women are too greedy, wanting to come too close, so I set boundaries for you. They want a kiss, thinking that one kiss in their whole lifetime will be enough. But it’s not so easy. I push them away because it is too dangerous! All women like me because I am the completion of the ideal of a king, father, brother, partner and child. If they meet me one time, then that woman cannot separate ever. If Father permitted such a partnership, it would be a problem. They think, “I want to become Mother.” All women want that kind of authority. This has always been a problem for Father. From teenager to grandmother, all women stand in a horizontal position. In the early days of the Unification Church many women proposed to Father. This was the foundation for the start of the Unification Church. This phenomena took place. This means the discipline of the heavenly wind blew over the Unification Church. You didn’t know it, but it passed over already.</p>
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<p>I proclaimed that you have to go back to your hometown, but hometown is not our final purpose. Our purpose centers on the home nation. The Israelites had their hometowns, but they did not have their home nation. After they connected with the Messiah they should have found their hometown and home nation. The Old Testament prophesied that for the time of the coming of Jesus, but no one believed Jesus because he was an illegitimate child.</p>
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<p>The American Christian system centers upon family values. Why does America represent the Christian world? After World War II, they did not connect with the Second Advent. At that time the true husband appeared for the first time, also the true wife appeared. How could the true wife appear? The unity of Cain and Abel brings the appearance of the bride. Look at the Allied nations of England, America and France at the time of World War II. England represented Eve because it is an island country. Throughout history island nations want to meet the mainland. The owner of the mainland is the second messiah. England was waiting for the Lord of the Second Coming to arrive and take ownership.</p>
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<p>At the time of the fall, Adam followed Satan. Adam followed Eve, Cain and finally Abel to Satan’s side. Those were the three problems. Adam’s body became Satan’s body. Until age sixteen, Adam and Eve were on God’s side. Therefore, they can take the way of restoration by connecting up and restoring the body. From there, God can connect to the secular world. Restoration has that meaning and purpose. One core concept is messiahship. Messiah has the position of a real man, a real husband and a real teacher. He holds the original position for which God created man, which was lost due to the fall. Satan occupied God’s position in man and in the world, which automatically created the dungeon of hell. Satan is the king of hell. Therefore, the religious world of the mind is separated from the secular world of the flesh.</p>
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<p>At the time of World War II, Eve’s position was held by England and Cain’s position by France. The Abel’s position Anglo-Saxon tribe moved out and formed America. In the past, France was an enemy of England. These were the individuals Eve, Cain and Abel, planted on the world level. World War II was the harvest on the world level. After the fall, Eve, Cain and Abel took enemy positions. The mother Eve and son Abel were enemies; they did not connect. The potential for brotherhood ended when one brother killed another; thus brothers became enemies. The original bad seed expanded and bore fruit on the national base. England and America fought. England and France fought. In the past they were enemies to each other, but at the time of World War II they became allies. This was God’s doing.</p>
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<p>Men on the mind side and men on the physical side planted two kinds of seeds. Japan, another island nation, had the position of Eve on the body side, and Germany was Adam on the physical side. England and France had occupied Singapore and Vietnam, but Japan pushed them out of Southeast Asia during World War II. Japan was connected with Germany’s aggression and Italy followed. Italy was in the archangel position. There you have the nations exactly representing Adam, Eve and the archangel. At the time of World War II, Cain and Abel were divided on a worldwide level, represented by these two trinities. How could they become one? They could do so only by reaching to the parents’ position. Centering upon Eve, Cain and Abel can be united, and then all three can find Adam and return to God.</p>
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<p>After the fall, Satan became the center instead of God. Satan occupied everything. But Satan understands that man originally belongs to God. That is an absolute. How can God extend His hand and reach into the human situation? Satan occupies only the head and feet. Who was the last one to come under Satan? Cain. Satan is occupying the elder son’s position, not the younger son’s position. The original ideal was that God’s authority would occupy the elder position. So how can that position be reclaimed by God? The elder is automatically recognized by his brothers and sisters, and the parents recognize him, too. The elder’s position on the individual base, family base, world base – this all must be restored at the time of the Second Advent.</p>
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<p>The Old Testament promised the Israelites that the Messiah would be sent to save them. The Israelites absolutely believed the Messiah would come. However, all the Israelites believed that Elijah would come down from heaven in a fiery chariot before the coming of the Messiah. John the Baptist was Elijah; Jesus understood this although no one else did. Elijah means heavenly side Cain. The heavenly side Cain position is represented by the Jewish people uniting with John the Baptist. Centering on John the Baptist, the Israelite nation could have united with the Messiah. At that time the Israelites didn’t know that. Crowds gathered all around the nation, causing a stir and making a problem for the Roman government. That phenomena was taking place in the provincial territories. Jesus told them that John was Elijah, but he could not convince them. The Israelites responded with, “He wants to become the Messiah! He is the king of the devils.” Without John’s testimony, they would automatically accuse Jesus of heresy. They eventually did exactly that. From the viewpoint of the Old Testament, the Messiah was to be a powerful man. But a powerful man, who is naturally concerned with gaining and spending money, cannot take the Messiah’s position. Also, this simple carpenter was the fruit of illicit love. Everybody knew it. Israel was a small country, like a city. Once someone created a rumor it would spread everywhere in just a day.</p>
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<p>Who was Jesus’ father? This is a problem for the Christian world, because Christians stubbornly believe that Jesus was born through a virgin birth. How can a man’s seed enter into a woman’s womb if she is a virgin? Without a man, is conception possible or impossible? [Impossible.] Then who was Jesus’ father? [Zechariah.] Who taught you that? I never said any such thing. [Laughter.] For the last six months, several times you told me that. If I proclaim “Zechariah,” all over the world, Christians will call me a heretic. But no matter how heretical it sounds, they will be defeated. They cannot deny Reverend Moon’s truth. With Father’s speech proclaiming True Parents, we are at a turning point and we will see the completion of unification. Who made unification? Father did.</p>
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<p>The formation stage represents the Old Testament, growth represents the New Testament and perfection represents the Completed Testament. These three combined into one create the center pillar; one pillar, one center. It is the same for Jewish people and Christian people. Humankind cannot deny this. Even if they deny it, they are now standing upon the settlement foundation. Is that true? That means no world of creation, no children’s world and no parents’ world. If they don’t find that foundation, it means no tribe, no nation and no world. They are not connected to anything. No matter how much the Christian world wants to come against it, the Unification truth cannot be bent. Is that right? [Right.] No, it’s wrong! [Right!] Are you American? [Yes.] Well, I’m Korean. [Laughter.] Who is in the elder position? [Korea.] Korea is the Adam nation, Japan is the Eve nation and America is the archangel nation. They were enemies to one another. Do you like Japan? [Yes.] Do you really like Japan, even though forty years ago they were your enemy? Did Reverend Moon or America make that possible? [Father.] No, no Father didn’t do that. The Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament centered upon God made this foundation. Father made a bridge.</p>
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<p>This is God’s secret, not Reverend Moon’s, do you understand? God always combines with central True Love, bequeathing everything to us. How can you inherit Father’s position? It has the same meaning. Reverend Moon is centering on God. If you center upon Reverend Moon, you are taking the same position. It is the way following the same formula, no different. Father follows God with absolute faith, absolute belief. You have to follow Father absolutely, not by analyzing, “Oh, Father is talking about this and that, but we have to go our own American way.” If I recommend something to the Japanese, they immediately take action. They always ask, “What shall I do?” Many times Father recommended that you take a certain way, but American people did not do it. Because we analyze, our one hundred percent goes down to eighty percent. That kind of foundation cannot lead to settlement. We need one hundred percent. God wants to dwell in that place. Father wants to dwell in that place.</p>
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<p>You always analyze centering on how it can benefit you and make your way more easy. With that kind of concept you cannot pay indemnity or make restitution. Are you American-side church members or God-side church members? [God’s side.] That means you deny American, Japanese, and Korean concepts and completely connect with God’s side. Is this reality or concept? [Reality.] Really? That is wrong. You have to follow the Adam nation. You have to follow the Eve nation. Not just follow, but you have to dedicate yourself to Japan and the Adam nation. No matter how much you deny this, this is the center value of God’s recreation restoration course.</p>
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<p>That means American people have to take the servant’s way. Americans don’t like to hear that America is standing in the archangel position. “Don’t say it, I don’t like to hear that kind of stuff.” But now you understand that the archangel position doesn’t have partnership. People’s partner in this country is free sex itself. They deny partnership. They lost grandparents, parents, conjugal love and children’s love. Is there any way they can find it? No. The fallen archangel took the position and Satan created the dungeon of hell. Satan is in the archangel position. His desire is to destroy the original foundation. He wants to corrupt God’s original ideal of creation. This is Satan’s main purpose. Why? Without that ideal position, no matter how great God’s creation is, God cannot restore His original True Love ideal in the family, nation and world. America is an exhibition hall of Satan’s works. How can you deny that? Is God’s concept one of free sex? No. What about homosexuality and lesbianism? No. That means Satan has caused this devastation of society. No matter how great God is, He cannot bring about the ideal world by Himself.</p>
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<p>This world is an extension of Satan’s hellish world. How can American people go back to the ideal home? Parents cannot go back home and children deny their parents. This is Satan’s work. Think about the 2,000 year history of Christianity. The persecution they endured brought prosperity. After World War II, America stood in a king’s position. It took the leader’s position over the free world. That great prosperity belonged to one nation, one world under God. How did America decline from the most valuable position to such a miserable position in just forty years? Who caused it? Satan. The reason is that after World War II, the victorious free world turned to Satan’s side against Reverend Moon. The Allied countries did not support Reverend Moon at all. They felt too proud of themselves to connect with a seemingly insignificant young man from Korea.</p>
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<p>No matter what the Christian world may think now and no matter what the Jewish world may have thought at the time of Jesus, the Messiah is correct in God’s viewpoint even if those surrounding go against him. The Messiah is confronted from every area. God’s strategy is to be hit first and then to gain more territory. For forty years, every family, every nation, every level went against me. No one welcomed Reverend Moon. Did we ever hear a welcoming sound from the free world for Father and Mother? [No.] Father went to Danbury prison, but did he disappear? No; from there he ascended into heaven just like Jesus. This is the seventh year since Father was released from Danbury. Father took the position of victor and has been lifting up others. Now, after traveling all fifty states, who surrendered, the Reverend Moon or the American government? [The American government.] You are Americans, you should say Reverend Moon. Your government will kneel down in front of Reverend Moon voluntarily. Is that true? Yes, they cannot come against me forever.</p>
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<p>Did Father make this foundation or not? Is Father marching on the way of prosperity or way of decline? Will he end or continue marching on?</p>
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<p>At the time of World War II, the American Christians didn’t make the worldwide foundation of the bride. Instead, they chased Reverend Moon out to the wilderness just as in Jesus’ time. When John the Baptist didn’t connect with Jesus, Jesus was chased into the wilderness. So again, God had to claim a group of people as the Israelites and a nation as the Israelite nation, Cain and Abel. Upon the unity of those two the bride can be welcomed. John the Baptist went against Jesus and lost everything. It is exactly the same with Reverend Moon. Centering on the life of Jesus, the course had to be traversed again. Judaism was in the position of Abel at the time of Jesus and the Israelite nation was in the position of Cain. They had to combine into one, otherwise the mother could not appear. How can the mother stand on the foundation of a warring Cain and Abel?</p>
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<p>This is the time of the Second Advent. Adam must connect to this ideal which was completely lost. This time all nations must combine into one. We must create one independent world under God. For the first time in history, a religious cultural background will make up the independent world – an ideal, peaceful, national base. Those countries have to connect to the Messiah and his purpose. In this country, it is no matter that man is in the archangel position. In the fallen world, you will never find the Messiah by centering upon man because the starting point is God. This world is connected to Satan from its point of origin. Therefore we can’t find man’s original starting point in this world. Man denied everything. That’s why we see the phenomena of American women today. They unite with the archangelic men in free sex.</p>
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<p>After World War II, American women took the king’s position. Their husbands were in the servants position. He says, “My King, can I spend some money today? Thank you.” Women have the key of authority. The servant occupied Eve, but in this time the real husband is coming to return ownership to the returning king. In all American families, the woman is like a king grasping all power. Is that true? All husbands are like servants asking for permission to do everything. The true husband is making a preparatory foundation, not an American family foundation but a foundation for True Parents. That kind of woman’s [bride’s] power didn’t meet the original Adam of the Second Advent. He and God will chase her out and after that God-centered people will fill their rightful position. Satan now occupies all the youth of the Christian world. Cain and Abel, the second generation, are against God. That denial type of theology is appearing. God has permitted this situation to come about in the forty years following World War II. You have authority and power, it was permitted, but this position is completely a zero position.</p>
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<p>Free sex is Satan’s most fearful weapon against God’s ideal. Americans laugh and joke but it is always based upon sexuality. This is inducing people to take sexual intercourse very lightly. Satan is completely occupying them. No one can stand against this kind of trend. The nation must deny it, the society, family and individual must deny it and reject it as the devil’s work. If they do not, this country’s destruction is imminent. Death will follow.</p>
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<p>Think about it, in the past 400 years of the Western world’s history, all creation and development have come about in America. It is the most prosperous of the world’s nations. But Father has told us, “Follow me, denying the government and the family.” Can they come against me? Is mine the normal way or not? For twenty years Father has been struck down. But no matter how much he was pushed down, Father didn’t die. To the contrary, he made a victorious foundation throughout the world. Immediately he was lifted up. Satan’s world is ending.</p>
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<p>We must go the way of reversal, which is restoration. We are at a cross junction, the zero point. Standing at this point, you have no concept. Japanese women think, “I am not a Japanese woman.” If she thinks she is Japanese, she automatically connects to Satan’s habit and tradition. The same is true for Americans and all people. If you are not completely at the zero point, you are Satan’s type. If you are completely at the zero point, you are God’s type. There is only a one percentage point difference between Satan’s world and God’s world. If the fallen ancestors don’t go to this zero point at least one time and then resurrect, they cannot connect to the Kingdom of Heaven. There is only one degree of difference between heaven and hell. How serious this is! Are you Jewish? [Yes.] You so easily answered yes. When Father asks you if you are Jewish, you should say, “No. I am a heavenly person.” Make that kind of tradition, otherwise Satan is always behind you. Do you understand? [Yes.]
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<p>What language do you use? [English.] That connects you to Satan’s lineage. You cannot connect to the mainstream in heaven unless you go to the zero point. At that time can you say, “True Parents didn’t teach me”? Or will you have to admit, “True Parents taught me clearly”?</p>
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<p>If you go to the spiritual world and you don’t speak True Parents’ language, what shall you do? True Parents’ mission is to make straight all the crooked and complicated fallen pathways and make restitution through indemnity for a new pathway. This is the straight ladder created by True Parents. There are many ladders now. Do you like a straight ladder or a crooked ladder? Fallen people say, “We don’t need a vertical ladder,” but they must climb a vertical ladder step by step. There is only one straight ladder, and it is True Parents’ ladder. And there is absolutely only one set of True Parents.</p>
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<p>Last year was Mother’s year and all women around the world were liberated beginning from the rally in Seoul on April 10, 1992. After liberation, which way should women take? [Mother’s way.] There is only one way, not two ways. Those who follow Mother are changing their mind’s color. They are becoming pink, like Mother’s color. They connect to that one woman’s tree. Mother is the center root, center trunk and center bud for all women. She is lifting up the woman’s side to a new and higher level. Satan’s root has been deep, but Mother’s root is deeper. If you sink your root down deep then growing up is no problem. For the first time in history, the woman’s world is now connecting to Father’s teaching. The central root for women is Mother and central women’s trunk is Mother. The central bud is Mother. The woman’s trunk is alive, not dead. Representing Satan’s world, all women naturally connect with Mother. It is thin, it seems like only one thread, but all women are connected to it. In one year’s time the Women’s Federation has been established in many countries around the world. This is the most powerful women’s organization in history, because it connects to the providential viewpoint of women’s liberation. This is the last step in connecting women to God’s ideal. Mother is following Father and all humankind is following Mother. How can man follow woman? He cannot. From God’s side, Father sees all humankind as one woman and one man. Man’s position represents the archangel and woman’s position represents Eve. Father’s position is completely the husband’s position. This is the Principled viewpoint. This is the original family base expanded vertically and horizontally. No matter how wide the foundation spreads, the central point is the family.</p>
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<p>Father has sent you out as tribal messiahs. The mission of tribal messiahs is to make your family into a foundation for family messiahship, which is the formation stage. Tribal messiahship is the growth stage and national messiahship is the perfection stage. Horizontally there are three positions: family, tribe and nation. National messiahship is in the trunk position. World messiahship is Father’s position. Father made a victorious individual trunk, tribal trunk, national trunk and world trunk. How will the national and world horizontal expansion appear? Horizontally, Mother is connecting with women. Mother re-created Eve’s foundation. For the past year, Mother has been doing Father’s mission. After World War II, the Christian world was standing in the heavenly archangel position. That was America’s mission after World War II. Once Cain and Abel unite, the Christian culture of the bride will appear. The Christian world represented the Abel position and the free world as a whole represented the Cain position. They needed to combine into one to stand in the position of the bride. But neither Christians nor Jews understood that.</p>
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<p>The New Testament Age is the extension of the Old Testament Age. During the age of the New Testament, all the mistakes of the Old Testament had to be restored. That was the mission of the New Testament Age. The Christian world and the free world were to make the foundation for True Parents. The queen’s position should have been established absolutely and all humankind should have come to Father. A foundation should have been prepared for the queen, Eve. The Christian world does not realize this.</p>
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<p>In Jesus’ time the people representing the Old Testament foundation came against him, and as a result Satan occupied the world. At the time of the Second Advent, the Christian world made the same mistake. Father is standing in Jesus’ position. How can the world come to understand this? First there must be someone in the Abel position to establish the national base. Then the Christian world can unite with that Abel. So Mother made a national base in 1992, creating a victorious foundation extending the New Testament Age twenty years. Everything the Christian world did against us has been digested. Throughout Mother’s speaking tour over all fifty states, no one stood against Mother or Father. That means the lost archangel, who turned to Satan’s side after World War II, is now welcoming the chance to have unity with Eve and Adam. Mother is following Father and America as archangel is following Mother. This is fulfilling exactly the pattern for world restoration, centering on Adam, Eve and the archangel, the original Satan.</p>
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<p>Now the good archangel is influencing the American government. Soon they will proclaim Parents’ Day and the Completed Testament Age. It will be proclaimed all over America. It can be celebrated all over the free world, uniting it into one. The victory which was lost after World War II, centering on America, is now being won by the free world. Is that true? No matter how difficult your situation is, you have to lead America to recognize True Parents and the Completed Testament Age. We need to proclaim it and make it a national holiday. Then all organizations can teach this concept. Otherwise the American family and American nation will disappear. Now America needs Father’s message. America needs the ideal of the family. Then they can connect to heaven very easily. All Americans can recognize the True Parents.</p>
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<p>Is the White House an owner on God’s side or Satan’s side? [Satan’s side.] Who is on God’s side? [Father.] Korea is making complications and now Japan is making noisy complications, but Father says, “I don’t care. I will make a peaceful foundation on the earth.” I have confidence. How about you? Father has guts; how about you? Are you connected completely with Father or not? [Yes.] Are you like me – do you have guts? Have you made that decision, or are you just starting to think about it? Are we just on the way, or have we passed over the terminal point? Still being on the way is no good. It means you did not accomplish and inherit the forty years wilderness period.</p>
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<p>The Israelites represent the concept of the center. Centering on us, centering on me, from now on you work in your hometown, your home nation. You have to build up your nation. After that you can consider your personal dignity and position, when you register with the nation. You have to register with the nation, otherwise you cannot take the tribal messiah position.</p>
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<p>Women all over the world must embrace their children. American family problems come from women. A woman has to stay in the center and embrace her children. Then there is no problem. From now on you have to connect to the original husband, not your present husband, who is in the archangel position. Woman first connects with the original husband, and next the children combine into one with her. Then you can connect with your husband. Your present husband standing against you is in Satan’s position. That is the archangel position. Your children stand in the position of receiving fallen Adam’s seed. Connecting to Eve, Cain and Abel unify and connect to True Father’s position and True Parents’ family. From there, their father’s wife will be dedicated like a queen. Do you understand that Eve is the queen? Eve’s children are princes and princesses. Mother and children welcome and completely follow True Parents. Completing that, they are blessed again and everyone is brought to God’s side. That means that the worst fallen archangel is not impeding Father’s victory. This is principle viewpoint.</p>
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<p>The father and mother were the center at the time of the fall. The archangel took the mother to his side. Now in this time, Father and the archangel have turned this situation around. The elder’s position is given back to the mother and father. The archangel and Eve/mother are connecting the Eve nation.</p>
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<p>Korea doesn’t have a nation. Neither Mother nor Father have a national base. The archangel lost everything because of the fall, but at this time he is combining in a good way with Eve, the Japanese nation. This will happen in September, when Mother speaks in twenty-five cities. Now in Japan, Satan is blacking out Unificationism. No matter what they were doing or saying in Japan, America welcomed True Parents in all fifty states and on Capitol Hill, and they understood the circumstances. They thought, “If Japan doesn’t understand True Parents it is because they don’t understand Christian concepts. They are barbarians.” Japan understands that. They know that Reverend and Mrs. Moon have been victoriously welcomed in all fifty states and on Capitol Hill. They know that Parents Day has been proclaimed even as a law. Is there any way they can prevent that? Japan must combine with what? With the Korean nation.</p>
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<p>Korea has two fathers. Kim Il Sung represents the Second Advent on the satanic side. Satan proclaimed himself first and has reigned forty years as king. In South Korea, representing the Christian world’s Second Advent, True Parents are declaring themselves. Those three, the Adam nation, the archangel nation and the Eve nation, must unite. Who divided the Korean peninsula? Japan did when it occupied Korea during World War II. America and Japan both separated the Korean peninsula. America represents God’s world as the heavenly archangel and China represents the archangel position in the Asian world. Both are connecting to me. The Soviet Union was the worst fallen archangel position. Those three archangels who are male are all looking towards Japan, which is like a beautiful woman. All three want to occupy her. Reverend Moon is the original owner and husband. He surrounds those three archangels, asking, “What are you doing?” Father will scold them.</p>
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<p>At the time of the fall, Satan took away Eve’s children and at this time Father embraces Eve and her children. No matter how much Japan comes against us, it cannot stop these children uniting with me. The unification action of Eve cannot be denied. The noise of the outside secular world, no matter how loud, will disappear. The original purpose is that Eve and Adam unite. That partnership doesn’t waver anywhere or anytime. This is Divine Principle’s original viewpoint and nothing can change this. The time for this fulfillment is not so far away. Centering upon Mother, the Women’s Federation is uniting Korean and Japanese women. Korean women stand in the elder sister’s position. Centering upon Mother the three compose one line. Tribal messiahship is the time of mother and children. The family base is mother and children combined. The national base is the mother centering upon the archangel. Korean women and Korean second generation (children) have to unite into one. At that time the first generation will completely unite. Father wants to accomplish that now. He will do that through the women’s organizations. It means that Adam’s family and the second generation will unite to create the world base. Centering on Eve, the children unite. This makes the national base and True Parents will come into Korea. All women are the center and all Cain and Abel will embrace. All individual families and the national base will be connected to one way. All South Korea will be stirred up, and they will follow Father ultimately. North Korea will present no problem.</p>
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<p>Who can restore Satan, the fallen archangel? The heavenly archangel position centering upon America, Red China and Russia – those three – plus Eve’s country will teach Kim Il Sung. They will help him to cheer, “mansei.” Right now North Korea has a very narrow footing, while Reverend Moon’s position is expanding more and more. They understand that. No matter how difficult their situation is, they have to follow Reverend Moon and go his way. Otherwise Kim Il Sing will pass away. After that, the next generation will be controlled by other stronger powers. After Kim Il Sung dies, they will say, “We don’t recognize the North Korean country.” This is the way, from the Principle viewpoint, we can unify the Korean peninsula. It is our mission in the future.</p>
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<p>No matter how severe a situation you may face, you must be able to go through it. You must have determination. Today is a determination memorial day. It is the first of August. You have to look at the time from 7/7, the seventh of July, until today. You have to know this point today, “Until now I was fallen but now I will go in the opposite way.” Centering upon the archangel, Eve, Adam, Cain, Abel were going the opposite way from God [Father draws on the board]. Eve is the center with the archangel, Cain and Abel. God’s side cannot go against them, eventually it must welcome them. Do you understand what the opposite way is? Eve followed the archangel into the fallen world. In the restoration course, it is opposite. Eve and the archangel unite and Eve’s nation and Adam’s nation connect with one place. Then we have the whole nation. Now is exactly that time. The starting day is August first – today. We have to know this clearly. There is a time difference. The Parents’ world, the Completed Testament Age, is coming. Now the whole world can welcome Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. In several years we can spread all over the world with no problem. Is this hopeful or difficult? [Hopeful.] We live in a hopeful situation. So you have to win. You have to accept this individual mission.</p>
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<p>Today’s motto is “new family and hometown.” The world and nation will follow that ideal base of the family and hometown. They will compete to follow our way with no persecution. Father is following behind that level.</p>
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<p>We will organize an orderly system and you have to follow that orderly system. First is tradition, second is education, third is action. You must know God’s tradition and True Parents’ tradition. True Parents’ education is directed toward following the course of history. You need clear education so you can build a model. You have to create it by yourself, independently. From there you have to help others. Don’t stand in a position of being in debt. People who are in debt cannot get into heaven. No matter how difficult it might be, day by day you have to add to the other side. This is God’s way. This way you will be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. For the sake of nation, march on.</p>
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<p>This is the Blessed couple’s mission. You must create the ideal home and ideal nation. So think about how important the tribal messiah mission is. If you do not take this way and connect to this mission, there will be no space for you in the highest realm of the spirit world. After your completion of tribal messiahship, you have to register the nation’s people. How much bigger tribal responsibility is! Your tribe will connect spontaneously to the heavenly world. Together you will possess it forever, with happiness and true ownership. Those of you who say you will do as Father has instructed, raise both of your hands. God bless you.</p>
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<p>First of all you have to unite. True Parents’ family is in the Abel position and you are in the position of Cain. Parents, family and children have to unite. This is the necessary foundation. This is your ideal family system, now and in the future.</p>
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<p>In this time True Parents made this proclamation in fifty states. Parents connect to the foundation, but children don’t connect there. This also applies to Reverend Moon’s children. They have to inherit True Parents’ position. That is their activity as well as yours from now. Especially those in New York, Washington and Chicago. Those three are the biggest in terms of membership. Everyday you can speak out the same concept that True Parents are teaching and deepen and strengthen your family’s relationship. Father’s children are now taking action all over the world. The children in the Abel position are doing that and since you are blessed couples in Cain’s position, you must follow and inherit that. True Parents, the true Abel family and the Cain families must unite on the world level. Then Satan cannot have a place for settlement on the earth. From now on you have to do this, centering upon your couple and your children.</p>
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<p>This morning, for the first time, Father taught that all families have to go this way. We have to follow this teaching of the home tradition, to the national and world level, by centering upon Father’s family. Four children are blessed and this represents east, west, south and north – four corners. Those children combine into one. No matter how difficult the situation may be, you have to obey and protect Father’s position. You must simply say, “Yes, Father; yes Mother.” You have not had that kind of tradition, but must make it from now, centering on True Father’s blessed couples. The Cain-side blessed couples must inherit that through the True Family blessed couples. Through that there is a natural creation of twelve tribes, and the position of seventy-two elders is connected there. Otherwise you cannot get into the world of eternal life.</p>
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<p>No matter how difficult it is, no matter how much you were dedicated in the past, your final purpose is the tribal messiah mission. You have to go back as a family messiah and connect 160 people. There were sixteen nations fighting representing the United Nations in the Korean War. The soldiers of the United Nations forces united. There are 160 nations in the world foundation. The number four fits into all these. From Moses’ time to Jesus’ age there was a 1,600 year period. God uses these numbers connected to four in order to separate Satan. There were sixteen nations participating in the Korean War because of the number four and its meaning. That was a tribal war, not a world war. Why? Korea is humankind’s original ancestral country.</p>
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<p>The Cold War began in Korea and ended in Korea at the time of Olympics, centering upon the True Parents. Centering upon the True Parents, all the indemnity was paid between the 160 nations. At that time the communist world and democratic world were connected at the Olympic rally. It was a gathering on the level of international kings and queens. Satan once separated everything into two sides, but at that moment they were unified. At that time Father welcomed all the competing champions and offered them hospitality. They wanted to go back to their country. Why? Because Father was helping them. No other government did that. Father was the only one to embrace the children of the second generation. Why? Because, from the Principle viewpoint, the second generation must be united with the first, otherwise we cannot go back to the ideal world. Father made this victorious foundation and the Cold War finished. The Christian world connected to this base from there.</p>
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<p>You must return to your original nation no matter how difficult your situation. You must live there for three years or more. You were born there. Why must you stay there for three years or more? You have to eat and digest the elements from the original land. Go back there and drink the water, eat the fruit, eat the fish. That is Abel food, not Cain food.</p>
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<p>Father did everything. What shall I do now? In America, did Father complete his work in a victorious way or defeated way? [Victorious.] You know that clearly. Then how should we go on from today? Eve – women – unite completely with me, Mother and our children forever. No matter how difficult, you cannot separate. If you separate, you go to the dungeon of hell, immediately and straight down. Your husband may not like it, but you have to teach him. Save your children and your husband and connect with True Parents. Otherwise you cannot save your family. After connecting the family you can go to the place of victory, the original ideal world.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 14, 1993<br />
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East Garden<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is “<i>Sung Yak Si Dae Wa Na</i>“, “<i>The Completed Testament Era and Me</i>“.</p>
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<p>I see many Japanese members here. Those who are Japanese members, raise your hands. It is the majority. Now, Americans and Europeans, raise your hands.</p>
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<p>As you know, today is Valentine’s Day. I understand that Americans cherish this day very much, exchanging gifts between loving husband and wife, such as watches for the husband and combs for the wife, to show their love and appreciation. This is their tradition. Even though the gift may be humble and small, what makes it big is the power of love. It is not the material, but the love behind it which makes a Valentine’s Day gift significant.</p>
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<p>The opposite case would be for a husband to give his wife a large diamond ring with a heart that was not full of love. By the same token, the wife could purchase something tremendously expensive for her husband, but with a heart lacking True Love. Those gifts would not mean much.</p>
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<p>When someone with plenty of money buys a gift for his loved one, it doesn’t have such great importance, whereas someone who is living in poverty has to dedicate a lot of heart and energy to buy a gift for his beloved. That is a more valuable gift.</p>
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<p>As people of faith, living day by day, how can we dedicate our love to God? What can we do? We understand that God is not in need of any material thing, but God is in need of love, just as we are. The Bible encourages us to dedicate our whole heart and mind in loving the Lord God. So, love is the first commandment. So the presents which the husband and wife exchange are valuable because even though they are a small token, it goes beyond the country, beyond history. The fact that he or she gathered these small things and was able to present them to their spouse is a great achievement, in fact. Even though this handkerchief here may be humble in terms of monetary value, if love is represented by this handkerchief, then it becomes priceless, something which cannot be purchased with money.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Self-Centered Love</h3>
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<p>There is no doubt about the most important day of commemoration in human life. It is the day you commemorate love, such as today. This is the same, not only among human beings, but also for God. God needs a spouse and family and country, just as we do. Then He perhaps needs the best person in the whole country, too. What kind of person is the best in the country? As we know, God, centering on love, invests so much into everything, and then He forgets. He invested so much into human beings, and then He forgot all that He invested. Even after the human fall, God did not have time to rest, but continued to invest and give of Himself to fallen man. Since God invested all His love into this world, love is the essence of the world. We can understand that this world and cosmos operate centered on love. Love is the power.</p>
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<p>We see the fallen world, one that we are not proud of. Still, because God put so much into love and restoration after the fall, in God’s eyes, even in this world, He cannot see it as fallen love. He only sees it as His love. It is God’s position to invest with original love, not with the idea, “Oh, this is fallen love.” God does not think like that.</p>
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<p>Here is Satan, who goes completely in the direction opposite from God. To God this is unbearable. Satan is the enemy of love. It was as if somebody snatched your own spouse, but yet you had to love him. Because Satan is part of the creation, God had to forget that he is the enemy.</p>
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<p>Satan has been coming against God and against the order of nature, but the one who made that happen was not Satan himself, but man. Because of man, Satan became what he is. What did Satan bequeath to all mankind until now? Satan’s life, Satan’s love, and Satan’s lineage. What is the result of his planting these things in human beings? Unlike God, Satan has been stopping anyone from investing love into others. Centering on himself, he tried to plunder love for his own sake. If we receive and absorb lots of love, then we should return that love to God and to everyone else. But there is no way we can return it, because of Satan.</p>
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<p>This is a problem. After receiving love, we draw love to our self, thinking, “I am the center.” Even though we are ungodly, human beings became the center, rather than God, one’s country, one’s parents, and so forth. Each person became centered upon himself, wanting to draw everything to himself for his own purposes. God’s action in love was to give out love for the sake of everything else. In the act of creation, God poured Himself out, investing love to create all things. But after the fall, human beings stepped into God’s place and reversed the action of love. Rather than giving out their love, people began drawing love into themselves, centering on themselves, stopping love from flowing to everyone else.</p>
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<p>This is today’s reality. How can this trend be reversed? How can human beings be brought back into the original position which God intended for them? Returning to God is, of course, the path of restoration. Now God is trying to reverse this trend of human beings who have fallen so far down and pick them up again and bring them back to their original position. That means God still has not experienced the original individual and family which He intended, let alone the original country. This is the work which God is still doing. How painful it has been working so hard, yet not seeing any results in human beings returning to their original position.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Fulfilled Promise</h3>
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<p>We can see that God has invested so much. God worked day and night, for thousands and thousands of years, tirelessly, but for what? For one man, one woman and one family which God can call His own. That is the objective for which God has been working. We can understand that. Referring back to the title of today’s sermon, “Completed Testament Era,” what is meant by that? In Korean, the concept of “completed” also refers to fulfillment of a promise. So the Completed Testament Era means the same as “Fulfilled Promise Era” according to the Korean language.</p>
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<p>As we know, the original family of Adam had to be restored. That promise had to be fulfilled. Millions of individuals and families stand behind that restored family, but they are bygones. What is most important is now, from this time forward. This is the time when we see the fulfillment of God’s promise, the Completed Testament Era, and this is the important time. We must understand that, as already stated, man stepped into history and usurped God’s way of love, turning it into a self-centered activity. Then many religions arose, but there was conflict among these different religions. Conflict arose on many levels, between nations and ultimately on the world level. Political and religious disharmony were everywhere. Throughout all of these conflicts, God has been protecting humankind. Had God not been doing that, the human race would have already destroyed itself. But God did not allow that. Rather, God put a lot of work and love into protecting mankind in order to preserve us. Now is the time when God is about to restore mankind, just as He promised after the human fall.</p>
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<p>God created Adam, and then Eve was given to Adam. He is carrying out restoration in the same manner. So God has to create Adam, and the earth has to create Eve. Centering on Eve, two sons, Cain and Abel, were lost. How can He restore that loss and eventually restore Eve, as well as Cain and Abel-that is the question. We have seen, time and time again, this formula through history: God creates the circumstances and puts the subject and object into their corresponding realms. For example, God set up the Jewish religion and the Jewish nation which was centered on that religion. They had to come together in harmony, representing Abel and Cain respectively. That was God’s formula which we saw at the time of Jesus, as well as at other times.</p>
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<p>First Cain and Abel must come into unity, and then together they must unite with a third subject. In that way, all three will become one. Centering on the mother, Cain and Abel have to become one, standing on her left and right sides. The three of them were to become unified. Centering on Cain and Abel, conflict was planted by Eve, the mother, so this must be restored on the world level.</p>
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<p>Based on this formula of Cain and Abel, the Jewish nation and religion should have become one and united with the mother, and then the mother would eventually have led them to the father. This would have been the completion of the four positions. The ultimate purpose the earth is pursuing is the father, because that is the one position which the whole earth lost. If this formula had been followed and adhered to, then this world would have been unified a long time ago, and we would have had much time and energy to spare after unification. But it is so difficult, even now.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Providential Nations</h3>
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<p>If the Israelite religion and nation had understood and had gone in the same direction, then unification would have been rather easily attained. But we see their history. They did not understand and they did not unite, and today God’s purpose is still on the way to being accomplished. God’s will had to be extended into the New Testament Era and now the Completed Testament Era. In other words, at the end of the Old Testament Era, Jesus came as the True Parent. If the people had followed God’s will, then restoration and salvation would have been achieved at that time. It was very simple. We didn’t have to see three different eras. The Old Testament was the only one necessary in God’s original plan. But mankind did not follow and Jesus had to say, “I must come again.” When he said that, it meant that not everything had been accomplished. Mankind had to wait until such time as God’s purpose could be tried again and fulfilled. Thus we saw the New Testament Era, and now the Completed Testament Era, which became necessary only because God’s purpose wasn’t accomplished. We must understand why the New Testament Era came into being.</p>
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<p>What does the New Testament Era signify? Because of the failure in the Old Testament Era, the Christians of the New Testament could achieve victory only on the spiritual level and not the physical level. Then how, centering on this spiritual victory, could they bring both spirit and body in the New Testament Era? For this purpose, God made two blocs, centering on the Cain and Abel countries and their mother-position countries. God has been working through that form to achieve His restoration. God put one on His side and one on Satan’s side, the same thing He did in the Old Testament era. What was World War II? It was fought between two groups, one centered on England in the mother’s position with America in Abel’s position and France in Cain’s position. And, on the satanic side, there was Japan, Italy and Germany. God put these countries in the different positions. By working that out, God has been achieving restoration. That was the meaning. The goal was to achieve the unified world. That was the meaning of World War II, and after World War II, that was achieved.</p>
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<p>In God’s eyes, Eve centered on Satan and gave birth to Cain and Abel. Now God is restoring that by making unity. Why does God have to do that? England, America and France fighting on the same side was the form necessary for restoration. By bringing them together and letting them win over the other side, God has restored the failure. That was the goal and the purpose of World War II.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Second Advent and World War II</h3>
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<p>We see the historical significance. The problem was sown by Adam and Eve, but now it has been restored on the world level, as we see. God has been putting all His energy into this result. Since that time, on the world level, the one man whom God has fostered until now is, of course, the Messiah. But what is he? He is in the position of inheriting the victorious foundation on all levels. That is the Messiah-to-come, and he was to be connected with this foundation after World War II. In that position, since he inherited and stands on all the foundation of victory throughout history, Satan has no claim over him. Still the satanic forces tried to stop God’s work. Therefore, Japan, Germany, and Italy tried to stop God’s advancement, but they failed. They were defeated. This adds to the fact that Satan no longer has any claim, because his side already tried.</p>
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<p>These defeated countries had no claim over their victors, England, America and France. Nor did they have any claim or blame over the Messiah-to-come. In this general situation, how much God coveted the foundation and the Messiah being united. How much God wanted that! So the attention of all the people on earth has been focused on that one point: this victorious foundation and the Messiah becoming one. That is the one focal point of all human beings and all existence. Unification at that time meant the perfection of the whole world. What does that mean? Perfection of the world automatically means the perfection of the country, perfection of the clan, perfection of the family, and perfection of the individual. Perfection of all these different levels could have had a good start at that time. Every living existence would have shouted out “Mansei!” because that is the purpose which all mankind has been craving throughout history since the fall.</p>
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<p>The world and mankind approximately forty-five years ago did not understand their situation. Only three persons knew that situation: God, Satan, and the Second Advent of Adam. No one else understood. The Second Advent means, of course, the return of Jesus. So this is the real, clear conclusion of all history. You all received that booklet, Proclamation of the Messiah I, on True Parents’ Birthday, containing Father’s sermons. The first portion of the second sermon [January 10, 1993 speech] contains all this content. This is something we must realize; we must learn it by heart.</p>
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<p>If the world had united at that time, how wonderful it would have been! Now we can understand what has taken place in history, as well as the position we are in now. If Adam had not fallen, then the Messiah would not have been necessary, or because the fall did occur, the Messiah could have come in Adam’s family. Since it didn’t happen then, the next opportunity was at Jesus’ time. Jesus came at a higher level, one much more complicated. Still, he could not succeed. So now, if this whole world level of restoration should not succeed (although we know it will succeed), we can see how much more complicated God’s work would be.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Two Women</h3>
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<p>Imagine. Looking back, was it easy for the people of Jesus’ time to understand and serve him? Who was Jesus? Jesus came with no social background. That means his position was lower than humble. At that time, everyone had a father, but Jesus didn’t even have a father. It was very detrimental, and ultimately fatal. It took two thousand years after that to restore from the root.</p>
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<p>Eve deceived Adam and her Father, too. That was the beginning of the fall. To restore that, God has to put everything in the same position and let them go backwards to restore. To go backwards means you have to deny that existence completely. It was not easy at that time. It isn’t easy now.</p>
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<p>Centering on Jacob, the older brother was subjugated with the help of the mother. After the three become one, they connect with the father. That means, the father will eventually be saved, also. Father and son are on Satan’s side. If Jacob and his mother are on God’s side, then his elder brother and father are on Satan’s side. Jacob and his mother were 180 degrees in a different direction from the father and the elder brother. How much this father and elder son hated the younger son and mother! Jacob went and for twenty-one years worked so hard under that hatred. This portrays the essence of restoration history. We know the story from the Bible. For the first seven years, Jacob worked hard to gain the hand of Rachel, but whom did he get? He got Leah instead. We see that the intent of God was to reverse the process of the fall. Therefore, by first going through the process with Leah first and then with Rachel, he could restore the fall. Do you see that?</p>
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<p>In the world, there are two types of women. One is fallen women and the other is women in the restored position. Just like God’s position, the Lord-to-come faces the same problem of two women, one in the fallen position and the other restored. How can he restore fallen Eve’s position and bring her back to the original Eve’s position? Leah sort of plundered her younger sister’s position. First embracing the satanic side, later embracing the heavenly side, Jacob tried to work this out. We can see how hard he worked, even though it was difficult. Basically the problem for Jacob was none other than these two women fighting each other. They weren’t harmonious; they fought each other. We see the same thing in Adam’s family. This is an exact replica of Adam’s family. They were disharmonious and fighting. Centering on love, Satan came in. This is the action which destroyed the ideal of God. Two thousand years after that, the same situation which occurred in Adam’s family also took place in Jacob’s family. We know that restoration gained by paying indemnity is the formula of history: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth-that one-for-one principle.</p>
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<p>Laban and his wife had two daughters. When the husband works toward the unity of these two men, the wife had to work with two women. She did not know at that time, but we can look back in history and pinpoint that now. Rebecca, in the woman’s position, worked with a clear purpose of bringing oneness centering on Jacob, to subjugate the one in Cain’s position. We can now see how difficult it was for her at that time. So it is not Leah’s but Rachel’s position which has to be upheld, and together along with that to be restored. How difficult it was to achieve that.</p>
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<p>In Jacob’s family, as long as Esau was not ready to unite with his younger brother, the whole family would continue to have difficulty. Esau and his father were in Satan’s position. Nothing will automatically come into unity. They had to work very hard. Esau and Isaac were in Satan’s position, so the mother and Jacob had to work. The mother had to work to subjugate them under Jacob. How difficult it was for her.</p>
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<p>Even though the mother really worked hard and with a lot of tears, apologizing, saying, “I am sorry because I made a mistake,” no matter how much they had dedicated, they had to take the position to be grateful. Even if Esau and Jacob made unity at that time, what were they thinking about? Was Esau angry? That’s a problem. How can we erase that kind of phenomenon in the family? How can peace be found in that situation? Esau and his father had to be subjugated naturally, not by force or any other means. They had to say, “Yes, you are right. I will come under you.” You have to make it work, you have to make it like that. Then the mother had to work very hard. Jacob had to work hard, of course, but his mother had to work even harder. She had to work hundreds of times harder. How much rests upon the mother! Even with Jacob’s hard work, the mother’s responsibility was necessary to make the restoration possible.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Restoration by Giving</h3>
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<p>So we see, don’t we, that in history, Jacob worked hard for twenty-one years. He then received his wives, and lots of domestic animals. Then what did he do? He gave them all to Esau, didn’t he? That’s exactly what God did. Jacob worked so hard, but gave his rewards to Esau so that his mind would no longer be antagonistic. Otherwise, restoration is not possible. God worked so hard, but had to give to Satan to make him peaceful.</p>
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<p>When Jacob came back home, his mother was surprised. Also, his father was surprised because the father made a mistake and gave the blessing to the younger brother, which should have gone to the older brother. To be “blessed” means that that person stood in the position of God, on God’s side. When Jacob came back and worked as the center, then the father and mother would have become one. She had to work with Jacob so that Esau would not come against them.</p>
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<p>Did Jacob come back triumphantly and announce, “I am the victor representing the three generations, so now since you have sold off your blessings, you must come and be subjugated under me”? Would Jacob have said that? Then what would Esau have done? Wouldn’t he have kicked him back? At that time, there were three, instead of two, Jacob, his mother and father. These three were very uptight, very serious and uptight, wondering what Esau’s response would be. If Esau rebelled against them, the whole purpose would have been broken down. But what was Jacob’s model attitude? Jacob’s attitude was humble. He was dedicated, living for the sake of others. He was not centered on himself, but centered on others. That was the key which brought Satan to be subjugated under Abel.</p>
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<p>We must remember this principle. As we saw in the Bible, that scene must pass. Now we know the meaning of natural subjugation. Jacob worked so hard, but he was humble.</p>
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<p>America is Abel, as we have said many times, but what must Abel uphold? Of course, Abel must be humble, not arrogantly saying, “Everybody must come under me because I am the Abel.” If someone in the Abel position receives some blessing, that person should not be proud of his own position, but should try to work for the sake of those in the Cain position, for Cain’s family, in order for Cain to come under him. That is the formula. We know that.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Natural Subjugation</h3>
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<p>This natural subjugation begins from the individual. Look at how much our mind continually works for the sake of the body, but our body resists the mind. Still, the mind continues to pour out love and work for the sake of the body. With the knowledge of Divine Principle, we know clearly what should happen. In the family, too, mind and body become one, then corresponding to the subject and object relationship will be the mother. After the mind and body become one, then that kind of mother must become the center of unification of “me”. We have to be the center of unification. The formula applies everywhere. That is why it is a formula. Now we know why natural subjugation must be accomplished, not subjugation by force.</p>
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<p>We see the perfect example in Jacob’s family. Centering on Jacob, we know what happened. When Jacob behaved as he did, bowing down before Esau, do you think his mother was very happy, or was she angry, saying, “You are Abel, the blessed one, and you should become more dignified”? No, she applauded what Jacob did. Her husband, Jacob’s father, applauded him also, saying, “You have done right.” That was natural subjugation. Of course, Esau, too, felt very good. Otherwise he would have rebelled against Jacob. Esau, in Cain’s position embraced the younger brother in Abel’s position. This was a historical embrace. That means the whole world changes its direction 180 degrees, just by Esau embracing Jacob. The whole direction of history changed. The “whole world” at that time meant the “whole family.” The family was the whole world. That family came to bear the name of Israel, which means victor. What did Jacob win over, how was he victorious? He won over Cain and he won over Satan.</p>
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<p>Naturally, this has been a long-held secret, a puzzle for many. Nobody could understand what happened in that Bible story, no matter how many times they read it. This is the Jewish ancestors’ history and secret. Now Father has solved the problem and has taught them what happened. Therefore, Father now stands in the position to be qualified to teach all Israelites, all Jewish people. That means Father stands on a higher position than the Israelites’ ancestors. That means he stands above the ancestors of the fallen world. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>This history has been going on continually. Even though Jacob and Esau achieved success after forty or more years of physical life, the fall still had spoiled their lineage. Their blood lineage became dirty. You cannot restore that after forty years of age, which is fully grown. What about those years between one to forty years of age? They were still a part of Satan’s domain. The restoration of these years was continued in the work of Tamar. Tamar had to work to restore the lineage from below the age of forty years. We saw the solution of the Cain and Abel problem in the mother’s womb, the very root of human beings. Tamar deceived her father-in-law, didn’t she? How could she do that? Because she understood the life and death importance of what she had to do for God. Therefore, she risked her life to do it. If her scheme had not succeeded, she would have been killed. Of course, heaven was right behind Tamar, helping her to do her heavenly work.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Path of Tamar</h3>
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<p>You may remember that at that time in Jewish history, if one son died early without offspring, the next brother in line would inherit the wife of the elder brother. Then he would try to conceive a child by her so the lineage could continue. This is what happened at that time. As we see, in that particular family, the second son didn’t want to do that. They slept together, and he ejaculated, not in her, but outside of her. This man soon died. There was only a small son remaining and he was too young. Because of this, Tamar had to work in a different direction and that was toward her father-in-law. What principle made this possible? In the Old Testament time, including even in the Garden of Eden, the son and the father were the same, equal. Therefore, when the second son did not fulfill, Tamar went to his father. When Adam became an adult, of course, he became a father. So instead of going through the son, Tamar went through his father, and achieved the same purpose.</p>
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<p>Today, this will help us to change our fixed ideas more easily. There is common sense in the twentieth century. Look at that time. Even then, for a perfectly decent woman to be disguised as a prostitute and lie with her father-in-law and then conceive a baby, how can that be justified? Even in today’s morality, how can that be justified, much less in those days? Yet, we can see today that God was actually working in such supposedly “immoral” ways. We have a way of explaining it according to the Divine Principle. Since the fall took place unethically, the restoration goes backwards. Even though it goes backwards, it is apparently unethical. This is why in the past, especially in Old Testament history up till now, the stepmother system, or the system of second wife, third wife, has been legal in God’s eyes.</p>
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<p>Because these women had to work the main area of restoration, we see plenty of examples. Therefore, in order to work that, this generalized that all men, even in the fallen world, had nothing to do with the direct dispensation. Men could have second wife, third wife, still they could get away with it, basically because of this thing. There were lots of tears shed by women, especially the great women, and they worked very hard to make the husband very successful. After the husband became successful, what did he do? He took another woman, which caused a lot of tears in the eyes of women throughout history. But here is the lesson, the rationale: if such a woman, the real wife, should find harmony with the illegitimate wife, or the second one, can there be any more perfect woman’s mind than that? That means, can any wife love her husband’s second wife just as much as she loves another woman? Can anyone do that? That’s the question still remaining.</p>
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<p>We must understand that without going through that actual situation, of “I am the wife, but now my husband has another wife,” but still loving her, unless she does that, she cannot understand God’s heart. A woman’s position can never be perfected until she understands God’s heart. Same thing if a man’s wife takes in another man. Unless her husband can forgive that man, accept him and love him as much as any other man, the husband cannot understand God’s heart. That’s the same thing; it is a reality. We must extend love to that perfection.</p>
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<p>Let’s assume that you trusted your husband very much. He was a perfect husband otherwise, and you got along very well, but then after thirty years of marriage, one day he tells you, “Actually, to tell you the truth, I had one woman before you whom I loved so deeply.” Just those few words of betrayal can cause you to turn away from those thirty years of love and deny everything. This is the way love responds.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Love with Tears</h3>
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<p>We must understand God’s position. In order for God to be God, He must go over that hurdle today. What about man? We have Japanese members here, as well as Korean, American, and so forth. Do you say, “I cannot be subjugated by such-and-such a nationality”? This is out of the question. Do you understand? For a woman to persevere in such a painful way, to persevere under another nationality is nothing. That’s the point.</p>
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<p>Today is the day of love, so to speak. Every day is the day of love, but today is Valentine’s Day and therefore, I have been giving all these examples of love. We must understand first what kind of God we are loving, then also, we must know how to serve and live under that God. What should our position, our attitude, our heart be? We must understand what posture we as individuals must have in serving the historical God, who has been persecuted and rejected by the world, by the country, nation and all clans, as well as all families and individuals of the world. God has been rejected by all of these. That is the God you must serve as your own Father.</p>
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<p>You will say, “Yes, Father, now my family will love God very much.” But I think that is far too ambitious of you. Why? Because, before “my wife” or “my husband” understands, before “my children” understand, “I” must first understand. When the individual understands this kind of God in the impossibly difficult situation, when he loves that God first, we have no time to even think about the rest of our family. This is why when we understand this heart of God, when we feel this impossibly difficult position of God, then to forsake the rest of the family and come to join the work of God is the only way we can go. Now we understand.</p>
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<p>How serious this is, how miserable this is. We must understand that Father must solve this highest problem, then Father must come back and forth to this realm very often and freely, to solve the essential problem. Father has a past; there was a time when Father had to come back and forth to try to solve this essential problem. When someone understands his father’s problem and takes that upon his shoulders, saying, “You go and rest, father, I will take that problem on,” when he grows up and understands his father’s problems and tells him, “How difficult it must have been for you to handle all those problems,” if the son truly says that to his father and says, “You don’t have to worry now. I will solve that problem for you, I will bear that burden on my shoulder,” then wouldn’t the father burst into tears?</p>
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<p>This is the actual historical happening. And we, each one of us, must go into that position to understand it deeply. That means we have to follow God to the point where God is being troubled with a problem, we go around God in that position and come out of it. That is what we have to do. Then we are better prepared to understand the problem. We have to do this not only with our head, but in reality. Now we are more ready to so-called subjugate the world. We must first understand God’s historical problem, our Parents’ historical problems.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Cross of Love</h3>
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<p>She is Satan’s wife, even though she was meant to be my wife. Originally, Eve was God’s wife. Do you understand? Eve’s children were originally to be God’s children. After the fall, Eve became Satan’s wife and started the fallen world by giving birth to Satan’s children. How can God love His enemy’s children? Is that easy or difficult? It is difficult, without question, but how difficult? It is so difficult that, if you are given the choice, would you rather die than bear such a burden? Many would prefer to die.</p>
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<p>Do you understand God’s heart? You have to take action. Otherwise, you cannot go over. In this way, do you think God loves Father? If so, how much?</p>
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<p>Jesus said, “You must love me more than anybody else, including your wife, your children, and anybody in your family. You must take up your own cross and follow me.” What is that cross? It is the cross of this love which everyone has to carry.</p>
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<p>We read the story in the Bible about the twins who struggled to get out of the womb first. One of the twins was about to come out and he got pulled back and the other came out first. How did the midwife know? One little hand came out during the labor, so the midwife tied a red string around the wrist. Then that hand went back inside the womb. Later, the one without the red string was born first. That’s how she knew. If you didn’t do such a thing, how would you know that one brother pushed his way past the other one?</p>
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<p>That red string symbolized the communist world to come, where he will act in disguise or falsely in his original position. In other words, this one with the red string will have the elder brother’s position. That means the communists will act in the elder brother’s position. Communism was rampant, and even America was pretty much following that direction, but the second son came out and took the position of elder son, just like the Messiah, who will do the same. Who won over communism? Wasn’t it Reverend Moon? Nobody was even thinking about going against communism, but Father did. This was predicted thousands of years ago.</p>
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<p>If you paraphrase the Bible in terms of history, we could write many volumes. It has that much content. Being restored from the womb, which is the very root of human life, the true women’s history begins from there. We know in the Unification Church that the woman has to suffer more, and there is more suffering ahead of us. That’s the suffering of heart, of love. That means the woman must give birth to the devil’s son and bring him up as the perfect son of filial piety. In order to do that, how many tears should all women shed? Until now, women lamented, “Why do we have to suffer so much, without exception?”</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Women’s Suffering</h3>
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<p>Nobody understood the reason why women had to suffer throughout history. Even though American women may not suffer the same way that women of other countries suffer, are they particularly happy? No, many of them are very unhappy. What about free sex? Will that make them happier? No, it certainly does not. Women are confused, disgusted, and so on. All five senses, as well as the five spiritual senses, are confused. Through love they must come into focus, into unity. That’s the nature of love. Free sex works the other way around, causing people to become disturbed and confused.</p>
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<p>As a result of free sex, there will be many children who do not even know who their father is. This is the worst thing that can happen in the human world. Even Satan doesn’t want to have anything to do with that kind of person. This is the kind of confusion that can take place through free sex. Still we cannot say it’s impossible. Even though remote, there is still a chance, and Satan is looking towards that. Satan helps people to lie to themselves and others, causing them to be unaware of how bad their lives are, of what is happening.</p>
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<p>In Jewish history, the main history in God’s providence of restoration, we see that disharmony in one family between two women caused the later division between northern and southern Israel. Ten tribes and two tribes divided. Leah and Rachel, as I have already stressed, should have come into unity, but they didn’t. They fought. Leah and her servants gave birth to ten children, while Rachel had two. There were divisions within the family, ultimately becoming a divided nation, even fighting a war in the future. So here, Eve, that has fallen, and the two women, those three must become one and be restored, and go back to be restored through Rachel. They must become one, then go back to God. Then the brothers would be behind them. So the mother, together with Rachel, must pave the road for them to go on. But Leah not only did not help them, but even opposed them. These three generations should have become one.</p>
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<p>Horizontally, this is three generations: Eve’s time, elder sister’s time, and younger sister’s time. Through this process, ever cleansing the blood, the dispensation goes up to a higher and higher level. Satan’s side already made a national base. These three generations is where Mary’s lineage came from. Now from there Mary will arrive. We need to understand the course of every crucial personage in history, then you have to go over that history. They failed the same points, and they had to be overcome. We see that sort of formula. Look at Mary and what she did. She had to betray and lie too, she had to do that in order to accomplish her mission. She had to deceive Joseph. Joseph’s position was Adam’s position. Adam and Eve were engaged, and then Eve deceived Adam. Now through Mary, Eve had to deceive again on heaven’s side. She had to deceive Joseph’s entire family. Isn’t that what Mary did? She was put into the position to deceive them, and then to conceive a baby.</p>
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<p>Then there was enough work put into the restoration, because the blood had been cleansed in her family tree, and therefore Satan had no claim over the baby she conceived through this process. Even though Satan had no claim over that baby, she had to conceive that baby in such a way. Only God could legitimately claim the baby which Mary conceived, saying, “It is MY son.”</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Only Begotten Son</h3>
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<p>For the first time a different lineage came about through Mary. For the first time in history, God could start a new history, and God could call Jesus His only begotten son. There were many sons, but why was Jesus God’s “only begotten son”? This is why. In all mankind, Jesus was the only holy man with that lineage. Therefore, he was the holiest of all holiest. He is the leader of Christianity. There have been other holy men, such as Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, but Jesus was the holiest.</p>
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<p>We can understand, God will unite the world centered on the holiest man, who is Jesus. He is the mainstream of God’s providence. Other religions try to serve the same purposes, but they are only sidestream religions, so to speak. Christianity, centered on love, is the most holy religion. Since Jesus was the only-begotten son, he had no ancestors, so to speak. He was the beginning.</p>
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<p>Thus he who is to come, comes alone. We have to be prepared to fulfill all of his needs, with a bride for him, with a place for him to live. We have to prepare all things for him. But how did Jesus come? He was laid in a manger, a horse stable. How can we be proud of the fact that our own father was born in a horse’s stable? That is ignorance. What do you think? Are the traditional Christians today ignorant, or is Father ignorant? Who is right? How can we say that? We have a formula and we have to solve all our difficult problems with a formula.</p>
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<p>Mary and John the Baptist’s mother were stepsisters to each other. If Jesus is Abel, who is Cain? John the Baptist. Who took Adam’s wife? Satan, who is Cain. Did Jesus have a woman? The bride was lost on earth, therefore she has to be restored from earth. So they have to become one first, then prepare for the king to arrive and prepare for him. This is what it must have taken. Eve was Adam’s younger sister. So Satan took the younger sister; therefore, in Cain’s world, Jesus had to take the younger sister of Satan, or Cain, John the Baptist’s younger sister, to be very specific. It is the opposite way.</p>
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<p>John the Baptist’s mother and Mary had to unite. Their relationship was the same as Leah and Rachel’s. They should have united and prepared someone for Rachel’s position, but that first step of those two mothers becoming one was not fulfilled. Even at that stage, they failed. These two mothers should have become one, then prepared. Then John the Baptist would have united, or at least moved in that direction. If the three had become one, then John’s sister would have been available for Jesus as his physical bride. This was what God intended. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>We have been talking about the women’s side, but the men, like Joseph’s father and John the Baptist’s father, they too, should have cooperated in this one plan. Then the restoration would have been achieved perfectly within Jesus’ family, between these two families. Then witnessing to bring in more people would never have been necessary. The purpose of God would have been achieved right there. Have you ever stopped to wonder who was Jesus’ father? Jesus had a father, since no living thing can be born without a father. Did you believe that Jesus didn’t have a father? Who is Jesus’ father? It was Zechariah. So John the Baptist’s father is also Jesus’ father? You know better than I know.</p>
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<p>Who was the one who opposed this the most? That was the father himself. John the Baptist’s mother and father knew about this fact more clearly than anybody else, and they were the ones who opposed. It was almost like brothers and sisters marrying together. But think about the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve got married, but they were brother and sister, weren’t they? In the strictest sense. So it’s nothing new. The true lineage must turn away from the whole satanic mainstream of history, all those billions of people. The true lineage must turn away, turning around and going back to the original direction. This is what God intended in history.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Restoration History</h3>
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<p>Who knew these staggering secrets? No one can deny them. By reason and by Principle, what I am saying is clear. As we see, it would have been like a brother and sister getting married, although they represented two different families at that time, in the most important lineage of God. At the end of the days here in America, sexual ethics have become very confused and mixed-up. The only explanation for it is that this kind of restoration can take place amidst that confusion. It has a significance. If this kind of a situation would be used to achieve God’s purpose, it can be very holy. In today’s America, it is being used as a satanic playground, but originally it must have had a meaning. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>This intra-family relationship, what has happened in history in God’s own working, is the same concept as that of “free sex,” isn’t it? Therefore, God is leaving it as is, and after finishing His work, then He will help us to correct it here in America. Here in America we see the elder brother enticing his younger sister; in other words, engaging in incest. We see uncles invading their nieces. This is occurring among the three generations. It is very confused. The whole meaning of that taking place is just one time, one point, centering on God. We know that the rest of it doesn’t mean anything. Therefore, basically, free sex is not good.</p>
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<p>Much time has passed already today. It is not easy to understand restoration history.</p>
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<p>If Jesus had married John the Baptist’s younger sister, would he have had to go to the cross? No, he would not have had to have been crucified. John the Baptist knew the good side, but it simply did not occur to him at that time, according to his standard of morality. He thought, “How can a person like Jesus, in such a miserable position, ever be the Messiah?” He did not believe God would send a person in that situation to be the Messiah.</p>
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<p>There is one puzzling scene in the Bible where Mary is helping at the wedding at Canan, and asked Jesus to help them because they ran out of wine. Jesus became very angry at her at that point and said, “Woman, what have you to do with me?” In Jesus’ mind, he was saying, “You should be worrying about your own son’s marriage, not that of strangers.” That is what Jesus was angry about. Of course, Jesus could have wed someone who was prepared, but who would give their daughter to Jesus, being a fatherless child? He was simply an outcast.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Preparation for the Messiah</h3>
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<p>That was Jesus, the one who should have been served by the whole world as their king, the king of Israel, and the king of the whole Jewish race. Could anyone of that time even have imagined, “This is the one I have to serve as my king”? On the other side, all the nation was waiting for Elijah to come, knowing that the Messiah could come only after that happened. They were all waiting for Elijah. They believed that Elijah was coming on a cloud, but then Jesus said, “Elijah surely has come.” The people asked, “Who was he?” And Jesus told them, “John the Baptist.” Nobody believed him.</p>
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<p>After World War II, centering on America, the free countries of England, America and France were at the pinnacle of the world. These free countries were waiting the arrival of one person, and that person was Reverend Moon. Could they, at that time, easily accept and serve him as the Lord of the Second Advent? He who is an Oriental man, not even a white person? Christianity is the bride religion, isn’t it? The bride religion means it must prepare for and wait for the bridegroom. Reverend Moon prepared himself, but the world, especially England, America and France, never even dreamed that he was the one.</p>
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<p>If they had known, they should have become one. Cain and Abel must become one. America represented Israel and Christianity represented the Jewish religion. The two should have combined into one and made preparation for Mother. That would have made the foundation representing a palace of the world’s nations. After welcoming that, the world would have seen the bridegroom, that is, the Second Advent. Is that true? Those three enemies nations looked to be at the top peak at that time. They controlled everything. The Messiah had to go to the top. Who is the Messiah? Only one man is coming just like Jesus with no bad background, no evil tradition. Only one man appears, suddenly saying, “I am Messiah.” He spoke out, “You have to follow me.” Those three independent races should have combined with one person, me, and dedicated themselves to me. At that time, those three would stand on top of the world. But could any of those countries receive the lonely, miserable Reverend Moon?</p>
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<p>The same situation as at Jesus’ time happened 2,000 years later. Today the people are again looking to see the Lord coming to them on a cloud, with the angel’s trumpet. Did Reverend Moon come to the world on a cloud with angels blowing trumpets for him? We can see it is the same situation. It has to be the same. That is why we must have restoration through indemnity. Indemnify first, then restoration.</p>
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<p>What God prepared through America, England and France was not able to serve His purpose of receiving Reverend Moon. Now they have declined. They have been chased out into the wilderness. Where does God go? That means the whole thing is going back to Satan again. What God built up till then had to be turned back to Satan. Then we saw what Father did. Father gave up everything and started all over again. From where? From 6,000 years ago, in Adam’s time. He has been re-indemnifying and re-restoring Adam’s situation. First he re-indemnified the Old Testament time. Jesus was crucified with one thief on the right and one on the left; the free world came to represent the one on the right, and the communist world came to represent the one on the left. Barabbas, the released prisoner, came to represent the religious world of Mohammed. Father had to restore that. That restoration foundation could come at the end of the Second World War, but when it went back to Satan again, then Father had to go back to that situation, starting all over again, and reindemnifying it. That means, after the end of World War II, if America, England and France had received the Lord of the Second Advent, Reverend Moon, then communism would have been stopped right there. It would never have gone on for another twenty or thirty years, as we saw.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Tribal Messiah</h3>
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<p>If America and England had received him, it would have been the culmination. But as they didn’t, history slid back, back to the Old Testament time. Then Father did it again, and reindemnified the whole thing in forty years. This is why on September 27 and 28, 1991, Father brought it back again to the victorious foundation, just like after World War II. That is when the whole religious and political realm came into unity, and communism went down.</p>
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<p>Father did it all over again. This time Father is utilizing Japan as the Eve nation, and America as the archangel nation. Father has done that. We saw that Father has achieved again what was lost before in history. Father spent fourteen years in Korea, then came to America and worked for twenty years, taking America back again. Actually, America was selected by God, and it failed. God cannot select it again. But, Father is second generation to God, therefore, Father could choose it again. So Father indeed took America because it is the only country which spans over Christianity and the Jewish time, the Old Testament and New Testament time. There is no other country with that qualification anywhere in the world. Therefore, Father took it according to his own authority and claimed America as the chosen nation again. The Completed Testament Era must stand on the foundation of Christianity and the Old Testament. Therefore, Father cannot stand alone. Father took America in and let all the enemy nations come here, rebuilding America. On that rebuilding of America, Father uses today America as his chosen nation.</p>
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<p>All these nations, including Japan, Italy, Germany, were on the satanic side. After that, in World War II, we saw England, America and France on God’s side. In this time, all those nations on God’s side, as well as all those on Satan’s side, came against the Second Advent, the Messiah. All those six nations. How could Father unify all those six nations again? Without that unity, Father could not restore world after World War II. That means the bridegroom must recover the bride who was lost. It took forty years.</p>
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<p>Father did that all by himself. Everyone came against him. Why? Because it takes only him. To do away with him would have meant that the satanic world would remain intact and continue. Therefore, since everything belongs to the satanic world, all the world goes against him. By taking the action he did, Father reindemnified the whole thing. From the individual level he was opposed, then the family opposed him, his clan, nation, even the whole world opposed him. He had to rebuild that foundation step by step. In 1991, Mother won her victory, and made it possible for Father to take her in. That is the history we saw within the last twenty-one and fourteen years.</p>
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<p>Father reindemnified the whole thing. Now he brought God back to going over the national barrier, the world barrier, all the way down to the individual barrier, alone with God. Now Father is establishing the tribal messiah. Father now starts the tribal messiah on that foundation and sends out hundreds of thousands of messiahs on the horizontal level to the world.</p>
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<p>The whole purpose is to connect all the rest of the families, what used to be the fallen families, back to this lineage. Since Father’s family is the prototype family, all we need to do is to connect all the families in the world to this tree. We know our task, our mission is the formula mission, to help all the families in the world win their mother and their children back into unity. In the fallen world, they became enemies. Now restore the world and the mother and their children become one and they bring their husband into salvation. We see that more concretely now that we help other families in which the mother and the children are becoming one.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Prototype Family</h3>
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<p>This is important, so let me reiterate. By centering on the mother and the children becoming one, then becoming one with the True Family, their father and husband are in the archangel’s position. He, too, can be brought in later. After restoring him, that family becomes complete. We saw what Father did to reindemnify all of history. What is the end goal? The end goal is to bring the fallen family back into God’s tree. How do you do that? Exactly as Father has told us now. It takes so long.</p>
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<p>After the fall, each family went into incredible difficulties and hardships, and it was a long way. But now the reconnecting time is here, circling around the world and it must fit in the right position, the right direction. The family in that position actually is the family which represents not only itself but also the clan, nation, and whole world. Do you understand? Therefore, this is aptly called the Completed Testament Era.</p>
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<p>Referring to my topic this morning, “The Completed Testament Era and Me,” then what becomes of each “me”? Each person becomes the son and daughter that can live with God literally. Anytime, wherever we go, the fall has nothing to do with us any more. With “I” as a restored being, wherever I go, God can follow me, can live with me. This is each person’s goal.</p>
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<p>Father has already given you the concrete direction of restoring the four great heart realms and three great kingships to restore the royal family. That means all of us become the royal families to God, not fallen families. We are in the position to return to God and indeed live with God. Then wherever we go, it will be heaven. In order to go to heaven, we will become one with Father’s family and we have to love other families as well. We have to have that qualification by practicing love here on earth. Our family, too, will become a royal family.</p>
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<p>This is the Completed Testament Era. We must go beyond the satanic customs and boundaries, wherever our brothers and sisters may go. We are scattered around the whole world for the sake of our missions. By being blessed families we are literally brothers and sisters of one another, and God can live in each of our families, anywhere and any time. We have to live like that. This automatically solves all the color problems, racial problems, you name it. All the problems here don’t exist any more. Each person must say, “This is the way I must trod.”</p>
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<p>We must understand this morning about Valentine’s Day. It is a great day, even in the satanic custom. Yet even among this Valentine’s Day, True Parents are on earth with us at this time and celebrating this Valentine’s Day. How significant this is! This is the day for which we see no parallel at any time in history. We cannot see the same providential position anywhere. On this Valentine’s Day of love, we understand about love, we understand the root of love, we understand the history of God, which is to restore love, and we know everything about love. We have that entity in front of us, in the center of us, and therefore, God is right here with us. How meaningful this is!</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The First Proclamation</h3>
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<p>This is the second Sunday in February, the second month of 1993. This is the second most important talk Father has given you this year. So Father sees the future of the Unification Church wide open from this point. If you are really aware of the day of which we should be most proud in history, the day representative of all history, should we be proud of today, or not?</p>
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<p>This year Father proclaimed the reappearance of the Messiah, or the Completed Testament Era. Understanding the secrets of history, as Father taught us today and the last few Sundays, is not enough. What we must do is be able to explain this content to other people, especially when they ask questions of us. We should be able to explain clearly what we learned from Father. There will be a newspaper mobilized, and on the worldwide scale Father will proclaim what is happening. The happiest thing is for us to receive Parents and the Messiah. The Messiah is absolutely necessary to restore the whole world, but True Parents are necessary to restore the family. The nation’s problem and the family problem is the most important problem faced by today’s world. It is our privilege to be here. We can be proud in the spirit world to say, “I was the one who was sitting here in 1993, and I was one who received this first proclamation.” This is the historical position of which we will be proud.</p>
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<p>Until now we have been hiding our church affiliation, not proclaiming our Unification Church membership proudly. But now we should be very proud, and we should proclaim everything because we can teach them everything. We have no other teacher, we are the teachers of ourselves. Look at Father. Father fought single-handedly against Satan all the time. Father didn’t hide. All the time Father fought in the open field against Satan on all different levels. Father never fought as an individual, but always as the head of the Unification Church and on behalf of all of you. You should do the same. I had to be arrested and put into prison, and in the fetters of the prison I also fought against evil until now. You should do the same. This victory is the victory which Father won with so much hardship, including imprisonment.</p>
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<p>It is your responsibility as tribal messiahs to proclaim these things and teach these truths to all of your relatives and clan members. You yourselves must literally be the messiah to them. You have no other teachers. You are the teachers of yourselves. You should be proud and grateful for the fact that you serve True Parents. If you receive a Ph.D. from Harvard or if you became the president of the United States, of course you would be very proud. But you are now in the position to be more proud than those people because you are in a more honorable position. With unabashed confidence, you should proclaim to the world the secrets of history. The era of the Completed Testament is the era of teaching the people about True Parents. Teach and proclaim True Parents.</p>
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<p>Who will do that? It is “I”, “me”, the one who first learned it. “I” must do that., wherever we go, to whomever we meet. We wake up in the morning and the first thing we should think about is to proclaim these truths today. Wherever we go, when we go to our job-site, then we should find a person to proclaim these truths to, the person we can teach. Wherever we go, in the restaurant, in the bathroom, we should be thinking about how to find someone we can teach this to. We should make the world full of the sounds of these precious teachings. The nation which does this first will be the first nation to be restored. Of course, there will be voices of opposition. But the voice of teaching should be louder than the voices of opposition. We should proclaim this not only individually but also through the media.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">“My” True Parents</h3>
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<p>True Parents are “my True Parents”, not “our True Parents.” You should feel they are your True Parents personally. How loudly you proclaimed and taught people while you were here on earth shall be your source of pride once you reach spirit world. At Jesus’ time, the Israelites were a country, and that country was the world, but today it is literally the world-beyond the nation, beyond all religions, beyond all colors of skin, we can proclaim this literally to the world. If we eat three meals a day, we should do more than three meals worth of proclaiming, before we can eat. Do you follow? Those who say, “Yes, Father, I will do that and even more,” raise your hands. Then the world will be restored much more quickly. Now there is no indemnity to pay.</p>
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<p>First have them prove that Father is not the Messiah and you are not the messiah. If they fail, then you explain why you are the messiah, why Father is the Messiah. Teach what Father taught you this morning. That content should more than qualify you as the messiah. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Of course, fundraising is very important on this precious Valentine’s Day, as you know, but how much more important are the contents of what I have said this morning, which I have given you as my gift this morning? So with much hope and pride, you can go out fundraising today, believing that God is right behind and beside you and knowing that today’s fundraising will be wonderful. Now you have spent three precious hours-from 4 o’clock to 7:00 in the morning-listening to Father’s words. But this small investment will really increase your results by tens and even hundreds of times. So from now on, run to recover these lost three hours. They are not lost, they are gained! Have a good Valentine’s Day! Let us pray.</p>
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title: "The Reappearance of the Second Coming and the Completed Testament Era"
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type: "speech"
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published: "2018-06-26T13:38:49+01:00"
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updated: "2018-06-26T13:38:49+01:00"
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source: "/blog/2018/06/26/the-reappearance-of-the-second-coming-and-the-completed-testament-era.html"
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speechYear: "1993"
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="center"><em>Proclamation of the Messiah</em><br />
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by Reverend Sun Myung Moon</h2>
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<h3 align="center">January 10, 1993<br />
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Belvedere International Training Center</h3>
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<p>Interpreter Col. Sang Kil Han</p>
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<p>Reappearance refers to the fact that 2,000 years ago the Messiah came. The 2,000 year history since then was a re-indemnification. The second advent of the Messiah took place at the end of World War II. However, he had to re-indemnify Christian history during the last 40 years, and at last the proclamation of the coming of the Messiah now has taken place.</p>
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<p>We all know that if the will of God had been done at the time of creation, there would have been no need for a second coming, because salvation would not have been necessary. The purpose of creation would have been achieved at that time. Heaven on earth and in heaven would have come into existence naturally, and the history of restoration would not have had to come about. That Kingdom of Heaven would have started as a family unit and extended into the clan, the society, the nation, the world and the spirit world. Adam’s family would have formed the world at that time. This family would have been the center of the clan, society and world.</p>
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<p>If Adam’s family had become perfect, the perfect clan, society, nation and world would have come to exist naturally, without even trying. So the perfection of Adam’s family was the prototype for all perfected beings. Then who is Adam and who is Eve? Adam and Eve are the king and queen who represent heaven and earth. We can see that all men and women desire to become kings and queens themselves. This is because that is the way they were created. That kingship, starting from the family king, would lead to the king of the clan,nation, world and spirit world. Who would inherit the position of king? The elder son. So the family is the unit, and as the number of families increases, so does the Kingdom. The family is the building block of the Kingdom.</p>
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<h3>The Results of the Fall of Man</h3>
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<p></center>Thus, with God’s purpose in mind, we can look at the transition from the Old Testament era to the New Testament era, and the transition today to the Completed Testament era. All of these things took place as a result of the fall. This is a rather complicated process of salvation, which would not have been necessary if Adam’s family had not fallen.</p>
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<p>What became of the family because of the fall? Both man and woman left God and went to Satan. The ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven vanished To be saved means to correct their blood lineage. Without correcting the lineage, God can take no part in His creation, especially in fallen human life. Today we lament over all the evil we see. Why did the perfect God let this happen? It was because of the fall. So the satanic world expanded from its satanic origin. The purpose of salvation is to do anything and everything necessary to restore the results of the fall at every level.</p>
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<p>Because man and woman did not start in God’s lineage, they have no foundation to connect to God. Centering on Satan, Adam followed Satan, Eve followed Adam, Cain followed Eve and Abel followed Cain. But what we see today in True Parents is Adam following God, Eve following Adam, Cain following Eve and Abel following Cain. These two patterns are completely opposite, 180 degrees different. One is hell, the other, heaven.</p>
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<p>When we look at the world today, what do we see? Hell. Is that God’s world or Satan’s world? Satan’s. What about the great nation of America? It is in Satan’s world. False love, not true love, reigns. Where is true love and a true lineage? We cannot find it anywhere. Lineage comes from the love between husband and wife. So the purpose of salvation is to put Adam and Eve into their true position. In order to cure a disease, you have to operate on the sick person. For God, this operation is nothing other than the method of straightening out the lineage, changing the lineage and putting true love into it.</p>
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<p>Through the Bible we see God and Adam, father and son.Satan took Eve from God and then took Adam from God, and then he took the children. We have to restore this by paying the price. Satan took Eve, and then through the children went deeper into the abyss. Restoration had to start from Abel, the last in line. God took hold of Abel and worked His restoration strategy. What is this strategy? It is to reach Cain by working directly through Abel. After the fall, the brothers became enemies. So as a result of the fall, the members of what should have been a united family all became enemies of each other.</p>
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<p>Satan’s objective is to separate and keep divided, so he can exercise his dominion. God’s purpose is to make one — one world composed of united families. God’s world would look like one huge individual man. Satan deforms that and divides it as much as possible. By doing so, he stops God and perpetuates his own evil reign. In history, what God is trying to do and what Satan is trying to do are completely opposite. Satan encourages separation and fighting. God tries to have people sacrificially love and unite. These are completely opposite. In the Last Days, what do we see? Satan’s world will become very apparent in human life from the family to the clan, nation, world and spirit world. It is completely ungodly; it is something which God hates.</p>
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<p>On the worldwide level, through the first, second and third world wars, God has been separating what is His side from what is Satan’s side. By doing so, God has expanded His domain. Looking at history, we clearly can see that Satan strikes first. But then God, who is beaten first, eventually is the victor It is Satan’s pattern to strike first and God’s pattern to be struck, then win. We can see this in everyday life as well. If an elder brother or sister strikes any of their brothers or sisters first, everyone, including the parents, takes the side of the one who is struck. God is always on the side of the one who is struck. In the three world wars, the ones who struck first, lost.</p>
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<p>We must understand that Christianity played an important role here. In both the First and Second World Wars, England and America were struck first. In all three wars the aggressors looked as if they would win, but then they eventually lost, because God was not with them. We can see so clearly that God is struck first and then gains it back. In school we may see a person who, although he is not doing anything wrong, is persecuted and suffers. But at the end, good always wins. We can draw another logical conclusion: the better religions are persecuted more, because Satan does not want them to continue. But God, through these important religions, tries to do away with Satan. Satan also knows that through these religions restoration is continuing, so he tries to stop them.</p>
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<p>Where does this pattern of fighting and struggle originate? It originates in the individual’s mind and body. The mind is on God’s side and the body is on Satan’s side. The struggle expands from the individual to the family, clan, nation and world, and the world will divide into religious and non-religious spheres. This is symbolized by the two thieves at Jesus’s crucifixion. They represent the left and right wings, which fight against each other. Also, Barabbas, who escaped crucifixion, represents Islam, which fights against Christianity. Christianity lined up with the right wing and Islam lined up with the left wing; So this great separation takes place in the Last Days. We see the division of left and right wings in Korea and the division between religions in the Middle East. The world-level task is how to solve these divisions and unite the two sides. The satanic world must come to an end. When the satanic world comes to an end, God’s world must begin, which means that God has to take over and rearrange the world.</p>
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<p>The base of Satan’s world is satanic families and nations. Take America, for example. The typical family will have three generations – – grandfather, father and son. But we see that these three generations are fighting among each other. The family is almost annihilated. The country itself is more divided than united. It is being reduced to total individualism. Individualism is based on the one who doesn’t care for the nation, tribe or family. He eventually comes to deny even his own purpose. This is what we see, to our dismay, in America. To hippies there is no world and no family, and this eventually leads to suicide. Free sex is commonplace. This is what God hates most. He created man and woman to follow strict discipline about this. We can explain this as being 180 degrees different from what God meant to have happen. The position of owner and servant is reversed. The servant has become the king and the king has become the servant. This is what happened in communism. They call someone a bad name — bourgeoisie — and then just try to destroy them.</p>
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<p>The essence of God is love. Love’s central point is emotion and deep feeling. Free sex denies this; they participate in a physical, mechanical love devoid of emotion. In the extreme there is incest, a behavior which in God’s ideal is worse than that of animals. The grandfather lives with his own daughter in-law. God cannot imagine this; it is 180 degrees apart from God’s direction. What God promotes, Satan destroys. Homosexuality, alcohol and drugs degrade love; they have no place in God’s Kingdom. This world is clearly hell. If you have no idea of heaven, imagine the complete opposite of this world, which is hell. Snake like dancing is a tool of Satan to achieve his goal. This is true; it is not a laughing matter. It makes people behave in crazy ways. Satan is boasting of what he has achieved and is laughing at God, saying, “How can you make Your Kingdom out of this?”</p>
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<p>We now know which way God is going; it is 180 degrees different from where Satan is now. Satan’s voice is encouraging people to drink more, smoke cigarettes, take drugs and indulge in free sex, to “enjoy life.” Do Unification Church members practice free sex? (No.) What percentage “no?” (One hundred percent no!) We know that is a very strong position. How about homosexuality? (No! ) What stance does America’s new president take on homosexuality? (Supports.) Ignorance; without his intending, he is agreeing with Satan. The way for America’s survival and prosperity in the future is to go against the way it is walking now. To go the opposite way is God’s direction.</p>
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<p>Everyone in America is enjoying his life without hardship or suffering, but here in the Unification Church members are working hard, suffering and wanting to pay more indemnity. Is that good or not? (Good.) But you cannot enjoy Christmas and celebrate happy New Year in the conventional way. You don’t like what Satan’s world does. You seem very foolish, but are you wise to be so or not? (Wise.) The world turns against us and says, “Moonie, Moonie!” But if you stop to think about it, what has Reverend Moon done in America that is so bad? People first think he must have done something wrong, but actually he hasn’t done anything wrong. We can rightfully conclude that those who go against the satanic world are the ones going God’s way. God is in that desperate situation, with Satan and the whole world opposing Him. Because all satans say, “Reverend Moon is a bad person,” we can deduce that Reverend Moon is the person God loves the most. That is the way history looks at it.</p>
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<p><center></p>
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<h3>How God Restores</h3>
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<p></center>There was a time when it was very difficult to distinguish between God and Satan, but today it is very easy to discern God and Satan. They work 180 degrees differently. So the Unification Church is very much the center of God’s dispensation. If we were truly bad, we would diminish, but actually we are growing and growing. With whose help? (God’s help. ) When we go as a blessed family to our hometown, our direction is very straight. We do not drink, smoke or practice free sex, but rather we try to bring the people into God’s direction. This is new to them, but somehow they come to like it.</p>
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<p>Satan’s world has no hope, and the people of the world are completely disoriented, not knowing east from west. There is more and more corruption, in many different forms. Sometimes they see a Unificationist family and their eyes pop open. They are amazed. They say, “Don’t follow the Moonies,” but we Unificationists are the only ones going to heaven. All of Satan’s side is going in the other direc- tion, to hell. The Unification Church is going up steadily to heaven. The world is going towards hell. There is the formidable disease of AIDS. Are human beings susceptible to AIDS? (Yes.) Do Unification Church members ever contract AIDS? (No.)</p>
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<p>Satan strikes, but God mends and repairs. And the Unification Church works to repair what the satanic world has broken. It is so simple; in one hour the essence of satanic history has been explained. But if you lack this knowledge, you could not solve this problem in one million years. It is very sad. There was one poll concerning sexual experi- ences in one school. Only one young man had not had sex, and it turned out he was a blessed child. He explained his position and won the respect of a majority of his class. It’s sad, but that situation exists today.</p>
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<p>What is the Unification Church going to do? It is going to unify the left and the right and the Christian world and Islamic world. No one other than Reverend Moon and the Unificationists can go between two people and reconcile them. America, representing the right wing, struck Reverend Moon. The left wing, as well as Christianity and Islam also struck Reverend Moon. The fact that they struck Reverend Moon, without any clear reason, puts them on Satan’s side. Ironically, this Christian nation struck Reverend Moon and is now on Satan’s side. This fact has never occurred to them. It means they are striking God.</p>
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<p>Who hated Reverend Moon more, Christians or Jews? There is no doubt that the communists are on Satan’s side, but even the religious people are now on Satan’s side. The Jews and the Christians came against me and God. Clearly, the 2,000 years of suffering which Christians went through took them to a high and powerful position. But why, in a mere 40 years, have they plummeted down and been reduced to complete powerlessness? It is because they came against Reverend Moon. We look at gorgeous churches and synagogues, but now they are only 10% to 15% filled. Those who are there are old; pretty soon they will go to the grave. Then there will be no one. This is true for all religions.</p>
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<p>So what are the Unificationists doing? We are going to restore the family and nation. If we restore the family and the clan, then the country will be restored. This is where to make an impact. When the family and clan are restored, the country will be restored automati- cally. There are many countries with populations of less than 10 mil- lion. When we come to have a prototype country that is under God’s domain, will all the other 160 countries follow? (Yes.)</p>
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<p>How could America, which God fostered, and which was so righteous, decline in a mere 40 years? It is because they opposed Reverend Moon and God. Reverend Moon has established the historical record for bearing suffering and persecution. So what is Reverend Moon thinking and saying? Is he praying to God, “Please stop this persecution”? No. Rev Moon knew, as he continually said every Sunday, “The world will decline and perish, but Reverend Moon and the Unification Church will not. We will stay and prosper by doing God’s will.”</p>
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<p>So Father has been thinking and preparing to receive the broken world and restore it. The individual, family, clan, tribe, nation and world have come and hit me. These are the phenomena of persecution. Be hit first and then inherit. Whenever we go, to New York or Washington, we can see clearly that the society is closer to Satan. Unification Church members do not wear makeup, but they shine with beauty. You don’t have to anguish over deciding whom to marry. So the more we are present, the more Satan shakes, but God’s hope becomes bigger. As Satan disappears from this world, God’s comfort is restored. Amen.</p>
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<p>All of this is the result of Reverend Moon being struck and persecuted so much, so Father doesn’t mind being struck. (Thank you, Father.) Until now, humankind was in the dark; they were ignorant of their own fall. Consider communism; it was ruthless and formidable, reaching to the top of the world. The small Reverend Moon said to them, “You will be phased out and cease to exist.” And it came to pass, didn’t it? Now Father is proclaiming to the entire satanic world, “You will cease to exist.” This is Father’s proclamation today.</p>
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<p>There is no way for us to deny the existence of Satan. We know that he exists and walks about the earth. We also know that God is moving behind Satan, trying to repair the situation and make a better world. There is not a single person, family, tribe or country that did not come against Father. Everyone went against Reverend Moon. As a result, God will now inherit all that foundation, bring it into His domain and make it righteous. Since Father cannot let the world perish, saying he has nothing to do with it, Father worked to make connections with everything. He made all the conditions to prevent the people from perishing. Father makes all sorts of world-level arrangements to reconnect everyone and everything back to God, at his own expense. Father has a relationship to every Unification Church member, so even if they die or are washed out into the satanic world, Father later can pull them back to God. You have good security.</p>
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<p>Actually, have you ever stopped to wonder if there is anything that Father doesn’t do? There’s no such thing; he does everything. Now we know these are phenomena of the Last Days. So what is the conclusion? Pay no attention to anything else; just hold on to Reverend Moon. Thus, when Father gives a direction, we can reply confidently, “Yes.” We don’t discuss it; we just go ahead, because we know that we are better off that way. There are a lot of Japanese members who are accustomed to following old Japanese leaders, but now Father appoints one Korean leader and directs that everyone follow him. The American members want Father to choose a different leader. Fathers choice is very colorful — but the color doesn’t matter.</p>
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<p><center></p>
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<h3>Restoration of the Lineage of God</h3>
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<p></center>Now we know the basics of history and the basics of God’s work, which is the restoration and salvation history. Therefore, let us now discuss the main theme, the reappearance of the Messiah. God’s situation has been that He has not a single women or child whom He can claim as being on His side. God centers on Eve, Cain and Abel, that means the mother and children, whereas Satan has Adam. (At this point Father is explaining while drawing diagrams.)</p>
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<p>Satan worked upon Eve, and the fall took place. We have to reverse the fall; we have to go the opposite way. False lineage and false love came to exist. We have to create true love and a true lineage. In the Old Testament era, indemnity was paid with an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. It was one-for-one indemnity, simple reverse indemnity. Where does this indemnity take place in the Old Testament? With Jacob and Esau, and their mother, Rebekah. This indemnified the fall. Just as in the fall, when God the Father was deceived, in this family the father, Isaac, was deceived. So Rebekah deceived for a good purpose and restored the fall. Jacob then did the work of a true Abel and subjugated Cain. From that point, the true restoration course started.</p>
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<p>However, Esau and Jacob were grown men; the restoration they accomplished did not take place in the womb, at the root. Therefore a subsequent stage, one of restoration in the womb, took place with Tamar, Perez and Zerah. Tamar deceived her father-in-law, Judah, and his son, her husband, and then gave birth to the twins, Perez and Zerah. Thus within the womb, restoration took place. He who was to be the elder son became the younger son, and he who was to be the younger son became the elder son, perfectly restoring the elder sonship in God’s eyes. We see restoration by indemnity took place.</p>
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<p>Tracing it back to the womb, the elder sonship was restored. From this point Israel, the victor, comes. Even today these puzzles have not been solved. Many scholars today say they were just immoral. But from there, from Judah, Jesus’ lineage came. No one knew God’s plan, but now we can see it so clearly. That was a restored lineage, God’s lineage. From there began the real history of the Israelites. They grew into a large nation. How did Israel become a victor? By clearing his lineage; his blood was purified. Israel means victor.</p>
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<p>For 2,000 years, history flowed. In order to end evil and restore goodness, you need clean blood, God’s blood. Two thousand years later, Mary conceived and gave birth to Jesus. Mary was in Eve’s position, Rebekah’s position and Tamar’s position. But she was on a national level, instead of a family or tribal level. Mary, in the same way, deceived her father-in-law and her husband. For Mary, it was hard to understand why she had to deceive her husband and father-in-law and conceive a baby. But she gave birth to Jesus. That was not a simple thing. At that time what she did called for death by stoning. Joseph was righteous enough to protect her. That means that Adam protected her. So when Jesus was born, Satan had no claim on him, because of his lineage and these conditions of indemnity. So we know what Jesus is called as a result of this: the first begotten son. He is the first begotten son, because through him, for the first time in history, all blood can be cleansed and all people can be reconnected to God. It took 4,000 years for God to do that, in ways so mysterious to us.</p>
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<p>At that point, Mary was supposed to bring Jesus and John the Baptist into unity, which would signify Cain and Abel becoming one. That was Mary’s mission. John was in the Cain position and Jesus was in the position of God’s son. But we know what has actually happened. Did they unite into one? No, they failed to do that. If Mary had achieved that, certainly Jesus would not have had to die. He would have gone on victoriously to complete his mission. But he did not. Instead he was crucified and there came into being the division of the world into left and right. That means throughout the world, Cain and Abel continued to be separated. Cain’s religion, Islam, and the Abel religion, Christianity, have fought many times. Leah and Rachel should have become one, and Mary was supposed to do the same. But Leah and Rachel did not unite, and that was the origin of the division of Israel into ten tribes and two tribes, and this also was the very origin of Islam.</p>
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<p>So Mary in a most concrete way should have arranged Jesus’ marriage quickly. Who was to be Jesus’ bride? It was to have been the sister of John the Baptist. Mary had to get the woman from the Cain side and bring her to Jesus. There was no woman available on the Abel side, so she had to get the woman from Cain’s side. If Mary had worked with all her might to accomplish this, she would have been successful. Then purified blood and a new lineage could have come into existence. Restoration would have been very quick.</p>
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<p>By doing that, the mother and son would have come into unity and restored Eve’s failure. If Abel had united with Cain, then the mother would have been restored to the original position. That is the tragedy of the Israelite history. There were two options; one was the mother uniting Cain and Abel, and the other was Cain and Abel uniting and restoring their mother. They could have done it either way. The Jewish religion was in Abel’s position, the nation of Israel was in Cain’s position on a national level; these two should have united. Then Cain and Abel on a national level would have restored a national level mother. The mission of Israel was to bring Cain and Abel into unity, to restore the mother’s position. Restoration must reverse the fall.</p>
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<p>The chosen people must prepare for the coming Lord. God created all things and then created Adam. With the model of Adam, He created Eve. Once Cain and Abel have united and have restored the mother, Eve, Adam’s perfection can come about. Adam cannot be restored until this is complete. This is the way they failed in Adam’s family, so they lost the kingship on the family level. This now needs to be restored on a national level, however, with countries in these positions. This is what the Old Testament is all about; this is Israel’s mission, the national level. Then when the Messiah came, that was the end of the Old Testament and the conclusion of the national level. The New Testament era, which Jesus did not complete, is the world level era.</p>
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<p>If the Old Testament had come to a successful conclusion, Jesus could have restored the nation and world within 40 years. However, because of Jesus’ crucifixion, it took 2,000 years for the world to be restored spiritually. Through Jesus’ crucifixion, the divisions of left wing and right wing, and Islam and Christianity, came into being, and they fought each other. When Jesus died, this division came about, and it must be restored before he comes again. This is exactly what Father is working on. The Interreligious Federation for World Peace and the Federation for World Peace are meant to bring together left and right, and Christianity and Islam, and to make them become harmonious.</p>
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<p>Thus we can understand the providential significance of World War II. Under God, there were Cain and Abel within the Allied forces, and under Satan there were Cain and Abel within the Axis forces. We all know who they were. The significance of World War II was that it resulted in all sides coming into unity. Cain and Abel united on the world level. The unity of spiritual and physical and mind and body came about. World War II accomplished this unity. This was the fruit of God’s work. For the first time in history, centering on Christianity, the fallen side was defeated and God’s side was victorious.</p>
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<p>There was the repetition of positions: England as mother, America as Abel and France as Cain. Just as with Rebekah and Jacob, England and America should have become one. England gave birth to America. England is an island and America is a continent. The mother, England, would come under the dominion of her own son and receive influence from him, in order for the Lord to come. America was in Abel’s position, and France was in Cain’s position, similar to John the Baptist. By winning World War II, the unity of the whole was established, although, looking back, it was only for a short time. Even though the fall took place on a family level, it now must be restored on a world level. The mother and her two sons, Cain and Abel, must now look for Adam, her husband. Adam is the Lord of the Second Advent.</p>
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<p>Looking back at Jesus’ time, Jesus was the Messiah. The country of Israel, as Gain, and Judaism, as Abel, had to come into unity with their mother. Together they had to look for Jesus. Let’s look back and examine if they did that. What if Jesus had been born not as a carpenter, but as a royal prince? What if Jesus had come as the son in a rabbi’s family? If he had, he would have been connected to Satan’s lineage. Jesus’ family tree was simple; he did not have too many relatives. Jesus was a stepson, not a legitimate first son. Mary should not have lived with Joseph. We know so little about that, but look back 2,000 years and imagine. They should have kept this as a closely guarded secret amongst themselves. But someone knew, and talked. “Oh, you are keeping your wife, who gave birth to an illegit- imate child.” Do you think this didn’t spread all around their family and clan? Yes; they could not erase that information. No matter what Jesus said or claimed to be, they all knew that he was an illegitimate child. How could God make an illegitimate child the Messiah?</p>
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<p>John’s disciples asked Jesus, “If you are the Messiah, where is Elijah?” Elijah was supposed to come first. Their presupposition was that the Messiah was to come on the clouds. They were waiting for someone to come from the sky. So even though God sent Jesus as King of Kings, because Elijah hadn’t come and because Jesus was illegitimate, do you think it was easy for people to follow him? No. Look at how history goes; you be the judge. Even today, the Jewish people don’t recognize what happened. Only 8% or 10% of the Jewish people became Christian. Jesus was a perfect heretic to them, and remains so even to this day. If 2,000 years after he came they cannot believe in Jesus, how could they have believed at that time? If Jesus had been accepted when he came, restoration would have taken a mere 40 years. History would have been very different. But he died, and he has to come again.</p>
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<h3>History at the End of World War II</h3>
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<p></center>So, at the end of World War II the world was unified under England, America and France. At that time, Reverend Moon came. Was it easy for them to know that and believe him? Based upon what we saw at Jesus’ time, could these great nations have followed him? Cain and Abel and Eve’s purpose is to find the Lord. But he doesn’t come from the sky; he comes as a human being. Just as at Jesus’ time, they had a difficult time believing. Wise man in these nations should have gone to Rev. Moon and offered to follow and serve him. But this idea never occurred to them; they had no idea that God expected this of them. It was exactly the same situation as at Jesus’ time. People were looking at the sky. With that knowledge, we understand why they oppose Father. So even though Rev. Moon was not crucified physically, it amounted to the same thing, because everyone denied him.</p>
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<p>These nations should have become one with Father. If they had, heaven on earth would have been achieved almost instantaneously. It would have taken only seven years to restore the world to the ideal, period. But the failure of 2,000 years ago was repeated. Just as Jesus was denied, Reverend Moon was denied. So what was waiting for Rev. Moon? God and Reverend Moon were chased out into the wilderness. God worked so hard for 6,000 years to establish a victory. That victory was lost overnight. Everything was claimed by Satan, and Reverend Moon was chased out into the wilderness. Nobody other than Father knew this. The whole of humankind was within arm’s reach, ready to be saved, but no one came. Overnight, the whole foundation which God prepared was dumped into Satan’s camp, and now this one single person, Reverend Moon, together with God, had to figure out some plan to re-indemnify the whole foundation.</p>
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<p>When Reverend Moon was opposed, on whose side was God? Reverend Moon’s. Imagine the whole foundation of 6,000 years, gone in an instant. Reverend Moon was the only one left with the knowledge of what he was supposed to do and what the world needed. God came to Reverend Moon — there were just these two miserable persons in the entire world. Everything else was given back to Satan. Satan was rampant, he did anything he wanted, and God was completely defenseless. Just as Jesus had the right and left side thieves, Reverend Moon too had to work something out. So Father took the Unification Church and put Christianity behind him, and he worked to re-indemnify the entire foundation. This meant that he had to re-indemnify the Old and New Testament eras.</p>
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<p>Father had no foundation he could inherit. He had to restore the Old Testament era. After completing this, Father’s Blessing, the Marriage of the Lamb, took place in 1960, exactly 14 years after the liberation of Korea at the end of World War II. Since humankind fell in the perfection level of the growth stage, in the fourteenth year the marriage took place. Then Father embarked on the three 7-year courses. These took place, and, centering on America, they were completed in 1981. This was the completion of the New Testament era.</p>
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<p>The countries which God selected, England, America and France, failed at the end of World War II. Father had to re-indemnify this, selecting Japan, America and Germany. Germany and Japan were devastated, and thus were in the same situation as Reverend Moon. God could not choose America again, but Father could and did. God is in the first generation position, and Father is in the second generation position. Father could legitimately take America again even though it previously had failed. Why is America necessary? There is no other country like America. America is unique, in that the Old Testament and New Testament are here. So Father leniently, though decisively, took America in. If Father had not done this, America would have gone down terribly. America is now holding onto the thread of hope because of the Unification Church members. Look at Korea and Japan, two enemy countries, along with America-Japan and America-Germany. They all are enemy countries. All these countries had failed God. But Reverend Moon took these enemies and worked the restoration. How difficult and impossible this was. God and Father had to work to their utmost capacity to bring it about.</p>
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<p>Father sent missionaries out to the world from Japan, America and Germany. Father told the missionaries to unite, no matter what. If they had done so, each country would have been restored much faster. You know what happened to these missionaries. The Japanese said, “I have been in the church the longest, so you must follow me.” The Americans said, “No, be realistic. America is the center now.” Look at Germany, they would never let themselves be outdone. “Even though we are the third, look at our technology, we are a nation of excellence.” There was incredible fighting; they made as much noise as the satanic world, not any different. Father understood well; he got the remnants, so that’s what results. Satan took the best.</p>
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<p>Americans said, “Why do we need the Koreans and the Japanese? Why is America the archangel nation?” This is not just Father’s interpretation; America speaks for itself. Free sex and homosexuality are not the traits of Adam and Eve, but of the archangel. Angels are not allowed to have a spouse. Since they are not allowed a woman, they take men, in great numbers. Also, individual ownership is highly questionable in God’s eyes. America’s wealth is for the world. If Americans try to keep it for themselves, they will decline.</p>
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<p>It is very simple, and not only for America. Look at the Roman Empire. The Israelites considered themselves to be the chosen nation, and thought that when God brings victory all the world would come under them and worship them. It never occurred to them that God would sacrifice them to restore the whole world. Look at the British Empire; there was a time when the sun never set on England’s territories. They thought that they should be worshiped and respected by the whole world. It didn’t happen that way. America is the same. Americans don’t think that America is for the world.</p>
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<p>America is the only Abel country. The Catholic countries are in Cain’s position. America is the only independent Protestant country. If Americans think that the world is for them, then America will suffer. Look at ourselves. If, as Father goes higher and higher, we think everyone should come and worship us, then the Unification Church will suffer the same fate. Do not think, “Oh, I’m an early blessed couple and everyone should take care of me.” Do not think that now that you are blessed, God is going to live with you. No; you are blessed for a reason. It is so that God can accomplish restoration through you. We must attend God, not settle down and think, “I am the center of the universe.” That is not God’s heart. God’s heart is that if He muse, He will sacrifice us to restore the entire world. When Father sent us to be Tribal Messiahs, his idea was not that we stay in a high place and be respected and supported. Father’s idea is for us to become a servant and go and save the world. The Tribal Messiah’s position is the same as Jesus’ position. If we become more and more comfortable, we will decline.</p>
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<h3>The Way of the Messiah</h3>
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<p></center>In “The Reappearance of the Second Coming,” what does reappearance mean? The Lord of the Second Advent was to appear in 1945, but since that foundation was lost, he must reappear now. From 1945 to 1952 was seven years, and from 1952 to 1992 was forty years, during which time Father re-indemnified everything. Why 40 years? Father has to restore the 4,000 years of Israelite and Christian history. But Father cannot live 4,000 years or even 400 years, so his only option was to do it in 40 years. Within this mere 40 years, Father re-indemnified the entire 4,000 years of the Old and New Testament eras. All realms of individuals, families, tribes and nations and the whole world itself opposed Father. God and Father were chased out into the wilderness, and they now have climbed up each wall inch by inch and have pulled down each wall of the eight stages, from the individual wall to cosmic wall.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon went straight, taking no detours. Until now, all American members did not want to put the Unification Church out front. But that is not what God wants. When we fight, we must proclaim. The Unification Church developed because we did not hide our name. How can God help us if we hide our name? We should be the same as David proclaiming his name before Goliath. When Father went to prison he said, “I am the head of the Unification Church.” Until now all the Unification Church leaders did not disclose that they are Unification Church members. The way we conducted ourselves was as losers. Father did all the fighting, and without Father’s effort we would not be here. We have to repent deeply at this time for what we owe to Father.</p>
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<p>Father proclaimed the messiahship, not to ignorant people, but to people of the top status in the world. We must now teach simply: the Messiah is here; we must follow him to prosper We see that this morning’s teaching cannot be rivaled by even 100 scholars. So we can only imagine the painful, miserable experiences Father had in his career. Although we can only imagine, we should imagine it. We are going against Father if we do not proclaim our identity. Consider all the indemnity that was paid throughout history, and compare that to Father’s 40 years of suffering and intense pain.</p>
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<p>How much easier is it to go the way of God after learning and knowing everything there is to know through Father? We don’t have to zig-zag; we don’t have to fumble or struggle; all we have to do is, with this clear knowledge, follow the way of righteousness, which is God’s way. Imagine the past, when God tried to do something centering on some person, and that person didn’t know, and God was not allowed to teach him. It was very difficult for God to work through him, and so he failed, and God had to pick up another one, and another one. Look at Father. Father figured out all these things by himself, so he made it extremely easy for God to work.</p>
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<p>In the ordinary tempo of God’s providence, to go over this stage as Father has would have taken hundreds of years, but look at what Father did. Within 40 years he has done it all, and it was never easy. There were hundreds of times more Cains than appeared in prior history, and Father had to go through it all, because Father knew the Principle. We all know the Divine Principle, thanks to Father; we didn’t pay the price but we were given it. Therefore we can pass over what would otherwise take us 10,000 without any problem, in the spirit world. With what we know, we can pass over thousands of years of time in the spirit world with one jump.</p>
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<p>To some of us, this still may sound conceptual. If it does, you have to repent, because, conceptual as it may seem, Father lives based upon Divine Principle, betting his life with such pain, and moves on to actually accomplish in deed. It is as if we were in Africa, surrounded by countless raw diamonds, everywhere so common and easy to pick up that we see no value in them. Father, however, has an educated mind, and he sees what is a diamond, and he knows what is only glass. That is the analogy; that is the difference between Father and us. Divine Principle: we must begin to know how important it is. Father knows, because he worked for it. We must feel a strong impact this morning concerning the necessity that we understand Divine Principle and how it came to be.</p>
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<p>There were eight stages, and Father won the victory on each of them. Twenty one years of Father’s 40 years of indemnity took place here in America. He brought enemies of America to America — Japanese and Germans — and made them all contribute to America. He did this even though America was not deserving in God’s eyes. America failed God so miserably, so God did not even want to look at America again. America was in that situation. Especially this is true of the Christian churches of America. Father took responsibility for them again. Knowing how miserable they are, still Father steadfastly put everything he had into them for 20 years.</p>
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<p>Even though Father did that, American Christian leaders and Christian leaders all over the world say they cannot see how the world can keep going in the future. They have no hope, no perspective. This is America’s situation, completely confused. From now on, how can America lead the world? America doesn’t have the vision. Who has it? Reverend Moon. Therefore, the way for the Christian churches in America to survive from now is to follow the Unification Church. The Unification Church explains the meaning of the entire Bible, solving its problems and explaining it completely and clearly. Many American Christian people will turn completely around and begin moving in a new direction just by hearing the Divine Principle one time. We have that strong power in the Divine Principle. Do you understand? (Yes, yes!) Powerful, powerful.</p>
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<p>People of any intelligence will turn around completely by connecting with Divine Principle and Reverend Moon’s thought one time. Look at the communist world leaders; through a 4 or 5 day training course they completely turn to God’s side. It’s no problem. Now look at the youth of the former Soviet world. They have completely come to Reverend Moon’s side. Until now, American young people have been against me, saying, “How about that Reverend Moon; he is a heretic, we don’t like what he is doing.” It is so miserable that the younger generation has been going that way. But there is hope, l believe. We have brought students, even from famous universities, to Moscow, where they could study Divine Principle for two weeks with Soviet students teaching these Ivy League students. Do you understand? How shameful the American situation is! You should continue to develop that strategy now.</p>
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<p>So Father has fought against the evils of America and won, and fought against communism and won; he fought against Kim Il Sung and won. He won all the victories, and the necessary foundation is coming back to his own family. You must know that from this point on, for a long time, wherever we go, there is no one who has any legitimate basis to come against Reverend Moon or us. No one can intelligently deny this; neither the scholarly world nor the economic world, nor the political world. They have no vision. Reverend Moon is the only one who can provide vision to the political world, without which the political world cannot continue meaningfully. The same is true for the religious world; there is no world which can survive without Reverend Moon’s teaching.</p>
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<p>In the beginning, many years ago, Father went down to Washington. At that time, they did not believe in Father, because they did not understand what Father was teaching, and they still thought they were higher beings than Father. But today, it’s completely different. When Father goes to Washington, they meet Father in a different way. They talk about Reverend Moon being there; the word gets around very quickly. If Reverend Moon is not that important, why do they bother to talk about him like that? Japan, Russia, anywhere Reverend Moon goes, people’s eyes open up and they become very attentive. It is the same in China and also North Korea — Mother eventually will go to North Korea and deliver a speech. (Applause.)</p>
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<p>The mass wedding of 30,000 couples has made a great impact in many different areas, because all parents, no matter which country or cultural background, know that children are very difficult to influence and control, that they will never listen to parents. But here, Reverend Moon gives the blessing to 30,000 couples at one time, accomplishing it all within a few days. That speaks millions of words to them; they realize, “Oh, so that’s the power of Reverend Moon.” No religious leader nor the president of any nation can accomplish such a feat; it’s unheard of. Not even Kim Il Sung, who is the greatest and most efficient dictator, can make anyone listen to him like that. And Father is no dictator the 30,000 couples came to Korea and went through marriage enthusiastically and joyfully, of their own will. (Applause.) In the next three years we will reach Father’s goal of 360,000 couples. Then we perhaps don’t need to do so much; the world will pretty much take care of itself.</p>
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<p>On another track, each country has its own national religion. Some South American countries are Catholic; everyone follows their national religion. If Unificationism is adopted as a national religion and Russia is one country seriously contemplating this — that’s all; it is finished. It could be more like 3,600,000 couples, all at one time. Where can the young people who are searching for meaning and truth go, except to the Unification Church? Everyone should at least poke their head into the Unification Church and see what we are doing. And those who are serious about marriage must peek into the Unification Church at some time or other. Once they do, they find the place of eternal value, in marriage as well as in all other aspects of life. (Applause.)</p>
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<p>We are on the way to the unified world. We tend to think that we must keep working like this for another hundred years. No, the unified world is quite within our vision now; it is very near, much nearer than we think. And Father created this under such opposition, but today there is not so much opposition. l blessed many couples, thousands of couples from all over the world, creating the world foun- dation. Father is only a man with one family, and he made this foun- dation over the span of 40 years. How long did it take Father to make this foundation all over the world? Not so long. Do you understand? It has not been so long! I am welcomed everywhere now.</p>
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<p>This is not a concept; it is reality. The historical age which Father envisioned as a concept is now reality. Now, look everywhere; it is reality. Father is talking about something not so far away; it is close, next door. That concept is actualized as concrete activity tak- ing place in reality. How far away is the unified world? Not so far. Look everywhere. Satan’s world is falling down; it has completely no hope, it is falling, falling, becoming old, everywhere. Satan’s world is completely ending on the earth; God’s world is the destination and final hope. Do you follow me? (Yes!)</p>
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<p>So, after crossing victoriously over the pinnacle of the world, the country and the clan, now Father comes back to the family. Where is the ultimate solution of this entangled, complicated, fallen history? It is not in the country; it comes down to the individual’s mind and body, to the individual and the family. This is the key position to solve, because Adam fell within the family. So now. as Father has said over and over, the time of witnessing only to individuals is obsolete; we must witness on the family level, to entire families. Until now, throughout history, it was very difficult to move from the family to the clan, and from the clan to the nation, and so forth. But now all the walls have come down; Father brought them down. So, God can travel without restriction with Father and with his family. We are going back to the family, and restoring families, not individuals. Therefore we go home for tribal messiahship.</p>
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<p>Compare this with Jesus 2,000 years ago ascending to heaven. Now, 2,000 years later, at the second advent, the Lord of the Second Advent as the True Parents will bring in and restore hundreds of thousands and even millions of families on the horizontal level. Of course, we have been proceeding in such a way that our goal is the restoration of the world, but you don’t have to tackle the world problems, those are far too big. All you have to do is pay attention to your own clan. Then you will inherit the right of influence based upon Father’s victory over the nation and world. The key to the victory is with Father. So Father is the victor on all levels: the Adam kingdom, family kingdom, national kingdom and world kingdom. All we need to do is mind our own clan and bring our own clan, then the restoration of the world will be accomplished.</p>
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<p>Here is the analogy: Father not only restored the historical failures of humanity, but made the complete foundation intact. It is a good tree, with perfected roots, but the tree has no branches or twigs. The center root, center trunk and center bud all are connected to Father, so all we need to do is create lots of branches and twigs. These form the complete mainstream — the center root, trunk, branch and center bud. By this analogy, all we need to do is add the branches. This is a perfect tree. Do you follow? Once we connect, then everybody will res- urrect. All which was created for tens of thousands of years around the world will in a short time resurrect and be living again.</p>
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<h3>Our Mission Is To Proclaim the Messiah</h3>
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<p></center>So after he reappears, the Lord of the Second Advent will find again Eve’s nation, Cain’s nation and Abel’s nation. England, France and Italy are enemies to each other; Father will restore this. For the first time in history, these enemy nations will come to America, help America and make America more united. Such a thing has never been witnessed before in history. Never before have we seen countries saving an enemy country, as these countries have come to save America.</p>
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<p>Therefore, America now stands with the precious chance to restore everything which they were to have done, but failed in the past, not only once but twice. Now America can be restored and continue to prosper. We know the USA movement, United to Serve America, and the Women’s Federation for World Peace. America is the representative of the Christian civilization realm; it is the bride’s country and bride’s religion. We have all often heard that Christianity is the religion in the position of the bride who is to meet the bridegroom. That bridegroom is the Lord of the Second Advent who is to come. They had one chance to meet the groom, but they failed. But now the time has come around and they are in the position to meet him again, and they had better succeed this time.</p>
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<p>By Americans doing that, they restore the mission which they failed, to serve for the sake of the whole world. By successfully completing their mission now, and by continuing to work for the sake of the world, they are made alive again. Now is their second chance. So America had better realize the real meaning and value of the Unification Church, and they will, too, centering on True Mother. She recreates or reestablishes the foundation which God realized in 1945 at the victorious end of World War II, centering on America. It failed, but now it is arranged again. The whole world now is in position to get in touch directly with Reverend Moon. Until now, Mother has been following Father like a shadow. Now, the whole world is in the perfect place and time to meet the groom; all brides are about to meet the groom. We are in that time identity. Now Mother is in the position to stand with Father, not following, not just tagging along, but with an equal foundation. Therefore, Father established the Women’s Federation for World Peace and proclaimed the equality of women and the liberation of women. During this time, from 1952 for forty years until 1992, Mother has made the entire unified foundation to reach out to the whole world, like Father.</p>
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<p>It seems like a casual thing, as if Father could say at any time, “Liberation of women.” But the proclamation of the liberation of is the same foundation the Christians lost 40 years ago, and only after restoring that can women successfully meet the bridegroom. Meeting the bridegroom successfully qualifies women to be liberated. That’s the position which Father is mentioning as having been established.</p>
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<p>Father prayed for the seven main nations in God’s providence, Korea, Japan, America, Germany, Italy, England and France, continuously for 40 years. This phase of the dispensation is what Mother undertook, giving speeches in the seven nations, and doing restoration work centering on the seven nations. The religion of the bride failed at the task of engrafting, but now Mother is restoring this failure. She has visited the seven nations, and now she engrafts again and makes the complete foundation which the successful bride’s religion should have accomplished. Only after Mother accomplished that could the liberation of women take place. (Applause.)</p>
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<p>After World War II, all the brides were ready to meet the groom. Now we are back in that position. They are approaching the groom. Wherever Mother went, she was welcomed. The women of each country knew the position they are in. This includes the communist countries of Russia, China and, by March, North Korea. Mother will be going there and delivering the speech about God. The founding rally was April 10, 1992, and within one year’s time, by the end of March, 1993, Mother will accomplish the historically successful completion of this mission. She will re-graft that for which humanity lost the chance in 1945.</p>
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<p>Now we can go back and proclaim the Messiahship in our own tribe and in our own home. We shout it out and speak it more frequently than we have eaten in our past lifetime. More than we moved our mouths to chew food, we should speak the proclamation this time. Father wants us to move our mouths. It is not your own life about which Father is concerned, but the hundreds of thousands of lives which must be saved through you. Of course, by doing that, we will live, too.</p>
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<p>Talk and talk, even in your sleep, talk about the Messiah and the proclamation of True Parents. We will record on tape that we must believe in the Messiah and meet the Messiah before we can live again; otherwise we will perish. We pray that over and over again, continuously throughout all 24 hours. “They say there is a new Messiah coming: find out about it!” It is the True Parents. “TP,” and the True Nation, “TN.” To understand the possibility of saving the nation, we must understand about our parents. This is synonymous: the reappearance of the Lord of the Second Advent means that now he has completed the perfection of his family. The new era follows automatically.</p>
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<p>The new family, actually, the family of Adam in the Garden of Eden, would have begun and continued directly into Heaven, but that did not happen. Now the new family appears, the original, completed, perfected family appears, and now begins the new era. We can call this the Completed Testament Age on the world level. Do you follow? (Yes.) As we can well imagine, Satan is getting more and more numb. He is witnessing the beginning of mass numbers of blessed families. We can have 36 million, even 360 million; Father does not mind. The fallen world is now erased, the restored world is now complete; this means there is 180 degrees difference now from the past, and wherever we go there is heaven. First, we have to quickly transfer lineage, transfer ownership and transfer the realm of heart from that of Satan into that of God.</p>
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<p>True love is the key foundation. Through true love we live for the sake of others rather than for the sake of self. In the satanic world, everyone lives for the sake of “me.” Is that 180 degrees the same or different from us? (Different.) We live for the sake of whom? (Others.) Living for the sake of others means that the family lives for the clan, and for the race, which has hundreds of thousands of families in it, and for the nation, which has a lot of races in it, and for the world, which has a lot of nations in it, and therefore millions and millions of families in it. So families sacrifice for the sake of the clan; the clan sacrifices for the sake of the race and country, and the race and country sacrifice for the sake of the world. In that way, the smaller one will sacrifice for the larger objective in God.</p>
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<p>All the spirit world will practice this, without exception; since we practice it here, they naturally practice it there. Thus, everywhere we go it is our domain, because it is God’s domain. Would you American blessed couples like Father to visit your blessed home? (Yes.) To visit or to stay? (Stay.) Why? (Because we love you.) Yes, because you love Father, but how did you come to love him? You’re that good. It is because Father loved you so much. With or without us knowing, Father opened up our way, not only the individual way, but the family way, and even the clan’s way and nation’s way. God loved the world, and so He gave the Messiah. The Messiah is necessary for me, and for us, on earth and in the spirit world. So we are all going in one direction.</p>
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<p>We passed beyond the New Testament, because the wall of Tribal Messiahship has been surmounted, and now is the time that we can reach out. The era of the Completed Testament means that without further indemnity of any kind, Father can send out the Tribal Messiahs. Then every person and family can return to God, return to the Kingdom of Heaven, and partake in the kingship of the Kingdom of God, by becoming one with a Tribal Messiah. It’s a wondrous thing which is happening. Everyone in our home can be restored and connected to the Kingdom of Heaven; even our physical parents, who gave birth to us physically but still remain in the fallen world, can be connected to God Himself instantaneously. Everywhere we go we can make this happen, without indemnity.</p>
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<p>Now, God no longer is restricted in His freedom to appear; God can go anywhere, following Tribal Messiahs. God can go and God can come; this never happened before in history. For the first time since God created Adam’s family, God can live in there, He can stay there if He wishes; He can go somewhere else if He wants to; He can travel as much as He will, to any country. With all the different Tribal Messiahs, He can do the same. That means He can go everywhere, in and out, as He pleases; He can dominate with absolute love and put everything under His dominion.</p>
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<p>God is everywhere now, so everywhere cannot help but become the Kingdom of Heaven. The unified world, centering on God, can connect on every level: the unified family level, unified nation, unified world and unified cosmos level. Do you understand? God can go back freely through that point of connection. Until now, Satan made many walls, protecting his own world. Now we can tear the walls down, all over the world, tear them down and be completely free. Centering on the Tribal Messiahs connecting to their tribes, all families will connect after God goes everywhere. Every family and every individual will connect, everywhere. That is the original ideal of God on the earth. Now He is forming the body of a complete nation. How wonderful an age we are living in now! Amen! (Amen! Applause.)</p>
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<p>The main thing is that we now can live with God, freely. There are four realms of heart and three kingships. How can we create the family? This is the blessed couples’ family mission. This is the last terminal, our destination. So it is clear. This can connect with God everywhere, from the individual foundation, to the family and all over the world, in heaven, too. This is the completion of liberation.</p>
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<p>Those who can create the brilliant blessed families in the new age of the Completed Testament, raise your hands. It is no problem, and you understand clearly now. (Yes.) Once you understand, making it happen is no problem. That is your mission; not Father’s mission. (Yes! ) Until now, God was helping you and Father was helping you. Now you understand, and so you can do it, no problem. You don’t need God, you don’t need. . . (Laughter.) It’s true! Liberate God and True Parents. Do you understand? (Yes!) Clear, clear.</p>
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<p>Col. Han prays:</p>
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<p>The Women’s Federation rallies are completed in all the states, are they not? (Yes. ) Mrs. Spurgin, we must begin from the state level. After we do the states, we come down lower and lower, to the county level and to the actual physical family level. In the family there are the father and children. Man is in the archangel’s position, and so Father and the children should become one. We have our True Mother, and the children, Cain and Abel, return to the mother’s womb and then eventually become one with Father. With this condition, then, Father has new, original sons and daughters, namely us. Finally, we must come back to where we are. We must first become one with the True Mother, then we come to Father, and then we return to where we are.</p>
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<p>We must return to the position where we are reborn in the position correlative to Father’s own physical children. Obviously it is not possible physically, but conditionally it is possible, and God will accept the condition, based upon true love. It is just like we are returning into Father’s body before being conceived as a fetus. Do you understand? We’ve got to travel back and return. Then we will have connected with true love. It is like electricity from a generator, traveling around a circuit, going back and completing the cycle. One time we have to do that. That is the true meaning of “to be born again” in true love and True Father.</p>
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<p>Later on the wife and children will come to obey the husband. This must happen before we really can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. So, this will be the predominant pattern in the Unification Church in the future: centering on the mother, the children will become one and eventually come to the father and return. So the family is the unit, not the individual. Be blessed, then go into Tribal Messiahship, connect them back to the mother as children, and return to the father. So, True Mother is the real entity of the Holy Spirit, but she is not a spirit, she is a physical mother.</p>
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<p>It is the time for all of us to be able to live on the face of the earth. As Father has said repeatedly, it is not strange, yet wondrous, that even Premier and Mrs. Deng’s son, and the second generation in China, all like Father. No one taught them; no one told them to do that. And Kim Il Sung’s son is no exception. It is all due to the Principle. Women should not rest, even though you worked hard until now. Until now, the man played the key role in the dispensational recovery, but now is the time of the woman’s role, which is much more important. The men took the rule of the world, and always they messed things up. Now it is up to the women, by Principle, to really start working and make it a successful world. Once we become one with Father, we can do it; the women will become successful. This is the real solution to the world’s problems. Divine Principle points in one direction; everything is consistent.</p>
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<p>Unification begins within each one of us, in the mind and body relationship. Upon Unification faith can come peace, happiness and freedom. American Unificationists should know that. Freedom with mind and body — with what kind of freedom can we make the foundation of freedom? The mind and body have to unite. The problem is “me.” The ideal world is the unification world. You will get freedom and peace in the ideal world. The Unification Church should be teaching that to all people.</p>
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title: "THE TRIBAL MESSIAH AND MY HOMELAND"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">March 1, 1993<br />
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Belvedere International Training Center<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>Already, two months have passed in 1993. We are now beginning the third month. Those who are blessed please raise your hands. Nearly everyone. You are all to be tribal messiahs. Before tribal messiahship we worked in our home church area. There we visited 360 different homes. This is our external tribe. There is a Cain and Abel relationship. If we had fulfilled home church work, our tribal messiah work would be very simple. If we had worked hard, moved their hearts, and brought them to us, then the restoration work with our tribe would have been very easy.</p>
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<p>Parents have been pioneering that road. Salvation is not just for the individual. Centering on True Parents’ efforts, we have been creating family, tribal, racial, national and world salvation. While Father has been doing this, Satan has been opposing him totally. Father’s 40 year life-course has been filled with persecution. All of True Parent’s efforts on all these different levels would not have been necessary if at the end of World War II America and the Christian world had united with Father. At that time the family settlement would have occurred, centering on parents. Thus Cain and Abel would have become one centering on Mother. As it did not happen, reindemnification was necessary. The whole world came against Father and persecuted him. That fight ended after 40 years. Since it is a rigid principle that those who do not fulfill their responsibility are taken by Satan, all the Christians went under the satanic domain. God lost all of them.</p>
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<p>The world-level Cain and Abel uniting with the mother occurred with nations on God’s side and nations on Satan’s side. World War II was a fierce fight between God and Satan. God’s side won over Satan’s side, and centering on Christianity the whole world was to have come into unity. Satan, represented by Japan, Germany and Italy, wanted to erase God’s side.</p>
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<p>If the Unification Church does not help in God’s work then it is also moved to Satan’s side. In man the mind is on God’s side and the body is on Satan’s side. When heaven gives an order the mind follows but the body does not. If the body refuses to move then it becomes satanic. As we come to understand God’s will, our mind and body must unite. But as time goes on, which side will get the better of you? Will your old ways come back and get the better of you? The satanic way of life wants to advance centering on Satan’s desire, Satan’s way of life. The body, even though it may be temporarily persuaded by the mind, still wants to cling to the old way of life. Today is the first day of the month, an important day. Most people think of having an easy life, centering on the body. You, instead of thinking of all the family, want to separate yourself and feel comfortable. The thoughts of True Parents, brothers, and sisters slowly fade. If you think that the Christian church is better than the Unification Church, you are receding. If you start to think of the easy way, you fade. If you make excuses and think easily you will fade. Do the younger or older members represent heaven? Speaking horizontally some members joined earlier and some later. This line should represent what God desires. But right now it has sunk down. Heaven wants to meet them at the center point, but they are fallen to a lower position, so they are given back to Satan. The whole circle should rotate around the center, but if the center is drawn down, it cannot rotate properly. So, no matter when you joined, if you are below then you are in the satanic domain. We know well what position we occupy.</p>
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<p>We all remember when we first heard the words of heaven. All we wanted to do was to come to the church and live there. There was a time when many came very early to sit in the front row. We see that diseases such as AIDS or cancer have a period of dormancy, during which time we do not know that they are present. We are reminded of how formidable habits are. Are you closer to Heaven’s side or to Satan’s side? After 20 years in the church are you up or down, closer to heaven or to hell?</p>
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<p>We lost the home church area many years ago. Home church is to serve as the method to save the nation. Cain and Abel must become one and then seek for a larger plus, which is the mother. Together they form a minus and seek the father. Then again they become a larger minus and seek the larger plus, God. This is the principle of development. The basic pattern calls for mind body unity. Which is the plus? The mind is plus, so the body must be bought into unity with the mind. If we do not do that we will always be dragged down by the body. While we are doing home church, Father is working at nation and world church. What is “church”? It is the organization which separates Satan and brings people to God’s side. We have stayed on God’s side just barely, because of all the ropes that Father attached. Without these ropes we would have all been washed away. Home church is to expand the foundation horizontally.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Connect Your Hometown to Father’s</h3>
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<p>(Father draws a diagram with four lines.) The first is tribal restoration, the next racial, then national and finally the world restoration. The Unification Church is moving up, but many mistakes have been made. Father has to bear the consequences of these mistakes. We should be the ones to make the horizontal foundation, but we did not, and Father instead had to do it. Thus our foundation became symbolic, not a reality. It’s like a dotted line. Instead of advancing in the wake of Father, you have been barely hanging on. Thus when Father is not here you have no place to stay in heaven. You go to Satan’s side. We must understand that if we had succeeded in home church, our home church area as Cain would have united easily with our Abel tribe. So now Father ordered that we only focus on the Abel-side.</p>
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<p>Because we didn’t make the foundation, Father made it. Father ordered us to go to our tribes. How can we ignore this? We must understand the concept of tribal messiahship. It is our own real foundation, our hometown. If instead we just tag along with Father, we will not have a hometown. Father wants to make a connection between his hometown and ours; this is tribal messiahship. Centering on Father’s hometown, we are to make ours. By doing so, we reconnect what was lost during history. By doing that this realm returns to God’s side. In the spirit world are you going to live in Father’s hometown? You must have your own home. Of course you center on Father’s home, but you have to have your own home. If you do not establish your home, you will be homeless in the spirit world. Even if Father goes up, we do not go up automatically. It will just be harder and harder for us to reach Father. If we had understood this correctly, there would be a world of difference between when we joined and when we become the tribal messiah. When we joined we did so just to be connected firmly. At that point we took the new seed and fostered it. We wanted to go to church 24 hours a day. Thus tribal messiahs should feel at least the same. We should do more tribal messiah work. As we do, we can connect to the nation and world. We all have a hometown; it is still satanic. Your hometown is not heaven’s land and there are no heavenly people living there. God does not live there. The only way to do that is to do the tribal messiah mission. Do your work and connect them to True Parents and God.</p>
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<p>We know enough. Without first connecting to them and serving them, we cannot restore our hometown. Without doing that we do not have a home in which to stay. You are like orphans. Orphans do not have a home or parents. Do you want to remain orphans? Not one person in five billion wants that. We must have deeper desire. Father points this out clearly, so you know where you stand.</p>
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<p>It is our privilege to have tribal messiahship. Through fulfilling it successfully, we can connect to Father. At the top of the tree we have a new bud. As long as we have an intact root and trunk, the bud will live. Branches will come. Father’s purpose is still to turn Christianity and connect them to this trunk. Those who come against Father will be cut off from heaven. Those who practice free sex and homosexuality will perish. There is no way to stop that. They cannot have children. All their flourishing will perish. To reconnect people to the trunk is the mission of the tribal messiah. You should take the Cain world and bring it to God. Do you now understand clearly? [Yes.] We have a hometown where we were born, but it belongs to Satan. We must restore our hometown. Without doing that, if you go to spirit world you have no place to stand. From your restored hometown you can make a natural transition to the spirit world. This is exactly what Father wants to do through the tribal messiahs. Just as Father engrafted us to himself, in our hometown we are to engraft our tribe to us. Then our hometown will be on God’s side. You will be the ancestor of your tribe. You will represent the past, present and future. By making tribal messiah successful all those who belong to that tribe are recognised as being born in heaven’s land. All in the spirit world understand this, so they will return to earth to assist. Then they can gain their own restoration. These spirit men have no foundation that they can make without working here on earth. Thus the tribal messiah is the sole hope of all his ancestors. They will come down and chastise him if he doesn’t work hard. Inactivity is like a swamp; he will go down and down. No one will come to save him.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Harvest of the West</h3>
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<p>That is a fearful place. We are in a situation where our ancestors, offspring and relatives can all judge us. Do you understand how important the tribal messiah’s mission is? Father has taught us so much; he will now take his hands off us. Jesus could not accomplish this so he had to come back. If you miss your chance you will not be able to come again. This is the first and last time in history that this is possible. Father challenged the Korean residents here in America to fulfill tribal messiahship, so the Americans have to do it too. If they don’t it will be like the tribes of Israel who had to just wait to be killed. There are many people in the orient who can do your job; we cannot wait indefinitely. If we do not do it, our enemies will. As the Bible says, the first shall be last. Russia is now in a unique position. There is no opposition there. Father can start at the top and change Russia. Where is America’s place? Should it follow Russia?</p>
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<p>America’s soil belongs to the Indians. You are occupying it. You have to make your hometown here, if you do not it will revert to its former owners. White people are a minority to other races. The dominant race in the future will not be Anglo-Saxon; it will be colored.</p>
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<p>Your ancestors planted opium in the east during the opium wars. Now the harvest is coming to the west. How can you escape from this? You must repent and go 180 degrees opposite. Father will not let it just pass. He must bring results; if he cannot he will choose a different way. When Father first came, there were only 100,000 Koreans in America; now there are more than one million. More and more will come and settle down all over America. Father recently bought a large farm in Texas. Father wants to bring many starving people and teach them to farm. When white people colonized the world they did not teach people how to farm. Father will do this.</p>
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<p>Many missionaries meet a terrible fate in Africa, but not Unification Church missionaries. They are welcomed. The white Christian missionaries went there and ruled like kings with many servants. As you know, after World War II, America, Russia and China sought power in Africa, but they have all been kicked out. However, the Unification Church will be welcomed and Reverend Moon will teach them how to use their own resources for their own betterment. In the past they persecuted Reverend Moon, but now they ask him to stay. If Reverend Moon leaves America this nation will turn very dark. If America follows Father, it will be very bright. Father has been fighting a fierce war in this country. He has been going into debt to invest in this country. Father wants to repay on his own. But American members are not thinking like that. They are still asking for more money. Father has been cutting the budget to the minimum. Father wants to only fund the Washington Times and Bridgeport University. Many members in Japan and Korea do not sleep at night in order to fund this country. We have to pay back this debt.</p>
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<p>Father has always placed the white people in front of the other races in America. Now Father asked you to do ethnic church. Through Dr. Pak and Rev. Kamiyama Father is going to do this.</p>
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<p>So today’s sermon is “The Tribal Messiah and My Homeland.” Do we have my homeland? No. These are not passive words; they are active. The day we joined the church and the day we are granted tribal messiahship are much different. Joining is to be connected individually. Today is the day you connect all your ancestors and your entire family. It is God’s idea to live for others, to do everything for others, to not just preserve yourselves. Here in America, is there even one small town where they are asking Father to come so that they can serve him? No. So this is still a wilderness. What about Korea? There are many tribal messiahs there. They are settling down in their hometowns. Anytime Father goes there, they will have a large feast. What about America? It is still a wilderness. For Father to stay here he must have confidence in you.</p>
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<p>Father is now close to 80. He is a grandfather’s age. When people get that old they want to go to their hometown. So Father wants to go home. He thinks he will sit and drink and smoke a pipe. This way he can reach the drunkards, saying, “Follow me and you can go to heaven.” If Father does that, will you follow him? [Yes.] Father never had any alcohol or a cigarette in his life. He is healthy because of that. Whenever he had a good meal, he even felt guilty. No one else with a Mercedes or a Rolls Royce goes to eat at McDonalds, but Father does. The people always wait and look to see who is the owner of the car. They see Father and are surprised. Father laughed. This has happened so often that McDonalds once sent him a gift.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Blessed Couple must Realize<br />
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the Value of their Hometown</h3>
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<p>We must realize how valuable my hometown is. Should we make it or throw it away? We as Adam must restore all that was lost. Without doing that we do not have a hometown. The spirit world is in the angelic position. When Adam was growing up, all the angels helped. Similarly, today all the spirit world will come to help. You cannot deny that. So if we do not have the tribal messiah foundation, we will be at a total loss. In your tribe there are three groups: those who married by themselves, those who had sexual relationships but did not marry, and those who are virgins. The first are like fallen Adam, the second are like Jesus and the third are the completed testament group.</p>
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<p>If Jesus had lived and worked seven more years, by age 40 he would have been the king of Israel. The king’s root is the deepest root; it is God. If Jesus had restored Adam’s family when he came, Father need not have come. Joseph’s family and Zechariah’s family would have united. Jesus should had taken as a bride the younger sister of John the Baptist from Cain’s side. The tribe would have unified. John the Baptist could not have denied Jesus. Jesus would have become a father and grandfather and the perfect Christian family would have expanded on the earth. Jesus with the Roman foundation could have spread all over the world. Peter, James and John fought. If instead they had become real sons and united into one, parents would have come.</p>
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<p>So do we understand the importance and meaning of tribal messiahship? We should follow Father. So to prevent ourselves from going backward we should pray and read Father’s words. We must realize how much Father worked to give those words. As we follow Father ten years, 20 years or 30 years, we should help Father more and more. Instead we have been going back and back. This is not desirable. Are you now getting bigger or smaller? Which one? Father has been working on larger and larger levels. As he progresses more came against him.</p>
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<p>But now there is no more communism. Persecution will cease. Father now has Mother, and the family can settle down. What America, England and France failed to do at the end of World War II, Father reindemnified at the end of last year. Now Father with Mother has restored the bride. Father and Mother stand side by side and now with God can return to their homeland.</p>
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<p>So we as a blessed couple must realize the four realms of heart and the three kingships. After that you can become part of the royal family of God. This will be the completion of the son’s and daughter’s heart, brother’s heart and sister’s heart, couples’ heart and parents’ heart. Upon fulfilling this they will meet at one focal point. This is the point of all hope and the settlement point of true love. God will join you there. By the time we reach here, we will have felt all that God has felt. By giving us the gift of children we can feel as God has felt. So begin as good sons and daughters, good brothers and sisters, a good couple and then become good parents.</p>
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<p>So have we given birth to children from this point? When we are surrounded by true love our mind and body do not fight. If there is any fighting, God’s love is not there. We must become the king of the past, present and future. We must complete the four realms of heart and the tree realms of kingship. This will never fade, it will remain eternally. Those who do not make a family of this perfection will have to wait. You will be blamed by your tribe. “You knew this but you did not teach me.” This is your mission. We must as tribal families have this quality. Return to our homeland with tears and teach them.</p>
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<p>This is the difference between you and Father. Father has made Adam’s, Jesus’ and the original family complete. This contains so much historical difficulty. But all you have to do is the tribal level. We will resurrect Adam and Jesus. When Father pulls on one, all three follow. This is your mission. It is clear. This is your everyday task. Don’t forget this, eating, sleeping, walking-remember this always. Dwell everywhere with the desire to fulfill this and God will follow you everywhere.</p>
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<p>This is my homeland. First we have to find and restore our ancestors. Second we have to restore my homeland. The present land belongs to Satan; we have to restore it. Third, we have to restore God so that He will live with us, me, my family and my tribe, and Satan no longer exists.</p>
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<p>As Adam was growing up, God followed him everywhere. We must do the same and make that highway with no walls. Father declared war on all the walls and tore down the individual, family, tribe, race, nation, world and cosmic walls. Then God and you can say mansei together.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Find your Ancestors</h3>
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<p>We should be like a nursing baby, only concerned with Father’s words. The Unificationist love power should roar out like thunder. God’s love power will sound all over the universe. Make a noise all over the world. God wants that kind of world.</p>
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<p>So we have to find our ancestors. Can you find them in New York if you are from somewhere else? No; you find them where you came from. Absolutely you need to find your ancestors and your homeland, then God will follow you. So please remember these three responsibilities. If we unite and serve God, then God will follow us. Wherever Father goes, God follows him because he has accomplished the four realms of heart and the three kingships. Knowing is one thing but doing is another. This is the treasure that Father leaves to us, the results of his life work. So think deeply about tribal messiahship. Do not take it lightly.</p>
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<p>If you do it successfully, the nation and world will come into being. Did Adam and Eve need an institutional leader ? No. South Korea will follow us if 250 million Americans follow us. We have a strong weapon, the power of love.</p>
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<p>So where do you want to live? [In our hometown.] With whom? [Our ancestors.] We need our ancestors and homeland. Those parents who fought against us will now be restored. What great blessing for them. Even Satan will come to listen.</p>
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<p>Spirit world is on the edge looking at us. We must follow and do it while Father is here. You must learn Korean; it is True Parents’ mother tongue. Do you know how hard Father worked to learn English? It is so difficult to learn those words. At your age you can learn; you have to make up your mind. It can be done in one year, no problem.</p>
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<p>Should you go back to your hometown? [Yes.] You had ancestors, a homeland and God before anything else. That is the heavenly constitution. Don’t forget. The Messiah’s mission is to become True Parents. Even if we die, we have to come back to finish this here. Father decided to even give up his life to do this. Be absolutely serious to do this. How easy your life would have been if you had not heard Father’s life, but how else can you go to heaven? If you see others doing it, you will be very ashamed. Once you get to spirit world you will see that it is correct. Can you then come back? No. Forget sleeping and eating and focus on the mission. Is this something nice to have or absolutely necessary?</p>
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<p>Do you have sons and daughters? Where do they come from? Are they born in the homeland or on the street? Not in the homeland. So we must go back to our homeland and work harder with tears. Until now the fallen world came to the cities, but now the heavenly way will be to go to the countryside. The American forefathers went to the countryside, not the cities. The pollution is so bad, they can no longer live in the cities and stay healthy. Go back to the countryside and own a small piece of land. On Father’s farm in Texas there is nothing as far as you can see in all directions. Father will bring Africans and show teach them how to farm. Also make an agricultural school in each land. All this will come to pass. They will have good fishing, hunting, good farming, good results. There will be a six month learning period for you too. You will become a first-rate farmer. There is no better preparation before you go to the spirit world than farming. Over fifty years old, we should make farming a second career. This is the beginning of Father’s crusade for saving 20 million starving people. Teach them how to grow crops.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Don’t Call First</h3>
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<p>Father has given us the best gift, tribal messiahship. However, no one seems to understand. Father asked those national leaders who came to Alaska for training last summer to explain the meaning of tribal messiahship. Each had a different answer. What kind of formula is that? There must be one formula. Do you understand? Our original homeland is where we are going to be restored. In view of restoration, there is no way to deny this. That is the only way we can return to our homeland. So, are we going to go to our homeland? (Yes). Do your tribal messiahship honestly. In your hometown there are homosexuals and lesbians. There is free sex. We have to wipe it out. There can’t be families fighting each other. That’s not godly. There should be no senior citizen’s homes.</p>
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<p>Can you maintain as your only hope that you end up living in a retirement home, having to make an appointment with your own sons and daughters before you come? When Father calls your home beforehand and says can I come over, what is your answer? Can you say no? What if Father goes straight to your home. Are you going to say, “Father, you didn’t make an appointment, you didn’t call me so you must go back?” That is Satan’s way and the American way. If you truly understand the root of yourself, even if you were a couple making love and Father walked in and separated you, you would thank Father for paying attention to your family. Is the American custom very close to heaven like that? What if there were a dinner set and Father came in and helped himself, would you get angry because Father hadn’t cooked his portion? It’s the order of things. The grandfather is entitled to eat first, then the father, then the children, then the grandchildren. So, when Father goes in and helps himself, is he right in doing that? Sure, he has all the right. Father is the grandfather, isn’t he?</p>
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<p>What if Father doesn’t arrive by himself, but brings a lot of people along with him and expects everyone to be fed? What if Father does this not just one time, but very often? Pretty soon that house will go completely bankrupt. But wait. Father will open up a bank for him. The family which says, “Father please come more often,” knowing that they are thousands of dollars in debt-Father will buy a bank for that kind of couple. That is a matter of heart. So we are willing to do anything, even begging, for the sake of God. Since God is also the king of beggars’ world, God will help us no matter what. We must understand the tribal messiahship and how willingly we must go down to work for the sake of God. Now do we know how precious this is? We never had this chance ever before in history and we will not have it ever again.</p>
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<p>Today is a special day. March first of 1919, exactly 74 years ago, literally, while under military occupation from a foreign country, Japan, hundreds of thousands of Korean people sprang up and shouted “mansei”. Why that year? Why March first? Because that’s the time Father was conceived. God’s working is that even in a symbolic way God must have a country before Father was born, even as a condition. So that day was Korea’s Independence Day. Much, much blood has been shed for the sake of one person coming-Father. There was a great famine to pay indemnity for one person to come for the world, not for Korea only. Looking back we can see very clearly that God works in such an unmistakable way, following a formula.</p>
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<p>Father reinstated Japan as the Eve country. Eve’s mission is to give birth to Cain and Abel. In Japan there are two Korean natives-one from South Korea, who is in Abel’s position, and one from North Korea, who is in Cain’s position. They are always fighting each other. Now we have to become one. No one can bring that to pass except Father. Bringing them into unification is Eve’s absolute top priority mission. Without that, Japan cannot become the Eve nation. This is internal. Outside, the Eve nation must embrace the right wing and left wing. Japan is given the phenomenal, successful economic blessing in order to do this mission. Japan has been getting rich, although they don’t know why. They don’t know the purpose for which they are to use this blessing. It is because they have to restore people and material to do Eve’s mission. The Koreans are different. They know how to embrace people. Even though their country is poor, they are always thinking about the world. Japan cannot do that through the Japanese members who are completely one with Father, but they can center on Father and embrace all the right and left wing-Korea and North Korea.</p>
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<p>Why does America represent the Archangel country? Since America is in the Archangel position, it does not have a spouse. That’s why men turn to men as homosexuals. They are not given a spouse, only a partner, and only a temporary one at that. Who is the ancestor of free sex? Isn’t it the archangel? He took a spouse which was not his. That’s free sex. None of the customs which America follows are God’s customs. There is nothing you can use, so you must import God’s customs and use them. The archangel should follow Adam and Eve’s customs, not the other way around. Now AIDS is rampant. Who spreads AIDS around the world? Koreans? [No.] Americans? [Yes.] This is because of their very lax sexual morality. Which is it? Yankee stay here, or Yankee go home? [Yankee go home.] That sounds terrible, doesn’t it? But, the reason behind it is also terrible. How can we change it to “Yankee stay”? You have to go backwards and deny yourselves.</p>
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<p>We can learn a great lesson from history. When the Israelites wandering in the wilderness for 40 years eventually went back to their home country, the seven tribes were established and living well. The Israelites were almost like beggars in the wilderness after those 40 years. What did they have? Nothing. They all tried to get a job, so to speak, and get by, taking care of themselves. By doing that, they all lost their status and died. When the tribes were formed and they were not willing to go along with God’s will, what happened? They paid too much attention to material things, money. They hesitated because they thought, “What about money to support my family and myself? What about my security?” By doing that, they lost their hard-earned tradition which was prepared for over 300 years. We see the result now.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Women’s Age</h3>
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<p>We should not repeat their mistake. When you go back to your homeland, don’t get caught up in getting a job, or concern yourself in material things. The Unification Church is in the same situation as Israel was then. We must exert ourselves in the position of soldiers to build a nation. We must tackle the work to create a nation, not to take care of our wife and children. That’s backwards. So in Korea, Father chased them out mercilessly, in a way. In the end, that’s the best for them. So they really went ahead with it and became successful. The foundation for the Women’s Federation for World Peace meeting was made almost overnight. They said they didn’t expect it to be that quick and easy.</p>
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<p>Here in America Father urges that we do the Women’s Federation movement. There is no reason for Americans to oppose the Women’s Federation movement. It is for the family. The President’s wife, Hillary, is already moving the nine security council members and she is going to appoint women to more than five of those positions. You see, that trend is there. The number of congresswomen was far from big this year, but in the next election they expect it will be more than seventy. The women’s time definitely will come. Why? To protect the tribal messiahs, mainly, to protect us. So, perfected Eve must control and have dominion over the archangel. The archangel represents their husbands. So, the man’s time is passing and the women’s time is arising. American women cannot trust any American man because they are in a fallen archangel position. Women have to quickly mend this.</p>
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<p>American men walk singly. The single man walking about in the Orient will fast lose his popularity. People now even blame them and say that they are without principles, like mad dogs. In Korea it’s an everyday four letter word, to call a man a dog. Mad dogs have rabies. Of course, here, we should not think we are Americans. We should think we are Unification Church members. Do the Unification Church members ever contract AIDS? [No.]
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<p>So please establish the tribal messiahship concept in yourself deeply on this first day of March, this very significant day. Until now we all followed Father and we did not have a foundation of our own. Now we must deploy a horizontal foundation. To continue to follow Father’s way, Father will have to say, “Go back, go back to your own homeland.” That’s where you belong. Otherwise, you will be in-between. In America that’s what they do anyway. After they reach 18 years of age the parents say go independent. Maybe now we will kick out all the young members to do their own tribal messiahship. We have to do something.</p>
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<p>The company is not a real, real essence because a company is there all the time. Maybe you can support the company after you go to hometown. Part-time is okay too. Don’t seek for too much money. All you have to do is support yourself. This is one country where you never starve. Walk into any hotel and they have free bread. The Israelites did not have bread. Here you have bread everywhere. If you make friends with a restaurant, then every night they throw away perfectly good food. Do you think God will blame you because you are not dignified? Or would He praise you because you have done your mission even at that low level? God will not mind. In fact, it’s the other way: He will give us a prize. We have to leave God’s new tradition behind. Don’t be bothered by the old headaches.</p>
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<p>Did or didn’t Father establish a new tradition here in America and leave it behind for us? How much has this country changed? Above all, we’ve changed. We know how different a person we’ve become. Good traditions have to be established. Do not just establish, but inherit, preserve, and bequeath. This is elimination. Father did his very best to leave behind him the best tradition. Father applied this principle even to his own enemy country. But America certainly is not an enemy to you. This is your own country, so you should do even better. That is a reasonable conclusion. With this understanding, let us pledge that we will do it. Shall we do that? [Yes.]
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<p>Father had to speak longer because there were fewer people. Father actually practiced one hour and a half, but believe it or not, Father’s talks will be shorter and shorter. Father will give you the title and speak a few words with a very concentrated spirit, maybe ten to fifteen minutes, that’s all. You pray sometimes that Father will speak for a short time, don’t you?</p>
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<p>Remember today, the first day of March, 1993, and today’s most important conclusion. We know clearly now don’t we? [Yes.] Women, do you understand? [Yes.] Women always make problems. Is that true? You have become beautiful women now. How are the men? You’re not going to be beaten by women. So we have a serious understanding.</p>
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<p>We cannot predict where Father will go after March. Maybe Russia. There will be a country where they say, “Reverend Moon if you visit us we will treat you better than the President of the United States.” Should, or shouldn’t Father go there? [Yes.] Father doesn’t want to go. Maybe Father should send you there. Would you be treated as well as Father? You are Americans; you are better. Father is Korean and Americans are always better. They can do better wherever they go. Hmmm? Can you act in Father’s capacity? Can you replace Father? [No.] One country has said that if Reverend Moon wants, they can bring 360,000 couples, all by themselves. Should or shouldn’t Father proceed with that? That means if they do that then there’s no quota for the free world and America. Such a time is nearing.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">To Save America</h3>
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<p>Koreans are great people. At Sunday Service yesterday they stayed seven hours. Father’s original plan was two hours and a half. When that speech was over, Father asked them, “Should I continue?” They said yes. Then Father continued to six hours and they still wanted him to continue. Seven hours. Almost all of them remained until the last minute. American people would just go away. It’s not that Father is always trying to belittle Americans at all, he’s just merely trying to point out that difference. Americans are that different. What is five, six, or seven hours when you are talking about your life and death? One thing they are all amazed about is that a man of 80 years of age can have that health and stamina. Father really gave a straight talk to Christian ministers, Christian elders. He held back nothing. But in America, when that happens, Americans escape. So by the time the Korean population here in America becomes 5,000,000, they will really influence American society.</p>
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<p>Father’s entire purpose is to save America, to bring America into the right direction-that’s all. If Father does that and still they don’t listen, what else can he do? Kick them out. So, we have to be serious. Father has a clear idea of how America should live and stay healthy. There’s only one way. No one has imagined that, as mentioned above, the conclusion of God’s work here is that centering on the mother, the family should be restored and the husband follow. America assumed that Reverend Moon will make a big political organization and become a very powerful dictator, and then unify. Therefore they opposed him; they gave him a bad name. No one thought that he would restore each individual family, and that without this America would die. No one even dreamed five or ten years ago, that Father’s idea would be to revive the family by tribal messiahship. So, do you think that Father will think in a political way? Only to make things happen easier, yes, but otherwise, the political way has no meaning. We who have stayed to the end know the greatness and the real value of Father’s words. Those who left early didn’t really know what Father’s words were all about.</p>
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<p>The principle is very simple. To reverse the fall, the subject and object unity, right in my body, must come. Family unity must come through the mother, otherwise there is no other way of restoration. The whole nation, too. There is no exception. Without the individual and the family, the country can never be restored. That’s what Father is aiming at.</p>
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<p>When returning to our families we have nothing else to think about or worry about. There is nothing else important to us-no borders, no politics, no economics, nothing. What is most important? Just man and woman. Man and women is all that is important. As a woman what you absolutely need is nothing else but a real man. The same is true for all men. What we need is one real woman. The one way to become a real man or woman is follow this textbook formula.</p>
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<p>We must march on starting with this day. May God’s blessing be abundantly upon you. Let us pray.</p>
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title: "THE TRUTHFUL FAMILY IS THE HOMELAND OF ALL PERFECTIONS"
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type: "speech"
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published: "2018-06-26T13:53:31+01:00"
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updated: "2018-06-26T13:53:31+01:00"
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source: "/blog/2018/06/26/the-truthful-family-is-the-homeland-of-all-perfections.html"
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speechYear: "1993"
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">April 18, 1993,<br />
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Belvedere, International Training Center<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon is <i>Cham Tae Kajong: The Truthful Family is the Homeland of All Perfections.</i> Do you understand the meaning of this? It means that without the family, everything remains imperfect and incomplete. In America there are many philosophies. Many people live alone and are incomplete. We even find the extreme of a man living with another man as his spouse, and women likewise. They do this because they do not know how man originally was created to live. Therefore they are going against the way God wants us to go; they are following the devil, Satan. Among those who are homosexual and lesbian, most do not feel entirely happy with their way of life.</p>
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<p>Education has merit when it fulfills its purpose to teach how to hear, think, and act. Of these the most important is how to act, and of all the actions, the most important are those associated with sexuality and the sexual organs. For example, the eyes have a specific role; the ears cannot play that role. Each organ fulfills a specific function: hearing, speaking, smelling and so forth.</p>
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<p>Man and woman are the same in every way but one, and that is their sexual organs. When we examine the purpose of our physical organs, we can conclude nothing other than that the purpose of the sexual organs is to join man and woman together. If man and woman ever are to find unification, this is the way. This is truth. Should this unification be something temporary or eternal? It should be unique, unchanging, eternal, divine and absolute. It should possess all these qualities.</p>
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<p>We are talking about the very power of love. Love brings unification. All men desire to exist at the highest level, reaching the highest standard, and to remain at that level forever. They pursue this absolute standard their whole life. But without the love which brings unification, everything they achieve will crumble down. Perhaps humankind is not the best example. In the mineral world we see perfect eternal harmony. This is true as well in the plant world. Man and woman should be like this. Everything, even the insects, was created according to the pair system. Are you like that? [Yes.]
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<p>Man and woman are reciprocal partners. If man represents east then the woman would represent west, or if the man stands in the north then the woman covers the south. When they unite, they do so at the connection of a perfectly vertical axis and a completely horizontal axis. Before uniting horizontally they must establish the vertical axis. Then they can become one. In doing so, each achieve their perfect position. What man absolutely needs is a woman. A woman needs, more than anything, her spouse, a man. There is no other substitute, no comparable treasure. Why? It is because man and woman are completed by becoming one.</p>
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<p>When there are high and low barometric pressure areas, one flows into the other. Likewise, a husband feels, “Since I need her absolutely, I will give everything to her and become zero.” If both sides strongly feel this, will there be separation, or greater and greater unity? [Unity.] What is inside will come out, the top will go to the bottom and the two entities will become indistinguishably one. That one entity will be round, like a snowball. The two will move round and round. Each will be the nucleus of the other. Then they will occupy the position of absoluteness. They will arrive at the center and stand on the central point, one dot. Love will explode from that point. Each one of the billions of cells of their bodies will implode upon that small dot. Love will collapse in and be rooted there. Then it will explode and expand outwards in circular motion. In laughter we will go round and round.</p>
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<p>Even if you are standing perfectly still, still you are breathing in and out and there is some motion back and forth. It is very noticeable to Orientals, who practice the art of sitting still. This motion is the same as that of the universe. The universe is moving just as you are; you are a small universe.</p>
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<p>According to this teaching, what is your direction as a woman? Women wonder about being born as women. Sometimes they lament about it. But women are born for the sake of men. It is deceptively simple. It is universal truth. And for what are men born? Women. That makes you feel warm and good. If you say man was born for man and women for women, it makes you feel cold and chilly.</p>
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<p>What about God then? Almighty and all powerful God exists for the sake of the universe, not for Himself. God does not live for Himself. In this world, if you only live for yourself, it is so lonely and meaningless. Living for oneself makes a man so lonely he cries. But he is not just crying; he is crying centering on something. He cries, not centering on his eyes, but centering on that organ. He cries because he is so lonesome.</p>
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<p>Each woman seeks to be the best dressed woman in the world. But is that best dressed woman happy by herself? [No.] And yet a woman who only wears ragged clothes, but has the world’s best husband, is happy. Once a man tastes and holds a woman, he will never let go. The same for women. Man and woman would rather die than separate. It is true that sometimes a man lives for wealth, even to the point of giving his life. Sometimes he lives for knowledge or power. But which is one willing to die for: power, wealth, knowledge or love? Love. If a man dies for wealth, he is considered strange. But if he dies for love, he is considered great. Thus would God not want to stuff man full of love? [Yes.]
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<p>Even if a man has an abundance of something, he still wants more. If you have lots of money, you worry to death over it. With knowledge, you always want more. If you have power, you never have peace; someone is always chasing you. What about love?</p>
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<p>When a young man and woman marry, do they say they have enough love? No. No one ever feels that their warehouse of love is full. Wherever one goes, this huge warehouse goes with you. You cannot carry around all your money, or your library of books full of knowledge. Politicians do not want their constituents with their problems on their shoulders. But love is so mobile. Wherever you go with it you feel comfortable. Where does one want to store one’s beloved? In their eyes, ears and mouth, and in their entire body. Is that true? I don’t know. You know better than me.</p>
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<p>How filling love is. It fills you up. As long as you have it, you don’t care about anything else. The world can rotate backwards on its axis and as long as you have love, you don’t care. A man has to go after something in his life. What should that be? If men and women have knowledge, don’t they fight over it? [Yes.] They bicker. If you have lots of money, the same is true. American women have individual bank accounts, yet do they feel comfortable? Open your eyes wide and see if you can find peace and unification in that situation. Does it exist there? [No.] But in love there is no limit.</p>
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<p>Father is making one great point. Is there anything for which you are willing to relinquish love? [No.] The absolute essential possession of man and woman is love. Why? Because this is the purpose for which we were born. Love begins when you think and act for the sake of the other. We must seek the possibility of becoming perfectly unified. Love will come out and say, “I want to stay here forever.”</p>
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<p>In a woman’s eyes is there a hook or not? Are her nose and mouth a hook? Is her mind a hook? In order to hook love, all her hooks must work as a perfect symphony. Your forty billion cells, each with their own hook, will leap for love. Even a sleeping God will wake up. There is no way to deny this; it is impossible for Father to over-exaggerate this. We often speak poetically about the sparkling eyes of women; they are waiting to dash out and hook love. She is totally focused on love.</p>
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[Father touches the flower arrangement.] Are they real? Are you real? Do you want to be the owner of absolute love or not? [Yes.] That is the answer that you get from all people. So, what is free sex? What is homosexuality? What meaning do they have? None. They are of the hellish, satanic world. Free sex and homosexuality are the tools of Satan to entice people to his side. There is no other meaning to them than this.</p>
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<p>It is woman’s true nature not to want a dress which she buys herself. She wants her husband to buy it for her. Your dress should come from the one whom you love and who absolutely loves you.</p>
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<p>What is the path of love? What road does it travel? Love travels the path which is the safest. No one can intrude. Do you reveal love or keep it safe? [Keep it safe.] However, we often see people trying to show themselves off. Such people will always have trouble. Once you show yourself off, people examine you. It is better to hide away. The more you love each other, the less you have to do. Just touch hands or whisper in the ear. When two poles of electricity come together and there is light. The same with love. As they come closer together, they can leap to each other.</p>
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<p>It is good to learn truth, but how am I going to accomplish it? We see that people do not reserve anything today. From the age of ten there is nothing reserved as secret or precious. They try everything. How far away we are from the ideal today. This free sex society is very distant from the ideal world. We are far, far away. So what will be your response? Will you walk there slowly, or fly there? [Fly.] At what speed? Do you know how fast love flies? At what speed does a secularized American move? Can they ever catch up with true love? [No.] They look here and there for love, but they can never catch up. But you are different. If there were 1,000 attractive women trying to hook you, you would spit at them. A fallen man would start making liaisons. For us, even thinking about that is horrible.</p>
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<p>So what is a truthful family? Father could speak ten sermons about this. Do you really know that love is necessary? Women are born and exist for the sake of men. Man exists for woman. There is no other purpose of life. Do you welcome that? [Yes.] Why? Because by living that way you will occupy true love. It is for the sake of love. It is so that all cells can be hooked by love. You can forget all loves except the element of love which is between husband and wife. This should remain eternally and grow day by day. All loves support this ideal and bring us to the point of conjugal love.</p>
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<p>From conjugal love we should give birth to children. All the fruits of love reside here. When you reach this point, you will know everything about your husband without asking. If you are unfaithful, it is similar to half a building falling down. Divorce is rampant in this society. It can be triggered by one word. But even if one spouse is bad, if one continues to live for the other, there will be no divorce. There is no more powerful revolution than this; you must understand the power of this love. Women should look in the mirror each morning, and ask, “Are my eyes and mouth for myself, or do I look at them for my spouse?” In the fallen world, women use make up to attract attention from other men, not just from their spouses. This leads to catastrophic destruction. Women are trying to entice so-called more qualified men who are already married. They don’t mind the damage. They don’t care.</p>
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<p>When a man and woman become very close, the vertical love comes to meet them. They meet at the central point. When the husband and wife hold hands they begin to rotate. When they kiss they rotate more. Making love is the completion stage. By the time the husband touches the wife’s bosom, she has opened her growth gate, and they are ready for the perfection of love. Nothing is reserved for myself. If this is true love, it works. But if it is not true, it will fail.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we know where true love begins. There is no casual marriage, because marriage can only take place in alignment with the vertical axis. For a marriage to work, man and woman must stand on a perfectly horizontal foundation. There is no way to determine this without orientation by the vertical axis. This vertical axis is always necessary. Therefore, you need the consent of the parents and all the relatives. If a man marries without these approvals, he will drift in his own direction. Why is love necessary? Because love is the only way to occupy God. Through true love, the world of effect can occupy the world of cause. Once we occupy God we occupy all things in the universe. We gain ownership. So, should we marry? [Yes.] Why? For the sake of love, and through love we occupy God and the whole universe.</p>
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<p>God is the invisible owner; man the visible owner of the universe. My mind is the invisible vertical self and my body the visible horizontal self. In looking at man, there is a clear vertical line from his nose to his reproductive organs, which divides him symmetrically. When a wise man looks at someone, he looks at his vertical and horizontal lines and at his walk. No two men are alike. Looking at his face tells a lot, but looking at the body tells all about his life and his nature. If his mouth is perfectly horizontal, he always tells the truth. A large mouth means he can speak many words without getting tired; he is a good orator. If the eyes are always focused, he is stable. However when the eyes dart around, one is unstable as a parent and will divorce. If one has small feet, he or she will not do heavy labor. A person with small hands does not have to do many chores. Each person is born with their own path of life.</p>
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<p>In this building each beam is in its place. We may think we are free, but if we deviate we are not free. Those who live for others have a larger safety zone, a larger area of movement. Father has much property, but nothing is in his own hands. However, all the managers of these things want to bring them close to Father. All things know the identity of the original owner. All things know more than humankind does at this time. This is why the Unification Church is being opposed but becomes larger and larger.</p>
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<p>In the fallen world, they make a large noise but do not accomplish so much. With us it is the opposite. Nobody hears very much, but the result is gigantic. When people investigate, they find nothing. It is because they do not have eyes to see. Spiritually we are a huge mountain. They only see what is in their line of sight.</p>
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<p>When sitting, sit as straight as possible. Many people walk in very unusual ways. There should be a straight, well-balanced, vertical line. Then God and the spirit world will take notice of you. Then you will see your shoes worn evenly. To be a good leader you must have that, but it is pretty rare. That is Father’s qualification. Even though Father has aged, we don’t notice it. He is still straight and healthy, and he walks quickly, too. There is no better spiritual discipline than this walking discipline. Walk the right way.</p>
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<p>So we know why we cannot marry at our private convenience. We have to perfectly fit the pattern of the universe. If we do so, then even though we are small and the universe is huge, no matter where we are we fit perfectly. Be always in harmony. Have no contradiction. Rev. Moon’s work may have caused controversy in society, but because God wants this work done, nothing can destroy it. When Rev. Moon comes to America for the sake of America, he is ardently fighting for the sake of preserving America’s true values. All of the forces supporting those values will support him. Wherever he goes, even in prison, he tries to fit into the universal pattern. Such a life helps to broaden one’s experience.</p>
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<p>If man and woman are to unite eternally, they must have the correct vertical and horizontal structure. They must know who is subject and who is object. Do you understand? [Yes.] But America lacks the subject-object concept. They think they don’t need it, but they are wrong. For a nation, too, there needs to be a subject. In the nation, as in the family, as the scope becomes larger and larger, God too becomes larger and larger. For such growth to take place, we must have this perfect intersection point where the vertical and horizontal meet. This is the central line of the universe, where true love moves. This must be set up before true love can exist or operate. Which line comes first? The vertical line comes first. In the Orient we write from the top of the page to bottom. In the West you write from the left side to the right. In the East we write from the right side to the left. Thus, East and West will meet at the central point. All religious thought came from the East to the West. Here in the Unification Church we will bring the two cultural spheres into unity.</p>
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<p>We know which position spouses should take in relation to each other. If the woman refuses this, she will not have eternal life. Can two pluses attract? No, they repel. Even the nation must have the correct structure. As each stage of society is built properly on the earth, God will descend down vertically. Which is easier, to go up or to come down? Coming down does not consume as much energy as going up does. On the individual level your body centers upon your mind. The mind covers all four directions, 360 degrees. There is nothing the mind doesn’t know.</p>
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<p>Until now the world had no center, because the center is the Messiah’s position. The Messiah’s attributes constitute the center of the family, clan, tribe, etc. He will be positioned in the exact center of the universe, making two perfect lines. Then Satan will not be able to move. Satan can move around only because the center is not established. The vertical and horizontal lines will be intact. Satan’s mission is to break this. He wants to destroy any part of it.</p>
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<p>Once the Messiah accomplishes this, the real order of the universe will have been restored. According to this Principle, the drunkards will not be able to create trouble. True love will live there. Drinking excessively will no longer be desirable because people naturally will live according to the law. You will be at peace. Your extra energy can be used for love.</p>
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<p>In the future we will travel along the universal highway of love. There is universal fate. That fate is very reliable and leaves no room for accidents. You can go as fast as you want and still you are safe. That means you may have an idea, then you give it to God, and then whatever you do you go through this highway. With this in your mind and with its practice in your life, you can stand on a high hill and look at the plains and talk to a giant tree. The tree will reply as a person. That universal “Changun,” heavenly fortune, will give you a good sleep. Sleep is better under a tree than in a house.</p>
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<p>Is America the subject over the world? America is an object to the world. The world is subject. If the object is not living for the world there is a violation of the Principle. The result is deterioration. We saw it in the history of the Israelites. They thought they should be the dominant nation, but the Messiah wanted to sacrifice Israel. This pattern held also for Rome and England and it holds for America. Why has America declined since World War II? America must quickly realize this Principle. America needs Rev. Moon, in order to get themselves guided correctly. They do not know which direction humankind is going. It is not too sweet to hear this. It is disturbing. What will happen? If the older generation doesn’t listen, the historical task of indemnity is passed to the younger generation. The younger generation will certainly follow Father’s ideas, not the old people’s ideas. The second generation must be aware of this.</p>
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<p>Today’s main topic is the truthful family. The truthful family is where the vertical line is intact. When you lose your husband, you lose your family, you lose the universe. Once the vertical and horizontal relationship is formed perfectly, it doesn’t matter which way you are facing, because it will be the same relative structure. Whichever way you turn you will have that correct structure.</p>
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<p>The hope of any person in any position in the universe is to come to the central point where the vertical and horizontal lines meet. No matter which line you follow, you eventually will intersect the center. When the family becomes like this, it can go anywhere and hold the value of the universe.</p>
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<p>The feelings of the children, brothers and sisters, husband and wife and parents comprise the essential feelings of the family. Each family must have perfect children, perfect brothers and sisters, a perfect husband and wife and perfect parents. That vertical line tells us to serve others. The vertical lives for the horizontal, the horizontal for the vertical. In the place where you live for the sake of others, you find perfection.</p>
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<p>In a human being, too, we have bones and flesh. We have the power to focus our eyes. The nose has two nostrils. In the mouth, the two lips make a focus while speaking. Ears and hands are the same way.</p>
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<p>Without subject and object there is no action. Today’s scientists know that the universe is made up of force. They see the relationship but they do not know which comes first, the force or interaction. God has force, but first creates subject and object, and interaction takes place. Then the force comes. Everything in the universe exemplifies the subject and object system.</p>
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<p>Who is the king of the family? The husband. In your home, the parents are king and queen. You must have a vertical concept. After parents, it is your husband. The father is the king of the home; the queen of the home is the mother. All freedom depends upon this system.</p>
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<p>Once you make the vertical, then make the horizontal. After that you are free to do anything. Americans do not understand freedom. If the parents are fighting, is there freedom? No, there is only worry. In the Unification Church you can find real freedom, real happiness. It is being taught here. So the unification of the world is no problem. The same point applies to man and woman. Who is subject, who is object? American people complicate it.</p>
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<p>Once you occupy a perfect family it means you already occupy the universe. This is a king’s brood, not a viper’s brood. Everyone’s ambition is to be king. Man and women both want to be the monarch. How can this be solved? Through true love. This means that the truthful family is the homeland of all perfection. In the family, there is the father and his offspring, the children’s generation. Three generations comprise a family. The perfect family happens step by step.</p>
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<p>We must understand that all of these four positions-parent, husband and wife, brother and sister, and children-applied to Adam and Eve. However, who is the center? God is the center, as the parent. Without parents, brother and sister could not come to exist. For Adam and Eve, God was in the parent position. Adam and Eve were brother and sister. Without brothers and sisters there cannot be spouses. Without spouses there can be no parents. God has to eventually find this family and present it a certificate. When is the moment God gives the four certificates to the one family? This is when, centering on God, you give marriage to your sons and daughters. So, it is like dividing and coming into unity and dividing again. Becoming a spouse, giving birth to a child and becoming separated in that position. Later as they grow, they come together again.</p>
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<p>We do not see such a family life much anymore in America. Therefore, we can only conclude that no one will go to heaven. The simple conclusion is that heaven is where the family goes. If there is no perfect true family, they cannot get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So we must help Father recreate heaven on earth. The fact that Father takes such pains to teach us means that he is recreating us. Re-creation cannot be found anywhere except in Rev. Moon’s teaching. This is the greatest, most ideal concept.</p>
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<p>So, this is what you can say: when you perfect yourself as a child and as a brother and sister, then you are ready to become a husband or a wife and eventually you will become a perfect parent. You can inherit all the blessings of God. You can only bear children and relate to brothers and sisters when you have parents in mind. On the right is man and the left is woman. God then gives them the blessing and they can reproduce the visible children of God.</p>
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<p>God too was once in the child’s position and from there He grew. As we all went to school, He went. He too went through that age group and came to produce a family, one in which not only His family but all humankind could fit. Adam and Eve looked just like twins. They resembled each other and God. They kept growing: kindergarten age, grammar school age, middle school age, high school age and college age. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, as they grew they would have followed the footsteps of their Father, God.</p>
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<p>Since Adam and Eve were growing separately, independently, they were to have no spouse or a reciprocal relationship horizontally. Vertically they had a relationship. From above, he’s subject, she’s object. So, just like God Himself has grown up, Adam and Eve, taking the same steps as God, should have continued to grow up. Centering on parents, when he finished his Ph.D., he would have realized that it is not a big name or honor he should pursue, but a spouse. He saw many examples in the animal world. “So, that’s the way they love.” Was so-called sex education ever necessary? [No.] He learned from the natural world.</p>
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<p>So, the purpose of marrying was to perfect himself. By occupying God he could eventually occupy all of the universe, all creation and the spirit world. He could then gain ownership.</p>
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<p>Giving birth to many children, as Mother did, is good. Why? Your children will become heavenly people, honorable people. That number is your honorable property, your most precious property. So Adam and Eve each would have realized that it is the time for them to meet as husband and wife. Where would they meet? There is only one ideal place, only one point: the true love highway. That means that within a pair, a man and a women, there are children already present. Brother and sister are already present in them. Husband and wife are present as well. Also, future parents are there. It is not only they who, after their marriage, expect perfect children to appear. Because they have the qualification of having perfected themselves already as perfect children, perfect brother and sister, and perfect husband and wife, everyone expects them to give birth to perfect children. You must understand this is the beginning of God’s glorious family, or the perfected family.</p>
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<p>Likewise, what about Adam’s children? All humankind follow the same pattern as Adam and Eve. So, when you stand in the marriage ceremony, first you must stand as perfect child. Second, you must stand with the qualification of perfect, completed brother (sister). Third, you must stand as a candidate to become a perfect husband (wife). It proceeds in that order.</p>
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<p>When you are getting married, your bride is your twin sister. From her perspective, she is about to wed her own brother, who has with her common parents in God. They are confident. Just as their parents were successful in their marriage, having an abundance of love, now they are confident to do the same. Each knows they can give plenty of love to their own children. So how can they fight or have discord? The love they experience the first night doesn’t deteriorate, but increases and becomes richer. By doing that their ownership of the kingdom of heaven multiplies. They become the second God and rule the universe along with God.</p>
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<p>So God now gives us the blessing. “You too,” God says, “since you are perfected in all these ways are now about to assume my position and give birth to many children.” Since we are about to have many children, who are to connect with many ancestors in the spirit world, and with many people on earth, they are welcomed because they represent the horizontal expansion of the kingdom, just as Father expanded. This position of receiving the Blessing is to receive from Father the three diplomas or three qualification papers as perfect children, perfect brother and sister, and perfect couples. Everything that God has is in there. Since the bride and groom have all the elements of perfection, God now comes into this position.</p>
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<p>The spiritual God comes down here and becomes a physical God. All that was only an ideal. Now it is no longer a mere ideal, but an actual entity. The joy of giving birth to our children is a re-enactment of the joy God had when He gave birth to us. When we stand in this position, perfect and having all the created value of our perfection, we understand beyond a doubt that God indeed created me and everything else for the sake of God, for other brothers and sisters and for humankind. If the children marry in a position different from this, the ideal of God’s creation is in vain.</p>
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<p>From the point of view of chronological time, what is happening here is that the future, present and past, the vertical dimension, is becoming horizontal. Here we have the four realms of heart and the three kingships. So, we should serve our grandparents as representatives of God Himself, because they are His ambassadors. Our parents are the king and queen, who represent the entire world. Our children represent the future, and are to bring the spiritual and physical worlds into oneness and inherit all the glory of the present and past, the kingship of these two worlds.</p>
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<p>Since we lost the value of these positions because of the fall, human desire is to have their parents become the real king and queen and their grandparents become the real king and queen on earth. Each person hopes that eventually he or she, too, will become king or queen. That’s the way God created all of us to be. Our own sons and daughters are in the position of prince and princess of the future, in the position to inherit the kingdom. This is not a wild dream. Everyone has the idea of being king, but before that I want my parents to be king and queen, and before that I want my grandparents to be king and queen. What is the benefit of inheriting this kingship and queenship? With this inheritance, no one can deny us when we get into the spirit world. We can go everywhere; we have a free pass.</p>
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<p>We must teach this to our children. This is your kingdom. You are the future king of the world and the universe; you are like Father and like God. With this idea the child will grow up and practice this love horizontally. Before they can go to the spirit world, they will become king and queen. When we come to the spirit world, we can say, “I was a king on earth and now I bring that kingdom here.” So each person’s realm of influence in the spirit world becomes wider and wider.</p>
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<p>In the spirit world there is no reproduction. God’s Principle is for reproduction here on earth. Therefore, reproduction takes place in the immense realm of the physical world. God is Father to everyone, nothing else but Father. So the custom of the tribal messiah, the national messiah and the world messiah is True Parents’ custom. True Parents have True Love. The fallen world does not have True Parents. The fallen world has false parents. False parents are the conduit of false love, limited love. Limited love brings forth limited life. True Love creates eternal love, eternal life. The fallen world lost eternal love, eternal life, and the eternal blood lineage. Therefore we have to recreate the world of the original purpose. This is the purpose of the providence of God.</p>
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<p>There is no room for reproduction in the vertical world. People in the spirit world cannot multiply. They do not have that root in the central point. God, therefore, needs the environment for the creation of people. That is the ideal family-the “formula family system.” Why did every generation of the Christian world call God, “Father”? They did not know why. It is because every family is supposed to be the same as Adam’s family. The father’s position is that of God. The central point, the absolute subject, is the father, as in Adam’s family. Each family has the same meaning, the meaning of Adam’s family.</p>
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<p>This environment is our homeland, our immense homeland. The family brings the perfection of the homeland. It is the place of final settlement. The three generation family represents all humankind, every nation and every age. Everything is concentrated in one place, the family. The kingdom on earth is the place of the extended family. It is one family expanded to the size of the world. We look at those younger than us as our children. Those the same age are like brother and sister-not a spouse! After children’s love and brother-sister love, there is the couple’s love. It is a process of growth from one to the next. The same concept rules everywhere. Then there is no problem, and there is total freedom. The whole universe is liberated by the completion of the family in true love. Everything is connected by this family, in freedom.</p>
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<p>These are the four great realms of heart and the three great realms of kingship. I come representing the past, present and future. In light of what I represent and what I stand for, nothing can oppose me.</p>
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<p>You did not see how your wife grew up, but by looking at your own daughter you now can know how your wife grew up. God, too, grew up just as your sons and daughters grew up, just as you grew up.</p>
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<p>It took us 6,000 years to reach this moment, and there is a population of five billion living on the earth, and they all carry on in their horizontal way. The True Parents came, whom they call the Savior. By grafting into the True Parents, all five billion people will have grafted firmly into God’s lineage. Therefore, from them, too, will come true children. This is God’s love; His dispensation. The fallen world is going in one direction, Father in another. Father has already made the ground, the foundation, and just through the glimpse given this morning, you have more than enough to bring the unification of the whole world overnight.</p>
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<p>We have a blueprint, so why can’t we build according to this blueprint? There are so many people with great intelligence. They will want to occupy God quickly; this is the hope of true human ambition. Do you understand or not? [Yes.] Then you understand more than me! You are a big crowd of people, and I am only one man. You are a big mountain of people increasing everyday. Automatically, the universe will be unified centering on the ideal of true love. How wonderful our ideal is. Amen!</p>
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<p>The real family makes the completion of the heavenly homeland. That is your family. Everyone in such a family is thankful-parents, grandparents, children. American people do not have relatives. They are like the archangel, who does not have partnership. This is the root cause of the phenomena of free sex, homosexuality and lesbianism. Who likes that kind of partnership? It’s a problem. Now that you understand, you have to speak loudly about it.</p>
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<p>So, we must understand that it is the family and not the individual which goes into heaven. In order to form a family we must unite ourselves as Cain and Abel. Then all the royal families come into being, royal families within the realms of kingship and queenship. That is all humankind. The vertical kingship is in the subject position. The horizontal aspect is royal familyship. The two combined create a bigger center with which God can connect. As it becomes bigger, it corresponds with a higher vertical level. That is the recreation system, establishing the ideal world. It is inevitable.</p>
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<p>So Father can shout to the world, “It does not matter who you are. The presidency of a nation or any high position mean nothing. What matters is if you can suggest a better idea to save humankind. Can you suggest a better ideal concept of the Kingdom of Heaven, or peace, or all these crucial issues? Can you surpass the Unification Church?” Rev. Moon doesn’t think so. There are only one True Parents, eternally. So all religions, all nations, must heed this statement.</p>
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<p>You are the royal family directly under Father. If all the world and universe understand even before you do and follow Father better than you do, then what will you say for yourselves in the future? Especially those who oppose Father will be blamed eternally by their own children. They will question why you failed to follow, just as the descendants of Adam constantly accuse Adam for creating the fallen situation. As fallen people we must deny ourselves so that we can measure up to the complete goal, that of true recreation. We must go the indemnity way. Fallen people must deny themselves, so that they can reach the goal of freedom.</p>
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<p>The Unification movement must understand that it is to form that royal kingship and royal families. It must create that structure, so to speak, exactly according to the form of Principle. This is the Unification Church. There are four great Principles. First you see the restoration of elder sonship, then the restoration of parentship, then the restoration of kingship, and the restoration of royal kingship. We should always remember this. This is what God aims to restore through True Parents. Unification members must learn this by heart.</p>
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<p>We should be prouder than ever that we have True Parents. When True Parents appear, kings will follow after them. Ultimately, kings will become their royal family relatives. Throughout history, men made themselves kings instead of allowing God to be king. That is evil, which expanded from the tribe to the nation and world. God doesn’t want that. Still, God has no concept of having an enemy. He does not consider even the most untrustworthy person to be an enemy. If we identify an enemy of God, that means that we have a bipolar thought, representing two origins, not one origin. So, Rev. Moon has no enemy, no matter how difficult it is to work in the fallen world. Satan knows that; therefore Satan cannot accuse Rev. Moon in front of God.</p>
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<p>America as a nation and as people have acted as an enemy to Rev. Moon. Isn’t that true? During this period, Rev. Moon has passed over everything. He established one newspaper, which fights against all the liberal papers. No hope exists in America. American leaders understand this, wondering how they can survive. The secular world can find no answer. They don’t like to place hope in Rev. Moon. Satan hates Rev. Moon, too. Therefore, the actions of Americans are leading to a breakdown. Satan is breaking America down, and God is building America back up, following the providential course. God is bringing the completion, through the unity of right and left.</p>
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<p>How can the universal truth appear on the earth? Through life for the sake of others. You cannot deny that. From life for the sake of others, the root is connected. That root connects to true love. Satan cannot connect to that root. It is the point of completion. But you must deny everything: the nation, the world and everything in it.</p>
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<p>Satan’s original position is going down and God’s original position is going up, to the point that they are exchanging positions. Recreation begins when you leave behind all concepts. The fallen world is recreated by going through the zero point. Without that, you cannot reach the ideal existence. It is the same for Rev. Moon. How could I deny the entire world? How could I deny the Korean nation? How could I deny my family? You must have an atmosphere of going over and winning victory. Then everything can be recreated.</p>
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<p>For example, in North Korea and South Korea, every party was against me. But now we are approaching Kim Il Sung’s eightieth birthday and he is sincerely inviting Rev. Moon to please come. Think about that. He made me his younger brother, and became my elder brother. So I said, you have to hear your younger brother’s voice. I can get Soviet Union and other nations to help you. He said, “South Korea is against Rev. Moon, so I like Rev. Moon.” He wants to welcome me to his bosom and have me teach his twelve million people. People all over the world will be surprised by Rev. Moon’s powerful authority. In this way, the world can turn around in one moment.</p>
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<p>I have taught now for almost four hours. In the secular world, sermons are a maximum thirty or forty minutes. My record time is sixteen and one-half hours. I didn’t even go to the toilet. The interpreter, Pak Bo Hi, had to leave many times to go to the bathroom. I understand. [Laughter.] I was sweating; that is the secondary way of elimination.</p>
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<p>So Father has taught us everything. Now we don’t need Father for the sake of teaching us. We know that this is the homeland of all perfections. [To President Baughman:] Do you love your Korean wife? [Yes.] You say yes, but Father doesn’t believe that. Maybe you sometimes think that you were talked into it. [Laughter.] You weren’t talked into it; she is the best wife you could ever have. All the blessed couples here, no matter to whom you are married-Korean, Japanese or American-you are so blessed. After the world is restored, Father may meet ten couples every morning. Then the line will stretch from here to Washington, DC, and even beyond, even as far as South America.</p>
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<p>Is it reality that the True Parents are standing here? Real True Parents are here. But Father does not have to appear in person as he always has. There is such a thing as videotape. In a video broadcast, Father can address the entire world simultaneously. God prepared that facility.</p>
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<p>Based upon what Father has already taught us, and even without Father teaching us anymore, do we now have a passport to go to heaven, or is that something we have yet to attain? [We have it now.] Maybe you will have it in the future, but your possession of a passport is not guaranteed. What is guaranteed is that you have to practice and accomplish the above and then that passport will be valid. You have heard everything, but you have not done everything. Each person is at a different level. There are black peoples’ concepts, white peoples’ concepts and yellow peoples’ concepts. Therefore the results are different everywhere. How can we be unified? You like cheese and hamburgers. [Laughter.] Koreans like kochuchan and kimchee. It’s hot, and Americans don’t like that. Americans are cheese color. How can we create the parents’ way? It’s not easy; it will take many many years. How can we accomplish it in a short time?</p>
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<p>So this is the time when dreams are realized. April is a blossoming month. We see the spring come every year without fail, but the spring of God’s dispensation is happening now for the first time in history. It is the first spring after Father announced the Completed Testament era. With the greatest joy and the greatest confidence that we have met this incredible time, this incredible family and this incredible Father and Mother, we should lift up this country and rock this country and the world to wake them up.</p>
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<p>Who is going to prevent the spread of AIDS? Neither traditional education, secular education nor medicine can overcome the spread of AIDS. Only education by the Unification Church can do it. Think about saving America. This is Father’s wish. If America shows a good example, the whole world will follow automatically. But America is practicing the satanic way of life. There will be a time when we have to warn the world, “Don’t come to America. There is nothing to learn here.” Americans are not welcomed everywhere. They show nothing but a bad example. We have to change America quickly, so that God can welcome everyone to America to learn from America’s example.</p>
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<p>Now you have graduated from college, and you have a Ph.D. as well. At this time, you must teach. That is your mission, everywhere. One individual, one group, one school, one university, you have to teach. You can broadcast on NBC, CBS and so forth. Say, “Give me the microphone. I will talk.” You have to save your country. Until now you didn’t do that. Look at your nation’s situation. How miserable it is, going down, getting hit. It is not Rev. Moon’s country; he is a temporary visitor. He has to go back to his hometown. We will have to separate. I spent much time here, receiving much persecution. Father’s parents and relatives, the Korean people, don’t want that.</p>
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<p>You have to save your country. I have sent out many Tribal Messiahs, to 160 countries and throughout America too. Young people are sent out as Tribal Messiahs. They are to unite mothers with their children, in the position of Eve and Cain and Abel, combining into oneness. That is Tribal Messiah indemnity. Through the fall, Eve lost Cain and Abel. They went into hell.</p>
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<p>The Messiah is one man; how can he reach the whole world? The way of expansion is through the Tribal Messiahs. All five billion people will understand that Rev. Moon is a good world leader. But the world is standing on Satan’s side, and Rev. Moon is standing on God’s side. So the world doesn’t want him. But Satan will completely disappear. Rev. Moon is a powerful presence, appearing everywhere, including in America and even in North Korea. Kim Il Sung hated me most of all. He was the champion enemy. But that side is disappearing now.</p>
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<p>I will open a school teaching Godism and headwing thought. Look at what’s happening in the C. I. S. Unification education is being developed at the highest level schools, reaching the youth of highest intellect. These are their future world leaders, being educated with a curriculum completely connected with Rev. Moon’s idea. They are always inviting me there. I received the invitations from President Yelstin, but I could not go. The timing was not right. All the government members are being educated. They are surprised by what they are hearing. They thought that communism was the ultimate idea, but they find that their ideology could not answer everything and work everywhere. Now they are finding that Rev. Moon’s ideology is very high level. They are giving an open-hearted welcome.</p>
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<p>Why did I not go there? First I must see North and South Korea unified. Three republics of the C. I. S. want to make us their national church. Why not make that foundation in the soviet area? After that, what of the free world? It will have to change direction. I’ve been working for forty years in the free world, the Abel-side world. The communist world doesn’t have the religious foundation-the Old and New Testament foundation. The root is not there. The Russian church is non-existent. Now Americans go to Moscow to be educated. Young people from Russia have become teachers of Divine Principle to the Americans. This is just after two years. They change their concept from atheism so quickly because they are so intelligent. They recognize the value of the Divine Principle, and question who could be opposing Rev. Moon. Their reaction is to dislike whomever opposes me.</p>
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<p>Now that change is taking place in reality. In five day workshops their atheism is dispelled completely. They become theists. They are stronger individuals than Americans. They are unified as well, with 200 million moving in one direction. If you bring together 1,000 Americans, they are going in 1,000 directions. America is such a headache. You know it, but you have no way to solve it.</p>
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<p>We gave so much to America. For what? To save the Christian world, which represents 6,000 years of providence. So much hard work was invested throughout history; I want to keep that spiritual foundation. God is the only one who understands me. I am almost ready to leave this country, to say goodbye. But they need Rev. Moon’s teaching. So for the last time, starting this May, I will speak in twelve cities to the American people. Then I will have taught the contents of truth, which will testify forever to America.</p>
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<p>You have to take that responsibility instead of Father. You have to inherit Father’s mission. Can you do it? [Yes.] Can you do it? [Yes.] Really? [YES!] Three hundred people said yes, but even just one man can stir up good problems, as did Rev. Moon. Surrounding you are your relatives and friends; they want to hear Rev. Moon’s ideas applied to their areas. High level people understand Rev. Moon well. They want to know his viewpoint. A sleepy guy can never understand Rev. Moon’s foundation.</p>
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<p>Which way to do you like, the convenient way or inconvenient way? [Convenient.] I like the inconvenient way. To come to America was inconvenient. The FBI, CIA, and all the agencies of the government were investigating me. Then this cosmetic messiah came out in Texas. Americans don’t like it. But I like the place no one likes. Can you go to Texas? [Yes.] But it is a hot place, 100 degrees, 105 degrees. You have to work in the field, farming. Can you do that? [Yes.] No one likes that place, but I like it. Therefore I am the champion owner. Texas is too wide. I will make one eternal settlement there. I have hope there. But Father is old, over 73 years old, going on 74.</p>
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<p>God is the greatest computer, in the spirit world. You have physical computers on earth, but they are small and weak. Therefore, I can do the best matching of men and women. In the realm of True Parents there is no distinction of Americans, English, Korean. There is no distinction based upon Ph.D. degrees. Everything is connected to true love, as your whole body is connected to one hair. In spirit world, you don’t need a house or food. Everything is prepared. I want to live in that true love country.</p>
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<p>You have to go to the front line, fighting Satan. Father will chase you out, into the dungeon of hell. You must reach completion. Can you do it? [Yes!] Those who can, raise both hands. Thank you.</p>
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<p>(Col. Han’s prayer.)</p>
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title: "THE UNIFICATION CHURCH AND THE MAINSTREAM THOUGHT OF HISTORY"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="center">May 1, 1993<br />
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Belvedere, International Training Center<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is <i>Tong Il Kyo Hwe Chun Nip Kwa Som</i>, or, in English, <i>The Establishment of the Unification Church and the Mainstream Thought of the Dispensational History</i>. Do you understand that? Of course the creation of mankind is a part of the dispensational history, but, specifically, today Father means how God worked to restore mankind after the fall.</p>
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<p>Before Father speaks this morning, he wants to know, did you all receive a copy of the speech Father mentioned last week? Did you give it a good reading? When did Father give that speech? Exactly twenty years ago, in 1973. At that time, Father revealed everything about the completion of the Old Testament and the New Testament and about going towards the Completed Testament era. Father spoke in such detail, but looking back on it now, twenty years later, have we Unification Church members accomplished what Father outlined? No, we have not acted on all that Father spelled out. We must understand that when Father says something, it becomes the requirement and when we fail to act, someone has to make up that gap. We cannot advance without doing that. That is restoration by indemnity. By paying indemnity, we level the ground. Otherwise, there will be too big a hole, for man to go over.</p>
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<p>All the Blessed couples who came into being since that time remain without accomplishing the will they were supposed to fulfill. If they cannot do that, they remain in the same position. We did not fulfill our responsibility, but somehow the situation was made up, somehow we continued to go along. It was only because Father intervened every single time, lifted us up and patched the hole by paying the indemnity. This was twenty years ago. We should have been able to do what Father was able to do by inheriting that victorious foundation, and gladly paying indemnity like Father did. It was Father who brought the victory in the midst of persecution, not us.</p>
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<p>Do you remember the motto of this year? It is “The New Family and the Fatherland”. The new family means that this is a new beginning in the Completed Testament era. This is not a continuation of the old family. We are clearly standing on the new era of our advancement. Also, for all of us, “the Fatherland” means that each one is an Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve are the ancestors of the individual and the ancestors of the family and the nation and eventually the world. We represent that country. We are going towards that. We are the root of this era, so we are the forefathers for the unified fatherland. The root of the individual, the root of the family, the root of the clan, and the root of the nation are all the same. What this means is that if you look from the world’s viewpoint, and you trace the root up or down, we all come back to the same root. This is true for the nation, the clan, the family, and even the individual. The root is all the same. All countries of the world eventually trace down to one root. It means through this one root, all families, nations and even the world must be connected. Since we have one root, it means we have one trunk and unified branches. We don’t have the branch of a different trunk or a different root.</p>
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<p>When we accomplish this connection and unity in deed, the world will come into unity. If you ask people of each nation where their root is, their answers will be comprised of many different roots and origins. For example, if you ask American people where their roots are, they will say, “My root is in Washington.” Their answer may only be local; it does not apply to the whole world. Does God think that Washington is the root of all mankind? Japanese people will trace their root in different ways. Amaterasu omino kami is the goddess which they trace their root to. We must understand the motto Father set. The unified fatherland only comes into being through the Completed Testament era. We can see this now; everyone belongs to and can be traced to the same root.</p>
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<p>Adam and Eve were the real root, not only of themselves, the individuals Adam and Eve, but Adam and Eve’s family, Adam and Eve’s clan, nation and so forth. They are the root of it all. There is only one root. Since no one can recognize or know where the true roots are, True Parents appear and distinguish the false roots, what people may think their roots are, and then present the true root. Members of the Unification Church know our teaching encompasses the deepest area of philosophy: the value of mankind, how mankind should conduct themselves, where God is and what He is to us. All these deepest areas, the heartistic world, the origin of God’s heart, can now be known. Our teaching reaches to the depths of history, which mankind has never known. Centering on True Parents, the truth has come alive. They have given us knowledge that connects us to the beginning. Do you understand? Do you have a clear idea what Father means by “main thought”?</p>
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<p>When we say unification, we are not just talking about the unification of divided countries like North and South Korea or Germany. The unification of all mankind’s thought is included here. Last time, Father spoke about a very important subject. He laid out all the important ingredients, all the important points of the restoration of dispensational history and Father expects us to carry that out.</p>
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<p>Today is the 39th anniversary of the establishment of the Unification Church, but, counting this year, it is the 40th. Which is the root: the Unification Church or Father? (Father.) Who is the root, Father or God? Yes, it began with God. God is the origin of all origins. The stalk, or the main trunk of dispensational history is this mainstream thought. The mainstream is the actually important center thought, the ideal of creation. Anybody can say, “God’s will,” and everybody thinks, “Yes, God’s will, I understand what it is.” But no one understands the content and the details. We must have a clear understanding.</p>
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<p>Father remembers a conversation with one renowned scholar. Asked what God’s will is, he said, “Well, it is simple, but quite complicated. It is very elusive.” How can you say it is simple and complicated at the same time? There are many denominations and many religions, but they failed because they have no definition of God’s will. We have defined it clearly. Everyone is holding onto a different standard according to their own meters and measurement. No matter how tenaciously they hold onto this, it will fail and not mean anything when the true standard appears. You may have a standard made out of wood or some precious metal other than gold. If gold is indeed the standard, then no matter how much more precious a metal another standard could be made of, it is not the real thing. Others could bring out imitation gold and even real gold and try to challenge saying, “I have the real standard. You have only a wooden standard which will not do,” but that won’t be a valid argument. This analogy fits the Unification Church. No matter how the Unification Church may look, God said it is the standard.</p>
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<p>Other people are saying, “Look at us, we are made up of pure gold. Can’t you see?” But pure gold doesn’t do when we have the genuine standard here. Who teaches this standard is important. “God’s will” includes all the mainstream thought which God had. What is it? What are they? We see all theological seminaries, of all different denominations in the world, and each have a different definition concerning God’s will. Each one says different things. First they disagree, then they disagree more strongly, then they insist. Then what happens? A war or a battle; fighting begins. That is exactly what we see today. In the Last Days, this is a phenomena we see.</p>
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<p>This happens between countries, too. Each one asserts his own righteousness and they fight each other.</p>
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<p>Father defined God’s will in a very simple way. God’s will is to accomplish the ideal of creation. Period. Isn’t that true? Once it is said, it is simple, isn’t it? God is absolute and because He is absolute, does He have two different ideas or just one? Absolutely one idea! That is a logical conclusion.</p>
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<p>What is the completion of the ideal of creation? We can take it to the next step and say it is the completion of the four position foundation. What is the completion of the four position foundation? It can be explained in other words by saying it is the completion of the ideal of love. By accomplishing the four position foundation, love is completed. True love, of course. It is all-inclusive. We have everything important there.</p>
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<p>Everything in creation exists in a pair system. How do they unify? In other words, two eyes must have one focus. They focus on love, otherwise one eye will wander on one focus and the other eye will wander in another direction. The same is true of life. Life focuses on love and tries to propagate life. The nervous system, the circulation system, you name it-any system circulates and is harmonious centering on love. The eyes of man and the eyes of woman are different. The eyes of women always think about and look for all that belongs on earth. They wear clothes of a variety of colors, perfectly representing everything on earth. The sky is only one color, while on earth there are many colors. Look at the men sitting here. They are wearing either gray or brown. You only see two colors. It is good that women are shorter than men. They can look at the earth much easier. (Laughter.) What would happen if there were tall women? Men are tall so they reach out to the sky and give protection in all four directions. It is not really admissible, this idea that exists in America especially, that women are the subject. Can it be true? It is not totally without meaning, though. In the Last Days, when the Second Coming appears near, it is their privilege as American women to stand in the subject position. But the duration of that is only seventy years. In that sense, it is truly a part of God’s planning or dispensation. For that seventy years of time in the Last Days, American women, especially centering on Christianity, will stand in the subject position so they can meet the yet greater subject and connect with all other objects. That is the meaning behind this thinking.</p>
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<p>When you narrow down Adam and Eve, they were brother and sister. A brother and sister got married, in other words. When this brother and sister are close, close enough to get married, this is when the confusion arises. Now, not being able to distinguish mother and father, the children, even grandfather and grandmother, all of them feel confused and see no distinction between them so they marry each other. That phenomena occurs, too. It is clearly Satan’s direct intervention, directly misleading and confusing people so they remain under satanic dominion and do not reach to God. Of course, we can say that because of the lack of a clear standard, they do not know what the relationship should be or which way they should go. We must understand the ideal of creation and then we can come to know that the ideal of creation is to establish the four position foundation. The four position foundation is to create True Love. Centering on these main ideas is all important. We must understand all the descriptions and all the relationships of creation. The amazing fact is that the Unification Church has achieved these. All of the thinking, teaching and action of the Unification Church is founded on these consistent lines: True Love, the four position foundation and the ideal of creation.</p>
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<p>First, we perfect heaven on earth and accordingly, later on, the accomplishment of the kingdom of heaven in spirit world will come about automatically. Once we get hold of God’s True Love, then wherever we may travel, God is connected. It is not a conceptual teaching at all. Even though it begins from a concept, it is reality. If you open up your spiritual eyes, you can go ask a big tree, “What is your purpose in life? Why do you exist? Why do you breathe?” It will tell you, “I exist for the sake of love.” What about a big rock which isn’t even alive, and belongs to the mineral kingdom? It, too, would answer you, “I exist for the sake of love.” Even in the atomic kingdom, electrons and neutrons would answer the same way. There is no way of denying it. This is the reason why all things are in pairs: it is for love.</p>
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<p>Where does the true, basic concept of the universe come from? True Love. True Love was the beginning. Because of True Love and starting from True Love, the whole world came into being. We can even go so far as to say that God came into existence for the sake of love. If there was no love, then God, too, would have no purpose in existing. Before we even think about the universe, we can think of True Love. True Love was there in the very beginning. Before we understand more deeply about True Love, we can see the male and female or subject and object concept in all things. Every existence has that dual characteristic. Observe more carefully and try to find one exception. You will find none.</p>
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<p>Today scientists explore, and they maintain that the universe is made up and held together by a force or power. But they do not follow on with logical steps after that because force only comes into being when there is an action. Without action, there is no force. Someone should observe this and ask the question, “Which is first: because of force, action takes place or because of action, force comes to be noticed?” Which one is first?</p>
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<p>When a man grows up, real love power does not act upon him. He has no involvement in love action. He grows up by the energy of man. With that he grows, but love is yet to come. His mind and body have to take action and then he grows, becoming older and older. When he meets his spouse, a tremendous power takes place. Before that, there is action, but even before the action something else must exist first. That is subject and object relationship. In a man, he gets power when his mind and body come into unity. He has two eyes instead of one, and two nostrils; everything comes in two. We see that subject and object relationship is everywhere and it exists for the sake of love.</p>
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<p>We see development in this order: love between subject and object, then love action gives rise to the force. That is the order. What the scientists observe today is the resulting force. This idea never occurred to them yet. Even though we are not scholars, we know, of course, it is love because of subject and object and the strong power of love. Before the action comes, a subject and object relationship must come. The subject and object relationship will lead to action which will give rise to a force. Before they do that, there must be love. Love is the beginning. We can instantly explain this to anyone. This law influences everything. It doesn’t just apply to man or plants. It applies even to the mineral kingdom and the vegetable kingdom, as well as the human kingdom. You name it: every existence comes under this principle.</p>
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<p>We have truly learned and even mastered these standard concepts, but have we paid our tuition? Can you buy love with money? You see, when you do not pay, when you do not understand, you cannot gain the fullest value.</p>
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<p>Here is a situation with a man and a woman. As soon as their eyes meet and they are attracted to each other, nothing can stop them. All five senses will meet each other and nothing can stop them. They can go into fire, water, anywhere. That is the power of love. You cannot convert that into money. No matter how much she may have, even millions or billions worth of property or money, once she is in love then all things don’t matter anymore. No matter what happens, God is filled with joy and laughing at the sight of this. That is how we feel, too.</p>
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<p>God invests and forgets, invests and forgets, all too willingly and happily, all because of love. Otherwise, He couldn’t do it. For the man of love, the more he adds to the love pond, the more happy he becomes. He becomes happier and happier and later he will fly. He will cruise the universe like a world of stars. When you go to embrace a star, it will start dancing and God will also dance. This is the power of love. Do you like the love pond? Do you think if we dumped America into the pond of love that any one of the 240 million people in this country would oppose it? Would they mind? Once they know what it is, they would not even want to stand in line. They would want to cut in line and go in first to jump into the pond of love. No matter how excited we may be, there is always order in the love world, too, so you cannot cut in line, but must stand in line and wait your turn.</p>
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<p>Our members, for instance, can stand in their proper position. One criteria is at what time they joined the church and were reborn. The line will be formed in that kind of chronological order. They will talk about the day, hour, minute and even second they arrived. If one person arrived even one second earlier than someone else, then of course, he is the elder brother. So no matter how high you are-you may be the president of a nation-you are the younger brother. What must you say to your older brother? The older brother will tell the younger brother who is the president of a nation, “You are my younger brother, can you do this for me?” How can he refuse?</p>
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<p>We must understand these points and once we do, we don’t have to recite them every day; we know it. The utmost valued characteristic of the Unification Church comes from this knowledge. That is why so many scholars follow Reverend Moon. They follow him because Father knows deeper underlying principles than they and they know that. That is why hundreds of thousands of scholars center on Father himself. Scholarly work is not our specialty, those of us sitting here. We are not the best scholars in the world, but we must know this one fact: we know more than the scholars. Do you agree? The caveat, something we have to watch out for, the very sad and important thing is: let’s say a grammar school child, a boy or girl receives a diamond. It is a big hunk of diamond, but he doesn’t yet know what it is or what value it has. That is the problem, you see. If you pay the tuition, if you work hard and really experience the pain of dying, then you learn, then you know it is a diamond. That is the one thing we have to watch out for. So how can we understand this? There is only one way as Father sees it, and that is to suffer. Sacrifice and suffer: nobody likes it, just as no student likes to study.</p>
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<p>Here is the conclusion of love: because of love, all creation came into being. When you hear that, do you feel good or feel bad? (Good.) When God hears that, will he blame Reverend Moon for teaching love? “Why are you doing that? You have more important things to do than teaching that!” Do you think God would say that or would God follow him and also laugh because He is happy, too? Not only your mouth and eyes laugh, but all the cells of your body would laugh. Your hair, too! You cannot see it, but that is because you cannot see with your spiritual eyes. If you could, you would see that even your hair is dancing! We all are born because of love and for the sake of love. Father may tell you this in a nice way, but then he may call you a name and chastise you and say, “Do you understand this, you moron? Do you understand, you good-for-nothing?” He might call you many names, but if done for the sake of love, what would you say? You would still be happy, no matter how he treats you.</p>
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<p>You can experience that. You see a puppy walking in the street and you know what a puppy likes: a big chunk of meat. If you imitate eating it, the dog will be all attracted, with saliva coming out of his mouth and when he does that, the dog will just jump straight at the meat without even looking at you. When you have a chunk of meat, the dog will look at your eye and your face to see if you are going to give it to him. Then once you give it to him, he doesn’t even look at you, he will just jump at it and take it. Even a puppy does this.</p>
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<p>You know how much we love our parents, our mothers and fathers. When we are young, we can’t really do without them, true? So all the time, we tag along with them. But what happens when the sons and daughters grow up and find love with another? They don’t think about their father and mother so much anymore. They jump into becoming fathers and mothers themselves. The power of love can even purchase, even buy or sell a nation. It is so powerful. You have heard of a political marriage, too, haven’t you? Who was it in the British royal family who forsook the throne for marriage? King Edward. And what was the lady’s name? (Wallace Simpson.)</p>
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<p>When you see entertainers up on the stage, people get most excited and laugh and applaud when they deal with the topic of love. Other things are not that exciting. People may laugh at other things, but not from the bottom of their hearts.</p>
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<p>Have you already noticed, “Hey something is strange in the Unification Church, something is different”? You might not say something is wrong, but something is different. No other church ever talks about love so much as the topic of a sermon. It becomes a very legitimate statement that anyone or any minister whose sermon centers on love and makes everybody elated, happy and laughing, would become the source of peace and happiness. This is true not only for the religious sermon, but philosophical professing and any other kind of teaching. When it centers on love, it can be a source of peace. Peace comes from that. The politicians, philosophers, economists, and people from all different walks of life would come and join in one topic together, which is the topic of love, because that is the root of their lives.</p>
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<p>Until now, we have heard many things about love, but we never heard about love for the sake of other people. Now people say, “Love me.” They want to draw love from another person. They even teach how to attract love from others, but that is not what we are talking about. How to give love is what we are talking about. That is what makes it different. All these divided things now move toward being united because of this teaching and the knowledge of how to love for the sake of others.</p>
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<p>Love was destroyed. How can so many broken situations go toward a peaceful direction? Only with True Love can we mend the past. From True Love, new hope, a new idea, and a new starting point have appeared. Otherwise, there is no way. We always have to testify, giving the individual viewpoint centered on love. Testify about the family centered on love, testify to the nation centered on love, and testify to the world centered on love. At last, we will see the perishing of all self-centered love. It is dark, like the dungeon of hell. From there we will find out a new way of living. The love way is 180 degrees different. Love for the sake of others can make peace on the earth for the first time. Without it, there is no hope.</p>
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<p>(Father draws on the board.) Starting from God, directed towards mankind, we are here. History came this way, from theism which is the idea centering on God, there came humanism, the value system and philosophical idea centering on man and materialism, where all value is bestowed on material. Here is spiritualism, where the trend is to believe in God and believe in spirit; here is materialism, which denies God and denies spirit world; then secular humanism, people who don’t admit to God or any spiritual experience. Now we are reduced even further to this point where we are today. What do you call it? What kind of a philosophy do we see today? (Nihilism.) Well nihilism is like denying everything, like there is nothing, but people today have something. It is not so worthwhile, but still they hold onto it. What is it? Maybe we can give it the name of destructionism. Of course, there is no such name, but it is descriptive of what we see today. Individualism and destructionism have the same meaning. Centering on the individual, one misguides and misuses women and men and even the nation and family. It is because one tries everything centering on oneself that it doesn’t work. Nobody welcomes him, nobody responds, so he eventually becomes a hippie. All people, the whole nation and family, remember that person drawing everything towards him, so he cannot go far.</p>
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<p>You know how much humankind has reduced itself through materialism. Now here is destructionism, the worst time ever in human history and all is breaking down. All these different philosophies: theism, even humanism and materialism, more or less centered on love, too. Of course, it was self-centered love. But with destructionism, even that is broken. Why do they go down and down, why do they reduce even further? It is not necessarily by human choice. In a way, this development is beyond human beings. In history, there is such a thing as heavenly fate or a heavenly trend which forms the direction of history. God plans this way, too.</p>
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<p>We see the history of humankind has centered on self-centered love. Now, as children of the True Parents, and brothers and sisters, we are being taught about a new kind of love in which we live for the sake of others. God’s viewpoint is one of True Love and it starts right here with True Parents. People want to come to True Parents and stay with them, but even if they want to do that, they have no root. You can imagine a plant without a root: it falters and the fruit will fall down. They cannot stay in one place.</p>
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<p>What is one characteristic you see today, no matter where you go, be it Japan or Germany, America or anywhere? Mankind doesn’t have any more directions to go in. Nobody knows which way to go. Man constantly needs to be satisfied. He has an antenna which communicates with a high level of the spirit world. Without the love, emotion and enlightenment that antenna picks up, man cannot live. Now, people don’t know where to get that. Communication has been all but cut off. What should they do? They supplement this by taking drugs and exciting their bodies. They lost emotional True Love so now they found the horizontal way. Every family and nation has experienced that, it is free sex. After engaging in free sex they find out, but only later, it does not satisfy them as they expected it to. To heal that wound, they use drugs to try and forget it. But, as we know the drug world is a bottomless pit. They keep on imagining emotion and that becomes very dangerous territory.</p>
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<p>The effect of True Love is incomparable to the effect of the strongest drug or stimulation. Even these drugs lean on True Love, we can see that. Once you connect to this world, it is like a huge radio, a huge amplifier system which is broken. You cannot hear any sound whatsoever, but once it is restored then a booming sound, not yet clear, will start working. That huge sound is the message from spirit world. It will give us the clear message and we will get excited. The True Love speaker starts to work and the whole world will start waking up again. When it makes music, everybody will stand up to dance. You may think the twist is an exciting dance, but in this dance you can even fly while you dance!</p>
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<p>Which is a better name for the way of thought we see today – destructionism? Or do you have another name for it? This is the stage we are in now, after materialism. One way to look at destruction is to explain it will naturally disappear, but the other way is to think that someone will shatter or destroy it. Which is correct? Will someone destroy it and make it disappear or will it naturally disappear? (Naturally.) Why did you choose that answer? With good reason: because God never attacks the enemy or accelerates the decline of the enemy. It is natural, they are led to disappear.</p>
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<p>(Father writes on the board.) Perhaps this is in order. Of course, it is so close, this is again the virtue of dealing with the Chinese characters. In English, there is no distinction. Only by paraphrasing can you distinguish a difference. Destructionism will be destroyed naturally.</p>
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<p>This is the Cain realm and this is the Abel realm. Father combined these two. Here they came back in search of the original point while they were persecuted and now they are being welcomed. They came back and are starting anew. Therefore, Father was able to proclaim True Parents and the Completed Testament era. It starts right here. That means from now on, the natural trend will be towards Reverend Moon and his teaching will be more and more welcome as time goes on and the satanic world will become less and less and eventually be destroyed. Until now, people opposed the Unification Church, not so much centered upon what the Unification Church teaches but because of the leader of the Unification Church himself. Much persecution has been met. Only a few people who teach forty day workshop have been representing the Unification Church and sustaining the Unification Church in that way. Now, that time is passing quickly and we are in the time of equalization; in other words, the time when everything is equalized. We all must become one and, centering on the family, each one is to have influence over all different levels.</p>
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<p>Now each family can begin centering on God’s words. In each family, we can start this through words. We start with the family and connect to the tribe, then the nation, then the world. That is the way of expansion. It begins from one point and expands out to the world. We have to know this kind of concept to teach the word. You don’t need men or power, but words. Get the word out. Now the time has come to center on Father’s words, which are recorded in 200 volumes. We should center on Father’s speeches and the Divine Principle book. We should really not pay any attention to what other people try to lure us to and try to teach us. We don’t need it. Once you know this, we can perfectly protect ourselves from the invasion of the satanic world. If we can protect ourselves by listening to and heeding Father’s words and the Divine Principle book, then that will safely carry us through. We have lots of hints and instruction on how to go through this, through the millions of experiences Father has had. So many different times, Father had to fight in each situation and that record is all there in Father’s words. By studying them, we can carry ourselves through similar situations and win over them. Until now, in the Old Testament and New Testament ages, there was a commandment, thou shall not only center on the individual. Here, Father has taught us how to conduct ourselves in a family unit; what to do and what not to do, how to live. He has taught us not only as a family, but as a clan, nation, and as a member of the world. This is how to build the kingdom of heaven on earth and after that connect to the spiritual world. I am teaching the contents you need to win on every level. This is a different formula I have given to you.</p>
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<p>When we come to realize its value, we see it is truly a treasure. We never knew the true value of that. Even though we weren’t there, still we now know from Father what happened in Adam’s family thousands of years ago. Jesus came to restore specifically that position and what Jesus had to go through we clearly know now. The Bible teaches it clearly, too. Jesus came and tried to restore Adam’s position, also the whole world up until Jesus’ time. We know now.</p>
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<p>This is Abel, the plus, subject person. Cain is the minus. Jesus arranged the Cain and Abel world. There is no being which doesn’t belong to either a plus and minus position. Do we realize now that there is an unseen, but strong reality of universal, heavenly fate? You call it heavenly destiny. It is a definite, consistent power. It is so well balanced that we don’t realize how much pressure there is per certain square inch. When there is the slightest imbalance, then it doesn’t stop to exist. That is how strongly the universal power protects the balance. When a person gets sick, he remains in existence, but beyond that point, he leaves the earth or dies, because the universal power will just push him out.</p>
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<p>What Father is pointing out is that everything that comes into power, everything that is subject and object in the pair system is protected by the universe. In an imbalance, the universe eliminates them. Man and woman are a pair. They have to make a pair at the universal embracing point. The nation’s center is a plus, the king or president, the people are minus. Combined into one, they would attend the world formula which is the next step up. They will embrace the larger heavenly fate or destiny. Americans should think about that. President Clinton’s administration and the American people . . . heavenly fate will chase them out. No matter how strong America is, they will immediately break down. You need a pair partnership. Do you need that? Man needs woman. Woman needs man. Why? This is the universal formula. You have to pass this law. This is the purpose behind making a pair. You need the pair system concept.</p>
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<p>Why has history trodden this way? Because heavenly power or heavenly destiny has been eliminating that which does not stand for the Principle. We see that it is a great power. No matter how big a plus even Father might be, when there is no minus, this plus does not exist either. The way Father lives is for the sake of the Unification Church itself, its members. Father knows this is law. In his efforts to build the love pond, Father invested and forgot everything. On the opposite side, his partner, all the Unification Church members, are following. They cannot separate even if they want to. They try to escape to some hidden place and dwell there but their minds will still kick them out and pull them back. At last they will say “I’m sorry for repeating that kind of action. Please let us come back. I repent, please forgive me.” Do you understand? Once you come to know True Parents, you are forever connected. Even if just one time you touch the Unification Church, then become an ex-Moony, no matter if you go around the world you cannot leave living centered on Father. Your thoughts will center around Father every day. Your mind cannot forget it.</p>
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<p>Why? The mind never forsakes the pair purpose. “I have to go forever centering on Father.” Once you connect to Father, you connect to the original essence place. Your mind understands and forever, it is looking in that direction. Father’s place is the center of True Love. As long as Father remains as he has always been doing, working and living for the sake of the Unification Church and its members, investing and forgetting in the love pond of the Unification Church, then no matter how strong an outer force may be to push out members of the Unification Church, because of universal fate (which is so strong that no one can match it) the Unification Church will never fail. So Father puts in and forgets, invests and forgets, and Mother does the same. Many of us will start doing that too. What will the water level of the pond be? It can only go up. It flows and overflows. Always there is more need because there are more containers which need to be filled.</p>
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<p>Spirit world is immense; it has no limit. It is our eternal homeland. It is an awesome, huge place. Do you like that? It is too big, too awesome. Why does Father say that? Because it is the world we must be attuned to and accustomed to. Look at individualism. Individualism has made us so small and so full of bickering. It is just like the American national symbol of the great bald eagle. He is created to go around the plains, around the cliffs, and feed but if you catch that bald eagle and give him just the bare necessities, just give him a daily ration, what kind of life would that be for the bald eagle? That is what individualism has done. Are people happy or unhappy? Miserable! They live in the dungeon of hell! How happy do you think that bald eagle would be when somebody opens the cage and liberates him? People who are liberated will go to God and bow a thousand times. Even if they never bowed in their life, they will now bow a thousand times. Aren’t we like that today? Then wherever we go, that is our mission: to give thanks. There is nothing better to do. Have we or have we not been liberated by meeting the Unification Church? (Yes.) But how much have you taken advantage of this? The door is open, have you gotten out or are you still staying in there? Say you like to live in this realm. All right, but do you want to live in an American realm or Reverend Moon’s realm? What is your comparison? How much bigger is Reverend Moon’s realm? (Much bigger.) You cannot count how much bigger! What better philosophy can you find than the one that says we can occupy God Himself? Truly! Father says you can even use God as your own servant! You can do that! If you love your grandfather, he becomes your servant, right? In the perfection stage, your True Love partner says, “I want to help you do that.” Do you follow? It’s true! You have a mouth: say something! (Laughter.) How much has the Creator of life been taking the patient way. You don’t know that, but you have to know. “I command you can do anything.” Ultimately, God’s answer is like that. If He commands you one time, two times, a hundred times and even ten times more than that, you have to follow your real love partner’s direction.</p>
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<p>What Father is saying now is that we are in the position to even make God our own servant. We are truly in that position, but what are we doing now? What kind of miserable position are we still lingering in? Where are you sitting now? Is this a great, honorable position or a miserable position? You understand yourself and you understand well. Because it is our self, we know. Once we know we are in a miserable situation, who can make it change? God can’t change that, True Parents can’t change that. We don’t have to stay where we are. You have to do it yourself. Otherwise, there is no way. The Divine Principle teaches you clearly. At last you have to make perfection by fulfilling your five percent activity. Otherwise, there is no way. Is this true or not? You cannot make excuses.</p>
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<p>Father fought and Father paid indemnity and did away with materialism and all these other types of thoughts. The new family starts now. If I perfect my family right here, it automatically means the perfection of my clan, my nation, my whole world. I can even go on to liberating God, no question about it. I can do it by studying this truth. This is the fulfillment of the Completed Testament era. Centering on True Love, a person can make every place under that kind of control which is the purpose of the completion idea. Centering on your perfect love is the perfection of everything.</p>
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<p>Father just mentioned how history came to be. Adam and Eve failed and Jesus came to restore that. We know the extent of Jesus’ work and now here comes the Second Advent, who becomes plus to all these minuses. But the mainstream of True Love still continues. The direction of True Love and the action of True Love remain the same as all through history. Before creation, that concept existed. After Adam and Eve were created, the same concept still held. After the fallen world came into being, the same concept was the center of hope for all surrounding things to be taken away and cleaned up. After that, they can connect to the new world. Father made this perfection-making result centering on True Parents in the Completed Testament Age. The surrounding obstacles will be cleaned up. For those knowing this truth, Satan cannot touch them any time or anywhere. We are taking back God’s ideal. We can remake our land, our power centering on the family, connecting to the tribe, making the place of perfection. After that, the tribe will combine into one and the nation will be perfected. The nation combines into one and we reach world perfection. The world will combine into one and make spiritual perfection, which is the kingdom of God on earth and in spirit world. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Father is now explaining why the Unification Church had to come into being. It was for this purpose. It is going back to restore the original, first True Love ideal where the fall of Adam’s family took place and to finish the incomplete restoration of that which is still in bonds. Now, we go back there and liberate them. This is what the Unification Church was established for. If you trace back all these works that were at one time or another the main thought, what is the one main thought which has been different from other thoughts? If we can itemize or detail that, number one is the restoration of elder sonship, or establishing elder sonship. What was the second one? Parentship. The third one is kingship. And the fourth is royal familyship. These four are all included in this main thought.</p>
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<p>History moved the way it did, but nobody knew where or why. Now, with the knowledge of Divine Principle, we are about to restore the whole thing at one time by restoring this royal familyship and kingship and parentship and elder sonship. That means Adam must become the eldest son, not Cain. Adam must become True Parents. Adam must own kingship and also, the royal familyship. If Adam would have gained elder sonship in the beginning, then all the families of Adam, would have belonged to the royal family automatically. There is only one root, and by establishing elder sonship, he could have become parents and the king and the royal family would all belong to one root, not different roots. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>The moment you decide, “Yes, I will become a Unification Church member,” then instantly you have restored your elder sonship. That means you can be an elder son and you can be parents, and you can inherit the kingship and the royal familyship, all at the same time. Nothing can stop you. Human history is symbolically six thousand years old, but in reality it is much older than that. For hundreds of thousands of years, all people have been waiting to get into this position. With the appearance of Father and the opening of the gate, we finally can. Anyone can. The moment one decides himself to belong here, he can do this.</p>
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<p>All things and all people, good or bad, are waiting for the emergence of True Parents, “When are they going to come and liberate us?” No living being either here or in spirit world, can ever become a true person without connecting to True Parents because they all are born of false parents. The Lord to come has these and also lots of other seeds: seeds of True Love, that means True Love children. If you plant the tiniest seed, it will become a huge tree. With all these, for the first time we can begin going to heaven. Jesus was asked where heaven is and he answered, ” Heaven is in your mind.” But that was only a very primary, symbolic answer. But with this new understanding, we go into heaven in the family. Now we have a much clearer understanding. We love the world and the universe just like God loves the world and the universe. God loves humankind and all creatures, and like God, we can do the same. We practice and we come to realize, “Yes, God is my partner. God is my subject, my master, my parent.” Everybody wants a real parent, a real owner and a real master. People want to have a real relationship on those three levels. We want to stand in that position; we want to stand with our partner. It is like God’s attitude. We have to make that combination in the subject/object place too.</p>
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<p>These are a part of the mainstream thought in dispensational history. In other words, you can forget the rest, but remember this “Have I restored elder sonship, my vested right?” In order to make sure you restored this, the test is to check yourself. If you can say, “No matter how many people came against me, my brother, my uncle, all my relatives, near and close, friends, and also all womanhood came against me, but I repelled them, I did not succumb to them, won over them,” then you know you have elder sonship.</p>
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<p>We have to continue marching to the point where in spite of all the opposition, you’re not the loser, but they lose and stop opposing you. They say, “Yes, you are right, I am following you.” That is a natural subjugation and we have to go until that point. To do that, we have to trod the long patient way, as God has been taking the patient way through a long, long history. Just like God Himself, we must persevere and persevere. During this time, Satan’s family has been looking good, but now they will come down to the individual way, becoming hippies, yippies, yuppies.</p>
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<p>Those peoples’ minds are a vacant place. The world should occupy America. Instead, American people think, “America leads the world, all countries. The American brood is the number one race.” This is a vacant room. How can you fill up that mind? It is a problem. No matter how happy or hopeful America is, everything will be cast out. God will destroy it. No matter how attractive it may be, it will be passing. We should resolve: “I will hold on to and never let go of love, in spite of my life.” This is the best love. What is the essence, of True Love? God. Occupy God’s mind. “With a True Love essence, I occupy everything.” God’s eyes will follow you everywhere. How wonderful! At that time God will stand face to face and say, “I want to make contact with you!” “Yes, yes God.” You give all your love too. Your world will open. In there, of course, is the original connection God has to you. The same is true of your love. That is equal way, the “no-complaint” way of God and humankind. This is high level love. Low level love going up there is like airplane. When a high pressure area exists, a low pressure area will come in automatically. It is an automatic action.</p>
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<p>In Africa there are starving people, 20 million people dying in one year. America is a rich country. “We don’t want to know about your starving people.” This is a natural phenomena of resistance. How can we supply them? That is the way nature acts. Air and water naturally move into an empty place and fill it up in the horizontal way. Is that true? That activity is natural. Those who are against it can only perish. They are diminishing and going down. This is the natural perspective of God’s ideal.</p>
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<p>We know now, more clearly what is heaven: elders’ authority, parents’ authority, kings authority and royal family authority. These four should exist forever. Do you agree this is heaven? Yes, we know by concept, but are we like this already? Then we should go for it. With these ideas deep in his bosom, Father went into prison, and when they hit Father, Father hit them back invisibly by saying, “You hit me? Hit me more.” Father knows eventually this destructionism will disappear, sooner or later. But this world of goodness will become larger and larger as more persecution comes. Father knew this. Those who feel “I cannot go back to the old world, I cannot go back to falling again knowing this,” those who are confident about this realization, raise your hands. Is that just what you want or will you do it? (Do it!) Your sound is strange, not direct. That sound should come direct from your guts, “Yes, I can never fall again and I will accomplish this.”</p>
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<p>Do you want to take responsibility for the whole world, or do you think that is too big, that just one nation will do? Or do you say, “No, Father, I will just take care of my clan,” or “I will just take care of my village”? Which do you say? (The whole world.) Father says you have to know your ability. (Laughter.) If you are overly ambitious, it is impractical. Father calls you thieves and robbers. You are robbing Father of love. You can say, “Well, God, You have done that hundreds of times and thousands of times. I am just beginning to try one time. What have You got against me?” This is what you have to say to God. “You have been repeating the restoration course over and over through history, but for me it is only one time. You repeated many times, but could not do it. The bad world will disappear in front of me. I will do it.” You have to have that kind of guts. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Are we today, in 1993, becoming stronger than we ever were? Look at the time when Father was young and still searching for Divine Principle, in search for the solution to these complicated problems. Even at that time Father was full of zeal, but now Father has accomplished everything and won all the foundation. In which time can we be more excited and more confident? (Now.) A frog makes a big noise like this (Father demonstrates.) That’s how the frog goes. It has a big balloon that comes out. Sometimes that balloon is bigger than the frog itself. They are demonstrating, even these small animals, that they can become bigger than what they are. We should do that even more. Male animals fight with each other to win superiority-we have to do that. We’ve got to get so excited at this time that we are happy even at the idea that we are alive today. Even the fact that we were born at this time is thrilling. You were born in Father’s age! This will not happen two times in history, only one time. Compared to all history, this is like one small dot in time. And you were born now-how much happiness and grace is standing on you. You should be proud of everything. You should want to do more and more, as if twenty-four hours a day is too short. We have to run like that today. All the slumbering souls-everybody is sleeping, we know that. Literally, they are sleeping, but we work hard and bring the blessing and dump it on them. We can imagine how grateful they will be. We are going everywhere, finding the space to fill in, like water and air. In some place there might be only a tiny, little space, but still it is filled with air. Water has the same action. We are the same, too, centering on True Love. Love has the same meaning as air and water. Do you understand? Your lover every time wants that kind of activity. “I will dwell in that place and fill it up, making the horizontal way.” Like water and air, love-making will fill up in the original way. We say we are the love race centering on God’s True Love, is that true? Who are you? (Love race.) The True Love race! How wonderful a concept we have!</p>
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<p>Now, what do you think? Is your position enjoyable or miserable? Are you sitting in a hopeful position or a miserable position? Open bigger and bigger, more than the limit is open. Open your mouth, your nose, your ears that big-with that action there is no limit there. Think about that. That’s like Father. Taking that kind of action, I built this foundation all over the world. The spiritual world welcomes me. Satan’s way has at last been defeated. Standing in that place, they say, “Welcome Reverend Moon. I will follow and dedicate myself to you.” How wonderful an idea we have. How proud we should be. From now, everyone raise your hands, “We are going to be proud everywhere we go, taking the center concept and we are going to attend the end point of establishing the partner position by making that horizontal way.” How wonderful that kind of activity and result looks to me. How enjoyable for me. How can you compare it to anything else? Everyone will think, “I want that.” We can ask them, “Do you want this?” and they will say, “Yes, yes!” For thousands and thousands of years and more, people have wanted that. Finally God can say, “I am becoming liberated.” Freedom is there centering on God. God can have freedom, happiness, peace, hope, everything. This takes place in the ideal concept.</p>
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<p>God has been miserable forever, but this is solved by the Second Advent. He is the real elder son, the true authority. It becomes an automatic victory for Father. For the king, victory is under control of the royal family. Good or bad every time, day or night, every time they are welcome. Overseas, all our lives they are welcoming us in. That is our terminal purpose. How wonderful we are. By teaching that, we will automatically lift up others. They didn’t see that before but their mouths will say a “Mansei!” big enough to fill up the universe. The whole universe will be made into the ideal world. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>What is the purpose or the reason for establishing the Unification Church? It was so we could restore all these that were lost, to bring liberation to God. That is our mainstream thought. To accomplish that, the Unification Church was established: to restore God’s ideal world and live centering on True Love. When people learn about such a Unification Church, should they welcome it or reject it? We must understand about the resurrection of the world to come. It will happen at the same time Reverend Moon’s name is resurrected. When Reverend Moon’s name is resurrected, that will be the same time that the world is resurrected. Because of this mainstream, the Unification Church will become plus and the rest of the world will be minus, but our purpose is to bring them together, so we will become minus ourselves for the much bigger plus, which is God. Even God, when He reaches the top, what does He do next? He begins to come down and we go up. Don’t you see: there actually will be a day when the rich people will have their turn to become poor and the poor people will become rich. They are changing positions. Maybe it will be done by lottery. How interesting it will be when the one who lives in America goes there to live and the other way around. This historical phenomena will appear.</p>
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<p>We should regard that with happiness. How wonderful it is to be alive and go to the other part of the planet. No matter how harsh the environment may be in Africa, the one who lives in a mansion in New York will go to Africa, to the remotest countryside, and will be full of hope. There will be no house, no running water, only wilderness. They are hopeful, thinking, “Now I am experiencing the life of my own brother and sister who have lived here all their lives and all their ancestors’ lives. How miserable they were. Now I am experiencing what they went through and I am glad. I am hopeful.” If we do that and then go to spirit world, we will never go to hell. We can’t even remember there is such a thing as hell. Hell disappears, in other words. It could not exist, do you understand? You have to clean up the dungeon of hell. How can we make that kind of purpose on the earth? Only by going down to the miserable, dark place. It will immediately change. You can lift it up by going down there. Soon it will start rolling and rolling and growing bigger and bigger forever. It will fill up that huge, awesome kingdom of heaven. Otherwise, there is no way.</p>
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<p>Do you feel good or hopeful when you hear Father say these things? Feel good or feeling is good, which one? Both? (Both!) So, going all four direction in that straight way is no problem? How happy we are! (Col. Han sighs. Father asks, “What are you doing?” Col. Han replies, “Experiencing happiness.”)</p>
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<p>Now we know. It is our mainstream thought to restore these and enter into that kingdom we described. This is our mission as members of the Unification Church. This is God’s ideal-the creation ideal of perfection is to make that four position foundation. That foundation is the True Love core connecting you. That is the purpose of the Unification Church. Because of the fall, we have to restore, and through these four principles of mainline thought, we are about to restore. Next year is the 40th year since the establishment of Unification Church, so at this time Father is announcing and proclaiming the Completed Testament era of True Parents. The ideals of democracy are not permanent. Their time will pass. Parentism is the more enduring thought. You cannot go any further than True Lovism. This is the mainstream thought. There will be no democracy at that time, at least not democracy as we know it. It is the mainstream activity to restore these things which God originally intended to establish, but which humankind has never seen and still remain as a dream. By accomplishing this, we will have accomplished the will of God. This is the mainstream thought, not only for the Unification Church, but the whole world will follow in our wake. To God there is only one mainstream; there are not two mainstreams, even though humankind fell. God has been working centering on one mainstream. Of course, when man fell, He worked especially to restore it, but the mainstream remained the same. Historically, philosophically, theologically-whatever your classification or liking is, still having these elements, this is the headwing thought and this is God’s thought. Headwing thought is centering on True Love. That’s all. God is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Starting from the family, it becomes like this and it connects at the family. The family, clan, race, the nation, the world, the universe-even the universe must be perfected centering on that family. After Father having won over all these levels, he is now returning back to the family and the perfection of that family will be the perfection of all things here. Satan no longer has any place to claim in any of these areas. That family is the True Love center. The plus and minus are here in the three stages. The whole thing becomes a minus to this plus. Do you understand that concept? So your family right here represents both right wing and left wing as well. The right sphere, left sphere, front sphere, rear sphere, upper sphere, lower sphere: all are combined and united. Again, repeating, you must have confidence that perfecting your family means that you have perfected not only your family, but that automatically leads to the perfection of your clan, your race, your country, your world and your cosmos, too.</p>
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<p>We all are Blessed couples, aren’t we? Time passes so quickly, you know. We should not waste time, but work for this goal. This is the core plus.</p>
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<p>Today we celebrate the 39th anniversary and the 40th year of the establishment of the Unification Church. After putting everything into an orderly fashion, now Father is being liberated. After Father’s upcoming speeches here in America, America will have nothing to do with Father. Father has nothing to do with America. Now he moves directly and literally into the world. Does that mean we have to bid good-bye? You understand everything. Father gave everything to you. No matter what else happens, if, you just follow Father’s action, you will have no problem. A professors purpose and dream is how to make many new professors who are even better than himself. God is the same in His hope for True Parents. After their perfection, True Parents will, grow and expand horizontally all over the world. That is True Parents purpose. It is the same meaning. Your family wants to expand; how can you expand in your category, making that kind of realm? After you pass away, your property is there. Do you understand? It is your property forever. Your name is engraved on it, that shows your ownership. In there, no one can take action against you. Think about if you miss the chance and you have no place to stand. How miserable you would be. True Father understood that concept and has expanded everywhere, all over the world, night and day, now connecting and broadcasting. From now, everyone will be connected over the oceans, over the seas. I made that foundation to make preparation.</p>
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<p>Susan, you are a captain in the fishing world? Who did that? (You did, Father.) Is that true? I don’t know. I am making that strange foundation over the woman’s world, too.</p>
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<p>Now we know. With utmost confidence, we shouldn’t wobble. We cannot wobble again after knowing everything. In this early spring, the first day of May, when everything is coming back to life again and prospering, we are too. Father gives us the command and gives us the blessing. We must open up our own mind and discard all the old and bring in the new and become a new person and become a very victorious person ourselves. To become a victory fruit is our whole life purpose. We understand that clearly now. Those who say, “Father, we will become the ancestor in this still barren land, and just like you did, we will take care of this country and we will fill this country with our own offspring like you did in the world. I will do that with confidence,” raise your hands. Amazing! Thank you and God bless you.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">May 2, 1993<br />
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Belvedere International Training Center,<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is <i>Tong Il Kyo</i> and in parentheses, <i>Uri ui Charang</i>. Charang means pride: <i>Our Pride</i> or <i>The Unification Church’s Pride</i>.</p>
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<p>All men want something to be proud of. This is true in an individual’s life, and on the family level, too. A family wants something to feel pride in. What about the nation? It is true for the nation, too. The desire to have something to be proud of expands to higher levels with no exception. But stop to think of it – have we noticed any man who lives in the world and is proud of the world? We notice correctly that man is prone to be proud of the individual. We see that all the time. We also see that people want to be proud of their family. Also, the fact that someone wants to be proud of his nation, we see that all the time. But, no one feels proud of the world.</p>
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<p>Let’s imagine that we were going to participate in a contest of pride to see who could boast of the most things. Have you ever stopped to think of such a convention or competition? Have you ever stopped to think how much you have to be proud of? Do we have many families anxious to go into a world-wide contest to brag about their own family, all three generations? By the same token, there would be a match to be proud of the country. As is obvious in the fallen world until now, people have not been aware of anything beyond their own country. Of course, people have a concept of the world. When we say “the world,” we mean one world under which everyone lives, just like one earth. Can the same person who won the grand prize for being proud of his own country, attend a similar match to be proud of his own family? Does he have as much to say about his family as he did of his own nation? Also, can the individual who won first prize for being proud in the individual match, go to the match where they are proud of the family and also win first prize there? One person won a prize being proud of himself, but compared to the person who won first prize for being proud of his own family, he is on a different level. They could never compare. By the same token, the one who won first prize for pride in his own family cannot match the one who wins for pride in his nation. What if we have a contest to see who is most proud about the world he lives in? Even the national level champion cannot match the world level champion.</p>
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<p>We in the Unification Church frequently use this vocabulary and concept of the universe which no one else uses so much. If you look at the Chinese character for universe which is Chun ju, it explains much detail. Chun means heaven and ju means house: heavenly house. That is the universe. If you further analyze the world heaven, heaven means two men. Likewise house, which is ju, means house or be comfortable. The other part means freedom. So peaceful freedom or comfortable freedom means house. Freedom and comfort are there, which is a home. So universe exactly means house, but not just an individual house, a house which belongs to everyone. This is exactly what this character depicts.</p>
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<p>What kind of person can you call a rich person? Who is a rich person? One definition is this: if you go into a rich person’s house, you find everything. The more rich a person is, the more variety of things you can find in his house. The nation is a kind of house also. Whose museum would be better, an American museum or one from England or France? Which one is bigger? Father went to a museum in England where they had things from all four corners of the world. Englishmen had brought things from all different parts of the world like Africa and they were very proud of it. “Look, how big England is!” We may think all the articles which were displayed in the museum were very happy to go there, “I am so happy to be displayed in a British museum. I am very proud to be displayed there.” But, did they go like that or did they not want to go, feeling, “It’s not fair, it’s not right”? They were crying, but were still displayed in the museum. Did they welcome going or deny going? (Denied.) As long as the objects are not happy or proud of being there, the museum will be just like a prison to them. Even when you go to prison, you go into the prison situated in your own country. Your family is nearby even though you are in prison. But, in this prison, your own country is far, far away and you don’t have family nearby either. How can we justify this or ever say, “This museum is a wonderful place. We are so proud of our collection of objects from all over the world”? How can you be proud of it?</p>
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<p>In the world, as you know, people have power and money and buy lots of artifacts from all over the world, which they take pride in, but what is the most precious thing you can think of? For instance, if there is a very precious article in the London museum and someone wants to trade it for you, would you trade yourself for that very precious object? What kind of a price tag would you put on yourself? Then what is the most precious thing you can think of? (Love.) Before we get to love, we were talking about something we can see. Mankind. Mankind includes everything: grandparents, children, partnership, True Parents and God, too. They are all included in mankind. If there is such a thing as the human museum, would there be anyone who wants to sit there for the rest of his life? Could he be happy? Objects are there to be admired by all men, so maybe they wouldn’t mind, but if a man was put in that situation, he wouldn’t stay there. No matter how good, or how beautiful a place is, we don’t want to be fettered. We don’t want to lose our freedom and have to stay there. Then, people can realize, “Oh, the most precious thing is freedom.” At that point, nothing would be precious for a person anymore. The only thing he would be craving is freedom.</p>
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<p>American people love freedom, don’t they? Democracy, equality, freedom are very important here. What are we going to do after having freedom and equality? What is the purpose? What are we to do with them? If they are so precious, we must have some use for them. I live an all around good life, isn’t that so? But then what is the definition of a good life? In other words, how can you say, this one is a good life, but that one is not such a good life? For instance, if Americans are very happy and they have a good life only for Americans and no one else has an equal life, is that a good life? No, it cannot be. Even though one country may enjoy the good life, it is not truly the good life because the world now comes into view.</p>
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<p>As we see so visibly now, even though equality may exist in one country, if that same equality does not extend to the rest of the world, there is unrest and no one is happy anymore. Happiness, equality, and democracy are all glittering thoughts. Americans would not notice because they act freely and they have equality and democracy, but back in Africa, would the African people join in with the same happiness and equality and freedom that Americans have? No. It is something they have nothing to do with. They don’t have this freedom. They don’t even know what it is. The situation is different there. They wonder what equality is. In one country these things are highly prized, but it is not necessarily so in another country. If there is freedom in the world, then of course, every nation can join in and be equally free and happy. But, if only one country has freedom, the world can’t necessarily go in and join them. Small things can go into a large space, but a large thing cannot go into a small space and fit. Isn’t that true? If you have a big pocket, you can fit much into it, but if you have a small pocket, even if you have many small pockets, you can’t fit a large thing in. Small things can go into any pocket. If you have a large pocket, you can sort out all the objects you have and according to their size, you can put them into different pockets.</p>
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<p>Freedom and equality – do they apply instantly to everybody? Unless it is so, for example that one country has the same standard as any other country, then there is no such thing as freedom and equality. Let’s say there are two jackets, exactly the same style, but one is slightly inferior, it has some speck on it or the needlework is done a little wrong. Two people have to choose one jacket each. Each person will want to have the better one. If you make an observation you will find this is true. If there are two identical items, but one is slightly better and one slightly worse, and if the two people are total strangers, they will want to reach out for the better one for themselves. You have the freedom to choose the better one. Who says, “No, Father, that is not so,” raise your hands. This is true no matter where you are – in America, the Orient or Africa. It is the same. This happens often, people always want to have the better thing so they compete. They think they are free to do that.</p>
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<p>What is the limit? How does freedom work? It is questionable. This freedom which we cherish so much here in America may fit into America. They don’t mind that lifestyle here, but it does not fit in Korea or any other nation. Then of course, can we go out in search of what is complete, perfect freedom? The law in America and the law in Korea are different from each other. The standard of freedom becomes different. Then what is the perfect freedom? That is the question.</p>
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<p>What about happiness? Where is happiness, what is it? Can you feel happiness all by yourself? (No.) You are very quick to respond no. In every day life we think about this, so everybody has a ready answer. If you don’t experience it alone, then you must have someone to be happy with. Who is that someone? Who do you want to be happy with? A man wants to be happy with a woman. What about homosexuals? We have often pointed out that the only way for a man and woman to become absolutely united, which each one absolutely desires, is through the sexual organs. That organ has nothing else to do except join man and woman. This is not an interpretation, this is the reality we see in nature. By nature this is true. Because of love, man and woman came into being, we know that. Like Father mentioned in his sermon yesterday, the whole universe has been created for the same common purpose, the intertwining of love. Yesterday Father expounded on that. Likewise, because of love man and woman were created. Can the nose be situated on the hip instead of the face? We have two eyes. Can you ever imagine two eyes operating independently, one looking here and one looking in the other direction? Do eyes have freedom? Yes, they do, but can one look here while the other looks there? It would be an extremely unusual person, and no one has ever seen that kind of man, with two eyes working independently. There is no freedom to do that, if you call that freedom.</p>
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<p>Have you ever heard of someone drinking water through their nose? Functionally, this is not impossible, because if you put water down the nose it will come into the stomach. Have you ever seen someone try that? You can search everywhere for that kind of strange person, but no one tries to drink water through their nose.</p>
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<p>The bosom primarily belongs to the baby. The nipples are designed so they are perfect for the baby to suckle. Imagine a mother’s breast with a man’s nipple. The baby will have a hard time drinking his or, her milk. It is wise that the woman’s nipple is bigger than the mans. Women have hips which make it very comfortable when you sit down. They are stable. Men cannot sit for a long time. Especially when you have a baby, you need to sit down and be stable. Men can never do that. If you call that scientific or agree that it is so, then we can call the whole universe a natural museum. When you observe the arm or leg of a chair or table, it resembles the construction of the human arm or leg. Man learned everything from nature. Even if he never realizes he brought the idea from nature, it is always the same as nature. The entire universe itself, no matter where you go, what corner, is the treasure house of knowledge. You learn from it, so you can call it a university. It is nature’s university. We see things, like inhaling and exhaling, that in every animal, whatever kind it may be, has the same function. What about bacteria? Do you think they may have an eye? Jim, you’re not a biologist, but what is your guess? Do bacteria have eyes? In bacteria there are male and female elements also. That means they must have the organ for reproduction; therefore, it is likely they also have eyes even though we have not identified them yet. Without eyes, how can they meet and identify each other? The organs of five senses must be there.</p>
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<p>Is it a far fetched conclusion that though there is freedom, women do not have freedom without man? If someone says that conclusion is wrong, please raise your hand. Is that a true statement: women do not have freedom beyond the realm of man? It is the same way as two eyes that have freedom in synchronizing. The aim of the eyes of women goes to man. Man is their focus. The eyes of men aim at women. His aim does not go anywhere else. Original woman has a sense of smell. Is the smell of perfume the most enjoyable scent for her or the smell of man? It must be the scent of man. That is a very important point. If you are hesitating to answer maybe if someone brings you a big jar of heavenly perfume, worth millions of dollars and you wanted to buy it, maybe you would trade your husband for it. Is that what you’re thinking now? Which would you rather do, open up the jar of perfume and have your nose stuck in there, enjoying it or would you rather rest on your smelly husband and have peace and happiness there? Which one? That is a legitimate comparison; it is not foolish.</p>
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<p>Look at it this way. No matter how beautiful a woman may be, no matter if her eyes, ears, nose and lips are the most enchanting, beautiful things you’ve seen, if there is no man, then all of her beauty means nothing. A women would complain and even blame her own features. She would even loathe her beauty, thinking “Why is this nose so beautiful?” She would scratch her own face, because even though she has the most beautiful face, there is no man to appreciate it. She would be in agony. She would regret and blame her beauty.</p>
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<p>Why do you spend so much time intently making up your face each morning? If there were no men in the world, or where you are going to, you wouldn’t do that. Why would you make up?</p>
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<p>We can see the conclusion rather clearly that for woman, freedom is found in joining man. Freedom for man is joining with a woman and becoming one. A father’s freedom is found in unifying with his son. Freedom exists in the president of a nation unifying with the citizens of that nation. That is his freedom. Among those, everyone has the freedom to unify with each other. If freedom is not there you cannot create unity and if freedom is used in a different way, that freedom will be broken into pieces. No one will cherish that freedom. Until this moment, no man has ever defined it in a refined, deep way, but equality and freedom are one, they are inseparable. People think they are two different things, but never, they are one. Freedom and peace are one. This is a favorite motto of the democratic world. Everybody says, “Freedom and peace,” but they do not know what it is and they do not know what it takes to achieve it. Equality is like this. This means equal. Can man and woman say, “We are equal”? No, they are not equal, they are different. Their function is different, their construction is different. They do not automatically become equal as they are.</p>
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<p>Where is freedom? Freedom means to become united; anywhere a man wants to unify he can unify. That is freedom. Two do not achieve unification automatically, it takes something to achieve unification. It is not freedom which makes unification. Man and woman can flee from each other but that is not free. A woman misses her husband so much that even if she goes away from him, she often looks back with tears. Is that freedom? That is not freedom for her.</p>
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<p>Love is what makes freedom. From any angle you look at it, love is the most important ingredient. Without love a lot of things have no meaning. Father and Mother love each other so much and become unified, then so much peace is there. Happiness resides there. Is it true? (Yes.) Freedom cannot bring brothers to unify with each other. Equality doesn’t do that, but love can bring these two into complete unity. Mother and children, and elderly person to a younger person: what can bring them into unity with each other? It is not freedom itself. Even if you have freedom you can’t necessarily become one. Freedom has no meaning in that sense. What makes unity? Love. Like the president of the nation becomes united with the citizens of that nation out of love for each other. Philanthropy, the movement where everyone loves everyone else, is also because of love. Even heaven and earth and one distant person and another person can never become one without love. Freedom doesn’t do that. Peace, happiness and equality don’t do that, only love can do that.</p>
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<p>Let’s say there is a husband who loved his wife dearly. His wife went to spirit world a long time ago. He really wants to meet her and he thinks about her all the time and he is sad because of that. When he eventually goes to spirit world, will they start fighting or will he be happy to meet her? Let’s say they have been separated for thousands of years. She has been in spirit world thousands of years, so by that time she has made her foundation there, so to speak. Her husband will go there and want to exploit that, looking here and there and using this and that. Will his wife say, “That doesn’t belong to you, that is mine”? Would she refuse him? She will open up everything and say, “Everything I own is yours.” There is an invisible wall from their separation of a thousand years. There is a wall because their circumstances were not the same on a daily basis. The thousand years’ wall will be knocked out in one day because of this love.</p>
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<p>We, too, have been long separated from God, but we are about to meet God and become united with Him. You may make a huge fortune and become a millionaire and become proud of being a millionaire with not so much thinking about going to God. What would that million dollars mean to God? It means nothing. You may become a Ph.D. and a Nobel prize winner, the most learned man on earth, but what has it got to do with God? Would God be impressed with that? God doesn’t need money; God doesn’t need knowledge or authority. God does not need these qualities. What does God need? God needs love just as much as we do. If God is our father and we are His children, how can we become united with God Himself? Only through love. Is that true? Everything else gets in the way and doesn’t help.</p>
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<p>The Pride of the Unification Church or Our Pride is the title this morning. We all want to be proud of our children, don’t we? We want to be proud of the smallest thing they do. We want to make it big and be boastful and proud of our own children. Have you seen this before: there is a very ugly woman, no one can say she is pretty, and she has just as ugly a child – even more ugly. That woman is so in love with that baby that she wants to boast about that baby even to a much more beautiful woman, “What a nice baby I have, don’t you agree? How beautiful my daughter is! Look at her!” That ugly woman is not abashed, her mind is as clear as the blue sky. She does not think she is out of balance. She continues to be proud of her ugly daughter. But, don’t you think this is great? No one will blame her for that. Everyone will smile and say, “Yes, you are right!” from the bottom of their hearts. Looking down, God will admire that and say, “My creation is a success. I did a good job in creating love.” That is what God will say.</p>
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<p>So, America, it is wrong to pursue freedom. Americans must instead go after love. [Drawing on board.] My small house is my house and I can also call my nation my house. I can call the world my house, but the universe is larger than any of the others. God happens to reside there, right at the center of the universe. If you have a need to make unification with these, how would you do it? It is not with your knowledge, or authority or even money that you can do this, only love can do this. This travel is not easy. It is difficult, rugged terrain to reach God’s house. What can make you continue, what can continually motivate you? In the house, we are encouraged to become sons and daughters of filial piety. In the country, everyone is urged to become a patriot. In the world, a saint and in the universe, a holy son. The most important ingredient here, it goes without saying, is love. Without love, everything will be shattered into pieces, no longer unified. Is that true? I don’t know. You know more than me! We need to know this clearly and deeply.</p>
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<p>All sons and daughters of filial piety in one family are welcomed by the nation. The nations ask them, “Please become a patriot now. After you have become filial sons and daughters in your family, it is time to become a patriot.” It is like a crystal body. That crystal is welcome anytime in this nation. The crystal wants to become bigger and bigger. We all want to become ever bigger, don’t we? That is our desire. Also, we want to become more precious, in other words, more expensive. Which one is more precious, the crystal on the family level or the crystal on the universe level? Of course, the one on the universe level. The man on the family level is a man of big character, but the one on the higher level has a bigger character. Everyone wants to become bigger and more valuable. Also, everyone wants to soar to loftier heights. Everyone wants to be higher, in other words. No matter how great you may be, as a son or daughter of filial piety, you are right here. Your size on the universe level will be just like that. But everyone’s desire is to reach the universe level and stay there. Can you climb up there with knowledge, authority or money? No, absolutely not. What makes it possible for you to climb up there? Love, but what level of love? Normal love is American love. We need abnormal love. Normal love has people against unification. The Unification Church has abnormal love. Which is more precious? (Abnormal love.) Abnormal is the same as crazy, so in that comparison we are downright crazy. We are aiming for absolute True Love. There is nothing you cannot hook with the hook of True Love. It can be extended to any length. It is like rubber, it is so resilient. It can shrink down, too.</p>
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<p>When we have True Love and we activate it, even the most difficult international marriages are no problem. We can even have a married life between enemies. The son and daughter of two enemies can get married and stay married. Doing that you can even control the enemy world.</p>
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<p>Sometimes you think that God wants to judge unrighteous and bad people. How do you think God will do that? Will God just use almighty power and authority and judge people? No, God, too, is thinking love is the only way He can conquer His enemy, which is evil. Even God thinks this way. Therefore, God, like a very impotent, incapable person, loves and invests and forgets, continually for thousands of years. Love is the only way He can embrace evil. Even though we may not understand everything right away, we can, by reason and logic, understand that must be true. God must be investing and forgetting. By using True Love, God is carrying out this dispensation.</p>
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<p>We have no doubt about this, do we? Do you still have reservations that God may retaliate sometimes? No, you have never seen an example of that. That is God’s strategy. Here is a master. Without knowing, the servant hits the master’s head. After that, what kind of feeling would the servant have towards the master? You can imagine, right? That is what God has been doing. He has been hit first and then subjugation takes place automatically without God saying anything. Satan, on the other hand, always jumps up and strikes and then realizes it was wrong and then loses. In World War I, World War II and World War III (World War III was the individual way), the common point was the one who struck first, lost. God put Reverend Moon in the position of making him available to be opposed by everybody in the world and lets him be struck. After striking, they all will be won over. All Satan’s side will be brought over to God’s side. It is so simple, anybody can see that at this time, but this staggering truth, no human being, not even the wisest man in history knew. Father has been revealing this to us.</p>
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<p>Father came to America and did not take anything away. Instead, Father has been investing millions and billions of dollars for the sake of America, but American people still are going against Reverend Moon, even putting him into jail. Did America do right? They may think they won now, but in the hundreds of thousands of years to come, they will be in the position to apologize and be sorry to him for what they did and how they treated him. Kneeling down, they will beg forgiveness for what they’ve done even though they did it without knowing. After those times, all people, high-level, unlikely people, show respect to Reverend Moon now. Actually, we may not feel respect to Father in that way. In that sense they are better than we. We look at Father from our own perspective which is rather narrow whereas those people are the ones who know how difficult it is to work for the world. Those people admire Father because of their broad foundation. We have a small foundation. They have a broad foundation yet they love Father.</p>
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<p>Now we can come near to concluding what there is to be proud of. We already ruled out many things. The only thing remaining is love. Love is the only thing we can be proud of, True Love. No one knew True Love until now. No one except us knows True Love. Where can we find it? A woman trying to pursue a man, is in love deeply, so even in the secular world, they thought this must be True Love. But the idea never occurred to them that this happens under fallen circumstances and that that love is out of order and needs to be repaired. They did not know that.</p>
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[Father draws on board.] We are standing on True Love. What does True Love need? True Love needs a man and woman. Until now even the highest level of love we saw was secular love and fallen love at best. This is a male and this is a female. To unify them is the highest purpose, but nothing except love can make them unified. All our organs have a purpose: the mouth digests food and the ear collects information and so forth. What does the reproductive organ do? It does not take food through it or inhale or exhale. The only function it has is to join and unify. It is not life-sustaining like all the other organs. What does it do? Why is it necessary? It is to unify east and west. Man is in the position of east and woman is in the position of west. The organ which joins man and woman unifies the vertical and horizontal. By joining horizontally and vertically we give birth to children. There is a dual system of parentship. The internal, vertical father is God Himself. Vertical and horizontal are joined together by man and woman joining together. There is no other way to connect the past and the present and the present and the future. The only way we can connect these is through love. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>True Love must climb up higher than the level of fallen love. We can see in the past history of mankind there have been many types of love, but none ever higher than the fallen level. We have never witnessed any True Love in the past. To reach out for this love and maintain love on that high level, we must deny love in the fallen level. Not only individual love, but even the world level of love manifested in the fallen world must be denied. This is what religion has been trying to teach and do. Religion has been teaching, “Don’t get married.” Why? Because when you get married, you exercise love on the fallen level. That is why religion encouraged celibacy: to penetrate the fallen level of love. Originally God intended to let man and woman grow and then He would have arranged their marriage. So why are all high religions denying this and saying don’t get married? It seems inconsistent. It was so we can restore mankind above the level of fallen love. The Bible teaches a very paradoxical statement, emphasizing that those who seek to live will die and those who seek to die will live. We can now understand True Love can be gained by giving up oneself and being ready to die. Only by doing that can we find True Love. If a man wants to receive all the love here, Satan is right behind him, with him. He can never separate from Satan, because he is within Satan’s love. Satan will never let go. There were martyrs in the past. They were persecuted and persecuted and died as martyrs. The person who died thinking, “Now I’m going to die and go to heaven,” instead found himself in hell. But the person in a similar position who thought, “I am dying for the sake of Jesus and for the sake of propagating his words,” will find himself in heaven. From this perspective, the reason Reverend Moon created the Unification Church was to serve God and save God and to save mankind. He didn’t do that in the easy way, but by going beyond the boundary of life and death.</p>
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<p>When Father began his course, he aimed right at prison and death. Father didn’t aim at glory. To liberate Jesus he first had to go to prison and the dungeon of hell of the Roman Empire. There he could find and save Jesus. Father knew he must risk his life so he was always ready to die any time. Father went to prison many times, but was Father put in prison because he plundered something or because he did something wrong? Once people are enlightened, they will kneel down for what they did and what they didn’t understand at that time. True Love can only be found in risking our lives not for the sake of my being saved, not for my salvation, but for the sake of saving mankind and God. When we do that we can find True Love. God, too, is exactly like that. Because True Parents are in search of true children, Father has risked his life many times.</p>
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<p>We know this is the only way we can go to heaven. Today the sad reality outside is that the average Christian thinks, “Just believe in Jesus’ blood and you’ll be saved and go to heaven.” How absurd and impossible! Normally we ask questions such as, “What do you believe in?” The more we speak with him, the more it becomes evident he doesn’t know what he believes. He has no contents. He cannot describe what faith he is. When we ask what is the borderline of faith, we’ll answer we must go beyond the borderline of the satanic world. But he will not know what we are talking about. What it means is, if I kill your son, can you still believe in heaven? Yes or no? He might say, “No, I can’t.” That is a man of low faith. A man who answers no to that question cannot go up in faith. He will stay at the same level. What about your husband who is more precious than your children or anything else? What if God or someone said to you, “I am going to kill your husband, could you continue to maintain your faith?” Yes or no, which one? Then someone will ask, “I know you are a great patriot. I am going to sacrifice this country and destroy it.” Can you continue to believe in God even then? He must answer yes before he can advance to this next level. This complete denial is required to break out of the satanic realm. This is real faith, ready to go beyond the limiting line of this world. That is the standard of our faith, not relative faith like “If you do this for me I will believe you.” Or, “If my children are blessed and I have a happy life, I will believe in God and support God.” With that attitude you fall below the limiting line which means nothing in the religious world.</p>
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<p>Jesus really spoke out saying, “If you gain everything here but lose your life, what good is it for you?” Imagine a bunch of burglars gathered together here singing hymns and praying to God. Are they Christians? Let’s have a fair comparison. Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham are the high names of Christianity. What have they done? What do they understand about God? What did Reverend Moon do for God and what does he teach? We can compare, a child could compare. One went straight for the path of death in an unabashed way to reach the high level of True Love. Of course God loves everybody, that is why He doesn’t do anything against them, but God has a yearning, a strong desire to support someone more than other people. Don’t you believe that? Who would God support – the righteous one or the less righteous one? He will support the most righteous one. Because of the conscience we have, which is a pretty good indicator, we stand with the hope of being saved.</p>
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<p>Parents actually do risk their lives and die for the sake of their children, don’t they? We see that in nature. Even birds do that. Birds lose their life for the sake of their children. This is a line, parents are here. Their children are in the realm of the fallen world. Do we understand what True Love is?</p>
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<p>We have listened to Father talk about True Love for five years, now we have the feeling that we understand something about True Love. But, have we listened to Father’s sermons from the position of True Love or from the fallen level of love? Which position did we listen from? If we heard from the low level, how can we hope to reach True Love ourselves? We have to penetrate and go beyond this line. No computer can keep track of our level of spirit here. There is simply no way, but in the spirit world it is different. Automatically a computer-like memory shows where each one of us is without a problem. In the spirit world, all the things we’ve done are recorded. Here, nobody knows and nobody has to know, but in the spirit world everything is disclosed to everybody. In fact, someone can appear and if they want to know something about you they just push a button like on a computer. Everything will be displayed instantly. It may say your faith is not even one percent, it’s only one tenth of a percent. Nobody has to send us to hell, that person would go directly where they belong. We cannot deny this. By the time we reach the spirit world, what do we want our reading to be? Do we want to end up in the 0.1 percentile and go to hell or the 100 percentile and go to heaven? One hundred percent is our goal. Everyone now understands where True Love lies. It is easy to say one hundred percent, but it is very difficult to obtain. There may even be different degrees of one hundred percent. There is one hundred percent plus, sometimes one hundred percent zero and one hundred percent minus. There are even three degrees of one hundred percent, like A+, A-0 and A-. This is why Father has never allowed himself to relax and has never reconciled, but is always pushing the line and aiming at one hundred percent plus.</p>
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<p>Many times Father doesn’t notice the season, whether it is spring outside or winter that we are living in now. Many times Father was not aware of the season. The idea never occurred to Father that, “This is summertime, therefore I must take a vacation” because Father didn’t know it was summertime. Now Father looks like he’s been on vacation, doesn’t he? You all laughed. Nobody wants to go on vacation.</p>
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<p>True Love is the eternal subject for us. Centering on this individual, centering on this, the family, the clan, nation and so forth become bigger and bigger. We know where True Love begins, right? True Love begins by going beyond the boundary. We are always living with our neck in a noose. If my platform collapses, then I am hung. “With God’s blessing and with God’s help the platform will not collapse, and I will keep on living to see the new day.” That is our life. America is far from this thinking.</p>
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<p>We, too, never know when we will go to spirit world. Age doesn’t matter so much. It is like having a death sentence hanging over our head. All we can do is hope we are not executed. If you understand spirit world, you understand this. We know True Love, don’t we? Where does True Love begin? Do you understand now? What is your perspective? Do you think you can really grasp True Love or did you already catch True Love or are you capable of catching True Love? Which one? You are catching and you are capable of catching True Love. Who is going to go after you; who is going to kill you? Nobody, because there is religious freedom in America. We have religious freedom, but people who rely upon the law of religious freedom are going against the religion of the Unification Church. Have those who oppose Unification Church ever bothered to come and study for even one week? One month? They never did, but continue to persecute us. It is such a simple logic. It is illegitimate for anybody who doesn’t understand the Unification Church to continue to oppose us. They have no qualification to do that.</p>
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<p>What is the essence of the Unification Church teaching? What is the highest standard of the Unification Church teaching? You are asked these questions. The Unification Church teaches everything, but in one word, how could you sum it up? You can say, “The Unification Church is the church where they teach True Love.” Is that true? Yes, you can say that. The path of True Love is serving and sacrificing and forgetting what you have done so you can do more. This is like God. Never remember what you have done in the past. Everyday God can create us new. We are to be reborn and recreated everyday. Like God Himself and many of our parents, we invest and forget, invest and forget for the sake of God and mankind and by doing that, we are reborn daily. Father knows that nobody in the neighborhood where Unification Church members live can legitimately go against Unification Church members because they are ready to stand up anytime and serve and sacrifice themselves. They don’t fight for their own sakes and everybody knows this. When the streets were dirty we went out and cleaned them. We did lots of that years ago, didn’t we? There is no comparison. It may not seem so significant, but up in the spirit world, it makes an enormous difference. This will constitute a condition where God can come and visit His own sons and daughters, namely us. By our doing that, God can come to us and claim His children. Imagine how many people really wanted to kill Reverend Moon. Christian churches have been praying to God to take Reverend Moon away. America is otherwise complacent, but is always questioning Reverend Moon. So America is looking at Reverend Moon and saying, “What is this? Throughout history, everyone who came into America was eventually Americanized, but now he is trying to Moonize America.” But that is wrong. Reverend Moon is not Moonizing America, but Godizing. He is trying to turn America to God. That is what he is still doing.</p>
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<p>Father is not so crazy about being respected by Americans, but the best thing Father can do for America is bring down the wall of self containment. They’ve got to open up before they can be saved or killed, saved in this case. They have to open up their doors. Father has been using a hammer to break down the walls. The people mind only because they do not understand. In the history of America or the world it is unprecedented for one small person to come from Asia to a gigantic, first rate country like America, and end up being blamed for shaking America and confusing the “American standard” and irritating everyone. Look at the Unification Church members gathered here; there is no area of mankind that is not represented. This is truly the museum of mankind. Here, all different races are represented. Even chronologically, some represent the past, some represent the more distant past. Everything is represented here in the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Collectors for the great London museum sometimes plundered the treasures of other countries to bring to the museum. Are we plundered to be here or did we come by our own will? We came on our own and chose to exhibit ourselves. To move by your own will sometimes takes a long time, but you changed quickly. To explain this, people say, “Oh, they are brainwashed.” In fact, you made the decision to change so quickly that people say you must be brainwashed. They can’t respect you because they think you are brainwashed. Historically, did you know that so-called authorities, such as the police, came and looked for wiring through which somehow, mysteriously, your thoughts could be influenced? They actually looked in the ceiling and took down the walls to see if they could find the wiring. We asked them, “What are you looking for?” and they said, “There must be some wiring.” They gave all the reasons, all the names to Reverend Moon and condemned him.</p>
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<p>Father never even shook hands with women here in America. American women have strong hands and ownership. Ownership means occupying. American women love to kiss people. If they were allowed, in the height of their faith, they would jump to Father and kiss him. Once they kiss him, they would take a bite of flesh out because their kiss is so strong. So Father had a one meter perimeter saying, “You cannot come within one meter of me.” What is your guess? Do you think many American or no American women tried to entice Father at one time or another? (Many.) So come to think of it, there is nothing illegitimate, there is nothing wrong with the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Dr. Weinberger is a nuclear physicist, a very important person who is a Nobel prize winner, and he became the ICUS chairman. For fifteen years he looked at the Unification Church thinking, “There must be something which Reverend Moon does to hook, keep and manipulate Unification Church members.” He watched and watched, but after fifteen years he gave up and said there were absolutely none. It’s amazing, those were his own words. “There is nothing wrong with the Unification Church.” We all saw Father at one time or another and thought, “What is he really up to?”</p>
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<p>What is the topic of our sermon today? Our pride. TL means true language, true long life, true love, true lineage. This is what we are proud of. TL includes True Love, True Life and True Lineage. The contents of those three things are included in TL. Father was surprised to find out that in English these initials could include these three things. TL is number one. Is TL worthy of being proud of or are we making a mountain out of a molehill? (It is worthy.) For the person who spends his entire life to protect and enhance this, would God bless him or blame him? (Bless him.) The Unification Church may remain unpopular, not just unpopular but even persecuted, but it keeps on growing and growing. The CIA, KGB, everybody wanted to disband the Unification Church and really hurt it. They went full steam ahead to oppose it, and still the Unification Church is suffering, but still every day it is going up because of God’s strategy. In the history of America, the work that Reverend Moon has done in this time span will always remain. No one can erase it from America’s history. Their proceedings of lawsuits and trying to put him into jail really shattered their system to pieces. They unrighteously condemned a righteous, innocent person. It has been proven and now all the lawyers are studying about it as a bad case.</p>
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<p>Do you think Reverend Moon lived a good life or bad life? (Good.) No, for me it has been a bad life. There was no enjoyment. For forty years I was threatened with death, how can it be a good life? But it was a righteous life and a good life in God’s eyes. Reverend Moon was all by himself. He may have had relatives, but they didn’t support him, even his parents and brothers. He had no friends, no country to support him, no teacher and everyone tried to stay away from him. If you feel lonely, think of how lonely Father must have felt. If Father didn’t know about God, there is no way he could have continued. If Father had a human mind of seeking retaliation, and if the hydrogen bomb was at his fingertips, he could have used it if he didn’t know God. But he knew God. We must know that God gave Reverend Moon the greatest gift of this eternal truth which will be here for the rest of the history of the universe. Father may be persecuted now, but he has been the only righteous man in the entire universe. God gave that kind of wisdom to Father and Father knew it. All five billion people of the world went against Reverend Moon, this one individual. Now, on the other side, God gave him the most precious and strongest gift which is the truth and heart. Behind him, right in his arms, God gave him a treasure, a gift which God would never trade even for all five billion people of the world. That is the value of the truth. Do we understand that truth? Could those who understand the truth live like we are living now? How can we live like this if we understand this truth?</p>
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<p>No matter how huge the universe is or how wonderful the things are that are going on, we want to connect to it, don’t we? We must be a part of it. God works so hard and we see everything we learned; who is it for? Who is the target of being saved? It’s not even “we”, it is “I”. To save each one of us, God has worked the way He did. Those of us in the Unification Church know that “I” represent all the saints, all the historical times, everything that happened in history. “I” represent God Himself. God put so much real work for the sake of “me,” not “us.” The Unification Church is that kind of church. We represent God and all things. We are given the chance of being born again. Parents give us new birth, and after that we are born again every day. We are born again, by whom? By True Parents. Therefore, we need True Parents. True Parents also need people because people are the object. Without an object, the subject has no meaning either. Like Father mentioned early this morning, the people in the world are proud of themselves, their own families and nations, but that is as high as it goes. They will never even think about the world like we do. Members of the Unification Church think about the world and do not stop there. They think about the universe and they even talk about God’s heart. We don’t just talk about God Himself, but God’s heart and love! People who refuse to believe say, “Those Unification Church people are unreal, they don’t know what they are doing.” This is what they have been thinking as they gave opposition to the Unification Church. They say the Unification Church is not a valid church. This is how we have been persecuted.</p>
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<p>Contrary to the expectation of those who say, “They are unreal so they must fade away quickly,” the more time passes, the more activity we create and the bigger foundation we gain. Now Father has sent out tribal messiahs. These members are situated in each tribe all over the world. Tribal messiahs and those from the Women’s Federation all meet in the family. The most detailed teaching, not just theory, but the Principle, the basic principles are taught here. So there is no room for anybody to even raise a doubt about this.</p>
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<p>In restoration through indemnity, a husband may have a wife, but his wife doesn’t actually belong to him until the following occurs: the children are reconnected by Eve (the mother); then the family becomes one with perfected Adam; then she reconnects to her spouse. Fallen Adam is the one in the archangel’s position. The person in fallen Adam’s position, which is all husbands in all families, must be re-educated through restored women and reconnected here. First Eve must make a connection to the original Adam’s family. These two can become one and expand all over Satan’s world. The messiah came down and sent out many tribal messiahs. Women can connect to him. Cain and Abel can connect. The mother and sons connect. This is rebirth. God can take back what is His. After that, the wife, children and tribal messiah combine into one. The archangel’s position is Satan’s position. From here, he can obey and then unify. They can go back home. This process takes place through the Women’s Federation.</p>
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<p>The tribal messiah does this. No one has to do everything, like Father had to do before. Because of this, he sent all the tribal messiahs out and the tribal messiahs know what to do. It will expand by itself. Satan already expected this to happen in the last days, so he took all the families to himself. Traditionally in the fallen world, individuals have been proud of themselves and the family and nation, but Satan is now trying to break this so he can keep everything under his own dominion. Look at what happened to the individual. Everybody gave themselves up and became hippies and yippees and all families have been broken. There is a lot of incest going on now. Satan made it so that these families cannot return to God.</p>
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<p>The same is true of the nation, too. This nation is becoming a big drug-using nation. There are so many problems among the young people. Who did this? God didn’t do this. Satan made this because Satan knew True Parents were coming to this country. Before True Parents could claim these families, Satan occupied them. Father already mentioned that for a period of seventy years, American women had the opportunity of reigning like queens. For the seventy year duration they were prepared to meet the messiah. They are waiting for Adam to come. This is the meaning of this phenomenon, but since they do not know why they have superiority, they don’t know that this period only lasts for seventy years. They don’t know why it happened.</p>
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<p>We want to be proud of the individual, proud of our family and we want to be proud of a nation that will be comprised of the Unification Church, but Father has been working on the world level which is beyond what anybody ever thought about. He will accomplish this. By the time this is accomplished, these lower levels are nothing. They will automatically be included so we don’t have to try so hard to accomplish them. First we have to make the victory on the world level. It may take time, but the people of the world understand that the Unification Church has the contents to make this possible: pride in the family, pride in the nation, pride in themselves. As they see us accomplish these things, they will immediately come to the Unification Church and want to become a member. If they see we are successful they will come. Through the right use of the media and the right teaching at the right time, even within forty days the people of the world can come and join.</p>
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<p>America and the world can see from the intellectual point of view that there is no other way but to follow Reverend Moon and his teachings. What if America and the free world somehow remain stubborn and do not follow Reverend Moon? What will happen? The only alternative is that they will perish. Is it credible, can we understand that these words must be true? (Yes.) There is no other solution. Do you say yes just because there is something wrong with your brain that brings you to this strange conclusion?</p>
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<p>Father always worked for the sake of the world that no one else was even thinking about. Look at religious history, patriotic history or any type of history: many people fought for these three but no one ever considered winning the freedom of the world. Only Reverend Moon fought for the sake of the world. Reverend Moon fought for the sake of liberating the world; did he win or did he lose? (He won.) What is the proof that Reverend Moon won? The proof is that communism went down just as he predicted. He made it fall down. Today, high-level Americans themselves are saying, “There is no way to keep America as it is. The only way to do that is if we listen to Reverend Moon and follow his teaching and his plan.” This is what they say.</p>
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<p>If they just opened up the gates of Harvard University and allowed us to come in and freely talk and teach, in one week, from the President down, including the professors, all could be taught the truth and they could turn around. This is not only a possibility, but Father, being a practical man, has already made a foundation to be able to do this.</p>
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<p>In Russia we can see the possibility. In a short time, in a few days all the ex-communist, high-level leaders in Russia were amazed at the teaching of Reverend Moon that they heard from Dr. Sook. In a group, they turned around and became followers of the Unification Church. What’s happening now? This God-fearing, religious country of America, the most glorious Christian country of America, is about to be outdone by, of all people, the communists who denied God and did all bad things against humankind including killing. They are the ones who turned around to God before the Christians. This is what we see happening. We know how this is happening. Since the system crumbled, the Russian people are looking for a value system and they happened to stumble upon the Unification Church principles. They are just amazed. What is your guess? Can communism be influenced by the Unification Church or can the Unification Church be influenced by communism? Whose value is bigger? (The Unification Church.) By far. Who has deeper value – the Unification Church or the democratic countries? (The Unification Church.) Whose is bigger, the Unification Church or the democratic world and the communist world put together? (The Unification Church.) You just say that because it suits you, because you happen to be a member of that church! Is that why you say that or is it the truth? (It’s the truth.) Are you saying this with the utmost confidence? (Yes!) Really? (Yes!) You have confidence? (Yes!) Even if you have to fight against two countries? (Yes!)</p>
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<p>Father has been speaking two hours now. What is our pride? Should we be proud of the Unification Church? Why? This Belvedere building is like an old-fashioned stable. You are sitting in the stable and you don’t own so much, so what do you have to be proud of? Even though this is a very humble garage, if there is a real treasure displayed here, people will come from all four corners of the world to view it. The traffic in Tarrytown will be completely jammed every day because so many people will come here to see the treasure. If Father could live one hundred more years on earth, think of how the earth would change. Everybody would be paying attention to where Reverend Moon is going and what he is doing. Actually, they will discard and throw away their own families, wives and children, to come here to live with Reverend Moon. They will do that once they know what treasure they will find in the stable.</p>
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<p>Who should you be proud of, the Unification Church or Reverend Moon? (Reverend Moon.) Should you be proud of Reverend Moon or True Love? (True Love.) Does True Love reside in Reverend Moon or the Unification Church? (Reverend Moon.) What about you? You say that you are church members, not Reverend Moon members. Do you have True Love or not? (Yes.) Yes? Are you confident? Your confidence is down, that is the problem. How many times have you been to prison? We should pay a visit there at least one time, shouldn’t we? Some people have so-called free lives with something good in the morning, a pleasant afternoon and a nice evening. Do people with that type of lifestyle listen to Reverend Moon and see true hope in him? No. Comfortable people do not follow Reverend Moon. Have you or have you not ever had the experience of thinking, “I regret having to join the Unification Church. If it wasn’t for the Divine Principle I would run away and go somewhere else”? At one time or another, have you thought like that? Father will give you amnesty; those who felt that way, raise your hands. Those who thought like that even one time, be brave and raise your hands. Father, too, is raising his hand. Is Father smarter than us? (Yes.) You can feel easy then, you didn’t make a mistake by staying in the Unification Church because the smarter person, Father, stayed here. So, you must have made a good decision. Reverend Moon teaches you to work hard and is always pushing you down to the kingdom of hell. Isn’t that what Father did for the last twenty years? Did Father ever praise us? He always made us suffer more and do more work. Why do you think Father did that? Father wanted to put all five billion people of the earth, including us, down into hell so it would level out the ground. There would be no more hell; hell would be filled in. The base will break into several pieces, but we’re not dying because God is supporting us. Father will support us. We are not going down to hell, but if we are pushed to hell and stay there, God will support us. Under God, the bottom of hell will break out. God wants to hold on to us because He thinks, “These are Reverend Moon’s children.” If Father’s metaphor is true and this is reality, if this is guaranteed and you approve of it thinking it can happen, do you think you’d like to go for it? (Yes!) But, even if no one else guarantees it to you, but by your own decision you decide these things must be true and you plunge in, how much more honorable that is. It is reversed. We go to the lowest dungeon of hell for the sake of those there, then we automatically go to the highest position in the world. It is paradoxical but it is true. The lowest and highest are the same. In other words, if you are ready to plunge into the deepest bottom of hell, then you can be used and placed in the highest place. No one can blame or accuse you. Is it because Reverend Moon loves cruelty and misery that he is doing this to himself and to us? Or, is it because he is a smart leader and understands the best way to get results?</p>
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<p>Father’s lifetime is one of struggle and misery and work. This man, who we do not deeply understand how much he suffered, what do we call him? We call him Father, True Parents. Centering on what father? Who do you call father? If your blood lineage and his blood lineage is the same, you call him father, don’t you? You don’t have to speak, you already understand what he thinks and what he feels. That’s a son, isn’t it? You have the same blood, the same lineage. The lifeline is there and the loveline is there. There are three lines; life, love and lineage are all connected. It is a reciprocal subject and object relationship and we do a lot of action. Therefore, when Father cries, we feel like crying, too. When he is happy, we are happy, too.</p>
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<p>What are we proud of? We are proud of having True Father in our church. To become a true father, you have to have a true son, and a true couple. For a true brother to come, there should be true children. In other words, there has to be a true couple. Before a true couple can become a true couple, they have to be true brothers and sisters.</p>
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<p>What is True Parents? True Parents are ancestors. Ancestors are parents. All people are their children. Parents are the master and teacher all in one. Do you follow? True Parents are the true teacher, the kind of teacher that mankind has never seen. They never even heard this teacher who teaches everything that children need to know. He is a true owner, too. Because he is a true owner, all things have a legitimate owner for the first time. Because of True Love, he can be a true owner, he isn’t just given the name. Naturally, automatically he becomes the true owner because he has True Love. All these contents are here and the Unification Church is well connected in the father/son relations. We can legitimately be proud of what we are.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is True Father and True Mother, True Children, True Family, the true nation, true world, true universe and True God. That is eight steps. We can be so proud of each one, but how much we can be proud of all eight! Was there any True Father in any part of history? Was there any True Mother? All of these positions are unheard of. Was there ever a true king? All mankind becomes the royal families, without exception. All five billion people will become the true king’s direct lineage, that means royal families. We have no regret for the communist world, we have no attachment to the democratic, so-called free world. They are only transient.</p>
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<p>We must become family kings through tribal messiahship, tribal kings, national kings, world kings, universal kings and finally come to God. Again, Father is repeating, nothing can bring someone up from hell to heaven except for the power of True Love. The saints’ names are cherished and remembered by the people of the world. Patriots are respected in each country. What about True Parents? There is only one. There are many saints but only one True Parents. Do you think all the saints need True Parents? Yes, they do. What about the advanced nations such as America and England, do they need True Parents also? Yes, because they are going after the ideal world and the ideal world is this.</p>
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<p>When we accomplish this, the heavenly kingdom will come down and this will become the heavenly kingdom right here. Abel and Cain will join together and go to the original kingdom of heaven. This is restoration. We are speaking of the foundation for True Love which was built on all the achievements and sacrifices of the past. Therefore, what we cannot do is take love or the love family lightly. Adam and Eve partook in illegitimate love. They went to the fallen position. After the fall, how much payment had to be made by going the way of sacrifice? The individual, family, tribe and so many nations were sacrificed. Think of the quantity of payment that was made through history. This is the fearful impact of love action. It is so important. If you take one step and make a mistake it means hell. One step the other way is heaven. We must be extremely careful about how we conduct ourselves. What about American society? This country is going the diminishing way because of free sex. The most important thing is considered the most unimportant thing in this country. It goes from one extreme to the other. Therefore, you can see just how important the reproductive organ is. It is the palace of love, life and lineage. How can you misuse it? Father is telling us now how important it is to keep your chastity. It is the most important thing compared to anything else; therefore, you should really protect it. The oneness between husband and wife, regardless of the lineage one hundred generations ago, ten generations ago, they all loved each other and lived like this. We, too, live centered on those, don’t we? All women live by grabbing the sexual organ of her husband. The reverse is true for men. It’s so clear isn’t it?</p>
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<p>Here in America, husband and wife sleep in the same bed and keep the children away from them. If it were not for the sexual organ, why is it necessary to sleep in the same bed and send the children away? Because of that, they stay together. Therefore, we should keep ourselves so that we fit to heaven’s and nature’s description. We are proud of True Father, Mother, Children and Family because of this. Eventually we want to become one with God and be friends with God. God is our friend, our Father, our teacher. He is our owner. He is the center of our couple. We are very much connected to God. We live like this and at some time in our life we say, “I will stay away from Unification Church. I will disconnect from Unification Church.” What a huge crime it is to think like this! Who judges the person who thinks that way? All the eight stages will come down and blame him.</p>
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<p>Each one of us knows which level we are on. If husband and wife cannot become completely united, how can we hope to be true children? Until now, we may have thought, “I can stop being a Unification Church member,” but once we know, then we cannot use ignorance as an excuse. Do you follow? From now the time is changing. We must enhance and improve our own character from now. We must claim and regard all these eight stages as belonging to “me.” Think, “They are mine.” We must understand the satanic world fears me very much because I am connected to these. “The world is literally in my hands,” you must have that confidence. You don’t have to fight for it and win; automatically everybody will come and unite with you centering on True Love. What a legitimate base we have to be proud in the Unification Church. Father is saying go ahead and be proud of yourselves. Father will not leave us alone, feeling not so proud of the Unification Church. Maybe one day Father will tell us to wear a headband like the Japanese do which says Unification Church. Since you’re not witnessing so effectively, at least you could give some sign who you are. Then the people will come and ask you questions instead of you going to them. “Are you Unification Church?” They may try to fight you but they will come anyway. Actually that is not true, Cain never comes to Abel by his own power. Abel must visit Cain. Therefore, we must visit. Now Father is commanding us, have that band not on your forehead, but right at your heart. Engrave “Unification Church” right here in your heart. Go anywhere in the country and teach the people you meet. Can you do it?</p>
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<p>May is the time of new green and this is the time that the Unification Church must really expand from this season on to the world. We are now ready to jump and ready to fly. In order to do that, this second day of May, this resolution and basic understanding is a necessity. Those who say “Father I will do it, I will fly over – representing Unification Church,” raise your hands. Actually, your hands are prettier than your face. Did you know that? Father feels those hands must have sinned a lot, nevertheless they appear so beautiful. So pledge and swear with both hands up, “Father, I will do it!” God bless us!</p>
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">May 24, 1993<br />
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Shimjung Garden, Berkeley, California<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>What is the meaning of Messiah and True Parents? Only because of the fall do we have the term “Messiah”; without the fall, the only thing necessary is True Parents or Original Parents. The Messiah is bringing true love and the seed of life. Because of the fall of man, all humanity has received the satanic lineage. Humankind has been born under the wrong lineage, from the wrong seed, creating the wrong life. Therefore, the time has come to transfer the lineage from the satanic one to the heavenly one.</p>
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<p>Because this lineage transfer was never accomplished, the lineage of humankind is wrong. This is why the Messiah is necessary. The Savior has to come. The Savior is necessary and has to come for the purpose of salvation. When that is accomplished, he will be elevated to the position of True Parenthood.</p>
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<p>People talk about the fall of man, but they do not know its real meaning. That’s why they cannot comprehend anything beyond that. As a result, “True Parents” is a very strange word to them. It is only because of the birth of our True Father that all these hidden truths have been revealed to humanity. This has lifted the entire confusion and made everything completely clear. The truth has been given.</p>
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<p>The work of the history of restoration is that the Messiah comes, goes through humanity to reach God, and then comes all the way back to humanity, into reality, with God’s truth, God’s love and the seed of life. That is exactly the history of restoration.</p>
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<p>God has been moved so far away, He has had nothing to do with humanity. The Messiah goes everywhere in the place of God, and brings God down, all the way down to your own living room.</p>
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<p>After World War II, Great Britain was chosen as the Eve nation; France and the United States were Cain and Abel respectively. They were the primary nations for those providential roles. However, because of their lack of acceptance of the Messiah, Father had to reconstruct the entire foundation, taking 40 years, in the name of the Unification Church. God has been working for 6,000 years for the individual, family, clan, tribe, nation and world. Because of the failure of Christianity, all this work of God was thrown into the wastebasket; so God was thrown out into the wilderness. Father had to reconstruct all that was lost.</p>
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<p>When the world rejected Father, it rejected God at the same time. So when the world cast Father into the wilderness, the world cast God into the wilderness. Therefore, God has been always with Father, and the world has been without God. So the foundation of victory of World War II, which was God’s foundation of victory, was lost. It didn’t accomplish a thing; it completely went into the wastebasket. Therefore, Father had to reconstruct a victorious base by himself.</p>
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<p>The True Parents’ declaration should have been made immediately on the heels of World War II. Because of the failure of Christianity, it was delayed until now, 1993. After World War II there would have been no objection. The whole world could have united into one camp. The United States, a Christian nation, was the supreme nation at that time, and this supreme power could have been exercised around the world. Under those circumstances, the Messiah should have been accepted by Christianity. Then he would have announced True Parenthood to the world. True Parenthood should have come at that time.</p>
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<p>Because that was not done, what is happening 48 years later? Father had to re-declare the declaration that could not come in 1945. Now Father has declared to the world the True Parents. This is my declaration. So, Father’s role is to unite Korea, north and south. Kim Il Sung is the satanic messiah, the satanic second advent. They call him “father” in North Korea. He is the false father. The United States’ role is very important, together with Japan. America is representative of the archangel. At the time of the fall, Eve and the archangel combined into one.</p>
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<p>Some rejection, like earlier tonight, is still coming; but it will be more and more trivial in the days to come. It will not be a mounting opposition; it is dying down. It cannot stand before Father’s power of declaration of True Parents. Therefore, any rejection or acts of opposition should not be feared. Fear nothing, because opposition is a sign of our great victory. If Father were not victorious, they would not be that jealous.</p>
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<p>They came, trying to stop Father’s success, and what happened? Those who listened to Father, cheered and said, “Amen, Amen”. That audience of 3,000 tonight was all American. They felt incredible shame at the behavior of other Americans. They heard Father’s message and you saw their reaction. They were standing up, applauding. The police took the opposition away because we wanted to protect them; otherwise, the audience would have killed them.</p>
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<p>From now on, the blessed couples should do tribal messiahship. That’s all you need to do. Tribal messiahship is the most important mission.</p>
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<p>The root has been satanic and humanity has bee born from this satanic root. Father brought the Tree of Life: the new root, trunk, major branch and bud. What this tree now needs is more branches. Those branches are the blessed couples. You are the branches of the Tree of Life. That’s what you are. You belong to the Tree of Life.</p>
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<p>Everything is there. Father is the cosmic Messiah, the worldwide Messiah, the national Messiah and the tribal Messiah. Everything is in place. Only one messiahship is missing: that is, family Messiahship, the family Messiah. That is the True Parents, Father and Mother. If there had been no fall, where would the messiahship begin? Not from the tribe, not from the nation. Family Messiahship would have been the beginning point. In that case, the Messiah and the True Parents would have been the same thing.</p>
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<p>Cosmic True Parents, world True Parents, national True Parents, Father substantialized those completely. He made the deepest root of true love, deeper than the root of satanic love. He made the true love bud, which is the central bud, most high. In this area, Satan cannot control anything; therefore, he cannot remain. Only God can connect with this area. He can connect to the root, the trunk, and everything. This is the victorious root and trunk, with God dwelling in everything.</p>
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<p>Until now the providential center was the Judeo-Christian world. Until now, it was all placed on Satan’s side. From there the individual was connected, the family was connected, and so forth. After this, God could completely control everything. That means Satan’s world perishes and Satan is finished.</p>
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<p>Your job is simple. In the Old Testament era and New Testament era, we have been working vertically. Vertically, Father now has completed the way, from the deepest root to the highest bud. All you have to do is become a branch of the Tree of Life, the tree which Father created. The job which remains for you is horizontal, attaching to the tree to become a branch.</p>
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<p>You have three levels of ancestry. The first is your own parents. They are the formation level. Jesus is your growth level of ancestor. True Parents are the completion level of your ancestry. The vertical line is completed for you. When Father refers to the Completed Testament Age, he means not only the completion of Father himself, but also that Father completed Jesus and Adam and Eve. Their perfection also has been accomplished. Father completed the victorious realm for Adam and Eve, the victorious realm for Jesus, and, of course, the victorious realm for True Parents.</p>
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<p>For that reason, Satan has no way to accuse Father. Vertically and horizontally, Father has made the victorious foundation which Satan has no power to invade. Horizontally, Adam and Eve’s realm and Jesus’ realm are connected to the True Parents. Satan cannot invade any of those. Vertically, the formation and growth stages are connected to the perfection stage. As you know from studying the Divine Principle, the fall of man came in the growth stage. Father has now proclaimed to the world the Completed Testament Age. That is above the growth stage, so Satan has no power to reach it. It is beyond the range of Satan’s power.</p>
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<p>Within the successful foundation of True Parents there are three layers: True Parents’ victory, Jesus’ victory and Adam and Eve’s victory. Now Father is holding out the realm of Jesus’ victory and giving it to you in Tribal Messiahship. That means you are in that role. In that position, you include the perfection of Adam and Eve. Therefore you can be a messiah; you can go out and save others. You have that power as a blessed couple; you have the power to bring them salvation.</p>
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<p>Jesus could not have the blessing; there was no Marriage of the Lamb. However, you are blessed, so you are in a higher and greater position than Jesus. Within you, since you are blessed, you have Adam and Eve, already perfected, at the particular level of perfection. Therefore, you are superior to Jesus’ role 2,000 years ago. That’s why you can go to your hometown. You can reach your parents, your father and mother, who are in Adam and Eve’s position. You can restore them; you have the power to do so.</p>
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<p>Father has trained you so that you would have the qualification to be blessed. By the same token, Father is now giving you that tribal messiah power. You can go to your hometown. You can bless your own parents and your own brothers and sisters, and bring many to the blessing.</p>
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<p>Jesus’ mission was to restore Adam’s family. But when he died, Jesus didn’t have any children. Fallen Adam’s family has children; Jesus doesn’t have yet. He does not have a four position foundation. Fallen parents have fallen Adam’s position, with Eve, as Satan’s family. Adam’s family and all families which came from him are on Satan’s side; but Jesus’ position was to make the God’s family. He established the growth stage of God’s family; but the growth position cannot control the perfection position; however the perfection position can control the growth position. So you must go to your family, your parents. This is your investment point. The resource of true love is stronger than the growth stage love of Satan’s world.</p>
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<p>Three generations: your grandparents, your parents and your elder brothers will come and join with you. You will be their parents. The three generations will bow down to you. You are the youngest; yet your grandparents, your parents and your elder brothers are going to worship you as if you were ancestors to them. In the spirit world, there is no age. Age has nothing to do with it. You are spiritually superior; you are in the position to fulfill Jesus’ mission and position, and, therefore, you are in the restored Adam’s family. Adam’s family is your own family: your grandparents, your parents and your elder brothers. For them, you are the ancestor.</p>
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<p>Father, reaching perfection, brought Jesus up to the perfection level and brought you up to the perfection level. Therefore, you can bring your own clan up to the perfection level. Satan is still in the growth stage, so Satan has no power over you. Horizontally, Adam is in a parental position, Jesus is in a parental position, and, of course, True Parents are in a parental position. Naturally speaking, the center of the restoration of everything is the family level. Family restoration is everything. Adam’s family was supposed to be first, but they failed. Jesus was supposed to reach the goal of the perfection of the family, and it was not done. True Parents accomplished the entire thing and lifted them up completely. This includes you. You inherit messiahship. Can you imagine: you are given the title of messiahship because you are blessed couples.</p>
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<p>You do not know the value of the Blessing; you have no idea. Your blessing, your holy wedding, is of more value than anything done by Jesus Christ or during the 2,000 years of Christian hard work. It fulfills the Marriage of the Lamb which was talked about in the Bible. Your level is much higher than the Marriage of the Lamb, because you are blessed by the True Parents. Jesus was supposed to have conquered Rome and then the world. Jesus could not go as far as receiving the blessing.</p>
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<p>What is first and most important is the tribal messiah’s mission of restoring your ancestors. Without the restoration of your ancestors, you are all by yourself; you have no foundation for your family. The family foundation is lost. The family is the center, the base. On top of that there is the tribe and on top of that is the nation. You are first of all restored into the family messiah, to recreate the family, which Father said is the most important level. The tribal messiah first restores the parents. From the family foundation, you connect the tribe. Once you complete the tribal messiah mission, then you can go to the level of nation messiah and world messiah.</p>
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<p>So first, you must restore your own parents. They are like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. They just fell apart, fell from God and went out into the world by themselves. They got married by themselves and ended up persecuting you. By persecuting you, they are in the position of crucifying Jesus. Your first job is to go out there and restore your parents. Your first job is that of family messiah. Your whole life in the satanic world is a life heading for hell. By accepting the True Parents, your direction is reversed and you are heading toward heaven – then you are blessed and you are given the mission of tribal messiahship.</p>
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<p>So what is the first mission of the tribal messiah? [Restoration of ancestors.] Second? [Restoration of hometown.] Why hometown? Because your father and mother are in the fallen position, your hometown is a satanic hometown. Since they live in that hometown, the hometown is a satanic one. But when you restore your father and mother, your physical parental position, you have to go out to restore your hometown. You must restore the rights over everything that is connected to your parents. This means the lineage, ownership and heart. So, there are three areas. The restoration of lineage is first. The second is restoration of ownership, property. The third mission of the tribal messiah is to let God dwell with human beings. This is shimjung – heartistic restoration.</p>
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<p>Try to come back to the family. At least 160 families should be living closely together. Jacob had 12 children. Moses had 72 elders under him. Jesus had 120 disciples under him. Those were their families, their one clan, one tribe. The Lord of the Second Advent has 160 families, the earthly number. When you have 160 families come under your tribe, registered in your book, you can say you have completed Tribal Messiahship. You cannot enter heaven alone, no matter how great you are, without the recognition of those 160 families.</p>
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<p>Everything is on the satanic side. Your parents are in the formation stage. Jesus is in the growth stage. Father is in the perfection stage. In the perfection stage, when you reach Father’s level, then you can lift them up, by horizontally connecting them. The number one mission is restoration of your ancestors. Tribal messiahship, fulfilling that order, that mission, must be done at the cost of your life. Even if you sacrifice your life, you must fulfill the tribal messiah’s role. Jesus was prepared for the Messiah’s role, but when he was crucified, he had to prepare the way for the second coming for 2,000 years. He had to give up that mission, which was fulfilled by the second advent. Even Jesus is in Paradise, not in the Kingdom of Heaven. So in order to get into heaven, Jesus had to come down here on earth, graft into Father and thereby gain entrance into heaven. You are the same. You are tribal messiahs. If you have not fulfilled that role, then you have to after your death. Perfection will not come automatically.</p>
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<p>As Abel, you are to love your enemy as you love yourself. You must love Cain before you love your own children. Otherwise, Cain will become jealous and try to kill your children. That’s exactly what happened in the Garden of Eden. This is why God said to love your enemy. This is not just a simple word; this is a message that has to be lived.</p>
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<p>Look at Father. Father has given everything, give up all his property, relatives and family in Korea in order to come to the United States. He gave up his nation and came to the United States. America is in the Cain position; American people want to kill me. However Jesus said, “love your enemy.” Father practiced this truth here in the United States.</p>
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<p>True love gives out, creating a low pressure system. Does high pressure go into low pressure, or low pressure go into high pressure? [High pressure to low.] High pressure to low. This cures everything, creating true ownership.</p>
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<p>To summarize, tribal messiahship, first of all, is restoration of ancestors; second, restoration of hometown. Since you are restoring Adam and Eve, Adam and Eve’s surroundings, the town, will be restored also. That is the hometown mission, the second mission of the tribal messiah. Everything which is connected to your own father and mother, their heartistic attachments, whatever that is, it will be restored and transferred to the heavenly side. Until now, all of it has been in the satanic realm.</p>
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<p>What about the third mission of tribal messiahship? The third is to attend and live with God. God has to come down, and the dwelling of God is to be with you and your family. That is the Kingdom of Heaven. Thus, Adam and Eve’s family and your hometown have the same value. God’s dwelling place is the hometown of Adam’s family. That place is God’s dwelling place, all the time.</p>
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<p>Your hometown will no longer be in the satanic realm. It will be a town where God can come freely, all the time. The dwelling of God will be with you, in your home and your hometown. If you fail tribal messiahship, then you cannot attain the restoration of your ancestors, you cannot restore your hometown, and you cannot have God with you. So is tribal messiahship an absolute mission or a mediocre mission? [Absolute.] It is the same thing with Father. Throughout his entire life, Father’s been going this way.</p>
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<p>The essence of today’s declaration, the True Parents and the Completed Testament Age, is nothing more than the completion of the purpose of creation. The Completed Testament era is where the ideal of creation has been accomplished. Who represents that completion? The True Parents. Therefore, the True Parents are the completion. Tribal messiahship is that important for the blessed couples. So not trying to do the tribal messiahship means you are not deserving the blessing. You are worrying about mundane things, such as which school your children go to, or going out and earning a living and so forth and so on. You have excuses. But compare these things to the dimension of tribal messiahship. Which one should come first? [Tribal messiahship.] If your husband doesn’t want to go, what should you do?</p>
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<p>I’m not trying to push you to work; I’m not trying to kick you out to work harder. I’m not planning any strategy for you. This the truth I am giving you; it’s up to you to fulfill it. When the Exodus was conducted, 600,000 Jewish people came out of Egypt. This 600,000 was just a group of families, parents and children walking hand in hand; they came out together. They wanted to go to the land of Canaan. The bigger the family you can bring into the land of Canaan, the more you will be blessed, the more deserving you will be. Through tribal messiahship there is a chain reaction, of which there is no end. One family becomes two, which becomes four, which becomes eight, which becomes thousands of families, tens of thousands. This is how the United States can be restored. Including your in-laws, it reaches everyone all over the world. Can you do that? Talking about it is good, but doing it is not easy.</p>
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<p>When you go to your hometown, you should exceed the record of serving set by your good ancestors, because you are the first tribal messiah for your hometown. You must set the standard. Your ancestors were until now on Satan’s side. We belong to God’s side; you are the number one champion of God’s side. So, we have to do tribal messiah, saving your hometown, your ancestors and God. If you do that, you are a tribal messiah.</p>
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<p>Those who want to fulfill tribal messiahship, raise your hands. Thank you.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">April 25, 1993<br />
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Belvedere, International Training Center<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>God’s providence is always to fulfill the goal, the completion of the entire providence. However, when that is not fulfilled, God’s providential plan is to repeat the process until it is fulfilled and completed.</p>
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<p>If there had been no human fall at the beginning of history, then God’s entire providence would have been accomplished the moment Adam and Eve had become completed and had achieved their goals. But because of the fall of man, God’s providence has been divided into different restorational plans which have been repeated again and again. An example of this is Cain and Abel’s course, which was passed down to Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and so forth. However, all these processes were leading up to the achievement of the same goal God intended to achieve in the Garden of Eden. Therefore, the pattern and the process of the providence is always according to the same formula. That formula must be applied all the time, although the scope is different. It has moved from the individual level to the family, clan, tribe, national and world levels. Throughout this expansion, the formula remained the same.</p>
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<p>You may not see it clearly, but nature is following the same principle. All creation follows a certain formula or principle. By the same token, the process of human history is always one unified ideal. There is always one central ideal which is repeated again and again in different scope. God’s basic principle never changes.</p>
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<p>When you observe the things of nature, you can see that the pair system is always in evidence. This system is at work on all levels, whether it is the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, or the animal kingdom. Everything exists within the plus and minus, yin and yang system. Look at Bo Hi Pak as another example: his eyes, nose, mouth and so forth. Those are not individually working entities. They must harmonize together according to one central theme or purpose, one goal. All the elements in his face must work together according to one unified thought.</p>
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<p>Every existence is working toward one goal: to become the object of True Love. In order to be a true object of True Love, the whole entity must work together to respond to that True Love. Divisive action would not allow that entity to respond to True Love as a unified body. As you can see by the title of Father’s speech today, everything in the universe and every creation, including all the creatures of the earth, are working toward one goal. That is to become one unified object of True Love. True Love is the subject; everything in the creation is made as the object of True Love.</p>
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<p>Look at the human body. Whenever any area of the body becomes ill or enflamed, or when you have disease in a certain area, the rest of the body will respond to the needs of that area, giving all kinds of energy, all kinds of support to make that area whole and healthy again. The whole body works together to make that wounded area healthy again. No part of the body would refuse to join in the effort, saying, “I don’t care about that part. That’s not a part of me.” Therefore, when you look at the entire universe, you can see that there is a unified effort, purpose and goal being pursued throughout our universe. We can see that.</p>
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<p>When we talk about unification, or the unified goal, there is always a relationship between plus and minus, subject and object, at work. Without that relationship, there is no harmony, unity or cooperation. The universe works exactly like the human body. The method of functioning is the same, with one being the macrocosm and the other the microcosm. Just like the body, which is the microcosm, the universe, which is the macrocosm, will work all together in order to alleviate trouble areas, plunging its concentrated energy to make the deficiencies whole. That is the way of True Love’s action.</p>
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<p>Therefore, each human body, as well as the entire universe, is working toward the ideal of the one unified body.</p>
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<p>Why is that? It is because they want to become the recipient of True Love. True Love is the ultimate goal. Thus the purpose of unification, of oneness, is simply one thing: to become the object of True Love. Therefore, the reason we are born is to become a recipient of True Love. In other words, we are living to become the recipient of True Love, we are living to become the object of True Love.</p>
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[Father draws on the blackboard.] Here is a big circle representing the created universe. The highest place, the most central place is the place of the human being. Everything else is parallel with that line, always in the same direction. You can see that everything within the macrocosm of the universe reflects the order of the universe. Even the most minute creatures, such as the insects, follow the same patterns. The same line can be formed for them.</p>
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<p>There is a vertical line and there is a horizontal line. There is vertical give and take, with the upper and lower giving and receiving from one another. There is horizontal give and take, with East and West giving and receiving from one another. In this universe, wherever serious deficiencies occur, wherever catastrophic situations occur, the rest of the universe rushes in and tries to secure or save it, to make it whole and good again. Therefore, all the creatures and all the creation are working toward one direction. That is living for the sake of a purpose larger than one’s self. All things are moving toward something greater than himself. That is the direction of True Love.</p>
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<p>Everything began from God. God is the originating point of everything. Nothing can be initiated without God as the center, with True Love at the center. Therefore, everything is trying to resemble that particular formula and is trying to become parallel with the purpose of their initiator, their creator, God. The highest being is God, and every form of creation from minerals to the highest creation, human beings, are moving toward and reaching for that ultimate goal of God’s purpose, God’s fulfillment. Therefore, the mineral world is trying to move upward toward the plant world, trying to serve the plant world. The plant world is striving to serve the animal world. The animal world is yearning to serve the human world. The human world is trying to serve God-centered people.</p>
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<p>When you look at the oceans, you observe the most incredible types of creatures living there. There are small fish, large whales and creatures even greater than that. As we know, the larger fish always eat the small ones. Some people say, “Well, that is bad,” but it’s not a bad thing. It is the order of the universe. The small fish are serving the larger fish. Those larger fish are serving even larger fish, and those fish are serving greater fish, all the way up to the greatest ones. Ultimately, the greatest fish will be serving human beings. So, ultimately everything is moving toward greater love, toward the goal of ultimate love, which can only be fulfilled totally by human beings. Thus, every creation is glad to serve the human purpose. Why is that? Human beings are the central harbingers, the central figures of True Love in the universe.</p>
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<p>Human society is the same. We are all moving toward the achievement of greater love. Whoever possesses greater love is more attractive to others. We are pulled toward such a person like a magnet. That is because our innate nature is to move toward the attainment of greater True Love. The Unification Church Principle, which I have been preaching all my life, is nothing more than this universal formula: that something small always serves something greater. Therefore, the individual serves the purpose of the family, the family serves the clan, the clan serves the society, the society serves the nation, the nation serves the world, and the world serves the cosmos.</p>
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<p>Let’s say that one individual is sacrificed and it seems particularly tragic. It looks so bad, but actually it is not because that person’s sacrifice served the purpose of greater love, the higher purpose, and therefore it was not in vain. However, our world does not realize this universal truth and instead is moving toward selfishness. The individualistic way predominates. The world has become so selfish and individualistic. Man is man, woman is woman and each individual feels there is no greater purpose than serving himself. The individual’s carnal desires become the base of his existence, but that should not be the case.</p>
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<p>The universe is almost like a museum of True Love. All the manifestations of love are contained within this museum. We can see the incredible variety, the different colors and styles of True Love, among the exhibits in this place we call the world. Anything which tries to go against the universal formula will find that the universe is trying to expel it or kick it out. Whatever doesn’t harmonize with the rest of the universe will be rejected. Individualism is not the rule or formula of the universe and therefore, the universe is trying to expel it. When a foreign element invades the human body, the body’s forces are mobilized to expel it. The universe does the same thing on the macrocosmic level.</p>
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<p>Living in our world, you can see that the universe is serving humankind. Wherever you go, you can see that the universe exists for the sake of human beings. Let’s look at the lips of Bo Hi Pak. What is the purpose of those lips? It is not simply to serve Bo Hi Pak, but to serve the universe. When Dr. Pak realizes that everything in his body, including his lips, exist for serving the greater purpose, for the sake of the universe, then everything is harmonized. Everything is okay. When you are doing that, you always feel joy. What is the purpose of eyes? Their purpose is to appreciate the universe, to appreciate the beauty of nature. The nose is breathing the air which the universe provides. There is a constant give and take between your body and the universal elements. You are never separated, even for a second, from the rest of the universe.</p>
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<p>Everything is centered upon the completion or perfection of True Love. When you talk, it should be for the sake of True Love. When you look at something, let it be for the sake of True Love. When you smell something, smell it for the sake of True Love. Every function should be dedicated to the purpose of True Love. The perfection of True Love is the ultimate goal of everything in the universe. The universe is yearning for, pursuing and reaching out for the contents or the core of True Love. This is the goal and the direction of everything; this is where everything is going.</p>
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<p>Plus and minus, male and female, exist everywhere, but why? It is for the purpose of serving one another, in order to engage in give and take and become one, thereby fulfilling the ideal of oneness. By doing so, we become the recipient of True Love. That is the purpose of the pair system. The mind and body of each individual must be harmonized and engage in give and take all the time. Why? There is one purpose of that unified give and take: to enable the individual to become the recipient of True Love. Unless your body and mind have been unified, True Love cannot come into action. Even if your body and mind are united, if True Love has nothing to do with it, then no true purpose has been served.</p>
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<p>We need one unified thought, one unified ideal. Once we reach the unified ideal, becoming the object of True Love, then we can say, “I have fulfilled my life’s purpose. I am completed and perfected. Amen!” That is the level where we can talk about perfection. Once you reach that particular level, everything surrounding you becomes a source of joy. When you turn around, moving back and forth, right and left, joy is there.</p>
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<p>I see that Bob Grant’s couple and Ron Godwin’s couple have come here for this early Sunday morning service. The key question for each person to ask is this: “Are my mind and body united?” We must always ask the key questions of whether or not my mind and body are united, whether or not I am harmonized with the universe and the universal purpose, whether I am becoming the recipient of True Love or not. For a man, the most essential necessity is a woman; for a woman, it is a man. Even more than you need God, you need each other. The individual’s mind and body must be united, then within the couple, the husband and wife must be united for the purpose of this same principle: in order to become the recipient of True Love.</p>
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<p>When you observe a man and woman kissing passionately in public, does that mean they are most united and harmonized? Men and women must be united not just lip to lip, but also through their sexual organs. That is not a dirty thing but rather is the most sacred thing in the sight of God. God has purposed that and has given it the greatest importance. Therefore, that sexual unity must be centered upon True Love. The most important question for a husband and wife to ask is not whether or not they are living happily, whether they are enjoying their sexual relationship, but whether or not they are doing everything centered upon God’s purpose for True Love; whether or not they are totally dedicated for that goal, that one-body thought. That is the key question.</p>
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<p>Men and women are essentially the same except for one area: the reproductive organs. Man has the male sexual organ, woman has the female sexual organs. That is the one area which is truly different between men and women. By unifying those two areas of men and women, the goal of total perfection shall be achieved. That was God’s design and plan at the very beginning. When that perfect unity centering upon True Love is achieved, the entire universe will echo it, shouting out praises and cheers. [Father draws on blackboard] Here, vertically up and down, horizontally east and west, you have the same principle in action.</p>
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<p>In our world today, we know that the relationship between man and woman is nothing new, nothing unusual. We see it everywhere. There is no lack of that kind of sexual love. However, the important problem is that these relationships are not centered upon God’s True Love. They are centered upon selfish love, which is Satan-inspired. That is the main problem with our world. The basic difference between God’s True Love and Satan’s love is where they are centered. In the fallen world, the husband and wife relationship is often a case of a selfish husband feeling, “I want my wife to love me.” And the wife has the same selfish attitude, “You have to love me. I am here to be served by you.” That is total perfection of the individualistic way of life, and this is what is wrong with America today. This is what is wrong with the entire world today.</p>
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<p>If you live selfishly, if you live selfishly even within your couple, then you are indebted to the universe. Every day you create a bigger and bigger debt for yourself. It becomes heavier and heavier. Why are you indebted? Every day you eat food. Did you create that food? Is it yours? Is that America’s food? That is actually a universal product and God’s product which is meant to be owned by the whole of humanity. You are eating the possession of all of humanity when you partake of your daily food. It is like you are stealing your food if you use it for a selfish purpose, and it doesn’t matter how much money you may pay for it.</p>
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<p>Let’s give an example which I have spoken about before. Is there some area here at Belvedere, some particular point where all the air is located and concentrated, and the rest of the place is existing within a vacuum? No, of course not. No such thing can happen because once a vacuum is created somewhere, air will automatically move there from the surrounding places. Let’s imagine that the United States all of a sudden became a vacuum. Perhaps some Americans don’t like Koreans, but would they tell the air from Korea not to come here to fill the vacuum? “I don’t like Korean air, so don’t come. I’d rather not breathe!” Would you ever say such a thing?</p>
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<p>Water follows the same principle. Liquids are constantly striving to make their levels even, to move downward to fill lower places. Food is the same, too. When a famine occurs in one part of the world, then the parts of the world where food is abundant should rush more food into the hungry areas. We have to have that kind of world; we have to do that. One of the most incredible violations of universal law is hunger and famine. Every year, twenty million people die from lack of food. Yet the United States has an abundance of food, even wasting much food. This is against the rule of the universe. It is truly a crime. Therefore, the universe wants to reject this crime. It wants to chase out those who are committing this crime. When you go against the basic rules, no matter how much you feel you are just trying to survive, it is going to bring bad results. Today’s America has a lot of people we might call protectionists and they say, “Our nation’s interests must be protected. I don’t care what happens to the rest of the people of the world.” If a nation tries to live that way and believes they will be successful that way, they are wrong. They will never be successful. Why? It is against universal law. They are violating the laws of the universe.</p>
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<p>At the time of Jesus, the Israelites, who were the chosen people, were full of hope and anticipation for the coming of their Messiah. That was fine and good. But they wanted their King of Kings to come to them and enable them to become the central people of the world. They wanted to rule and be served by the rest of the world. That was why they could not understand the Messiah ‘s ideals and goals when he came. That was not the reason for the Messiah ‘s appearance.</p>
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[Father draws on board.] There is a flowing channel, a flow from God, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. This is the way a flow chart looks. Because of the fall of man, the top of the flow chart was changed. In other words, instead of God, Satan took that top position and became master of the world. The original flow chart was lost and the unlawful flow chart took its place. So God had to change from here to here. This is what we call restoration. Restoration takes place from the bottom up. Since the top position of the flow chart was lost, restoration has to come from the bottom, Cain and Abel. Abel was in the minus position to Cain in the plus position. This is where restoration must occur. God is trying to put Abel in the plus position and Cain in the minus position. That is what restoration is all about. It is a reverse procedure.</p>
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<p>Therefore, we are going in the opposite direction from the rest of the world. The world espouses one goal; we say an entirely different thing. That is because we are going the reverse way. The world is trying to take all the time, and we are trying to give. The world is seeking to be served; we are trying to serve.</p>
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<p>The providence of salvation is nothing more and nothing other than the providence of restoration. What is restoration? It is re-creation. This is the blueprint, the original formula. For that reason, the most important thing to understand is the Principle of Creation. First of all, creation began from the atmosphere or surroundings. The basic surroundings for human beings was created first, and that is the universe. In it we see plus and minus, the pair system, male and female. Why do we see that everywhere? For the purpose of achieving True Love. The universe is created for that purpose: the unity of mind and body, male and female, men and women. Why? Because they are looking forward to uniting with their corresponding partner.</p>
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<p>When plus and minus are united, they become a larger minus and seek to unite with the larger plus. When the larger plus and minus are united, they start looking for a gigantic plus to unite with. When those two plus and minus forces are united, they seek to unite with a super plus. Then they seek the next level, the super-super plus. If you say, “You must serve me. I need to be served,” you will never be able to unite on even the first level of plus and minus. The universe is created to look forward to unity with the corresponding subject and object, moving toward the attainment of True Love. This is the Principle or formula of re-creation. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>The realm of scientific study has been developed by discovering formulas and applying those formulas. By the same token, the spirit world and the entire created world operate according to certain formulas. Each human body is composed of billions of microscopically tiny cells, and each one of those cells has its own plus and minus functions within it. The core is plus and the object is seeking to unite by serving that core. Between men and women, which is the subject? American women say, “The subject is woman.” But the universe says “No!” to that, and will even spit on you. As you know clearly, the man is subject and the woman is object. Man is like the bone and woman is like the flesh. Flesh must totally surround the bone, sticking closely to it.</p>
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<p>Hardness and softness must also work together in harmony. A diamond is the hardest material, but when you cut it, you use copper, which is a soft metal. It can polish and cut the diamond. To compare man with bone does not mean that man is like a conqueror and totally controlling, like a tyrant. Without the surrounding flesh, the bone has no value or meaning. Sometimes the bone has to follow the flesh. Man is hidden, in a way, just as the bone is, while the woman is more visible. Look at you here this morning. You women look so beautiful this morning because when you got up, you put on makeup. But you didn’t apply that makeup to your bones! You applied it to your flesh. Then the man looks at you and admires you for your beauty. He doesn’t say, “I really like your bones. They are beautiful.” However, without good underlying bone structure, your face would not be so pretty. Therefore, no matter how great a woman might be, without a man, she is miserable, a poor creature.</p>
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<p>It is an amazing thing that the fate of a woman is determined by whom she marries. Sometimes a very talented and attractive woman at the top of her class in school will marry a man who is wrong for her and her whole life will become miserable. At the same time, a woman who has an insignificant classroom achievement but who marries the right man can rise up to his level. The woman who marries the president of the country will rise up to become First Lady just because of whom she married. This is a universal phenomenon. Nobody can deny it.</p>
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<p>Subject and object must not reverse their order. The order must be straight, the channel must be straight. In America today, the women are trying to become king. The queen is trying to become king, meanwhile trying to push all men down to the level of servant. The time of the Second Coming of the Messiah is the time when women become most important because women are in the direct object role, or the bride position, to the Messiah. For that reason, men take the archangel or servant’s position. This is the reason we are seeing the phenomenon occurring on the external level in the United States. It is not surprising or even outside of the Principle. However, this must be straightened out. After this time of confusion is over, we have to bring order by teaching the Unification Principle.</p>
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<p>What about you American women? Do you sit there and think to yourselves, “When will I ever come to hear Father say that woman is the subject? Will it ever happen, even in a million years?” The answer is no, it will not happen. However, the woman’s position, the object position, is absolutely the most beautiful and it is essential. Woman is created for woman’s purpose, which is not bad at all. When you follow the universal rule, harmony and happiness will always follow. When you go into the spirit world, this rule becomes totally obvious.</p>
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<p>In today’s America, the perverted way of life is spreading. Everyone feels that they want life to be convenient, practical, and without responsibility. Men just want to have fun without any responsibility. Women, too, only seek self-satisfaction and nothing more. Because of that pervasive attitude, this nation is dwindling. Because they are hiding from the notion of basic personal responsibility, men and women are seeking the fulfillment of their carnal desires. When the pursuit of “fun” becomes the central purpose of life, then this nation will not have hope.</p>
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<p>In God’s world, there is absolutely no such thing as homosexuality. This is the most obvious and blatant violation of the universal rule. Are men and women separate and distinct from one another for the sake of fighting against each another? No, man is made for woman and woman is made for man, each with their own particular characteristics. Those characteristics exist for the purpose of aiding in harmony and unity between man and woman and allowing them to achieve True Love. When you violate that basic principle, you have to pay a most incredible price. The nation, the people have to pay as well.</p>
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<p>No matter how many millions of years may go by within this universe, human beings will continue to be ruled by this basic principle. Men are born to fulfill the purpose of a man, while women are born to fulfill the purpose of a woman. No matter how old a person may be, whether he is a grandfather, or a great-grandfather, it doesn’t matter. The Principle cannot be changed. It is always the same. Men were made for women, and women were made for men, and their purpose is to become united in love. The perverted way of life, if followed, could virtually extinguish the human race. When people are espousing and following the way of homosexuality and lesbianism, as well as heterosexual “free sex,” what is the difference between them and the animals? When human beings live like that, how can they take their position as masters over the creation? Human beings are God’s supreme creatures simply because God created us to be the supreme recipients of His True Love. You understand the formula of God’s creation, don’t you?</p>
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<p>No one can deviate from the formula of subject and object. Subject is the vertical concept, while object is the horizontal concept. The vertical concept and the horizontal concept cannot be separated. The vertical concept brings together parents and children, while the horizontal concept brings together husband and wife, men and women. This cannot be changed even in a million years. Since everything must be in the center, in this core, everything must come together and meet there. Horizontal meets here; vertical meets here. Everything comes together in the center. You cannot deviate from this principle.</p>
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<p>When Adam and Eve were young, they did not realize that they were made to become husband and wife, and they grew up together as brother and sister. However, they came to realize that they were meant to meet in the center, which is the position of husband and wife. That center is where God comes down and meets with man, and all the things that can be perfected and materialized are right there in the center. Adam and Eve were only two persons. They were brother and sister; they became husband and wife, father and mother, grandfather and grandmother. Ultimately they were to become king and queen. In other words, the same two people were meant to fulfill all those different positions. The model for completion and perfection of all human beings was contained within the original two human beings, Adam and Eve. The perfection for all forms of human relationship were to be found within their lives.</p>
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<p>What is the center point of this perfection? The center is True Love. When people departed from True Love, the path to perfection was lost. It became unattainable.</p>
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[Referring to drawing] By coming over here, they are perfecting all human relationships. First of all, they are the children of God and they will complete and perfect that position here. They are brother and sister, and their position will be completed here. Husband and wife will perfect their model here. Father and mother, in the parents’ position, are also perfected here. Every form is perfected here, right in the center, centered on True Love. It is a ninety degree crossing point. When you have a ninety degree crossing, you can turn it around and the segment will fit anywhere. The ninety degree angle will fit anywhere within the circle. The ninety degree crossing is the basic principled form. Therefore, it can be welcomed everywhere. It can harmonize and fit everywhere. The formula applies everywhere and to every form of relationship: plus and minus, husband and wife, brothers, children. All of the positions within human relationships are perfected right here, when they come to this center.</p>
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<p>Why is there only one center? There are not four centers or more, but only one. The focal center point is the True Love settlement place. There must be a vertical axis, a central axis, as well as a horizontal axis. The spirit world and physical world, as well as plus and minus, are united right here. East and West, everything, comes here centering upon True Love and is united. Maybe the Western world can take pride in their scientific development; however, the Eastern world has been the realm of spiritual and deeper universal truth and development. There is one center, only one. East and West must come here to unite. East does not go all the way over to the West to unite, nor does West go all the way to the East. Not at all. They must meet in the middle, right here at the one center point. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Two thousand years ago, the chosen nation was Israel. In that nation, the religion of Judaism was supposed to be in the plus or subject position while the external nation was in the minus position. They were meant to serve one another and unite within the subject and object positions. They were meant to become one centering upon the mother. Once that was achieved, then the father, or Messiah, could come. The nation of Israel was not born first. Judaism was born first. That was the order, so religion was subject and the nation was object. Therefore, the Abel position, which was the minus position, had to be restored into the plus position. That process was supposed to have occurred within the chosen nation.</p>
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<p>God is not an offensive being who attacks. Rather, God’s position is always being attacked. His tactic is to be attacked, to prevail, and then to restore. God cannot be defeated, even though God will not attack anybody. We can clearly see this kind of phenomenon within a small village or town, in which there lives a conscientious, good man who has to suffer because of his conscience. Other people might even initiate a conspiracy against this man because of his goodness and that man loses his good name and his position in society. However, ultimately, that man will be restored to his rightful position. His goodness will win out.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon is a big plus who is going after a big minus. However, the world is also a big plus, in the position of Cain or elder brother. Therefore, they have authority and power and they could not stand to see Reverend Moon flourish. For Reverend Moon to prosper would mean that the world would have to change to the minus position. They don’t want that. Many people wonder, “Reverend Moon is such a good man and is trying to do such good work, so why has he encountered such opposition? Why did the entire world come against him?” But this is most natural when you understand the truth. There is only one religious leader in history who has met the amount of opposition which Reverend Moon has met. This is unprecedented in history. That is because Reverend Moon is a big plus encountering the big plus of Satan’s world.</p>
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<p>Today we have the very distinguished guests such as Dr. Grant and Dr. Godwin. The mere fact that they have come to listen to my sermon today is a miracle because of the fact that they were so different in their attitude in the beginning. Before coming to understand me and my teaching, they felt that I was a bad man. They totally misunderstood me.</p>
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<p>I am honestly proclaiming that the era of Jesus is over and this world will never be united by the power of Jesus because the providence of God is moving forward, just as the work of Jesus is moving forward. If traditional Christianity would just listen to me with an open mind for one week, they would all be turned around. Why? Because the truth is obvious. The truth is self-explanatory. The only people who have difficulty and are resistant to this truth are, unfortunately, ministers and elders of the established churches. Why is that? It is because their livelihood depends upon the church, so it is most important for them to maintain that livelihood. Anything which threatens the status quo in Christianity, in other words, would threaten their livelihood. For that reason, they don’t want to listen and they don’t ever intend to change their position. But if those who have no dependence upon the church for their economic well-being are able to listen to the truth with an open mind, they will see the truth clearly.</p>
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<p>This is the formula which works everywhere, including the chosen nation of Israel. Had Judaism and the nation of Israel united into one, centering on the mother, they would have met the Messiah. Plus and minus, Cain and Abel, became one, then moved up to another stage, to Eve’s position, which is the mother’s position. Cain and Abel and their mother must become a big minus. They should have united with the big plus, who was the Messiah to come. United with the Messiah, they would have then become a giant minus and united with the ultimate plus, which is God. That is the formula. Without this formula, nothing can exist.</p>
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<p>This is truly revolutionary because everything works in the reverse way. The younger brother becomes the elder, the grandfather becomes the son, the son becomes the father. It is incredible and people ask, “What is going on?” Everybody was confused. However, once you understand the truth you realize that is the way it has to be. The opposite means 180 degrees different. One side is heaven, the other side is hell. When you are centered upon God, you are in heaven. When you are centered upon Satan, you are in hell.</p>
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<p>In order to restore, in order to unite with the right plus, first of all you have to deny yourself, you have to deny your position, your surroundings, and courageously move forward. This is why the religious way of life takes the most courage, more than anything else. What is required is denial of satanic belongings, a satanic-centered family, people, nation, and world. The individual must deny all of that and then move into unity. Turning 180 degrees away from Satan requires that you go through the zero point. You have to restore yourself to the zero position first. Then you can move into the plus side and plus 180 degrees.</p>
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<p>In the Last Days, what is traditionally called the end of the world, which we Unificationists know is the time of the Second Coming of the Messiah, everything will be denied into zero, coming to the individual position. That is because the fall of man took place at the individual level and center of the family. The world’s problems today are family problems as well as national problems. Look at the American situation. It fits exactly into this description. The American family is breaking down. How can the country survive? They don’t have the understanding of the family system theory. Without the teaching of Reverend Moon, the problems of America cannot be solved. This is clear and this is true. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>American youth have to realize this. Again, I emphasize the importance of this formula. This is why the religious way of life has always gone together with suffering, bloodshed and indemnity. Why? Because it is following the reverse path, the reverse process. You have to go against the stream to follow the religious path. Reverend Moon is the example of going against the stream. The tide of the whole world has come against me. Everyone, every nation has opposed me. Korea has come against Reverend Moon. The United States government has come against Reverend Moon. The communist world came against Reverend Moon. What is happening today? Where is communism today? It is gone. Where is the United States today? In the “war” between the United States government and one person, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who won?</p>
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<p>I want to frame a copy of the indictment which was brought against me by the U.S. government for all of history. On the first page, it said, “Plaintiff: United States of America. Defendant: Reverend Sun Myung Moon.” I like that! One whole country comes against one individual, Reverend Sun Myung Moon.</p>
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<p>The U.S. government succeeded in sending Reverend Moon to Danbury prison. However, did the U.S. government win this battle? (No.) What happened to worldwide communism? They considered Reverend Moon their arch-enemy and were determined to destroy me. However, who was destroyed, Reverend Moon or communism? (Communism.)</p>
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<p>Today Reverend Moon is at war against immorality: immorality which is going against the universal formula; homosexuality, lesbianism, and free sex. Satan is laughing at me, saying, “You are attempting the impossible. You cannot clean up this atmosphere!” Well, I am sorry, but Reverend Moon will have the last laugh. (Applause.) This is not just the talk of this world. It is universal truth and is the topic of interest for the entire universe, including spirit world. All of those ministers as well as politicians and other civic leaders who have excused and even encouraged immorality, they will all go up to spirit world one day. They will face the truth there; they will face reality. The first thing they will be asked in spirit world is, “What did you do towards Reverend Moon? Did you support him, or did you go against him?”</p>
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<p>Actually, Christianity and many politicians today are trying to win the favor of the homosexual world. They want to be approved of and re-elected. But they will face a harsh reality sooner or later. The tragic history of Christianity is reflected in one simple fact: the relationship between the Israelite nation and Jesus Christ. The Israelites were looking forward to the Messiah coming to their nation. They should have had a palace ready in which to welcome their Messiah. But instead, the Messiah was born in a stable. Later the Christian church developed a proud tradition centered around that tragic, shameful fact. They erect manger scenes every year re-enacting that sad and shameful time when the Messiah was born in a dirty stable.</p>
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<p>The most incredible shame of traditional Christianity is their insistence and proclamation that Jesus came in the first place to die on the cross. Instead, Judaism was supposed to accept the King of Kings. If they had, how could they have killed him? They should have been united with the commander-in-chief of spirit world and moved together to Rome with the living Jesus in the center. If they had been united, then the entire world would have been united around them. Jesus did not come primarily and solely as the “Lord.” Rather, Jesus came as the Father of all mankind, the true ancestor for human beings. He came as the personification of True Love, the center point of True Love. That was the purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ. Thus Jesus would have become the True Parent, as well as the King of Kings of the Jewish world.</p>
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<p>This kind of statement is not made in order to attack the Jewish people, or from even the slightest bit of anti-Semitism, although that is what some Jewish people have thought. I am not against the Jewish people or the Jewish religion. All I am speaking is the truth. Because of the crucifixion, those people, that nation, have been paying the most incredible, terrible price, including all their tragic bloodshed throughout history, including the loss of the Jewish nation.</p>
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<p>If Judaism had united with the Israel nation and together had accepted the Messiah, what would have happened? They would have become the center of the rest of the world to bring salvation to the world. By making unity with the living Jesus, they truly would have become the central nation and group in the world. But the tragedy is that they never realized this fact. That is why that nation eventually was totally demolished.</p>
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<p>John the Baptist was to take the position of minus to Jesus, who was the big plus. John should have served Jesus. But because he failed to take that minus position and unite with Jesus, his entire mission failed. This is another point upon which today’s Christianity is totally wrong. They do not understand the failure of John.</p>
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<p>All these failures came on the level of the individual and the family, including that of Adam and Eve. Therefore, at the time of the Last Days, when the time of restoration comes, it will begin on the level of the family. This is why Father is always emphasizing the level of the family, creating a new family, restoring the family. This is exactly restoration of what happened at the Garden of Eden.</p>
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<p>What happened there? Adam was attacked by the archangel, the servant, and the younger brother was killed. Therefore, at the time of Jesus, two families, two brothers, must be united. That was the family of the priest Zechariah and the family of Joseph. Therefore, John the Baptist was in Cain’s position and Jesus was in Abel’s position. He was the second Adam. In other words, restoration at the time of Jesus was nothing more than restoration of the family which was lost in the Garden of Eden. That is why John the Baptist was in the position to serve Jesus, who was in the position of younger brother, which reflected the position of Adam. Jesus came as the second Adam.</p>
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<p>The archangel, who became Satan, took away the younger son of Adam. This time Cain’s position was filled by John the Baptist, and he was supposed to be united with the younger brother, who was Jesus. Father has explained about the time of the chosen nation of Israel. That is, Judaism was in the plus position and the Israelite nation was in the minus position. They should have united and welcomed the Messiah. Today, on the worldwide scale, world Christianity is in the position of Judaism, while the entire free world is in the position of the chosen nation. They should have united into one to welcome the Second Coming of the Messiah. On the national basis, this did not happen. It was a failure, a fiasco. For that reason, God is now trying to accomplish this restoration on the worldwide level. Christianity has the base, and the free world had the base. United into one they could have welcomed the coming of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>The salvation which Jesus brought was the most important achievement and was absolutely necessary. However, it was only a spiritual salvation because his body was sacrificed. Therefore, another level of salvation had to be fulfilled. Salvation had to be both physical and spiritual. That was the purpose of the second coming of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>Christianity in the plus position and the free world in the minus position should have united into one and welcomed the mother’s position. Then, the coming of the Messiah would have occurred on that foundation. Do you understand? Christianity is like the bride’s church. Christianity is the bride which was preparing to welcome the bridegroom, waiting for the coming of the bridegroom. That is the position of the Christian churches today. At the time of Jesus, the Jewish people had their own nation, but because of the sacrifice of Jesus’ body, the chosen people of Christianity have no physical nation.</p>
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<p>In order to set up the formula on the world level, God initiated a scenario. On God’s side, there was England, France, and the United States. They united together to serve respectively in Eve’s position, Cain’s position, and Abel. On the satanic side, Japan was in the position of satanic Eve, while Germany and Italy filled the position of satanic Cain and Abel. This was the lineup for World War II. It was the confrontation of the heavenly team and the satanic team.</p>
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<p>This was controlled and dominated by God. God was the center of this lineup. The Messiah, even on the worldwide level, must still come as one individual, not as a group. If the United States, England, and France had accepted the coming of Reverend Moon after World War II, the world today would be in very different shape. An entirely new era would have dawned at that time. Already the one unified body of thought would have been accomplished. If that had happened after World War II, then we would have seen the beginning of a world of peace, happiness, and freedom for all people. That peace, happiness and freedom can come upon the foundation of unification. Unification is the base upon which all these things can stand.</p>
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<p>After World War II and the victory of the Allies, they did not go around to the conquered territories and plunder them. Instead, they proclaimed their brotherhood and even set out to serve the conquered nations. Even though they won the war, they chose to serve the world. Why? It is because the time of the Parents was at hand, the time of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>One of the reasons the people denied Jesus as the Messiah was because they did not understand the coming of Elijah. They expected Elijah to literally descend from the clouds of heaven, but that never happened. Based on that, they rejected Jesus’ claims as the Messiah. Elijah did come but he was John the Baptist, and so the people did not understand this. John the Baptist was at the center of an incredible controversy trying to identify Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus was proclaiming the messianic message. People confronted Jesus by saying, “If you are the one who is to come, where is Elijah? The Scriptures say that Elijah must come first.” The Scriptures spoke of Elijah ascending to heaven in a chariot of fire, so the people expected that he would return in the same way, either on the clouds of heaven on in another chariot of fire, but that did not occur. When confronted with such a tough question, Jesus answered by saying, “Elijah did come and he is John the Baptist.”</p>
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<p>Today, at the time of the Second Coming, why has Father been denied and persecuted? One of the biggest reasons is that Christianity has been expecting the Lord of the Second Advent to come on the clouds of heaven. But Reverend Moon was born as a man of flesh. Therefore, Christianity totally departed from Father, repeating the mistake of the time of Jesus. That is why Father had to abandon Christianity as his base and build up his own new foundation, which is the Unification Church and movement throughout the world. We have seen such a drastic decline of the power of traditional Christianity after World War II. In some cases, Christianity even united with atheistic communism. How could Christianity ever align itself with a God-denying philosophy such as communism?</p>
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<p>American women have been given a very privileged position for a providential reason. The power and position of women in America is higher than anywhere else in the world. Why? Because this is the time of the coming of the Messiah. The Messiah is the bridegroom and therefore the bride’s position is quite important. Therefore, women must play the major role, or the central role, of accepting the Messiah and influencing man’s world. Because that was not done, that position became perverted and began to serve satanic purposes rather than heavenly ones. America had to be visited by the Messiah. Wherever the Messiah may have come from wasn’t important because the United States was the central nation of the free world. This is the most influential nation of the world. It is a Protestant Christian nation and the center of the new dispensation of God. Satan knew this and so he worked very hard to destroy the moral standards of this nation in order to make it difficult, if not impossible, for the Messiah to reconstruct it. Satan has been working and has virtually demolished the United States. Therefore, in restoration, the women of this nation must be restored first by the Messiah. Satan understood that Reverend Moon would have to come visit the United States. That is why Satan worked so hard to destroy this country. The American people don’t understand this fact. I have come here to save the American Christian world. This is God’s perspective, not Reverend Moon’s viewpoint. God’s viewpoint is the central viewpoint.</p>
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<p>When this is done, the world can be restored and united. Korea represents the Old Testament Era and the United States represents the New Testament Era. Therefore, the United States is much more ready to welcome the Messiah.</p>
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<p>In 1960, the Holy Wedding occurred in Korea. In 1971, Father came to the United States from Korea, working with the New Testament Era. Here is where the Women’s Federation for World Peace began and where Father ultimately declared the Messiahship and True Parents’ role. Right here, he proclaimed the liberation of women. Women have been failing their mission, so they must be liberated and restored in True Parents’ name. In 1992, Mother launched the Women’s Federation for World Peace, representing the liberation of the world’s women centering upon seven countries, including the former Soviet Union. Mother made that whirlwind tour during 1992 to all seven countries. Mother achieved the most extraordinary dispensational mission during 1992, which was the liberation of women and liberation of the family. Centering on women, the family must be restored. One way that the family can be restored is through the way of Unification, of Reverend Moon, the way of True Parents.</p>
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<p>The New World Order shall become a reality, not only on the political level, but also in the spiritual sense. We shall see the new channel of order, beginning from God and going down to the God-centered, heavenly family. That type of family structure must be organized. The providential countries after World War II, England, the United States, and France, all failed their role at that time. Therefore, Father has laid out the new foundation for restoration. This time the Eve nation of Japan, the archangel nation of the United States, as well as Germany, which is in the Cain position, are all engaged in a new order and it is working right now within God’s dispensation. When Father decided that Japan was chosen to become the Eve nation, what happened? Great economic blessing was bestowed upon Japan. Even though the United States, such a gigantic and powerful nation, was trying to get ahead of Japan, they could not do so. Japan just kept moving ahead. Why? Because it is Eve’s nation. The United States must work together with Japan and welcome the True Parents.</p>
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<p>What should these three providential nations do? They should work together, unite and welcome Reverend Moon and Korea. The Japanese have their computer technology, the Germans have their machine technology, and the United States has its philosophical and theological theory. All should come and support Reverend Moon, forming one unified entity. This is what Father has been proclaiming for a long time: the equalization of technical knowledge. Why? The big countries must not plunder others by using their superior technology. The time has come for equality of all people. Japan is in the mother’s position, so she must serve the rest of the world. The same is true of the United States and Germany, working together into one unified unit.</p>
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<p>At one time, Great Britain could say, “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” It had worldwide influence. During the time of Jesus, the Roman Empire was also a worldwide power. Now at this time, the United States has become the equivalent of Great Britain and Rome of ancient times. Yet all these world powers failed because they became totally self-centered and self-serving. At this time, the people of America are saying, “The world should serve the purposes of America.” But this is not right. This is very wrong. America should be existing for the purpose of serving the rest of the world. America should serve the world, not the other way around. Do you understand? This is God’s viewpoint. The humanistic viewpoint is contrary to God’s viewpoint.</p>
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<p>By the same token, the Unification Church is here for the sake of saving the entire world. We are not living for the sake of the expansion and benefit of the Unification Church. We are going the opposite way of the world. That is why you have to live a sacrificial way, taking the way of difficulty. When you live by God’s viewpoint, you will make progress and that progress will continue forever.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon has come and has been working all this time. The culmination of his mission has come through the proclamation of the Messiah and the True Parents. That was done all over the world in 1992. Now the one remaining mission is to go around the world and restore the family. All the obstacles have been overcome all the way to the top. Restoration has been achieved, all the indemnity has been paid. The battles have all been fought. Father is now at the culminating point. The True Parents came here and the declaration was made up here at the top. However, what remains is to come down to the individual and family level. Why? Because that is where the fall of man occurred. True Parents will become the big, super plus for the world and affect the five billion people and their many different families of the world, in the position of minus. All those families can unite with True Parents’ family. Uniting into one, we will see the unity of world level plus and minus. Marching forward to where? For the creation of the kingdom of heaven on the face of the earth. The ultimate victory then would be to move on to the greatest, almighty plus, who is God Himself. Then the dwelling of God shall finally be with men. This is the time. Hallelujah! (Applause.)</p>
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<p>This formula works on the universal level, and at the same time it works on the family level. The center of the family is the woman. For that reason, this is the women’s era. Therefore, the Women’s Federation for World Peace is an indispensable and important aspect of the dispensational future, during this year and the next year. That is because the mother must bring Cain and Abel into true unity. The tribal Messiah comes there and teaches. So the entire membership has the goal of perfecting your own tribal Messiahship. Each one of you has that mission and goal. Do you understand? (Yes.) Yes or no? (Yes!)</p>
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<p>The satanic lineup has been completely demolished now. Only the heavenly lineup exists. The victory will come from the family level and will spread throughout the world. Ultimately, True Love and the unified ideal shall be accomplished. This is the kingdom of heaven. This is the formula for erecting the kingdom of heaven on earth: plus and minus on the unified foundation. On that center of True Love, subject and object combine into one. True Love is the big plus. This is the formula way for re-creation. Is this clear? (Yes!)</p>
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<p>Everything follows this formula, not just on the universal level, but on every level. You are taking in freely all the blessings which God has given to you. What are you doing this morning? You are breathing the very air which God has given to you. You washed your face and drank water this morning. Who gave it to you? God gave it to you. You are going to eat your breakfast, then your lunch, and so forth. Who gave you that food? God gave it to you. Look at the beautiful sunlight coming down on you. All these are the universal blessings which you are the recipients of. You cannot become a thief and just take these things. Once your entire life’s purpose is centered upon the attainment of True love, when you are centered upon becoming the object of True Love, then you are entitled to partake of all these blessings from God. Then you deserve them. God shall become your subject, your direct Father, your own relation.</p>
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<p>Centered on True Love, combine in unification and one body. That is the ideal woman, man, ideal family, all connecting there, all the way to the ideal world. Amen! (Applause.)</p>
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<p>For that reason, Father now has the most ambitious and extraordinary plan to do a final tour of the United States in the month of May. You must have heard by now that Father’s speaking schedule will begin on May 13th. Mother has an even longer schedule which begins on May 20th. Father and Mother will declare this and then Father can go away from the United States free. His mission will be done. Then this nation will be in your hands. Your hands! Father may go to Russia and to Red China. Also, he may go see Kim Il Sung. This is not the end for Father. I am not ready for a vacation. Father must invite God to Russia, invite God to Red China, and invite God to Kim Il Sung. Amen? (Amen!)</p>
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<p>Let us now make this pledge to Father. Father has suffered to come this far. True Parents have had to go through much suffering. When you did not know about the truth, you had an excuse not to fulfill it, since you were ignorant. But today you cannot say that you don’t know, because you have been taught. You know the truth. Now can you make this pledge before Father: “Even though I may have to suffer ten or a hundred times, even a thousand times greater than what Father went through, I shall continue and become the champion, the winner. I shall bring victory to God and True Parents.” Those who make that pledge, please stand up. Those who make that pledge, please say, “Yes, Father!” This time, raise your hands in a fist and shout it out three times, “Yes, Father!”</p>
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<p>God bless you!</p>
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title: "TRUE LOVE AND ONE UNIFIED THOUGHT"
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published: "2018-06-26T13:54:12+01:00"
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source: "/blog/2018/06/26/true-love-and-one-unified-thought.html"
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">April 25, 1993<br />
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Belvedere, International Training Center<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>God’s providence is always to fulfill the goal, the completion of the entire providence. However, when that is not fulfilled, God’s providential plan is to repeat the process until it is fulfilled and completed.</p>
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<p>If there had been no human fall at the beginning of history, then God’s entire providence would have been accomplished the moment Adam and Eve had become completed and had achieved their goals. But because of the fall of man, God’s providence has been divided into different restorational plans which have been repeated again and again. An example of this is Cain and Abel’s course, which was passed down to Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and so forth. However, all these processes were leading up to the achievement of the same goal God intended to achieve in the Garden of Eden. Therefore, the pattern and the process of the providence is always according to the same formula. That formula must be applied all the time, although the scope is different. It has moved from the individual level to the family, clan, tribe, national and world levels. Throughout this expansion, the formula remained the same.</p>
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<p>You may not see it clearly, but nature is following the same principle. All creation follows a certain formula or principle. By the same token, the process of human history is always one unified ideal. There is always one central ideal which is repeated again and again in different scope. God’s basic principle never changes.</p>
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<p>When you observe the things of nature, you can see that the pair system is always in evidence. This system is at work on all levels, whether it is the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, or the animal kingdom. Everything exists within the plus and minus, yin and yang system. Look at Bo Hi Pak as another example: his eyes, nose, mouth and so forth. Those are not individually working entities. They must harmonize together according to one central theme or purpose, one goal. All the elements in his face must work together according to one unified thought.</p>
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<p>Every existence is working toward one goal: to become the object of True Love. In order to be a true object of True Love, the whole entity must work together to respond to that True Love. Divisive action would not allow that entity to respond to True Love as a unified body. As you can see by the title of Father’s speech today, everything in the universe and every creation, including all the creatures of the earth, are working toward one goal. That is to become one unified object of True Love. True Love is the subject; everything in the creation is made as the object of True Love.</p>
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<p>Look at the human body. Whenever any area of the body becomes ill or enflamed, or when you have disease in a certain area, the rest of the body will respond to the needs of that area, giving all kinds of energy, all kinds of support to make that area whole and healthy again. The whole body works together to make that wounded area healthy again. No part of the body would refuse to join in the effort, saying, “I don’t care about that part. That’s not a part of me.” Therefore, when you look at the entire universe, you can see that there is a unified effort, purpose and goal being pursued throughout our universe. We can see that.</p>
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<p>When we talk about unification, or the unified goal, there is always a relationship between plus and minus, subject and object, at work. Without that relationship, there is no harmony, unity or cooperation. The universe works exactly like the human body. The method of functioning is the same, with one being the macrocosm and the other the microcosm. Just like the body, which is the microcosm, the universe, which is the macrocosm, will work all together in order to alleviate trouble areas, plunging its concentrated energy to make the deficiencies whole. That is the way of True Love’s action.</p>
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<p>Therefore, each human body, as well as the entire universe, is working toward the ideal of the one unified body.</p>
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<p>Why is that? It is because they want to become the recipient of True Love. True Love is the ultimate goal. Thus the purpose of unification, of oneness, is simply one thing: to become the object of True Love. Therefore, the reason we are born is to become a recipient of True Love. In other words, we are living to become the recipient of True Love, we are living to become the object of True Love.</p>
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[Father draws on the blackboard.] Here is a big circle representing the created universe. The highest place, the most central place is the place of the human being. Everything else is parallel with that line, always in the same direction. You can see that everything within the macrocosm of the universe reflects the order of the universe. Even the most minute creatures, such as the insects, follow the same patterns. The same line can be formed for them.</p>
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<p>There is a vertical line and there is a horizontal line. There is vertical give and take, with the upper and lower giving and receiving from one another. There is horizontal give and take, with East and West giving and receiving from one another. In this universe, wherever serious deficiencies occur, wherever catastrophic situations occur, the rest of the universe rushes in and tries to secure or save it, to make it whole and good again. Therefore, all the creatures and all the creation are working toward one direction. That is living for the sake of a purpose larger than one’s self. All things are moving toward something greater than himself. That is the direction of True Love.</p>
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<p>Everything began from God. God is the originating point of everything. Nothing can be initiated without God as the center, with True Love at the center. Therefore, everything is trying to resemble that particular formula and is trying to become parallel with the purpose of their initiator, their creator, God. The highest being is God, and every form of creation from minerals to the highest creation, human beings, are moving toward and reaching for that ultimate goal of God’s purpose, God’s fulfillment. Therefore, the mineral world is trying to move upward toward the plant world, trying to serve the plant world. The plant world is striving to serve the animal world. The animal world is yearning to serve the human world. The human world is trying to serve God-centered people.</p>
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<p>When you look at the oceans, you observe the most incredible types of creatures living there. There are small fish, large whales and creatures even greater than that. As we know, the larger fish always eat the small ones. Some people say, “Well, that is bad,” but it’s not a bad thing. It is the order of the universe. The small fish are serving the larger fish. Those larger fish are serving even larger fish, and those fish are serving greater fish, all the way up to the greatest ones. Ultimately, the greatest fish will be serving human beings. So, ultimately everything is moving toward greater love, toward the goal of ultimate love, which can only be fulfilled totally by human beings. Thus, every creation is glad to serve the human purpose. Why is that? Human beings are the central harbingers, the central figures of True Love in the universe.</p>
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<p>Human society is the same. We are all moving toward the achievement of greater love. Whoever possesses greater love is more attractive to others. We are pulled toward such a person like a magnet. That is because our innate nature is to move toward the attainment of greater True Love. The Unification Church Principle, which I have been preaching all my life, is nothing more than this universal formula: that something small always serves something greater. Therefore, the individual serves the purpose of the family, the family serves the clan, the clan serves the society, the society serves the nation, the nation serves the world, and the world serves the cosmos.</p>
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<p>Let’s say that one individual is sacrificed and it seems particularly tragic. It looks so bad, but actually it is not because that person’s sacrifice served the purpose of greater love, the higher purpose, and therefore it was not in vain. However, our world does not realize this universal truth and instead is moving toward selfishness. The individualistic way predominates. The world has become so selfish and individualistic. Man is man, woman is woman and each individual feels there is no greater purpose than serving himself. The individual’s carnal desires become the base of his existence, but that should not be the case.</p>
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<p>The universe is almost like a museum of True Love. All the manifestations of love are contained within this museum. We can see the incredible variety, the different colors and styles of True Love, among the exhibits in this place we call the world. Anything which tries to go against the universal formula will find that the universe is trying to expel it or kick it out. Whatever doesn’t harmonize with the rest of the universe will be rejected. Individualism is not the rule or formula of the universe and therefore, the universe is trying to expel it. When a foreign element invades the human body, the body’s forces are mobilized to expel it. The universe does the same thing on the macrocosmic level.</p>
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<p>Living in our world, you can see that the universe is serving humankind. Wherever you go, you can see that the universe exists for the sake of human beings. Let’s look at the lips of Bo Hi Pak. What is the purpose of those lips? It is not simply to serve Bo Hi Pak, but to serve the universe. When Dr. Pak realizes that everything in his body, including his lips, exist for serving the greater purpose, for the sake of the universe, then everything is harmonized. Everything is okay. When you are doing that, you always feel joy. What is the purpose of eyes? Their purpose is to appreciate the universe, to appreciate the beauty of nature. The nose is breathing the air which the universe provides. There is a constant give and take between your body and the universal elements. You are never separated, even for a second, from the rest of the universe.</p>
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<p>Everything is centered upon the completion or perfection of True Love. When you talk, it should be for the sake of True Love. When you look at something, let it be for the sake of True Love. When you smell something, smell it for the sake of True Love. Every function should be dedicated to the purpose of True Love. The perfection of True Love is the ultimate goal of everything in the universe. The universe is yearning for, pursuing and reaching out for the contents or the core of True Love. This is the goal and the direction of everything; this is where everything is going.</p>
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<p>Plus and minus, male and female, exist everywhere, but why? It is for the purpose of serving one another, in order to engage in give and take and become one, thereby fulfilling the ideal of oneness. By doing so, we become the recipient of True Love. That is the purpose of the pair system. The mind and body of each individual must be harmonized and engage in give and take all the time. Why? There is one purpose of that unified give and take: to enable the individual to become the recipient of True Love. Unless your body and mind have been unified, True Love cannot come into action. Even if your body and mind are united, if True Love has nothing to do with it, then no true purpose has been served.</p>
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<p>We need one unified thought, one unified ideal. Once we reach the unified ideal, becoming the object of True Love, then we can say, “I have fulfilled my life’s purpose. I am completed and perfected. Amen!” That is the level where we can talk about perfection. Once you reach that particular level, everything surrounding you becomes a source of joy. When you turn around, moving back and forth, right and left, joy is there.</p>
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<p>I see that Bob Grant’s couple and Ron Godwin’s couple have come here for this early Sunday morning service. The key question for each person to ask is this: “Are my mind and body united?” We must always ask the key questions of whether or not my mind and body are united, whether or not I am harmonized with the universe and the universal purpose, whether I am becoming the recipient of True Love or not. For a man, the most essential necessity is a woman; for a woman, it is a man. Even more than you need God, you need each other. The individual’s mind and body must be united, then within the couple, the husband and wife must be united for the purpose of this same principle: in order to become the recipient of True Love.</p>
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<p>When you observe a man and woman kissing passionately in public, does that mean they are most united and harmonized? Men and women must be united not just lip to lip, but also through their sexual organs. That is not a dirty thing but rather is the most sacred thing in the sight of God. God has purposed that and has given it the greatest importance. Therefore, that sexual unity must be centered upon True Love. The most important question for a husband and wife to ask is not whether or not they are living happily, whether they are enjoying their sexual relationship, but whether or not they are doing everything centered upon God’s purpose for True Love; whether or not they are totally dedicated for that goal, that one-body thought. That is the key question.</p>
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<p>Men and women are essentially the same except for one area: the reproductive organs. Man has the male sexual organ, woman has the female sexual organs. That is the one area which is truly different between men and women. By unifying those two areas of men and women, the goal of total perfection shall be achieved. That was God’s design and plan at the very beginning. When that perfect unity centering upon True Love is achieved, the entire universe will echo it, shouting out praises and cheers. [Father draws on blackboard] Here, vertically up and down, horizontally east and west, you have the same principle in action.</p>
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<p>In our world today, we know that the relationship between man and woman is nothing new, nothing unusual. We see it everywhere. There is no lack of that kind of sexual love. However, the important problem is that these relationships are not centered upon God’s True Love. They are centered upon selfish love, which is Satan-inspired. That is the main problem with our world. The basic difference between God’s True Love and Satan’s love is where they are centered. In the fallen world, the husband and wife relationship is often a case of a selfish husband feeling, “I want my wife to love me.” And the wife has the same selfish attitude, “You have to love me. I am here to be served by you.” That is total perfection of the individualistic way of life, and this is what is wrong with America today. This is what is wrong with the entire world today.</p>
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<p>If you live selfishly, if you live selfishly even within your couple, then you are indebted to the universe. Every day you create a bigger and bigger debt for yourself. It becomes heavier and heavier. Why are you indebted? Every day you eat food. Did you create that food? Is it yours? Is that America’s food? That is actually a universal product and God’s product which is meant to be owned by the whole of humanity. You are eating the possession of all of humanity when you partake of your daily food. It is like you are stealing your food if you use it for a selfish purpose, and it doesn’t matter how much money you may pay for it.</p>
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<p>Let’s give an example which I have spoken about before. Is there some area here at Belvedere, some particular point where all the air is located and concentrated, and the rest of the place is existing within a vacuum? No, of course not. No such thing can happen because once a vacuum is created somewhere, air will automatically move there from the surrounding places. Let’s imagine that the United States all of a sudden became a vacuum. Perhaps some Americans don’t like Koreans, but would they tell the air from Korea not to come here to fill the vacuum? “I don’t like Korean air, so don’t come. I’d rather not breathe!” Would you ever say such a thing?</p>
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<p>Water follows the same principle. Liquids are constantly striving to make their levels even, to move downward to fill lower places. Food is the same, too. When a famine occurs in one part of the world, then the parts of the world where food is abundant should rush more food into the hungry areas. We have to have that kind of world; we have to do that. One of the most incredible violations of universal law is hunger and famine. Every year, twenty million people die from lack of food. Yet the United States has an abundance of food, even wasting much food. This is against the rule of the universe. It is truly a crime. Therefore, the universe wants to reject this crime. It wants to chase out those who are committing this crime. When you go against the basic rules, no matter how much you feel you are just trying to survive, it is going to bring bad results. Today’s America has a lot of people we might call protectionists and they say, “Our nation’s interests must be protected. I don’t care what happens to the rest of the people of the world.” If a nation tries to live that way and believes they will be successful that way, they are wrong. They will never be successful. Why? It is against universal law. They are violating the laws of the universe.</p>
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<p>At the time of Jesus, the Israelites, who were the chosen people, were full of hope and anticipation for the coming of their Messiah. That was fine and good. But they wanted their King of Kings to come to them and enable them to become the central people of the world. They wanted to rule and be served by the rest of the world. That was why they could not understand the Messiah ‘s ideals and goals when he came. That was not the reason for the Messiah ‘s appearance.</p>
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[Father draws on board.] There is a flowing channel, a flow from God, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. This is the way a flow chart looks. Because of the fall of man, the top of the flow chart was changed. In other words, instead of God, Satan took that top position and became master of the world. The original flow chart was lost and the unlawful flow chart took its place. So God had to change from here to here. This is what we call restoration. Restoration takes place from the bottom up. Since the top position of the flow chart was lost, restoration has to come from the bottom, Cain and Abel. Abel was in the minus position to Cain in the plus position. This is where restoration must occur. God is trying to put Abel in the plus position and Cain in the minus position. That is what restoration is all about. It is a reverse procedure.</p>
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<p>Therefore, we are going in the opposite direction from the rest of the world. The world espouses one goal; we say an entirely different thing. That is because we are going the reverse way. The world is trying to take all the time, and we are trying to give. The world is seeking to be served; we are trying to serve.</p>
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<p>The providence of salvation is nothing more and nothing other than the providence of restoration. What is restoration? It is re-creation. This is the blueprint, the original formula. For that reason, the most important thing to understand is the Principle of Creation. First of all, creation began from the atmosphere or surroundings. The basic surroundings for human beings was created first, and that is the universe. In it we see plus and minus, the pair system, male and female. Why do we see that everywhere? For the purpose of achieving True Love. The universe is created for that purpose: the unity of mind and body, male and female, men and women. Why? Because they are looking forward to uniting with their corresponding partner.</p>
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<p>When plus and minus are united, they become a larger minus and seek to unite with the larger plus. When the larger plus and minus are united, they start looking for a gigantic plus to unite with. When those two plus and minus forces are united, they seek to unite with a super plus. Then they seek the next level, the super-super plus. If you say, “You must serve me. I need to be served,” you will never be able to unite on even the first level of plus and minus. The universe is created to look forward to unity with the corresponding subject and object, moving toward the attainment of True Love. This is the Principle or formula of re-creation. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>The realm of scientific study has been developed by discovering formulas and applying those formulas. By the same token, the spirit world and the entire created world operate according to certain formulas. Each human body is composed of billions of microscopically tiny cells, and each one of those cells has its own plus and minus functions within it. The core is plus and the object is seeking to unite by serving that core. Between men and women, which is the subject? American women say, “The subject is woman.” But the universe says “No!” to that, and will even spit on you. As you know clearly, the man is subject and the woman is object. Man is like the bone and woman is like the flesh. Flesh must totally surround the bone, sticking closely to it.</p>
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<p>Hardness and softness must also work together in harmony. A diamond is the hardest material, but when you cut it, you use copper, which is a soft metal. It can polish and cut the diamond. To compare man with bone does not mean that man is like a conqueror and totally controlling, like a tyrant. Without the surrounding flesh, the bone has no value or meaning. Sometimes the bone has to follow the flesh. Man is hidden, in a way, just as the bone is, while the woman is more visible. Look at you here this morning. You women look so beautiful this morning because when you got up, you put on makeup. But you didn’t apply that makeup to your bones! You applied it to your flesh. Then the man looks at you and admires you for your beauty. He doesn’t say, “I really like your bones. They are beautiful.” However, without good underlying bone structure, your face would not be so pretty. Therefore, no matter how great a woman might be, without a man, she is miserable, a poor creature.</p>
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<p>It is an amazing thing that the fate of a woman is determined by whom she marries. Sometimes a very talented and attractive woman at the top of her class in school will marry a man who is wrong for her and her whole life will become miserable. At the same time, a woman who has an insignificant classroom achievement but who marries the right man can rise up to his level. The woman who marries the president of the country will rise up to become First Lady just because of whom she married. This is a universal phenomenon. Nobody can deny it.</p>
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<p>Subject and object must not reverse their order. The order must be straight, the channel must be straight. In America today, the women are trying to become king. The queen is trying to become king, meanwhile trying to push all men down to the level of servant. The time of the Second Coming of the Messiah is the time when women become most important because women are in the direct object role, or the bride position, to the Messiah. For that reason, men take the archangel or servant’s position. This is the reason we are seeing the phenomenon occurring on the external level in the United States. It is not surprising or even outside of the Principle. However, this must be straightened out. After this time of confusion is over, we have to bring order by teaching the Unification Principle.</p>
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<p>What about you American women? Do you sit there and think to yourselves, “When will I ever come to hear Father say that woman is the subject? Will it ever happen, even in a million years?” The answer is no, it will not happen. However, the woman’s position, the object position, is absolutely the most beautiful and it is essential. Woman is created for woman’s purpose, which is not bad at all. When you follow the universal rule, harmony and happiness will always follow. When you go into the spirit world, this rule becomes totally obvious.</p>
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<p>In today’s America, the perverted way of life is spreading. Everyone feels that they want life to be convenient, practical, and without responsibility. Men just want to have fun without any responsibility. Women, too, only seek self-satisfaction and nothing more. Because of that pervasive attitude, this nation is dwindling. Because they are hiding from the notion of basic personal responsibility, men and women are seeking the fulfillment of their carnal desires. When the pursuit of “fun” becomes the central purpose of life, then this nation will not have hope.</p>
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<p>In God’s world, there is absolutely no such thing as homosexuality. This is the most obvious and blatant violation of the universal rule. Are men and women separate and distinct from one another for the sake of fighting against each another? No, man is made for woman and woman is made for man, each with their own particular characteristics. Those characteristics exist for the purpose of aiding in harmony and unity between man and woman and allowing them to achieve True Love. When you violate that basic principle, you have to pay a most incredible price. The nation, the people have to pay as well.</p>
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<p>No matter how many millions of years may go by within this universe, human beings will continue to be ruled by this basic principle. Men are born to fulfill the purpose of a man, while women are born to fulfill the purpose of a woman. No matter how old a person may be, whether he is a grandfather, or a great-grandfather, it doesn’t matter. The Principle cannot be changed. It is always the same. Men were made for women, and women were made for men, and their purpose is to become united in love. The perverted way of life, if followed, could virtually extinguish the human race. When people are espousing and following the way of homosexuality and lesbianism, as well as heterosexual “free sex,” what is the difference between them and the animals? When human beings live like that, how can they take their position as masters over the creation? Human beings are God’s supreme creatures simply because God created us to be the supreme recipients of His True Love. You understand the formula of God’s creation, don’t you?</p>
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<p>No one can deviate from the formula of subject and object. Subject is the vertical concept, while object is the horizontal concept. The vertical concept and the horizontal concept cannot be separated. The vertical concept brings together parents and children, while the horizontal concept brings together husband and wife, men and women. This cannot be changed even in a million years. Since everything must be in the center, in this core, everything must come together and meet there. Horizontal meets here; vertical meets here. Everything comes together in the center. You cannot deviate from this principle.</p>
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<p>When Adam and Eve were young, they did not realize that they were made to become husband and wife, and they grew up together as brother and sister. However, they came to realize that they were meant to meet in the center, which is the position of husband and wife. That center is where God comes down and meets with man, and all the things that can be perfected and materialized are right there in the center. Adam and Eve were only two persons. They were brother and sister; they became husband and wife, father and mother, grandfather and grandmother. Ultimately they were to become king and queen. In other words, the same two people were meant to fulfill all those different positions. The model for completion and perfection of all human beings was contained within the original two human beings, Adam and Eve. The perfection for all forms of human relationship were to be found within their lives.</p>
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<p>What is the center point of this perfection? The center is True Love. When people departed from True Love, the path to perfection was lost. It became unattainable.</p>
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[Referring to drawing] By coming over here, they are perfecting all human relationships. First of all, they are the children of God and they will complete and perfect that position here. They are brother and sister, and their position will be completed here. Husband and wife will perfect their model here. Father and mother, in the parents’ position, are also perfected here. Every form is perfected here, right in the center, centered on True Love. It is a ninety degree crossing point. When you have a ninety degree crossing, you can turn it around and the segment will fit anywhere. The ninety degree angle will fit anywhere within the circle. The ninety degree crossing is the basic principled form. Therefore, it can be welcomed everywhere. It can harmonize and fit everywhere. The formula applies everywhere and to every form of relationship: plus and minus, husband and wife, brothers, children. All of the positions within human relationships are perfected right here, when they come to this center.</p>
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<p>Why is there only one center? There are not four centers or more, but only one. The focal center point is the True Love settlement place. There must be a vertical axis, a central axis, as well as a horizontal axis. The spirit world and physical world, as well as plus and minus, are united right here. East and West, everything, comes here centering upon True Love and is united. Maybe the Western world can take pride in their scientific development; however, the Eastern world has been the realm of spiritual and deeper universal truth and development. There is one center, only one. East and West must come here to unite. East does not go all the way over to the West to unite, nor does West go all the way to the East. Not at all. They must meet in the middle, right here at the one center point. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Two thousand years ago, the chosen nation was Israel. In that nation, the religion of Judaism was supposed to be in the plus or subject position while the external nation was in the minus position. They were meant to serve one another and unite within the subject and object positions. They were meant to become one centering upon the mother. Once that was achieved, then the father, or Messiah, could come. The nation of Israel was not born first. Judaism was born first. That was the order, so religion was subject and the nation was object. Therefore, the Abel position, which was the minus position, had to be restored into the plus position. That process was supposed to have occurred within the chosen nation.</p>
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<p>God is not an offensive being who attacks. Rather, God’s position is always being attacked. His tactic is to be attacked, to prevail, and then to restore. God cannot be defeated, even though God will not attack anybody. We can clearly see this kind of phenomenon within a small village or town, in which there lives a conscientious, good man who has to suffer because of his conscience. Other people might even initiate a conspiracy against this man because of his goodness and that man loses his good name and his position in society. However, ultimately, that man will be restored to his rightful position. His goodness will win out.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon is a big plus who is going after a big minus. However, the world is also a big plus, in the position of Cain or elder brother. Therefore, they have authority and power and they could not stand to see Reverend Moon flourish. For Reverend Moon to prosper would mean that the world would have to change to the minus position. They don’t want that. Many people wonder, “Reverend Moon is such a good man and is trying to do such good work, so why has he encountered such opposition? Why did the entire world come against him?” But this is most natural when you understand the truth. There is only one religious leader in history who has met the amount of opposition which Reverend Moon has met. This is unprecedented in history. That is because Reverend Moon is a big plus encountering the big plus of Satan’s world.</p>
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<p>Today we have the very distinguished guests such as Dr. Grant and Dr. Godwin. The mere fact that they have come to listen to my sermon today is a miracle because of the fact that they were so different in their attitude in the beginning. Before coming to understand me and my teaching, they felt that I was a bad man. They totally misunderstood me.</p>
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<p>I am honestly proclaiming that the era of Jesus is over and this world will never be united by the power of Jesus because the providence of God is moving forward, just as the work of Jesus is moving forward. If traditional Christianity would just listen to me with an open mind for one week, they would all be turned around. Why? Because the truth is obvious. The truth is self-explanatory. The only people who have difficulty and are resistant to this truth are, unfortunately, ministers and elders of the established churches. Why is that? It is because their livelihood depends upon the church, so it is most important for them to maintain that livelihood. Anything which threatens the status quo in Christianity, in other words, would threaten their livelihood. For that reason, they don’t want to listen and they don’t ever intend to change their position. But if those who have no dependence upon the church for their economic well-being are able to listen to the truth with an open mind, they will see the truth clearly.</p>
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<p>This is the formula which works everywhere, including the chosen nation of Israel. Had Judaism and the nation of Israel united into one, centering on the mother, they would have met the Messiah. Plus and minus, Cain and Abel, became one, then moved up to another stage, to Eve’s position, which is the mother’s position. Cain and Abel and their mother must become a big minus. They should have united with the big plus, who was the Messiah to come. United with the Messiah, they would have then become a giant minus and united with the ultimate plus, which is God. That is the formula. Without this formula, nothing can exist.</p>
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<p>This is truly revolutionary because everything works in the reverse way. The younger brother becomes the elder, the grandfather becomes the son, the son becomes the father. It is incredible and people ask, “What is going on?” Everybody was confused. However, once you understand the truth you realize that is the way it has to be. The opposite means 180 degrees different. One side is heaven, the other side is hell. When you are centered upon God, you are in heaven. When you are centered upon Satan, you are in hell.</p>
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<p>In order to restore, in order to unite with the right plus, first of all you have to deny yourself, you have to deny your position, your surroundings, and courageously move forward. This is why the religious way of life takes the most courage, more than anything else. What is required is denial of satanic belongings, a satanic-centered family, people, nation, and world. The individual must deny all of that and then move into unity. Turning 180 degrees away from Satan requires that you go through the zero point. You have to restore yourself to the zero position first. Then you can move into the plus side and plus 180 degrees.</p>
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<p>In the Last Days, what is traditionally called the end of the world, which we Unificationists know is the time of the Second Coming of the Messiah, everything will be denied into zero, coming to the individual position. That is because the fall of man took place at the individual level and center of the family. The world’s problems today are family problems as well as national problems. Look at the American situation. It fits exactly into this description. The American family is breaking down. How can the country survive? They don’t have the understanding of the family system theory. Without the teaching of Reverend Moon, the problems of America cannot be solved. This is clear and this is true. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>American youth have to realize this. Again, I emphasize the importance of this formula. This is why the religious way of life has always gone together with suffering, bloodshed and indemnity. Why? Because it is following the reverse path, the reverse process. You have to go against the stream to follow the religious path. Reverend Moon is the example of going against the stream. The tide of the whole world has come against me. Everyone, every nation has opposed me. Korea has come against Reverend Moon. The United States government has come against Reverend Moon. The communist world came against Reverend Moon. What is happening today? Where is communism today? It is gone. Where is the United States today? In the “war” between the United States government and one person, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who won?</p>
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<p>I want to frame a copy of the indictment which was brought against me by the U.S. government for all of history. On the first page, it said, “Plaintiff: United States of America. Defendant: Reverend Sun Myung Moon.” I like that! One whole country comes against one individual, Reverend Sun Myung Moon.</p>
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<p>The U.S. government succeeded in sending Reverend Moon to Danbury prison. However, did the U.S. government win this battle? (No.) What happened to worldwide communism? They considered Reverend Moon their arch-enemy and were determined to destroy me. However, who was destroyed, Reverend Moon or communism? (Communism.)</p>
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<p>Today Reverend Moon is at war against immorality: immorality which is going against the universal formula; homosexuality, lesbianism, and free sex. Satan is laughing at me, saying, “You are attempting the impossible. You cannot clean up this atmosphere!” Well, I am sorry, but Reverend Moon will have the last laugh. (Applause.) This is not just the talk of this world. It is universal truth and is the topic of interest for the entire universe, including spirit world. All of those ministers as well as politicians and other civic leaders who have excused and even encouraged immorality, they will all go up to spirit world one day. They will face the truth there; they will face reality. The first thing they will be asked in spirit world is, “What did you do towards Reverend Moon? Did you support him, or did you go against him?”</p>
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<p>Actually, Christianity and many politicians today are trying to win the favor of the homosexual world. They want to be approved of and re-elected. But they will face a harsh reality sooner or later. The tragic history of Christianity is reflected in one simple fact: the relationship between the Israelite nation and Jesus Christ. The Israelites were looking forward to the Messiah coming to their nation. They should have had a palace ready in which to welcome their Messiah. But instead, the Messiah was born in a stable. Later the Christian church developed a proud tradition centered around that tragic, shameful fact. They erect manger scenes every year re-enacting that sad and shameful time when the Messiah was born in a dirty stable.</p>
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<p>The most incredible shame of traditional Christianity is their insistence and proclamation that Jesus came in the first place to die on the cross. Instead, Judaism was supposed to accept the King of Kings. If they had, how could they have killed him? They should have been united with the commander-in-chief of spirit world and moved together to Rome with the living Jesus in the center. If they had been united, then the entire world would have been united around them. Jesus did not come primarily and solely as the “Lord.” Rather, Jesus came as the Father of all mankind, the true ancestor for human beings. He came as the personification of True Love, the center point of True Love. That was the purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ. Thus Jesus would have become the True Parent, as well as the King of Kings of the Jewish world.</p>
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<p>This kind of statement is not made in order to attack the Jewish people, or from even the slightest bit of anti-Semitism, although that is what some Jewish people have thought. I am not against the Jewish people or the Jewish religion. All I am speaking is the truth. Because of the crucifixion, those people, that nation, have been paying the most incredible, terrible price, including all their tragic bloodshed throughout history, including the loss of the Jewish nation.</p>
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<p>If Judaism had united with the Israel nation and together had accepted the Messiah, what would have happened? They would have become the center of the rest of the world to bring salvation to the world. By making unity with the living Jesus, they truly would have become the central nation and group in the world. But the tragedy is that they never realized this fact. That is why that nation eventually was totally demolished.</p>
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<p>John the Baptist was to take the position of minus to Jesus, who was the big plus. John should have served Jesus. But because he failed to take that minus position and unite with Jesus, his entire mission failed. This is another point upon which today’s Christianity is totally wrong. They do not understand the failure of John.</p>
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<p>All these failures came on the level of the individual and the family, including that of Adam and Eve. Therefore, at the time of the Last Days, when the time of restoration comes, it will begin on the level of the family. This is why Father is always emphasizing the level of the family, creating a new family, restoring the family. This is exactly restoration of what happened at the Garden of Eden.</p>
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<p>What happened there? Adam was attacked by the archangel, the servant, and the younger brother was killed. Therefore, at the time of Jesus, two families, two brothers, must be united. That was the family of the priest Zechariah and the family of Joseph. Therefore, John the Baptist was in Cain’s position and Jesus was in Abel’s position. He was the second Adam. In other words, restoration at the time of Jesus was nothing more than restoration of the family which was lost in the Garden of Eden. That is why John the Baptist was in the position to serve Jesus, who was in the position of younger brother, which reflected the position of Adam. Jesus came as the second Adam.</p>
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<p>The archangel, who became Satan, took away the younger son of Adam. This time Cain’s position was filled by John the Baptist, and he was supposed to be united with the younger brother, who was Jesus. Father has explained about the time of the chosen nation of Israel. That is, Judaism was in the plus position and the Israelite nation was in the minus position. They should have united and welcomed the Messiah. Today, on the worldwide scale, world Christianity is in the position of Judaism, while the entire free world is in the position of the chosen nation. They should have united into one to welcome the Second Coming of the Messiah. On the national basis, this did not happen. It was a failure, a fiasco. For that reason, God is now trying to accomplish this restoration on the worldwide level. Christianity has the base, and the free world had the base. United into one they could have welcomed the coming of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>The salvation which Jesus brought was the most important achievement and was absolutely necessary. However, it was only a spiritual salvation because his body was sacrificed. Therefore, another level of salvation had to be fulfilled. Salvation had to be both physical and spiritual. That was the purpose of the second coming of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>Christianity in the plus position and the free world in the minus position should have united into one and welcomed the mother’s position. Then, the coming of the Messiah would have occurred on that foundation. Do you understand? Christianity is like the bride’s church. Christianity is the bride which was preparing to welcome the bridegroom, waiting for the coming of the bridegroom. That is the position of the Christian churches today. At the time of Jesus, the Jewish people had their own nation, but because of the sacrifice of Jesus’ body, the chosen people of Christianity have no physical nation.</p>
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<p>In order to set up the formula on the world level, God initiated a scenario. On God’s side, there was England, France, and the United States. They united together to serve respectively in Eve’s position, Cain’s position, and Abel. On the satanic side, Japan was in the position of satanic Eve, while Germany and Italy filled the position of satanic Cain and Abel. This was the lineup for World War II. It was the confrontation of the heavenly team and the satanic team.</p>
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<p>This was controlled and dominated by God. God was the center of this lineup. The Messiah, even on the worldwide level, must still come as one individual, not as a group. If the United States, England, and France had accepted the coming of Reverend Moon after World War II, the world today would be in very different shape. An entirely new era would have dawned at that time. Already the one unified body of thought would have been accomplished. If that had happened after World War II, then we would have seen the beginning of a world of peace, happiness, and freedom for all people. That peace, happiness and freedom can come upon the foundation of unification. Unification is the base upon which all these things can stand.</p>
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<p>After World War II and the victory of the Allies, they did not go around to the conquered territories and plunder them. Instead, they proclaimed their brotherhood and even set out to serve the conquered nations. Even though they won the war, they chose to serve the world. Why? It is because the time of the Parents was at hand, the time of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>One of the reasons the people denied Jesus as the Messiah was because they did not understand the coming of Elijah. They expected Elijah to literally descend from the clouds of heaven, but that never happened. Based on that, they rejected Jesus’ claims as the Messiah. Elijah did come but he was John the Baptist, and so the people did not understand this. John the Baptist was at the center of an incredible controversy trying to identify Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus was proclaiming the messianic message. People confronted Jesus by saying, “If you are the one who is to come, where is Elijah? The Scriptures say that Elijah must come first.” The Scriptures spoke of Elijah ascending to heaven in a chariot of fire, so the people expected that he would return in the same way, either on the clouds of heaven on in another chariot of fire, but that did not occur. When confronted with such a tough question, Jesus answered by saying, “Elijah did come and he is John the Baptist.”</p>
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<p>Today, at the time of the Second Coming, why has Father been denied and persecuted? One of the biggest reasons is that Christianity has been expecting the Lord of the Second Advent to come on the clouds of heaven. But Reverend Moon was born as a man of flesh. Therefore, Christianity totally departed from Father, repeating the mistake of the time of Jesus. That is why Father had to abandon Christianity as his base and build up his own new foundation, which is the Unification Church and movement throughout the world. We have seen such a drastic decline of the power of traditional Christianity after World War II. In some cases, Christianity even united with atheistic communism. How could Christianity ever align itself with a God-denying philosophy such as communism?</p>
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<p>American women have been given a very privileged position for a providential reason. The power and position of women in America is higher than anywhere else in the world. Why? Because this is the time of the coming of the Messiah. The Messiah is the bridegroom and therefore the bride’s position is quite important. Therefore, women must play the major role, or the central role, of accepting the Messiah and influencing man’s world. Because that was not done, that position became perverted and began to serve satanic purposes rather than heavenly ones. America had to be visited by the Messiah. Wherever the Messiah may have come from wasn’t important because the United States was the central nation of the free world. This is the most influential nation of the world. It is a Protestant Christian nation and the center of the new dispensation of God. Satan knew this and so he worked very hard to destroy the moral standards of this nation in order to make it difficult, if not impossible, for the Messiah to reconstruct it. Satan has been working and has virtually demolished the United States. Therefore, in restoration, the women of this nation must be restored first by the Messiah. Satan understood that Reverend Moon would have to come visit the United States. That is why Satan worked so hard to destroy this country. The American people don’t understand this fact. I have come here to save the American Christian world. This is God’s perspective, not Reverend Moon’s viewpoint. God’s viewpoint is the central viewpoint.</p>
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<p>When this is done, the world can be restored and united. Korea represents the Old Testament Era and the United States represents the New Testament Era. Therefore, the United States is much more ready to welcome the Messiah.</p>
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<p>In 1960, the Holy Wedding occurred in Korea. In 1971, Father came to the United States from Korea, working with the New Testament Era. Here is where the Women’s Federation for World Peace began and where Father ultimately declared the Messiahship and True Parents’ role. Right here, he proclaimed the liberation of women. Women have been failing their mission, so they must be liberated and restored in True Parents’ name. In 1992, Mother launched the Women’s Federation for World Peace, representing the liberation of the world’s women centering upon seven countries, including the former Soviet Union. Mother made that whirlwind tour during 1992 to all seven countries. Mother achieved the most extraordinary dispensational mission during 1992, which was the liberation of women and liberation of the family. Centering on women, the family must be restored. One way that the family can be restored is through the way of Unification, of Reverend Moon, the way of True Parents.</p>
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<p>The New World Order shall become a reality, not only on the political level, but also in the spiritual sense. We shall see the new channel of order, beginning from God and going down to the God-centered, heavenly family. That type of family structure must be organized. The providential countries after World War II, England, the United States, and France, all failed their role at that time. Therefore, Father has laid out the new foundation for restoration. This time the Eve nation of Japan, the archangel nation of the United States, as well as Germany, which is in the Cain position, are all engaged in a new order and it is working right now within God’s dispensation. When Father decided that Japan was chosen to become the Eve nation, what happened? Great economic blessing was bestowed upon Japan. Even though the United States, such a gigantic and powerful nation, was trying to get ahead of Japan, they could not do so. Japan just kept moving ahead. Why? Because it is Eve’s nation. The United States must work together with Japan and welcome the True Parents.</p>
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<p>What should these three providential nations do? They should work together, unite and welcome Reverend Moon and Korea. The Japanese have their computer technology, the Germans have their machine technology, and the United States has its philosophical and theological theory. All should come and support Reverend Moon, forming one unified entity. This is what Father has been proclaiming for a long time: the equalization of technical knowledge. Why? The big countries must not plunder others by using their superior technology. The time has come for equality of all people. Japan is in the mother’s position, so she must serve the rest of the world. The same is true of the United States and Germany, working together into one unified unit.</p>
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<p>At one time, Great Britain could say, “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” It had worldwide influence. During the time of Jesus, the Roman Empire was also a worldwide power. Now at this time, the United States has become the equivalent of Great Britain and Rome of ancient times. Yet all these world powers failed because they became totally self-centered and self-serving. At this time, the people of America are saying, “The world should serve the purposes of America.” But this is not right. This is very wrong. America should be existing for the purpose of serving the rest of the world. America should serve the world, not the other way around. Do you understand? This is God’s viewpoint. The humanistic viewpoint is contrary to God’s viewpoint.</p>
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<p>By the same token, the Unification Church is here for the sake of saving the entire world. We are not living for the sake of the expansion and benefit of the Unification Church. We are going the opposite way of the world. That is why you have to live a sacrificial way, taking the way of difficulty. When you live by God’s viewpoint, you will make progress and that progress will continue forever.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon has come and has been working all this time. The culmination of his mission has come through the proclamation of the Messiah and the True Parents. That was done all over the world in 1992. Now the one remaining mission is to go around the world and restore the family. All the obstacles have been overcome all the way to the top. Restoration has been achieved, all the indemnity has been paid. The battles have all been fought. Father is now at the culminating point. The True Parents came here and the declaration was made up here at the top. However, what remains is to come down to the individual and family level. Why? Because that is where the fall of man occurred. True Parents will become the big, super plus for the world and affect the five billion people and their many different families of the world, in the position of minus. All those families can unite with True Parents’ family. Uniting into one, we will see the unity of world level plus and minus. Marching forward to where? For the creation of the kingdom of heaven on the face of the earth. The ultimate victory then would be to move on to the greatest, almighty plus, who is God Himself. Then the dwelling of God shall finally be with men. This is the time. Hallelujah! (Applause.)</p>
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<p>This formula works on the universal level, and at the same time it works on the family level. The center of the family is the woman. For that reason, this is the women’s era. Therefore, the Women’s Federation for World Peace is an indispensable and important aspect of the dispensational future, during this year and the next year. That is because the mother must bring Cain and Abel into true unity. The tribal Messiah comes there and teaches. So the entire membership has the goal of perfecting your own tribal Messiahship. Each one of you has that mission and goal. Do you understand? (Yes.) Yes or no? (Yes!)</p>
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<p>The satanic lineup has been completely demolished now. Only the heavenly lineup exists. The victory will come from the family level and will spread throughout the world. Ultimately, True Love and the unified ideal shall be accomplished. This is the kingdom of heaven. This is the formula for erecting the kingdom of heaven on earth: plus and minus on the unified foundation. On that center of True Love, subject and object combine into one. True Love is the big plus. This is the formula way for re-creation. Is this clear? (Yes!)</p>
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<p>Everything follows this formula, not just on the universal level, but on every level. You are taking in freely all the blessings which God has given to you. What are you doing this morning? You are breathing the very air which God has given to you. You washed your face and drank water this morning. Who gave it to you? God gave it to you. You are going to eat your breakfast, then your lunch, and so forth. Who gave you that food? God gave it to you. Look at the beautiful sunlight coming down on you. All these are the universal blessings which you are the recipients of. You cannot become a thief and just take these things. Once your entire life’s purpose is centered upon the attainment of True love, when you are centered upon becoming the object of True Love, then you are entitled to partake of all these blessings from God. Then you deserve them. God shall become your subject, your direct Father, your own relation.</p>
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<p>Centered on True Love, combine in unification and one body. That is the ideal woman, man, ideal family, all connecting there, all the way to the ideal world. Amen! (Applause.)</p>
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<p>For that reason, Father now has the most ambitious and extraordinary plan to do a final tour of the United States in the month of May. You must have heard by now that Father’s speaking schedule will begin on May 13th. Mother has an even longer schedule which begins on May 20th. Father and Mother will declare this and then Father can go away from the United States free. His mission will be done. Then this nation will be in your hands. Your hands! Father may go to Russia and to Red China. Also, he may go see Kim Il Sung. This is not the end for Father. I am not ready for a vacation. Father must invite God to Russia, invite God to Red China, and invite God to Kim Il Sung. Amen? (Amen!)</p>
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<p>Let us now make this pledge to Father. Father has suffered to come this far. True Parents have had to go through much suffering. When you did not know about the truth, you had an excuse not to fulfill it, since you were ignorant. But today you cannot say that you don’t know, because you have been taught. You know the truth. Now can you make this pledge before Father: “Even though I may have to suffer ten or a hundred times, even a thousand times greater than what Father went through, I shall continue and become the champion, the winner. I shall bring victory to God and True Parents.” Those who make that pledge, please stand up. Those who make that pledge, please say, “Yes, Father!” This time, raise your hands in a fist and shout it out three times, “Yes, Father!”</p>
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<p>God bless you!</p>
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title: "TRUE PARENTS' 1993 AMERICAN SPEAKING TOUR CELEBRATION"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">August 1, 1993<br />
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East Garden<br />
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Translator – Peter Kim</h3>
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<p>Following reports given by Peter Kim, James Baughman and Dong Moon Joo regarding Mother’s speaking tour in America and speech on Capitol Hill, Father spoke.</p>
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<p>Now Father is going to give the general conclusion.</p>
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<p>Nobody knows whether America is going to prosper or perish. Therefore, Reverend Moon is the only one who can bring about a revival of American Christianity, bringing it to a greater level than where it was right after World War II. As you probably remember, when Father spoke in those first twelve major cities, toward the end of the speech Father mentioned the failure of America and the difficulties that America is facing today. At the end of one paragraph he said, “We must prevent this.” Then Father said, “I must save America.” Do you remember that particular sentence? Then when Mother took the podium, she said, “We must save America.” When Mother said “we,” she meant Father and Mother together. That is the heavenly side, so that is the dividing line. If the American people follow the heavenly side, they will be saved. If they go another way, they will perish.</p>
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<p>There may be many Christian ministers who have spiritual insight and experience, yet none of them knows where America is heading. They do not know what will be the heavenly destiny or fate of America. Heavenly fate – we call that Chun Un in Korean. Only True Father knows heavenly fate. Therefore, unless worldwide Christianity follows the teachings of Divine Principle, they will never figure out how to solve all the problems of life. Even Unification Church members in general do not understand that in depth. Your understanding is shallow. You understand the history of restoration and how history has been moving, but your understanding is too shallow for you to fully understand the value of True Parents from God’s point of view. The difference between God’s point of view and your understanding is too big.</p>
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<p>When it comes to the value and the position of True Parents, we must understand that even Almighty God has been desiring this ever since He started his creation of the universe. Before and after the Fall of Man took place, God has sought after the True Parents. That is what we have to understand. Even before the creation of the world, God wanted to have True Parents.</p>
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<p>Scientists say that human history goes back as much as 250 million years. But no matter what the time period may be, whether it is 6,000 years or 250 million years, God has been seeking the ideal of True Parents the entire time. Therefore, God inspired the creation of the major religious movements throughout history. First, the chosen people of Israel and the religion of Judaism; second, Christianity, the second Israel; and finally, the third Israelites centering on True Parents and the Unification movement. The consistent goal has been to find True Parents. When we look at the history of the Old Testament period and the New Testament era, we see that goal was never realized. They all failed. Nobody succeeded; nobody satisfied God.</p>
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<p>Also, right after World War II, there was a chance the chosen nation of the United States, centering on Christianity, could have fulfilled the goal of God. But even at that time, the world failed. This is something which nobody knows. The New Testament era is the extension of the Old Testament era, and just as they failed in Israel at the time of Jesus Christ, this new Christian nation of America also failed. After 4,000 years of restoration history from the time of Adam and Eve, God could finally send Jesus Christ to save humanity. Think about how badly God’s heart was broken when Jesus was crucified. After Israel failed to believe in Jesus, the entire world was again divided into two spheres representing body and mind. Therefore, Jesus decided to give us salvation on the spiritual level. That salvation has continued, yet our body has been the prey of Satan. That is why so many martyrs and prophets were persecuted and killed throughout the history of Christianity, some being thrown to the lions, others crucified, and so forth.</p>
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<p>God wanted to re-establish the second Israelite foundation. That was the significance of World War II. Through World War II, God wanted to bring about the unified world centered on Christianity, including the political field and the religious field. In doing that, God wanted to see the foundation established in this physical world. Otherwise, there would have had to be another war and more bloodshed to restore the physical realm, the substantial foundation. Still, this Christian civilization must be linked to the Second Coming, which is True Parents.</p>
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<p>Then what or who is True Parents? They came from the point where there was nothing. From nowhere, the True Parents will appear out of the blue, as an individual. What is the purpose of the True Parents? Their sole purpose is giving True Love to the world and securing the seed of True Love. That is True Parents’ entire effort. So, the True Parents bring True Love and the True Love seed, the True Children.</p>
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<p>Then who needs True Love, man or woman? You say both, but when we are speaking about men, we are talking about those men out there in the secular world, the archangelic men. The archangel doesn’t have any partnership, and he cannot partake of the love relationship. A True Love relationship can be made only when the perfected Adam position is fulfilled. Perfected Adam means the position of True Father. Who is meant to be the love partner of the True Father, a woman or a man? A Woman, absolutely a woman. The Christian world is in the position of bride, which is the feminine position. Christianity is the bride’s church. Christianity’s main responsibility is to fulfill the bride position centered on the second Messiah. The bridegroom is a man.</p>
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<p>There is only one set of original True Parents, not two or more. There is only one True Father, absolutely only one. There is only one woman called True Mother, absolutely only one. Together they became the True Parents, the real ideal couple, fulfilling God’s original ideal of creation.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, there was a failure. Who failed? It was the Americans, centered on Christianity. As you know, at the time of Jesus Christ the Israelites failed in their responsibility because they believed the Bible literally. They believed it word for word, so they were waiting to see the prophet Elijah coming down from heaven in a chariot. However, who came as the Elijah at that time? It was John the Baptist. If Elijah actually had come in the way the people were expecting – in a flaming chariot from the sky – Jesus would not have had to go to the cross. The people could much more easily have followed Jesus. They believed, “Our Messiah will come right after Elijah comes back in his chariot from heaven.”</p>
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<p>The New Testament is an extension of the Old Testament. Just as the first Israelites of the Old Testament were waiting for the literal return of Elijah from the sky, today’s Christians are waiting for the literal return of Jesus Christ in the clouds of the sky. If Elijah had arrived in that dramatic manner and had told the Israelite people that Jesus Christ was their Messiah, everybody certainly would have followed Jesus. By the same token, if Jesus Christ came down to the earth in such a dramatic manner as Christians are expecting, then no one would doubt that he was the Second Coming. But God isn’t working that way. Because of the Fall of Man, the ideal man was lost; the completion of human beings was lost on earth. Therefore, when the True Father appears centered on True Love and connects people to True Love, this will be the salvation of human beings. But many people cannot believe this.</p>
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<p>We must understand that John the Baptist did not truly believe Jesus was the Messiah, and because of that, the Jewish people and the entire nation of Israel failed in their mission. That is why Jesus had to go out into the wilderness for three years – to pay indemnity on the family level. He went to set his own family foundation. However, there wasn’t even one single woman on Jesus’ side, upon whom he could totally rely. The entire country and the people of Israel were cut off from him. If you women had been there at that time, perhaps one of you could have married Jesus.</p>
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<p>How miserable must Jesus have been? Many Christians think, “I am an American, a number one bride of Jesus.” But when Jesus was alive, there wasn’t even one woman who could take that position. Jesus needed only one woman who was united with God and Jesus on the heavenly side. But that one woman was not available. Everybody knew that Jesus was the illegitimate son of Mary. Israel was a small country and everybody knew these kinds of things. Also, he worked as a carpenter, and that was considered a lowly job. No parents would welcome that kind of son-in-law. If Jesus could have gone to Israel and connected with the high-level people, he would have been successful. But without the people and parents to support him, this was impossible.</p>
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<p>Think about it. When Jesus was twelve years old, he went to Jerusalem with Mary and Joseph. His parents left him behind and went back home without him. When they came back, surprised to find him in the temple, he said, “Didn’t you know that I would be in this place?” How could they do this? Joseph and Mary argued all the time centering on Jesus: “Whose son is he?” At that time Jewish law considered it okay to stone to death a person who committed adultery. This is a serious concept.</p>
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<p>Jesus was in the Abel position and John was in the Cain position. How were Mary and Zechariah’s family to unify? How were Cain and Abel to make unity? That was the parents’ mission. That was the mission of the house of Zechariah. Otherwise, there would be no Cain, and no woman. Jesus and John were like brothers. They were to restore brotherhood. Mary and Elizabeth were sisters. Who was Jesus’ father? (Zechariah.) How do you know? (You told us.) I didn’t tell you that! (Laughter.) So John the Baptist and Jesus had the same father.</p>
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<p>This is a problem. Israel at that time had a law that children of the same father could not marry. This relationship is incest. Mary had sexual intercourse with the husband of her sister. Elizabeth invited Mary, then Mary made that love relationship. That was how Jesus was conceived. John the Baptist was supposed to follow Jesus as the Messiah, and then he was supposed to offer his own sister to be the bride of Jesus. Zechariah was supposed to understand that point, too, but he did not. Elizabeth did not permit it. Even Mary forsook her position. So how could Jesus obtain his bride? Where was she going to come from? God had worked for thousands of years to bring together Cain and Abel, then finally within one tribe there was one chance to make the preparation. Where would Jesus get his bride? This was the problem.</p>
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<p>In the Christian world, America is in the bride’s position. We see the phenomenon of incest occurring in the American family. From the status of experiencing this sin, they have to make restitution by paying indemnity. The American family somehow has to restore good home life, so that God can have a relationship with the family centering on the Second Advent. But America is the bride’s nation, although it still doesn’t understand.</p>
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<p>America is going down into the dungeon of hell. This is our modern society. It is Satan’s work to prevent the accomplishment of God’s ideal purpose. Simply speaking, that ideal purpose is for man’s mind and body to become unified centering on True Love. Without centering on True Love, a unified mind and body cannot be achieved. A perfected man and woman with that unified mind and body move on to the family level purpose centering on True Love. Parents appear there, as children are born centering on God’s love. This is God’s original ideal. The Kingdom of Heaven will come about when this perfection is expanded to the nation and then the world. This is clear.</p>
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<p>After World War II, America as the bride’s nation did not connect with True Father. This secret was made clear. After that, God’s restoration viewpoint must be made clear, otherwise Satan will cause everything to collapse. All the Christian world should follow the truth, ultimately connecting to the Messiah; but America did not understand and instead went completely to Satan’s side. You lost grandparents, parents, couples, children – all those realms of relationship were lost. Why? After World War II, Reverend Moon was chased out. Only one man was so important. The whole Christian world was led by one nation, America – but it failed. The purpose of this nation was to meet the Messiah; that is why they were in the leading position. It was the same as Jesus’ time. In Jesus’ time, the family and everything was lost, and he had to go out into the wilderness. The Christian world rejected Reverend Moon rather than follow him. God’s viewpoint is that Reverend Moon is the Second Advent, no matter how much others go against him. He climbed up from the individual to the family, nation, world, and cosmic level to reach God. God and Reverend Moon are one. You cannot connect the individual to God just anytime you like. Why not? Because of Satan. The individual, family, nation, world and cosmos have belonged to Satan. Many barriers exist and people could not go through them. Reverend Moon had to fight and break through on every level. All the secular people came against Reverend Moon. I endured that. All secular humankind under the dominion of Satan came together to oppose Reverend Moon. All families opposed me. How can God excuse that?</p>
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<p>America represented the bride’s nation. It was to connect with the whole free world, which is in Cain’s position. The Christian church represented Abel’s position. When Abel and Cain unify, then they can unite with Eve’s position. The national foundation would then have been secured. America, France and Great Britain were to combine into one. Then they could have gone to God, centered on Adam and Eve. Immediately they would have experienced True Father’s ideal. That individual would have connected to the family and tribe, and within seven years would have made complete unity with no problem. At the time of the Second Advent, the action you take is so important.</p>
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<p>In the home, Eve as the mother has to unite the children. All women have to unite Cain and Abel in this time. Father and Mother made the national foundation in this time. All women combine their Cain and Abel and create a unifying activity. That is the women’s organization. Now the archangel’s position can be restored, centering on Mother.</p>
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<p>In the fallen world, the archangel has occupied Eve. We have to make restoration. After World War II, the foundation for restoration was completed through the Unification Church. Woman is the housewife, do you understand? By connecting their husband and their children, they are connecting the whole world. After that, Satan will lose his world-level foundation.</p>
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<p>Right now, as you can see, America is full of free sex, homosexuality and incest. If America had accepted the Messiah right after World War II, these problems wouldn’t have invaded. Now Father has sent Mother out on her nationwide speaking tour so that she could set the foundation, just as John the Baptist and Jesus’ mother should have set the foundation. American people must understand how wrong and destructive free sex and homosexuality are. They are the very reason the world is falling into the dungeon of hell. If God truly exists, if God is alive, why has He been maintaining this world – to become this rotten? If you want to save someone who is drowning, you have to jump into the water, don’t you? Adam and Eve took a certain path and that is why all of humankind is now taking the same path, going through this course. To heal these wounds, to correct that error, we have to go down to the root of the problem and fix it there.</p>
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<p>This is the Principle, the secret which people cannot see. Reverend Moon is the only person who knows all the secrets . That’s why Father asked Mother to go out. It is like putting her out in quicksand, just setting her down in a swamp. That is how I put her out. There is a hidden secret. Nobody understands how difficult it was for Father to raise Mother up to this point.</p>
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<p>Father has taught you everything. That’s why Satan has been desperate to destroy God’s will, God’s ideal, even to destroy the mind and body of human beings. There is no family concept, no concept of a united nation in the world. But now God is telling Satan, “Well, you have done everything you could. You destroyed the family, the nation, and all morality. What else do you have left to destroy? Go ahead and do whatever you can.” That is the stage which Satan has reached.</p>
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<p>Do the Unification Church members like free sex? (NO!) How strongly do you say no? (Absolutely NO!) Absolutely no. We must uphold the absolute plus forever.</p>
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<p>This is not a childish matter. It is most serious. God is so serious. You Americans think, “Reverend Moon came here and is teaching us the Eastern way,” but that is not the case. Reverend Moon is teaching God’s way, not the Eastern world’s way. Who can save this world? You have to take your position more seriously now. Father has been connecting to God every day, day and night, for his whole lifetime. You must learn how to connect with God also.</p>
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<p>Finding the True Parents is the most precious of all historical victories. However, True Parents lost the foundation which was established right after World War II, and it took forty years to restore that foundation. Finally, Father sent Mother out to do her nationwide speaking tour, re-establish this foundation, and expose these heavenly secrets to the world. All these points finally manifested with the proclamation of True Parents and the Completed Testament Age.</p>
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<p>If there were an option of buying True Parents, how much money do you think you would have to pay? Even if you gave your life, even if you gave the lives of your entire country, of America or Japan, or even the lives of every person in this world, you could not buy True Parents. To give True Parents is a privilege which only True Parents have, nobody else. That only belongs to True Parents. True Parents are leading their lives centered on True Love for the sake of True Children and the entirety of humanity, not just for you individually. Everything begins from one word: True. True individuality and the way to the true world: that is the life course of True Parents. If True Parents had even the slightest inclination of manipulating the American people, then the True Parents’ foundation would be destroyed. There is nobody like True Parents in this world. You can never find anyone else like them. Also, from God’s point of view, even if somebody had something which is exchangeable with True Parents, God is not going to sell True Parents. God doesn’t need money, God doesn’t need knowledge, God doesn’t need anything like that.</p>
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<p>Your wealth, your children and even your own body do not belong to you. All those things should belong to True Parents. As long as you have the attitude of self-ownership, including your wealth, including your children, then you can’t be grafted completely into True Parents’ lineage. Suppose Father asked all the blessed husbands to march into North Korea for God’s purpose. If you wives told your husband, “Don’t go,” then you would be satanic at that point. Do you understand this point? The recreation process takes place only through absolute obedience. Father is like the potter, the person who molds the pots out of clay. If you, as the clay, don’t have absolute obedience, then it is as if you are hard as a rock and he can’t mold you into the shape he wishes. You shouldn’t become a stone or a rock. Ask yourself honestly and frankly, how many times did you doubt Father, wondering who Father really is? How many times have you asked yourself, “Is Reverend Moon really the True Parent? Is he really the Messiah?” Didn’t you have that question in your mind from time to time? Does Divine Principle teach you that? Think about it. Why do we claim to be the children of True Parents, yet allow that doubt in our minds? The True Parents still have to show total trust and belief in us. How miserable is their heart! So, first we must know ourselves.</p>
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<p>The position of True Parents is the position which God was seeking even before the creation of mankind. Even before they claim their parenthood over us, True Parents must establish their own foundation as the children of God. Only when True Parents reached the perfection level could they claim themselves as the parents of humanity.</p>
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<p>Actually, after World War II, there was a time when Father could have started building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. However, because of the failure of American Christianity, we lost the spiritual foundation as well as the physical foundation. Therefore, Father had to walk the course of indemnity for forty years, in order to reestablish the foundation for spiritual salvation. Therefore, Father went up to the spirit world. He had to unify the entire spirit world first. Then he brought that foundation to the earth and set the foundation here. Father had to establish his substantial, physical foundation for salvation here at the same time that he was working in spirit world, so it was more difficult. That’s why Father had to fight America and communism at the same time. And he won the victory.</p>
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<p>The problem of free sex still exists all over the world. Of course, Father won the victory over that spiritually, too, but because of the physical fall we are still suffering from it. We still have to fight and win over that. To do so, we must eliminate the problems of homosexuality and free sex in America.</p>
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<p>As you recall, when President Bush was in office he declared a war against drug abuse in this country. At that time, if he had had the courage to place that entire project in Father’s hands, Father would have cleaned up the entire country a long time ago. Suppose the entire country had given Father two months to do this. Father could have taught the people about who is actually behind the drugs which are coming in, who is actually trying to destroy this country with drugs. Once Americans truly understood the reality of Satan, and how he has been manipulating people by using drugs and alcohol, do you think they would still fall victim to those things? They need to understand the truth. Once they clearly know the dividing line between the eternal Kingdom of Heaven and eternal hell, and which path to take to get to which one, they will never choose the wrong path.</p>
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<p>The question is, how precious is the name of True Parents? We must hold it as very precious. The only desire of True Parents is to save the whole of humanity. Therefore, our mission is to go out and reach every single person. Even if we have broken, split lips. Even if our tongues become swollen from speaking. We have to work to that extent to restore fallen parents and link them to True Parents so that they can receive Blessing. That is the way we can save them.</p>
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<p>Therefore, we must understand how precious is the title of tribal messiah, which we have received from True Parents. When you look at True Parents’ life course, you see that Father had to abandon his own physical family, all his relatives and even his own country in order to fulfill his mission as the Messiah. But Father doesn’t want to see us, as tribal messiahs, go through the same difficulties. Therefore, Father is giving us this precious opportunity to go back to our home towns to witness and bring our parents and relatives back to God. Father’s course was to leave his home, but in our case we are going back home.</p>
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<p>The major difference between Father’s life course and our life course is that Father’s course was one of indemnity. He received persecution on all eight different levels. But our course is not as difficult as that.</p>
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<p>We are seeking happiness. We can go home and share this with our parents and tribe and become the victors there. Through blood lineage parents can never give up on their children, no matter what circumstances you get into. Once True Parents’ name – True Father’s name and True Mother’s name – is recognized, even if your parents are negative now, they will turn around and accept you and support and pray for your work. The time has come that your entire tribe can get ready to be registered among the heavenly tribes. As we accumulate the different tribes, we will establish the national level. Can we change the blood lineage relationship between parents and children? What can change the blood relationship between parents and children? Nothing and nobody. By the same token, when it comes to messiahship, it is not just ordinary destiny. It is fate. There is no option to change. Even after you die, you have to follow that course, just like Jesus Christ. Even after he died on the cross, he waited until now, when through True Parents, he could come back again and he go his course again. That was his fate.</p>
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<p>You must also understand that the Kingdom of Heaven is where your entire family and your tribe enter together. You as an individual cannot go there. This is the viewpoint of Principle.</p>
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<p>As Father told you earlier, Jesus Christ told his mother Mary indirectly or directly at least three times that he had to get married. You may remember the time when Jesus was hungry. He went to the house where there was a big celebration and when he entered, he happened to see Mary working there. Mary told Jesus, “By the way Jesus, we have run out of wine. I heard that you are doing a lot of miracles these days, so why don’t you help us out and fill up these big containers with wine? Can you perform that miracle for us?” Jesus was really angry and said, “Woman, what kind of relationship do you have with me? I don’t have anything to do with you.” Do you know what that means? He was saying, “You have totally forgotten about your own son’s marriage, yet you can go to your relative’s house and help them with their wedding!”</p>
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<p>You have heard Father’s words. Think about this point. Father talks about this correctly. Jesus had a problem with his parents’ house. Nobody has known about these points. They are secret contents, but Reverend Moon has been teaching these things right here on the earth. After you hear these things, spirit world says to you, “What shall you do?” People have said I am a heretic. Who passes judgment? Only God. The Christian world itself has been acting in a heretical way. Twenty million or more people die each year. Those people go into hell. Since the end of World War II, then, over two billion people who have gone to hell. When they get to spirit world, Christians will be accused, “You went against Reverend Moon. And the result of that is that we had to go to hell.” How can they escape that accusation? They will say, “We didn’t know.” That is the way America has been heading. How can God forgive this country? God has been crying. What a miserable situation this is for God. Losing, losing, He has only been losing by following human society.</p>
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<p>From now all Christians are going to hell. They have to pay more indemnity. How can we save the earth? No matter how difficult it may be for Christians to lose their position, they will, because I can defeat them anytime, anywhere. You have to take that attitude. We have to repent before the original American people. Don’t forget it. Those under forty-seven years old belong to me. President Clinton is under forty-seven. He represents the bad presidents of United States history. How can he digest this? By following me. Reverend Moon is the most serious man. You have to have this concept.</p>
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<p>Now Father may return to Korea, and he will probably go from there to China, Russia and even North Korea. He may not come back to America. Father has many countries in the world where he is being warmly welcomed, even being encouraged to live. One is Russia and one is China; even North Korea and other countries wait to welcome Father. They are not like America, where Father is still being opposed, even though Father does everything for the sake of this country. America has over 220 million people and they are all enjoying the so-called “individualism.” Think about each individual as a button. In this country 240 million buttons have to be pressed. But in Russia and China, there are not so many buttons to press. Even in North Korea, it takes pressing only one button for the entire country to be affected. Now Father is a free man.</p>
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<p>Please write down these specific directions which Father is giving you today. As you know, Father came home this morning at 2:00 a.m. Of course, this morning is Sunday and the first day of the month, so from 4:00 a.m. forward, he has been awake. Also, he spoke for many hours this morning at Belvedere. While several of you were giving reports on Mother’s speaking tour, Father and Mother were listening upstairs without missing even a single word, yet Father came down here with written directions for everybody. Father and Mother left this room because he knew that many of those who were giving reports would want to praise Father and Mother. You might have felt awkward or embarrassed, so that’s why they stepped out of the room, to give you more freedom to do that. (Applause)</p>
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<p>So write down these directions. July 31 through August 1, 1993. That’s the date. Roman Numeral One (I): Time for the religion of True Parents, or True Parents’ religion. That is because everybody needs True Parents. Buddhists, Confucianists, Muslims and everybody else needs True Parents. Isn’t that true?</p>
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<p>Now, the small number one under Roman Numeral One, is that from July 31 to August 1 is the time that we restore the elder sonship which we lost forty years ago. If the Unification Church is in the position of Abel, then Christianity is in the position of Cain.</p>
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<p>small number two: Now Mother will begin a speaking tour in Japan, which is the Eve country. After her victory here, the entire country of America, which is in the position of archangel, will work with Mother in absolute unity. Mother is now moving on to Japan, the Eve country, to do a speaking tour there. All the members here and Christianity here should be praying together and working together to support Mother’s speaking tour in Japan.</p>
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<p>small number three: The speaking tour in the Adam country, Korea. That stands on the foundation of victory in America, the archangel country, and victory in the Eve country of Japan.</p>
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<p>small number four: After the victory of the speaking tour in Korea, Mother will move on to the speaking tour to save the entire Asian continent. In other words, one, two, three, four. Four is unifying the Abel countries in the Asian continent.</p>
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<p>On the foundation of establishing unity among the Abel countries on the Asian continent, we go to small number five: Unifying the Cain-type countries in the West. Then after that, small number six: We have to spread the headwing ideology and Godism to the entire world. That’s the time we have to bequeath this inheritance to the world. So that is the time of the completion of Pal Jong Shik, which Father declared three years ago: the vertical eight levels and the horizontal eight levels. That’s the way we can attain liberation.</p>
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<p>This is the responsibility, or the course, we have to fulfill in this particular time of the True Parents’ religion. Up until now, our church has been called the Unification Church. But we may call it True Parents Church from now on. (Applause) Think about how much persecution the Unification Church has received. Therefore, the name of Unification Church may be the Cain-type name, but True Parents Church may be the Abel-type name.</p>
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<p>Even though the new blessed name, True Parents Church, has been granted by True Parents, we are still living in the Unification Church time period. Blessed couples are supposed to belong to True Parents church, but if we don’t do our responsibility, we still belong to the Unification Church. Unblessed members in particular still belong to the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Now our movement will be divided in two. One of those two will be the “Women’s Church.” The other… headwing ideology means that from a father and mother you make everything one: It is the time of completion of the Pal Jong Shik. When the time comes, all the records that have been kept related to the satanic world may be burned and eradicated. Think about the confusion and difficulty we are facing because of the world’s different nations, different cultures and different languages. If human beings had developed without committing the fall, humankind would have been part of only one culture, the Adamic culture. It would have been simple. We would go in only a one direction, with no zig-zags or complications.</p>
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<p>Roman Numeral Two (II): Time for the Settlement of the Family with Children. When we talk about settlement of the family with children, we are talking about True Parents’ direct lineage, the True Children, and children from the satanic world. Small number one under Roman Numeral II: Time for the responsibility of the mother, or housewife.</p>
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<p>small number two: the responsibility of children. The unity of Cain and Abel must be built. Think about the history of humanity. How many times did Cain and Abel division have to occur in order to continue God’s dispensation? So many people were sacrificed, and there were all kinds of difficulties. We must not repeat the same course. There should be unity between Cain and Abel now. That’s why even now when you go to certain villages, you will still see Cain-type people and Abel-type people. They are still divided. Of course, the final winner of that situation will be Abel, the one who is more willing to give himself for the sake of others, for the entire village. In other words, those people who are more sacrificial will win out. That is how unity is possible.</p>
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<p>Again, the time for the children means Cain and Abel unity. Only upon the foundation of the completion of the mother and the completion of the children through Cain and Abel unity can the father be restored. That’s small number three: the father, or the position of husband. Small number three: is the restoration of father, or husband, from the mother’s point of view.</p>
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<p>small number four: Time for that family to become one with the True Parents’ family. Then the time for re-blessing of your children and your families. That is the way that we will follow from now on. We have to understand that the restoration of the father and the husband is the completion of Cain and Abel unity, and is also the restoration of the mother-figure in each family. Upon that foundation, now we can see number three:</p>
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<p>Roman Numeral Three (III): Time for making all the Blessed couples worldwide into true parents, or “becoming true parents”. It is time for every Blessed couple to become true parents.</p>
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<p>small number one: All Blessed wives must inherit the tradition of True Mother. In order to become true parents, you must inherit the tradition of True Mother. What tradition of True Mother which you must inherit? Including last year’s speeches, Mother will give over 262 speeches before the end of this year. So Mother still has a long way to go. It is as if Mother is giving birth to all humanity. This is the pain of giving birth. Therefore, as Blessed wives, you must go through the same course, the rebirth process, which is painful, in your own territory. You are not on the same level as Mother, but on your own level you must do the same thing. That is the way you inherit the tradition of True Mother.</p>
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<p>You have to make it your daily philosophy to give new birth to the young people in your hometown, or even your husband – whomever you meet. You have to save them. You must do that in the same way Mother is performing, as the living holy spirit to give new birth to all humanity. You must do that every day, without skipping a day. That is the way you can establish family-level messiahship.</p>
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<p>small number two: That is the way you must give new birth to your family and to your tribe. As a tribal messiah, you must give birth to your family and tribe, and make them one, totally one. That is the responsibility of True Mother. You have to bequeath that for the sake of your family and your tribe. We have to indemnify the failure of Adam’s family and Jesus Christ’s family. In other words, upon the completion of the Old Testament age and the New Testament age, we can stand as the tribal messiah in this Completed Testament age.</p>
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<p>Under III, small number three: At least twelve different tribes must unite and establish a people’s nation. Then you can go toward sovereignty, establishing a nation. One tribe can’t establish a nation. So you have to belong to one of those twelve major tribes, or the 72 elders. That’s the way organization will take place. One Blessed couple won’t make it. You need cooperation with other tribes.</p>
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<p>Then, centering upon that people consisting of all the different tribes, establish the nation. That’s small number four.</p>
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<p>Then, small number five: Oneness between the nation and the world; making the nation and the world one. That’s the time that nations can no longer have any concept of an enemy. Instead, we will all have brotherly relationships. That’s the way the entire world will become one. Among the nations we will have only brotherly relationships; there will be no more enemy concepts or enemy relations.</p>
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<p>And then, small number six: The unity between the world and the cosmos. This world is just the horizontal world, but we must also bring down the vertical world and combine the two. Then, the entire cosmos and God must become one. That’s small number seven.</p>
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<p>Roman Numeral Four (IV): Time for the eternal ideal family. Oneness of mind and body centered on True Love. Because we haven’t become totally one between mind and body, we have to train ourselves to sacrifice just like God has been doing, over and over. Therefore, our prayer must be focused on making our minds and bodies one, just as Father has been his whole life long. Until now, even if our mind wanted to go in a certain direction, the body always resisted and took a deviated direction. But now the time will come in which once our mind is set in a direction, the body will follow and obey. Once you can practice this, with your mind setting the direction and your body automatically following, you will have wisdom. When you work on a certain project, you will know what to expect: when you will finish it, what will be coming next, etc. That is how you will know what position and what direction to take in following God’s will.</p>
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<p>In the process of following this way, if your mind is not really clear, still your body will lead your mind without making a mistake. That’s why we must unify our mind and body. We must not have two minds. If you go back to a self-centered way of thinking, then you can have even five or ten different minds. But if you have set your goal and are determined to live your life for the sake of all humanity just as God does, then there are no two minds, only one. It takes about three to five years to train yourself to unify your mind and body totally.</p>
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<p>Once you have total unity between mind and body, suppose you meet a stranger. You will be able to read that person’s mind. If that person is someone you shouldn’t be dealing with, even if you are walking toward him, your body will automatically turn in another direction. Your mind and body will clearly know that if you keep going, you will lose something. That’s how Father knows everything, even without praying. Immediately when Father encounters a certain person or situation, Father knows which direction he must take. Once you have that total mind and body unity, then you can consider yourself a great man or woman.</p>
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<p>The definition of physical death, in a way, is to transfer oneself from this physical world’s train track to the spirit world’s track. Let’s compare the differences between this world and the spirit world. How superior, how much more exciting is the spirit world! You can’t describe it. You don’t have to worry about living situations such as eating, wearing clothes, or housing; you have no worries about clothes, housing or food. Of course, you can have a house there, you can have clothing, you can have food, whatever you want. But everybody will be on a level corresponding to their level of achievement of True Love on earth. To the level you achieved, the entire environment of the spirit world will provide for you – but only to that extent, according to the level you reached on earth.</p>
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<p>How free it is in the spirit world and what a life you can have! Even if you are sleeping in the spirit world and your body needs nutrition or some food, your body will take you to a place where you can have food – while you are still sleeping. I don’t know if we understand that, but that kind of freedom will be there, even while you are sleeping. Of course, while you are eating you have to open your eyes, but you can do anything at the same time – whatever you want. Take food for example. You may desire bananas, avocados, you name it, and they just immediately appear in front of you to eat. Whatever is left over goes back to the original source which formed these different fruits. There is no waste there. Fantastic, isn’t it?</p>
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<p>You must mature, you must fulfill your life here. You must form your character here as a human being. This is where it must be done, not in the spirit world. Spirit world is like a warehouse. There is no growth there. Whatever growth you reach here will be stored there. Then you can enjoy whatever you achieved in this world. You don’t realize, you can’t imagine how much the people in the spirit world are yearning for Father to come there and join them, because Father is the one who can help people in the spirit world. They have been separated up to this point. No matter who they might have been, there is separation between children and parents, husband and wife, and so forth. But now, because Father has made this foundation in the physical world, Father can expand the foundation into the spirit world. Then the people will once again have union between husband and wife, children and parents. They will be able to unite as families, tribes and nations there. That’s how they can be registered as heavenly citizens, citizens of the eternal Kingdom of Heaven. It is awesome.</p>
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<p>That place is our home, our eternal and ideal home country. That’s the world we will live in, transcending the concepts of time and space. It doesn’t matter; even if it takes a hundred light years, we will just go there in a second. Think about it and you are there. This entire universe must have a rounded shape, like the earth, so there must be an end to it. From one end to the other, it won’t take even one second to travel the distance. If your loving spouse is at the other end, it won’t take even one-tenth of a second for you to get there. It will be as you wish.</p>
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<p>Don’t you think there must be stars made entirely of diamond in the spirit world? Big stars! Well, there might be a star that is not 100% diamond, but maybe it is 80% diamond. (Laughter) Not only diamond, but even gold, sapphire, ruby, whatever, you name it. You can have it. If there is a large enough amount of gold in a star, you can mold it, play with it, do with it as you wish. Even deep down inside of the star, you can reach in and pull it out. You can go down into the center and touch it to enjoy that gold. Wherever the gold might lie, you can go right there.</p>
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<p>When you understand all these facts, do you want to live in this limited world with your limited physical body, or do you prefer to go on to your unlimited life in spirit world? You want to live there, without any limitations, of course. You can do anything, everything, there are no boundaries. It takes only one step to reach your destination, no matter how far the distance may be. In other words, you live in the state of crazy love. That means you have to train yourselves. You Blessed wives, for instance, you miss your husband when he is gone for just one single day. You have to be able to cry three times a day because you miss him so much! That much you should be desperately missing your husband. When you have that desperate love feeling, how can you even take a nap? Why do you need to study? Why should you need money? Why do you need power? The original nature is living in perfect harmony with love. Even if you are starving and don’t have enough food, you can get by with just one piece of bread the whole day. You can always sing together, you can love each other with no complaints whatsoever. That perfect harmonious family is the standard you will be able to expand to the spirit world.</p>
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<p>What if you reach that level of harmony and life of love? Suppose your spouse’s birthday is today and you want to celebrate it with your entire clan, say the Kim family ancestors. Then you just give a command through your heart, and hundreds of thousands of Kim tribe members will come and celebrate at a banquet together, instantly. You can also tell people to wear a certain color of clothing, or tuxedos, what kind of food they should bring, and what kind of food should be served. Then instantly, preparation will be done and it will be ready.</p>
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<p>Suppose some of those ancestors who come to the banquet are not at the same height or level as you, so they are not enjoying their life so much. If you keep going and continuing like this, then they may enjoy this because of you.</p>
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<p>Just hearing Father’s explanations about these things, you become delirious, don’t you? We are thinking about that world, which is a different world. In terms of the reality here, the original, ideal world of love is an indescribable world, actually. If you truly, truly love your husband, then his mucous will taste like honey to you! (Laughter) Even if you suck your husband’s toe, that will taste like honey, too! Well, you don’t have that kind of life, and that’s why you are laughing. If you truly, truly realize that kind of love, you don’t have to ask your husband to take a bath. It won’t bother you if he stinks. Of course that doesn’t mean that there won’t be bathtubs in the future, but Father is saying that you will be able to transcend mundane thinking.</p>
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<p>Father is asking you now, when you husbands and wives kiss, do you just kiss on the lips, or do you exchange your tongues, too? Which one? (Tongues!) You are experts! It’s fine as long as it takes place between husband and wife in perfect harmony and love conditions. Even if you bite your husband’s tongue and it bleeds a little, or even if you scratch his cheek, or even if you bite some meat out of his hip, it’s not a sin. It will be memorable! (Laughter) No matter how loud you scream and yell, it’s not a crime. Because of your scream, maybe the ceiling will fall down and you’ll be crushed, and die, yet you will go straight to the Kingdom of Heaven! (Laughter)</p>
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<p>Since Father has known all these details and truth, even from the beginning, no matter what kind of opposition he has received, he has felt as it were like bubbles on the water. He knew they would disappear. That is the way Father has been marching forward, straight on, all the way up to this point. Suppose that by the time you go to the spirit world, Father is already there. Don’t you want to be able to call out, “True Father” first? Don’t you want to be able to go directly to him? It all depends upon your level of achievement of love here on earth. If you have set the correct angle of relationship with Father, then you will be able to be close to him. But if that angle is not true, if that level of achievement is not good enough, you won’t even be able to see Father, much less get close to him. Even if you want to go to him, there will be no way.</p>
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<p>If that is the case when you get to spirit world, you will be in such a miserable situation. At that time, you will cry, “I made such a big mistake. Now I will change,” but it will be too late. This earthly life is so precious. Once you are completed here, you can fly there.</p>
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<p>Do you think it was a worthwhile endeavor for Father to give up everything in the world to follow God’s will? Was it worth it or not? Yes, it was worth it. Therefore, do you think Reverend Moon is a smart person or a dumb person? (Smart!) Think about it: Father is so smart that he could figure out the spirit world. Otherwise, there would have been no way.</p>
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<p>The number one key is that you must make your mind and body one, in order to become True Parents (III). Number three, centering on True Love, make your tribe one. Number four, centering on True Love, make your people one. Number five, centering on True Love, make your nation one. That is the order. After that, to create the eternal ideal family, we must have the heavenly tradition.</p>
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<p>Second, follow that heavenly tradition strictly. We must be trained to become one. For training we have both a visible source and invisible source of education. The truth we are learning through the Divine Principle is the visible truth and the invisible truth is spiritual truth. In other words, True Parents are living and visible in this country, so if we really work hard, we can be united with them. However, the invisible source is God. God is the invisible, vertical True Parents – the Creator. We must be able to experience God’s heart. After you reach that level, suppose there is some type of worldwide disaster. God would be able to tell you what to do, just as God tells Father now. You would know, “Oh, something is going to happen someplace because God is so busy now.” You will feel that.</p>
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<p>You always have to correctly set the dial that allows you to tune in to God’s heart. You must keep your mind’s dial always clean, with no static sounds and no noise. Then you can receive all the various spiritual channels. Once your mind is ready to resonate, all the channels will come through and the dial will be set to receive. It is a matter of keeping your mind dial clean and set so it is ready to resonate with the spirit world. Then you can receive it. We must understand that the Unification Church must provide two different sources of education: visible and invisible. That is the way. Once you master that, once you clearly understand it, then you can figure out what Father is doing and what Father’s goal is. That’s the way you can be with Father.</p>
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<p>The next level is, small number three: whatever you learn you must practice. We are not just talking about the horizontal level, but the vertical and all different directions. We have a wide range of practice. With that training in this world, we will become familiar with the spirit world when we go there. What kind of prayer life must we be leading every day? Imagine you really love and serve True Parents and live with them every day, and then suddenly they just disappear. You’ve lost them and you don’t know what happened to them. Think about the desperate heart you would have, how seriously you would look for True Parents. That kind of desperate heart is the heart you should have when you pray to God.</p>
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<p>Once this stage of the fallen world is past, then husband and wife will love each other so much that they will forget about eating, sleeping and all those things. You will become like a spirit person! Each will know what the other is doing when you are apart. So you must pass these three different levels of heart: heart towards your children, towards your spouse, and towards your parents, as I have described. You must experience that desperate heartistic longing for missing love. You must pass those levels or else you can’t get closer to God.</p>
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<p>In the early times of our movement, not just the women but even the men who were the followers of Father would weep in longing, missing True Parents. Their circumstances didn’t allow them to visit Father, so they would just burst into tears of longing for True Parents. Through that desperate heart, Father could guide them spiritually, giving them the right directions and telling them which way to go. We must understand that among Unification Church members who are living on this earth with True Parents, many people are being taught and guided spiritually by True Parents every day. That’s why they know the things that will come. There are many stories like that. Many of the missionaries can give testimonies about such experiences. One missionary was just about to cross a river where there were a lot of alligators and crocodiles. True Father told him spiritually that a certain hour was safe and that he must cross the river at that particular time period, and he did it and was unhurt. We can live together with True Parents spiritually, even if geographically we are separate. If those people who are living together with True Parents spiritually can’t feel their presence for several days, it is like hell for them.</p>
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<p>While you are out on the front line as pioneers or missionaries, True Parents may guide you spiritually in this dramatic way. But once you go back to your hometown, Father won’t necessarily do that. Why? As long as you are standing on the front line as a pioneer to do the spiritual work as Father has described, you have that connection. But if you just settle down and start to live for your own sake in some quiet and comfortable place, it won’t happen. That’s why Father has been pushing himself to the extreme on the front line. By the same token, Father has pushed Mother to be on the front line and to go through that experience.</p>
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<p>If Father keeps teaching you about the reality of the spirit world, people may criticize and say, “Well, who really knows? Nobody has seen spirit world and now Reverend Moon is brainwashing his followers.” But is this good brainwashing, or is it bad? It is good, very good. When you say that it means you are half crazy! But you are on the right track; your road is straight. Life within the Unification Church is preparation for the eternal world. We must never forget that. No matter how well you live your daily life, you won’t live in this world for more than a hundred years or so. Do you understand this?</p>
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<p>In order for us to prepare to enter the eternal, ideal realm in the spirit world, we must remember these three steps, three elements: tradition, education, and practice. What kind of tradition? Heavenly tradition. Exactly taking after True Parents, following their exact footsteps. And education? True Love education, which Father and Mother have shown us. Then practice – again, by following True Parents’ footsteps step by step and going through these different levels of True Love. Suppose you belonged to a certain village and there were many different situations, but one terrible situation arises which requires painful, unpleasant work. You must volunteer your services to clean up that mess, whether physical or spiritual. Clean up the worst mess of that village.</p>
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<p>The final direction from Father today is, may God be with you eternally, Amen! (Amen!)</p>
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<p>One more point: if we strictly follow as Father taught and directed today, our life will follow the direction which Father is leading us. However, if you follow your own judgment, your own direction, you will go in a way with which Father doesn’t have anything to do. Do you understand? Strictly following Father’s direction is not going to be an easy path.</p>
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<p>Shall we all stand up and do kyung be to True Parents? Father wants you to have supper here before you go.</p>
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<p>Let’s give the greatest applause to True Mother. Thank you Father and Mother! Abonim, Omonim, Kamsa hamnida!</p>
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title: "TRUE PARENTS AND THE REALM OF RESURRECTION"
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published: "2018-06-26T13:52:51+01:00"
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source: "/blog/2018/06/26/true-parents-and-the-realm-of-resurrection.html"
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speechYear: "1993"
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- "Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993"
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="center">April 11, 1993<br />
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East Garden<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>Those who are here at East Garden for the first time, raise your hands. The topic of my sermon this morning is True Parents and the Realm of Resurrection. As we know, today is the second Sunday of April – Easter Sunday – which is celebrated all around the world to commemorate the day of the resurrection of Jesus. April is also the month in which all the things of nature are reviving because it is spring.</p>
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<p>Because of the fall of the first human ancestors, all parents and all things pertaining to them are as if they did not exist. It is as if they died. They lost their lives. To make them live again, to resurrect them, is much more difficult than starting the creation all over again. Re-creating is that difficult. It is nearly impossible. Those who have been given birth already must go back to their mother’s womb and be born again, literally. This is extremely, extremely difficult. The realm of resurrection is not just one entity, but it involves the whole environment as well as the people living there.</p>
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<p>It is not just individuals who are dead and need to go back to their mother’s womb to be born again as living being. The whole family, the country, and all things in the world must do this, too. The realm of resurrection includes all things in the world.</p>
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<p>The Christian world has not understood the meaning or the scope of the resurrection up to this time. The Christian world did not understand what the realm of resurrection was. Jesus said to Nicodemus that unless one goes back into his mother’s womb and is born again, he can never enter the kingdom of heaven, but no one understood. Nicodemus certainly did not understand what it takes to be born again, nor did he understand the full meaning of resurrection.</p>
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<p>From whom does the realm of resurrection begin? Who begins it? It is the individual. Is that an individual man or woman? The truth is that it must begin from a woman. Heartistically, or where the realm of heart is concerned, it is Eve. It is woman who initiates. Women begin heartistically at the servant of servants’ position, and then progress to servant, adopted daughter, and so on, going through all eight different stages of indemnity. This is where the resurrection begins. She must also progress along the horizontal axis, beginning as an individual, then on to the family, clan, society, nation, and so on, through the eight stages, too. This is all included.</p>
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<p>It is woman, it is Eve who must be recovered. The meaning of the Old Testament, certainly, was to wait for the Messiah to come. Before that, Cain and Abel had to become united and prepare the mother, or the bride, for the groom to come. But they did not know how. In the time of the Old Testament, the country was in the Cain position. The country of Israel came to exist first. The Jewish religion, which was the Abel representative, then followed. This Cain and Abel relationship could have restored the elder sonship. Then they could have prepared their mother for the coming of the groom. This was the meaning of the Old Testament.</p>
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<p>For the mother to come, there had to be the foundation of united children. After restoring elder sonship, parentship would have been restored. When those three elements were unified-Cain, Abel, and their mother-the bridegroom could come. This is the concept behind the coming of the Messiah. This family would have been restored on the basis of the nation. The nation will have been restored, but in that nation, this family must be intact. In the Old Testament, these aims were not fulfilled, as we well know. They were extended into Christianity and continue until today. The meaning of Christianity is to restore the bride of Christ, the mother. Restoring the bride is the true meaning of Christianity.</p>
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<p>Though we are working to restore the whole world level now, because history never realized the restoration of the family, the purpose is still to restore that family. This time Cain and Abel are the left wing and right wing factions of the world instead of the individual Cain and Abel. We know we are now on the world level and no longer on the national level, as in the Old Testament. The question is how to connect the realm of spirit world into that of the physical world. The realm of the spirit world is represented by Christianity. How to connect that to the Abel-type world is an extremely difficult task. Today’s Christianity does not even think about that.</p>
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<p>The Allied forces of World War II were led by England, America and France. They were in the mother’s and children’s position. On the Axis side, there were Japan, Germany and Italy in a similar pattern. They fought and one side won. That began the last period of preparation for the bridegroom. The period after World War II was indeed the first time in history when the world was in a position to come into complete unity with a world-level religion-Christianity-at the center.</p>
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<p>What was the Israel-like country in the time of that world level dispensation in the free world? Do you see a comparison? The religion in the Old Testament era was the Jewish religion, but now the main religion on the worldwide level is Christianity. Do you see the comparison? Its mission is to make preparation for the mother position. Upon that foundation, they can welcome the bridegroom. Do you understand that formula? The family base was lost in the Garden of Eden-Cain and Abel and their mother. They chased out the ideal husband. It is the same formula for the family base, the nation base, and the world base. Cain and Abel are united, and upon that, they make preparation for their mother. Afterwards, the Messiah can come. The formula is the same, no matter what level you are on.</p>
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<p>If the family base is lost, how can resurrection take place? That is the Messiah’s responsibility. The unity of Cain and Abel and preparation for the mother position must be done on earth. Based on that, the Messiah can descend. Adam’s dwelling place is heaven, not earth. On earth, everything was lost. The Messiah must descend from heaven after preparation has been made on earth by the other three positions.</p>
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<p>This is a formula throughout the dispensation. The mind is in the Abel position, the body is Cain. Both are fighting. The flesh body always occupies the mind. The body wants to claim the whole world. How can we overcome the power of the flesh body? It is the same as any conflict between individuals, within a couple, a family that is fighting, a tribe that is fighting, a nation that is fighting, or all the world fighting. Heaven and earth are fighting. How can those conflicts be changed into unification? First of all, the Abel mind has to occupy the body. It has the same meaning as Abel subjugating Cain. How can we make it unified? Upon that unity, the individual level can be restored. This formula applies to every level, including the family, and husband and wife. Who is in the Abel position in the couple? It is the husband, not the wife. Woman is like the flesh, while man is like the bone. Bone and flesh combine to make a human being. Unless the couple can unify, they cannot work on God’s side.</p>
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<p>Who is the center of that unified family base? American women say, “Oh, the woman is the center!” But, no, the man is the center, just as the bone is the center of the flesh. Man is strong like the bone, woman is soft like the flesh. In the fallen world, the family base cannot unify. This is the problem. How can we make a complete foundation in the couple’s world? Who becomes the center of the family and tribe? The unified family is the center of the tribe. We are resurrecting the family-based Abel position. Surrounding that family, the relatives are in the Cain position. Do you understand? The two must unify, but who makes that unity happen? It is Abel, who must invest everything. That is God’s way. God invests and forgets, over and over again, in order to connect every level. By the same token, Abel’s family must invest and invest over and over, making relationships with the clan. Based upon that effort, the tribe can progress and go up. Otherwise, it cannot.</p>
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<p>There are many national and tribal bases in the Cain position. The religious world is on the mind’s side, the Abel side. All through history, religions have been fighting Satan’s side. Political power persecuted the religious world every time, but God worked with the Abel side throughout history. By digesting, they went up, expanding God’s territory. At last, for the first time in history, the Christian world became independent. That was the purpose behind World War II. After World War II, the free world represented the Israelites in the Cain position and the Christian world represented Judaism in the Abel position. The Christian world had to connect with the free world. If they had connected and unified, they would have created the bride’s mission. The religious purpose of the Christian world is to create the bride’s position. Do you understand? They need to welcome the bridegroom, the Messiah. The Christian world and the free world must be combined into one. Upon that unity, freedom and happiness can come about. Without unification, no hope, happiness or ideal purpose is possible. Only upon unification can we get to that ideal world. Do you understand? Cain and Abel connect into one, and upon that base, the mother can come.</p>
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<p>Both sides, Cain and Abel lost the mother. The Christian world on the Abel side and the free world on the Cain side should have combined into one centering on the mother.</p>
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<p>England is the mother’s country. Why? It is an island nation. It is always expecting, yearning for the mainland. That is like the woman’s position. England was the mother who gave birth to America. History is like that. America was the Abel son. France was in Cain’s position. In the past they were enemies, fighting. Those three must combine. Eve, Abel, and Cain must combine.</p>
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<p>On Satan’s side, Japan was in the mother’s position. She is an island nation, too. Germany was the satanic Abel, strong and powerful. They had a dictatorship with absolute power. They said, “We don’t need God!” They wanted to break up God’s original ideal, especially trying to destroy the Jewish people, those with whom God had His original covenant. You know that, right? Over six million Jewish people were killed by that satanic power. After World War II, the former enemy nations were given independence. God could gain control everywhere. At that time, the Christian world and the free world should have connected into one. They should have been expecting the coming of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>Who is the Messiah? When the Messiah comes, he doesn’t have a nation. He doesn’t have the family. The Messiah doesn’t have a world. Satan always occupied these things. They must be taken back and be reborn in the correct way. The only way is through engrafting. Otherwise they cannot be brought back to the original tree. The Messiah’s family appears and all the families of all humankind have to be engrafted to them. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>After that grafting process has been achieved, a different lineage will spring forth, separate from Satan’s root. The wild olive tree and the true olive tree have a different root. For the first time, the world level will be resurrected. Think about how complicated that process is. On the individual level, resurrection is difficult and complicated. But even beyond that, it must continue up to family resurrection, tribal, national and world resurrection. Then the cosmos will be resurrected, and finally True Parents and God will resurrect. These different levels all form the realm of resurrection.</p>
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<p>Who undertakes this work of resurrection? It is Adam who does this work. Upon the perfection of Adam, all dreams and ideals will have been fulfilled. Beginning with this perfected Adam, the resurrection of the individual, family, and so forth, begin. They chase Satan out entirely. Once Satan no longer has any connection with this world, then an entirely new world of God will appear. It will only belong to God.</p>
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<p>We see each other every day, just as we look at our own face in the mirror each morning. Everything exists within the pair system. We always have an absolute standard for our features. What is the standard of perfection for our eyes? What is the perfect eye? It is the eye with 20/20 vision. Anything other than that is deviated from perfection. The nose, too, must work perfectly and in harmony. When that nose is perfected, then it is on God’s side. It is Abel’s nose. But when it doesn’t, when the nostrils are clogged and have lots of problems, then it is not on God’s side. The same rule applies to your mouth. You need to have the perfectly shaped, rounded mouth. Ears, as well, have their standard of perfect hearing and shape.</p>
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<p>What is it that makes the Unification Church so different and so wonderful? It is because we understand that everything in creation exists within the pair system. Whenever we see something, we can think of that rule. When we exhale, we know we must also inhale. The wind blows from a dense area to sparse area. Unless two come into perfect unity, perfection cannot come to be.</p>
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<p>Who is he, who is she? He is a man, she is a woman. What is the difference between a man and a woman? They are basically the same, except for one great difference. The eyes are the same, the nose, all the functions are the same, except for the sexual organs. That is where the difference lies. Do you digest food with your sexual organs? Do you see or hear through your sexual organ? What is the purpose and function of your sexual organ? It is for the purpose of uniting perfectly with your counterpart, your spouse. There is no way for any man and woman to come into unification without those sexual organs. Why are women born? It is not for themselves but for the sake of men. We are born for the sake of our partner. This is such a simple truth, but it is very real. It is simple, real truth.</p>
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<p>The woman’s role exists for the sake of others. Sometimes a woman will assert, “I am only born for the sake of myself.” But that is the concept Satan has planted in fallen women. How can we take that out? Satan is the one who has so successfully planted self-centered thinking in the minds of the women of this world. No matter how famous a woman might be, she was born for the sake of a man, not for herself. Is that true? The same is true of every man. You were born for the sake of your partner, not for yourself. American women don’t know that. Think about it. That is very true. It is true in the morning time, noon time, evening time; overseas or here. Throughout your whole life, this is true. You have to follow that original truth. This is the purpose for which you were born.</p>
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<p>After you understand this truth, you can relate with everything, just as it says in the Bible: “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” Only by knowing the truth can you be liberated. This is the formula which works for everyone in every situation. The right hand is in what position? Abel’s position. What about the left hand? Cain’s position. The left hand has to follow the right hand, isn’t that true? This is true every time. You cannot take the opposite way. Left must follow right, not the other way around.</p>
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<p>Every existence is within the pair system. Both men and women are necessary, aren’t they? How much do you need your counterpart? Absolutely. You absolutely need your spouse. Now we have a clear answer for homosexuals and lesbians. We can explain the fallacy of their thinking. To revive and resurrect America is really very simple: one must listen to Reverend Moon and put these words into practice. Within only one week, America could be resurrected. Satan is most afraid of that, so he has always been preventing Reverend Moon from reaching the American people. If that happened, America would return to God, and Satan would be destroyed. But Reverend Moon has been opposed on the individual level as well as the family, nation and world levels. Now, however, after I have been successful in penetrating all these levels of opposition, people are beginning to understand: “It takes Reverend Moon to recover the world.”</p>
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<p>Father has proclaimed that people must follow the True Parents and that all people must become part of the Completed Testament era in order to live. Perfected Adam and perfected Eve can proclaim to the world, “Nothing can pull us away, not money, power, prestige or knowledge. You try it. You can never bring us in the wrong direction.” Then comes the real era of resurrection. Completed Adam and completed Eve have everything. The true owners of all things, including all money, power and knowledge, are the perfected Adam and Eve. After the fall, man’s original value was lost. Therefore, people have sought after money, which is Satan’s concept, Satan’s ideal. Likewise, we see the self-centered pursuit of power and knowledge. This is part of Satan’s thinking. Once man and woman are restored to their original value, and regain their original understanding of God, they will have everything. Once you understand God’s truthful world, then 99.9 percent of all your past knowledge is of lesser importance. This is a very important concept.</p>
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<p>We must always be reminded of this Cain and Abel concept. When someone asks you, “What is the essence of human history and the history of restoration?” you can give a very simple answer. Cain and Abel are supposed to become united, find the bride, and wait for the bridegroom. That would be it. That means Cain and Abel should become one, find the mother, and together the family would find the father. The eternal ideal family will have been achieved. Always think about restoring elder sonship, which is the first step. Secondly, we must restore the parental position. Originally, Adam and Eve were literally, not symbolically, the king and queen. The woman, Eve, represented the whole realm of the earth, while the realm of heaven is represented by Adam. For them to become completely together in True Love would be the completion of the ideal. And this would create their kingship.</p>
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<p>After kingship comes the royal family. Kingship is vertical and it is eternal. It does not change its position or move around. The elder son inherits his vertical standing point for eternity. The point of kingship is only one dot. There can be only one horizontal line through that dot, which creates an exact ninety degree angle. There is only one central point of union between the vertical and horizontal realms. That is absolute. Only one, not two. Absolutely one.</p>
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<p>Every other position surrounding the royal family is in the Cain position. Otherwise, there can be no ideal. That formula has the same meaning. The same is true in spirit world. God is the eternal center of spirit world. That cannot change. The center root cannot be changed. Vertically, there is only one. Everybody can look up at that vertical line and say, “I resemble that vertical way.” Why? Everybody wants to parallel that absolute being and stand on the same point. You feel that way, too: “I want to go that way.” The vertical God is here, your Parent. This is the formula. Do you understand? Thus man absolutely needs woman. Woman absolutely needs man. Absolute love means only one partner, not two. Absolute love can take an absolute partner. It never changes anywhere. Changing the standard point is the way of Satan. Once you change it, you are cast out. We must understand this formula. The world is horizontal. The human world is the horizontal world, but we see the vertical. This horizontal world must find the vertical. Forever, absolutely, you cannot change. The center is always the same.</p>
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<p>The center of human beings is True Love. God’s center is also True Love. High and low, up and down, East and West has the same meaning. The center is True Love. The universe is made up of that construction. Vertical and horizontal combine and there the ideal appears.</p>
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<p>True Parents and the Resurrected World was announced and proclaimed yesterday in Korea and Japan and it needs to be proclaimed to the whole world. Please read this script. We have to proclaim this truth to the whole world. We have to teach them, but whether or not they listen is up to them. We must fulfill our responsibility to teach them. This is our responsibility as parents. Father has built all the highways necessary for the individual to be restored and resurrected, as well as the family and the nation and the whole world. This includes liberation of God and True Parents. If we do all this, God and True Parents will be liberated. Father has made all that foundation. This is called the realm of resurrection. Let us listen now to Tyler as he reads that proclamation. This has been a secret, the secret of God until now.</p>
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<p>(Tyler Hendricks reads from the speech. Then Father continues:) If the world had believed in and followed Reverend Moon after World War II, the world would have changed, but they could not believe. I have been explaining the reasons for these things. What did the world do? They opposed him, they denounced him, they even put him into prison. No one actually is qualified to oppose Reverend Moon. Even the KGB and Kim Il Sung from the farthest left side have come to realize this truth. How can those on the side of God not understand?</p>
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<p>After listening to this, you will understand about True Parents and the realm of resurrection. Of course, today is Easter Sunday and some of you need to be fundraising, but that is a small purpose compared to what we must understand this morning. Please understand that May 13, Father will begin his twelve city tour. Mother will undertake the same tour at the same time, around the country and around the world, on behalf of the Women’s Federation for World Peace. Father intends to disseminate this message to the entire population of the world, all five billion people. Now it is truly our mission that we read, almost to the extent of memorizing all these messages by heart. Without even looking at it, we should be able to repeat the whole message. Become thoroughly familiar with this message and begin to pray for this end, because this truly is the culmination of the dispensation. When you go out fundraising, witnessing, or even when you are sleeping, if you are thinking of this end, Father feels your life will be a good one.</p>
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<p>Naturally, the whole world will erupt in controversy, similar to when you poke a beehive. All the philosophers will try to understand, they will talk about this. Likewise, theologians and religious people will try to understand the basic concept which Father is introducing about the True Family and the Completed Testament Era and all these basic things which are contained within Father’s message. They will talk about that. When they do that, it will naturally come to us. The whole world will be so stirred up. At that time, we will have to be able to educate everyone. We have prepared in Washington, D.C., a facility by which we can broadcast this message through satellite network to the whole world. This will stimulate discussion even more. We should be able to answer any questions which arise.</p>
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<p>There has been only a handful of followers in the Unification Church for so many years, so Father feels that when you become thoroughly familiar with this message, you will be able to answer about eighty percent of all the questions you are asked. You have the key. Therefore, you have to read and reread this message thoroughly so you can cope with any questions from any scholar. Those who feel, “Father, yes, I am confident to do this,” raise your hand. God bless you. (Applause.)</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 28, 1993<br />
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Bamboo Room, World Mission Center, New York<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>There are so many races, so many divisions here on earth. God intended to create only one family of man. No organization in the original world of God was greater than one family. Today the greatest problems of our world are the divisions between races and nations, the boundaries separating different cultures. For God’s providence today, these are the biggest problems. Who created such divisions? Satan did it. This world is suffering from confusion, division, and lack of direction. As a result, the human race is gradually moving straight toward hell everyday.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, in contrast to this division, God’s providence has been to unite the divided world and divided races into the one original family of man. I would like for you to know that the job ahead of us is to finish the fight between God and Satan. This struggle has to be completed.</p>
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<p>The will of Satan is to destroy the providence of God, or God’s work here on earth. Therefore, we have to create a new strategy which will overcome the satanic strategy to destroy God’s will. . . . Since Satan already created the satanic world, when someone is trying to create the heavenly world, you will see that the entire world will come against that person. That is what the Unification Church is all about. From the very beginning, the Unification Church was faced with the most incredible opposition from the satanic ranks, because they knew that the Unification Church was the embodiment of the dispensation of God. For that reason, in the mind of Satan, victory meant the destruction of the Unification Church. From day one of the creation of this great religion, persecution and opposition were continuous.</p>
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<p>By the outcome of World War II, the providence for the subjugation of Cain by Abel was fulfilled on the world scale, beyond the national or racial scale. Since the end of that war, the Cain and Abel providence has been clearly manifested on the world level. If the Christian world, which won a great victory in World War II, had united with Father’s ideology at that time, we would not have to be going through this prolonged dispensational work today. The seed of the fall, which was sown in the Garden of Eden through Adam and Eve, and which bore fruit in the conflict between Cain and Abel, should have been restored by the worldwide dispensation.</p>
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<p>God had been using England as the central country for His will during World War II. The United States, a Protestant nation which was born of England, was in the position of the Abel son. The lineup between the nations in the Cain and Abel sons’ positions was a very important, final dispensational manifestation of God. If there had been acceptance of the True Parents and the Unification Church after World War II, heaven and True Father and the True Family could have been united as the restored, perfected family of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Then all the work of Satan would have been demolished. There would have been no room for Satan to flourish on the face of the earth. However, that was not accomplished.</p>
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<p>Look at the history of Jesus’ life two thousand years ago. He was born as the Messiah. The hope and aspiration of the Jewish people of those days was to receive their Messiah, and Jesus came as the Messiah, but nobody recognized him because he was born in such a humble way. Furthermore, he was known as an illegitimate child. His family and relatives persecuted him because of the circumstances surrounding his birth. Also, he was never educated. He did the humble, manual work of a carpenter. The people of that day never expected that their Messiah would come in such a manner and that it would be difficult to accept him.</p>
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<p>God’s will at that time was for the king of Israel as well as the high priest of Judaism to accept Jesus as the King of Kings. The history of the chosen nation of Israel was nothing but a training period, a rehearsal, so to speak, for the acceptance of the coming Messiah. This centered upon the holy temple. The temple-centered way of life and customs pervaded the entire Jewish nation and that was supposed to have prepared the people to accept the Messiah when he came.</p>
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<p>Jesus came as the only-begotten Son of God, but the world did not accept him and instead relegated him to the worst, lowest position. The fallen world considered him to be satanic, like a devil. As I have stated, acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah was not an easy thing to do at that time. For that reason, God sent a forerunner for Jesus, John the Baptist, who was supposed to lead people to Jesus through his testimony, to enable the people to accept Jesus. However, even John the Baptist failed. Once he failed, there was no hope for Jesus to be accepted. So this 33-year-old young single man was going around the Sea of Galilee and speaking to the fishermen. That was a very miserable manifestation of the Messianic crusade.</p>
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<p>Jesus was accused as a criminal, as one who wanted to destroy society, and he was an outcast. Finally his enemies found a reason strong enough to get him crucified. The nation of Israel was in the position of Cain, while the religion of Judaism was Abel. But Cain and Abel are not sufficient in God’s dispensation. Someone must appear in the mother’s position. The unity of Cain and Abel would create the environment for the mother’s position, which was absolutely necessary. This is almost like plus and minus. Abel is like plus, Cain is like minus. Upon the unity of plus and minus, the mother can appear.</p>
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<p>The dispensational will has always been salvation, or recreation. Recreation goes through the same Divine Principle. Therefore, the united Cain and Abel must enter into unity with the mother, and together they could return to the father. This is the ultimate step established by heaven. This step was supposed to be completed in the Old Testament era, but because of the crucifixion of Jesus, this was not fulfilled. Therefore, the Second Coming became necessary and the same formula had to be accomplished on the world scale. The same formula which failed in the Old Testament era had to be accomplished on the world scale.</p>
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<p>The history of Christianity for 2,000 years has been the New Testament era. This has been only a spiritual crusade. There has been no physical nation to stand on, no physical salvation possible. The world has had to repeat certain dispensational cycles or patterns. That pattern was born at the time of the crucifixion, when the thieves were hanging on the left and right of Jesus, and the thief Barabbas escaped death. The world has lined up today on the right and the left. The thief on the right side is represented by the Christian world, while the thief on the left is represented by the satanic world, and then Barabbas is represented by the religious sphere of Islam. Also, the concept of left-wing and right-wing ideologies was born at the time of the Crucifixion.</p>
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<p>Today, the world is divided both spiritually and physically into Cain and Abel camps. On the spiritual level, God has been working through the Abel camp, the Christian world, while Satan has been working through the Cain camp, or the Islamic world. The right-wing ideology is Abel, while the left-wing ideology is Cain. This is the line-up inherited from the crucifixion of Jesus. The Messiah’s return came on the foundation of the victory of the Allied forces in World War II. When the Messiah comes again, he will have to go through the same formula which Jesus should have gone through but couldn’t. The only difference between now and then is that it was on the national level at Jesus’ time, and the Second Coming will be on the international, world level.</p>
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<p>The Second Coming of the Messiah was to have fulfilled all these processes in only seven years’ time between 1945 – 1952. That means the liquidation of all satanic elements, the unity between Cain and Abel, would all have been done on the world level. Those were the two most important aspects: a seven-year time period, and establishment of a true family unit on the earth for the first time. Imagine if the victorious Allied nations had accepted Father as the Messiah of the Second Coming and had bowed down before him. Think about that-it was the will of God.</p>
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<p>The second coming is no easier than the first one because the Bible never stated in even one line that the Messiah would return in the flesh. So the Christians have been awaiting the Second Advent to take place on the clouds of heaven. This is equal in difficulty to the time of the first coming of the Messiah. In these adverse conditions, I have made my way forward and established this foundation. Certainly it has not been an easy victory.</p>
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<p>The unity of Christianity, including the different denominations and branches such as Catholicism and Protestantism, can be accomplished once they recognize the coming of the Messiah. Likewise, other world religions can be united on that foundation of unity between Christianity and the Messiah. However, the victorious Allied nations did not come and bow down to the True Father. Instead, they rejected him just as Jesus was rejected. Therefore, the victorious foundation of World War II was completely turned over to the satanic camp. Instead of accepting the advent of True Parents, they rejected them. This was done not only by the free world and established Christianity, but also by the entire world and world religions. So the rejection of the Second Coming of the Messiah was total and complete. At one point, Satan was totally victorious. He had won his victory over the entire world, except for one person: Reverend Moon. If Satan could have found a way to liquidate him, Satan’s victory would have been permanent. Permanent.</p>
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<p>The entire world united to oppose one man. But that one man was not an ordinary man. Within him lay the seed for the perfection of the individual, the perfection of the family, perfection of the race, perfection of the nation, perfection of the world and cosmos. The fulfillment of the complete liberation of God lay within that one man. Upon this one man, True Father, the entire perfection is resting, so when he moves he can be a leader of the family, the race, nation, world and cosmos. All of history moves according to the direction in which he moves. Without knowing this fact, we are gathered together today for no good reason.</p>
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<p>Following this one man, the Messiah, and the True Parents, we shall accomplish the same perfection, so that the family can be perfected through this one man, the tribe can accomplish perfection through this one man, the nation and world and cosmos. Therefore, the new heaven on earth shall be a reality, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth shall truly be a reality through this one man. Therefore, this one man is the center of the universe, the center of all perfection. But instead of accepting the good news, the good way of perfection, the entire world united to go against Father, and Father became the one who was cast out into the wilderness, and even down into hell. The entire world looked down upon Father as a demonic person, an evil man. All kinds of bad things were attributed to my name. Where would God be in such a situation? God would go after Reverend Moon because God needs only one man. God does not need Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, all those religions.</p>
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<p>Father has been completely cast out by Satan and the satanic realm, truly into the wilderness as well as into the dungeons of hell. However, there was one more opportunity for Father. Even though the United States, Great Britain and France were completely handed over to Satan, there was one more chance that the Messiah could utilize, one more way for him to pick up his own Adam nation, his own Eve and archangel nations, and create a counterattack against the satanic elements.</p>
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<p>One way was that of John the Baptist, who was given the job of forerunner for the Messiah 2,000 years ago. His mission is to restore the nation and race, and prepare them for the Messiah. Father had to assume the John the Baptist role first, before the Messiah’s role, and had to create that foundation first. Then I could stand upon it as the Messiah. This is the strategy I have followed. I stood entirely alone for the restoration of the 4,000 year Old Testament era which was the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The rule in that era was “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” but that rule would not bring any good fruit, it totally failed. So Father installed a new law of paying indemnity. Instead of living for 4,000 or 400 years, which is impossible, I had to pay the indemnity within 40 years’ time and indemnify all the wrongdoing of the past 4,000. So within the span of 40 years, I was able to restore all the failures of the Old Testament and New Testament eras.</p>
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<p>When Jesus was crucified, there was a thief on the right and a thief on the left. When Father was cast out in the wilderness, it was almost like being crucified, even though I was not physically killed. But in the eyes of Satan, I was cast into complete defeat. Therefore, I had to deal with the same pattern as that of Jesus’ crucifixion and bring back the right thief and left thief on the world level, and they had to come together to support Father. That was done in the 40 year period. Therefore, Father was in the position of restoring the Allied, predominantly Christian nations and working with them to bring them back to the righteous positions.</p>
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<p>The time of the Second Coming has been the re-establishment of the events at the time of the crucifixion, particularly the line-up of the right thief, left thief and Barabbas. On the world level, religion and ideology has divided into three different parts, Christianity, communism, and Islam. Father has to bring all these three into unity so that they each accept Father. Father started the dispensation from the John the Baptist position and brought these three elements together, in order to have a foundation on which to stand.</p>
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<p>Since I lost everything, I had to start over again from scratch. This is what I have accomplished within 40 years, and in particular during the past 20 years. Since I came to this country in 1972, I have been able to break down all the barriers, winning each step and coming back to the center. I could not be killed by Satan, but had to remain physically alive and continue winning the victory step by step, so that my ministry could claim the total victory. Then I could establish the Adam nation, Eve nation, and archangel nation upon which God could fulfill His dispensation.</p>
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<p>(Long passage here in Korean which is not translated.)</p>
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<p>Father came to the United States to work with the American people, the government, and U.S. Christianity. We were able to work on so many down-to-earth issues and to inspire the Reagan administration to achieve victories which ultimately brought down the empire of communism. Upon that victory Father could go on and the consummation of all the dispensational ruler were accomplished. Christianity failed its mission, so the Unification Church was established.</p>
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<p>Father worked with the two Reagan administrations and the one Bush administration, and now Clinton has come into office. This is almost like a self-test, to see whether the United States can rise above Clinton and unite ideologically with Father. If so, then this nation can have hope. If the Clinton administration fails to unite with Father, then it will go down the drain. When Clinton and his policies come into being, the first opposition must come from Christianity. But Christianity has lost its center and its hope. For that reason, they have lost their power, and that is why Clinton was allowed to win the election. It was the failure of Christianity. This nation which is supposed to be Christian has been turned into almost a model nation for Satan, losing everything precious. People are losing their own identity, losing brotherhood, losing their own parents, and losing God. This nation has really become a playground for Satan.</p>
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<p>During these 40 years of Father’s laying the victorious foundation, the new era of the Mother has emerged. Mother’s era was begun in 1992, April 10, at the great rally for the foundation for the Women’s Federation for World Peace. That was preceded by True Parents’ Blessing for many Islamic members. That set the condition to bring unity to the entire world. The established Korean families, American families, European families, and Islamic families came together to be Blessed, and the Blessed family was established before the foundation of the world level women’s federation. Even people from the communist world were represented. That means even the communists can accept True Parents’ family and family system. Upon this foundation, Mother can step forward. Truly what Mother did in 1992 was nothing short of a miracle.</p>
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<p>Mother’s victory in 1992 was absolutely phenomenal, starting out from Korea, which is in the elder sister’s position to the rest of the women of the world. Mother went to the entire nation, almost like a hurricane occurring in Korea, then she moved on to Japan and the United States, then to Europe and Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. All those nations were almost like prisons. Mother is liberating the prison. Australia and New Zealand were used as prison colonies in the past, and Mother and Father went there in order to liberate those countries. In the year of 1992, Mother was working to bring the people of the entire world into the bosom of the True Parents. Mother was physically bringing people. Communist nations such as the People’s Republic of China opened their arms to Mother. When the PRC and Russia become united into one, Korea’s sovereignty will be assured. Kim Il Sung is in the position of satanic messiah, holding his position for more than 40 years, the longest surviving ruler in the world. His time is up now, however, because of the victory of Father and Mother.</p>
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<p>Now the remainder of the mission is the Unification of the Fatherland, and Father is mobilizing all the primary, superpower nations. Upon their cooperation, the unity of the homeland can be accomplished. This is what Father is now working on in 1993. When Father spoke to President George Bush, he made an important recommendation about things that needed to be done by his administration. But Mr. Bush did not follow those instructions. What happened to him? He was defeated, as you know. The Clinton administration is almost a repetition of the Carter administration. Christianity was supposed to be the central force opposing such an administration from coming in, but as I said, Christianity has lost its center. It has no leadership, no vision or spirit, no core. For that reason, Christianity failed and this allowed for Clinton to come in. Therefore, Christianity here in the United States and in the rest of the world has failed its mission thoroughly, so the world has only one way to follow: the way of the Unification Church. Only the Unification Church can show the world vision and hope for the future.</p>
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<p>In Washington, the well-known former senator Paul Laxalt was once a Republican candidate . I asked Bo Hi Pak to go and meet with him, and Senator Laxalt sent greetings to me and Mother on our birthdays today. And at the same time, he said, “Today, America is crumbling fast. With Clinton, this nation is crumbling even faster. There is only one hope-that Reverend Moon’s crusades can win out, and not only upset Clinton but be the engine moving this nation in the other direction. This is the only hope.” Senator Laxalt was saying that he would assist Father in order to advance God’s work and Providence here in this country. Especially, he said, he would like to mobilize his dear friends, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, to lend their support. He volunteered to help with introductions in that direction. Those people who have been very prominent in Father’s dispensational path, such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, now George Bush, all these people shall be mobilized for the final stage of God’s dispensational work.</p>
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<p>Further, Father and Mother have set a strong enough foundation in China, so that you can see here the United States, the former Soviet Union, China, centering upon Korea and Japan-all these countries are now in Father’s bosom, under Father’s wing. For that reason, from now on the great Providential will shall be accomplished during this year of 1993. (An infant cries out and Father talks back. Laughter.)</p>
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<p>Upon the worldwide victory of our True Parents, Father declared the incredible dispensational will for tribal messiahship, and at the same time, the homecoming providence. This is the final chapter horizontally of the Unification providence. Now the Second Advent can descend upon the earth vertically, and this will create the horizontal base. True Father is the victorious Second Advent completing Jesus’ mission, on the earth. Tribal messiahship is the representative position. In other words, the restoration of the rejection of Jesus is the purpose of the tribal messiahship. If that is accomplished, then there is not much more to be done. That is the grand finale of God’s dispensation. So the only mission that remains is the tribal messiahship.</p>
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<p>You know already the purpose of tribal messiahship, where we are heading and what needs to be done. As we move forward, the satanic world is retreating. They have to retreat; there is no other choice. When I speak about this year’s slogan – the Unification of the Fatherland – I am not speaking about only the unification of the Korean peninsula. It is a much greater scope, the unification of the entire world, the one harmonious world which God intended. That is the unification which I am speaking about. And that unification must be centered upon true love. So the entire message of 1993 was the message of true love. The Unification race has been born-that means you, the Blessed families of the Unification Church. And the unification is now physical. North and South shall be our fatherland, no question about it. However, that will be only the center of the world wide unification. That is what God is ultimately aiming for.</p>
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<p>The final mission of the Unification Church is completion of tribal messiahship, which is centered upon three missions. First, the restoration of your ancestors. Second, you must find your hometown. Thirdly, you will liberate God, so that God shall be with you all the time. There will be no barriers between you and God. You will be with Father, God will be with you, and you will be with God. That is the purpose of our ultimate mission, the tribal messiahship. The tribal messiahship is bringing your dead father and mother, those in spirit world, into the perfected Adam’s position. This is a new and incredible concept that we can bring even our dead ancestors into perfection. That is what the power of the tribal messiah is all about. Therefore, in order to restore the world races in a quicker way, Father held the Blessing of the 30,000 couples and those who had studied the Principle for as little as a one week seminar could be included in that Blessing. In three years, when we have another Blessing for 360,000 couples, this world will be entirely united. That means “Mission Accomplished.”</p>
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<p>Jesus lost all his disciples. What you are supposed to do is become a tribal messiah and restore all the disciples lost by Jesus. From that point on, you are opening up a new era and that is called the Completed Testament Era. Therefore, from now on Father’s goal is to move on and Bless 360,000 couples within the next three years. Moving on even further than that, Father will bless 3.6 million youths, not just couples. Father is not going to touch those married couples any more, but will only deal with young men and women who are unmarried. Actually from this standpoint, you must realize that the free world is far from the realization of Father’s will. The movement toward God’s will is happening far more rapidly in the former communist countries. We can observe what is happening in Russia, the Ukraine and Byelorussia. In all those countries, including even China and North Korea, we can see that there will be young people who will line up much faster with Father and comprise the 3.6 million youths to be blessed by Father.</p>
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<p>The fastest way is to become a missionary to Russia and to restore all those youths, those spiritually-hungry young men and women. Tens of millions of people are awaiting the touch of your hands. This is the reason Father is bringing all the missionaries to Russia. This is no time for assistance to come from Japan alone, but also it should be coming from the western world. Japan, however, shall be helping create Cain and Abel unity of the Korean peninsula, that is North and South unification.</p>
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<p>The primary goal and direction of Father has changed. No longer is our emphasis the United States. The United States must stand up and support other countries like Russia. Unless the United States does that much, you will be abandoned by God. (Father speaks in Korean. Translation given in summary:) Basically what Father is explaining is that the satanic world is going in the direction of total decadence. Look at the rampant homosexuality, lesbianism, drug addiction, crime, teen pregnancy. All these incredible things are occurring and making the entire society corrupt and completely rotten. Father is saying that we must simply go in the exactly opposite way, 180 degrees in the other direction. That is the basic rule of Father’s principle. From now on, whatever Reverend Moon does, he is going 180 degrees different from the current world. That is also what you should do to follow Father. This is absolutely true not only in the United States but also in Korea, Japan and all the western nations. So be bold and strong and do not fear. (Applause.) Thank you.</p>
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<p>On this day of True Parents’ Birthday 1993, we are having an extraordinary celebration, with a special dispensational and historical meaning. Our mission will continue up to the year 2000, and that year is right in front of us. From the year 2000, we will move on with added vigor on the foundation of victory. Also, Father is going to put emphasis on the media. Therefore, we want to see emphasis on The Washington Times and the media in Korea, as well as other places. The media is going to be an important, central theme for Father’s dispensation for this year. You have to know how to deal with the media and how to digest the media, as well as utilize the media. We are working on the national scale of restoration.</p>
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<p>All that I am saying is that your mission is to fulfill tribal messiahship. That is absolutely everything that needs to be done. Completion of that will mean that you have accomplished your mission and your purpose of being. Father is like the trunk. The center of the tree is that trunk, all the way from the root to the buds. The tribal messiahship is like the branches. A victory will show numerous healthy branches. That is the work of tribal messiahship. We will create the biggest tree, one that has never tasted any experience of the fall or any fallen experiences. A completely unfallen tree will be created. That is the tree of life. Those who pledge that you will do that family-level tribal messiahship, raise your hands and say, “Yes, Father.” God bless you.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 28, 1993<br />
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Grand Ball Room, WMC. New York<br />
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<p>When we began the new year Father declared the motto as <i>New Family and Fatherland Unification</i>. This is different from Unification of the Fatherland. You know that Father declared that 1993 is the beginning of the Completed Testament era. This is terminology that you do not hear anywhere else except in the Unification Church. Is that correct? Yes. Father has assembled the Seminary graduates today and tomorrow for a conference. All those Seminary graduates please stand up. Still many didn’t come. Mr. Kim, where are they? Father understood that there were 800. Why are there only 200.</p>
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<p>You who graduated from UTS. Did you do the right thing? Yes. Why did you go to UTS. The reason why a UTS graduate is important is because the heavenly Kingdom needs leaders to lead the people and nation. Take NATO’s army. Without leaders it has no meaning. The Unification Church is a Heavenly army.</p>
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<p>In the human body we have red and white blood cells. The white blood cells are the army of the body. They protect your body from infection. All the members of the Unification Church are like policemen. This protects our movement from alien intrusion and from foreign elements. Especially the UTS graduates, you are leaders. The members are like the red cells. The UTS graduates are like the white cells. One is defense, one is offensive. Any nation, including the United States, when your armed forces are dwindling and morality is declining. Corruption is pervading. The nation goes down because no one cares, protects, or defends the country. By the same token the body and the Unification Church is the same. We must be strong or else we will dwindle.</p>
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<p>Right now the great issue is homosexuality in the army. Why not let them have it? That is what Clinton is saying. This is where the white cells come in and fight to win the battle. White cells are like army officers and armed forces. They are sacrificing their own life to fight for the sake of the country. If the white cells in the bunkers, in the fox holes, are involved in sexual abuse and perverted sex, then the army is bound to go down. Think about it. If you are fighting on the front line you do not have time for love. It’s the same thing, homosexuality in the army ranks is wrong.</p>
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<p>One thing alone dramatically demonstrates where this nation is standing. Where the national leaders are going. Where they are trying to put the armed forces. This is the time for U I S graduates. The white cells are not just for our movement, but for the nation. They must stand up to fight and win. You have no idea how much fighting Father went through to create the UTS To set the tradition and move on.</p>
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<p>Before 1990 Father gave the entire membership of the school scholarships in order to give you hope and an opportunity to study. Many Unification Church members around the world sacrificed their time and energy for the sake of your success, for your education. You are deeply indebted to them. Many women in the past went a miserable way of life without having any hope, in darkness for you. You are indebted to them.</p>
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<p>They did not sacrifice just for you, but for the country, world, humanity and God’s providence. They put their efforts for you to become a leader of the UTS. I would like you to understand that Father called UTS members to come to this particular celebration I want to reassure you that Father looks at you as the leaders of the Unification Church, top guns of our membership, and the white cells of the body. You shall be truly elite, those who are standing not in just your cause, but in a public cause, a heavenly cause. Make yourself a sacrifice for the greater accomplishment and greater victory of our movement, Father, Mother, and Heaven.</p>
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<p>In 1975 Father sent all the elite members to the world, but Father spared some members to send them to U IS for the sake of the future. Your position is awesome and fearful in a way. Before you there are so many models. Great champions and heroes who went out to the world in your place and did the most incredible, miraculous job and brought the victory to Father and the Movement. Your mission is awesome and fearful You are the central leadership of our movement and directly come under True Parents. You take orders from True Parents. You fulfill it, and report directly back to True Parents. You are a special contingency, belonging to True Parents. Do you follow? Yes! Those who understood Father, Father’s message raise your hands. Sit down.</p>
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<p>We all know human history has been a fallen history. It was not intended that way, but the human ancestors fell. The fall brought all of humanity and its destiny to the satanic side. Therefore, ever since the human race has been living under the consequences the fall of man. There are some basic and fundamental questions all men and women have. Fundamental questions that need answers. Why were human beings born? Why are there men and women? These are the fundamental questions. In the human race there are men and women. Why is it divided into men and women? History has shown that women have been oppressed and persecuted. There has been a desperate effort by women throughout history to liberate themselves to be equal with men. Maybe there is some slight distinction. American women are slightly different. But, generally speaking, the women of the world are thinking and blaming themselves. Blaming their parents for being born as a girt There are not too many women satisfied being born as women. Here in the United States, there are many laws and rights for women. Can you win over men? Or not quite yet? What about two to one. Two women and one man. Generally speaking it is a truism that most women ask why wasn’t I born as a man.</p>
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<p>Also generally speaking, in history the tragic side has been the side of women . Statistically speaking, in most cases, the victims are women. Most criminal assaults are generally men assaulting women. What percent? Over 90 %. Women’s heart has always had a certain grudge or reservation, or certain dissatisfaction with their position. There is a certain regret. Women generally live with regret. The question always comes, if there is God why didn’t he resolve such a question instantly, automatically, a long, long time ago? Why is the human race suffering until now, that still inequality and unfairness prevail? Many people come to the conclusion that if there is a good God, an all mighty God, He would have completely wiped out all the problems. Not only between man and women, but so many fundamental problems. There is such a problem pervading our society. So many of you conclude there is no God.</p>
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<p>Is God able to solve the problem or not? If He is able, when would he do it? On the other hand, if God is perfect is there a perfect man or woman on this earth? No one is perfect, therefore, no one can come under the direct control of God.</p>
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<p>Why did such imperfection occur? Because of the Fall. What was the Fall? The fall of man is the depravation of your creative value. Men and women. You are a purposeful creation and have a creative value. Satan is completely demolishing it. Wiping it out. So women are you born for women? No. Who then? For man and man for the sake of women.</p>
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<p>Then why, is the creation such that man is there for the sake of woman, and women is there for the sake of man. Why is that? Why is there this kind of creation in the first place? In one word it is for the sake of love. Women is there to fulfill the purpose of love for man, and man to fulfill the purpose of love for women. The fulfillment of this love is the goal behind the scheme. This is the creative design. To fulfill love.</p>
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<p>Centered upon yourself there is no perfection, no fulfillment because that it is not the way it was designed. Do you follow? Yes. Adam and Eve brought the fall of man. The selfcentered Adam. The selfcentered Eve. That was what the fall was all about. The fundamental error was committed. Men and women were born for the sake of love, but it could not be fulfilled, so they moved 180 degrees in the opposite direction. The fall of man instead of living for others, ended with man living for himself and herself. Exactly opposite to the originally created design.</p>
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<p>We see in the Bible the fall came through the eating of the fruit. But, that particular act is nothing. It could not bring about the awful consequences of the fall. Men and women instead of giving love to fulfill the other side, they try to pull love and energy towards themselves so that “I” can indulge. 180 degrees opposite from God’s design and live for himself. This 180 degree movement brought the fall of man. Centering upon what? Centering upon the activity of love, the reproductive organ. Sexual relationships. This is where the most destructive action occurred. Centering upon himself for himself, there is no way that the universe will run God is an investor. God has invested every ounce of himself for the sake of creation, This is God’s principle to give, to create. Give life, give creation. Everybody is trying to take it. Take it for their own sake. It not only goes against the basic rule and law of God, but eventually it leads to self destruction. Only true love is altruistic and takes you to heaven. On the other hand, self-centered love brings you towards hell.</p>
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<p>For restoration you must indemnify the past. In the Old Testament era the law of indemnity was obvious. In the Old Testament era there was the concept of equal indemnity. An eye for an eye, a hand for a hand. Restoration is for the sake of recreation.</p>
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<p>By recreating you can restore. To recreate we first recreate the environment. Secondly, we recreate the object and thirdly we create a reciprocal relationship. A subject and object relationship.</p>
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<p>The entire universe is created by the pair system. Everything is made as subject and object. As you enter into the church you immediately become object to Father, the subject. You enter into give and take. The unity of the subject and object can happen only one way. This one way parallels the creative way of God. This one way focuses on true love. The Unification Church is the training ground of true love. Father is in the absolute center and you revolve around him.</p>
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<p>When you are united as subject and object you look for a higher relationship to have give and take with There is a double layer to all human relationships. Physical and spiritual. Horizontal and vertical. Where the vertical and horizontal lines cross, you will find four 90 degree angles. Why 90 degrees? Because True Love travels the shortest distance. Where they cross there must be a 90 degree angle. Only if there is True Love is the angle 90 degrees. Perverted or fallen love never achieves this 90 degree angle. Your conscience was born from your vertical parents. Your body from your horizontal parents. Therefore, your conscience is the closest mind to heaven within yourself.</p>
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<p>When your vertical and horizontal self unite, then you create a perfect man. From this scale you can measure and evaluate everything in the universe. Your eyes are horizontal, your nose and mouth is vertical. Where your food goes down is vertical. You have the vertical and horizontal lines in your own body. If someone’s’ face is not level, it is an impression of yourself. How you appear is very important. The reproductive organ is also vertically situated in the body. That shows it’s connected to heaven, vertically. Man’s body is both vertical and horizontal and represents the universe. Life originates in men. Women, no matter how great, do not have the seed of life, of children. s that true? Yes.</p>
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<p>Father represents absolute good and perfection. If he goes to any evil area, such as a gambling casino, Father when going in there immediately knows how to digest it. Father shows the quality that is better than that world’s object, then interaction can occur. This is called to digest evil.</p>
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<p>You are living in the satanic world, but when you were confronted by the absolute good you changed, you digested it. That’s why you are here.</p>
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<p>You were not born here. You converted yourself here. So you have a power of converting evil into goodness. People want more and more good, but ultimate goodness only comes from True Love. The three great ministers are here. Father is asking them, what do you think Is God so almighty and powerful that He has to come under True Love? Does He have to comply himself under the law of True Love? Is True Love above God or below? Even God comes under complete obedience to True Love. That Is where God is. Even God has to follow absolute True Love. For example when God created men and women, God said to man and woman you have to be united absolutely centered upon True Love. Then if the children ask, He will say I am obedient to True Love. The children will then obey him. Otherwise they will make there own law. They will not respect the parent. Then there will be no oneness. No one unified, universal law.</p>
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<p>Therefore, unification is the base for joy freedom, happiness and peace. Joy means, freedom, happiness and peace. Everything based upon unification. Do you understand? Otherwise nothing can settle. Unification is the base of all. Father knows this so our church is named after unification. Everything has balance with unification. Everything works harmoniously with unification. Men and women are balanced with unification. The most important thing is not power, knowledge or money, it is True Love. True Love has the power to focus the five senses.</p>
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<p>Young teenagers when they open up and meet the opposite sex, an incredible energy comes. An incredible force comes which blinds them to other things. If you have a sphere, it is the most harmonious shape, if you push it will stretch out to infinity.</p>
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<p>If two lovers, a husband and a wife, meet after many years of separation. They hug each other and squeeze hard. They shoot up into the sky. True Love comes and covers the entire area. There is no limit. Centering upon True Love you have to live as husband and wife. Man for the sake of women, and women for the sake of man, for the sake of love. Those that do not need love raise your hands.</p>
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<p>Grandparents, parents and children all live for love. Men and women must unite into one. When women get married you don’t look so much at their face or ears, but at their love organ If he doesn’t have one, you will put him into the trash can. That’s absolutely true. Even the fallen world will do that. The love organ is the love palace, life palace and palace of blood lineage. It is the most important place.</p>
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<p>God wants to secure those three palaces. When God conquers those three palaces, then this world will be heaven. The dominion of Satan has come into those precious palaces. The most precious thing in heaven became the most scorned and dirtiest place in the world. The fallen satanic element brought the fallen lineage, life and love into the world. In that place all of fallen humanity has been multiplied. The most tragic consequence of the fall is that we are victims of satanic love, life and lineage. Satan became an adulterer and took the virgin and created his own children. Satan is the love enemy of God. All great ministers teach but they do not know this fundamental teaching.</p>
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<p>Dr. Grant, during the fall Adam and Eve were kicked out. Did they have children before or after the fall? (After). How many years later did they have their children? The question is, after they were kicked out, did God follow them and bless them because they were lonely? Or did they just marry themselves. Satan married them. God had no control of the land outside of the Garden. Satan married them and they had Satan’s children. Creating satanic love, life and lineage. That was not what God planned. God wanted them to have their own children inside the Garden. Therefore, God’s ideal remains to be fulfill. So, no matter what happens in the satanic world, God’s ideal of a True Love, life and lineage in the Garden still remains unfulfilled. Therefore, we have to restore it back.</p>
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<p>The mother took two children to the satanic world, so God has to restore the Mother and the two children, Cain and Abel, back. We have to restore these three people.</p>
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<p>The subject and object should be restored and united back with the mother. Subject and object means Cain and Abel. Plus is Abel, minus is Cain. They must unite and go to find their mother. Those three are the lost elements. Mother and a plus and minus. United into one, these three elements become a big giant minus united with perfected Adam . A giant plus, creating a giant unity. Satan has always created divisions and disharmony. Heaven and hell are separated in you. The right side is God’s side and the left side is Satan’s side. One is God’s way, the other is Satan’s way. Thinking about yourself takes you to hell. Thinking of others takes you to heaven. The war between your mind and body is worse than the World Wars I, II and III. The only way to win this war is to come to Rev. Moon’s teachings.</p>
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<p>Was God created perfect, or does He have to grow? God has a growth process. What Father means is that God because He create for the sake of love, as man emerges, God experiences love through man. For God love is everything. God is the subject of love and He needs an object of love. If you had not fallen then you would be the son and daughter of God and would give birth to the children of God. There would be no religion, no savior, or churches. The bible states that God is in Jesus and Jesus is in the father.</p>
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<p>You are born for the sake of love. True Love. True Love is absolutely one. What about American’s love or Satan’s love? Is it one? Father will now explain the Will of God and Satan. Satan has brought the entire world to his side, and he now wants to permanently keep his prey. God on the other hand wants to permanently take Satan’s possessions back to Heaven. These are 180 degrees different. Go in this direction and you will go to heaven. The opposite, to hell. This world consists of mind. This world consists of body. In the last days the world is divided into two blocks, the conscientious block and the opposite. In terms of ideology or philosophy, this is secular, atheistic humanism and communism The God centered ideology is centered upon the good religions of the world and the very devout religious people. The communistic, atheistic world, is centered upon material and has corruption and decadence. God’s world denies material and is theistic. The other is atheistic.</p>
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<p>At the end of WW II all was divided into two. How could we make it into one. The fallen world itself was helpless. The only solution is for the world to have the Messiah. The Messiah comes with the power, method and truth to firstly unite mind and body. Then, unite family clan, tribe, nation and world. The Messiah is to convert this world of false love, life and lineage into a world of true love, life and lineage. This is the central formula of the restoration of mankind. Mankind is helpless without the Messiah. The Messiah cannot come on the clouds, but must be born as a man of flesh. Amen. This is the formula of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>In yourself you have a plus and minus, your mind and body. But, because of the fall your body became plus and fights with the mind. So someone has to come and break up the satanic division. Unless someone comes and does this you cannot have a good life or marriage.</p>
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<p>Many saints have come and given many good things, but now Rev. Moon and the Unification Church teaches the core truth. Individual perfection is not there. How can we expect the family, tribe, national perfection? Is that logical? No way. Your body is the most fearful monster. Even more fearful than world wars I, II and III. We must conquer this division on the earth, otherwise you cannot go to heaven.</p>
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<p>How do you practice True Love? By loving your enemy. In the Garden of Eden, the Archangel was not a part of the unity of Adam and Eve. However, if the Archangel had been obedient to Adam, then when Adam and Eve entered into heaven, the Archangel automatically deserved the same heaven. The Archangel must receive God’s love, which is Adam’s love, then he’s entitled to enter into heaven together. This is the Divine Principle. So the Archangel must love God’s children in order to enter heaven. God’s children must also love the Archangel in order to enter heaven. So Satan is always the final judge of whether you are a heavenly citizen or not. Satan is always at the heavenly gate. .When you come he will ask, “Did you love me as originally God intended Adam and Eve to love me? Before the fall I was Archangel and you were supposed to love me in that position. Unless you loved me and practiced that love with me you are not entering into heaven.” Therefore love your enemy has the most profound sense here. You liberate yourself by loving the fallen archangel as if he had not fallen.</p>
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<p>For Rev. Moon my enemy is the United States and the Christian world. The entire Christian world and the free world is my enemy. I have to love them with True Love. God’s method is always to be beaten and then gain the victory. The Unification Church history of development has followed that principle. The entire world has come against me. I do not hate those people who come against me. When the Messiah comes and has to take the entire world, it’s natural that the entire world comes against me. On whose side is God? The satanic world or with Rev. Moon? Father came here not for revenge but to save and to love. Father went to the USSR not to destroy but to love. Father went to Kim IL Sung, the most evil man, not for revenge, but to love. At the gates of heaven Satan will bow down to him because he is the model.</p>
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<p>Father came to America and created the AFC and the ACC and many other organizations. They are American. Father is foreign. Father came to love America, but they come to meet Father through these projects. They will realize the true meaning of these projects and what Father is saying. You should be loving America more than Father does. Be more sacrificial than Father. Otherwise, to whom can I inherit these missions. But many come to the Unification Church movement to exploit and take advantage. The subject and object must unite. For the sake of the United States. Instead of having Father in the forefront, it’s Americans that should stand in the forefront representing Father. Let Americans take responsibility. Let Americans become the central figure. This ~s the reason Rev. Moon Is retreating back Americans must move forward.</p>
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<p>George Bush, I am sorry. I had a recommendation for George Bush. Father was the one to have George Bush elected four years ago. But there were certain mandates. Certain reciprocal responsibilities which he did not listen to. What happened? He’s finished. In the republican establishment, the only hope is for them to unite with Father. I have great hope for America. However, if America is not going to heed Father’s wishes, then Father has an alternative. The former Soviet Union. All those former communist countries. They will be my object. I will work through them. Ultimately one way or another Father’s wishes will be accomplished. Father came to the white world to save it. Why did Father spend money that was not earned in this county? To educate Americans and to educate the UTS graduates. This is another manifestation of loving the enemy. Since American Christian churches have come against Father so adamantly, Father created the Unification Church to replace the Christian world in America. Father invested considerable resources to save America. So now not only this world, but the communist world, the eastern European block, China and N. Korea will all come under Father’s wings.</p>
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<p>What is the Victory of our True Parents? It is the liquidation of the satanic world. God’s strategy has always been to crease a chosen people. In the Old Testament era God worked for 4000 years to restore the lineage of man. In Jacob’s era a particular dispensation occurred. The fall occurred with God, Adam and Eve. Eve deceived God, her father, and Adam her husband and went to Satan. This created Satan, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. God has worked to recreate the perfected Adam God works from the bottom with Abel. All the relationships within this family are enemy relationships. Their minds and bodies are enemies. Cain and Abel should unite and then unite with their Mother. The chosen nation is divided into two. The Israel nation represents Cain, and Judaism represents Abel The two brothers should unite and go to their Mother. This is the providential picture at the time of Jesus. Cain and Abel should unite with their Mother and go to the Father.</p>
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<p>This was enacted with Jacob. Jacob united with his mother and subjugated Cain. Satan was separated. Cain andAbel united completely. Eve during the fall deceived God, her father and Adam, her son. Rebecca, in Eve’s position, deceived her husband and elder son and united with Jacob. After 21 years Jacob was able to unite with Esau (Cain) and Satan was expelled. However this particular act had to be repeated at the time of Tamara because Jacob restored the fall only at age 40.</p>
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<p>Tamara deceived her Father and his son to conceive a child. So here we see restoration taking place. Tamara has been accused of an immoral crime. As a prostitute she deceived her Father and conceived. This is unthinkable, but God blessed her. Why? Because she was fulfilling this providential course. When the twins were born, the elder stuck out his hand, but then the younger pulled him back and came out first. The younger restored the elder in the womb.</p>
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<p>Jesus’ ancestors were from the tribe of Judah because these things were restored in the lineage. 2000 years later, the virgin Mary was born in the nation of Israel. Mary is in Tamara’s and Rebecca’s position. Here she deceived her Father and her fiancée to conceive. Thus the process of conceiving Jesus took place. So then Satan has no power to claim Jesus. Jesus was completely out of Satan’s lineage. This is why Jesus is called God’s only begotten son. The lineage is so important. In order to cleanse the lineage, God went through a 4000 year process. In the wild olive tree forest, the true olive tree, Jesus, was born. So Jesus can engraft all the wild olive trees and convert them all into the true olive trees.</p>
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<p>This was the way salvation was supposed to be completed. But because of the crucifixion physical salvation could not come, only spiritual salvation. When the Lord of the Second Advent comes he will bring both</p>
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<p>Jesus was supposed to be married and elevate himself to the position of True Parent. Then, mankind would have had the True Parents. Even after the crucifixion, the spirit of Jesus conquered the Roman empire. Then, it conquered England and the United States. However, if Jesus had been alive, there would be no racial conflict. All we would have needed would have been Jesus and his lineage. We would not have needed Christianity or the Pope. We would be the living sons of God. But because of the crucifixion the New Testament era began. However the NewTestament did not have a body, only the spirit. In the Old Testament era God had a nation, but in the New Testament era God has no nation because Jesus’ body was lost.</p>
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<p>For the last 2000 years history has been very convoluted, up and down for 1900 years. Then World War II came. Great Britain, the mother, America, Abel and France, Cain opposed Japan, Germany and Italy. The satanic side was the axis powers. The heavenly side the allied powers. After WW II the entire Christian world was united into one. England was the mother. As an island it longs for a masculine continent. England gave birth to America. By defeating the satanic side the heavenly powers on a world wide scale united Cain, Abel and their mother. Upon this victorious foundation there will be the coming of the Second Advent. This is the reason for the Messiah to appear. Even though they had united, they did not have a new love, life and lineage. Only the True Parents have a new love, life and lineage. What is the Messiah? He comes as the True Parent with the power to convert satanic love to true love, satanic life to true life, and satanic lineage to true lineage. Who is that? Father.</p>
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<p>We see exact parallels between the time of Jesus and the time of the Second Advent. Look at the tune of Jesus, everyone was expecting a miracle. It would have been easy to accept him, but he was born in a stable. God’ son, the King of Kings was born in a stable. Was that God’s will. No! Could anyone at that time, who knew Jesus was illegitimate, believe he was the Messiah?</p>
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<p>Could you at Jesus’ time have believed in Jesus. No. John the Baptist could not. The same thing with Rev. Moon. Can you believe in me? Dr. Grant? Dr. Sills? Because of the opposition of Jesus history has been prolonged, and the messianic fulfillment has been prolonged for 2000 years, the Jewish nation has been completely demolished and suffered all over the world. The body of Jesus was destroyed, but Barabbas was saved. By doing so, the entire 12 tribes of Judaism were destroyed and they lost their nation. Why? Barabbas’ body was saved, so the physical power took over the entire Israel nation. After 700 years of struggle they became a homeless people throughout the world. For 700 years God gave them the opportunity to repent and come to Jesus. If they had, God would not have allowed the birth of Islam. Even today the dews do not accept Jesus. Why do the chosen people have to dwindle? They themselves say that 6 million Jews were killed to pay indemnity.</p>
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<p>Until the True Parents come no one can give the forgiveness. This is their opportunity for the Israel nation and the Jewish people.</p>
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<p>What happened at the time of the Second Advent? They repeated the crime. God’s plan was to have the three nations unite with the Messiah. The Christian culture is the brides culture. Cain and Abel and Eve unite and wait for the Messiah. But because of the rejection of the Second Advent at the end of WW II, the entire victory of World War II was given to Satan. Rev. Moon was cast out into the wilderness and the entire satanic world rejected him. They turned 180 degrees away. The 4000 years work of Jewish history went to the wind with the failure to accept Jesus. Similarly, the entire 2000 year history of Christianity went with the wind. The only hope is the Messiah. God could only hope on him for the new establishment of the foundation. So God hoped for a new foundation for him. Is God standing with the Christian world or with Rev. Moon? All of the Christian and religious world don’t understand this concept. Rev. Moon and God were chased out to the wilderness. What a miserable situation. What can we do. We must go the entire restoration course again. The Christian world and the entire free world united against me.</p>
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<p>In America we have to connect again the Unification Church to the Christian world. We need to make that victorious foundation. Carter, we cut off his neck. Is that true? So with that foundation we went to the communist world. We see their decline. Who made that? Rev. Moon. Father has begun with a new foundation, even with high school students. Father in 40 years created a new foundation to replace Christianity. So 4000 years history was lost. But Father cannot live 4000 years or even 400 years. God gave permission to Father to indemnify the entire history in 40 years. Father went back to the beginning of the Old Testament era and started the long march. Father has to restore everything that was lost in 40 years. Father’s mission is unification. All divisions that occurred because of the crucifixion must be unified. The left hand thief, right hand thief and Barabbas. After the 40 year history Father realigns the nations. Japan as the Eve, and the United States as the Abel, are given another chance.</p>
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<p>The United States is an important element because it is a complete representation of the Old Testament and New Testament era. If Father abandons the United States, he is abandoning the entire history of God. Korea is the Adam nation. All that Satan has done Father will restore. Germany was selected as Cain. In 1975. When Father sent out the missionaries, he selected one from Japan, one America and one German. Because Japan and Germany were selected by Father this is the reason that unprecedented economic recovery came to them. We must consummate this providence, otherwise the new era will not dawn.</p>
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<p>Father is pushing for the Unification of the World. He created the Religious Federation for World Peace.</p>
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<p>At Jesus’ time Jesus died, but Father has to fulfill this without dying. The Religious Federation for World Peace and the Federation for World Peace bring unity for the mind and body. Father is trying on a worldwide scale to bring mind and body into one. Of this 40 year period Father spent 20 years in the United States. This 20 years represents the New Testament era of 2000 years. Father has restored the 2000 years in 20 years. Father has physically gone over every step and restored every step.</p>
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<p>In 1945 at the end of World War II if Father had been accepted, within seven years the entire restoration would have been over. However he was not accepted. So for 40 years Father restored all this, which brings us to 1992</p>
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<p>Mother has followed behind Father for 40 years. However once this 40 years was over, Mother became equal to Father and now stands side by side. So seven years ago Father expecting the age of women, created the women’s Federation of Asia. In 1992 Mother took it over and created the Women’s Federation For World Peace. The Korean women are the elders. All women will unite with the Korean elder sisters. Firstly, all Korean women must unite with Mother. Then the Japanese, American, European, Russian and Oceanic Mother has restored the bride’s position and given liberation to women worldwide. Therefore all restoration has been done. Since World War II Father has restored all back and gives one more opportunity for worldwide unification. Jesus lost his body in Asia Minor, therefore to restore his body, the new culture must be born in Asia. An Asian era is dawning. A new culture is to be born in Asia. However, western women will not be neglected. Father came to the western world as a bridge to give them the same opportunity.</p>
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<p>Therefore the mission of True Parents and the Unification Church is to bring unity. All over the world we see many divisions. North and South Korea, in the United States there are many divisions. Father and the Unification church must bring unity and education. The first, second and third Israel’s must be united. Korean unification shall be Father’s utmost goal from now on. In Korea we have two parents. In the North, Kim I1 Sung is the parent. In the south Rev. Moon is the True Parent. Who will follow who? Kim n Sung will follow Father. We see Kim I1 Sung’s path is becoming narrower day by day, whereas Father’s is expanding.</p>
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<p>The individual must become one. The family must unite into one. Grandparents, parents and children must unite. By what? Not power, knowledge or money. Only True Love can unite. The right wing and left wing must become one. The religious world must unite into one. Only by the power of True Love. This is the formula and path that everyone must go. Will you serve your grandparent and parents in your own home? Yes. A divided family was a result of the fall So, at this time we must unite the family into one. Behind Father and Mother’s family, the Unification Church is following. Behind them are the two worlds.</p>
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<p>Father went over all these obstacles to unite with God, a big super plus. So then you will embrace with God and have a homecoming with God. Now there are no barriers, only free passage. Once your family is united with the True Parents’ family, then your goal is complete. To do this father has set up the Tribal Messiah. Jesus was alone, lonely, persecuted and crucified, but Father and Mother are united and standing on the earth. With that victorious foundation they can send out thousands of thousands of Tribal Messiahs. Tribal Messiahship represents these branches. Without the Tribal Messiahs Father’s family becomes very thin. With the Tribal Messiahs it becomes very prosperous. By participating in our True Parents’ dispensation, you become a part of our True Parents’ Tree of Life. Every victory has been won by 1992. All has been done. The total victory has been won Al you have to do is engraft Into this tree as a Tribal Messiah.</p>
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<p>The Tribal Messiah’s responsibilities are:</p>
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<li>The restoration of the ancestors.</li>
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<li>The restoration of your hometown.</li>
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<li>To secure the right to live and share together with God.</li>
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<p>The amazing thing is to liberate your ancestors. You can bring them back to the state before the fall Everyone wishes to be buried in their hometown. The most important thing is to restore them. In the past Father has taught you to leave your family, to separate yourself from Satan. You are the only people to understand this incredible heavenly secret revealed by Father today. How proud you are. Be bold and strong. So the time of liberation has come. Yes or no? (Yes.) So all you UTS graduates, are you living just for your meals or for the liberation of all of mankind? Be a victor. Do you think God loves Rev. Moon or not? (Yes. )</p>
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<p>If there is an idea many can accomplish it. But Rev. Moon had no idea. Father discovered the Principle and fulfilled it. Father now wants to give it to you. Why? Because Father is the parent and you are the children. Father wants you to be true children. Is that easy or difficult? (Difficult). Are you happy or not? (Happy.) This is why today’s sermon is called Victorious True Parents.</p>
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<p>This year’s slogan is the New Family and the Fatherland Unification. New family is the entire True Parents’ family and the unification is unification of the world. We must follow Father and imitate Father’s family. Perfection of Adam, family, clan and tribe, national, universal and the liberation of God.</p>
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<p>Father has declared the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships. You have heard this sermon I’m sure. This is the original road of Adam’s heart (heart capacity) as a child, brother/ sister, spouse and parent. The three kings represent king of the family, nation and world. You must taste living in the royal family and taste the royal family’s love to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Today, in the west we see the heart core of Satan’s way. Free sex and homosexuality is not allowed by God, no drugs or alcohol. This incredible story you have heard today has been planned and fulfilled by Father over many decades and culminates in 1992 by Mother’s victory. Mother has done in seven months what took God seven thousand years. She went to all the world and declared the True Parents. What Mother has done is to restore the bride realm of the free world and restored all women. This gives another opportunity to the world so Cain and Abel must unite with Mother. Both men and women, particularly women must absolutely observe a strict moral life. Women have to repent.</p>
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<li>You rejected God and Adam in the Garden of Eden.</li>
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<li>You rejected Jesus 2000 years ago.</li>
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<li>You almost rejected Father again. This was narrowly avoided.</li>
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<p>Women have rejected your husband three times. Father is speaking historically Now is the time to restore all these things through Mother fulfilling her responsibility. In order to inherit Mother’s victory you must unite with her completely. Since 1960 True Parents were blessed. Anyone born after that can be regarded as the Second Generation. Even though you were born in the sinful world. You have one advantage, you did not completely unite with the satanic way. Therefore, Father and Mother regard all children who were born after 1960 as being much closer to True Parents who can more easily be restored. Father for 70 years of his life restored Adam. Satan was crushed and has no power. Born after 1960 is like a sinless child marrying on their own and living in the world. Therefore, it is slightly different. Also the victory of World War II had many victories. So even though the world has not completely accepted True Parents, from God’s point of view, from that particular era on, the reign of True Parents began. So, you come under the reign of True Parents. You inherited the benefits of the victory of the World War II. So 47 year old or younger, those born after 1945, Father also considers them as the Second Generation. The complete testament era is primarily a movement of Second Generation because. You people have a special privilege, such as those in Israel who put the blood above their doors had been spared. So 47 years old or younger have that type of situation. So you can be spared from the judgment.</p>
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<p>Now the individual and family witnessing period is over. We must witness to our tribes. You are to unite completely with Mother and inherit her great victory. Jesus has 120 disciples. By the same token you are going to have your tribal messiahship and spread the word to the 120 members of your tribe When you become bold and strong declare Father’s name as the True Parents. Take 30 Divine Principle books and read it to all of your tribe. Not teaching, but reading to them. Showing video tapes also. Centering on Father’s and Mother’s birthday today, those who pledge to accomplish your tribal messiah responsibility raise your hands, yes Father and Mother.</p>
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