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<h1 class="entry-title">Absolute Values and The New Cultural Revolution</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:18:30+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/absolute-values-and-the-new-cultural-revolution-2.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:18:30+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<div class="pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left"><a href="/blog/2018/06/24/absolute-values-and-the-new-cultural-revolution-2.html?print=pdf" class="pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="/assets/vendor/pdf/images/pdf.png" alt="image_pdf" title="Download PDF" /></a></div><h2 align="CENTER">Founder&#8217;s Address<br />
Reverend Sun Myung Moon</h2>
<h3 align="CENTER">Fifteenth International Conference on<br />
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<p>November 28, 1986<br />
J.W. Marriott Hotel,<br />
Washington, D.C.</h3>
<h3>True Love and the Unified World</h3>
<p>Honorable Chairman, Committee Chairmen, Distinguished Professors, Ladies and Gentlemen; I would like to express my sincere appreciation to you for coming to this, the 15th International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences. I know you have busy schedules.</p>
<p>My topic on this occasion is &#8220;True Love and the Unified World&#8221; The fundamental cause of confusion in the world today is the conflict between materialism and idealism (spiritualism), which is the conflict between the side of goodness and the side of evil, which in turn can be expressed as the confrontation between good God and evil god.</p>
<p>The hope of humankind is peace, and peace can only be realized through unification. This means not only the unification of the world but many other levels of unification; unification within each nation, unification within each family, and unification within each individual. Of these, the most important is the unification within the individual. In considering all current unification movements of the world at any of these levels, the name of Reverend Moon can not be dismissed.</p>
<p>In order to realize the world of peace which God desires, the following must be accomplished.</p>
<p>First, the unification movement must achieve preeminence in the realm of human thought. It must challenge and surpass all narrower philosophical and religious views.</p>
<p>Second, unification movement must rise to the summit of scientific technology, and then distribute that technology evenly throughout the world. Up to the present day, technologically advanced America has subordinated South America, while Europe has done the same to Africa. In order to correct this, the level of scientific technology needs to be equalized among all countries.</p>
<p>Third, this movement must deal with global economic problems. Today the world is confronting an international monetary crisis. This can be controlled if numerous conglomerates buy stock in and establish a supra-national bank.</p>
<p>Fourth, it has to take preeminence in the realm of media. With the <i>Washington Times </i>as the core, we are establishing preeminence in the American print media, a field of more than 1,750 American newspapers. By doing so we can include all fields of intelligence. Today we have in this area surpassed the liberal <i>New York Times </i>and <i>Washington Post, </i>and continually gaining important confidential information not only from America but also from other governments all over the world.</p>
<p>However, even if we stand on the summit in all the realms of thought, scientific technology, economy and media, there remains yet another problem. The problem is how to create (educate) a person to go beyond nation and race. When someone takes responsibility for a project, if he is American, he tends to employ all Americans for the task; if he is English, he tends to employ only English; the French employs French; etc.</p>
<p>Therefore, before the peace and unification of the world can be contemplated, one must know how to educate a person so that they can completely overcome their own sense of nationality in favor of the world. Even communism, which has transformed half of the globe, cannot rid itself of its own nationalist and racial inclinations, and is reduced to &#8220;racial communism&#8221;</p>
<p>Turning to the question of God, in the latter half of the 20th century the majority of the world&#8217;s population has inclined toward a humanistic outlook that denies God and has turned toward a form of mammonism, while half the population has fallen under communism. which is mere materialism. Philosophy, whose task it is to find God (absolute truth), has failed, and religion, which is supposed to live with God, has now lost God and become spiritless.</p>
<p>In the unification of the world, the crucial problem is man. Before the unification of the world is possible, we must achieve the unification of the nation and the unification of the family, and the unification of the family must be preceded by the unification of the individual man. Unification of the man means unity between the mind and body. When the individual suffers, the family suffers also. When the family suffers, the nation cannot help but suffer with it; and the same with the nation and the world.</p>
<p>After all, a true man must be found, a true man whom humankind and the universe cherish, and whom God can trust. Men like things which do not change. Hence they like jewelry. People value the hardness of diamonds, the luster of gold and the delicate color of pearls, all because of their unchangeableness. This is also true in men. Precious is the unchanging man. He is the true man. Therefore, all people want unchanging parents, unchanging teachers, unchanging leaders and unchangeable nations.</p>
<p>Today, the majority of people do not recognize God. This is because as individuals their minds and bodies are in conflict. On the other hand, even those who initially do not recognize God, if they begin to think that &#8220;something must be wrong in men,&#8217; will come to have a different outlook and see that there may be a God. Then, coming across such religious concepts as the fall and salvation, they could discover God.</p>
<p>When we discover God, it becomes clear to them what is &#8220;public&#8221; and what is &#8220;private&#8221; That which is public means that which is for the whole, and &#8220;private,&#8221; that which is for the self. When you reflect on yourselves calmly, you find yourselves in a quandary between what is public and what is private. Because of this, religion teaches us restraints such as fasting, suffering, modesty and humility in order that the body, which is very much inclined toward the &#8220;private&#8221; way of behaving, may be restrained in favor of the mind, which is more &#8220;public&#8221; God certainly exists. True man is he who resembles God. To realize the world in which true men abound, not a human revolution but a &#8220;revolution of character&#8221; in man must take place. This character revolution is to transform men into true men who will come to resemble God. This character revolution is to uplift men&#8217;s character and bring it closer to God&#8217;s own character. God, who is already omniscient and omnipotent, does not need any more knowledge, nor more power, but even He needs His objects (of love), man and woman.</p>
<p>The sixteenth verse of the third chapter of the Gospel of John in the Bible says &#8220;God so loved the <i>world </i>that He gave His only son, Jesus &#8230;&#8221; This means that God sent Jesus for the sake of all mankind, not just for one particular denomination or church. Therefore God covets sons and daughters who love the world with their very life, as does God Himself. What God loves most is a culture of love. What God wants every man and woman to be is not a rich man or a scholar. He wants every man to be a loving man. In the Bible we come across innumerable teachings concerning love; &#8220;Love thy enemy,&#8221; &#8220;Love thy neighbor,&#8221; &#8220;Of faith, hope and love, love is the greatest,&#8221; to name only a few.</p>
<p>Do wives truly love their husbands? Do students truly love their teachers? Do citizens truly love their countries? Ladies and Gentlemen, do you know what is most precious to a man? It is woman. Likewise, what is most precious to a woman is a man. The purpose of life, into which we all are born, for a man is woman, and for a woman is man. Man and woman are born to live for each other. The harmony of their body shapes and of their organs of love are simply made so.</p>
<p>If you truly understand this fact, you have mastered more truth and more precious wisdom than an entire encyclopedia. God, the Great King of wisdom, has placed our organs of love in each other&#8217;s custody. Thus the true master of the organ of love which a man or woman possesses is not that person at all, but is their loving spouse. Those husbands and wives who are ignorant of this, and misuse what they have in an undiscriminating way will surely meet the judgment.</p>
<p>By realizing this truth, husband and wife can attain harmony, and their children will develop filial piety; the son of such a marriage will grow up to be a loyal citizen, and the daughter a chaste wife. They will grow further to become saints and eventually be the holy son and daughter who belong to God.</p>
<p>Without finding mutual love between husband and wife, which is a horizontal relationship, we cannot receive God&#8217;s love, which is a vertical relationship. If man had not fallen, heaven would have started in the family, and the expansion of that family would be the population of the world. Thus, the family is the training ground of love to qualify men for heaven.</p>
<p>Only those who possess God&#8217;s love can inherit the right of heaven and earth. As for the question of which is first between life and love, the answer is love. Love is the universe&#8217;s first existence, and life, which only begins as a result of love, is the second existence. In a family, out of the love of the parents, children are born. Thus a child inherits life from its parents, having been a part of his parents&#8217; love.</p>
<p>Once two parties are bound in the relationship of love, they come to stand on an equal level. Since love comes from the <i>other, </i>&#8220;live for the sake of others&#8221; is the highest philosophical principle. God created man to be His own object; God created him for the sake of the object, man himself. Man, therefore, was likewise made to exist for the sake of God. However, as a result of the fall, men have become self-centered, living for the sake of themselves rather than for the sake of others.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s human society is corrupt, and philosophies are becoming self-centered. To sweep away these philosophies, only God&#8217;s love, true love, can suffice. True love is the love to give and give without expecting any return. Give and forget.</p>
<p>Once we maintain this relationship with God, we are given the privileges of dominion, independence and inheritance. When we establish God&#8217;s realm of the object, and realize the glory of unchanging love, we can justify eternal ethics centering on human love.</p>
<p>God, truly in a miserable and pitiful position, is still seeking for His realm of the true object. Out of so many clergymen in this country of America, God, recognizing me as an object of love, visited me in prison to tell me to work on Nicaragua&#8217;s crucial situation.</p>
<p>The unification of the world, including that of divided Korea, can never be accomplished by military power. Unification becomes possible only with God&#8217;s love, a love which embraces the enemy countries as well.</p>
<p>I have practiced this ideal up to this day. In my ministry in America, I have been teaching people of the mutually hostile countries of World War II to love each other, Japanese and Korean, Japanese and American, and American and German. Without our establishing a firm tradition of being able to love the people of the enemy countries more than one&#8217;s own, the unification of the world will not become a reality. And only God&#8217;s love will enable one to love the enemy countries more than his own.</p>
<p>To repeat, before the unification of the world can be achieved, the unification of the country, the unification of the family, and the unification of the individual must precede. The unification of the individual, as I mentioned before, means the unity between the mind and body in love. On this foundation husband and wife can achieve unity in love, and unification of the country and the world will follow. Also, this is the only way to realize a world of new civilization.</p>
<p>It is therefore my fervent wish that all the professors gathered here will also strive for the unity of mind and body. Love your wife or husband deeply, and thereby contribute to the unification of the world, and the building of a world of new culture.</p>
<p>In closing, I hope that this conference will be a very fruitful one for you.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:05:08+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/causa-seminar-speech.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:05:08+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1985.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">August 29, 1985,<br />
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Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Have you been studying well during the last couple of days? We are gathered together as members of the Unification Church. What is the Unification Church? It is a religious organization pursuing a noble goal: the unity of all religions. You realize that is no easy task; it is so difficult. But God&#8217;s will and desire is the unity of all religions and eventually the unity of all ideologies-such as communism and democracy-under one understanding of God.</p>
<p>This is the United States, and most of you here today are American citizens. There is much diversity and mixture of people and problems in America. Unity is relatively easy if you lower yourself, but not so easy when you elevate yourself. Europe is a community of nations encompassing a great diversity of cultures and peoples. To try to elevate all of Europe to a higher level and then to unite everyone is quite a difficult task. But God exists and we must consider His standard. Is He content with the present level? No, He desires something much higher, the highest possible level. When you attempt to raise the world up to God&#8217;s standard and unite it, you encounter immediate problems. To try to bring unity while maintaining the status quo, without altering the current ideologies and philosophies, is virtually impossible. Every country has its own idiosyncrasies; its people are proud and stubborn. Americans, for example, feel that the United States is number one. Europeans think they are tops. Such attitudes make it impossible to form a harmonious body out of these nations.</p>
<p>Still, if only human factors were involved, we might keep hoping for unity. But another element exists: the invisible but real influence of Satan. The forces of Satan in our world push mankind in the opposite direction of goodness and try to block people from ever reaching it. God has His own will or purpose, people and nations have their own goals, and the forces of Satan have their own agenda. All three factors or parties-God, mankind, and Satan-play a role, and their responsibilities are intertwined. Eventually, they must reach a consensus, or common understanding.</p>
<p>Were those three parties originally destined to be divided and operate in conflict with each other? If so, unity would be hopeless. We must understand the difference between good and evil. All three parties began heading in the same direction, goodness. But mankind, in the middle, turned toward the left and became evil. Satan was originally an archangel, one of God&#8217;s creatures. God&#8217;s will cannot be fulfilled unless mankind, in the center, participates in His dispensation. Likewise, Satan could not accomplish his goal without mankind&#8217;s cooperation. Present divisions stem from the deviation of God&#8217;s original concept in the Garden of Eden. When God instructed Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, He warned them that the consequence of disobedience was death. There, good and evil divided. To obey God&#8217;s will and achieve what God desires is good; to disobey God and go away from Him is evil.</p>
<p>Only the Unification Church understands deeply how mankind&#8217;s lineage was transferred to Satan because of the fall. Having started as a good archangel, Satan also longs ultimately to return to his original position. The central criterion for determining good and evil is God&#8217;s will. The consummation of God&#8217;s will is, naturally, good. Therefore, whoever totally fulfills the will of God is a complete, or perfect, person. Such a person is one with God.</p>
<p>The purpose of the Unification Church is to unite the religions and peoples of the world centering upon the will of God. I am the founder of the Unification Church, but that does not mean it exists to do my will. No, I live for God&#8217;s will. I work day and night to unite the religions of the world, centered upon God&#8217;s will, not my own. I only obey the will of God and walk the providential road.</p>
<p>Then what is God&#8217;s will? The average religious person seldom has a clear idea what it is. But the Unification Church has a crystal-clear answer: to fulfill the ideal or purpose of creation. The ideal of creation is the completion or perfection of humankind and the universe. When men and women are perfected, the universe will also be perfected. Also, the ideal of creation includes the completion of the heavenly four-position foundation. That begins with one God-centered individual, whose mind and body are united under God&#8217;s own lineage. Such a person becomes God&#8217;s man or woman. That is the first stage. Such a man and woman can create a family, becoming God-centered husband and wife, and giving birth to God centered children.</p>
<p>If this is God&#8217;s concept, is there any room for separate American, Soviet, or European ideologies? Can each hold onto his own way of thinking and preserve his well-being? Is there room for a Japanese or Korean way of thinking, for Oriental and Occidental ways of thinking? God&#8217;s mind totally focuses upon the completion of this heavenly four-position foundation. He does not consider whether something is distinctively American, Korean, Japanese, or whatever. He cares only for the perfection of Adam and Eve within the Garden of Eden.</p>
<p>God longs for people to fulfill their human portion of responsibility, to climb out of God&#8217;s indirect dominion into His direct dominion, and to become totally one with Him. That is God&#8217;s one fervent desire. But people sometime object, &#8220;All we really need is our freedom. Why should we be bound by &#8216;human responsibility? Why worry about setting all these conditions? Why is the heavenly four-position foundation so necessary that we should give up our freedom for it?&#8221;</p>
<p>God&#8217;s supreme desire after creating the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve was to see people fulfill their responsibility and reach perfection, or completion. Can any of you confidently say, &#8220;Yes, I will follow God&#8217;s desire and fulfill human responsibility whatever the cost&#8221;? Raise your hands if you can. Supposedly, you have volunteered to fulfill God&#8217;s will. Do you realize that you should become the champions in achieving it? Or do you think you don&#8217;t need my sermons, since you are Americans and have all that is necessary? How much have you Americans been thinking about human responsibility? Please reflect on it. Of all the people in the world, I am taking human responsibility most seriously. I am putting my life on the line in order to fulfill it.</p>
<p>God and Satan separated during the period for fulfilling human responsibility. If human and angelic responsibilities had been properly fulfilled, do you think Satan would have emerged? No, Satan has mankind in a choke hold, telling people, &#8220;Until you fulfill your human responsibility, you don&#8217;t belong to God; you belong to me. I&#8217;ve got you by the neck.&#8221; There is a certain protocol among the three parties; Satan and God know it, but human beings have been unaware of it. Only at my coming has mankind&#8217;s ignorance been conquered. Now human responsibility has been clearly defined.</p>
<p>Once a person fulfills his human responsibility, Satan can never conquer him and God will never abandon him. Satan and God made that agreement. Everything hinges upon human responsibility. Whether we follow God&#8217;s will or Satan&#8217;s will depends upon one thing: the fulfillment of our responsibility.</p>
<p>For example, Dr. Durst is the president of the Unification Church of America. He met me and followed my will, traveling throughout the country to promote our movement. He knows the American way of life, and he is absolutely confident that he is doing God&#8217;s will to the maximum of his ability. But is that the entirety of human responsibility? Is that sufficient to fulfill God&#8217;s will and please Him? The answer is no. The American way is very trivial in relation to the universal will of God. Even though you may have completed lots of workshops and seminars on the Principle, including leadership courses, and you think you know the Principle, your nose is still hooked by a wire, and that wire is called human responsibility.</p>
<p>I am a smart man. If human responsibility were not required, I could have chosen a very easy path and become popular wherever I went. Think about it. There are plenty of experts and PhDs in the world, each looking for better ways of achieving human fulfillment. Do I concentrate on such things less than they do? I put a lot more thought into it. Do you think I am so dumb that I just picked the wrong route, causing so much persecution and misunderstanding? Do I enjoy that kind of persecution? Then why has it happened? Why did I have to go through such adverse situations? Because there is no other way, in heaven or on earth. I had to take that course and overcome it.</p>
<p>Even if our parents reject us, we must follow this way. Even if our wife and children reject us, we must continue. If our own nation and people reject us, still we must go on. If the entire world and the universe opposes us, we persevere. That is the road of survival. That is the destiny we were born to fulfill. That is the covenant between God and Satan, the rules upon which they have agreed. We don&#8217;t have the option to digress from these rules; we must follow them.</p>
<p>Those of you sitting in the front row have been CAUSA lecturers. Have you been truly serious, investing all your effort into your commitment, paying indemnity and trying to fulfill your responsibility in a manner acceptable to both God and Satan? Even if nuclear war broke out today and the entire world were demolished, still human responsibility would remain. It will never go away. Therefore, what people should dread the most is not necessarily an atomic bomb or nuclear warfare; it is unfulfilled human responsibility. For the whole United States of America to be demolished in one second, or for your entire family to be incinerated, would be less fearful than unfulfilled human responsibility.</p>
<p>While Adam and Eve were fulfilling their responsibility, were they supposed to have children? Before completing their human responsibility, they should not have turned to each other and said, &#8220;I love you; I want to kiss you and make love.&#8221; This is why Jesus told his disciples, &#8220;A man&#8217;s foes shall be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.&#8221; (Matt. 10:36-38). Does that make sense to you? Is it realistic? Have you had such a serious attitude? Have you made a life-and-death commitment to bear the cross and follow the Lord, wherever he leads?</p>
<p>What elements interacted to cause human responsibility to fail? Illicit love and the acquiring of satanic blood lineage have prevented mankind from fulfilling human responsibility. If people&#8217;s bloodstream and lineage had remained connected with God&#8217;s original lineage, human responsibility would have been automatically completed. Because of the human fall and unfulfilled human responsibility, a new will of God went into effect: salvation and restoration. Only after the fall did those concepts emerge.</p>
<p>Once His children had fallen, God could no longer deal directly with them. He could not reach out to mankind, and mankind could not reach out to Him, because the fall occurred during God&#8217;s indirect dominion. God can exercise His power only when people reach His direct dominion. Otherwise, God has no way to deal with us.</p>
<p>Can people traveling the course of God&#8217;s providence focus on having lots of fun and a wonderful time now, and still achieve salvation? How wonderful if it were the case! That is basically the way American young people- especially women-think. So what can we do? Men and women who think that way should be kicked out as detriments to the dispensation.</p>
<p>The Principle works to bring fallen generations back to God&#8217;s direct, unstained, pure and original bloodstream, restoring mankind to God&#8217;s original lineage. Only after you fulfill your human responsibility can God&#8217;s lineage flow into your bloodstream, transforming you into a new person. Our ultimate goal is to be linked with God&#8217;s lineage and become His true children. How can we bring Adam and Eve into oneness? How can we create that unified heavenly four-position foundation? How can we inherit God&#8217;s lineage? By centering on God&#8217;s love.</p>
<p>Does anyone here have a different idea? You are very wise people, but much of your energy has been spent in complaining and trying to dodge the mainstream work. Yet you still want to reap the benefits. Have you ever said, &#8220;I completely accept my human responsibility&#8221;? Can you say it with confidence? Since you have not fulfilled all of your human responsibility, are you in God&#8217;s direct or indirect dominion? Who controls the indirect dominion, God or Satan? You remain in Satan&#8217;s realm until you enter God&#8217;s direct dominion. Is this clear?</p>
<p>The important thing is not to run around all over the place, but to be enrolled in a certain course. You have to be clearly registered and connected with the professors who teach that course. Then, upon its completion, you will receive a certificate.</p>
<p>I have proclaimed the goal of uniting the peoples and religions of the entire world. God&#8217;s game plan, or formula, is quite simple. First of all, God gives you the chance to fulfill human responsibility, and then comes the harvest. Those who fulfill will receive God&#8217;s new lineage and enter heaven, like the grain. Those who fail shall remain in this hellish world, like the chaff that is thrown away.</p>
<p>Every person is destined to go this course, even though it might take billions of years in spirit world to finish it. All people must fulfill their responsibility. Your best opportunity is on earth. According to the principle of creation, human responsibility is supposed to be completed on earth, or in the spirit world. Have the major religious leaders, such as the Popes, cardinals and famous ministers, fulfilled all the requirements and attained God&#8217;s direct dominion?</p>
<p>Suppose you worked throughout your life on earth, giving your very best, but you discover when you reach the spirit world that you had not completed the necessary courses? What would happen if you said, &#8220;I just want to stay here&#8221;? The rest of the spirit world would kick you out and tell you, &#8220;There is no place for you here.&#8221; They would send you back!</p>
<p>You joined the Unification Church and have done your best. Now that you are blessed and have children, you might think of relaxing. But you still have responsibility, and if you fail to fulfill it, when you enter the spirit world, you will be judged by that failure. Your own children shall be your accusers. They will grab you and say, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you do more and fulfill your responsibility?&#8221; Also, the wife might say to her husband, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t you know the truth? Why didn&#8217;t you treat me in a more disciplined way while we were on earth? You weren&#8217;t serious about Father&#8217;s dispensation, and so we ended up in hell. Why weren&#8217;t you more stern and demanding? Why didn&#8217;t you take human responsibility more seriously?&#8221; How tragic if the wife becomes her husband&#8217;s accuser!</p>
<p>I know this absolute rule and principle. While I am here on earth, I have to teach it thoroughly and without compromising even one iota. Whatever the consequence, whether persecution or imprisonment, I must lay down a straight rule. Even though the United States opposes me, I will confront it squarely and fearlessly, because I have a job to do. Not even the strongest earthly power can prevent me from fulfilling my human responsibility. That is my mandate from God and my firm resolution.</p>
<p>You are my disciples and children, aren&#8217;t you? In your position, can you say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care about human responsibility. Let Father do it?&#8221; Regarding indemnity, perhaps you rationalize and say, &#8220;Backward people from countries such as Korea might live that way, or Japanese people can do it. But we are American citizens. This is a free country, and we have everything we need.&#8221; You are free, that is true, but you are not free from human responsibility.</p>
<p>How deadly in earnest God has been! He lost all His saints and martyrs, and He wants to restore this world using their blood sacrifice. This world has always been running away from Him. He is so serious now! But even God could not clearly specify what human responsibility is, because finding that out is also part of our responsibility, according to the Principle. If God could have led people by the hand directly to the goal, the world would never have become like it is.</p>
<p>Satan is always taunting God and saying, &#8220;People have to learn human responsibility and prove by the way they live that they are worthy of being Your sons and daughters. But none of them are doing it! That shows that all men and women on earth are my children. Don&#8217;t touch them, God!&#8221; And God has to agree with Satan.</p>
<p>Once we go to the spirit world, the truth of this will become crystal clear. But it will be too late then. The tragedy will be even greater when men and women who knew about their human responsibility while on earth still failed to fulfill it.</p>
<p>I know clearly what has to be done and how to do it, and I can lead you by the hand. But sometimes I feel disgusted when I stand before you, because it is so impossible to lead you. I issue emergency instructions, but you take them lightly, saying, &#8220;Well, I&#8217;ll do my best, I guess.&#8221; And some people waste their time, just wanting to have fun. What a tragedy when God declares an emergency but none of His soldiers take it seriously enough to tackle it! I am speaking particularly to you leaders, you &#8220;big shots.&#8221; l wear special eyeglasses of human responsibility, and I use them to check your movements and behavior, to see whether you pass their approval.</p>
<p>The great blessing of God&#8217;s love is waiting to be bestowed, but no one is deserving, because your blood lineage is not pure enough to receive it. You have received the Blessing, but none of you really understands its importance a.d value. Sometimes this makes me feel deeply hurt and full of regret. My feelings about the Blessing are so deep: is it an immeasurable, priceless gift. But you handle it like an old pair of shoes. Those who have been blessed, raise your hands, please. Do you think the Blessing was just a simple child&#8217;s game we played? On the contrary, it is a life-and-death showdown. The Blessing came to you upon my lifelong sacrifice. I paid an incredibly high price to give it to you, in order to connect the heavenly lineage to you.</p>
<p>Have you felt that your blood is different now? Have you been reminding yourself, &#8220;I am connected to the heavenly lineage; now my whole body is God&#8217;s?&#8221; That is such a poignant realization. Have you experienced it? Only when you go beyond human responsibility can you deserve the Blessing. In a way, the truth is simple and clear.</p>
<p>Human responsibility has eight different levels, starting from the individual level and extending to the family, tribe, nation, world, universe and cosmos. God inspired the creation of the various religions of the world and has been cultivating them like wild olive trees so that when the Messiah came, He could engraft his lineage onto them. That is the entire purpose of the chosen people and the chosen religion. The Messiah is the one who first fulfills human responsibility and brings the heavenly lineage with which to engraft the wild olive trees, so that they can become true olive trees.</p>
<p>The Unification Church culture, centered upon True Parents, who represent true love and God&#8217;s true lineage, shall be propagated to all of humanity, creating a new culture and a new world. That is the essence of the Unification Church culture and the mission of the Unification Church. Only through this channel can the Kingdom of God become a reality on earth. Only as we spread the truth and overcome the world&#8217;s ignorance, gaining acceptance of the True Parents, can the Kingdom of Heaven emerge on earth.</p>
<p>This is the mission of the Messiah and the Unification Church. The heavenly four-position foundation lost to Satan must be restored. Therefore, wherever the Unification movement goes, Satan and God inevitably have a showdown, because that is where life and death, heaven and hell, and the victory of God or Satan are determined.</p>
<p>You Unification Church members sometimes think you have nothing to do with Jesus. That is erroneous. Actually, the Unification Church was born at the time of Jesus, who came to be the True Parent 2,000 years ago. Had he been able to fulfill everything without going through the crucifixion, the Unification Church would have begun in his time. Moreover, the Roman Empire would not have fallen; the world would long ago have been united; and there would have been no room for communism on earth.</p>
<p>The close of World War II was another ripe opportunity. The United States of America, as the key Christian nation of the modern world, could have led the entire world and heralded the coming of the Messiah at that time.</p>
<p>A wondrous miracle has taken place. Through discovering the Principle, I was able to telescope 6,000 Biblical years of fallen history, and particularly the past 2,000 years, into 20 years. I have condensed a long dispensation into a short time-making a long story short!</p>
<p>My efforts until the Holy Wedding in 1960 were to restore the position of Jesus. Therefore, I had to walk his path, because as Jesus&#8217; heir I could not move forward unless his position was completely vindicated and restored.</p>
<p>The 25 years from 1960 to 1985 has been the era of the True Parents. In 1960, the age of True Parents dawned. From 1960 to 1972, 1 laid the national foundation in Korea, which became the cornerstone of the worldwide foundation. During those 12 years, I declared the four heavenly holidays, set the pattern of true patriotism, and through the various organizations which we founded, laid a substantial foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. I also sent out all the blessed couples to the field, offering them as sacrifices for the redemption of the country. From 1970 on, I have encountered worldwide opposition, which was expected and normal.</p>
<p>During the 12 years from 1973 to 1985,1 expanded the foundation from the national to the worldwide level, centering upon the United States. We mobilized all the races of mankind and extended our foundation throughout the earth, in preparation for the global conflict with the worldwide satanic forces. This has been the time for planting the new tradition for the democratic world and the new tradition for international blessed families.</p>
<p>The pattern of struggle has been the same in both periods. On the national level in Korea, there were daily threats against my life. Now, in the United States I have faced tremendous opposition and persecution on an international scale, as you are well aware.</p>
<p>Actually, what is happening now in 1985 was supposed to have happened in 1945. Had established Christianity accepted me at the close of World War II, what we are now witnessing would have occurred then. But because established Christianity failed, I spent 40 years in the international wilderness and finally volunteered for the crucifixion of Danbury. Because I was resurrected rather than defeated there, I opened the way for a new era of total religious and international unity. I have succeeded in restoring every level of the dispensation-individual, family, tribal, national, worldwide, universal and cosmic.</p>
<p>The Cain-Abel relationship is the classic pattern of providence. So far, Cain has tried to control everything. When established Christianity is Cain, the Unification Church is Abel. But attitudes have been gradually changing, particularly after my incarceration at Danbury; now established Christianity is approaching the position of a Cain who accepts the leadership of Abel. The United States government is Cain to the Christian churches, who are Abel; but the government has been more powerful and has been exerting its will over the churches. In world affairs the United States has been trying to control everything. The democratic world, centering on the United States, is Abel, and the communist world, centering on the Soviet Union, is unquestionably Cain; but both Cain and Abel have been lost and filled with chaos.</p>
<p>So the Cain-Abel relationship clearly exists on every level, even within the Unification Church. According to the Principle, unless unity between Cain and Abel is restored, the parents cannot emerge. After World War II God gave an unprecedented opportunity to the United States, a Christian nation, to assume the leadership of the entire world. At the close of World War II, the Christian churches were filled with inspiration and glorified God for bringing them the victory. But they should have clung to God, remaining humble and praying for him to send His anointed one to lead America and the whole world. That should have been the focus of their prayers. They should have been waiting to receive the Messiah, the True Parents. Had all this happened 40 years ago, restoration would have been accomplished in virtually one stroke.</p>
<p>I was a young man at that time, but already I had uncovered the entire Principle. Conditions were as ripe then as they are today for leading the world back to God. Had the True Parents been accepted 40 years ago, with the nations and churches (as Cain and Abel) united and welcoming them, it would have taken only seven more years to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Communism would never have become so strong. However, the United States surrendered its responsibility and abandoned the world, and communism, which had been feeble, amassed power and took over nations one by one.</p>
<p>Korea was in the position to accept the True Parents first, but it opposed me instead. Established Korean Christianity became a tool of Satan and totally turned against me, and the Korean government immediately joined in the persecution. Thus, Satan snatched that opportune time.</p>
<p>Not only did Satan divide the Unification Church from the larger Christian community, but he also preyed on Christianity itself. Today Christianity in America has been infiltrated by godless attitudes, such as liberation theology and secular humanism. The world has become a wilderness and Satan is devouring it, left and right. It has become the target for Satan&#8217;s rampant attacks.</p>
<p>Just as in the time of Moses, 40 years is the period for changing generations. The first generation which followed Moses died without entering Canaan. Likewise, the first generation after World War II which rejected the True Parents, has mostly passed away. The second generation is now ready to accept and embrace me. I had to pay the indemnity to make a link to his second generation and open the door to them.</p>
<p>For that reason, I trained Hyo Jin to be the Abel, or second generation leader, by having him direct the blessed children&#8217;s workshops around my time in Danbury. The first was held a year ago, and the second one just finished in Korea on August 15. There are various Cain-Abel relationships within our church. When I am Abel, you&#8217;re Cain. But the second generation is Abel to the first generation, as Cain. Your children, for instance are Abel and you are Cain. In my family, Hyo Jin and the second generation are Abel and I am Cain.</p>
<p>Now that the victory has been won in Danbury, I am setting up a clear channel of command, with the emergence of Hyo Jin as the second-generation Abel. My victory at Danbury also has meant my own resurrection, both physically and spiritually. I am now in the position of Lord of the Second Advent to the world. A new era has begun, in a way, so one of the most important issues now is the leadership of the second generation.</p>
<p>My period of incarceration at Danbury was also comparable to Moses&#8217; 40 days on Mount Sinai. Much confusion and chaos prevailed before I entered prison. But with my emergence as the victorious Lord of the Second Advent for the world, a new order has come into being. You have a new opportunity to renew your connection with the True Father. The Unification Church, established Christianity, and the whole world are being renewed through that relationship. My mission has also been renewed. The bond between the True Father and the second generation has been renewed. Moses himself died in the wilderness, unable to cross over into Canaan; only the second generation actually entered the promised land. Now Moses is resurrected physically and is personally leading the first and second generations together into Canaan!</p>
<p>During the Exodus, the Israelites had a simple direction: to follow Moses. They could survive by following him. By the same token, after my emergence as the new world leader, people will say, &#8220;A new Moses has arisen, the Reverend Moon. Our survival depends on following his direction.&#8221;</p>
<p>Blessed couples have an absolutely crucial mission. All the Korean blessed couples went out to witness for three years, from 1970 to 1972, setting a new tradition for the national foundation in Korea. This time, the international blessed couples are going out to witness to the world, especially in America. During these next three years, we will set a worldwide foundation and tradition. I have already paid all the indemnity necessary to restore human responsibility on all levels from the individual to the global scale. Furthermore, I have planted God&#8217;s true lineage on earth and laid its foundation and set its tradition. I am standing upon that foundation today.</p>
<p>You received the Blessing at your present level of the restored growth stage. But I want you to know that even though you are blessed, your indemnity condition and your human responsibility have not been fulfilled. One more stage remains before you can enter God&#8217;s direct dominion. Chaos, misunderstanding and faithlessness may all occur during this final period. But when you finish that last step and enter God&#8217;s direct dominion, Satan&#8217;s accusation will leave you permanently These next three years until 1988 will be absolutely vital. If you blessed couples throughout the world unite with me and follow my instructions and fulfill your responsibility, we will all cross that final completion line.</p>
<p>The world is filled with confusion now. The Soviet Union is desperate. August 15, 1985 marked the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II. Before that date, I wanted it declared to the world that communism was coming to an end. Prominent academic leaders at the Second International Congress of the Professors World Peace Academy this summer predicted the end of world communism. I already foretold the decline of the United States 12 years ago. So the end of communism is near and the United States and the free world are declining. So who shall survive? Only those who uncompromisingly follow the will of God. They will be the remnant, the survivors.</p>
<p>Men and women who fulfill their human responsibility and receive the True Parents&#8217; direct lineage through the Blessing are the remnant, the grains which shall be harvested. You can carry out that task by going to the satanic world and subjugating it. You have inherited my tradition and the charge to teach it to all of America. This is the age for you and your families to take up the responsibility. Therefore, all the blessed couples shall be mobilized. Whoever is not involved in this mobilization has nothing to do with True Parents. Now is the time to cross the Jordan River. You can enter Canaan or remain in the wilderness. You need to be bold and strong. The two key words are bold and strong.</p>
<p>This country desperately needs a God-centered president, senators and congressmen. America&#8217;s intellectual establishment is liberal, godless, secular, humanistic, and anti-religious. We are declaring war against three main enemies: godless communism, Christ-less American liberalism, and secular-humanistic morality. They are the enemies of God, the True Parents, the Unification Church, all of Christianity, and all religions. We are working to mobilize a united front against them. While I was in Danbury, I focused on uniting all religious people-regardless of their faith or denomination, race or culture-in a common cause.</p>
<p>Do you feel in your bones that established Christianity has turned towards us? This is the blessing I expected immediately following World War II. Because of the failure of established Christianity at that time, the road of providence has passed through 40 arduous years of indemnity. But after completing a huge circle, we have returned to that original time of blessing. In these 40 years of journeying in the wilderness, I re-indemnified everything through my blood, sweat, labor, and tears. If established Christianity had responded properly at first, that blessing would have swept across the country and throughout the world. Since I have re-indemnified everything, that opportunity has returned. Now, when you go out you will have a sweeping effect nationwide. You should expect to harvest an incredible victory.</p>
<p>Do you feel what I am saying in your bones? No matter what, we must remain committed during these three years. Please rise above all difficulties, opposition, persecution, and internal struggles. You blessed couples must set the tradition on the worldwide level; then you shall reap the great victory for everyone. We shall return this world to the original, unpolluted condition of the Garden of Eden and to the pure, unstained heavenly four-position foundation. That is our mandate for these next three years. We will leave no room for the opposition to invade.</p>
<p>Several major external events are scheduled for 1988: presidential elections in the United States and Korea, the election of a prime minister in Japan, and a change of leadership in Germany. The four major providential nations, representing Cain, Abel, Eve and Adam on the worldwide level, will decide their destiny in 1988. Korea is the Adam nation, Japan the Eve nation, the United States the restored heavenly archangel, and Germany the fallen archangel. This is the dispensational significance of these four nations.</p>
<p>Germany is divided vertically, between East and West; the East belongs to satanic communism and the West to the free world. Korea is divided horizontally, at the 38th parallel, between North and South. In North Korea, Kim II Sung has taken the position of satanic parent of the nation, while in the South, there are True Parents. By overcoming North Korea and East Germany in one way or another, we will make the condition to solve the world&#8217;s problems and end the struggle between communism an the free world. Who shall bring that solution? Secular national leaders cannot solve these problems. Only leaders who know God&#8217;s will and God&#8217;s mandate can do it. That day is at hand.</p>
<p>Shall we work to receive this blessing and eliminate the need for indemnity? Shall we take the final leap forward-or give up our mission now? What do you think? We shall fulfill human responsibility and create a sphere free of indemnity. We shall build a True Parent centered society. We shall create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and make our final settlement. God&#8217;s people have never been able to settle. Final settlement must come. We have been the objects of ridicule wherever we have gone. But that shall change. In the next three years, Moonies shall become honored, respected and revered.</p>
<p>Your children shall be free from persecution and opposition; they will not need to pay indemnity for the past. They will truly live in the Kingdom of Heaven from birth on and will automatically enter the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world. That is the kind of foundation you as a parent can lay.</p>
<p>Did you hear my plans to mobilize 7,000 people to go to Korea: We have already educated more than 7,000 Christian ministers. Imagine bringing 7,000 American ministers following Reverend Moon to Korea, under the banner of CAUSA! That would have an impact on the entire nation.</p>
<p>The fallen archangel, Germany, must follow the United States, the heavenly archangel. The United States must follow Japan, the Eve nation. Japan must follow Korea, the Adam nation. The ultimate showdown will take place in Korea. Therefore, the United States cannot pull out of Korea; the archangel must save Adam. At the fall, the archangel turned against Adam, instead of serving him. God&#8217;s side and Satan&#8217;s side are both moving in the same direction. North Korea is in the position of satanic Adam, Red China is satanic Eve, and the Soviet Union is the satanic archangel. When the four nations on God&#8217;s side unite, the satanic side will split apart. Red China is already rebelling against the communist ideology and will inevitably turn in God&#8217;s direction.</p>
<p>If Korea, Japan, the United States and Germany unite and move together during these next three years, incredible things will happen. The Occidental cultural sphere is moving towards the Orient. The sun rises from the East and goes to the West. World culture as well is moving toward the East. The Cain-type cultures of the West have taken the subjective role around the world, while the Abel-type cultures of the East have been in the objective role. But the subject and object positions are now reversing; the United States and the Christian cultures have begun to admire and strive to emulate the Oriental cultures. The Unification culture is the Adam culture towards which everything is moving.</p>
<p>Today the United States is trailing behind Japan in many fields, including technology, scientific research, computers, and automation. This is how God is turning the world. At the fall, Eve handed her entire power over to the archangel. Now the archangel is returning its power to the heavenly angel and to Eve; through Eve, Adam will be restored. This is happening today on the worldwide level.</p>
<p>Eventually I would like to see Koreans, Japanese, Americans and Germans living together in the same building. There will be condominiums to house international families and communities. The children of families in the same complex will intermarry and live as part of a larger community, like one great family growing up together. This will be our tradition. Such communities will be our tribes. Without a pattern of tribal life, we will never be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you understand? We have not yet set this heavenly tradition.</p>
<p>You international blessed couples are very precious. International couples will become highly respected and valued. The era of white supremacy is past. Whoever still harbors feelings of white supremacy in the Unification Church has a satanic attitude.</p>
<p>A great providential opportunity is at hand. Now that you know the complete picture, God and True Parents are giving a mandate to all members of the Unification Church-especially blessed couples-to be mobilized. Marching orders have been issued. We are going to the front line. The day will come when even if you volunteer for the front line, there will be no more mobilization. There are growing numbers of people who, although they are not even members of the Unification Church, are investing much time, effort, and even tears in the study and propagation of the Principle. What is the difference between you and them? Even though they study Principle so much harder than you, unless they pay a certain amount of indemnity they cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven. Your indemnity is your advantage.</p>
<p>Who will conquer the worldwide Satan? Ultimately, it is up to you. You have to confront Satan. True Parents can give you all the guidance and direction you need, but you will force the ultimate showdown-not us. When the world totally embraces the Unification Church and no longer opposes us, you should volunteer for labor camps and coal mines! We will have to create some indemnity course within our own system! I will give directions about that.</p>
<p>When the world accepts the Unification Church, should we become self-satisfied and boast, &#8220;Our day has come! Hallelujah!&#8221;? Not at all. Do you think your children, the second generation, will have their own portion of human responsibility, they too shall be accused; they may not end up in hell, but heavenly law will chastise them, because the law of indemnity still applies.</p>
<p>We are now assembling like the Israelites at the time of Moses. You have been given your marching orders. Please don&#8217;t complain like the ten faithless spies. Be like Joshua and Caleb and cross the Jordan River to challenge the city of Jericho with victorious faith. This is the standard and tradition that the blessed families in the United States should establish.</p>
<p>I will pass on to you the fruits on my 40 years of indemnity during these next three years. God suffered for 6,000 biblical years. Through my 40 years of indemnity, I could receive from Him a great inheritance, which I am ready to give to you, upon the completion of your three years of service.</p>
<p>Centered upon God and the True Parents, the heavenly four-position foundation has already been erected. The final heavenly four-position foundation will be composed of God, the True Parents&#8217; family foundation, the True Children&#8217;s family foundations, and your own blessed family foundations. That heavenly four-position foundation by families is the ultimate foundation. Within that, there is no room for Satan. Does the Principle indicate that Satan can invade such a foundation? This is the absolute foundation-absolute God, absolute True Parents, absolute faith of the True Children, and absolute faith of the blessed couples. That leaves no loophole for Satan.</p>
<p>In the Garden of Eden there were no boundaries. Eventually national boundaries shall also disappear. In the ideal world you can go anywhere. The whole of modern technology developed to help fulfill God&#8217;s ideal. We have been expecting this time. Our only responsibility is to make one final jump, set out on the one final march. You blessed couples have been given your marching orders.</p>
<p>Those who will respond by saying, &#8220;Now I am determined to carry out the True Parents&#8217; wishes. I will fulfill that goal. I will accomplish God&#8217;s will&#8221;-please stand up. Raise your hands. Do you pledge before me to fulfill your human responsibility and to live up to my expectations?</p>
<p>Yes or no?</p>
<p>Yes or no?</p>
<p>Yes or no?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T15:55:07+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/creation-of-the-fatherland-and-gods-day.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T15:55:07+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1985.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 1, 1985, Morning<br />
World Mission Center<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>The title of this morning&#8217;s message is <i>Creation of the Fatherland and God&#8217;s Day</i>. As you know, today is God&#8217;s Day and at the same time New Year&#8217;s Day. This is the eighteenth anniversary of God&#8217;s Day.</p>
<p>If there had been no fall, God&#8217;s Day would have been established first and then Parent&#8217;s Day. Children&#8217;s Day, and then Day of All Things. However, that order was reversed and God&#8217;s Day was installed last. If there had been no fall, the first family-that of Adam and Eve- would have become the center of all things. God&#8217;s Day, for example, would have been centered upon that family. The entire universal center would have been based upon Adam and Eve&#8217;s family.</p>
<p>Adam and Eve&#8217;s family was supposed to be the one central family in heaven and on earth, representing the ideal of God. God&#8217;s nation and world would have been centered upon them. When Adam and Eve walked, that was supposed to represent the path that all of humankind was to walk. When Adam and Eve took a walk, don&#8217;t you think that God would be interested in that? Wouldn&#8217;t He want to go walking with them?</p>
<p>Think about God in terms of air. You cannot see air but it fills everything; there is no place without air. Air is composed of certain elements which can be analyzed scientifically, but God is like &#8220;super air&#8221; or spiritual air. He is more invisible and more free than air. For that reason God is truly ubiquitous, or everywhere.</p>
<p>Many people think that material things are solid but when one looks at them under an electron microscope there are great spaces between the molecules of that material.</p>
<p>The human body is a universe of cells. When you walk, you should think that the entire universe is walking and moving. Why would the whole universe be attracted to Adam and Eve when they took a walk? If Adam and Eve were united into one, walking as one entity, then the universe would pay attention to them. Everything in creation would say, &#8220;We want to go walking with them.&#8221; That is because they can feel excited and joyful to be with Adam and Eve.</p>
<p>God is no exception. Why do you think God wants to walk together with Adam and Eve? Have you ever read anywhere in the Bible that God says, &#8220;I love money.&#8221;&#8216;? Have you read anywhere in the Bible where God said, &#8220;What I need is knowledge.&#8221;? Or &#8220;I need power.&#8221;&#8216;? Certainly not. Those things are not important to God because He already has all that He needs. By the same token. He could create more of them, as much as He might want.</p>
<p>Money, power and knowledge are valuable only as tools in the consummation of love. They were never meant to be our goals or our purpose in life. What is the one thing that God has been desperately searching after? It is true love</p>
<p>Where does true love come from? It can never be fulfilled by yourself alone. It must come to you through the opposite sex. Love flows from the object, through your give and take. Your duty is to give and then love comes to you from others. That is the dynamic of love. Thus we have to serve and live for the sake of others.</p>
<p>As you know, God is the Creator and we are His created beings. But even God needs an object with which to fulfill His love. Without the give and take action of love, God Himself cannot fulfill His love. For that reason, the position of human beings is equally important to that of God&#8217;s. The object is just as important as the subject.</p>
<p>Think of it: God created Adam and Eve for the sake of love and they were His most lovely, charming creatures. Where would God want to take them-to hell or to heaven? Certainly God would want to take them to the highest possible heavenly throne. Do you think that God would want to sit upon His heavenly throne and look at His creatures, saying, &#8220;Adam and Eve, you are so lowly, don&#8217;t come near me! Go outside and just bow down to me. &#8221;Would God say that?</p>
<p>No, God would say, &#8220;Adam and Eve, my beloved ones, please come here. Sit right beside me and let me embrace you.&#8221; He would want Adam to be on His right side and Eve on His left, with perfect freedom to turn around in any position. Turned in one direction, Adam would be in the front; in the other direction, Eve would be in the front. They can turn in any direction but they will always be one. There is no real value difference between Adam and Eve.</p>
<p>God is a being with dual essentialities. Adam represents one characteristic and Eve represents the other. By uniting together, they can represent the complete image of God. That is why God wants to bring them together into one. He knew that Adam would grow up to become a handsome man. Adam&#8217;s heart would start pulsating and he would naturally want to reach out for love.</p>
<p>Eve was destined to grow up, too, and become a teenager with the capacity to feel love. She would look at Adam and think, &#8220;I used to think of him as just my elder brother, but somehow my heart is beating faster. Why is that&#8217;! Something is happening.&#8221;</p>
<p>Look at God&#8217;s universe as His museum: everything within it expresses an aspect of His love. How wonderful a Creator we have! Now you know about the true love of God. Does it sound like a good thing for a family to enter into that love of God and dwell forever in it? Not only families but also nations want to dwell in that love. The entire world wants to enter into and dwell forever in that kind of love. All things in the universe, from God all the way down to the smallest level of the creation, want to dwell in the state of true love.</p>
<p>Therefore the most important doctor of all is the doctor of true love. Who is that true love doctor.&#8217; God is that doctor, along with the True Parents. No matter where you go with true love. whether to the lowliest dirty places or among the hungry, everybody will say yes to true love. There is only one entity who will say no and that is Satan. He is the only one who doesn&#8217;t want to be around true love.</p>
<p>Are you becoming good students of true love? Even those who are just thinking about true love are on God&#8217;s side. All of those who are actively pursuing true love are on God and the creation&#8217;s side-the side of the universe. In fact, even those who are fighting over the subject of true love are still on God&#8217;s side. Those who don&#8217;t care about true love are on Satan&#8217;s side.</p>
<p>When you wear the same shoes all day long, they give off a strong odor when you remove them at night, don&#8217;t they? That is particularly true of men. You women, when your husband comes home from a long, hard day of work and he takes off his shoes and socks, it smells like the devil, right? Will you say to him, &#8220;Get out of my sight! I can&#8217;t stand it!&#8221;? Or are you able to kiss that smelly toot&#8217;? With true love, you can even do that. That&#8217;s why true love is a mysterious power. God works in mysterious ways and true love creates mysterious tastes.</p>
<p>Now we have come to understand the law of the universe, the principle by which God operates. Life here on earth is the training ground for true love. That is what this life is all about. That&#8217;s why the Unification Church is teaching people to live for the sake of others, to go out and work for the sake of the world. By giving love unconditionally to the world, you will receive the entire world to yourself.</p>
<p>This is why Jesus taught people to love their enemies. By doing that, people can perfect their love. By perfecting your love, you will become one with the entire universe. The earthly life is your training ground. Once you have perfected your love here, you can go to spirit world and have unlimited freedom of movement. You will live harmoniously in the eternal world of spirit forever. That is the way God designed this world; that is God&#8217;s original ideal.</p>
<p>However, because of the fall of man, that beautiful ideal has been shattered into pieces. Instead of becoming God&#8217;s children, men and women transferred their lineage to Satan. People received the satanic blessing and became satanic children. That is the most tragic thing that Could have happened. Everything has been occupied by Satan.</p>
<p>The pillar of love was supposed to be the central pillar of the Kingdom of Heaven; instead hatred became the pillar of the Kingdom of Hell. Somebody has to come to unwind all the wrongdoings of mankind and restore them.</p>
<p>God is the one v ho has been searching after the fulfillment of true love, agonizing day in and day out. I want you to know how brokenhearted God has been. When He looks at this universe which He created, the universe which was supposed to be His museum of true love, He sees that it has been plundered and filled with hatred and conflict.</p>
<p>Perhaps some person would say to God, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t You just destroy the world? You are almighty and You have all the power You need. You could just wipe out mankind and start over again.&#8221; In other words, God has all the power in the universe, so what is the problem? Perhaps that person would also say, &#8220;I will be the one to fulfill where Adam and Eve failed; I will be a hundred times more powerful than they were, more powerful than the fallen angels. I will not betray You.&#8221; What do you think God would answer to that?</p>
<p>On the other hand, suppose some person tells God, &#8220;I can cleanse this world. You don&#8217;t have to wipe out mankind. I have a stronger love than anyone and I will liquidate all of Satan&#8217;s power.&#8221; God will certainly tell such a person, &#8216;My son, go right ahead! My son, do your will. I will assist you with all the power at my disposal.&#8221;</p>
<p>In such a case, that son is in an even greater position than God, in a way. Why is that? When God first created the universe and humankind, He was doing it purely out of joy. But today in the fallen world there is no lasting joy, only broken-heartedness. Under such circumstances, when someone can transform the world into heaven, that work is indeed greater than the original work of creation. The person who is thinking about that kind of thing is the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.</p>
<p>Therefore, that work has become the ideal and challenge of the Unification Church. We are not here to search after joy or to experience greater joy. No, this world has no lasting joy; it is full of despair and hopelessness. In a situation of despair we want to exercise our faith and loyalty and with that power transform the world into a truly joyful world. Have you committed yourself to restoring true love or are you just thinking about doing it?</p>
<p>When you are really pushing yourself, single-mindedly dedicated to your mission and exercising your faith, loyalty and true love, then Satan has no power to keep up with you.</p>
<p>You must realize that a typhoon is blowing out there. You can&#8217;t just sit around and relax. There isn&#8217;t time for that. The work of God has been the work of recreation. Fallen man is being recreated into perfected man, perfected families. perfected clans and tribes, perfected nations and world. God&#8217;s will is to create a new breed of humanity, new men and women.</p>
<p>A major problem of this world is disunity among the five different colors of skin-the racial barriers of the world. But Reverend Moon is the one who is uniting all the races into one in true love. Those who have participated in the Holy Weddings, raise your hands&#8217; please. Imagine how shocked and dismayed Satan must feel to see all those hands going up. Satan has to declare an emergency. He has been working for many thousands of years to achieve division among people according to race or religion. He has created division between heaven and earth, between spirit world and physical world. He has been very successful in achieving division on every level.</p>
<p>But all of a sudden, a new group called Moonies came along, making holes in all of Satan&#8217;s barriers like little worms. They have been going around everywhere. just eating up those barriers. The Moonies are like caterpillars- they have a strong bite, capable of chewing any walls and laying eggs everywhere. Those eggs are true love eggs.</p>
<p>The Moonies make a hole and create a transparent true love window. Then Satan comes along and tries to go through that window but he bumps against it. He can&#8217;t get through. Moonies are not stopped by any barriers; they can go anywhere-Germany, England, Africa. South America-without any limitations.</p>
<p>Satan is looking at the work of the Moonies and is totally dismayed. All his work of thousands of years is breaking down around him. &#8220;What can I do?,&#8221; he wails, and he is becoming more and more desperate and frantic. Finally, Reverend Moon was put into jail, which is the hell of the United States and Satan thought, &#8220;Now I can breathe for a little while!&#8221; But all of a sudden he sees that a big hole is being chewed in the prison. In fact, there are holes everywhere in the prison!</p>
<p>But the Moonies are not standing still or stopping there. When they have dug a hole large enough for one person, they say, &#8220;That hole is not big enough. Let&#8217;s have two people going out at the same time.&#8221; Then they make that true love hole bigger and bigger.</p>
<p>People are going through those true love holes, holding the hands of their spouses. Will they look at their partner all of a sudden and say, &#8220;Oh no, you are not like me! You are white and I am black.&#8221;? Would they even have time to do such a thing? There is no such distinction as white, black, or yellow in the Unification Church because everybody is the same &#8220;Moonie color.&#8221; Furthermore, when people are going through that hole of true love they have to close their eyes so they can move like bullets.</p>
<p>So far we have created true love holes around the world that are large enough for families to get through. But the hole digging process is not finished. We have to return to our hometowns. All our ancestors and our tribes are waiting for us to make a big enough hole so that they can all come through.</p>
<p>The United States is one nation: we are digging one big hole for the people of this country to pass through. Our people will grow in numbers by leaps and bounds and once we reach that point, nothing will be impossible for God. When we have that much strength and influence. even if we don&#8217;t have our own nation, East Garden will be filled with lines of prominent people coming from all around the world, trying to meet with the True Parents, asking for their advice. That is because we can literally save the world-spiritually and physically.</p>
<p>What is the Fatherland? The Fatherland is the place where true love can dwell and make its permanent home. It is the Fatherland of true love. In Korea we have already come up to the level that they would not have survived without having had Reverend Moon&#8217;s leadership and aid. The time has come to reach that level in Japan. Soon the time will come that, even though I am now in prison, the United States will be no exception.</p>
<p>Thus we want to see the creation of the Fatherland, centered upon true love. In order to make that happen, we celebrate God&#8217;s Day. This is the meaning of this celebration. Do you Moonies love me? Does it make any difference that I am in prison? The True Parents are the holders of the Moonies&#8217; milk, the mother&#8217;s milk. I want you to be proud. You are not ordinary people; you are the new breed.</p>
<p>Why do we need one physical Fatherland? It is because the Moonies can travel all over the world, but not Reverend Moon himself. I am too busy and there are so many negative forces out there trying to block my advancement. They certainly don&#8217;t want Reverend Moon to come to their own countries. But then once we have our own territory, our Fatherland, it will be a sovereign nation and they will have to deal with it. They will have to have relations with that nation, they will have to have diplomacy and trade with it. This one land will be different, however, because it will be centered upon true love. Love will be everything in that land.</p>
<p>This world will not be made into one by conquest, infiltration or aggression but only by true love. The ideal world and the ideal of God will be fulfilled when the Fatherland of true love is declared. There you will find the spiritual parents and the physical parents coming together. There you will find your permanent Fatherland, regardless of your origins, race, skin color and so forth.</p>
<p>Are you Moonies ready to follow me all the way? Perhaps I will not live too long. what about that? For that bond, we need a Fatherland, one territory where we can all settle and feel at home.</p>
<p>If there had been no fall of man, the creation of the Fatherland centering upon true love would have happened automatically. But because of the fall, it has been lost and never regained. When Christianity came out of Israel, the giant Roman Empire tried to block the spread of Christianity but it couldn&#8217;t do it. Of course, Christianity had to pay the price. Today the Unification Church is being blocked by many negative forces out there, but they will not succeed.</p>
<p>The United States is a powerful nation with influence all over the world, but there are many anti-U.S. forces shouting &#8220;Yankee, go home!&#8221; I want you to understand that nowhere will people shout &#8220;Moonie, go home.&#8221; Instead they will write on the walls and shout. &#8220;Moonie, welcome!&#8221; And they will erect statues of Moonies everywhere. But when they want to welcome the Moonies, there won&#8217;t be enough Moonies to go around. Thus they will have to come to where the Moonies are.</p>
<p>You will see. Your families-your parents, brothers and sisters who have been opposing you all this time- will turn around and follow you. They will say, &#8220;Let me go with you to your church.&#8221;</p>
<p>When I entered Danbury prison, I entered as the leader of the Unification Church; but when I come out, I will come out as a spiritual leader of the entire world. Thus I still have an uphill battle to complete; I have not yet been set free. I have come out to see you on this day, but the battle still remains to be finished.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to go to Danbury but you have to create your own Danbury. I actually created my situation at Danbury. I didn&#8217;t have to go there but I willingly took on the challenge. Danbury is like a giant ship from which I can drop the anchor of universal love.</p>
<p>I am in Danbury because that is the shortest cut to build the Fatherland of love. I knew the ideal world of God was coming and I wanted to hasten that day. Even though my body is here speaking to you today, my mind is still in Danbury because my mission is still there. That is the hellish place. When I make a big spiritual hole in Danbury, the whole nation will be shaken. The conscience of America and the world shall be shaken. Then we will no longer have to witness on the individual level. Instead we will bring them in nation by nation. One nation after another will be restored.</p>
<p>My sermon today is entitled, &#8216;Creation of the Fatherland and God&#8217;s Day.&#8221; This is to remind you that our goal on God&#8217;s Day is to pledge ourselves to championing the creation of the Fatherland of true love. Today my pledge to you and my command to you is this: We have two primary barriers, one of which is the spiritual and the other is the physical. You are fighting against the physical barrier of America and I am fighting against the spiritual barrier of America. Danbury hill is the ultimate showdown place.</p>
<p>Danbury is the place to unite; it is the place where we can break down all the existing walls and barriers between the physical battle and the spiritual one. When we tear all those barriers down and unite them at Danbury, that is the dawning day of the Fatherland of love.</p>
<p>I want you to understand that the barriers between mind and body at the tall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden have not been rectified during all this time. We have come to the point where we are going to break down that most fundamental barrier as well and bring them together, whole men and women, totally united under God in true love. That is the challenge ahead of us in 1985.</p>
<p>You are going to be the victorious troops who are going to break down all the spiritual and physical barriers. We will never bring down those barriers by power or money or knowledge, or by any other physical force. No amount of military power can do it. Our only weapon is the God-given one of true love. With the power of true love alone we can break down the barriers.</p>
<p>For the goal of the creation of this ideal-breaking down the barriers and the creation of the Fatherland of true love-the members of the Unification Church all over the world are marching forward to victory. Amen! Amen! Amen!</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">June 22, 1986<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Whether from the East or the West, whether in the past or the present, all people want to possess or own things. Has anyone ever acquired ownership of the highest, ultimate things? The first man and woman-the original ancestors of mankind-must have had a very strong desire to gain that highest ownership, but they could not. We must understand why they did not achieve that goal.</p>
<p>Had the first ancestors achieved ownership of the highest things, their descendants would have inherited it and enjoyed it throughout history. The question is, why could they not achieve such ownership and through what process did they lose it? It was because of the fall of man.</p>
<p>Few people nowadays have a clear concept of the fall of man. If there had been no fall, and no such concept had come into being, then there would have been no evil, so we would have no need for a standard to distinguish between good and evil. If history had progressed according to the theory of evolution, as many people today believe, then there actually should be no such thing as the difference between good and evil. Whatever is a reality in our present time would have to be justified because it is the result of the evolutionary process.</p>
<p>It is only when we establish the existence of a purposeful Creator that we can establish a standard for good and evil. The minds of all men and women are always aspiring to achieve something higher. That is basic human nature. When you achieve a higher plateau you are elevated into a higher position, and your sphere of influence becomes larger and greater. The ultimate human aspiration throughout history has been to achieve one united world community. Is this present world the one for which all forty-four billion people who have ever lived have aspired, or is there something else we have to think about?</p>
<p>Religious teachings have indicated that there are both a physical world and a spiritual world which together comprise the cosmos. It is universally true that whatever is sown will be reaped. Division and discord have come into the world because of the fall; likewise, each person suffers from division between mind and body. When we say that we are destined to return to ultimate fruitfulness, what does it mean? It means that we are destined to be restored to the state where the fall had not taken place, or the position in which original man and woman would have dwelled.</p>
<p>God created the cosmos first, and then Adam, and then Eve. The fourth and fifth entities were the children- Cain and Abel-but they were engendered after the fall. The fallen Cain and Abel were never a part of the original scheme of creation.</p>
<p>The cosmos, Adam, and Eve-numbers one, two and three-were the initial, Principled creations of God. He created them centered upon the fulfillment of love, but then what happened? That love was infiltrated by evil and division came about. Cain and Abel became a symbol of division, because of the fall. That is the way history was sown and that is the way history is being reaped. The restoration had to begin, therefore, from the fallen Adam and Eve.</p>
<p>Division occurred in the first family; from the beginning, the mind and body were divided. Since then, the family became divided; the community became divided; the tribe and clan were divided; the nation was divided; ultimately what we see today is a world divided. Instead of one world we have, basically, two worlds. This is the worldwide manifestation of that original seed of division which was sown. Now we are reaping those seeds on the worldwide scale.</p>
<p>Each person has a mind and a body which are divided. The world of the mind could be called the theistic world, while the world of the body is the materialistic world. There is division and struggle between these two worlds, instead of harmony and unity. That struggle began from day one, from the day of the fall of Adam and Eve-the first ancestors of mankind.</p>
<p>When do we expect to see all these divisions healed and unity to occur? If Satan&#8217;s invasion was the cause of the division, when do we have unity? It is when we chase out Satan and invite God in. Satan&#8217;s weapon was satanic love, or self-centered love. We have to invite God in, therefore, and use God&#8217;s love as our weapon to chase out Satan.</p>
<p>The love of God, which involves concern for the whole, is entirely opposite to satanic love. Although we observe the problems of mankind on a large, worldwide scale, the root of the problem lies within individual men and women. The United States of America is a gigantic nation with a Christian heritage. Thus the love of God, which is selfless love, should be the binding center of this nation. But what we have now is the opposite: self-centered love is prevailing in this country. Instead of God&#8217;s love binding people together into one, selfish love is dividing people. That is why all kinds of perversions of love have occurred.</p>
<p>Do you think that most people in the United States today feel a relationship between themselves and the world? Do they have a poignant feeling of patriotism toward America? What about children-do they have strong feelings of filial piety toward their parents? Is there a commitment between husbands and wives to permanent, eternal and sacred love? All of these levels of relationship have become divided and secularized, almost like matters of business, or contracts.</p>
<p>Although the desire of each individual is to enjoy the highest ownership, the power of selfish love is always bringing division, rather than unity and harmony. Under those circumstances, can we ever obtain the highest ownership? The whole problem of the world can be boiled down to each individual-the self. That one self is the battleground where each of us must obtain the victory.</p>
<p>The Unification Church is looking forward today to achieving a worldwide victory. We have to transform and change the fallen world from the bottom up. Satan is the master of the fallen world. He got hold of each individual; not only every individual is divided, but so is the entire world. Therefore, the solution has to start with the individual. The individual was originally conceived in the love of God, according to His original concept of creation, which was total goodness.</p>
<p>There are two types of individuals: man and woman. That means one is a representative of Adam and the other is a representative of Eve. Unless we transform the satanic world and all the satanic elements within it into something entirely new, we certainly cannot hope to become the original, Heavenly Adam and Eve. No matter how much you may struggle to rid yourself of the shackles of Satan, you cannot do it; you are always swimming in the same pool of water. Thus nothing short of an ejection is needed; we have to eject ourselves from this old world, but we need incredible momentum to do that.</p>
<p>Although the self wants to eject from the fallen world, it does not exist in isolation; it is connected to the family, clan, tribe, nation and world. The most important credo by which to eject is to achieve victory over yourself; then you have to prevail over the family and then the clan, the nation and the world. This is the way to restoration.</p>
<p>When we look at human history, we see that there have been all kinds of philosophies and ways of thinking, but the most important of all these has been religious thought. Philosophy has changed and evolved at different times in history, striving toward modernity in each era. Religious thought, however, has always stayed with certain fundamental, unchanging principles and concepts. Philosophy changes because it is a product of human thinking and it exists on the horizontal level; it always changes along with the changes of human society. But religious thought is based on God, who is eternal and unchanging; for that reason, it has a fundamentally unchanging quality.</p>
<p>There is one common principle which has guided religious thought throughout history and that is self-denial. Humanist philosophy has not had this thread running through it. Through religion, people are taught to set themselves apart from this world. That is why religious teaching has always engendered struggle and even bloodshed. The power of the nation, or the government, in every age has been the major obstacle in this self-denial process. Therefore, we have to go beyond the nation in order to achieve the level of the world.</p>
<p>The ultimate religion must recognize no national boundaries; it must go beyond nations, skin colors, and cultural idiosyncrasies and work on a global basis. A religion such as that must ultimately arise. Many national governments and sovereignties throughout history have persecuted religion, but behind all these was Satan. Satan has used whatever tool he could, particularly government power Satan is always opposing your improvement, your self-denial process, but God&#8217;s force is propelling you forward, giving you strength to do it.</p>
<p>We call this time the end of the world. What is the meaning of the end of the world? What is going to happen? When the autumn comes, the harvest begins. The farmer goes out and harvests the fruits. What kind of fruits-good or rotten? World history has come to its own autumn harvest. What is the good fruit of the world today and what is the bad fruit? This world has produced predominantly bad fruit, but individuals within that world are looking for something good; they don&#8217;t want to accept the world&#8217;s evil.</p>
<p>The owner of evil is Satan and the owner of goodness is God. The forces of Satan have to be shrunk, so they must go from the world level to the nation, then to the clan, family, individual and finally disappear. How about goodness? It must start from the original, tiny seed and go up; the process is exactly the opposite. Good must go up and evil must go down. God has been looking for the good fruit which can prevail in history-in other words, the individual who can gain victory over the evil history.</p>
<p>What kind of individual are you? Do you first think, &#8220;I am an American,,? Or do you say, &#8220;I am a white woman&#8221;? Or &#8220;I am a black man&#8221;? Do you define yourself in such a way? Your skin color, your nationality and so forth are all part of your satanic baggage-they don&#8217;t matter. The important thing is the contents, what is inside the bags.</p>
<p>Every seed contains two pieces, covered by a thin skin. Nestled between those two pieces is the tiny embryo, the beginning point of new life. The world itself is divided into two pieces, like a seed. But no matter how big the pieces are, this world has no embryo. Who shall be in the position to bring that embryo to the world, to provide the source of new life? God is the first cause of life, the one who provides the embryo. No matter how big and powerful the world which was initiated by Satan may become, it doesn&#8217;t have the source of true life; it has no embryo.</p>
<p>Today in the fallen world the two pieces are the communists and the democratic blocs. Searching both of these worlds, can we find an embryo there? The true embryo is a genuinely good one; it will ultimately transform the whole world. The two Darts of the seed provide the nourishment for the embryo, enabling it to grow. By the same token, the world will provide the nourishment for the embryo and enable it to spread through the entire world.</p>
<p>For a seed to grow, it must be planted in soil and given a certain amount of moisture and heat; it needs a favorable environment. The environment must provide warmth. The embryo cannot germinate unless the heat of its surroundings is greater than its own temperature. The heat we are talking about is love. Human life germinates in love; without its warmth there can be no growth.</p>
<p>We could say that one side of the seed represents the father and the other represents the mother; between the two, the new individual is formed. Can we just rip out one of the sides and replace it with another part at whim? But that is what is happening in American homes today; the father and mother do not remain intact.</p>
<p>What about the democratic world and the communist world-are they achieving harmony and unity and giving nourishment to the embryo on the world level? Centering on humanity, are they one? No, absolutely not. For that reason, we cannot put any hope in that world.</p>
<p>Therefore, we have to eject ourselves from that world and land within a new world. That new world has to begin from a new germination, which springs from a new embryo. We must become that new embryo. That is what our job is-to eject from the old world and its shackles and become a new embryo.</p>
<p>The embryo is in the plus position, while the rest of the seed is in the minus position. The minus part must sacrifice itself for the growth of the embryo and nourish it. Adam and Eve, for example, were created as the embryo of the world and the universe itself provided their nourishment. The embryo doesn&#8217;t grow only to the size of the seed; it is meant to burst out and become much greater and larger than the seed. Self-perfection of the whole seed comes when the embryo grows; even though part of the seed must sacrifice itself for the embryo, it will become something far greater than the seed itself. Thus every component of the seed feels its own fulfillment when that happens.</p>
<p>We are living in the time of harvest, and we have gone beyond the level of the nations. The entire world has opposed the Unification Church, including the United States, Korea, Japan, and Europe. Every power has tried to stop us. Satan does not want to see us move to the world level, so he has tried to hold us down to the national level. That is because the highest authority of Satan is the nation, or national power.</p>
<p>Once the world becomes united, the significance of the nation will be diminished. God&#8217;s original plan was for men and women to possess the world, not just the nation. Each individual&#8217;s ownership goes from one level to an other higher one-from individual all the way to the world-in his struggle for goodness. Suppose there had been no religion throughout history. Without religion, there is no power by which people can break their shackles on the levels of clan, society, and nation. Without the religious concept, which is based on love, there is no way the barriers between White and Black can be broken down. East and West cannot come together; neither can North and South-nor can those differences between wealth and social standard find common ground. These barriers can only be broken down through religious principles and the power of love.</p>
<p>Satan does not like any attempt to bring the world together; he truly hates to see such a thing. That is because a united world is God&#8217;s original ideal. It is the satanic desire to have many sovereignties, many divided nations-Satan loves that because he loves division. The divided situation is always on Satan&#8217;s side.</p>
<p>Our goal is to see ultimate unity, but today we see two worlds-one of democracy and one of communism. They will never become one on their own. Satan would never allow that because he knows it would mean his end. Thus we have to be powerful and apply pressure and energy in order to unify these two worlds.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon is Satan&#8217;s worst enemy because I am the one who can break through all his barriers. Satan has become defensive toward me. He says, &#8220;Reverend Moon, you can be nice and comfortable. Why should you always try to struggle between mind and body? That&#8217;s baloney. Enjoy the world. I will give you power.&#8221; What do you think-should Reverend Moon have division within his own mind and fight within himself?</p>
<p>A struggle within an individual signifies the worldwide struggle because once the battle is won on the individual level, it will ultimately be won on the worldwide level. Once unity is achieved, it will penetrate like a bullet, going through all the walls, all the way to the worldwide level, and Satan knows it.</p>
<p>Anyone who tries to follow Reverend Moon will meet all the forces that Satan can mobilize to stop him. Some of Satan&#8217;s best allies in that effort are the parents who say, &#8220;Hey, you are my child! Don&#8217;t go near that Reverend Moon.&#8221; This is the front line of struggle. The battle begins with the individual. When Reverend Moon won the individual victory, he moved right on to the family level. If Reverend Moon&#8217;s mind and body are divided, that would reflect in the division of the family as well. In order to engender the battle on the worldwide level, Reverend Moon came to America because this is the center of the world.</p>
<p>How far has Reverend Moon come, really? Today I have the reputation of being the one man in the world who has the solution to communism. As we have said, the two opposing camps in the world are the democratic world, the basically theistic camp which accepts the existence of God, and the communist world, the atheistic camp. In the theistic world, however, there is a prevailing trend toward secularism and humanism, which is basically atheistic. So the two worlds together have put up a barricade to Reverend Moon&#8217;s forces, saying, &#8220;You cannot go any further.&#8221; Reverend Moon has penetrated, however, making a spiritual beachhead.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has not only brought a solution to communism; he has also solved the problems of secular democratic society. Within Reverend Moon there is something you cannot find in the communist or the democratic world-there is an embryo, a new beginning. Neither America nor the communist world knows what Reverend Moon knows. There is something completely new, and special; something brand new and priceless.</p>
<p>We are about to break through with that brand new force, that embryo. It&#8217;s almost like a rocket launching. You&#8217;ve got to have great power for the initial thrust. That initial thrust of the rocket engine will blow the two worlds away! The rocket will take off and the two worlds will be left behind. The Unification Church has the solution to the divisions between East and West and North and South. Can the United States solve these divisions? What about communism? Can it digest this theistic, democratic world? No, it cannot. But then, once they accept Reverend Moon, they will find the power, the solution, the embryo that can truly liberate the agony of communism and the free world.</p>
<p>North and South, East and West-it&#8217;s a gigantic world, but here in the center is the core, the nucleus of genuine pure love. That is what will grow into the family, and then into the clan, tribe, and nation. We have already encompassed the national level. We have grown into, and must go beyond, the national level.</p>
<p>Do you have a simple concept of the United States? Why not? We do not have a simple teaching but a providential one. When we even speak of America, we also mean there are other nations. Thus since there is more than one nation, they are under the satanic domain. God never wanted to see more than one nation. Two nations always come under Satan because it means division occurred. When the division occurred between North and South, that was a manifestation of the satanic nature. East and West divided and that was the same.</p>
<p>Any movement that does not bring East and West and North and South into one is satanic because that division must be conquered. There are people who claim the supremacy of their group over other peoples. For instance, some claim the supremacy of the Anglo Saxons; others claim Jewish supremacy. But they are automatically put tiny themselves in the satanic camp because they are promoting division. The Unification Church is one, promoting one nation under God. That is the overriding principle and teaching of the Unification Church. Only one nation-is that clear?</p>
<p>Do you Americans think, &#8220;Reverend Moon comes from the Oriental culture? If so, you are allying yourself with the satanic camp because you are thinking in divided terms. I am not Oriental, not at all. How can I prove it? Because Korea, an Oriental nation, gave me the most persecution of all. After forty years of struggle, the Korean people are finally coming to the realization that Revere end Moon is a most important man for them. They have asked me to stay there. But today in America, people are still looking askance at me. So far, only the American Moonies have given a true welcome to Reverend Moon. The rest of the nation hasn&#8217;t. But will that embryo grow, or stay the same?</p>
<p>Are you growing? What about you blessed couples? Now that you have your spouse and children and so many more responsibilities, have you forgotten about everything else? If so, you are bringing yourself down to the satanic side. That is because you are saying, &#8220;The church is one thing and I am different.&#8221; Thus there are already two entities and such division is satanic. No matter how difficult it may be, you should say, &#8220;I will go this way, crossing into Canaan, even if I must carry my family and tribe on my back. The church and I are united into one.&#8221; God gave Moses that one mandate: one nation under one God. But the Israeli people thought differently and therefore Satan invaded.</p>
<p>We must give everything we have for the sake of others. How can we prove that within our way of life? Well, our marriages prove that. We recognize no boundaries between nations, cultures or languages. &#8220;Fallen&#8221; means fallen love, which is Satan&#8217;s love. On the other hand is God&#8217;s side and God&#8217;s love.</p>
<p>The love of God brings total give and take and exchange between people. Those who have international marriages have sometimes complained, &#8220;Oh, Father, we have found this so very difficult!&#8221; But I wanted them to be difficult! If they were easy, what would be accomplished? Nothing. What would be your credit? Nothing. With the international family, you can kick the international Satan-with one kick. I want to give you that kind of weapon, so you will have that capacity. In a way, those international marriages have been a greater burden and more responsibility, but also greater credit and prestige. With no common language, different cultures, food and customs, how can you expect such a marriage to be easy?</p>
<p>As I have said, there is only one subject and that is true love. Any other element can be absorbed under that love, no matter how difficult or huge it might be. Unless you are united, you remain as two separate entities and you are inviting satanic separation. If you take your Blessing lightly, it means it is a fake-the fake International Wedding. If you come to the Unification Church and try to exploit God, taking advantage of Him for your selfish benefit, it is just no good! Is that clear?</p>
<p>America will change its attitude toward Reverend Moon and will come to welcome me. Most recently, the special documentary film called &#8220;Nicaragua Was Our Home&#8221; was shown across the country on the public television stations. The program says, &#8220;This program was sponsored by Reverend Moon and CAUSA International. CAUSA is bringing a critique and counter-proposal to the ideology of Marxism-Leninism.,&#8221; This is the most authentic proclamation of what Reverend Moon is doing for the sake of this country and particularly for the sake of Nicaragua. Therefore, who is taking the truly subjective role in solving the problem of Nicaragua? Is it the United States government, or Reverend Moon?</p>
<p>What do the American people say about this activity by Reverend Moon? Do they welcome it? What about the U.S. Congress-are they ashamed or not? The American people will say, &#8220;We cannot let Reverend Moon take responsibility for Nicaragua like that. We cannot be shamed in such a way.&#8221; The U.S. Congress is opposing the Nicaraguan aid bill, while the President is trying to get it passed. That means the President and Reverend Moon are both working for the same goal-to get the Congress to capitulate to this bill.</p>
<p>I know that when I announce certain things in conferences the American members say, &#8220;That&#8217;s just Father&#8217;s Oriental thinking. We Americans will get together and digest Father&#8217;s words in our own way.&#8221; You have your own separate meetings, but that is satanic because it means you are separated from me. There is one big difference between the Japanese and American people. When I give a mandate to the Japanese, they don&#8217;t think about it. They just plunge in, like diving into the water. Then they come back and say, &#8220;Father, it worked.&#8221; Sometimes they say, &#8220;Father, it didn&#8217;t work,&#8221; but they always jump into the water first. When the mandate is given to the American people, they say, &#8220;Hmm. &#8230; well, let me consider it.&#8221; Some Americans think, &#8220;The Japanese way is savage and uncultivated. We are more cultured and sophisticated and we don&#8217;t do things like that.&#8221; Which one is satanic in that case-the American side or the Japanese side?</p>
<p>When I first came to America and New York and walked down Fifth Avenue, do you think I was overwhelmed and awed by the American culture? No, I was thinking, &#8220;I am ready to launch the struggle.&#8221; Looking at Fifth Avenue, the Empire State Building and so forth, I was standing there and thinking, &#8220;All by myself, I am fighting against this power.&#8221; That was eventually manifested in the court battle. Who actually won that battle in the sight of God? American people have come to realize, &#8220;Reverend Moon is needed here.&#8221; That was the victory. New, fresh air is blowing over this country and people are thinking, &#8220;We made a mistake. We need Reverend Moon here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Suppose there is a couple in which the husband is following my directions absolutely, and the wife is following him. Or vice versa: the wife is following me and the husband follows her. Whoever follows me in that situation is the subject. Anything else is satanic. So ask yourself which side you are standing on, God&#8217;s side or the satanic side. You can evaluate yourself. Unless I had this clear, absolute concept, with not one iota of haziness, I would not have survived this far. There have always been temptations coming toward me-temptations of money, love, knowledge, prestige-all kinds.</p>
<p>Because of this attitude, I could even visit the house of a prostitute and, instead of that place prevailing over me, I could help to clean it up. That is the way I work. Wherever I go, I try to think how I can cleanse the surroundings, leaving more goodness there than I found.</p>
<p>Even if I became drunk on alcohol, I would only do it if that could be victorious in some way for the sake of God. Suppose I collapsed at some point; I would not want to fall backward but instead my dead body would fall forward, in order to advance. That principle applies to my children as well. Do you understand?</p>
<p>In a sense, you are entering the home of Adam and Eve in this restoration process, but you are in Cain and Abel&#8217;s position. It is there that you come under True Parents. The Cain people say, &#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t need True Parents. I can manage on my own.&#8221; That attitude of separation is satanic. It is even more hellish if Cain says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need my brother.,, We must become one horizontally and then vertically. Abel is the subject and Cain is the object. East and West, North and South-all become one within this horizontal concept of unity. Then the vertical unity is established with the Parents, centered upon the love of God. When this horizontal unity is consummated, vertical unity is possible and can be consummated. Then you become a true Adam-and Eve; you consummate the ideal of Adam and Eve within yourself.</p>
<p>You can inherit from the True Parents the virtue of the true Adam and Eve and you become one. Thus you become like the second generation of True Parents. Who shall prevail over the world? You? Who did it for you? Only the True Parents have the power to prevail over the world, simply because they alone are in the position of original, restored Adam and Eve. The false parenthood brought the evil society and the fallen world; goodness can never come through that. Only when the world finds the True Parents can there be victory over the satanic forces. Is this concept very clear to you?</p>
<p>Are you primarily a U.S. citizen or a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth? That Heavenly citizenship is your pride. No amount of money can buy it for you. Heavenly Kingdom citizens must go first through the gate of the Blessing. That is why the Blessing is so precious- it gives you that qualification. Without your spouse, you cannot become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven because pairs together must be given citizenship. This is absolutely, logically correct.</p>
<p>What is our title today? &#8220;The Highest Ownership.,, What is the highest ownership? We own the entire cosmos because it belongs to our Father. What belongs to the Father belongs to the children. Thus we own the True Parents; ultimately, we possess God centered upon true love. Your own individual problems can never be solved without true love. The same is true for your family problems, as well as the problems of the nation and the world.</p>
<p>The highest ownership can be put into three categories. First of all, you own the God-created cosmos, which is spirit world and physical world together. Then you possess the original Adam and Eve&#8217;s position, which is the True Parents, position. Then ultimately, you own God Himself. The dwelling of God is with you. That is the highest ownership.</p>
<p>True love never changes; that original heart of the love of God remains for eternity. The True Parents inherited that true love of God. The heart of the True Parents, no matter what happens in the world, will not change, not even one iota. For the past forty years, I have encountered one incredible situation after another, but I have always overcome them, one by one, and prevailed over them all. I went to communist labor camp, where death was everywhere, but that never stopped me from pursuing my goal. My mind was not changed even one little bit.</p>
<p>When you are sitting thinking, &#8220;I am so tired today. I just don&#8217;t feel like doing anything,&#8221; that is Satan whispering in your ear. That is when you must jump up and say, &#8220;What am I saying? God is with me; True Parents are with me.&#8221; God is waiting for you, one step ahead of you. Therefore, when you reach out to take just one step forward, you meet God. Immediately, energy will come; bubbling enthusiasm will return. That most crucial moment is when you have the choice to turn around or go forward. If you think, &#8220;I want to lie down,&#8221; and you just do that, you are not moving forward to the place of God, but backward to the place of Satan.</p>
<p>Your marriage does not belong just to you or exist for your own self-indulgence. You must marry because you want to advance the one, united world. You have your spouse because together you can get there first; you have children because you want that one world to flourish. That is the reason. Marriage is ultimately for the sake of God. We evangelize the world in order to accomplish that one world quicker. There are four billion people on the earth. How many people die every year without meeting the True Parents, without knowing God?</p>
<p>When you engage in business, you need some capital. In this great and glorious undertaking of the providential will, you also have to have some capital. What is your capital? What do you have that you can invest? One life-that is what you have. Since the love of God is at the center of your life, that capital can be accepted. As long as that love is there, you will be unchanging; that means you can join the club, in a way. It is an absolute necessity.</p>
<p>This pioneering task is not just for here on earth. If you don&#8217;t do it here, you shall continue in the spirit world. But there the road is completely arduous because there is no place where you can be taught like this-no Belvedere. Once I am elevated to spirit world, I won&#8217;t have to do anything further here on earth. True Parent&#8217;s ideal is to see God&#8217;s ideal realized. Once the True Parents, ideal becomes true and returns to the bosom of God, then God&#8217;s work is done. For that reason, the satanic population growth does not bring joy to God.</p>
<p>Do you think the blessed couples should be using birth control or abortion? How many children can you multiply without birth control? Until they fill the earth. That is the way God wants the earth to be filled. The fallen population is meant to decrease while the Heavenly population should grow. That is what God wants and what I want to see. Mother is an excellent example of this. You know how many children she has given birth to.</p>
<p>You know now where we are going and where we are. No matter how difficult it may be, you must single-mindedly set out for the providential goal, striving toward the highest ownership of cosmic True Parents and God Himself. No matter how much suffering you endure, how much poverty you may go through, I know one thing: you will end up in the highest place in the Kingdom of Heaven. That is because you have the highest ownership. You will be the richest people in Heaven. Actually you don&#8217;t have to suffer that much, because God did not design that all of you would have to go through the way that I went. I was able to prevail over the world and I set the pattern for you. Now you know where to go, how to go and what the goal is, right? One united concept, one victory, one world.</p>
<p>When you walk down the street, think, &#8220;I am walking toward that providential goal.&#8221; Sometimes you may go into a bar, but you absolutely must not go there in order to assist the satanic world; you must do that only if in some way you are able to increase the Kingdom of God, such as by fund raising.</p>
<p>One concept, one mind-no matter what you do or where you go, there should be no deviation in your mind. You must be one person, with one mind dwelling with true love. When you have one mind, it needs to dwell only on true love.</p>
<p>The world is quickly changing in favor of God. Very soon the climate of society will become more favorable toward the Unification Church and Reverend Moon. In Korea, even the congressmen come to my talks about Unificationism; likewise in Japan. Among the primary providential nations, Korea has about 270 members of its legislative body; Japan has 511; the United States has 535. Suppose all the lawmakers of those three countries moved toward the Heavenly side. In any nation, the existence of two or more parties has been used by Satan as a means of keeping the country divided, but imagine if those two parties worked to unite the country. At the fall of man, two &#8220;parties&#8221; came into existence, and we can see that sort of system existing now within our society. That could not change until the True Parents came. Nobody else could change it.</p>
<p>What we need is both vertical and horizontal harmony. In the United States, the leader of the Democrats and the leader of the Republicans engage in all sorts of fighting; they practically curse each other. That is not harmony. It is more like the dialectic. When there is constant confrontation, there is no way the one world can be realized. Only when there is vertical and horizontal harmony between all parties can one world come to be.</p>
<p>How can this be applied to your life? Firstly there must be unity between husband and wife-that is horizontal unity. Then you must be vertically united with the True Parents. Should there be division and fighting between the vertical and horizontal planes? No, there should be one love uniting the husband and wife and uniting the True Parents and the children. Do you follow?</p>
<p>Anything that tries to contradict this way of true love will be pushed out by the environment and the spirit world. In other words, in time they will be regarded as foreign elements by the environment. In secular America today, there is division between parents and children; they are in contradiction. Also, men and women- husbands and wives-are in contradiction, struggle, and confrontation. God cannot dwell in such a situation. The family system is breaking down. It is a very unhappy situation-the family feeling is ice cold. There is a cold, chilly feeling between the parents and children, husband and wife.</p>
<p>In the Unification Church we are trying to come to the center, both vertically and horizontally. In one point, unity is formed. That is because true love is at the center. Everybody comes and unites in that center. You can go out from that center but you don&#8217;t feel alienated; you can always come back and recoup, like returning to the &#8220;filling station&#8221; of love again and again. True love alone can make this possible. It&#8217;s not only the little child who is lovable and cute. In this concept, the elderly grandmother is also beautiful. A grandpa may have very rugged skin with a long beard, but the little child will go up to him and kiss and hug him. That is a beautiful sight. Can we see such a thing frequently in the average American home? Not very often.</p>
<p>Does anybody like a contradictory system? Raise your hands if you do. Within the Unification Church, we have learned how to come together. We have many meetings and gatherings. In that way our intensity grows. When you feel lonely, then meet together. When you feel a lack of energy, meet. The more meetings in the fallen realm, the more destruction occurs, whereas on the heavenly side the more energy and harmony is created.</p>
<p>I was told that you were very lonely when I was in Korea for the past six months. You wanted to go to Belvedere, but because the True Parents weren&#8217;t there, you weren&#8217;t so inspired. Why is that? Reverend Moon is an Oriental man so why should you miss me so much? You can&#8217;t explain it precisely in words, but your mind is pulled toward me. Even ex-Moonies say to me, &#8220;Reverend Moon, I love you very much, but it&#8217;s those guys around you that I hate.&#8221; But that is an evil viewpoint; it is having two minds. You cannot survive like that. That is why they became ex-Moonies; they had two minds, so they dropped out. Basically, however, they still feel pulled by the magnet of the True Parents.</p>
<p>The ultimate ambition for the human heart is that of true love. Therefore, women definitely need men; men definitely need women. All human beings together are born for the sake of reaching out and acquiring the love of God. That is the very reason for our existence.</p>
<p>No matter how great a religion you might proclaim, unless you reach out to gain the true love of God, you can never acquire true happiness. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you are a renowned philosopher or a religious thinker, unless you reach that particular destination, you cannot be happy. A loving husband and wife gain possession of the entire world. We shall transform the world so that it welcomes and embraces that concept. That is the mission of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>If you can say, &#8220;The mandate given this morning is going to be my life&#8217;s goal,&#8221; raise your hands and pledge. God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:00:58+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/holy-water-ceremony.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:00:58+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1985.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">August 20, 1985, 1:00 A.M.<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Thank you for your support and prayers. Because of them, I have successfully and victoriously completed the entire providential course in prison. However, instead of sharing my experiences in prison with you, I would like to spend this time giving you a special message about <i>Il Seung Il</i>, or <i>Total Victory Day</i>, which I proclaimed on August 16.</p>
<p>As you know, God&#8217;s providence in history has been one of restoration. Since the fall involved the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, only someone in their position can fulfill the restoration process. Since the fall, people on every level have been divided into enemy camps: parents vs. children, husband vs. wife, brother vs. sister, nation vs. nation, race vs. race. All the relationships that God originally created degenerated into enmity. These enemy camps can return to the heavenly side only through a restoration process.</p>
<p>God needs a chosen people to spearhead this process and to fulfill a special mission. The history of restoration focuses on the chosen people. The first victor over Satan was Jacob, so he received the name Israel. From him, 4,000 years of restoration began. Then, 2,000 years later, the Messiah came to the world. The Messiah is the one anointed with the mission of consummating restoration. That mission includes restoring Abel-type fallen people to the heavenly lineage. To be liberated from Satan&#8217;s camp, our lineage has to be transferred from its satanic origin to a heavenly origin. This is the basic flow of providence. The Messiah bears the pure heavenly lineage, into which we need to be engrafted.</p>
<p>Providence can also be summarized as the restoration of Cain and Abel. As you know through the Principle, we have to pass through God&#8217;s indirect dominion in order to enter His direct dominion. Originally, the elder son should have guided people through the indirect dominion. Had the fall not happened, the elder son, Cain, would have led his entire family into God&#8217;s direct dominion. However, the fall occurred at the top of the growth stage, so everything below that level was invaded and claimed by Satan. Satan violated God&#8217;s indirect dominion and also the elder son. Therefore, the responsibility was passed on to the second son, although that was not God&#8217;s original ideal.</p>
<p>Thus, in the course of providence, the birthright must be restored by the second son, Abel, who has to go to the satanic world and claim the birthright of the elder son; then he can return to God&#8217;s side and rise to the position of first son. The restoration process means that the elder son must take the lower position of second son and the second son be elevated to the elder son&#8217;s position. Although this is unnatural, the fall made it necessary. Only through such a process can the second son fulfill the principled role of elder son. Originally, the task of fulfilling human responsibility rested primarily on the elder son, although there would have been no fundamental distinction between the two, since both would have been on God&#8217;s side and had equal value. However, because of the fall, Satan took over the elder son&#8217;s position.</p>
<p>This pattern also applies to the relationship between your physical body and your spiritual body. God created the physical body first, so it is in the &#8220;elder son&#8217;s&#8221; position, and Satan always works through it. The spiritual body is in the &#8220;second son&#8217;s&#8221; position. The physical body can relate with all things of creation, since it has elements that correspond to the physical world. But if you merely follow the desires of your physical body, which has been invaded by Satan, you will never be able to restore yourself. You have to deny your physical body. This is the reason why all major religions have taught the subjugation of the body to the will of the spirit. Within this indirect dominion of God, there is no true freedom. Absolute freedom can be found only when we reach God&#8217;s direct dominion.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s children forsook their original position and went to dwell in Satan&#8217;s realm. The basic struggle of history has always centered upon the second son&#8217;s efforts to win the elder son&#8217;s position. Only when that process is successful can people rise to another level in the providence. This is obvious in the story of Jacob, who first claimed the birthright of his elder brother, Esau, and finally overcame him with love-not force-winning his elder brother&#8217;s love in return. Jacob was the first person to successfully subjugate the elder brother. Jacob could not merely buy the birthright; he went to the satanic world (the land of his uncle Laban) and struggled there for 21 years in order to gain the physical victory by becoming prosperous and establishing his family. That physical victory was an absolute requirement for returning home and winning his elder brother over.</p>
<p>Jacob&#8217;s pattern became the classic one, followed by later providential figures. Jacob started from the individual level; what he accomplished was later expanded to the tribal and national levels. Jesus&#8217; mission was to fulfill Jacob&#8217;s dispensation on the national level. The descendants of Jacob, the chosen people, were physically removed from their original land and taken into the enemy land, Egypt. Only after a long struggle there could they head back to Canaan. Even then, they had to fight and destroy seven enemy tribes in Canaan before they could settle the land.</p>
<p>God wanted to teach a major lesson through the history of the chosen people: when the Messiah comes as the True Parent, the elder and younger brothers must unite and serve him. The original ancestors were supposed to give birth to pure, heavenly children-first son, second son, and so forth. But the fall of Adam and Eve brought the Cain-Abel division into the world. Fallen parents gave birth to fallen children, who fought like enemies, culminating in Cain&#8217;s murder of Abel. As the True Parent, Jesus should not have had to deal with Cain-Abel struggles; such divisions should have been healed before the Messiah came. Before meeting the True Parent, Cain and Abel should resolve their differences and be able to stand in an unfallen position. Thus, the resolution of the Cain-Abel conflict is a crucial condition for welcoming the Messiah.</p>
<p>What kind of situation did Jesus encounter? The nation of Israel was in the external Cain position, and the Jewish faith in the Abel position. According to the Principle, the nation, Israel, should serve the religion, Judaism. The same applies to the situation in the United States today. The U.S. government is in the Cain position, while Christianity is in the Abel position. Who should serve whom? The nation must serve Christianity. Although that is the ideal, in reality, the government has become negative towards religion and the churches, trying to bring them under subjugation to civil authority. If the Cain-Abel unity had been achieved during the time of Jesus, Satan would have had no condition to accuse anything. The critical part of Jesus&#8217; mission was to establish the position of True Parents, enabling all humanity to be reborn through them and the Cain-Abel conflict to be totally resolved.</p>
<p>But Jesus was crucified before he reached the True Parents&#8217; position. People rebelled. instead of aligning themselves with God, Cain and Abel were used by Satan to fulfill his will. Furthermore, they united with the Roman Empire, which was in the position of fallen archangel. When all three joined in opposition to Jesus, the foundation on God&#8217;s side was lost. Therefore, history took a different direction.</p>
<p>After Jesus&#8217; crucifixion and resurrection, he spent 40 days on earth, creating the realm of spiritual salvation. In the name of Christianity, that realm has expanded during the past 2,000 years, spreading throughout the world. Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ came as the bridegroom, but he could not take his bride. So the Holy Spirit took that position, the role of Eve, and through the spiritual give and take between Jesus and the Holy Spirit, fallen people have been receiving spiritual rebirth, and the providence has expanded to the worldwide level. Day by day, God&#8217;s providence has been growing spiritually, as Christianity expanded from a small community to a nation, to a bloc of nations, and finally to the worldwide level.</p>
<p>Christian prosperity reached its climax right after World War II, which was the crucial time to act to welcome the messiah. Then, Christianity was in the Abel position and the United States and the free world in the Cain position. If Cain and Abel had united and if Cain had been obedient to the direction and will of Abel, they would have formed the foundation to receive the Messiah, and the Kingdom of Heaven would have been established at that time. It would not have been prolonged until 1985. In God&#8217;s original timetable, the foundation would have been completed during the seven years following 1945. But established Christianity and the nation rejected the Messiah, duplicating the failures at the time of Jesus.</p>
<p>Four thousand years have passed since the time of Jacob. Until 1945 my struggle was an internal, spiritual one. I inherited the entire mission of Jesus. After setting the spiritual conditions and inheriting the mission of Jesus spiritually, I began the physical dispensation, trying to link the spiritual and physical spheres. The time was ripe; if established Christianity had united with me and the United States had accepted me, the providence would have advanced very rapidly. Even before seven years were over, the whole plan of God could have been fulfilled! But one rejection followed another, and I had to physically indemnify the whole 4,000 years since the formation of the chosen nation of Israel-all in 40 years&#8217; time.</p>
<p>Since established Christianity and the United States could not fulfill their God-given responsibility, I founded the Unification Church, to substitute for Christianity, in a way, and to do what Christianity was originally supposed to have done. That has been my task over the past 40 years. My mission was to inherit Jesus&#8217; responsibility spiritually and expand it physically to the worldwide level. Because of the rejection by established Christianity and the civil authorities of the various nations, I had to rebuild everything from scratch. Starting from the very bottom, I had to work all the way up to the worldwide level, spiritually as well as physically.</p>
<p>Actually, I should have been able to take the baton from Jesus and dash with it all the way to the worldwide level. But because of the rejection I encountered, I inherited not only Jesus&#8217; national mission but also his experience of rejection. I was rejected as much as Jesus was, and beginning my mission under adverse conditions, I erected a new foundation, spiritually as well as physically. True Parents existed spiritually, but we had to lay the foundation to become the physical True Parents.</p>
<p>I began my ministry on the national level, and by 1974, I elevated it to the international level. I came to the United States in 1971, and for the next three years laid the worldwide foundation here, because this country represents the whole world. At that time I was welcomed by representative Christian and civic leaders. In 1975, I took the victorious international foundation back to Korea-in the form of the support of the Christian churches. By linking that international victory with Korea, I erased Korea&#8217;s former rejection and restored Korea to the victorious position.</p>
<p>An extraordinary thing occurred in Korea that year. The established Christian churches opposed us very strongly, but they also were against the government. The Korean government took the position of uniting with me. The Korean government and the Unification Church together won a landslide victory over the Christian churches! Through this, we achieved tremendous gain-parallel to Jesus being accepted by the government of Israel. With such a victory, I returned to the United States and launched an unprecedented campaign here.</p>
<p>After linking Korea with the international spiritual victory, I was ready to share the spiritual blessing with the world. But a blessing should be physical, not just spiritual. Therefore, a physical confrontation with the U.S. government occurred after I returned from Korea-a heated battle in which the U.S. government and established Christian churches in America opposed the Unification Church. In Korea, we had won over the Korean nation, the government and the people. In the United States, we waged the same kind of offensive battle, culminating in the Washington Monument rally of 1976.</p>
<p>I have been the champion on God&#8217;s side, and I am always amazed at how everyone has been uniting against me-the government, secular humanists, and even communists. They have joined hands in a common purpose: to fight against Reverend Moon. With the help of those factions, including various left-wing and communist elements working behind the scenes, the U.S. government succeeded in putting me in jail, believing that they would finish me off that way. Under such incredible odds, I entered prison. However, from the beginning of my incarceration a new power was given to me, a new spiritual weapon with which I launched an even greater spiritual offensive. During these past 13 months, up to this day, I have been able to transform an apparent setback into a victory.</p>
<p>Today I am truly in the position of worldwide Abel, and American Christianity is in the Cain position. Now Cain and Abel are going to meet. Today is the historical day when the 20th-century Jacob and Esau will reunite. In the Unification Church, I am Abel and you members are Cain. Over the past 40 years, members in the Cain position have totally united with Abel, making it possible for God to intervene and exercise direct dominion. That was the history of the Unification Church over the past 40 years.</p>
<p>Jesus was resurrected three days after his crucifixion, and he carried out his resurrected mission on earth for 40 days before ascending into heaven. All together, 43 days passed from Jesus&#8217; crucifixion to his ascension; during that time he laid his foundation on earth. This year the United States is celebrating her 210th anniversary. Twenty one is a crucial number. I was supposed to be released from Danbury to the halfway house on July 8, but my strategy was for them to release me on July 4, which is the United States&#8217; Independence Day. Since the period from July 8 until today, August 20, is 43 days, this has been my universal resurrection period. Jesus&#8217; disciples could receive the benefits of his resurrection. However, because of my universal position as the True Parents, when we are resurrected today, not only the members of the Unification Church but also all other righteous Americans shall be resurrected, along with people in the Christian cultural sphere throughout the world. Americans totally misunderstood me. They thought I represented some kind of evil or satanic force. But after 13 months, the entire spirit world has come down, people have been educated, and Christianity has begun to realize that I am a true champion of God-not an enemy of the United States. They can see that I am actually the only hope for saving America.</p>
<p>These 13 months have been a very significant period. The number 13 has not been considered a very good number in Western tradition, but according to heavenly tradition, it is a great number. Thirteen represents the 12 apostles centered upon Jesus. Thirteen months represent 12 months plus one. Our situation today is entirely different from that of 40 years ago. In 1945, the Unification Church was completely rejected. Since then, people have tried their own ways of salvation, and they haven&#8217;t worked out. The entire world has lost hope. People tried democracy, but it couldn&#8217;t solve their problems; people tried communism, but it couldn&#8217;t solve their problems either. The only remaining hope is the Unification Church and Reverend Moon. Therefore, even though many enemies still surround us, they have collapsed internally and are awaiting their salvation, too.</p>
<p>Providentially, today is a very crucial day. August 20 marks a new beginning for the Unification Church, a new era for history. From this day on, all we have to do is just march forward and be bold and strong. True Parents are truly established now. Total unity between Cain and Abel was a prerequisite.</p>
<p>My own children represent sinless Adam&#8217;s family. Therefore, they can follow the original pattern-elder son, second son, etc. But because of the fall, all humanity other than the True Parents&#8217; family still belongs to the satanic lineage; they still need to restore the positions of Cain and Abel. True Parents&#8217; family, which follows one pattern, and the fallen world, which follows another pattern, must be linked, through the True Parents&#8217; children (in the elder son&#8217;s position) and the children of the blessed couples (in the second son&#8217;s position). The second generation of the True Parents&#8217; family is headed up bye the eldest son, Hyo Jin. He has been working as the second generation leader, particularly through the international CARP movement. According to God&#8217;s timetable, before 1985 ended, I needed to unite all the second generation members in our church from Korea, Japan and the United States. The order and discipline of the second generation must be established.</p>
<p>Those who entered Canaan after the Exodus were from the second generation. The first generation pioneered the way, but they all faltered in the wilderness. Even in the case of Christianity, Jesus and his disciples were the first generation, spiritually speaking, and all the Christians after them are in the second-generation position. Thus Christianity is, in a sense, a second-generation culture.</p>
<p>So second-generation unity between True Parents&#8217; children and the international blessed children was necessary. This now establishes the true order of True Parents&#8217; tradition, the one which should have been established under sinless Adam and Eve. Now it will no longer be necessary for the second generation and beyond to go out and fight in the satanic world to bring the victory. Cain and Abel must be united for the proper installation of the True Parents&#8217; position, but no longer will it be necessary to struggle to switch the positions of Abel and Cain, because the right order has been established: the True Children are in the elder son&#8217;s position and the blessed children are in the younger son&#8217;s position. They are automatically elder and younger brothers. Upon that unity, the True Parents can stand.</p>
<p>This summer extraordinary things happened. I sent Hyo Jin to Korea to direct a special workshop for the second generation, uniting them for the first time. Previously, each was heading in his own direction, and there was no discipline among them. But now they have been brought together in a certain order. It is significant that this happened while I was serving my prison sentence, because after Jesus&#8217; crucifixion, all his disciples separated and ran away. Now, during my incarceration, the blessed children from around the world came together, to the central point, instead of running away.</p>
<p>At the time of the True Parents, everything has been won back and consummated during my stay at Danbury, representing the crucifixion. This is vitally important. August 15, 1985 was the 40th anniversary of Korea&#8217;s liberation. I sent Hyo Jin back to Korea to lead a 40-day workshop for the second generation. Not only did they unite centering upon the True Parents, but their parents also are united. The same thing happened in Japan. Hyo Jin went to Japan and spoke at the international CARP convention, leading an extraordinary ministry there for ten days, bringing revival to the entire Japanese movement.</p>
<p>I instructed him to return by August 15. Then on August 16, I held the ceremony which signified the victory. Upon the victory of Hyo Jin, particularly the unity of the second generation, True Parents can finally be settled; our position is truly installed. Previously, our foundation was shaky, but the second generation&#8217;s victory enabled True Parents to be truly established. Therefore, the Unification movement will advance by leaps and bounds. During the next three years, not only will opposition cease, but avalanches of people will throng to our doors!</p>
<p>Before August 15, another important declaration needed to be made: the dissolution of communism. This was accomplished through the second Professors&#8217; World Peace Academy Congress in Geneva. The assembled scholars declared to the world that communism is ended! What is communism? At Jesus&#8217; crucifixion, two thieves hung beside him, one on the right and one on the left. The thief on the right is represented today by the democratic, Christian culture of the Western world; the thief on the left, who cursed Jesus, is represented by godless communism. The Bible states that the sheep will be divided from the goats at the Lord&#8217;s coming. Today, the world is divided into two camps: the sheep, who understand and follow the shepherd, and the goats, who do not recognize the shepherd. Governments have been in the middle position; sometimes they do the greatest evil, because they bring the right and left together. The U.S. government has actually been persecuting religion and, most directly, the Unification Church.</p>
<p>The Unification Church and the True Parents are in Jesus&#8217; position on the cross. The thief on the right is established Christianity (which is being more supportive of me.) The thief on the left, instead of being communism, is now the American people, who are no longer in a position to oppose me. The two sides are joining to welcome and accept me. This is happening today.</p>
<p>The same thing is occurring worldwide and also within the Unification Church. On my right side are my own children, and on my left side, the members of the Unification Church. Both are uniting in support of True Parents. This follows God&#8217;s timetable, which called for internal and external unity upon my release from prison. Following my victorious liberation and return from prison, American Christianity and American people are welcoming me externally, while internally, my children and the Unification Church members are coming together. Thus, both internal!) and externally, the True Parents are welcomed and glorified.</p>
<p>We are drawing a gigantic cross within the great circle embracing the Unification Church, both True Parents&#8217; family and members, and the entire world, both Christianity and the world&#8217;s people. All are encompassed within this huge circle. Now that I have overcome the crucifixion today, no further major opposition will come from any source.</p>
<p>On August 16, 1985, I conducted a ceremony at East Garden called <i>Il Seung Il</i>, meaning <i>One Victory Day</i>. &#8220;One&#8221; represents the totality, so we can translate it <i>Total Victory Day</i>. Now the time has come for you to take charge, in a way. Today, I proudly declare that the entire mission which God ordained for me to accomplish in the United States has been victoriously fulfilled. We are entering the land of Canaan. What remains ahead are just battles of words-proclamations, in a way. We are still waging war, but using true love as our only weapon. When you become the embodiment of true love, the entire world shall be conquered. Satan fears the power of true love, because nothing can prevail against us.</p>
<p>Because of the fall, 12 tribes on Cain&#8217;s side opposed 12 tribes on Abel&#8217;s side. There have been divisions on all levels. But now is the time for unity. Upon my victorious foundation, the 12 tribes each of Cain and Abel shall become one system. No longer shall we have separate Cain and Abel systems. Whatever is bound on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever is loosed here on earth shall be loosed in heaven-that is the Principle. Once tribes are reorganized under the True Parents, the spirit world shall be reorganized that way as well. The 12 tribes of both worlds shall be united. In the spirit world, everybody has been an individual; no one could enjoy family life. However, the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven is the family. Once the family organization is made here on earth, the spirit world shall also be organized into families.</p>
<p>Please guard your attitude. When the Israelites were first pulled out of Egypt, their spirits were strong for the first few days because they were so excited. The Red Sea had parted for them, and everything was thrilling. But as soon as they entered the Sinai desert, they began to complain and long for their former way of life in Egypt. What happened? As long as they yearned for the old satanic culture, they could never be accepted in the land of Canaan. Therefore, those born in Egypt all perished before reaching Canaan.</p>
<p>Likewise, what we need is a total detachment from the past. Don&#8217;t long for your previous ways of life. Follow the new tradition totally, creating a brand new system. In order to make this turning point more obvious and dramatic, I held a special ceremony on August 16 at East Garden, called the Holy Water Ceremony.</p>
<p>As you know, the human body is approximately three fourths liquid, or water. By receiving this Holy Water, we can spiritually cleanse our bodies from the past and become new creatures in God&#8217;s sight, totally acceptable to Him. At your Blessing, you receive the Holy Wine, which signified your transfer from the satanic lineage to the heavenly lineage. Although such a change did happen, still your body has been living in and interacting with the satanic world. The possibility always existed for your body to be attacked and even violated by Satan, as you know.</p>
<p>You still have your old attachments. You say things like, &#8220;Oh, I just can&#8217;t live without a hamburger!&#8221; or, &#8220;I have to get some ice cream!&#8221; or, &#8220;That leader is an Oriental and I don&#8217;t like him!&#8221; All such statements are traditions from Egypt-not Canaan traditions. Do you understand? The American way of life appeals to people: &#8220;Let&#8217;s have fun! Let&#8217;s be happy! Why not?&#8221; But seeking fun alone cannot bring about any true accomplishment. I want to see especially you American members filled with longing for the Canaan culture, having no desire for the traditions of Egypt. We are living in a tragically mixed up world. None of you deeply understand the meaning of the situation of Cain and Abel. So I want to simplify it and explain several key principles which you can follow.</p>
<p>Where shall the Kingdom of Heaven begin? Up in the air? In spirit world? No, the Kingdom of Heaven begins on earth, with True Parents. Next come the True Children. True Parents and True Children must not live in fear of communism, or the Mafia, or secular humanism! We can never be victorious with such an attitude. We have to take charge and proclaim the destruction of evil. We have to take the initiative, and not remain passive. We will not beg others for help or mercy. The satanic tradition always seeks to exploit others and take things away from them, but all that the True Parents are giving has its root in true love.</p>
<p>You are now ushering in a wonderful new era. By 1988, world communism will be more than 70 years old; its power cannot go beyond 70 years and take over the number 8, which signifies a new beginning. By 1988 we will be capable of transforming the United States into a truly heavenly nation. The task is yours, as well as mine. At the same time communism is decking, we <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;">will </span>realign America in the right direction.</p>
<p>I often have had to suffer by myself, including this most recent incarceration. If you want to reach and even surpass my standard and my achievements, then the restoration of the United States <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;">will </span>pose no problem. Now I am issuing your marching orders. Anybody who opposes us does so out of ignorance. We have to confront them and educate them, showing them the truth about ourselves. This is how we can win.</p>
<p>When I came to the United States, I laid a very strong tradition. Now you must inherit and embody that tradition and dash forward with it. This is your time to run. This is the meaning of the <i>Il Seung Ceremony</i>, or <i>Holy Water Ceremony</i>.</p>
<p>Tonight we are going to conduct this ceremony. Those couples who are not eligible should not partake of the Holy Water. You should repent and be cleansed if your relationship with your spouse has been terrible. If you have wished that he or she would drop dead or just never come home, you should repent very strongly. With such an attitude you are in no position to receive this water.</p>
<p>Through the Holy Water you will inherit what I gained during the past 40 years. By bestowing this Holy Water, I am passing on to you this victorious legacy free from any accusation by Satan. Satan&#8217;s tactic is always to divide and conquer, but ours is to unite and harmonize.</p>
<p>This ceremony is to bring husband and wife together, to bring families together, and to bring spiritual and physical children (who are in a Cain-Abel relationship) together. In order to fulfill the Cain-Abel providence, I could not love my Abels before I had loved my Cains. My whole effort was focused on loving Cain, so I had no time to pay attention to Mother or my own children. Now upon this victorious foundation, I can embrace my own family, and you can too. You can now love your spiritual children and your physical children. Until now, we have all been working as individuals, leaving the family behind and letting them bear the cross while we go out and witness. But from now on, families will work together as a unit, going out to witness and fulfill your mission.</p>
<p>What do you blessed families want me to do now? I am sure you would want me to bless the land. Everybody longs to return to their hometown. So far, the policy of the Unification Church has been to leave our hometowns, like Abraham, and go forth as sojourners. At Christmas time, I have asked you not to go home. But from now on, you may. Still, please remember that you need to be qualified as a tribal messiah when you go home. You have to uphold that position before your family and exemplify True Parents&#8217; way of life. You men should live as a good father, you women as a good mother, and your children as good children. Then people can observe you and learn from you. Since the family is the school of love, you need to take that school to your hometown and teach people there how to love one another, particularly how to love their husband or wife.</p>
<p>So I should also return to my hometown! I am in the same position as you. You no longer need True Parents, since you already organized into your families. You can manage without us, can&#8217;t you? When there is no opposition, you can gain instant results.</p>
<p>When you go home, you will do home church. Furthermore, you have to restore your tribe. If your family name is Smith, go and witness to the Smiths and restore them. If you are John Doe, go and bring the Does back. The job of witnessing is infinitely easier when you are not opposed. We have the message of true love; we have the tradition of the True Parents and true family. How much easier it will be when there is no opposition!</p>
<p>The conditions are now set up so that when you preach the Principle, people will be ready to accept and follow it. God has sent the Messiah, but had there ever been a Messiah who reached the level of True Parents and completed the heavenly four-position foundation? (No.) All humankind has been subconsciously longing for the consummation of the heavenly four-position foundation. Through you, they can meet the Messiah who has perfected it and learn his tradition. You yourselves have consummated the four-position foundation. With that foundation, you can win everything back from Satan. That is clearly the Principle view. That is true. Amen!</p>
<p>In conclusion, I have sent family unit messiahs throughout the world. So I am like a messiah factory, creating lots of messiahs-not just on the individual level but on the family level! The messiah must be a family unit, because Satan is powerless to infiltrate such a unit. In a family united around one God-centered messianic message, Satan can find no foothold. That is the powerful blessing coming to you now through this Holy Water. Human history has never witnessed such a thing before.</p>
<p>Today, August 20, is not just my day of liberation. It is also the day of your rebirth. You have passed the judgment, and now you must become powerful new messianic units, going forth to the world as its judge. You are being empowered by God and the True Parents to be the judge of the world. Once you are equipped with true love and anchored upon God, no power under the sun can prevail against you. You husbands and wives who are totally confident that you are centered upon the True Parents&#8217; tradition and that your way of life fulfills this standard, please raise your hands. Why are you laughing? In order to give you this inheritance, I have gone to prison six times during the last 40 years. More than five years of my life have been spent in prison. Only upon such hard work and sacrifice could I give you this blessing tonight. How precious that is!</p>
<p>I worked myself to the bone to lay this deep foundation. That is the reality. I fear no nation or government. I have absolute confidence in this truth because I have lived it. It came through my very bones.</p>
<p>Spirit world is right next door, within our reach. Scientists have revealed that the size of the universe can be measured only in light years. They calculate its span as 221 billion light years. How can you control such a universe with this clumsy physical body? It is impossible. Only by the spirit can it be done. The universe is our stage. God created it for us. Are you interested? If I didn&#8217;t have my wife here on earth, I would rather go upstairs and live in that vast world!</p>
<p>I am a very dramatic and romantic person, but my life has been spent in total sacrifice, under the rule of indemnity. There is only one way you can realize how amazing I am. God is intoxicated with me and tells me, &#8220;My dear son, do whatever you want. It&#8217;s up to you.&#8221; The challenge is falling upon you. This is your time. Take up the challenge and claim the land. Claim the world. Do you follow?</p>
<p>Home church has been virtually forgotten. Who shall become the world&#8217;s parents? You must. Whatever your age, whether young or old, you are in the parent&#8217;s role. Would you like to receive this inheritance from me tonight? Once this blessing is given, the 12 tribes will be organized. Then we will move on to obtain heavenly sovereignty- one nation under God and True Parents.</p>
<p>If you fight with your husband or wife, you should ask your children-both spiritual and physical-to come to you; then you should bow down and repent before them. That is the only proper way to reconcile family quarrels. When the children do something wrong, they should apologize to their parents. If the husband makes a mistake, he should ask his children to go with him to the mother and bow down and apologize to her. And vice versa. In the heavenly four-position foundation, all four positions must work together, harmonized and bound together through the power of true love. According to the Principle, that four-position foundation must not be divided or separated.</p>
<p>Those couples who have fought among yourselves, please raise your hands. You wives who have been slapped or hit by your husband, raise your hands. Sometimes you may be struck because of your lips. The body&#8217;s first criminal is the lips-those two thin lips! The second criminal is the eyes. The man is different. You husbands who have been hit by your wives, raise your hands.</p>
<p>I want you to know that today is a momentous day. My physical release from prison has an incredible vertical meaning. Therefore, I would like to present you with a gift. It is not a simple one, but a historical, everlasting gift. Now your challenge is how much you can expand your tradition within your lifetime. That will determine your territory in spirit world. So far, nobody has had any territory or ownership in the spirit world. You must go there and stake your claim. Many years from now, we will all be up in heaven. I will have a palace there, and you will be able to come and see me. I don&#8217;t want you to come to me in need. Please earn your spiritual assets here on earth. That is why I have worked so hard here on earth. Until I became victorious here, nothing could be victorious in spirit world.</p>
<p>This morning I told the leaders at East Garden that they can be proud that they are elder, blessed members of the Unification Church. But at the same time, they need to be able to go down to the very bottom. Don&#8217;t just try to enjoy your position at the top of the mountain. Every mountain has a low valley. Every big tree has deep roots. You also have to anchor yourself with deep roots. The most dangerous time for the Unification Church will come when the United States and the rest of the world welcome us. If nobody is persecuting you, God and the True Parents will have to persecute you! It&#8217;s good that you respond by saying, &#8220;Thank you.&#8221; Say it over a hundred times.</p>
<p>I instructed Rev. Kwak and Bo Hi Pak to consolidate all their offices. I would like to make Mr. Pak an MFT leader-or a simple van driver. By pushing him down to the ground, I can help him deepen his roots. There is no other way. Then a new tree and new life shall spring forth. That is true. That is how nature operates.</p>
<p>Some blessed couples have very complicated thinking, longing for a nice apartment, perhaps. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve didn&#8217;t have an apartment! And God gave them &#8220;number 11&#8221; automobiles-their two legs. They did not need to worry about machinery. They lived in utmost simplicity. With their number 11 car, they could go everywhere. When you think in simple terms, you need not worry about anything. When judgment fell upon Sodom and Gomorrah, God gave clear instructions to Lot and his family not to look back. But Lot&#8217;s wife did, and at that moment she turned into a pillar of salt. By the same token. if I feel some attachment to Belvedere or East Garden, I should worry about becoming a pillar of salt. If I am watching myself that way, how much more you need to guard your attitude!</p>
<p>Do you want to embody the right tradition and receive the heavenly inheritance of true love from the True Parents and God? You understand tonight&#8217;s message, don&#8217;t you? Upon the foundation of this truth, a great time of victory is coming our way. We shall meet this new challenge. Our families shall become messianic units and go forth to the world. Shall we win the world?</p>
<p>Now we will conduct the Holy Water Ceremony, following the tradition of the ceremony which I held earlier with Mother and the True Children at East Garden. Husbands and wives who are here together can drink out of one cup. I will initiate this ceremony by blessing a representative of the True Children, Hyo Jin, and giving him the Holy Water. Then Mother and I will return to East Garden and you can hold the ceremony.</p>
<p>Let us pray.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:24:30+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/ideal-home-church.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:24:30+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">December 21, 1986<br />
World Mission Center &#8211; Grand Ballroom<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>If all of you in this auditorium were asked, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; you would answer, &#8220;We are members of the Unification Church&#8221; If you were then asked, &#8220;What is the Unification Church?&#8221; you could reply that it is a movement which seeks to unify the churches and, ultimately, the world.</p>
<p>English is a phonetic language and does not have a meaning for each letter or syllable. Oriental languages, however, are based on Chinese characters and each character has a meaning of its own. &#8220;Unification&#8221; in the Korean language is &#8220;Tongil&#8221; &#8220;Il&#8221; means one and &#8220;tong&#8221; means leading or controlling, so in this sense unification means leading the way into oneness. When you are talking about achieving unification, therefore, you are putting yourself in the position of the leader.</p>
<p>What is the center of unification? God is the center of the unification of the world. The Unification Church is working to unify churches, religions and all believing people. That will ultimately bring all the people of the world into oneness with God-one God, and one humanity. What would be the central substance of that unification and by what method can we make it possible? It would be, of course, through true love. Then let me ask another question: What is true love? When we talk about love, we include both horizontal love and vertical love. But the Western world does not realize this. What is the origin of humanity? Is it a horizontal origin coming from the earth or does it come from above? Naturally, the origin comes from above, from the vertical direction.</p>
<p>You are born with a fundamental relationship to the origin, the beginning. If you are asked what is your source, you would reply that you are from your parents. Then where are your parents from? Parents are from grandparents. Grandparents are from great-grandparents. If you go all the way back to the first ancestors of mankind, where are they from? They are, of course, from God. This is how we are all connected ultimately to the one God in heaven. True love is the love which existed in the very beginning between God and man. That relationship was one of true love. We are not eligible, however, to receive that original love simply because we have been born. The loss of true love is our problem today.</p>
<p>When Adam and Eve were created, God showered true love upon them without expecting any immediate return. He was the initiator. A newborn baby has no understanding of the love of its parents. That baby, however, is dwelling in an environment of unconditional love, vertical love, which the father and mother bestow upon it. This exact situation existed when the first man and woman were created. True love came to them from God. We are supposed to come into an awareness of the love of God just as babies grow and come into an awareness of their parents&#8217; love. Once we are grown, we should be fully aware of God&#8217;s love and be an embodiment of that love ourselves so that we can give parental love to others.</p>
<p>When talking about love, there can be no isolated individual. That would be a contradiction. For love to exist there must be a circuit-more than one person. When two people get together and talk about love, it is &#8220;our love&#8221; they speak o£ When you say, &#8220;My love to you,&#8217; you are addressing that love to someone else. When you talk about loving God, the recipient is God. Thus a circuit is created.</p>
<p>The love of God comes down from Heaven and the love of men goes upward from the earth, and they meet in the center. As a man or woman, you are in the position to become a recipient of the vertical love of God. When these two loves come together at the center, where does that energy go? It must expand horizontally because vertical love has certain limits of distance. Men are representatives of the plus character of the universe and women are representatives of the minus character. As individual men and women grow up to become recipients of the love of God, they form a horizontal line. They come closer and closer from both ends, eventually uniting. Thus all men and women have a common destiny.</p>
<p>Horizontally, there are men/women relationships and vertically, there is the parent/child relationship, which is primary. Because of that sequence, we must first become one with the vertical love of God; otherwise, we cannot go on to become true men and women. The relationship of God, Adam and Eve was the vertical relationship of Father, son and daughter. That relationship is universal and permanent-it can never be changed.</p>
<p>When you look at men and women, it seems their features are as different as the North and South Poles. Women&#8217;s character is such that they look very closely and intimately at things. They enjoy decorating their surroundings and themselves. Men are generally more visionary and tend to make plans from a long-term perspective. Man is in the vertical position, like God&#8217;s position, and woman is in the horizontal position, like the human position before God. We can make that simple parallel.</p>
<p>The first strong vertical line of love was established when God created Adam. Man and woman were supposed to mature and come closer and closer, uniting at the central point. That was the original design for the human family. Because God is absolute, the central point where the love of God emerges is also absolute. All people want to meet in that central point and share that absolute value. All of creation wants one thing-to move toward the central point and occupy God&#8217;s love.</p>
<p>Parents represent the love of God to their children who want to receive the fullest love of their parents. They even compete with each other for their parent&#8217;s love. That relationship is an absolute necessity. Each person is born with the destiny to receive parental love and grow into the awareness of God&#8217;s love. Ultimately we must become a recipient of God&#8217;s love. Love has an incredible pulling power which nobody can deny. Vertically, there is the mutual pulling power between God and man, and horizontally we feel the strong pulling power between men and women. These are the four pulling powers: left, right, up and down, and they must cross at some central point.</p>
<p>When a little baby giggles and laughs at the faces of his parents, is that abnormal or sinful? Of course not. Is it a sin when men and women look at each other, giggling and laughing, tickling each other playfully? When this give and take occurs between parents and children, or husband and wife, then God can freely come in and out of each mind and heart.</p>
<p>When love is being exchanged, no one wants to close his eyes in case he might miss something. Nobody wants a discount on love. You want to receive it at full value. When the voice of love is speaking, your ears are more sensitive to that sound than to any other sound under the sun. Even God&#8217;s big ear is listening, monitoring for that sound of love. The body may be going in one direction, but when the ears hear the voice of love, they pull the whole body in that direction. When somebody is telling you a very interesting story, you will draw closer and closer; you don&#8217;t want to miss a word. Do parents tell their children, &#8220;Well, I&#8217;ve given you enough love today. You got your ration&#8221;? Would you do that? No. Human beings are recipients or containers of love, so night and day and all four seasons of the year they are ready for more love from their parents and from God. True love can fully awaken all five senses of the body, which tries to perceive it all without losing any part of it.</p>
<p>Many people get divorced every day in this country; it is not so difficult. But the difficult part is deciding the custody of children. A person might say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care about my husband. I can kick him out, but I don&#8217;t want to lose my children&#8221; This is because there is a vertical relationship with the children. They are bone of your bone, flesh of your flesh. There is a plus and minus horizontally, and there is also a plus and minus vertically. God is in the plus position and human beings are in the minus position. Even if husband and wife-the plus and minus on the horizontal level-can be separated, the vertical relationship between the plus parent and the minus child can never be severed. It is the original sequence of creation to experience the vertical first and then the horizontal. It is never, never horizontal first and then vertical.</p>
<p>American society is plagued with rampant divorce. There is no greater pain for children than for their parents to divorce. Children are there to receive love and return love to their parents for an entire lifetime on earth and thereafter in eternity. When the parents are separated, virtually all five senses of the child are beset by grief and sadness. Nothing under the sun can remedy or relieve such sadness. It is almost as if God were abandoning Adam and Eve. God created Adam and Eve, and there is no way He could turn away from His sons and daughters. By the same token, after bearing children, the parents should not be separated. It is not only like abandoning Adam and Eve, but also everything in the universe because Adam and Eve are the central point of all creation-the microcosm of the universe. If Adam and Eve were abandoned by God, that would mean God would have to deny all of creation. If God denied the creation, He would be denying Himself, and that is virtually impossible to even think about. This eternal vertical connection, therefore, never changes.</p>
<p>Dominion over the creation cannot come through vertical love alone. Vertical love must be translated into horizontal love, like the spreading of a wing which encompasses all of creation under itself The Principle teaches us about the indirect as well as the direct dominion of God. In the beginning, there were God, Adam and Eve, and the archangel. In that situation, Adam and Eve had no choice but to receive God&#8217;s love. The archangel was in the position of a servant, so they did not go to him for love. The mature senses of Adam and Eve were supposed to know exactly how God felt and how He would react. They were not ignorant of God. Man is born in the indirect dominion of God, then grows by fulfilling his responsibility. Ultimately, men and women were supposed to grow naturally into the direct dominion of God.</p>
<p>After Adam and Eve grew up, God would have grabbed them and said, &#8220;Now, my son, my daughter, everything that I created is yours. Please take it and have dominion over it&#8221; Do you think God would say, &#8220;This part of creation is yours, Adam, and this part is yours, Eve&#8221;? Prom God&#8217;s point of view, Adam and Eve both belong to Him and there is no distinction or boundary between them. Likewise, the entire world is meant to be one with God, Adam and Eve. It is only by the power of true love that men and women, as far apart as East and West, can be made into one.</p>
<p>Adam is, in a sense, a greedy creature and since God is his, he will think, &#8220;Everything that Eve possesses should be mine&#8221; On her part, Eve will think, &#8220;God is mine, so everything that Adam has is mine, too&#8221; Do you think they would have such thoughts? You all have some greed, don&#8217;t you? It is a natural thing. God could foresee such conflict occurring between men and women, but He asked them to wait and be patient a little while until the power of love completely united them. The time would come when man and woman would be one in heart and there would be no distinction between them. The problem was that Adam and Eve never reached that level of perfection themselves.</p>
<p>It is human nature to want to get control of a situation. When you are in love, you want to grab that love and just eat it up. Do you want to have that kind of total unity in love or would you rather have the kind that says blandly, &#8220;Oh yes, we have some kind of thread, some connection between us&#8221; When you say you love someone, that includes the concept of occupying. You want to occupy the other totally without even one iota left to go free. Do you think I am telling the truth? Love is an all-occupying thing. You want to control everything-the eyes, ears, nose, mouth. Sometimes the voice of your loved one is so sweet that even if he says, &#8220;I&#8217;m really mad at you!&#8221; it still sounds sweet. Coming from the mouth of lovers, anything sounds sweet. Love can go to such extremes. This is virtually impossible in the realm of language, but it is possible in the world of love.</p>
<p>In man&#8217;s present nature there is selfishness, dishonesty, and arrogance. These are the parts of human nature we cannot deny. Who made that? Who is responsible for that? That fallen nature was passed down to you from your parents, your grandparents, and your great-grandparents and so on. The Principle has taught us that the fulfillment of human responsibility is the key during the growth period in the indirect dominion of God. Who can claim he has completed that responsibility? Who can say, &#8220;I&#8217;m totally and absolutely united with God and nothing under the sun can separate me from Him&#8221;?</p>
<p>The vertical relationship is primary. Once the absolute vertical relationship is established, then you can consummate the horizontal. As much as God and human beings cannot be separated, the horizontal relationship between men and women cannot be separated. The Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven is the dwelling of men and women who have reached the perfection level of relationship with God. After living in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, they can go on to heaven. God dwells in each person; men find a dwelling place in women and women find a dwelling place in men. This is the harmony and union that God is speaking about.</p>
<p>What is the sequence of true love? First, human beings occupy God; secondly, men occupy women, and vice-versa; and third, they occupy all the things of creation. These are not separate but are part of a logical progression. Little children love to play with toys. What are toys to a child? They are like a microcosm of the creation so a child learns to govern the creation by playing with his toys. That is how he begins to exert dominion over creation. God, Adam and Eve and all the things of creation are meant to intermingle, in harmony and joy. That is what we call heaven.</p>
<p>Who first started using the term &#8220;human responsibility&#8221; within the Unification Church? Reverend Moon did not create human responsibility, but he discovered it. Before he discovered that term, did the concept exist or not? Yes, it existed from the very beginning. It is a permanent law that was installed from the beginning and which will remain for the rest of eternity. Have you Unificationists realized that human responsibility was a permanent law, existing from day one through all eternity? Have you taken it that seriously? I&#8217;m sure some of you have even forgotten the term &#8220;human responsibility,&#8221; but this is the absolute law of God. Unless you fulfill human responsibility, you have no way to get into heaven. You have the craving for food and sleep every day of your life, but even greater than those needs is the requirement of human responsibility.</p>
<p>Do you think Reverend Moon just sat down one day and the words &#8220;human responsibility&#8221; came to him, and he thought it sounded good? Do you think he discovered it that way, or through incredible ordeals and struggles with Satan? Satan didn&#8217;t want anybody to discover this because once it was discovered, his world would crumble. Satan protected and hid the importance of human responsibility so deeply that it was not easy for any person to discover.</p>
<p>Without fulfilling the requirements of human responsibility you cannot enter into the direct dominion of God. You cannot fully understand the relationship between indirect and direct dominion or the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. Therefore, in the Unification Church, our goal is to become men and women who fulfill our human responsibility. That should become our life goal so that we can become people of perfection. When you have children, you don&#8217;t want them to accuse you, saying, &#8220;You never fulfilled your parental role. Why didn&#8217;t you complete your human responsibility?&#8221; If that becomes your situation, there is no reason for even having children. Without fulfilling this point, you have nowhere to take a wife and child. You have to turn back. Do you follow? You may protest, &#8220;Oh, no. I am a Unification Church member!&#8221; But only upon completion of your responsibility, can you claim your rights and privileges.</p>
<p>Dr. Pak, Rev. Kwak, Mr. Kamiyama and all the leaders are bound by this same law. They can only claim their own point of view upon the completion of human responsibility. Otherwise, they do not even have a platform to stand on.</p>
<p>Americans of today with their free sex and immorality may wonder why they should be bound by such a rigid rule, saying, &#8220;We can do anything we want. We want to enjoy our lives&#8221; Coming out of that culture and trying to follow Father&#8217;s Principle and become worthy Unification Church members is difficult to reconcile. America has a population of 240 million people. They are not worthy to be praised by God or to say that their human responsibility has been fulfilled. In other words, two hundred and forty million Americans deserve God&#8217;s judgment. This nation is just like Sodom and Gomorrah. God is reserving judgment only because Reverend Moon and those who follow Father say, &#8220;Heavenly Father, give us time. We shall, in due course, fulfill the responsibility.&#8221; That is why God is reserving judgment.</p>
<p>In order to graduate from a university, you have to compete a certain number of credits. The path to heaven is like that-you have to fulfill the requirements, getting a certain amount of credits. Human responsibility is the heavenly law. Would you like to live beneath the law, or in accordance with it and fulfill your human responsibility? Anything beneath this criterion is part of the human trash can, hell. This is not just a concept, it is a reality. Those who think, &#8220;I am fulfilling human responsibility,&#8217; raise your hands, please.</p>
<p>What about Jesus? Did he complete all the requirements of human responsibility? If he had, there would have been no reason for the Second Advent. But because he was not able to consummate that level on earth, the Second Coming became necessary. Have you ever borne a cross? Have you had that kind of experience? Have you been nailed physically to the cross? What do you think-Was Father forced into an American jail or did he go voluntarily? Father fears nothing. Anyone who fears this kind of responsibility will end up in hell.</p>
<p>You may have been living in the Unification Church for many years, but during that time you have been creating a rather miserable pattern-instead of succeeding, you&#8217;ve been failing. Your tradition is all mixed up and confused. But once you have completed human responsibility, does hell still exist for you? Once your responsibility is completed, you enter into the direct dominion of God where no satanic power can come in. Only in that situation can you use the word &#8220;ideal&#8221;</p>
<p>Have you thought about that? You take it so lightly and you think, &#8220;Well, it sounds good and it is very logical,&#8217; but you don&#8217;t let it really enter your heart. This is a law you must observe day by day. Without going through human responsibility, love and all other beautiful words have no meaning. Every heavenly accomplishment, every heavenly goal and fruit is tied to human responsibility. True Parents are there, true family is there, true husband and wife are there, true love is there, true heaven is there. Everything is above the level of human responsibility, not below it. Unless you go beyond that level, where are you? What is your position? Have you been living below that level or above it? You have not yet crossed over that hill. The first thing you must do this morning is to determine your exact position and location. Is Father speaking the eternal truth?</p>
<p>God and Satan &#8220;label&#8221; everything-&#8220;This is mine, this is yours&#8221; They label according to one criterion only-human responsibility. Human responsibility requires fulfilling the vertical relationship between God and man. Then and only then can the horizontal relationship between husband and wife begin. Human responsibility does not involve worrying and saying, &#8220;Oh, I need money. I need a better position. I hate to do this mundane chore morning to night&#8221; That is not the kind of human responsibility we are talking about.</p>
<p>Everyone is violating this law. Who is the guardian of the door of the Kingdom of Heaven? It is human responsibility. Without having that particular signed certificate, no one can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. No one in the fallen world has ever deserved the Kingdom of Heaven, not even one individual. In order to open this gate, God has been doing His work of restoration, starting with the time of Moses, then Jesus and then going on to the time of the Second Advent. Through this arduous work, God is opening the gate so that everybody can pass into the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
<p>Both God and Satan take this most seriously. Even if all the bases for Satan&#8217;s power are taken away from him, he will not easily give up his hold on human responsibility. Religious people who believe that they will go to Heaven will be demolished if they do not complete their human responsibility. God will have to say no. Even after a great amount of sacrifice, Satan will not release them and say, &#8220;Okay, that&#8217;s all right. God can claim you&#8221; Satan has been holding tightly onto human responsibility, but now Father is bringing it out of his domain. Human responsibility is within our domain so that we can fulfill it; we can go beyond it and above it. Now we have a weapon to destroy Satan logically-the truth. We can say, &#8220;Satan, this is your true identity. We know you and your crime, and now we have a weapon with which to destroy your realm&#8221; An incredible, insidious battle is continuously being waged behind the scenes.</p>
<p>Those who think, &#8220;I&#8217;m a member in good standing of the Unification Church and I know Heaven is mine,&#8221; raise your hands, please. Maybe you Japanese members are thinking, &#8220;We&#8217;re special. We work so hard and Japan is doing very well. We followed the direction of the True Parents and came to America and we have suffered so much, so we are in a special category. We will definitely enter into Heaven.&#8221; That is not right at all.</p>
<p>Think about it. When you feel that you have completely fulfilled your human responsibility and then go out to the satanic world and receive persecution, that is contradictory. Is there anybody who can oppose someone who has completed human responsibility? No. But Father is still receiving persecution. Why is that? All the barriers of human responsibility cannot be crossed at once. It is divided into eight different stages, from the individual level to the family, tribal, national, world, and universal levels. Father has been crossing each one, step by step. What stage is Father at now? The time of persecution is almost over and soon we will see universal welcome for Reverend Moon. It is at hand.</p>
<p>It is like a dream that we could gain ten million signatures. Such a thing was virtually unthinkable four years ago. This happened less than one year after Father set the universal condition by suffering at Danbury. What do you think will happen in the future? Will more and more people persecute Reverend Moon or not? How did Father come to this point,</p>
<p>on the verge of completely fulfilling human responsibility? Did he do it by receiving all kinds of praise and glory or by eating, sleeping and playing as much as he wanted? Do you go over human responsibility by doing those things?</p>
<p>Look at Father&#8217;s features, my body build, face, hands. My hands are special-looking-not the kind made for suffering and labor. Father was not custom-made by God to suffer, but I have suffered my whole life for the sake of the restoration and the liberation of God&#8217;s grief-stricken heart. Man has the responsibility to restore himself and his other half, woman, as well as all the things of creation. Father volunteered to suffer for that purpose.</p>
<p>God gave the world a most incredible opportunity to fulfill this huge responsibility all at once, right after World War II. The world, however, did not receive the messianic movement, so Father had to suffer for forty more years all by himself. Christianity at that time was in a position to accept Father and to fulfill the role of unifying the world, but it failed. For that reason Father himself rebuilt the Christian foundation.</p>
<p>Yesterday I went to a one-day trip to Alabama where I made a most arduous inspection tour of several shipyards. I returned to East Garden after midnight. If I did not take these things seriously, I would have just showed up for five minutes, said hello and good-bye, and left. But I cannot do that. This is a very serious time.</p>
<p>How serious have you been in the Unification Church? In order to come this far, Father has entered prison six times. Why? When God gave Father his mission here on earth as True Parents, God did not mean him to suffer. Actually, if everything had gone according to the plan, the whole dispensational scheme would have been completed by the time Father was forty. Now I am nearing seventy and I am still fighting, still suffering, still receiving persecution. Why? It is because of the failure of Christianity and the American nation.</p>
<p>Father came to this nation, which is a foreign country, a strange land for me, but I came to work here, giving my entire heart. Don&#8217;t you think I have a certain feeling toward the American people and the American nation even though I never speak about it? Father was hurt so much by this nation and these people. If an ordinary person was mistreated so much, he would fight back and try to take revenge. That would be normal, but Father is entirely different. I have swallowed all those feelings of hurt and I continue to try to save this nation, simply because I know about human responsibility. I only want to avenge myself with true love- by loving America and saving it. That is the same route Father has been taking for forty years, since the end of World War II.</p>
<p>Shall we be serious about fulfilling human responsibility? You really don&#8217;t know how much Father has been bearing the cross on your behalf you have all kinds of time to play, you eat virtually anything you want, and you sleep as much as you want. I don&#8217;t have that kind of time. You don&#8217;t know about Father&#8217;s personal, true life. I never show these things in public, but I have shed agonized tears and sweat and worked day in and day out. Someday the truth will be known. Do you think once you really know the facts about Father you will be able to raise your head? Not one of you could open your mouth to try to assert your excuses or your complaints.</p>
<p>Human responsibility is a narrow gate. Even Almighty God cannot widen it in a million years. The doors are narrow but everyone is expected to go through it, without exception. God did not commit sin; it is not God who is responsible. Human beings did-Adam and Eve did, but God has taken up His responsibility. Adam and Eve entered into false parenthood, and therefore God has taken up the responsibility to restore His son and daughter into true parenthood. For that reason, God has been working for a million years, day in and day out, to help people to do this. This is all taking place behind the scenes of history. The time will come when history will reveal what kind of life God has lived and how God fulfilled His responsibility. When people become aware, what kind of world do you think it will be?</p>
<p>No one has taken his human responsibility seriously as an individual, as a family, or as a tribe. No one. You always think, &#8220;Oh, today is too cold, I just don&#8217;t want to go out. I&#8217;m hungry, I&#8217;m sick, I have a headache&#8221; I see an assembly of people here who make all kinds of excuses.</p>
<p>When I was in Danbury, I instructed Dr. Pak to do certain things and he said, &#8220;Father that is very difficult, virtually impossible&#8221; So I said, &#8220;Okay, do it this way&#8221; I instructed him step by step so that he could be pushed to do it. But Dr. Pak has had to pay the price and the indemnity for that. He was kidnapped and narrowly escaped death. That invited the mercy and compassion of God.</p>
<p>This is just one example. Father goes everywhere and it is the same thing. I go to the Korean leaders and everyone says, &#8220;Father, that is just impossible. Nobody has ever done it. We cannot do it&#8221; Then I say, do it this way, follow this way, and I lead them every step of the way and then everything I talked about is accomplished. The time has come now, after fifteen years, when eminent scholars and professors who attend the science conferences humbly follow the guidance of Reverend Moon, no matter how famous they are. What about you? Do you also say, &#8220;Yes, Father&#8221;?</p>
<p>To whom does human responsibility belong? Should Father alone be responsible? No, human responsibility is yours. You need to fulfill it. But since you cannot bear that full burden, Father has carried it for you much of the way.</p>
<p>I want you to know another important principle: Cain and Abel must be united in order for the True Parents to emerge. On that foundation alone, True Parents can be recognized. You, the children, are supposed to restore the Cain and Abel providence, but since you have not done well, Father had to go down to your level, pick up your mission, take it upon his own shoulders and fulfill it. It is like a family in which there are bad children-the blame always goes to the parents. Then can you say, &#8220;Well, you fulfilled it for me. Give it back to me freely now?&#8221; Would you be that shameless?</p>
<p>You know that Father fulfilled human responsibility on your behalf but in order for it to become your own, you have to set a certain condition. Do you think the parent wants to give it away piece by piece, from one level to another, or would the parental heart want to give the full amount to you as your inheritance, all at once? Only because of the heart of the True Parents toward you as children is this possible. Father will one day declare to the world, &#8220;I have fulfilled all human responsibility. Now everyone else must do it, too&#8221;</p>
<p>There are laws for offering sacrifices. There are certain persons involved and certain conditions that have to be met in order for a sacrifice to become acceptable. There is a time period that should elapse. For forty years, Father was the person who offered the sacrifice and at the same time Father himself was that sacrifice. The satanic world was blocking everything, trying to make me fail. The satanic disturbances and obstacles have been almost insurmountable. Satan knows only too well that once Father succeeds in fulfilling human responsibility, it is final. For that reason, Satan has tried to block every stage of the game, and in the absolute final stage he pushed me into Danbury prison.</p>
<p>Father is bearing the fate of four billion people upon his shoulders. In order to pay the indemnity for that incredible burden of sin, Father has been in and out of prison six times in his lifetime. Who sent Father to prison? In a way, you did. The world population did. There is a certain debt to pay in terms of human responsibility, from the individual through the world level. I paid that debt all alone, by myself. I want you to know that unless I release this inheritance to you, no one will even come near to entering the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you follow very clearly? Father has to liberate you. If you suffer in prison yourself, even dying in a prison cell, it won&#8217;t make any difference unless you receive liberation from Father.</p>
<p>In order to be liberated, the first condition is that there be no complaint. Complaint is simply unacceptable. You can never receive liberation with a complaining heart. You must be obedient to the end, as long as there is a road of God&#8217;s providence. Father came to this country fifteen years ago and since then I have been ridiculed and persecuted. But I did it voluntarily. Persecution from the entire world cannot prevail over me; I accept that condition to fulfill human responsibility on a worldwide scale.</p>
<p>The heaviest worldwide persecution came in the year of 1976. That year the highest hill was scaled, and now we are going down the other side. The greatest suffering period of my whole lifetime was the seven-year period up to 1985. That suffering was for the sake of the worldwide, universal level. The seventh year was 1984 and that was the most climactic year. During the years of 1983, 1984 and 1985, not only Father, but Father&#8217;s own family went through terrible ordeals and persecution. It was during this period that Father went to prison. Also we suffered the tragedy of Heung Jin&#8217;s accident at the end of 1983. He died and had his Seung Hwa in January of 1984. This time period was the most horrendous ordeal for the True Family. It had been seven years since 1976. The forty year period began with the liberation of Korea and the end of World War II in 1945. On August 20th, 1985, Father came out of Danbury prison and reorganized the twelve tribes. Imagine how precise this is according to the heavenly timetable.</p>
<p>Now you know that there is no room in the Heavenly Kingdom for anyone who does not fulfill human responsibility. All this time, True Parents have been fulfilling that responsibility. Actually the True Parents are not supposed to suffer these things, but they left the True Parents&#8217; position to enter the children&#8217;s position and take on their burdens. Why has Father suffered for 40 years? It was to pull the realm of human responsibility away from Satan. Who has taught you about human responsibility? It is the True Parents.</p>
<p>How will you fulfill your own responsibility? Unless you know and exactly follow Father&#8217;s tradition, you won&#8217;t be able to do it. You have to learn from Father all the way up to the eighth stage, and then do it. Do you think all the money in the United States can buy the fulfillment of human responsibility? If you gave heaven and earth as a payment, you could not buy it. You can fulfill human responsibility only by true love alone.</p>
<p>Satan fears true love. Do you think true love fears Satan? Is the person who has true love afraid of prison? Those who go to prison for the sake of true love have no problem. Father entered prison six times for the sake of the providence. How many times have you been in and out of prison? Do you want to do it once or do you think, &#8220;Well, Father did it six times, so I might go once for three days. Or two hours&#8221; In reality, you should do much more than True Parents. Because of your own failure and your sin, True Parents have borne the burden on your behalf. We should do more than the True Parents in order to show the appreciation and gratitude that is due them.</p>
<p>Two thousand years ago, John the Baptist testified that Jesus was the lamb who bore the sins of the world. Now, Jesus is looking down at Father and saying, &#8220;Behold, it is he who bears all the human responsibility of the world upon his shoulders&#8221; Which do you think is the heavier and more difficult cult burden-Jesus&#8217; position then or True Parents&#8217; responsibility now? Human responsibility is absolutely more difficult.</p>
<p>Human responsibility is fulfilled by the practice of true love alone. Father has a lot of enemies, but I have no time to think about them. Father does a lot of good deeds and then forgets in the next moment. I have never thought, &#8220;Oh, bravo, I have done the job&#8221; I never have that proud feeling simply because I see that when one stage is over, another stage begins. It is an uphill battle all the time. Unless you complete the worldwide and universal dispensational level, the rest of them are to no avail.</p>
<p>Think of what an extraordinary man in history you have met. Father, however, is not just a guest that we meet today and have nothing to do with tomorrow. This extraordinary giant and hero is my eternal True Parent. This time of the True Parents is unique-it has never come before and it will never come again. It is an incredible blessing to be born at this time, a contemporary of the True Parents, and to receive education from them directly, breathing the same air, feeling the same sunshine, enjoying food and water at the same time.</p>
<p>You may look like the least on earth while you are serving True Parents, but you are receiving the greatest spiritual blessing of all. Thus you have suddenly become historical and extraordinary men and women. You must realize that. As members of the Unification Church, we can cherish the greatest blessing of all. You often only give lip service, saying &#8220;True Parents, we love you so much&#8221; But in reality, you give more suffering, more burdens to the True Parents. Your words and deeds must come together. You want to hear about it, but you do not want to do it. That is an incompatible, paradoxical situation. You want to see Father, you want to meet Father, you want to receive Father&#8217;s love, but you don&#8217;t want to do what Father says.</p>
<p>There was a dispensational pattern, set first by Jacob, then followed by Moses, Jesus, and finally Father. You also have to follow this dispensational course. There is no way out. What do you think? Those who say, &#8220;Oh, I don&#8217;t want to follow Father&#8217;s pattern,&#8217; should just pack up and go. You have nothing to do with me. You will be accused by spirit world when you go there if, after all the things that Father has taught, you cannot fulfill the condition. You will be bound by your own deeds and words. Do you think spirit world is listening to Father and following his directions? What about you? Are you following Father&#8217;s pattern today at least as much as spirit world? You should be ahead of them. The spirit world is equivalent to the angelic world, while you are in the world of Adam and Eve. You are, therefore, in a position to command the spiritual world-the spirit world should not command you.</p>
<p>Do you think, &#8220;I wish we had a little more freedom. I wish Father would just let me do what I like&#8221; Why do you pray every day in the name of True Parents? It is because in that name alone can your prayer be received. That is the most victorious name under the sun, the name that can conquer the satanic world. Have you not only been praying in the True Parents&#8217; name, but also praising their name? Have you glorified True Parents? In order to glorify the True Parents, you should bear the cross. By doing good deeds, you surely glorify the True Parents. But if you do not even bear your own cross, how can you bear the cross of the True Parents? Jesus commanded two things: deny yourself and bear the cross, then you are worthy of following me.</p>
<p>Where is Satan strongest in our world today? His throne is all the selfishness and self-centeredness within ourselves. If everybody else is working hard and suffering, can someone think, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to do that. I&#8217;ll just let them do it and I&#8217;ll play and have a good time&#8221; Do you think that person&#8217;s conscience wouldn&#8217;t be bothered?</p>
<p>What would you like to receive as a gift from Father? The most important gift you could possibly receive is liberation from human responsibility. You want to receive that, don&#8217;t you? Suppose I sent you and your spouse to Africa for the rest of your lives to serve a black, poverty-stricken nation- if that was the only way to fulfill your human responsibility, would you do it? What about living like a beggar? If you are treated like a king and queen, that does not fulfill the condition. That is not suffering. Will you say, &#8220;No, no, Father, I don&#8217;t want that responsibility. Give me something a little better&#8221; In order to liberate you from human responsibility, therefore unchaining and liberating you from Satan, Father set up one conditional mission for all of us to follow: that is nothing other than the Ideal Home Church.</p>
<p>What, then, is Home Church? Home Church is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven. Home Church is the place where you can be liberated. Father has repeatedly taught that without going through the Home Church providence, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the covenant between God, Father, and Satan. For anybody who fulfills the Home Church responsibility, Satan will sign the certificate and send it to True Parents. True Parents will approve it and that person is entitled to the Kingdom of Heaven. That is the covenant. If everybody in your 360 homes opens their door and welcomes you, you will be a master. Only someone who can love them with a parental heart will be received like that. You fulfill the Home Church providence when you are welcomed in your 360 homes. The criterion is this: in the 360 homes, they should love you more than they love their own parents, their spouse, their own children. Then you are truly worthy.</p>
<p>Where shall we begin Home Church? Father has come to the United States, the most ideal country to start in, because every level of society here is separated. There is virtually no love. Everyone is starving to death for the true love of parents, true conjugal love, true children&#8217;s love. So when you become the personification of love in this country, you will be received like God and True Parents. So far, Home Church has been difficult because Father was still being persecuted by the nation. But the times have changed. Father is being welcomed by the nation now and we already have ten million people supporting the goals of CAUSA. In this kind of atmosphere, the Home Church providence has become easier.</p>
<p>A network of roughly three hundred thousand members can totally cover this nation. All we need is 300,000 people; they can come from the ten million who already echo CAUSA&#8217;s ideals. When Father was in Danbury, a Divine Principle book, a letter and sermons were sent out to three hundred and fifty thousand clergymen in this country. Father would like these people to become part of the central mission, contacts for the Home Church providence.</p>
<p>When America enters into the Home Church providence and is entirely covered by it, what do you think will happen in the rest of the world? Will they follow the Home Church pattern or not? Let&#8217;s make a decision this morning in an absolutely democratic way-by majority rule. Do you think we should do Home Church? Raise your hands, please. All right. It is not Father&#8217;s decision; it is your decision now.</p>
<p>In order to pass an examination, someone else has to give it to you. You cannot create your own test. Do you want to create your own paper for the Home Church examination, or should someone else give it to you? Who should that somebody be? True Parents should give you that exam. The exam given by the True Parents has eternal standing. When you do it correctly now, you go all the way. If you go wrong now, that record will stand for eternity, too. It is very serious. We are going this way now, but after 1988, all the Unification members will be represented by the kind of Home Church they have. Your Home Church record will come with you. Without a Home Church area and accomplishment, you simply cannot see the True Parents. You won&#8217;t be accepted without a Home Church background, no matter what you might have done in the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Eventually, there will be no more territory in the United States in which to get a Home Church area. In order to find a Home Church area, people will voluntarily go to Africa. People will eventually flock into Red China. There are a lot of people there-one billion. Eventually, the world will be knit together by Home Church and the Kingdom of Heaven will be ushered in.</p>
<p>I first spoke about Home Church in 1978, so I have been speaking about it for the past seven years. From 1987 on, we will renew our dedication. A new beginning will be set on the first day of 1987. Those who think, &#8220;Yes, Home Church is a definite necessity. I know it and I feel it,&#8217; raise your hands, please. Everybody wants to go to heaven, that&#8217;s for sure.</p>
<p>Father has been suffering simply because of the failure of human responsibility. The hill of human responsibility has to be climbed. The restoration process starts from the enemy or servant of servants position, is elevated to the servant&#8217;s position, the adopted son&#8217;s position, the son&#8217;s position, and finally arrives at the Mother&#8217;s and Father&#8217;s position, the True Parents&#8217; position. That is the way of restoration. When you go all the way down to the bottom of the totem pole, Satan simply cannot follow you. All this time you have been accompanied by Satan, but if you continue to go down further and further, Satan will ask, &#8220;Where are you going?&#8221; Then if you reply, &#8220;I&#8217;m going further down,&#8217; he will say, &#8220;I cannot follow you anymore&#8221; Satan is arrogant; he has a limit to how humble he can be, so if you can be limitless in your humility, you will be separated from Satan.</p>
<p>Satan will follow to the individual and family levels, but he can only come up to the third level and no more. This is because the True Parents declared victory and liquidated the satanic elements from the third level on. There is no way satanic elements can creep in above this level, the tribal level. Jesus&#8217; crucifixion came at the tribal level, and this is where Satan entered and completely demolished the dispensation. Therefore, you must pay indemnity to recover this level. True Parents have conquered everything above the tribal level. Father has gone all the way through the individual, family, tribal, national, world and universal levels. Instead of rejecting Father, the world is now ready to welcome and embrace me.</p>
<p>I want you to understand, no parent wants his children to suffer. Parents are always trying to take their children&#8217;s burdens upon their own shoulders. This is the parental heart. Therefore, what Father is giving you today is the bare minimum you have to do to qualify for citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
<p>There are roughly one million people who signed the CAUSA Associate Membership forms in the NewYork area. The population of New York is approximately ten million, so one-tenth of the population signed up for CAUSA&#8217;s goals. Thus the potential is out there in your Home Church area. It is no longer a foreign land, a land of strangers.</p>
<p>Many of you say, &#8220;Home Church is difficult. We have already suffered a lot&#8221; I&#8217;m sure you have some difficult memories, but think of the signature campaign. Before leaving for Korea this last time, I asked the American leadership to find ten million CAUSA volunteers, saying, &#8220;If you cannot do it, I won&#8217;t come back to America&#8221; When the goal was announced, did you think it was possible? Did you think we could even reach one million? Did you ever imagine we would accomplish the goal of ten million so quickly?</p>
<p>Father came here to save America. We proclaimed the ten million membership goal just recently but the plan was in the making a long time ago. First of all, the primary condition was the unification between established clergy and the Unification Church, because Cain and Abel must be</p>
<p>united for the True Parents to stand. Father returned from Korea on November 24th and on that day, the goal of ten million was achieved. It was perfectly fitting. I came back because I knew the goal was being achieved.</p>
<p>As you know, many U.S. clergymen have been making the holy land pilgrimage. Instead of going to Israel, they are going to Korea. When Father was in Danbury, we initiated the education of seven thousand religious leaders through CAUSA seminars. That is completed. After Father was liberated from Danbury, we were able to reach out to seventy thousand ministers. Today&#8217;s ministers are comparable to the rabbis at the time of Jesus. The Roman Senate of Jesus&#8217; time was equivalent to the Congress of the United States today. By dealing with the ministers and leaders today, we are fulfilling what Jesus was not able to fulfill two thousand years ago. Soon you will see not only Christian ministers but also American leaders going to Korea for pilgrimages.</p>
<p>This is the reason that in 1983 we expanded our local centers to 750 locations. Those were the grass roots CAUSA centers, where people were contacting ministers. I had been asking you to meet and visit ministers and none of the American leaders were doing it, so now Korean leaders are spearheading the process. Through this process, the horizontal Cain and Abel dispensation has been fulfilled. There is also the vertical unity between parents and children. God is always the highest, and the True Parents&#8217; position is above Cain and Abel.</p>
<p>I want you to understand that the number 7,000 comes from the biblical story of Elijah. At that time, Israel was divided into north and south. Elijah was chosen by God as a prophet to turn the people of northern Israel back to God. Even though he was a success, many people rejected him and he was completely alone. One day as he was resting under a big tree, a bug came and ate all the leaves and took away his shade. At that point, he was absolutely disheartened. He said to God, &#8220;I am all by myself, finished. I can do no more, God&#8221; Then a voice from heaven said, &#8220;Elijah, what are you talking about? They&#8217;re still out there. I have 7,000 soldiers hidden who are ready to be mobilized. What are you talking about-you are finished?&#8221; This is where the number 7,000 came from. At the time of Jesus, John the Baptist was in the position of Elijah and should have recruited 7,000 strong followers for Jesus&#8217; ministry. At the time of the Second Advent, Father knew that even if this nation accused him all the way to Danbury, there still must be 7,000 rabbis and ministers out there ready to be raised up.</p>
<p>There are millions of veterans in this country and they are most patriotic people. For that reason, we have set up a special organization to educate retired generals and colonels. Over one thousand people have been educated and they have become the backbone of the veterans&#8217; movement throughout the country. This education is now proceeding in all fifty states. Clergy organizations represent plus, or Abel, and the veterans&#8217; organizations represent minus, or Cain. When they are united through give and take, they&#8217;ll form a local foundation upon which the True Parents can emerge.</p>
<p>It is almost like the time of Moses, when there was a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night leading the way, daytime and nighttime. The clergy and veterans&#8217; organizations are like these two pillars. Among the ten million signatures, there are many veterans, many old soldiers and generals and colonels, as well as many religious people and ministers. When all the ministers are filled with enthusiasm and all the veterans become powerfully inspired, the country can be moved.</p>
<p>Who shall be the elder brothers, the Moonies or the ministers? Who is Abel, who is Cain? Think about it. In the fallen world, Cain is always the elder son. In the restored world, however, the elder son should be the strongest pillar of the dispensation. The Unification Church is within the restored world, so you shall be in the elder son&#8217;s position. You have to make your tradition of unification by setting a standard and building a foundation. From now on, you have to make your foundation of an elder son on the heavenly side. Always in the past, the elder son made the foundation on Satan&#8217;s side. What is the elder son&#8217;s tradition in the Unification Church? Home Church.</p>
<p>Father has spoken to you about the Home Church providence for three hours now and everybody wants to do it. There are only about 1,000 people in this room. What if I spoke about this Home Church providence through network television for three hours? That would be bad news for you. After such a broadcast, millions of people in America would be thinking, &#8220;Uh oh. We&#8217;ve got to get 360 homes quickly. Let&#8217;s all go out and claim our area&#8221; There would be no area for you anymore. Before Father announces it on television, since you are special people and you came to Father earlier than anybody else, you&#8217;ve been given a special privilege, a preview. You know the providence so you can get to Home Church and pick your territory first.</p>
<p>From tomorrow morning on, we have a new greeting among ourselves. We can say in the morning, &#8220;Good morning, going Home Church!&#8221; In the afternoon, &#8220;Good afternoon, going Home Church!&#8221; In the evening, &#8220;Goodnight, going Home Church!&#8221; Since Satan works at night, we&#8217;ve got to work at night as well.</p>
<p>The Home Church providence was installed in Brazil several years ago. At the same time, I directed them to do some service project, so bread factories were established for the twenty-four states there. Every morning from four o&#8217;clock on, they bake tons of bread. All the Unification members in Brazil, from the leaders on down, hand-carry and distribute bread throughout their districts. That&#8217;s Home Church. As Jesus said, you cannot live by bread alone, so they also give them the truth, and true love. This is how Brazil has become the most successful Home Church country.</p>
<p>Once the Home Church process is well underway, we can initiate economic programs. You need money, don&#8217;t you? Yes, money is necessary but more important is fulfilling human responsibility. You know it very clearly, don&#8217;t you? Everybody should inspire each other&#8217; with Home Church, even pushing each other to go out. Through Home Church, you can restore everything up to the tribal level. Once you reach the tribal messiah&#8217;s level, then you can achieve the national, world, and cosmic levels immediately. This is the True Parents&#8217; level. All the future leaders of the Unification movement will come out of the Home Church championship. They will be the Home Church leaders.</p>
<p>How can you get rid of Satan? The way is the Home Church way. You should have a regular schedule, so it is good to have some sort of daily duty to make you go out to the people. We have two newspapers in New York, the City Tribune and Noticias Del Mundo, that you can distribute in your Home Church area. The person in charge of Home Church will become responsible for that distribution, as well. We will tighten up the previous organization and tighten up the providential Home Church system in New York. Economic activities like fundraising should be done through groups and organizations, not individuals. Washington is another city where Father is organizing a formula system. Father&#8217;s system is such that those who do Home Church well will not only succeed in Home Church but will be successful economically. They will fulfill both. They will be recognized as a local community leader and also they will be well-off financially.</p>
<p>I would like to announce this morning that the Home Church providence combined with the newspaper providence is Reverend Kwak&#8217;s responsibility. The change of command will take place December 31st. Reverend Kwak is a very busy man, but this is his most important responsibility. He should drop everything else to concentrate on this activity.</p>
<p>Everyone should look at the New York City Tribune and Noticias Del Mundo as your own newspapers. You should be able to distribute at least 120 copies in your 360 homes. At least one out of every three homes should take a copy. We can truly change the spiritual atmosphere of New York City. Since we participated in the Home Church providence before, do you think we can do it? There are all kinds of people in every neighborhood. We might find ministers, military men, government officials, even Congressmen and Senators. In order to deal with such powerful people, we must be united on our one common goal. I want them to know that Moonies are not weak, trivial people.</p>
<p>Once Home Church is completely organized and in place, you shouldn&#8217;t even try to know where Father is. I may suddenly disappear! If Father is absolutely free to do whatever I feel is needed, that means your time has arrived. Anything that you hear about me or see me doing, you should say, &#8220;If that&#8217;s what Father needs to do to accomplish his mission, fine. I&#8217;ll just do my thing: Home Church&#8221; Sometimes I might watch three different movies in one day. How could I do that? Those conditions might be needed. Father is moving on to another level of the dispensation. Home Church is your level.</p>
<p>Two hundred volumes of Father&#8217;s speeches have been published but that only scratches the surface. There are hundreds more volumes containing all the words Father has spoken over the years, so you have a lot to study. Now Book 34 has been published in the original Korean language. You should study Korean, and get all of these books. Father is the personification of the word and he has spoken so much; when you study this material, you will get all kinds of elements that you need for life. The Japanese are circulating four thousand volumes every time one is published. How many volumes are read in Korean in the United States? That means you are not truly Moonies, because Moonies need to read Father&#8217;s words, spoken in the mother tongue. Do you want to order some? This is a first edition and it will not be republished soon. Anyone who has a first edition will have a treasure to pass down to your children and grandchildren.</p>
<p>You have no idea how miserable and lonely Father has been all this time. Even Mother and the children don&#8217;t know fully. Only God and Father know. I don&#8217;t want you to be indebted to me. Let me be indebted to you. You can become such great men and women, the champions who will create a new history. All these things can be accomplished through the fulfillment of the Ideal Home Church. There&#8217;s nothing more important-not even your own parents, your children, or your husband and wife. Nothing is more important at this time than to fulfill this Ideal Home Church.</p>
<p>Can you say, &#8220;Father, you&#8217;ve moved me. I am committed and I will go all the way. I will not betray you. I will meet your expectations&#8221;? If you can pledge that from the very bottom of your hearts, raise both hands and say &#8220;Yes, Father&#8221; loud and clear. Thank you.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 1, 1985<br />
World Mission Center<br />
New York City<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>At this time, I would like to commemorate the one year anniversary of Heung Jin&#8217;s <i>Seung Hwa Ceremony</i>. There are many things that people cannot understand from a worldly point of view. Certainly some of the things that we do within the Unification Church could never be understood from a worldly point of view. People must be able to understand the interaction between spirit world and physical world; that is basic and fundamental.</p>
<p>The world of spirit is an absolute reality; even though most people don&#8217;t perceive it, it is there. I want you to understand that even in spirit world there is an ongoing struggle between good and evil. Good spirits are trying to influence evil spirits and bring them into the sphere of goodness. Likewise. evil spirits are trying to influence the good spirits toward the sphere of evil.</p>
<p>Evil spirits have a certain power and dominion over the people of the physical world. Furthermore, even though there are good spirits in spirit world, none of them are perfect; no one ever had the chance to be perfected while they were living on earth. However, good spirits are making a unified effort to bring the world over to the side of goodness and the forces of evil are trying to block that. In this battle the evil world has an advantage because the evil spirit world and the evil physical world have unlimited communication.</p>
<p>Those people who lived a good, God-centered life while here on earth are in the category of good spirits in the spirit world. Jesus Christ came to this earth to save. What does that mean? It means to transform people so that they can go to the good spirit world. However, that mission has not been fully completed and that is why Christ must come again.</p>
<p>We could compare the actions of spirit world with farming. Spirit world is trying to farm the earthly plane. One farm is a wild olive tree farm, governed by evil spirits who dwell there. Then the good spirits come and strive to cultivate those olive trees, trying to have dominion over them. The world fell into the sphere of evil dominion but still God has been working through the good people on earth, trying to cultivate wild olive trees that can come under the domain of God and goodness. God has been continuously striving to make true olive trees out of the wild olive trees. God knew that there had to be one central model, one seed for the true olive tree, and that is the Messiah.</p>
<p>Even though the Messiah comes, he cannot fulfill his mission all by himself. The Messiah needs support, specifically from the good spirits and from a bride. Jesus Christ came as a true olive tree and was called the bridegroom. What is the bride&#8217;s relation to the bridegroom? The bride is engrafted to the bridegroom, like the wild olive tree being engrafted to the true olive tree. That is the whole concept of Christianity.</p>
<p>When a tree is grafted, where is it cut? It is cut at the branches, like cutting its neck and putting its head onto a new root. Originally everyone was supposed to be born as true olive trees but because of the fall everyone became wild olive trees. Thus everyone must go through the grafting process in order to transfer themselves to the true olive trees. God is cutting all of the wild olive trees and grafting them into the true olive tree.</p>
<p>However, the wild olive tree farm is controlled by Satan. Even though God is trying to cut those trees, Satan is blocking Him. He won&#8217;t let God come near. In order to approach the wild olive trees, God&#8217;s side has to have a certain strategy to get around Satan. One by one, each tree has to be approached according to a certain condition. The best way would be for God to own the farm. Even though the olive trees would still be wild, at least God would own and control the farm. Then He could freely go and cut and graft the trees. This is the basic concept of the chosen people.</p>
<p>To be allowed to transfer from the satanic sphere to the Godly sphere is always a bitter battle. In order to do it, we must have a certain offering. In the Old Testament era, man set the condition through material offerings. In the New Testament era, it was through the physical offering of the son of God. This is the era of the Completed Testament and at this time, the True Parents are setting the conditions for mankind.</p>
<p>There is a certain principle of love by which mankind can be grafted together and this is what we call the Divine Principle. Since Satan was the one who first planted love-satanic love-the only way it can be restored is by planting true, heavenly love. Therefore the Unification Church has mass, holy weddings. These holy weddings arc symbolic of the grafting process, by which you separate yourselves from the satanic world and graft yourselves into the family of the True Parents.</p>
<p>What was the fall of man? It was the planting of evil in the lineage of man. Thus we must be changed over and be engrafted into the true lineage-into true parents, true brothers and sisters, true family. Therefore, individuals must cut their relationship with the realm of Satan and make a new relationship with the True Parents. You must become a new race of Adam, cutting yourself off from the evil root.</p>
<p>What is the tradition of Adam? It is to inherit God&#8217;s tradition and be centered upon the love of God as a part of the True Parents family. We are creating a new cultural sphere centering upon this tradition of the True Parents. This will be the culture centered upon God and True Parents, which was supposed to be the culture of humanity from the very beginning. But since that was lost, we must restore it.</p>
<p>There is no distinction of race in the love of God. There is no such thing as the black love of God, the white love, or yellow love. They are all one. Furthermore, there is no separation between past, present or future so we can communicate in spirit world beyond the boundaries of time.</p>
<p>You must decide where you belong and what kind of olive tree you are. Are you still hesitating to be cut and grafted onto the true olive tree? Or have you already transferred your lineage?</p>
<p>What is going to be the Unification Church culture in the future? That will be the one world culture, centered upon the love of God and the love of the True Parents. What about the American culture-is it God&#8217;s true olive tree culture? No, that is the seed you don&#8217;t want to inherit. Perhaps this stark truth is too difficult for some of you to hear. However, you must hear it because it is the truth. Some may think, &#8220;Father is coming out of prison so he will speak differently now.&#8221; But you have found that I&#8217;m just the same as before.</p>
<p>What is the mission of the spirit world? They are the assistants or supporters to make this world right. Spirit world is assisting in God&#8217;s program. American culture today is centered upon sensational and physical experiences such as drugs and promiscuity. Furthermore, there is a growing subculture promoting the perverted sexual behavior of homosexuality and lesbianism. They are trying to make it legitimate. These things have their roots in a satanic origin and the American culture is buying it, absorbing it. Satan&#8217;s love culture is an evil love culture. Satan is promoting it and America is buying it.</p>
<p>However, the Unification Church is standing upon God&#8217;s love culture. In our culture there is no place for free sex or immorality. Sodom and Gomorrah was a thoroughly satanic love culture in which incest was particularly prevalent. The Bible describes the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God just could not permit it.</p>
<p>The world at large is saying to the Unification Church, &#8220;You are heretics.&#8221; However, what do you think? The Unification Church is the special task force for God on the forefront of God&#8217;s work. That&#8217;s what the Unification Church is all about. We should be able to cut all the wild olive trees and graft them into the true olive trees.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon brought the secret that the worldwide Satan cannot accuse. Reverend Moon&#8217;s secret is this: the spirit world has two spheres, one of good and one of evil. The good spirit world is taking the initiative so that the evil spirit world has to move toward the good. There is communication between them. When this occurs on the level of spirit, it is reflected in the physical world</p>
<p>Reverend Moon is using a secret method: we will win the spirit world to our side and this will be reflected here on earth. We will shift the evil family, tribe, nation and world levels in spirit world to the good side and then it will begin to happen here on earth. When this change occurs in the spirit world, sooner or later the same thing will happen here on this plane.</p>
<p>We have seen many evil things coming and going here on the earth. For example, when I first came to the United States, I heard a great deal about &#8220;streaking,&#8221; or naked men and women running around in public places. But that died out after a while. Another amazing thing is that the older generation is becoming more fun-loving, more promiscuous, while the young people are turning very conservative and idealistic. They are saying, &#8220;We young people don&#8217;t accept that. We don&#8217;t buy your sins.&#8221; This is actually happening in the United States today.</p>
<p>There is a great difference between satanic love and heavenly love. Satanic love tastes very sweet at first but you get bored with it very quickly. Heavenly love is tiring and difficult at first but once you get into it, it becomes more and more tasty. For example, when people are engaged according to secular standards they are ecstatic for a while, but eventually they repel each other.</p>
<p>Now the Moonies are saying, &#8220;I am not going to marry according to my own tastes. I am waiting for Reverend Moon to give me the best spouse.&#8221; We seem like weird people to the rest of the world. Furthermore, when Unification people get married, it&#8217;s hard to tell-you never see them kissing each other; you never see them taking a honeymoon. Some never even see each other for three years! Although such a love is very difficult at first, once you get into it, it is something permanent. It is eternal and it is very beautiful.</p>
<p>You are like &#8220;hot plates&#8221; of love-you are producing and motivating the heat of love. Our mysterious love world gets wider and wider while the satanic love world gets narrower and narrower as time goes by. Does a beautiful white woman or anyone else come to Reverend Moon expecting to be married with the most handsome white men? On the contrary, she will say, &#8220;Father, please match me with an African brother or someone from Asia or South America.&#8221; Within our church, the north pole is trying to reach out to the south pole; the Far East is merging with the West. There is some mysterious power here!</p>
<p>Satanic love starts out with great fanfare but then gets smaller and weaker. Heavenly love starts out with a tough, salty foundation but then becomes tastier and wider and continues to grow. You might not have the most ecstatic laugh on your wedding day, but when the days pass by your smile grows bigger and your laugh becomes truly joyful.</p>
<p>Where will you find a church in the United States where people gather without any chairs to sit on? A church such as that is the true love church. In that church, you touch everybody around you. You white people are touched by the black person in front of you, the red person behind you, the yellow person on your left, and the brown person on your right. Five different colors are included in that arrangement. What do you think? Is Reverend Moon&#8217;s method of education good or bad?</p>
<p>This is a spiritual world and I want to explain to you how to master the spiritual principles. Is Reverend Moon an American? No, I am an Oriental man; I cannot escape being Korean. However, I have discovered a special kind of law so I have a special kind of patent which gives me a certain kind of authority. My discovery has universal application. It is not just good for white people but for black people and all people.</p>
<p>How can you be sure that I am trustworthy? You may not see the patent itself but you see that it is working. People of all different cultures are coming together and are moving in one direction. Something is bringing them together. When God sees this, He will not say, &#8220;Reverend Moon, you cannot try that. You shouldn&#8217;t help these people.&#8221; Instead, God will say, &#8220;Reverend Moon, you&#8217;ve got the secret formula, so go ahead and propagate it all over the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>No matter what a person&#8217;s earthly position, whether he is a king or a great leader, it doesn&#8217;t make any difference when he goes to spirit world. Each person must have a certificate signed by Reverend Moon.</p>
<p>If you are a student seeking for a PhD, you must go through incredible difficulties. You must serve your professors and do whatever they say. They are the masters and you are the student. You cannot protest, &#8220;Mr. Professor, I am better looking than you and I am smarter, too. You are trying to block me from getting my Ph.D.&#8221; If you do, the professor will say, &#8220;Get out of my sight! You are not going to get your PhD!&#8221; That person&#8217;s signature is necessary on your certificate.</p>
<p>Many people thought Reverend Moon would be destroyed by all the opposition against him, but even my going to Danbury will not stop me. I know what the people have said but it doesn&#8217;t matter at all. The time will come when those people will have to come for my signature. For that reason, I am absolutely confident and relaxed. The time will come.</p>
<p>Some people may say, &#8220;I have a special route to go,&#8221; but when they go to God, He will say, &#8220;Did you get Reverend Moon&#8217;s signature?&#8221; Even Satan himself will have to submit his certificate with Reverend Moon&#8217;s signature.</p>
<p>Words are cheap but the reality of obtaining that kind of authority is not easy at all. No matter what they say, the entire world including spirit world has to come to that route. When the time comes, I will declare to the world, &#8220;Now it is my turn.&#8221; At this time the U.S. government thinks it has won the battle against me but they are wrong.</p>
<p>When I was in the courtroom I spoke only one thing, &#8220;Your honor, I am not guilty.&#8221; Later, when the probation officers came to interview me, my lawyers advised me that maybe I should try to make friends with them, telling them I may have made some mistakes here and there. But I told them, &#8220;No, lawyers, I am not guilty.&#8221;</p>
<p>I am an expert on the spirit world. I know how to control it, how to maneuver, what is right, what is wrong. No one knows their ways better than I do. Once I am able to control spirit world, this world will inevitably follow the pattern of spirit world. For 30 years I have been controlling the activity of spirit world, taking down the barriers. So there was an emergence from the family level to the tribal level; tribal level to societal level. At every level, I have been tearing down those barriers.</p>
<p>Furthermore, through the teaching of Reverend Moon alone, the mysteries of the Bible have been cleared up. I have explained how much of the Bible has already been fulfilled, how much remains, and so forth</p>
<p>Spirit world is under my direction, but this physical world is the problem. Until this world becomes one, certain sacrifices indeed will be required. Jesus was such a sacrifice 2,000 years ago; he died on the cross, alone. He entered the spirit world and cannot come back to the physical world to free it.</p>
<p>I do not intend to explain everything today. The two most important things today were the prayer this morning at the Pledge Service and then the prayer for Heung Jin in the memorial service. That 30-minute prayer is going to be translated and the whole picture will be seen, such as why that sacrifice was necessary. It is all explained in that prayer.</p>
<p>Even though Jesus Christ sacrificed himself on the cross, he still could not break down the barriers of the Roman Empire or all the other nations. Today we must break down all those barriers. Nobody else can fulfill that kind of role except the direct child of the True Parents.</p>
<p>The sacrifice of Heung Jin is the best gift, the most extraordinary sacrifice for the sake of the world. It is the thing that will break down all the barriers of the world. There are British members receiving spiritual messages, including those from Jesus Christ. Now they are also seeing Heung Jin in the spirit world. They are flabbergasted and they don&#8217;t know why they are receiving these messages.</p>
<p>The time has come, because of Heung Jin&#8217;s sacrifice, that the barriers between spirit world and physical world are breaking down. The barriers between different religions are breaking down as well. Likewise, the barriers are breaking down between nations and between traditional Christianity and the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Established Christianity in America has been hostile to the Unification Church in the past, not wanting to pay any attention to Reverend Moon. But within these past few months, many leaders of the Christian community are mobilizing and speaking out to the government on behalf of Reverend Moon. Once, when you told them you were Moonies, they would want to spit in your face. But not any more. Now they are saying, &#8220;What is the secret of Reverend Moon?&#8221; They want to know more about the teachings of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>While I am in Danbury, there is a special activity going on. We are sending videotapes to 300,000 Christian ministers. These are lectures of the Divine Principle, condensed into three tapes, along with a message from me from the prison. Already there is so much curiosity about Reverend Moon. People are saying, &#8220;Who is he, anyway?&#8221;</p>
<p>I am a strange man, that is certain. Ordinarily when people go to prison, they are filled with despair. But when I went to prison, I was asking, &#8220;What&#8217;s next&#8217;? What good things are going to happen in the future?&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t matter where I go, I am always the same. I always open doors, wherever I go. Now I am opening the doors of prison to true love.</p>
<p>You have been waiting for my furlough very eagerly but the men in prison are thinking, &#8220;When is that Reverend Moon coming back? I miss him already!&#8221; They asked me if they could call me. I told them not to, but just to wait. You are with me for this one day and you feel like the time is slipping away too fast. But the men in prison are feeling just the opposite. Both of these things are good phenomena.</p>
<p>Many people simply cannot understand why smart, good looking Americans are following this Korean clergyman. They cannot see any reason, but they don&#8217;t know that the whole spirit world is tumbling upside down and that this world is just a part of that phenomenon. Since I have been in prison, several extraordinary things have happened. First of all, the worst communism, North Korea, began a peaceful dialogue with South Korea. This has never happened before. Also, Red China has spoken out against Marxism, calling it an antique philosophy and saying that it isn&#8217;t working. One of the tenets of communists is that Marxism is the most scientific law for society, but communist China is denying that. The entire world is shaken.</p>
<p>Now those Christians who once looked at Reverend Moon as a dreadful heretic are trying to get me out of</p>
<p>prison. Furthermore, &#8220;liberation theology&#8221; has been rampant in Latin America for many years and all of a sudden, Pope John Paul 11 said, &#8220;No more. The person who follows liberation theology cannot call himself a Catholic.&#8221; Likewise, although the Catholics have looked at Reverend Moon as a heretic, the Catholic University of La Plata in Argentina conferred an honorary degree upon me.</p>
<p>That means the time has come for you to take the offensive. We have been on the defensive for too long. Now when people ask, &#8220;What&#8217;s going on with Reverend Moon&#8217;?&#8221; you can say, &#8220;Did you see the videotape? Did you hear what the Catholic University of La Plata did?&#8221; You have so much to talk about.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon proposed something that most people haven&#8217;t dared to dream: to unite the states of Latin America. Also I have proposed that the heads of the major religions of the world come together and edit an international world Bible-one Bible for the six religions. Everybody has applauded this idea.</p>
<p>If I continue like this, you will all get so inflated you will just blow away! But to make a long story short, Reverend Moon is an extraordinary, mysterious man, isn&#8217;t that true! In virtually every area, including technology and the media, people are realizing that Reverend Moon is a most valuable person. Maybe the CIA and the FBI don&#8217;t want me to continue to talk about these things; perhaps they are too frightened!</p>
<p>The inmates at Danbury always see me scrubbing the floor, working in the kitchen, playing pool, and so forth, but they never imagined the true role of Reverend Moon. If they came here and saw our huge gathering today, half of them would have a heart attack! One rule that guides my life is that no matter how unpleasant a situation, if it will bring benefit to God and to humanity, I will not hesitate to go there, including the prison.</p>
<p>1984 was an extraordinary year for both God and Satan. They had an incredible showdown. Therefore I offered Heung Jin as a pure sacrifice on January 2. On July 20, I entered Danbury prison. There was so much debt to pay but now that debt is becoming cleared. Nobody else can pay that debt.</p>
<p>We have to give enough that Satan himself is satisfied. After the sacrifice of Heung Jin and my going into prison, Satan will say, &#8220;I have no more accusation. I am satisfied.&#8221; Thus the books will be closed. For Reverend Moon, who knows this truth, prison is not a prison. It is a way of achieving God&#8217;s will.</p>
<p>Our time of victory has come. No longer do we have to deal with &#8220;street people,&#8221; vagrants and spiritually strange people. Now we are going to be working with ministers, lawyers, leaders of government, professors and university presidents. All of you will be standing behind me. Those Christian ministers and such will be standing behind you. You are the ones in the Abel position to those people; therefore, you are the ones who take the initiative. You provide the leadership.</p>
<p>How can you link yourself to at least 120 Christian ministers this year? Jesus Christ needed 120 disciples to unite with him and because they did not, the crucifixion was inevitable. But once you link together 120 ministers behind you, nothing is impossible.</p>
<p>I want you to understand that at the end of World War 11 in 1945, I declared the 40-year course. That 40-year course is culminating this year. Furthermore, independence came to Korea in 1948. Likewise the new Israel came into being in 1948. From the two Israels, the 40 year course will be consummated in 1988.</p>
<p>Korea has a unique opportunity now to advance on the world level. Likewise the United States is at a very important juncture and has to learn how to deal with Red China and the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon, all by himself, has prepared certain measures that will prevent catastrophe. We will organize and train Christian ministers all over the country. By my going to Danbury, such great opportunity has been created.</p>
<p>Even if those ministers know the Bible by heart, they do not know the heart of the Bible if they do not know Divine Principle. That is why I am giving them the videotapes. When I come out of the prison, I will go around the country to meet ministers. Likewise I will go to universities and speak. By then they will know the truth about Reverend Moon.</p>
<p>You are committing yourselves to go beyond 1985, beyond all the difficulties of the family, and educate 120 ministers. By doing so, all these things I have been describing will become a reality. From now on, you don&#8217;t have to pay the indemnity; I have already paid it. All you have to do is harvest. Then by the year 1987, I won&#8217;t have to remain in this country. I want to go back to North Korea, the place of my birth. I would like to do my home church work there.</p>
<p>Those of you who say, &#8220;We will follow your instructions. We are going to reach 120 ministers in the year of 1985,&#8221; raise your hands please. Amen!</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">April 7, 1985<br />
World Mission Center<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>You make me feel very good today. Everybody looks young and bright. Today is the celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of Parents&#8217; Day and the twenty-sixth return of this holiday. Actually, Parents&#8217; Day falls on April 20 this year, but because of various circumstances we are gathered here today to celebrate it.</p>
<p>There are many organizations and churches in the world, but there is only one Unification Church. The teachings we follow are deep and profound and the things that we do are also quite deep and profound. The Unification Church has an aspect of mystery to it. For that reason, unless one actually joins the Church, he cannot fully understand it. We have our own unique celebrations and holidays based on the different aspects of our understanding of the universe and of God; an example is Parents&#8217; Day.</p>
<p>Most ordinary people do not seek or require a great deal of depth or universal significance in their beliefs. They do not usually worry about the salvation of the world, but rather they are more concerned about their own salvation, their own little &#8220;cubbyhole&#8221; upstairs. That is the self-centered attitude toward salvation. Another common belief is that salvation can come only by following one&#8217;s own particular creed or doctrines.</p>
<p>Different religions seek salvation in different ways; Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam are trying to give the world a certain manner or way of salvation. They each look at God from their own point of view. What about the Unification Church? The Unification Church believes in a God who is the God of the universe, the God of all people. We are trying to bring together all religions into one common understanding of that universal God, into one universal faith.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say there is a mountain, like the one I have drawn on the blackboard. There are many different people climbing that mountain and many different ways to get to the pinnacle. While they are climbing, the people do not see any other ways to get to the top. But once everyone arrives at the top, they say, &#8220;Oh, these other people are here, too. They were seeking the same goal as we were.&#8221; When everybody reaches the top goal, centering on God, all humanity will arrive at the same destination. Therefore while we are striving for the pinnacle, we must try to embrace and unite with each other.</p>
<p>Everybody wants to claim that his religion is the closest one to God. For instance, established Christianity or Islam or Buddhism try to claim the closest position to God. However the time will definitely come when we all arrive at the pinnacle and meet each other.</p>
<p>Human beings fell from their original position; from that point the journey of humanity began and it has continued to this day. That journey is destined to arrive at its ultimate terminal. When humanity arrives at that terminal, everyone will realize that all people have a common destiny. Then the question arises: are there several different kinds of salvation, or only one? If anybody thinks there is more than one kind of salvation, he is denying the unique and absolute nature of almighty God. If God indeed exists as the Creator of all, then He must have one ideal, one purpose of creation, not two or three. Thus He has absolutely one, and only one, plan of salvation and one purpose, one goal.</p>
<p>If you ask most religious people, &#8220;How many purposes of salvation does God have?&#8221; they will not be able to answer. Not only that, they will not expect to hear such a question. Most people have never thought about such a thing. However, there is one God, one purpose and one salvation. God has His own purpose, His own ideals, and therefore God has His own destination or goal to achieve. That is what we call His dispensation.</p>
<p>As far as God is concerned, there is only one purpose and one will to achieve but people can look at that will from many different levels. People can say there is the individual purpose, the family level purpose, the national level purpose and the purpose on the level of the world. Also different religions interpret God&#8217;s one will according to their own viewpoints: the Christian way; the Islamic way; the Buddhist way, for example.</p>
<p>If there is one God, one will, and one salvation, would the individual path be different from the family path or the national path? Would they all go in different directions or should they all go in one direction? When we come to the final destination, the mountain top, then we can see whether the dispensation level is based on the individual, the family, tribe, nation, or world, centered upon the same axis. The circle gets bigger and bigger, but the center is always the same.</p>
<p>We might draw a diagram representing this. You can see that different sizes of circles can be drawn, but they always share the same central point so many different circles can surround the same center. If God exists, then He must be at the center point. We can draw a line representing the vertical line from God down to the earth. Everything shares the same vertical line, the same axis. The individual is represented by a small circle while the world is a large circle, but they have the same axis coming down from God to the earth.</p>
<p>Since God is in the center coming down in spirit to the earth, that line is a straight vertical line. God is at the top position and man is in the lower position. But then you can draw a horizontal line intersecting that vertical line at a 90 degree angle. On a graph, you would have four 90 degree angles, making a total of 360 degrees. In that case, God would be on the right and man on the left. There is always a complementary, subject/object relationship-either vertically or horizontally.</p>
<p>With that one vertical line and one horizontal line, you can draw circles. The individual level is represented by a small circle; the family level is a larger circle; then the tribe, nation, and world are larger and larger circles. Within the dispensation of God are contained the salvation of the individual, family, nation, and world. That is reflected in the actual happenings here on earth. The same thing on the vertical level is true on the horizontal level.</p>
<p>When we have lots of different and complicated kinds of circles all over the place, where should their center be? Should it be way up in the sky, or what? And what do you think, should the overall form be like a square, or a perfect circle, or what? The circle is always an ideal shape. All the actions of the different size circles should come together and create a larger circle. When the horizontal line comes to its limit, it has to turn around in a circular motion; it cannot just shoot backwards.</p>
<p>In the movement of the heavenly bodies, for example the solar system, there is a certain pulling and pushing force that creates a harmonious circular motion. Scientifically speaking, the ideal motion is circular because that is a permanent, perpetual motion. Therefore, everything that moves in the universe is trying to achieve that circular motion.</p>
<p>God created many kinds of motion and dispenses many types of energy. What is the most powerful form of energy that God dispenses, besides the power of love? There is the power of life, or the maintenance of existence. What else is a form of God&#8217;s energy? There is a certain energy to pursue the ideal; that is another form of power. People continually aspire to find something better; we always pursue goodness, moving toward absolute goodness. Even when we reach absolute goodness, we don&#8217;t want to come down from it; we want to continue in that absolute state forever.</p>
<p>Thus God has these types of power: the power of ideal, the power of existence, and the power of love. Among all these powers, which do you think is the central power, the core of God&#8217;s energy? It is the power of love. What is the difference between true love and not-so-true love? Basically everybody is pursuing love. A young person will say, &#8220;I am in love. I would give up my life in order to achieve the fulfillment of that love.&#8221; But the question is, is that person pursuing true love or another kind, a not-so-true love? We have to ask that question. What is the quality of love that a person is pursuing?</p>
<p>What is the definition of true love? First of all, in order to be truly loved, you need someone else with whom to have give and take. You cannot be in love all by yourself. This principle applies even to God. God cannot derive joy from love when He is all by Himself. God doesn&#8217;t sit on His throne and say, &#8220;I am almighty and I am enjoying absolute love.&#8221; No matter how hard He might try to be happy all by Himself, He couldn&#8217;t find happiness. If God didn&#8217;t need an object, would He be a normal or an abnormal God? He would be abnormal, even a crazy God. The normal way is to need an object; if God did not feel the need for an object, He could not succeed. He would be a crazy God. Do you want the love of a crazy God? No, you want the normal, absolute and true love. Why is that?</p>
<p>In order for God to be the absolute God of true love, where should you be in relation to Him? You should be object to God, as your subject. Because God as a subject needs an object and without that object cannot fulfill His love, you are in the position to be the object of God&#8217;s love.</p>
<p>As we have said, God has different kinds of power, the power of existence, the power of ideal, and the power of love. Are these three powers going in different directions, or shouldn&#8217;t they be harmonized and pursuing one common direction? Who determines their purpose? I want you to understand that in order for God&#8217;s power of existence to have meaning, it must have a center, a common purpose, a goal. That should be the ideal. Where can we can we find that ideal state, in terms of existence and this ideal power? It can be found in true love. Therefore, love determines the goal, the purpose; love is the center.</p>
<p>When you are sincerely pursuing the goal of true love, even though you may be living all by yourself, all things will come and fulfill you. For example, if a husband and wife must live separately but they have a common purpose and ideal in fulfilling their love in their relationship, they can always feel that someone loves them. They can feel an exhilaration because of that.</p>
<p>Even the energy of existence is always saying, &#8220;I want to exist for some purpose.&#8221; The energy of existence must have some motivation and that motivation must come from love. Furthermore, the energy to seek the ideal must also have a certain motivation, a certain desire to perpetuate itself for eternity. What will ignite or provide such a motivation? What will give you such a central purpose? It is only true love that can give such incredible power of motivation.</p>
<p>Happiness cannot come until one&#8217;s existence and ideal meets with the permanent ideal of true love. Then you are in a position of object so that you can have permanent give and take with the permanent subject, in terms of true love. That alone can engender happiness for every man and woman. You recognize the absolute Being as the subject who has an absolute purpose for existence. The purpose for the ideal, and then when you make yourself the object to that entity, you can truly talk about happiness.</p>
<p>Even the ideal, absolute God needs an object in order to fulfill His ideal purpose. He cannot fulfill His joy without an object. Thus He had to either go out and find His object or create one. Do you think God has a shopping center in which He could buy an object for His love? What about this-suppose there were two Gods, one to play the role of object and the other the role of subject. How about that? If that were the case, there would be two Pluses in the universe. Plus repels plus, so there could not be harmony and unity unless one God were the minus God, or the object God. Thus, what God needs is a minus God and since He has no shopping center to buy such a thing, He decided that since He was almighty, He would create His own. That is what almighty God determined to do. The creation is none other than God&#8217;s effort to create for Himself a minus God with whom to have a relationship.</p>
<p>Which is plus in the terrain: the tall mountain or the valley? It is the mountain. Harmony is the key word. Harmony cannot be created with just flat terrain. You need both the valley and the mountain. Likewise, when a person dances, one arm moves in one direction while the other arm moves in a complementary direction. Rhythm gives harmony; one is up and the other is down, one is front and the other is rear. Harmony creates joy.</p>
<p>What about you women? You are created to be in the position of minus. Why is that? Do you have some philosophical reason for it? I have already given you the answer: it is for the sake of harmony and oneness. If everybody and everything were identical, men and women, God and human beings, and so forth, there would be no harmony and no joy. There must be up and down, there must be differences between plus and minus in order to create harmony.</p>
<p>What about two extremely beautiful women having a loving relationship with each other, touching each other&#8217;s hands and so forth? Is it natural for two women to say, &#8220;We have so much in common. Your hands are soft and so are mine. Your skin is like silk and so is mine. Your voice is high and soprano and so is mine. That is why we are in harmony and we should love each other.&#8221; Is that true? No, it isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Harmony in the human body comes with the combination of flesh and bone. Flesh is soft and bone is hard. Absolute harmony engenders absolute oneness. In order to create harmony you must bring together contrasting components and unite them. That is why God created male and female with their own special characteristics. Men are supposed to be masculine and women are supposed to be feminine. When two hard objects come together and clash, what happens? Both objects can be shattered into pieces. However, when one soft and one hard entity come together, they wrap around each other. The part that wraps around on the outside is the soft minus part, while the part that goes inside, like the bones, is the hard masculine part. That is the universal formula. We cannot change that. Everything has to follow that law, even if you may not like it.</p>
<p>Now we shall get back to our main theme. God, in an effort to fulfill His position as plus, needed to create what we might call His minus God, which is men and women. Once He created that minus God, they turned out to be very greedy! They wanted to completely possess their plus God. What about you, do you have that greediness? All together, men and women are in the position of minus God. That is the way God created us. Therefore we are in the position of soft ground, like a soft field of love, where the hard center of love can impact. We are supposed to wrap around God.</p>
<p>Within God there is an internal character; He has both male and female character within Him. Basically, within the essentiality of God there is the subject portion and the object portion, the plus portion and the minus portion- internal character and external form, as you all know. These all harmonize and create one giant Plus character. By the same token, within the human world, there must be a subject character and an object character, a plus character and a minus character, an internal character and an external form. When these come together, they create a great minus for that great Plus.</p>
<p>Human beings have the duty to reflect God&#8217;s image in perfection. So within mankind, there is the plus aspect- men-and the minus aspect-women. Therefore, men are in the subject position and women are in the object position. That is the natural order. In order to imitate God. we must relate in that way and create harmony. Women are destined to be the object. No matter how beautiful a woman you might be, you must search after your subject of love. Even if that man is ugly, the object needs its subject, according to God&#8217;s concept. Thus a contrast might exist-one might be absolutely beautiful and the other absolutely ugly. What do you American women say to that?</p>
<p>The perverted love between people of the same sex is never a true love; such relationships were never supposed to exist, according to God&#8217;s thinking. We must create an ideal formula that will live up to God&#8217;s expectations. That is the duty and responsibility of human beings. The ultimate destiny of man is to receive the love of God. our ultimate subject. In order to reach the love of God, we must come together as plus and minus. This is why men need women and women need men: so that together we can create the harmony with which we can reach the love of God. That is the entire purpose of creation.</p>
<p>The horizontal line exists only because of the vertical line; it provides a place for the vertical line to come down and intersect. The man&#8217;s position and the woman&#8217;s position are far apart and they want to meet each other. Therefore, they have to meet in the center. There may be a lot of squabbles and fights but then when they meet at the center, true love unites them and melts them together. The desire for true love brings men and women together; no other power can bring them together. You get excited when you are ignited by true love.</p>
<p>God is like a guiding system for men and women, who are like missiles. He has to push them and guide them, &#8220;Your direction needs to change 50 degrees this way. You woman, you must move 10 degrees this way. Now come closer.&#8221; Finally they meet and they create a tremendous explosion, but it is not a destructive explosion; it is an explosion of love. That impact is the greatest of all. When the plus and minus come together, they need certain protection; otherwise they will be shattered into pieces. That is when God comes down. When men and women impact, they would be shattered if they didn&#8217;t have God as their cushion. God gets squeezed in between the two. Not only that, God Himself is ignited with true love. Once God is ignited in that way, there is no limit to the action that can take place.</p>
<p>When God is squeezed by the true love of men and women, does He cry, &#8220;Ouch! I must run away!&#8221;&#8216;? Or wouldn&#8217;t He feel intoxicated with joy&#8217;? When God is wrapped around by the true love of men and women, everybody in that embrace is permanently welded together -God, man, and woman. They never want to leave each other. God feels, &#8220;How wonderful are man and woman!&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, in this sense, man can educate God because with that experience, God can know the impact of true love for the first time. Even though God is almighty, you can say to Him, &#8220;You cannot be fulfilled without us.&#8221; And God will say, &#8220;I have learned a lesson from you! I have seen that true love is even mightier than I am! True love can do something that I could not do.&#8221; But that will not cause any unhappiness for God; it will make Him totally joyful. God will have found the state of joy that He has always been seeking. Once He finds the reality of His true love He can say, &#8220;Now I have become truly almighty, having fulfilled perfection and the purpose of creation. I feel my accomplishment fully.&#8221;</p>
<p>Such a fulfillment of God&#8217;s true love never happened before in the entire history of creation. Why is that&#8217;? Men and women were supposed to return that true love to God but they fell. Since the fall of Adam and Eve, men and women have not been restored. That is the reason God never before came close to fulfilling His true love in the manner we have described it. Therefore, God has never fulfilled His true love through His creation. The world became satanic, completely filled with untrue, self centered love. Thus, God&#8217;s purpose has been to restore the original state of joy.</p>
<p>There is an incredible amount of dirtiness in mankind. We might say there is a lot of laundry to do. For that reason, God has been washing and washing the dirty linen of mankind throughout human history. The stains are so severe that a simple washing cannot suffice. God has had to unthread the fabric and reweave it with new threads. Thus God needs a factory in which He can do this remaking work. Making mankind whole has been the work of religion throughout history. We could call religion the tool of God, almost like a laundry factory. However, so tar no factory has been complete.</p>
<p>Each religion has been working on a different part of man. Symbolically, one religion might be redoing the right leg portion; another religion might be redoing the left leg; another religion might be doing the arms; another doing the ears; another doing the eyes, nose, and so forth. This is how the whole process of remaking was divided into different religions. All this time each religion has been working independently, without any interrelationship. Thus the left leg religion or the right leg religion thought they were the complete religion. But now the final days have come, and it is time for the complete religion to emerge.</p>
<p>So far in history, there has been great separation between the black and white people of the world. The white people have been in a position like the top of the mountain while the black people have been like the valley. God wanted that distinction between white and black until the time when the Messiah should come, so He allowed the two groups of people to go their individual ways in order to perfect their particular characteristics. But once the Messiah comes, he can bring them together into one beautiful, harmonious relationship. When there is a division between white and black, where would God place the axis or the center line? Of course, the center line is a horizontal line, in between. When the time comes, everybody will move toward that central horizontal line, which is the line of harmony. They will seek that line of harmony.</p>
<p>The world of God is a world of rhythm, so the white people should be able to come down and cross that central line and experience the valley. Then they should be able to recross the central line and go up again to the mountain. Therefore, the white people have to be prepared to come down; the black people have to be prepared to go up. This is the only way the ideal of harmony can be achieved. Oneness between black and white occurs at the point of that horizontal line. That is the meeting ground; the place for unity. This principle refers not just to the black and white relationship, but it can be expanded to all other relationships, such as Oriental and Western.</p>
<p>When this meeting takes place, the vertical line comes down from heaven and the center point is created. The Bible says that a person should be like a child in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven because this is when a childlike mind is necessary. A white person goes down, a black person goes up and they see each other as brothers and sisters, members of the same family, loving partners. They can weep and laugh together; they can eat together and share everything. The best way to achieve harmony between black and white would be to have a black and a white baby sucking at the breasts of the same mother.</p>
<p>In order to create such a total, beautiful love atmosphere, True Parents are needed. Only through the infusion of parental love can the ideal be realized. Thus the Messiah must come in the position of a True Parent. This is most crucial. Without this basic, fundamental structure of love coming down from heaven, there is no way to create harmony between such groups as black and white.</p>
<p>Looking at religions like factories for the recreation of true human beings, how can they transform people into truly loving human beings? It is only if people are fed by the milk of love from True Parents. That love has the power to transform the most beastly person into a true man or woman.</p>
<p>In a way, the Unification Church can be described as the final remaking factory for human beings. Thus when people first come here, they will be given rough treatment, like raw material, because you have to be divided into pieces; you have to give up your former self. Then you are fed by the milk of True Parents&#8217; love for the first time in your life. Ultimately, a new person will emerge. This is almost like a beast being transformed into a new human being. This is what the Unification Church is all about.</p>
<p>The restoration of love is the central task for the Unification Church because that is where mankind went wrong. God gave Adam and Eve the commandment: &#8220;You can eat of all the trees, but do not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.&#8221; Today&#8217;s established Christian churches do not understand that that fruit represents love. God asked Adam and Eve to maintain their purity until such time as He gave them the Blessing. When they broke that commandment, the fallen generations began.</p>
<p>Men and women were originally intended to be the princes and princesses of God, His own sons and daughters. But what happened? Man joined with Satan; ultimately mankind became a part of the satanic lineage. This is the reason Jesus said, &#8220;You brood of vipers. You want satanic love instead of heavenly love.&#8221; That is why people have had to shed their blood in order to cleanse it, and that is why the history of Christianity has been a history of suffering and martyrdom.</p>
<p>We need the final phase of the process of remaking people into whole people. The stained blood lineage of Satan must be cleaned up by that process. You have to know clearly what is the responsibility of the Unification Church: we must liberate mankind and God with true love.</p>
<p>Therefore, the greatest of all revolutions has been ignited by Reverend Moon. He is teaching the way to eliminate man&#8217;s satanic lineage and restore the heavenly lineage. But of course Satan does not want Reverend Moon to succeed; the satanic world hates Reverend Moon and thus they put him into jail in Danbury. It is quite an irony that I had to come out of prison in order to speak to you on Parents&#8217; Day. They thought that by putting Reverend Moon into Danbury they would finish him and the Unification movement. But on the contrary, I have been using Danbury as my heavenly weapon to facilitate our progress. A great victory has already been won through Danbury. Danbury has been a powerful weapon for God. Now God is directing mankind to the new way of salvation. This new way of salvation requires the unity of Cain and Abel.</p>
<p>Where should we go? In the original concept, God and the archangel, Cain and Abel, and Adam and Eve were all supposed to be united. But instead they became divided against each other and enemies, because of the fall. The Cain and Abel struggle has grown now to the worldwide level, with the free world representing the Abel camp and the communist world representing the Cain camp. The central nation in the free world is the United States of America; within the United States, Christianity is in the Abel position and the government is in the Cain position, virtually trying to exterminate Christianity. This is happening because these are the Last Days.</p>
<p>Unless Cain and Abel arc united, there is no way for humanity to return to the True Parents&#8217; ideal. Therefore, what is happening in our world today&#8217;? All the barriers on every level-religious barriers, national barriers, racial and cultural barriers-are being torn down. Thus people can more easily communicate and become one. Satan knows that we are approaching the final stages of restoration and therefore he is administering his final blows through the destruction of love. Love has become extremely degraded and perverted. Free sex is completely opposed to God&#8217;s morality and that is one way Satan is trying to block God&#8217;s dispensation. Knowing that this is the time of total destruction of the love tradition of the world, the Messiah is pursuing this most crucial aspect of recreation. The Unification Church and Reverend Moon have been trying to accomplish the restoration of true love within this society.</p>
<p>There is a certain order and discipline which God is trying to restore. For example the relationship between men and women, especially here in America, has been confused. But in God&#8217;s world there is no confusion. Man is in the position of subject and woman is in the position of object. This is a universal truth.</p>
<p>Both men and women are necessary in God&#8217;s creation; it is like a cosmic miracle. If there were no women or no men, humanity could not continue. Marriage within the Unification Church has an extraordinary meaning. A man represents the plus part of the universe; a woman represents the minus part of the universe. When God brings them together into harmony, the fulfillment of His joy can come about. The mass weddings of the Unification Church are guided by this particular philosophy and purpose.</p>
<p>When a man and woman come together in love, a tremendous universal spark is created but that spark requires the input of God. Human love alone is like the horizontal light, the simple light. When man&#8217;s love combines with woman&#8217;s love, it creates a base for the vertical love to come down and hit that horizontal love. Then it is like a rainbow of light and spreads all over the world. Everything in creation will open its mouth and joyfully welcome that light, crying, &#8220;Oh! Come into me, beautiful light!&#8221; Only that perfect light can fill up everything, everywhere.</p>
<p>Love is precious but no one has truly known how precious until Reverend Moon came. Love is something we cannot buy even with the whole universe. People never knew that the proper cosmic beginning could not be made. That proper beginning had to be centered upon the love of the ideal man and woman. Through Reverend Moon, this secret was revealed in detail and Moonies came to be convinced of its validity. That&#8217;s why the Moonies can be so strong and brave.</p>
<p>Wherever true love goes, it causes recreation and transformation. No matter which continent it touches- Africa, South America, Asia-it does the same thing. Therefore, the Unification Church is bringing rebirth and regeneration to humanity. Without experiencing true love here on earth, no one is allowed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world. For that reason, the Kingdom of Heaven has been empty until now. The keys to that Kingdom were given to Peter while here on earth.</p>
<p>The entire teaching of the Bible is centered upon one key point: the fulfillment of true love. Jesus came to expound on true love. True love can never be possible here on earth unless True Parents are here. This is a key truth. The fulfillment of true love means the fulfillment of the ideal of the True Parents here on earth.</p>
<p>The Bible teaches that in the Last Days the bridegroom and bride must come. That means the basic contents of the Bible require the restoration of the original love place. The Bible teaches that in the Garden of Eden, there were two trees, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. Established Christianity has not understood clearly what these two trees symbolize, but we know that they symbolize ideal men and women and father and mother-the parents.</p>
<p>At the time of the Exodus, when Moses was leading his people through the wilderness, they were guided during the day by a pillar of smoke and by night by a pillar of fire. These pillars symbolized the True Parents, the father and mother who would come to lead humanity to the promised land. Furthermore, when Moses went up to the top of Mount Sinai and received the Ten Commandments, they were inscribed on two tablets of stone. Why were there two tablets? They symbolized the father and mother, the True Parents, the full embodiment of the word of God.</p>
<p>The dispensation for that time, the time of Moses and the Exodus, was parallel to and symbolic of this time of the True Parents. For example, they had a tabernacle and they carried the tablets of the Ten Commandments inside of it. That tabernacle represents the temple of God and within that temple were the symbols of the True Parents. There was also the manna that came down from heaven, by which God fed the people. Moses used his staff to guide them along their way. That is symbolic of heaven and earth coming together-man and the things of nature coming together.</p>
<p>The Exodus of Moses was symbolic of the course of the True Parents. God knows that the only way to fulfill His dispensation is through the True Parents. Thus Moses&#8217; course was like a symbolic teaching for humanity, so that they could be prepared for the coming of the Messiah. Of course, the Messiah they were looking for at that time was to be Jesus. God educated the Israelites in that fashion so that they would be ready for the advent of the Messiah, Jesus, who was supposed to fulfill the ideal of True Parents.</p>
<p>As God taught during the time of Moses, absolute faith and obedience were necessary ingredients for the fulfillment of the Messiah&#8217;s goal. But that faith and obedience were not exhibited at the time of Jesus and thus everything was destroyed. The ideal of True Parents was not fulfilled and only spiritual salvation was possible. Since physical salvation could not happen, the Messiah had to come again; that is the Second Advent. It was the tragedy of humanity that we had to wait for the Second Coming.</p>
<p>Who is Satan? He is the criminal who stole love away from God; he became the enemy of God&#8217;s love. Therefore, for that crime there can be no compassion, no forgiveness. The fundamental point of the battle within our society is the struggle for love. Satan is trying to pervert love and make it his, while God is trying to restore love into its heavenly and pure state.</p>
<p>If anybody is proud of himself, then I want to ask him to ask God about himself. God will say, &#8220;You cannot be proud of yourself. You were born of satanic lineage.&#8221; Reverend Moon is not a mediocre and compromising man. God needs people like Reverend Moon because I am absolutely committed to His work. Many people might say that I am too harsh or too strong, but that is the prescription this world needs. People come into the Unification Church with spiritual stains on them and Reverend Moon takes them and pounds and pounds on them until they turn into pure, clean seed.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has tested this formula and it works. We can use ginseng extract as an example. The roots of ginseng are white, while its extract is black and has mysterious power. That is like black people, who have spiritual power. Black and white combine into one and what results? Together they restore the white color.</p>
<p>There are many holidays which people celebrate, but there has never been a day with universal value, representing the central theme of the universe, until Parents&#8217; Day was proclaimed. There are many different days that people can commemorate, such as their anniversaries or special days of happiness; also, there are memorable days for a nation. But until this time, God has not had His own special days to remember. You have to think about that. God doesn&#8217;t have happy days to remember. Until now, God has agonized throughout history.</p>
<p>Originally God created man but the result was fallen people. From that point on, there were no more real men; that is why God started His recreation, His history of restoration. God wants to meet that kind of real man; He is looking to celebrate such days as Real Man Day. Real Woman Day, Real Couples Day. He is looking for the people who can combine human love and God&#8217;s love and then multiply to the family, tribe, nation, world and universe. Where can we meet this kind of person? God has been working on this throughout history. No one has understood God&#8217;s situation. There have been many philosophers on earth but they have never been able to understand the meaning of history; they have made up a lot of complicated theories.</p>
<p>I have not received this understanding by my own power or by the power of armaments&#8217; but only with true love power. I have been finding disciples one by one. You have to know how much agony and how many tears are behind this Divine Principle. I have gone to jail six times; it will be almost five years all together. I am not a bad person. I know very well the pain and difficulties up to this point but you don&#8217;t know them. Now people can understand the Divine Principle doctrine given to them from God. This is a priceless gift.</p>
<p>You must come to realize what a precious gift you have, in terms of the Principle, the truth you have found through the teaching of Reverend Moon. It is so precious that once you realize its value, you cannot simply stand still. You should be virtually knocked over by it, thrown into a faint. That is the kind of gift you have received. Also you must know how much the True Father suffered to dig out that truth for the sake of humanity. You are the first recipients of that truth. You have to come to the realization that you are not living a normal kind of life, compared with other men and women. You are in an extraordinary, blessed position.</p>
<p>Through the word of God, you met the person in whom that truth is embodied. In this case, it is Reverend Moon. Through the personification of that truth, where would you go next? Your next goal is God, your ultimate destination. You must find and grab onto God. Also, every person is destined to one day become a personification of true love. But how do you really experience true love? The woman will find it through a true man, her husband; but first she has to help her husband become a true man. Then husband and wife can share true love and together become true parents.</p>
<p>But which level of true parents do you want to reach: the individual level, the family, tribal, national, worldwide or cosmic level? The level of cosmic true parents is the best. Have you loved humanity and the universe with the cosmic level of true love? The smaller levels of love are absorbed by the larger levels: the individual love will be integrated into the family level; the family into the tribe; the tribe into the nation. True love for the country can be fused into true love for the world; true love for the world will be absorbed by true love for the universe.</p>
<p>You might declare to Satan, &#8220;You cannot compete with the quality of true love that we practice:&#8217; but Satan will laugh and say, &#8220;Are you so proud of your true love?&#8221; Further, he will say &#8220;People in the secular world celebrate their birthdays; they have parties for that purpose. What about you who regard yourselves as godly people? What is the day of your birth?&#8221; You will say, &#8220;My birthday is such and such a day.&#8221; Then Satan can say, &#8220;On that day, your parents gave you birth, didn&#8217;t they? Those parents are fallen people, so that birthday is mine, not yours, because you come out of my own lineage.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also, Satan will ask you, &#8220;Do you have a day on which you can celebrate your dominion over all the things of creation? Is there a day on which you were given stewardship over all things?&#8221; Even though you may consider yourself godly, you cannot say yes to that. But Satan can say, &#8220;Look, all this is mine. I can claim them and I can use everything. It is all under my domain.&#8221;</p>
<p>The established Christian churches cannot say, &#8220;The world is ours. Yes, we have a true birthday and we have true parents.&#8221; But Satan will say, &#8220;I claim all the nations around the world. That is my sovereignty. Where is yours?&#8221; Satan will even go to God with the question, &#8220;Do those people have their own nation?&#8221; The Christian world cannot give an answer to that. Satan will say, &#8220;I have Hell under my domain; I can put people into Hell. But what about you&#8217;? Where is your domain and your people?&#8221;</p>
<p>You godly people can be further confronted by Satan, who will say, &#8220;What have you accomplished? How have you succeeded&#8217;? Show me what you have done in this society.&#8221; He will say further, &#8220;Everything is in my power and under my domain. I have great loyalty from people. There are many people who have died because of their loyalty to my power. Where are the people who are giving their lives in loyalty to God? Where are those who receive decorations for such deeds?&#8221;</p>
<p>America is supposed to be one nation under God; that is the noble concept under which it was begun. But where is today&#8217;s America&#8217;? This country is centered upon material values and that is Satan&#8217;s domain. Virtually all of society is being influenced by moral degradation; drugs are rampant; free sex and homosexuality are commonplace. This is the basic reason why one Christian nation after another has fallen into the hands of communism. Where is the power of Christianity today? Satan laughs at God, &#8220;All right, God, show me where is Your country, where are Your people&#8217;? I know You created this world to the realization of the Kingdom of God on earth; and You said You were going to restore it and bring it to that ideal. But where is it being restored&#8217;?&#8221;</p>
<p>What is the day of judgment? It is the final showdown between Satan and God. It is the time when Satan will show all his cards and God will do the same. God must prepare so that when Satan shows his joker or his ace, God can pull out His card-true men and women. Then Satan will be stunned and say, &#8220;Oh, I didn&#8217;t expect that!&#8221; He will begin to retreat at that point.</p>
<p>Satan can show how he has destroyed family after family through his power, then he will challenge God, &#8220;Where are the families under your power?&#8221; Satan has completely divided the world-all the races, everyone and created chaos and contusion. He is triumphantly saying, &#8220;God, where is Your world&#8217;!&#8221; Don&#8217;t you think God needs a winning card to challenge Satan&#8217;s trump? Don&#8217;t you think God wants to have that kind of super trump card?</p>
<p>As soon as Satan sees God&#8217;s super trump cards, he will say, &#8220;Oh, no, those aren&#8217;t the right kinds of cards. You are trying to play a different game!&#8221; But God will say, &#8220;Yes, they are two different cards. My cards are the cards that will save the world. But your cards are selfish cards; you only worry about your well-being at the sacrifice of others.&#8221; And for the first time, Satan will come to realize that there is no match between him and God because their cards are entirely different. Satan has to admit that he is one of the created beings of God, and he is the one who has fallen. God will say to him, &#8220;Who are you, after all?&#8221;</p>
<p>Those who are working only for their own well-being, whether individuals, families, or nations, will become Satan&#8217;s trump cards. They will never become God&#8217;s super trump cards. When God displays His unselfish cards, Satan&#8217;s cards will be blown away, completely scattered. In the beginning of this card game between God and Satan, Satan had ownership of all the chips-the whole world of creation and humanity were in Satan&#8217;s camp.</p>
<p>Satan will show his cards first and then demand to see God&#8217;s. God will say, &#8220;Let me see your cards. Well, that card is self-centered and only worried about himself, trying to sacrifice everyone else for his own benefit. I see now very clearly that your cards are evil and fallen. In fact, they are not real cards; they are imitation. My cards are true cards. Isn&#8217;t that correct?&#8221; Even Satan will have to admit it and say, &#8220;Yes, you are right, God.&#8221;</p>
<p>What about the United States? is it God&#8217;s nation or Satan&#8217;s nation? It is under Satan&#8217;s domination. This whole world is under Satan&#8217;s domination. Thus people are born under Satan&#8217;s yoke; that is a fact. God lost everything to Satan; for that reason, there is no God&#8217;s day in the satanic world. There is no True Parents&#8217; Day; there have never been any true children walking on the earth and therefore they have no Children&#8217;s Day. There has been nothing that God could claim as His own. This is the great tragedy of God: He created everything, but then He lost everything. Where is God&#8217;s nation today in the Christian domain? Is God&#8217;s Day the day on which His beloved son was killed on the cross&#8217;?</p>
<p>Blind faith will not work. People cannot just believe, without any scientific evidence or verification. Today everybody tries to be scientific, except when it comes to the truth about God. As twentieth century men and women, how can we abandon science when we speak about God? Many people have respect for me simply because of the logic of my teachings. I have met many theologians who lack a fundamental understanding about God. Many philosophers totally change their concepts after one meeting with me. There is no way for scholars to go except toward the Divine Principle. Many times I have asked them questions and they could not answer.</p>
<p>What is the Unification Church? It is a new entity. It is the new trump card that God can use against Satan. Whatever cards Satan presents, this new card of God can wipe them out. What kind of cards are you? Do you have a number? Are you an ace, a king, jack, or what? You may have a special number, let&#8217;s say an MFT card. In order to move to another department, you can receive another Unification card. But I don&#8217;t want you to turn in your card for a satanic card. Our cards have a different backing; they are coated with true love. Satan doesn&#8217;t worry about the number so much; the most important thing is the true love coating because that is what will completely defeat him.</p>
<p>For the first time, we can celebrate God and His day. God&#8217;s Day alone would not be sufficient because God needs to have True Parents here on earth. Therefore, we must also have Parents&#8217; Day because that represents the victory of God here on earth. Without True Parents, there is no true love. Satan will say to you, &#8220;Do you have that kind of day? Show me your cards, then.&#8221; When you show your cards, at first they will not appear different from Satan&#8217;s cards; there are diamonds, hearts, and so forth. But when you turn them over, you will be able to show that they are coated with true love. Perhaps they aren&#8217;t completely covered, but if even one corner is coated, that will be good. Satan cannot digest that true love coating so he will draw back and retreat.</p>
<p>We have many unique celebrations in the Unification Church. Besides God&#8217;s Day and Parents&#8217; Day, we have Children&#8217;s Day, Day of All Things, Foundation Day, and others. Basically, the Unification Church is centered upon two things: God and His true love. God and His true love were never fulfilled here on earth until the True Parents were established. For that reason, the Parents&#8217; Day celebration is special. Based upon the true love of God, Parents&#8217; Day has been installed.</p>
<p>Upon the victory of the True Parents and Parents&#8217; Day, true children came into being and therefore Children&#8217;s Day came into being. Now the ownership of all things can be transferred to God and therefore the Day of All Things came into being. On that foundation, the Day of Family, the Day of the True Nation and the Day of the True World will come, even the Day of the True Cosmos. Satan says, &#8220;I have Evil Parents&#8217; Day, Evil Everything Day.&#8221; But God can say, &#8220;Look at Reverend Moon. How wonderful he is!&#8221;</p>
<p>Are you excited and inspired by what I am saying? What are you stimulated by? True love? Do you have true love? Show me. Have you been educated by Reverend Moon? What is true love? You say it is God-centered, True Parents centered and so forth, but in plain language, what is true love? I will give you the answer: True love has no end; it never gets boring. You want it to continue forever; you always want more. After a hundred years, you will still want to be with your beloved. There is no way you can lose interest in one another. That is true love.</p>
<p>There is no hell with such love; hell becomes heaven. There are no boundaries of time, either. In the love of God, there are no dirty or ugly places in the beloved. The love of God doesn&#8217;t change, even in the bathroom. Do you think that is true&#8217;? Today&#8217;s Christianity does not really understand true love. Every individual has his or her own most holy place. The man has his most holy place and the woman has her most holy place within their own temples, their physical bodies. That holy place is the sexual organs. That is why it is so important not to misuse that area and why the punishment is so incredibly severe when you misuse it.</p>
<p>Individuals have to worship that holy place. Satan is attacking sexual morality so strongly and encouraging illicit love because he is trying to destroy humanity in this way. Therefore, God must restore the holy places of men and women and make them truly holy. The Blessing of God blossoms through these holy places. The key to your holy place belongs to your spouse. The holy relationship between husband and wife is completely sacred and beautiful; it must be pure and it must be disciplined.</p>
<p>My own life has been full of suffering, particularly since I learned the overwhelming truth. I have been trying to live that truth and to do that, I have gone to the lowest, most miserable places in human society. Sometimes I have felt as if I were a prisoner of God, but God has always comforted me. While I was giving all my effort to set the tradition of true love, my youth passed away; now I am in my sixties.</p>
<p>Today I am celebrating Parents&#8217; Day as an inmate of a U.S. prison. America may be my enemy, the free world may be my enemy and the communist world may be my enemy, but I will not hate them. I must love America and love and forgive the American government. I will liberate the entire satanic world. This is the way of Reverend Moon, the way of True Parents.</p>
<p>Who has ever understood the heart of Jesus? Nobody has known the real purpose of Jesus the Messiah, who came to earth after long preparation. Followers of Jesus went to Rome and they inherited his sacrificial tradition. They have been expanding their realm around the world for 2,000 years. Directly after World War 11, Christianity became the dominant influence in the world. However, at that particular time the established Christian leaders of Korea and the Korean government failed to listen to Reverend Moon. For that reason, I embarked on a sojourn in the wilderness, starting in 1945. This year, 1985, is my fortieth year of life in the wilderness.</p>
<p>I knew I could not go back to my homeland without having a superior foundation. Therefore, when I was crossing the 38th parallel I pledged that I would return on the worldwide level. No matter what race you belong to, you should keep in mind that we are working to create our fatherland during these final three years by giving our very best. Now is the time of the final showdown. The final persecution has come by my being thrown into Danbury Prison.</p>
<p>This time is comparable to the time when the Israeli spies went into Canaan to analyze the situation there. When they came back, Joshua and Caleb were appointed the leaders into Canaan. Today I find myself in a land that has treated me like an enemy, and I am trying to restore my position here; at the same time, I am reconnoitering. At the time of Jesus&#8217; crucifixion, the goal of world physical salvation was impossible so only spiritual salvation was achieved through his great sacrifice on the Mount of Calvary. But today, at the &#8220;Mount of Danbury&#8221; I am regaining my own family, my own disciples, my own nation and people. The chosen nation of America and the free world will eventually turn to Danbury as the mount of resurrection, both physically and spiritually.</p>
<p>Since I have gone to Danbury prison, many significant historical events have taken place. Forty days after I entered prison, they had an open house there for the first time. Outsiders could come in and mingle with the prisoners and see what it was like. At that time, crowds of people came to visit. Most were not interested in the prison itself, but were trying to get a glimpse of Reverend Moon. After seventy days of my prison term, a dialogue was begun between North and South Korea. Some time later, Red China started to criticize Marxism and began to adopt free market economic policies. Furthermore, hundreds of ministers have been attending the seminars which our church is sponsoring and they have praised Reverend Moon as the &#8220;twentieth century prophet of America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, the United States government has taken the position of enemy to me as well as to God, but I have no animosity toward the government. I made a clear statement of forgiveness to the U.S. government. At the same time, I have been loving the American people more than ever, knowing that God loves and needs this country.</p>
<p>The one great power that tears me the most is the Soviet Union. They thought that once Reverend Moon went to jail, it would be the end of him and his church, but on the contrary, Reverend Moon is becoming much stronger. When I entered the prison, I was considered by the government as an enemy of America, or a controversial leader at best. But the Soviet leaders can clearly see that on the day when I come out of the prison, it will be as a hero and a champion fighting against communism. For that reason, who is the most threatened by me? It is the Soviet Union and international communism. Everyone else is joining with me more and more every day. Do you understand?</p>
<p>It was Satan&#8217;s plan to send me to jail but it was God&#8217;s plan to use that jail as a tool to win the greater victory. Prison is the worst possible internal hell on earth and I am winning the internal victory there. You are in the external hell, which is the fallen world. Therefore, you must win the external victory in order to be parallel with me and make oneness with me. I want you to understand the clear goal, as expressed in our motto for this year, &#8220;Creation and Building of the Fatherland&#8221;-God&#8217;s homeland here on earth. That is my goal and I am achieving the victory even in the worst possible hell on earth, the prison. You must win the same victory.</p>
<p>No matter what, I cannot feel any personal animosity toward America or the United States government. We cannot be defeated by Satan or by communism. For that reason, I must forgive the United States government and work with them, striving to embrace them. There are brothers and sisters who are now fighting and even dying in the Soviet Union and other satellite countries. They are becoming martyrs for the Unification movement. Therefore, we must be serious; not only that, we must have no complaint. The one who decides to give up his life for God and the True Parents&#8217; sake will find it.</p>
<p>This is eternal truth. God&#8217;s people should be willing to die for God&#8217;s sake; if they are willing to do that, God will find His Kingdom here on earth. When people are giving their lives, transcendent of culture or skin color for the sake of God&#8217;s Kingdom on earth, we shall find that Kingdom. Today, at the culmination of our celebration on Parents&#8217; Day, we must pledge to march forward toward the ultimate battleground for the final victory. That is the true meaning of this celebration. This is not just a day to be happy and merry. We have to recommit ourselves to that final goal.</p>
<p>In one hand, we must grasp the United States of America. In the other hand, we must grasp the Soviet Union and international communism. We must make a showdown and we shall be victorious. Remember, God is playing His extraordinary and final &#8220;card game&#8221; with Satan. God is holding onto one trump card: that is Reverend Moon and you. Let&#8217;s say that Reverend Moon is God&#8217;s ace card; you all represent the rest of the cards. Together, we will create God&#8217;s trump and win every round for God.</p>
<p>Therefore, there is no choice but to become united and totally committed. There are fifty two cards in a deck; we have all the cards we need for every eventuality, for every different direction. Can you say that you are a card in God&#8217;s hands? I want you to be the best cards; if not an ace then at least a seven, eight, nine or ten. Therefore, you have to be different from other people. Your eyes should have a different shine; your focus should be different. You should not focus on earthly, material things but on spiritual things instead. We have no time to just walk; we have to run. We can&#8217;t sit down and eat, we have to eat on the run. Every form of behavior should be different when you are a child of God. Tell yourself, &#8220;I am different because I am a child of God and I have True Parents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do you know how old I am? Am I 25? I feel like it; that is because of my purpose. I am constantly busy. I always yell at my own legs, &#8220;How can you be relaxed? There is no time!&#8221; If my body tries to lie down and rest, I say, &#8220;What are you doing? This is an emergency! How can you rest now?&#8221; I always battle with my own body, my arms, legs, eyes, and so forth.</p>
<p>Do you think Satan likes to see people trying to imitate Reverend Moon? Satan hates to see that. I voluntarily went to prison although I could have avoided it. There were many different things I could have done, besides returning to the United States. But I chose to go to prison for one purpose: for the sake of saving America, shaking up America and turning it toward goodness. Patriotism and the love of God have been lacking in this country and I want to revive those attitudes. There was only one way to do that: I went to prison to show myself as a person who loves America and to show how to love God. That is the only way to awaken America and now it is happening. Even though I am not a citizen of this country, I love it so much, Americans will become ashamed and will begin to love their own country more and also to love God.</p>
<p>What about you, are you a true American or a false American? Are there more of God&#8217;s Americans or Satan&#8217;s Americans in this country today? There has been very little patriotism in this country and the love of family, clan and society are severely lacking. Furthermore, drug abuse is almost out of control. Virtually ninety percent of young people are affected by the drug situation, even students in elementary school. Thousands of those young people lose their minds due to drugs. That is certainly not the effect of patriotism or the love of God. We are physicians with our own spiritual medicine. We have to give a special injection into the American body that will dissolve the poisonous effects of these drugs. We have to inject this nation with the love of country and the love of God.</p>
<p>I went to jail and some people thought, &#8220;Reverend Moon, you cannot influence those inmates.&#8221; But what happened? Reverend Moon went to the most hellish society of prison and the inmates there began to be transformed. Even though I cannot openly preach the Principle, the inmates are being transformed by their direct experiences with Reverend Moon and his way of life. I want you to understand that there is a special destiny for me to go at this time at Danbury and I will fulfill it. People have said it is impossible to restore America but I will bring a great awakening to this country. We will return great patriotism to America and great love of God, so that this nation will truly become God&#8217;s instrument to save the world.</p>
<p>Today for this Parents&#8217; Day celebration, I ask you to make a commitment to win your external battle as I have won my internal battle, and become extraordinary men and women. You will bring this nation to patriotism and the love of God and by doing so, you will bring salvation to the world. Those who pledge that to me on this Parents&#8217; Day, raise your hands and say, &#8220;I am like Joshua and Caleb, going into the land of Canaan. I will bring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and march forward to great victory.&#8221; Amen! Amen! Amen! God bless you!</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">REFLECTION OF 1986</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:26:06+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/reflection-of-1986.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:26:06+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">December 28, 1986<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Our slogan for the year of 1986 has been, <i>&#8220;The Creation and Building of the Fatherland.&#8221;</i> What is the fatherland of the Unification Church? Through the unification of the spirit world, one sovereignty, one nation shall be created on the face of the earth. Our fatherland, therefore, is one which has its center or root in the spirit world. The unified spirit world is the subject, and the extension of that unification is in a nation on the earth.</p>
<p>When we talk about the unification of the spirit world, we are talking about both the fallen spirit world and also that part which is centered upon the True Parents. Before the appearance of the True Parents, the spirit world was deeply divided among the different religions, affiliations, beliefs, cultures, and so forth. Now all those divisions can be healed. In spirit world there is the mainstream of God&#8217;s dispensation and the substream. The mainstream centered first upon Judaism, then Christianity, and now the Unification Church. There has been opposition between Judaism and Christianity and between Christianity and the Unification Church, but eventually they all must be united.</p>
<p>The Cain/Abel relationship exists on both the vertical and horizontal levels. For example, when Christianity emerged, it was in the position of Abel to Judaism in the Cain position. Now the Unification Church has emerged as the Abel to Christianity in the Cain position. The vertical dispensation seeks the unity of the Unification Church and Christianity. On the horizontal plane, the main focus of True Parents&#8217; dispensation is Christianity, but there are also many other religions. Christianity, in the Abel position, should be united with the other religions, who are in the Cain position.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the focus of the dispensation is for Christianity and the other religions to unite and elevate the rest of the world. The world is very secular, even pagan. The unity of the secular world in the Cain position, and the believing world in the Abel position is what we mean when we speak of the ultimate unification of the world. Only after the completion of that dispensation in spirit world is the unification of the physical world possible. Therefore, at the time of the Second Advent, people on earth who attend the Lord are in the Abel position, while those in the spirit world are in the Cain position and those two should be united.</p>
<p>Who shall bring such unification? As you know, nothing can be initiated in spirit world; it must begin on earth. Therefore, while the True Parents are present here on earth, the struggles between Cain and Abel and their subsequent unification must take place here. Without such unity on earth, there can be no succeeding accomplishment in the spirit world. This does not mean that the entire unification of the world on earth will come first and only thereafter in spirit world. What I mean is that the organization of unity begins on earth, centered on God and True Parents. Then the movement in spirit world can begin.</p>
<p>The dispensation process is now centered upon the Unification Church and True Parents. First of all, I had to initiate unification by achieving total unity between mind and body, based on God&#8217;s ideal of creation. Our environment is satanic, so it is as if our bodies were submerged in this fallen world. However, it is important to know that even in fallen circumstances one can find a pipeline leading directly to God. When a person is doing underwater snorkeling, he can breathe because he has a pipe above water. When the dispensation began, Satan tried to take away my pipeline so that I would drown. One must always unite with the spirit of God to escape becoming a victim of satanic surroundings; otherwise the environment will swallow you up and you will be finished. My physical body was surrounded by satanic elements in the environment trying to push me down. Such were the circumstances over which I prevailed. Starting with the pull of kinship from parents, brothers, sisters and relatives, Satan mobilized all his forces to try to stop me. As the ruler of this world, Satan ruthlessly attacked with all the power he could mobilize-including economic and social structures, and even nations.</p>
<p>Right after World War II, Satan finally moved the United States government and established Christianity to oppose the messianic movement. Ironically God had strengthened Christianity and the United States so that they could be the Abel forces to ward off opposition and defend the Messiah. But what happened instead? Tragically, Satan seized those forces for his own purposes and the United States and established Christianity failed God&#8217;s expectations. Instead of supporting the Messiah, they opposed him and eventually the four thousand year foundation crumbled completely. From 1945 on, instead of fulfilling God&#8217;s will, America and Christianity were opposing it.</p>
<p>The United Nations was a noble concept which should have been based upon the ideal of one world under God. But power in the United Nations was taken over by ungodly forces and it has never fulfilled God&#8217;s dispensational will; instead, it has been failing from its inception. God&#8217;s original mission for the UN was to help the victorious Allied nations, particularly the United States, Great Britain, and France, to embrace the defeated nations as brothers and unite as Cain and Abel on the worldwide level. Upon that foundation, the True Parents were to be welcomed. That did not happen, however, and Christianity, America, and the free world opposed the messianic movement. Therefore, God&#8217;s beautiful dispensational plan was stillborn and could not come to fruition.</p>
<p>Because the previous 4000-year foundation was demolished, I had to rebuild it in the face of incredible rejection and persecution. Such misery was the history of the Unification Church for forty years, since 1945. Originally, after the victory of World War II, the United States, Great Britain and France were to have emerged as the Adam, Eve, and archangel nations, respectively. Opposition to the coming of the Lord forced this original plan to be reorganized. Thereafter Korea became the Adam nation, Japan became the Eve nation, and the United States became the archangel nation.</p>
<p>Why was Japan assigned as the Eve nation? There are significant parallels between Japan and Great Britain, including the fact that both are island nations. Great Britain is the mother of the United States-Eve&#8217;s role. During the roughly 40 years that Japan governed Korea, the True Father was born there. Japan was thus in the position of a mother who gave birth to a son, Korea, so the role of Eve came to Japan. She assumed an adversary position at the beginning by mistreating her son. During World War II, Japan further opposed worldwide Christianity in her war against Christian nations; she opposed Korea and all the free nations at that time.</p>
<p>The role of Adam-Father&#8217;s mission-was to convert that God-denying nation into a God-loving nation. In twenty years&#8217; time, Father had to guide Japan to become one with God&#8217;s will and the Unification Church had to gain a dominant role there. Until 1985, Japan&#8217;s opposition to Reverend Moon and the Unification Church was incredible. As you know, there is an official Communist Party in Japan. The governing Liberal Democratic Party also fiercely opposed and scorned our movement. But after 20 years of opposition, the situation changed dramatically in 1986. During that year, we gained a remarkable victory. Now the whole atmosphere, including the environment, has changed.</p>
<p>The United States will be no different. This country is at a turning point, centering upon the Danbury victory. Danbury was the culmination of the worldwide opposition to Father. Not only the United States but other world powers as well were trying to nail me to the cross, so by winning the victory there. I could turn the entire situation around.</p>
<p>There are some parallels between my situation and that of Jesus. Jesus encountered opposition from established Judaism, the nation of Israel, and the Roman Empire. Today&#8217;s Christianity is in the position of Judaism two thousand years ago, and the United States is in the position of the Roman Empire. The Jewish nation is represented by today&#8217;s Anglo-Saxon people. All these formidable forces have united and worked to demolish me, but during this time Japan played a heroic and central role in reversing the political climate and influencing leadership in America. Many prominent Japanese leaders appealed to the United States government, especially President Reagan, to reconsider the court case against me. I want you to understand that during this crucial time the central role of the dispensational mission has been played out by Japan.</p>
<p>Japan&#8217;s providential role is truly in accordance with the Principle. A woman initiated the fall of man, so correspondingly in the restoration, Japan in the Eve position initiated and fulfilled a major role in the dispensational recovery. Thus Japan successfully indemnified Eve&#8217;s position. Many Japanese members came to this country during my ordeal and have endured the incredible difficulties of language and cultural barriers, as well as racial persecution. But standing side by side with me, they fought the battle here and were victorious. From the heavenly point of view, this is total unity of Adam and Eve-that is Korea and Father, with Japan.</p>
<p>Some of the Western and American leaders have been feeling, &#8220;Why do we need so many Korean and Japanese leaders in this country?&#8221; But that kind of thinking is completely wrong. You should now realize that a very important dispensational role was played out according to this blueprint.</p>
<p>Until recently, there was very little understanding in the Western world of Japanese or Oriental culture. However, in 1978 a book was published called Shogun, which became a bestseller and eventually a popular television miniseries. From 1978 until 1984, a virtual modern-day miracle occurred and Japan is now a focal point of attention in the United States. The nation of Korea as well as the United States have tried to nail our movement to the cross. But during this period, the Japanese nation and movement have consistently supported and virtually taken over the worldwide responsibility. You must realize that Japan and the Japanese movement have played a most crucial role in this most important of times.</p>
<p>Japan, a small island nation, has quickly become one of the most advanced economic empires in the world today. Why has Japan been so quickly prosperous? God is using that nation for His purpose, so blessings have been poured out upon them. But now the Japanese members must not make a major mistake: they must not become arrogant. They must feel that Japan is blessed only in order to fulfill and support the Adam nation of Korea, and primarily True Father, in the worldwide dispensation.</p>
<p>We have been educating many Japanese leaders with this primary understanding-that Japan has not been blessed for the sake of Japan, but for the sake of God&#8217;s dispensation. If you Japanese forget that and become an arrogant, proud people, you will lose God&#8217;s blessing. Japan has been chosen for that kind of blessing so that she can unite with, support&#8217; and become one with Korea. Eve, by destiny, must become one with Adam. Now Father is working with Japanese leaders who are in contact with Korean statesmen. Together, Japan and Korea will inspire the United States&#8217; leaders with a new vision.</p>
<p>In addition, this vision is being given to key leaders in mainland China, which is the archangel nation in Asia. That country is in a middle position, swaying back and forth between communism and the free world. The United States, which is in the archangel position in the West, is also vacillating. It has been a spiritually-based Christian nation but where is Christianity in the United States today? It is crumbling. At the same time, materialistic humanism is rampant. Japan, not historically a Christian nation, is quickly becoming more Christianized. Meanwhile the United States has been backsliding into secularism. When a tidal wave comes in, all kinds of reverse processes occur. The tide has turned, so the United States which has been on a high wave is descending and a lower wave is rising up to the top.</p>
<p>Asia contains two-thirds of the world&#8217;s population. When Asian nations become united, no other power in the world can compete with them. Who shall bring the Asian nations together? The Asian leaders, regardless of their nationality, will come to realize that no one else is capable of uniting them because they are so divided and hostile toward one another. Reverend Moon offers the only possible solution for the unity of Asia.</p>
<p>The foundation of 4000 years of Judeo-Christian history was rebuilt during the 40 years between 1945 and 1985. 1986 marked a new beginning. The next seven years until 1992 will be the most fulfilling part of human history ever. Centering upon the Unification culture there will be great tidal waves of change. We will see new phenomena emerging. In the first year of the period, 1986, Japan was changed. In the second year, 1987, the United States will be influenced. In 1988, Korea will be influenced.</p>
<p>Why is the situation in Korea so difficult? It is because the nation is divided between the free world and communism. Unless the problem of communism is solved, the unification of Korea is virtually impossible. Furthermore, Korea is surrounded by the two major powers of China and Japan. Harmonizing those two nations is not easy. Any power who wants to influence Asia politically has to have influence over the Korean peninsula. The Soviet Union, for example, knows that it cannot gain true power in the Pacific without a foothold in the Korean peninsula. In the past, Japan invaded Korea to gain hegemony in Asia and China did the same. The United States also needs Korea. Therefore, the Korean problem is a world problem, not just a domestic one. Unless the world problem is resolved, the Korean problem will not be resolved. This is why Korea will follow the path of Japan and the United States.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s strategy in Asia is to first establish a foundation in Japan. We have done that already. Next we must do that in China, and then in the United States. Thus, we can ward off Soviet power in Asia. This is not just theory but is an actual plan that has been initiated and is actively being pursued and executed.</p>
<p>Of these three years, 1986, 1987, and 1988, 1987 will be a most important year for the United States. The American people are becoming aware that they are no longer dependent upon the two party system. Most people can no longer completely trust either the Democratic or the Republican party. At this time, the Moonies&#8217; heavenly mission is to initiate a force that will involve the entire Christian sphere. Ever since World War II, Christianity has been declining. Our mission is to restore Christianity so that, together with the Unification Church, it can become America&#8217;s guiding hope. Our worldview will be recognized in America as the only beacon of hope for the future of this nation. Already that is being recognized, both in the highest possible places and at the grass roots level in America.</p>
<p>People will come to realize that Reverend Moon has the solution to the social ills of this nation, including the incredible decline of the family, immorality, and racism. In all these fundamentally important areas, no one has offered a complete solution except Reverend Moon. Recognition of my work is now reaching a sort of national consensus. Invisibly, yet very powerfully, the foundation we have laid has been imbedding itself and influencing the fiber of American society. Furthermore, in this nation of immigrants there are many minority groups, such as Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, European and Arabic, who all distrust the American government. But many are finding hope in Reverend Moon and regard him as their champion.</p>
<p>Since last year we have been trying to connect Christian leaders, both Catholic and Protestant, with the spiritual heritage of Korea. A pilgrimage tour was organized and will become increasingly popular this year and the next. When these ministers visit Korea, what kind of an impact does it have on them? First, many are shocked to realize that Reverend Moon is truly a spiritual giant. For that reason, they feel they want to work with our movement. Secondly, when they see South Korea, they feel that it is the responsibility of the United States to defend it. This is very important in God&#8217;s sight. Those people who return from the pilgrimage tours are becoming larger and more united and are increasingly vocal in the Catholic and Protestant worlds. They are becoming the most important spokespersons on behalf of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church.</p>
<p>There are approximately 350,000 clergymen in this country. While I was in Danbury, we sent them all a personal letter and materials on the Principle. After the ministers had visited Korea and returned, the material that they&#8217;d received many months ago and put away in their study suddenly became important! They dusted it off and started reading our book.</p>
<p>In the wintertime we have flus of different names- Hong Kong flu, Indian flu, Manila flu, and so forth. Once this sense of our importance is created, our message and influence will spread like Hong Kong flu. Furthermore, Americans won&#8217;t talk about &#8220;Saturday Night Fever&#8221; anymore-it will be &#8220;Moon Fever&#8221;! It&#8217;s true! All of a sudden the body and spirit will be infected with this spiritual virus-not a bad virus but a good one. People will experience a new awakening and once they have caught the spiritual flu, it will remain for all of eternity.</p>
<p>While we are sleeping, while we are eating, beyond our imagination, an incredible spreading of the word is taking place. On university campuses, in classrooms, country clubs, golf clubs and gymnasiums-everywhere, Moon Fever is being discussed. In this case, the talkativeness of American women will be very useful. Talk, talk, talk, buzz, buzz, buzz, like bees. In the past when people heard about Reverend Moon, they completely closed their doors, but that is no longer the case. When they hear the name &#8220;Reverend Moon,&#8221; everybody&#8217;s eyes open wide and they want to know more about him. This is how the victorious realm and Father&#8217;s territory of influence is being expanded beyond your imagination. Have you ever thought about how far Father&#8217;s reputation and fame will go? There will be no end.</p>
<p>Most people don&#8217;t know what I have been doing for the last ten, twenty, thirty years. I have never advertised it. But now the vast accomplishments of our movement are coming to the attention of the world. All of a sudden people are realizing that Reverend Moon has been working, not just since yesterday or two days ago, but for many decades. They say, &#8220;What a man of vision! How can he see so far? Reverend Moon did that?&#8221; The time has come when the mouths of the Moonies shall be like trumpets heralding the message throughout the world.</p>
<p>The ten million signature campaign of CAUSA was virtually impossible to think about, but knowing the timetable, I initiated it and it was fulfilled. Last September when it was decided at a conference that we would undertake our ambitious campaign, many American eyes, including Dr. Durst&#8217;s, glazed over and stared at the sky.</p>
<p>They were thinking, &#8220;How in the world can we do such a thing? This is not Korea or Japan. The United States is different and no Americans will easily give out their signature. They won&#8217;t sign any piece of paper, no matter what.&#8221; That was the attitude. I&#8217;m sure that many people laughed inside when Reverend Moon launched the ten million signature campaign, especially the communists. &#8220;Ha-ha. Reverend Moon is going after ten million people? He won&#8217;t even get near one million.&#8221; That&#8217;s what they thought, but we did it.</p>
<p>The largest membership list in America is owned by the telephone company. They have telephone numbers for the entire country. The post office also has the zip codes and addresses of all the people. The Reader&#8217;s Digest has a list of seventeen million readers. But all these names were collected for their own reasons. In some cases, the names of the people were obtained without their consent. In our case, ten million people voluntarily gave their names, addresses and signatures. It is a list of true substance. How can we digest the ten million? I spoke last week in the World Mission Center and gave a complete plan for programs which are now proceeding. We have built this powerful organization with our own hands.</p>
<p>In the future, any town in America that is without Moonies will feel ashamed. A different kind of kidnapping will occur. Americans will feel they need Moonies so badly that they&#8217;ll have to snatch some from New York and Washington and take them home to become leaders of their communities. Many Unification Theological Seminary graduates are hiding somewhere saying, &#8220;It is too difficult a life.&#8221; But you watch-average people will dig them out and say, &#8220;You&#8217;re a Moonie, aren&#8217;t you? Come here and teach us the Principle.&#8221; When that time comes, I will put a big advertisement in The Washington Times that says, &#8220;Moonies are hiding in such and such a place. Go and get them!&#8221;</p>
<p>What can you do? The patient needs medicine and the doctor must be found. Moonies are in the position of doctors of the society because you have the right prescription, so people will go looking for you. &#8220;Moonie&#8221; started out as a bad word, but the credibility and usefulness of the Moonies will increase a hundred, even a thousand times. Will you say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll just wait until the Moonies&#8217; stock goes up. Then I&#8217;ll come out and go to work.&#8221; Are you going to do that? Anyone who is thinking like that is not thinking straight. Reverend Moon never hesitates. Even under persecution, he is the number one Moonie, always out in front. That is why Reverend Moon is where he is now.</p>
<p>Even for Moonies, getting to see me can be very difficult. How can those who are not Moonies ever expect to see me? When I went to London to preside at the Science Conference several years ago, twenty-one Nobel laureates attended, scientists of the highest caliber. One of the highest-ranking persons in charge of the Science Research Center in London called to see me, but he had to wait two hours. Many prominent people think, &#8220;If I wanted to see Reverend Moon, he would jump at the chance.&#8221; But instead of Reverend Moon jumping, he lets people wait two hours.</p>
<p>If I ever decided to grant an interview to anyone, media people around the world would leap at the opportunity. They would come in their own chartered airplanes to East Garden as soon as I gave permission. Meeting Reverend Moon is so rare that it is almost like pulling a star down from the sky. If someone were granted an exclusive interview, he would have to say, &#8220;This is such a blessing from heaven!&#8221;</p>
<p>Many of you think, &#8220;It&#8217;s so difficult, I don&#8217;t like coming to Belvedere every Sunday morning.&#8221; That&#8217;s true! I know very well how each of you think. I will go on a speaking tour one day and the people out there who are waiting for that golden opportunity will eagerly come to listen to me. But perhaps all the Moonies will come very late and there won&#8217;t even be room to get inside the auditorium. Perhaps you feel, &#8220;I have already heard Father&#8217;s words many times.&#8221; The first shall be last and the last shall be first.</p>
<p>When I returned to Korea, many people wanted to see me. The President of the Japanese PWPA, Dr. Fukuta, is a renowned scholar who brought a delegation of five to Korea for a conference. Dr. Fukuta tried to signal in various ways: &#8220;We would like to have an audience with Reverend Moon. I wish that Reverend Moon would invite me and meet with these five people.&#8221; I got all the vibrations, the messages, the signals, but I didn&#8217;t say anything. Since he couldn&#8217;t come without my permission, he had to go back to Japan disappointed.</p>
<p>You think, &#8220;Anytime we go to Belvedere, we can see Father.&#8221; That era will be over and then, even though you will want to see me or hear me speak, you won&#8217;t be able to. I am interested in the restoration of America and the world. Why should I waste time with you over and over again if you are not being effective? I need to spend my time effectively. Important invitations are always coming to me. Some universities wrote letters saying, &#8220;Reverend Moon, if you come, we will assemble the entire faculty and student body of our university. We want to hear you. Would you kindly honor us and come to speak?&#8221; But I said no.</p>
<p>In San Francisco, a popular and prestigious club sent me a letter saying, &#8220;Reverend Moon, we want you to come and speak. Many other persons including Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Eleanor Roosevelt and Winston Churchill have all spoken here. Now we want you to come.&#8221; They thought Reverend Moon would jump at the invitation, but I simply told them no. They were absolutely flabbergasted. In South America, several dozen heads of state, as well as ministers of foreign affairs and finance and such, are becoming members of AULA. If I went there, they would love to invite me to their homes, and award me positions of honor, but I am not interested in those things.</p>
<p>What about you? If I wanted to visit your home-your apartment or cubbyhole or whatever-what would you say? Would you say, &#8220;No, we are too busy to welcome Father&#8221;? If so, that means you Americans are ignorant of the correct priorities. You don&#8217;t know what is important and what is not important. It is almost like the children of a king and queen or the children of the President, who are accustomed to their own great parents. &#8220;Oh, my daddy is king. My mommy is queen. So what?&#8221; You are like spoiled children-so complacent. How can that kind of child show up at a cabinet meeting, a national steering committee, a congressional or senatorial meeting to be proudly presented as the child of the President?</p>
<p>Do you know the real world? How much do you know about what Father is doing? You are in the position of the sons and daughters of a king, greater than the President. You belong to the True Parents, but how much do you realize the value and honor and excitement of that? The Moonies are still sleeping, ignorant. If I were in your position, a regular Moonie, I would know who the True Father is. For me nothing comes ahead of my mission. I gave up everything-family, parents, brothers, sisters, fortune, honor, education, health, youth. Father gave up every ounce of energy for God&#8217;s purpose.</p>
<p>I have heard about some blessed couples in which the wife was nagging, &#8220;We have a child coming and you&#8217;re just doing a church mission. You&#8217;ll become a beggar. Do you want that?&#8221; Finally, the husband packed up and followed the wife, saying, &#8220;You&#8217;re right. I&#8217;ll support you.&#8221; And vice versa-sometimes the husband is the one who nags and the wife completely surrenders. To that, I say, &#8220;Go ahead. We don&#8217;t need your kind of blessed couple. If you stay here, you&#8217;ll just become an obstacle.&#8221; That&#8217;s the way I feel. I&#8217;m sure some of you here in this room have been like this.</p>
<p>I have been following a historical path which was not easy or cheap, and I cannot give it away cheaply. There is great movement and great transformation happening in the spirit world. Unification has been occurring. Can anybody go out of the sphere of influence of the spirit world? There is no way.</p>
<p>I am asking you American citizens, do you need Korean leaders in this country? What about Japanese leaders? I do not recognize the American people as special or first-class. Anybody who does God&#8217;s will is a first-class person. Neither the color of your skin nor your nationality makes any difference. Even though I have been mistreated many times, I am patient and I think, &#8220;All right, who is going to change? Am I going to change or are you?&#8221; For example, even though I entered Danbury, I did not change my stand one iota, while the State Department has changed, the Justice Department has changed, even the White House has changed. But Reverend Moon has never yielded or shaken one bit. The Principle and my posture are like a rock.</p>
<p>If the American people continue to refuse to move, 1 am still confident. You will see that the entire spirit world of America, including former Presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, will shake the people up. Loving the United States is the precise goal of the great American spirit world as they are coming down. You must join with them. Even the Moonies do not know clearly what God, Father, and the spirit world are doing.</p>
<p>At the outset of this sermon, I reminded you that the slogan this year was &#8220;The Creation of the Fatherland.&#8221; Centering upon the free world, unification has been taking place step by step even under persecution and indemnity. Step by step, God has been winning and the cornerstone for the establishment of the fatherland has been laid. We shall have the Kingdom here on earth and in the spirit world!</p>
<p>The spirit world and the physical world have exactly opposite positions. The right-hand side in spirit world is the left-hand side in the physical world, and vice versa. As you can see here on the board, the highest place in the spirit world is coming down to the lowest place in the physical world. The lowest place in the spirit world, the satanic realm, is going up to the highest realm of the physical world. That is why the so-called highest level of leadership on the earth is influenced by evil spirits, and thus they are opposing me and the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Where can we find the level of unification? God is in the center position and thus the ultimate worldwide dispensational stage is there. Serving in the center position is always difficult because it is the crossroads where you encounter all kinds of opposition and persecution. On the worldwide level, a certain section was specially prepared by God to welcome this last stage of the dispensation-that is the Christian cultural sphere, the Abel realm. There must be unity between upper and lower, as well as left and right.</p>
<p>You are standing right in the center of all of this in the physical realm. Think of it. Can you swim out of this according to your whim or at random? You cannot win by doing such things according to your own will. As you know, I am the most stubborn person under heaven, but I negated my own will in order to follow God&#8217;s will, because that is the only way to succeed. I conquered myself and united my mind and body. Unification thus proceeds to the family, tribe, nation, world, and all the way to the cosmos. What would be the center of the unification ideal? Yes, it would be true love. True love means God-centered love, and it is the most difficult thing to achieve. You cannot do it just at whim.</p>
<p>The Holy Wedding took place in 1960 and True Parents were installed. You have no idea how much blood, sweat and tears I had to shed in order to build that foundation. For fourteen years, under the most incredible opposition from the Korean people and government, I laid an invincible foundation, battle after battle, struggle after struggle. Upon this foundation alone, the True Parents could be established. Even this I could not do at my own will.</p>
<p>First of all, Jesus had to be liberated since he could not consummate true love or a family. He had no love relationship of true parents, true spouse, true children, true grandchildren. To liberate Jesus from such incredible sadness, grief and sorrow, God had to let him experience all these things. A bride had to be presented to Jesus, but just presenting a bride does not solve the problem. You have to create the surrounding circumstances, that is, there should be a family background into which the bride can come. I don&#8217;t think anybody ever heard these things.</p>
<p>There is a dual system in the creation: the spirit world comes down and duplicates itself on the physical level. What do you think? Would Jesus like to get married in spirit world? He would prefer to be married in the physical world. By whom? By the True Parents. Today we are reflecting on 1986, but so much had to happen before 1986. In a way, reflection on 1986 requires a reflection on the whole history of the dispensation of God. All the hurt, grief and suffering of Jesus had to be liberated. Otherwise, there could be no foundation upon which the Unification Church could stand. Spirit world has to be united and in order to make that unification, there should be some strong, central family of spirit world.</p>
<p>How can you fulfill this kind of dispensation without complete knowledge? &#8220;Well, it may be so, perhaps.&#8221; Do you think such uncertainty can fulfill this dispensation? Or do you have to know it absolutely as the truth? What kind of Moonie are you-a &#8220;maybe&#8221; Moonie, or a sure Moonie? Being a sure Moonie is not easy. It is the most difficult life in the world. Getting a Ph.D. at Harvard is not even comparable to being a sure Moonie. What kind of sure Moonie are you-peanut-sized sure or universally sure?</p>
<p>Everyone says, &#8220;I want to become a universal Moonie.&#8221; I know that. But you Moonies are so small that God has no room to enter into your heart. Only a little ant can get in. And if I asked that small ant, &#8220;Would you like to get into a Moonie&#8217;s mind and play around there?&#8221; the ant would say, &#8220;Oh, no, I would suffocate!&#8221; What narrow minds you have.</p>
<p>You know your own heart better than anyone else. Is there room in your heart for even one pigeon or one dove to enter? What about a sparrow? If a sparrow entered your heart, it would flap around and say, &#8220;There is not enough room for me here,&#8221; and it would have to get out. Do you have enough heaven in your heart for even a sparrow? This is not a funny thing. The universal heart has room enough for everything, even God, to enter and fly around. Do you have that kind of heaven? Or is your heart too closed? I am giving you a very important message this morning and you did not come here to sleep. This is a crucial moment.</p>
<p>What kind of heavenly heart do you have? Do you have a heart big enough for me to enter and stay at least one day? You could not even stand one hour. You would say, &#8220;No more, Father, please get out of here.&#8221; Although you say, &#8220;I love you, Father,&#8221; you only love the embracing, kind, sweet Father. The truth is that you feel, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like the stern, demanding Father who pushes us out for indemnity and Home Church.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Principle teaches that unless you have the Kingdom of Heaven within your own heart, you will not have it in heaven. You&#8217;ve got to build your own heaven first, so in your heart, there should be room for armies. The army will be wild, and they will have a lot of trash as well as their own human wastes. Is your heart big enough to bear that?</p>
<p>In order to build the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth, we must really liberate Jesus. We have to let him come down to the earth and be liberated from the 2000-year-old situation. In order to think about liberating Jesus and embracing the spirit world, we must be big enough to first embrace all the people around us-next door neighbors, brothers and sisters, families and so forth.</p>
<p>What do you think-would indemnifying Jesus&#8217; role be easier than helping and liberating the people next door? Are you doing that next door liberation? Is it going to be easy? How difficult it may be! Imagine that your spouse mistreated you, day in and day out, but still you have to serve him or her for the rest of eternity. Do you think creating a heavenly environment around you would be easier than serving that kind of person, or more difficult?</p>
<p>Do you want to go to the Kingdom of Heaven? You&#8217;ve got to create your heaven first and take it with you. That is the Principle. If you thought that by joining the Unification Church you would automatically go to heaven, you were wrong. In the Unification Church, you&#8217;ve got to create your own heaven. Nobody created Reverend Moon&#8217;s heaven for him. Is Satan still with you or is he already separated from you? This is a very serious question. Why is Satan separated from Reverend Moon? It is because I not only know the truth, but I also live and act according to it. Because I paid all the indemnity, Satan has no more accusation against me. Therefore, he has no lever to grasp; there is no way he can creep in again.</p>
<p>You are Moonies, but what unsure Moonies you are. Some of the blessed children are in this audience. Can you think, &#8220;We are saved. We are on safe territory because we are blessed children&#8221;? Not at all. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were sinless but Satan could still make them his prey. Men and women must establish a true love relationship at the central point and then expand it outward. The work of the Unification Church is to widen the heavenly family&#8217;s territory. Once this kind of vertical foundation is laid, no evil spirits can penetrate this area any longer. When the family foundation covers the entire world, spirit world can come down in a vertical, ninety degree line. This will cover the entire world. The whole family will rest upon this straight line. The family, nation, tribe, clan and world are all part of one vertical lineup.</p>
<p>When the terms &#8220;right wing&#8221; and &#8220;left wing&#8221; are no longer used, that means the ultimate fulfillment here on earth is very near. Then the communist world, or the left-wing power, can no longer proclaim itself as the salvation of the world. Likewise the free world, the right-wing power, cannot say that they have any solution to the world&#8217;s problems. Both have become obsolete. A new ideology must emerge, a new central force of unification. Because of the fall of man, evil spirits have governed and controlled both the physical and spiritual worlds. Until I explained it fully, you did not know why there were so many evil influences on earth.</p>
<p>The communist world has a certain amount of zeal and longing to &#8220;liberate&#8221; the free world. But the free world does not have such a consciousness, so in a way the free world is defeated already. The communist world is always proclaiming that they have the ideology that can bring about one united world-under their dominion- while the free world does not have any such aspiration, appeal or even that kind of thinking. When a new ideology called Godism comes forward, the communist world will lose its attraction and the free world will feel new hope.</p>
<p>What is Godism? We have talked about a right wing and a left wing, but Godism is the &#8220;head wing.&#8221; That is a new word. The human body has a head and two arms, the right and the left. Godism is like the head, while the arms are the left wing and the right wing. There are also two feet and we might call them &#8220;feet wings.&#8221; This concept of right and left was derived from the two thieves on either side of Jesus at the Crucifixion-one on his left and one on his right. The thief on the right side defended Jesus and the one on the left accused him. Since then, the right wing and the left wing, representing Abel and Cain, have continued to struggle.</p>
<p>The right and left wings will not settle their conflict until the &#8220;head wing&#8221; comes forward and says, &#8220;You two guys, instead of fighting, you must cooperate!&#8221; Since the right and left wings have been fighting all this time, they are tired and faltering, while the head wing and the feet wings are gaining prominence. Thus the ideology of heaven and earth has emerged. We stand neither on the right nor on the left, but rather are vertically uniting upper and lower, heaven and earth. Another description of Godism is heaven and earth united.</p>
<p>Think of this: even if you lose both arms and both legs, as long as you&#8217;ve got a clear-thinking head, you are a living personality, correct? Neither the right arm nor the left arm contain the essence of the human being. Neither do the right or the left leg. The head and the heart determine the character of a person and are the central aspect of the human temple. Therefore, human history is going to leave behind the left and right wings and move forward to a discovery of the head wing. That is the ideal of the Lord of the Second Advent. Even though the fall of man has persisted for many thousands of years, people are finally coming to the ultimate destination, the ultimate temple, which is the head-Godism and heaven.</p>
<p>This year, we declared the creation of the fatherland. Where is that fatherland? You said it is in the True Family. Where is the beginning point of the True Family? It is in the True Parents. The fatherland means, literally, the parent land. Where is the physical parent land? True Parents were born in that land and took in nourishment, sunlight, and air there. They also learned the language of that particular land, which is Korea.</p>
<p>Korea has been sandwiched between communism and the free world, namely the United States. She must learn that she has come to the end of that dispensation. Today the United States, with its protective trade barriers and so forth, is not such a good ally to Korea. The thinking of the American leadership is, &#8220;Korea is becoming a second Japan. Why should we give them more assistance?&#8221; Communism has always made difficulties for Korea. They have to rid themselves of communist influence, but at the same time they have to get rid of the United States&#8217; influence too. For the first time, anti-Americanism is becoming pervasive.</p>
<p>The Korean people feel very lonely because on one side they see the threat of communism, and on the other side America is very unkind. They know they have to grasp some other salvation power. Where is the power that they can grasp onto? The Korean people are clever and they are now recognizing the salvational power of Reverend Moon. They can see that we have built an international foundation and now we have power and influence. From this year on, they will be looking to Reverend Moon as their hope. Immediately after World War II, in 1945, Korea was in a dismal situation. For 40 years, I worked to rebuild God&#8217;s foundation and finally the dispensational time has ripened again. The Korean people have been abandoned, in a way, by the communists on one side and by the United States on the other. At this particular moment of thirst, insecurity and loneliness, they will grab onto our movement because they see that is the only way to bring salvation to the nation.</p>
<p>Do you have the power to build such a foundation of your own? The best way is to follow my path, become an extension of me. If I said, &#8220;There&#8217;s the battlefield. Go and fight,&#8221; would you do it? As Unification Church members, we have only one option: service, never dishonesty or stealing. Our weapon, our armament is a sacrificial spirit. By serving, sacrificing and attending, we will completely encircle Satan&#8217;s forces and win for God. Even though they know our strategy, as long as we practice it, they will still be overcome because service and sacrifice are impossible for Satan to overcome.</p>
<p>Do you think, &#8220;For fifteen years Father has been living in a mansion and riding in a big limousine. First he lived at Belvedere and now at East Garden. What a lucky and happy man he is to lead such a luxurious life&#8221;? Do you think so? Who created such a foundation? Did you? No, Father did. Has that been luxurious?</p>
<p>Even though you may be doing things without deep awareness, history is being written. Some of the chapters have been written in shame for America. Even in the ten million signature campaign, it was not the American members who played the major role. The fact that the Japanese members obtained more than half is shameful for American history. If there were no Korean leaders pushing, and if there were no Japanese members responding, what would have happened? What could you have done? If the signature drive had not been successful, I would have packed my bags and returned to Korea. I have been preparing to work in South America if North America doesn&#8217;t succeed. There are 400 million people there. Even if the United States was destroyed, the dispensation and will of God cannot be destroyed.</p>
<p>1986 has been such a crucial year. I spent more than eight months in Korea because I wanted to lay the foundation for organization down to the village level. The entire country must be organized. I am really pushing Korea forward so that it will fulfill God&#8217;s dispensation. Though Korea will face incredible difficulties and deadlocks, we will open up the path and remove the obstacles so the nation can stay on course. The slogan, &#8220;Creation of the Fatherland,&#8221; may not be so meaningful to you, but every word of it penetrates my very bones. I have been working for that goal during this entire year. Although I wanted to ask 7,000 members to go and mobilize Korea, I decided not to because I knew that moving members out of Japan and the United States would set those movements back Therefore, I myself achieved the 7,000 man goal.</p>
<p>We will educate more Christian ministers and create an IOWC of 7,000 clergy. In doing that, Judaism and Christianity will go beyond superficial unity with the Unification Church and actually become one with us. In the sight of God, our fulfilling His dispensation together will be beautiful to behold and will become the foundation to move the major religions of the world.</p>
<p>I have done whatever was necessary for the will of God. What are you going to do now? I have accomplished everything, so there is no room for you to do it anymore. The Reagan Administration could have lost power a long time ago because they have no backbone, no real courage. Through The Washington Times, we have helped them engender a spirit of courage. History is always made behind the scenes. The real history does not make the headlines.</p>
<p>As an individual, you do not have much power However, when you are united with God&#8217;s will and determined to do it, what happens? Spirit world begins to move. Spirit world is what makes the difference. In the signature campaign, some people in the street would say, &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t want to sign,&#8221; but meanwhile their hand was already moving to sign their name. Spirit world and their ancestors were using their arm, saying, &#8220;What are you talking about, you rascal?&#8221; With that kind of power and support, is there anything to fear? Next time we shall do even greater, bigger things. What about one hundred million? How would you do such a thing? Only in the name of God.</p>
<p>For the last forty years, I have been spearheading such incredible miracles, one after another. People looking at Reverend Moon objectively think, &#8220;Who in the world has done so much in one lifetime?&#8221; There can be no comparison with what Confucius, Buddha, or Mohammed did in their own lifetimes. Likewise, Jesus never had the opportunity to do so many things.</p>
<p>What do you think-do Americans need powerful leadership or not? If you do everything your own way, you will be destroyed. You&#8217;ve got to hold onto the rope and let the winch pull you. Otherwise, you are just flying around and you&#8217;ll end up nowhere. You can&#8217;t say, &#8220;It is too difficult holding on. The winch must come to me!&#8221; The winch is stationary and will not move. Forty years ago, VJ Day was declared-Victory over Japan. But now America is behind Japan in every way. Japan is thriving; America is declining. Who made it so? God did. No matter what, one cardinal rule applies: those who follow the will of God shall prosper. Those who do not shall decline. Period.</p>
<p>When you reflect upon 1986, can you say you have been walking a path that brings joy to our True Parents or one which brings them more regret and sorrow? God sent Reverend Moon to America and He will not declare that Reverend Moon is a failure. In order to declare decisively and dramatically that I am a victorious person, an incredible turning point was created-Danbury. Do you American Moonies recognize this? What about 1987? What will you do? I am not going to be on the front line in 1987. My job is done. No matter what, you must be on the front line. Out of my wealth of experience over the past 40 years of advancing this providence, I will guide you.</p>
<p>Since 1960, I have been maneuvering incredible changes in the world. It has been like steering a boat in rough seas for twenty-six years. The entire world has failed-America and the free world, as well as communism-but Reverend Moon has been victorious. From now on, the job will get easier. What do you think when you listen to me and I unfold the plan-does it seem feasible, or am I a crazy daydreamer? If you see the strategy in front of your eyes, how can you not do it? If you don&#8217;t work for it, you have no worthwhile purpose in your life.</p>
<p>So far what you have done is a failure, so we&#8217;ve got to renew ourselves. Will you make 1987 another year of failure or a year of victory? What is the job ahead of us? It is Home Church. If anyone out there opposes Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, command his attention and say, &#8220;You are dreaming. You still don&#8217;t know the reality.&#8221; Even though my court trial is over and Danbury is all finished, we have to continue to reveal the truth. All the secrets must be exposed and the American government&#8217;s role must be made public.</p>
<p>Do you think Reverend Moon is a criminal and deserved to go to jail? Is that the truth? For fifteen years, the government systematically opposed our movement. What amount of apology, what amount of indemnity could restore such damage? Though those politicians who opposed us may be dreaming of becoming senators and governors, even President of the United States, I know God will never permit their victory.</p>
<p>Have pride. The Moonies are the most genuinely patriotic people in this land and are bringing the only hope. We have the true solution to the sicknesses of this society. When I initiated the Science Conference fifteen years ago, no Church leaders could understand. They secretly laughed at my attempt to reach scientists and said, &#8220;Father&#8217;s wasting money.&#8221; Now, fifteen years later, is anybody still laughing? Today, the Home Church providence is far more certain than the Science Conference was fifteen years ago. If we do Home Church properly, we will achieve great success. I have emphasized over and over that America&#8217;s future lies with Home Church. Without this dispensation, there is no way the country can turn around.</p>
<p>The American young people in the secular world are dying, physically and spiritually, from lack of love. Many are living without any moral principles in utter degradation. Because of this, we see an incredibly valueless society. Young people need a friend like you to help them make a new beginning in their lives. You must go out and touch them-you can nurture them and be like a new parent to them. You have the opportunity now to lift them up. If you do not, no one will come to help them. I know that I cannot do it alone. I need to borrow your hands, your mouth, your feet. Together we need to sprinkle the seeds of love. Once this comes to fruition, the entire world will want to be embraced by you. As in the Old Testament analogy of the valley of skeletons, the Lord of the Second Advent has come into the valley so that all the skeletons can receive the breath of new life. This true resurrection is happening now, forming a movement which will go out to the world to save it.</p>
<p>Once a person becomes a victim of drugs or immorality &#8211; homosexuality for example &#8211; it is very difficult to come out of it. I know that, yet I cannot abandon the American youth. The Moonies&#8217; determination alone will save those young people from dying. Otherwise, America will be lost. Just as the white people brought black people from Africa and enslaved them, the time could come when a world totalitarian system will enslave the white people and use them in a more severe manner than any slaves of the past. Can you guarantee that this will not happen? We&#8217;ve got to wake up. As a Moonie, you cannot just sit idly, eating lazy meals, spending casual hours. The entire free world is dying: South America, as well as Western Europe and even Japan. They are all following the path toward death behind America. How can you pay for America&#8217;s incredible crime of leading the entire world in the wrong direction?</p>
<p>I have come to the point of completion of my mission here in America. I want to leave with you the weapons to cure society of drug abuse, homosexuality, and all kinds of immorality. By doing so, you shall become my representative, going out and winning the struggle for heaven. Think of it: besides the Unification Church, is there any other organization or ideology that can save the nation? Absolutely not. You have no idea how serious a time this is. The entire spirit world, including all the saints and great people there, is expecting you to perform. Good people everywhere want you fulfill your duty and win. This is a serious moment because our failure as champions would be the defeat of all history, all humanity, and of God. Can we allow such a defeat? It is impossible. Therefore, God desperately needs your tears, your sweat, and your hard work.</p>
<p>At one time the Anglo-Saxons tried to colonize Asia and create a breadbasket for the Western world. They spent a formidable amount of money exporting opium to China, trying to intoxicate the entire population. This is an example of the evil done to Asia by the Anglo-Saxon race and the Western world. History is always a chronicle of cause and effect-what was sown is eventually harvested. Now the Western world is beset with the problem of drugs. Young people are falling prey, one after another. Who can save the situation?</p>
<p>No one from the white Anglo-Saxon culture can speak out and say they have a solution. No American would even listen because they are part of the same destiny. Therefore, God sent a man of a different race, a different culture and a different way of teaching-Reverend Moon-to awaken these people. Asia was a victim of the West so a representative from that victimized realm needs to say, &#8220;God, please forgive these people. Even though I am a victim, I forgive them.&#8221; On that condition alone, God can forgive the Western world and America.</p>
<p>If Reverend Moon gives up, is there any alternative? You should know there is not. That is why I have given my blood and sweat in the struggle, sparing no ounce of energy, pouring out my entire soul to fulfill the mission and meet the expectation of God. I want you to understand that before coming to America, I never did public speaking in Korea. I started all these public activities in the United States because God gave this nation top priority. Thus I came to America to initiate my public ministry.</p>
<p><center>Conclusion</center>In conclusion, we are creating the heavenly world. The spirit world will descend directly to you and your children and create a family base centered upon true love. That family base will expand over the world and nullify the necessity for the terms right and left, right wing and left wing.</p>
<p>February 1st, 1985, at 3 a.m., I called Mother at East Garden from Danbury and said, &#8220;Pray for the liberation of hell and the creation of a highway from hell to heaven.&#8221;</p>
<p>That particular historical prayer of True Parents-Mother in East Garden and Father at Danbury-laid the historical foundation to liberate the hellish world. The highway has now been laid. Because of this, all the good ancestors in spirit world can go down to the bottom of hell in spirit world and on earth to evangelize. Before this prayer, they were blocked and could not come down here on earth.</p>
<p>Now the saints and founders of the great religions can move without boundaries and go anywhere to preach their Gospels. They can work for a common, unified cause. That is why we are working with an assembly of world religions, trying to bring unity and create a world Scripture. The saints in spirit world are reaching out and pushing their adherents toward the Unification Church. Moslem and Buddhist people are receiving the revelation to go to Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. This is happening all over the world. If the recipients of such revelations don&#8217;t listen, something often happens to their physical health.</p>
<p>Home Church is the ultimate dispensation for the world. Members of other faiths will learn this through revelation and they will begin doing it. What will you do? Will you lag behind them? If so, the biblical prediction will come true that &#8220;The first shall be last, and the last shall be first.&#8221; The Buddhists and Moslems are often so impassioned, they don&#8217;t even have to listen to my words like this. They just go, day in and day out. They will do ten, even a hundred times more. Would you like to set the standard and convey the tradition to them, or do you want to receive the tradition from them?</p>
<p>The ministers who are visiting Korea will come back and say, &#8220;Reverend Moon taught us the Home Church principle, so we want to do it.&#8221; Will I say, &#8220;No, no, only Moonies can do it. You can&#8217;t do it first&#8221;? Can I say that? No, I will let them do it. Such a time is at hand. Think about how much greater will be the fame and reputation of Reverend Moon in three years. What about ten years from now? Therefore, you&#8217;ve got to wake up immediately. If you do not fulfill your responsibilities, I don&#8217;t want to see you. I have given you precise instructions, so how can you say you do not know what to do?</p>
<p>There are approximately five billion people now living on the earth. How many more billions are dwelling in the spirit world? When that realm descends in force, the physical world will be completely overpowered. Many people will receive great shock, even having heart attacks when that situation occurs. You know these things now. Have you written them on your heart? Are you going to receive instructions from the spirit world or are you going to become their central figure and leader? I will give you one more chance. 1987 is almost here. The Home Church providence which started in 1987 is not a new thing, but this year-1987-is the year of completion. Now are you really committing yourself to do God&#8217;s will?</p>
<p>This is the final Sunday of 1986, so let us pledge our lives to the mission given by the True Parents. Let us make that pledge three times, raising our hands as high as we can. I believe you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">ROAD TOWARD THE IDEAL</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:17:48+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/road-toward-the-ideal.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:17:48+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<div class="pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left"><a href="/blog/2018/06/24/road-toward-the-ideal.html?print=pdf" class="pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="/assets/vendor/pdf/images/pdf.png" alt="image_pdf" title="Download PDF" /></a></div><h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
<h3 align="CENTER">September 7, 1986<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>As human beings, we do not exist separately. For example, where there is a man there should also be a woman; both are dependent upon each other. When there are children, there are parents; they are also dependent upon each other. Surrounding them are the rest of the relatives-brothers, sisters and so forth.</p>
<p>Furthermore, human beings are surrounded by an environment, which includes other existence&#8217;s such as animals and the things of nature-the trees, rivers, mountains and so forth. All these things are a part of our surroundings. We can divide the things of nature into three different kingdoms-mineral, vegetable, and animal. All those are the visible surroundings for humankind. However, there are also invisible surroundings, the phenomena of the spiritual world.</p>
<p>When we observe all of these things, we must come to question where they came from. There must be an origin or some root of all the natural phenomena surrounding us. Since we exist in this moment, we must be the result of some process or original motivation. The problem we humans face is that we are still groping for that origin; we are not yet sure of our own source.</p>
<p>There is a basic conflict between those who say that the origin of the entire universe is manner, or material, and others who say that there is something other than material, something invisible. They say that an invisible world of mind and spirit exists. The conflict between these two schools of thought has not yet been settled.</p>
<p>My teaching has always been that there is an origin of the entire universe, and that is God. God exists and God causes everything to exist; from Him, everything started to happen. There is a certain orderliness built in to our existence; all things exist in an orderly and purposeful fashion.</p>
<p>If the universe were nothing more than matter in random motion, then how could we expect any real order within this universe? It is impossible. What about the human mind? Why does it function in a certain way, according to certain principles? When we consider all these things, how could we even imagine that matter is the ultimate origin of this universe?</p>
<p>When we examine ourselves as men and women, we see that we have two distinct aspects-the internal and the external. It is most important that these two aspects of human beings-mind and body-exist in cooperation with one another. Once we lose harmony between mind and body, there is disunity, confrontation and contradiction.</p>
<p>Then the problem arises: what kind of harmony do we need? Where does harmony come from? Is it from the outside to the inside, from upper to lower, or lower to upper? How can harmony be achieved? The ideal of harmony exists in all directions-between left and right, up and down. between inside and outside. Harmony in all directions is the ideal.</p>
<p>There must be a certain cause or pulling factor, some purposeful origin; otherwise, harmony and unity could not be possible because there would be no central rallying point. Again we come to this absolute: there must be a center that can serve as the rallying point to engender the purpose. That purpose will bring all directions into a certain harmony.</p>
<p>We cannot deny the fact that before men and women ever came into existence, there must have been something which existed prior to them. There must have been some motion or motivation which preceded and engendered the existence of human beings. When they are first born, men have absolutely no idea that women exist; likewise, there is no understanding on the part of women that men exist. There is some greater cause which already determined, &#8220;There should be both men and women; they should be harmonized in a certain way.&#8221;</p>
<p>Man is born and he goes in a certain direction, following what may seem to be a labyrinth; but there is actually an overall direction to his growth. You are constantly being guided by a certain power to move in a certain way. What do you think-do we continually move toward improving ourselves or worsening ourselves? Why are men and women always trying to move toward something better, something improved? Why do we not seek to move toward bad things, such as accidents and disasters? There is some built-in mechanism-we might call it a homing device-which guides us toward betterment and improvement. There must be some guiding will which is outside of us.</p>
<p>I am in a difficult situation: if I talk in Korean translated into English, many Japanese members do not understand. But if I talk in Japanese and it is translated into English, many Korean members do not understand. Completely difficult! What shall I do? So now, I ask you Japanese members: what language do you want me to speak? Japanese, Korean, or English? How about spiritual language? The language barrier is one of the most difficult problems in the world. How can we solve this historical problem? We have to resolve it.</p>
<p>I think about who will be able to solve this problem. The power of science and technology cannot do it, neither can government power. The only power that can do it is religious power. You have to know that. Therefore, I am always saying to you, &#8220;We have to unify the language. We have to shatter the language barrier.&#8221; Do you understand?</p>
<p>I have decided to speak Korean today; that&#8217;s the mother tongue, after all. Furthermore, you Japanese members here in America must learn English. Turning back to the original subject, let us ask: What is the ideal? The most important description of the ideal is this: it cannot exist alone, all by itself. Take your eyes as an example. You have two eyes that work together to achieve one focus. There is only one focus; you don&#8217;t see two images. Why does the eye focus automatically? Before each eye ever existed, a concept or a design blueprint existed. The ability to focus didn&#8217;t come to exist after the eye was created; it was part of the original plan for the eye. The eye was designed in a certain way to fulfill its purpose of proper focus.</p>
<p>The ideal of the eye requires that two points work together in harmony and unite with a third point. Actually, we see only the third point but there is also a fourth point which is invisible. It is within your brain; that is what engenders the ability to focus. The two eyes work together and unite with that third point, but there is a certain cause that makes it happen, so there are actually four points.</p>
<p>When you look at your eye, you can see that it has a rounded shape, not sharp, or pointed toward the sides or up and down. Why is that? Roundness is the best shape to enable easy harmony. Look at your mouth and lips; there are no sharp edges there. You have two nostrils in your nose but they come together at the top and become just one tube.</p>
<p>The English language is so limited in its adjectives. You don&#8217;t have a word like &#8220;wonma.&#8221; &#8220;Won&#8221; means round and &#8220;ma&#8221; means full. One word connotes roundness, richness and fullness. But there is no one English word to equal the meaning of that beautiful Korean word. You have such a poor language!</p>
<p>People today talk about evolution as a fact; they believe that everything in existence has evolved. But we must ask whether that process of evolution just happened spontaneously, or whether there was some cause or motivation behind it which allowed it to happen. What about the movement of evolution? Was it along a straight line or in a circle? That is the kind of question we should ask. Evolution must be moving according to a certain order or discipline and that discipline could be along a straight line or a circular line. But then, could evolution itself determine whether to move straight or in a circle? How about going up and down? There must be a certain will which determines that.</p>
<p>If some life form moved up from a lower level, there had to be something that caused it to develop into a higher form of life. Who determined that it should move up to a higher level? We might ask this question of Charles Darwin, the author of the evolutionary theory: &#8220;How could certain forms of life develop into more sophisticated forms? Why didn&#8217;t they go in the other direction toward a more primitive form? Mr. Darwin, did you order that those life forms should go higher? Are you God?&#8221;</p>
<p>Small beings always unite and become absorbed by larger beings. Why do they do that? Why should they bring themselves together into harmony? Why should one atom move together and unite with other atoms, forming more complex elements? Why don&#8217;t atoms go the other way and become smaller and smaller, getting shattered into pieces? That doesn&#8217;t happen. The logical person cannot not deny that some concept or purpose pre-existed all these phenomena.</p>
<p>I am not planning to teach a long sermon about evolution today. That is not our topic, so let&#8217;s leave Darwin alone now; we&#8217;ll come back to him again some other time.</p>
<p>Everyone, including each of you, is trying to improve himself and move toward the bigger and better situation. Isn&#8217;t that true? You don&#8217;t make effort each day to make yourself more miserable, do you? That universal inclination is found everywhere-in material objects as well as human beings. Thus we can logically conclude that it must be the reflection of some universal principle in action.</p>
<p>Your hair grows out from your scalp. Ask your hair, &#8220;Why do you do that? Did you decide according to your random will to sprout out all of a sudden on the way to Belvedere this morning?&#8221; What about your teeth? Why do they grow where they do, and not any other place? What if your teeth grew inside your belly? No, the teeth are supposed to grow inside your mouth, not inside the stomach, or the hips or anywhere else. They are designed( in that way. That design existed before the teeth did.</p>
<p>Imagine if your eye complained, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be where I am. I want to be on top of the nose!&#8221; Why are the eyes supposed to be where they are, slightly lower than the top of the nose? The eyes never complain or seek to move someplace higher on the face; they recognize there is a universal order which dictates where they are supposed to be. That is the position of the eyes and they must stay there; no complaints are possible.</p>
<p>Imagine if your head were upside down on your neck. The original concept and purpose dictated that the head should sit the way it does on the neck. No head can disobey that. Thus the idea within evolution-that there is random mutation or what is called the evolutionary process-is not actually true. Growth and development are not random things. There must be a discipline within them. Discipline toward what? Harmony is the ultimate goal toward which all existence is moving.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say that instead of your eyeball being flexible and moving around, it was rigid and immovable, like a stationary hole in your face. What an awkward and inconvenient eye that would be. Knowing about that inconvenience, a certain designer said, &#8220;The eyeball must be flexible and able to turn in all directions.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is a tenet of communism that matter is the essence of the universe and that all spiritual phenomena are nothing more than the byproducts of matter in motion. We must ask these important questions: Which comes first, existence or interaction? Is matter everything? Nothing in this universe is completely stationary. If you break down the molecules of even the most heavy, solid rock you will see hat incredible motion is occurring between the electrons and protons.</p>
<p>Going back to the eyes-did they just all of a sudden spring into existence by themselves? No, there must have been some prior motion which allowed them to exist. Look at electricity. Does electric energy occur first, or does electric interaction come first? The plus and minus interaction comes first. There is a prerequisite to any action-two parties, subject and object. So every action seeks improvement and greater sophistication. In order for an action to take place, there must be a subject and object-two complementary parties.</p>
<p>While you are calmly sitting here listening to me, all sorts of interaction is taking place inside of your body. That is what enables you to keep your balance and inner harmony. The mind and body interact within us to create a certain balance. Therefore we can enjoy a peaceful life; without that, all kinds of imbalance, even trauma, would occur.</p>
<p>All the existences within the universe could not come about just suddenly. There had to be some action first. But, as we said, action cannot take place unless there are the two parties called subject and object having give and take. The universe is full of energy, but is energy everything? No, even before energy existed, there had to be action and before that action, there was the interrelationship of subject and object in this universe.</p>
<p>The atom could not become an atom until an electron and proton came together; their interaction is what created the entity called an atom. When you are born in the minus form, the duty of that minus form is to go out into the universe and search for a corresponding plus form. Unless you find that plus form, the law of the universe says, &#8220;You have no right to dwell in this universe. Get out of here.&#8221; The universe will kick you out!</p>
<p>Within society, all kinds of perversions take place such as homosexuality and lesbianism &#8211; men loving other men, women loving women. Before anybody said anything about it, the laws of nature themselves said, &#8220;You don&#8217;t belong in this universe.&#8221; Human beings have certain aspirations in the pursuit of happiness, but if you go in an abnormal way, those aspirations can never be satisfied. Ultimately you can only destroy yourself.</p>
<p>You women, tell me, are you in the minus or the plus position? Do you say, &#8220;I do not accept the minus role! I want women to be in the plus position!&#8221; Even if you proclaimed, &#8220;I am a plus!&#8221; for a million years, the universe would not accept that. You might chant to yourself over and over, &#8220;I am going to become a man,&#8221; but nevertheless you would look at yourself and see that you are still a woman. That is absolute. Man is a man; woman is a woman. You cannot change it, either here on earth or in the hereafter. Is that too tedious for you?</p>
<p>Do you women say, &#8220;I believe in religion because I want to bring about a revolution in the very order of the universe! We women will become men and the men will become women&#8221;? No matter how much you might proclaim such a revolution, the universe would just laugh at you and say, &#8220;No way. Impossible.&#8221; The &#8220;law of the dialectic&#8221; cannot be applied in those circumstances.</p>
<p>No matter how much you men might try to become somebody other than yourselves, you cannot do it. Do you say, &#8220;Since we are all created equal, men and women should be exactly the same&#8221;? Can you act one day like a woman in your relationships and another day like a man? Yes or no? When God created human beings equal, that means they are equal in the highest possible goal &#8211; the achievement of love. In that realm, men and women are absolutely equal: they are the children of God, period.</p>
<p>Men and women are destined to come together and unite into one. They can never be stationary-either they move up or down; there is always motion and action. Once you form that male/female unity, would you like to move down or up? You say up, but which one is more difficult to achieve, going up or down? Why do you suppose God didn&#8217;t create things so that going upward is easier? If He had done that, there would be no basis for value or preciousness.</p>
<p>When you go upward, higher and higher, you are moving toward the summit, the pinnacle. That pinnacle is always one point, so everyone is moving toward that one goal. As you go up higher and higher, it becomes more and more difficult; getting closer to that pinnacle requires more effort. That means you have to overcome, to control all the elements within that arena in order to reach the top. It takes effort, discipline and drive.</p>
<p>Where does that road toward the ideal begin? Does it begin at the highest point or at the lowest place? What is the ideal? Is it the totality, everything, or is it only the highest thing? Can you find the ultimate ideal in the high place or in the low place?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say that your grandparents live in your home. Should your grandfather be seated in the lowest, most humble place or in the highest place? What about God, then? As you know, God is the oldest Granddad of everybody, without question. Then shouldn&#8217;t God have the highest position of all? Is that an easy place or a difficult one? Can you say to God, &#8220;Please come down. I want to be up there and You come down to my place&#8221;?</p>
<p>What is the ideal? We can draw a line on the blackboard to help us understand this concept. Each line always has two ends to it. One end moving toward the other is a representation of the ideal. Take your hand, for example. Its ideal motion would be to move all the way across your body and touch the other arm. Moving from all the way on the right to the left is a representation of the ideal. The left hand moving all the way across the body and grasping the right hand is the ideal. When you have an itch someplace, do your hands argue about whose responsibility it is to scratch it? &#8220;That&#8217;s your territory so you do it!&#8221; No, that doesn&#8217;t happen.</p>
<p>From this simple illustration, you can realize that the ideal means the unity of extremes, or end to end. Therefore, the ideal for human beings is for one extreme, man, to unite with woman, the other extreme in regard to sex. It is not man to man and woman to woman. The unity between man and woman is very difficult to achieve; it is a virtually impossible task, but that is the ideal.</p>
<p>Achieving unity between you American women and men is especially difficult. Why is this the ideal? Men and women should become one and create a certain roundness and harmony; then you can turn together, moving upward toward the goal. Men and women are created to be interdependent; therefore, when they separate themselves, a certain danger arises. In order to preserve your own self and to assure your own survival, you have to hold on tight to your partner. That is part of the design.</p>
<p>Why do you women have to carry around the heavy burden of broad hips and large bosom? It is because there is a certain necessity. That is the woman&#8217;s bait to fish for men! When men look at women, their eyes always go to those two places, bosom and hips. You women may not know that, but all men, including me, know this. If a man looks at a woman who is straight up and down, with no curves, he has no interest. When he sees a woman with a nice, abundant bosom and hips, he thinks, &#8220;Oh, she looks juicy!&#8221;</p>
<p>On the other hand, when a woman looks at a man, she isn&#8217;t interested in his chest or hips. If some man had a large bosom and round hips, she would be repulsed by him! Women are interested in a man&#8217;s muscular build and powerful shoulders. A universal design and will caused men and women to be made the way we are. We didn&#8217;t decide how we should be built. That universal will made us this way for the purpose of harmony.</p>
<p>Even a man&#8217;s skin is designed to be masculine, which means a rough texture and lots of hair, even a beard on the face. But women are meant to have soft skin, tender like the snow. Thus two extremes are brought together. Let&#8217;s say my arm has lots of hair on it. Can you imagine how I would feel if I raised Mother&#8217;s sleeve and saw as much hair? If Mother presented that kind of arm, I would say, &#8220;Oh, no!&#8221;</p>
<p>Women have narrow shoulders, which allows them to be easily embraced. If you had big wide shoulders, it would be rather difficult for a man to put his arms around you. It would never look good in a romantic movie, that&#8217;s for sure!</p>
<p>All these things are the result of the universal will. They are not caused by you. You did not design yourself in such a way. The amazing truth is that all the features you women possess are not for your own satisfaction or liking, but for the enjoyment of somebody else, namely a man. The same is true for men. In other words, women are created for men&#8217;s liking and men are created for women&#8217;s liking. That is why we say you are not born for yourself or exist for yourself.</p>
<p>The ideal means unity and harmony between extremes, from one end to the other. Once you achieve unity, you do not stand still but begin a circling motion. The question is, what sort of circling motion will you make? Do you want to just circle around in a small area or will you circle around a greater thing and a bigger purpose?</p>
<p>You can learn a lesson even from dancing. When two people dance, who leads-the smaller woman or the larger man? Automatically, the one who is the larger will be the leader. Always the anchor is the one at the center the bigger, stronger and taller person, the masculine one. He is the one who takes initiative. Therefore, between man and woman, man is definitely the subject.</p>
<p>This is the universal discipline; it&#8217;s not something people can vote on. It&#8217;s not something I decided, either. It is the way the universe itself designed men and women. That is why men are meant to be the ones to take the initiative; women naturally enjoy being lifted up when dancing. That is harmonious and beautiful. But if a man is twirled around, he feels uncomfortable.</p>
<p>In America today, many men and women are moving toward absolute selfishness. People are saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need anybody else. I just want to enjoy life all by myself.&#8221; What about you women, do you have love? You are not sure? Is your love for the purpose of yourself or for loving a man?</p>
<p>Does love exist for the purpose of giving, or just for receiving? The essence of loving is giving. What about here in America? When you women get married, do you say, &#8220;I am marrying because I want to give love&#8221;? Or do they feel, &#8220;I want to receive love&#8221;? What do you think? That was a very pragmatic American answer-&#8220;both.&#8221; However, which one should come first?</p>
<p>What happens when you only want to receive love? If the woman says, &#8220;You give me love,&#8221; and the man says, &#8220;No, I want to receive it. You give love to me,&#8221; there can be no give and take, no intercourse. Therefore you both stand idle, with no unity. If you cannot unite, you cannot move upward. The ideal requires that you make a circular motion; the horizontal and vertical lines must come together and create the global, circular motion.</p>
<p>What is the worst sin of you women? It is that you always want to receive love. That is the sin of sins because it is so destructive of humanity and the rest of the universe. But when you are determined to give and serve others, then you not only unite but you also make a circling motion. You create the rhythm of up and down. Therefore, what is most wrong in our world today is that people just want to receive love.</p>
<p>Someone might say, &#8220;Nobody ever taught me that before. I certainly didn&#8217;t learn that in college. Reverend Moon, you have created something brand new.&#8221; This may be new to you, but it is universal law. No one can deny even one iota of this.</p>
<p>You women, please be honest to me and I promise to forgive you: Have you been thinking of ways to receive more and more love, or have you thought about how to give more love? This is the revolution which I have proclaimed, the revolution toward selfless love. That is what the Unification Church revolution is all about.</p>
<p>Men naturally pursue women, but for what purpose? To receive love or to give love? That is the most important question. It is a serious problem that American people have not understood how universal law works. You men should never think, &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad I&#8217;m getting married because now my life will be easier. I will have someone to cook breakfast for me and wash my laundry, someone to serve me.&#8221; But all of a sudden, that is not what happens and you start to complain, &#8220;Hey, what&#8217;s happening here?&#8221; Your first concept was wrong; you are not supposed to get married in order to make your life easier. You should think that your life will get tougher, but you should be willing to do it in order to give love.</p>
<p>Love is always developing. Once you begin your love relationship, it must always expand. Your horizons must become larger and greater, expanding to the society, nation and world. Why are men and women so essential to each other? It is because you can develop your love to the world level through that most basic unit, the &#8220;building block&#8221; for love-that relationship between a man and woman.</p>
<p>In other words, the husband and wife are the nucleus. When they form the ideal model, the nucleus is there for the ideal world of love. Such a husband and wife can move anywhere-to the level of society, nation and world-and can fit perfectly, harmonizing with everyone. At the same time, you can serve the world better. When you observe the universe, you can see that every thing is in the pair system. There are no bachelors in the natural universe. This is true in the vegetable kingdom or the mineral kingdom-inside the atom, there is the pair system-as well as in the animal kingdom. The entire universe is based on the relationship of pairs. The reason is that the pair system allows for the give and take of love, which is the ideal for the entire universe. Therefore, when men and women become united as husband and wife, giving to one another in the perfect fashion, they are like the guiding light of the universe. Everywhere they go, they will be welcomed, not only by humanity but also the rest of the universe, including all of nature.</p>
<p>If we represented love as a railroad track, it would spread out wider and wider. The normal railroad track has parallel lines, but in the love railroad, the tracks open up wider and wider because the sphere of give and take of love gets larger and larger. Love always develops to a higher plane or stage; it cannot go backwards or down. To advance yourself in love, you have to give more and more.</p>
<p>Men and women are meant to be the standard for the love of the universe. When you become perfect, you can proclaim, &#8220;All of you other forms of existence can measure the quality of your love against us. You can be measured by the scale that we have.&#8221; All of the other existences will agree and they will come to you. The universe needs that love scale, that standard of measurement for love which perfected human beings represent.</p>
<p>The reason so many marriages are breaking down in this society is that people are only seeking their own well-being when they get married. Such couples are sleeping in the same bed, but their thoughts and purposes are different because each person is centered upon himself. Therefore, unity can never come to them. What is the most ideal marriage? It is when a person gives himself up to the point where he doesn&#8217;t even exist for himself. Only his love, his partner, exists. When both partners say, &#8220;I am totally at your service,&#8221; how can that marriage break up?</p>
<p>Imagine the man who loves his wife so much, he just bites off the tip of her nose one night in the utter ecstasy of love. When his wife gets up the next morning, would she go to court and sue her husband? Or if the husband expressed his love so passionately that he gave his wife a scar someplace, would she say, &#8220;Oh, no, look at me! I cannot live with you any more!&#8221;? If that scar was on her leg, she would look at it and say, &#8220;What a beauty mark, a glorious love mark! I want to have another and another- all over me!&#8221; Is such a woman unhappy? If her whole body became decorated by those love marks, do you think she would be happy or unhappy?</p>
<p>That is what excitement is all about, but watch out for your fingers! You men and women were born in order to pursue excitement and enthusiasm in your life; you desire greater energy for life. When husband and wife are engaging in love in bed, it is almost like a battle-you may tear up the sheets and virtually destroy the bed. Because of the wildness of such love, do you women say, &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid of my husband, so I&#8217;m going to protect myself with a pistol&#8221;? No wife would want to do that. Even though it is rather wild, you anticipate it and look forward to it happening again and again! It is exciting.</p>
<p>When you get married, you look forward to some fullness of excitement, not something mediocre or half-way. That kind of bubbling enthusiasm will never come if the man and woman are both saying, &#8220;You must give love to me. I need it.&#8221; When you totally commit yourself and give yourself up for the sake of your spouse, great excitement can be generated.</p>
<p>I am surprised to see the clock-I have already spoken for an hour and a half on this &#8220;love lecture.&#8221; I could continue all day like this, but what about you? You might be able to enjoy it, but after all, I do get hungry, you know!</p>
<p>The most important thing I am trying to explain today is the ideal. The ideal is the coming together of end to end, extreme to extreme. That includes the horizontal extreme to extreme and also the vertical extreme to extreme. When both the horizontal and vertical come together, that is truly the ideal. Plus/minus horizontally and plus/minus vertically having give and take create the ultimate ideal of motion. In order to make that circular motion, you have to be united in a round shape. There are two round shapes, actually-the horizontal, or the husband and wife, and the vertical, between God and man. When this vertical and horizontal love come together, they create the whole love ball.</p>
<p>What is the most important point of all in the realization of this ideal? What is the center between horizontal love and vertical love? That center is the love between God and man. The reason the love of this world is so confused is that people are trying to engage in horizontal love alone, without their vertical connection. When you examine any sort of circling motion, you will find that there must always be an axis; without an axis, there can be no turning. This is true for the planet Earth and for the entire solar system, including the Sun and Moon. That principle can also apply in human affairs. We must turn along an axis; without an axis, there can be no turning action. The axis for men and women is true love, centered on God.</p>
<p>True love is humanity&#8217;s common denominator. Within true love, you can fulfill your own unique self; you become a public man, registered and accepted by the universe. True love is the only point upon which God and man can come together, so it is also the common denominator between God and man.</p>
<p>I have already said many times that the husband and wife are the nucleus and the basic standard and measure, for the universe. That core nucleus is surrounded by the family, which is part of the society; the society is part of the nation, and the nation is part of the world. The whole world eventually comes under God. That is how it goes, but only if the nucleus is strong.</p>
<p>Therefore, each social unit such as the husband and wife and the family and so forth must be properly centered. The family must be centered upon the head of the family. The tribe must be centered upon its chief. The society and nation have a head of state. From the very bottom, you circle upward all the way to the top and within every social unit there is a head or a central figure.</p>
<p>We need four directions in order to determine our position. We need to know where we are in relation to north, south, east and west. You must turn in all four directions to make a complete circle. This is why people have the aspiration to visit many different places in the world You want to see places in the north, south, east and west.</p>
<p>Where did the white people originate? They are from the northern part of the world. Have you ever seen a polar bear? That is a very white creature! The northern part of the world gets a lot of snow, which is a symbol for the white race and culture. Then there is the equator, which is like the lower valley, which is where the black race and cultures originated. Whenever there is a tall mountain, there is also a deep valley.</p>
<p>The valley is always full of odors which attract a lot of small insects and animals; it is a fertile environment for them to enjoy. But on top of the mountain there is nothing to eat, no vegetation; it is barren and infertile. By the same token, it is an emotionally barren place, with no heartistic richness. Thus the color white suggests coldness and even arrogance. Many white people try to elevate and dignify themselves but they lack heartistic warmth. In order to find that warmth, they have to go down into the valley.</p>
<p>In the culture and tradition of the Unification Church, white people have the desire to marry black people in order to make greater progress and development. Love between two white people is less dramatic than that between a white person and a black person. When a white couple is together, walking through the lobby of a hotel or in a coffee shop for instance, nobody even notices them. The same is true for a black couple or an Oriental couple. But when a handsome white man and a beautiful black woman are together, looking happy and united, everybody&#8217;s eyes are drawn to them. Such a pair definitely attracts attention. Why is that? It is human nature to appreciate drama and excitement, and such a couple provides just that.</p>
<p>When you go to an amusement park, you can ride the giant Ferris wheel and go around and around all the way up to the very top, and then down again. The beauty of that ride is that you go all the way around, not just to the top, but also down and around. The greatest excitement is when you are going down; that is when everybody screams. When people are riding up the hills on the roller coaster, everybody is quiet, but as soon as the cars start to descend, everybody starts screaming! That downward motion is most exciting.</p>
<p>I have been speaking about the definition of the ideal this morning so by now you understand it clearly, right? There is no special dramatic effect to white people just loving other white people. That is almost like scratching your own arm-no excitement. But when white people and black people are loving and caring for one another, that is true beauty and harmony.</p>
<p>Who in the world can ignite such a historical social revolution on the earth-political leaders, philosophers, scholars? No, they cannot. It is only one person and one group-Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. This audience is a good example. We have the entire globe in miniature here-all the colors of skin-black, white, yellow, red and brown. If anybody asks you whom you would like to follow, none of you would say, &#8220;Ronald Reagan,&#8221; or &#8220;The Chief Justice,&#8221; or &#8220;My Congressman and Senator.&#8221; You say, &#8220;We want to follow Reverend Moon.&#8221; I would prefer that you say, &#8220;Reverend Moon,&#8221; rather than simply &#8220;Father,&#8221; because that clearly states that even though I am an Oriental, a Korean and so forth, you don&#8217;t care. Still you can say, &#8220;I want to follow Reverend Moon.&#8221;</p>
<p>What is my secret weapon that causes you to feel this way? It is absolutely simple and it is what I have been expounding upon this morning: I have love to give. I am constantly giving my love to you. I came to America to give my very life, and even though this country has put me into its prison, still I love and give to America. It is a universal law that anyone who does that has to have a magnetic pulling power.</p>
<p>When the original mind manifests itself, it doesn&#8217;t require any explanation; people automatically understand and respond to it. That is a characteristic of human nature. When you live according to the original mind and act with original love, people and nature can understand you. That is the secret of my ability to attract you people.</p>
<p>When you come to Belvedere on Sundays, you wonder, &#8220;Is Father going to speak?&#8221; When I don&#8217;t come, you feel, &#8220;Oh, gee, I&#8217;m disappointed;&#8221; but when I do speak, you feel all sorts of electricity and excitement. Is that true?</p>
<p>That is why you Moonies are known to be crazy people- some mysterious power is drawing you and exciting you. But that is not abnormal at all; it is actually a natural characteristic. That is the power of the universe and the way things have been operating from the very beginning.</p>
<p>The largest vertical circular motion can be found between God and the True Parents. God is at the highest extreme, while the True Parents are at the center of the universe and of this planet Earth. Therefore, between the highest God and the True Parents on earth a circle is created which is the vertical circular motion. When the highest point unites with the lowest point, they form circular motion and the center or axis comes into being. That is where you can find the ideal.</p>
<p>Thus, we say that God does not find joy and excitement by Himself. He doesn&#8217;t look at His own hands and say, &#8220;How beautiful they are.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t look at Himself in the mirror and say, &#8220;What beautiful eyes I have!&#8221; That doesn&#8217;t give God any joy. God has the ability to smell, so does He want to smell His own scents? No. God wants to hear things, but not the sound of His own voice. He wants to smell the fragrance and hear the voice of His object of love. When you touch your own hand, it doesn&#8217;t give you any great thrill, but when you touch the hand of your object, you feel a strong sensation. The same is true of God. He too wants to feel the excitement of love.</p>
<p>Even the word &#8220;ideal&#8221; has no meaning to God unless He has established some give and take relationship between Himself and His object. Today&#8217;s topic is the road toward the ideal. That ideal can come into being only when there is a subject and an object-or the highest and the lowest point, one end and the other-coming together in harmony and loving one another. The ideal comes into being when you practice living for the sake of others, not for yourself. Unselfish devotional love alone can engender the ideal.</p>
<p>When you give to others, you will also prosper, while if you try to take from others, you will become smaller and smaller, eventually finding destruction. Therefore, when you have the strongest desire to give for the sake of others, you can become connected to the road toward the ideal. The Bible teaches this clearly when it says that those who give shall be more blessed than those who receive.</p>
<p>Let me ask you, am I telling you the truth? You must think about this deeply. It is a very fundamental question. Are you sure this is the truth? What about yourself? Look and ask yourself, what kind of life have I been living? Have I been living according to that principle to the absolute degree? If not, you have been a failure-you have flunked the course! What does that really mean? You are like a traitor and a rebel to the rest of the universe. But you can reverse that trend; today you can make a change. You can turn yourself around and live according to the absolute level of this ideal.</p>
<p>When the members of the Unification Church receive the Blessing, many think, &#8220;This is the terminal point, the final goal for the Unification Church way of life.&#8221; Rather, I am telling you that that is just the starting point! The center of that family is the church and the center of the church is the nation; that is why I have always taught you to live for the sake of the nation. Then the United States, for example, must live for the sake of the world. It is not doing that now, so our determination is to create such a nation.</p>
<p>The United States must know this secret: by giving unselfishly and altruistically for the rest of the world, this country will never perish. Instead, it will gain greater power and true dominion over the world. Much greater blessing will come to this country.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has been faithfully practicing this principle and because of it, a lot of sacrifices have been imposed upon the East Garden family. Mother has had a suffering course because I have very seldom paid her much attention. Likewise, my children have not received much attention from me. Mother&#8217;s life has been very difficult. When she was only a tender young girl, she met with her giant husband. Can you imagine the suffering her heart has endured? She has had absolutely no freedom. Mother has been bearing within her heart so many pains; she could never even speak about them. She has felt that it was her responsibility to bear her cross and support me. Now that I have accomplished on the worldwide scale, Mother has matured and become truly a mother for the universe.</p>
<p>The True Parents&#8217; position is that of giving endlessly, with no reservation. By doing that, the new world can come into being. There is no other way a new order and new life can be created-that must be practiced to the letter, to the ultimate degree. For example, when I came to America it meant that I had to leave Korea behind; I could not pay attention to the Korean people because I had a greater goal. After the United States government mistreated me and I returned to Korea, the people there told me, &#8220;Reverend Moon, why do you ever want to return to the United States, since they have misunderstood you so completely?&#8221; But I returned to this country because I operate according to a different principle. My goal is the ideal world, not just one nation such as Korea. That is where I am moving toward-the ultimate, highest point.</p>
<p>When you are climbing up toward the top of the world, there are times when you cannot see the goal and the future seems bleak. But now is a different time-we can finally see the North Pole, the destination. Things are getting easier and easier and we are thinking, &#8220;Yes, we can make it!&#8221; We can see very clearly that communism is failing and that it will come to an end. No question about it. What about the democratic system-is that the ultimate system? No, that too will come to an end; it has so many obvious problems today.</p>
<p>Can you imagine that the Messiah or God Himself could be elected by popular vote? Would God be a Republican or a Democrat? Or perhaps we should say, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need an absolute God. We just need to follow the democratic system.&#8221;</p>
<p>The road of love is not the road of popular elections. Voting is, in a way, a selfish act because people usually vote for their own desires and goals. But love itself is simply giving. In true love, there is no such thing as oneself; true love is selflessness. That is the ultimate state of the holy man and woman: they have totally emptied themselves. As you know, the ideal never comes alone; there must be partners.</p>
<p>Before the establishment of sovereignty for the ideal world, there must be a guiding principle and leaders who are moving this world toward that goal. What citizenship would you like most to have-the United States, the world, or the Kingdom of Heaven? As just an American citizen, you cannot receive citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven; you must first move up to the world level. No one in secular society has world citizenship today. However, the Unification Church is a place in which people can gain that world citizenship.</p>
<p>But is that the end of it? Is the goal of the Unification Church just to acquire world citizenship? No, we aspire to a higher level-that of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. It is best if everybody could enjoy the citizenship of all of these-the nation, the world and the Kingdom of Heaven. But if the situation dictates that you cannot enjoy them all, which one would you prefer to have? You say Kingdom of Heaven citizenship. Is that easy to acquire? Who is going to guide you into that Heavenly citizenship? You say, &#8220;Father,&#8221; but what kind of father-a fallen one or a perfected one? Only the perfected Father has the right to sign your name on the rosters of the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
<p>What was the original plan-to be born directly into citizenship of the Kingdom of Heaven, or to be born into sinful citizenship and then move up to the Heavenly citizenship? How were you born? What is your root, your lineage? The fallen lineage is the root upon which you ( were born. The nature of fallen love is to receive; it is selfish love and that is the essence of fallen nature. Therefore, we have to bring a revolution to that love and turn it into unselfish love. Without that kind of love, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
<p>That is why the teaching of religions throughout history, particularly in the Bible, has been, &#8220;Go 180 degrees opposite from the way of the world.&#8221; We have been encountering opposition constantly in the role of pioneers. Under these adverse conditions we are struggling to build a highway for our posterity, so that they can follow that road and reach the goal much more quickly. But as the pioneers, we must go the way which is opposite to the way of the world.</p>
<p>Although we are resisted, opposed and persecuted, we do not seek revenge. We do not want tooth for tooth, eye for eye, or life for life. Our only revenge is that of true love; we want to reciprocate with forgiveness and true love. That is the difference between our way of life and that of Satan&#8217;s. That is the boundary line, the point of separation where Satan has to say, &#8220;No more. I cannot pursue you any further.&#8221;</p>
<p>As individuals, we want to practice giving love; as families, we want to practice giving love; as a church, we want to do the same. Only one way of life, one direction should appear on the face of the earth-that way of life will bring together all the five colors of skin. There is only one time in history that this will happen. In a way, we are taking a stick and drawing a line on the ground and telling the satanic world, &#8220;You cannot come beyond this line. No crossing over.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Unification Church and Reverend Moon are practicing this Principle to the ultimate degree. We think that if, by sacrificing the Unification Church we could save the world, we would do that. We would give anything to pull this world out of destruction. Are we on the right track and following God&#8217;s principle? Even though people of the world have persecuted Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, their original minds have always known what is right and wrong. Sooner or later, Americans will come to realize that they have committed a serious crime and they have to pay for it. That time has already begun and thus a big change is taking place in the country. The atmosphere is different; people want to repay the wrong they have done, the debt they have incurred. The universe will continue to change in that way.</p>
<p>We are a &#8220;moving&#8221; movement, in a way, going from west to east, north to south, in order to equalize economic discrepancies and bring about a true sharing of resources. Also, we are bringing east and west together to share in one cultural sphere, the sphere of unification.</p>
<p>The True Parents are in the position of giving to you, as individuals and as families. From my position as father, I am always the one to give. The True Parents always want to give. This is true on every level-from the individual to the world level. But then the world is, in a way, refusing this gift; what a truly terrible crime that is.</p>
<p>You are in the position to receive such a great blessing and such great love. Can you betray it? If so, that is truly the worst betrayal. I want to give to you on the individual level; my family wants to give to you &#8211; especially to you, not to everybody. If you don&#8217;t want to receive this gift, how great a betrayal that is. When can you ever pay it back? Especially you Unification Church members &#8211; how many times have you complained or repeated comments against Father?</p>
<p>We have to go to the highest level, so Father does not stop but keeps going up, up, up! Going up is not an easy way. More and more the communist world and the KGB are thinking, &#8220;How can we assassinate Reverend Moon?&#8221; They want to eliminate &#8220;that Reverend Moon guy&#8221;; they are serious. So this is a very difficult situation, not an easy one. Father thinks about how to save the communist world. How can I give more love to them now, especially, so that their next generation, their young people, can participate in a new revolution? I hear many reports from our underground members working in that area.</p>
<p>Think about our way of life. Think about how you have conducted yourself in the past. Our way has not been toward the ideal but in the opposite direction many times. Although we want to do better, we often find that we have gone in the wrong direction. We do not have a nation yet, our sovereignty, do we? That means God doesn&#8217;t have authority. I have been concentrating upon the United States in order to turn it truly into one nation under God, because it is the microcosm of the world. America can influence the rest of the world more easily than any other nation. This is the reason I came to America. But where is this America heading now? Is it spiritually well-off, or is it declining and going the road of destruction? Where is America going-upward or downward? America is declining, it is true.</p>
<p>The United States is beset with a multitude of problems, such as immorality, juvenile delinquency, and drug abuse. The problems of the family are multiplying and there is tremendous ideological confusion and loss of values. Do you think the Unification Church has the solution to all these incredible problems? If you believe it, how can you prove it? The proof is very simple. You can say, &#8220;Look at us. We were once part of that perishing America, but we are very different now. We are new people with new life and new goals. I made a 180 degree turn, so I am the example, the testimony.&#8221; Isn&#8217;t that true? Thus the hope for all the millions of people in America is quite simple: it resides within you. If they can turn around just as you have, this country will be saved.</p>
<p>The secular education system in America is totally on the satanic side; it is bringing the people straight toward destruction, not life and hope. Within this country I have been able to establish a sort of alternate educational system-our movement-in which young people can be re-educated and turned around. That is the victorious testimony of this great movement here in America.</p>
<p>We know that our road is not an easy but an arduous one, so we have made up our minds to go through it. But the rest of the world has been suffering without understanding why. The difference is this: we have a most difficult road today, but we know that tomorrow it will change; thus we have hope for a new day. Although people in the secular world may be happy in the moment, they have no reason to hope for tomorrow. In fact, they feel that tomorrow will certainly be darker; they will become more confused and disunited. That is a big difference.</p>
<p>When persecution came to Reverend Moon from the United States government, I did not want to avoid it. I wanted to go over it. Do you follow? My way of life is different-I always overcome the difficulties. You blessed couples, husband and wife, must be ever more determined to go out and work harder. If you just stand still as a married couple, you will isolate yourselves from the rest of the universe. You have no way to stay connected. If there had been any other way, I would not have come to America for this most arduous road of persecution.</p>
<p>By my coming here and creating this incredible and controversial movement, all the True Children were exposed to tremendous pressure and emotional pain. When they go to their schools, the other children make fun of them and whisper, &#8220;That&#8217;s Reverend Moon&#8217;s son and daughter. Oh, those Moonies.&#8221; The children have had to endure that kind of daily scorn and come home with heavy hearts. I know that. This is different from your own position or that of your children; My children have to carry an extraordinary mental burden all the time. My message to them is always, &#8220;Look at me, your Daddy. I am receiving worldwide persecution and I am receiving it willingly, gladly. Can&#8217;t you take this small persecution that comes from your school? That is really very small compared to what people have done to me.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, I have the vision and the experience to see well beyond the present moment, so I never become discouraged or disheartened. But within the minds of my children, these experiences are gigantic because they cannot see as far beyond. For that reason, their suffering is much greater, in a way. You don&#8217;t know about these kinds of things. If I had not come to America, these things would not have happened to them. But I came here for a purpose: for the sake of the world and the entire providential goal. I have never become discouraged even one iota or moved backward one step, even though my own children have had to be overburdened in that fashion and sacrificed, in a way.</p>
<p>But what about you? Do you think, &#8220;Well, Father is Father. He is going his way and we are going ours&#8221;? Can you take that easy route? Do you think, &#8220;Let&#8217;s just wait for a while until Father becomes victorious. Then I will f show up on that day to share in the victory&#8221;? I want you to understand this very well: instead of trying to shy away now, thinking, &#8220;I&#8217;ll come back later when things are easier,&#8221; think, &#8220;I am a representative of Father. I am on the forefront of this nation and I will be responsible. I would like Father to take the glory and comfort; I want to take the hard work and suffering.&#8221; That is an example of giving, which is the standard for the ideal.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon&#8217;s life is the model in three most important aspects. If I am asked, &#8220;When did you give for the sake of the world?&#8221; my answer is, &#8220;Always, every minute of he day.&#8221; If I am asked, &#8220;When did you live for the sake of others?&#8221; and &#8220;When did you love?&#8221; I say, &#8220;Up to this moment. There was no moment in my life without love.&#8221; Because of that loving heart, I have always forgiven others.</p>
<p>All beings, even a tiny mouse, will welcome you when you are trying to live for its welfare. That is the law of nature. Do you understand? Nature is waiting for such a master. The trees and the grasses are saying, &#8220;You human beings are the supreme form of creation. You are the masters of the universe; therefore, we are waiting to be served by you, loved by you.&#8221; All of nature is awaiting your love. Somebody has to initiate love. That is the role( of the subject. Human beings have to initiate love and then the rest of the universe will respond by giving and serving and loving; but unless someone takes the initiative, nature can never respond.</p>
<p>Because God has already given to us, lived for our sake, and loved us, in our hearts there is the desire to respond to God. When you practice God&#8217;s principle: giving and living for the sake of others, as well as loving others, you will move gradually and surely toward God.</p>
<p>Now the paths of East and West are converging. Throughout history, the Oriental way of life has been basically centered upon the mind and the spirit. Thus their concept is to turn inward, deny the material, and focus on giving, serving and moving upward in that way. That has been the Oriental mentality. At the same time, the Western way of life has been centered more upon external things, such as acquiring scientific knowledge and material wealth.</p>
<p>We could say that the Orientals are spiritually rich and the Occidentals are materially rich. But now the time has come for these two halves of the world to come together. They have to swap with each other-the West must share their material wealth and gain spiritual well-being. The East must give their spiritual wealth and pursue the scientific and modern-day material wealth. Therefore, a swapping mission must begin, where Orientals bring their ideal elements to the West and pour them out and the West gives its material wealth for the sake of the East. Who is the model and the center of this swapping mission? Reverend Moon has been that center.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon, as a representative of the Orient, came to America and poured out everything of internal value. Now we have to see the reverse-Westerners need to go to the Orient and pour out their external wealth. When each part empties itself out-spiritually and materially- they will automatically begin revolving in harmony. The world is already seeing this phenomenon-the Western world is showing more and more respect and appreciation of the Oriental world. American people are interested and attracted to everything Japanese-restaurants, clothing, cars, everything. This is not a problem; it is combining the two worlds. God is working in this way; it is the providential way.</p>
<p>This is the final chapter of fallen human history-the West must bring its material wealth to the Orient and pour it out there, while the Orient must bring its spiritual heritage to the West. The two twins can become one and create perfect harmony. This is the final chapter. Then absolutely we will return together back to God.</p>
<p>That is the ultimate dispensational role of the Unification Church. Our responsibility is to be like glue-bringing things together. There is a type of glue nowadays that is so strong that once two things are glued together, they are bonded and cannot be separated. We have to make such oneness between different cultures and ways of life. The quickest way to bond together two different ways of life is through our international marriages-bringing East and West together in one home. The Japanese women who married Western men, please raise your hands and let me see. Who gave you your Western husbands? Did I force you, or did you want that?</p>
<p>These marriages represent two extremes coming together. That is the most beautiful and dramatic thing in the universe. No matter what other people may say, the most important thing is that you live happily, in an exciting and rewarding way. Furthermore, when you have children you can be most proud of them because they are the fruit of the unity of East and West. Be proud of the fact that those children are the closest to God&#8217;s heart and a joy to Heaven. Think, &#8220;I may be further away, but my children are close to God. God really loves my children.&#8221; How wonderful!</p>
<p>If there had been no opposition from established Christianity forty years ago, perhaps I would have married a British woman. That&#8217;s true. At that time, the Eve nation was Britain. America was born from that country, so America is the son. The son is the representative of Adam and Eve. Standing in the middle in the archangel position at that time was France. France always goes either way, every time.</p>
<p>The most important, valuable way to live is to follow the way of truth-giving, serving and loving. You have to know that clearly. God is an absolute being and He has to protect anyone living this way. I know that clearly. That is why I could survive all these years. I understand the laws of original existence and I am following those laws, so no matter how much opposition comes against me or how difficult the atmosphere, it is no problem. I will continue following the way of truth. Do you understand?</p>
<p>My life testifies clearly to the truth of this way. Many people in the past thought, &#8220;Reverend Moon is too controversial. He is destined to fail.&#8221; But they were wrong; Reverend Moon has become more and more successful. Now people testify, &#8220;Reverend Moon is the happiest person, even though he has had such a difficult life. No one else has reached such a successful position.&#8221; People are amazed to see how happy Reverend Moon is. This is the testimony-my life. This is the way of truth. I know it and I am teaching you this clearly at this hour. Now you know clearly, right?</p>
<p>What should you do in order to follow me? Should you only think about your life? No, you have to make effort and gain results. You can achieve the same position as mine only by taking action. Otherwise, there is no way. Father is showing you that standard. This is really the most valuable and precious way. Who is really against me? No one, only Satan. Satan and man came together through the fall, but I have been teaching people this truth. Your original mind is following Father&#8217;s words and now many people are dedicating themselves to sacrificing and separating from Satan.</p>
<p>Someday in the future you will die and go to the spiritual world; that is certain. When you stand before God at that time, He will say, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; You might say, &#8220;I am a Moonie.&#8221; Then God will say, &#8220;Are you a real Moonie or a fake one?&#8221; What will you answer? Will you be able to say, &#8220;I am a genuine Moonie.&#8221; Do you have that confidence? Show me your result.</p>
<p>The real Moonies&#8217; way is that of giving everything, forsaking everything, and loving everyone. God knows that, so He will ask you, &#8220;Did you live all your life on earth according to those three criteria?&#8221; At that time, how will you answer Him? Will you say with assurance, &#8220;Yes, God, I did&#8221;?</p>
<p>God created the entire universe with that heart. He gave everything, thinking only of others. We received that wonderful gift, so we have to return it. Where? Not to God directly-we must give back to this world. The world is your training course for Heaven, where you learn to forsake, give, and love. Become the kind of fruit for Heaven who feels: God&#8217;s happiness is my happiness; His joy is my joy.</p>
<p>What power do we need to make God&#8217;s world? We need love power. How wonderful a life we have! God is our subject of love; we are His objects of love and we are meant to become united into one. That is man&#8217;s purpose and destiny-that is your destiny! Every person has to become that way with God; we have to reach that purpose in reality. This is the real purpose of man. Is this clear? Now you know that this is our responsibility.</p>
<p>So the Kingdom of Heaven is a place where no one can live alone, because the ideal cannot be found by an individual all by himself. It has to be two-husband and wife. What about you American people-do you want to go at least once to Africa? America is in the highest place, at the summit. The highest place and the least developed place must have the exchange of give and take. As much as I have given every ounce of energy for the sake of the United States, you in turn must do that for the sake of unfortunate nations, as in Africa.</p>
<p>The United States is protecting Korea today almost reluctantly, but some force has been holding the two countries together. The international situation has always forced America to stay closely connected with Korea. At the same time, Reverend Moon has been holding tightly to the United States. The only difference is that the United States is trying to push Reverend Moon in one direction but I have been pushing them in the other direction. This is the battle. The United States has been saying, &#8220;Reverend Moon, you are all right as long as you will turn around and be centered upon the United States. We are the subject and you are the object.&#8221; But Reverend Moon has been saying, &#8220;No, no, this is not true.&#8221;</p>
<p>Who is bigger-the United States government or Reverend Moon? Reverend Moon is even shorter than you, so how could you say the! I am bigger? The population of the United States is 240 million and Reverend Moon is only one Oriental person, not even a citizen. That is the way America sees it. Whose eyes are bigger-Reverend Moon&#8217;s eyes or the U.S. government&#8217;s eyes? What about this-between the U.S government&#8217;s nose and smelling power and Reverend Moon&#8217;s smelling power, which one is greater? Even though Reverend Moon&#8217;s physical ears are not too big, which is greater-his listening power or the listening power of the U.S. government, which is greater? What about verbal power-which one is stronger? When I shout out something, everybody is shocked. But the U.S. government can issue statement after statement and nobody listens; everybody is dozing.</p>
<p>The difference is this: what Reverend Moon speaks is what he does. The U.S. government speaks but often there are no deeds to follow it up, so it is just empty rhetoric. The scale of the U.S. government is quite puny, but that is what they are trying to measure Reverend f Moon with. They just don&#8217;t have the right kind of scale to measure with. They try to use binoculars to watch him, but those lenses cannot encompass him; Reverend Moon is so big, they cannot see all of him through those particular binoculars. They cannot see anything clearly. They say, &#8220;Where is Reverend Moon? Who is he?&#8221;</p>
<p>You Americans tell me: Which one will surrender, the U.S. government to God, or the other way around? If they refuse to surrender out of arrogance, what will happen? The government will remain only as a facade, while the entire population of the country, particularly the young people, will eventually come to Father. They will be like a paper tiger, with nothing inside. You Americans are different, at least. You understand that God should be at the center and the U.S. should be the object. Is that true?</p>
<p>If you found some precious treasure, would you feel like giving it to the President of the United States, or to Father? You are crazy people! That is why they say you are brainwashed. However, we know that we are true love-washed, not brainwashed. Other people do not know or understand the touch of true love, but you Moonies have tasted something unique. That is why other people cannot understand the Unification Church-they do not understand true love. And that is why we are such at mystery to them.</p>
<p>Would you like to see Reverend Moon treated with greater respect than the president, or lesser? At this time, what do you think-is my position higher or lower than President Reagan&#8217;s? A simple way to look at it is this: If President Reagan came here trying to take the place of Reverend Moon, he could not lead the Unification Church for even one day. that&#8217;s for sure. But if Father were to move to the White House, I could guide the country with no problem. One aspect of this democratic country is very good-the fact that I can speak like this today. If I were to speak like this in a totalitarian system, within a few moments I would be taken away and possibly executed.</p>
<p>What they call the WASPs-White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants-look at Reverend Moon and cannot accept him. There are many Americans saying, &#8220;No, no,&#8221; against Reverend Moon now, but they are getting very tired and they will fall asleep. When they wake up, the rest of America will have gone to follow Reverend Moon&#8217;s movement.</p>
<p>Are there any CIA agents in the audience? Go ahead and tell the director of the CIA everything that Reverend Moon is speaking. The CIA is clever and at least they understand the truth. They say, &#8220;Well, Reverend Moon is a true anti-communist, and he is teaching good moral standards to young people. That is all good for America. The only problem is that he won&#8217;t become Americanized; he is trying to Moonize America!&#8221;</p>
<p>All kinds of people have come from around the world and become Americanized, but has that made them better human beings? On the other hand, you American men and women who have become &#8220;Moonized,&#8221; what kind of people have you become? You have become purpose oriented, moral, dedicated, and unselfish. What is wrong with that? That means the battle is already over; the umpire has already made his call. It is only a matter of time now. Do you agree?</p>
<p>Nothing really bothers or disturbs Reverend Moon; I am solid like a rock. I can chortle and laugh, &#8220;HA, HA, HA.&#8221; The key point is this: Moonizing is not bad, but what is the final result, what are the consequences of it? Is Reverend Moon just trying to use everybody like bait in the Pacific Ocean? No, Reverend Moon is Moonizing young people to truly create the Kingdom of God on the earth. What is wrong with that? By using the American citizens as raw material, Reverend Moon has produced people of much higher quality, with heavenly citizenship. This is the most ideal, sought-after position. Anybody who seriously opposes this is actually a traitor to the United States. If the government opposes it, then the government is actually betraying the American dream. Do you follow?</p>
<p>American people live well, and they ask, &#8220;Why shouldn&#8217;t we?&#8221; That is fine. I have no objection to all the American people living well, except that such a high level should be reached by going through the level of Africa. Two extremes must come together in harmony- the top American way of life and the most difficult African way of life. That is why my message and training for you have always included both the highest ideal and the lowest, most difficult way of life.</p>
<p>We do fund raising, witnessing, fasting and so forth. We work very hard all the time. People say, &#8220;Reverend Moon, your teaching is good but your practices are terrible. Why do you put American young people in such bad situations, such as selling flowers and other hard work?&#8221; But I say, &#8220;I am helping to create Americans who can embrace both the top and the bottom in life, people who can have dominion and control over everything.&#8221;</p>
<p>American people should give everything for the sake of Africa. Suppose people sold their fine homes and possessions and took that money to Africa where they could buy land, build hospitals and schools by which to serve the African people. If you could do that, would you strive I only to make yourself comfortable instead? Would you do that for your own sake? The way you can win Africa is to do three things: give to them, live for their sake and love them. You will not lose yourself, either. That is the truly wise way, the way that Reverend Moon is teaching.</p>
<p>I have been pouring everything, all my energy and resources, into America, but I have never felt that I have lost anything. Instead, I have gained something much greater: I have gained America. Korea, in the lower place, gave to America, which is in the higher place. I have been the personification of that standard of giving. Now America, in Reverend Moon&#8217;s tradition, should give everything to Africa, which is in the lowest place. That will never bring about your destruction; rather it will enable you to live truly. That is where your true life and your true hope lie. I would like to see America pour out everything she has into the continent of Africa, just as I have poured everything into America.</p>
<p>What about you American young people, do you agree with this? Do you think Reverend Moon&#8217;s teaching is wrong? You accept this? Then you never know what might take place. For instance, this brother here never knows when I might say, &#8220;OK, now I want you to pack up and move to Africa.&#8221; Will you complain, &#8220;But I need a little time to take care of this and that, a few days.&#8221; Then will you say, &#8220;I need a few weeks&#8221;? Then will you say, &#8220;A few more months&#8221;? Finally, would it be, &#8220;I need a few more years here in America&#8221;?</p>
<p>The wisest men and women are those who don&#8217;t feel they need to have some nice apartment or townhouse to live in, but are content with living out of their suitcase. Then all you have to do is pick up your suitcase and go, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m ready, Father.&#8221; It is almost like a seasonal bird who moves from one hemisphere to another. They don&#8217;t have apartments or houses or possessions; they don&#8217;t even have automobiles. All they have is their two wings. But the male and female birds are very happy to fly together and their little offspring follow them, also very happy. The family of birds travels happily together.</p>
<p>What if I issued moving orders to all of you to go to Africa? Would you resist going? What would happen? You American white people here who can say, &#8220;Father, as soon as you issue your moving orders to go to Africa, I will be ready,&#8221; raise your hands. You are great people. Unbelievable! I&#8217;m not saying &#8220;Grey&#8221; people. I don&#8217;t like grey. I like &#8220;Great!&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s imagine if the children of the U.S. Cabinet members sold all their belongings and went to Africa to do missionary work. Would that create bad public opinion? What has been the policy of most white Americans in the past? Basically, it has been exploitation: &#8220;Let&#8217;s go to Africa and take away the resources, such as the diamonds and gold and iron, and make ourselves richer.&#8221; Therefore, the people of the world have resisted Americans. On every continent people have expressed their resentment toward the &#8220;Ugly American&#8221; and have waved banners saying, &#8220;Yankee, go home!&#8221;</p>
<p>America has been given all its riches and resources from God so that it could exercise stewardship. America is safeguarding that properly until the Master comes, but when the true Heavenly owner and Master arrives, they should relinquish ownership. If America realizes that, they will be all right. When the Master comes, will he say, &#8220;OK, it&#8217;s all mine now&#8221;? No, he will say, &#8220;Open up the doors of the treasury and give out everything for the unfortunate people of Africa and the rest of the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Is that role of the Master parallel to what I have been teaching you this morning, or is it contradictory? The Kingdom of Heaven must begin from Africa-not the United States. So the American people should walk and let the African people ride in their big cars; let the Africans take comfort while the white Americans fulfill the role of missionary. The white people brought black Africans over to America and used them as slaves; the white people were their masters. Now you should go to Africa and say, &#8220;I want to be your slave; you are the masters now.&#8221;</p>
<p>If Americans did that, would this country perish? No. That sort of action has never even been discussed by anyone in history, much less has anyone been doing it. Only Reverend Moon has had the logic, the reasoning and the pride to be able to do it. That is what Reverend Moon&#8217;s training program is all about: Asian people come to America and work for the sake of America; American people go to Africa and work for the sake of Africa.</p>
<p>If American people say, &#8220;I will not do that sort of thing because I am a first-class citizen of this fine country,&#8221; the future of this country will be very dismal. I will watch to see how you American people respond. The blessings of this country-material, technological and every other sort-are for the sake of the whole world. If Americans try to hold on to them just for selfish purposes, to promote the well-being of the white, Anglo-Saxon people, this nation will definitely perish.</p>
<p>The Moonies&#8217; hope is in turning. By turning and making a full circle, we create a center; that is our hope-to create a center. Once we turn, the axis shall be formed. That axis should be always on a vertical line. The more you turn without an axis, the more problems you create. But with the right axis of true love, the more you turn, the more construction that can take place. Is this very clear?</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how much book learning you may have, or how many courses in philosophy you may have taken. What do you think-just holding on to one way is better, or holding both sides is better? What about East and West, is it enough to just hold hands, or shouldn&#8217;t they embrace? Then when they embrace, what should be their center? True love. There should be movement- Oriental people should love Westerners more than they love Easterners. Western people should love the Eastern people more than they love themselves.</p>
<p>The spirit world is coming down to love the physical world and the physical world is loving the spirit world. Again, this is give and take with the highest ideal. In the name of God, we can have the exchange of love; you can f go joyfully to the lowest place or the widest, highest place. We can move to the east, west, north or south; we are the God-created independence movement, bringing true freedom on the face of the earth.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon is not only speaking about an Oriental philosophy or ideology; I am also teaching a Western ideology. Within me the two realms are harmonized. Reverend Moon is not only harboring the earthly ideal but the heavenly ideal as well. Reverend Moon&#8217;s ideal is universal-it can go anywhere and in all four directions.</p>
<p>When the True Parents go to your home would we be guests or like hosts or masters? Would you welcome us in your home, or would you want to charge us for the room? Or will you say, &#8220;Father, if you want to come to my home, you have to call first and make an appointment&#8221;? That is the American way, isn&#8217;t it? What if I just showed up all of a sudden and kicked your door, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m here!&#8221; Would you immediately say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t invade my privacy!&#8221;? Would you tell me I couldn&#8217;t come in? No, you say you would welcome me in anytime.</p>
<p>Unless you embrace the two worlds of East and West, there is no way the ideal can be created. It is the Korean custom that whenever you present a gift or some object to another person, particularly an elder or someone in a higher position, you always use both hands. In America, since you have no such concept, you always give something with one hand. Some Americans even give me papers or things like that with one hand, sometimes not even looking at me. The eyes are very important when you present something. You should present something with both hands and your eyes should be directed toward the recipient. When your eyes are there, it means your heart is also there. Your heart, mind and body are all there, focused into that act of giving.</p>
<p>The other way is almost barbaric-virtually shoving something at somebody in a casual and careless manner. In summertime, many women walk around on the streets half-dressed. That is not so pretty, either; it is certainly not a reflection of a highly cultured society. That is also vulgar and barbaric.</p>
<p>The way of life in the United States is based on pragmatism. I am not really opposed to pragmatism. The road toward the ideal is actually the most pragmatic way of life because that is the way you will gain the most in your life. You will eventually gain more this way than any other way.</p>
<p>Suppose I said that everybody here at Belvedere today should go do missionary work in Africa. Those who oppose such a thing, please stand up. Nobody is standing up so that means, at least, that everybody here is aspiring to go to Heaven. In 1971, God spoke to Reverend Moon and said, &#8220;My son, go to America.&#8221; What should I have said? &#8220;God, don&#8217;t you know that I need time to prepare myself? I have to learn to speak English and study the customs there. I need some time!&#8221; Should I have said that? The important thing is not the language, the customs or culture. The only really important thing is obedience. &#8220;Yes Sir, Heavenly Father&#8221; is what I said and I just took off.</p>
<p>If God told me now, &#8220;Leave America. The job is done there, so go to Africa,&#8221; then I would be gone by the next morning. I wouldn&#8217;t even have to say, &#8220;Members, assemble I want to say good-bye to you.&#8221; Do you think that I would say to God, &#8220;But Belvedere and East Garden are just getting shaped up. Now that we have built more room at East Garden, I want the chance to enjoy it before I leave for another country&#8221;? No, not at all. What about you, would you do the same?</p>
<p>I may go back to Korea and you would want to come there, isn&#8217;t that true? All right, but you can only come to Korea by way of Africa. You have to go to a land hostile to America, where the people shout, &#8220;Yankee, go home.&#8221; Go there and transform that hostility until they want to pay respect to you good American people. When you have earned respect as their brother, their teacher, their master, then you can come to Korea and see me. Do you follow?</p>
<p>Why should it be like that? The road toward the ideal is designed in exactly that way. To go on the road to Heaven, you have to embrace Cain; Abel must love Cain and gain dominion over him before he can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the teaching and ideology of the Unification Church. The Principle teaches this point, particularly in the Principle of Creation; it is absolutely the basic, fundamental truth of the universe. Everything must be manifested according to that law; no shortcuts or deviation are possible.</p>
<p>This is why you are doing the things you do; you are tasting Africa here in America, in a way, by doing fund raising, fasting, witnessing and so forth. African people will also come to America and work diligently; they do not just sit passively and wait to be taken care of. They work side by side with the American people and white people.</p>
<p>Look at me. I came as a foreigner to this country. Have I sat passively and waited for other people to take care of me? No, I have always stayed ahead of everybody. Many changes have taken place in America and now a lot of people are saying, &#8220;Reverend Moon, we really need you here. Could you please reconsider and stay here?&#8221;</p>
<p>You know, I have no sense of time while I am speaking, but my stomach is telling me that it is getting late. When I looked at my watch just now, I was surprised to see that it was 10:00 o&#8217;clock.</p>
<p>In a few days, I will be leaving America to go somewhere, probably Korea. I do not know when I will be back. This is the reason I have spoken this particular sermon today, which is very important. When I am here in America and speaking at Belvedere, you come to Sunday Service but when I am not here, are you going to stay away? Actually, the ideal is for you to attend even more regularly when I am away. When I am not here, you should work even harder. That is the ideal way. Am I wrong? No, you know that this is correct.</p>
<p>Thus when I am away working on some other project, you should be assembling at Belvedere with even more passion and prayer, and working harder, giving even more. While I am away, I will ask, &#8220;How many people are assembling at Belvedere?&#8221; and if the answer is, &#8220;Not many,&#8221; then I will say, &#8220;Those Americans are just hopeless; I&#8217;m not ever going back there. I don&#8217;t want to deal with them any more.&#8221;</p>
<p>I would like to go to Red China. Does one Chinese person have the same value as one American? Yes, in God&#8217;s eyes their value is the same. Which would be easier to transform-one American or one Chinese? Of course, the Chinese would be easier. If we could go to China and spend the same amount of money and resources as we have poured out in this country, you think about what would happen. Wouldn&#8217;t China virtually turn around, or would it just remain immovable? Deng, the Chinese leader, would certainly enjoy meeting with me. Now that gigantic country of China is taking an objective position; they are trying to grab onto me.</p>
<p>Now you know the way toward the ideal. You have learned it this morning. Two must become harmonized- two arms, two legs, two eyes. Heaven must be entered by men and women together. When a child is sick, the parent&#8217;s heart is completely concentrated on him. The sick or crippled child receives the most sympathy among all the children from the parents. That is the quality of the parental heart. The parents are at the peak position, so their heart goes down to the lowest valley. That is the ideal-extreme to extreme. How can anybody rebel against that? Nobody can oppose this law. It is absolute.</p>
<p>How can we make the bridge between the extremes? You should imitate my way of life. You know that now. You have to work for the world, not just the nation. Our ideal way is to always pursue the higher goal. Shall we conclude now? The conclusion is very simple: if you are ready to die honorably for the sake of God and the world, you will surely live honorably. If you have such a noble conviction, you will certainly live in an honorable way every day. But anybody who wants to get away with living just for his own happiness will go the opposite direction. This is the most central point of Jesus&#8217; teaching, as recorded in the Bible: &#8220;Whoever wishes to save his own life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it.&#8221; Jesus truly knew the universal law.</p>
<p>We all should live according to that teaching, as Jesus did. Once again, you cannot enter the ideal level by yourself. Either as an individual, society or nation you must be paired. The United States must be paired with Korea; therefore, Reverend Moon has been holding the United States tightly. Although the United States is reluctant and resisting, it is still holding on to Korea. This is happening because of some greater power. When Korea comes to the United States&#8217; position and vice-versa, uniting and making a perfect turn, then the entire world will have become one at that point. All you Moonies want to go to Korea, don&#8217;t you? Who controls that? I did not instill that desire in you, but it is the manifestation of the universal law.</p>
<p>If you go to a festive celebration and everybody starts to dance, what if you have no partner? What a miserable feeling to have to just sit and watch all by yourself. The entire universe is like a grand hall or ballroom. Everyone within that hall must be a part of a pair; otherwise, you cannot stay. God Himself will tell you to leave. That dance hall has a door which opens automatically to any pairs who want to come in and dance. There is no discrimination or refusal to anyone.</p>
<p>If you Westerners or American people feel you can remain forever in a very high place, you are wrong. The only way you can go to Heaven and the ideal place is by lowering yourself. That is the teaching of Reverend Moon. The problems between black and white people in America will be solved once this teaching is understood. Whites will humble themselves and embrace with the blacks; blacks will make the effort to elevate themselves to equal give and take with the whites. Then the problem will be gone.</p>
<p>The circling motion will bring us down into the center, into the focal point. Once we reach that focus, we return the other way around and develop outward. It is wrong for black people ever to think, &#8220;Because it is Reverend Moon&#8217;s teaching, you white people have to come here and serve me.&#8221; That is the wrong attitude and equally as evil as white arrogance. Black people must humble themselves and work hard, clean up their atmosphere and orient themselves in an altruistic direction; then give and take will occur. Then we will have a focus, a true center. Without that center, you will be thrown out of orbit, never to rejoin the community of the universe. Do you understand what I have said this morning?</p>
<p>When I have been gone from the United States and I call and ask the American leaders how many people have f been attending Sunday Service at Belvedere, I want to hear, &#8220;So many that they spilled out onto the lawn because there was no room for them in the auditorium.&#8221; Do you think I would be resentful and say, &#8220;Gee, why didn&#8217;t that many come to hear me when I was there?&#8221; No, I would say, &#8220;Hallelujah! Finally, America has understood my message!&#8221; If such a booming Belvedere service ever happens, I will feel great confidence and comfort in America and I will think, &#8220;I&#8217;m glad I gave them the sermon, <em>&#8220;Road Toward the Ideal.&#8221;</em>They must have gotten my message that day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Those who pledge to me that you will do it, raise your hands. Thank you and God bless you.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE BUILDING AND CREATION OF THE FATHERLAND</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T15:53:40+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/the-building-and-creation-of-the-fatherland.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T15:53:40+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1985.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 1, 1985, Midnight<br />
World Mission Center<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>The slogan for 1985 is the same as last year, which shows a continuation of God&#8217;s dispensation: <i>The Building and the Creation of the Fatherland. </i>I have missed you for a long time and it makes me happy to see your bright shining faces. You look happy and full of vitality. Our path is a pioneering one and the pioneering path is not easy; it is stony and difficult but that is the way we have to go.</p>
<p>Until now, nobody has understood history, especially the history of restoration. I have been pioneering the path of restoration. We have come this far and we have won great victory up to this moment. Many people in history have come to this earth and have undertaken the pioneering path. The path of the spiritual pioneer is always difficult, but the pioneering course today of the Unification Church is the most difficult; it is the path of supreme difficulty. The Unification Church path, which is also my path, has a universal meaning. It started from the bottom of hell and has been ascending into the highest part of heaven. Thus it contains the highest possible theological dimension.</p>
<p>I want you to understand that God would not give you a precious gift without asking you to fulfill certain responsibilities. We are about to receive the most cosmic, eternal gift from God; thus our responsibility is equal to that. We cannot expect such a blessing to come to us easily. Those who deserve the highest place here on earth and in spirit world are only those who are earning it by pursuing the most difficult and thorny path. That is the way we come to deserve God&#8217;s blessing.</p>
<p>What is the worst kind of hell one can find here on earth? Externally speaking, we could say that prison is the bottom of hell in any society. I have known all kinds of prisons. I experienced Japanese prison and I was in the dreadful prisons of communist North Korea. After I went to South Korea, I experienced the prisons there. From my experience in North Korea I knew what kind of prisons the Soviet Union has, so in a sense I even experienced the Soviet Union&#8217;s prison hell. I knew that in order to graduate from prison, I had one more place to go and that was to the prison of the United States.</p>
<p>Most people go into prison with a despairing heart. However, when I went there I was filled with expectation and enthusiasm knowing that God can always bring great miracles after great indemnity. I was eager to see what sorts of things God would do. Since most people enter prison in despair, there are two major aspects of daily life there. One of them is complaint. People complain against everything: &#8220;Why is that man&#8217;s face so dark?&#8221; Or, &#8220;Why is that man&#8217;s face so pretty?&#8221;</p>
<p>Secondly, there is frequent fighting because the men have so much time on their hands. They constantly curse each other and complain against each other. That is the reality of prison life. But my life in prison has been different. Because of the law of restoration, I knew that I was paying a great amount of indemnity by being in prison and after that payment there must come a great blessing. I thought about how to prepare for that blessing and how I could distribute it.</p>
<p>I have been in and out of prisons, including this occasion, six different times. Maybe there is one more prison awaiting me in the Soviet Union or Red China. No matter what, I am always preparing to receive the blessing and inheritance from God and to dispense it to the people who have earned it. Those who are to be the recipients of that blessing must prepare themselves to become worthy containers.</p>
<p>What would you do in order to receive that blessing? There is only one way to go: you must be able to naturally subjugate the people in hell. They must come and bow down before you. You must become the men and women who deserve such surrender from the satanic people. That is the road of restoration. Restoration cannot come without the indemnity being paid.</p>
<p>I did not go to Danbury prison just as Reverend Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, but I entered as a bearer of the universal mission for the sake of the world, not only this physical world but also the spiritual world. I was always standing before two entities, God and Satan, and they were the ones who were the judges of my deeds. I was always mindful of being worthy of God&#8217;s blessing.</p>
<p>If you are trying to turn a nation around, you cannot do that from the high ground. You must go down to the lowest level, to the ground floor, and then you can turn it. Thus our efforts are always from the bottom upward, not from the top down. If you are all alone trying to make your upward movement, you can never succeed. You must be supported by your entire environment. The important question, therefore, is how to create the kind of environment that can support you.</p>
<p>Your task does not have anything to do with lawyers, judges, and government. The problem is how to gain the support of the people. That is the only way we can achieve a secure restoration and pay the indemnity. We have to turn the world around 180 degrees.</p>
<p>By my entering into prison. the entire world was thrown into commotion. People of the United States have been engaged in deep controversy. Until I went to prison, negative attitudes were predominant among the people of this country, but now many people&#8217;s attitudes have changed 180 degrees. Many decent. thinking Americans are finding themselves in the position of supporting Reverend Moon.</p>
<p>It is almost like Reverend Moon has shed one layer of his skin, the way a snake does. Amazingly enough. I don&#8217;t have to do anything-people are coming to me and taking off that old skin, trying to see for themselves what is really inside. While the external world is doing that. the people who are inside the prison with me are also seeing the true nature of Reverend Moon. When this is done. I will become a truly tree man. Then the path of the Unification Church and Reverend Moon will no longer require persecution.</p>
<p>Actually this process should have been completed in Jesus&#8217; time. He was supposed to have entered the Roman Empire and walked the same steps that I have gone through. If that had happened. Christianity would never have had to suffer the way it did.</p>
<p>We have the mission to save America and the world. Where do you go to save America? You go to its worst possible places. When you willingly suffer together with the people there, the blessing will come to you afterwards. I am sure that among you Moonies there are those who have a complaining and discouraged attitude. thinking, &#8220;I have been here a long time and I can&#8217;t see any changes. I&#8217;m getting old and my duties are getting more and more difficult.&#8221;</p>
<p>You have even more burdens after receiving the blessing. What happens? You have a baby and then you have to worry about it. Or you have to worry about when you can get together with your spouse. How to support your family and all kinds of worries like that plague your mind.</p>
<p>You know that I have been in prison and you know the tradition that I am setting. When you inherit that kind of tradition, you will never decline or perish. Even at my age, I always volunteer for the work chores in prison. That is because my goal is to transform that hellish place into the Kingdom of Heaven. When I first entered the prison, everybody was looking at me funny, wondering, &#8220;What kind of a man is he&#8217;?&#8221; But when I walked out a few days ago, many people waved a friendly goodbye to me. Whenever I am pushed into a hellish place I determine to turn it into heaven.</p>
<p>I know that these words I am giving you today are not satisfying your curiosity. I can look into your eyes and see that you are wondering what things are like at Danbury, what kind of a life I am living, and so forth.</p>
<p>Even now many of you do not know the real history of the Unification Church, particularly my own history. It is very difficult for American young people to understand me, since this is such a free and individualistic society. As you know, if I had wanted to, I could have avoided going into prison. Many people of the world are wondering why Reverend Moon went willingly into prison. They wonder for whom he is doing it.</p>
<p>I entered into prison to save America and those who are doing the work to save America. It was for your sake that I</p>
<p>did it. Among all the young people of America, you Moonies arc the ones who are ardently burning with the desire to save this country. Isn&#8217;t that true&#8217;! I would like to bequeath to you a tradition and spirit that will never be removed from you-the true spirit. This particular spirit of Danbury is not needed by me because I already have it. but it is what you need. I want to demonstrate it to you and be the example for you.</p>
<p>I want to see the birth of young people who will say, For the sake of America and the world, I can go to prison anytime. I will not avoid it.&#8221; I want to see such young people blossoming in this country.</p>
<p>I know that every one of you has walked a very difficult path up to and including 1984. I know that you only have one prime time of youth in your life, and you gave up the best part of your lives for the sake of your missions. But then I know that God has been waiting for such young people, those who were willing to give the prime of their lives for the sake of the world. History as well has been waiting for the birth of such young people.</p>
<p>You know that I was very handsome when I was young! But I was willing to give up my own youth. I would like to become the foundation, the launching pad, for many people to take off I want to see many people using me as their stepping stone to get into heaven. Actually I was never ambitious for fame but inevitably God pushed me into places of prominence.</p>
<p>1984 was truly a sad and painful year for the Unification Church. It started with the sacrifice of Heung Jin. Even though I knew that a time of turbulence and even sacrifice was coming to my own family, I had gone to Korea for the crusade. I wanted to create seven million IFVOC members in Korea and the same number in Japan. I want to see 45 million in the United States and seventy million around the world.</p>
<p>Satan knew all these plans, so he certainly could not just stand still. Satan has always tried desperately to stop me or discourage me in any way. 1984 was the year of my going into prison and that was a historic event. Many people thought that the Unification Church would be finished once Reverend Moon was incarcerated, but how wrong they were! While I have been in prison during these past months, I have continued to work and make great advancement. I have met important people, people who did not come to see me while I was on the outside. I have been visited by distinguished scholars, ministers and diplomats.</p>
<p>When those people came to see me, I spoke to them strongly about my ideal. They were very positively impressed and they could not reject what I was giving them. Life is like a marathon or an Olympic game. Until you have won the contest, you are not taken very seriously by the other runners. But once you have won the marathon, the others automatically look up to you.</p>
<p>1985 is a brand new year and we are all going to be busy. I want to push you out. In order to jump up high. you have to bend down very low first. I operate according to that principle; I am simply preparing to jump at this time. When the right moment comes. I will move up to higher ground; but you must be prepared to jump forward. too, so we can take leaps and bounds together. In a way, I was looking forward to going to prison because I knew that while I was there, great things would be happening to the Unification Church. What has happened? Since I have been in prison, large numbers of formerly negative Christians have changed completely.</p>
<p>When I was in Hung Nam prison in North Korea, I could not preach to the other prisoners directly; however I gained many disciples from among them. By the same token, when I come out of Danbury prison I will have a long line of followers.</p>
<p>Where would you like to go for your pioneering? Would you like to go to prison or would you prefer a nice. free place with lots of opportunity? well, we don&#8217;t need you in prison. I am there and I will pay all the indemnity for prison. You say &#8220;Moscow&#8221;? That is good. We must go to Moscow. How about Africa? That would be a place to make an extraordinary record for history.</p>
<p>When I was in prison in Korea, many people thought I had to be finished but I was filled with hope for the future, specifically for America. At this time also many people think I am finished but I am filled with hope for the next step. All of spirit world is filled with hope for the future.</p>
<p>What about you? Can you have any complaint in front of me? Do you want to follow your dispensational path, thinking, &#8220;How many more years do I have to go?&#8221; Or will you say, &#8220;God, I am destined to go. I was born for this mission.&#8221;</p>
<p>I wrote the motto a little while ago which is &#8220;Creation and Building of the Fatherland.&#8221; Why is that slogan so important? It is because we have not yet gained our country. I want you to understand that God has not yet had His own land and country here on earth. That is why Satan is so strong and can always accuse-he has power over all the principalities of the world. Thus God is still suffering because He does not have His own country.</p>
<p>My desire is always the same: how can I restore that one country for God, the Fatherland&#8217;? But the Fatherland must be a place in which people transcend barriers of race, creed and culture. This is the reason we mingled all the races together in our mass weddings. There has been great controversy because of that. but in the meantime one race of God is being created.</p>
<p>It is not easy; in fact, it is very difficult. I knew that it would be. But it is even more difficult for God because He does not have any physical form. God is spirit so how very difficult it is for Him to move this physical world. In that sense. we are in a better position than God because we have a physical body. Therefore I decided to undertake this mission on behalf of God, to do it for Him.</p>
<p>This is the fortieth year since I began to walk the dispensational path. We have every reason to believe that 1985 is going to be the year of decision, the year of showdown. In order to show the true position, I wanted to begin this year in prison. I was sent to prison in 1984 and I wanted to start off dramatically in 1985, in these circumstances, and then go on to win the greater victory. What about you? Are you going to follow my footsteps? You must grab the helm of the United States and fight. You are not going to retreat, are you?</p>
<p>You came here today to welcome me on my return from Danbury. This is not an ordinary occasion; it is a very serious and significant moment in history. We will not let this moment pass in a mediocre or half-hearted way. I am now going the road of resurrection and you are, too.</p>
<p>This is a decisive moment of showdown which will determine either the salvation of America or its destruction. There is only one way to win. If you were completely desperate because you wanted to save America, you would not hesitate to grab any person and show him the truth.</p>
<p>But you don&#8217;t want to do that kind of thing, do you? Do you say, &#8220;In that kind of game, I just want to be an observer.&#8221;? I would like every Moonie to be dramatic. Those who say, &#8220;Yes, Father, I want to become that kind of Moonie: raise your hands please.</p>
<p>When I look at your hands going up like that, I would go to prison ten times over. I am very grateful to you. You know, I am different now. Why is that? Before, I was just &#8220;Father&#8221; to you, but now that I have come back to visit from the prison, you know without a doubt that I have been through suffering.</p>
<p>You used to say things without much sincerity, even sometimes Lying or making up excuses. But now you will be different and you will be honest with me, won&#8217;t you? Do you want me to trust your word this time? Those who will say, &#8220;Father, this time it&#8217;s real. You can trust me.&#8217; raise your hands please. Thank you.</p>
<p>(Reverend Won Pil Kim leads everyone in the first cheers of Mansei for 1985.)</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE DAY OF ALL THINGS</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:08:29+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/the-day-of-all-things-2.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:08:29+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<div class="pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left"><a href="/blog/2018/06/24/the-day-of-all-things-2.html?print=pdf" class="pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="/assets/vendor/pdf/images/pdf.png" alt="image_pdf" title="Download PDF" /></a></div><h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
<p><center>June 7, 1986<br />
World Mission Center, Grand Ballroom<br />
Translation &#8211; Bo Hi Pak.</center>How long have I been gone? When you are waiting for something or someone, the days seem long. Have the days been longer during True Parents, absence? Coming here and seeing your happy, bright and exuberant faces makes me feel good.</p>
<p>If there were no True Parents, we could not have such a gathering, in which people are assembled from every continent in the world to celebrate this historic day. I would like you to fully realize that tremendous suffering and historical preparation were necessary to allow this celebration to happen. Many special saints-from the earliest days of Judaism and Christianity-have lived and died for the sake of a day of such historical significance. It is because of their preparations that we could gather like this.</p>
<p>You need to remember that each of you is the fruit of your ancestral tree. In order for just one fruit to be harvested at this time and in order for each one of you to be here in this room, hundreds of thousands of years of effort have been made. Those sacrificial people of the past could not be here today but you can, so you must be deeply grateful for all their effort.</p>
<p>Today, then, is the day of harvest of the fruit of history- yourselves. This fruit represents the hope for mankind, the hope of the True Parents and the hope of God. When the seeds from your fruit are planted, they will be the hope of the world. That is the meaning of this gathering today. Truly the blessing of God has been given abundantly to each one of you. Amen!</p>
<p>Today is the 24th Day of All Things. Are people included within all things or are they in a separate category? Only the Unification Church celebrates these special holidays, including God&#8217;s Day, Children&#8217;s Day, Parents, Day, and Day of All Things. In our observance of these holidays, we are setting a new tradition for history. If there were no God, there could be no such celebrations. God is the Creator and we and all things make up His creation. So the Creator and the creation represent two levels.</p>
<p>Why did the Creator create human beings and all things? Do you think the purpose of creation was to fulfill God&#8217;s need, the needs of all things, or the needs of people? In other words, for whose purpose did God create-Himself, human beings, or all things? We have the understanding that God created out of His own need, but why does God need all the things of creation, if He is almighty and omnipresent? He can fulfill His wishes and desires at any moment and He must not be lacking anything. Do you think it was absolutely necessary for God to create men and women?</p>
<p>When we talk about human beings, we talk about the two elements-men and women. For men, what is most important? For woman, what is most important? Is it money? Knowledge and power-that must be it. We know that money, power and knowledge are not absolutely important, but there is one thing which is. For men, it is women; for women, it is men. They need each other, absolutely.</p>
<p>From a fundamental viewpoint, why were women born? You were born for the sake of men, period. And we can say the same thing for men-you were born for the sake of women. There can be no completion or perfection of humankind unless there is true harmony and unity between men and women. How can men and women become one? It is only by love. What kind of love? True love. True love means original love. God is the origin of love, so when we speak about original love, we are talking about the love of God.</p>
<p>The value of men and women is the same in that respect: You are not living for yourself but for the sake of each other. A woman lives for a man and a man lives for a woman. By living that way and loving each other, the true value of a man and a woman comes into being.</p>
<p>Who created this idea and these ideals? They do not spring from men and women but from God. The purpose of existence for men and women comes from God, just as the motivation for human beings springs from within God&#8217;s heart. God was motivated to create men and women, not as a manifestation of His power but as the result of His love and creativity. It doesn&#8217;t make you feel so good to think that you are merely the product of someone&#8217;s power, but being the product of love makes you feel very inspired.</p>
<p>Imagine if God created men and women as a commodity by which He could earn a lot of money. Then we wouldn&#8217;t feel good at all, would we? You laugh at such an idea-to think that God would create us for His fund raising product. You laugh because it is absurd to think that God needed people for earning money and fattening His bankbook. We are created out of far nobler motivations.</p>
<p>Our body, then, becomes one with our mind-not centered upon money, knowledge or power but centered upon true, original love. Your body has five senses and so does your spirit. These spiritual and physical senses are meant to harmonize into one, centered upon true love. Then there is no further need, no place higher or more fulfilling. That is the way mind and body are supposed to be, totally happy.</p>
<p>There is a physics experiment in which one of two metal bars is struck with a predetermined velocity. The resultant sound wave hits the second bar, which vibrates with a sound of the same wave length. Likewise, between mind and body there is meant to be one shared vibration; each of them is meant to vibrate on the same wave length. Our mind and body are waiting for the true love vibration, which does not come from within human beings. That love vibration must come from somewhere else and hit the mind, which then hits the body. Then they vibrate together with the same wave length.</p>
<p>Men and women, therefore, are like two standing, complementary sound bars. A man&#8217;s sound bar can only resound in response to the woman&#8217;s love, and vice versa. Each should initiate the vibration of the other. Thus we say that love doesn&#8217;t really belong to you; it doesn&#8217;t even come from you. It comes from the other side, your object.</p>
<p>The man has male sexual organs and the woman has female sexual organs and even those do not belong to themselves alone. You are the custodian of those organs and they exist for the sake of your mate, who has the true ownership. This is a rather new realization. So you have no freedom to abuse those parts. This is a major problem with American society today, particularly with the young people. They think their love instrument is theirs to use or abuse, according to their whims. All kinds of moral degradation have come about because of such thinking.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s American young people are, in a way, the saddest, most tragic generation because of this lack of understanding. The self-indulgence of the so-called &#8220;Me&#8221; generation is leading young people to their own destruction. God did not create them for that purpose. They have no way to find their original, Principled satisfaction and no way to fulfill their lives, as long as they pursue that deviated way.</p>
<p>How many owners of your love should there be? Why only one? Some people cry, &#8220;The more the better!&#8221; Is that correct? Ultimately speaking, the ownership of love doesn&#8217;t belong to either men or women but to the original owner, God. When you speak of &#8220;God&#8221; you include the meaning of absolute. The absolute God created for absolute purposes. In love, therefore, that means only one, not dozens of extras. Something absolute doesn&#8217;t need a spare because it cannot go wrong.</p>
<p>One of the greatest truths taught in the Unification Church is that God has dual essentialities of sung sang and hyung sang. What is the creation? It is the place in which the invisible God planted His character and gave it visible form. The creatures God made are the evidence or manifestation of God&#8217;s nature. We have seen that two different kinds of people came from God&#8217;s planted seed-men and women. We say, therefore, that God cannot be represented through men or women alone; neither one fully completes God&#8217;s image.</p>
<p>What was God&#8217;s motivation in planting His character into the creation? It was love. God was seeking the fulfillment of love through give and take with His creation. God expressed Himself through the two beings of plus and minus, or men and women, and neither can find their completion alone. Without their completion of love, then even God cannot find the completion of His love.</p>
<p>Completion comes as men and women grow in love and come closer and closer together. Men and women grow in two ways-first, in their individual love for God. They realize that love comes from God and their desire for loving Him becomes stronger and stronger. In the meantime, as they mature, they also begin to desire love from each other-men from women and women from men. The body structures of men and women change as their capacity for love grows. An amazing thing is that there is a &#8220;homing device&#8221; within them that always draws them together; it never pushes them in the opposite direction.</p>
<p>Men and women are meant to be the temples of God, so when love grows within them, the dwelling of God comes closer and closer. In other words, the time when the love between men and women can be consummated is the same time when their love for God can be consummated and completed. When God-centered men and women consummate their love, God also feels the fulfillment of His love.</p>
<p>The movement of God&#8217;s love is vertical. The universe has vertical and horizontal lines-all created beings move in vertical as well as horizontal lines. When you talk about the angle of horizontal lines, you automatically denote the vertical line.</p>
<p>When we say &#8220;She is a woman&#8221; we denote the existence of man. Likewise, when we say, &#8220;He is a man&#8221; we include the existence of woman. The two opposite positions must exist in relationship, never separately. These words then: &#8220;Men, women, and love&#8221; can be said only within a complementary context. We assume the existence of the others when we say any of those words.</p>
<p>The motion of love is always circular. Many times in movies we see two lovers running toward each other and embracing, turning around and around. Men and women are meant to turn together, but they must have an anchor, some center and discipline to their love. They cannot just revolve in every direction.</p>
<p>In the expression of love, each cell is almost ready to explode. Of course, that kind of explosion does not produce chaos; it is guided by a certain discipline. There is great flexibility and harmony in the expansion and contraction of love. When do you meet God? Men and women centered upon true love represent the total image of God. That is when the image of God becomes real.</p>
<p>The motion of love joins together with the vertical line coming down and gigantic circular movement is begun. In other words, the love of God along the vertical line is always circling. At the same time, men and women are also making circular motion in their love. This is another element of universal principle-there is no straight line or movement in God&#8217;s creation; it is always a circling movement. Everything comes to a certain point and then returns, then comes back, and so forth.</p>
<p>In the circling motion of family love there is the father&#8217;s position, the mother&#8217;s position, the children&#8217;s position, as well as God&#8217;s position. That is what we call the Heavenly four-position foundation. God, on the vertical line, is connected with the children; the father and mother are connected on the horizontal line. When millions of these Heavenly four-position foundations fill the earth, that will be what we call Heaven on earth.</p>
<p>Always the vertical line of true love must intersect the horizontal line at a ninety degree angle. Your horizontal line must cross the vertical line at a ninety degree angle. Then your small circling motion can expand to larger and larger levels. In order to cross with a perfect ninety degrees, there can be no deviation. You must have absolute love toward God. The woman must love her husband absolutely; the man must love his wife absolutely. The fathers and mother&#8217;s love toward the children must be absolute, without deviation. If any deviation is there, a ninety degree crossing cannot be possible.</p>
<p>In this Heavenly four-position foundation, you can experience love of the children, love of the parents, love of husband, love of wife, and love of God. Learning these things qualifies you to enter the Kingdom of Heaven; without these you cannot dwell there, either here on earth on in the spirit world. What is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is like a storehouse of all these loves-of the parents, the children, husband and wife. It is where they can dwell after being harvested. That is what we call Heaven. That particular result can only come through living within a Heavenly four-position foundation here on earth; by practicing these loves you will attain the proper qualification to enter Heaven in spirit world.</p>
<p>How does a tree naturally behave? What is the ideal for a tree? There are many different types of trees, such as the chestnut, fir, and olive, but each one&#8217;s goal is to create its most perfect fruit. That perfect fruit would be identical to the original chestnut, fir or olive. That is the goal of each tree; they don&#8217;t want to produce anything different from the seed which started them. That is the only way the same fruit can be multiplied, generation after generation. Later on, the seeds from each fruit can be planted in a larger space and multiplication can take place a hundred fold, a thousand fold and even a million fold, each with identical results. That is the way Heaven grows. Do you follow?</p>
<p>The love of God is like a weight which drops down on a string; the children are at the base, in the receiving position, where that weight falls. The line of that string is always absolutely vertical. The position of a woman, as the mother, is to live for the sake of the other three elements-first for God, then her husband and children. When she does that, she also engenders the man&#8217;s love toward God, toward the children and toward herself. You cannot engender the love of other people unless you live for their sake first. For that reason, anyone who lives only for his or her own sake will not bring forth good fruit, good result.</p>
<p>In the world today and particularly in the United States, so many people seem to be &#8220;me&#8221;-centered. People think, &#8220;You must come to me and do what I want. I am the most important&#8221; The fall of man originally created this way of thinking. That is what brought &#8220;me&#8221; into center stage. Because of the fall, everything is reversed. Restoration, therefore, is the removal of &#8220;me&#8221; from the center; let &#8220;me&#8221; serve for the sake of others. By doing that, we engender give and take in the proper order.</p>
<p>Everyone has his proper position. The man takes the right side, the woman the left side; God is in the upper position and the children in the lower. These are the four positions, existing in complementary directions. There is only one power in the universe that can bring all these directions into harmony at the same time, all at one stroke. That power is called true love.</p>
<p>I emphasize true love simply because there are other kinds of love as well. There is selfish and perverted love, which exists in opposition to true love. True love always selects the center as its meeting place. God&#8217;s true love wants to go to the center, as does man&#8217;s and woman&#8217;s true love. In that love, one gives himself one hundred percent with no reservations. With that kind of commitment, there is virtually no consciousness of day and night. You don&#8217;t say, &#8220;Wait until tomorrow morning. This is a bad time&#8221; Any time, any moment is okay.</p>
<p>You can travel all the way to the ends of the world if you originated in the center and you will always come back to that center. God doesn&#8217;t have to go chasing around all over the place. He can sit and wait at the center, knowing that everyone will inevitably come back to Him.</p>
<p>When you are living with this 100% commitment of true love, you don&#8217;t have to worry or have ulcers. You can always have serenity and peace of mind, knowing that as you stay in the center, everything always comes back to you. You are the winner. This is the ideal realm of the heart of man &#8211; shim jung &#8211; heartle. When there is 100% commitment, there is 100% freedom. The tiny little child can climb all over his grandfather; he has that kind of total freedom. The big, muscular husband can lay his head on his wife&#8217;s lap. That is what we call the romantic, dramatic life of men and women, where you enjoy true freedom within true love.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say the wife is totally exhausted at night but as soon as she sees her husband&#8217;s face, she becomes renewed and revitalized. That is the power of love-to ignite and electrify. Love is like electricity. Suppose one parent is totally distraught because he thinks his child has been lost; then all of a sudden, that child comes back. When the parent sees that child again, he or she becomes instantly rejuvenated. Without knowing where such energy comes from, that mother or father becomes a new person.</p>
<p>This is the same as God. In a way, God is tired and fatigued, like the disheartened parent. But as soon as He sees the perfected Adam and Eve in the unity of true love, He can forget everything, including His tiredness and His dignity, and become electrified with true love. He could come down and find His dwelling among human beings.</p>
<p>When that union of true love occurs between people and God, there will be nothing but joy and celebration throughout the universe. There will be singing and dancing in Heaven, on earth and everywhere else in that celebration of love. Looking at the families of the world from this heavenly, ideal standpoint, we can see that they are very far from it. There has never been 100% commitment but always some reservation. Men and women want to claim their own rights, saying &#8220;This is mine. Don&#8217;t touch that&#8221; They want to claim their own territories and their own &#8220;personal secrets&#8221;</p>
<p>With such selfish reservations, a woman could never become a beautiful wife, for instance. Rather, she would be like a monster, ready to shoot out venom. Many American husbands tremble when they just think of their wives! That is one reason men pursue other men and women pursue other women. This perverted situation occurs because our society has fallen so far below the realm of God&#8217;s principles. This is the reality of American life.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has come to ignite the reformation of love and inaugurate the new, harmonious family system. This is Heavenly principle. No matter what people may say about Reverend Moon now, history will vindicate us. Eventually, America will realize that it needs Reverend Moon to be saved. Amen!</p>
<p>Reverend Moon&#8217;s dream is to restore the world into a beautiful palace where the dignity and sovereignty of love can reign. There all men and women will live in families under the principle of true love. That is the ideal of the True Parents. Love bestows special privileges. First of all, it makes people equal: regardless of social differences, two people are on the same level when they are in love. Suppose a young man has a very small, homely wife whom he loves nonetheless. Imagine that that young man eventually becomes the President of the United States. No matter how small or ugly his wife may be, she will be elevated into the status of First Lady. Isn&#8217;t that true?</p>
<p>Another privilege of love is that of inheritance. The beloved gains the right to own the treasures of the loved one. What does this mean? This is a great truth. When you men and women create the perfectly loving couple, God&#8217;s dwelling place is within you. You are loving God and thus you are, in a sense, being elevated to the level of God. The children and God gain the same level. Furthermore, you have the right to inherit the Kingdom of God. Everything that belongs to Him belongs to His children as well.</p>
<p>Compare this concept with the way many American people approach their relationships. Many women want to have their own private bank accounts that their husbands cant touch, and vice-versa. How different that is from the</p>
<p>ideal. You can lose your separate bank account at any time, but you can never lose love. Even though the satanic world came into being after the fall of man, people still retained a taste of the original love. That is why we have hope, even in this world, for true love and restoration.</p>
<p>The universe has a built-in defense system. Anybody who lives for the sake of original love will be welcomed by the universe and embraced. On the other hand, anybody who tries to turn away from true love will be rejected and punished by the universe. For that reason, all types of love other than true love will eventually be destroyed.</p>
<p>There are powers of both attraction and repulsion in the universe. The law of repulsion, however, exists in order to protect rightful give and take between subject and object. As you know, there are the two forces of plus and minus in electricity. Plus and minus pull each other in order to harmonize and unite. But plus and plus repel each other, as do minus and minus, in order to protect the cohesiveness of the plus and minus unity.</p>
<p>Why are we gathered together on this Day of All Things? I have been speaking all morning about true love. What does that have to do with all things of creation? All things exist for the sake of the expression of true love. Look at the beauty of the flowers and all their different colors; look at all the other beautiful things of nature. All these are meant to provide a better environment for men and women to experience and express true love.</p>
<p>When all things welcome you, including the trees, flowers, rocks, water and grasses, how do you want to respond to them? Would you give them an insipid greeting, or would you feel like shouting out your joy to see them? Rather than just shouting out &#8220;Mansei!&#8221; separately, wouldn&#8217;t it be better for husband and wife to be holding hands and jumping up together, whirling around and shouting &#8220;Mansei!&#8221; with all your might?</p>
<p>Look at the flowers and how they express love. Within one flower there is both the male and female aspect, the stamen and pistil. Plus and minus are contained within one; love is joined within each flower. Why did God create all things? It was in order to make an environment in which husband and wife could engender the best, most beautiful love. All things exist to augment that true love.</p>
<p>There are many different kinds of flowers, but no ugly ones; every flower has its own unique beauty. Likewise, all the animals express their uniqueness for the sake of human beings. The male and female birds sing love songs to the universe for the sake of men and women. All the creatures are there in their own special fashion to express the love of God toward us. To play music, you need a musical instrument. By the same token, to engender love you need some instruments. All things are those instruments of love.</p>
<p>If you could ask a flower, &#8220;What kind of place would you like to decorate with your beauty?&#8221; it would tell you, &#8220;I want to decorate the room where the true glory of God permeates, where true men and women are loving each other&#8221; That is the true wish of the flowers. They want to be placed where they can glorify God together with men. Therefore, even after all these thousands of years since the fall of man, the flowers have maintained their tradition, blossoming year after year, waiting for the one day when they can say, &#8220;Hallelujah! Finally we have seen true men and women on earth. The dwelling of God is with men. Now let us really, fully blossom. Amen!&#8221;</p>
<p>All things are waiting for that one day, the day of the appearance of true men and women, so they can finally fulfill their purpose of creation. Look at the lilies here on this table. You can imagine that they must be jubilant to be decorating the room where I am speaking about true love. These flowers never expected to be in such a place. It is their great joy and surprise! When you go about your daily life, you tend to become apathetic and not pay attention to the flowers and other forms of creation. In that case, they will never appreciate you; so from now on, you have to appreciate the character and personality of all things.</p>
<p>There are many great classics of literature written by the best writers of history. What is literature all about? It is largely the description of the things of the universe, such as the oceans, wind, rocks, and so forth. If you removed the descriptive words from books, you would have virtually nothing left. Writers always give the most realistic and meaningful descriptions of human beings by comparing them with things in nature. For example: &#8220;My lover&#8217;s smile is like the morning lily&#8221; &#8220;She blossoms like the springtime cherry tree&#8221; Without such comparisons, what do we have left? &#8220;My love has a round face&#8221; or &#8220;My love has a big nose and small eyes&#8221; Not much in the way of literature. When people who live in the desert describe love, it reflects the desert, since that is all they know.</p>
<p>I have expressed two important concepts today, namely that all things are the ornaments of love and also that they are like the bridge for love. That is why God created all things of creation-for the sake of men. I want you to know that nature is yearning to see the house of the true husband and wife. When you become such a couple, your home will become the place where the birds will want to sit and sing. The animals and even the insects will want to come into the loving circle of your home. With such welcome and support from all things of the universe, that couple will be bound to live a good life.</p>
<p>Much of the food we eat comes from grain, which is the seed of the plant. The seed is produced after the flowers blossom; then we men and women use that seed as our food. When you eat, you are really engaging in a universal natural process, so you must have a deep sense of appreciation: &#8220;God provided this to me, but I must become a center of true love or I won&#8217;t be worthy of it&#8221;</p>
<p>If someone wants to disregard other people and just love flowers, for instance, that is not pleasing to the flowers. The flowers don&#8217;t like to see bachelors particularly; they like to see the harmony of love between true husband and wife. When you observe birds, doesn&#8217;t it look more attractive for a pair to be flying together, rather than just one bird?</p>
<p>Perhaps there would be one assertive male bird who didn&#8217;t feel like flying with his little mate because she was smaller and weaker, and without her he could fly faster. If he thought that way, it would be against the law of the universe. Even though it may slow him down, the male bird has to fly with his mate. He might pull out ahead a little, then slow down to allow her to catch up with him. This is the beauty of nature. They might fly a long distance and then make a stop on a tree branch somewhere. The male might feel strong and fresh, while the female might be gasping for breath, so he would try to comfort and help her.</p>
<p>If you take love out of the universe, everything becomes a desert. Isn&#8217;t that true? Unification Church members are the happiest people because we have so much love within our hearts that we are anxious to share. We want to have give and take with other people and also with nature-flowers, trees, birds, fish and so forth. How can you ever be bored with such a life?</p>
<p>When you observe a small mountain stream flowing down and joining with a larger rivulet, the water splashes and crashes against rocks and sand. It may seem to be a difficult and even joyless battle for the water to find its way to the bottom of the valley, but that is not so. The water makes music and rhythm as it dances down the mountain, and as long as there is someone who can appreciate its song, that stream will be happy.</p>
<p>The important point is that nature is looking for its counterpart. Without men and women, all things would be terribly lonely. People must be here to appreciate the things of creation, as well as give glory to God-this is our duty. Even in New York City, where things are sometimes very desolate and dirty, we can appreciate the buildings and think, &#8220;They want to see me&#8221; You can go out each day and say, &#8220;Hello, New Yorker and the Empire State Building&#8221; As you greet these things, they respond to you! With such a heart of love toward all the things in the world, a person can never get bored or lonely. You will be filled with love all the time and ready to give love to others.</p>
<p>The Unification Church alone truly appreciates and celebrates this Day of All Things. We know that all things of creation have been grieving in their hearts, yearning for the appearance of the true sons and daughters of God who would appreciate them and take dominion over them. They have never had such proper dominion until the time of the True Parents. For that reason, the Day of All Things is crucially important. For the first time in history, we are giving true joy to all things.</p>
<p>In conclusion, I want to say to you that this is the day of the appearance of the true sons and daughters of God. Now for the first time, all things have seen men and women who interact centered upon the true love of God. Because of this, they feel they have found their true masters. The work and the desire of God for all these years has been to see the day of harmony between the creation and human beings. This is that day. Amen! Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE DAY OF THE VICTORY OF HEAVEN</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:06:53+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/the-day-of-the-victory-of-heaven-3.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:06:53+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1985.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">October 4, 1985<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>The people gathered together here this morning are members of the worldwide Unification Church. The word &#8220;unification&#8221; in English doesn&#8217;t convey the full meaning. The Chinese characters for unification, pronounced <i>Tong Il</i> in Korean, convey a meaning that includes education leading toward a unified goal. <i>Kyo</i> he means church and that is comprised of two Chinese characters. He means meeting or congregation and <i>Kyo</i> means teaching or education. Thus the literal meaning is a congregational meeting for education. The education of what? Teaching the religious truth.</p>
<p>What is religion? In Korean we call it <i>Chung Kyo</i> and that is again comprised of two Chinese characters. <i>Chung</i> means the backbone or the beam, so religion is the beam teaching, or the teaching of central truth. Therefore, when we say <i>Tong Il Kyohoi</i>, or Unification Church, within that name is contained all the implications of what we stand for: highest and deepest teaching for the purpose of unifying toward one goal. That is the literal meaning of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Once you understand the full meaning of the Unification Church, you know that it is bringing the central truth of all religions. Furthermore, <i>Tong Il Kyohoi</i> truly means the meeting between God and people-the congregation. Who is at the center of the congregation-the members of the Unification Church or God? It is God. Therefore, wherever we go, the center of our activities and meetings is God.</p>
<p>In the traditional Christian churches, who is the center- God or Jesus? Many cannot answer that question; they are not sure about it. But we know that Jesus did not come to earth by his own will; he was sent here by God. Always there is a subject and object relationship; that is how everything is manifested.</p>
<p>What is the purpose of your life? Now that you have learned the meaning of the Unification Church, how do you answer that question?</p>
<p>Is there any individual who is perfected in the eyes of God? Are there any societies or tribes that are perfected? What about nations? The world? Since nothing is perfected, everything has to be reanalyzed. Even among all the saints in history, can we see any who were truly perfected according to the Unification Church&#8217;s concept of perfection? That is a big question. Do you mean that God has been working throughout human history, but there is not even one individual, much less one family, one society or nation that is perfected according to the will of God? That is a big problem, then.</p>
<p>Even the pope, the head of the hundreds of millions of Roman Catholics, is not perfected according to the viewpoint of God and the Unification Church and Reverend Moon.</p>
<p>When God created human beings, He created not only men but also women. Did He create woman simply to give man a friend. to keep him from being lonely? Or was Eve meant to be more than just a friend to Adam? No matter who, even the celibate pope, has to answer, &#8220;God created man and woman so that they could become a pair, get married and form a family through which they could multiply and expand their love&#8221;</p>
<p>Why were men and women born? To be educated in the purpose of life; to marry, or to accomplish unification; and then were to go forward into a fulfilling life. This is the path of perfection.</p>
<p>No matter how powerful a king of some nation may be, if he is all by himself in the palace, he is a miserable man. He&#8217;s got to have a queen; without a queen, he cannot even think of having a family. All people were meant to be educated about the purpose of life, to grow up centered upon God and to be unified in marriage, leading to a fulfilling life. For what ultimate purpose? The ultimate goal is joy. God will be joyful, creation will be joyful, spirit world will be joyful; everything will be joyful. But the word &#8220;joyful&#8221; will never tee fulfilled unless man and woman come together in unified and harmonious give and take.</p>
<p>What is God&#8217;s purpose? What is Satan&#8217;s goal? God is trying to create a joyful world and Satan is trying to create a sad and miserable world. What is shameful or sad, according to God&#8217;s ideal? In a world in which men and women are living together in harmony, someone all by himself is a sad sight to see. Can a man say, &#8220;I&#8217;m totally self-suffcient. I don&#8217;t need anybody else&#8221;? Is that a joyful situation? He may figure that he can cook his own meals and eat them all by himself, but God does not pay attention to that kind of &#8220;society&#8221; God is interested in the society of give and take on the individual, family, society, national and worldwide levels.</p>
<p>I feel as though I have been on a journey for the past year and, now that I have come back, I see that all of you have become spotted with dirt; so now I want to clean you off.</p>
<p>The meaning of joyful does not include the individual by himself Joy means harmony and harmony means give and take; that requires more than one party. Among all the actions of people, the most beautiful is the action of true love.</p>
<p>If you were smiling and talking all by yourself in a room, other people would think you were crazy. There must be a subject and object relationship for joy to exist. God is trying to create a totally joyful world, while Satan wants to destroy joy and create the opposite kind of world. When these two opposing elements come into their most heated confrontation, that is what we call the end of the world. Satan would like to destroy the world in one final strike.</p>
<p>The joyful world begins with a man and woman, but it must spread outward to the surrounding people. There must be children and grandchildren, as well as an entire society, relating in joy. Some people might ask, &#8220;Why do we need children; why do we need grandchildren?&#8221; It is to create the mainstream of joy connected to the past, present and future. Only in the family can we find the past, present and future flowing together-in the grandparents, the parents, the children and grandchildren. That formula cannot be changed by the passage of time; it will never change.</p>
<p>When we talk about something ideal, we do not mean just one dimension, like a flat sheet of paper, but in all directions, like a globe. The ideal, wholesome joy can only be found in the system of the family. God can ask Adam and Eve, &#8220;What do you have to show me that you are very proud of?&#8221; They can answer, &#8220;Family joy&#8221; That is wholesome, total joy; it includes front and back, left and right and up and down. Joy emanates in every direction. The secret, as well as the formula, for joy is centered on the family which God is trying to install. Satan knows this truth, too; therefore, he is trying to destroy the family and create misery.</p>
<p>What kind of people are gathered here? You are Moonies, mostly American Moonies, while I am a Korean Moonie. Most American people want to say, &#8220;We are first-class people of the number one country in the world&#8221; But I am asking if American pride is justified. Let&#8217;s look at the families of America. Do the young people love and take care of the older people, the so-called senior citizens? The American people have failed that first test. I have been rejected, in a way, by the American people because I have been speaking honestly. But the universal law remains the same, whether people listen to me or not.</p>
<p>You women tell me, are American families passing or failing, according to the definition of the joyful family which I have been speaking of? Satan knew God&#8217;s purposes well, so he determined to destroy the true family formula all over the world. Satan has especially targeted the American family; you must know that clearly. Many American young people are saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need a spouse; I don&#8217;t need to have children&#8221; Is that a joyful society? Who guides this kind of life style? It is none other than Satan. Satan&#8217;s AIDS attacks homosexuals.</p>
<p>American society, the so-called leader of the world, is becoming a destructive satanic weapon, from God&#8217;s point of view. This society which virtually rejects old people and whose young people don&#8217;t want to take responsibility for their marriages or their children is simply becoming Satan&#8217;s weapon. But in order to fight this weapon, a new weapon has been created by God-the Unification Church. Satan has laid his traps throughout America, while those who are uncovering them and shattering them to pieces are the members of the Unification Church and Reverend Moon. That is what the Unification Church revolution is about.</p>
<p>God is watching what the Unification Church is really doing. Are the members becoming victims of Satan&#8217;s traps or are they victorious over them? God is watching to see whether Unification Church members will be swallowed or will swallow those traps, digest them and create a new society.</p>
<p>America has been going in the wrong direction and that is why Reverend Moon came and attacked that satanic tradition. I am challenging and struggling not for my own sake but for the sake of humanity and the ultimate fulfillment of God&#8217;s goal. America has become an influence of corruption to the rest of the world and I came to stop that.</p>
<p>In so many places throughout this country, lonely old grandparents are living all by themselves, pale and miserable, with nothing to smile about. Men and women are going their different directions, not even meeting each other. Children are on their own, running around all by themselves. This is the saddest situation, these sad families of America.</p>
<p>This is shameful in the sight of nature, too. The male and female birds sing to one another in love; even the insects make the music of love. All those creatures were meant to be appreciated by people; we were supposed to be inspired by the reflection of ourselves through the beauty of creation. The creatures sing with joy just as men and women are supposed to sing in joy, centering upon God&#8217;s true love. Do you want the rest of the world to follow the American way of life? That will only lead to disaster and that is why we are trying to revolutionize this country.</p>
<p>The means by which we will do this are simple: the law of restoration by indemnity. America will be restored through indemnity. Therefore the young white people should love an elderly black couple as their own grandparents. Extremes should come together and if the different elements can really overcome and be joyful under those circumstances, America&#8217;s problems will be solved. Since this is what God wants, Reverend Moon came to America to accomplish it. Many people have thought that Reverend Moon came to destroy America, but I am doing the opposite. We are working to see God&#8217;s will being done in America; that is salvation.</p>
<p>What is your citizenship? Would you rather be a United States citizen or a Heavenly citizen? You are greedy for goodness, aren&#8217;t you? I have been conducting a leadership conference at East Garden for the past several days for regional directors and European and Asian leaders. East Garden is like a special training center. Some members have complained, &#8220;Father is an Oriental and we don&#8217;t like that style&#8221; Many leaders have come to the conclusion that I chastise America because I am an Oriental.</p>
<p>When you go to the spirit world, who will you look for first? Will you say, &#8220;Where are the True Parents?&#8221; Even though you met the True Parents on earth doesn&#8217;t mean that you will be automatically connected with them in spirit world. Unless you do the will of God and the True Parents, you will be a stranger to them up there.</p>
<p>American people are chastised by me and you think, &#8220;Oh, Father doesn&#8217;t love us&#8221; But you should think about a schoolteacher. Does the good teacher allow his students to work only 25 minutes and then the rest of the hour to play and goof off? No, a good teacher is stern and always pushes you to accomplish more, saying, &#8220;Why are you one minute late? You must do all your homework! If you don&#8217;t answer correctly, you must stand up&#8221; He is stern because he is working to ensure a good future for his students.</p>
<p>You have no idea how stern God was in training me. God is an incredibly disciplined teacher, so if I wanted to go this way, God would push me in the opposite direction. If I wanted to slacken up a little bit, God would push me to the limit. So you can understand my viewpoint. I am always looking at things with my eyeglasses of unification, my Tong n Kyo He eyeglasses.</p>
<p>I have already spoken for one hour and ten minutes and I have just warmed up! The most important theme so far is why God created the world: He wanted to have a joyful, loving world with the family as the foundation. Love is at the center of past, present and future. The oldest, great, great, great, greatest grandparent is God. When you dig deeper and deeper, you come to the place of God. And the youngest offspring are within the mainstream of this joyful system. The only unit that connects the extremes of old and young is the family, not the nation. This is the formula and the yardstick of measurement. It doesn&#8217;t matter what your nationality is, whether American, Korean, Japanese or whatever. Everybody is measured according to how you fulfill the family ideal. You will be elevated to the highest heaven or lowered to the lowest hell in spirit world according to this standard.</p>
<p>Through this formula, the harvest ripens and is put into a beautiful storage place. That storage place is called the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven. There is quality control there-first quality, second quality, inferior quality and flunked out. Everybody will eventually be put into some category.</p>
<p>God has been judging from this standpoint throughout history and nobody has passed so far, so no one has entered the highest Heaven. Many have been consigned to the trash cans of hell. There is a better grade called Paradise, but that is not Heaven. In the Principle we say that the Kingdom of Heaven is empty because no one ever fulfilled the requirements to enter those gates.</p>
<p>People commit sin with their eyes, nose, mouth, ears and body. The person who looks at his spouse with a hateful eye and not a loving one will find himself blinded in spirit world. People who listen to satanic sounds will be deaf in spirit world. Those who speak evil all the time will find that they have no mouth. Whatever you use to commit sin on the earth will be damaged and disfigured when you go to the next world. You cannot deceive anybody in spirit world; whatever you have sown, you will reap.</p>
<p>Americans have thought they were number one citizens of the world, but they will find in the Kingdom of Heaven it is not so. Many American ministers have not wanted to hear Reverend Moon speaking the truth and have tried to get me to leave this country, but I will continue to speak because nobody can stop the truth. Let anyone oppose me who wishes to; let us see who is victorious in the end.</p>
<p>When America sent me to jail it was almost like a wrestling match, in which America was trying to throw Reverend Moon and defeat him once and for all. But I was never thrown, and by the time I came out of prison there were many American people saying, &#8220;Hooray for Reverend Moon!&#8221; like a band of cheerleaders.</p>
<p>So far I have spoken clearly about my mission; you know that in pursuing my mission I came to America. America sent me to jail and thought it was finished with me. On the contrary, Reverend Moon resurrected stronger than ever. Now after my return from prison, on this <i>Day of Victory of Heaven</i>, I would like to speak clearly about the dispensation in America.</p>
<p>This is the 45th day after my release from prison, so a total of 44 days have elapsed since then. The number 44 represents the heavenly four-position foundation, which has been dominated by Satan until this time. I am trying to restore that number on the basis of the family. That is why I have spoken about the ideal family and also about the joyful world and the goal of God.</p>
<p>Your grandparents, your spouse and your children are like your three guiding angels to get you into Heaven. We learn from each of these relationships. That is the real family tradition. What is marriage? It is education in unity. The man learns about the woman&#8217;s realm and the woman learns about the man&#8217;s realm. Neither of you can know about these things until you get married, so marriage is like entering the school of the opposite sex. If you get a good report card of 100 points, then both the husband and wife will be absolutely happy and fulfilled.</p>
<p>Having children is another level of education. By loving your children, you learn how to love the world; also you connect with the future. Through your grandparents you connect with the past and also to the spirit world. You can learn from them about tradition and your family history. Every level of education, whether through your spouse, your children or your grandparents, is centered upon one thing- love. With this love you can travel into timeless space, from past, present, and future, almost like blood running in the bloodstream. Blood runs everywhere, from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head. By the same token, with love you can travel through timeless space. How wonderful is the authority of love!</p>
<p>What is the road to happiness? It is to become the servant, even the slave, of love. A stately, dignified grandfather might find the husband and wife fighting and say, &#8220;Oh, my children, you shouldn&#8217;t do that. Let me help you overcome your differences&#8221; Likewise, he might find the grandchildren quarreling and say, &#8220;My grandchildren! I love you so much! Please don&#8217;t fight!&#8221; The grandfather in that case is serving everyone in the role of mediator.</p>
<p>Perhaps a wife has the habit of nagging all the time. The good husband doesn&#8217;t fight with her. Instead, he says, &#8220;Darling, I understand&#8221; The good husband is the servant, even the slave, of love.</p>
<p>From this perspective, we can understand God. God is the greatest, highest possible king, with the essence of love. Therefore, God walks the road of a servant. That is why I have taught you to go forth, &#8220;With the heart of the Father, in the shoes of a servant&#8221; That is the basic philosophy of God, of Reverend Moon and of the Moonies.</p>
<p>That has been exactly my attitude. After the American government sentenced me to prison, did I say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll beat you! I&#8217;ll destroy you!&#8221;? No, I said, &#8220;America, I will continue to serve and love you&#8221; When was The Washington Times created? It was during the time when the government was prosecuting me. That is one way I have shown my love for this country. In the future, all Americans will weep when they realize this.</p>
<p>There were two other publications that were formed during my Danbury time. One was the national weekly newsmagazine called Insight. A new issue of this comes out every Wednesday. At the same time, I directed the creation of a seven hundred page monthly magazine called The World and 1, something unprecedented in this country.</p>
<p>Why did we create this new monthly magazine? The American media is a fast moving realm, with no principled direction. Everybody moves from one subject to another, one crisis, one event after another. But the world needs to be educated and guided in the right direction. There are certain principles that the society, nation and world need to follow and the media is one means of leadership. Thus we assembled highly esteemed academic people and writers to produce this magazine and to point to the proper direction. We have already formed the academic organization called PWPA in many nations around the world. All these things are the fruits of the love I have for America and the rest of the world.</p>
<p>What and who is God? As we said, He is the servant of love, the slave of love, coming down to accomplish the happiness of mankind. God must teach His philosophy to mankind, so the challenge is one of education. God must install a certain system by which He can educate mankind centered on this love.</p>
<p>Within human society there are different levels and entities, such as the family, and there is a certain system of organization. There has been no true connection between these levels, however, because satanic love always divided us. God wants to unify the whole divided social system under true love; Satan divided them under satanic love.</p>
<p>The Day of the Victory of Heaven has incredible meaning. When we talk about such a victory, then we are talking about one thing-the victory of God&#8217;s love. Wherever satanic love is governing, that territory belongs to Satan; wherever God&#8217;s love is governing, that territory belongs to God. There has been a territorial dispute in the world. Our question is: how can we claim more and more satanic territories for God? How can God install His system of love? How can we become unified? We need a textbook to learn from. We have many textbooks but no true textbook for the reconstruction of love.</p>
<p>We must reconstruct eight different levels, beginning with the very bottom of the social level, which is servant of servants. Next is servant, then adopted son or daughter, then stepson or stepdaughter, then Eve, then Adam, then God, then true love. Every echelon was attacked by Satan; they all became alienated from each other. Our task is to break through each barrier and to unify them with the higher levels. Ultimately we reach true love through these eight degrees. The Principle teaches us the path of restoration, which is not centered on money, knowledge or power but only upon love.</p>
<p>What is the central point of faith? One can have faith in many things. Some people have faith in science or culture. Many people have faith in God, but what must be at the center of that faith? It must be true love. Any religion which does not teach this point will wither away.</p>
<p>The religion that will survive and prosper and go on forever must teach love centered on the family. Every religion has its own scriptures, but the Christian Bible is the greatest. Why is that? The reason is simple: the Bible describes God as a Father, as in the center of a family. And Jesus is described as His only-begotten son, or the number one son. Furthermore, the Bible depicts humanity in a bride&#8217;s position, with Jesus as the bridegroom. The Bible uses the language of the family and exalts it.</p>
<p>The Bible also predicts the most joyful day for humanity- the day of the Marriage of the Lamb. What is that? That is the wedding day between the bridegroom and the bride. As you know, this was supposed to have been accomplished in the Garden of Eden, between Adam and Eve. But since that marriage was attacked and broken, God wanted it to be restored in the time of Jesus. Christianity is truly the central religion of the world because it is centered upon love within the family. That is also why Christianity became the dominant worldwide religion.</p>
<p>God wanted the Christian teaching to guide the world, and He gave us one great opportunity right after World War II through the dominance of American Christianity. What is America&#8217;s responsibility? It is very clear from God&#8217;s viewpoint: as the representative of world Christianity, America must create a society and lead the world to become a place where true love permeates and prevails and where unity of all the social levels can be realized. The American nation has that chosen position from God to save the world.</p>
<p>After the end of World War II in 1945, if humanity and the world had accepted Reverend Moon, God&#8217;s ideal could have been established within 40 years. Within less than seven years time, the Principle could have been propagated to the whole world. We would not see the corrupted society we see in America today. Communism would have no power or influence. It would be an entirely different world.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, that God-given opportunity right after World War II was lost. Therefore, I had to rebuild the foundation from scratch, following the law of restoration through indemnity. Through the next 40 years, I built the Unification Church, the new foundation upon which the dispensation of unity could be established.</p>
<p>After World War II, the six thousand years of fallen biblical history had to be restored; this is the mission of the Unification Church. If the Unification Church does not fulfill this mission, the future will be dismal for the world; the world would be governed entirely by Satan. We are seeing nowadays among some theologians the &#8220;God is dead&#8221; philosophy. The God denying ideology of communism is rampant, trying to take over the world. Secular humanism is strong in the Western world, where people say, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need a savior. Everybody is equal. There is no God; religion and morality are useless; everybody should just do what he wants and follow his own desires&#8221;</p>
<p>These anti-God attitudes such as secular humanism, communism, and the &#8220;God is dead&#8221; theology are making it impossible for God to find a foothold on earth. Religion has become corrupted and impotent; families have been broken and divided; society is becoming more and more diseased; and the young people are being destroyed. God had to do something and that something was the Unification Church and Reverend Moon.</p>
<p>The eight levels of society have to be restored in these 40 years. Within the democratic world, we have come up step by step during my lifetime. God is actually preparing a textbook of true religion. God Himself walked the path to restore these eight levels. He gave His example and model and had it written into the textbook of religion.</p>
<p>Look at the Old and New Testament. In the Old Testament, man started out from the servant of servants level, coming up to servant. Then the New Testament recorded the rise to the adopted son&#8217;s position, then stepson&#8217;s position, then the point of the true son. The Unification Church&#8217;s responsibility is to go from stepson&#8217;s position up to true love.</p>
<p>What is a stepchild? He lives with one parent and another person who is not his real parent. As with Cain and Abel, there is one family with two kinds of children. That is what the problems of our society can be boiled down to-the Cain and Abel separation. Since you already know the Principle, I don&#8217;t have to go into detail about this.</p>
<p>Even though the truth was contained in the Old and New Testaments, no one was able to fully interpret it. For that reason, God had to send the Messiah to earth to clarify the truth and describe it clearly, step by step, all the way to the top.</p>
<p>Jesus absolutely followed the God-centered tradition, as epitomized in his prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, &#8220;Not my will, but Thy will be done, Father&#8221; During Jesus&#8217; time, there was supposed to be unity between Joseph&#8217;s family and Zechariah&#8217;s family through the Marriage of the Lamb. But that did not take place and instead was broken into pieces, and the result was the crucifixion. At this time of the Second Advent, therefore, the two brothers are represented by the Western world and the Oriental world.</p>
<p>If there had been no crucifixion, Christianity would have traveled from East to West; but history was turned around and went from the Western world-the analytical, physical, scientific world-to the spirit centered Eastern world. If Jesus had not been crucified, then he would have united 12 tribes under him, and the Arab world could have become unified within his lifetime. Then the dispensation would have moved to the Indian culture and to the Chinese culture. All the religions of those areas would have come under Jesus Christ&#8217;s teachings. With that formidable power, they could have confronted the Roman Empire.</p>
<p>However, because of the crucifixion, the Arab world and the Jewish world are still divided. Furthermore, the Christians had to go to the Roman Empire and endure terrible persecution and martyrdom. After spreading through the Western world first, now Christianity is going back to the Asian world.</p>
<p>At this time, the Western world is turning toward the East for inspiration. Young people are interested in all the fashions and cultural trends coming out of the Orient. Why has Japan become so powerful and respected, not only in the economic realm but also in the political, cultural and social realms? The reason is that the time has come when world attention must be given to the Orient.</p>
<p>Satan knows what God&#8217;s will is, so he wants to prevent the West from uniting with the East. He doesn&#8217;t want to see the United States becoming more friendly with Japan and the other Asian nations. It is in Satan&#8217;s interests to cut off trade with Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and the Asian sector, to isolate the United States through protective trade barriers and so forth.</p>
<p>Who is running the United States government today? Who are the people most influential over American public opinion? They are left-leaning people with secular values, such as we find in the liberal media. These are the people who promote God-denying principles and policies which are ultimately favorable to Satan. I know this very clearly and I know that God had to do something to prevent this situation from continuing. God&#8217;s solution was to send Reverend Moon to this country to stop these things.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Reverend Moon has the mission of restoring the sovereignty of love here in America, as well as to bring unity between the United States and the Asian sector. Satan has always held the sovereignty over love and thus he came to control the church and the family. The mission of Reverend Moon and the mission of the Unification Church are the same-to plant the love of God back in this country, to restore the family system and the churches. Those are our three fundamental goals.</p>
<p>We are in the midst of the battle right now. Satan is trying very hard to break down unity between the East and West, particularly between the United States and Korea. Japan and Korea are the only two Asian nations who have not been deeply influenced by communism. If that beachhead is lost, all the Asian territory will be lost and I cannot let this happen. I worry about communist China, a gigantic country with one billion people. I have been praying about how to turn that country around and my prayers are being answered.</p>
<p>The communists are also working to aggravate racial tensions between the Anglo-Saxons and Latin American people. As you know, the United States Congress at one time rejected 14 million dollars in aid for the Nicaraguan freedom fighters, wanting to close the door on Central America. But that meant Central America was destined to become another Vietnam. Thus The Washington Times made a historic announcement and pledged to raise the 14 million dollars itself, if the government refused to do it. Because of that, the White House and the Administration and Congress were ashamed and later 27 million dollars were approved for the Nicaraguan rebels.</p>
<p>The American media are hateful toward us and don&#8217;t want to report our successes, but I don&#8217;t care whether they report them or not. It&#8217;s already written in the book of God&#8217;s history, the Unification Church history, and United States history. That time was the turning point for the survival of this nation because if the United States is defeated in Central America, the next target will be Mexico and then this country. I knew that if this country became that vulnerable, worldwide salvation would not be possible.</p>
<p>I would like to see Unificationism influence the American government and public opinion, as well as bring unity among the established Christian churches. On the day of my release, August 20, 1985, great unity was made. A dispensational miracle is occurring now. Forty years ago, on August 15, 1945, unity with Christianity was supposed to have occurred, but things happened entirely differently. So within forty years I laid the foundation which included suffering in Danbury, the modern Crucifixion. Finally that moment has come again so that this nation and Christianity can embrace the True Parents for the first time. Reverend Moon, in the name of True Parents, restored at once the national and historical worldwide victory.</p>
<p>At the Mount of Calvary with Jesus&#8217; crucifixion, all the foundation was lost; but now it has been restored. Two thousand years of Christianity became the foundation for the new Abel-type Christianity, which is the Unification Church. Ronald Reagan is president of the United States, but he doesn&#8217;t know how to lead the world. Only one person knows the direction of God and the key to the survival of America and the free world-that is Reverend Moon!</p>
<p>This is the time of juncture between East and West. From now on, Western civilization will continue to decline and the new culture centered upon God, the Unification civilization, will continue to rise. People may laugh at my statement today but you will see in the future that this is true.</p>
<p>History was begun in the wrong direction by Adam, Eve and the archangel, as well as by Cain and Abel. Now at the time of the end of the world, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel are all enemies on the world level. The appearance of the four primary dispensational nations is inevitable: Korea is the Adam nation; Japan is the Eve nation; the United States is the Abel-type archangel nation; and Germany is the Cain-type archangel nation. Originally, centering upon the second coming of the Messiah, England was supposed to have been the Eve nation, America would have been in the Abel son&#8217;s position, and the Cain nation would have been France. However, all these things were changed because of the failure of the dispensation at that time.</p>
<p>Everything had to be reorganized and thus Japan became the Eve nation to Korea. America and Germany became the two archangel nations. As you know, France and England have had a long history of enmity, and so have France and Germany, and Germany and England. Because of the failure of established Christianity after the coming of the Lord of the Second Advent, the four enemy nations-Japan, the United States, Germany, and Korea-came together in this historical role.</p>
<p>Where should this unity be accomplished? In the United States of America, because this is the central Christian nation. Therefore, I have brought together all the leaders of our worldwide church to America, and together with me they are serving this cause. Those four dispensational countries have to make a unified foundation in one country.</p>
<p>After the Korean and Japanese leaders came here, many of you said, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need them!&#8221; Is this right or wrong? No matter how difficult it is to become citizens of God&#8217;s Kingdom, we must make this foundation in America; otherwise, we can&#8217;t march on and build the Kingdom of Heaven. That Kingdom will be built upon the unity of the four enemy nations.</p>
<p>In the world today, Korea is divided between North and South and Germany is divided between East and West. This is a symbol of the division between the first Cain and Abel. There are two different world brothers-communism and democracy. They also represent the thieves on either side of Jesus on the cross. At that time, the good thief and the bad thief argued with each other. At this time, the Abel realm of the world asserts that there is a God, while the Cain realm denies God.</p>
<p>I have been studying English but it is very difficult for a man of my age to retain what he learns. I study the dictionary and memorize new things, but the next day I wake up and it&#8217;s all gone from my brain! You are young people, so you can learn much more quickly and better than me. After 1990, you have to know Korean. Otherwise, you won&#8217;t be able to come to Korea. You think about that. Moonies are the people who are following me, following the Unification course, so Moonies who cannot speak Korean will not have any excuse. This is the viewpoint of Principle. Do you understand that clearly?</p>
<p>The enemy nations have gathered together under one teaching-that of true love and the True Parents. Now where are we going? We are going to find our own land, the land of Canaan. This is what the mobilization is all about at this time. The Unification Church must be able to educate and lead the world. All the world&#8217;s countries are represented in America.</p>
<p>We have a mission ahead of us to promote the election of a President of the United States whom God approves. Also we must promote senators and congressmen who are God loving. The same is true for local officials, such as mayors. How can we do such a thing? It is very simple: Christianity and the Unification Church have to become united; that will bring the desired result.</p>
<p>We have an IFVOC membership in Korea of more than seven million and even more than that in Japan. Through this formidable strength, God&#8217;s will can be taught throughout these countries to the politicians and governments.</p>
<p>Now in the United States, a truthful viewpoint can be promoted through The Washington Times. When the President is wrong, The Washington Times will say so; when the Congress is wrong, The Washington Times will say so. When the Times accused Reagan, saying, &#8220;You are not the Rambo president; you are the Gumbo president,&#8221; Reagan got mad. Let him get mad; he deserved to get mad. Meanwhile, the rest of the media wonders what The Washington Times is doing.</p>
<p>Some people think that these are crazy acts; they say, &#8220;Reverend Moon is just throwing his money away&#8221; But I am not crazy and I am not throwing money away. You will see. Secularism in America is losing its power. Reverend Moon has been changing the direction of the United States. The government has not been able to stop the Moonies, nor could it eliminate Reverend Moon&#8217;s influence. In fact, more and more American people are rallying behind me.</p>
<p>At Jesus&#8217; crucifixion, the two thieves were far from united and were arguing with each other. At the time of Danbury, which was my crucifixion, Christianity was divided into two poles-one is conservative, represented by Jerry Falwell, and the other is liberal, represented by Joseph Lowery. These two sides have fought like cats and dogs on virtually every issue, but on the issue of Reverend Moon, they have united. That is providentially important.</p>
<p>Likewise, established Christianity and the Unification Church are united centering on me, which was represented at the August 20 banquet. With the unity of the Unification Church, established Christianity, and the government of the United States, God&#8217;s providence will be fulfilled and completed. We will make it happen! I have the plan; when I was in Danbury, I knew how to make that happen.</p>
<p>As you know, the goal of our mobilization now is to meet with 70,000 ministers. Multiplied by three, that makes 210,000. Multiply that by three and you have more than 600,000. Moses&#8217; people who left Egypt numbered 600,000; today, in the wilderness of the 20th century Canaan, I am again organizing a movement of 600,000.</p>
<p>After 40 years, the Israelites entered Canaan. Now we are going into Canaan on the worldwide level. This is the first time religious leaders have been taught such a thing. We are bringing new direction to them. When they understand this direction, they will follow. We are bringing order to the country and we are marching on, always moving. You must go out now and take the persecution; this is not the time to stay home. If you don&#8217;t go out now, I will be the one to accuse you and say, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you work for the ideal world?&#8221; Even if you are not being persecuted by others, I will persecute you! I don&#8217;t want to see mankind failing to move at this crucial time, the culmination of all providential restoration history. Those who understand God&#8217;s providence clearly, please raise your hands.</p>
<p><i>The Day of the Victory of Heaven </i>was actually installed on October 4, 1976. The fulfillment of that providence was supposed to unfold within seven years; however, because of the court battles and other opposition, the dispensational moment was delayed. This is the eighth year after the installation of the <i>Day of the Victory of Heaven</i>, so we are marking a new beginning today.</p>
<p>1945 was supposed to be the time when established Christianity and I could unite, and upon this unity, God would have unfolded His dispensation. Since that was not done, I initiated the Unification Church movement and created the new foundation which has been developing now for 40 years. Today the Unification Church and I are united and we are declaring truly the <i>Day of the Victory of Heaven</i>. Based on the Danbury victory, today, October 4, 1985, 1 am marking the final chapter of the dispensation and the new beginning of the <i>Day of the Victory of Heaven</i>.</p>
<p>History is repeating today the events at the time of Moses. Joshua and Caleb led the second generation of Israelites into the land of Canaan with the slogan, &#8220;Be Bold and Strong&#8221; Today our slogan is exactly the same; fortunately, the first generation today doesn&#8217;t have to fall in the wilderness. The first and second generations can go together into the promised land upon the restoration of Cain and Abel. Because my own family has restored that situation, now we can all be united and enter Canaan together.</p>
<p>Our movement has to educate the leaders of this country. We are essentially an educational movement. If the political parties in America continue along the path they are going, this country will definitely decline. Our job is to educate them in the love of God. We have already educated thousands of ministers and, secondly, we must reach out to the lawmakers and politicians. We are doing this through the CAUSA programs. Eventually we will be able to teach the national senators and congressmen.</p>
<p>No matter what the politicians may say now, eventually they will have to listen to our message. Even though many Americans are boastful today, saying, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need a prophet, particularly from the Orient. We don&#8217;t want to be told what to do,&#8217; they will change. American people are basically big, open-minded people. They are willing to listen to black people, Hispanics and Asians, and we are bringing together all these different kinds of people under the one ideology of Godism.</p>
<p>According to biblical teaching, what is the role of a prophet? The prophets received the message from God and then taught the king and the rest of the country. If the king listened to the prophet, their country prospered. If they didn&#8217;t, they suffered. Today is no different. The role of the prophet is the same, no matter whether the people like what he says or not. You must know this very clearly. My message today shall be called the Belvedere Declaration. It is the most significant message I have given since leaving Danbury. I want to give a historical analysis of our entire situation and give you clear direction as to what to do.</p>
<p>I am working to see the unity of the twin brothers-East and West. Once Reverend Moon is accepted, unity on every level will be possible. When twins are in the mother&#8217;s womb, are they back-to-back or face-to-face? Are they in different positions, one upside down? They are both facing each other and in the same position. That means they are not fighting; within the womb, twins are face-to-face and united.</p>
<p>Between the twin brothers of East and West, who is the elder? It is the East. The origin of all the major religions is in the East, even Christianity. The East is in the subject position. What about Jesus? Was he an Italian? No, he came from Israel, which is part of Asia Minor. The Unification Church came from Asia, as did the other major world religions.</p>
<p>God is like a gardener who not only planted a tree but also created it. When the tree is grown, along comes a little monkey who climbs up and says, &#8220;This is my tree!&#8221; He becomes boastful. God laughs at him and says, &#8220;You monkey, what are you doing? That is my tree, not yours!&#8221; Many Western people are like that monkey, wanting to control and claim everything as theirs, disregarding God.</p>
<p>In the past seven years, we haven&#8217;t given proper treatment to the Day of the Victory of Heaven. On this eighth observance, we are going to renew our celebration and resurrect the meaning of this day.</p>
<p>I could not call for all the state and city leaders to come here today because our activities would be disrupted. Therefore, I invited all the business leaders from around the world, including Japan, Korea and Europe. Also I asked all the regional directors in America to come to East Garden. I have been meeting with them since September 30.</p>
<p>This is the fifth day of the conference; for the first two days, they listened to me at East Garden and everybody was so happy. But by the third day, everybody had a backache. They were all thinking, &#8220;Oh, Father, haven&#8217;t we listened to you enough?&#8221; So I thought, &#8220;l have educated them wrong!&#8221; I let them rest last night so they could listen to me today without falling asleep. I want them to hear this message on the Day of the Victory of Heaven so that we can make a new beginning. I am really sweating today, making a very strong speech.</p>
<p>Six thousand years of fallen history need to be indemnified. In order to do that, there must be a showcase or model. That model has been erected during the past 40 years by me, but actually God is the pioneer. God has been showing the example of how to overcome and break the barriers on each level. The prophets in history showed how to do it, people like Noah, Abraham, Moses and especially Jesus Christ. But people haven&#8217;t been able to understand the pattern, so during these 40 years I have been summarizing a clear-cut pattern, giving you a textbook.</p>
<p>So far I have been fulfilling the role of Abel, but that role was supposed to have been filled by Christianity. I have been showing Christianity what the true Abel is like, on a worldwide scale. In the past, prophets came on a national or a tribal level, but I have been giving the model on the worldwide level. From the worldwide level, I am giving a model for the individual, family, tribe, society, nation, world and cosmos. The cosmic level covers everything, even hell.</p>
<p>The Danbury dispensation created a highway from hell into heaven, in a way. That was the purpose of Danbury and that has been fulfilled. What does that mean? It means the satanic world has to retreat.</p>
<p>When the harvest season arrives, everybody goes out and harvests the grain; otherwise the grain will be lost. Rain might come and ruin it, so the father and mother and even the children go out and bring in the grain. By the same token, we are in the middle of our harvest season now. This is our mobilization time. When you understand the historical dispensation, you know this is the final showdown for God.</p>
<p>Why do you hold on to Reverend Moon? That is the way you can go over the hill of indemnity. Holding on to me, you can go all the way to the top, through all of Satan&#8217;s barriers. My mission has been to break down all those barriers and unite each level with higher levels.</p>
<p>In every realm there are Cain and Abel divisions. In the democratic world there are Cain and Abel; even in the satanic world there are Cain and Abel. The Unification Church has the power to penetrate all directions, not only within the democratic world but also the communist world. That is why our movement is going to Moscow and the Soviet satellite countries.</p>
<p>Why do you need me? I am a model, an example for you. I am the only one who can show you how to walk each level and be victorious so that you can unify at a higher level. Because the first parents were the prey of Satan and, therefore, became false parents, only the True Parents can bring God&#8217;s unity.</p>
<p>There is no one else who knows the true dispensational meaning of the Unification Church, including all the church leaders. They are in just the same position as you in that respect. Nobody but the True Parents knows. The position of Father and Mother is like that of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. There was nobody else to listen to, except the archangel who led them astray. True Parents cannot listen to anybody at this time or discuss things. Do you understand? Many American members think that I listen to Korean or Japanese leaders at East Garden and that I am influenced by them, but that is wrong.</p>
<p>American leaders try to tell me, &#8220;Americans think a different way. That won&#8217;t work in America&#8221; Let me ask you: Is America the Garden of Eden or anywhere near Heaven? At this time, the true man and true woman have made a couple and must forge the vertical way. Everybody else must follow that vertical way, then make the horizontal way. This is the way of Principle. Do You understand?</p>
<p>The Oriental world writes up and down, vertically, while the Western world writes from left to right, horizontally. Oriental people usually sleep on their backs, while Western people often like to sleep on their stomachs. When Koreans beckon for someone to come forward, they gesture with their hands pointing downward, while Americans do it with their hands pointing up. Likewise, the grammatical construction of the language is entirely different. In English, you always put the verb before the object of the sentence, such as, &#8220;I go to the park&#8221; But in Korean and Japanese, they describe everything and then put the verb last. There is more description.</p>
<p>I was surprised when I came to the West and saw so many left-handed people. In the Orient, if anybody writes with the left hand, he is considered a disabled person. Another difference is in the way people eat at the dinner table. In the Orient, when you drink soup at someone else&#8217;s table, you are expected to make noise as a sign of enjoying it. But in the West, you are supposed to be absolutely silent. You have to be sneaky, practically hiding behind your bowl.</p>
<p>Who made all these contrasts between East and West? God did, in order to make the world more interesting and to harmonize it in a more interesting way.</p>
<p>Now let us draw our conclusion. I said initially that perfection must be attained on every level-individual, family, tribe, nation, and world. Ultimate perfection means the creation of a joyful world centered on the love of God. Satan does not want that world to happen, so he has divided the world, creating misery and corruption. In these final days, God has brought true love to counteract Satan&#8217;s false love. Reverend Moon is pioneering true love on every level, both in the spirit world and the physical world. I have gone down to the lowest position and brought true love there. I have been showing the world how God Himself walked each step of the way. In the past 40 years, starting from the position of servant of servants, I have shown how each level can be conquered and I have been demonstrating to the world how to walk every step.</p>
<p>Beginning from Day One of these forty years, there was opposition. Korean Christianity doggedly opposed us and they will continue until the final day. God must allow Satan to do his utmost until the last moment. The opposition reached the world level in 1976, its highest point. All the tactics of that opposition, as well as the basic materials, were provided by Korean Christianity. Through the use of such materials, the United States government tried to finish off Reverend Moon, but they were unsuccessful. Even though they did their utmost and even put me into Jail, I have now been resurrected and am victorious.</p>
<p>The Job I still have to complete is that of dealing with the communist world, in particular the Soviet Union. When I was in prison, there were various declarations to the world that communism has lost its power. The book, The End of Communism, was such a declaration. Interestingly, Soviet citizens in Beirut were kidnapped for the first time ever; always before, only Westerners were kidnapped. Also, high ranking officials in the KGB in Britain have defected and exposed the Soviet-European spy network. Dozens of spies were caught and deported. KGB plants and spy rings have been exposed in the United States and also in West Germany. The secular media have not been reporting the truth but instead have distorted things many times. Therefore, we have founded our own truth-centered media.</p>
<p>The enemies of our church just don&#8217;t know what to do about us. When they sent me to Danbury, they thought they could say a final &#8220;Mansei!&#8221; Just as 2000 years ago, Satan&#8217;s forces thought they had their final victory when they nailed Jesus to the cross. However, when I came out of prison, I came out as a hero and a martyr, a symbol of freedom to many people. Now many American people and even the media are supporting me, so our dedicated enemies don&#8217;t know how to deal with this. They are trying to make some counterattack, but they are saying, &#8220;Where are our weapons?&#8221;</p>
<p>I know that anything I say at Belvedere can be heard by the KGB almost simultaneously. Likewise, American intelligence can learn everything I say. That is fine. Let them listen. Our headquarters are listening, too-that is the headquarters of the Heavenly Kingdom and God.</p>
<p>The die is cast, the showdown is done. Our destiny has been decided, no matter what else Satan may do. We have won the victory. Period.</p>
<p>Now many nations will ask me to come and stay with them. People will say, &#8220;Reverend Moon, we want you to come to South America,&#8217; and I will say, &#8220;No, thank you&#8221; Others will ask me to come to Europe but I will also say no. What about America? When American people ask me to come here, what will I say? I will give you a condition, upon which I will return to America. If Americans recognize God&#8217;s goal to bring unity between Korea, Japan and the United States, then I will be here.</p>
<p>The Moonies are working now in America, showing others how to unite East and West. When the American people welcome and follow the Moonies, they will be welcoming everybody. I&#8217;ll be there, then. When America, Japan and Germany are united, the physical, external construction of the Kingdom of Heaven will be easy, since those three nations have some of the most powerful economies on earth. The foundations are there. Reverend Moon has a very good brain. If somebody doubts me, just wait and see. We have already laid the foundation to make the Kingdom of Heaven on earth in the scientific world, as well as in the realms of culture, media, and technology.</p>
<p>During this East Garden conference, I have given tremendous educational materials to you. This is the first time many leaders who have been following me for decades were all gathered together. Many of them were astonished to learn about all the things our movement is doing.</p>
<p>Who is following the vertical path at this time, after 40 years? Only the Moonies. There are two poles-the vertical and the horizontal. To connect them both, we must make a perfect circle. Centering on God&#8217;s love, we make that circle on the individual level, the family level, the tribal, national, world and cosmic levels. Everything must go through that central point of God&#8217;s love or it doesn&#8217;t have any power. Anything which is centered on this point of God&#8217;s love can have the power to continue to go on and on. That is Principle.</p>
<p>You can ask yourself, &#8220;Am I standing on that true love point, or somewhere opposite that point? Am I standing on true love individually, as a family?&#8221; I ask myself the same question.</p>
<p>What is our tribe? It is our Unification family. At East Garden, we have many different people working hard, centering on the same True Parents. I am not working now on the level of America; I am working on the world level. At this time, you don&#8217;t have your own foundation on the family, tribal, national, world or cosmic level. I have indemnified all the historical situations, so I have that kind of foundation. I want to see all Unification members moving out to the world level. I don&#8217;t want to see you focusing on the individual or family situations. I want to see only the world as your focus. You should say, &#8220;I want to imitate Father&#8217;s level of indemnity&#8221;</p>
<p>I want to bring the Unification Principles to the whole world. If you don&#8217;t move out to the world level, we cannot do that. This is the last chance. You must think about that.</p>
<p>I have spoken today about the true meaning of the Day of Victory of Heaven. It was supposed to have been fulfilled years ago. If President Nixon had listened to my advice, this country would not be in this position. Vietnam would not have ended up the way it did. Also, Carter would not have had the opportunity to get elected.</p>
<p>The 1980 presidential election was a crucial one, in which Reagan won a landslide victory. Only one newspaper in the country predicted that-the paper owned by Reverend Moon. The 1984 election was also a crucial one. In the recent past, no president has held office for two full terms. Nixon didn&#8217;t, Ford didn&#8217;t and Carter didn&#8217;t. The Mondale and Ferraro team were virtually undermined by the expose printed in the New York City Tribune and The Washington Times.</p>
<p>The Day of the Victory of Heaven was installed upon the victory of the True Parents. Therefore, I have become the symbol of victory. Nobody can get into Heaven without following the model, the symbol.</p>
<p>As you know, because of the victory in Danbury, all the persecution has lost its power. If Jesus Christ had been able to enter the Roman Empire himself and speak in their government assembly, giving his message at that time, 400 years of Christian suffering would not have been necessary after his death. Knowing that, I conquered every possible potentiality for persecution through the Danbury victory.</p>
<p>This will affect not only the United States but the whole world. The Unification missionaries in all our mission countries will reap the same kind of victory. The spring is dawning and persecution is coming to an end.</p>
<p>What seeds shall we sow in the warmth of the spring? The seeds of God&#8217;s love. Our field is the world and there we must sow the love of God and the True Parents. We must connect the lineage of the world with that of God. We must create the God-centered, true lineage. That is our job.</p>
<p>How can we make that kind of change in the world&#8217;s lineage? It can only come through the Blessing given by the True Parents. Fallen mankind has been centered upon Satan&#8217;s love but now we have God&#8217;s lineage of true love. This is not just a concept-it is reality! Are you making the true lineage within yourself, your family, tribe and nation? You must think about that.</p>
<p>Are you living centered upon God&#8217;s love? You have to deny all of Satan&#8217;s inheritance in order to inherit God&#8217;s lineage. You have to cut from Satan&#8217;s realm on every level-individual, family, tribe, nation, world. You have to cut from everything connected with Satan, including your self-centered ideas and concepts.</p>
<p>Adam and Eve didn&#8217;t know about anything in the beginning except what was connected to God. They didn&#8217;t have any concept of property, power, knowledge, family or love centered upon self; but they could possess everything because they possessed God and true love. But when they entered the perfection stage, they didn&#8217;t go with God&#8217;s love.</p>
<p>You have inherited the fallen nature. You say, &#8220;I have this and that possession. I am a scholar and I have a family. I am a religious man&#8221; But that is from Satan&#8217;s concept. First of all, you must deny everything. The key words are serving and sacrificing. That is the only way to get back to God&#8217;s concept.</p>
<p>Why am I teaching you this serious way? It is the only way you can get back to God. Nobody wants to go the way of denial; nobody likes it. But it is the only way to go. God has allowed the persecution to come against us in the past so that we could automatically learn self-denial and sacrifice. Regardless of who we are, including the Korean and Japanese leaders, nobody enjoys self-denial. But that is the way to move out of Satan&#8217;s comer and move into God&#8217;s corner. Therefore, I have welcomed the world&#8217;s opposition. In 1976, that opposition reached its peak.</p>
<p>Even from within the Unification Church, I faced persecution, as well as from the Christian world, the Jewish world, the secular world, the government-all of these came against me and pushed me into a comer. Reverend Moon became like a rat in a comer, pushed into a hole, and that hole opened up into the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
<p>After hearing this speech today, you can know clearly the meaning of the <i>Day of Victory of Heaven</i>.</p>
<p>Now should you connect to the world or the Unification Church? What is the purpose of the Unification Church? It is to connect to the world. Now is the time when you can connect your parents, your tribe, your nation. Persecution is coming to an end so you will have an easier way. God has made this atmosphere.</p>
<p>Now we know clearly the direction of our march. I have spoken today for four hours and thirty five minutes; it is almost noon. Why did I pour out so much heart and energy to you today? Because the meaning of the <i>Day of Victory of Heaven </i>is so significant now. I am deadly serious about the situation. That is the reason.</p>
<p>I have not spoken just to the people at Belvedere but to the whole world. You are participating in this glorious work, going out to do the new mission. Unlike me, who received nothing but persecution, you are going to be welcomed. Your home town, your parents, your relatives- aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters-will not reject you any more. They will be ready to listen to you. The time has changed entirely; a new era has begun.</p>
<p>Today we shall make a new beginning, a new commitment. Let us pledge to march forward in obedience to God. Let us pledge to be victorious!</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:16:24+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/the-future-of-the-religious-person.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:16:24+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">September 1, 1986<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Sang Kil Han</h3>
<p>The ordinary secular person has only a vague idea of where he is going in his life. Religious people, on the other hand, have an understanding that eventually they will return to God. They know that since God exists, surely Satan must also exist in conflict with God; they know that mankind is caught in between. Even vaguely, religious people know that those who believe in God come under the control and influence of Him and those who don&#8217;t come under the control of Satan.</p>
<p>Because of the fall of man, people have not had a clear understanding of their situation. Without knowing clearly where they were going, mankind has been constantly searching for the better, the truer direction, always under the satanic dominion. The first ancestors-that small number of people-made an error and then all their descendants have had to go the inevitable course.</p>
<p>The ultimate wish of mankind has been to get out of the satanic domain. Throughout this desperate struggle, the number of human beings has been increasing; all these people have been searching for a way to get out of the satanic dominion and return to God. On the other hand, Satan has tried his best to keep these multitudes on his side and prevent them from returning to God&#8217;s side.</p>
<p>When people speak different languages, their culture and customs are also different. Mankind has been divided into different races, languages and dialects. What is the cause of the division of language which has always prevented people from uniting? Because of different languages, misunderstandings occur and breakdown in communication is common.</p>
<p>Perhaps it started like this: the elder brother said something like, &#8220;gohan,&#8217; then the younger brother said, &#8220;food,&#8221; in order to rebel and be different. Perhaps the elder brother wore a certain type of clothing and the younger brother wanted to wear something that looked different. Perhaps he just cut off the sleeves so that his shirt had a different shape.</p>
<p>The elder brother may have been following the parents in the right way, while the younger brother wanted to go a different way in order to disagree and show his antagonism. As their circumstances and environment changed, their way of life changed and their languages changed even more. However, God&#8217;s goal and His desire has always been for unity, harmony and peace. Therefore, God certainly would not have wanted to see people speaking different languages and becoming divided.</p>
<p>We can imagine the family of Adam and Eve, the father and mother, and Cain and Abel, the two brothers. These four became enemies of one another; they were in serious disharmony and disagreement. From the very beginning there were two streams forming the future of the world culture: One was on God&#8217;s side and the other was that of the satanic side. Now we know the terms from Principle and say that the first stream represents the Abel trend and the other the Cain way. These two trends began because of disharmony and fighting between Cain and Abel.</p>
<p>We can also see the division between the internal aspect of man, the mind, and the external aspect, the body. The internal life has been aligned more closely with God&#8217;s way, while the external life has been closer to Satan. We can clearly see that if the ancestors of mankind had not fallen, then people would not be divided. Wherever a man&#8217;s mind went, his body would have followed that direction, without conflict.</p>
<p>But because of the fall, division between mind and body came about, just as division between the brothers came about. Where the mind went, the body refused to follow; where one brother went, the other refused to follow. In this manner, the rift has grown as the years have gone by. As the years passed and more people multiplied, much more division came about. Now the world has come to the point of division between two major sides, one being the democratic side, which is basically theistic, representing God, and the other being the materialistic, atheistic side, representing Satan.</p>
<p>People of the world can see this great division, even though they do not realize how this division came about- from where, the cause and process of this divided world. All they know is that we are living in a very divided world. We can see clearly that, because of this division on the world level-one advocating theism and the other atheism-we are getting near the end of history, the time when the fruit of what was sown is about to appear.</p>
<p>American civilization is based on man, not on God; it is a humanistic culture. When this country was begun two hundred years ago, it was founded on belief in God. But, as the years went by, this country became more and more humanistic, rather than God-centered, more and more secular, rather than religious. Americans have come to worship material wealth more and more. Now the American family has been breaking up so much that all meaningful unity in society has been broken. Everything in this society has become corrupted, particularly the young people. Nobody has been able to resolve this problem. The power of the American government and the military cannot solve the problem; neither can economic power or technology. None of these can liberate this country.</p>
<p>Even though this country was started with a clear direction, it went the other way. There were the two streams- one was that of God, and America clearly stood within that stream and was meant to remain within it. But today we find that it has not followed God. Now confusion has arisen in all areas; every structure is on the verge of collapse. There is no mending now. The great culture of this country has been constantly chased around by Satan. It has become so vulnerable now that it is under constant threat of communism. If America had adhered to God&#8217;s direction, it certainly would have been in good shape and strong, never having to worry so much about communism.</p>
<p>Now many American people have even come to the point where they believe that God is dead. As a result, they have found themselves living like a person without a mind. Only their body is important so they think only in materialistic, humanistic terms. The idea of God has very little meaning in their lives.</p>
<p>God really had to face an emergency situation in this country. Thus He sent the Unification Church for the purpose of redirecting not only the religiously-oriented people, but also to re-channel the external way of life back into that of God&#8217;s stream. This is the mission given to the unification Church.</p>
<p>In this society there are all kinds of disharmony and conflict on every level. There are different social groups, different churches, even, and they come against each other. There is conflict and fighting in the family, the churches, society; it is everywhere. How do we resolve this problem? Society is powerless because of the division in all areas. Where once there may have been potential, now America finds no resources, no way to resolve this.</p>
<p>The question and problem is how to get away from satanic fetters and eliminate the satanic elements in man&#8217;s life. This is today&#8217;s problem. Who can eliminate the satanic elements? In every age, God is the one to resolve this, but He cannot do it by Himself Because human beings fell, they must also recover. God waited many, many years until man did the proper things to be restored. God extended the dispensation over and over to get to this point now.</p>
<p>Because of the fall, man is living in the hell which he himself caused. It is hell because it is not the world which God can dominate. Since the whole universe is governed by universal law, likewise the life of man is governed by Principle, Divine Principle. Since man does not live according to the Principle, there is a deep discrepancy between the standard God sets and where human beings are. The only way to get out of that discrepancy is for God to find some condition, however small, by which He can move fallen man, the people in hell, into a better place.</p>
<p>How can we bring ourselves out of hell on earth and move to where God&#8217;s dominion is? Obviously, the first thing we must do in tackling this problem is to find the very cause- how man came to be this way.</p>
<p>In any jail, you can find two types of people. One type of inmate is rather conscientious; he will be remorseful and reflective, constantly trying to understand his situation: &#8220;Why am I here? When I met that person, what made me listen to him? That was the first step in the wrong direction and it eventually led me to this point&#8221; Such a person honestly tries to understand why he is in prison. The other type of inmate, by contrast, is the one who thinks, &#8220;If I just hadn&#8217;t made any mistakes, it would have been the perfect crime. When I get out, I will do it better, but I won&#8217;t get caught again&#8221; All he wants is to get away with what he does Those are the two basic types of people.</p>
<p>We find ourselves in the same situation as those jail inmates. In the fallen world today, we live in a son of extended jail. We are not really free because of our satanic fetters-although we want to do good things, we often cannot. Satan is constantly compelling us to commit actions we don&#8217;t want to do. Man is in agony, saying, &#8220;How can I get out of this hell? Why did I come here in the first place?&#8221; Some people think, &#8220;I have done something which was wrong,&#8217; and in this way they constantly try to find the solution. Some people, on the other hand, never give a thought to such things and just go on, day after day, committing more and more sin, more and more crime. That is why the comparison between the people in jail and others in the fallen world is accurate.</p>
<p>The idea never occurs to most people unless they are very religious that they have committed any crime or sin. They do not see either themselves or their ancestors as having any guilt. They are content to pursue illegal pleasures and happiness. Members of the Unification Church are constantly aware of the reason we are living in hell o&#8217; earth; that cause is the fall of our human ancestors. We know that each of us is also a descendant of the fallen generations, so we repent and we want to constantly get away from that. At least we are aware that our ancestors have sinned and therefore we have to make it good. Is that what we do? We are probably the only group who thinks this way in the world.</p>
<p>Man&#8217;s prison began on the individual level; then it became the family prison and then the tribal prison and so on, until now we are living in the world-level prison. Wherever you go, you find the same condition, even on the cosmic level; spirit world is no exception. People there are in hell because they lived hellishly on earth. Then how do we get out of here? Of course, we want to simply jump out of this condition but there is no way to do that.</p>
<p>We cannot just get out of here, even though it may seem simple. We are a part of the great, big world. So what we must do now is go back to the individual level where the&#8217; human ancestors fell, be restored and then go out again tot the world and restore it. Then we will be free. We cannot simply jump out; rather, we must go back to the origin and go through the other way.</p>
<p>Now we find ourselves with the burden of sin, not only ° the individual level, but all the way up to the cosmic level, just as if we committed it ourselves, because we are taking all the responsibility. Ever since man fell, people have kept on committing crime and sin; not one time have they paid back, or indemnified, that sin.</p>
<p>The responsibility for all sorts of crime and sin is being borne by everyone on earth and they do not even know it. For instance, the early settlers who came here from Europe and other parts of the world three or four hundred years ago killed many Indians. In fact, they nearly annihilated the Indians in the process of founding this country. Now the country is very prosperous, at least materially. Who should be responsible for those past killings? Clearly, those who are living on the land of America, every one of them, have to bear that responsibility.</p>
<p>Furthermore, who should take the responsibility for that great wrongdoing after World War II, when America had the mission of bringing the whole world to God&#8217;s side but failed to do it? Many countries were lost, instead, to communism. Now America itself is going the direction which is contrary to God. This is today&#8217;s situation, and it is something we have to think seriously about.</p>
<p>Somebody has to take that responsibility now and we are the ones, we must pay the indemnity and make good. That is what we are doing now. Americans may say, &#8220;Maybe those people in the past did wrong, but I am not responsible for that. Somebody else should be responsible&#8221; But God does not agree with that. We know that all things work very clearly according to the law of cause and effect. Through that we can see why American youth are becoming victims to the plague of drugs. Drugs are really the most miserable and evil things. Why, of all the advanced countries, must America suffer from that?</p>
<p>We can look back to the time when the white, Anglo Saxon people dumped so much opium into China in order to weaken their people and eventually take over that country. The white people are suffering the effects now. They must pay for what they have done to others. This is the negative reward-the punishment-that they have to take for what they did earlier.</p>
<p>We can see clearly that if we commit some mistake or sin, the only way to get back to the original state is to pay back or indemnify that crime. What we have done is done and there is no way to erase that, but there is a way to restore or pay back that debt. The earlier we do that, the better. For instance, the way for America to be forgiven for what the Anglo-Saxons did to Orientals in the past, including the Indians, is for the Asians to come to America and say, &#8220;We forgive you.&#8221; It is they who have to say that, not the ones who committed the crimes themselves. Those who have been the victims must come and say, &#8220;You are forgiven.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has come from the Orient and has worked so hard here in America to find a valid way to plead to God, &#8220;Because of what I have done and these conditions, please forgive this country&#8221; Reverend Moon is working hard to discover the means through which this country can be forgiven. You cannot just say, &#8220;Oh, God, please forgive&#8221; We have to have all the conditions and contents of valid indemnity.</p>
<p>One has to take all things into consideration. Someone who is not related directly to the sin can indemnify it, so the credit of that can go to the person who made the mistake and has sinned. This enormous task has to be worked out very faithfully.</p>
<p>This is the benefactor of all benefactors-someone through whom we can have hope. Only through him can we come to the light and live. In English, you have the word &#8220;Savior&#8221; but the word &#8220;benefactor&#8221; has the same significance. I am saved by someone else doing a lot of good things for me-and then delivering me out of these fetters. That is the benefactor. Reverend Moon came to this country and worked to save it from its historical crimes and wrongdoings. Those who themselves made the mistakes are not even thinking about them, so for America and American history, Reverend Moon is really their only hope. But not knowing that, they threw him into Danbury prison.</p>
<p>Maybe they have done wrong without knowing, but if you break a law without realizing it, does it dismiss you from being punished? No. I came out of Danbury and I did the same work, but with even more fervor and greater effort. I have been teaching you, pushing you to work so hard and pay indemnity. No one likes that, including me. Why do I do that? It is for your sake, as individuals. It is not for my own sake. I am doing what I am doing now for all the members of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>I am working hard, even now, to make the Unification Church members realize the truth-what we have done wrong, how we can pay back the debt for having committed those crimes, and how we can go back to the original place. We must know how we can do the work for America and the world, because we are standing on the front line. It bothers many white people that this Oriental man- Reverend Moon-has come here and said things they haven&#8217;t even thought about, things which they don&#8217;t want to hear. But I have spoken clearly about this nation and this government. Is it true?</p>
<p>Now we have come to the point where the only way America can be saved is for the people to realize their responsibility and bravely bear that responsibility, no matter how heavy, and pledge, &#8220;We will pay back our debt and also we will pay back the debts of the world. Therefore, God, please forgive us&#8221; The only way for America to be forgiven is for it to take the burdens of the world, including that of the countries whose people were oppressed and massacred by communism. That problem occurred because America did not fulfill its responsibility to bring them to God&#8217;s side, in the first place. So America must realize that responsibility, too, and fight against communism, liberate those people and restore them to God&#8217;s side. That is the responsibility of America to the world. America must fulfill that world-level responsibility before it can even expect or consider being forgiven by God.</p>
<p>But American people do not know that. There is so much corruption and moral degradation in this country, as well as racial problems which this society has not been able to solve. So how can they liberate the communist world? They absolutely cannot do it. From what source can they receive that kind of power? Only from God. Can they receive it from you? From President Reagan? From the president of Harvard? What about religious leaders, such as Billy Graham? No matter how high a place those people may be standing in, they do not know God&#8217;s will fully.</p>
<p>The American people must return to God. In Jesus&#8217; time John the Baptist, standing in the wilderness, proclaimed, &#8220;Repent, and return to God!&#8221; First of all, you have to repent! What kind of sins do you have? Individual sin, family sin, tribal sin, all the way up to the world and universal sin. We are all that heavily laden. America has no hope now, so someone is standing out in the wilderness, just as at the time of the Israelites, proclaiming loudly, &#8220;Repent!&#8221; Reverend Moon is that person. I am telling you Moonies first of all to repent. You have to repent!</p>
<p>Somebody has to dedicate and sacrifice himself Who becomes the sacrifice? The Orientals? The undeveloped countries? No. You Americans are smart, right? You know that whoever is standing in the key position has to make the sacrifice. What if Reverend Moon disappears from here? What will everybody do? There will be no way out. You know that. Your eyes can see that. You can look at American youth and see human trash! Who can make them whole?</p>
<p>You have to know that clearly. You know that New York City has become like Sodom and Gomorrah. Who came up with the idea of free sex? Did God? What about homosexuality? Did God create that? People are becoming Satan&#8217;s sacrifice. American Moonies, how can we save the whole world? Can you give everything on God&#8217;s altar? You American young women, can you do that? Otherwise, this big country will decline.</p>
<p>I think about that. No matter how much Americans hate me now, I know the terrible result coming for America. You don&#8217;t know. From now, you have to make your determination. This is a serious position for American Moonies. Do you understand? It is a serious time!</p>
<p>I will not be staying here very long. You must repent for the government, for Reagan&#8217;s administration. How can you carry this heavy burden? In Jesus time, the Israelites were in the same position but they didn&#8217;t know it. From God&#8217;s viewpoint, their situation was most serious, but they didn&#8217;t know it. The only one who knew was Jesus Christ, so he took his cross, saying, &#8220;This is God&#8217;s will, I will follow. No matter how heavy a burden, I will carry it&#8221; That was Jesus&#8217; attitude.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has done the same thing. While I was in Danbury, I founded a new magazine. Why? This is like the enemy country to me. Why don&#8217;t I seek revenge against this country? America represents the world. Therefore, I came here and made a strong foundation. This is my work and Danbury&#8217;s purpose. Do you follow me?</p>
<p>Now the situation is more serious than ever in this country. Why doesn&#8217;t Reverend Moon leave? Outside American people say, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just go home?&#8221; But I continue to tell this nation it must fulfill its responsibility. I must stay here and do this. You know that. It is a most serious situation all over the world.</p>
<p>The world didn&#8217;t believe in Jesus Christ at that time and God had to hit the world. You must take this responsibility now and fulfill it, always helping God&#8217;s purpose. You know that very clearly. How can you solve the problems of this country? American churches are now working together with the Unification Church because they are now understanding better. American leaders know that they must follow the way of survival. Thus they have to learn the CAUSA theory in order to be protected from the communist world, as well as from moral degradation. By learning the CAUSA theory, they can do that. We can state this confidently. Now it is your responsibility to set a new direction for America.</p>
<p>I am urging you Japanese members to realize that, since this is America, American members must take the primary responsibility. Japanese members came to help them, but it is not your primary responsibility. Nevertheless, you must help.</p>
<p>This is a grave task which we must accomplish by 1988. It is a truly historical undertaking we are engaged in now. During these three years, we must do even more than in the years of 1945-1948. Forty years have passed since then and we have come once again to the historical parallel of that time. The Israelites had to work in Canaan; in the same way, we must fight and win the victory. There can be no substitute for that victory. Since God really saw the crucial nature of this time, He let me go to Danbury. During that time, God worked to take the giant land of China and turn it around from the enemy side toward the Godly side.</p>
<p>Some of you may have heard the extensive report of the media fact-finding tour. At this time, many important media people are taking a tour through China. The Premier and other high-level government officials have talked to them. From the bottom of their hearts, they seriously asked them to convey the message that China wishes to modernize their industry with the assistance of the Unification movement. They said that clearly. That is none other than an act of God. God will never lose in any event. If we go through difficulty, that is indemnity, but God will bring back more benefit than that difficulty. God never loses. You might say that He never loses money in doing business.</p>
<p>I made so many significant decisions while I was in Danbury and many of those you already know about because I have spoken of them. But some of them I have never spoken about. There were many important decisions made in Danbury.</p>
<p>We know that John the Baptist was standing alone in the wilderness and bellowing out, &#8220;Repent! The Kingdom of God is near!&#8221; We Moonies must do that same thing now. Now and during the next three years we must really do exactly the same thing as John did and exactly the same thing that I have been doing during the past fourteen years. You Japanese members, as well as the American members, must do this on the front line just as John did in the wilderness.</p>
<p>Now, fortunately, many conscientious people here in America have heard the things I have proclaimed, and they are responding better than before-much better, in fact, in some areas. Thus if we make an all-out effort to reach them and preach to them, pleading with them, warning them of the imminent dangers that are coming, there will be new hope born.</p>
<p>I am now clearly directing you to do that. I do this for a reason, because of this serious meaning. If you do not do what I have told you to, and because of that I leave this country, you will really be in a helpless state, like the prisoner in my example who has to sit and reflect upon the past years, asking himself, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t I do this and that? Why did I do that?&#8221; You will find yourself in the same misery.</p>
<p>Also, when the rest of the people realize later what happened during 1986 and 1987, and that they had to suffer the consequences because you didn&#8217;t fulfill, they will hold you responsible. Even when you go to spirit world, you cannot escape that responsibility. It is that serious and therefore you must obey my directions now. If you don&#8217;t fulfill the responsibility which I am giving you now, even in the spirit world you will not be able to come to me, as you do now at Belvedere. It will not be possible to do that because of the way spirit world is made.</p>
<p>Why do you think Jesus had to go to the cross? What is the difference in the situation we are facing now and during the next three years? We should never forget Jesus&#8217; position. We are chosen, as were many people before in history, to be responsible for our country. For example, when the president of a country does his job well, many will benefit and he will be praised. But if he fails his mission, the whole responsibility comes upon him. We members of the Unification Church are also chosen. We know that. Whether we are worthy or not, still we are chosen. We must take pride in that, but when we don&#8217;t fulfill our responsibility, then we must be ready to suffer the consequences. We cannot just get away with it.</p>
<p>Knowing that future fate and the responsibility of the religious person, I worked very hard in Korea during the past six months. I worked to prepare Korea to play the central role for all the Christian activity of the world. Even though many people opposed and misunderstood me, I continued to work to open that way for the sake of all religious people on earth. It took me six serious months, and that was achieved. I have done all that to ease the responsibility of all religious people, including the members of the Unification Church, in the near future. I have done that work in Korea.</p>
<p>I have made that foundation as an alternative. We must have a back-up plan that is as good as the original one. So even though America may not fully complete its responsibility toward the world, Korea, with the help of China and Japan-all three countries working together-can make God&#8217;s providential world foundation. I have made an alternate plan on that foundation. Making this kind of foundation is the most effective way of saving the world.</p>
<p>How can God&#8217;s providential way survive? Reverend Moon is one man who is fulfilling that way. If North America falls down, I will work with the South American providence. If the Protestant Christian world doesn&#8217;t fulfill, God will extend His plan to Latin countries with the Roman Catholic foundation. That is the oldest Christian church. At that time, you will have to follow South America. That will be a miserable situation for you, without question.</p>
<p>When I first came to America, I visited all fifty states within 43 days. There is no American person who has done such a thing. Only this foreigner, one Oriental man- Reverend Moon-did that. Why? For God&#8217;s will. God wanted to see this entire continent truly united. Now there are many separate states, but in the future they will be completely combined into one. Communism has infiltrated this nation and worked to separate it. In the southern part of the country, many Spanish people who came there have been influenced by communists who are trying to make problems. The communist world knows that to win they have to divide the Anglo-Saxon part of America from the Spanish part.</p>
<p>This is reality, not just my words. This is not a threat, either, but if America fails, it will be in a really miserable situation. North America will have to follow South America. American people have not been able to save this country; they do not know what is at stake. Only the Unification Church members understand that. This is the way of truth, not the way of just talking. The way of truth means you go through that way, making the result: God&#8217;s one world.</p>
<p>You have to make this a reality. This is a problem. I look at you American young people and wonder, &#8220;How can I make you strong so you can stand in the position to save this country?&#8221; I myself cannot be free; I cannot escape. I chose this course myself. You are in the same situation. You have to persevere, like soldiers. Can you do that for the country and the world? Otherwise, God can&#8217;t have hope in these Moonies.</p>
<p>What kind of duty do you have? One is for America and one is for the world and cosmos. You have to have the strong determination to digest that duty. When the Israelites were about to enter into Canaan, what did God tell them? Be bold and strong! You Americans are God&#8217;s new Israelites. You must also get into Canaan.</p>
<p>You are in a painful circumstance. As Moonies, you think, &#8220;We are in a miserable situation. How can we fulfill this life, this incredible mission? How can we do it?&#8221; But I give you the same words. Be bold and strong! No matter how lovely things might appear in the secular world-such as gold jewelry, beautiful women or handsome men-you must not pursue these things. This is Satan&#8217;s bait. It looks good, tastes good, smells good; but when you swallow it, you are finished. That&#8217;s all. Do you understand? Our situation is exactly the same as that of the Israelites.</p>
<p>God cannot have hope in American young people, or American families, or the rest of society. You have the purpose of making this situation good again by offering yourself on God&#8217;s altar. We have to make a new reformation, a new revolution. After that, this country will survive. Otherwise, there is no way. I know this clearly. When this happens, you may say, &#8220;Where is Father?&#8221; but I will not be in this country, no matter how good a result you may be making. I said this clearly the other day to the State Leaders.</p>
<p>This is the first of September. Four more months to go in this year- 9, 10, 11, 12. During these four months we have to fight. We don&#8217;t have a whip like Satan&#8217;s world. God&#8217;s whip or weapon is action. Father only talks to you after making the result. First you should accomplish, then talk about it. I have been working in America for the past fourteen years. I have said continuously that you have to save this country. I have made the foundation, a strong foundation, so there can be no excuses.</p>
<p>In the next four months, you members, both Japanese and American. must take a really bold and courageous stand to fulfill your mission. We must never forget that the fate of the religious person is to do his mission. There is no alternative. We must remember that since we are at the forefront of all religious persons, we must do our mission or we must forfeit everything. There is no third alternative. We can see the negative example in America, in which the people have failed to fulfill the Christian mission. They are now on the verge of perishing.</p>
<p>You have to fulfill your religious purpose, no matter how difficult. We have to do our mission; we cannot run away from God. This is the fate of the religious man or woman. Once I received my mission as a religious man, I had to achieve results. You have to have accomplishments in order to stand in front of God. Otherwise, God will say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know you. I don&#8217;t need that; I need people who accomplish their mission&#8221; I know this very well.</p>
<p>I am teaching you this clearly. God is looking at you. If you do not accomplish this mission, God will ask, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you do that?&#8221; Can you say, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have the power. I didn&#8217;t know better&#8221;? No, you cannot say that. If you cannot accomplish the mission, why did you receive that mission? Why stand in front of God and receive it? You are attending this place, this holy place. You have to know clearly about fulfilling God&#8217;s mission. The important thing is not your own purposes, but God&#8217;s mission.</p>
<p>No matter how much difficulty I faced in America, I held fast to this purpose. Since World War II, during these past forty years, I have always put God&#8217;s mission first.</p>
<p>Whenever I meet one of the Unification Church members, I ask him his name and what his mission is. That is all I want to know. You cannot come to me and say, &#8220;Father,&#8217; unless you can show me that you have fulfilled your mission. Before you come before me, I will say what God will say, &#8220;Go out and do your job&#8221; After you do it, then you can come back. This is the providential course. These are not Reverend Moon&#8217;s words but God&#8217;s words. I educate you with that kind of standard.</p>
<p>You are the soldiers who have to save America. Do you follow me? You have to do this mission or America cannot survive. Now you understand clearly, right? All Americans are smart, so you are smart people here.</p>
<p>Let us pray.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:09:32+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/the-globe-is-our-home.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:09:32+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">June 8, 1986<br />
World Mission Center Grand Ballroom<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Nowadays, many people talk about our world as a &#8220;global village.&#8221; According to the Principle, we know that Satan always presents his own imitation of God&#8217;s plans first. When we speak of a village, it denotes a small, simple, cohesive area in which one clan lives together. When we describe the globe as a village, then, it takes on entirely new meaning.</p>
<p>Suppose that the fall of man had never taken place. In such a case, one family would have grown into a tribe, nation and a world. They would all have been under one master and a part of one simple organization. The important thing is that such a society would have only one culture, one habitual way of doing things, one tradition. There would have been only one language, of course. That is how the world would have been if the fall had not occurred.</p>
<p>Within that ideal of the original world, there would have been no boundaries or separation between nations or peoples. Everyone would have felt part of one village, living under one chief As much as God can travel freely all over the place, those who belong to God &#8211; the inhabitants of the world &#8211; should also be able to travel without any limitations. That would be a world of true freedom.</p>
<p>If God has freedom of travel, what about God&#8217;s people? There&#8217;s no question that they should have the same privilege. The earth belongs to God and, at the same time, it belongs to God&#8217;s people. However, the fall occurred and ownership of the land fell into Satan&#8217;s hands, rather than God&#8217;s. The people who inhabited the land also fell under the dominion of Satan. More unity would have come about as history progressed if this earth had been populated by people totally centered on God. Everyone would have become more and more harmonious. Satan took dominion over the land, however, and there has been more and more division as history has proceeded. The fact that people fell under Satan&#8217;s dominion produced tragic consequences; we have lost freedom and have been in the chains of Satan-total bondage rather than total freedom.</p>
<p>God Himself has difficulty proceeding with His dispensation of restoration in this fallen world, trying to return it to its original design. The history of God has been the history of struggle between the forces of good and evil. That is why so many struggles are recorded in the Old Testament. An example is Jacob&#8217;s struggle against the angel representing the evil forces. Jacob was victorious and that is when he was given the name &#8220;Israel&#8221; meaning &#8220;the victor&#8221;</p>
<p>Jacob was the first victorious ancestor in the Old Testament. God&#8217;s desire was to have Jacob&#8217;s clan grow into the tribe, people and nation to which He could send the Messiah. The Messiah could not come, however, until there was a national foundation. As you know, the history of Israel was always one of dividing between God&#8217;s side and Satan&#8217;s side; there were frequent periods of purification in the nation of Israel.</p>
<p>Who is Cain? He is the one who represents the satanic forces, but at the same time he is the elder son. Who is Abel? Abel was also the offspring of the fallen parents, but he is in the elder sons position on God&#8217;s side. There are two factions, then-one headed by Cain, as the elder son of Satan&#8217;s forces, and the other by Abel, in the position of God&#8217;s elder son. Between these two forces, there has been constant struggle and confrontation.</p>
<p>History has been a process of separating Cain and Abel, beginning on the individual level. God wanted to see the forces of goodness prevail over the satanic forces and then move on to the family level, clan, tribal and national level, and so forth. Giving the name &#8220;Israel&#8221; which denotes victory, means that God successfully separated Abel from the satanic camp and carved out a realm for His total dominion. That is the meaning of the name &#8220;Israel&#8221; Satan has held power over everything in this world; he has divided people into different nations, trying to block the Heavenly forces from gaining influence. Those people who are chosen by God and who represent His side, however, always have world unity as their ultimate goal. The instrument of God for this dispensation is religion; thus He initiated the central religion. Many secondary religions prospered and moved up to certain levels, including the tribe, nation and world. God has had the strategy of combining all the religious forces into one in order to win the world.</p>
<p>Centering upon religion, God has been working to create an organization that could encompass the whole world. That kind of movement is essential for God. Right after World War II, a special situation arose through the victory of the Allies over the Axis powers. Christianity had a base around the world and one Christian nation was at the center of the world-the United States. That was exactly the situation God had been yearning to see throughout history. If the United States had fulfilled its God-given responsibility, then an entirely new dispensation would have unfolded.</p>
<p>Why did America fail to grasp the opportunity to fulfill God&#8217;s will at that time? First of all, at that time the people of America did not have any understanding that they were representing the mainstream of the will of God. They just did not realize they were the chosen champions of God. In other words, America did not know God&#8217;s expectation for this country.</p>
<p>America was founded for the sake of religious freedom. The first settlers left behind the religious persecution of Europe, under Catholicism, to establish a new world of freedom. They came here and created a new nation, basically under Protestantism, which recognized the ideal of religious freedom.</p>
<p>That is very significant. The people who came to the New World were risking their lives and had given up all their worldly goods, status, and even their families, all for the purpose of pursuing religious freedom. In a sense, they were seeking to form a one-world nation. Those first Puritans saw each other as brothers and sisters; from that point of view, they envisioned the establishment of a global nation. The United States has become what is called a melting pot, where everyone from around the world can be harmonized with everyone else. All of this is under the concept of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.</p>
<p>What happens when you melt something solid? It becomes liquid from the heat. From God&#8217;s point of view, there is no limit to the number of people that should come and be melted together in this melting pot of America. All the nations of the world should be connected with the Christian nation of America, according to God&#8217;s desire. But according to the satanic point of view, people want to preserve their own positions in this country and prevent others from coming here. So America has not moved truly toward God&#8217;s direction; this country should be opened up.</p>
<p>After World War II, the victorious nations centered upon the United States granted independence to the nations they conquered, rather than occupying them. Thus, rather than a winner and loser relationship, they initiated more of a brother and sister relationship. America should have gone even further and given sacrificially for the well-being of those nations, sharing with them the wealth and power which she enjoyed. In that way those nations could have become truly equal, with equal opportunity and wealth for everyone. That would have created an incredible, worldwide foundation of unity upon which the Messiah could come and usher in the Kingdom of God on earth. That was the utmost thought in the mind of God.</p>
<p>Christians have been expecting the Second Advent of Christ, as it is taught in the Bible. During the two thousand years of Christianity, it seemed several times that the Second Advent might be imminent, but then it didn&#8217;t happen. The concept of the Second Advent was not clear in the minds of Christians in general.</p>
<p>The United Nations was born after World War II, granting membership to every nation. The United States was more or less the central figure of the United Nations. The concept of the United Nations was that of one world government, but the United States itself was confused and did not share that concept. God&#8217;s dispensation was for the United States, as a Christian nation, to take the central position in the world as the leader of the United Nations, while moving aggressively toward the realization of one world under God. The Christian culture was supposed to be at the center of the United Nations.</p>
<p>At that very time, the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity came into being. The name itself signifies the tremendously difficult task we were undertaking: the unification of world Christianity. I was fully aware of the difficulties, so why did I initiate such a task? It is because that was the very concept of God, His desire for that time in history. Our movement was begun in parallel to God&#8217;s thinking. However, I knew that such unification could never come through merely human endeavor; spiritual endeavor was needed as well. That is why we also included the words &#8220;Holy Spirit Association,, in the name of our group.</p>
<p>At that time in Korea, many spiritual phenomena were occurring. Numerous spiritual groups sprang up. Some represented the Old Testament Garden of Eden; others represented the New Testament Garden of Eden. Their goal at least was correct, but they were divided in their concepts of spirituality. Korea was still under Japanese occupation. The imperial government of Japan had tried to force Shinto worship upon the Korean people. The Korean Christians were divided into two camps-one which went along with Shinto shrine worship and the other which refused to accept it and considered it idolatry. The first group was in the forefront, while the second group was basically underground.</p>
<p>The new spiritual groups were a part of the underground Christian community and they were receiving special communication from spirit world. Who was supposed to be in the position to lead these groups? Those sacrificial groups had received the amazing word from spirit world that the time for the return of the Lord was imminent. Furthermore, they were told that he would come as a person in the flesh. They knew that much but they did not know who or where he was.</p>
<p>Those spiritual groups were supposed to be united and work together for the independence of the country. They were supposed to assume the central position in Korea and take primary responsibility after the liberation from Japan. Unfortunately, however, the Christian groups who had cooperated with the Japanese occupation and accepted Shinto shrine worship became the dominant group working with the United Nations forces. They focused primarily on political and economic independence and prosperity, but they should have worked for the benefit and resurrection of the Korean churches first.</p>
<p>The spiritual groups should have spoken up and asked the former Shinto shrine worshipers to join in a national time of repentance. Together they should have worked for the resurrection of the Christian churches, but they didn&#8217;t. If that had happened, those resurrected Korean Christian churches would have been totally ignited with the fervor of expecting the Messiah. They would have been filled with excitement, making preparations for the Second Coming. That is how the church should have been energized.</p>
<p>The most fervent Christian work had been going on in North, rather than South, Korea. The North should have played the central role in the needed revival of the Christian churches. If that had been the case, there would have been harmony between North and South, centered on Christianity. But the country became divided between the Cain and Abel elements instead, and the confrontation between them became rampant. Before the revival of the Christian churches could come about, the satanic forces of communism overran the northern part of Korea. Under these circumstances, South Korea had to go along with a separate independence, which was secured in 1948; they had to be separated from the North.</p>
<p>The spiritual groups were the only ones who understood that the Lord of the Second Advent was coming. Before they could become the central figures of the Korean nation, however, they were blocked by three groups. First of all, the conventional Christian hierarchy opposed them because they felt threatened by them. Secondly, the Korean government opposed them, mainly because of influence from established Christianity. Thirdly, the communist government of North Korea opposed them viciously. It was virtually the same position of the Unification Church today. We are supposed to be at the central position, playing the subjective role, but we have been opposed by the same three elements established Christianity, the secular government, and the power of communism.</p>
<p>When the Unification Church was newly born, it was like an orphan because it had no allies and no place to turn. The established Christian churches were not allies; the Korean government was not an ally and, of course, the North Korean government was totally opposed. The Unification Church was born under such adverse conditions and we had to move forward anyway to establish the global foundation. Under such conditions, I had to move step by step, dealing with the established churches, different governments and communism. Forty years later, we have come at last to this opportune moment for fulfillment.</p>
<p>The Unification Church has been marching forward for 40 years under incredible persecution, but we have been moving steadily toward the goal. We have gone from the family level to the clan, tribal, national and worldwide levels. In the meantime, we have been persecuted and opposed by the established Christian churches, the democratic and the communist governments of the world. Under such difficult circumstances, we have continued to grow and have reached the worldwide level.</p>
<p>What about the United States of America? Forty years ago, this country was virtually at the center of the world- it had everything going for it. It was the image of dignity and glamour forty years ago, but today that dignity is virtually gone. This country is losing everything, including its Christian foundation. Because that foundation is shaken, all kinds of internal difficulties and moral corruption have sprung up.</p>
<p>I have received persecution from every direction and have dealt with every difficulty, overcoming each one. Finally, I established a beachhead here in America in 1973. Forty years ago, when I first proclaimed the Messianic message, if the Christian world and the United States had accepted it, God&#8217;s dispensation would have been fulfilled at that time. Then there would have been no room in the world for the rise of communism. I want you to know that God had been planning and hoping that the Christian foundation would become the Messiah&#8217;s foundation and that the Christian leaders would become the disciples of the Messiah.</p>
<p>I want you to understand very clearly what we have been toiling for during these past twelve years here in America. It is to bring the leaders-Christian as well as secular-to an understanding of the Messianic message. Right after the liberation of Korea forty years ago, a sort of vacuum was created. God wanted to see the fervor and hope for the Messiah to prevail over that country, so that before the nation was rebuilt, the Messianic spirit would become the national spirit. But that did not happen. The secular nation came first instead, without the Messianic goal. Today the United States is weakened and crumbling, in a way, so this is another opportunity for the Messianic spirit and message to prevail.</p>
<p>What was the result of the failure of Korean Christianity to embrace the Messianic message? The secular government became powerful and established Christianity became the enemy of our movement. Communism also became rampant. This kind of opposition will not go away until we succeed in one nation, particularly this nation of America. I have not been welcomed here in America, but rather have been persecuted by virtually every segment of society, including the Jewish community, the Christian community, and the governmental power. Even under these circumstances, I have continued to forge ahead.</p>
<p>My dispensation has been parallel with Jesus, dispensation 2,000 years ago. When Jesus came, he was not welcomed. Everyone in Israel opposed him and the prepared foundation did not hold up. Jesus had to begin his own foundation and move forward, struggling to win every battle. He was not able to prevail and thus he had to go to the cross. Forty years ago in Korea, I faced opposition which made it impossible to establish God&#8217;s will at that time. For that reason, I had to come to America and establish a new foundation. Ultimately, I am fulfilling the dispensational will.</p>
<p>Two thousand years ago, Jesus was supposed to be supported by John the Baptist. Because of that failure, Judaism came against Jesus at that time, as well as the nation of Israel. Ultimately, the entire weight of the Roman Empire fell upon Jesus. Similarly, when I came to Korea and heralded the message to Korean Christianity, which was in the John the Baptist position, they failed to accept it. Because of that, established Christianity of the world came against me and the secular governments of the free world came against me. Likewise, I was opposed by the power of international communism, which is almost in the position of the Roman Empire at this time. This is the historical parallel.</p>
<p>I knew I had to make the showdown between life and death by taking some drastic measures. That was the imprisonment in Danbury. Through that suffering, the hearts of many Christian leaders were melted and public opinion in the United States could be turned around. Because of my struggle in Danbury, many people were able to see the severe truth: that Christianity in America today has come to exist in name only. There has been a deep invasion of humanism and materialism. Likewise, the government has been totally victimized by secular humanism. The churches have become aware that they are surrounded by hostile forces.</p>
<p>For the first time, American Christian leaders are realizing that the government has become truly anti-God. Many laws have been passed which have chipped away at the freedom of religion and worship here. Christianity has come to this painful and poignant realization through my own imprisonment. For that reason, even after I entered the prison, I did not allow myself to rest at all because I knew it was the time to bring an awakening in Christianity. Thus I worked hard to unite and inspire American Christianity from the prison.</p>
<p>During my imprisonment, I launched an incredible crusade throughout this country. First of all, we pressed forward with the CAUSA movement to educate American leaders and unite them under Godism, one God-centered viewpoint, so they could clearly see who are the enemies of the Christian churches today. Furthermore, I launched a very spiritual movement, in order that the power of the Holy Spirit could move and bring the people into oneness, to go beyond superficial worship.</p>
<p>At the time of Jesus, crucifixion, everybody ran away; there was nothing but division among his disciples. But when Reverend Moon was crucified-put into Danbury- the Christian communities united with me for the first time. Thus Danbury brought about two extraordinary consequences. First of all, the American churches came to the point of repentance; second, for the first time, representatives came to me and apologized for the conduct of the United States of America. The day I left Danbury, representatives of American Christianity welcomed me as their own victorious champion. Furthermore, the message of repentance and change was proclaimed throughout the country. These were the two most incredible victories won through Danbury.</p>
<p>Danbury brought the painful awareness that Reverend Moon was the best friend of America, but that he had been treated as the worst enemy. The Unification Church is not the enemy of American Christianity at all; it is their sacrificial central figure, leading all of Christianity in a new direction. Thus they came to respect and appreciate us much more than before.</p>
<p>Because these phenomena occurred after Danbury, many other changes have occurred as well. At this time, I have restored the elder sons position-that is, the elder sons position represented by American Christianity. Furthermore, even the United States government has begun to realize that they need a champion to stop the spread of communism, and that champion is Reverend Moon. They see that I am teaching the one, unique answer to communism.</p>
<p>I want you to understand that after the victory in Danbury, besides the changes which took place in this country, drastic changes also took place in Korea. Within six months time, the Korean people virtually fumed around in their opinion toward me. They came to see that Reverend Moon is not only the friend of Korea, he is also the champion who has the only answer for the ultimate peace and security of that country. In just six months, I was able to bring about a revolution in the education of the Korean people, from the grass-roots level all the way up to the scholars and intellectual leaders, and finally, the political leadership, represented by national assemblymen and congressmen.</p>
<p>What was supposed to be done forty years ago was not accomplished. Now forty years later, after the foundation of victory in America, I achieved the victory in Korea. Now all I have to do is link together the two victories-American and Korean. The final chapter would be the natural subjugation of the Christian leadership of America, as well as the political leadership, under God&#8217;s ideal.</p>
<p>Within the two political panics of America, the Democratic party tends to be rather left-leaning and liberal. On the other hand, the Republican party is very much beset by the problem of materialism. American political leaders in general are thinking very selfishly-at best they think of the national interest, but they do not think about the well-being of the world and all of mankind. They do not understand that America does not belong to the white majority but to God. He wants to use America for the sake of establishing the common brotherhood of the whole world. America was meant to be God&#8217;s gift to the world, not a blessing for the American people.</p>
<p>In the history of Israel in the Old Testament, there were the kings Saul, Solomon and David. David was the eighth child of his family. Nobody expected that David, the simple shepherd boy from the wilderness, would become the king of Israel. But he was qualified to be the king because of his concern for his people; he fought with Goliath at the risk of his life for the sake of saving the country. That kind of spirit is what the United States needs today. Because of his spirit, God chose David to become the king of Israel.</p>
<p>Who would deny that the Unification Church today is in the position of David? Furthermore, we are also in the position of Joseph, the eleventh son of Jacob, who was mistreated terribly by his brothers and finally sold into slavery in Egypt. But what happened? Later on, God placed the destiny of all the other brothers, as well as their parents, in the hands of Joseph. He was in the position to save the entire family. The Unification Church will be in exactly that position.</p>
<p>Those historical people unexpectedly became the heirs of God&#8217;s sovereignty. Likewise the members of the Unification Church today are sacrificially following God&#8217;s will, giving up everything for the sake of the salvation of the nation and the world. You are absolutely the chosen ones with the mission to save the country and the world.</p>
<p>I myself was in the same position as David and Joseph. For that reason, no matter what persecution I faced from my brothers in Christianity, I never felt hatred toward them or sought revenge. Rather, I was patient and persevered, knowing that they would one day come to me, the way the brothers of Joseph did, and ask for help. Joseph forgave his brothers, although forgiveness would be impossible from a purely personal point of view. He knew that they all came from the same parent, their father Jacob. He felt, &#8220;They are my brothers and regardless of their crime, I will forgive them,, Likewise, from the personal point of view, I might feel no reason for forgiveness toward the leaders of established Christianity. But knowing that God is our common Father and I must embody His will, then I can and must forgive them.</p>
<p>The hope for the revival of America hinges upon the awakening of Christianity, which represents the Christianity of the world. The wealth, resources and technology of the United States should be dedicated to serving the whole world. When it shares with the rest of the world, the United States can preserve its own identity and prosperity. Such an awakening needs to come.</p>
<p>According to the original design of God&#8217;s providence, the Unification Church should not have been the ones to do the Victory Over Communism work. That mission was originally the responsibility of Christianity and the United States. But because of the failure of those two parties to oppose communism successfully, the Unification Church and I had to take on that mission. By doing so, we now have the opportunity to unite with Christianity and the American nation and government.</p>
<p>I want you to know clearly that the Unification Church has three primary missions: first, to liberate communism; second, to save America from crumbling; third, to revive Christianity. I have been teaching the same thing all these years. We must liberate the young people of America from moral degradation; because the younger generation is in danger, the whole country is in danger. I have continually said these things, over and over.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has emerged as the one leader with the answer to communism; with the solution to American moral degradation, particularly among young people. Finally, I have the concept or ideology for the unification of Christianity. This is recognized by more and more people.</p>
<p>What about you? Do you have the absolute commitment to defeat communism? We are launching the ideological offensive that can totally destroy that false ideology. Are you confident that we have the message and the power of love that will totally eradicate the moral corruption of this country, especially among young people? Furthermore, we have the Principle which has enough power to unite worldwide Christianity into one cohesive body of God. Do you have confidence in that? Yes or no?</p>
<p>This is not something we are just talking about; it is already a reality. The Unification Church members must clearly know the reality of the United States today. You need to have that painful understanding. This assembly here today includes all the races of the world. Will you American people say, &#8220;I am special because I am a white, U.S. citizen&#8221;? Is that kind of thinking acceptable to our way of life? We are the champions of the future world, that global village to come. I want you to understand that you represent the Reverend Moon of forty years ago. At that time, I was alone, the only person proclaiming this ideal of God. Today, you are in that same position, and proclaiming that same ideal.</p>
<p>You must know that your mission is a messianic one. Two thousand years ago, the Messiah came with God&#8217;s ideal. Today I have taught you the same ideal; each of you has to proclaim and fulfill the messianic message, moving forward with dignity and power. I want you to understand that the democratic world is going down; likewise the communist world is crumbling. There will be one new ideology which rises up, however, and will win the victory. That is Unificationism &#8211; Godism.</p>
<p>This is the time for the transformation and we are at the crossroads. For that reason, we have a big job ahead of us. I have a clear plan and strategy mapped out for this country. Unless the members of the Christian community receive the infusion of God&#8217;s ideology, they cannot have a worldwide concept or a clear idea of where they stand. Likewise, the leadership of the United States has become too self-centered and nationalistic. They desperately need new vision which will free them to see the reality of the world.</p>
<p>I am like a man intoxicated with this mission. It doesn&#8217;t matter to me whether it is daytime or nighttime. I have commissioned you as co-workers and champions, to be like my partners. You are the only group of people I can trust in this country. You can move forward and represent this ideal, heralding it to the others. For that reason, you are in the position to indemnify the failure of the United States and the failure of the Christian community. You can pick up that failure, pay the indemnity and win the victory.</p>
<p>As much as I have suffered for the world, going to Danbury and paying indemnity on the world level, today is your time. You are going to face your own Danbury, pay the indemnity for the sins of this nation, and bring this nation and world into resurrection. So today, you are inheriting my mission. As much as I have toiled and shed sweat, blood and tears for this country and world, especially these past twelve or fourteen years, now is your turn. You can plant my tradition upon the global community which is our world.</p>
<p>I want you to understand the story about Elijah in the Old Testament. During Elijah&#8217;s time, Israel was divided between north and south. There were ten tribes in the north and two tribes in the south. God was working with the two tribes in the south, striving to liberate northern Israel and bring them back to His side. Elijah won heroic battles over and over; he demolished all the evil gods and idols of Baal. After that, there were still tremendous obstacles for Elijah, so he became very disillusioned and gave up on his mission. He ran away and tried to hide, even trying to die under the shade of a tree. But God didn&#8217;t allow him to rest there. An insect came and ate the leaves of the tree and made all of them wither away.</p>
<p>At that point, Elijah was totally disheartened. He said to God, &#8220;Everything has failed. Now, God, I am all alone,, God responded, saying, &#8220;Elijah, what are you talking about? There are still 7,000 warriors who never surrendered to Baal. You have that many men to work with. Don&#8217;t give up your mission!&#8221;</p>
<p>There were also 7,000 hidden champions available at the time of Jesus. If Jesus had been able to mobilize them, he would not have been crucified. Today, Reverend Moon has gone to Danbury; I knew that there were 7,000 warriors prepared for this time of the Lord of the Second Advent. This was just like the time of Elijah. I was completely alone, discredited, dishonored, confined to prison, so I was in the position to be totally disheartened. But I was not. I knew there were 7,000 champions awaiting. This is the reason I gave the mission to the CAUSA movement to educate 7,000 ministers and equip them with our ideology during my imprisonment.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I directed the mailing to 350,000 ministers of a letter from me, as well as the Principle videotape, so that they could become connected to me when I was in Danbury. Ministers throughout the country were moved to see that, even though I was in prison, I was not giving up trying to reach them. Also I directed the Unification Church members to go and reach out to the ministers. Many ministers have come to me now and I have given them the direction, &#8220;Go and reach out to the politicians and national leaders.&#8221; This is the stage we are at now.</p>
<p>Our job is education. Today I would like to educate Christianity first. Let them know there is a living truth and a hope. We have to educate and communicate that hope. That is what you have been doing in your work with the ministers. Some leaders might think, &#8220;Well, we have been working very hard, reaching out to quite a few ministers. Maybe when Father comes back from Korea, he will let us have some time for relaxation,, But I am telling you right now, there is no such thing as relaxation. I will give you even more pressure, added missions-to go out and win the greater victory.</p>
<p>The United States today is losing everything. It has lost the world, the nation, the community, and is now almost down to the point of losing the family. Today, the American family system is crumbling to pieces. The father, the mother, the children &#8211; all these are just individual segments of society. This is a sign that the United States is crumbling in the ultimate degree. Such destructive consequences are being reaped because people have pursued self-centered love.</p>
<p>As the American home crumbles, the homes of the world crumble, too, because America is in the position to spread its virus to the rest of the world. Therefore, we cannot let this country crumble. Your land, your home is in trouble; it is on fire. The fall of man crept into the family, so Satan&#8217;s ultimate goal is destruction of the family unit. Then there will be nothing for man to hold on to. That is Satan&#8217;s strategy and that is what he is doing in America today.</p>
<p>The fallen family that began in the Garden of Eden is being exactly re-manifested in the American family. Instead of being a loving, cohesive unit, the members have become like enemies to each other. Parents and children battle with one another; husband and wife become enemies; brothers and sisters fight and struggle.</p>
<p>Somebody has to become the flag-bearer, to go forward and accomplish the mission. The champions will not come out of the traditional Christian churches or the United States government. They will not come from the civil service. The only hope today to bring God&#8217;s will to the American home is the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Parents are the head of the family. The problem is that fallen families have been under the false parenthood. Therefore, let the false parenthood pack up and move out; we shall move into the American hearts with the concept and love of the True Parents. We can save America by doing that; we will have won the entire battle. Then we can win the communist world because their strategy to destroy the American home will be impossible.</p>
<p>This is the reason the home church providence was inaugurated. The time will come when the home church concept can be applied everywhere. The White House will do home church; the State Department will do home church; the Defense Department will, too. Everywhere the home church principles will be applied and then we can wipe out Satan, and all the communist, secular humanist elements from our society.</p>
<p>The concept of the True Parents must prevail everywhere -not just in the Unification Church, or in the Christian churches, but everywhere &#8211; every office of the senators, congressmen, in the state legislatures, in every business and shop. Everyone belongs to a family and the family must be centered on the True Parents. This ideal of the True Parents is the ultimate ideal for everyone, the one which will install the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We are going to transform our globe into our home. Our homes must be headed by our master &#8211; the True Parents. That is the ultimate ideal of God.</p>
<p>All family roots so far have gone back to Satan and the fall, so we must change our roots to become centered upon the True Parents and God; then the family will be secured for eternity. I want you to know that all the systems which are so powerful in our world today and all those values such as nationalism, government, ownership &#8211; all started from the false root, the satanic root. They did not start from God&#8217;s tradition, God&#8217;s root. All ungodly things must be changed.</p>
<p>This is why the spirit world is being mobilized by God to bombard the world; every system is in trouble today, under attack. With this sort of trouble, they must be knocked down to the point where they can say, &#8220;There is no hope here. Maybe there really is some hope in the Unification Church. Let&#8217;s go and listen to Reverend Moon and find out&#8221;</p>
<p>Who has the answers? The President of the United States? The free world? The American government, no matter how great its defense system might be &#8211; with many weapons, an army, navy and air force &#8211; it cannot give the answers. More than ten years ago when I first came to America, I bluntly stated, &#8220;America will crumble if it continues on its present course.&#8221; Everybody laughed at me. But today you bright, young American people know in your hearts that America is truly moving in the direction which I described then. Have you come to that realization?</p>
<p>We know it, and therefore we have to get down to work. We have to reach one more minister, one more politician each day. We have to transform them with this great hope. Only Reverend Moon and the Unification Church represent true hope for this country and world, as well as hope for God. Each one of you has been commissioned with a task today. You are now inheriting this challenge and mission to save America, save Christianity, and liberate the communist world &#8211; those three primary missions which I set upon forty years ago. You must understand that I have been working for forty years to lay this foundation so that I could bequeath the mission to you.</p>
<p>The globe is our home, our base. That home was invaded and came under satanic rule. At this time, after returning to the United States, I am declaring that your mission is to teach the people of the world that their homes and families must come under God and the True Parents. The name of the True Parents must be restored into every home so that the entire globe can know them. That will be the day of true and ultimate victory. This movement must be spread throughout the globe to every continent, every village. When that happens, you know the world will truly be transformed into the Kingdom of God on earth.</p>
<p>After World War II, the United States was given the opportunity to restore the world and, because of that failure, this great country has been declining since then. Now we have come to the end of that decline. Because of the emergence of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, the tide can be turned. The ultimate goal God established forty years ago shall become a reality, but only with our sweat and labor. America has been responsible for the moral degradation on the worldwide level, because it has spread its viruses of free sex and an animalistic way of life. Now we have to change that. We must indemnify it.</p>
<p>The beginning point is the home. God must be able to say, &#8220;This is a home in which I can dwell&#8221; From that beginning, the home can grow to influence the community, nation, and ultimately the world. This is the transformation we foresee. The blessed couples, particularly, are in the position of restored Adam and Eve and must spearhead this crusade. These next three years until 1988 are the most crucial years of human history. All of the blessed couples and every member of the Unification Church must move aggressively forward for national and world salvation, under the banner of the True Parents&#8217; ideal.</p>
<p>You must have the conviction, &#8220;The Christian leaders and the national leaders cannot survive without committing themselves to these ideals. The White House will not survive unless they embrace God&#8217;s ideal&#8221; You must have such conviction and absolute faith within your own heart first. As you know, the first opposition came from the established Christian churches. I have worked with them and finally embraced them; now Jacob and Esau have met. The national leaders are next. They have been in the position to oppose me and Danbury was the result of that. Now we must move forward and win on that level.</p>
<p>When the Christian churches and the national leaders come to the awareness of the ideal of the True Parents, what will happen? The entire world and nation will respect and love you as their elder brothers and sisters. America is a Christian nation and Christianity should be in the position of Abel, to embrace with True Parents first. That is the beginning point of victory in this country. American Christianity should win over the Cain-type United States government and bring this nation under the one will of God. What will happen then? The True Father will automatically emerge as the true Abel of the entire United States.</p>
<p>Once Cain and Abel are totally restored into God&#8217;s side, there will be no such thing as Heavenly representative and satanic representative. Both the elder and the younger sons will belong to the Heavenly side. Once this sort of restoration occurs in one place such as the United States, it will automatically occur on the worldwide base. Thus communism, which is in the Cain&#8217;s position, will be restored to God&#8217;s side.</p>
<p>If the messianic message had been accepted forty years ago, there would have been no emergence of communist power. At this time, once the Cain and Abel elements within the United States accept the messianic message, what will happen? Restoration will occur here and then communism will cease to exist. To that end, in Geneva in 1985, I declared to the world the end of communism. From that point on, communism began to decline more rapidly, while we are climbing up more rapidly.</p>
<p>When you listen to me speaking, you come to the full understanding that the time has come to restore true brotherhood among nations and peoples. We must all dwell with the one concept of the True Parents. We are in the position to do that job at this time.</p>
<p>The Unification Church is not a political group. We are ultimately an educational movement. We are teaching about true love and the True Parents; others can translate these materials into every aspect of life, including political philosophies and so forth. But we ourselves are not a political group. God&#8217;s message is one of natural subjugation. This is the great difference with the teaching of the communists. Their revolution is by violence. Our job is to teach the people so they can naturally change. This has always been our way.</p>
<p>When the homes are occupied by God and guided by the truth of the True Parents, then every facet of the society can be changed. Politicians have to get their votes from the homes. Church leadership and political leadership together should develop the network of the home churches. Once that is organized, it is final. Do you understand where we are going? We are going to educate the ministers and the political leadership. In the meantime, we will work with the home church system to create a total network.</p>
<p>The ultimate goal is a God-centered way of life for the family, the church, the community, and the nation. Ultimately the world will become God-centered. Who would oppose that? Nobody.</p>
<p>I have erected this foundation through forty years of constant persecution. Now the era of persecution is ended; you will work without it. How can you fail? We are creating our own planet; the earth shall be one village in which everyone can move freely. You will be able to go anywhere- Germany, Japan, and so forth-at any time. The world will be like one home, one village. This is why we already initiated the International Highway project.</p>
<p>Without your knowledge, I have already erected an enormous foundation, working within the Christian community and political circles and many different areas. That is the inheritance you have received today: to take over my mission. Are you ready to march forward to the ultimate completion of the True Parents&#8217; ideal?</p>
<p>You must not forget, particularly you American people, that I have come to this country, which is actually a foreign country to me, and accepted persecution and rejection, even imprisonment. Under these circumstances, I have never given up but have concentrated completely on saving this country. You must remember the path that I have walked. During these next three years, no matter what the difficulty, we must not complain. Yes or no? This is the time of total commitment.</p>
<p>This is the conclusion of my sermon today. Just as I won my victory, each one of you &#8211; including every echelon of the leadership of the Unification Church &#8211; must win your own victory. No matter what, you must not complain but remain 100% committed. Those who pledge to do their absolute best to fulfill the True Parents, ideal, raise both your hands, please. Thank you. God bless you.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:15:56+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/the-glory-of-the-victor.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:15:56+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">August 31, 1986<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Sang Kil Han</h3>
<p>I have written the title of today&#8217;s speech on the blackboard. How does this writing compare with English? English is written horizontally, from left to right, and Korean is written vertically, from top to bottom. Oriental script can be written horizontally as well, but from right to left.</p>
<p>There are many other differences between Eastern and Western cultures. When Orientals beckon a person to come, they gesture with the fingers pointing downward, whereas Westerners extend their hand with the fingers pointing up. Another thing which seems very odd to Orientals is for an American to write with his left hand. A left-handed person seems very unusual and strange to a Korean; he is hardly considered to be a whole person. Also, Americans often sleep on their stomach while Orientals sleep on their back, ready to receive blessings from heaven. I suppose Americans have enough blessings so they sleep with their stomach down!</p>
<p>Our goal is to unite the two cultures. In order for the two to come together, one side will have to give in and reverse its habits. This isn&#8217;t easy for either culture to do. For West and East to meet is very difficult, but they must become one. In what fashion? We must give this subject much thought.</p>
<p>In the case of a subject-object pair, the subject should be bigger than the object. Men are generally taller than women, for example, so women must look up to men. Thus men represent heaven and women represent earth. Similar examples are very common in the world.</p>
<p>In comparison with Occidental culture, Oriental culture is more spiritually based. All the major religions were born in the Orient. Civilization has moved around the globe, and each area has had its time of peak development. Korea, for example, has achieved brilliant things in its 5,000-year history. Today is the end time and Western civilization is attracted to the East, preparing to meet it. We can clearly observe this tendency. The values of Western civilization have reached their limits. No longer can the West push forward and increase its influence as it did in the past. Western civilization is being prepared to join with the Orient.</p>
<p>It seems more reasonable for a person&#8217;s spirit to control his body than the other way around. Eastern civilization has always placed more value on things of a spiritual nature, while Western civilization has sought material values and wealth. This has been a consistent pattern. You may wonder why cultures don&#8217;t pursue both spiritual and material values, but it doesn&#8217;t happen that way.</p>
<p>Western civilization has always sought for more of everything. If people had two of something, they wanted three; the more they had, the more they wanted. Their goal has been to influence and control the whole world. This is what Western civilization has been seeking.</p>
<p>To lead a religious life, people have had to stay away from materialistic thinking and pursue spiritual things. That is the way to achieve spiritual depth. The more you deny one side, the more the other side increases. That is exactly what happens.</p>
<p>Both the spiritual and the material spheres have the goal of influencing the world. Why isn&#8217;t there a balance between the spiritual and material ways of life so that human life might be enhanced? It is because our world is not the original, ideal world. The fall resulted in a separation between the spirit and body. In these last days, we must bear the fruit of what was sown in the beginning. Therefore, one side of the world has been mainly vertical and the other mainly horizontal. As the end approaches, each culture is reaching out to the other, trying to supplement what it lacks.</p>
<p>This diagram illustrates upper and lower, left and right. Satan unjustly took the right side, which was supposed to represent Heaven. Thus the heavenly forces have had to occupy the left side. To be reinstated in our original position-the right side-we have to go around and settle on the left side. This means we must first deny our proper place before we can settle there.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s title is &#8220;The Glory of the Victor.&#8221; What is the role of the Unification Church supposed to be? We know that we are at the summit of religious development. Religion must be able to embrace and encompass all things, not only spiritual things but also the material world. It must encompass both spirit and body. A religion which fulfills that qualification is the highest religion. The spiritual side is the higher position, but the material side must be included as well. This is what the Unification Church is doing. We have not only a spiritual goal and standard but also a material standard-we must reach out to the whole world, as well as the spiritual realm and God.</p>
<p>How will East and West unite, since they are so different? Should the spiritual Orient go over to the materialistic West and dominate it, or should the West go over to the East and make unity there? Which way is best? The mind, not the body, is the center of a person. The center should not move around; when the center moves, it creates confusion. The mind should maintain a consistent position, while the body may move around anywhere. So it is reasonable for the body to come to the mind, which is the center, and unite with it. Do you think I say this because I am an Oriental and want a convenient philosophy to suit myself? No.</p>
<p>There has been a dramatic pattern of change in the two world cultures. Just a few years ago, Korea was very poor and had little interest in material values. But for some strange reason, it has recently been achieving staggering material progress. The same is true for Japan; in a short period of time, it has made enormous material progress. The internal cause has been operating, and now the external results are evident. This is the right time for such advancements.</p>
<p>At the same time, many in the West who had been pursuing material values all along started denying that tradition, rejecting it for the pursuit of spiritual values. As each side searches for something new, eventually they will meet. &#8220;Oh, the Orient!&#8221; Westerners exclaim; &#8220;this is such a spiritual place.&#8221; As the Orientals started searching, they realized, &#8220;Oh, the Western world! This is where such excellent material things are.&#8221; But this is not the time to choose one over the other; now we need both. The material side definitely needs the spiritual side, and vice versa. Without each other we cannot go forward.</p>
<p>At this climactic time, we are reaching for the original world in which both sides are meant to exist in balance. The world is arriving at this point, but out of ignorance many Westerners continue to pursue material values over spiritual ones, and many Orientals consider only spiritual things worthy of emphasis, since that is the way it has always been. Such mistaken attitudes are out of step with the times; they can produce catastrophic results.</p>
<p>How can global unity be achieved? The process should conform to the law of the universe, the law of God. How easy is it for a representative of the spiritual side to go over to the materialistic side and achieve unity? How easy was it for me, a solitary person, to come to the West and influence 240 million people? In a democratic system, one person is nothing; he must follow the majority. How can a huge majority follow one individual? That is the difficulty.</p>
<p>Somewhere along the line, a historical revolution must take place. When Eastern and Western civilizations approach each other, their purpose should be to create one world. However, as unity becomes more attainable, two worlds are forming, rather than one; it&#8217;s easier to develop two worlds. People think that two are better than one!</p>
<p>Unification Church members are very religious, and they have been achieving unity with American society. American people have criticized our members, saying that they surrendered everything in joining the Church and have lost their identity. You tell them, &#8220;Not at all! I have true identity in the Unification Church.&#8221;</p>
<p>I have had to give up my own country and take a difficult course in order to achieve what I have to do. It was not my personal choice but a cosmic responsibility. My position as a teacher, pushing people to achieve this goal, is very difficult. Those who are expected to come over to this spiritual side also have a difficult course. We cannot just assume that because the other side should come, we can stand and do nothing. If anything, our task is more difficult.</p>
<p>We do not create unity by power, or force or muscle. If muscle power were the criterion, giants would always be rulers, and this is not so. If neither force nor power, what&#8217; do we use? Love. So the person with the greatest level should always sacrifice and give to the weaker one.</p>
<p>Whenever Mother sits down at home, all the children want to go to her. It doesn&#8217;t matter to the children if she is tired or wants to be alone; they just want to be close to her and be embraced by her. Mother always responds to them when they come to her; then, instead of feeling drained, she experiences more power. Because of the give and take of love, she feels more energy. That&#8217;s what produces happiness.</p>
<p>When the object of love comes, even though the subject is very tired, greater power will flow through him. We have experienced this many times. When love approaches, it always strengthens us. Some people do not know this; they have been pursuing a different direction with no intention of changing.</p>
<p>Our critics say, &#8220;That church is a religious church; why don&#8217;t the members just pray and do good deeds for others and forget about material things?&#8221; They say this because they themselves have never pursued material and spiritual values together. They don&#8217;t understand that this is a different age. People wonder why we are so interested in political matters. Actually, our concern is not political; we care about the quality of the people who take office, and we are merely concerned about enabling the best people to do that. But people wonder why we don&#8217;t mind our own business-spiritual business-and leave material affairs alone.</p>
<p>Knowledge is one source of power, but love is also power, a greater power. However, for love to become powerful, one must be in the right position and have an object. Without an object of love, a circuit cannot form and power cannot be generated. But once the power of love is produced, it has tremendous energy, far greater than that of anything material. We know that.</p>
<p>We want to begin a revolutionary new pattern: for the material side to search for the spiritual side and vice versa, and without the self-centered purposes that have prevailed in the past. We are living for the sake of the world, not for ourselves. This is very different from past ( ways of living. It is unique in human history for people to act so unselfishly. In the past, if someone achieved great things it was almost always for a self-centered purpose.</p>
<p>In contrast, we do things for the universe-for everyone and everything other than ourselves. The globe cannot belong to one person. It cannot even belong to America or any one country. Until now people have generally focused on themselves or their country. But the United States must exist for the sake of the world, not the world for the sake of the United States. This is a revolutionary idea. In order to achieve unity, we must discard what we, clung to in the past. If the Orient has been good at spiritual things, it must give them up to make them more available to the other side. Likewise, the West must give up material things so the other side can obtain them more easily. But ultimately, nobody has to give anything up; they will have both.</p>
<p>Practically speaking, one side must go to the other in order to achieve unity. But which should go to the other? Should I go to you, or should you come to me? It is easy to say that you should come to me, but for some of you it involves everything. Even your understanding of the fall has to make a 180 degree turn, which is not easy. However, since you know why you should make changes and what good things will come as a result, such challenges seem less difficult.</p>
<p>To express it differently, what this amounts to is a reversal of order. In the past you pursued one direction, living for the sake of yourself, your family and your nation, in that order. But suddenly you discover you should turn around in a different direction. When you find yourself doing things first for the sake of the world, then the country, and last for yourself, you know you are heading in the right direction.</p>
<p>Think about it this way: someone in the spiritual position always thinks about the whole, while someone in the material position always focuses on himself. Spiritual things are always central, and the central figure thinks about the whole; otherwise, he would not be the center. There are 360 degrees surrounding the center, and one individual occupies less than one degree; that means the individual accounts for only a very small fraction of significance in comparison to the whole.</p>
<p>If you travel around the 360 degrees of a circle, you come back to the starting point. The world is wondering where it can go and rest; sometimes things become very tense. But eventually people will reach 360 degrees. One degree and 360 degrees are so close, but they come from totally opposite directions. That is the difference between them.</p>
<p>Mankind&#8217;s situation is really chaotic; people cannot see where to go. They cannot distinguish between the right direction and the wrong one; they cannot tell east from west. There is confusion and uncertainty everywhere; people talk about the &#8220;spiritual vacuum&#8221; of our times. These are the characteristics of our day. Isn&#8217;t it true?</p>
<p>The positions of 360 degrees and one degree are so close, but they are completely different. Let&#8217;s make an analogy: The United States has achieved a lot and has become great; it seems to lack nothing. It is in the 360 degree position, about to move on to the position of one degree and connect with it. But it isn&#8217;t easy to make that link. To do that, the United States must give up the whole 360 degrees before it can jump to one and connect with it.</p>
<p>The same analogy applies to yourself. You can&#8217;t possess an overflow of everything at the 360 degree position and expect to hop over into the one degree position. It cannot be done. That is why you experience so much difficulty. You may be able to see clearly where you are and where your goal is; but without giving up everything you cannot reach the goal which seems so deceptively close. Your task is how to give yourself up. You need to understand why you should give things up, so you can reach the goal more easily.</p>
<p>I came to the United States, a country totally different from my origin. With all the tremendous tasks I was compelled to take up, it was very difficult to learn the English language. Yet, with much pain I studied English. Likewise, you have to learn Korean. The United States has had a decisive influence over the world, but that will be diminishing; America must prepare to be influenced.</p>
<p>Until now the power of money, the power of knowledge, and the power of force have been almighty. But now power should be unselfishly motivated and directed where it will be beneficial to everyone. Our goal is love, not power; love-power will be the result. Love-power can never belong to an individual; it belongs to the universe.</p>
<p>This morning I have been speaking about where we should go and why. Of course, history began with the fall, and now the fruits are being reaped. We must quickly realize that, and then turn 180 degrees to the completely opposite side. Why? So we can become one. After becoming one, we begin to enter the realm of the ideal world.</p>
<p>The ideal world will result in many things, one of which is Heaven on earth. The essence of the ideal world is the unity between subject and object and the balance between them. The ideal is never a solitary existence.</p>
<p>In the past, the United States has insisted upon standing alone, but such an attitude is aggressive; it is never the attitude of a harmonious peacemaker. Only when you form a subject/object pair can you start to realize peace. Then you can embrace the universe. When man embraces his object, the universe is embraced. America is standing in the subject position; the object side is its people. The subject side-the country-and the object side-the people-must become one. This is the way the world will become the ideal.</p>
<p>Now the democratic free world centers around &#8220;me-ism,&#8221; while the communist world centers around &#8220;partyism.&#8221; One side says, &#8220;I am the leader. I am in the central position.&#8221; Then the other side says, &#8220;No, you are not. I am the leader. My position is central, so you follow me.&#8221; Who resolves this fight? This is the problem. This world needs a center of peace. Who is that central being? The Bible calls this person the Messiah. The Messiah is the one who brings unity and stands in the center position forever.</p>
<p>This world will become one after the spiritual world unites with it. The spiritual world is subject; this world is object. This is the order of the process of creation. Man cannot change this order. Every type of being, every part of creation, follows this order. If they do not follow that order, they will face problems; they will perish. The Western world is making trouble by spreading its low moral standard all over the world. America is making such problems. It&#8217;s true.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has a plan for unification, but not everyone knows what he is thinking. People just say he makes too much noise, that he is a Korean man who doesn&#8217;t understand the American way: &#8220;We don&#8217;t want that. The free world doesn&#8217;t want that. Who is this Moon guy? He is of a different race.&#8221; It&#8217;s true, race is a problem. Our movement is composed of people who are black, white, yellow, red, every color combined. The outside world sees this and thinks how strange we are-they think we are living strangely, eating strangely, working strangely, acting strangely, laughing strangely! They think everything is strange about us.</p>
<p>The outside world and the world inside our movement are not the same. The difference between us is that we understand their society precisely, but the outside world cannot fathom us.</p>
<p>The righteous one sacrifices in every kind of situation; he always dedicates himself to serving others. But the unrighteous person-&#8220;the bad guy&#8221;-is the one who centers everything around himself. Americans who think only of America are wrong. God wants the person who thinks on universal and worldwide levels, not just the national level. Who can control every situation? It is the righteous person, because he has a bigger concept than himself.</p>
<p>People like me to speak in English, but I don&#8217;t like English. Translators don&#8217;t always work. One day, we will have a unified language. So you must learn Korean. We are in different positions: Father&#8217;s position is the subject position; your position is object. You cannot deny it. Step by step, you must follow, no matter how much you may dislike it! You know that I am standing in the central position, and you must follow.</p>
<p>You have parents, fallen parents from the old world with the fallen lineage. Thus you have Satan&#8217;s fallen blood. This is the problem. One man is speaking out in this world and that is Reverend Moon. Reverend Moon is&#8217; saying, &#8220;You are going the wrong way. Follow me.&#8221; Not matter how much authority or fame a person may have, he must follow.</p>
<p>There will be victors on many different levels and in many different degrees. There will be individual victors, family-level victors, tribal and national victors, worldwide and universal victors, and victors on the levels of the spirit world and the cosmos. Which level of victor would you like to be?</p>
<p>There are some women whose goal is to meet the most handsome, worldly man and be fiercely in love with him. There are also men looking for such a woman. But if such people achieve their goal, will they be victorious or defeated? Will they be winners or losers, in the ultimate sense?</p>
<p>There are champions in all the different sports. If you were a champion for a few days and then lost the championship, would you feel good? A champion always challenges the record; that&#8217;s the significance of being a champion: to break the record. As long as you hold the world&#8217;s record, everyone looks up to you, but once someone else breaks that record, will the world remember you in the same way? The world forgets very easily.</p>
<p>Perhaps someone wishes to be wealthier than the Rockefellers. He challenges that standard, and when he exceeds Rockefeller&#8217;s wealth he feels like a victor and a glorious person. But eventually someone else will probably make even more money.</p>
<p>Do modern people, especially in the United States, live better or worse than the people of a few centuries ago? Every one of them lives better; most live better than even the kings of the past. What did kings have to ride on? They had horses and carriages or some kind of horsedrawn vehicle. What does the poorest person in the United States ride in today? An automobile, which can travel hundreds of miles at a stretch without breathing!</p>
<p>Many people feel challenged to become champions and victors in various arenas. Even when victories are very difficult to achieve, are they eternal? Is anything guaranteed? Who is the wealthiest person in the entire world? Is it Mr. Rockefeller? Perhaps that is true within the United States, but what about the world? Does anyone know? Is it a man or is it God? It is actually God.</p>
<p>How can you so easily answer God? How do you know that God exists? If people could see God, He would be mobbed by billions of people, especially the greedy ones; they would clutter up the walkways and all the surroundings. If God were visible like us, everyone could follow Him and He would create the world&#8217;s greatest hazard because wherever He went there would be crowds of people. Lots of accidents would surround God! Since God knows everything. He realized the consequences of being visible, so He decided to make Himself invisible. God declared that as a matter of principle, no one could see Him.</p>
<p>What field would you like to be victorious in? Would you seek to find God and remain with Him? Or would you prefer to acquire all the wealth in the world? How about winning the Olympic horseback riding contest? In what field would you like to become a victor? You want to be a champion just in finding God? You want to love God, too. How can you love God, since He is invisible? You can&#8217;t kiss Him.</p>
<p>There are well-known champions in many fields, but there is one-the champion in finding God-that few people have heard about. That is the supreme champion. Do you agree? Do you women also agree? God is very strong, and women are so fragile. To find God is not that simple. The God that a woman finds may not be the same God found by a man! God is only one, but in a sense He is two. He can fulfill both a man and a woman.</p>
<p>After a person becomes a victor, what are his privileges? What does he possess? Someone may suppose that since God is the wealthiest being in the universe, by finding God he will attain great riches. In fact, many people throughout history devoted their entire life to searching for God. But now, after thousands of years, many people have given up the quest. Twentieth century philosophers have said that there is no such thing as God, or that God is dead. &#8220;Forget it,&#8221; they have said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to make it.&#8221; That&#8217;s pretty much where many thinkers are.</p>
<p>What about me? Do you think I tried as hard as all of those philosophers? Have I given up? Have I found Him? Are you as convinced as I am that God exists? When a person becomes very spiritual, he can see God. Who is God to you? We have a Father/son or Father/daughter relationship with God. Only a small handful of people know it, however. Why do some people realize it and others not? What makes it so difficult? It is because of the fall.</p>
<p>We must clearly understand the fall. Who are the ancestors of the fall? It was Satan and Adam and Eve, and all their descendants along the way. It stands to reason that no one born from such an origin can be perfect or even see the ideal. All those born of such parents are fallen offspring who cannot see God. If we trace our ancestors back to the root, that root is satanic blood. Fallen people are inevitably self-centered. That is the most distinct characteristic of the fall.</p>
<p>The United States started out with a spiritual base, but it has become more and more self-centered. Extreme individualists have no respect for their country, society or even family. They don&#8217;t think much about their father and mother or brothers and sisters. God is much larger than an individual or family, a nation or even the whole world, so if a person cannot see even the nation, how can he see or find God? A woman may be very beautiful but if her mind is selfish and narrow, how could God fit into her? How can God fit into a narrow person? God is greater than parents, higher than presidents. You have to open your mind to Him. How much must our minds be open to receive Him? 360 degrees, completely open.</p>
<p>Do you want to meet God? How broad is your mind? If you met Him, what would you talk about? Probably you would ask Him to give you something! And not just one day, but every day you would ask Him for things. God knows everything about you, so when you are about to meet Him and speak with Him, do you think He would stay where He is, or would He run away from you?</p>
<p>There is no greater champion than the one who finds God. After finding God, what if you could not live with Him for ever and ever? There are many ways of living with Him: maybe you could cook for Him; maybe you could do the laundry or other chores!</p>
<p>North pole, south pole, east and west-God created all things and said, &#8220;It is good.&#8221; God&#8217;s eye is every place: small places as well as big. He sees birds, butterflies, insects, ants, grasshoppers. All these things are here for us to enjoy.</p>
<p>Do you think that God has some area, too, where He would like to be a champion? Like us, God has many fields of interest: He could choose sports or literature, for example. But in which area do you think God would like to be a champion? You readily said love, and that happens to be the right answer; but you said it so easily that I don&#8217;t feel very confident about it! Are you really sure? Do you really believe that of all the things He could choose from, God would be the champion of love? You are right.</p>
<p>Would God want to take just one individual and embrace him, saying, &#8220;You and I will live together forever and ever; we don&#8217;t need anyone else&#8221;? That person would be happy, of course, but do you think God would do that? Don&#8217;t you think God would want to find an exemplary man and an exemplary woman? Is there such a man and woman who can proudly and confidently declare that they are the ones whom God has been seeking?</p>
<p>There are many, many tribes on earth; there are also many different countries and cultures. Wouldn&#8217;t God want to be able to love the best tribe in the world? Don&#8217;t you think He wants to be the champion in expressing the best love? Doesn&#8217;t God have ambitions and aspirations? Isn&#8217;t He greedy in the good sense? Is He greedier than you? Americans do not have a word for greedy in the good sense.</p>
<p>Would you like to be ruled by God? Are you sure? Let&#8217;s be realistic. We have come under the domain of God, but look at our lifestyle: we get up early in the morning, with no time to relax or do whatever we please. We are overworked; we don&#8217;t eat rich food-and yet you say you are happy? Normally people don&#8217;t want anything to do with a dictator. The only exception is a dictator of love. Since God loves us far more than anyone else ever could, we accept it.</p>
<p>You married women, would you like your husband to give you a strong embrace, or just a little hug? You probably wouldn&#8217;t even mind being squeezed into a little ball and revolving around your husband for eternity! You would never want to leave him. You may not experience that in reality, but doesn&#8217;t that appeal to your imagination?</p>
<p>A true man has the strong urge to love a true woman. Also, a true woman wants to come under the dominion of such a man, as long as he truly loves her. Do you think love is based on the principle of democracy? If true love resembled a democracy, would that be wonderful or miserable? I want to hear what you women answer. A dictatorship is actually closer to your ideal of love than a democracy! Those women who want to be loved in a democratic way, raise your hands.</p>
<p>Everything belongs to God and wants to comes into the bosom of His love. God rules like a good king, like a good parent. No one is happier than those who live under such a ruler. When someone who loves you tells you, &#8220;Let&#8217;s do this,&#8221; you will join him, even if it is the most difficult job.</p>
<p>When a family decides to unite with God&#8217;s direction, God becomes very interested in them. He will always watch over them to see how they are doing and what they will achieve; He will always be behind them, helping and supporting them. A couple may find the going very difficult and wonder if they can continue; but the next day they find that they can rise and go on. Of course they can do it! They were the only ones who worried that they couldn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s mind is interested in everything; He wants to do everything and be everywhere. But where would He like to remain the longest? Under what name would He like to live eternally? You say love, of course, but love has many different levels. There is the love of a couple, of children, of friends, of brothers and sisters. What kind of love would God like most to experience? Of all relationships, what is the primary one God longs for? The love of His children. But are children supposed to remain small? No. Children grow up and then form a couple-husband and wife. The husband/wife relationship is very important, but it is horizontal and can never be vertical. Where in this wide world is the one point where God can meet man?</p>
<p>Since men are tall, they want to come down, to the feet&#8217; of a woman; women, since they are small, want to go up, near a man&#8217;s head and be like him. As they do that, they start revolving. Everything must move around; without` movement, no unity can take place. What is up goes down and what is down rises; the front goes to the back and the back becomes the front; left and right will constantly change position. As long as you stand still, you can never make progress. You must have motion.</p>
<p>What makes motion? Only love. Love moves people. What does God actually need: man and woman, or love? Which does He long for most? God created man and woman-not just one being but two-as His objects of true love. Within Himself, God contains both plus and minus natures. Once man and woman achieve unity, they revolve and become like God Himself; they become the perfect image of God. Once they completely unite as a couple, the next stage is to achieve vertical oneness with God. When this happens, where will God dwell: above them, between them, or in their center? He will be right at their center.</p>
<p>We know that God separated Himself into His creation of man and woman, but why? It was to fulfill His love in relationship with them. Centering on God, all kinds of pluses and minuses can combine. He can become the junction to unite the internal and external relationships within the individual, between mind and body, and among people. Then mind and body can become one under true love. When this is achieved, God and man are literally one.</p>
<p>God created mankind to become the true center of the whole universe through this relationship. True children can finally make the ideal world a reality on earth. This indicates that God wants to reside forever and ever in the position of True Parents.</p>
<p>Just as you can divide mind and body, you can divide True Parents into an inner position and an outer position. Of all the places on earth, where would God like to rest? He would like to stay at the center of all things. What is that center? The internal position of True Parents, together with the external position of True Parents, is the origin or true center of the universe. That is where spirit world begins, where spirit world takes effect. Spirit world must have a center too; its center is the center of the earth as well. All things in the universe are encompassed within these 360 degrees.</p>
<p>Who is the victor I have been speaking about this morning? We all search for God because of love, so there is no greater victor than those who become true children of True Parents and God. The person who attains the perfect position of true children to True Parents has found God. Not only that, he will live with God forever and ever, because he is the child of God. That point is the only place where God and mankind can meet. Can you suggest any other place where mankind can meet God? Never. The very order of the universe leads us to this conclusion.</p>
<p>We can assume that God wants this position very badly, because this is the whole purpose of creation which was ruined by the human fall. God wants to return to this point. But how? Even if God had to forsake all the spirit world in the process, He must find this position. Even if we have to give up all the comfort and material goods of the world in our quest, we must find this position.</p>
<p>What privilege would that victor have? First, it is life; we can come into contact with God&#8217;s life. We can also come into contact with God&#8217;s love and dwell in it. Once we have God&#8217;s life and love eternally, our third privilege is to live together with Him eternally. We can live together without ever leaving Him or Him leaving us. That means we can become equal in love. Have you ever heard that God and man can become equal? Not only man and woman become equal, but God and mankind become equal. However, this can happen only upon the condition of true love. Without this process, there is no such thing as equality of man and woman. People may speak of equality, but they don&#8217;t know what they are talking about.</p>
<p>What will be the result of this victory? The universe will belong to us. God owns it, but we can own it as well. Centering on God, everything in the universe belongs to us because God is our Father.</p>
<p>Think of these privileges. We want to own everything, don&#8217;t we? Even fallen people want to own the universe, but they cannot. The only way to possess the universe is to become one with God through love. Is that clear enough? Imagine a young woman who never attended college; nobody would think of her as a political leader. But if she became the wife of the president of a country such as the United States, she would be his equal, regardless of her education or other qualifications. Isn&#8217;t that right?</p>
<p>We may be poor, we may be shabby, we may have almost nothing, yet we can be like God. Is this a dream? How can we do it? By becoming like God in love. Love bestows equality and the right to inherit everything. If we encounter God and live with Him in love, as parent and child, we will have life and eternal love. We will live with God forever, becoming absolutely equal and owning everything. What victor on earth could surpass someone with these privileges?</p>
<p>What, then, is the Unification Church trying to do? Everyone in the Unification Church is heading directly toward the goal of becoming such a historical victor. To become like that, our mind needs to be stretched. We must open up our mind 360 degrees and become as broad as God Himself.</p>
<p>Sometimes the wife&#8217;s mind may be broader than her husband&#8217;s. Should the man object to that? No, because it just means that he must stretch his own mind. Will true love expand a mind or constrict it? Isn&#8217;t a broad mind born out of true love? Such a mind can be stretched vertically like a balloon, and neither the husband nor the wife will complain! They won&#8217;t object if it is stretched horizontally either. No matter how far you pull a mind, even from one extreme of the universe to the other, it will not break or give way. Even if it is stretched vertically from the top of heaven to the bottom of the earth, a loving mind will not break. This is how love expands. Literally, it has no end.</p>
<p>Unification Church members learn to have very broad minds and become very open and embracing people. You are learning to open yourself to endless love and to explore things completely. In God&#8217;s mind there are five colors of skin, and He loves them equally. Skin color is no hindrance to you, either.</p>
<p>You should never forget that you are striving to become victorious persons; that is why you are sitting here. The privileges you gain in that struggle are not temporary; they will last eternally. Other people work so hard and dedicate their entire life for temporary benefits, but the privileges you are working for are eternal.</p>
<p>Spirit world takes great pride in True Parents. Mankind should take pride in becoming true children to those True Parents. God&#8217;s desire is for the eternal True Parents and the eternal true children to live in love and happiness and to exercise dominion over the entire universe. This is how God wants you to live with Him throughout eternity.</p>
<p>Therefore, you should uphold the precious position of True Parents, even though it means sacrifice. Even in your sleep you should keep in mind the position of True Parents and the position you are striving to achieve. You should concentrate on achieving your position and gaining the victory as a true child. You should never lose this focus.</p>
<p>If you live in such a fashion, God will automatically draw nearer to you and pay more and more attention to you. He will love you and dwell with you more frequently and for longer periods of time. More and more, you will resemble God until you reach complete oneness with Him.</p>
<p>Like True Parents, true children should live first for the sake of God. When you ask yourself, &#8220;What am I doing this for?&#8221; you should reply: &#8220;First, for the sake of God; second, for the sake of True Parents: and third, for the sake of mankind.&#8221; Through love, God and True Parents are the same. Then God, True Parents and all mankind are like your own image. You Unification Church members should keep this image with you every second of your life. This is how all mankind can attain true life and true love and become the rightful rulers of the universe.</p>
<p>Every day you should examine how closely your life has conformed to the standard God expects of you. Is it very close, or very distant? When you approach God&#8217;s standard, you will truly be able to represent mankind; you will think and speak on behalf of mankind. Also, you will represent True Parents, because you are part of them. In addition, you will represent God because you are the only ones in all of mankind who know what God wants. That is privilege enough.</p>
<p>You are entitled to this not because you are great but simply because many, many generations before you have suffered, and you have inherited their benefit during these last days. You should feel a deep responsibility for what they have accomplished for you and the base they have laid for you. You should never forget your historical position as a member of the Unification Church. It is no ordinary position. Since you are living for God, True Parents and mankind, and since you are dedicated to upholding their position, you will have life and love. The whole world will belong to you, and you will become like God Himself.</p>
<p>What really binds these elements together? It is not reason or skill, but only true love. With love, all things will be united and you will become a true person. If you live like this throughout your whole life, there will be no limitations on your travels in the spirit world. That means you will be able to go anywhere and no one will stop you.</p>
<p>In addition, if you would like to give a banquet for a righteous friend of yours, everything will be prepared. All you will have to do is wish it, and instantly it will be fulfilled. This is the nature of the spirit world. If your desire is to bestow love and blessings upon millions of people, all you have to do is wish it and it will be given.</p>
<p>Only through the privilege of equal position with God can you do such things; only through love is it possible. God has all privileges, and like Him, you too will have all privileges in the spirit world, combined with true love here on earth.</p>
<p>This is our ideal and our ambition; this is the ultimate wish of every individual. No matter how much you may excel in a given field, unless you attain true love, nothing you achieve will be eternal. For God, true love is the reality. For mankind, however, it is still a dream; we have to make it a reality.</p>
<p>Regardless of how extensive your family tree may be or how many complicated relationships it contains, from God&#8217;s position in the spirit world it is simple to understand; everything is instantly clear. You have to straighten out all f the complexities and restore them. How? Only through intense, strong, true love. Through love all things be come orderly. Only by being linked with God through true love can you carry it out.</p>
<p>If a truly loving person touches you or even strikes you, it would only increase your joy and happiness, both on earth and in the spirit world. In the spirit world especially, such joy is very intense. Here on earth, you are being trained in such a loving life so you can adapt to life in the spirit world very naturally. Do you understand? This cannot be done quickly; it must be worked on.</p>
<p>So you know why I want you to suffer and work hard like you do. I want you to learn the rhythm of spirit world here; without learning it, you can never go to Heaven. If a self-centered person somehow sneaked into Heaven, he could not stay there because his rhythm would not match.</p>
<p>Since this has been my way of life, Satan wants nothing to do with me. Satan cannot enter into a relationship of true love, and he knows it very well.</p>
<p>I am reiterating this because it is so important. Your mind should be focused on loving mankind, even when you are tired. You should concentrate on God, True Parents and mankind all the time. You can learn this by observing the visible True Parents. You know how much. True Parents love God; as you observe that love and learn from it, you can come to love God also.</p>
<p>In the very beginning God had no enemy. Today, even though we may have enemies, we pay no attention to them. From our point of view, we have no enemies. As we continue our task, all people will eventually become our friends and brothers. You should learn from my example. Although I have encountered opposition, I have always ignored it and pushed myself forward with love. I have endured tremendous persecution, which you can&#8217;t fully understand because you have never experienced it to such a degree. You should be willing to receive more and more persecution so you can understand what I have gone through.</p>
<p>You have friends, but I could never speak deeply with other people because they were so different from me. You feel lonely, but I have experienced deep loneliness; so has God. The only person I could speak with was Heavenly Father, but since He was already suffering greatly It couldn&#8217;t even speak with Him when I had a problem. You are in a much better position. You can speak with True Parents in a serious way-or at least you can talk among yourselves. Many good answers emerge when you share, your heart with good friends.</p>
<p>As a result of so much suffering, persecution, and living a Principled life, I have gained much ground. But I don&#8217;t want to keep those accomplishments for myself &#8211; I want to pass them on to you, as soon as you become worthy. Even though it is hard-won territory, I want to give it away! That is my heart, my attitude. One hundred percent of the foundation that I have achieved will be given to those who have loved and are loving mankind, True Parents and God. We will all go to spirit world separately, one at a time. We can&#8217;t go together. When you enter the spirit world, the first thing you will look for is True Parents. Even in the spirit world, I will never keep everything for myself. Just as I inherited all things from God Himself through true love, you will inherit all things from me. One hundred percent. What a glorious place it is!</p>
<p>God doesn&#8217;t want money or knowledge. God has everything. He only wants His lost children, mankind, to become centered on True Parents as true children. This is God&#8217;s agony: the restoration of humanity throughout history. How should we relate to God? By taking the true child&#8217;s position centering on True Parents. That&#8217;s all. That&#8217;s all! We are to do this both in the physical world and in the spirit world. The center of the universe and the cosmos is true love.</p>
<p>Through our work, we are creating the central point through which God can achieve the restoration of history through mankind. You are becoming a victorious person in a glorious place. Every person must work to attain that position. How can we achieve that highest and happiest place? No matter how difficult it may be to get there, we want to reach that point. Centering on the way of true love, on True Parents, we must love all of God&#8217;s children. This is the course of restoration. Do you understand?</p>
<p>Success has no meaning, except this kind of success. Today is the last day of August, which has been a very important month. The rest of the year is also very important. Now we are about to wage the final war against evil. We will continue to work hard, pay indemnity and sacrifice. At this point, I am asking you to renew yourself and never forget that you are living for the sake of God, True Parents and mankind. Please make a resolution to continue doing your mission for the rest of the year.</p>
<p>I have already attained the victorious standard of the individual, family, tribe, nation and world. Now you must live faithfully and inherit it. Only through loving the True Parents and God can you truly achieve that. We must always think about how much Father has gone through, always persecuted. How lonely! You just don&#8217;t know.</p>
<p>The problem is how to become one with Father. You need an open mind. Father has that sort of mind. When I pray to God, I am serious. I cannot report, cannot pray without tears. You don&#8217;t know Father&#8217;s situation or how serious I am. The whole American and world situation is so serious. You cannot understand my situation, but I understand your situation very well. All through my lifetime, I have suffered to lay this foundation.</p>
<p>Now I have become famous all over the world. I really have everything now-I don&#8217;t need authority; I don&#8217;t need money. I have enough power and knowledge of the universe. I know the secrets of the world. I don&#8217;t need anything. I only need to know how to spread true love throughout the whole world.</p>
<p>The springtime is coming. God is waiting. You have to inherit my position, as my children. &#8220;Children&#8221; means of the same flesh and bone as the parents; ultimately, they are of the same mind. This is what it means to be true children: &#8220;I resemble Father in everything. If Father did something like that, I will do it just the same. If Father holds something this way, I will hold it just like that. This is my faith. No one can change this. Totally, I follow.&#8221;</p>
<p>My focus and purpose are different from others. I hope this world has an open door so that a different situation can develop. The world can no longer come against Reverend Moon. People are now beginning to understand everything. Five years ago, Reverend Moon was universally perceived as a bad guy. And now? This &#8220;bad guy&#8221; has become famous.</p>
<p>I must always make preparation to move in every area. I am now approaching 70 years of age, so I am not far from the spiritual world. What shall I do in my remaining time? Who can inherit this position? That person has to have a wide open mind like Father&#8217;s. Otherwise it is too difficult. Do you understand what I mean?</p>
<p>We will continue our struggle-for God, True Parents, and lastly, for ourselves. The fallen world always puts &#8220;me&#8221; first, and then family, and then nation. But we put God first, then True Parents, and then mankind. &#8220;Me&#8221; comes last.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has received so much persecution. Now the Unification Church has a glorious, rich foundation. We are out of Satan&#8217;s grip. How wonderful this is! It is truly our glory. Let us pray.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:20:25+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/the-heavenly-family-and-the-american-family.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:20:25+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">December 14, 1986<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Sang Kil Han</h3>
<p>Where are we now? We are at Belvedere, which is located within the United States, part of the continent of North America. North America is within the world. Where does the world exist? It is within the universe and the universe is within the cosmos. How vast is the cosmos? It is so vast we cannot have a real concept of it. As Unification Church members, we believe in and advocate the largest and highest possible ideal. That high ideal is to be connected to human beings, both men and women.</p>
<p>How does the cosmos itself want to be connected to everything else? The cosmos does not want to be connected just to men or just to women alone, but to men and women who are together in complete unity. In true unity, there is no conflict, only harmony. We can conclude that the universe wants to be connected to the man and woman who are in complete unity and the family in which the members are in complete unity. Likewise, the cosmos wants to be connected to the nation that is in unity within the unified world. Don&#8217;t you think that is a fair assumption?</p>
<p>Americans tend to think and boast, &#8220;America is my country&#8221; rather than &#8220;America is our country.&#8221; What is the difference? When you say &#8220;our country,&#8221; the individual is already included. &#8220;Our family&#8221; includes &#8220;my family.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do you want the things you have to be the best, largest and most valuable, or just mediocre? All people would answer the same, regardless of the time in history-a thousand years ago, five hundred years ago or now. In that wish, man has never changed. When we think about &#8220;I,&#8221; that means a member of a family and that family represents the universe. Each person wants to be an &#8220;I&#8221; who belongs to a good country in the world. Also, each &#8220;I&#8221; wants to belong to a family-like Smith or MacDonald-which is the best representative of all of America. In this way, we can conclude that whatever level we are discussing, none wants to connect to just a man or just a woman, but to a man and woman together in unity.</p>
<p>We see some important points being stressed by the advocates of women&#8217;s liberation, but at the same time the family, nation, and universe do not want to connect to a woman alone, no matter how great she may be. The family really does not want a woman who stresses herself above all others to represent the family or the nation or the universe. They don&#8217;t even want to get near her. If given a chance, the family would speak out: &#8220;We don&#8217;t want a woman who focuses on only herself.&#8221; Likewise, the nation will have no place for her. We should pay attention to the common denominator. Every level-the family, the nation, and the world-has something in common. What is it? That common point is man and woman in unity. The family really wishes to have within it a man and woman united, and the nation also wants to see not just individuals, but men and women united. If there is such unity in the nation, the nation will be very proud, and so will the world.</p>
<p>There are different ways of uniting. Maybe the man is standing right side up and the woman upside down. Are they in unity because they are together? No, it wouldn&#8217;t be acceptable. Man and woman, if they want to be in unity, should be looking at each other straight, eye to eye, without even one degree of deviation. That is the unity the whole world wants to see.</p>
<p>Would anyone want to see a man who was united perfectly with a woman saying, &#8220;I have been happily married for ten years now, so maybe I will look around for someone else&#8221;? No. What about the country of America-will it say yes or no to this? America will also say, &#8220;Unity forever and ever, never changing.&#8221; Everything in the universe will come out and say the same thing. If you ask them in the daytime or at night, the answer will be the same. What would be the element which would enable man and woman to come into unity? Maybe money&#8217;? When you have that, everyone is happy, right? American people like money. In Korean, the word that sounds like money means &#8220;much.&#8221;</p>
<p>What about knowledge? Do you come into unity through knowledge? How about authority? In order to unite, two must have some common interest. What is that common interest? Maybe you grew up together. Is that the best way to make unity between two persons? The only element we can think of that can do that is love, true love. We have seen true love represented in literature throughout history as the deepest experience an individual can have. Everyone has advocated a love that is eternal and never changing-people have wanted that for all of history.</p>
<p>In order for all of us to occupy and possess that love eternally, should an individual be changing or unchanging? We should be unchanging. This holds true for American women also, doesn&#8217;t it? Some women change their minds like the weather-in the morning it is different from the evening. Even weather never changes as abruptly as some women do! Can unchangeable love stay in a constantly changing woman? No, love just won&#8217;t want to be in her. Love needs an unchanging base. A changeable, capricious woman will constantly seek after love because she knows it is good, but love will always elude her.</p>
<p>Why am I picking on American women this morning? I am speaking of the American family and the woman is an indispensable element of that family. Of course, this all applies to men, as well. I will come to the men later! But let&#8217;s be fair and honest now: who tends to be more changeable, man or woman? You said it is woman. Nobody wants anything or anyone to be changeable. Even a dog or cat wants people to be constant, especially to have a constantly loving personality. Isn&#8217;t that so? In this very basic point, something has gone wrong. How do we become constant and unchanging?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s compare two groups, Western people and Oriental people. Who do you think are more changeable? Look at China, for instance, which is a good example. The Chinese have a long history, the longest on the face of the earth. Are they a small entity? No, there are 1.2 billion of them. It is just as if one big family had been expanding for thousands of years. How can we become a perfect subject of love to them? How can we digest them, and with what? Of course, you cannot do it with perfect knowledge or authority. There are simply too many of them. With what can you unite them? It is only with the power of unchanging love.</p>
<p>When you are deeply involved in something, it is hard to see it objectively. Americans have thought that there was nothing wrong with the way they lived and the way they do things. They say, &#8220;We&#8217;re the greatest, so whoever criticizes us is wrong.&#8221; Paradoxically enough, America is a predominantly Christian nation, so how did this society become the way it is today? Christian doctrine doesn&#8217;t teach people that they can divorce anytime they want and remarry as many times as they want. Has anyone in the Christian church taught them that? Never. The Christian churches have tried to teach the right thing. They have taught consistently that marriage is eternal and that only death should part a couple. This very basic teaching of being eternally united in love has been changed to an almost irreparable degree. Now this society has become a bad influence all over the world. You don&#8217;t know how much of an influence America has on other countries.</p>
<p>We should examine carefully and seriously this morning whether American society is manifesting the right or the wrong pattern of love. This is not something to be lightly dismissed. Is the American family passing the test or not? This is what we have to examine because it is such a basic, important point.</p>
<p>If we were to give a grade, such as A, B, C, D, or F, what grade should the typical American family be awarded? If a very critical foreigner was given the chance of grading the American family on its attitude toward love, he would unhesitatingly give them an F on the individual and on the family levels. Of course, you don&#8217;t want to hear this. You might say, &#8220;Oh, Father, why should you talk about this? You are missing some of the good points in the American family.&#8221; But this is the most basic point which we should resolve once and for all. Some might say that the right kind of love doesn&#8217;t even exist in this country-not in any individual or family anywhere. Distrust rather than trust is rampant because of the lack of love in society. Families as well as individuals are in that unfortunate state and we should never try to deny it.</p>
<p>Where can we learn about true love? Do we learn that in the highest academic institutions? No. Education is truly in a state of confusion and chaos, starting from grammar school through middle school and on to the college level. We cannot find the ideal environment or the ideal relationships among people. In school, there is virtually no respect between teachers and students. America today is completely separated from the ideal on every level. The nation with such families, such a society, and such a school system should be eradicated-from the viewpoint of the ideal.</p>
<p>Something is very wrong with America and we recognize it; we can&#8217;t deny it. But then somebody should say, &#8220;I will be responsible for repairing and renewing the situation.&#8221; Who will take that responsibility? Can any courageous individual speak out and say, &#8220;Father, what you said is true and we will mend America once and for all&#8221;? Is there anyone who can say that confidently? Some courageous individual must appear who will revolutionize America and change it from the bad extreme to the good extreme.</p>
<p>You know, habits are very fearful and formidable things. You do something once, then you do it twice and then you do it a hundred times. Eventually, you do it without even thinking. This is the condition that America has been in for some time. It is not easy to change. Bad conditioning has been happening over decades, for forty or fifty years.</p>
<p>On the world level, not just one generation, but tens of hundreds of generations of parents and grandparents and great-grandparents have lived selfishly. The self-centered ideal has been passed down for many millennia. How absolutely difficult it is to even try to change it. The person who says blithely, &#8220;Oh yes, Father, you&#8217;re right, I will change,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t know what he is talking about.</p>
<p>I would like to mention Barbara Ten Wolde, who is an exemplary American member. Before she got married, she went as an IW on the IOWC to Japan. She really worked hard and after two years, she came back to America. When she landed at the airport, the first place she went into was a hamburger house. You might think that she would have become fond of Japanese food by then and would have looked for a Japanese restaurant. But no, she went straight into a hamburger house.</p>
<p>A hamburger may have only small appeal, but what about love? If we are habitually attracted to false love, what can we do about that? Love has such overwhelming power. How can we change that bad habit-what is the possibility? Think about how difficult it is for you to change. If we want to be cured or purified, then certainly we cannot do it by our own determination and will. We must be able to surrender ourselves to someone else and say, &#8220;I know I cannot do it alone, so please help me.&#8221; We have to beg for them to change us and in that way maybe we will be able to change.</p>
<p>Of course, American members in the Church are chosen, but you are still extensions of this country. You cannot be changed totally into good overnight, so you need a very strong treatment. It is like tempering steel, which must be made red-hot and then struck. We have to do that for years and years and then, hopefully, we will change. We have come to the Church and have been exposed to this high ideal and we may be under the impression that it can be ours easily. That is not the case. Deciding to go this way is, of course, an important step but after that it gets even more difficult. It is wrong to think that we can change easily if we just decide to.</p>
<p>When America suffers, we suffer inevitably as a part of it. Even though we are within a different boundary in God&#8217;s domain, still we are powerless in the face of our habitual ways of living. The best way for an individual to change is to be thrust into the most difficult situation so that he or she will not be able to think about anything else. If you are put into such a difficult and desperate position, you want to escape from it, of course, but you cannot because the Principle is firmly grasping you. It is as if you are in orbit, with the Principle holding you. We know that if we let go, we will just fly away and perish, leaving our church. So the indemnity condition is really hooking us; we cannot get away from it. To be a member of the Unification Church is never easy. We&#8217;ve already found that out. It is natural to want to get out of a difficult situation and go some place that&#8217;s easy, but this idea of indemnity has us firmly hooked. Even if we want to go the other way, indemnity will pull us ever closer to God&#8217;s side. This is how we are living. Are you not living that way? I know that well because I started it.</p>
<p>Should we stop here, or should we continue until we reach the final victory? Let&#8217;s decide in a democratic way. That is the beauty of democracy: everybody has an equal opportunity to express his own idea. Shall we stop and forget about God&#8217;s ideal and true love and have an easy life? Or shall we continue on this way until we come to the heavenly side? The indemnity net has already been cast and we&#8217;re in it. If we keep on doing what we want to do, do you think it will get us anywhere meaningful? We are already in the indemnity net, so why try to get away from it? Go along with the net and come closer and closer to God&#8217;s side. If you know that indemnity has a firm grip on you and still you don&#8217;t like indemnity, I will give amnesty to you at this time. If you feel, &#8220;Father, I&#8217;ve been living with indemnity and I haven&#8217;t liked it,&#8221; you don&#8217;t have to bother raising your hand &#8211; no one likes it.</p>
<p>For America to change in such a way that the world will embrace it as an ideal country, indemnity is the only remedy. So this suffering of indemnity is like a present Father has given to America and it is the best present one can ever think of. Not money, not knowledge, but indemnity is what America needs the most. This is the medicine, the only cure. Therefore, you should really welcome the indemnity which Father has recommended. Do you agree to that? Do you say, &#8220;Father, we welcome this little portion of indemnity, but this big portion is too much&#8221;? Or would you say, &#8220;Totally and unconditionally, Father. I thank you for that&#8221;?</p>
<p>This morning, you should make up your mind that this is the only hope for us as individuals as well as for the country. You should say, &#8220;I will be the champion who bears this indemnity. I will be the king of the indemnity bearers.&#8221; The kind of person I wish you to be is the kind that only knows indemnity. It is indemnity here, indemnity there, indemnity everywhere. We interpret everything as indemnity. First, we must get into the habit of indemnity. How else can we create the kind of situation or environment where all American people can unite? There is no other cure for America.</p>
<p>Do you young people think that what I say is reasonable or unreasonable? This habit of indemnity is the greatest gift to America, yet you have been complaining and criticizing. You have to repent for that. We should redetermine ourselves, saying, &#8220;The meaning of my life is to rid myself from all bad habits.&#8221; We have to change, so we have to continue on an indemnity course much more strongly.</p>
<p>How and why has America come to the point of such individualism? Can anyone explain, &#8220;Because of this and that reason in history, the American people have gradually become more and more individualistic&#8221;? Americans don&#8217;t know clearly because they are in the midst of it. I can see much better because I am looking from the outside; therefore I can get a much clearer picture,</p>
<p>Take the example of the American family. How many fathers and mothers are there in the average family? Only one set of parents is normal, but now some children have two or three or even more. All children without exception want to live peacefully in the love of one set of parents. They want to grow up that way and they want to pass that on to the next generation. This is the original mind of every child. The child wants to receive attention from his parents and know he is cared for and thought about. The father would embrace the child and at the same time the mother would be there, too. The father and mother would compete to love their child the most. That kind of love is the original human desire. We have the same desire, don&#8217;t we?</p>
<p>However, in many American homes the child finds himself in a difficult and perplexing position. He wants to be embraced by his father and mother but he cannot be. Why? Because there is a stepmother or stepfather in the family who may not want to bother with him. So the child cannot go to his own parents, he can only dream about a united family and cry at night all alone in his bed. This miserable life is what many American children are experiencing.</p>
<p>Will the future be any better? The future will become more and more grim for such children. They will have stepbrothers and stepsisters who will make the relationship with the parents more and more difficult. The child will feel that he simply does not want to exist because the more time passes, the more difficult life becomes. The present is miserable for him, and he can&#8217;t even have hope for the future. So where does he turn? The child&#8217;s mind wants to rest somewhere, so he chooses the wrong place to rest, something against Principle. The boy and girl try to rest upon each other. Of course, this will never work because they do not even know what love is or how original unity should come about. They make more and more mistakes. Love, which should be of utmost importance, becomes the most trivial thing.</p>
<p>Children denied their parents&#8217; love cannot go to their brothers and sisters because they all have the same problem. Instead of caring for each other, they find common points of complaint against their parents and their situation, asking unanswerable questions like, &#8220;Why did you give birth to me?&#8221; They have no foundation on which they can develop. They lost the love of their parents, they lost the love of brothers and sisters, so they take to the road in hopes of finding love on their own. They seek some sort of excitement, even though they know it will not last long and that it is wrong. They cannot help themselves. When a young person has become this way, it is first the responsibility of his parents, as well as the clan and the society. To a great degree, the fault lies in the country itself.</p>
<p>If a lot of people are engaging in illicit love, someone should awaken them saying, &#8220;No, what you are doing is wrong.&#8221; But in this country we find that even such advice is not available anywhere. If something happens in the street, people just walk by. It is incredible. People have no solutions at all. A movement must arise in which individual, parental, and all levels of love are changed. We must apply brakes to what is going on today. When people use drugs, we should say, &#8220;No, you must not do that.&#8221; If they continue to use drugs, we will prevent them physically from doing that. We should give that kind of responsible protection and strong advice. This movement must start in America and reach all levels of society before America can be cured. If a young man goes out on a date with one girl one day and the next day with another, we should tell him it is wrong. His friends should advise him strongly. Only such influence within this country can save things.</p>
<p>Who are the people who can handle this task? Where are the true Moonies today? We could draw a diagram showing the love of God on one side, the worldly way of living on the other, and the boundary line in between. Are we Unification Church members always on the side of God&#8217;s love, or are we more on the other side, crossing over to do God&#8217;s work on a part-time basis? We have to reexamine ourselves. Do we think we can change if we are half in, half out of God&#8217;s side? Do you think God will come to an individual who spends half the time in God&#8217;s ideal and the other half in the enemy environment?. No, absolutely not. God will never choose to dwell in that individual, so it is really important that Unification Church members start thinking about this. When we move completely over to God&#8217;s side, God will work along with us. If we don&#8217;t, God will not work along with us and this country will perish.</p>
<p>A powerful example in human history is the determination manifested by the Japanese people, who had the tradition of cutting their stomach and dying if they could not fulfill their responsibility. Japanese members have come here and worked harder than the American members, and the American members say, &#8220;Go ahead, you&#8217;re better than I.&#8221; Do you ever wonder how the Japanese do it? Which side of the boundary are the Japanese on, and which side are the Americans on? The Japanese left their country and came here to work for the sake of America. Now the Americans say, &#8220;Yes, if they come and work, fine. Go ahead and work. I will just stay home.&#8221; You should be determined to work harder than they do for the sake of the country.</p>
<p>If the Japanese way of doing things and the American way of doing things conflict, which way is better? Which way should we take after more-the American or the Japanese? The Japanese way is hard. Once they set up a goal they don&#8217;t think about anything else except getting there. Should the Japanese start to think, &#8220;Maybe the individualistic American way is better,&#8221; and slacken their pace and then take after the Americans? Which side should we follow? We can put this question into different words: should Americans be Japanized or should Japanese be Americanized? There is true and false; two conflicting things can never be right at the same time. If we have to choose one, it should be the Japanese way.</p>
<p>For that matter, are Reverend Moon&#8217;s way and the Japanese way the same? I always have the same problem with the Japanese: they want to do things their own way, but I say, &#8220;No, you should do it this way.&#8221; However, because they have their own habits, they usually do it their way. The Japanese are having difficulty catching up with Father. They are huffing and puffing. I will never be soft with them; I am very stern with them. If you think I am too stern, I haven&#8217;t even begun yet.</p>
<p>Our original mind always directs us and that original mind does not want to live in the American family today. Therefore, American young people are turning their eyes to the Orient, especially to the Japanese. They are paying a lot of attention to Japanese men and women. That is a dispensational situation.</p>
<p>Have you ever seen a Japanese tourist group? One leader carries a white flag and everyone follows him, whether there are ten or twenty or a hundred. Sometimes the most aged grandfather will bear the white flag, but later his grandson, a small boy, might have the flag &#8220;. If everyone still follows after him &#8211; PhDs, ministers, politicians-it doesn&#8217;t matter. What about Americans? If someone had a leader&#8217;s flag, they would try to get as far away from him as possible. Let&#8217;s go to a more realistic matter. If Father has a flag and is going to heaven will we follow, or will we go someplace else? Do you think you can go into heaven by yourself? We have described two very contrasting pictures and they are real, not exaggerated. Which is more dispensational in your eyes: the individualistic American way of doing things, or the Japanese way of following flags?</p>
<p>We just gave one example of Japanese efficiency, but what about building the Kingdom of Heaven? We should follow much better than that. If one person carries a flag, then not only the Japanese but all people of all five colors of skin should follow that leader, shouldn&#8217;t they? We should not just tag along, but we should participate in going the same way, helping each other. Should you go in a zigzag line or should you go straight? Do you think it is easy for one hundred people to form a straight line? No, the leader is always having to direct people, saying, &#8220;You have to come more to the left, you move to the right on the twelfth row.&#8221; The leader always has to correct the line to make it straight.</p>
<p>Our way is a very difficult and serious way. We cannot afford to make a big mistake. We have to be very careful. We must be aware and we must be really serious about going our way because it is irreversible. We must understand ourselves and the sins we committed since we came into the Church-not before the Church, but since.</p>
<p>For the American family, which is suffering from a terminal illness, we have a miraculous remedy: true love and True Parents. The injection of true love and True Parents is their only hope. That is a strong remedy, but they have to take it because there is no other. In teaching parental love to Americans, you have to have some reference point. Since they have little experience of parental love, let alone the love of True Parents, they have no idea what you are talking about. Some men and women want to stay single and never have children. It is not because they want to go against God&#8217;s original will, but they simply don&#8217;t want to commit any more sin by giving birth to a child for whom they can never be responsible. That is actually rather conscientious. They just don&#8217;t want to follow in the footsteps of the parents they have seen.</p>
<p>When we think about True Parents, we should really jump and open our eyes wide, as if we had been exposed to strong electricity. We have to jump for True Parents. True love is our hope, our only hope, so all our senses should awaken to that. But what are we doing now? We are dwindling. One day we have the realistic feeling of the True Parents, but the next day we cannot feel that parental attraction and love anymore. So we decline in feeling and start to doze. We have to realize where we are today. What hope is there for Americans who have been betrayed by their own parents, betrayed by their own brothers and sisters? Once true family and true love and True Parents have been introduced to them, what more can they ever dream of?</p>
<p>Do you all want to follow the True Parents? Then you have to follow them better than you would follow your own blood relations. When Father says, &#8220;Follow the Japanese brothers and sisters because I appoint them as leaders,&#8221; everybody should do that. When Father says to follow the Japanese, that doesn&#8217;t mean you have to follow them forever. When I direct you to love the black and the Oriental nations, it is so you will be connected to the love of that world. Can you say, &#8220;White people, let&#8217;s gather together and live separately&#8221;? Do you think you would be happy then? No, it doesn&#8217;t work that way. Do you all want to go to the North Pole? The North Pole is where white people should live if they want to be together because that is their original home. That&#8217;s true!</p>
<p>Nature is very practical. White people tend to have long noses and small nostrils. Why? That way they can warm up the cold air of their environment. In contrast, black people have larger nostrils and a shorter nasal passage because the warm air can go more quickly to the lungs. White people have come down to the warm areas of the world, claiming that they should be the center of things, but it is not true. This land of America was originally populated by Indians, who are related to Asians, so this is not the white people&#8217;s country. For this historical reason, the American people should definitely refrain from racial discrimination. They should embrace and love everybody-Orientals and blacks and people of all different colors, or else the future will be more and more grim for white people. Racial war, which the communists are constantly agitating for, is very possible. The colored people, including Orientals, number more than three billion, whereas the white people are less than one billion.</p>
<p>Father may be the center of &#8220;yellow power,&#8221; but there is one thing for sure: Father gathers forces to enlarge peace, to embrace more people. Of course, there is no question that I love American white people, but white people might wish that I would just focus on them. Then they would have no complaints. But Father loves black people and yellow people also. Everybody must get together, isn&#8217;t that true? That is what God started. If white people want to be loved by God and the universe, then they should first embrace Orientals and blacks as brothers. Then God will accept them. God will never accept them alone. This principle works all over the world.</p>
<p>What is Godism? The teaching of Godism requires loving everybody. We are not divided according to races. Remember the sermon Father gave on the love tribe? What is the love tribe? That is the tribe which can love any race, not just those of the same color. We have to accomplish this on earth because once we get to spirit world, there is no training ground for that. We get separated there if we don&#8217;t accomplish it on earth. I am nurturing the future leaders of the spirit world by teaching these things to people living on earth. When they go to spirit world, there will be teachers there for the first time.</p>
<p>People in secular society tend to shy away from the most important and crucial problems. Is Harvard serious about the problems of the family? Is Yale or Princeton? No. They say, &#8220;There is nothing wrong with free sex, gay rights and such.&#8221; These are the sorts of positions they take. None of them is saying, &#8220;This is seriously wrong. The future of America is at stake.&#8221; The schools never raise this kind of voice, so who should do that? The kinds of things going on today in this country are abhorred by God. We saw plentiful examples in history, particularly in Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as the Roman Empire-a powerful nation which fell almost overnight. What about America? What is the guarantee that America will not perish like Sodom and Gomorrah and the Roman Empire, when exactly the same things are going on? God will completely wipe it out. Such a nation should be diminished and vanish. Only one family, the heavenly family, should prevail.</p>
<p>Each of us should be proud that we are part of a family whose love is unchanging. How proud we can be if we are a member of the family in which we are becoming God&#8217;s princes and princesses! We are all working for that, aren&#8217;t we? The heart of God and the heart of the True Parents embrace all five different races and all different ages-not just young people, but infants and grandparents as well. Everybody. Not only the individual but the whole family wants to rest in that true love. Our original mind is centered on God and, once we are set in the right direction, it works by itself. All individuals, whether white, yellow, or black, want to live in true love and harmony with the world. That&#8217;s true. No one can change this fact forever.</p>
<p>Father&#8217;s desire is to embrace all races and then to be embraced. Father will likewise embrace all the rest of the world. Nobody is excluded from this love. Then the Heavenly Kingdom will be established. God and the universe desire this, and history is moving in that direction. We have put everything into this country of America. Japanese and Korean members have come to work here, so America has been given great blessing. Once you realize it, you will feel indebted to me and you will repay me by loving the rest of mankind. I don&#8217;t want you to repay me directly. You should give what you have received to everybody else.</p>
<p>If Americans can realize how much they have received and can determine to go to less fortunate countries and give them just as much, then a speck of hope will arise in this hopeless world. It is a hope through which a miracle can happen. We should really value ourselves, we Moonies who have no status, no property. Each of us, no matter how small and humble we think we are, is more valuable than anyone else with a high social position.</p>
<p>If I wish to visit the families of the blessed couples, would you all welcome me? After you welcome me, then what? You welcome me in order to receive presents, so to speak. When you receive those presents, you distribute them to the rest of the world. After doing that, what happens? We are raised to the world level, just like God&#8217;s own position and level.</p>
<p>Some of you Japanese members have been working here for over ten years and now you are kind of tired, aren&#8217;t you? But Japanese members have a mission to fulfill. Until then they cannot rest and must work harder. The American members have to be pressured even more. Do the American members welcome that? When you do, then the heavenly family will be firmly established in this country and all of us will be part of that. All the wrong things in the American family will be mended. You have to make a strong decision in your mind to march on forever. Amen! God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:19:08+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/the-last-frontier.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:19:08+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">December 7, 1986<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Sang Kil Han</h3>
<p>There seem to be equal numbers of Japanese and American members here this morning. It is a really historical event to see you all together in such a harmonious gathering. Only 45 years ago today, war was initiated between Japan and the United States. This question is for all of you: Are Japanese members absolutely necessary in the Unification Church? How about you Japanese members-do you think the American members are absolutely necessary? Well, what do you think? Yes, of course they are.</p>
<p>What kind of frontier or battle line are we talking about today in our title? Is it a military battle line between America and Russia? No, I am talking here about the division between selfishness and unselfishness. It is the confrontation between good and evil-or, on a horizontal level, good people versus bad people. Good people are the faithful ones who have become one with goodness, and evil people are those who have become very close to evil. From the vertical point of view, it is a battle between God and Satan.</p>
<p>Man&#8217;s mind and body, whether he is aware of it or not, are separated and in conflict on the horizontal level. Husband and wife are also separated. The vertical relationship between parents and children is one of separation as well. In each race there are different factions and groups, and on an even larger scale there is no unity on the national level. Now we see the world itself divided between advocates of materialistic communism and believers in God. It is easy to see the two clearly divided groups on the horizontal level-the free world and the communist world. But people fail to see for the most part that there is an equally intense war on the vertical plane between God and all the forces that oppose Him.</p>
<p>What do we achieve through conflict? History shows that by fighting and struggling, the stronger power absorbs the weaker and some sort of unity comes about. We can look at four elements: goodness and good people, and evil and evil people. By fighting and confrontation, the strongest among these will eventually absorb the weaker ones. The philosophical basis for the free world is spirituality or idealism, whereas the communists stand on the ground of materialism. These are incompatible philosophies which must confront each other and they are doing that now.</p>
<p>Which of the two views is correct? Which is primary- the material or the spiritual world? An individual attains unity when his body is centered on his mind. This is the Principle. Therefore the free world should be the center and absorb the communist world. But we see a different reality today because communists are working hard to unify the world, centering on their ideals, while the free world is not even thinking about global unity. Thus we see a perplexing situation, in which communism is well established and methodically moving in a sure direction, while the free world is almost like a satellite revolving around and making no determined effort to absorb others. From this viewpoint, it is clear that we must form a strong entity centering on a spiritual ideal to absorb the communist world.</p>
<p>This is only on the horizontal level, but we see similar things happening vertically. For instance, all religions are divided and even in conflict. No two are truly united. If Christianity is the mainstream religion, then it should be absorbing all the scattered, smaller religions. But is this happening now? Do you think that goodness should absorb evil, or should it be the other way around? We can clearly understand Christianity&#8217;s role today. But what is actually happening is that the religion of Christianity in general has become virtually spiritless, powerless and numb. With no awareness of their God-given mission, their spirit and influence have been steadily dwindling. Meanwhile those who represent a lesser goodness or even evil seem to be stronger and gathering momentum. That is not at all a comfortable thing to observe and the world is facing a very important, critical situation.</p>
<p>The same situation exists on the vertical plane as well. We must understand that there is alarming confusion within the spiritual world because Satan is still running rampant, exerting strong influence over people who are more evil than good. Vertically, goodness has less influence than might be expected. The balance is truly at the dangerous point now. The left side is coming closer and getting the better of the right side, which is clearly the wrong order.</p>
<p>Who will take responsibility for this? Who will say, &#8220;It is my mission to set it right&#8221;? Can God take responsibility for it? Of course, God has been doing that for many years, but even almighty God cannot do anything without a good foundation on earth. Heaven is our destination, but we can only enter heaven after defeating evil on earth and in the spirit world. That is our formula. God knows this, of course, and so do good people. Satan and evil people also know this rule. With whom does the responsibility lie? You can see clearly why I said today that we are standing and fighting on the last battle line of history. If we look back at human history, we can see that there have been many wars and many different civilizations, but there has been nothing like we see today. This is the last battle line on the cosmic level.</p>
<p>God, our Father, is extremely serious looking at this critical situation. Would God say, &#8220;Since I love you, My sons and daughters, you should take it easy, have a comfortable life and be happy&#8221;? Can He say that to His loving people? In an ideal world, yes, but in this critical situation He cannot. Would God say, &#8220;Now that you&#8217;re blessed and have spent many long years working hard, you should forget all about the war between good and evil&#8221;? Would He say that. Could He say that?</p>
<p>Nobody can be comfortable when they are fighting a war and say with certainty, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to win.&#8221; People feel they are in a critical situation every moment. You might crush the enemy with the right move but if you make one wrong move, the enemy can get the better of you, even if you are in the position of goodness. So for the sake of humankind, we can&#8217;t think now about whether or not we are comfortable or whether or not we are working too hard, or whether somebody has a problem, whether somebody is happy or not. Those concerns are not primary now. The crucial question now is, &#8220;Will the side of goodness win so that the whole world can benefit?&#8221; For the soldier standing on the front line whatever he hears, says, smells, or touches-whatever he does-he thinks about one thing: &#8220;Does this help win the victory?&#8221; His mission is always the critical center of his thinking.</p>
<p>Does this just apply to men because men are soldiers and fighters, or are women included, too? How about older people? Are young people the only fighters and older people not capable? Old or young, man or woman, everyone in the world is involved in this spiritual war. If there is one best location from which to wage the battle, shouldn&#8217;t everybody go there? Where is that one place on earth where the spirit world will help all the good people of the physical world? The Unification Church is the one place about which all the good spirits say, &#8220;Go there. That is the place to win the victory!&#8221;</p>
<p>The Unification Church has a very clear purpose. Even a first-day member knows it: we must bring the world into unity. In order to bring everything into unity, however, we must have a center. What should be our center? True Parents are the point at which the vertical axis of the heart of God-the spiritual axis-connects with the physical axis. You cannot dispense with this connecting point of the True Parents. There is conflict, however, because other parents exist. Because of fallen parents, fallen people multiplied evil, resulting in a world that is false. In order to change what is false, the truth must come. True Parents, then, seek to change the false children into good or true children and that is the last thing Satan wants. He will make people so afraid of that, they will cling and do everything to stop their children from going to the True Parents.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has become famous. More famous than President Reagan? How about Russia&#8217;s Mr. Gorbachev? The Reagan Administration is in peril now. It would be very easy for it to crumble, and the newspapers are making a lot of noise. The communist world is in just as much turmoil. They are saying, &#8220;We should adjust our communism and gradually take after the free world&#8217;s economic style.&#8221; What is happening to both sides is really desirable, in a way. From whose point of view is it desirable-the world&#8217;s, or America&#8217;s, or God&#8217;s? Yes, from God&#8217;s and the Unification Church&#8217;s point of view. Can you see how close we are to the destination, the terminal point?</p>
<p>When the world situation is like this, what will the Unification Church do? Of course, we will move forward but are we going to achieve an individual goal, a family goal, a national goal or a world goal? We are working for God&#8217;s world goal. But all of you have lived only individual lives so far. An individual might say, &#8220;This is my way of life, I don&#8217;t want to change it. I will remain on the individual level.&#8221; Can you say that? Americans often fall into this individualistic way of thinking.</p>
<p>Reverend Moon has lived his whole life away from the crowded highway, climbing a steep ladder all the way to the top. Does anybody enjoy doing that? It is very tiring and even Reverend Moon doesn&#8217;t like it, but without going that way, the goal cannot be reached. We are not talking about climbing just in the summertime when you wear light clothes, but also in the winter when you have to wear thermal underwear, trousers, coat and boots. If you were climbing a ladder, would you climb a little at a time, taking only a few steps a day? Or would you just climb all the way up, using all your strength? In fact, even though it might be freezing weather, I would take off every heavy piece of clothing and then, as light as possible, scramble up very fast. I have lived my whole life this way. Which would you prefer-climbing slowly or quickly? You might say, &#8220;Does Father really mean that we should take off everything except maybe briefs or pants to become as light as possible and then climb up at top speed?&#8221;</p>
<p>If you are in an actual war, the only thing you think about is how to survive and win. In order to do that, you quickly learn that you can do all kinds of things which, in everyday life, you would have thought impossible. You just do them. This is how people behave under wartime conditions. Would you want to be comfortable in the moment and live another day or two, and then be killed? Someone might protest, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with the world? Where is the war? That&#8217;s just what the Unification Church says. Why don&#8217;t you take it easy and live like you always used to live?&#8221; Would you agree with him?</p>
<p>How are we going to win this war? You know how people tried to throw me out of this country but they were unsuccessful. The newspapers and influential groups attacked me, finally sending me to prison thinking that would be the end of the Unification Church. Did the Unification Church come to an end? Danbury was a horizontal turning point. From that point on, there was only one place to go, which was up. You look at the last couple of years since the time of Danbury. Has the Unification Church declined or developed? It went up at a sharp angle, didn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>Until I returned here two weeks ago, what were you doing? You worked very hard, didn&#8217;t you, to get ten million signatures of support for CAUSA&#8217;s ideals? Did you ever think before you started that you could achieve the goal so quickly? Did you even believe you could get ten million signatures? When the goal of ten million people was announced, almost everybody was skeptical, but did you do it successfully or not? You did it. You went out and touched the American people. You did not know what was going to happen, but you did it because you wanted to reclaim this country for God. But now do you say, &#8220;That is all I can do. That&#8217;s the limit&#8221;? Are you prepared to go out and do more?</p>
<p>Now that you&#8217;ve done it, shall we take a rest? Since the Reagan Administration is declining and the Gorbachev Administration is going down, shall we go down also? We must shoot up strongly. Imagine you are a boxing champion in the ring and your opponent is getting weak. What do you do? Don&#8217;t you just strike out with great force and knock him out? You don&#8217;t think about it-your fist just flies into his face.</p>
<p>There has never been a group like the Unification Church in the entire history of man. Only forty years ago, the Japanese and Americans were fighting to the bitter end. Today Reverend Moon has brought representatives of those two nations together and each of them is trying to care for the other more than their own country. They are fighting together for the common cause-the world- with all their might. Harder than the Japanese ever fought against the Americans and vice versa, we&#8217;re fighting together against our common, invisible enemy. Think about it. Two of the strongest armies in the world were fighting each other, but now the same nations are united together against the common enemy. What could be more powerful?</p>
<p>How is it that so many people around the world have tried to persecute and chase away Reverend Moon for many years, but nothing has ever stopped him? In fact, he is only getting stronger, whereas everybody who was once strong against the Unification Church is losing strength. Mr. Reagan is losing strength, Mr. Gorbachev is losing strength, the entire secular world is losing strength. But Reverend Moon, whom they wished would decline, is clearly going up. Why? Not only is Reverend Moon rising up but more and more people are tagging along after our movement. There are millions of members of VOC, supporters of CAUSA, and thousands of supportive ministers. Imagine: at one time all of Christianity went against Reverend Moon for being a &#8220;heretic,&#8221; but now many Christian leaders are lining up in support. All America tried to bring me down, but now more and more Americans are supporting me.</p>
<p>Somehow I have steered the Unification Church through all this suffering. You might wonder why a smart person would make so many enemies and never say anything in retaliation. I just minded my own business. Even though many people sprang up to oppose me, I have no enemy. It was like a lot of dogs barking at a stranger. Once the stranger is gone, they all bark at each other. Many groups and individuals really barked at me in the past, but now they are barking at each other. No matter how much noise they made, I never budged. You know what is happening today? Many ministers are saying with wide-eyed innocence, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t oppose you, Reverend Moon.&#8221;</p>
<p>Many non-Unification Church members are watching me as if with binoculars and wondering what I am going to do next. Then when I do something, they say, &#8220;That&#8217;s the best thing he could ever do!&#8221; In that way the world is much more sensitive to me than the Unification Church members. People from outside the church are smiling and applauding me, but Moonies are making faces and saying, &#8220;Oh, Father, must I sacrifice again?&#8221; Many scholarly people believe our movement has a lot of opportunity to rise in the world so they are really interested in watching it. But people within the Unification Church rarely think of themselves that way. They think, &#8220;I&#8217;m such a miserable person and I&#8217;m getting old.&#8221; When a man is determined to run, his head goes first. But with Unification Church members, the stomach runs first! It&#8217;s true!</p>
<p>Imagine if it was announced that Reverend Moon was scheduled to speak at a certain place on such and such a date, how many people would gather there? The Bible has already warned us that the first will be last and the last will be first. That seems to be coming true now. The people in the outside world are eager to run, whereas many Unification Church members are lagging behind.</p>
<p>Until now, there were many frontiers and front lines of different kinds. Who fought on the front lines of the Unification Church war? It was Father. Now I am saying that this is the last frontier or battle line. But the last battle line is not just one short line; it is a long line composed of the last individual front line, the last family front line, the last racial, national, world and universal front lines. On all levels, there is a front line and this is the last one because after this victory, there will probably be no war.</p>
<p>As a marathon runner approaches the goal, he doesn&#8217;t need to think about anything except running and doing his best. He doesn&#8217;t Know what he&#8217;s passing, in what condition he&#8217;s in. He doesn&#8217;t care about anything except reaching the goal, which he knows is getting closer all the time. What are you doing? Is Father the runner and you are just spectators?</p>
<p>When I come and speak to you, you are kind of wary and waiting for what I might tell you to do. When war happens in a country, the one who says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a soldier,&#8221; has no opportunity in those times. But the one who says, &#8220;I want to be on the front line and I will be the winner,&#8221; has all the opportunity. In the ranks of the officers, the one who achieves the biggest victory will be the four-star general and the marshal, isn&#8217;t that true? What kind of rank would you be content to have in this spiritual war? Are you just watching other people fight or doing the fighting yourself? Are you going to lead the soldiers yourself or will you be one of the soldiers who just follows? In the past, America tried to snipe at Father. They aimed all sorts of accusations at me and not at Unification Church members. What happened? Was I defeated or did I overcome? All that matters now is that they attacked me with all their might and I became a winner.</p>
<p>When I go to Korea, the government people individually hail and support me, but they are wary of what I might do next. They watch me carefully because they are impressed and kind of fearful. The same thing happens in Japan. They are not afraid that I will harm them but they are watching because I have already achieved so much. Now that I have returned to America, people here are also watching me, wondering, &#8220;What is Reverend Moon doing now? What is he going to do next?&#8221; We are not fighting with weapons, but we are bringing one person after another over to our side.</p>
<p>The direction that we will pursue has become clear to us, hasn&#8217;t it? Now that it has, you Americans don&#8217;t need the Japanese members anymore, do you? You don&#8217;t need Father anymore, do you? Aren&#8217;t you independent? Don&#8217;t the Japanese members make too much trouble for you? The American people want everyone to be just like them. Although they may not like me, God likes me. And you Japanese members have to stay here. God said it. How about that?</p>
<p>If you were God Himself, what would you need in the spiritual battle: a general or a soldier? They are both fighters, but what is the difference? The general always goes ahead as a leader and is himself a target, whereas a soldier doesn&#8217;t lead the way or go out in front. So when you are on the front line of the dispensation, which would you like to be-just a soldier or a general?</p>
<p>We must brace ourselves, conscious that in the next three to seven years, the dispensation must come to a victorious fulfillment. If you take a high vantage point on the world situation this is very plain to see. All the signs show that the world will now decline slowly whereas for us, victory is within range in three years, depending on how hard we work. Do you know that? This is not only subjective thinking but if you look objectively, all the signs show that this could easily come about.</p>
<p>What is another difference between the soldier and the general? The general shouts out and gives commands to the rest of the troops who are following him. How about you? Do you have soldiers too? Every one of you wants to be a general in this spiritual battle, don&#8217;t you? To do that, you have to obtain followers, or soldiers. Then you have to feed them, clothe them, and teach them. Do you have the kind of guts necessary to do that? This is a very practical question. Unless we are able to lead our followers here in America, our position cannot be successful. This is why we have planned to instruct seven thousand ministers by bringing them back to Korea, showing them God&#8217;s dispensation. We are doing that even today-a group of ministers is in Korea right now. Thousands of people have already gone there, and that will continue.</p>
<p>Do you think Unification Church members can match the abilities of these ministers? No, the ministers are much more able and trained people. That is why I am shaking up all the Unification Church members and saying: Beware. Put yourself in Father&#8217;s position and consider whether you would try to win the victory through the Unification Church members or through the ministers. If you do not have ability and you are not up to the standard, what can I do? Father looks at nothing but the victory.</p>
<p>Do you really feel that the spiritual war we are in and the front line we are forming now is the last front line, and that there won&#8217;t be any more battles after winning this victory? Ten million individuals in America signed in support of the CAUSA goals, but they also have families. Probably the wife or husband also agrees. Then they also have their children. Maybe a couple of children are still living with the parents, so we could say that there are perhaps four people per signature, on average. That means forty million people are on the side of goodness rather than on the evil side. Our function, our task, is to take care of them and teach them how to serve the purpose of God. That is what we mean by &#8220;digesting.&#8221; Can we do that?</p>
<p>This is the first Sunday since I have returned from Korea and it is the first Sunday of December. Should I begin this month by issuing once again the direction to go out? Are you thinking how miserable you are? This victory is not just something the Unification Church wants to gain. Everything in the universe wants it, even the smallest pebbles. The animals and all things-minerals, water, air-want to see this one great victory of God. The last opportunity is upon us and we have to win. In fact, I see next year, 1987, as the most crucial and important year in which we must harvest many smaller victories or else we will not have enough power to achieve the final victory.</p>
<p>We all feel that without the Unification movement America can never be rescued. Each of us knows that there is no other way to bring America over to the side of goodness. Fifteen years ago I spoke in this country and said that America would soon be coming into very difficult times. I said that America would perish if something was not done. Unification Church members believed me on a certain level, but couldn&#8217;t really understand. They looked around and everything seemed to be going all right, according to the good old &#8220;American way.&#8221; There was no better way in the world, they thought, so they wondered, &#8220;Father, what are you talking about? America won&#8217;t really perish.&#8221; However, only fifteen years later, everybody is saying, yes, America really is falling and about to perish, just like Father predicted. It is not only we who feel that but also many others, including retired military leaders, as well as renowned scholars. Such people are coming and listening to CAUSA lectures and after having heard them, they shout out, &#8220;Hurray, America has hope!&#8221;</p>
<p>The Fifteenth International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences was recently convened, during which participating scholars agreed that Reverend Moon&#8217;s teaching is the only way for the world to go. They felt very honored just to catch a glimpse of Reverend Moon. But today, there are Unification Church members living close to Father and seeing me here every Sunday who don&#8217;t feel a fraction of the strong feeling those scholars exhibited. This is not right. Are you really looking forward to victory? Then you will look forward to seeing Father as a most precious opportunity.</p>
<p>Are you going to fight this spiritual war or not? Once you make up your mind, you can do anything. If you are truly determined, it is time for me to rest awhile. When I started going this path, I was alone with no friend, no teacher, nobody I could share with. The environment, everything, was opposing me. Today, however, you have many friends and you have True Parents. When you have a difficult problem, you can come to me and ask how to win. You have everything you need.</p>
<p>I came here for the sake of this country, sacrificing my own country. This is not my home but I have been working hard here. Compared to your standard until now, I have been working harder, but from now on, you should work harder than I. This is your mission. You young people are some of the most fortunate ones who have managed to escape the deadly snare of drugs. So many young people are using drugs in this country. America may have the greatest defense arsenal in the world, but can they do anything about one drug addict? No. Only God&#8217;s power through the Unification Church can change that helpless state of affairs.</p>
<p>Korea&#8217;s political situation is at a desperate point right now, much worse than it is here. You don&#8217;t know how bad it is. Everybody wonders how Korea can still stand, not knowing that God is supporting it in an invisible way. When I left Korea recently, many informed people said, &#8220;Reverend Moon, you know how critical Korea&#8217;s situation is, how much she needs you. Must you go back to America?&#8221; They did not realize that Father has to come here not just for the sake of America, but for the sake of the world.</p>
<p>So on this last frontier should we move forward only during the daytime? We have to occupy field after field, higher ground after higher ground. No place should be without a Unification Church center. Our movement should be everywhere. We have to thrust ourselves into every endeavor and become masters in each field. Do you understand? We cannot afford to even think about losing at this point. We have to be saturated with the idea of victory. Until now, Father has been doing almost everything and we are indeed on very high ground today. But from now on, you have to work just as hard as Father, if not harder, or else America will have no hope. That is the only way we can restore America. We have to do it ourselves.</p>
<p>There are people in Congress who are supportive of the Unification Church, aware that our work is a good influence for America. Their numbers will grow day by day. Such supporters are not our members &#8211; they are also in the media, the academic community, and in every field. They understand the meaning of the Unification Church even more clearly than many of you. You must challenge them and you can never be outdone by them. It should be out of the question. You must be the forerunners. That is the determination we must have this morning.</p>
<p>Father gave everything he had for the sake of this country and the world, didn&#8217;t he? Likewise, you have to put everything you have on the line for the same purpose. Then you can say, &#8220;God, I have worked just like Father did.&#8221; But you can only say that after you have done it. When we have that kind of strong determination, the victory will be ours. We have to act to win the victory, not just think about it. Are we going to fight this war and win the victory or not? Those who are determined to do that, raise your hands. Thank you. Let us pray.</p>
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<p><center>August 10, 1986<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Sang Kil Han</center><i>[This speech was not given a title by Father. The title was derived from the contents by the editors.]</i></p>
<p>Even when I do not speak at Belvedere, you should be attending Sunday service here regularly. You should understand that Belvedere is a special place. It is no ordinary setting for church gatherings.</p>
<p>What should I talk about today? In my talks I do not focus on just the individuals present, but I speak for the sake of the four billion people on earth, as well as all those in spirit world. I explain how people should live-all people, including those who do not understand the providential way. I show the path which all mankind must take and the standard which everyone should understand and fulfill. I have to speak about such things, because people do not know how the will of God is progressing or what God has in store for them.</p>
<p>In this respect, the members of the Unification Church are very different from members of any other church. People in ordinary churches tend to become discouraged and little by little drift away from God&#8217;s will. Not only Christians, but secular people in the democratic world as well are straying further and further from the way of God&#8217;s will.</p>
<p>Unification Church members have the responsibility to rectify this situation and to supplement what is missing. Although you might think you are living the way God expects you to live and that your standard is that of the [Unification Church, the real standard lies beyond. You do not represent the true norm of the Unification Church. Do you understand exactly what we should do to fulfill God&#8217;s expectations for us?</p>
<p>You might assume that Americans are living in a way that is simply American, but that is not true. The way America is going, it will continue to deteriorate and eventually perish. When you look at the younger generation of Americans today, you can see the decline. Many are like living corpses. The democracy which Americans have been so proud of has produced people who are drowning in drugs and have lost all sense of direction. If this trend continues, surely the nation will perish. People totally lack a basic philosophy of life. Anybody can see this immediate danger.</p>
<p>Are colleges and universities such as Harvard and other Ivy League schools doing enough? Are they really capable of directing America&#8217;s future? The answer is obvious. People lack a national perspective or any goal beyond individualism. They focus only on their personal well-being.</p>
<p>We understand clearly that the United States does not exist in isolation. This country is a symbol for the world. The world follows in America&#8217;s wake, regardless of where it leads. The American way of life is so promiscuous and filled with evil, but still the world emulates its trends and fashions.</p>
<p>Americans must realize that this country does not exist just for itself Who will apply the brakes to this way of life and initiate a new trend? This is the most serious question. The only group capable of doing such a thing is the Unification Church. As you know, the only way to stop a fast-moving automobile is to apply the brakes very hard. At that time, the most important part of the car is the brakes. The brakes must remain strong and not give way.</p>
<p>You may not realize all the things I am doing now. You may not know about the meetings with politicians, congressmen, retired generals, journalists and other top leaders of America. These leaders are very aware that the only hope for guiding this country forward lies with the Unification Church. They understand it as clearly as we do and they look at us very hopefully. But are the people inside the Unification Church maintaining that standard? That is the question we have to keep asking ourselves.</p>
<p>We are really in the midst of a bloody fight, even though you cannot see the blood. This is the peak of the cosmic battle. One of the key strategies for winning the victory is to gather people together. You may not be aware of what has been going on recently. At this very moment, a group of prominent journalists is visiting Red China on a World Media Conference fact-finding tour. This is the first time China has opened its doors for such a thing. You know what happened when they visited Russia. Such meetings will have a strong impact on the path the world will take. They literally influence the way the world will go.</p>
<p>We are holding meeting after meeting, convening these vitally important gatherings all throughout the year. This very morning there is a great assembly in Germany of people of all religions. You haven&#8217;t been aware of that.</p>
<p>At least those present here at Belvedere this morning should be conscious of what our movement is doing on a daily basis. You should know what is going on every day on the worldwide level. These meetings will decide the world&#8217;s future. You should live according to that standard.</p>
<p>This is all the more reason why you should not focus so much on whether I come to speak to you at Belvedere. Of course, you benefit individually when I come, but besides that, in your heart and mind you should want to come to Belvedere every Sunday morning and pray for the sake of the world, including True Parents. Don&#8217;t just inquire whether or not I will be speaking, and then stay away if you think I am not coming. Such an attitude has no place in our way of thinking.</p>
<p>Indeed, I have spoken to you so much. I have given you so many important words of guidance. More than 120 volumes of my speeches have now been published. They cover the important aspects of our times and the future, of God and all people. You should live up to their contents. The message of these volumes is progressive. It proclaims a goal, which we are now approaching and which you should be aware of. Do you know the books I am speaking about? There are now 126 volumes, and they will continue to be published as long as I keep speaking.</p>
<p>These documents will be studied by scholars in the future. They will get them from the library and pore over each word of my sermons. After I started speaking in the West, the great majority of those speeches were given at Belvedere, or if not at Belvedere, in the spirit of Belvedere. You should always remember how special a place this is. Whenever you are sitting here, you should reflect on the meaning of Belvedere. If anyone asks a question of you as a member of the Unification Church, you should be able to answer like a true authority on my words because you are the ones who have listened to me directly. You will be more of an expert than all the great scholars and professors who may study my words in the future.</p>
<p>Do you understand that I have now become very famous among the scholars of the world? Only a couple of weeks ago many world-renowned scholars from America, Japan and elsewhere went to Korea and spoke in 206 cities throughout the nation. They spoke about Reverend Moon and Unification Thought and were very well-received by the people of Korea. Those scholars are proclaiming that only through the Unification Principle and Unification Thought can the world have hope for the future. These scholars, members of the Professors World Peace Academy, increasingly feel that they should be the ones to lead the world at this time. They don&#8217;t believe that politicians or economic experts can do it.</p>
<p>Even though you may not understand it so clearly yet, I am very serious about guiding this country. The way the United States goes during the next six months will decide the real fate of this country, and to a large extent that of the world. This is what I am facing now. Who is playing the main role? It is you. But do you, the real actors, even realize that you have that principal role? In fact, this is the qualification to attend sermons at Belvedere: to be in the mainstream of the dispensation. Not everyone is qualified to come. Therefore, whenever you come here, you should understand the nature of your qualifications, as well as your responsibility.</p>
<p>You must realize that distinguished scholars eagerly anticipate the reports about my speeches at Belvedere. Therefore, Unification Church members should not think you are meeting the standard of the Unification Church just as you are. Rather, you should always strive to reach a higher standard. You should struggle very hard to keep up with the norm which I am setting. You must understand that you are the main group who is responsible to uphold that standard and not assume that you have already reached it just as you are. You must not say complacently, &#8220;The Unification Church is the place where people with standards such as mine attend.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say that you have been in the Unification Church for five or six years. What do you know about God and the world? How well do you understand God&#8217;s dispensation? For that matter, even if you have been a member for 20 years or more, you do not know everything. However, you should be improving every day as you make daily effort.</p>
<p>At times you are tempted to criticize the Unification Church, pointing a finger at this or that, calling some things reasonable and others unreasonable. But the Unification Church is not susceptible to such criticisms. If this were the kind of church that could be criticized by people with standards such as yours, it would have vanished long ago. It could never have survived. You don&#8217;t understand about the real Unification Church.</p>
<p>This Church has survived full-scale opposition, not just partial resistance. It has weathered the most severe circumstances. But in order to survive such criticism, could I just sit tight without doing or saying anything? On the contrary, I have had to engage in terrible, desperate struggles.</p>
<p>The United States has been closely observing Reverend Moon and the activities of the Unification Church, but it has no yardstick for measuring us. Both the CIA and the KGB have studied us and tried to describe us, but they have failed because they have no instruments with which to evaluate us. All they have are the limited ideals of democracy and communism, and they are baffled. They carefully observe each step that the Unification Church and Reverend Moon take. But before they realize what is happening, we are far ahead. While they are still trying to fathom one activity, we have crossed over to another side. They watch our daily steps, but we&#8217;re always way ahead.</p>
<p>A great change has come about in the United States, which many leaders already recognize. I haven&#8217;t been sitting around doing nothing. People may observe my speeches and activities from a purely external point of view and report that I spend my days playing pool and fishing, but what I am actually doing is somewhere else, beyond their measure. People have suddenly noticed important victories being accomplished in the United States and wonder when Reverend Moon did it. That is why I say they have no means of measuring me. I have been painstakingly at work, day and night, without people being aware of it. Now tremendous changes are taking place in Japan and the United States.</p>
<p>Through the power of God evil politicians may lose their office and good, God-centered ones can be elected. You will witness such things, even during the coming year. More bad congressmen will lose their seats and good ones will take their place. Do you understand? Actually, I don&#8217;t think any of you understand it very well. Many leaders of America comprehend it far more deeply than you do.</p>
<p>My recent tax case wasn&#8217;t just a tax case at all. Influential people knew that unless something was done to contain Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, we would come to wield enormous power, so they tried to stop us through the tax case. I have fought against not only the visible people within the government, but also the &#8220;invisible people&#8221;, those at the core of the secular forces hostile to God. Even you Americans do not realize how this hidden government behind the visible government works. Can the CIA control it? Even President Reagan, who is free to do what he feels is right, is influenced by these people who wield their power in invisible ways.</p>
<p>You know how the office of the President of the United States became isolated and virtually powerless in the past. Nobody wanted to listen to the President or respond to him. That office was an object of mockery. That is the kind of situation that developed here in the United States.</p>
<p>Our task is to guide people along the right way. When the CIA realized what I was accomplishing, they were very surprised. &#8220;When did Reverend Moon make this kind of foundation and begin working on these projects?&#8221; they asked.</p>
<p>Somebody must have done these things. Was it you, the members of the Unification Church? Apparently not, since you don&#8217;t remember doing them. All you did was to look around. You find it very hard to follow in my wake. You were mostly concerned about how hard it is to maintain your family and individual life. At best, you worried about your family, but never beyond that to the world situation. So somebody must have carried that load on his back. You might reason that it must have been me.</p>
<p>Here at Belvedere, I may speak about things which are not at all evident now, but 10 or 20 years in the future you will clearly see them. They will become manifest in the world. This is the significance of Belvedere.</p>
<p>When I was in Danbury, I took the time to read my own words and I gave instructions for the publication of a book containing specific speeches. That book is <em><a href="http://www.unification.net/gww">God&#8217;s Will and the World</a></em>. As I was reading my speeches, I could see the consistency between what I spoke in the past, what I feel in the present, and what I will be talking about a few years from now. All is directed toward one focal point. I want to call your attention again to the importance of that book. While I was in Danbury, I had a lot of time to catch up on my reading. As I examined my own words, I selected the more important speeches to be compiled in a series of books which will contain the focal point for the future. Have you read <em><a href="http://www.unification.net/gww">God&#8217;s Will and the World</a></em>? Are you still reading my words?</p>
<p>As you read, the first step is to understand the words and the next step is to carry them out, to act on what you understand. Are you doing that? While you read, you should realize that the directions given in my speeches will result in significant changes in the future. The lives of a lot of people depend on the accomplishment of certain points in that book. Whether people act on them can make the difference between life and death.</p>
<p>If Heaven is to be realized on earth, it must have a constitution. Who will draw up the Constitution of Heaven? Are you going to do it? Do you think the politicians and lawyers who formulated the U.S. Constitution will return and draft the Constitution of Heaven? Do you think they are capable of doing that? The Constitution of the United States is not infallible. Issues are constantly being challenged and debated, so it is far from perfect. How much more important is the Constitution of Heaven! It cannot be designed overnight. Day by day, year by year, the basis of that constitution is being established. You must understand that.</p>
<p>We are doing things in reverse order. The constitution of this country was written before the government and nation were formed. But before our constitution is written, the Heavenly Kingdom must be organized. In order for our constitution to take effect, we need a country. Do we have that country now?</p>
<p>Where is Heaven? All we know about Heaven is what Jesus said: &#8220;The Kingdom of Heaven is within you&#8221; That is true, but it is not the complete reality. There are enormous contents beyond that statement. But when Jesus was facing such total opposition from the world, how could he say all that he knew about Heaven? He was so alone. Jesus revealed only the blueprint of Heaven, so to speak. But can the blueprint build the building?</p>
<p>Today is no ordinary day. The tenth of August was the day I went to another prison [in 1946, in Pyongyang]. This is the first time you knew of that, isn&#8217;t it? Even the American Church leaders do not know such important dates. How ignorant you are about many things! How serious I feel!</p>
<p>I do many things, but during all these years, I have never even spent ten minutes speaking seriously with Mike McDevitt, the head of East Garden security. Those security guards may be living in the same place with me and accompanying me 24 hours a day, but do you think they understand what I am doing, what I am thinking, what I am accomplishing? Do you think they know such things?</p>
<p>All by myself, I have gone this course. Even Mother doesn&#8217;t understand everything at the time I am doing it. Only later does she understand. Everyone, even Mother, finds it difficult to catch up with me, let alone go ahead of me. You can imagine how difficult it would be to go in front of me! So can you say, &#8220;I understand things. Father. This is right, and that is wrong&#8221;?</p>
<p>In one important point, the work of restoration is different from other tasks. In the world, people normally set a schedule and announce what they are going to do and when it will be done. But I cannot disclose the schedule in advance. Only after I accomplish the restoration can I announce it. That is why you rarely know what is in store for you, even in the next moment.</p>
<p>In Korea, for instance, people adamantly and persistently opposed me in the past. Nothing I tried to do for the sake of Korea met with cooperation, only opposition. But today virtually everyone, from the common people to the leaders, understands that without Reverend Moon they cannot even think about Korea&#8217;s future. In the past many people criticized and attacked my name, but today they cannot do so without someone else attacking them! It has come to the point that people scold and even beat up my critics for their irresponsible words!</p>
<p>In Japan many people, from common people to congressmen, feel they must defend my name, my thoughts, and all my words and actions.</p>
<p>Now scholars and ministers in the West are rising up to take the same position. Many groups of American ministers have gone to Korea. In a few days another group will arrive. During their stay they visit the Holy Ground. In the last group of about 200 ministers, many burst into tears at the Holy Ground in Pusan. They repented and made a redetermination to support Reverend Moon and Korea. Their standard is now even higher. They are more eager to do God&#8217;s will than many of you! How can you allow that to happen?</p>
<p>They have been doing God&#8217;s work under the banner of Christianity all their lives. Do you have such a long internal tradition? At best, you have been following God for the past ten years or so. How can you catch up unless you make your own redetermination? How can you exert a good influence on the world after living for God for just a short time- compared with the ministers who have been following God all their lives?</p>
<p>Reflect a bit on the things I have just outlined. Do you feel that my thinking is complicated? American leaders are now becoming aware that they need Reverend Moon and the whole contents of what I offer. But by the time they really know that they need me, they will no longer find me in this country! I will continue to teach them, so that they realize that they need me, but it is not for my glory. I will not stay around to receive their praise and glory once they understand.</p>
<p>I am not doing this for my own honor. This is something I must do for the sake of God&#8217;s will. Glory belongs to a different page, or a different book. Perhaps the next generation will be the ones to receive the glory. I do not expect to receive it myself. Do you understand?</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t understand, why should I come all the way to America and work here? What does America have to do with an Oriental man, Reverend Moon? The earliest American settlers virtually annihilated all the Indians, who are of Asian descent. As an Asian, I came here to love people and make them more aware. I came to make the Americans more loyal to their country than the Indians were to their own land.</p>
<p>A few years have gone by, and what I have done here America can never be erased from history. The Danbury event can never be forgotten. Who could delete that bad record? Your power? Not even the whole of the United States or the Western world could do it. Only Reverend Moon and God Himself can wipe it clean. Although the incident itself cannot be erased, people have already come and knelt down to me to apologize for what they have done. Do you understand? You are the ones who are standing at the forefront, on the front line. You should realize this and, on behalf of the United States, be ashamed for what it has done and try to make compensation.</p>
<p>How many more days remain before we commemorate my release from Danbury? I woke up this morning filled with reminiscences of being at the halfway house, going back and forth every morning and night. When I first went to Danbury, the staff and inmates there received me very coldly. All these memories have come back to me.</p>
<p>Of all the races, do you think the white people have been warmer or colder than the others? If God didn&#8217;t exist, and if there hadn&#8217;t been any significance to all my experiences, my life would have been unbearable.</p>
<p>So you cannot look at me without feeling ashamed for failing to live up to my standard-even though you have been following me. In other words, you are greatly indebted to me. You cannot repay that debt on your own power. The United States itself owes me so much. To publish The Washington Times alone costs $7 million every month. What is the purpose? To set America straight. Yet this country has not even been friendly toward me. President Reagan&#8217;s own administration put me into prison. Why does our movement sacrifice so much money to do good for this country?</p>
<p>People in this nation have been ambivalent about the situation in Nicaragua, for instance, but our movement has been clearly presenting the truth. The documentary film, &#8220;<em>Nicaragua Was Our Home</em>&#8221; shows the truth about the situation there. The U.S. government did not prepare that documentary; they understand that our movement did it. The American news media know what is included in that documentary, but so far they have not printed even one bit of it.</p>
<p>What kind of situation is prevailing in this country now? If we had not helped the United States in this way with the Nicaraguan issue, this country would have looked very bad in the eyes of the rest of the world. The communists have suffered an obvious defeat on this issue. That is why they have moved their target to South Africa now and have retreated from the heated focal points in Nicaragua and South America. Of course you did not realize this until I pointed it out to you.</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t mentioned to you before what I have been doing here and in Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe. It took the Korean government 40 years to begin to understand the value of my work and its impact on Korea. The United States will probably follow the same pattern. I have come a long way, don&#8217;t you agree? What height have I reached now? Near the top?</p>
<p>Who is more fearsome: Mikhail Gorbachev or Reverend Moon? People are in awe of me, not because I am going to hurt anyone, but because I am making the most significant impact for goodness on the world and on history. Indeed I have achieved a great deal in a very short time. I have accomplished everything without any bloodshed. On the other hand, Gorbachev&#8217;s foundation is communism, which has murdered at least 150,000,000 people in order to stand where it is today. How about the U.S. government: how many people have they killed, particularly in their early history? In contrast, I have always been persecuted and beaten by others. This has been going on for more than 40 years, but I have reached this level without retaliating against anyone.</p>
<p>Now the world has reached the crossroads. Which way will it be: democracy, communism, or Godism? American young people look on with excitement and shout out their desire: &#8220;Godism&#8221; Communism has revealed itself as being upside down and inside out; people recognize that they can expect nothing good from communism. Democracy has been tried, but it too has been exhausted. Godism is the one alternative which the people of the world will view and say, &#8220;Surely, this is the solution.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, people have only scratched the surface of Godism; they haven&#8217;t plumbed it to the depths. It will take many more years to do that. People have just started paying attention to Reverend Moon. They will have to study the 120 volumes of my speeches in order to find out what Godism is all about! Even these 120 volumes are not the end; they will be added to as I speak more and more in the future, according to what is needed at the time.</p>
<p>Do you know that the more I speak, the more clearly the message is expressed? That is because we are getting nearer to the goal. Once we arrive, everybody will know what I am up to, without my having to explain it. Ten years ago, I could have spoken something like what I am explaining now, but I didn&#8217;t do it because I had not accomplished it yet. Now that I have achieved these things, I am telling you about them. You must understand this.</p>
<p>Even if all of you were to leave today because the lifestyle is too difficult, it would not substantially affect my work for God&#8217;s dispensation. If I started a speaking tour of the United States, how many ministers do you think would come to hear me? You said many. As a result of that, do you think many new Unification Church members would emerge? Those who are better educated, more eager, and enthusiastic would become the new members. Then would you, the older, senior members, say, &#8220;I was once enthusiastic like that, but forget it! Don&#8217;t do it?&#8221; You are living now as if that were the case!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t feel that the Unification Church members in the United States today are sufficiently capable of bringing America back to life. You must know that I am thinking that. I don&#8217;t feel that members such as those sitting here are adequate. How much have you loved America, God&#8217;s will, and the world? At best, you are faithful on the individual level, but you aren&#8217;t even trying to be faithful to the country. You think that you are already burdened, but it is only with individual matters. How can you take on the load of the country and the world? If someone adds to your load, will you run away from it? Be candid: would you, or wouldn&#8217;t you?</p>
<p>Actually, I haven&#8217;t really started training the members in this country yet, including Dr. Durst and the top leadership. The future of America is something which really worries me. I am very concerned about it.</p>
<p>Do you suppose that this physical life will last forever? Sooner or later you will shed this body; that is definite. If there were no such thing as the spirit world, none of our efforts would matter. But do you really know that the spirit world exists? Do you think that life in the spirit world is short or long? How much longer than life here? The center of the spirit world is God. Since you have never seen God, do you feel this is all too ambiguous?</p>
<p>Should you put yourself or God first? Do you think first of God or yourself? Should God be someone who pleases you, or should you become the kind of person who pleases God? Do you say, &#8220;God must become the God whom I can like?</p>
<p>Do you think that people in the spirit world can lead a chaotic and individualistic life? Or, even though you have never gone there, do you assume that it is far better organized and more lawful than anything here on earth? Yes, it is very naturally and neatly organized. You must have some idea about the spirit world.</p>
<p>Take the Unification Church as an example. Before it emerged here on earth, do you think it existed in the spirit world? Now that it has appeared here on earth, do you think it will also be in the spirit world in the future? Chronologically, of course, the Unification Church is the youngest; so should it be relegated to the last place in the spirit world? Or do you think that even though the Unification Church is the last to emerge, it will rise to the top of the system in the spirit world? As Unification Church members, you may make that claim, but do you think the spirit world will agree with you? Will the spirit world welcome or reject Unification Church members?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say that here on earth there is a town in which a lot of people live. Suddenly one day a new person appears shabbily dressed and looking like a beggar. Will the town officials say, &#8220;That stranger looks like a beggar, but since we believe he is really a great man, let&#8217;s put him in a position of authority in the town&#8221;? Would the townspeople go along with such a decision, or would they resist it? Naturally, they would oppose it.</p>
<p>When you go to the spirit world, do you want to go to the dark, dreary place called Hell, or are you going to go to the very bright, nice place called Heaven? This is reality we are talking about, not a metaphor. You have to have some qualification in order to go to the bright place.</p>
<p>There are some great, good people who have lived for the sake of others or for the sake of their country. One example is George Washington. You can also think of famous founders of religions or other great presidents of the United States. All these well-known people will be in the spirit world. There have been quite a few people who have led a public life, shedding their blood and sweat for others. Now you are proposing to stand above them. How do you plan to do it? How can you be entitled to the highest Heaven? What certificate will you produce when you go to the spirit world?</p>
<p>There are many people in the spirit world-not only famous people but also billions of lesser-known people Everybody can observe the same place at the same time, so they will all be looking at you, wondering how high up you will go. You Moonies should be able to describe your plan and say what it is you have that justifies your going to a high place. You absolutely need a certificate. Without it, you can, go to the place you desire.</p>
<p>What about a Ph.D. degree? Will that qualify you for a high position in the spirit world? We know that such a diploma is nothing more than a piece of paper there. You need something more to qualify you. This is not a simple matter.</p>
<p>Since I know this clearly, I have worked without ceasing but still I feel I have not accomplished enough. I have literally fought my way through the layers of opposition which must be penetrated and surpassed; you also must do that. The layer of opposition is in the fallen realm. You must rise above it to get your qualification. You may think this is a worldly matter, but it is an eternal matter.</p>
<p>If I had chosen the secular way of life, I could have made a good living. In fact, I could probably have risen to the top in any area of activity.</p>
<p>You have to enter the spirit world alone. Even though you have a spouse and children, you cannot go there with them. Everyone goes by himself to the spirit world; no one is accompanied. You can imagine what a challenging adventure it is! This is the spirit world we are headed for and all of us are bound to go there. People who know nothing about it and haven&#8217;t made preparations don&#8217;t have a chance. This is why God sent me as a teacher during these last days: to show people on earth what the spirit world is like.</p>
<p>Do you think that all the people in the spirit world&#8217; including the leaders and top people, know and understand&#8217; me? Yes, they do. How do you know that? It is rather simple: because never before in history has anybody gone through such terrible persecution to attain God&#8217;s goal. In the history of religion, I have been the most persecuted person of all, in the past or present. So I am the champion in that area. The people in the spirit world know that. Is it true?</p>
<p>East and West, all races and colors of skin have opposed me. Likewise, all religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have come against me. The spirit world can compare these circumstances with what Jesus faced. He also was persecuted on earth before going to the spirit world, but the boundaries of Jesus, persecution were more limited and it was on the local level, not the world level.</p>
<p>It is clear that Reverend Moon is by far the most persecuted religious person in history. Even your physical parents realize this, although they might oppose you. Everyone in the world knows that the most controversial religious figure on earth is Reverend Moon. So in that respect, am I number one, or number two? By a large margin, I am number one.</p>
<p>People in the spirit world had never truly respected anyone on earth. But when they see me and the standard I am living, they feel respect and they bow down.</p>
<p>What else do I have to be proud of? What element within Reverend Moon makes people say, &#8220;Please rise above us&#8221;? It is the fact that I know God better than anyone else; I know God thoroughly. What matters most in the spirit world is what God thinks about a person-and God likes me very much. If you were God, do you think you would admire me a lot?</p>
<p>You can check within the realms of Islam and Buddhism, but you won&#8217;t find anyone there who knows more about God than I do. Other people may not recognize what is good about me, but God always wants to accompany me; He doesn&#8217;t want to be separated even one moment from me. Because of me, God can be excited and hopeful about life! The quality of mine that God loves so much is my heart; my desire is the same as His. I am always thinking about how to digest the communist and democratic worlds.</p>
<p>Even if God felt that there were some things in me He didn&#8217;t like so much, and He looked around elsewhere, there would be absolutely no one else who could meet His expectations. So God kept coming back to me! Later He decided, once and for all, &#8220;No matter what faults you may have, I am with you.&#8221;</p>
<p>You can only imagine this, but you have a good capacity for imagination. Have you met anybody like me? Do you know anybody else who has done anywhere near what I have accomplished to turn this world around? I have a lot of very large mental pockets in which I keep the various problems of the world. The United States has tested me and tried to fight me, as have Germany, Japan, and Korea- every country has tried to fight me. Now we are on the verge of crossing the summit; they are all about to decide to give up fighting Reverend Moon.</p>
<p>American leaders in the spirit world might wonder who should be given a higher place-Reverend Moon or George Washington. Should it be George Washington? He was certainly a great leader in his time, but what I am doing is applicable to all of history, not just the problems of one century or one generation.</p>
<p>At this time, many people in the fields of politics, academics, and other areas want to meet with me. I have received literally hundreds of requests from people asking to visit me at East Garden. Did you know that I have not granted any of those requests? But do you think Dr. Durst calls in advance and gets permission to come? No, he just walks in-as if it were his own home. Apparently he has privileges! What privilege is it? It is love.</p>
<p>Where do you think I will sit in the spirit world: at the top or at the bottom? Actually, I don&#8217;t want to sit up at the top; I would be content to remain at the bottom of Heaven. But somebody would come and pull me by the feet, and I would be drawn upward, upside down, all the way to the top! However, nobody in the spirit world would protest and say, &#8220;Why are you raising him up like that?,, They would applaud. Do you think this is true? Or perhaps you think this is just a &#8220;red lie,, as we say in Korean-the worst kind of lie?</p>
<p>Those of you who are seated here listening to me, do you think your presence here is a coincidence, or is it an historical event? When you came here today, did you expect me to speak in this manner?</p>
<p>Compare your situation to that of a good Catholic nun, or a pure Buddhist monk, people who have lived their whole lives in celibacy. They pray all their lives, never marrying, never working just to make money. Perhaps they wept so much in their prayers that they created ponds of tears. How many of those people were privileged enough to have met the Messiah on earth? None of them. But look at you sitting here. What have you done to deserve this place and this privilege? Have you ever stopped to think about it?</p>
<p>What do you expect to achieve by joining the Unification Church? Earthly attainments are not the most important goal; we are most concerned about where we will reside for eternity.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t fully understand the things I have done here on earth. For one thing, I have brought together in marriage people from totally different races and nationalities &#8211; even from enemy countries. That is truly the greatest achievement here on earth. I have also married people from different religious backgrounds. This has the greatest significance in the spirit world, as well. Just naming a few of the things I have done astounds the spirit world. These are accomplishments which the spirit world has been craving for literally thousands of years.</p>
<p>Now you are in a better position to decide. Because of the merit of my accomplishments, do you think the people in the spirit world can relegate me to a seat at the bottom of their realm, or do I have to sit up at the top, whether I like it or not? Is it because I can speak so convincingly that I somehow manage to persuade people to agree with me.</p>
<p>How to rise in the spirit world, once we get there, is an important issue for all people, whether they are members of the Unification Church or not. Somebody may say, &#8220;Well, I have qualifications: first, I graduated from Harvard; next, I am a citizen of the greatest nation on each. Therefore, I should stand at the top of the spirit world,, Do you think the spirit world would approve? No, such considerations are far from their way of thinking.</p>
<p>What, then, would they approve of ? You say a clean, pure mind, but that by itself is not enough for the spirit world to send you up to the very top. Having a pure mind doesn&#8217;t automatically guarantee your entrance to Heaven; you must go through the proper process. Are you aware of that process? You need a document certifying that you have fulfilled certain criteria and are eligible for Heaven in order to satisfy the spirit world.</p>
<p>This point is easy to understand. Even coming to the United States, which is a far from heavenly place, you have to show a visa and a passport. If they question your qualifications just to enter this country, how can there be a free pass in spirit world? More processing is required there than when entering the United States.</p>
<p>Have you ever set out for Belvedere with an attitude of self-examination, asking what qualifications you have for coming so freely? Have you thought, &#8220;I am going to Belvedere today, but later I must satisfy all the conditions on the form and live up to the standard which Belvedere deserves&#8221;?</p>
<p>Dr. Durst may acknowledge you and say, &#8220;He deserves Heaven&#8221; and sign your form. But who else must sign the form? Satan, of course. He has to sign it even before Dr. Durst does. If Dr. Durst alone signs it, you cannot be admitted to Heaven. True Parents also must sign it. Those who are already in the spirit world did not have the chance to know True Parents.</p>
<p>Those of you who have a mustache or beard, do you think they will become your certificate? I have never approved of anybody wearing such things. If I don&#8217;t wear a mustache, can you sit proudly and confidently in front of me? This law has not been spelled out yet, but you should know it by now.</p>
<p>This is the University of Heaven, not just a church. Every university charges tuition. What is your tuition? Everything I am talking about here at Belvedere must be fulfilled. Every point, every clause must be satisfied. Otherwise, you cannot go to Heaven. Do I tell you to do something without having done it myself? No, everything I ask you to do I have already accomplished. I never speak about something until I have done it myself.</p>
<p>True Parents have nobody to counsel with. No matter how great an individual may be, I cannot seek advice from him, simply because it is contrary to Principle. I cannot consult with Dr. Durst, for example. Why? Because no one within the lineage of the fall is qualified to be a consultant to the lineage of God. The fallen archangel was the very villain who brought about the fall. Do you understand?</p>
<p>As I already said, we are on the verge of going over the hill of opposition. At this point, people can no longer harshly criticize me. We went beyond that long ago.</p>
<p>Now you have many responsibilities. Should you focus on working hard just to take care of your family, or on obtaining the certificate to go to Heaven? Which area should you pay the most attention to? We never know when we might be called to the spirit world, so we have to fulfill the criteria before we arrive there. Some of you might be involved in a traffic accident on your way home today; you never know.</p>
<p>Can anyone say, &#8220;Since I got blessed and started my family, I can automatically go to Heaven,,? That is an oversimplification. The Blessing did not take place above the satanic realm, but beneath it. We have to go beyond that, or we cannot reach Heaven. Therefore, we must not place first priority on ourselves; the will of God must come first. From now on, if you don&#8217;t work by that standard, your children cannot attend the Little Angels School the way everybody has been doing so far. That cannot happen. The parents, the blessed couples, are very important.</p>
<p>By the same token, if I had simply stated all these ideas without ever implementing them, how miserable you would have been! Now I can rest. Almost everything I must do here has been accomplished. If I got drunk somewhere and slept all day long, still you could not complain. Maybe I will do just that, to find out what the satanic world is like! Then perhaps I will go to ten different movies in one day, but nobody could complain. You might reason, &#8220;Since Father goes to ten movies a day, maybe I can go to a couple, but that assumption doesn&#8217;t follow. I have passed all the criteria, but you haven&#8217;t&#8221; Do you understand?</p>
<p>From now on, perhaps I should take frequent naps during the day. Do I say that because I am so sinful? I have never taken daytime naps in my life because I knew I had to pave the road for all mankind. Now I have grown older and I am approaching the age of 70. Like everyone else, I had a time of youth, my golden youth. But I never enjoyed that time in any normal sense. Instead, I was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned throughout those youthful years. If I had forgotten about the sins of the world, I would not have had to endure such things, but I never did that. Therefore, I passed through all my persecution. You can understand that, can&#8217;t you?</p>
<p>Do you think I am a person with no capabilities? I have many talents, but I chose the path of persecution and suffering. Even though my temper is fiery and I really hate to lose when I play a game, I have lost in life hundreds of times. People have stomped on me over and over. All this happened simply so I could pave the road.</p>
<p>You who have come to the Unification Church know clearly what you must do, don&#8217;t you? You know what I have done, and you know what kind of lifestyle I expect you to maintain. As members of this church, you must transcend the national and world standards. To do that, we must unite and work very hard.</p>
<p>You may be old already, but which must come first: marriage, getting ahead in the world, or preparing for the spirit world? Which of these three pursuits should you consider first? Getting ready for spirit world should have priority. Your reason tells you this is true, but do you really feel that way?</p>
<p>Why are we here on earth? How should we live? We should learn to live by the same rhythm or tempo as the spirit world. If we don&#8217;t, we will be unable to live properly when we go there.</p>
<p>When you Unification Church members go to the spirit world, you will definitely be challenged by people there. The things that I have said are recorded in the spirit world. People will challenge you: &#8220;Have you done such and such? What if you haven&#8217;t done most of it? You will be ushered to an in-between region, an interim area, not Heaven.</p>
<p>Then you might say, &#8220;I wish Father would come to the spirit world soon, so we can be together.&#8221; But that is not necessarily what will happen. Simply because I go to the spirit world doesn&#8217;t mean you will be able to follow me. You must satisfy all the requirements I have given you.</p>
<p>Where will the Unification Church ultimately go? What is its final goal? Here on earth, we must live in a heavenly manner before we can connect to the heavenly life in spirit world. But is there any Heaven on earth at this time? No. All the outside world is controlled by Satan. We cannot find Heaven anywhere in this world.</p>
<p>We must set the record of having lived in Heaven on earth as a condition for dwelling in Heaven in the spirit world. What do we call that Heaven? You have answered correctly: home church. In home church, we are making Heaven on earth, centering on God and True Parents. Everyone without exception must get the certificate from home church.</p>
<p>Do you realize that in a short time we won&#8217;t have to witness so hard? Why? Because very soon the time will arrive when people will come to the Unification Church on their own. Then why do we go to people&#8217;s homes and witness? Those who have been working on home church raise your hands. We must continue doing home church. During the five years from 1978 until 1982, I gave you the concept and in many different talks explained why you must do home church. When you have done home church you will receive your passport through that work. That is your privilege.</p>
<p>At this time the United States has approximately 70 million families. Divided by 360, that makes only about 200,000 home church areas. That is all. It&#8217;s not really so much. In other words, soon all the home church areas will be taken by others, and you will find no home church to work in.</p>
<p>I spoke about this to you first; you have heard it first. But if I spoke about this concept to ministers, what do you think would happen? Can you challenge them? There are some 300,000 ministers here in the United States. They are professionals and you are laymen. Do you think you can compete with them? Unification Church members have to get this idea straight.</p>
<p>Since I already explained it, I expected it to be carried out. I haven&#8217;t talked with you about it and checked up on you. I haven&#8217;t been saying, &#8220;You have to witness and do this and that.&#8221; You should judge yourselves.</p>
<p>You need your signed certificate, don&#8217;t you? How badly do you need it? More desperately than everything else. It is more important than if you go to some good school. Do you know that? The final criterion you need to pass is home church. If you do it, your children will accompany you; but if you don&#8217;t, they cannot. Do you understand?</p>
<p>These are not just my words and I am not trying to threaten you. When you go to the spirit world, nobody will have to explain this to you; everything will be apparent. Those of you who understand clearly that you need this certificate, please raise your hands. I assure you that it is absolutely necessary.</p>
<p>I have been working, as you have all seen, to get the certificate as True Parents. Likewise, you have to get your own certificate. If you do home church correctly, you will be able to follow me through all the barriers and various stages of restoration which I have established.</p>
<p>As I already told you and you well know, the Blessing takes place at a better position than what Jesus had when he was crucified. That means you should be literally in a better position than Jesus himself before you are allowed and granted the Blessing.</p>
<p>Did Jesus receive or give the Blessing? No, he didn&#8217;t. I received the Blessing, and I can give it. That is how Heung Jin could be blessed spiritually. Do you understand? Without his Blessing, traditional Christianity and the Unification Church could not be linked. If you remember, it was after Heung Jin went to the spirit world that Christianity came to be connected with the Unification Church.</p>
<p>What did Jesus need to be qualified to receive or give the Blessing? Zachariah&#8217;s family should have united with Joseph&#8217;s family, and together they should have served Jesus. On that tribal foundation, Jesus would have been able to get married, but that didn&#8217;t happen. The Cain tribe, John the Baptist&#8217;s family, and the Abel tribe, Joseph&#8217;s family, should have come together. Their unity could support the parents. But since Cain and Abel could not unite, the parents could not be established. That is the Principle. Both tribes came against Jesus, and thus he was crucified. He never received the marriage Blessing.</p>
<p>We have to indemnify this very situation, so the Blessing must come on the foundation of those two tribes. Do you follow me? Jesus didn&#8217;t have that kind of foundation, so it was lost. We have to remake it during these last days. With such a foundation, you can build a marriage. That means you must have the highest standard.</p>
<p>Do you know why we are in a better position than Jesus? Not because we are greater than he, but because our foundation is far more established than his. Therefore, you received the Blessing.</p>
<p>You must go to home church. In the same position as Jesus, or Joseph&#8217;s family, you have to make unity with John the Baptist&#8217;s or Zachariah&#8217;s family. Husband and wife together will have 720 homes, 360 each. The number 72 refers to all tribes. When they become one with you, the next step is to return to your own tribe, your relatives, and do a similar thing. Then you will really be tribal messiahs. What will happen next? You will be freed from all satanic accusation. You will be truly heavenly persons. This is clear, isn&#8217;t it? Do home church and win the Cain position. Then you can go to your relatives, who are in the Abel position. Once you have accomplished home church, it is likely that your family will welcome you.</p>
<p>Actually, I also followed this formula. The communist world is like the Cain family, and the democratic world is like the Abel family. I must do this &#8220;home church&#8221; work, so to speak. This is the formula for restoration. An individual cannot be restored by himself; he needs a family. We get blessed and have a family, but we don&#8217;t have a foundation to sit on, do we? That is what we are making, in a reverse way.</p>
<p>This is easier for you to do now, because you can take advantage of my foundation. I have become known throughout the world and have received much support. Therefore, your task has become that much easier.</p>
<p>The spirit world is not a vague place. We have to make our own very tangible earthly Heaven. Then we join Heaven in heaven. Do you understand? Home church is very important, so I am planning to renew your home church assignments as of August 20. Then that will be the last time I will ever say anything about home church here in America. After that, it is up to you. This year things will be a lot easier. Many people will ask us to come and talk to them-more so than before.</p>
<p>Up to this point, I have taken parental responsibility. Once the parent fulfills his responsibility and assigns you an area, it is very possible to do it. I wouldn&#8217;t have told you to do it otherwise.</p>
<p>When you go to the spirit world, whom will you seek? When you reply, &#8220;Father&#8221; you should have at least a minimum of conscience. If you call yourselves children, you cannot criticize your father or run away when he tells you to do something. You must not complain to other people. I never want you to suffer without purpose. I am telling you to suffer because it is the short cut. Even if you are not totally capable, as long as you endure hardships, you can achieve your goal. But from now on, you won&#8217;t even have to suffer as much. Who will persecute you now? Everybody will be able to see that you are doing something that is good.</p>
<p>By 1988, the President and the people in general will understand enough about our Church to say, &#8220;Follow their teaching.&#8221; The President himself and righteous senators and congressmen will speak out and testify about how good Reverend Moon and the Unification Church are. Who will have the power to oppose us then? How much easier the task will be! When that time comes, we can accomplish all our home church work in about six months.</p>
<p>Since you understand every idea I speak about, don&#8217;t you think that if I were able to speak on national television, all the American people would also understand? Once they understand, do you think you will be able to keep up with them? If you don&#8217;t lay the foundation now, the opportunity will not return.</p>
<p>What is home church? It is the passport to the Kingdom of Heaven. Without it you cannot enter Heaven. The people in spirit world won&#8217;t let you! How can you do home church in the spirit world? You cannot. There is a famous statement in Scripture that the last shall be first and the first shall be last. There may be cases in which people who join the Unification Church late will do better work than those who joined earlier.</p>
<p>In a sense, we are destined to pioneer the way. We cannot be just followers. We have no choice: it is pioneer or else. Only after home church is done will the real registration of Heaven begin. According to Principle, we first have to live in Heaven on earth. There is no other way.</p>
<p>You have to be prepared to take up the cross of all the problems in your home church area. This is the heart that both Jesus and I have had. In order to become the king of a tribe, you must start by carrying the cross. A tribal messiah is the same as the king of his tribe. All my life, I have been going the way of the cross. If you don&#8217;t accomplish home church, you cannot follow me. You need that certification for Heaven. I know this situation clearly. I am not dumb. I have been doing this for 40 years.</p>
<p>This tenth day of August is a memorable day, a special day, on which I talked once more about home church. If you do the job right, not only your immediate family but also all your relatives will be liberated. Isn&#8217;t that exciting? Not only your visible relatives, but all your ancestors in the spirit world &#8211; the Smith family, the McDonald family, the McDevitt family &#8211; all will be liberated. If you do home church right, the spirit world will come and help you. You will see it happening.</p>
<p>From 1988 on, there will be a vigorous, bustling home church. I won&#8217;t have to be here. I have already taught you everything you need in order to carry on. I have given you a patent, so to speak. You have to pay royalties for the rights to use a patent. How much would you have to pay for the right to do home church? If you had all the diamonds on earth, do you think you could buy it? That is why the spirit world really cannot comprehend why you are wasting all these golden opportunities.</p>
<p>Now you know, because you see the whole picture. This is not just a concept. You have the physical champion of indemnity with you, Father. I have accomplished everything. All you need to do is to learn and follow. When you follow me, you will get the certificate. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">TRUE PARENTS AND I</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:10:51+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/true-parents-and-i.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:10:51+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1986.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">June 15, 1986<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>There are many people living in our world today, but most of them are standing in the fallen realm rather than in the realm of God. There are different divisions within this satanic domain, such as community, nation and world. The people are divided not only into north, south, east and west, but also into five different colors of skin. There is also the major division between Oriental and Occidental. The principal thing that everybody is doing is fighting among themselves. Furthermore, they do not know where they are heading; they do not know their exact goal or purpose. Our world is not heading toward hopefulness and the ideal, therefore, but rather toward decline and disaster.</p>
<p>That phenomenon persists not only in the Orient but also in the West. Because of such problems, people cannot feel hope for this world. Who can be responsible for the world? America-and you are primarily American people gathered here today-is part of that declining world. It makes no difference whether someone is educated or ignorant; all are heading toward the same destiny.</p>
<p>The original hope and ideal for mankind was lost because of the fall of man. Now each individual has to deal with the most complex and confused way of life. Many people are in agony; they recognize that they could be in better shape-morally, spiritually and physically-but they are not. They ask themselves, &#8220;Why can&#8217;t I be more healthy?&#8221; Many individuals are suffering because of this struggle between their mind and body.</p>
<p>The problem of discord between mind and body is more difficult to solve than all the problems of history. No individual can be totally happy unless he enjoys balance and harmony in his life. The greatest human suffering is caused by the conflict and discord in our society. We have to deal with such a complex and chaotic world, but at the same time, there is an even greater problem within each individual-the discord between one&#8217;s mind and body.</p>
<p>When can we become truly happy people with harmony between mind and body? There are not two ways to become perfect, but only one. Thus we have to come up with one solution. This is the greatest of all problems. Each individual is the subject over his environment, and this is centered upon his own world view. You perceive the colors in your environment, and you feel certain things; you are the subject of those feelings.</p>
<p>We want to be happy and joyful, but that is not possible unless there is truly one harmony. Many people have made great accomplishments through history, and there are many such people living now. However, history has yet to see one person who could say, &#8220;I am totally at one within my mind and body.&#8221; Even such a great man as St. Paul, the one person besides Jesus who could properly be called the founder of Christianity, said that he was waging an internal battle between the laws of his mind and the laws of his body. &#8220;Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?&#8221; (Romans 7:24 NAS) The Bible records that confession of St. Paul&#8217;s.</p>
<p>What about Jesus? Although Jesus had a single, clearcut purpose and direction, there was a great deal of conflict between his will and his actions. Let&#8217;s look at this and how Jesus was united between his mind and body. How could he become totally one, within perfection?</p>
<p>First of all, we have to recognize that Jesus was not the cause of the universe. He is the true object of God, a God-sent individual. In the Unification Church, we make this Christological question very clear: Who is Jesus? We commonly describe Jesus in many terms: Messiah, Savior, and so forth, but the most important description is that he was the son of God, as well as the potential True Parent, the True Father of all mankind. What is the definition of the True Parent? The True Parent is the person who reflects perfectly the image of God and who can disseminate the power of true love.</p>
<p>Do you find your own mind and body always divided and in conflict? Ask them, &#8220;Although you are always fighting with each other, don&#8217;t you want to unite? What would you like to be united upon? &#8221; The answer would not be money, power or knowledge, but only true love. What, then, is true love? Nobody likes to be told, &#8220;Your love is false.&#8221; But on the other hand, is anyone a true man, a perfected person? You shrug at that, knowing that you are not. When you speak about true things, you have to be true according to God. He is the center, the truth, the subject of the universe. You have to be one with Him.</p>
<p>We commonly say that there are many bad people in the world. What do you base such a statement upon? What is the dividing line between a good person and a bad one? What is the dfinition of goodness? When you say, &#8220;This is a good deed,&#8221; what is that centered upon? You may make a lot of money-you may hit the jackpot- and say, &#8220;That is good!,, On what basis is that good? Or suppose you are elected to some important political office, gaining a lot of power. You would say, &#8220;That is good!&#8221; But what is that good centered upon? Or perhaps you have acquired a great deal of knowledge and you feel that is good.</p>
<p>There must be a center, some reason that defines whether something is good or not. That center is true love. Any deed or thought that contributes to true love is a good deed or thought. But if it does not do that, it is on the side of evil. All five senses of our bodies are mobilized to find and concentrate upon true love, nothing else. Ask your eye what it wants to see and it would say, &#8220;The only thing I want to look at is true love; I don&#8217;t want to see anything else.&#8221; The eyes are not interested in lots of bright colors, for example, without true love. Not only our five physical senses but also our five spiritual senses have this motivation.</p>
<p>Do you think the mind is equipped to know and detect true love, or not? What do you think? Is that an inborn virtue of the mind-to be able to detect true love? You have an original mind, so why doesn&#8217;t that original mind become bold and strong and take initiative to demolish all the ungodly things around it? Why doesn&#8217;t it move forward to take dominion over the universe? The original mind has become weak and has failed to take the subjective role; it is always being pushed into the corner. Why has the original mind been in such a miserable shape?</p>
<p>Since we have an original mind, it should be in constant communication with God, receiving power from Him and taking the subjective role over everything else. Why hasn&#8217;t it been like that? The reason is that evil history began before each person was born; it was there already. Before your original mind ever came into being, there was already an evil dominion over everything. Your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were like that-all the way back to Adam and Eve. Before Adam&#8217;s and Eve&#8217;s original minds took hold, before they were able to take dominion over the universe, evil came into being. The fall occurred and the true lineage was turned around.</p>
<p>Men and women are supposed to be perfected, united upon one love, in communion with God. With one woman and one man, centered upon God&#8217;s love, unity would be complete. We would be born of God, in that case, because everything originated from Him; no foreign element would have come in. All generations would have come directly from God, therefore, and there would have been only one God-centered lineage.</p>
<p>We are supposed to be united under one true love, centered upon God; total unity and harmony were supposed to mark the beginning of human history. But that was not the case; the force of Satan invaded. God would like to have dominion over all things-not by force or violence-but by love. That was the original principle of creation. Because of the forceful and violent invasion of evil, however, there was no chance for true love to reign over all things. Furthermore, every individual was born under the satanic lineage; thus it is the same fallen bloodstream.</p>
<p>The fall of man was the putting aside of goodness and truth. Even though we know such things are there, we have been pulled to the side of evil and fallen into bondage. The original mind is within each person; people are aware of goodness, true love and beautiful ideals, but the body has become the slave of evil, pulled into evil activities. A prisoner or slave has no freedom.</p>
<p>In the center of fallen man there are two minds: one is the original mind and the other is the instinctual, bodycentered mind. We are supposed to have only one mind, but man became divided into those two minds which fight between themselves. The body became the battlefield for those two minds. Surrounding the body is the family, which is also a battlefield; likewise the community, nation and world all became the battlefields for those two minds.</p>
<p>We must have a true self in which the original mind dwells. So we must go back to the very beginning point- the state of mind where there is no division or discord and only harmony and cooperation. Then the body will cooperate with that one mind; then you can find your true self.</p>
<p>How could such harmony come into being? Only by the touch of true love. Human beings have departed from true love; true love is always with God, of course. There are millions and millions of spiritual miles between God and man. How can God take this evil world back to Himself? What is God&#8217;s method and strategy? How can He go into the very core of that struggle between the mind and body and resurrect man&#8217;s original self?</p>
<p>God has to establish a beachhead by which to enter the satanic world; that beachhead is true love. Initially, it will be small, but as soon as God gains a foothold He can move forward and go deeper to expand His foundation. In a way, God&#8217;s true love force is invading the satanic world from all four directions. Throughout history, religious people always encountered persecution; no religion has grown without persecution. Those people who opposed religion have been in control of the principalities, those within the established power structure.</p>
<p>There is a certain axis at the center of every individual, and the body is meant to turn around that axis. That axis is your original mind; your body is trying to turn on that axis. There should be no resistance. When the original mind-the mind before the fall-takes the center, the body automatically centers upon the power of true love. That should occur without trouble or difficulty. Such turning action by the body should be natural and easy.</p>
<p>The original mind and original body, unstained by satanic elements, have the goal of unity centered upon true love. That was the original design of creation-an unstained, good mind and body united upon true love. Let us compare this with the two prongs of a tuning fork. When you hit one prong, its vibration will send sound waves to the other prong, which will make a sound of the same exact pitch. The initial sound or vibration within people should be that of true love; true love should hit the mind first, causing it to reverberate at a certain frequency and convey true love to the body. That is how it was supposed to be. But what happened? Because of the fall of man, the initial impact was not true love but fallen love.</p>
<p>God has to make a new impact upon the original mind of man. This has been the work of God in history-to make an impact so that the mind could also give powerful treatment to the body. Thus filial piety has been upheld as a virtue in the home, centered upon the parents. When the homes exemplify filial piety, loyalty is also stressed in the country, centered upon the king or leader. This is the way the individual self revolves and, at the same time, turns around in a bigger circle. As you know, the earth turns on its axis and, at the same time, it revolves around the sun-human internal life follows the same principle.</p>
<p>The solar system does not stand still; as an entity, it turns in a great, cosmic circle. What is its most central theme, its center? It is love, true love. Therefore, love has been taught in the home. Centered upon the parent, the expression of that love is called filial piety. In the nation, when love has been stressed, we call it patriotism or loyalty. On the world level, the love of mankind has been stressed and that is called saintliness. That quality of love, of course, is true love and that should be at the center. When true love takes the center seat, everything else will fall into its proper place. Right order shall be created around that eternal and unchanging axis.</p>
<p>What will bind a man and woman together into one? What force could do that? What is the force to unite them? It is only the force of true love. That is what we call a couple-the husband and wife. They begin to orbit, circling around, and they create a family. A family is no longer centered upon an individual; the family has a larger purpose and goal, so each individual must harmonize with that goal. But then the family is circling around the nation, which is an even greater entity. Then the nation should be circling in orbit around the world; the world should be its center. Then the world should be orbiting around the universe, centered upon the love of God.</p>
<p>You can see here the complete illustration. Once the individual, with his original mind and body, has become united upon the axis of true love, he will revolve around the family; then the family revolves around the nation, the nation around the world, and the world around the universe. Finally, the universe will revolve around God. The central axis is always the same-true love.</p>
<p>God has been working through religion, trying to regain the world and restore it to its original shape. Since the body has been dominant and the mind has been weakened, religion has always chastised the body in order to strengthen the mind. This is why physical chastisement has always played a role in religion. Anything which is not parallel with the goal of true love had to be pushed down, eliminated. In that way, the true love-centered mind could prosper.</p>
<p>In a way, God has been farming, planting the seed of true love within the barren soil of man&#8217;s mind. He has been fertilizing it, watering it, planting the true love seeds. God has chastised and tried to eliminate anything that hurts true love. In this process, He has allowed religious people to make a great number of sacrifices. Many people suffered in order to safeguard the growth of true love. They then inspired and spurred many others on to greater heights. Seeing such righteousness and sacrifice gave them energy to go up to even greater heights.</p>
<p>Eventually, the world came to be divided into two major camps-one which accepts the theistic, or religious, point of view; the other embraces the atheistic, materialistic viewpoint.</p>
<p>What about the problem of religion? There are great numbers of religions. How can we evaluate them? There is one simple rule: the religion which demonstrates the greatest love of God should be at the center and then absorb the others, bringing everyone into unity. What is the essence of religion? It is God and love, those two elements. Centered upon God, love will win and prevail over the world.</p>
<p>In speaking of God, only one religion calls God &#8220;Father,&#8221; and that is Christianity. This must be made very clear: Christianity alone proclaims to the world that God is our Father. What is the definition of a father? What is the difference between a true father and a stepfather? The difference is in the bloodstream, the lineage. Nobody says, &#8220;God is our stepfather.&#8221; We say, &#8220;God is our Father.&#8221; That means we claim to be in the bloodstream or lineage of God.</p>
<p>Do all those who call themselves Christians really feel they are connected into one bloodstream, centered upon God and part of one lineage? What is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is the same whether we speak of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth or in heaven. We speak of the Kingdom of Heaven as God&#8217;s house. God is our Father; the parents and the children dwell in the same house. The children are entitled to live in that house because they are one bloodstream, one family.</p>
<p>In the Bible, Jesus is described as the &#8220;only-begotten son.&#8221; What does this mean? He was the only person who had inherited the total love and total lineage of God, and the only person who could represent it. For that reason, he had the power of God&#8217;s lineage flowing through him. That is why he became the Savior. Christianity has taught that God is the Father of mankind; furthermore, Jesus taught that he was the only-begotten son of that God. Christianity&#8217;s message, therefore, is that it is only through Jesus that we can be connected to the lineage of God; otherwise, God&#8217;s lineage cannot flow through mankind.</p>
<p>From the point of view of the Principle of Creation, &#8220;only-begotten son,, means that Jesus was in the position of the unfallen, perfected Adam. Adam fell in the Garden of Eden, so Jesus was meant to be the perfected Adam who entered into the fallen world and restored his bride. It was his mission to restore a woman to the level before the fall.</p>
<p>Eve was in the position to be the true mother of all mankind, just as Adam was supposed to be the true father. Jesus came on the level of the chosen nation, and he came as the perfected Adam to restore Eve. If that had been done on the national foundation, they would have become not only the true father and mother of mankind, but also they would have become the king and queen of Israel.</p>
<p>If they had not fallen, Adam and Eve would have become the True Parents in the Garden of Eden. Once Adam and Eve were perfected and completely centered upon true love, they could not have fallen. There was no way they could have deviated from their original position because no power could separate them from true love.</p>
<p>True love should have been the central binding point between Adam and Eve. But what happened? Within Eve, her own self, and not true love, became supreme. The evil of selfishness crept into the Garden of Eden, planted in the heart of the woman, and it has now grown to encompass all of humanity. What do we see today? The entire world is riddled with selfishness. Contemporary America is the most self-centered nation. Youth today are even labeled the &#8220;Me Generation.&#8221; How can such a thing be? This is the satanic attitude; it belongs to hell.</p>
<p>What is the center of America? Is it the Pentagon? Is it wealth or knowledge? Certainly America today has lots of power, money and knowledge, but these things cannot become the heart and soul of America. If they did, America would certainly perish. America must be centered upon true love; only true love will bring unity between mind and body, and then the family, society and nation. When that happens, this nation will flourish.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say there are eight individuals within one family. The center of that family must be God and, as everybody comes toward God, they can cling together and be united. That is the way it was supposed to be. Your heart or original mind is the very deepest part of your being, and that heart is connected to the mind of God. That was the model. Your original mind is in a direct vertical line with Heaven. Everybody else has an original mind, too, which is part of the same line.</p>
<p>The vertical line with God and the horizontal line of human relationships must cross at a 90-degree angle. Wherever you go or whoever you meet, you should always have a 90-degree angle. The love between men and women, for example, is real; your experience of that love is very real. That is the horizontal line. The problem is that people have lost the vertical line; they don&#8217;t experience it. They don&#8217;t even recognize the existence of any vertical line. Instead of coming to the center and uniting around God, each individual is trying to become the center, to pull everything toward himself.</p>
<p>The United States is supposed to be a Christian nation. Why has it become like this? It can be attributed to what is called American pragmatism. This basically means that one doesn&#8217;t have to be bound by any principles; whatever benefits you, you just go in that direction. People pursue self-interest in all directions; it doesn&#8217;t matter what it is or where-as soon as they see something of self-benefit, they try to grab it. The result is that people don&#8217;t care about what happens to the rest of the world; the world can even become a sacrifice if it benefits them. That is pragmatism.</p>
<p>The pragmatic way of life repels religion and scorns its principles and rules. The truth is that pursuing self-interest is not fundamentally bad, but one must put internal, spiritual interests first before external self-interest. Ironically, however, Satan has divided the internal and the external world; he has been holding the external world under his wing. For that reason, in order to pursue your internal interests, you have to go against your external interests. That is what makes things very difficult. You have to fight and make sacrifices in order to pursue your internal benefit.</p>
<p>The pragmatic person is one who focuses on accumulating all his material wants; that is what the &#8220;Me Generation&#8221; is all about. What is really important for a person, however, is to gain internal, spiritual benefit. In order to gain those benefits, you have to sacrifice the external things. This beautiful truth is far from the American way of life. Even if American people gain every sort of material wealth, if they have gained nothing internally, they will have lost everything.</p>
<p>The irony is this: the United States, which is supposed to be the one central Christian nation, has become the worst example of the satanic domain. Because of this, then, the laws of the universe are opposing this nation. No matter how much the government and the American people may make effort, there is an even greater power pounding on them so that the nation continues to decline more and more.</p>
<p>What about the Unification Church in America today? What are we? Do you think you are going to be digested by the &#8220;Me Generation,,, or are you going to digest them? You don&#8217;t have unity between your own mind and body, so how can you go out and say, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to conquer the &#8216;Me Generation&#8221;? That is a contradiction, isn&#8217;t it? The present day reality is a real problem. We must bring a solution.</p>
<p>God is not part of the &#8220;Me Generation.&#8221; God&#8217;s interest is the benefit of the whole. The benefit of the whole comes first. It is not money, power or knowledge which encompasses and embraces all the things of creation and the whole universe; it is true love. If the fall had not occurred, True Parents would have been established in the Garden of Eden.</p>
<p>After the fall of man, God had the option to destroy every single human being. He could have said, &#8220;They are bad and I don&#8217;t want to see them.&#8221; But as you know through the Divine Principle, there was a reason He did not and could not do that. His second option was to restore the world, and in order to do that, He had to send a savior. That savior was the second opportunity for the installation of the True Parents. Jesus was that savior and, as you know, that was not completed. Thus God has given the third opportunity.</p>
<p>The principle of salvation is quite simple. Because mankind was supposed to begin with True Parents and that did not happen, false parenthood came into being. We have to be rid of that false lineage and be restored into the family of the True Parents, the true lineage of God. The mission of the Unification Church is to reorganize the families of the world.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s topic is &#8220;True Parents and I.&#8221; Are True Parents absolutely necessary? Without them, the world has no hope for salvation, no way to turn. We have to bring the world back from the false to the true parenthood. Beginning with True Parents, direct oneness and union with God can come about. In this way, the true lineage of God can be installed and expanded.</p>
<p>Where were you born-under the true parenthood or the false parenthood? The Bible talks about the wild olive tree and the true olive tree. The true olive tree&#8217;s root is straight from God; so God&#8217;s lineage is symbolically expressed in the true olive tree. Everybody comes from the false root, however, which is expressed as the wild olive tree. New life can only be given through engrafting with the true tree. That is the destiny of all men and women.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter whether the wild olive tree is a thousand years old; in order for the engrafting process to take place, we have to cut off that wild tree. Let&#8217;s say the wild olive tree&#8217;s root is very large and it has many different branches. On the other hand, let&#8217;s say the true olive tree is just tiny, with only a few little branches. Even though the old olive tree has been growing for thousands of years and has 44 billion leaves and buds, it doesn&#8217;t change the fact that it has to be cut down.</p>
<p>Do you think the United States portion of the tree should be left alone? Shall we think, &#8220;The United States is the number-one country on the earth; we have a great culture to preserve, so don&#8217;t cut the U.S. portion,&#8221; Or should we say, &#8220;There have been great people in the United States, like George Washington, and we have had important ministers who have done so much to advance Christianity. We have had great numbers of true leaders in this country; this nation doesn&#8217;t need salvation, so leave it alone&#8221;? No, we just cannot say that.</p>
<p>Is it correct to say that America should be an exception because of its great Constitution or its freedom? When God decides to cut the wild olive tree, He will do it. He does not allow exceptions. Outwardly, the bud on the satanic, wild olive tree looks just the same as that on the true olive tree; in fact, it might look a little better, since it receives better nourishment. So those buds might ask, &#8220;Why should we be cut?&#8221; All the four billion wild olive buds out there are looking at the Moonies, thinking, &#8220;How pitiful they are, so pale and miserable. We are much better off than they are.&#8221; As members of the Unification Church we cannot indulge ourselves in the lifestyle of the outside world until we have gained real freedom for everybody. What do you think about my conclusion? Is it right or wrong?</p>
<p>When God decides to restore the wild olive into the true olive tree, would He say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s just do a little bit now and a little bit tomorrow, and a little bit next year&#8221;? What do you think? Would He like to take ten thousand years to do it, or wouldn&#8217;t He want to do it all at once? What about Reverend Moon? Would I like to do it piecemeal?</p>
<p>Even though the root of the true olive tree is small, the important thing is that it is resting on God. The root of the wild tree is resting on Satan. Always remember that, even though you are restored members of the Unification Church, your original roots from your ancestors are from the wrong, satanic side. We have not been born of the True Parents but of the fallen lineage, and we are in the process of being restored.</p>
<p>When you look at trees you can see that their natural instinct is to reach up to the sun. It is the same with the flowers and grasses. Even if a branch is growing downwards, the leaves will reach upwards. The sun represents the source of life, so all the leaves and buds face toward that. The branches, the root and the stems all come under one direct line and that is the Tree of Life. When the tree grows taller, the branches become wider. The trunk goes up in a straight line, and at the same time, the roots reach out and take hold of wider and wider territory. The energy of life passes through that straight line, up through the trunk to the branches in a direct line.</p>
<p>Your original mind is the deepest part of yourself. Right below that is God, so your original mind rests in the fertile soil of God. In the engrafting process, the branches are cut off but the root remains. Then the true branches can begin to grow. When that process begins, even though that root is the original satanic one, it will be transformed into a new root.</p>
<p>Can we penetrate all the thousands-of-years-old customs of the satanic world and bring about a revolutionary change? Do we have that kind of energy and vitality? If that satanic root maintains itself, then the fruit will not be good, even though engrafting was done. The true tree will not develop properly. In other words, maybe the shape will be just like the true olive tree, but the olives won&#8217;t have a good taste. How can God enjoy that poor tasting olive?</p>
<p>After the engrafting process takes place, how do we transform the root into a new one? No matter how much effort is made by all 44 billion people in the cosmos, it would not come into fruition. Only by the power of the love of God and the True Parents will that root be transformed. Therefore, you will be plunged into the melting pot of the True Parents and God so that all your fallen, foreign elements can be burned away. All that will remain of you is what is centered upon God and the True Parents&#8217; love.</p>
<p>Do you already possess the true love that can burn up the iniquities and ugliness of the satanic world? Even though you are engrafted-you turned your lineage over to the True Parents and God-your power alone will not be enough to burn up the iniquities of this world. Your children, the blessed children, will be more powerful than you; they are purer than you.</p>
<p>Do you think the True Parents should listen to and follow the advice of the fallen generations? No one can advise the True Parents because there is no one with sufficient purity to advise them. The True Parents act from the genuine, true thought which flows from God and true love.</p>
<p>Let us reflect upon ourselves in the Unification Church. Since we joined this church, what kind of life have we lived? God and the True Parents created a new, true love pond. Have you become like a child, taking off all your clothing and plunging headfirst into that pond? Or are you just standing on the edge and dipping your toes in? When you jump into that love pond, is your body so filthy that you will make the whole pond dirty? Is that the kind of men and women you are?</p>
<p>Most of you have been a part of the life of the Unification Church for many years, and most of you have received the Blessing. What kind of members are you? Have you been living according to something less than the real Unification Church direction? There is much more distance to be covered, so we have to be shedding tears. We must be kneeling on the floor and repenting. Repentance must be the first thing on our agenda.</p>
<p>Your mouth is still so imperfected, so dirty and fallen, yet that mouth is saying, &#8220;We don&#8217;t want those Korean and Japanese leaders. All we need is the American way.&#8221; But you must correctly understand one thing: I am not promoting the Korean way or the Oriental way. I have been opposed by the Korean and Japanese people for forty years. Why have I been opposed if I am promoting the Oriental way?</p>
<p>I even went to Danbury. A prison is the lowest place in any society, but that is where I went because this country opposed me. I did that to save America. Do you think we can save this country with the power of our fists? No, it can only be saved by true love. This principle has not changed one iota.</p>
<p>When I was in Korea these past six months, I was given the constant message, &#8220;American members want you to come back.&#8221; Why should I have come back to America, really? Because it&#8217;s comfortable, or for money or fame? No. If I wanted to, I could certainly acquire more of those kinds of things in some other country. I came back here in order to wage the final battle for this nation&#8217;s sake.</p>
<p>&#8220;True Parents and I&#8221; is the title of today&#8217;s sermon. You call me and Mother your True Father and Mother, correct? What do the True Father and the True Mother do? The True Parents provide you with the root of God, upon which you can grow and prosper. True love can spring forth like water from that root, and all of humanity can dip themselves into it and be saved.</p>
<p>Before this time, even though the root of God and true love was there, it was not flowing to humanity and the world. Thus the True Parents came to bridge the gap so that true love can flow. Logically speaking, without the appearance of the True Parents, there could be no way the true love of God could flow into mankind. This is the absolutely logical conclusion-the appearance of True Parents is the hope of humanity.</p>
<p>In the Unification Church the most peculiar, extraordinary phenomenon is occurring. Young people do not want to arrange their own marriages; they place this most important decision in the hands of the True Parents. The young people who are joining the Unification Church are some of the best people in the United States. They are highly motivated and sincere and they dedicate their lives to the True Parents. Those most brilliant young people are giving up their own country, in a way, as well as their own parents and families. They give up their social status and their studies when they decide to follow Reverend Moon, a man who has gone to prison. Why is that?</p>
<p>We have great numbers of Japanese members in this country. Have they come to America because they are so eager to live with white people? NO, their only reason is that the True Parents are here. They have left their home and crossed the Pacific Ocean, coming to this foreign land, unable to speak the language or understand the culture. They came here to work for the sake of saving this country, working harder than the American people That is truly extraordinary and amazing.</p>
<p>What about you first-class American citizens? Are you proud of that? There are many city and regional leaders who have really overworked the Japanese members, letting them go out and do all the fundraising. Then the leaders sit down and spend that money. Actually, if I were just a secular businessman and I brought those Japanese people here to suffer so much, they would all turn against me, saying, &#8220;What are you doing to us?&#8221; Would probably be clubbed to death by them. Instead, they never complain. The American people are the ones doing the most complaining, behind the scenes.</p>
<p>In this situation, who shall be responsible for the future of America? Those Japanese people, or me? Who shall be ultimately responsible for America? Yes, it is you Americans. I will go back to Korea and the Japanese will return to their country. After that, what will you do? Can you say, &#8220;No problem. We can take care of all America&#8221;? It is a shame that among Americans, the black and Hispanic people are following the True Parents more faithfully than the white people. That is the reality. While this continues, the white-centered culture will decline; more animosity will arise toward the white people on the part of minorities. The black people will resent more and more the self-centered and arrogant white people&#8217;s traditions.</p>
<p>Your relationship to the True Parents should be very clear to you through this morning&#8217;s sermon. The Bible says that you should not worry about what to eat or drink or where to dwell. Those things are what the Gentiles worry about. You only have to worry about one thing- seeking God&#8217;s Kingdom. By the same token, in the Unification Church you should only worry about becoming a partaker of the true love of God and the True Parents. Plunge into it and become intoxicated by that love. When that is the case, nothing can bother you-not your family, not the way of life, nothing. Are you totally immersed in the true love of God? That is the question.</p>
<p>When I observe many of the long-time members of the Unification Church, I see them saying, &#8220;I am working for the sake of the whole.&#8221; But they are actually the most tired-out, dispirited people. I don&#8217;t want people to be like that. We are going to face the most difficult times from now on. If you Unification Church members today are virtually exhausted, can you face it when even greater waves of difficulties hit you? Will you find the power and energy to break through and overcome it? You must be thinking this way. You have to be more serious. Think, &#8220;I am ready for the greater difficulties ahead of us. Nothing can deter me.&#8221; You must think that way, being ready to spring into action at any time, bubbling with enthusiasm. Otherwise, you will be distracted, left out from the ranks and left behind in the march. I have been in and out of prison, not just one time but six different times, but I was never deterred. My spirit was only strengthened. When I came to America, my destiny was, in a way, to march toward the prison. I knew that and I welcomed it; if that was my destiny, I would not shrink from it. I have never deviated from my path.</p>
<p>Today I declare that in the march toward Moscow, I expect another prison to be waiting for me there. Will you let Reverend Moon do all the things necessary to get to Moscow? Or do you want to go ahead of me and prepare things for me? I want you to know that there are members, brothers and sisters, working behind the Iron Curtain in all those satellite countries who are desperately laying the foundation.</p>
<p>When I was in Danbury, I did not rest even one day. I had many plans and strategies, new organizations to create. Those things are blossoming today. Even yesterday at the breakfast table, Dr. Pak reported some event to me and I asked him to give that information to Dr. Durst. If even Dr. Durst doesn&#8217;t know about some of the things we are doing, how much do you not know?</p>
<p>This is the time of the showdown; we are now at the crossroads. We are not talking about tomorrow; it is today. When I am at East Garden, I am always busy, always active. I don&#8217;t have any leisure time. When I was in Korea for the past six months, almost 40 million Korean people were completely awakened by my presence. That includes national assemblymen, who are the equivalent of U.S. congressmen. What am I trying to do? I am not seeking political power. I have only one thing on my mind: to do the will of God and create the nation and world where God&#8217;s love can prevail. I want to plant God&#8217;s love in America, Korea and all other nations.</p>
<p>Are you becoming the arms and legs of Reverend Moon? Do my arms and legs reach toward their own selfish interests, or toward the interests of God and true love and truth? You are the fruit of Reverend Moon in America. I have sacrificed my own family, clan and personal affairs in the process of loving you. I would like you to be such accomplished people that I could take you to Korea and Japan and let them see you and be proud of you. That is my ambition.</p>
<p>What does that come out of-love or hatred for you? Do you know I love you? I would like you to become people I can be most proud of. That is my deepest, inmost thought. I am waiting for that. Dr. Durst sometimes tells me, &#8220;American members are working very hard and suffering a great deal.&#8221; But what about those Japanese brothers and sisters? They are working day in and day out, ten or even a hundred times harder than you. I would like to send the American leadership to Japan to join the fundraising crews for several months.</p>
<p>I brought the Japanese members here so they could help you to grow in membership in America. Then I will send American members to the rest of the world. As much as I am proud of the Japanese members here, I would like to be even more proud of the American members around the world.</p>
<p>Do you think that in this world restoration the Japanese or the Americans would be faster front-line soldiers? What does your common sense say? The American people would be faster because the United States is the most important and respected country in the world. I want you to know that America is the Abel nation. God guided and nurtured this country for 200 years, bringing Abel-type people from around the world into this microcosm.</p>
<p>In order to become the new forefathers of America, you must do more than those Puritans who came on the Mayflower. You must go beyond the strengths and sufferings of your ancestors in order to live up to your mission. In the future there will be less persecution but there is still an incredible uphill battle to wage. There are so many barriers, so many languages and cultures. Each country has its own idiosyncrasies. How can we harmonize all these?</p>
<p>What will digest the discord among the people in the United States-the Anglo-Saxons, the Jews, the Hispanics, the Blacks, the Asians, the German descendants, and all the rest? Inside this country there is incredible corruption, discord, and struggle, but America just puts on more makeup, like a beautiful woman on the street. But that is not the answer. That does not bring peace to America. I want you to know that the external element is not the primary factor.</p>
<p>Think how difficult it is to keep your own standard in the Unification Church. Self-management is not easy, so even after ten or twenty years in the church, people are still struggling. How can you bring the people of the world into one? Should we expect God, who does not even have His own hands and legs, to do it? He has to work through His instruments, human beings. You are God&#8217;s instruments. Actually, all that God can rely on fully is the True Parents and you. Each one of you should be such a vibrant dynamo that I could pick you up and plant you in some foreign place and see a Unification Church germinate there. That is what God wants.</p>
<p>What shall we do, then? First of all, we have to combat the self and be victorious in that battle. You must have a deep sense of gratitude, saying, &#8220;God picked me up and restored me. Knowing that I have found the True Parents and I am in the position to serve them, I am deeply grateful.&#8221; Unless your life is based upon such gratitude, sooner or later you will drift away. Gratitude is the basic, fundamental attitude of my own life. When I listen to the worldwide reports of church leaders, I hear more discouraging ones than good ones. There is more suffering than accomplishment.</p>
<p>In many cases, the destiny of a nation is hanging by a thread. Each day, I make decisions that directly influence the destiny of the nations in the future. Your own decisions do not have impact upon the destiny of whole nations, but I am in a different position. When one decision is wrongly made, then I am responsible and the burden falls upon me. I know clearly where I want everyone to go and I give the direction, but everybody is reluctant. They don&#8217;t want to be directed; they don&#8217;t want to go.</p>
<p>I am sure some of you have experienced the loss of parents or spouses through death; some of you parents have even experienced the loss of children. In such cases you experienced tremendous heartbreak. How much more pain must God feel when He loses His most genuine, lovely creations. Can you imagine the broken-heartedness of God?</p>
<p>Do you think I should continue to suffer here in America? Can you be responsible for my tradition, for what I have been doing? Do you have the energy and power to do it? All right, let&#8217;s do it then. Let&#8217;s give ourselves totally and sincerely to it.</p>
<p>I will tell you something that I experienced a couple of years ago. I visited one place where there was a member who had decided to leave the Church that very day. It happened that I was on the same airplane with that person. Up to that day, that member had felt that I was his Father, but on that day, he decided that I was nobody. He walked past my seat on the plane, and he didn&#8217;t even look at me or have the common decency to greet me and say hello. I thought that, even supposing we had not shared a religion or teaching, at least in terms of human decency, is that any way to treat someone you know? Is that the product of individualism here in America? How can someone turn around so completely in one day and create such a wall? I was really wondering about that. This is not only one instance-there have been many in my life. These show the potential ugliness of the human heart.</p>
<p>Here is another example. There have been businesses and enterprises which our movement initiated. I assigned a leader to one of these, but I found out that he was treating the members there like slaves, giving them incredible treatment, simply because they were black and Hispanic. That person didn&#8217;t even like them. Think of that from the parental point of view. It&#8217;s unimaginable. I have had to swallow things like this more than once, digest them and move on. I didn&#8217;t express anger. I want you to know one thing: I have been in America for fourteen years, during which I have poured my heart, soul, body and material for the well-being of this nation. No one can deny that.</p>
<p>I have spoken to you frankly at times. I have scolded you, yelled at you, sometimes even pounded on your heads. Is that because I hate you? No, it is the expression of my love; I want to see you grow as rapidly as possible so that you can reach a certain level of accomplishment in the shortest possible time. For fourteen years I have left Korea behind; I have abandoned my country, in a way. When I went back this time, the Korean people did not want me to return to America, saying, &#8220;Why should you go back there?&#8221; They strongly expressed their desire for me to stay. But I persuaded them that I had to return, and then they wept behind the scenes without saying anything, knowing I had to go.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to remember all of this. But one point is very important: who will be responsible if I do leave America permanently? During these past six months, have you been assembled at Belvedere service like this every Sunday morning? Think about Belvedere without True Parents. Imagine if I left America forever, never to return. Think about that.</p>
<p>If you want my heart to continue to dwell in America, it is basically up to you. It will be determined by your own attitude toward me and the movement, toward the Principle and toward your mission. That will determine how long I will continue to dwell here and give my love here. Have you ever imagined me spending these past fourteen years in some country like Brazil or some other Latin American country?</p>
<p>The American church has not yet become self sustaining, either spiritually or materially. Does this mean you should just give up? Is that what you will do? We have a very serious decision to make. I have one important mission remaining in this country, one more thing to do and I am tackling that now. Regardless of whether you listen to me and follow me, what I have spoken on this platform shall become a part of the history of the United States. This is the central point of the future of this country. With these words, you in America shall be judged. So it is a most serious moment when you are listening to me at Belvedere. The key question to ask yourself is, &#8220;Can I do what Father has done and succeed in his mission in this country?&#8221;</p>
<p>If your determination is firm, you can go forward without one iota of deviation no matter what difficulties you may have to face. I have done that in my life. Look at my own children. They came to America simply because their Daddy and Mommy came here; there was no other reason. They have grown up here, enduring a lot of ridicule from this society. Imagine the children&#8217;s position when their father went to prison. Think of it from a father&#8217;s point of view: &#8220;What did I give to my own children? Am I bringing honor to them?,, Now they have become an even greater target of ridicule from society and their peers.</p>
<p>Mother, through no fault of her own, has suffered because of me. What about prison? Nobody can be trusted there. It is like the wilderness, without any protection. Mother went to the prison virtually every other day, like clockwork, rain or shine. The average woman would give up, saying, &#8220;Why should I do this? I am disgusted by my destiny.&#8221; Without knowing the True Parent&#8217;s ideal and the dispensation, she would have had an entirely different experience. Do you think that she shed a great deal of secret tears? Mother and the family had to go on and conduct five o&#8217;clock Pledge service each Sunday, painfully aware that I was in prison. I&#8217;m sure they shed a lot of tears.</p>
<p>Why did I come here to America? Why have I become such a controversial man, going through so much pain and persecution? It is only for the fulfillment of God&#8217;s will. You have to remember this point.</p>
<p>This is my first speech at Belvedere since the six months in Korea. I want you to know that I have done everything possible for the sake of the United States. Probably in another six months, I will review the events in this country. As I said, there is one more important thing I am undertaking. Then my mission is truly finished in America. The other day, we held a leader&#8217;s conference after my return. There I told them, &#8220;My mission in America is consummated.&#8221;</p>
<p>Who shall succeed me in this mission? Do you have full confidence to be the ones? I have never forgotten my first flight over the Pacific to the United States-my thoughts on that plane are still vivid in my mind. After I landed in America, I visited forty-eight states within forty-three days. While driving on the road, I was thinking about America, planning for the future. I always comforted God, saying, &#8220;Father, You have Your will for this nation and I shall fulfill that for You. I will bring the glory to You.&#8221; To fulfill that pledge, I have worked every day and night for the past fourteen years in this country. Of course, I have done a lot of activities centered on the church, but I have done things beyond that, too. I have initiated many national and global projects. In a way, there was a declaration of competition between the U.S. government and the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.</p>
<p>Do you have confidence? I know you do not have enough of the right kind of confidence. That means we need help from God. We can obtain this through deep prayer, dedication and sacrifice. Many American young people do not like that kind of life. I know that well, but someone in America has to do this mission.</p>
<p>The final battle is ahead of us. With determination and a willingness to sacrifice, we shall tackle and win the glorious victory. For fourteen years, you have been like children. I have accepted your complaints and your criticisms. Before you get up in the ring for the big championship fight, you can say all kinds of things: &#8220;I&#8217;m tired, My legs hurt.&#8221; But once you are in that ring, you have no time to worry about such things. You have to just fight and knock out your opponent. That is the only goal once you get in the ring.</p>
<p>What you should do is liberate me from all the pressure and burdens I am carrying. I do not have the freedom to go anywhere freely. Once you know the truth and you are determined to unite, plunging into the mission, we know we can win. Victory is assured. God has prepared everything. Therefore, we can be bold and strong! We are going to bring the turning point of human history. From now until 1988 is the time of emergency and crisis for the United States, as well as for international communism. So we are going to have three exciting years, plunging into our victorious battle.</p>
<p>Let us pledge that victory to God. Those who are marching toward that final battlefield to win the victory which God promised us, let us say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221; and raise our hands . Thank you. God bless you.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T15:57:57+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/true-parents-birthday.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T15:57:57+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1985.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 25, 1985<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Everybody was hoping that we would have nice weather today but it was chilly and damp this morning. However, as the day progressed it became warm and bright for our celebration, so this is the first blessing from Heavenly Father today. Since the weather is so beautiful and everybody feels wonderful, I have to talk about something wonderful.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure that everyone of you has heard news about Danbury from Mr. Kamiyama, as well as hearing his testimony. Those who have not yet heard his testimony should get copies of it.</p>
<p>As you know, I am a totally free man but because of the circumstances of my environment there are many limitations upon me. Someone might ask me, &#8220;Looking back upon your life, have you lived according to your own will?&#8221; What do you think? Do you think that I have lived my life entirely according to my own will?</p>
<p>When we speak of God&#8217;s will, we speak of two different aspects of it. First of all, there was the original will of God before the human fall. The other aspect of God&#8217;s will is what we call the restorational will, which arose only after the fall of man. Which one do you think God has been living by-the first or the second? Certainly, He has been living according to the second. When God must live according to His restorational or dispensational will, can there be any room for His followers to do things according to their own wisdom or whim?</p>
<p>What kind of a life is it when you are living without true freedom, for the purpose of restoration by indemnity? What about a beautiful woman? Do you think that such a person would be able to live her entire life according to her own whim, doing everything she might want to do? The answer is clearly no, but there is a serious issue involved in that question. Suppose you were the husband of a beautiful, loving wife. How much do you think you would be able to freely express the depth of your love, doing everything you want to do with your wife?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say that each spouse is calling out to the other- &#8220;Husband, please come here&#8221; or &#8220;Wife, please come here.&#8221; Do you think that they could always drop everything and go, especially considering the circumstances of society today? These are rather serious questions.</p>
<p>Let us ask another serious question. How many people in the world have understood that God&#8217;s will has had to be divided into two parts, before and after the fall of man? There have not been any people before who understood this fact about God. Therefore it is obvious that without a person who is capable of explaining these different aspects of God&#8217;s will here on earth, there is no way we can even expect that the will of God can be done on earth. If no one even understands God&#8217;s will, how can that will be done? That is a logical conclusion.</p>
<p>Let us look at Adam, the first man in history. Do you think Adam knew completely what he had done wrong after his fallen action and what damage had been done to the will of God? How about Cain and Abel? Do you think Abel knew God&#8217;s will precisely? Noah was a faithful and obedient man, but did he know precisely what God was doing? What about Abraham? Abraham didn&#8217;t know God&#8217;s will fully and precisely; neither did Jacob, Moses, or John the Baptist.</p>
<p>Therefore, until history welcomes the person who really understands the will of God, the fulfillment of religion is virtually impossible. Jesus as the Messiah must have known God&#8217;s will. Although he was rejected by the people of his own time, why didn&#8217;t he give the whole message for the sake of the people of the future? Some true Christian today could be in the position to say, &#8220;Jesus, why didn&#8217;t you tell us the full will of God, so that we could know our direction and we could have avoided this confusion and chaos?&#8221; This is the question: &#8220;Jesus, what exactly were you? Why didn&#8217;t you tell us everything?&#8221;</p>
<p>There must be some reason why Jesus couldn&#8217;t tell the whole truth, the naked truth. The important point is this- the will of God must be fulfilled first by God, then by the direct children of God. The direct son and daughter of God must be in the position to not only know the will of God but also to fulfill it.</p>
<p>God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in order to fulfill His purpose of creation. When did God want that purpose to be fulfilled? What was His timetable? Did He expect them to fulfill that purpose immediately after their birth, while they were crawling around as babies?</p>
<p>What do we mean by fulfilling the will of God? The fulfillment of God&#8217;s will would produce great joy and ecstasy in God. Furthermore, husband and wife were involved in that, but what kind of husband and wife are we talking about? This is the very problem. We are talking about true men and women with perfected love.</p>
<p>That means the man and woman are completely one, harmonized in every direction-vertically, horizontally, front and back. How can we make true oneness, true unification? It is only through true love. True love is the method by which we can bring about total oneness, total harmony, total unification.</p>
<p>The kind of oneness we are talking about has a certain orderliness or logic to it. All the components have their own positions. That is, the head is in the head&#8217;s position; the arm stays in the arm&#8217;s position and doesn&#8217;t try to take the leg&#8217;s position, or vice-versa. There must be a certain order and according to that order, proper harmony and unification occur.</p>
<p>God had a certain concept of order, so when He created Adam and Eve. He didn&#8217;t tell them that anything they wanted to do was just fine. There was a certain discipline, a certain order they had to follow to do His will. This is why God gave them the commandment not to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.</p>
<p>When Adam and Eve were created they were given the opportunity to learn how to become the Lords of the earth, to take dominion over the earth. Thus they had to know all about the creation. Without going through this educational process, they could not take their position of dominion.</p>
<p>Were there birds in the Garden of Eden? Yes, there were. How about butterflies, ants, and so forth? Of course they were all in the Garden of Eden. What is your goal in life? Do you want to become an ant, or a bird, or a butterfly? No? You say you want to become a true child of God? What is that? Well, in the first place you have to be a human being. Your desire therefore is to become a true human being, a true man or woman, correct?</p>
<p>What is the definition of a true man or a true woman? The true man is, first of all, centered upon God; furthermore, he is centered upon love and in that way becomes united forever, for eternity. That is true man and true woman. Do you follow? The first component of a true man is God. The next is love and then, absolute unity. That kind of man or woman is a true man or woman.</p>
<p>As you might expect, the next question is, are you true men and women? Is this a gathering of true men and women, or of false men and women, or what? You are in training and you want the training, but you always flunk- that&#8217;s the problem! Since you are under training and you don&#8217;t want to flunk, do you want me to really push you hard and teach you today? &#8220;No matter how much hardship I may have to bear, I want to become a true man or woman. Father, please do anything you must do with me,&#8221; those who say that, raise your hands please. You are so greedy!</p>
<p>The definition of true man and woman is rather simple; the truth is always simple. The problem is how to live and fulfill it. In the morning you get up and go out to your work, thinking, &#8220;I want to live as a true human being.&#8221; But that effort is an enormous challenge, isn&#8217;t it? And it is always very serious. Who should become a true man? Each person must say &#8220;I shall become a true human being.&#8221;</p>
<p>The most crucial question of people in history has been how to become true human beings. Once this question is solved, all the other questions can be solved. What about your own ancestors? Did they want to become true men and women? What about your children and posterity? will they want to become true men and women? Of course, they will want that. Thus this is a serious issue.</p>
<p>Will we become true men and women only after we die and go to heaven? Or will we do it on earth? What about Jesus-was he a true man? How do you know he was? The true man must be filled with true love: with that love he is inspired to unify with others, with all of humanity. We know that Jesus came in the position of the second Adam. Thus there must be someone in the position of second Eve. Did he find his Eve in his time?</p>
<p>Did God create true man for his sake alone, or to serve true woman? The &#8220;commodity&#8221; called man was created for the purpose of service to woman. A woman should have a husband who is eternally united with her, centered upon God and true love. The woman will say, &#8220;This is the man who is going to love me forever; I know he will not leave me but will always be with me, centered upon God.&#8221; In that way, that man becomes a true man, from the viewpoint of the woman. She can say, &#8220;You are my ideal man. You will never change. You will maintain your purity, your unselfishness.&#8221;</p>
<p>When the man looks at that woman he sees beyond the externals of face and so forth and recognizes that she possesses purity of love, an unchanging quality and desire to serve him with joy. He can see that she is going to remain with him forever and that they will be one forever, centered upon God.</p>
<p>Therefore, the man is the one who gives the diploma to the woman as a true woman and the woman gives the man his diploma as a true man. And when they are united, only then does God become a reality. It is that simple.</p>
<p>Let us return to a very important question: Why didn&#8217;t Jesus tell us the whole, unvarnished truth? He knew the whole truth and he was in the position to tell the world, but he couldn&#8217;t tell the world. Why? It is because there was no model for him to present, no material. He was not able to give the formula. That is why. Jesus knew the truth but he could not fulfill it, so he could not speak it. He could not leave behind him the tradition of true men and women. He had to fulfill certain stages, certain steps of that truth.</p>
<p>That is why the only alternative for Jesus was to come again. By the fact that he said, &#8220;I must return,&#8221; it shows that he knew the truth but he could not fulfill it in his own time. It is realistic that when he comes again, he will seek his own bride for the fulfillment of the Marriage of the Lamb. Jesus was indeed the Messiah, the son of God, without question. His qualifications were absolute.</p>
<p>When Jesus comes again, first he must become a true man himself; furthermore, he must find and raise up a true woman. And they must unite together as husband and wife, receiving the eternal blessing from God and dwelling in the unbreakable bond of true love. At that point, God will say, &#8220;I have fulfilled my will.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thus Jesus must have a wife and that woman must be in the position to say, &#8220;Jesus is my husband; he is an ideal man and he is a true man.&#8221; That particular statement must be uttered by a woman. Jesus must be in that position. Then God will say, &#8220;That is indeed my son and my daughter, united together.&#8221;</p>
<p>How would they become one in love? First of all, the man and woman must each become the embodiment of the love of God so that God&#8217;s love is burning within them. When you are burning with that love, you cannot sit idly. The man and woman are so completely united that when God is in between them, He will be totally embraced. That will be His fulfillment. There is nothing more. Men and women have the natural urge to embrace each other and become one, but the problem has always been that they did not have God within them. Suppose two beauty queens are hugging each other and expressing intimate love. Is that natural? If other people see such a thing, they are repulsed and they look away. The skin of a beauty queen is soft and spongy. When such skin rubs against another soft, spongy woman&#8217;s skin, that is unimaginable. It is almost as if God had created people with soft bones, just like the flesh. Think of it! That would be very strange.</p>
<p>Is there any woman who desires a husband who is boneless? Naturally you women are opposed to a soft, boneless man. What kind of man do you want? You like a man with a lot of muscle, strong bones, lots of hair on the skin. When his strong hand grabs yours, your hand just melts inside of it. That is the way nature is; that is the blueprint of God. Men and women are supposed to be different.</p>
<p>Some American women are saying, &#8220;We want to be in the bone position. Let the men become the soft, spongy flesh.&#8221; Today America is suffering from terrible confusion; people have no understanding of right order, who is subject or object, who takes initiative, who is responsive. What about you American Unification women, are you different? Who are the subjects, men or women?</p>
<p>In America, many women pull the men around behind them, shaking their hips and the men just follow timidly. I have never seen so many boneless men as in America- &#8220;Yes, darling, whatever you say.&#8221; Do you women like that kind of man? If you women don&#8217;t change that trend, there can be nothing but darkness for the future of this country. There must be God&#8217;s order and sequence. We must maintain that discipline.</p>
<p>There is no one else saying this kind of thing except Reverend Moon, so no one can educate American women except me. Do you accept that? You do, and then you listen to me. You feel compelled to listen to me, recognizing the logic of what I say. Those who have been blessed, raise your hands please. Who gave you the blessing? How expensive was that blessing? It is beyond price and you cannot exchange it for the entire world.</p>
<p>Sometimes I feel regret for having given the blessing, rather than fulfillment. I want you to know why I have given you the blessing. It was so that you could become true men and women, uniting as model husband and wife, and model family in the sight of God.</p>
<p>Thus no one has the right to say, &#8220;I do not like that type of person for my spouse. Even though Father gave the blessing to us, I don&#8217;t really see its value.&#8221; Who made that decision, God or you? There is no room for that self centered, horizontal kind of thinking. In order to make one heavenly matching possible, there was martyrdom and suffering for the 2,000 years of Christian history.</p>
<p>I want you to understand that although human history is represented in the Bible as 6,000 years, scientifically it is closer to many millions of years. All of this time, God has been seeking after His one day of fulfillment, that day of true marriage between men and women. That is the historical, critical importance of the blessing.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t you think Jesus Christ wanted to be able to give the blessing to his own disciples? I want you to understand that in religious history, marriage was frowned upon in a way. Celibacy was always elevated as the most noble way of life. But only within the Unification Church, in the name of the True Parents, are we making marriage the culmination of human history.</p>
<p>What is the meaning of the word &#8220;unification&#8221;? It means the unification of the love of God with the love of husband and wife and the love of humanity. This is why the word unification was adopted for our church. When you join the Unification Church and accept the teachings, how do you look at Reverend and Mrs. Moon? They are the True Parents to you. No religion before has ever spoken about the True Parents; we are the first. What are the True Parents? The True Parents are the fulfillment of the will of God, the fulfillment of the unification of His love. That is why the advent of the True Parents is so historically important.</p>
<p>But you do not know the real implication of the words &#8220;True Parents.&#8221; You do not know the long, hard path necessary to come to the point where those words could be spoken. Behind the words &#8216;True Parents&#8221; and &#8216;Unification&#8221; is a hidden history of suffering which you have not known about. Only upon the victory in the incredible showdown with the satanic world could the word &#8216;Unification&#8221; become a reality.</p>
<p>You also do not know how much heaven and earth have already changed in the last seven months since I have been staying at Danbury. I want you to know that I am not wasting time at Danbury. That is the place of the showdown between heaven and earth and I have been working harder than ever there. The power of evil has been steadily declining during this time while the power of goodness has been going up. Eastern civilization has been going upwards and Western civilization has been harmonizing and unifying with the East:</p>
<p>The day of my release will come and after that people will realize that Reverend Moon was innocent, that there was no justification for him to have been put into jail by America. On the day that I went into Danbury, people thought they were getting rid of the trouble making leader of the Unification Church. But on the day that I come out of Danbury, the world will see not just the leader of the Unification Church but a man making history. Furthermore, America will find new hope. America will have no more excuses before me.</p>
<p>There are so many people who are changing their attitudes toward the Unification Church. People who were formerly ardent enemies as well as leaders of the academic and religious communities have come to visit me in Danbury. In many cases, the first words they spoke were, &#8220;Reverend Moon, on behalf of my government, I apologize. I am ready to listen to you. You are a great man. You are serving our country, preserving our religious freedom, protecting us from the dangers of communism.&#8221; One leader after another has spoken like that before me and Mother.</p>
<p>The prison is the place for plain talk. There is no need for adjectives. I simply spoke the naked truth to them and said, &#8220;Will you do it, or not? Do you agree with this or not?&#8221; Everybody, even some important men, pledged in front of me. They used the word &#8220;pledge,&#8221; and said, &#8220;I pledge this before you, Reverend Moon.&#8221;</p>
<p>God certainly works in mysterious ways. If I had never gone to Danbury, those kinds of men would never have come to see me in the first place; in the second place, they would not have humbled themselves; and in the third place, they would not have pledged. This is the incredible miracle that is happening every day.</p>
<p>The first thing I did after going to Danbury was to ask Reverend Kwak to send out video tapes to 300,000 ministers: &#8220;God&#8217;s Warning to the World.&#8221; I feel very good because that is all done now. That was an incredible operation. If you study Biblical history, you will see that some of the greatest things happened to people in prison. Much of the New Testament was written by people in prison, such as St. Paul. The videotapes were my message sent from the prison.</p>
<p>Today I am feeling fulfilled. Earlier this morning, I prayed for a long time with Mother at the Pledge Service. In that prayer, I asked God to give me the opportunity to create a broad highway here on the earth so that anybody who got on that highway could go to heaven. This is a hellish world and Danbury is one of the worst places on earth. The prison represents hell on earth and from that place I am creating a highway all the way to heaven so that anybody can go to the goal.</p>
<p>When the Israelites had been wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, they selected twelve representatives to infiltrate Canaan and reconnoiter. Ten of them came back and said, &#8220;It is impossible to win.&#8221; Only Joshua and Caleb said, &#8220;If God is with us, what should we fear? We can win!&#8221; God blessed their faith and they were the only ones of the second generation to enter Canaan. All the rest perished in the wilderness. You know about that history. You are in the same position today. This is the end of our forty years wandering in the wilderness. The final three year crusade has begun. Who are going to be the Joshuas and Calebs? This is the question.</p>
<p>The second of the final three years, which was 1984, was the most crucial. At the beginning of that year, Heung Jin was taken. Also I entered prison in July of that year. However, I knew that we would turn each situation into great victory through that indemnity. Heung Jin&#8217;s Seung Hwa became much more than just a simple death. I offered it as a most crucial sacrifice to heaven, for the sake of unification. That is why the Unification Ceremony was conducted. The same is true of my own difficulties at the present time.</p>
<p>At the time of Heung Jin&#8217;s death, I wanted to make the sacrifice a most victorious one. For that reason, until Heung Jin passed on I never shed one tear. Everything I prayed for in the Unification Ceremony has become a reality, one point after another. The members of the Unification Church around the world know exactly the meaning of Heung Jin&#8217;s sacrifice and the role he is playing in spirit world today. 120 nations are coming into unity.</p>
<p>Like the accumulation of small streams flowing into one large river and culminating into a giant waterfall, this power cannot be stopped. What has happened since my incarceration? American public opinion has been changing, day by day. Many people were happy when they first heard that Reverend Moon was going into prison, but now more and more newspaper articles are coming out expressing a totally different attitude.</p>
<p>Furthermore, great numbers of ancestors are coming down from spirit world, helping people to see the truth. Reverend Moon has become a fearful character. Even the U.S. government approached my recent parole hearing like it was a &#8220;hot potato.&#8221; Those people who were responsible for my being prosecuted and put into jail are now in a state of fear and insecurity, due to this change in public opinion. If they weren&#8217;t that way on their own, spirit world would torment them until they felt that way.</p>
<p>The members of the Unification Church today, every one of you, are the modern day Joshuas and Calebs. You are in the position to tell the people, &#8220;Be bold and strong.&#8221; That is going to be our slogan: Be Bold and Strong. This is wartime so You Unification Church members cannot be</p>
<p>shaken or become fearful and restless. You must not say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s forget the mission. I want to go back home and take care of my father&#8217;s business.&#8221; Or, &#8220;My uncle has just died; I&#8217;ll go and bury him.&#8221; There is no time for that.</p>
<p>An amazing thing will happen. Now that 300,000 ministers have received the Divine Principle videotape and book, every day they will be more and more motivated to look at it. They may not want anybody else to know, so they may read it secretly.</p>
<p>This kind of a project would normally cost $20 million or more but because we are doing it ourselves, day and night, we are spending much less money and we are making a great impact around the country. The ministers now are in a very good position. When you shout out, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go to the land of Canaan! &#8216; all they have to say is &#8220;Amen.&#8221; They can follow and we can all enter that land of Canaan together.</p>
<p>Now you know why Jesus, even though he was the Messiah and he knew the will of God, could not give the truth completely and precisely. What about the message that Reverend Sun Myung Moon has been speaking during these past decades? Is that a complete revelation, more complete than what the Bible has revealed? Jesus was capable of doing that, but he did not have the momentum or the time. How could Reverend Moon do it? It is because Reverend Moon is capable of creating his own environment. Furthermore, this time in history is a more universal time. We are working on the worldwide stage; at the time of Jesus, it was a national stage.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s hope is always universal so He is always trying to create the momentum for His worldwide dispensation. There was only one time in human history when that particular environment was ripe and that was right after World War 11. At that time, the churches in Korea were divided between Cain and Abel. One part of the church was underground-those who worshipped the true God secretly because of the Japanese domination. But there was also a church which cooperated with the Japanese in order to survive. I was a member of the underground church.</p>
<p>At that time, I tried to educate several key political leaders. If they had listened to me then, the world situation today would be entirely different. The dispensation has always required unity between Cain and Abel. At that time, the Cain was the established Christian churches and Abel was the Unification Church. Both were supposed to unite.</p>
<p>Division between the original Cain and Abel began because of the failure of their parents, Adam and Eve. The Cain and Abel conflict started from Adam and Eve on the family level. But that conflict has grown to the clan, tribe, national, and worldwide levels. World War II was the worldwide struggle between Cain and Abel. Actually, that was the biblical Armageddon described in the Book of Revelation, in the sight of God.</p>
<p>According to the dispensational scheme, this work of uniting with the worldwide Abel should have begun when I was between the ages of 20 and 30. Within the Abel camp, there is always another level of Cain-Abel. Thus I had to win the Cain camp, one by one, and unite them into a larger Abel camp. If that had been successful, that is if the established Christian churches had united with and accepted the ideal of the True Parents at that time, everything would have been done. That means there would have been no room for communism to rise up in the world.</p>
<p>But what happened? Within the Abel camp, established Christianity never responded to the Unification Church. That is why that time was a total failure. Since that foundation was shattered, I had to go out into the wilderness for forty years where I had to gather up any remnants of people who could follow. Originally God had expected that circumstances and environment would welcome me everywhere, but on the contrary, after that time of failure I was rejected everywhere I went. Thus I had no choice but to go into the wilderness where I had to build up my own foundation, starting from the family, tribe, nation and world. That was done by pulling Abel-type remnants into our camp in the wilderness.</p>
<p>Our world today is divided into three main components: the free world, the communist world, and the Unification world. Until today, nobody has welcomed the Unification world, neither the free world or the communist world. Amazingly enough, the free world put Reverend Moon into jail and said, &#8220;Reverend Moon is our enemy.&#8221; Of course, the communists declared me their enemy a long time ago.</p>
<p>What is our weapon? It is an ideology, a worldview which centers upon God. It is an ideology of love which we call Godism. With this ideological strength, we are pushing hard at both the free world and the communist world. You are in the position to push the world away, pulling God into our camp. Are you doing that? We have two possible destinies: we are in between the two other camps so they will either crush us between them. or we will push them away. Which will it be?</p>
<p>The most important thing is that since we are at the center, we must remain like a rock, not moving one iota to the left or to the right. We cannot cry, &#8220;The enemy is coming so let&#8217;s take cover!&#8221; We must remain steadfast at the center. Satan thought, &#8220;Since the center of this ideology of Godism is Reverend Moon, let&#8217;s pull him away from the center and put him into jail. Then the Unification movement will collapse and perish. We will melt them!&#8221; But are we being melted?</p>
<p>When the enemies are pushing us from both sides, should we try to make a little elbow room and push them away, or should we continue to be squashed in the center? Would you like to use every ounce of your energy to push the enemy away, or just do it in a halfhearted way? Shall we work with sweat, or shall we tremble with fear? Shall we say, &#8220;My legs are tired so I think I&#8217;ll take a vacation&#8221;? Or shall we continue to push ourselves forward harder than ever? Shall we go forward or backward?</p>
<p>Who is your model for this fight? So far, I have been fighting this giant America all by myself. I have been called every bad name and have received every form of persecution but I have never faltered at all. Finally I went to prison but I began a new fight with renewed vitality once I went there. I did not relax one iota in prison.</p>
<p>I have been fighting for forty years. Since the liberation of Korea in 1945, I have spent the past forty years in the wilderness, pursuing this battle, and now the time has come for the consummation. Moses, after his forty years&#8217; struggle in the wilderness, was not able to enter into Canaan. He could only look upon it and then he died in the wilderness. However, Reverend Moon will not falter outside of Canaan. He will move forward like Joshua and Caleb and finish the task of building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.</p>
<p>A few weeks ago, a prominent young man came to visit me in Danbury. He represented the young people of America. He said to me, &#8220;Reverend Moon, I have witnessed the most amazing phenomenon during these past five years-many young people between the ages of 16 and 25 have become very conservative and anticommunist. Young people are turning against the hippie attitudes and are embracing patriotism and traditional values. I couldn&#8217;t have imagined such an incredible thing happening five years ago.&#8221; I told him, &#8220;I predicted such a thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here in America the conservative movement is growing. Reverend Moon appeals to those people. Christianity is the Abel group within the American conservative movement; therefore I am working to reach the ministers. You have heard about the Common Suffering Fellowship? They are the ministers who pledged themselves to suffer on behalf of Reverend Moon for one week apiece. I have a plan to educate 7,000 Christian ministers with Godism. Each of those 7,000 leading clergymen will unite with 10 peers apiece, meaning that 70,000 ministers will be mobilized. They can do it. The last time I spoke to you, I explained that each of you was responsible to educate 120 ministers</p>
<p>Another incredible chapter in the history of restoration has occurred during the past week. We invited 130 retired generals and admirals from the six continents to come to Paris to attend a conference called international Security Council. Those 130 generals and admirals came together under the sponsorship of Reverend Moon and talked about a worldwide strategy to stop the spread of communism and the Soviet Union. It was very successful. Americans are worrying about American security, but I am organizing a global security council. Actually, the U.S. government should be doing more but they are not; that is why I am doing it.</p>
<p>In order to strengthen this kind of posture for God, I am uniting with the Christian ministers. That is because they are the Abels of the Abel camp. At the same time, we must unite with such people as those retired soldiers, the police forces, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and other such organizations. The people most capable of understanding communism are the veterans who fought against it, defending their country. Christianity is often quite ignorant about communism so they need to be educated.</p>
<p>This is how we must unite the Abel people around the country. We need to tie them together with a &#8220;cable&#8221;. We are going to unite with the Christian world as well as these retired soldiers and veterans and others.</p>
<p>I came to America with the commitment of my life and my sacred honor. I walked into my court trial willingly, knowing that jail was most likely my destination. I walked out through the jail doors this morning and I will go back through those doors this evening, but I feel no shame. I am proud to be in that jail, proud to be doing good for the sake of God and humanity. If going to jail is the way to do that, I would go to jail a hundred times. How about you? Would you do the same? Will you follow my example?</p>
<p>Yes, I was totally abused in America, although I came here to save this country. They put me in the clothes of a criminal and put me in jail. But that is all right. They can do that, but they must pay the price. Danbury is no jail for me; those doors do not shut me in. From Danbury Hill, the rays of salvation will shine out to the world; the new gospel will be heard by all of humanity. God works in mysterious ways. He has a new strategy; God will make gains under any circumstances. God is the victor, even of Danbury.</p>
<p>Are you committing your lives? This is the year of our declaration and thus I asked the CAUSA members to prepare the CAUSA Manifesto on Godism.</p>
<p>Dr. Pak: Father has asked me to read this paragraph from the CA USA Manifesto in conclusion: &#8220;CA USA does not hide its goals or aims. We seek the end of communism. We also seek to end, by a moral revolution, corruption and exploitation in the free world. We proudly proclaim our goal to liberate Moscow. Let the communists tremble before the march of Godism. They have nothing to lose but their chains. With God, we have a world to win.&#8221; Communism has always said, &#8220;Workers of the world, unite.&#8221; Now Father has declared to the world, &#8220;Believers of the world, unite.&#8221; And there is a separate page upon which everybody in the conference signed the proclamation. Father asked me to put these words in the final sentence of that proclamation, &#8220;In the name of God, we commit our lives and our sacred honor to the accomplishment of this noble imperative.&#8221; Those retired generals and admirals had already committed their lives to fight against communism, so Father was saying to them, &#8220;flow can you not do it?&#8221; How about you?</p>
<p>Father: Each of you must decide. I do not want to decide your life for you. It is your life, after all. I made my own decision for my life so you must do the same. Have you committed your life? Raise your hands if you have.</p>
<p>From the center, we must push out completely on both sides. I want you to know that I will not remain in the United States all the time. I may go away somewhere. I came to America for the sake of the world; now I can go back to Korea to save my own country. Of course, I will leave behind millions of people in America who will commit their lives, as I have. But I cannot abandon Korea much longer; I will go back.</p>
<p>The time will come for you to lose your Moses, but Moses has to go Moses&#8217; destiny. Moses has a mission for Moses to fulfill. I will not leave this country until such people as those generals and admirals, those new heavenly soldiers, are dedicated to guiding America and saving the world That is the foundation I am making now; I will fulfill that mission before I leave here.</p>
<p>Do you feel that without our work, this world will perish? We must be responsible for this world-do you feel that to the bone? You haven&#8217;t known my strategy. I have initiated 250 IOWC&#8217;s around the country, moving around from state to state, and now they are settling down. They are becoming the fortresses of our movement, linking us to the established Christian churches. Everything has been worked out.</p>
<p>While I was fighting my legal battle, I also created the NCCSA, the mobile IOWC, and so forth. You didn&#8217;t know why. Even now you don&#8217;t know many of the things I am doing. Therefore don&#8217;t try to say, &#8220;I should know everything before I move,&#8221; because you would never move in that case. You must move, then find out.</p>
<p>We are also going to unite people on a worldwide basis. The PWPA, a fine intellectual organization, is in every country. Also the World Media Organization will link together media people around the world. Furthermore, a new magazine project affiliated with the Washington Times will be published for the purpose of education of the world. I want to create a magazine that professors would be proud of; at the same time, it should be something which students would want to keep, like an encyclopedia.</p>
<p>This is, in a way, our heavenly cultural revolution on the worldwide basis. You didn&#8217;t realize this. You must listen to what I say, follow the directions I give you and pray hard, crying out to God. In the meantime, everything will be accomplished step by step. When you go out to meet the ministers, sometimes they will treat you with scorn. But then you must cry more and go out again. Continue to do that. It is much more exciting to turn around those ministers who were opposed to you. You feel a great sense of triumph.</p>
<p>America is a tremendous challenge; therefore, I feel great excitement at the prospect of taming this country and turning it around. That is manly work, truly masculine work. All you men should harbor that kind of ambition. You women have the job of supporting and applauding the men as they go out to fight. When the men are defeated, you have to cry.</p>
<p>Today is my birthday but you are keeping me here for such a long time-you cruel people! You said you have committed your lives, didn&#8217;t you? For what mission? For the sake of God and humanity. My mission is the same- for God and humanity. That is because Satan is holding humanity.</p>
<p>Noah made that kind of decision himself. Abraham made that decision; he was willing to sacrifice his own son for the sake of God&#8217;s will. The beauty of that sacrifice was the obedience of Isaac, who never rebelled but accepted his fate at the hands of his father. That was true father/son unity in faith and through that Abraham was given the honor of becoming the father of faith.</p>
<p>Suppose Isaac had said, &#8220;Dad, what are you trying to do to me? Go get that lamb and kill it. How can you be so cruel? I will run away.&#8221; If Isaac had run away, Abraham&#8217;s family would never have come into being. Thus they truly committed their lives. Think about Jacob&#8217;s life. He spent 21 long, hard years working in the land of Haran. Do you think he risked his life or not? He was deceived by his uncle 10 times. Moses stuck his neck out every day, from the time he left Egypt through the forty years in the wilderness. He was risking his life every day. God always works with people who commit their lives.</p>
<p>John the Baptist also stuck his neck out, initially. What about Jesus? Did he risk his life? He gave his life. Today Reverend Moon is risking his life and that is why God cannot leave me. God is always working with me. I have experienced six different jails. All together I have spent five years in jails. Now every time I move on, I go to greater challenges, the worldwide jail.</p>
<p>In 19761 proclaimed our march toward Moscow and the world laughed. But I was determined that even if I lose my life in Moscow, I shall march there. That was my decision. I want you to know that today, right now, your brothers and sisters are working underground in Moscow. Some of them arc in prison right now. How can I reject the road to the jail when my young people are suffering in jail themselves?</p>
<p>At one time I received a message from a member that he was sentenced to execution, at a certain time and date. When that hour came, I solemnly prayed and remembered that person in tears. I pledged to God, &#8220;With my hands, I shall liberate Moscow.&#8221; I prayed for that brother and I told him spiritually, &#8220;Be bold and strong. Fear not for your death. I shall recover your body and bring it to Korea. In my will, I declare that you shall be buried in the same ground as the True Parents.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Unification Church is not a fun place. If anybody has been mistreated, it is I; so l could be very cruel in return. But in the name of God, I decided to forgive and love in return. We sent a missionary to Red China eight years ago. We are opening those doors steadily through Japanese professors and so forth. Many people never even thought about such things, as they have been eating well and sleeping and doing what they wanted. But meanwhile, I have been doing all these things. The very rocks at Belvedere know more than you. I have shed so many tears at that Holy Rock.</p>
<p>American youth may not realize now, but I will awaken them. I want to give clear direction to American youth, even though I have to suffer in prison. I have no regrets to stay in this country in order to map the proper direction for America. You cannot give me any greater birthday gift than if even one hundred of you will make up your minds and say, &#8220;I shall follow precisely Father&#8217;s path. I will walk this way unto my life for the sake of the other countries of this world. As Father has worked for America, I will work for the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you American young people will come to that commitment, America will truly save the world. The world will survive and prosper. That is God&#8217;s way, not only Reverend Moon&#8217;s way and therefore you will never perish by going that way. You will prosper.</p>
<p>When Mr. Kamiyama was staying with me in prison, I gave him certain information that even the 36 couples never heard, because I could not know what sorts of dangers might be near. I told the whole truth to Mr. Kamiyama.</p>
<p>A very serious ceremony was held at Pledge Service this morning. I prayed for the unity between heaven and earth. I prayed for a highway between heaven and hell so that we could achieve total unification of humanity in the name of God and His true love. In January I gave you the goal of meeting with 120 ministers. Now you have to do it. Run after it and accomplish that goal. Will you do it?</p>
<p>The title of this sermon was &#8220;<i>True Parents&#8217; Birthday.</i>&#8221; We do not have much more time today since I have many things to do before I leave. We don&#8217;t know when we will see each other again but it doesn&#8217;t really matter. You have received the message; you know your responsibility. I trust that each one of you will do it.</p>
<p>God is alive. That God wants to live with each one of you. You must think, &#8220;The living God is with me.&#8221; Say it aloud, &#8220;God is alive. He is dwelling with me.&#8221; Say it again. Therefore, be willing to do anything. Raise your hands and say, &#8220;Yes, Father!&#8221; God bless you.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-24T16:02:49+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/24/victory-celebration.html" rel="bookmark">June 24, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-24T16:02:49+01:00">June 24, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1985.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1985</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="CENTER">August 21, 1985,<br />
Belvedere<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>I feel sorry for those of you who have been waiting here since morning! I knew all along that you were here, expecting me to come. But as you know, last night&#8217;s banquet and program in Washington DC finished around 10:00. Then we drove back to East Garden, arriving after 2:00 this morning. After only a short rest, I began to receive the many reports from the major leaders. Before I give directions and a vision for the future, I wanted to hear each of the reports. I didn&#8217;t waste even one second to get to you today. You understand, don&#8217;t you?</p>
<p>If I began to give a sermon, it would probably continue throughout the night! We have many things on our agenda today, so I will give you only a short talk, and then you can listen to other reports, in order to get an overall view of what has been happening, particularly the events of yesterday.</p>
<p>The essence of my course to fulfill God&#8217;s providential will has been restoration through indemnity. As you know, when I came to the United States, I came as a lone individual, unnoticed, unassuming and unrecognized. But what happened? I built our movement up to the worldwide level, reaching a peak in 1976. Step by step, I have been winning victories for the restoration. But there should be some moment of ultimate victory, a grand finale for God&#8217;s whole dispensation for the United States.</p>
<p>The U.S. government&#8217;s intention in indicting me was not so much to wage a court battle, but to scare me out of this country. The indictment was issued while I was out of the country, and the Department of Justice hoped that I would not return. But their expectations were totally wrong. To avoid that battle would have meant acknowledging defeat without putting up a fight. They didn&#8217;t know that I have always taken the path of restoration through indemnity. I will never shy away from indemnity. Therefore, I willingly returned to face the battle. Furthermore, many outstanding people in history have been wrongly condemned through a court decision. I didn&#8217;t try to escape because I knew that I could not avoid any battle, small or large, if I expected to turn around the destiny of history.</p>
<p>Jesus Christ was condemned and crucified by the government of his time. Many saints were persecuted and condemned by evil governments. History has been stained as evil continually tries to stop righteous people. Thus, some champion must finally come forward and win the victory, not only for himself but to vindicate providential history and all the saints who were victimized by the evil political systems of their time.</p>
<p>In this modern day, I have set the record for defying the established order of this evil world, struggling not just for my own sake, but on behalf of all good people of the past. When I came to the United States, I presented a challenge to this gigantic country, to its three branches of government, and to its people. I acted out of a historical principle, to ensure the future survival of this country.</p>
<p>Two thousand years ago, Satan and his forces celebrated at Jesus&#8217; crucifixion. &#8220;By George, we finally got him!&#8221; they rejoiced. &#8220;That man Jesus has disappeared from the face of the earth and from history as well.&#8221; The day that I entered prison, Satan and all those who look upon me as their adversary thought, &#8220;By George, we got him! Finally, we have locked him up in Danbury. He is finished. Now we can relax!&#8221; But what happened? God had the power to resurrect Jesus from the tomb. Because I know God&#8217;s tremendous power, I, too, was anticipating a great historical victory. &#8220;Danbury is the modern-day crucifixion,&#8221; I told myself, &#8220;but I will turn the hill of Danbury into the hill of victory and resurrection.&#8221;</p>
<p>I was released from Danbury on July 4, 1985, America&#8217;s Independence Day. Thus it became my independence day as well. So in a way, I took over American history! The following 43 days were the resurrection period. I declared to the American members and leaders that those 43 days were the time to restore and resurrect all the wrongdoings of the past. We started an educational program, including newspaper advertisements, to present the truth about the case against Reverend Moon to all America and the entire world. This time period was exactly comparable to the 400 years during which the Roman Empire defied Jesus&#8217; followers before finally accepting Christianity. So this time period indemnified the first four centuries of Christian history.</p>
<p>Furthermore, even though Jesus Christ was resurrected, his foundation was only a spiritual one, because he was physically crucified; he founded the spiritual movement of Christianity. But my resurrection is not only spiritual but also physical; therefore, the new victorious path we are beginning shall be not only spiritual but also physical.</p>
<p>Jesus&#8217; crucifixion of 2,000 years ago began a period of incredible persecution for his followers, because their power was only spiritual; the physical world remained in the hands of Satan. But we are different. Because my resurrection was both spiritual and physical, I will conquer all persecution and truly bring in a new era of welcome by the United States and the world for our movement.</p>
<p>I thoroughly understand the law of indemnity. Therefore, I knew precisely what I had to do. No one else could take my place in the Danbury dispensation. Step by step I fulfilled all the requirements. In the meantime, I found a way to make a link with those established Christian leaders who had formerly opposed us. These things happened not because you worked very hard-although I know you did-but because God&#8217;s timetable called for them. The trend of history has reached this level. Therefore, when you push that trend forward with boldness, strength and determination, you shall win a great victory. You can push over the wall now, and no one will persecute you.</p>
<p>For example, the Washington Post, that Satan of Satans, that servant of servant&#8217;s newspaper, has tormented our movement and criticized us continually. But when they reported on yesterday&#8217;s banquet, they were like angels. They became completely obedient to the Holy Spirit, even printing an attractive picture of Mother and me!</p>
<p>Everything has its own time. I came to America as a prophet, vehemently predicting her decline unless she underwent a spiritual revolution. This was my first warning. The second warning was given through the academic circles. Three hundred prominent scholars announced the imminent end of communism at the Second International Congress of the Professors World Peace Academy held in Geneva August 13 through 15.</p>
<p>Everybody today is desperately searching for some ray of hope. They are looking for leaders who can bring salvation to America, and they haven&#8217;t found any. But once they come into contact with me, they take heart and sense that only Reverend Moon and his teaching can bring hope to the United States. Many young people are confused and directionless. But the youth who belong to the Unification Church, under my guidance, are bright and confident, going forward with determination. It is amazing how others see hope for America through you. Many ministers from traditional churches have become burned out spiritually, but upon hearing our message they come alive. Finally they see a ray of hope.</p>
<p>I know clearly that many people in this country have come to the private belief that the only future hope for politics, business, finance, schools, and other aspects of this society will come through Reverend Moon. They may not say it, but they have concluded that Revered Moon will ignite the spiritual revolution that will save this country. Many young people have been rebellious, even violent at times, in their quest for new excitement and direction. They have organized demonstrations against various forms of the establishment. They have experimented with drugs. But none of these things has brought them satisfaction. Finally they are concluding that they need to examine Reverend Moon, since he is the one avenue left.</p>
<p>People observe a different quality in the young men and women who follow me; they see purity and goodness, as well as determination, and they wonder what causes it. They are also coming to realize clearly that members of the Unification Church are not robots; they are bright and intelligent people. When they saw you fundraising and working so hard, they used to think that you were just foolish or brainwashed. But they have found that Unification Church people are some of the brightest people under the sun, and they want to know why you do what you do.</p>
<p>People are also trying to understand me through CAUSA activities. Thousands of ministers have learned about my worldview, and many have concluded it is the answer. In the academic world, prominent scholars who had become discouraged found new hope when they studied my teaching. Many political and business leaders have come to the conclusion that I am their hope. So not only religious leaders, but people from all facets of our society have begun to realize that the free world can survive only by following Reverend Moon&#8217;s way.</p>
<p>Am I just dreaming all this, or is it happening? Who made it happen? Suppose a rich family is giving a wedding reception for one of its members. For whom is that banquet being held? No matter how noble and great that family may be, the principal figures are the bride and bridegroom. Even an ugly bride or a crippled groom is the central figure on his or her wedding day.</p>
<p>Likewise, a gigantic banquet is being prepared in the Western world, and everybody is invited. God is hosting this banquet. I have been the object of controversy and persecution wherever I go, but for God, who is most important at that banquet? What kind of affair would last night&#8217;s God and Freedom banquet have been without Reverend and Mrs. Moon? You and God have been putting forth all your efforts to bring it about, but still, there must be a central figure. The True Parents occupied that position, so True Parents made it a success.</p>
<p>The entire communist world today fears me most because they know that I alone have the strategy and ideology that can defeat them. Within the communist world there is one group which really hates communism: the children of the communist bosses. They know the failure of communism, to which their parents have been devoted. They know that their parents have been trying to discredit and destroy me, so they automatically consider me their ally. That second generation of the communist world will eventually have no recourse but the True Parents. Here they will see a new age dawning.</p>
<p>So the end of communism has been declared. Secular humanism cannot solve the world&#8217;s problems, and the United States cannot survive as it is. Therefore, Godism- which is neither democracy, nor communism, nor secular humanism-is the wave of the future.</p>
<p>I have a problem! The United States has been coming after me, trying to grab me; likewise, the communists are trying to grab me. Should I run away now? What do you mean by &#8220;NO&#8221;? I see a lot of work ahead. People are grabbing at me, always asking me for something. They are like the two thieves with Jesus on the cross, one on his left and one on his right. Now on a worldwide scale thieves are coming after me and trying to grab me! I am overburdened; a lot of energy is needed to pull both sides of the world. Do you still want me to suffer? I am already struggling with the burden of trying to save the United States, and now the communist world wants me to save them. What shall I do? Central and South Americans, Africans and Asians are pleading with me to save their country. What can I do? Suppose there is only one rice cake and hundreds of people are asking for a piece of it? I cannot mistreat everybody, so maybe I should go away and hide!</p>
<p>But God&#8217;s thinking is different. He is beaming from ear to ear and rejoicing, &#8220;Finally, my day has come. I know that my son can take care of them, so now I can go and take a nap!&#8221;</p>
<p>Under such circumstances I cannot say, &#8220;God, I&#8217;m running away! You give me too much, I cannot bear it.&#8221; If I did that, the whole world would suffer. Unable to turn aside, I will say to God, &#8220;All right, then, but I have one request to make. You know, Heavenly Father, I have been working tirelessly for 40 years. These crops I have produced took 40 years to nurture. You know it takes time to transform people and to raise them up to be true soldiers of heaven. So how much time will You give me?&#8221;</p>
<p>I know God so well. His temper is quite short-far shorter than mine. He longs for this whole fallen world to be transformed into heaven in a flash, but I don&#8217;t have a large enough foundation yet to do that. On the other hand, I cannot ask Him for another 40 years. This whole first generation would be gone by then, and I would have to start out with new babies to raise and train as soldiers over the next 40 years. I couldn&#8217;t do that. So I have to find some prepared people, arm them with the truth, and send them out to proclaim it. God needs such soldiers. Imagine what it would take to feed the four billion people in this world. To give each one three spoonfuls would require 12 billion movements!</p>
<p>I must push the so-called elders of the Unification Church down to the ground. When they are pushed like that, what kind of position do you have? You may be thinking, &#8220;Boy, Father told us that good times are ahead, and we&#8217;ve been waiting for them. But Father, what are you saying now? More indemnity?&#8221;</p>
<p>I told you that a good time was coming, and what I meant was the end of persecution. That does not mean you are going to be idle; I never promised that. The time has come for Moonies to have pride in themselves. That is the true good time. It is good to be proud of being a Moonie, but when you see the size of the task before you, you may feel like running from the avalanche! As I said, I feel like hiding somewhere. Are you thinking that way too?</p>
<p>I truly feel that my worldwide indemnity path is over. God knows it, and I am sure that He is ready to give me a vacation. Not only that, but also a bonus ticket to go anywhere and buy anything I want! But I would have to say to God, &#8220;I have a problem. I can&#8217;t take a vacation. Look at my children, the Moonies. They all want to accompany me wherever I go!&#8221; Is that true?</p>
<p>An infant needs frequent bottles and diaper changes, so I can understand when a baby cries out to be with his mommy or daddy wherever they go. But you are all grown up now; you no longer need bottles or diapers. So if you try to follow me, I will push you away and protest, &#8220;Why are you trying to follow me and make me suffer more? Don&#8217;t you know I already suffered enough?&#8221; That is how I feel today.</p>
<p>This is a critical moment for the Unification Church because we are on the threshold of a gigantic liftoff. If we misjudge things, we will crash. Mount McKinley is the highest peak in the United States. But such an imposing mountain must have extensive roots. A high mountain needs a corresponding foundation underground. So, too, you must have a spiraling effect and encompass larger and larger areas, embracing whole countries, such as the United States, in your circle. To save people means to embrace them.</p>
<p>Have you lost your courage? Those who attended the banquet last night, how did you feel? It was an incredible scene. Mother and I had not time to eat! The ministers were supposed to be eating, but they weren&#8217;t either. They were continually coming to have their pictures taken with us, to shake hands with us. I observed a contrast between the Unification Church members and the ministers last night. The ministers were trying to reach out and touch my hand. One told me, &#8220;Reverend Moon, I must embrace you.&#8221; But when the Unification Church members came up, they just stood humbly with lowered heads, as if asking, &#8220;Father, what is the indemnity today?&#8221;</p>
<p>You say I always send you out to do fundraising and witnessing, but it is precisely because of those activities that today&#8217;s phenomena are occurring. Aren&#8217;t you proud of what you are? Those ministers wonder how in the world I can train such bright and capable young people to do such a drastic thing as fundraising! They are amazed, and they feel that the same order will soon come to them. They are trying to get ready! Soon they will seek out people to teach them fundraising techniques. Who are those teachers? You are. Will you be ready when they ask you to teach them?</p>
<p>You have to be able to exercise authority. You need to be able to educate ministers. Can you? You want to be trusted, don&#8217;t you? So I must test you. The next several months will be your test. Can you pass it, or will you make excuses and try to escape things like fundraising? You know, you have lied to me many times. So often, you have answered yes. You have said, &#8220;Trust me, Father,&#8221; and I trusted you, over and over again. But your promises always ended up empty.</p>
<p>Even after all my persecution, I feel no bitterness. Now I want you, too, to be vindicated and to be in a position to forgive others. I want to be able to present you proudly to the world as my fruit. I knew that while you were resting, if I didn&#8217;t do certain things, this nation would go down the drain. I could not expect somebody else to do it. I had to do it myself. So I poured out my energy, and tens of thousands of our members elsewhere made incredible sacrifices as well.</p>
<p>It is so amazing that even the communist countries have now become helpless and unable to unravel their own problems. They see me as their only help. Red China is one example. Even leaders in the free world are thinking that way. They have tried every possible solution and nothing worked; so now they see me as their hope.</p>
<p>I knew this would happen, so I did not want to be dependent on any nation or government. Many nations in the free world have a lot of power. But I always felt that I would build up still greater strength. Even in the fields of scientific research and technology, I am becoming very influential. There is a lot you don&#8217;t know about in this area. You don&#8217;t realize what I am really doing.</p>
<p>At the head table last night, there were about 40 people, most of whom I had just met for the first time. But they felt they had known me for ten years. There were scholars, politicians, ministers and other types of people. They were aware of what I had been doing in different fields.</p>
<p>Do you want me to run away and hide somewhere? There is one simple solution. When only one person bears a burden, it is huge. But if we chop it into pieces and each one of you picks up one piece, we can carry it, right? Will you ask for the smallest or the largest piece&#8217;? The Japanese people are very logical and clever, so they may think that since their bodies are smaller, they naturally deserve a smaller piece. Are you Americans saying, &#8220;We are big people, so give us a big piece&#8221;? The clever Japanese know that the more results they bring, the more their storehouses will be filled. So they will work like ants, trying to bring in the largest pieces of responsibility into their granaries. Will you Americans stand back and say, &#8220;We Americans are very noble and dignified; you Japanese go ahead and take it&#8221;? What kind of dignity is that? If your wife is taken away, your children are starving, your country is in flames, and all the people are being destroyed, what dignity will you have? What will you do then?</p>
<p>All this time, the Japanese people have been ahead of everybody else, always going to the front line. Don&#8217;t you want to change that now? You Americans should take the front line now, don&#8217;t you agree? Those Americans who want to be on the front line, please stand up. I want to see you. All right, sit down. Those who did not stand up, stand up now.</p>
<p>Should I stay here or go away? It is a pleasure to stand back and watch you do the front-line work; then I am in a sort of retired position! I am in vacation attire today. I took off my sock. If that were the way to save the world, how easy it would be! I could take off both socks. If I could deliver a sermon wearing only swimming trunks and save the world that way, I would do that. If disco-dancing would bring salvation, I would do that.</p>
<p>I told the Japanese members they may disco-dance, as long as men and women do not touch each other. They are holding an international dance contest. Healthy and beautiful men and women are dancing, but without touching. There shall be no disco conference for the United States movement yet. I have allowed it in Japan because the Japanese people have been working just like ants!</p>
<p>So you Americans please listen to me. Would you like to be defeated in a contest between the American and the Japanese movement&#8217;? Do you want to challenge them? The contest will be one of achievement. When you answer yes, what you are actually saying is, &#8220;Father, we will take over your job. If you go away, there will be no problem. If you stay here, we are happy.&#8221; Is that right? In a way, you are inheriting my mission. I have earned this inheritance over the past 40 years, and I would like to turn it over to you in three and a half years. Of course, there are less than three and a half years remaining, but in this short time left, I would like to be able to bestow this inheritance upon you.</p>
<p>This is Canaan time. On the universal scale, we are entering the land of Canaan. Therefore, this is the crucial time. Yesterday I spoke about this. Please don&#8217;t look back to Egypt. We must look forward to the new tradition of Canaan which we need to establish. That shall be done by 1988.</p>
<p>The heavenly four-position foundation must be firmly grounded in the land of Canaan. Two threads alone cannot form a strong rope; at least three are needed. Then multitudes can be added to it. Each time we twist the rope, it will become stronger. The heavenly four positions are the core of that rope. When the four-position rope is turning, you can add anything to it and it will be absorbed. Societies, races, nations and the world can all be entwined and digested.</p>
<p>Upon my return from Danbury, a new era of family mobilization has begun. The past was the era of individual mobilization. But now we will mobilize families. I know that many people have said negative things about mobilizing entire families, but you will see the incredible results in a few years. Once we win the victory of Canaan as family units, the international settlement will take place. We will be able to transform this world into a heavenly one.</p>
<p>The time has come. This is a wonderful time for witnessing. Witnessing used to be your daily cross; you suffered constant rejection. But not any more. People are hungry and waiting for your message. You will be welcomed and the name of Reverend Moon will be respected. The name Sun Myung Moon has been resurrected. This is the final stage of the dispensation. Therefore, if you can fulfill it successfully, the era of paying indemnity will end and restoration will be consummated.</p>
<p>I always take the initiative. I determine to work with my own hands to save any situation-any community, society, nation or world. You should feel that way too and make the same determination. Do you want me to stay here and see what great things you are doing? Must I watch over you, or can I leave without any problem? Our international church leaders always come to me and beg for my help. But that era is over. You are now on your own two feet. You leaders must feel you can do it. Do you follow? Do you want to help me? How much? It is easy to say yes, but the deeds are difficult.</p>
<p>Please pledge to be responsible for 360 homes, for your community. Please make a resolution with your hearts to mobilize totally for this final march toward the land of Canaan.</p>
<p>Those who say, &#8220;Yes, Father, we want, to mobilize for this march into Canaan,&#8221; stand up, please. Now we have stood up.</p>
<p>Those who say, &#8220;Father, we are absolutely sure that we can do it,&#8221; raise your hands. Thank you.</p>
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