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<a href="/blog/2018/06/26/liberation-and-my-ownership.html" title="Permalink to LIBERATION AND MY OWNERSHIP" rel="bookmark">LIBERATION AND MY OWNERSHIP</a>
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<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="2018-06-26T13:51:32+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/26/liberation-and-my-ownership.html" rel="bookmark">June 26, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-26T13:51:32+01:00">June 26, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1993.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">March 14, 1993<br />
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Belvedere International Training Center<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>We all know that because of the human fall, mankind has not been liberated. However, that is not all: God also is not liberated. As a result of the fall, man must overcome his circumstances in order to be liberated. God, too, must go through those eight steps of liberation, starting from individual liberation. After He accomplishes that, He returns to the domain of kingdom and establishes that condition. Then He goes up to the next level and after that is done, He establishes that again in His domain, and so on.</p>
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<p>As we know, if mankind had not fallen, these things would not have been necessary. Adam and Eve would have simply grown up and that would have commenced the natural history of mankind. In Adam and Eve’s time, the eldest son was to reach perfection within twenty-one years. That is the elder son’s position. That elder son must accompany God. Together with God, he would have reached here.</p>
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<p>As Father said, in the original history the elder son should have reached completion. Now, because of the fall, the second son must do it. As we know, it is vastly more complicated for the second son to do that. Satan is already pushing his influence over the first son’s first step to perfection. What the second son must do is win over Satan and the elder son must be subjugated naturally. The second son must then support him and push him up. The second son must do all that and reach towards perfection.</p>
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<p>Why is this so? It is the way the elder sonship is set. The process must be repeated again. In order for the second son to come into the elder son’s position, he must win over Satan on the next level. That position is already occupied by the elder son, too. So the second son must go up one level at a time, fight there and be supported, and go up, and so on. That creates a solid foundation. Doing that will make a solid foundation or condition. Even Almighty God cannot do this just like that. Instead, man must accomplish this, and when he does, he opens up the way and then God can come in.</p>
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<p>Let’s make an analogy. Look at the country of America. Let’s put America in the position of God in our analogy. America is God, but she cannot make that condition happen all at one time. Instead, America must go to Africa, for instance, and subjugate the people to the point that they are willing to be brought up to the top level country of America. Then America can come back and advance one step higher and then you will have one level of foundation achieved. Then you must repeat that again, in many different ways. Not even America, not even God, can accomplish that in one run. It cannot be done.</p>
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<p>If God is carrying out this restoration by indemnity, then what role should we play? Why should mankind be involved in it? God has been making this foundation, and man has been following in God’s wake, somehow making the condition for God to say that man did it. But God has always been doing things ahead of us. Otherwise, we cannot restore our ownership. This is what our Father has been doing all his life-not just for one or ten years-along with God. Father could have done it easily after World War II, but as we know, we lost all the foundation built at that time, so it had to be redone all over again.</p>
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<p>In order to do that, what do you need to do most? Above all, we must love our enemy. That is something we must do. Restoration history is always backwards. In other words, here is God, here is Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel-in that order. There is a strict order. Abel must become one with Cain, together they must become one with Eve, and the next will be Satan. To do away with Satan, Eve connects with Adam and all together, they will connect with God.</p>
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<p>We look at history and the time we are living in today. Mankind has gone up but people do not know which direction they are heading or where they should be heading. Actually, they should be heading this way. That’s where confusion is today. That’s the transfer time, the time of exchange. Going this way instead of going that way, is to deny everything.</p>
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<p>Whatever we regard as very dear, whatever is most precious to “me” is the question now. This includes the family and the country. Centering on his own country, the benefit to his own country, is the problem now. Whatever an individual or country thinks is most dear to him is the very condition by which one is to be judged. Therefore, the only way is to deny that, deny one’s own family, for instance. How can you deny your own family, since the family is such a precious entity? Yet because of this principle, once we deny that family, which is on the illegal side, then we will be given the right family here. God helps mankind to deny these things by letting Satan attack and destroy and damage them. Then man has a clear sign and understands, “Oh, I must go this way. This is the way God works.”</p>
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<p>The first rule is to love one’s enemy. Next, we must go backwards and transfer. The next principle by which to pass through this is to invest and forget. This is very paradoxical, but we must do it. Why? We invest and then must come back. We must forget that we invested and come back because we need to invest even more, even bigger, even further. You have to invest and forget that you did, and then you are ready to invest again. For instance, if you are to restore the nation or race, then you must do that here. You must come back here and make that foundation. Then you are ready to do the bigger work here. You must first do it here, and it will be accomplished here.</p>
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<p>After Father accomplishes here, he must return here. Now that all conditions for the restoration of the world are complete, he walks over here and only after coming back here has he accomplished his mission on earth. It is because the position of the second son and first son must be exchanged. That’s the whole purpose of doing this. Each step of the way there is not only war or conflict, but a fierce war at that. Without going through that, restoration cannot be accomplished.</p>
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<p>No living human being is thinking that one must go through this complicated and very difficult process-not only one time but repeatedly-to restore and reach and create Heaven on earth. This is what Father has already done, yet even to this day, people have no idea how the Kingdom of Heaven can be accomplished. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Without being aware of the Principle, the Israelites, through the Old Testament, were following this pattern, too. Therefore, they had to go out of their home, beyond the boundaries of their own village to some other country. Then they had to leave the boundaries of the country, go to the world, and then come back. Every time they go, and fight over, and win, and they come back, the level of victory was higher and higher. They had to do that.</p>
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<p>That is why many of the people in the time of Old Testament were taken prisoner. When taken prisoner, whether one likes it or not, a person is moved out of his own circumstances and taken to a far distant country. He will be persecuted and opposed there. He will work so hard in misery, then eventually come back successful. Consider Jacob. For seventy-two years, he was away.</p>
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<p>Up to 430 years, this formula is taking place. People carried out this pattern, but they had no idea they had to win over the enemy.</p>
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<p>Their enemy had been persecuting them. Like 600,000 people of that big country, they had been persecuted in all kinds of ways. Something told them that they had to persevere. So they said, “Even though they are doing us a grave injustice, we must persevere.” They survived, and they returned, but they did not know their position should be exchanged. So more or less, they were dragged, or they were going like they thought this was the best thing. They did not clearly know these two points. When God was with them, He was like that man’s clothing. They had that kind of relationship. God was there. That served as a condition. Even though God did it, because man was very close to God, it was man’s credit.</p>
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<p>Then the Israelites went into Egypt and suffered so many hundreds of years, but they should not keep that in mind or hold any grudges. They should forget about that. By going into Egypt for so many hundreds of years they were persecuted, did everything, and now they have made some foundation. They must forget that. If, as they are about to leave that country they said, “No, I won’t leave this country unless I can retaliate against those who have done this injustice to me. I’m going to pay them back before I go,” they could never leave.</p>
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<p>We see this: their ultimate goal is not to retaliate, not to keep what small foundation they made. These are peripheral. The most important thing is that they get out of there-that they get out of Egypt. Then the next step is to establish the independent country of Canaan. To God’s dispensation, this is more important than anything. Therefore, they had to forget what happened in Egypt and be ready to invest again.</p>
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<p>Once they established Canaan, their country, that is payment of the price. Once they established a Canaan, then Egypt would come under this new country. That was God’s plan. Even though religious people are persecuted, mistreated, made miserable so often by non-religious people, by the satanic country, by evil people, what can the religious people do? They can only forget.</p>
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<p>There was a time which was the culmination for religious people. Right after World War II was a great victorious time for religious people. Religious people, centered upon America, were at the pinnacle of the world. Yet that time was very short-lived after World War II. Today, look at the difference only fifty years later. We see secular humanism running rampant, destroying families, destroying nations and everything. We can see that with our own eyes. Satan’s side was beaten by religious people, but now they are taking their revenge. Now they deny God, and Satan is doing exactly what God should be doing. Now Satan is God to them-that is what we see today. There is nothing they cannot do. They will try everything, just like God. That’s what Satan is doing. That’s secular humanism, which is exercising all the rights. Anything that a man wants to do, he can do. They deny God, deny God’s ideal, deny everything that is Godly. Man is God-that’s what secular humanism preaches. Man can do anything, since he is God. He can kill anybody if he wants to, he can plunder anything he wants. Human beings are doing that. Religion? They say, “Rubbish, trash,” because it is kind of ragged. Religious people have a lot of things which they don’t understand and they think some things are precious, but secular humanists laugh and scorn those things. This is what man is doing under secular humanism.</p>
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<p>Human beings trying to be like God is the last thing which humankind can do. For a man to just deny God, to say, “There is no God,” is all right, compared to what man is doing now. When man tries to be like God himself and then does the complete opposite of what God would do, means he is about to destroy even God. Denying God may be all right, but stopping God’s way, stopping God’s advancement creates very real trouble, very significant consequences. Mankind is in real trouble now.</p>
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<p>If you extend that secular logic a little bit, then any large country, such as America, could attack a small country simply because they have mightier weapons. People think they can do that and get away with it because they are God, because they do not know any other God. The question is still how will we return to God’s path, God’s direction? At one time, we must proclaim, “This is the way we must go.” Centering on the Unification Church, there must be a big proclamation at some time. So far, human history has been coming this way. So far it’s all right, but now when we reach perfection, we must go to Adam. We must go to this way, not to Satan like mankind has always been doing. Man’s direction must change. It’s like coming this way, ever broadening the foundation, but now we must come in here, and be connected with Adam, as human history should. At this point, man will recover everything he has worked for. They are not losing anything, they are recovering everything.</p>
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<p>From the level of kingship down to the son’s level, all must be recovered here, and still be connected to Adam, and through Adam it must be connected to God. Now is the time when people realize that separating from Reverend Moon or opposing Reverend Moon will reap a bad result for them. They realize that they will lose by doing that. Somehow they want to find a way to come closer to Reverend Moon and closer to the Unification Church. This is what is happening today. Until now, God let Satan or secular mankind do anything they wanted. Those on the side of secular humanism are coming to realize that they have now lost everything. They have lost their family, they have lost love, they have lost all the valuable things, even their property. Parents, children, everything-all these things they have lost. Yet look at the other side, the side of God, the side of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. It seems there is more there than anyone could have thought: they see True Love. All the men and women are chaste and pure before marriage. They form solid families. And they have the blueprint for an ideal nation and ideal world of peace. They are going strong in that direction. This is becoming more and more obvious. What the Unification Church stands for and has already accomplished will become more and more tangible. This will become more and more obvious to the secular world, while they realize more and more that they do not know where they are going.</p>
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<p>Today we see that Western civilization has risen to its greatest heights. We have seen the brilliant results of this civilization. If Jesus had not been crucified, the Asian civilization would have been what Western civilization is today. Today we see the route of Western civilization. Christianity was not taken where it was originally supposed to go. If Jesus had lived, then his followers would have come to India or the East, China, where religions already flourished, and there would never have been bloodshed. But as we saw in history, there was much martyrdom. Followers of Jesus had to shed lots of blood because Christianity went to the West, instead of the East. Merging and expansion, merging and expansion-this is what would have happened if Jesus had not been killed and they would have moved toward the Eastern civilizations.</p>
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<p>Had that happened, the Asian civilization would naturally and gradually have merged into Christendom. Instead of shedding blood, they would have been strongly influenced by Christian culture. This is what the Eastern civilization would have been. It would have been done in less than seven generations time. Think about it. If Jesus had conducted mass marriages, just like Father has been doing today, in India and China, as well as in the Middle East, they would have been cross-matched and married. What Father is trying to accomplish today would have been much more easily accomplished at that time, and also much faster. But instead, the whole process went backward. The Oriental civilization was like the mind, while the West was like the body. Instead of following the mind’s direction, it followed the body’s direction and therefore there was a lot of bloodshed. Western civilization has come to its height, yet they are being drawn back into the direction of the Pacific. This is the Pacific Era. It is coming because of this reality.</p>
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<p>The mind is constant. The mind treats different people, different seasons such as spring, summer, fall and winter all the same. But the body or material world treats different circumstances differently. In the summertime, wintertime, spring and autumn, it responds differently. It is not like the mind. Look at the Western civilization today. Money rules all. The slightest difference in the interest rate causes the people to become ruthless, to negate, to kill. This is certainly not how the mind works. Especially in America today, we see individualism and materialism on top of that. When something comes that does not please the individual, he cuts that off, denies it. That is not the way of the mind but of the body.</p>
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<p>Originally, the world of mind must first think of which way is up, which way is down, which way is right and left. The mind operates to keep balance in certain things. But for individualistic and materialistic thinking, it is different. Given a certain set of circumstances for the day or the year, that period, the person sees only one direction. He doesn’t know or care about balance. Above and below, right and left-he doesn’t think about all these things. That is the way of the body. We see exactly this kind of dynamic today in American society. A person denies his grandfather, denies even his parents, who are closer to him, and denies the members of his own family, such as his spouse, even his children. Finally, he will deny even himself and feel like killing himself. That is not the way the mind works. That’s how the body works.</p>
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<p>But now they have one hope in this desolate Western civilization. Nobody knows where the world is going, where he is going, where he should be going except for one entity: The Unification Church. That is unique. That is different. This is where anybody can come and live, such as a Jew, a Christian, and all can pursue their own ideal. Already, every element is represented in the Unification Church, but still there is plenty of room for everyone to come in. We sit here and listen to Father speak every Sunday morning, but we really are not aware that we have that kind of value within us, because we are not able to comprehend the whole world, the whole history.</p>
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<p>So we must have these four different directions, these four positions, because this is the position of stability. Everyone wants to be stable, with four different directions of support. Now living in America means to just see one direction. Even in one day, we have four different times of the day: morning, mid-day, evening, and night time. We should not think, “Morning is the only good time.” We should not think that spring or summer are the only good times. Americans like only those times. Instead of thinking that way, think about the night, even though it hasn’t come yet. Even though morning has already passed, think about morning. Balance yourself. It is the same with the different seasons. Americans just take things as they come. That’s not enough. You have to be able to comprehend everything in a balanced way. You must think of the world yet to come, the world that has passed already.</p>
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<p>Everything that is comfortable and easy for us happens to belong to Satan’s side. People, not knowing the Principle, just want to follow that way. They want to go the easier, more comfortable way, without knowing that they are drifting deeper and deeper into Satan’s side. That’s the easy way, the more enjoyable way. That’s the way of so-called freedom, although it is not really free. But Principle is not like that. A man of Principle doesn’t live like that. Even in the Principle, once we go, we must come back. Certainly we will have no way of coming back if we live like others live today. We may go one day, but never think about coming back.</p>
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<p>This must be the spiritual foundation of any country. Any country must be situated right above this foundation, but today we don’t have that. Instead, if something comes along today, we react to it. If it comes tomorrow, we react tomorrow and in a certain way. The currents of the times, of the world, cause people to become changeable, to adopt new ways. They long ago lost the Principle which shows them they should be like this. They have forgotten. I have often cited the fable about the grasshopper and the ant. Winter is coming for both insects, but the ant works hard throughout the summer because he knows that winter is coming. He prepares himself. But the grasshopper just likes to enjoy the summertime, singing, dancing and drinking, never thinking about what is coming next. Typically, Americans like to tell jokes, particularly jokes centering on sex and such things. They laugh very readily and frequently. When you see laughter everywhere in a society, that’s a very dangerous sign. We must compose ourselves, prepare ourselves, because we are in that position. If we hear too much laughter, it signifies something is wrong.</p>
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<p>Silence is more a characteristic of Oriental people. You could see an Oriental person keeping silent all day long, never saying a word. Even all year long, he might say very little. That puts them in a very advantageous position. Why? Because they are preserving, they are not spending. The Oriental people are very conservative with self-expression, like laughing or crying. But Western people are very dramatic in their expression and gestures. They show their emotions very clearly. They overstate their feelings, saying how much they “love” something. These things are very consuming. As a concrete example, observe the way a woman laughs. Some Western woman may open her mouth so wide when she laughs that you can see her tonsils. This kind of behavior is unthinkable for Oriental women, who are very conservative, sparing, economical in gestures. Do you know the code of conduct for Oriental women? A woman can smile and even laugh, but she should not show her teeth! That’s how they are taught and how they live. Since they are trying not to show their teeth, they will close their mouth when they laugh.</p>
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<p>Imagine two women living together in the same home for three years, one Oriental and one Western. It is very clear what would happen. At the end of three years, the Western woman would have to bow down deeply, saying, “I am so sorry,” to the Oriental woman. Why? It is because the Oriental woman who never spoke would never make any mistakes, but the Western woman would speak a lot and therefore half the time she would make mistakes. Because she made so many mistakes, she would have to say, “I’m sorry.” By the time she says “I’m sorry” so many times, then she would have to bow down every day, as well. She would become the Queen of Sorry. Being King or Queen of being sorry means he or she doesn’t own anything anymore. How can such a person be proud of himself or exert any rights if he is so much in debt? Do you understand what I am trying to point out?</p>
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<p>We must learn to have perseverance and not speak so much. We must think about the future for ourselves. Always think like, “Oh, how my grandmother, how my father made mistakes, what kind of mistakes they made. How I must compensate for that,” and she always thinks about the future and today’s situation, and the future of her own family. Now she’s on the mainstream. Instead of talking she must be thinking. That’s exactly what she is doing. When she is analyzing all the time, even though she doesn’t speak she already knows who did good deeds, and who made a big mistake, even though she doesn’t say so, and she will try to make up for that. She will have a plan for the future for herself and her family. All these things she is doing.</p>
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<p>Who becomes the center of the family, including the grandfather, the father, mother, brother, and everybody? If the grandson thinks this way, then he will eventually become the mainstream of that family, no two ways about it.</p>
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<p>We can see that the trend is already there for the Western civilization to be influenced, subtly as well as boldly, by Eastern civilization. That is why we are in the Pacific Era now. What Father said to us in the past year right here at Belvedere has been a well-kept secret. Did you feel that? There is such a depth and magnitude to these things. Father knew these things all along, for at least fifty years, yet he never spoke about them before. Can you imagine? Only lately has Father been speaking about these things to us. That is because the time is getting near. How the world will become, which way world events may go-Father has an idea about these things. Father is in the position of leading the world. That’s his responsibility. There are three ways: the way of rapid change, the medium change way, or the slow, mild, non-revolutionary way. “Which way should I adopt?” is the question in Father’s mind all the time nowadays.</p>
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<p>So far this morning, I have stated that God is like the clothing for human beings. God has been wrapping around individuals and doing many different levels of work. But today we should not be like that. We should be able to understand and appreciate what God has been doing through these thousands of years since the Fall, and we should be able to become independent from God. We should not let God wrap around us all the time. We should treat God properly. We should become the partner to God, not the body of God, or let God take our clothing’s position. We should not do that.</p>
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<p>We must understand this first, and then we can console God. We must talk to God and console Him, saying “How much You have suffered up to this time. I must repent for that and I will serve you better from now on.” We must do that from now on. Don’t let God continue to be clothing to mankind anymore. That’s how we can liberate God and at the same time liberate ourselves.</p>
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<p>Father prayed every day for forty years centering on seven countries which he selected. By the same token, you too must pray as I did, and you must go through seven different countries in your course of training. I feel that way. You know which were my seven countries, don’t you? Of course, based on World War II, they were America, England, France, Japan, Italy, Germany, and Korea. The Korean representative is only me. At that time, it was connected to Satan. The only center is Reverend Moon. Do you understand? The Second Advent, the True Father’s position. There is only one. There was no nation base, the family base did not exist. Do you understand? Tribe, nation, world, did not exist. After World War II there was a victory for America, which is a Protestant-based country. America is a unique country. It is the only Christian-based country which has complete independence. Incredibly enough, this great and gigantic nation of America was prepared for one purpose and one person: the coming Messiah, the True Father and therefore, the True Mother. They must be incorporated in, too. Of course, we all know that, but we are being reminded again.</p>
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<p>This is our destined way, small or large, big person or small, this is still our destiny. If we do not follow this formula course here, then we will find our path blocked in spirit world. But we will have to do it anyway. God is the center of sovereignty, He is the Zooche. Zooche means He has kingship, while we are in a position like the queen or that of partner. By the same token, if Father has kingship, then you all are in the position to have queenship. World kingship, nation kingship, tribe, family, couple kingship. This applies from the individual all the way up to the cosmos. The central point of kingship is always at a ninety degree angle to the horizontal.</p>
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<p>The elder son always inherits the kingship, isn’t that true? For the second son to inherit the elder son’s position is very difficult. Thus, he wouldn’t go the regular way but instead sort of a backward way in order to inherit that. We must know the time of transfer. Doing this took thousands of years. But Father knew Principle, and therefore it took Father forty years to reach this point. We must do this also, just like Father, because if we don’t do it, we will certainly have obstacles in the spirit world. Then we will be unable to go directly to Heaven but rather will have to be waiting in Paradise until we achieve it. I don’t want that to happen. That is the spirit world’s wilderness. All these things are like conceptual things to us, just big concepts, big dreams. But that is not the case. This is reality I am talking about. If it is hard for you to understand the reality of what I have done, then how can you ever do it yourself? You’ve got to understand quickly.</p>
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<p>You think you may be going straight to Heaven by doing something right here, but if you don’t do this like Father, you will find spirit world to be like a desert, a wilderness, not an enjoyable place. That is Paradise, where you will have to wait. You won’t be alone. Your family, your wife, sons and daughters, grandchildren may blame you, “Because of you, we are in this miserable position. True Father taught you clearly. Why didn’t you live that way?” Look at Adam and Eve and how much we blame them for our misery. Mankind has done that throughout history. So we must understand this point clearly.</p>
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<p>Today we are having an incredible winter storm, but this teaching is more important than any hardships, right? Thus those people who did not come today may miss this very important part of Father’s teaching. At the height of the storm yesterday, I went to Barrytown and came back. I felt very good driving through those impossible road conditions. The Barrytown students said, “Today is the most memorable day,” and the same is true of this morning. These are very important points to remember. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Perhaps you can forget those things which are too complicated for you to understand, but don’t forget this one thing: instead of God being our clothing, we must become the clothing for God. That’s what Father has lived for until now. No matter how difficult my situation was, no matter what I was about to do, I never lost sight of God. I really, desperately hung on to God. I never allowed myself to worry about my own mother or father, to whom I was deeply attached. Instead I only worried about never losing sight of God. So I really followed God, no matter how impossible the situation. In the same way, you, too must do this. Even in prison, when being tortured, no matter how difficult my situation, my main thought was about God.</p>
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<p>That is the relationship between subject and object. The subject is God, and in this reciprocal position is where I always stayed, hanging on to God all the time. As I said, plus and minus become completely one but that is not the end. Then together we are ready in that reciprocal position to become one with an even greater plus. Husband and wife must become united, and that’s not the end of it. Most important is that they become connected in relationship with God. The universe is made of the pair system, from smaller pairs to larger pairs. Each pair serves the larger in order to return to God.</p>
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<p>Eventually of course, God is our goal. For all women, God is in the husband’s position. For everyone, He is in the subject’s position. We should take the friend’s position to God. Why? Because we inherited our life from God Himself. Our life’s seed originated from God. Therefore, we resemble God. It is the same as children resembling their parents. Is this clear?</p>
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<p>You all need your spouse, you need your children, family, relatives, nation, world, spirit world, and God. You need to return to God, becoming a friend to Him. We all need this and must accomplish this. When God is looking at every one of us individually, He says, “He resembles me, she resembles me,” and so forth. There is no one who doesn’t resemble Him. Why? Because we are His own children. Except for our fallen characteristics, everything about us resembles God. If someone asks any of us, “What is your highest desire?” the most honest answer would be, “To meet the most ideal spouse and to love each other. To have a wonderful family and to rule the world.” Everyone has such a dream or desire because we are in the position to accomplish that. Every one of us has that king’s desire because God is King of Kings. Therefore, that position is not only God’s but it is also belongs to God’s children, each and every human being.</p>
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<p>Father followed God, so what must you do? You must follow Father. Never lose sight of him. Even if you forget everything else, remember that point. When I went to Danbury prison, you didn’t follow me there, did you? If everyone had gone to Danbury with me, centering on what had happened in Danbury, there would have been explosive success, advancement and development of the Unification Church, or members. When Father went to Danbury, if every one of us followed him, it would have been the perfect chance for expanding explosively. Like Father said many times, after coming out of prison I was thinking about how to protect all of you.</p>
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<p>In the Bible, Jesus told the story about the different men given different amounts of money by their master and how they were expected to expand that. Father did that exactly, but you didn’t even earn interest on that, let alone multiplying it thousands of times. In other words, you didn’t do anything to multiply it. Instead of depending on us, Father developed America all by himself. When we know these things, at least we need to be ashamed and even listen to Father, like obedient children. We should at least do that, but instead you say, “Oh, we are different from you, Father.” How can you say such things? Now you understand about God, and how tedious God would have felt in accomplishing this for such a long time. Think of this reality: God could wipe this out, do this over in one minute, one hour or day. Certainly He could do it, but instead He took thousands of years, fostering carefully each individual, another individual, and so forth. Can you understand? We must do the same thing here.</p>
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<p>Remember this important point. Now history has progressed to the point where it is the time to exchange, to transfer the course. Today we can no longer think, “I am white and he is Oriental, and they are something else.” Don’t think that you belong to one country and someone else belongs to another. Likewise, no matter how great you may be in science, for instance, even holding a Ph.D. degree, you must still eat three meals a day. This is a very basic and simple need which everyone in the world has. We must train ourselves to think, “This is my life-supporting food, but I must give it to someone else so that he can live.” Therefore, we must forget that need and give this most precious thing to someone else. This is the only way we can follow God.</p>
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<p>If we plant a certain seed a certain plant always sprouts up. If we want to eat beans, then we plant bean seeds. In just the same way, if we want to harvest life, we must plant seeds of life. It is our destiny. Until God’s work is over, there is no way for us to escape this work. We must do the same thing that God is doing. That will take our whole life and even beyond. How can we accomplish this? First we have to realize what we must do, what our destiny is. Secondly, in order to accomplish that destiny we have to go through prayer, we have to dedicate a lot of heart to it. These are the most basic things: dedicating our heart and praying about it.</p>
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<p>Now God is doing the world’s work. It is like a sine curve. How big the magnitude would be! We must at least pretend we resemble Him. At least we have to mimic Him. (Father draws on the board.) Like so. A pretty similar shape. Anyway, this is our peak, and that is our depth, the deepest part of our mind. If we do not do this, we must do it in the spirit world. When you go to spirit world, you can discern whether or not I taught you the truth. At that time, you will say, “Oh, Father taught me everything so clearly and I didn’t do it. Why didn’t I follow him?” Then you will be so unhappy. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Going to prison is not really the problem. Even death is not the problem. The problem is how can we accomplish this. We know that even Joseph and Jesus, the dead body, the corpse became a problem. In the same way, even though we die along the way of doing God’s work, still we should die while doing His work. Which would be more desirable: to die in your own home, or to die in a foreign country while working to restore that country? Yes, even though we may die, as long as we died while working for the sake of a foreign country, glory will come one day in the future to your own country. Therefore, it is more valuable to die working for the sake of a foreign country.</p>
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<p>By this standard, we can evaluate ourselves. How many dollars and cents are we worth? We all know, don’t we? It is based on what we are thinking and doing today. When we all see Father in the spirit world, do you think you can just dash towards him in a straight line, looking at him straight in the eye? Or will you be looking at him sideways, or will you be looking down to the ground, not daring to raise your eyes to him? Can Father go straight to God and embrace Him? Because Father already knew things, he often did not wait until God gave him a direction but before something happened, Father would always prepare a few steps, and do a few things beforehand. Therefore, God comes to Father and shows the road He is going Himself. Since he already knew the road God was taking, he already went by himself very close to God. Therefore, God cannot help but usher him the rest of the way. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>This is our inevitable course. We all have to die one day. We will go to spirit world at some time. Does anybody say, “No, I am an exception to that rule”? Can you say that? No matter how high up in the mountains a stream of water may be flowing, no matter how fast it may be moving, no matter where it is, it doesn’t matter. All flowing water must end up in the ocean eventually. Even though the color of all clear water is the same, the water in the ocean is salt water. We, too, will all go to spirit world, but we don’t know what spirit world is like. The taste is different there, too. Just like fresh water and salt water taste different.</p>
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<p>It is that decisively important. I knew that and therefore I long ago gave up every other career, gave up my life for this purpose. The only thing for my life is God’s work. What do you want your life to be? Do you want your life to be like God’s life cycle? (Father draws on the board.) Do you see this? What do you notice about it? While you are going up, you are below God, and while you are following that, it’s above God. Like so. What happens is that you must come to serve God, not to be served by God.</p>
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<p>We must serve Him more than we serve our own parents. If you are thinking about balance, if you are lower than Him, then you have to go higher than Him. That means inevitably we must suffer more than anybody else. Nobody wants this position, but we must suffer more than anybody. That is an iron rule. When that iron rule is followed, wherever we go, we cannot help but become successful. We know the way we are treading and the way God has been treading is the restoration course, but that course can never be achieved without paying indemnity. Why must we pay indemnity? It is because we are going backwards. We must do everything backwards. Therefore, it is the way of hardship, difficulty. That is the price we pay.</p>
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<p>We say “Love thy enemy.” To God there are original children and there are restored children, similar to Rachel’s family and Leah’s family. How to bring them into oneness is the question. Abel should not strike Cain and then expect him to follow. Instead, Abel has to love and serve Cain to move his mind to bring him to Abel’s side. That is how they come into one. These two women-Leah and Rachel-were enemies of love to each other; therefore, they are archenemies. This is similar to Adam and the archangel. The position of Abel is that he should be willing to help in a loving way at any time. Namely, the love we must exercise is a stronger and deeper love than Satan’s love. There is no way of denying him because his love is greater than Satan’s love.</p>
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<p>Jesus’ position is the same, Father’s position is the same. Right-wing and left-wing, Barabbas’ position, have always been fighting. Look at how Christianity and Islam have fought. We see that so clearly in Jesus’ path. The twelve disciples, centering on the three disciples, had so much difficulty uniting. What did Jesus do? He ended up washing their feet, trying to win their hearts, showing them how to unite. If we do not love our enemy, there is no way we can achieve peace. Also, the concept of enemy has to be a temporary thing. It has to cease to exist eventually. If the enemy relationship continued eternally, it would mean that God consisted of both good and evil, that there were two Gods, in essence. But that is not the case. God is not two, God is only one. He didn’t create any enemy.</p>
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<p>There is no stronger indemnity than that of loving one’s enemy. As I have already told you, God was in the position of sacrificing His own child, Jesus, in order to save the children of His enemy, Satan. What an impossible situation God found Himself in. He had to love the enemy of His love, like loving the man who snatched his wife away from him. Can you imagine seeing the very person who stole your wife away from you, and instead of killing him, you have to let your wife continue to be with him? Not only that-if the three are sleeping together-let this bad person, his enemy, not only love her, but also you have to watch over them and protect them in the archangel’s position. That’s exactly God’s position. He has to let that man embrace his own wife, just give his own wife to the enemy and protect them so that they won’t be hurt. That’s exactly God’s position, becoming a watchman. Unless we reach that point, we cannot understand God’s heart.</p>
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<p>Imagine, your own loving wife-not just any wife but a loving wife-giving her to your enemy, and letting him embrace her. And you watching over them in the archangel’s position. We know that the ordinary response would be to want to throw the atomic bomb at him, right? You American women must understand God’s feeling in this regard. To understand God’s feeling, we must do this. Is God’s position an easy one or a difficult one? How difficult? We already know it is impossible. For Jesus to become the messiah and accomplish what he did, he had to go through that kind of impossible situation. By the same token, Father also had to go through a similar position to understand God’s position.</p>
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<p>Joseph’s wife was Mary, right? And God took her away from him, didn’t He? Then God expected Joseph to allow Mary to be embraced by God and for Joseph to remain in the watchman’s position. But Joseph could not do that.</p>
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<p>What is your answer: Is God a very miserable God, or is He a happy God? In Father’s own time, how important it is that I can be uncovering all these deep, hidden secrets and by doing so, liberate God. How grateful God is for that. What about you? You, too, must liberate Father in America, isn’t that true? It is the same situation. Not only in America but in every country. At least you have some idea of God’s realm of heart.</p>
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<p>Through Isaac’s offering, he could begin a new course in God’s dispensation of restoration. We must understand this heart of God: He is giving His own wife as an offering to His enemy in the effort to bring that enemy around to Him. When you extend that a little bit, you come to the practical problems of bringing unity between white and black people in America. There is so must antagonism. How about all those families which have fought among themselves? The only way for them to correct these attitudes is by understanding God. Once we understand God, each one can be corrected.</p>
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<p>We see these are the formulas which will last until the whole world is restored. If Unification Church members settle down comfortably, can we achieve this destined course, or not? So we have been like heavenly Gypsies and Father is like Moses leading his people out into the wilderness. It is the same situation: you must follow Father and that means you must go wherever he is. We are about to establish our own country, God’s fatherland, and that cannot be done easily. We must suffer to achieve that, from a difficult position, almost like dying. This is the destination we are going toward. We must register into Father’s own family.</p>
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<p>After you go back to your hometown, you have to register your own family and parents into Father’s family. A big movement takes place. If you really understand that it is imperative to unite Africa and the United States, what is the best and fastest way? It would be for Africans to come to America and for Americans to go to Africa. That great movement of race would bring unity. Therefore, we must not settle down because once we are settled, we cannot accomplish our goal. Once we are settled, we cannot be moving, we cannot be a part of this great movement. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>What is the first principle? Love your enemy. We must understand how much we love our enemy. By loving him, we will determine the liberation, it will determine everything. Ownership and sovereignty are determined that way.</p>
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<p>The second principle is how much we dedicate to another country, helping them to transfer to the right course. That, too, will decide how much your ownership will be. Property. Ownership is a more abstract word, but we are talking about real property: how much property will belong to you?</p>
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<p>The third principle is to invest and then forget. Do the right thing and then forget that you have done it. Do more and then forget that you have done it. If we don’t forget, then we can’t invest more. The purpose of forgetting is to enable us to do greater things. To invest more means after winning over hard-won America, Father is willing to give for the sake of Africa, which is so remote. But Father has to do that because God has been living that way. Father already invested a lot in America. To invest more means to invest what he has already given in America and more in service to Africa. What about Africa becoming as great a nation as America? Then together they work for the sake of the world. It is the same principle.</p>
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<p>If there is a good business, certainly this is it. There is no better business than investing. How hard for God to plant and gather His harvest. Yet God gives up all His hard-won harvest in order to plant again. Do you think I keep a lot of money in my pockets? What about my personal bank account? Am I in debt? Not only do you invest what you have, but you also borrow money from other people at great cost, and invest it. That’s even greater investing. This is more than a cross to bear. It’s a double cross to bear.</p>
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<p>Last night, Father talked to Mr. Joo all night about what would have happened if Father had not done what he has done. If Father had not been here in America, this country would have been washed out long ago. And the whole world, as well. You Americans don’t even dream of such things as whether Father has debts, or Father will be able to recover from debt. You just live day to day. That’s not right.</p>
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<p>We have a saying in Korea, “To be a parent is to be a great sinner.” It’s to become a man who owes people; in other words, he’s simply a sinner, someone who committed a crime. God, too, has invested and invested. What is the result? His children become more comfortable. When we are in a similar situation, don’t worry about it ever, just like Father. In other words, if we borrow a lot of money and become greatly indebted to other nations, and we suffer from that, don’t worry about it because so much liberation will take place. So much property will return to us. We are not losing anything by doing that. This is the Principle. It always works. In the same way, God invests and forgets. What is the result of that? His property (His ownership) becomes bigger and bigger.</p>
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<p>We see each individual’s path is revealed soon enough. Like Reverend Kwak and Dr. Pak, both are taking responsibility in Korea. The one who goes the road of Principle will finally be the winner. He will liberate more. Even though they may work very hard, still Father pounds on them and calls them bad names, even. But they still remain faithful and obey Father’s directions. Just as God has been working so hard and has been called names, and He tries to forget that. What about Americans? Suppose an American has been working very hard and then Father comes and pounds on him, how would he respond? You already know, right? He would become angry, he would even want to retaliate. American’s education consists of how to protect yourself, not to protect God or anybody else. You would ask, “Why did Father hit me?” You don’t have any contents. Why? Your mouth is always moving, talking.</p>
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<p>Liberation and the ownership of property: we all want to have these two things, don’t we? Is there anyone who would say, “I don’t need them”? No. Once you understand these deep underlying principles, then you can just forget about what Father may think about you. Forget it, don’t pay attention. What you must do, you must do. In the same way, if you owned vast amounts of property, you could exert a great amount of influence in this world, like a king, right? You could go anywhere, like a king, and not be bothered. You would be liberated. It is the same way in God’s world. If your ownership becomes like that, you feel like a king. We know.</p>
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<p>So we know these three precious principles: Love your enemy. Take over the opposition and transfer.</p>
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<p>When we think from these deep principles, whatever Father says, such as, “Go to your hometown, do this, do that,” it is really nothing compared with what we must do. Do you understand? Therefore, complaint is not possible. Already, the King of Kings, Almighty God, has been going this path which we are about to go, for thousands of years. He is doing it today. We know that. Also, the True Parents have been doing this all their lives. Now it is your turn to follow that pattern with your life. How can you complain, since you will be one with them, reaching to them? God is your Parents, True Parents are your parents. Isn’t that true? You belong to one family, then. Absolutely obeying parents is the way, then, isn’t that true? No complaint can be possible, then. The children are not in the subject position but the parents are. So the children have to absolutely obey the parents. That is the absolute Unification foundation.</p>
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<p>Look at Ukraine in the former Soviet Union. People there are yearning for Father to come over. I have been weighing this in my mind. Going there would certainly have some gains, but I also have to consider the losses that would occur. That is why I don’t just jump to go there. Mr. Yeltsin also invited Father to come over, but I didn’t immediately respond. My feeling was that I must meet with Mr. Bush first, and then go to Yeltsin. Yeltsin wanted me to come, and it didn’t happen, and then Bush was cast out, and now Father has to find a different course.</p>
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<p>But Father is doing everything properly toward America. This is chemyun. American people don’t have a clear idea about this chemyun. It means you know what you are supposed to do, you don’t just do something on a whim. Father already knows what he has to do towards certain people. Father always keeps his face towards America, in other words. Father has already done what he is required to do by God for the sake of America. You must do indemnity from God’s and Father’s position, not centering on yourself.</p>
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<p>To establish conditions from Father’s position means only one way. Father already told you that there are already many more hills for you to climb. In order to do that, you come to higher and higher slopes, coming even to the Himalayas, when your work becomes more and more heightened. We must follow Father.</p>
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<p>Here is the conclusion. Why is God working so hard? Why is Father suffering so much? For whom? You must realize that it is for only one person: you. Each one of you must say, “It is for me.” We must come to realize that in order for God to place you in this position you are in today, how many people actually had to die for this benefit you are enjoying today? How much do we owe to Him? If God has been working so much, as we know, now we can volunteer, “I will do it for You, God, in Your place.” Then God will look at you like you are His God. What more could God ask from His children than for them to say, “I want to do your work for you”? God even wants us to stand in His impossibly honorable position, too. “You can do it in My place.” He may give us authority, too. God wants to give everything He has to us.</p>
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<p>What a glorious position we would be in. How much more of a winner could we ever be? We will be completely free. You could come up to God and say, “I would like to sit in your throne, Father.” He would say, “You want that? Okay, come on. Sit here.” That is the concept. How much happiness, how much satisfaction. That means total freedom in God’s world. Even your Creator freely inviting you onto His throne. How wonderful! Do you understand?</p>
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<p>We are going to that goal, and while we are on the way, even though you may not fully understand what is happening, how can you talk and complain? American women, especially, want to speak out what they are thinking. They never can just keep their thoughts to themselves. Look at Jesus’ demeanor when he was being accused in Pilate’s court. What did he do? He was silent, wasn’t he? Why can’t you women behave the same way? Jesus didn’t speak until the question was asked, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Then Jesus broke his silence and said strongly, “Yes, I am.” How courageous that was, how wonderful. That’s when it is all right to speak out, never in complaint.</p>
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<p>When you are asked, “Are you a Unification Church member?” do you respond, “No”? Do you dislike hearing that kind of question? Do you take that kind of defensive attitude? Or do you answer “Yes” like Jesus? “I am a Unification Church member.” You know well what is the proper way for the Unification Church member to go, isn’t that true? You must repent for mistakes.</p>
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<p>The topic today is very important: ownership is in proportion to liberation. The more liberation you achieve, the more ownership and property you will have. The more property you come to have, that means more liberation must have taken place. Therefore, you can even forget about restoration by indemnity. That’s not pleasant thinking. It’s a really sad part of God’s thinking. Forget about indemnity. What is it for? Instead, just think about doing what God and True Parents have been doing until now. If you simply do that, and when you die doing that, still you can die shouting “Mansei!” because you are full of hope. The more you accomplish, then that much less will have to be done later on. We have to live like that. That’s the attitude Unification Church members must live by, from now until the time we go to spirit world.</p>
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<p>When you get confused, think about Father and Mother as your role models. Do like him, hold onto him tightly no matter what. By holding on tightly to my own principles, did I perish? No. So, if you follow the same principles, will you perish? You know you won’t. You will just digest, then go ahead, preferring death to avoiding it. Why? Because that is the way God thinks.</p>
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<p>Every one of you has the ambition to own a lot of property, don’t you? Even you small women feel that way, don’t you? Big men, small women have the same hope and ambition. True Love is the equalizer between you.</p>
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<p>Unless we achieve liberation, we will have no freedom. Liberation comes before freedom. Look at this in perspective. We go to Africa and pay indemnity and what do we achieve? Just Africa, that’s all. Can we complain at that? No, we are going beyond Africa, going beyond the whole world and history. We must digest and liquidate, rearrange now. Therefore, in the months to come, we will have a new, larger movement. We must have our mind prepared.</p>
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<p>A huge snowstorm hit New York and authorities recommended that everybody just stay home today. Everything is quiet. But we are making a big bang in this world and we know how to do it. We will do it by going out and working harder when everybody else is dormant and resting. This day is very memorable. It is quiet because of the storm. Everybody is trying to protect themselves. Our only protection, however, is our understanding and our acting upon it and accomplishing. Are we going to do that? Yes? Yes? (Father speaks in a softer voice the second time.) When I speak “Yes” in a smaller voice, how should you answer me? Should you also lower your voice, or should you make your answer bigger? As my voice becomes smaller and smaller, your voice should go the opposite direction, becoming stronger and stronger. Then how great the hope for the Unification Church will be in the future! Can you do it? (YES!) (Smaller voice:) Can you do it? (YES!!!) (Even smaller voice:) Can you do it? (YESSSS!!!!!!!) Okay, I will let you do it! God bless you.</p>
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<p>Please be seated. The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is rather unusual, in the sense that it has two forms of expression. One is oral and the other is written. This is in the form of speaking rather than writing. “<i>Nanun Champumonim Gwa Kachi</i>” In English it won’t make so much difference. It translates to, “I Will Live With True Parents.”</p>
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<p>When we hear “True Parents,” we immediately perceive the meaning in two ways: one in the vertical sense, and one in the horizontal sense. This is because, as we know, there are two sets of parents: one spiritual, from heaven, and one set with physical bodies. In the secular world when we hear of father, mother, or parents, we think of them only in one dimension. We think of only one person or two persons. But here, we immediately think about three or four persons, both vertically and horizontally. We also see a vertical father and vertical mother, while the secular world sees only the horizontal form.</p>
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<p>If we know the Principle and nature, we cannot deny the existence of God, who is our Father. He is our vertical Father. Immediately we come to know this after knowing Principle. But there is always an order to things, so which comes first? Should the vertical come first, or the horizontal? Always, we know, vertical comes first and then horizontal. That is a kind of duality. There is only one, but there are two within it.</p>
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<p>Centering on love, here are the parents, and here is the son (pointing to blackboard drawing). As we see, centering on love, when the offspring is born, the boy goes one way and the girl goes another. They grow from childhood through elementary school, into their middle years and their teens. Then they go to college, graduate, and then as man and woman, they meet right at the center of the horizontal line. These two represent the physical world and the spiritual world. The man represents the spiritual side, and the woman the physical world. Where do they meet? Right here, at the center point.</p>
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<p>They start from the position of sons and daughters, experiencing that type of love. Then they go on to brother and sister love, then to couple or spouse love. Then when they have their own children, they have parental love. These are the four levels of love. Where is the focal point; where are they all united? That is the question. What is their center point? Centering on what do they come together?</p>
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<p>Each level of love has its own perfection. What is the perfection of son’s love? We must achieve perfection of son’s love, and we must have perfection of brotherly love, the perfection of couple’s love, and the perfection of parental love. These four different levels of love comprise each person. Where do these four different levels of love become one in me? Right there, when you grow up and you and your spouse meet together.</p>
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<p>The man who has attained the state of perfection has all these four different levels of love perfected. Likewise, woman has four different loves. They grow up, but they are not together yet. Where do they get together? First, son’s love, then brother’s love, then couple’s love, and they come closer. You cannot see, but it’s diagrammed like so. God’s original ideal of creation for son’s love, brother’s love, couple’s love, and parental love now become perfect here. By marrying, we have perfected son’s love, brother’s love, and couple’s love, right here, which then resembles God. Therefore, we carry out the act of creation, just like God did. This is the whole crux, the nucleus of existence for human life. Now the couple is ready to give birth to a child. That means to create life just like God.</p>
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<p>Then we can state that we are like the visible God, while God Himself is still invisible. Until we get married, we are still in the process. It is when you marry that this perfection takes place. Do you follow? This is the crux or the origin of the universe, the base of the universe. There we are recognized, centering on love. That is where we get the seal of recognition, so to speak, from God. Originally, that of course, was supposed to occur between Adam and Eve. We, too, must go through the stages of children’s love, or love as son and daughter. This model of perfection we can now deploy by millions and billions horizontally. That is another form of creation. Each one forms the four position foundation, with himself or herself in the child’s position. They formed it with their parents and connected with God. Looking at this separately as the model, we are exactly in the same form and position as Adam and Eve.</p>
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<p>Thus, the value of the first love accomplished by Adam and Eve, right here at the center, and many millions of others who take the same form, is equal. They are all equal. Not only Adam and Eve’s father is God, but also, every individual’s father is God. God is Father of all other couples. We are saying this centering on first love. Isn’t it a little odd when you say, “He is the father of my generation, but he is also the father of ten generations later”? In the horizontal way, God must be thousands of generations, grand-grand-grand father. How can we say God is Father to every couple’s first love, in every generation? It is because the first love is the same. That is the way the ideal of creation was set up.</p>
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<p>The most precious one is the first love. Does anybody forget his or her first love? We human beings are meant to inherit first loves. Where do we perfect True Love? It is right here, at this point. If you connect all the different levels of True Love through their axis, that is oneself. The self has all these four within. What is the highest point of education? Nobody has known before. It is not gained by going to some institution and spending many years there in order to graduate. Of course, that can be helpful, but this love training is by far the most important crux of education. Why is it so significant? When we achieve this, we become one with God. What more can we strive for? In that position, God is in the mind’s position and the individual is in the body’s position. Humankind has always sought for God, and even though they couldn’t find God, this is God. All religions sought the education of perfection, but no one knew what life is all about. This is what it is all about, the essence of life.</p>
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<p>In this position centering on True Love, man and woman have the same value. There should be a standard for perfection centering on love. God recognized the state of perfection in woman, that is it. In the man, that is it. How do we conduct ourselves, how do we avail ourselves to be recognized? Right here at this point. Without the son’s love and the brother’s love, we cannot reach couple’s love. Therefore, we have to reach here first. In order to do that, we go through son’s and brother’s love, then reach here, the center point.</p>
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<p>Also, we are reminded that we have five senses, each working in its own way. But they must have a focal point also. Actually, we have to regard our five senses in the dual sense; we have physical senses and spiritual senses as well. All together, we have ten senses, then. Where can I become one? Is it centering on the eye, the nose, or the other senses? All these senses with their dual composition are centered on True Love. True Love is the center of these two worlds, the physical and spiritual.</p>
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<p>Since the mind and body are in the position of plus and minus, why has our body taken the plus position after the fall? What is your answer? We must always remember that the vertical one is first. The deepest root is True Love. The deepest root is vertical. The body is like so and it does not reach to the spiritual depth. As a result of the fall, we have reached a certain depth by centering on the body, but didn’t quite reach to the deepest point possible. This one does not exist in the fallen world. Even though one has fallen, still he is made up of Principle. Therefore, because of that characteristic of the parents, it reaches here but not here.</p>
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<p>Originally, this is to go deeper, without the body. Because it reaches only here and not here, our body regards itself as the plus. We do many things to try to improve ourselves as human beings, such as meditation, reaching a goal by doing penance, going through difficult times, voluntarily suffering. For what purpose? In the Oriental culture, this is an everyday thing. It is to reach here, going deeper and deeper to the origin or root of the spirit. This is a very simple explanation of why the body acts as plus. I don’t have much time today. But at least remember that there is such a situation and that is why the body claims itself as the plus in the fallen world.</p>
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<p>Just as we get married and give birth to a child, we place ourselves in the children’s position again, the vertical thing. We must always think of that first. When we love our own children, we cannot love with body and mind separately. Our mind and body must first become perfect and then start loving children. The vertical standard of True Love was supposed to be the way which God could come back and forth, up and down, into human beings because He is the center of True Love. No fallen man or fallen world can do that. Because of this impact, re-creation is possible. Where do we connect on the vertical line? Father formed the diagram of the diamond, with the vertical and horizontal axis aligned, which forms a perfect triangle. The distance here, there and there is equal, exactly equal. When children grow up as brother and sister, they are supposed to always think of each other centering on the parents. In kindergarten, grammar school, middle school, even if they go to college, it’s the same. When they go to college, as sons and daughters or brothers and sisters, they think of each other, centering on their father and mother.</p>
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<p>Spirit world is the same way. God, too, had a time of growth. Of course, this is reasoning, but perfect reasoning is now possible. “Oh, God must have gone through the same growth stage like human beings, starting from a single cell. Then that cell multiplied and multiplied and became a perfect child, and then grew to become a perfected adult man or woman. God must have gone through the same stages.” What is the conclusion of that? The conclusion or implication of that is that human creation, from birth to perfection, exactly takes after the process of God’s own growth process. In other words, God is looking at a child each step of the way of his growth. The way God grew is the same way that each child, millions and billions of children, are growing when God looks at it.</p>
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<p>So there was a time for God equivalent with childhood, grammar school age, middle-school age and college-age. God, too, corresponds to a child’s growth through His own growth. And God comes down and the child grows up, and the two meet right here at this point. What can you say now? When a man grows up and reaches his perfection and gets married, it is not only that individual’s perfection, but also God’s perfection at the same time. Amazing!</p>
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<p>Centering on that moment, centering on True Love, the whole ideal is now moving forward. If someone asks you about God, how would you explain? Certainly the worst answer would be, “Oh, I don’t know.” Or you could say, “Oh, God just came into being.” That’s not much better. But God has grown. Don’t you see? A child grows, you grew, and just like that, God grew. Each individual human being born to his parents is testimony to the growth of all things that are created, including God, too. Of course there are some short periods, some longer periods, they may have different forms, but basically the process is the same.</p>
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<p>There is only one point which meets this specification. The distance from here to here is the same, the length here is the same, and this is only one point, not two or more. (Pointing to blackboard drawing.) Right here becomes double or dual line, and right here the dual line, too. This is where the spirit world and physical world become one. Therefore, we see so clearly that without man, woman can never be perfected. Likewise, without woman, man can never be perfected.</p>
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<p>Until now, nobody had the foggiest idea about perfection. People think the individual can somehow become perfect alone. Even in the spirit world, there is no library which contains this knowledge. Now Father is announcing all this compiled knowledge and it will be gathered and stored in the library in spirit world. Why? It is very simple. Spirit world is simply a warehouse, a spiritual warehouse where the perfected fruit of True Love is stored. It is the storehouse for the fruit of perfection. Where is that fruit perfected? It is not done in spirit world. That fruit is born and must be perfected right here on earth. Therefore, spirit world is the second place we go, not the first.</p>
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<p>Now, at this moment, we are extremely proud of ourselves. We say, “How wonderful I am!” You see, no part of the hemispheres, the semi-arcs above and below, can be taken away. Everything is needed. This is the plus hemisphere, for instance. Without the minus hemisphere, can perfection take place? No, obviously not. Therefore, women absolutely, no matter how they may try to get around it, absolutely need men. And vice-versa: men absolutely need women. Each one’s highest hope and ideal is, “I want to be capable of being with my spouse to make this perfection possible.” These are the highest goals for each individual.</p>
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<p>When such a perfected man here on earth goes to spirit world, he can go anywhere and become a perfect friend with any person, any being, or any situation. This is one perfect model with which to make the ideal, holistic perfection. This is the ideal textbook for holistic perfection. Once you know this, you know the greatest philosophy. Once you make perfection, you are the greatest philosopher, and you are the greatest man and woman of religion because you have attained the goal already. That type of man is God, he has the same value as God, the same level as God, the same everything as God. Wherever the perfected son goes, then the whole world and universe will follow in his wake. Here is one daughter from a small family, and where that daughter goes, the whole family follows, don’t they? Yes. But not in confusion as we see in this world. The world is in confusion, of course, because we do not understand this. Once we know this clearly and follow this clearly and perfect it, do it-first we know and then we do it-then no other thing is necessary. You don’t need to go to school, you don’t need to meditate. You don’t have to do anything in the world. (Laughter.) Because he already has the universe in his hands, he doesn’t need any more. He is “of love.”</p>
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<p>In this humble stable of Belvedere, such a historic announcement and proclamation is made. Imagine. What did you do to deserve to be here? All the greatest kings, saints, and the greatest of all people on the earth and already in spirit world should be in the position of where you are today to hear this. Have you ever heard this? Have you ever imagined this?</p>
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<p>It’s like a crystal. If we perfect it here in woman, and in man, and together such a couple forms a family, this is heaven automatically. This is what we are saying when we speak of “heaven.” This is heaven. Here the whole universe has come together in perfection. Like this, they got married and perfected, and formed the entire sphere. And if one of them says, “I don’t like this. I’m going to go away,” that means he or she will die. Can any possibility of divorce exist here? He and she will both die, and everything will die here. It’s the most complete destruction. We know how formidable it is by understanding Principle. Even in the fallen world, there is no one who is happy about divorcing. They always cry. That kind of person is not suffering alone for just that time, but eternally. What can she or he do? He has to simply turn around from heaven and stop looking at heaven and look at the other side. How miserable.</p>
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<p>There is such a thing as forgiveness. “To err is human,” they say, and, “To forgive is divine.” Why? Because God cannot help but forgive because He knows that man doesn’t know this truth and therefore makes mistakes. The pottery maker will make his pots and if he doesn’t like the way one looks, he can just put it back into the clay and start over again. But once you make a perfected article and finish the process, you cannot return it to clay. If it is perfected and connected to proper parties and after that you destroy it, you are blamed for destroying the whole thing.</p>
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<p>When American youths come to know this Principle and are inspired and decide they want to live like this, will America turn into heaven overnight, or will it remain as hell? It will become heaven, literally over night. If you are to pay for this, how much material must we prepare? You can imagine, you are the proper judge. If you sell all of America and you set the price, can you buy this? Think about it. Throughout history, humankind has paid a price in search of the truth. They have sacrificed for the sake of truth, they have been righteous, many things, and all that price was paid. As the result of that, standing on that foundation, this truth has come out.</p>
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<p>This truth has been produced. When we understand that, this model will laugh at us, spit at us. They say, “You don’t understand.” They will spit at us if we don’t understand this. This pattern will beckon all of us to come. We must understand. This model is very much alive. To repeat this, to do the same everywhere, this is constitution. This is our standard, the measure. We can take this and apply it to any woman, “How much percentage of perfection does she have?” We can measure even to a fraction of an inch. We will say, “One hundred percent, eighty percent” and so forth. This is our everyday criteria. That’s the only way of walking. You can’t jump in order to walk, and limping is not walking. That’s not the standard for walking. Everything except the normal way of walking is abnormal.</p>
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<p>That is completion, the normal standard point. How valuable it is. How much value it has! How much more important it is. You can lose your life, you can lose everything in the universe, but this cannot be lost. This is with God, and because of this, based on this, creation was made. Therefore, Satan also knows this. Satan also has to value this. There is no way we can deny that we have the power to transmit the counterpart to all the relations. You can never deny your spouse. Living alone as a celibate person will make you very lonesome, no matter what your philosophy or belief. Whoever conforms to this is protected by the universe, but whoever does not is not only not protected, but is actually repelled by the universe. Because we feel that repulsion, then we feel lonesome and sad, painful and unhappy. Here is the place where you get recognition, your degree, your diploma, so to speak. When you attend a course, you get a certificate when you finish, don’t you? Right at this point, since we perfectly resemble God, we can start the action of creating, like God Himself. Therefore, each person should give birth to as perfect a child as himself or herself. Therefore, unless we give birth to a child and help them grow to perfection, we cannot go to heaven, because heaven is God’s dwelling place. Without going through love’s history course, we cannot go to God’s country, which is heaven. Do you understand? This is clear, very clear.</p>
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<p>Think about this all the time: marriage. Why is marriage a source of great joy? Because everything is catching, everything is fulfilled, everything is connected to the center. Forever, every part, every cell is connecting at that point. Man’s cells belong to God’s cells connected to True Love. Plus and minus, horizontal parents. Man and woman are surrounded by God. Children surrounding parents, father and mother. The children stand in a position surrounding that. This is the point where vertical and horizontal meet. From that combination, there is unification of everything. So you need True Love. How much? Absolutely!</p>
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<p>Father is going to erase the blackboard now. Don’t ever forget what I have taught today. Have you memorized it? No matter how difficult a situation we are in, we have to reach that purpose, that point of perfection. If you cannot reach that point, you cannot have hope for the ideal. That focal point is the point of hope for the ideal. Now many Western and American members say, “We like freedom more than anything.” Where is freedom? Upon this point, you can catch everything, happiness, peace and hope. Otherwise, no way. Now you understand clearly, right? Huh, huh, HUH? (Laughter.) Don’t forget.</p>
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<p>So Father even taught this at the theological seminary. Once Father teaches this, there is really nothing more to teach you because it’s the most important thing. Without this, there is nothing we should learn. It’s a waste of time. The man who lives like this, who perfects this, becomes like the president, so to speak, of your nation. You can go anywhere, everywhere, with a free pass. When you appear, then God of the White House, will make way for you. Do you need that seal, that certificate, now? (Yes!) If we live like that, becoming perfected like that, then wherever you go in the world, you would not starve. If you feel hungry, the whole country will rise up and blame the people around you. That is real freedom; such a person is truly free, isn’t he?</p>
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<p>How necessary is that for you? Absolutely! You have to incorporate that word into your vocabulary: Absolute, absolutely!</p>
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<p>My sermon this morning is titled, “I Will Live With the True Parents,” and if you do this, you will indeed live with the True Parents. This was the stumbling block for Father, too, and for God, too. Because of this, God is like the most incapable person. He just cannot do anything. People blame God, curse Him, and do anything against Him. We never do what He wants us to do. Still God cannot do anything because of this. And Father, too, could not retaliate against somebody who opposed him. What can he do? Those who do not know and do not even think like this, you cannot stop talking with them. This is what made Father and God most powerless in the universe. Most powerful beings became most powerless because of this criterion of the perfection of True Love.</p>
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<p>Which is first, vertical or horizontal? Absolute vertical. In the absolute dual system the horizontal comes right here, too. There is only one intersecting point, which is ninety degrees. Absolutely ninety degrees. In the Western world, we shake hands, up and down when we greet one another. That’s the horizontal greeting. Come to think of it, why don’t we shake hands by doing this? [Pulling each other’s arms back and forth.] It is because we have to follow that vertical way. Oriental people greet one another in the most vertical way, don’t they? Like so. [Father bows.] If you put the greetings in order of best, second best, and the like, which is more stylish and better? This way, or that way? When you bow correctly, your body’s movements represent the whole universe, grouping it up and offering it as if saying, “I’m going to occupy your love,” or “I am at your disposal,” or whichever. You know, this is the proper way of bowing. When you see Western people just bowing down like that, that’s not so good. You have to form your body into a rounded shape when you bow. Like so. Do you see how round that looks? (Laughter.) As round as you can make yourself. If you bow down but with the legs stretched, it’s not round. He makes a big cavity right here, as if saying, “Yes, I am going to embrace all of you, and the whole universe I am going to occupy in love, even God.”</p>
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<p>Western civilization will follow Eastern civilization without fail now. That trend is already obvious, isn’t it? This is the Pacific Era. It isn’t the American Era. The East is beckoning to the West, “Come to us.” When we write in Korean and also in Chinese and Japanese, we write from up to down, from right to left. All the books are like that. Did you know? Whereas, English is written from left to right and up to down, like so. This has to meet here.</p>
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<p>There are many examples of differences. For instance, when an American beckons to someone else to come to him, he does it like this. [With the palm of the hand facing up.] The Oriental people beckon like this [with the palm down]. When we make that motion to Americans, they go away! With the palm up it means, “Please give me something,” or “I’m going to receive from you.” This way, with the palm down, means “I’m going to give to you.” These kinds of hidden meanings are contained in all the simple things we do. Can you imagine how very different Eastern and Western people are? When Western people sleep, many of them, even adults, sleep on their stomachs. When a child sleeps like that in the Orient, the mother will not like it, she will worry about it. We don’t even bury people like that when they are dead! We bury them in the proper position with stomach side up, so what do you mean by sleeping like that!</p>
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<p>If you know the basics of these principles, even if somebody tells you to do that, you won’t do it. The insects of the field may sleep facing towards the earth, but human beings should always face toward heaven.</p>
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<p>Everybody agrees that America is on a crash course towards destruction. Somebody has to intervene, somebody has to begin the re-creation. Father is recreating. An Oriental person came here to recreate America, saying, “Leave behind your horizontal ways and follow me.” Let’s assume you don’t understand complicated ideas, but let’s just ask a simple question: Have you become better or worse after meeting Father? (Better!) You say “better” because you feel you have become better, or by Principle? Without mistake, you have become better? Which one? Until now, we may have gone in a certain direction with a lot of effort. But without a focal point, without clear criteria, one just drifts away. You must have this point in mind always, then you can go anywhere and do anything. Eventually you will come back to this point, but if you don’t have this place, and you go far away, then you are in trouble, aren’t you? That’s why we should not drift too far away, if you are not confident. If America loses Father, in other words, if Father stops living here or stops returning to America, then America would be without its center. Father is right here in the center, and everybody wants to cluster around him, like all the Japanese leaders and their wives. Why do they come here to Father? It is because of this. Centering on Father, they want to cluster around.</p>
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<p>When Father goes to Korea, we all want to follow Father, don’t we? That is because it’s the shortest path to perfection. Our spirit knows, so that’s why we want to be near to Father. He teaches us and he works and acts with True Love, which we can follow. So we want to live near him, spend time with him, being close because we can go the shortest cut to perfection in ourselves. Do you follow? This is why our mind always moves towards Father.</p>
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<p>Isn’t it true that religious people have been rather eccentric in the eyes of the secular world? They do just one thing. That is because it is all-important to find the center and find God, to find the Principle. After that, everything else is secondary. Therefore, religious people have given up everything for the sake of that one purpose. In order to do that, they give up worldly things. The more faithful a person is, the easier it is for him to give everything up. He gives everything in the search for truth. Because God is here. Oriental philosophy is trying to reach this. Even the highest goal of Western philosophy is here. Because of that, they give up everything willingly to reach here.</p>
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<p>When couples are in the act of love, they aren’t thinking about Japanese ways, or American ways. You forget everything, don’t you? International couples do not think of themselves as representing different countries, do they? You Western women don’t love your Japanese husbands as a Japanese representative, do you? You forget everything but the loved one, and your focus is love. The only strong power is True Love. How wonderful! All are the same. It is a vertical feeling. How much excitement, how much strength! It is like you are inflating a balloon, and finally it bursts. A balloon doesn’t make any sound while it is being inflated, but once it explodes, it always makes a big noise, like thunder. God may be dozing somewhere, but when He hears that sound, He will be awakened! And then He will gaze upon the place where that sound comes from. The sound of love even wakes up the dozing God. It’s so important.</p>
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<p>Do you need that power of True Love? Yes? (Yes!) Excellent! You know that well! More than me! If you know this, you can forget everything else. Husband and wife will come together, embrace, and you tumble down, and become one. You don’t have to stand in any position, but you can roll.</p>
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<p>God lives this way, and True Parents live this way. All sons and daughters live this way, and when all the rest of the world lives this way, then the world will inevitably become heaven on earth. When you are perfected in this pattern, then it goes to the top, most lofty place in spirit world.</p>
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<p>We already know how many percent of perfection I have as son, as daughter, brother and sister, and as parents, as spouse. Starting from son’s love, right at the center of this circle, it connects by axis horizontally. It is the same way, horizontally and vertically; it is an equal distance, too. There is no way we can go individually. We know that, don’t we? We must have our own children, we must have our own brothers and sisters, we must have parents of our own. We must have a spouse. Therefore, this “couple-ism” which we see so much here in America, how far away from God’s ideal, we know already. “Couple-ism” means they deploy horizontally, but that’s all. They will go farther and farther away, but where will they end up? They certainly cannot come back unless they have a place to come back to.</p>
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<p>Actually, this is the reason America became such an individualistic country with so much free sex. They went this way, then after this, there is no other way besides individualism, free sex. Do you understand how they became like this? As they go farther and farther away from this crux, then everything gets in their way. At least that is how the individual feels, so he gets rid of his wife, his children; he gets rid of this and that. Then he finds himself all alone. This is the fate of individualism. Each one has a certain aspect of individualism within themselves. We all know where we are or how much percent perfect we are.</p>
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<p>We must think, “Am I looking at my spouse, my children, my parents, in the place of (from the perspective of) God?” Each child must resemble his parents because his parents are not only his parents, but they are also brother and sister to each other. Because they are brother and sister they will learn the brother and sister relationship through their parents and what they are doing. And the couple, too. They will look at the parents’ couples’ life. By loving their own children, from the standpoint of parents, they do the same. Do you follow? In other words, parents must play the lead role, the model role. Parents must show their children how to love other children, and how to love brothers and sisters, how to serve parents. The father and mother must show the children all these things. The children can only learn from them. Therefore, all education takes place in the family. When children become as perfect as their own parents, then their parental perfection is also attained.</p>
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<p>In the Garden of Eden, the brother and sister, Adam and Eve got married. But after the fall, in order to embrace everybody, the farther away your partner, the better. Therefore, Father has been matching people internationally. We all know how much we benefit from that. So we all know we don’t have to go more in detail, we already know about ourselves through this measure, this principle. Do we or do we not understand this about ourselves, centering on this formula? (Yes.) Because, “I know faster than God does, I know this first, and then God knows.”</p>
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<p>Until now, nobody knew. We didn’t know and therefore we were forgiven and we were not blamed so much. But now we know. If we still don’t do that, then that is where the real anger comes from. Reprimands come. Now that we come to understand this, everyday life should be different. In the morning, when we are washing our face, say, “I have to resemble God. God invested and forgot, He gave and forgot He gave. He was always persecuted, but loved even more. Are my eyes going to do the same things, is my nose going to do that?” We have to continually ask the same question of every part of ourselves, “Is my body, my hand resembling God’s?” We must always have this focal point in mind.</p>
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<p>American people don’t want to live like that, do they? Do they say, “That’s too much effort”? This is why the Bible says it is very, very difficult for the rich man to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Poor people, who are more humble, can be more focused on this than anything else. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>There is such a thing as a ticket to heaven. It is a one direction course, straight. You will bump right into God and meet with Him if we have that straight route. The individual is there, family is there, clan is there, the nation and world are there. Starting from God, it has been deployed. Now we are returning to God. Therefore, in there is everything. God is my friend, God is my subject, God is my partner. We are that close to God centering on True Love. The grandchildren and grandparents are so close to each other, like dear friends, like brothers and sisters, even. If that happens, is that a tragedy or is that happiness? Inside, we are so respectful of our grandfather and grandmother, isn’t that true? But that loving child will just climb up on the grandfather’s head, and even perhaps lose control and wet his head, even. The loving grandfather would be only happy. “Oh, this is warm,” he would say. He would laugh and be so happy, and say, “Nobody else has this much love toward my grandson.” He would laugh and laugh. Do you like that? (Yes!) I don’t know. Liking something is up to you, not me.</p>
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<p>This is so simple. I, like my parents, with the vertical in mind, will live like this and the re-creation will become complete. When we live like this, that’s the end goal of our life. That is what our life is all about, to live like Father, to live like Mother. Now we know clearly the standard of perfection. Here on earth is the easiest place to achieve this. Now that we have the standard, how soon we realize it is up to us. We have to realize it here on earth. If we go to spirit world, we will have to come back to realize it, which is enormously more difficult. Therefore, we must do it here, very quickly.</p>
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<p>Earth is the center, not spirit world. Whatever is done here, is done up in heaven. Whatever is entangled here is entangled up there. Therefore, earth is the center. Think about some rich man, some millionaire, even billionaire who always spent his money for the sake of his community, his clan and country. If he lived that way all his life, and then came back to his homeland and died, would he go to heaven or to hell? (Heaven.) Even though he gave everything away and then went back to his homeland and died with nothing in his hands, would he still go to heaven? (Yes.) Why, through what Principle does that happen? It is because he followed God’s standard. God still is alive, He is not dead, and He continues doing the same things after thousands and thousands of years.</p>
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<p>God’s position has always been like a vacant place, like a low pressure zone. One time a high pressure zone comes in and blows down that empty place. That’s God’s hope, the end of time, the time of the Second Advent. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Raise your hands if you can say, “Now, Father, I understand clearly and you have helped me so much already. But now that I know this, I don’t need any more help. I can do it, all by myself, and surely I will get there. Don’t worry about me.” Father gathered all the men together, and Korean residents here in America. They are lonely people. They are kind of miserable because they are away from home, trying to do God’s work, without anyone knowing. So Father gave this talk to them. Today is the time of the Women’s Federation, so all the women gathered together and received the same message. Father encouraged all the Korean residents here, “Teach this to every person in this country.” Now American men and Korean men know this. Are you American men, you proud, first-rate nation, going to be outdone by the Koreans? Or are they going to be outdone by you? Father says keep your hands up for one hour, but you know you will do it without fail? Until now, whatever Father taught you was virtually forgotten by the time you got back to the New Yorker. Not this time. Okay?</p>
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<p>Those who say, “I won’t forget, Father, I will never forget!” can lower their hands. That means you will do it! (Yes!)</p>
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<p>Already, two months have passed in 1993. We are now beginning the third month. Those who are blessed please raise your hands. Nearly everyone. You are all to be tribal messiahs. Before tribal messiahship we worked in our home church area. There we visited 360 different homes. This is our external tribe. There is a Cain and Abel relationship. If we had fulfilled home church work, our tribal messiah work would be very simple. If we had worked hard, moved their hearts, and brought them to us, then the restoration work with our tribe would have been very easy.</p>
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<p>Parents have been pioneering that road. Salvation is not just for the individual. Centering on True Parents’ efforts, we have been creating family, tribal, racial, national and world salvation. While Father has been doing this, Satan has been opposing him totally. Father’s 40 year life-course has been filled with persecution. All of True Parent’s efforts on all these different levels would not have been necessary if at the end of World War II America and the Christian world had united with Father. At that time the family settlement would have occurred, centering on parents. Thus Cain and Abel would have become one centering on Mother. As it did not happen, reindemnification was necessary. The whole world came against Father and persecuted him. That fight ended after 40 years. Since it is a rigid principle that those who do not fulfill their responsibility are taken by Satan, all the Christians went under the satanic domain. God lost all of them.</p>
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<p>The world-level Cain and Abel uniting with the mother occurred with nations on God’s side and nations on Satan’s side. World War II was a fierce fight between God and Satan. God’s side won over Satan’s side, and centering on Christianity the whole world was to have come into unity. Satan, represented by Japan, Germany and Italy, wanted to erase God’s side.</p>
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<p>If the Unification Church does not help in God’s work then it is also moved to Satan’s side. In man the mind is on God’s side and the body is on Satan’s side. When heaven gives an order the mind follows but the body does not. If the body refuses to move then it becomes satanic. As we come to understand God’s will, our mind and body must unite. But as time goes on, which side will get the better of you? Will your old ways come back and get the better of you? The satanic way of life wants to advance centering on Satan’s desire, Satan’s way of life. The body, even though it may be temporarily persuaded by the mind, still wants to cling to the old way of life. Today is the first day of the month, an important day. Most people think of having an easy life, centering on the body. You, instead of thinking of all the family, want to separate yourself and feel comfortable. The thoughts of True Parents, brothers, and sisters slowly fade. If you think that the Christian church is better than the Unification Church, you are receding. If you start to think of the easy way, you fade. If you make excuses and think easily you will fade. Do the younger or older members represent heaven? Speaking horizontally some members joined earlier and some later. This line should represent what God desires. But right now it has sunk down. Heaven wants to meet them at the center point, but they are fallen to a lower position, so they are given back to Satan. The whole circle should rotate around the center, but if the center is drawn down, it cannot rotate properly. So, no matter when you joined, if you are below then you are in the satanic domain. We know well what position we occupy.</p>
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<p>We all remember when we first heard the words of heaven. All we wanted to do was to come to the church and live there. There was a time when many came very early to sit in the front row. We see that diseases such as AIDS or cancer have a period of dormancy, during which time we do not know that they are present. We are reminded of how formidable habits are. Are you closer to Heaven’s side or to Satan’s side? After 20 years in the church are you up or down, closer to heaven or to hell?</p>
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<p>We lost the home church area many years ago. Home church is to serve as the method to save the nation. Cain and Abel must become one and then seek for a larger plus, which is the mother. Together they form a minus and seek the father. Then again they become a larger minus and seek the larger plus, God. This is the principle of development. The basic pattern calls for mind body unity. Which is the plus? The mind is plus, so the body must be bought into unity with the mind. If we do not do that we will always be dragged down by the body. While we are doing home church, Father is working at nation and world church. What is “church”? It is the organization which separates Satan and brings people to God’s side. We have stayed on God’s side just barely, because of all the ropes that Father attached. Without these ropes we would have all been washed away. Home church is to expand the foundation horizontally.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Connect Your Hometown to Father’s</h3>
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<p>(Father draws a diagram with four lines.) The first is tribal restoration, the next racial, then national and finally the world restoration. The Unification Church is moving up, but many mistakes have been made. Father has to bear the consequences of these mistakes. We should be the ones to make the horizontal foundation, but we did not, and Father instead had to do it. Thus our foundation became symbolic, not a reality. It’s like a dotted line. Instead of advancing in the wake of Father, you have been barely hanging on. Thus when Father is not here you have no place to stay in heaven. You go to Satan’s side. We must understand that if we had succeeded in home church, our home church area as Cain would have united easily with our Abel tribe. So now Father ordered that we only focus on the Abel-side.</p>
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<p>Because we didn’t make the foundation, Father made it. Father ordered us to go to our tribes. How can we ignore this? We must understand the concept of tribal messiahship. It is our own real foundation, our hometown. If instead we just tag along with Father, we will not have a hometown. Father wants to make a connection between his hometown and ours; this is tribal messiahship. Centering on Father’s hometown, we are to make ours. By doing so, we reconnect what was lost during history. By doing that this realm returns to God’s side. In the spirit world are you going to live in Father’s hometown? You must have your own home. Of course you center on Father’s home, but you have to have your own home. If you do not establish your home, you will be homeless in the spirit world. Even if Father goes up, we do not go up automatically. It will just be harder and harder for us to reach Father. If we had understood this correctly, there would be a world of difference between when we joined and when we become the tribal messiah. When we joined we did so just to be connected firmly. At that point we took the new seed and fostered it. We wanted to go to church 24 hours a day. Thus tribal messiahs should feel at least the same. We should do more tribal messiah work. As we do, we can connect to the nation and world. We all have a hometown; it is still satanic. Your hometown is not heaven’s land and there are no heavenly people living there. God does not live there. The only way to do that is to do the tribal messiah mission. Do your work and connect them to True Parents and God.</p>
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<p>We know enough. Without first connecting to them and serving them, we cannot restore our hometown. Without doing that we do not have a home in which to stay. You are like orphans. Orphans do not have a home or parents. Do you want to remain orphans? Not one person in five billion wants that. We must have deeper desire. Father points this out clearly, so you know where you stand.</p>
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<p>It is our privilege to have tribal messiahship. Through fulfilling it successfully, we can connect to Father. At the top of the tree we have a new bud. As long as we have an intact root and trunk, the bud will live. Branches will come. Father’s purpose is still to turn Christianity and connect them to this trunk. Those who come against Father will be cut off from heaven. Those who practice free sex and homosexuality will perish. There is no way to stop that. They cannot have children. All their flourishing will perish. To reconnect people to the trunk is the mission of the tribal messiah. You should take the Cain world and bring it to God. Do you now understand clearly? [Yes.] We have a hometown where we were born, but it belongs to Satan. We must restore our hometown. Without doing that, if you go to spirit world you have no place to stand. From your restored hometown you can make a natural transition to the spirit world. This is exactly what Father wants to do through the tribal messiahs. Just as Father engrafted us to himself, in our hometown we are to engraft our tribe to us. Then our hometown will be on God’s side. You will be the ancestor of your tribe. You will represent the past, present and future. By making tribal messiah successful all those who belong to that tribe are recognised as being born in heaven’s land. All in the spirit world understand this, so they will return to earth to assist. Then they can gain their own restoration. These spirit men have no foundation that they can make without working here on earth. Thus the tribal messiah is the sole hope of all his ancestors. They will come down and chastise him if he doesn’t work hard. Inactivity is like a swamp; he will go down and down. No one will come to save him.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Harvest of the West</h3>
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<p>That is a fearful place. We are in a situation where our ancestors, offspring and relatives can all judge us. Do you understand how important the tribal messiah’s mission is? Father has taught us so much; he will now take his hands off us. Jesus could not accomplish this so he had to come back. If you miss your chance you will not be able to come again. This is the first and last time in history that this is possible. Father challenged the Korean residents here in America to fulfill tribal messiahship, so the Americans have to do it too. If they don’t it will be like the tribes of Israel who had to just wait to be killed. There are many people in the orient who can do your job; we cannot wait indefinitely. If we do not do it, our enemies will. As the Bible says, the first shall be last. Russia is now in a unique position. There is no opposition there. Father can start at the top and change Russia. Where is America’s place? Should it follow Russia?</p>
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<p>America’s soil belongs to the Indians. You are occupying it. You have to make your hometown here, if you do not it will revert to its former owners. White people are a minority to other races. The dominant race in the future will not be Anglo-Saxon; it will be colored.</p>
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<p>Your ancestors planted opium in the east during the opium wars. Now the harvest is coming to the west. How can you escape from this? You must repent and go 180 degrees opposite. Father will not let it just pass. He must bring results; if he cannot he will choose a different way. When Father first came, there were only 100,000 Koreans in America; now there are more than one million. More and more will come and settle down all over America. Father recently bought a large farm in Texas. Father wants to bring many starving people and teach them to farm. When white people colonized the world they did not teach people how to farm. Father will do this.</p>
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<p>Many missionaries meet a terrible fate in Africa, but not Unification Church missionaries. They are welcomed. The white Christian missionaries went there and ruled like kings with many servants. As you know, after World War II, America, Russia and China sought power in Africa, but they have all been kicked out. However, the Unification Church will be welcomed and Reverend Moon will teach them how to use their own resources for their own betterment. In the past they persecuted Reverend Moon, but now they ask him to stay. If Reverend Moon leaves America this nation will turn very dark. If America follows Father, it will be very bright. Father has been fighting a fierce war in this country. He has been going into debt to invest in this country. Father wants to repay on his own. But American members are not thinking like that. They are still asking for more money. Father has been cutting the budget to the minimum. Father wants to only fund the Washington Times and Bridgeport University. Many members in Japan and Korea do not sleep at night in order to fund this country. We have to pay back this debt.</p>
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<p>Father has always placed the white people in front of the other races in America. Now Father asked you to do ethnic church. Through Dr. Pak and Rev. Kamiyama Father is going to do this.</p>
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<p>So today’s sermon is “The Tribal Messiah and My Homeland.” Do we have my homeland? No. These are not passive words; they are active. The day we joined the church and the day we are granted tribal messiahship are much different. Joining is to be connected individually. Today is the day you connect all your ancestors and your entire family. It is God’s idea to live for others, to do everything for others, to not just preserve yourselves. Here in America, is there even one small town where they are asking Father to come so that they can serve him? No. So this is still a wilderness. What about Korea? There are many tribal messiahs there. They are settling down in their hometowns. Anytime Father goes there, they will have a large feast. What about America? It is still a wilderness. For Father to stay here he must have confidence in you.</p>
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<p>Father is now close to 80. He is a grandfather’s age. When people get that old they want to go to their hometown. So Father wants to go home. He thinks he will sit and drink and smoke a pipe. This way he can reach the drunkards, saying, “Follow me and you can go to heaven.” If Father does that, will you follow him? [Yes.] Father never had any alcohol or a cigarette in his life. He is healthy because of that. Whenever he had a good meal, he even felt guilty. No one else with a Mercedes or a Rolls Royce goes to eat at McDonalds, but Father does. The people always wait and look to see who is the owner of the car. They see Father and are surprised. Father laughed. This has happened so often that McDonalds once sent him a gift.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Blessed Couple must Realize<br />
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the Value of their Hometown</h3>
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<p>We must realize how valuable my hometown is. Should we make it or throw it away? We as Adam must restore all that was lost. Without doing that we do not have a hometown. The spirit world is in the angelic position. When Adam was growing up, all the angels helped. Similarly, today all the spirit world will come to help. You cannot deny that. So if we do not have the tribal messiah foundation, we will be at a total loss. In your tribe there are three groups: those who married by themselves, those who had sexual relationships but did not marry, and those who are virgins. The first are like fallen Adam, the second are like Jesus and the third are the completed testament group.</p>
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<p>If Jesus had lived and worked seven more years, by age 40 he would have been the king of Israel. The king’s root is the deepest root; it is God. If Jesus had restored Adam’s family when he came, Father need not have come. Joseph’s family and Zechariah’s family would have united. Jesus should had taken as a bride the younger sister of John the Baptist from Cain’s side. The tribe would have unified. John the Baptist could not have denied Jesus. Jesus would have become a father and grandfather and the perfect Christian family would have expanded on the earth. Jesus with the Roman foundation could have spread all over the world. Peter, James and John fought. If instead they had become real sons and united into one, parents would have come.</p>
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<p>So do we understand the importance and meaning of tribal messiahship? We should follow Father. So to prevent ourselves from going backward we should pray and read Father’s words. We must realize how much Father worked to give those words. As we follow Father ten years, 20 years or 30 years, we should help Father more and more. Instead we have been going back and back. This is not desirable. Are you now getting bigger or smaller? Which one? Father has been working on larger and larger levels. As he progresses more came against him.</p>
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<p>But now there is no more communism. Persecution will cease. Father now has Mother, and the family can settle down. What America, England and France failed to do at the end of World War II, Father reindemnified at the end of last year. Now Father with Mother has restored the bride. Father and Mother stand side by side and now with God can return to their homeland.</p>
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<p>So we as a blessed couple must realize the four realms of heart and the three kingships. After that you can become part of the royal family of God. This will be the completion of the son’s and daughter’s heart, brother’s heart and sister’s heart, couples’ heart and parents’ heart. Upon fulfilling this they will meet at one focal point. This is the point of all hope and the settlement point of true love. God will join you there. By the time we reach here, we will have felt all that God has felt. By giving us the gift of children we can feel as God has felt. So begin as good sons and daughters, good brothers and sisters, a good couple and then become good parents.</p>
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<p>So have we given birth to children from this point? When we are surrounded by true love our mind and body do not fight. If there is any fighting, God’s love is not there. We must become the king of the past, present and future. We must complete the four realms of heart and the tree realms of kingship. This will never fade, it will remain eternally. Those who do not make a family of this perfection will have to wait. You will be blamed by your tribe. “You knew this but you did not teach me.” This is your mission. We must as tribal families have this quality. Return to our homeland with tears and teach them.</p>
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<p>This is the difference between you and Father. Father has made Adam’s, Jesus’ and the original family complete. This contains so much historical difficulty. But all you have to do is the tribal level. We will resurrect Adam and Jesus. When Father pulls on one, all three follow. This is your mission. It is clear. This is your everyday task. Don’t forget this, eating, sleeping, walking-remember this always. Dwell everywhere with the desire to fulfill this and God will follow you everywhere.</p>
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<p>This is my homeland. First we have to find and restore our ancestors. Second we have to restore my homeland. The present land belongs to Satan; we have to restore it. Third, we have to restore God so that He will live with us, me, my family and my tribe, and Satan no longer exists.</p>
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<p>As Adam was growing up, God followed him everywhere. We must do the same and make that highway with no walls. Father declared war on all the walls and tore down the individual, family, tribe, race, nation, world and cosmic walls. Then God and you can say mansei together.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Find your Ancestors</h3>
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<p>We should be like a nursing baby, only concerned with Father’s words. The Unificationist love power should roar out like thunder. God’s love power will sound all over the universe. Make a noise all over the world. God wants that kind of world.</p>
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<p>So we have to find our ancestors. Can you find them in New York if you are from somewhere else? No; you find them where you came from. Absolutely you need to find your ancestors and your homeland, then God will follow you. So please remember these three responsibilities. If we unite and serve God, then God will follow us. Wherever Father goes, God follows him because he has accomplished the four realms of heart and the three kingships. Knowing is one thing but doing is another. This is the treasure that Father leaves to us, the results of his life work. So think deeply about tribal messiahship. Do not take it lightly.</p>
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<p>If you do it successfully, the nation and world will come into being. Did Adam and Eve need an institutional leader ? No. South Korea will follow us if 250 million Americans follow us. We have a strong weapon, the power of love.</p>
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<p>So where do you want to live? [In our hometown.] With whom? [Our ancestors.] We need our ancestors and homeland. Those parents who fought against us will now be restored. What great blessing for them. Even Satan will come to listen.</p>
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<p>Spirit world is on the edge looking at us. We must follow and do it while Father is here. You must learn Korean; it is True Parents’ mother tongue. Do you know how hard Father worked to learn English? It is so difficult to learn those words. At your age you can learn; you have to make up your mind. It can be done in one year, no problem.</p>
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<p>Should you go back to your hometown? [Yes.] You had ancestors, a homeland and God before anything else. That is the heavenly constitution. Don’t forget. The Messiah’s mission is to become True Parents. Even if we die, we have to come back to finish this here. Father decided to even give up his life to do this. Be absolutely serious to do this. How easy your life would have been if you had not heard Father’s life, but how else can you go to heaven? If you see others doing it, you will be very ashamed. Once you get to spirit world you will see that it is correct. Can you then come back? No. Forget sleeping and eating and focus on the mission. Is this something nice to have or absolutely necessary?</p>
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<p>Do you have sons and daughters? Where do they come from? Are they born in the homeland or on the street? Not in the homeland. So we must go back to our homeland and work harder with tears. Until now the fallen world came to the cities, but now the heavenly way will be to go to the countryside. The American forefathers went to the countryside, not the cities. The pollution is so bad, they can no longer live in the cities and stay healthy. Go back to the countryside and own a small piece of land. On Father’s farm in Texas there is nothing as far as you can see in all directions. Father will bring Africans and show teach them how to farm. Also make an agricultural school in each land. All this will come to pass. They will have good fishing, hunting, good farming, good results. There will be a six month learning period for you too. You will become a first-rate farmer. There is no better preparation before you go to the spirit world than farming. Over fifty years old, we should make farming a second career. This is the beginning of Father’s crusade for saving 20 million starving people. Teach them how to grow crops.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Don’t Call First</h3>
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<p>Father has given us the best gift, tribal messiahship. However, no one seems to understand. Father asked those national leaders who came to Alaska for training last summer to explain the meaning of tribal messiahship. Each had a different answer. What kind of formula is that? There must be one formula. Do you understand? Our original homeland is where we are going to be restored. In view of restoration, there is no way to deny this. That is the only way we can return to our homeland. So, are we going to go to our homeland? (Yes). Do your tribal messiahship honestly. In your hometown there are homosexuals and lesbians. There is free sex. We have to wipe it out. There can’t be families fighting each other. That’s not godly. There should be no senior citizen’s homes.</p>
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<p>Can you maintain as your only hope that you end up living in a retirement home, having to make an appointment with your own sons and daughters before you come? When Father calls your home beforehand and says can I come over, what is your answer? Can you say no? What if Father goes straight to your home. Are you going to say, “Father, you didn’t make an appointment, you didn’t call me so you must go back?” That is Satan’s way and the American way. If you truly understand the root of yourself, even if you were a couple making love and Father walked in and separated you, you would thank Father for paying attention to your family. Is the American custom very close to heaven like that? What if there were a dinner set and Father came in and helped himself, would you get angry because Father hadn’t cooked his portion? It’s the order of things. The grandfather is entitled to eat first, then the father, then the children, then the grandchildren. So, when Father goes in and helps himself, is he right in doing that? Sure, he has all the right. Father is the grandfather, isn’t he?</p>
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<p>What if Father doesn’t arrive by himself, but brings a lot of people along with him and expects everyone to be fed? What if Father does this not just one time, but very often? Pretty soon that house will go completely bankrupt. But wait. Father will open up a bank for him. The family which says, “Father please come more often,” knowing that they are thousands of dollars in debt-Father will buy a bank for that kind of couple. That is a matter of heart. So we are willing to do anything, even begging, for the sake of God. Since God is also the king of beggars’ world, God will help us no matter what. We must understand the tribal messiahship and how willingly we must go down to work for the sake of God. Now do we know how precious this is? We never had this chance ever before in history and we will not have it ever again.</p>
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<p>Today is a special day. March first of 1919, exactly 74 years ago, literally, while under military occupation from a foreign country, Japan, hundreds of thousands of Korean people sprang up and shouted “mansei”. Why that year? Why March first? Because that’s the time Father was conceived. God’s working is that even in a symbolic way God must have a country before Father was born, even as a condition. So that day was Korea’s Independence Day. Much, much blood has been shed for the sake of one person coming-Father. There was a great famine to pay indemnity for one person to come for the world, not for Korea only. Looking back we can see very clearly that God works in such an unmistakable way, following a formula.</p>
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<p>Father reinstated Japan as the Eve country. Eve’s mission is to give birth to Cain and Abel. In Japan there are two Korean natives-one from South Korea, who is in Abel’s position, and one from North Korea, who is in Cain’s position. They are always fighting each other. Now we have to become one. No one can bring that to pass except Father. Bringing them into unification is Eve’s absolute top priority mission. Without that, Japan cannot become the Eve nation. This is internal. Outside, the Eve nation must embrace the right wing and left wing. Japan is given the phenomenal, successful economic blessing in order to do this mission. Japan has been getting rich, although they don’t know why. They don’t know the purpose for which they are to use this blessing. It is because they have to restore people and material to do Eve’s mission. The Koreans are different. They know how to embrace people. Even though their country is poor, they are always thinking about the world. Japan cannot do that through the Japanese members who are completely one with Father, but they can center on Father and embrace all the right and left wing-Korea and North Korea.</p>
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<p>Why does America represent the Archangel country? Since America is in the Archangel position, it does not have a spouse. That’s why men turn to men as homosexuals. They are not given a spouse, only a partner, and only a temporary one at that. Who is the ancestor of free sex? Isn’t it the archangel? He took a spouse which was not his. That’s free sex. None of the customs which America follows are God’s customs. There is nothing you can use, so you must import God’s customs and use them. The archangel should follow Adam and Eve’s customs, not the other way around. Now AIDS is rampant. Who spreads AIDS around the world? Koreans? [No.] Americans? [Yes.] This is because of their very lax sexual morality. Which is it? Yankee stay here, or Yankee go home? [Yankee go home.] That sounds terrible, doesn’t it? But, the reason behind it is also terrible. How can we change it to “Yankee stay”? You have to go backwards and deny yourselves.</p>
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<p>We can learn a great lesson from history. When the Israelites wandering in the wilderness for 40 years eventually went back to their home country, the seven tribes were established and living well. The Israelites were almost like beggars in the wilderness after those 40 years. What did they have? Nothing. They all tried to get a job, so to speak, and get by, taking care of themselves. By doing that, they all lost their status and died. When the tribes were formed and they were not willing to go along with God’s will, what happened? They paid too much attention to material things, money. They hesitated because they thought, “What about money to support my family and myself? What about my security?” By doing that, they lost their hard-earned tradition which was prepared for over 300 years. We see the result now.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Women’s Age</h3>
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<p>We should not repeat their mistake. When you go back to your homeland, don’t get caught up in getting a job, or concern yourself in material things. The Unification Church is in the same situation as Israel was then. We must exert ourselves in the position of soldiers to build a nation. We must tackle the work to create a nation, not to take care of our wife and children. That’s backwards. So in Korea, Father chased them out mercilessly, in a way. In the end, that’s the best for them. So they really went ahead with it and became successful. The foundation for the Women’s Federation for World Peace meeting was made almost overnight. They said they didn’t expect it to be that quick and easy.</p>
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<p>Here in America Father urges that we do the Women’s Federation movement. There is no reason for Americans to oppose the Women’s Federation movement. It is for the family. The President’s wife, Hillary, is already moving the nine security council members and she is going to appoint women to more than five of those positions. You see, that trend is there. The number of congresswomen was far from big this year, but in the next election they expect it will be more than seventy. The women’s time definitely will come. Why? To protect the tribal messiahs, mainly, to protect us. So, perfected Eve must control and have dominion over the archangel. The archangel represents their husbands. So, the man’s time is passing and the women’s time is arising. American women cannot trust any American man because they are in a fallen archangel position. Women have to quickly mend this.</p>
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<p>American men walk singly. The single man walking about in the Orient will fast lose his popularity. People now even blame them and say that they are without principles, like mad dogs. In Korea it’s an everyday four letter word, to call a man a dog. Mad dogs have rabies. Of course, here, we should not think we are Americans. We should think we are Unification Church members. Do the Unification Church members ever contract AIDS? [No.]
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<p>So please establish the tribal messiahship concept in yourself deeply on this first day of March, this very significant day. Until now we all followed Father and we did not have a foundation of our own. Now we must deploy a horizontal foundation. To continue to follow Father’s way, Father will have to say, “Go back, go back to your own homeland.” That’s where you belong. Otherwise, you will be in-between. In America that’s what they do anyway. After they reach 18 years of age the parents say go independent. Maybe now we will kick out all the young members to do their own tribal messiahship. We have to do something.</p>
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<p>The company is not a real, real essence because a company is there all the time. Maybe you can support the company after you go to hometown. Part-time is okay too. Don’t seek for too much money. All you have to do is support yourself. This is one country where you never starve. Walk into any hotel and they have free bread. The Israelites did not have bread. Here you have bread everywhere. If you make friends with a restaurant, then every night they throw away perfectly good food. Do you think God will blame you because you are not dignified? Or would He praise you because you have done your mission even at that low level? God will not mind. In fact, it’s the other way: He will give us a prize. We have to leave God’s new tradition behind. Don’t be bothered by the old headaches.</p>
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<p>Did or didn’t Father establish a new tradition here in America and leave it behind for us? How much has this country changed? Above all, we’ve changed. We know how different a person we’ve become. Good traditions have to be established. Do not just establish, but inherit, preserve, and bequeath. This is elimination. Father did his very best to leave behind him the best tradition. Father applied this principle even to his own enemy country. But America certainly is not an enemy to you. This is your own country, so you should do even better. That is a reasonable conclusion. With this understanding, let us pledge that we will do it. Shall we do that? [Yes.]
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<p>Father had to speak longer because there were fewer people. Father actually practiced one hour and a half, but believe it or not, Father’s talks will be shorter and shorter. Father will give you the title and speak a few words with a very concentrated spirit, maybe ten to fifteen minutes, that’s all. You pray sometimes that Father will speak for a short time, don’t you?</p>
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<p>Remember today, the first day of March, 1993, and today’s most important conclusion. We know clearly now don’t we? [Yes.] Women, do you understand? [Yes.] Women always make problems. Is that true? You have become beautiful women now. How are the men? You’re not going to be beaten by women. So we have a serious understanding.</p>
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<p>We cannot predict where Father will go after March. Maybe Russia. There will be a country where they say, “Reverend Moon if you visit us we will treat you better than the President of the United States.” Should, or shouldn’t Father go there? [Yes.] Father doesn’t want to go. Maybe Father should send you there. Would you be treated as well as Father? You are Americans; you are better. Father is Korean and Americans are always better. They can do better wherever they go. Hmmm? Can you act in Father’s capacity? Can you replace Father? [No.] One country has said that if Reverend Moon wants, they can bring 360,000 couples, all by themselves. Should or shouldn’t Father proceed with that? That means if they do that then there’s no quota for the free world and America. Such a time is nearing.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">To Save America</h3>
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<p>Koreans are great people. At Sunday Service yesterday they stayed seven hours. Father’s original plan was two hours and a half. When that speech was over, Father asked them, “Should I continue?” They said yes. Then Father continued to six hours and they still wanted him to continue. Seven hours. Almost all of them remained until the last minute. American people would just go away. It’s not that Father is always trying to belittle Americans at all, he’s just merely trying to point out that difference. Americans are that different. What is five, six, or seven hours when you are talking about your life and death? One thing they are all amazed about is that a man of 80 years of age can have that health and stamina. Father really gave a straight talk to Christian ministers, Christian elders. He held back nothing. But in America, when that happens, Americans escape. So by the time the Korean population here in America becomes 5,000,000, they will really influence American society.</p>
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<p>Father’s entire purpose is to save America, to bring America into the right direction-that’s all. If Father does that and still they don’t listen, what else can he do? Kick them out. So, we have to be serious. Father has a clear idea of how America should live and stay healthy. There’s only one way. No one has imagined that, as mentioned above, the conclusion of God’s work here is that centering on the mother, the family should be restored and the husband follow. America assumed that Reverend Moon will make a big political organization and become a very powerful dictator, and then unify. Therefore they opposed him; they gave him a bad name. No one thought that he would restore each individual family, and that without this America would die. No one even dreamed five or ten years ago, that Father’s idea would be to revive the family by tribal messiahship. So, do you think that Father will think in a political way? Only to make things happen easier, yes, but otherwise, the political way has no meaning. We who have stayed to the end know the greatness and the real value of Father’s words. Those who left early didn’t really know what Father’s words were all about.</p>
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<p>The principle is very simple. To reverse the fall, the subject and object unity, right in my body, must come. Family unity must come through the mother, otherwise there is no other way of restoration. The whole nation, too. There is no exception. Without the individual and the family, the country can never be restored. That’s what Father is aiming at.</p>
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<p>When returning to our families we have nothing else to think about or worry about. There is nothing else important to us-no borders, no politics, no economics, nothing. What is most important? Just man and woman. Man and women is all that is important. As a woman what you absolutely need is nothing else but a real man. The same is true for all men. What we need is one real woman. The one way to become a real man or woman is follow this textbook formula.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 28, 1993<br />
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Belvedere International Training Center<br />
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<p>Here all races are gathered together. There are white, black, and yellow people. Since Adam and Eve were real people, what color of skin did they have? What climate zone did Adam and Eve inhabit? If they had wanted a nice place, it would not have been too cold or too hot. If they were in a hot or cold place they would have moved to a nicer area. Most great civilizations have been built in the mild climate areas. What color of skin has prospered the most? (Yellow). These are Mongolian type people. Out of 5.5 billion people, 3.2 billion are yellow. This is now termed the Pacific era. Is this referring to America? No, it is elsewhere. People now say that Western civilization is in decline, whereas in the east it is rising. This is due to the formula that history goes back to where it started and begins again, this time on a higher plane.</p>
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<p>We are all born from parents. As we sit here, we know that we exist. However I am not independent; I am connected to my ancestry. I am connected to all white people and ultimately to all people and eventually we come to Adam and Eve. That is not the end of the pursuit. Adam and Eve did not create themselves; the Creator made them. Thus we can say I came from God and that God gave birth to me. When I say ‘,I”, there are two kinds, man and woman. In looking at man and woman, why were they created as a pair? Man and woman came into being, and what are they to do? Should the man follow the woman or the other way around?</p>
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<p>What is my whole life? As a man should I live a man’s life? Should a women live a woman’s life? No. There is no such life as a man’s life and a woman’s life. They should live together. As a woman we have five physical and five spiritual senses. What do these five senses want to do? The eyes do not want to see themselves. The ears do not want to listen to themselves. We are created for others. If your eyes were created for yourself, you would look at yourself all day. Do my ears exist in order to listen to my own voice, or my mouth, just to express myself? Are hands created just to feel one’s own body?</p>
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<h3 align="center">The Focal Point</h3>
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<p>What do I want to touch? For a woman, after she grows, she wants to look at a man, listen to a man, touch a man, and even smell a man. Most people say they live for themselves. However, we can see that is not true. Do women dress up for themselves? No; nor do men. Do they want to succeed for themselves? What reciprocal values are they looking for? Because both are born with a body that can transmit and receive love, they are very valuable to each other. When the thread of love is created, he feels the highest goodness and most of all peace. When we think about the five senses, we know they are ultimately seeking love. If we talk about everything except love, there is nothing. What is the focal point of my birth? Was I born as a result of my parents fighting each other? No. What then? I was born from their loving each other.</p>
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<p>Let’s look closely at love. Were my Mother’s and Father’s eyes looking at something else? No, they were completely meeting each other. When this happened, they closed. What about their ears? They heard the sounds of love and then closed. If you are completely moved, you don’t speak When you touch, something spiritual comes into being.</p>
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<p>When you clap, sound is produced at the zero point, when there is no space between the palms. After the noise, the hands separate and clap again. This is like exhaling and inhaling. Man and woman in love return to the original point and then start again. It is like a sine curve, thus waves and spheres come into being. Everything moves into an ideal rhythm. Love regulates the rhythm. The eyes are horizontal, the nose is vertical, the ears are all around. The mouth represents the mind and body. All of these have different natures, but their deepest focal point is love. No matter how physically tired, when man and woman are in deep love, they forget their tiredness. When you meet the person you love, you gain power through talking.</p>
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<p>If during your entire life, you remove love, you will feel desolate and lonely. If you are alone, can you be happy? No. Everything in love comes to a focused point. What is the reason for that? It is to make a relationship with the rest of the world. If the focus is big, that is good, for it extends to the larger world. If everyone does that, we will fill the earth and more. That is the desire, wish and ambition of our mind.</p>
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<p>even an alien from outer space who visits us, he must also be focused. Otherwise he would get lost. What good is it to reach to the other end if you cannot come back? Even if you have great desire and ambition, if your focus moves, what good is it to you?</p>
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<p>Everyone longs for their hometown and country. Why does a man want his hometown? It is his way of focusing. No matter how prosperous we become, each man also has consideration for his ancestors. How? By love. For our ancestors this is also true. It is the focus of love that is important to them. Our ancestors lived as couples. They loved each other and had a family whom they loved. In this respect they were no different from us. From Adam and Eve, all the intervening generations had the same focal point. There is no need for improvement in this area. This is the one eternal focus of humankind. This is the whole purpose of making a family. Our family is the fruit of all of history. We are the center of the modern age. Our family is the beginning point of all future families.</p>
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<h3 align="center">The Tree of Life</h3>
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<p>On a tree the point at which a branch and a leaf emerges is a focal point. Thus the leaf represents not only itself, but the branch, trunk and root. The leaf represents the whole tree. This is the result of cell multiplication. Theoretically, one cell can be cloned into the whole original being.</p>
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<p>Where do the blossoms bloom? Between the leaves and the branch. They always blossom after the leaves begin to come out. What is the flower? It is the part that wants to represent the whole tree. It is beautiful and fragrant. That is the smell of love. When men and woman are in love, they are fragrant too. Today, out of ignorance, we think love starts with ourselves. But this selfish thinking has no place in God’s way of life. If we have a perfect apple, it represents all of the apple tree. The purpose of the apple tree is to produce one perfect fruit. What does the owner of the tree want? He wants to store perfect fruit. We all want perfection. Everyone immediately agrees with this.</p>
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<p>The most precious part of the tree, the sap, flows up the tree into the fruit. So in thinking of the tree of humanity, an individual is like a leaf on the tree. When we say my family is the result of all of history, we want to bear the most beautiful fruit. All of the leaves of the tree feel they represent the tree. All men feel the same; ‘1″ represent all of humankind. In order to become like that, I must reach out to all of humankind. Additionally I must be focused, and think like that all of my life. We must have that goal throughout our life. We should always live as a representative of humankind. We must force ourselves to do this because of the thread of love which connects all. All people are the fruit of love. If there is a museum where all the perfect fruit is displayed, what would we find? Some would be flat, but perfect. Some like a needle, but perfect. Some like a triangle, but perfect. Among many different shapes, if we have to find the perfect one, what shape would it be? (Round). Why? Because all points in a spheres are equidistant from the center, and all parts are in unification.</p>
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<p>Who is like that? Immediately, we can say God is like that. Whether of small, medium or large size, God is like that and thus can fit into any size of world. When God wishes to see the perfection of the individual, He can fulfill that. God can fulfill the perfection of the family, and also the perfection of the nation-God is the center of that, too.</p>
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<p>There are many races and color of skin here, but if asked, each one desires to be the best. All people have this basic desire. What is the foundation for each to fulfill that? What is the starting point? It is not me; rather, it is my family. In order to become like that you must represent the entire universe. You must be able to say, “I am the family which represents the universe. I am the focus of the cosmos. I am the focal point of the country.” When you become that confident, you cannot move away from the center. You can never be here one day and there the next. You cannot do that. You must stay in that one point from the day you were born. Learn to stay in one point to become a perfect circle and you maintain the focus.</p>
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<p>Should you be a fighting, angry family or a joyful family? [Joyful.] Centering on what are you joyful? Everything is based on rhythm. For example, if this is a thing my wife loves most, I must love that. This is something my son happens to love most, yes, I love that.</p>
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<p>Even objects think like that: “I’m so fortunate because my owner loves me so much, therefore I am of great value.” All things feel the same way as human beings. You must relate with love to all things. There should be nothing to which you do not connect with love. This will bring complete unification forever. Thus the entire history is looking at you, because you are representing the universe. We become the focus of the entire world, and the focus of the past and the future.</p>
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<p>In this perspective, many religions have played a role. In the past, present and into the future, religion has been playing this role. I am the model and prototype.</p>
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<p>If one woman is well connected in love to the whole world, she can say she is the center and focal point of women because she is connected in love with all different parts of the world. Therefore she can bring them together, work with them in rhythm, and she can claim, “I am the prototype of all women. Everyone must live like me.” Men must be like that, too. So now, even if it is for the first time, we must think like that. Even if it’s the first time in our lives, let’s think like this. Without thinking like this, how can we become like that? Not living like that, what is my justification for being here; on what basis to I have a right to live? Someone who does not live like that, representing the whole universe, is bad; worse still, he is a thief. He is trying to take things away from others and destroy order. The one who claims all of this as his own without fulfilling his relations with others is a thief. It’s true, the one who denies all except himself is a thief. When you arrive in the spirit world, if you deny this it will be a major problem. How can I negate, how can I deny and erase the fact that I am the center of the world? To avoid hell we must destroy our selfcentered view.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Go High and Low</h3>
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<p>We are now talking about true love. What is true love? It is to invest and invest and then forget that you have invested. In a circle we have 360 degrees. If we start at the vertical position and then rotate each of the 360 degrees, going through each degree, then we can fulfill. We must go around and return to the zero point. Then you can say, “Yes, I have gone around 360 degrees.” That means that you have covered every point. If you just stay in one place and say I am 360 degrees, you cannot claim that. As you go around do you embrace all or deny all? [Embrace.] You must embrace all. This is the reason man must embrace a women and vice versa. So, man and woman will embrace and pull themselves toward each other. Once that happens, they become selfless, reaching the zero point. Then for the first time, the revolve around the center.</p>
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<p>In a perfect dance, two must become one. There must be harmony of pulling and pushing. An arrogant woman who is very proud wants a perfect man, but will he come? She says, “Don’t you see how perfect and beautiful I am? Are you all blind?” But will a man come to her? No.</p>
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<p>God is a high being; we know that. But is He high all the time? No. Sometimes He will exhale. He is sometimes high and sometimes low. Father is sometimes very severe at other times very generous. He will go to the very bottom, the greatest depth, before going up again. He does so in order to reach a higher point. Thus it is good to be with Father, but it is also fearful. The grandfather can be very fearful because one word he says can ordain a lot of punishment, but everyone goes to him because he is always giving and loving. So people can feel secure and live easily with him. Otherwise, if grandfather were only fearful, how could you live?</p>
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<p>Isn’t it true that people who live in hot climates want to go to the cold, and vice versa? People in warm climates want to live in a cold climate once in a while.</p>
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is my whole life. So in your whole life you must ask, ‘`How am I going to live like this?” You must connect with all things in the universe. Be aware that you represent all of history. All things follow me. I indeed represent the whole universe. All of us, especially the blessed couples, must think like this. You are living as one degree, but you must know that all the 360 degrees are connected. If you separate, you only represent one degree. But if you connect, you can represent the entire universe. You must experience all lifestyles, embrace all 360 degrees. If we are to really connect, I can live my one degree but I must visit 360 homes and make them aware of this teaching. We must not only stick to my way of life, but become involved in every way of life. Even the president will come and say you represent everyone.</p>
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<p>Consider God one more time. God lives his own style, but He has visited all people and knows them all. He is not separated from the past and present. What about True Parents? As the son and daughter of God, they know how God lives. Third, the True Family lives centering on God and True Parents. We must live and eat in haste, so that we can connect to all 360 degrees. Then what is accomplished? This person becomes the essence of heaven and the resource for the building of heaven. If you live this way on earth, you will live this way in the spirit world. My whole life should be like this. Wherever we go, some will welcome me, some won’t. Still when I go to North Korea or Russia I go to love them.</p>
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<h3 align="center">End up with God</h3>
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<p>In order to absolutely conquer the absolute God we must follow His way completely. Completely obey and follow. To obey is simple but to follow is not so simple. We must spend our entire life following. There is no private or individual life there. We must obey the King. Wherever that person may go, he will always fit. In the vast spirit world of many dimensions that person will be at home anywhere. That is the world where I represent God and True Parents; I represent all of the kings of history.</p>
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<p>When you live that confident way all will follow you. God and True Parents will follow you. For such a person, wherever he goes the best blossom and fruit will come. We should try to live like God. Experience all of His hardships and think of all the good things that will come. There would be no borderline or limit in my thinking or actions. No matter how miserable, I can go this way and repair it. Have the utmost confidence, as God does. In this heavenly army all are focused on one point. Where will I be in that army? The destiny of all blessed couples is to live like God. The couples are like a regiment commander, responsible for about 3,000 people. This is the size of a small village. Think how to be responsible for them. We only have one precious life. Think carefully about how to live it.</p>
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<p>If Father had not understood this principle, he need not have gone through all the trials of the last 40 years. Think pragmatically. If Americans are not saving their own country; why should a man from Korea come here to try? You may not cover all 128 countries, but you should work in four countries, your home country and three more. This is the same as dawn, day, dusk and night. North, south, east and west.</p>
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<p>Then you can live in harmony with all. But now, if an American ends up in the spirit world with a German, he would rather be in hell. God loves the enemy. Thus all things come to live under God. Satan wants to come to a man who has experienced all things. This is the place where he can gain forgiveness.</p>
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<p>We live this way of life in order to end up with God. All of us know where we are on this circle. God is at one point. We must go there. If we don’t reach this point it will take many, many tedious years. In the spirit world you will remember Father’s sermons. Father can teach you, but you must go your own life. The student can learn from the professor, but he must also become a teacher. We must learn and digest this. We know now what life is for. We must pray and pledge this. Tomorrow is the beginning of the new month. So today, the last day of February, all of us know how to live our life.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 14, 1993<br />
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is “<i>Sung Yak Si Dae Wa Na</i>“, “<i>The Completed Testament Era and Me</i>“.</p>
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<p>I see many Japanese members here. Those who are Japanese members, raise your hands. It is the majority. Now, Americans and Europeans, raise your hands.</p>
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<p>As you know, today is Valentine’s Day. I understand that Americans cherish this day very much, exchanging gifts between loving husband and wife, such as watches for the husband and combs for the wife, to show their love and appreciation. This is their tradition. Even though the gift may be humble and small, what makes it big is the power of love. It is not the material, but the love behind it which makes a Valentine’s Day gift significant.</p>
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<p>The opposite case would be for a husband to give his wife a large diamond ring with a heart that was not full of love. By the same token, the wife could purchase something tremendously expensive for her husband, but with a heart lacking True Love. Those gifts would not mean much.</p>
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<p>When someone with plenty of money buys a gift for his loved one, it doesn’t have such great importance, whereas someone who is living in poverty has to dedicate a lot of heart and energy to buy a gift for his beloved. That is a more valuable gift.</p>
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<p>As people of faith, living day by day, how can we dedicate our love to God? What can we do? We understand that God is not in need of any material thing, but God is in need of love, just as we are. The Bible encourages us to dedicate our whole heart and mind in loving the Lord God. So, love is the first commandment. So the presents which the husband and wife exchange are valuable because even though they are a small token, it goes beyond the country, beyond history. The fact that he or she gathered these small things and was able to present them to their spouse is a great achievement, in fact. Even though this handkerchief here may be humble in terms of monetary value, if love is represented by this handkerchief, then it becomes priceless, something which cannot be purchased with money.</p>
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<p>There is no doubt about the most important day of commemoration in human life. It is the day you commemorate love, such as today. This is the same, not only among human beings, but also for God. God needs a spouse and family and country, just as we do. Then He perhaps needs the best person in the whole country, too. What kind of person is the best in the country? As we know, God, centering on love, invests so much into everything, and then He forgets. He invested so much into human beings, and then He forgot all that He invested. Even after the human fall, God did not have time to rest, but continued to invest and give of Himself to fallen man. Since God invested all His love into this world, love is the essence of the world. We can understand that this world and cosmos operate centered on love. Love is the power.</p>
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<p>We see the fallen world, one that we are not proud of. Still, because God put so much into love and restoration after the fall, in God’s eyes, even in this world, He cannot see it as fallen love. He only sees it as His love. It is God’s position to invest with original love, not with the idea, “Oh, this is fallen love.” God does not think like that.</p>
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<p>Here is Satan, who goes completely in the direction opposite from God. To God this is unbearable. Satan is the enemy of love. It was as if somebody snatched your own spouse, but yet you had to love him. Because Satan is part of the creation, God had to forget that he is the enemy.</p>
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<p>Satan has been coming against God and against the order of nature, but the one who made that happen was not Satan himself, but man. Because of man, Satan became what he is. What did Satan bequeath to all mankind until now? Satan’s life, Satan’s love, and Satan’s lineage. What is the result of his planting these things in human beings? Unlike God, Satan has been stopping anyone from investing love into others. Centering on himself, he tried to plunder love for his own sake. If we receive and absorb lots of love, then we should return that love to God and to everyone else. But there is no way we can return it, because of Satan.</p>
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<p>This is a problem. After receiving love, we draw love to our self, thinking, “I am the center.” Even though we are ungodly, human beings became the center, rather than God, one’s country, one’s parents, and so forth. Each person became centered upon himself, wanting to draw everything to himself for his own purposes. God’s action in love was to give out love for the sake of everything else. In the act of creation, God poured Himself out, investing love to create all things. But after the fall, human beings stepped into God’s place and reversed the action of love. Rather than giving out their love, people began drawing love into themselves, centering on themselves, stopping love from flowing to everyone else.</p>
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<p>This is today’s reality. How can this trend be reversed? How can human beings be brought back into the original position which God intended for them? Returning to God is, of course, the path of restoration. Now God is trying to reverse this trend of human beings who have fallen so far down and pick them up again and bring them back to their original position. That means God still has not experienced the original individual and family which He intended, let alone the original country. This is the work which God is still doing. How painful it has been working so hard, yet not seeing any results in human beings returning to their original position.</p>
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<p>We can see that God has invested so much. God worked day and night, for thousands and thousands of years, tirelessly, but for what? For one man, one woman and one family which God can call His own. That is the objective for which God has been working. We can understand that. Referring back to the title of today’s sermon, “Completed Testament Era,” what is meant by that? In Korean, the concept of “completed” also refers to fulfillment of a promise. So the Completed Testament Era means the same as “Fulfilled Promise Era” according to the Korean language.</p>
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<p>As we know, the original family of Adam had to be restored. That promise had to be fulfilled. Millions of individuals and families stand behind that restored family, but they are bygones. What is most important is now, from this time forward. This is the time when we see the fulfillment of God’s promise, the Completed Testament Era, and this is the important time. We must understand that, as already stated, man stepped into history and usurped God’s way of love, turning it into a self-centered activity. Then many religions arose, but there was conflict among these different religions. Conflict arose on many levels, between nations and ultimately on the world level. Political and religious disharmony were everywhere. Throughout all of these conflicts, God has been protecting humankind. Had God not been doing that, the human race would have already destroyed itself. But God did not allow that. Rather, God put a lot of work and love into protecting mankind in order to preserve us. Now is the time when God is about to restore mankind, just as He promised after the human fall.</p>
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<p>God created Adam, and then Eve was given to Adam. He is carrying out restoration in the same manner. So God has to create Adam, and the earth has to create Eve. Centering on Eve, two sons, Cain and Abel, were lost. How can He restore that loss and eventually restore Eve, as well as Cain and Abel-that is the question. We have seen, time and time again, this formula through history: God creates the circumstances and puts the subject and object into their corresponding realms. For example, God set up the Jewish religion and the Jewish nation which was centered on that religion. They had to come together in harmony, representing Abel and Cain respectively. That was God’s formula which we saw at the time of Jesus, as well as at other times.</p>
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<p>First Cain and Abel must come into unity, and then together they must unite with a third subject. In that way, all three will become one. Centering on the mother, Cain and Abel have to become one, standing on her left and right sides. The three of them were to become unified. Centering on Cain and Abel, conflict was planted by Eve, the mother, so this must be restored on the world level.</p>
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<p>Based on this formula of Cain and Abel, the Jewish nation and religion should have become one and united with the mother, and then the mother would eventually have led them to the father. This would have been the completion of the four positions. The ultimate purpose the earth is pursuing is the father, because that is the one position which the whole earth lost. If this formula had been followed and adhered to, then this world would have been unified a long time ago, and we would have had much time and energy to spare after unification. But it is so difficult, even now.</p>
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<p>If the Israelite religion and nation had understood and had gone in the same direction, then unification would have been rather easily attained. But we see their history. They did not understand and they did not unite, and today God’s purpose is still on the way to being accomplished. God’s will had to be extended into the New Testament Era and now the Completed Testament Era. In other words, at the end of the Old Testament Era, Jesus came as the True Parent. If the people had followed God’s will, then restoration and salvation would have been achieved at that time. It was very simple. We didn’t have to see three different eras. The Old Testament was the only one necessary in God’s original plan. But mankind did not follow and Jesus had to say, “I must come again.” When he said that, it meant that not everything had been accomplished. Mankind had to wait until such time as God’s purpose could be tried again and fulfilled. Thus we saw the New Testament Era, and now the Completed Testament Era, which became necessary only because God’s purpose wasn’t accomplished. We must understand why the New Testament Era came into being.</p>
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<p>What does the New Testament Era signify? Because of the failure in the Old Testament Era, the Christians of the New Testament could achieve victory only on the spiritual level and not the physical level. Then how, centering on this spiritual victory, could they bring both spirit and body in the New Testament Era? For this purpose, God made two blocs, centering on the Cain and Abel countries and their mother-position countries. God has been working through that form to achieve His restoration. God put one on His side and one on Satan’s side, the same thing He did in the Old Testament era. What was World War II? It was fought between two groups, one centered on England in the mother’s position with America in Abel’s position and France in Cain’s position. And, on the satanic side, there was Japan, Italy and Germany. God put these countries in the different positions. By working that out, God has been achieving restoration. That was the meaning. The goal was to achieve the unified world. That was the meaning of World War II, and after World War II, that was achieved.</p>
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<p>In God’s eyes, Eve centered on Satan and gave birth to Cain and Abel. Now God is restoring that by making unity. Why does God have to do that? England, America and France fighting on the same side was the form necessary for restoration. By bringing them together and letting them win over the other side, God has restored the failure. That was the goal and the purpose of World War II.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Second Advent and World War II</h3>
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<p>We see the historical significance. The problem was sown by Adam and Eve, but now it has been restored on the world level, as we see. God has been putting all His energy into this result. Since that time, on the world level, the one man whom God has fostered until now is, of course, the Messiah. But what is he? He is in the position of inheriting the victorious foundation on all levels. That is the Messiah-to-come, and he was to be connected with this foundation after World War II. In that position, since he inherited and stands on all the foundation of victory throughout history, Satan has no claim over him. Still the satanic forces tried to stop God’s work. Therefore, Japan, Germany, and Italy tried to stop God’s advancement, but they failed. They were defeated. This adds to the fact that Satan no longer has any claim, because his side already tried.</p>
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<p>These defeated countries had no claim over their victors, England, America and France. Nor did they have any claim or blame over the Messiah-to-come. In this general situation, how much God coveted the foundation and the Messiah being united. How much God wanted that! So the attention of all the people on earth has been focused on that one point: this victorious foundation and the Messiah becoming one. That is the one focal point of all human beings and all existence. Unification at that time meant the perfection of the whole world. What does that mean? Perfection of the world automatically means the perfection of the country, perfection of the clan, perfection of the family, and perfection of the individual. Perfection of all these different levels could have had a good start at that time. Every living existence would have shouted out “Mansei!” because that is the purpose which all mankind has been craving throughout history since the fall.</p>
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<p>The world and mankind approximately forty-five years ago did not understand their situation. Only three persons knew that situation: God, Satan, and the Second Advent of Adam. No one else understood. The Second Advent means, of course, the return of Jesus. So this is the real, clear conclusion of all history. You all received that booklet, Proclamation of the Messiah I, on True Parents’ Birthday, containing Father’s sermons. The first portion of the second sermon [January 10, 1993 speech] contains all this content. This is something we must realize; we must learn it by heart.</p>
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<p>If the world had united at that time, how wonderful it would have been! Now we can understand what has taken place in history, as well as the position we are in now. If Adam had not fallen, then the Messiah would not have been necessary, or because the fall did occur, the Messiah could have come in Adam’s family. Since it didn’t happen then, the next opportunity was at Jesus’ time. Jesus came at a higher level, one much more complicated. Still, he could not succeed. So now, if this whole world level of restoration should not succeed (although we know it will succeed), we can see how much more complicated God’s work would be.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Two Women</h3>
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<p>Imagine. Looking back, was it easy for the people of Jesus’ time to understand and serve him? Who was Jesus? Jesus came with no social background. That means his position was lower than humble. At that time, everyone had a father, but Jesus didn’t even have a father. It was very detrimental, and ultimately fatal. It took two thousand years after that to restore from the root.</p>
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<p>Eve deceived Adam and her Father, too. That was the beginning of the fall. To restore that, God has to put everything in the same position and let them go backwards to restore. To go backwards means you have to deny that existence completely. It was not easy at that time. It isn’t easy now.</p>
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<p>Centering on Jacob, the older brother was subjugated with the help of the mother. After the three become one, they connect with the father. That means, the father will eventually be saved, also. Father and son are on Satan’s side. If Jacob and his mother are on God’s side, then his elder brother and father are on Satan’s side. Jacob and his mother were 180 degrees in a different direction from the father and the elder brother. How much this father and elder son hated the younger son and mother! Jacob went and for twenty-one years worked so hard under that hatred. This portrays the essence of restoration history. We know the story from the Bible. For the first seven years, Jacob worked hard to gain the hand of Rachel, but whom did he get? He got Leah instead. We see that the intent of God was to reverse the process of the fall. Therefore, by first going through the process with Leah first and then with Rachel, he could restore the fall. Do you see that?</p>
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<p>In the world, there are two types of women. One is fallen women and the other is women in the restored position. Just like God’s position, the Lord-to-come faces the same problem of two women, one in the fallen position and the other restored. How can he restore fallen Eve’s position and bring her back to the original Eve’s position? Leah sort of plundered her younger sister’s position. First embracing the satanic side, later embracing the heavenly side, Jacob tried to work this out. We can see how hard he worked, even though it was difficult. Basically the problem for Jacob was none other than these two women fighting each other. They weren’t harmonious; they fought each other. We see the same thing in Adam’s family. This is an exact replica of Adam’s family. They were disharmonious and fighting. Centering on love, Satan came in. This is the action which destroyed the ideal of God. Two thousand years after that, the same situation which occurred in Adam’s family also took place in Jacob’s family. We know that restoration gained by paying indemnity is the formula of history: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth-that one-for-one principle.</p>
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<p>Laban and his wife had two daughters. When the husband works toward the unity of these two men, the wife had to work with two women. She did not know at that time, but we can look back in history and pinpoint that now. Rebecca, in the woman’s position, worked with a clear purpose of bringing oneness centering on Jacob, to subjugate the one in Cain’s position. We can now see how difficult it was for her at that time. So it is not Leah’s but Rachel’s position which has to be upheld, and together along with that to be restored. How difficult it was to achieve that.</p>
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<p>In Jacob’s family, as long as Esau was not ready to unite with his younger brother, the whole family would continue to have difficulty. Esau and his father were in Satan’s position. Nothing will automatically come into unity. They had to work very hard. Esau and Isaac were in Satan’s position, so the mother and Jacob had to work. The mother had to work to subjugate them under Jacob. How difficult it was for her.</p>
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<p>Even though the mother really worked hard and with a lot of tears, apologizing, saying, “I am sorry because I made a mistake,” no matter how much they had dedicated, they had to take the position to be grateful. Even if Esau and Jacob made unity at that time, what were they thinking about? Was Esau angry? That’s a problem. How can we erase that kind of phenomenon in the family? How can peace be found in that situation? Esau and his father had to be subjugated naturally, not by force or any other means. They had to say, “Yes, you are right. I will come under you.” You have to make it work, you have to make it like that. Then the mother had to work very hard. Jacob had to work hard, of course, but his mother had to work even harder. She had to work hundreds of times harder. How much rests upon the mother! Even with Jacob’s hard work, the mother’s responsibility was necessary to make the restoration possible.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Restoration by Giving</h3>
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<p>So we see, don’t we, that in history, Jacob worked hard for twenty-one years. He then received his wives, and lots of domestic animals. Then what did he do? He gave them all to Esau, didn’t he? That’s exactly what God did. Jacob worked so hard, but gave his rewards to Esau so that his mind would no longer be antagonistic. Otherwise, restoration is not possible. God worked so hard, but had to give to Satan to make him peaceful.</p>
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<p>When Jacob came back home, his mother was surprised. Also, his father was surprised because the father made a mistake and gave the blessing to the younger brother, which should have gone to the older brother. To be “blessed” means that that person stood in the position of God, on God’s side. When Jacob came back and worked as the center, then the father and mother would have become one. She had to work with Jacob so that Esau would not come against them.</p>
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<p>Did Jacob come back triumphantly and announce, “I am the victor representing the three generations, so now since you have sold off your blessings, you must come and be subjugated under me”? Would Jacob have said that? Then what would Esau have done? Wouldn’t he have kicked him back? At that time, there were three, instead of two, Jacob, his mother and father. These three were very uptight, very serious and uptight, wondering what Esau’s response would be. If Esau rebelled against them, the whole purpose would have been broken down. But what was Jacob’s model attitude? Jacob’s attitude was humble. He was dedicated, living for the sake of others. He was not centered on himself, but centered on others. That was the key which brought Satan to be subjugated under Abel.</p>
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<p>We must remember this principle. As we saw in the Bible, that scene must pass. Now we know the meaning of natural subjugation. Jacob worked so hard, but he was humble.</p>
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<p>America is Abel, as we have said many times, but what must Abel uphold? Of course, Abel must be humble, not arrogantly saying, “Everybody must come under me because I am the Abel.” If someone in the Abel position receives some blessing, that person should not be proud of his own position, but should try to work for the sake of those in the Cain position, for Cain’s family, in order for Cain to come under him. That is the formula. We know that.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Natural Subjugation</h3>
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<p>This natural subjugation begins from the individual. Look at how much our mind continually works for the sake of the body, but our body resists the mind. Still, the mind continues to pour out love and work for the sake of the body. With the knowledge of Divine Principle, we know clearly what should happen. In the family, too, mind and body become one, then corresponding to the subject and object relationship will be the mother. After the mind and body become one, then that kind of mother must become the center of unification of “me”. We have to be the center of unification. The formula applies everywhere. That is why it is a formula. Now we know why natural subjugation must be accomplished, not subjugation by force.</p>
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<p>We see the perfect example in Jacob’s family. Centering on Jacob, we know what happened. When Jacob behaved as he did, bowing down before Esau, do you think his mother was very happy, or was she angry, saying, “You are Abel, the blessed one, and you should become more dignified”? No, she applauded what Jacob did. Her husband, Jacob’s father, applauded him also, saying, “You have done right.” That was natural subjugation. Of course, Esau, too, felt very good. Otherwise he would have rebelled against Jacob. Esau, in Cain’s position embraced the younger brother in Abel’s position. This was a historical embrace. That means the whole world changes its direction 180 degrees, just by Esau embracing Jacob. The whole direction of history changed. The “whole world” at that time meant the “whole family.” The family was the whole world. That family came to bear the name of Israel, which means victor. What did Jacob win over, how was he victorious? He won over Cain and he won over Satan.</p>
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<p>Naturally, this has been a long-held secret, a puzzle for many. Nobody could understand what happened in that Bible story, no matter how many times they read it. This is the Jewish ancestors’ history and secret. Now Father has solved the problem and has taught them what happened. Therefore, Father now stands in the position to be qualified to teach all Israelites, all Jewish people. That means Father stands on a higher position than the Israelites’ ancestors. That means he stands above the ancestors of the fallen world. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>This history has been going on continually. Even though Jacob and Esau achieved success after forty or more years of physical life, the fall still had spoiled their lineage. Their blood lineage became dirty. You cannot restore that after forty years of age, which is fully grown. What about those years between one to forty years of age? They were still a part of Satan’s domain. The restoration of these years was continued in the work of Tamar. Tamar had to work to restore the lineage from below the age of forty years. We saw the solution of the Cain and Abel problem in the mother’s womb, the very root of human beings. Tamar deceived her father-in-law, didn’t she? How could she do that? Because she understood the life and death importance of what she had to do for God. Therefore, she risked her life to do it. If her scheme had not succeeded, she would have been killed. Of course, heaven was right behind Tamar, helping her to do her heavenly work.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Path of Tamar</h3>
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<p>You may remember that at that time in Jewish history, if one son died early without offspring, the next brother in line would inherit the wife of the elder brother. Then he would try to conceive a child by her so the lineage could continue. This is what happened at that time. As we see, in that particular family, the second son didn’t want to do that. They slept together, and he ejaculated, not in her, but outside of her. This man soon died. There was only a small son remaining and he was too young. Because of this, Tamar had to work in a different direction and that was toward her father-in-law. What principle made this possible? In the Old Testament time, including even in the Garden of Eden, the son and the father were the same, equal. Therefore, when the second son did not fulfill, Tamar went to his father. When Adam became an adult, of course, he became a father. So instead of going through the son, Tamar went through his father, and achieved the same purpose.</p>
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<p>Today, this will help us to change our fixed ideas more easily. There is common sense in the twentieth century. Look at that time. Even then, for a perfectly decent woman to be disguised as a prostitute and lie with her father-in-law and then conceive a baby, how can that be justified? Even in today’s morality, how can that be justified, much less in those days? Yet, we can see today that God was actually working in such supposedly “immoral” ways. We have a way of explaining it according to the Divine Principle. Since the fall took place unethically, the restoration goes backwards. Even though it goes backwards, it is apparently unethical. This is why in the past, especially in Old Testament history up till now, the stepmother system, or the system of second wife, third wife, has been legal in God’s eyes.</p>
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<p>Because these women had to work the main area of restoration, we see plenty of examples. Therefore, in order to work that, this generalized that all men, even in the fallen world, had nothing to do with the direct dispensation. Men could have second wife, third wife, still they could get away with it, basically because of this thing. There were lots of tears shed by women, especially the great women, and they worked very hard to make the husband very successful. After the husband became successful, what did he do? He took another woman, which caused a lot of tears in the eyes of women throughout history. But here is the lesson, the rationale: if such a woman, the real wife, should find harmony with the illegitimate wife, or the second one, can there be any more perfect woman’s mind than that? That means, can any wife love her husband’s second wife just as much as she loves another woman? Can anyone do that? That’s the question still remaining.</p>
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<p>We must understand that without going through that actual situation, of “I am the wife, but now my husband has another wife,” but still loving her, unless she does that, she cannot understand God’s heart. A woman’s position can never be perfected until she understands God’s heart. Same thing if a man’s wife takes in another man. Unless her husband can forgive that man, accept him and love him as much as any other man, the husband cannot understand God’s heart. That’s the same thing; it is a reality. We must extend love to that perfection.</p>
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<p>Let’s assume that you trusted your husband very much. He was a perfect husband otherwise, and you got along very well, but then after thirty years of marriage, one day he tells you, “Actually, to tell you the truth, I had one woman before you whom I loved so deeply.” Just those few words of betrayal can cause you to turn away from those thirty years of love and deny everything. This is the way love responds.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Love with Tears</h3>
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<p>We must understand God’s position. In order for God to be God, He must go over that hurdle today. What about man? We have Japanese members here, as well as Korean, American, and so forth. Do you say, “I cannot be subjugated by such-and-such a nationality”? This is out of the question. Do you understand? For a woman to persevere in such a painful way, to persevere under another nationality is nothing. That’s the point.</p>
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<p>Today is the day of love, so to speak. Every day is the day of love, but today is Valentine’s Day and therefore, I have been giving all these examples of love. We must understand first what kind of God we are loving, then also, we must know how to serve and live under that God. What should our position, our attitude, our heart be? We must understand what posture we as individuals must have in serving the historical God, who has been persecuted and rejected by the world, by the country, nation and all clans, as well as all families and individuals of the world. God has been rejected by all of these. That is the God you must serve as your own Father.</p>
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<p>You will say, “Yes, Father, now my family will love God very much.” But I think that is far too ambitious of you. Why? Because, before “my wife” or “my husband” understands, before “my children” understand, “I” must first understand. When the individual understands this kind of God in the impossibly difficult situation, when he loves that God first, we have no time to even think about the rest of our family. This is why when we understand this heart of God, when we feel this impossibly difficult position of God, then to forsake the rest of the family and come to join the work of God is the only way we can go. Now we understand.</p>
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<p>How serious this is, how miserable this is. We must understand that Father must solve this highest problem, then Father must come back and forth to this realm very often and freely, to solve the essential problem. Father has a past; there was a time when Father had to come back and forth to try to solve this essential problem. When someone understands his father’s problem and takes that upon his shoulders, saying, “You go and rest, father, I will take that problem on,” when he grows up and understands his father’s problems and tells him, “How difficult it must have been for you to handle all those problems,” if the son truly says that to his father and says, “You don’t have to worry now. I will solve that problem for you, I will bear that burden on my shoulder,” then wouldn’t the father burst into tears?</p>
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<p>This is the actual historical happening. And we, each one of us, must go into that position to understand it deeply. That means we have to follow God to the point where God is being troubled with a problem, we go around God in that position and come out of it. That is what we have to do. Then we are better prepared to understand the problem. We have to do this not only with our head, but in reality. Now we are more ready to so-called subjugate the world. We must first understand God’s historical problem, our Parents’ historical problems.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Cross of Love</h3>
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<p>She is Satan’s wife, even though she was meant to be my wife. Originally, Eve was God’s wife. Do you understand? Eve’s children were originally to be God’s children. After the fall, Eve became Satan’s wife and started the fallen world by giving birth to Satan’s children. How can God love His enemy’s children? Is that easy or difficult? It is difficult, without question, but how difficult? It is so difficult that, if you are given the choice, would you rather die than bear such a burden? Many would prefer to die.</p>
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<p>Do you understand God’s heart? You have to take action. Otherwise, you cannot go over. In this way, do you think God loves Father? If so, how much?</p>
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<p>Jesus said, “You must love me more than anybody else, including your wife, your children, and anybody in your family. You must take up your own cross and follow me.” What is that cross? It is the cross of this love which everyone has to carry.</p>
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<p>We read the story in the Bible about the twins who struggled to get out of the womb first. One of the twins was about to come out and he got pulled back and the other came out first. How did the midwife know? One little hand came out during the labor, so the midwife tied a red string around the wrist. Then that hand went back inside the womb. Later, the one without the red string was born first. That’s how she knew. If you didn’t do such a thing, how would you know that one brother pushed his way past the other one?</p>
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<p>That red string symbolized the communist world to come, where he will act in disguise or falsely in his original position. In other words, this one with the red string will have the elder brother’s position. That means the communists will act in the elder brother’s position. Communism was rampant, and even America was pretty much following that direction, but the second son came out and took the position of elder son, just like the Messiah, who will do the same. Who won over communism? Wasn’t it Reverend Moon? Nobody was even thinking about going against communism, but Father did. This was predicted thousands of years ago.</p>
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<p>If you paraphrase the Bible in terms of history, we could write many volumes. It has that much content. Being restored from the womb, which is the very root of human life, the true women’s history begins from there. We know in the Unification Church that the woman has to suffer more, and there is more suffering ahead of us. That’s the suffering of heart, of love. That means the woman must give birth to the devil’s son and bring him up as the perfect son of filial piety. In order to do that, how many tears should all women shed? Until now, women lamented, “Why do we have to suffer so much, without exception?”</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Women’s Suffering</h3>
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<p>Nobody understood the reason why women had to suffer throughout history. Even though American women may not suffer the same way that women of other countries suffer, are they particularly happy? No, many of them are very unhappy. What about free sex? Will that make them happier? No, it certainly does not. Women are confused, disgusted, and so on. All five senses, as well as the five spiritual senses, are confused. Through love they must come into focus, into unity. That’s the nature of love. Free sex works the other way around, causing people to become disturbed and confused.</p>
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<p>As a result of free sex, there will be many children who do not even know who their father is. This is the worst thing that can happen in the human world. Even Satan doesn’t want to have anything to do with that kind of person. This is the kind of confusion that can take place through free sex. Still we cannot say it’s impossible. Even though remote, there is still a chance, and Satan is looking towards that. Satan helps people to lie to themselves and others, causing them to be unaware of how bad their lives are, of what is happening.</p>
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<p>In Jewish history, the main history in God’s providence of restoration, we see that disharmony in one family between two women caused the later division between northern and southern Israel. Ten tribes and two tribes divided. Leah and Rachel, as I have already stressed, should have come into unity, but they didn’t. They fought. Leah and her servants gave birth to ten children, while Rachel had two. There were divisions within the family, ultimately becoming a divided nation, even fighting a war in the future. So here, Eve, that has fallen, and the two women, those three must become one and be restored, and go back to be restored through Rachel. They must become one, then go back to God. Then the brothers would be behind them. So the mother, together with Rachel, must pave the road for them to go on. But Leah not only did not help them, but even opposed them. These three generations should have become one.</p>
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<p>Horizontally, this is three generations: Eve’s time, elder sister’s time, and younger sister’s time. Through this process, ever cleansing the blood, the dispensation goes up to a higher and higher level. Satan’s side already made a national base. These three generations is where Mary’s lineage came from. Now from there Mary will arrive. We need to understand the course of every crucial personage in history, then you have to go over that history. They failed the same points, and they had to be overcome. We see that sort of formula. Look at Mary and what she did. She had to betray and lie too, she had to do that in order to accomplish her mission. She had to deceive Joseph. Joseph’s position was Adam’s position. Adam and Eve were engaged, and then Eve deceived Adam. Now through Mary, Eve had to deceive again on heaven’s side. She had to deceive Joseph’s entire family. Isn’t that what Mary did? She was put into the position to deceive them, and then to conceive a baby.</p>
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<p>Then there was enough work put into the restoration, because the blood had been cleansed in her family tree, and therefore Satan had no claim over the baby she conceived through this process. Even though Satan had no claim over that baby, she had to conceive that baby in such a way. Only God could legitimately claim the baby which Mary conceived, saying, “It is MY son.”</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Only Begotten Son</h3>
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<p>For the first time a different lineage came about through Mary. For the first time in history, God could start a new history, and God could call Jesus His only begotten son. There were many sons, but why was Jesus God’s “only begotten son”? This is why. In all mankind, Jesus was the only holy man with that lineage. Therefore, he was the holiest of all holiest. He is the leader of Christianity. There have been other holy men, such as Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, but Jesus was the holiest.</p>
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<p>We can understand, God will unite the world centered on the holiest man, who is Jesus. He is the mainstream of God’s providence. Other religions try to serve the same purposes, but they are only sidestream religions, so to speak. Christianity, centered on love, is the most holy religion. Since Jesus was the only-begotten son, he had no ancestors, so to speak. He was the beginning.</p>
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<p>Thus he who is to come, comes alone. We have to be prepared to fulfill all of his needs, with a bride for him, with a place for him to live. We have to prepare all things for him. But how did Jesus come? He was laid in a manger, a horse stable. How can we be proud of the fact that our own father was born in a horse’s stable? That is ignorance. What do you think? Are the traditional Christians today ignorant, or is Father ignorant? Who is right? How can we say that? We have a formula and we have to solve all our difficult problems with a formula.</p>
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<p>Mary and John the Baptist’s mother were stepsisters to each other. If Jesus is Abel, who is Cain? John the Baptist. Who took Adam’s wife? Satan, who is Cain. Did Jesus have a woman? The bride was lost on earth, therefore she has to be restored from earth. So they have to become one first, then prepare for the king to arrive and prepare for him. This is what it must have taken. Eve was Adam’s younger sister. So Satan took the younger sister; therefore, in Cain’s world, Jesus had to take the younger sister of Satan, or Cain, John the Baptist’s younger sister, to be very specific. It is the opposite way.</p>
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<p>John the Baptist’s mother and Mary had to unite. Their relationship was the same as Leah and Rachel’s. They should have united and prepared someone for Rachel’s position, but that first step of those two mothers becoming one was not fulfilled. Even at that stage, they failed. These two mothers should have become one, then prepared. Then John the Baptist would have united, or at least moved in that direction. If the three had become one, then John’s sister would have been available for Jesus as his physical bride. This was what God intended. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>We have been talking about the women’s side, but the men, like Joseph’s father and John the Baptist’s father, they too, should have cooperated in this one plan. Then the restoration would have been achieved perfectly within Jesus’ family, between these two families. Then witnessing to bring in more people would never have been necessary. The purpose of God would have been achieved right there. Have you ever stopped to wonder who was Jesus’ father? Jesus had a father, since no living thing can be born without a father. Did you believe that Jesus didn’t have a father? Who is Jesus’ father? It was Zechariah. So John the Baptist’s father is also Jesus’ father? You know better than I know.</p>
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<p>Who was the one who opposed this the most? That was the father himself. John the Baptist’s mother and father knew about this fact more clearly than anybody else, and they were the ones who opposed. It was almost like brothers and sisters marrying together. But think about the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve got married, but they were brother and sister, weren’t they? In the strictest sense. So it’s nothing new. The true lineage must turn away from the whole satanic mainstream of history, all those billions of people. The true lineage must turn away, turning around and going back to the original direction. This is what God intended in history.</p>
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<p>Who knew these staggering secrets? No one can deny them. By reason and by Principle, what I am saying is clear. As we see, it would have been like a brother and sister getting married, although they represented two different families at that time, in the most important lineage of God. At the end of the days here in America, sexual ethics have become very confused and mixed-up. The only explanation for it is that this kind of restoration can take place amidst that confusion. It has a significance. If this kind of a situation would be used to achieve God’s purpose, it can be very holy. In today’s America, it is being used as a satanic playground, but originally it must have had a meaning. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>This intra-family relationship, what has happened in history in God’s own working, is the same concept as that of “free sex,” isn’t it? Therefore, God is leaving it as is, and after finishing His work, then He will help us to correct it here in America. Here in America we see the elder brother enticing his younger sister; in other words, engaging in incest. We see uncles invading their nieces. This is occurring among the three generations. It is very confused. The whole meaning of that taking place is just one time, one point, centering on God. We know that the rest of it doesn’t mean anything. Therefore, basically, free sex is not good.</p>
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<p>Much time has passed already today. It is not easy to understand restoration history.</p>
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<p>If Jesus had married John the Baptist’s younger sister, would he have had to go to the cross? No, he would not have had to have been crucified. John the Baptist knew the good side, but it simply did not occur to him at that time, according to his standard of morality. He thought, “How can a person like Jesus, in such a miserable position, ever be the Messiah?” He did not believe God would send a person in that situation to be the Messiah.</p>
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<p>There is one puzzling scene in the Bible where Mary is helping at the wedding at Canan, and asked Jesus to help them because they ran out of wine. Jesus became very angry at her at that point and said, “Woman, what have you to do with me?” In Jesus’ mind, he was saying, “You should be worrying about your own son’s marriage, not that of strangers.” That is what Jesus was angry about. Of course, Jesus could have wed someone who was prepared, but who would give their daughter to Jesus, being a fatherless child? He was simply an outcast.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Preparation for the Messiah</h3>
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<p>That was Jesus, the one who should have been served by the whole world as their king, the king of Israel, and the king of the whole Jewish race. Could anyone of that time even have imagined, “This is the one I have to serve as my king”? On the other side, all the nation was waiting for Elijah to come, knowing that the Messiah could come only after that happened. They were all waiting for Elijah. They believed that Elijah was coming on a cloud, but then Jesus said, “Elijah surely has come.” The people asked, “Who was he?” And Jesus told them, “John the Baptist.” Nobody believed him.</p>
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<p>After World War II, centering on America, the free countries of England, America and France were at the pinnacle of the world. These free countries were waiting the arrival of one person, and that person was Reverend Moon. Could they, at that time, easily accept and serve him as the Lord of the Second Advent? He who is an Oriental man, not even a white person? Christianity is the bride religion, isn’t it? The bride religion means it must prepare for and wait for the bridegroom. Reverend Moon prepared himself, but the world, especially England, America and France, never even dreamed that he was the one.</p>
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<p>If they had known, they should have become one. Cain and Abel must become one. America represented Israel and Christianity represented the Jewish religion. The two should have combined into one and made preparation for Mother. That would have made the foundation representing a palace of the world’s nations. After welcoming that, the world would have seen the bridegroom, that is, the Second Advent. Is that true? Those three enemies nations looked to be at the top peak at that time. They controlled everything. The Messiah had to go to the top. Who is the Messiah? Only one man is coming just like Jesus with no bad background, no evil tradition. Only one man appears, suddenly saying, “I am Messiah.” He spoke out, “You have to follow me.” Those three independent races should have combined with one person, me, and dedicated themselves to me. At that time, those three would stand on top of the world. But could any of those countries receive the lonely, miserable Reverend Moon?</p>
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<p>The same situation as at Jesus’ time happened 2,000 years later. Today the people are again looking to see the Lord coming to them on a cloud, with the angel’s trumpet. Did Reverend Moon come to the world on a cloud with angels blowing trumpets for him? We can see it is the same situation. It has to be the same. That is why we must have restoration through indemnity. Indemnify first, then restoration.</p>
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<p>What God prepared through America, England and France was not able to serve His purpose of receiving Reverend Moon. Now they have declined. They have been chased out into the wilderness. Where does God go? That means the whole thing is going back to Satan again. What God built up till then had to be turned back to Satan. Then we saw what Father did. Father gave up everything and started all over again. From where? From 6,000 years ago, in Adam’s time. He has been re-indemnifying and re-restoring Adam’s situation. First he re-indemnified the Old Testament time. Jesus was crucified with one thief on the right and one on the left; the free world came to represent the one on the right, and the communist world came to represent the one on the left. Barabbas, the released prisoner, came to represent the religious world of Mohammed. Father had to restore that. That restoration foundation could come at the end of the Second World War, but when it went back to Satan again, then Father had to go back to that situation, starting all over again, and reindemnifying it. That means, after the end of World War II, if America, England and France had received the Lord of the Second Advent, Reverend Moon, then communism would have been stopped right there. It would never have gone on for another twenty or thirty years, as we saw.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Tribal Messiah</h3>
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<p>If America and England had received him, it would have been the culmination. But as they didn’t, history slid back, back to the Old Testament time. Then Father did it again, and reindemnified the whole thing in forty years. This is why on September 27 and 28, 1991, Father brought it back again to the victorious foundation, just like after World War II. That is when the whole religious and political realm came into unity, and communism went down.</p>
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<p>Father did it all over again. This time Father is utilizing Japan as the Eve nation, and America as the archangel nation. Father has done that. We saw that Father has achieved again what was lost before in history. Father spent fourteen years in Korea, then came to America and worked for twenty years, taking America back again. Actually, America was selected by God, and it failed. God cannot select it again. But, Father is second generation to God, therefore, Father could choose it again. So Father indeed took America because it is the only country which spans over Christianity and the Jewish time, the Old Testament and New Testament time. There is no other country with that qualification anywhere in the world. Therefore, Father took it according to his own authority and claimed America as the chosen nation again. The Completed Testament Era must stand on the foundation of Christianity and the Old Testament. Therefore, Father cannot stand alone. Father took America in and let all the enemy nations come here, rebuilding America. On that rebuilding of America, Father uses today America as his chosen nation.</p>
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<p>All these nations, including Japan, Italy, Germany, were on the satanic side. After that, in World War II, we saw England, America and France on God’s side. In this time, all those nations on God’s side, as well as all those on Satan’s side, came against the Second Advent, the Messiah. All those six nations. How could Father unify all those six nations again? Without that unity, Father could not restore world after World War II. That means the bridegroom must recover the bride who was lost. It took forty years.</p>
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<p>Father did that all by himself. Everyone came against him. Why? Because it takes only him. To do away with him would have meant that the satanic world would remain intact and continue. Therefore, since everything belongs to the satanic world, all the world goes against him. By taking the action he did, Father reindemnified the whole thing. From the individual level he was opposed, then the family opposed him, his clan, nation, even the whole world opposed him. He had to rebuild that foundation step by step. In 1991, Mother won her victory, and made it possible for Father to take her in. That is the history we saw within the last twenty-one and fourteen years.</p>
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<p>Father reindemnified the whole thing. Now he brought God back to going over the national barrier, the world barrier, all the way down to the individual barrier, alone with God. Now Father is establishing the tribal messiah. Father now starts the tribal messiah on that foundation and sends out hundreds of thousands of messiahs on the horizontal level to the world.</p>
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<p>The whole purpose is to connect all the rest of the families, what used to be the fallen families, back to this lineage. Since Father’s family is the prototype family, all we need to do is to connect all the families in the world to this tree. We know our task, our mission is the formula mission, to help all the families in the world win their mother and their children back into unity. In the fallen world, they became enemies. Now restore the world and the mother and their children become one and they bring their husband into salvation. We see that more concretely now that we help other families in which the mother and the children are becoming one.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The Prototype Family</h3>
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<p>This is important, so let me reiterate. By centering on the mother and the children becoming one, then becoming one with the True Family, their father and husband are in the archangel’s position. He, too, can be brought in later. After restoring him, that family becomes complete. We saw what Father did to reindemnify all of history. What is the end goal? The end goal is to bring the fallen family back into God’s tree. How do you do that? Exactly as Father has told us now. It takes so long.</p>
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<p>After the fall, each family went into incredible difficulties and hardships, and it was a long way. But now the reconnecting time is here, circling around the world and it must fit in the right position, the right direction. The family in that position actually is the family which represents not only itself but also the clan, nation, and whole world. Do you understand? Therefore, this is aptly called the Completed Testament Era.</p>
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<p>Referring to my topic this morning, “The Completed Testament Era and Me,” then what becomes of each “me”? Each person becomes the son and daughter that can live with God literally. Anytime, wherever we go, the fall has nothing to do with us any more. With “I” as a restored being, wherever I go, God can follow me, can live with me. This is each person’s goal.</p>
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<p>Father has already given you the concrete direction of restoring the four great heart realms and three great kingships to restore the royal family. That means all of us become the royal families to God, not fallen families. We are in the position to return to God and indeed live with God. Then wherever we go, it will be heaven. In order to go to heaven, we will become one with Father’s family and we have to love other families as well. We have to have that qualification by practicing love here on earth. Our family, too, will become a royal family.</p>
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<p>This is the Completed Testament Era. We must go beyond the satanic customs and boundaries, wherever our brothers and sisters may go. We are scattered around the whole world for the sake of our missions. By being blessed families we are literally brothers and sisters of one another, and God can live in each of our families, anywhere and any time. We have to live like that. This automatically solves all the color problems, racial problems, you name it. All the problems here don’t exist any more. Each person must say, “This is the way I must trod.”</p>
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<p>We must understand this morning about Valentine’s Day. It is a great day, even in the satanic custom. Yet even among this Valentine’s Day, True Parents are on earth with us at this time and celebrating this Valentine’s Day. How significant this is! This is the day for which we see no parallel at any time in history. We cannot see the same providential position anywhere. On this Valentine’s Day of love, we understand about love, we understand the root of love, we understand the history of God, which is to restore love, and we know everything about love. We have that entity in front of us, in the center of us, and therefore, God is right here with us. How meaningful this is!</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">The First Proclamation</h3>
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<p>This is the second Sunday in February, the second month of 1993. This is the second most important talk Father has given you this year. So Father sees the future of the Unification Church wide open from this point. If you are really aware of the day of which we should be most proud in history, the day representative of all history, should we be proud of today, or not?</p>
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<p>This year Father proclaimed the reappearance of the Messiah, or the Completed Testament Era. Understanding the secrets of history, as Father taught us today and the last few Sundays, is not enough. What we must do is be able to explain this content to other people, especially when they ask questions of us. We should be able to explain clearly what we learned from Father. There will be a newspaper mobilized, and on the worldwide scale Father will proclaim what is happening. The happiest thing is for us to receive Parents and the Messiah. The Messiah is absolutely necessary to restore the whole world, but True Parents are necessary to restore the family. The nation’s problem and the family problem is the most important problem faced by today’s world. It is our privilege to be here. We can be proud in the spirit world to say, “I was the one who was sitting here in 1993, and I was one who received this first proclamation.” This is the historical position of which we will be proud.</p>
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<p>Until now we have been hiding our church affiliation, not proclaiming our Unification Church membership proudly. But now we should be very proud, and we should proclaim everything because we can teach them everything. We have no other teacher, we are the teachers of ourselves. Look at Father. Father fought single-handedly against Satan all the time. Father didn’t hide. All the time Father fought in the open field against Satan on all different levels. Father never fought as an individual, but always as the head of the Unification Church and on behalf of all of you. You should do the same. I had to be arrested and put into prison, and in the fetters of the prison I also fought against evil until now. You should do the same. This victory is the victory which Father won with so much hardship, including imprisonment.</p>
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<p>It is your responsibility as tribal messiahs to proclaim these things and teach these truths to all of your relatives and clan members. You yourselves must literally be the messiah to them. You have no other teachers. You are the teachers of yourselves. You should be proud and grateful for the fact that you serve True Parents. If you receive a Ph.D. from Harvard or if you became the president of the United States, of course you would be very proud. But you are now in the position to be more proud than those people because you are in a more honorable position. With unabashed confidence, you should proclaim to the world the secrets of history. The era of the Completed Testament is the era of teaching the people about True Parents. Teach and proclaim True Parents.</p>
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<p>Who will do that? It is “I”, “me”, the one who first learned it. “I” must do that., wherever we go, to whomever we meet. We wake up in the morning and the first thing we should think about is to proclaim these truths today. Wherever we go, when we go to our job-site, then we should find a person to proclaim these truths to, the person we can teach. Wherever we go, in the restaurant, in the bathroom, we should be thinking about how to find someone we can teach this to. We should make the world full of the sounds of these precious teachings. The nation which does this first will be the first nation to be restored. Of course, there will be voices of opposition. But the voice of teaching should be louder than the voices of opposition. We should proclaim this not only individually but also through the media.</p>
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<p>True Parents are “my True Parents”, not “our True Parents.” You should feel they are your True Parents personally. How loudly you proclaimed and taught people while you were here on earth shall be your source of pride once you reach spirit world. At Jesus’ time, the Israelites were a country, and that country was the world, but today it is literally the world-beyond the nation, beyond all religions, beyond all colors of skin, we can proclaim this literally to the world. If we eat three meals a day, we should do more than three meals worth of proclaiming, before we can eat. Do you follow? Those who say, “Yes, Father, I will do that and even more,” raise your hands. Then the world will be restored much more quickly. Now there is no indemnity to pay.</p>
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<p>First have them prove that Father is not the Messiah and you are not the messiah. If they fail, then you explain why you are the messiah, why Father is the Messiah. Teach what Father taught you this morning. That content should more than qualify you as the messiah. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Of course, fundraising is very important on this precious Valentine’s Day, as you know, but how much more important are the contents of what I have said this morning, which I have given you as my gift this morning? So with much hope and pride, you can go out fundraising today, believing that God is right behind and beside you and knowing that today’s fundraising will be wonderful. Now you have spent three precious hours-from 4 o’clock to 7:00 in the morning-listening to Father’s words. But this small investment will really increase your results by tens and even hundreds of times. So from now on, run to recover these lost three hours. They are not lost, they are gained! Have a good Valentine’s Day! Let us pray.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 7, 1993<br />
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<p>When we say heaven, what are we referring to? When we say heaven, centering on God, it means all spirit world, except hell. As we see, the Hudson River flows in one direction. It flows into the sea which is the deepest part of the earth. All water flows from high to low; the opposite doesn’t happen. Air, too, flows from a high pressure area to a low pressure area. What about human society? Do we see a similar relationship between high, middle and low classes? Does it flow from high to low, or the reverse? All nature shows us that things flow from high to low, but as we look at human society it is backwards and disordered. There is struggle and war. The heavenly spirit world also flows from high to low. The natural flow is from high to low, but man struggles against this. Why is this? Because of the fall.</p>
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<p>Our mind represents heaven and the body, earth. The mind always wants to give to the body, but the body fights and struggles against the mind. Why is this? The fall. And, who is the master of the fall? Satan. All nature wants to get rid of Satan so it can return to normal. What is the one thing that always works? Man. Even going against nature, he still wants to go to the highest place. This is especially true of evil organizations. We see the Mafia, which does not allow the natural flow of the mind, but rather threatens and coerces people. They feel that in order to survive with that wicked goal, they have to strike first. We also find individuals who hate others. Satan is against the laws of nature, whereas God upholds them. Satan tries to reach the top by going against the order of nature. God tries to reach it in an orderly way, but how difficult it is!</p>
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<p>It is not that Satan does not know God’s will. Satan knows about God very well. Satan, however, tries to go in an unorderly way. We can classify all human beings into two categories: conscientious and not conscientious. Satan makes relationship with an unconscientious person and God with a conscientious person. We see that they contradict each other. What is the point of origin? Is it an individual or family? (Individual.) Yes, it is man and woman. We see all contradictions, struggles and wars begin from the individual. Because of the fall, all trouble begins from the individual. This is a great awareness, an important thing to know. Roughly, my body tries to go against my mind. The body belongs to Satan’s side, and our mind to God’s side.</p>
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<p>We have five senses in the body and also in the world of mind. My mind has an eye for seeing and a nose for smelling, just like the body does. Therefore, do I belong to Satan or to God at this moment?</p>
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<p>The mind directs to go one way, and with much energy we go. Then the body complains and resists. We go back and forth, but over much time are we going forward or backward? Am I going to be a bodily person or a mind person? Which one? (Mind.) If that were true you would be an individual who did not fight within himself. However, as you go back and forth, chances are you will end up as a bodily person. Often even when we know what is right, a person asserts what is wrong. When you know what is right you have to bow down to it. An individual knows better than God which is right or wrong. At the judgment there is no way for us to defend ourselves. Without religion this is that way of perishment for all people. To save them, God has given religion. Religion says, “Whatever you want-do not do it. Deny your desires.” This is because the bodily five senses are always going against the wishes of God.</p>
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<p>Is self-denial a natural thing or not? Is it normal for God to force us to deny ourselves? It is only normal because he has our best interest at heart. Isn’t it true that deeply religious men in the past didn’t even know this? Once Father points this out, then of course we know it, but if it were not pointed out, nobody would know. What chance did they have to succeed?</p>
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<p>How much mankind has gone against God and religion! From this perspective, what is America like? It is a Christian nation which is supposed to follow God’s teaching, but it has ended up as the kingdom of individualism. This has settled down in the middle of Christianity. God worked for thousands of years, but has He failed in America or not? Clearly failed. Now we see the 180 degree opposite direction. If America continues to live as it does, will we all go to heaven or hell? Therefore, we see very clearly that the Christians have come to an ungodly place. Do they work against good things or bad? They work against good without their knowing it.</p>
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<p>All religions sprang up in different circumstances. Their cultures, languages and customs were different, but God made them universal. Today we see lower, middle and higher religions. We should be able to identify the religions corresponding to these levels. We know that this law works. Any religion which only works on the family alone will be rejected by the clan. A religion which is specific to a nation will be rejected by the world. This is not only true for religions, but applies to the secular world, too. If a family is confronted by a strong clan, they will be driven out. A nationalistic country can be isolated by the world. With each step we go upwards. Once we reach the top level, the whole world will be divided into two, one good, one evil. So we see the communist and democratic worlds. The democratic world has tried to follow God, whereas the communist world has denied even God. They should be done away with, but they still bring trouble. Even atheism and theism begin with the individual.</p>
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<p>Each religion in the world starts its own ideology. In the free world we have many ideologies, whereas the communists have only one. Actually all religions should come together, because their purpose must be the same, to bring communism down. It would have happened much sooner had they united. Why has communism come down, and not the free world? It is because the free world, through sacrifice, tried to live for others. The free world also tried to love their enemy. Amongst all religions, only Christianity is like that. Buddhism is not like that. In order for God to save us, He must let us know that our body is our mind’s enemy. In order to save all we have to save ourselves first.</p>
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<p>We can clearly see why God had to let Christianity be the central religion. It is because they love their enemy. Christianity had the chance to save all the world at the end of World War II. But what if a stronger religion, which loves its enemy more, arises in the last days? In that religion a man will have the attitude to sacrifice even his own family. That religion will stand on top of the whole world, asserting more influence than any other religion in history, including Christianity, and will be supported by God.</p>
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<p>There is no denying this through reason. The family that lives for the nation will prosper. The nation that lives for others will prosper. The true history of the Unification Church is for Abel to sacrifice for Cain. We have the tradition where Cain will push Abel up because Abel is working for the sake of Cain himself. Abel will voluntarily push Cain up.</p>
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<p>God has done so much; has He ever raised His voice showing what He has done? No. He just does more. Unification Church members live for the sake of the whole and even want to get a nation for the sake of the world. Why are they right to do that? For example, water has the responsibility to reach to the deepest depth. No matter how big a river is, when it flows into the sea, does it stay fresh or does it become salty? (Salty.) Likewise, all men will go to the spirit world; none will stay. The habits and customs of fresh water do not matter; we will all end up in the salt water. Religious people, while living in the fresh water, go against the fresh water and prepare for the salt water. What would happen if we went unprepared?</p>
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<p>Everyone starts from individualistic thinking, then becomes a family man. When they realize this is not enough, they will live for their tribe, nation and world. Are we going to get closer to Satan or further away? Is there anything that Father asked you to do, that you like: fasting, fundraising or witnessing for the sake of others? Before, we did whatever we did and our conscience didn’t bother us. Today we know enough, but we don’t do enough. Does our conscience bother us or not? When you drink alcohol, does your conscience bother you? It used to be that it went down freely. Not any more. When Father says do this and we don’t, then we feel uncomfortable, don’t we? Even though we may not go straight ahead, we at least walk like a crab. We have changed from the first day. Is walking sideways like a crab the normal standard for a Unification Church member? Each one of us knows which angle we are going in. There are very few who are confident and going exactly 180 degrees opposite from where they used to go. We have no choice. There is only one way to go whether we go willingly or unwillingly.</p>
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<p>Which is more salty, the deep ocean or the surface of the ocean? (Deep.) Why? Because salt is heavier than water. Then where would the palace of the Kingdom of Heaven be? In the deepest salt water. So where should I be? In the deepest part of the ocean. God is in the highest, the cleanest and purest place. The higher a religion is, the more they know of God and His ways. They must help the other religions. This is what the higher religion must do. The fact that we live for others, even the enemy, is because that is how the spirit world is. That’s why we have to do that here. Religion is to love the satanic world, not to fight each other. If they fight they will end up in a very difficult place. How can two religions reach up to God if they fight each other? The Unification Church has to treat all religions the same. We cannot call other religions heretical, we must love them. Even Shamanism, which is a very low religion, was fostered by God in the beginning. Reverend Moon and the Unification Church fought against communism for their sake and Father is now teaching them, to save them.</p>
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<p>What Reverend Moon has done is what America should do for the religious world. However, they are not even thinking about it. Only Reverend Moon is serious to save the communist world. God must love Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. God cannot help but support the Unification Church when He sees this. Do you agree? These walls must be happier than us. The wall has a fixed mind, whereas our minds are still wandering. We are thinking that Father is speaking too long. So compared to the wall, you are in a low position. Stay awake.</p>
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<p>Father has not talked about investment. How much have we been given by God? We owe so much to God. All religions have been persecuted. As they were persecuted, they grew. Among all religions Christianity was the most persecuted and sacrificed the most. All the fruit of that sacrifice is now in America. Are Americans aware of that? Americans must turn and embrace all the world. Instead, America is turning away. The universe will spit at it and it will fall. But we Unification Church members must hold America and apply the brake and turn America around. Are all the Unification Church members strong enough to do that, to bring America to a screeching stop? This is a serious point. How serious this is when America is on the brink of dying. How can we be comfortable?</p>
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<p>Father may bring guests to Atlantic City where there is gambling. That’s a very difficult place to survive, too. So, we have to stay awake how long? Father tries to stay awake longer than anyone else who sets foot on that place. By exerting a strong power, try to apply a brake to the direction America is going. Then no matter what you use, you must investigate and you must apply a tremendous energy to accomplish this. Free sex must go. Hollywood and the immoral media must go. We must shed light on the dens of prostitutes. Should Father visit there or not? The thing that is different from Reverend Moon and any other person is that Father can stop at any time. At any moment he can turn around, but not everybody else.</p>
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<p>A good doctor also experiences the sharpest pain of the patient. Without that he cannot be a good doctor. Drinking alcohol itself is not a sin, but once you start drinking alcohol it gets the better of you and makes you sin. It takes an extraordinary person to get over that. You must control your body, control yourself. Even in the matter of love, we have to control.</p>
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<p>Has there ever been a true man and woman, until now? Here is God who is an absolute plus, an absolute subject and He demands that discipline and says, “Man, you must become a complete minus, a complete object.” For women it is the same. Father is the plus of the Unification Church. How much have we united with Father? What is the reality? What about the closest person to Father, who is Mother? Is that one hundred percent or not? What about woman? They all want their husbands to follow their desires. It is not necessarily bad, because in love we are equal. However, when rotation stops the woman should be below. American women want to end up on top. We must be very aware of this. We are on a rail and we do not want to derail. The rail is not always straight. We must consider the speed and the curve. To stay on the rail we must know these things.</p>
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<p>What are we, good, bad or mediocre? We want to be the highest, but sometimes we are low. How do we know this? When we tell someone he is low, he will get angry. This is Satan’s way, Satan’s temper. When we are criticized we should keep silent and try to improve. Never try to fight back. That is a serious point. God knows the standard of the world. He is a pain-filled God; He cannot find anyone who resembles Him.</p>
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<p>Compare men and women. Which is slightly better than the other? Can you solve this problem? Each one of us here thinks that “I” am the center of all men or the center of all women. Does your mind think like that? Even though our mind desires that, we must find a way to that point. By the time you reach the center, you don’t even know you are the center because you have been betrayed and disappointed by all people. For everyone you see, you think is there to betray and deceive you. Father came to America with the sole purpose of saving America, but all Americans think that Father has come to exploit us. Has Father come here to make a slave out of you? No. Father tried to make us better people, even to the point of sacrificing his children.</p>
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<p>When God wanted to be the center of women, God was betrayed by the person He was working with, and He had to start again. This was repeated many times. All the time Satan denies God and He has to start all over again. This is why religions have to sacrifice and build a foundation to continue, to continue, to continue. The same is true for the man’s world. God only needs one prototype man. Only one perfect man and one perfect woman. Once all women know which woman is to be the prototype, they all come against her. What is women’s favorite thing? Jealousy? Talkativeness? Men. What do they want most? Money? Power? Knowledge? Among these what is it that women want? Man. Rightfully so because that’s what they were born for. That means that everybody has a purpose. If it weren’t for man, women would have no purpose for living. So naturally, her first purpose is man. Yes, woman needs a man.</p>
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<p>If we encourage homosexuality, and are successful in making everyone homosexual, will humanity perish? Yes. The most effective way for Satan to prevent man from returning to God is drugs and homosexuality. We already know that Satan’s purpose in working and existing is to turn 180 degrees around against God’s direction. Who wants to go to bars and dancing places? If God told you to go and dance, how happy would you be? You can dance with no clothes on. If you were in love with your husband and danced naked at home, would God complain? No. Would God punish you? No. He would support you. He would say, “Go ahead and do more because that’s what you were born for.” But, the question is, if that same woman did the same thing with another man, would God mind or not? (Yes.) Is that a problem? It’s a very simple principle.</p>
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<p>So, what is salvation? Before my family can be saved, I must be saved. We should follow a straight line back to God. However, if we follow a zigzag course, it is permitted provided we are going forward and getting closer to the goal. We can’t go backward. Those who have been in the church only one year often go faster than those who have been here much, much longer. The one who is in the church for only one year goes in a most straight line. They go ahead of those who have been in the church twenty and thirty years. What do you think happens? Do you think they say, “Even though you are a young person, I respect you, do more”? Do you think they do that? No. Instead, they will probably say, “You don’t know about seniority. You can’t be ahead of me.” Do we see that happening in our church, or not? (Yes.) What about Father? If someone went in front of Father, he would promote him.</p>
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<p>You Americans feel more comfortable when you speak to Americans. Father feels the same with those who speak Korean. We must know the importance of our customs and language, to promote goodness. It is not a small thing any more. In order to do that, language plays a large role. Father explains that almost every day in Father’s long table with Korean and American leaders, Father speaks in Korean, and American leaders don’t know what to do. They just sit there and maybe get one word if someone translates. But how much can you get from one word? Everyone is busy trying to understand Father’s words. There’s no time to translate for Americans. Unless we solve these problems, that effect will be lasting to the rest of mankind. Don’t you feel that way? It’s a very important factor now. How ineffective and confusing it is. Americans and the British have been very happy, because all the world is learning English and has been focusing on them. But, how about God? Do you think God will follow that crowd? (No.) What about True Parents? Are they going to follow the language of the satanic kingdom? (No.) Who does God love the most, America or Reverend Moon? He loves them both, but must choose Reverend Moon, for apparent reasons. So, should all of us who are English-speaking people learn about Reverend Moon and introduce him to English-speaking people; or should Father follow all English people and teach them in English, so in that way all English-speaking people can learn and change faster?</p>
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<p>There are 200 or 300 books of all of Father’s sermons in Korean, not in English. In the scholarly world, already that’s the way. We must learn our ancestors’ language too. Imagine, the devoted Christian, and other religious people, who have been living for fifty years following the Bible exactly. Now they come to the Unification Church and learn the Divine Principle. How long will it take? Maybe one year? He will compare the Bible and the Divine Principle and see that the Divine Principle is a higher teaching. He will know the value immediately, and shoot forward like an arrow. Can we match those people? We never witnessed so much, we never prayed so much, we never did anything so much. When the Christians are celebrating with the True Family on the top of the mountain, will we still be struggling up the hill? Should we expect Father to come down to us and apologize?</p>
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<p>Up until now, American members have thought, “Well, Father favors Korean first and secondly he favors Japanese. Americans are just a remnant.” That’s the way American leaders often think because they don’t understand but one word in two or three hours. How can Father help it? Each one of us must try not to think about other people so much because we are busy. We should be busy with our own goal and schedule. The one who comes in place of God is the Messiah. The Messiah does exactly what God tells him to do, die, get up, go east or west. The Messiah knows how hard God worked, how miserable God’s position is and no matter how miserable his position is, thinking about God, he cannot complain. All he can do is follow and try to console God. Thus we can know how much suffering God has endured from the wounds of history. There is not even one piece of God that can rejoice. The Messiah knows the root of God’s suffering and tries to uproot that. Not even once during prison did Father pray to God for help. Father now has a problem with Japan, but he doesn’t ask God to help. Father feels that even if he goes to hell, God will protect him. When Father lands in a happy place, all he will do is stay in the corner. That’s all Father will do in front of God. God needs Father when he is in difficulty and also when he is happy.</p>
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<p>Now we know what the Messiah is. We know what is needed to be the Messiah. True Parents are the Messiah. True Children are the Messiah. Father has a certain idea about the standard of the tribal messiah, but when the children don’t live up to that standard, Father realizes there’s a problem. In the spirit world Reverend Moon will be the standard of judgment. Anyone who falls short of Reverend Moon will be judged if they don’t reach it. Reverend Moon’s standard is 100 percent. God doesn’t mind if ours is 120 percent, but it should not be lower than 100. Father wants all of us to become better. Have we been supporting Father by doing many difficult things, or are we pulling him down when he’s trying to go up?</p>
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<p>Father has proclaimed his Messiahship. Are we claiming our tribal messiahship? If we identify ourselves as disciples of True Parents, as Father goes higher we go higher, too. When people find out we are Unification Church members they pay attention to us.</p>
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<p>If you ever go to a conference, put on your name card that you are Reverend Moon’s disciple. Walk everywhere with this on. People will stop and talk to you. How many times a day are you witnessing and talking? All the media is broadcasting news about your president. Is Father less important? Do you understand what it is to be a Messiah? What about the bride to the Messiah, she must completely obey the groom. This is the greatness of Mother. Father took the leaders of the women’s movement in the car, yet told Mother to stay at home. She did not complain. Rather, she embraced them. No matter how hateful a woman may be, Mother still has to embrace her. That means not only son, but daughter, too. God wants a daughter who will introduce another woman who is an enemy to her, to her own husband. God wants that kind of broad-minded women. That doesn’t mean we have to do that literally, but our mind should be as broad as that.</p>
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<p>For the last thirty-three years, Mother has had to untangle Jesus’ regret. She had to indemnify a lot of women’s past. She has to make all her rough edges very smooth so that old women or young women who might try to scratch her, or upset her, cannot. All women thought that Mother took their position as Father’s wife. Mother was only a teenager. Everyone blamed her for taking their husband. The whole spirit world was like a tornado. Every woman was crazy for Father. You, too, would have wanted to marry Father. If Father was a bad person, he could have behaved as a secular person would have done, but Father knew Adam’s responsibility. Father took everybody as his own sister and raised them up and matched them as they were supposed to be. At the same time Father raised up Mother as True Mother. Father treated her as his own daughter, sister, spouse and mother. Father restored all these positions which Adam and Eve lost.</p>
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<p>The spirit world worked through the older women. Spirit world revealed the whole thing to them. So, when Father would go some place for that day, the grandmother already knew where Father was going and she went there before him. When Father arrived she smiled very sweetly at him because she was embarrassed and said, “I’m here.” Spirit world told her, so she just believed what the spirit world told her.</p>
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<p>They boasted to all that, “Reverend Moon is my husband.” In other words, there was a time in history when God allowed an equal chance to everybody, no matter how old or young. They sincerely believed that the spirit world told them. At that point God allowed all to run for that position, just as in an election. Forty years later Father can laugh and talk about this. But can you imagine how irritating it was? The old women came up to me and said “You are my husband.” How bad that was! Father had to laugh it off. These women all moved to the neighborhood of Father’s church. They watched day and night. Each one prepared the meal for Father. They cried for Father. They made his bed for him. It was to such a degree that it was actually fearful. But Father knew the principle and could survive. Father teased them when everybody was there, “Grandmother, even if you get married to me, you cannot have a baby.” They would say, “Look at Sarah, she was over one hundred, I’m only eighty.” But then spirit world had a reason. Father gradually taught them, and they gave up.</p>
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<p>Father brought it down to the younger age and Father inherited all that spiritual foundation. Father said to them at last, “Is it up to you or up to me to choose my bride?” They admitted it was up to Father. In the meantime, Father collected all that scattered foundation into one to select a bride. Each one knew who the candidates were, but then Father chose someone from far away. Everyone then tried to find Mother. It took six months to a year trying to figure out from where Mother was coming. During this time an exchange took place. Each woman had an absolute trust in Father. Now True Mother should have more trust in Father than they displayed.</p>
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<p>Abel’s position must love Cain more. Mother, too, as Abel must love all women in Cain’s position. If Mother had behaved differently, she would have been poisoned by these women. The strong jealousy from the spirit world would have said to them, “If you erase her, then you can become Father’s spouse.” So Father had to chase Mother out, too. When Father and Mother were walking, if someone came, Father would push Mother away and embrace the other person. If Father had not done this, the other women would have come against Father. He couldn’t hold hands with her, or kiss her. Father had to treat her completely as a sister.</p>
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<p>All persons have historical regret, not just personal regret from many, many generations. All women’s regrets were dumped on Mother. What could she do? The golden rule is to be silent and digest them. Father told Mother what to expect and prepared her. He told her stay close behind Father and do not leave. If she followed exactly behind Father, Satan had no claim on her. Satan could then attack Father. All women tried to accuse Mother, but she stayed very close to Father, like a shadow. With this tradition, Father paved the road for women to follow. So the way to the perfection of Mother was to follow Father exactly. Once she has done that, Satan has no accusation. All he can say is, “You are a great woman.” All women must know how difficult that road is. There are so many things Father would like to share and talk to you about. This is necessary for American women to know, so they may become humble. All American women, too, want to be in Mother’s position. Father has to give us the blessing before our perfection, so now he has to teach us more.</p>
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<p>Father has been damaged by man, blaming him and accusing him before he can pave up man’s role. The worst that can happen to him is go to jail. Who put father into jail? Man or woman? (Man.) Why? Because when man saw how women behaved, centering on Reverend Moon, they did not understand what was going on. They did not understand history, that’s how it was possible for them to put Father in jail. It happened in Korea when an ordinary housewife no longer stayed at home, but instead followed Father completely. The husbands could not understand that. Looking at that kind of wife, it was difficult for a husband to bear. If Mother had not been selected and Father was still selecting a bride, the same thing would be happening even now.</p>
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<p>Mother accepted this challenge and digested it. She now has her position today. Father stands representing all men, and all men go against him, accusing him of taking their dear wife away. “You came here on earth to snatch her away from me.” But then all women are so close to him. Father has to collect, harvest the blessing that was given to woman a long time ago and she’s held it, kept it. Now she has to return that to one who’s on top.</p>
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<p>The servant, stepson, adopted son, and son all go against Father who comes to represent them. So Father must think and behave just like God has in the past. Father has to make them as Cain, the elder brother to him. Otherwise each one cannot stand in their own place. At that time even beating Father was unthinkable, but it did happen actually. In the secular world, even in prison, it simply was blinding. Father went into prison to give them blessings, yet they beat him. Now many years have passed. Thirty, forty years later, today, all men bow down to him. Then no one knew, but now we are grateful to you. No one forced men to bow down like that; it is a natural subjugation. America, too, more and more despised Reverend Moon, but as time goes by they realize he is their benefactor. He is one who gives blessing to us.</p>
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<p>So, what course did Father take? Eye for an eye, or did Father embrace them, continue to love them and they were naturally subjugated? It’s the second one isn’t it? (Yes.) Do you American women know enough about why we should bow down to Father? (Yes.) What about you American men? (Yes.) Father did everything to pave the road back to God so now he stands on top of the world. Even God would give up all religion and even all mankind, but not Reverend Moon.</p>
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<p>All great men in history have been challenged by Satan but not one survived. Satan has spread a large net. You cannot survive by fighting with weapons, only by love. First you have to be beaten. Satan can only beat you unjustly three times. After that he must retreat. Satan casts so many nets. As Father avoids the nets, Satan cannot use them again. So who would Satan follow? Satan’s people. Would Satan’s people follow Satan, or would Satan’s people follow Reverend Moon? (Father.) Why? Because in the beginning when they hear the teaching, they feel the impact and magnitude of it. They also understand the truth of Father’s teaching. They start to follow Father, not Satan. Satan has nothing to teach. So how about us? Will you follow 100 percent or less? (100 percent.) Why? By doing that, God can love our children 100 percent. God has many children in Satan’s world. Father must embrace them all.</p>
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<p>Between Father and son is True Love. Centering on True Love you can call God Father. True Love is the same for all people for eternity. In the Garden of Eden, God could not embrace his grandsons, but now He can. In order to have sons and daughters we must become one with Father completely.</p>
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<p>Father has gone over all eight barriers. As you go over one wall you have to pay indemnity. Satan is waiting for you to pass at each level, from the individual to the cosmic level. If Adam had not fallen we would’ve naturally arrived at the end, but because of the fall, we have had to reindemnify everything.</p>
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<p>Even the communists, whom Father fought against so much, now love Father. So there are no enemies in front of Father. Father can go anywhere – Russia, China, or North Korea. Could the United States President’s wife go to China and have a rally for the people? Mother has done that. Women’s time has arrived. The women go ahead of Father and Father will follow. In America they know better than anybody else what we are talking about. Those who are successful in this country, always have a woman in front of them.</p>
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<p>All women can now untangle their regrets through the man. Both in the spirit world and the physical world, all women can combine and make one women’s rally for man, for all the bad things men did against them. They can resolve all their bad experiences with men. All women who have been betrayed, mistreated, cheated, you name it. Men have done very bad things to women throughout history. When a woman goes to the spirit world she knows what kind of things man did even though she was faithful. She never knew while living. So, they all come down to you and pound on you men. But instead of fighting back all you men can do is say you are sorry, apologize. She will try to enslave you, drive you like a servant. She was at the beginning, so now she is trying to do that back. No matter how terrible she treats you, you must be thankful. Why? Because you have to be saved by her. So obey woman even though she persecutes you. No matter what she does or says. Even 360 degrees, all around, in all directions of persecution, you become only thankful. Now you stand in the archangel’s position; follow thankfully.</p>
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<p>Father has been giving the position to all American women here. Teaching them and raising them in front of all the Christian women in this country. Father is treating you like a queen. The Christian world want to become the bride, and you are one step ahead of them. Christianity is the bride’s religion, isn’t it? So, American women should really appreciate this present day position. American women can obey Oriental women and indemnify that position and responsibility they couldn’t fulfill. Otherwise, there is no way to go back. No way to reconnect.</p>
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<p>If we resemble our Father and Mother, Satan cannot accuse us anymore. We will be liberated. This is how liberation comes. Now such a couple has come to exist for the first time in history, and in the family level too. Like a stamp, we can mass produce it. It is that kind of a time now. God and all things will give the same value to each couple. Father was the first, but all the later ones will have the same value. The main factory is the True Parents, who have the blueprint, but the tribal messiahs, who are the branch factories, can produce many copies. They all have the same horizontal value, and all connect vertically to True Parents. All tribal messiahs have that formula. That mission is the mission of the tribal messiah. You can save the whole world that way. Horizontal expansion is no problem. When the Christian world understands these concepts, how wonderful it will be.</p>
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<p>So, this is how much God has invested to bring about True Parents. Now True Parents give away the Blessing freely. We have to understand the value and try harder to teach this. To arrive at this destination God tried through Jesus, but failed and now through the Second Coming. How much investment God made! We must understand. When Christian nuns and priests meet the bridegroom, would they be married? Yes. What about Buddhists, who practice strict celibacy? How difficult it is to start from scratch.</p>
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<p>After World War II, the Christian world represented the bride’s position. The bridegroom would come down vertically. After World War II England, America and France stood in the positions of Mother, Cain and Abel. Japan, Germany and Italy stood in the same positions on Satan’s side. If the three Allied nations had accepted Father, all could have received the Second Messiah. The Messiah is vertical and comes down with nothing except True Love. This is then manifested in True Children. If those three nations had united and believed in the Messiah, within seven years the kingdom of heaven would have come. The year 1945 plus seven years equals 1952.</p>
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<p>Woman represents earth and man heaven. If they united with True Love all could have been solved, and during the seven years could have spread all over the world, but it failed. All four thousand years of God’s history was lost. In 1945, the Allied nations controlled all the world and if they had connected to the Messiah they could have created one world under God with no problem, but everything was lost. Only Reverend Moon and God were left. Father had to restore everything in forty years. He could not sleep. Father had to go over every level, tear down every wall.</p>
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<p>At Jesus’ time the nation was lost. Jesus returned and restored spiritually twelve, seventy-two and one hundred and twenty disciples. Father had to do the same with the Blessed couples. This broke down Satan’s world. The 30,000 Couple Blessing destroyed Satan’s number six. The tribal messiah goes in True Parent’s position to connect their tribe to the true blood lineage.</p>
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<p>So centering on the tribal messiahs, God is restoring Adam’s position through their parents. The tribal messiah stands in Jesus’ position. The True Parents stand in the Second Coming’s position.</p>
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<p>Secondly, by going to their hometown, the tribal messiahs must change their hometown from Satan’s to God’s hometown. God’s home is Adam’s family. They must restore their parents and ancestors and restore their hometown. They can do this by changing their blood lineage through True Parents. Satan cannot do this. We do not need religion. Once we restore a nation, the world will be no problem. We do not need a specific nation. We don’t need police. There will be no fighting or war. We absolutely do not need this. Do you want this ideal world? It’s not so easy. The problem is the individual.</p>
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<p>Centering on Mother we proclaim the women’s world. The Korean women are elder sisters. They can connect to Mother, then the younger sisters can connect. You have to know these things clearly, otherwise you cannot restore these things.</p>
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<p>Anyone born after 1945 can be claimed by Father, not Satan. This is the same as the Israelite nation. Those who were born in the wilderness survived, all those born in Egypt died. You were born through fallen action, but because Father was on the earth, it can be considered as a mistake, not a repeat of the fall.</p>
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<p>This is different from Satan’s world. Those people can come more easily to me. Those born before 1945 are in Satan’s realm. Those born after, are in the Parent’s realm. If you make one mistake, you cannot go into heaven.</p>
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<p>After World War II the Christian bride world did not invite in the groom. How much difficulty, pain and sacrifice it caused. During the last forty years, the free world and the Christian world have been wrecked. The big churches became empty. Look at Fifth Avenue and the Empire State Building; God is not there. During the two thousand years history of Christianity, their sacrifice built them up, but then in the last forty years, there has been so much decline. Look at Judaism’s decline after Jesus’ birth. They have been wandering for two thousand years. How miserable was the death of six million people during World War II.</p>
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<p>How much is owed by the Blessed couple to True Parents!</p>
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<p>We have to combine the Federation for World Peace and the Women’s Federation for World Peace. Also, we have to combine the religious world, or else there can be no peace.</p>
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<p>How much investment has been made by the True Parents towards the Blessed couples? What is the biggest United States corporation? IBM. It is no comparison to this foundation. We must understand this value before we can understand our own value. The main root can connect anything. We will become a branch to this tree of life; this is a tribal messiah. How staggering it will be when this huge tree grows in the next thirty to forty years. It will be millions of times more valuable than the fallen tree. Are we going to live this life with all of our might? We must cherish it. Get hold of your clan with your teeth, hands, gums, whatever. Hold on to them. Once you let go, to catch it again will be harder. Think about the historical value of this investment. This is our destiny. Mission is destiny. No matter how hard it may be, you cannot escape it.</p>
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<p>God put so much into America, but didn’t God invest more into the Blessed couples? Yes. Is that reality or imagination? What about the whole earth? God put more here. We can understand the value of true man and woman. They have more value than all creatures. It’s so huge, it’s awesome, isn’t it? Each one of us, with that confidence, can face any opposition. All opposition is so small. This is how Father thought. God said, “I never saw anything like it before. You are like a mutation.” Has he been successful or a failure? (Successful.) Even though Father thinks he is special, his deep wish is that his children will do more. This is the parents’ wish.</p>
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<p>In the last twenty years we saw with our own eyes and heard with our own ears, what Father has done. Are you going to shoot to perfection? (Yes.) When I look at you I believe in your perfection. Father wants to give you the gift of the title of Holy son. How much confidence you can have in the investment that was made in the heavenly Blessed couple. You have received True Parents’ name. This was the first Sunday of the month and Father will teach chapter by chapter.</p>
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<p>Will the Japanese couples please raise your hands? Almost half. This is not America, but Japan. Father has merged Japan into America. Do Japanese women work harder than American women? Why? America belongs to fair hair girls. Remember salt water will change fresh water to salty. Try not to be outdone by Japanese. Which is more efficient, the Japanese way or American? Japanese. Do you feel good that Japanese take the head and you take the tail? You are like a grasshoppers, but Japanese are like ants. The grasshopper and ant fable is pertinent here. Why do Americans laugh so much? What are they so happy about? They are like grasshoppers. Grasshoppers don’t mind what others do, they make something new. Grasshoppers will dance too much, then they get tired. Orientals enjoy it to some extent, but then are ready to work again.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 1, 1993<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>Today’s sermon is a continuation of yesterday’s. On one side we have earth and the other side heaven. Men represent heaven and women represent earth. Together they form the ideal purpose of God in creation. Earth is horizontal, and heaven is vertical. In the western world there is not so much understanding of the concept of vertical and horizontal, heaven and earth. But this concept is daily fare for orientals. In ourselves we have mind and body, analogous to heaven and earth. Mind and body must become one, whether the person be a man or woman. The mind is vertical and the body is horizontal. The mind is the vertical self; the body is the horizontal self. If we are actualized like that then we connect to the whole world. One should wish that the whole horizontal world belongs to him or her. One’s mind should have the whole vertical world. We want the biggest and best. The better is vertical. So we must keep both elements in mind. That is what makes the world.</p>
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<p>When everyone thinks this way it creates a stairway. In order to have three dimensions you need right and left, up and down, and front and back. Always keep these three relationships in harmony. Man who stands here has a spouse on his left. When we move or turn, even if we turn 360 degrees, the axis does not change. The direction changes but not the axis. So the vertical is the center, not the horizontal. The vertical is always vertical and is thus the center of the universe. Our mind occupies that vertical position. Western civilization is a material civilization. They take it apart and study it and analyze things, expanding their knowledge. But the east puts all things in perspective. What belongs in one place goes where it belongs.</p>
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<p>The irony is, if man had not fallen, the more materially prosperous a man would have become, the more prosperous would have been his spirit. But because of the fall the reverse is true. Here in America, where abundant blessing has been given, the spiritual quality has declined. The fall created the greatest irony. The former Soviet Union, which boasted of being the most materialistic, actually has nothing materially, but instead their spiritual strength is greater. The countries which boast of having a strong spirit actually have little spirit, but they do have much material blessing. This is an expected phenomenon of the last days. The problem remains concerning how to balance these two extremes. Who will balance the spiritual and material?</p>
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<p>For the vertical and horizontal, heaven and earth, to become one, man and woman must become one. In a man, his mind represents God and his body represents True Parents. His spouse has the same internal relationship. Two such united people can form a perfect vertical and horizontal relationship. When they internally unite mind and body then they can unite perfectly. Extending this to its conclusion, if you own one you own the whole universe. What makes you eligible to own this? It is neither man nor woman but love which both man and woman covet. The fallen world has never seen true love. The owner of true love is God and True Father. So God and man will become one, then if his spouse unites in the same way, the whole universe can unite.</p>
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<p>Who did God create first, man or woman? (Man.) Man represents heaven. So in the Bible we see the symbolism that God took the rib of Adam and created Eve. This did not happen literally; it only means that Eve was created in the image of Adam. The plus is heaven and the opposite is earth. It is like two spheres: the upper, the right and the front represent heaven; the lower, left and rear represent earth. This is the way the universe is connected. So we see that all these objectives can be realized through love. Without love we cannot do this. So when a child is born, it is protected and loved. Who embraces the baby? The mother, who is on the horizontal level, does. Then the mother and all the children are protected by the father. The mother must all the time, day and night, love this vertical love of the father. The whole family must together then turn around the vertical. Mother and children must turn. What makes this? Love.</p>
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<p>The mother must receive ample love from the father to give to the children. If the father does not give her enough love, she cannot love the children. In this way the vertical love is deployed horizontally. As we can see we have enough elements to cover all 360 degrees.</p>
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<p>Bringing them together is not the man or woman, but the power of love. Is that true? (Yes.) Once we know this for sure, there can be no such thing as a broken family. In the West, we have an erroneous concept that man and woman are equal. If men turn one way and women another, how can they be equal? How can we have two axes? When you see two babies, one boy and one girl grow, the girl grows horizontally and the boy grows vertically. As a result boys are taller than girls; also look at the hips of the woman. They have to be stabilized so they can give birth; this is natural. Also woman have an abundant bosom, big hips and a soft touch. All are not for her, but for her children. Women can boast of their bosom and hips. Men have no hips, but instead have broad shoulders. This is the way God built us. When we enter the family we can immediately identify the center: it is the woman who takes care of all things in the house. It is she who loves the earth and the universe. She takes care of everything and absolutely loves her husband. We must become like this before we can expect for me and my family to be able to go to God’s warehouse, the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Man’s mind represents heaven and woman’s mind represents earth. So together their growth is similar. However when they are mature, man represents heaven and woman earth. Women must try hard to gain spirituality. Men must also work to gain this harmony. Women make friends very easily, but not men. Men should not bow down so much. Woman are expected to bow down to make peace, to promote religion and godly qualities.</p>
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<p>Look at the existing Christian men. They do not try as hard at evangelizing as woman. But yet are there many great women religious leaders? No; most are men. The women all worshipped, loved and followed the man. What is the significance? There is none, except that man is subject and woman object. But man has one thing more than the woman. Amongst brothers, the one who has one more thing will be the leader. Look at a mountain with many trees. If there is one huge tree it will dominate all the other trees. Is there one woman determined to become greater than men? No. So the religious leaders are men and women then follow. So God and man must come into unity. If they do not there is no base for unification.</p>
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<p>In the subject position, Satan replaced God, and man became one with the evil father. That evil father has a very changeable center, because Satan moves him around. The original good man should settle in one place. That evil father will not bring unity, but division. Look at all the different skin colors, white, black and yellow. If you have a choice, you would like to live in a moderate climate zone. The north is too cold, the equator too hot. The white people come from the north, like polar bears. But the black people come from a hot place. If all men had lived in the temperate zone, their skin color would not be different. But instead, there was division and one was pushed out to the extreme cold, the other to the hot. What made that happen? Satan. The ancestor of the white people must have done something wrong and fled. Something like that must have happened. When they fled to a cold climate zone, they began a pirate civilization. The early history of Scandinavian countries was a history of piracy. They shed blood and killed many people; it was bad. The white civilization has caused a lot of bloodshed. What about the ones who were pushed south? It was hot and they rested under trees. Food was plentiful, so they become lazy. They danced well because they danced a lot. When that happens there is not so much discipline between man and woman. The pirates plundered them, killed all the men and took all the women. Is a pirate a man or a woman? (Man.) Is he good or bad? A bad man takes a good woman. How can such a pirate race get God’s blessing? The women who were kidnapped must have prayed and put a lot of heart into the race. The woman brought to the island nation of England must have prayed and put a lot of heart into the nation, thinking that even though I received the seed of a pirate I will raise you to be a better son. Even though this is not orthodox history, we can speculate that this happened.</p>
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<p>Where did the worthwhile religions spring up? Not in the west but in the east. Every major religion comes from the east. Countries such as Germany, England or France, which colonized the world, did not raise up men but women. Through women they tried to control the African countries. In the Opium war, who was the target? Women or men? The reason they brought the opium was to subdue the men. The women were becoming westernized, but the men didn’t want to follow the western ways. So the English wanted to get rid of the men. To do this they fed them opium. We know very well the law of cause and effect. Their own descendants are now plagued by opium. Look back at history: which race did more evil things-white people, black people or oriental people? Whites. They always attacked and caused bloodshed. They killed blacks, orientals and other whites. This soil itself, in America, does it belong to whites or orientals? Orientals were living here; the white people took it from the orientals. More and more this will be revealed. This racial problem is very formidable; it may escalate into religious wars, with one religion fighting the other. Without God we have no chance.</p>
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<p>How did white people, with this background, come to accept Christianity? It was not because they were good, no. It was the women, the women accepted God’s religion and invested much heart into it. They became good and influenced the men to be good, and thus they came into God’s realm. We must understand that the fall took place through a woman. But God has been fostering religion through women. Who prays more, men or women? (Women.) Why? Why not men? Because men do not have so much to pray for; but how about women, who have been subjugated by men’s force? Upon whom could they rely? God. Who was hurt more? Women were incredibly hurt by men. This is true for all age groups of women. In terms of love, who has been misused most? (Women.)</p>
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<p>What is a woman’s inclination? Does she want love in many places or does she only want one husband to love her? (One.) But men are different. They will move around and wherever they go they start a new family. Fallen women look for men who are better than their husband. This encourages men to wander more and be more immoral. But men do not want their wives to wander.</p>
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<p>We see over and over again that the fighting within the family is caused by the men wandering afar. Women ask, “Which woman did you see this time?” Women do not travel so far, they stay at home because their hips are heavy. If man tries to sit still, he cannot, because his shoulders are too heavy. You may laugh, but this is important. In history all things have happened with love. There are many trains in history. But look at the love train. This train carries the most blood, tears and misery. Can you find a train with more misery? (No.) Overnight a man and woman who are so deeply in love can be shattered apart and lose everything. Can a human being experience more misery than that? Through that happening, one generation can destroy the ancestors’ work of many generations, and also destroy the descendants. Where is a pure heart of love? Where is the lineage of the one pure woman? Where is purity? Where is chastity? Look at all our ancestors; there have been many kinds. You may have a burglar or a killer. Have you ever stopped to think how to start a pure lineage and keep it? In this world, it is not possible. The only way to keep the purity of your descendants is to build a cage and isolate them from the world. But that is impossible. None of us can start a new lineage. How can God make a pure blood lineage when everything is so bad and desolate? Do you think your ancestors are as good as you or a bad as you? How do we behave? As if no one is better than me.</p>
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<p>Satan made this enormous complication of love. Man made it bad and woman retaliated and made it worse. Ethics, with a very weak muscle, tried to slow down the decline. But then along came free sex. Who made that happen? (Man.) But man has been involved in free sex all the time. Take American soldiers. Wherever they went, they lived with other women. This brings animosity, so now in order to defend themselves, they say “let’s have free sex.” Satan has no other way. So now that you have seen it for a few decades, is anyone satisfied with it? Can any woman or man say that it’s a good idea? Free sex has even evolved into incest and relationships between grandfathers and granddaughters. Of course they feel guilty, but then they say, “Do not feel guilty.” When different colors of water come together, it becomes dirty.</p>
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<p>With free sex are men or women comfortable? Is free sex practised by age group? No; the inclination is to cross age groups. The old attack the young, even the infant is not safe. It is the grandparents’ responsibility to see to the welfare of their offspring. For those who practice free sex, do they want free sex with another who has had many sexual experiences or one who is pure? (Pure). We see that they look to the younger. This is worse than the animals. Professors and teachers always look at their students. Can any concept of family exist here? This is exactly what Satan wants. Does God love that? God hates that the most. Who sobs more because of love, men or women? (Women.) What are we going to do about that? Can the President of the country do anything? This President does not look to be strong in that regard. Religious leaders in America make the same mistake. Who will repair this? Is this normal or sick? It’s very sick, sick, sick. Everyone is affected by this.</p>
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<p>So the women of the world are in this situation. Should we repair men or women first? Who suffers more from the bad results of love? Women are about to die because of it. Who will mend them, who will repair that? What shall we do? All the world is worrying about that. In this desperate situation, what if we wipe all the men out? That is not good for the women. Even a really hurt woman would say please don’t kill him. Just send him away for ten years and beat him and educate him. That is not something that God or we want. But shouldn’t we do that? At any cost should we repair this? (Yes.) If that will work, we should do it. Of course, God is thinking about this too. He wants to do it with as little change as possible, without using any extreme measures. Would God do that through religion or through the non-religious realm? Through religion. Throughout history we can see that God has been developing the bride through Christianity, centering on women. So now the world is ready, we have the bride ready. The bridegroom appears. From where will he appear? If he comes from the earth all will oppose him, so he must come from heaven. Women have prayed throughout history, please send us one true eternal man, who will bring the true thought and ideal, and I would like to receive the truthful seed from him. That is every woman’s deep prayer.</p>
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<p>You all want to meet pure men, not ragged-looking ones in tatters. Ever since the fall, even though this was the desire of all women, none have received a pure man’s seed. It is their highest and deepest desire, but they have never seen it in the satanic world. Nevertheless they still pray for it. Millions and millions of women through out history have prayed for the one pure man, the one pure seed. God, thinking of women, cannot help but answer that prayer. Men have through out history trampled and mutilated love. So at the end of the days there should be a women’s movement to totally deny fallen man’s value. There should be a religion where all women come together to deny men continuing tyranny. God, who knows the situation, cannot blame women for that.</p>
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<p>We all want true love, a true father, true parents, and true family. Men and women want this; all Americans want this. Of course we want this, but do we have it? (No.) If you examine closely, they don’t pray for true love, their father or their parents. Should we erase this? (Erase it.) It will bring only confusion and chaos. Before He erases the bad, God prepares the good. Who brings this to earth? The saviour, the Lord of the Second Advent, the True Parents. Now the environment is prepared, because they have denied all the evil ways. Individualism has only one good side: it denies all the bad things. An individualist doesn’t need a father or parents, God or anything, only him- or herself. But as we know we need all of these. We should live joyfully with the other people, other countries and the world. This is how God has created us.</p>
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<p>History has advanced from the feudal ages to two blocs and now to one huge bloc. The Unification Church is sitting on top of that, understanding it all. All racial, economic and national problems can be transcended with the almighty power of love. The mass wedding is the direct implementation of this. No other religion does this. It goes beyond all cultural, racial and national problems. Are there many white people who would like a black spouse? No, but in the Unification Church, even though the bride and groom have never seen each other and cannot even talk to each other, they are happy with Father’s choice. The world looks at that and fiercely opposes it at the beginning. As time goes on they will not oppose so much, it is the shock they have to get over. How complicated it is to solve the world’s problems. If you take them one by one, they are overwhelming. But the real solution is true love and the true individual and family.</p>
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<p>Does Reverend Moon like this system so much that he wants to do it? No; this is how God created it. All creatures together want this. Satan is opposed to everything that God does. The fight between God and Satan has never been more visible. Everything that God wants to accomplish, Satan wants to stop. Starting from the individual and going up to the cosmos, no one can solve this. No one but God can work this out. But through this gospel which has come down, we can save the world.</p>
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<p>What happens when we mix all the colors of the world? Will it be black, white or yellow? (Yellow). Among the 5.5 billion people, 3.2 are yellow, 1.2 are white and 1.1 billion are black. So the Pacific era will come. The Asian culture and people will become more dominant. We will see in the future 3 out of 4 people in a mass wedding will be yellow. This is not because Father wants to promote them, but objectively this is likely to happen. Nowadays, all in the west look to the east and deeply desire to get closer to the oriental people. When two want to marry, who is the one to propose? (Man.) What happens if all men only propose to orientals, and western women do not get proposed to? Western women will have to become more humble, like oriental women. Well, Father knows that, so what can he do? Father thinks that maybe if western women can become humble to oriental women, and become like oriental women, there is hope.</p>
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<p>If you have to do it by yourself, it takes many many years. But here in America you look around. There are many Japanese women. Do you despise them or do you wish that you become like them? Father is looking at only one thing, as should you. He is looking at the faith standard. Otherwise there’s nothing to look at. The American woman of over fifty years ago won over the Japanese, but there’s nothing that American women have to be proud of over Japanese. Who has the higher standard of faith? Generally, Japanese women’s standard is higher. You hate to admit it, but we have to admit it. Do you know what happened to Father because of that? Father was persecuted so much for doing this. That is the only way to learn. Now especially Father brought American men to the highest standard.</p>
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<p>So there are many American men who thought silently. Do you think that American men thought that Father was good? Before, Father was the symbol of evil. As they understand more and more they become lower, and conversely Reverend Moon becomes higher. In a very objective view, who is higher, the President of United States or Reverend Moon? American people will listen to Reverend Moon or Clinton more? (Reverend Moon.) That’s a reality. Reverend Moon is against evil and shows why he is against it. Praise rather than complaint is due. The conclusion that mass wedding is very good is because the way of life after being through the mass wedding is far superior to anything else. Wife and husband are married for 10 years yet live separately, yet the wife doesn’t even worry about her husband even though they don’t live together. They are so worry-free that they gain weight. It’s an Oriental expression that if you are worry free then you gain weight. Is that bad or good? Man and woman both deserve credit for this but who is the center of religious life, woman or man? (Woman.) Yes. Who follows the central religion, women or men?</p>
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<p>Now this is the time of transition. We have to transfer. Until now, during the evil history men led the way and women had to follow. Now we have to change, because women are more religious and religion is the right direction. The whole Christian realm is the bride’s realm. Should the bridegroom’s realm be one or two? (One.) He is only one, however, and there are so many brides. How can we balance this?</p>
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<p>Restoration is to return to the round shape. Even though the man is here, however, before a man appears woman should be there. So first, Adam, second in Jesus’ time, and third the Second Advent. Then who is Sun Myung Moon? (Applause.) Does anybody believe that? Which one, did the world nod or shake? They opposed. Now they are shaking, but not so confidently. Restoration is not so easy; it’s so difficult. That’s the course-always changing, going up and down.</p>
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<p>The true man’s seed comes out here. Satan coupled with Adam made the fallen civilization but here God and Reverend Moon will start a new generation-a new seed. Father taught this on the first Sunday of January. Eve becomes one with Cain and Abel. England being in Eve’s position and America and France in Abel and Cain’s position. Abel is the small messiah. At the end of World War II, America became the center-the Abel. Abel is the child of the saviour, planted as an individual but harvested on a world-level at the end of World War II. That’s the historical formula which historically must be met. This is the way the fall took place, and restoration must take place this way. God, starting from here, has worked tirelessly, and by doing that He is coming back and settling into the original position. That means Cain and Abel’s position reverses. While it is being done, Eve too must come to reverse the fall, because the result of fall was to bring the three against each other.</p>
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<p>Now restoring by reversal brings Eve and Cain and Abel together. God planted this thousands of years ago on an individual level and now restores it, not on the family-level but on the world-level. Historians now agree that 1960 was the historical transition time. After World War II then many small nations gained independence. All the victors of World War II gave independence to those small countries according to their desire. Because in 1960 parents were installed on the earth, the children prepared themselves. Until now the brothers, 12 tribes and 12 nations, all fought, but after the allied victory they gave independence to many countries. The Lord of the Second Advent is coming again. The Father of the Second Advent is coming again. Satan invaded the first Adam, and the second Adam came from God. After restoring all the different Abel and Eve positions on every level, the Second Advent can come.</p>
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<p>The Eve representing all the women and the second generation must gather together and become one with the groom and after that they should embrace all of the world. In the Old Testament era there was Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. So these nations, unlike the first family which fell, should have restored the fall. This is what was to have been achieved on the national-level at Jesus’ time when the Messiah came. After this, on the world-level, the same pattern takes place centering on the Mother. Cain and Abel come together as brothers to meet the Second Advent. In Jesus’ time when the father ascended then the Holy Spirit, which is the mother spirit, descended. As Father explained earlier, man is vertical and women are horizontal. Woman as holy spirit came down on earth.</p>
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<p>At the time of the Second Advent the Messiah should come. This was at the end of World War II, in 1945. The Kingdom of Heaven should have taken seven years to build, which would have been 1952. However, because Christianity opposed the Second Coming, a 40-year indemnity period was necessary. Father indemnified the failure in 1945 centering on the Unification Church. Father was cast out into the wilderness with the whole world mobilized to oppose him. What Father did in this 40 years was to pick up Japan and Germany and America to replace the countries (England, America and France) which had failed. So this 40 years of re-indemnification of 4,000 years took place. America had failed so God could not take it again, but Father as the second generation could. Father had to take America again, because it is the only country to inherit the foundation of the Old and New Testaments. The Completed Testament could not begin without this foundation. During the last 40 years Father has gone over all 8 stages. Twenty years represent the Old Testament and 20 years represent the New Testament. The 40 years represent the 4,000 years of history. Father crossed over all 8 barriers to reach God.</p>
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<p>At the end of World War II, when the bridegroom appeared, the foundation was lost. Father re-indemnified and with these three countries, during the last 40 years, has now restored the situation. Father has cleaned up and resettled everything. Father has reindemnified all 8 walls and comes back to the beginning and brings God down. Wherever Father walks, God will follow. God could not follow Adam after he fell, but God can now follow Father. It was to have taken one generation to achieve Adam’s perfection, and Father has now done this in one generation. God created from the individual up, and as each level perfects itself God can dwell within it. Father has established this, so God can come back and forth freely.</p>
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<p>In 1968 the completion level of the formation stage took place. Father for 7 seven years had built the foundation and restored the family level. Father then went on to restore the nation and world levels. Recently Mother has restored the foundation of the bride who is waiting for the groom. She visited 7 countries: Korea, Japan, America and 4 countries in Europe (Germany, England, France and Italy). She also went to Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the land of fugitives and jailbirds. Mother has liberated this Christian realm. Mother, centering upon the Women’s Federation for World Peace, accomplishes this restoration, reconnects to the Christian foundation, and now goes to meet Father. Father is right here to greet Mother. This is where we are in history, and it liberates all women. This is simple, in the sense that it should have been done in Jesus’ time. Father has restored all this and, as a result of the crucifixion, restored the realm of the Middle East as well. However, the Messiah cannot do everything, Father sends out the tribal messiahs, who by restoring their tribe and clan, can bring this world to Father.</p>
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<p>(Father draws the Chinese characters for “mother”.) Mother has Cain and Abel in it. Originally Eve conceived two sons as the result of the fall (Cain and Abel). Originally Eve conceived Cain and Abel, now Mother has to bring Abel and Cain, who is close to Satan, back to God. That Abel and that Cain must become one in Mother’s bosom. The restored Eve must then come into the mother’s position. Until the Second Advent, history was the war of Cain and Abel. All plus and minus must become one before they can unite with a larger plus. At Jesus’ time that was Judaism and the nation of Israel. Today it is Christianity and the nation of America. Cain and Abel have to become one then unite with the mother and then all three unite with the father. It takes three stages for recreation to happen. We have to do all steps.</p>
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<p>In the garden of Eden, God should have become one with Adam and Eve. But it didn’t happen, so we need to be re-created in the mother’s womb. Cain and Abel must be reborn. Thus today the democratic and communist worlds must both go back into the mother’s womb. This is similar to the twins of Rebekah and the twins fighting in the womb of Tamar. This time they should not fight. Japan is the Eve nation because it fulfilled the condition attached to the mother’s position. In Japan there are two Korean associations fighting in the womb of the world mother, one free, one communist. The same principle applies to the free and communist world, however, they should not fight but become one. It is up to Japan to unite these two Korean associations.</p>
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<p>There is only one Mother and Father; there cannot be two. What we did last year was to become one with Mother. Centering on true love all must become one. The two children must go through Mother to the bone marrow of the Father. Then they can be born again through Mother. This must take place before the revival of women in the world. All women must be born again to gain revival.</p>
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<p>This takes us back many years to when Ye Jin Nim and Hyo Jin Nim were born. Mother ate seaweed soup after their birth. Father allowed us all to eat the same food at that time, to represent that we were being born again at the same time. To be born again is easy for Christians to say, but it is difficult and involves many things. All Unification Church members must be clear. We, representing the whole world, must return through Mother’s womb to the bone marrow of Father and be born again at the same time as Father’s own children. So this formula is the same. Originally Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were to inherit the father and mother’s life to go to heaven. So we must go through Father and Mother, who have won victory over Satan’s world, to be born again. This is the meaning of rebirth.</p>
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<p>Where does that place us? We are completely different from the satanic world; we have nothing to do with that world. Alcohol, drugs, free sex and homosexuality all are habits of the fallen world. We have nothing to do with those things. However that process of being born again is simple compared to the agony and tears that God has invested to bring it about. We must not think that I have been in the church 10 years and I can easily get blessed. Think about the background of the blessing. Religion is a highly spiritual practice. But all the major religions do not advocate marriage; they suggest you to keep celibacy. Why? This is because the True Parents of mankind had not been married. If parents are not married, how could children get married? The Unification Church happens to be the first church in history which encourages and recommends marriage. In Buddhism, Buddhist monks never get married. A new faction came into being,; they get married but with a lot of guilt. In Catholicism, they do not encourage marriage. The satanic world, which encourages free sex and homosexuality basically also denies marriage. The marriage that we are getting into is different from any throughout history. So the blessed couple cannot live as any other couple in the world. It should be our goal that our own children get blessed to Father’s own children. That will be the goal of all people.</p>
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<p>For three generations Father’s children will marry only Koreans, but after that it will expand. Father now has 43 members in his family. That is a number of liberation. Father’s children will give birth to many more children. You should too; this is the hope of the Unification Church families. So who will live the best tradition of all the blessed couples? Our goal should be to live the best. Father’s family will be the highest but there will be order throughout. From now on the blessed couples should lead a good, wealthy, prosperous life. The children of the blessed couples cannot marry with the satanic world.</p>
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<p>We should be given birth twice. We must go through two mothers, our physical mother and the True Mother who gives us rebirth. We go through the holy wine ceremony to signify that we are being born again. There are three stages of growth and all the fruits of the earth should be in the wine. All the contents of the Divine Principle are in there. We must also go through two fathers. True Parents are absolutely necessary. Even though we have our own parents, we need True Parents in order to gain rebirth and be able to go to God.</p>
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<p>If the Lord comes again on the clouds these things cannot happen. He must come in the flesh as a human being. We must have the love of two fathers and two mothers. God cannot deny the love of the first father and mother. It is incredibly painful for God to recognize the fallen parents who gave us birth. However, He cannot help but recognize them. If He did not, the True Parents would have no foundation on which to stand. Satan and Adam are father and son. Satan and Eve became one and gave birth to Adam. God has to restore the fall through the mother-son relationship.</p>
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<p>In God’s world there is no enemy. If there is a concept of enemy in God’s world, we have to accept the philosophy of dualism. Thus this is impossible; God cannot have an enemy. If an enemy remains, no restoration is possible.</p>
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<p>When Cain and Abel, because of their mother’s love, unite and love each other, there is no enemy. These two must love each other so they can bring the archangel with them when they go to heaven. Satan has always claimed and asserted that the qualification to be the true father and mother is loving the archangel. In order to do this we must love the enemy. Also it is important that even though we are reborn, we must love Satan too or else we cannot go to heaven. Even though you may be free from the satanic lineage, there are many around who will continue to oppose us. We must pull them to God, loving them as your elder brother.</p>
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<p>The crucifixion showed us the deep love of God. God gives us His only begotten son on the cross. God must go through this incredible pain. Jesus has to love the enemy soldiers who were killing him. If he had cursed them, the entire dispensation would have failed. Through this, Satan was separated and God’s resurrection could come. So though that incredible manifestation of love, Jesus as he was dying bore all the pain of the cross and prayed for his enemies. Because of that love, Christianity has flourished throughout history. When many of Jesus disciples died in similar circumstances, they had to pray to God in the same way. Adam and Eve and everyone following must love the archangel. This is true before and after the fall. He is the enemy but we must not think of him as the enemy.</p>
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<p>Father too, when he was imprisoned unjustly and almost killed by the Japanese, did not curse the Japanese but has continued to pray for them. At the end of World War II, Father did not want to kill the Japanese in his village. Now today Japanese members are coming back to pay their debt. Father has opposed communism very staunchly, not to kill them, but to save them. The same is true in relation to America: Father attacks all the unrighteousness in America. In prison, where Father could have burned with revenge, he did not. He instead established the important organizations to save America. Have we praised and thanked Father for this? Father has been a better son, husband, and father to America.</p>
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<p>Sung Jin Nim’s mother and True Mother must not fight; they must love each other. Jacob’s desire was Rachel, but he was given Leah. Laban who is on Satan’s side gave him Leah. Jacob thought he was married to Rachel, but in the morning found out it was Leah. He then had to work another 7 years. How can you call this justice? When the children were born, was this something Jacob wanted? Rachel and Leah fought each other. In order for them to be on God’s side, they must love each other from God’s point of view. If Father had been there, he could have taught Jacob one word and he would not have had to make this mistake.</p>
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<p>Leah was the first daughter and Rachel the second. So centering on Laban’s wife they should have become one, but Laban’s wife did not take care of this. Jacob with Leah had 10 sons and Jacob with Rachel had 2 sons. If these two had made harmony, the children would have united too. They all had the same father; they should all have united. But because these two women fought each other, they divided into ten children and two children later on, and then the 12 tribes divided into ten and two. The unity couldn’t come because of women. Women failed to bring unity among their sons.</p>
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<p>In Jesus’ time, John the Baptist and Jesus, and Jesus’ mother Mary and John’s mother Elizabeth, should have become one. Similar to the situation centering on Jacob, everyone should have united with Zechariah. Who is the father of Jesus? According to this principle Zechariah should be the father. Father doesn’t know, but the logic from the Bible is unmistakable. John the Baptist was Jesus’ elder brother. All they have to do was unite, then everything would automatically have become one. If this had happened would John the Baptist have betrayed Jesus? (No ). The key was here. What was the most important thing for Jesus? To get married. Who would have been the likely candidate? John the Baptist had a sister. Or, it doesn’t have to have been like that-if there were someone very close to Jesus, and if she had married Jesus, still it would have worked. This would have been an automatic realm of unification on a world level. That’s what God intended.</p>
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<p>If Mary and Elizabeth had become one and Jesus and John had become one, they would have protected Jesus and he would not have died. They could have embraced the East and the Roman empire. The world would have been restored. When this victory was established, the restoration would have happened easily. India and China would have followed. Christianity and Jesus could have easily restored the orient and then gone to the west.</p>
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<p>God works the restoration through a formula, and so will we. We all have grandmothers, aunts and cousins. If these women play the crucial role and bring unity, things will happen easily. It is so difficult for a daughter-in-law to attain unity with her mother-in-law. But if women know such a principle, they can bring unity. It is also difficult for a brother-in law to love his sister-in-law, but once we know this and are trained, we do not want to fight; we will bring peace.</p>
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<p>Until now we never had a reason to tolerate hell, but now we do. God has tolerated it. You can tolerate it. Your agony compared to God’s agony is small. You can repeat it to yourself. We have a small enemy in our family, but we must learn to love them. So understand that the reason the twelve tribes fought, and the reason Jesus had to die stems from the failure to love each other.</p>
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<p>We refer to the God of sorrow, the God of pain. Why? Because, who is Satan? Satan is the illegitimate husband, where God is the legitimate husband. He is the love enemy. Think about if somebody stole your wife and is living with her, yet you are in the position to love both of them. That’s God’s position. We didn’t know, so we didn’t feel it. We must understand.</p>
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<p>If you understood Father’s point clearly this morning, going back your family and making peace within your family is no problem. A person who achieves this is welcomed in both heaven and hell. If you go to hell, millions of people will crowd around you and say, here comes saviour. From this time on, actually, in reality we are getting into that point.</p>
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<p>Now this brings us a point of inevitability. It is relatively very easy to enter into heaven on earth and heaven in heaven because this formula has been established. This condition has been met. Even the textbook, “How to Manage a Family,” has been completed. Now the liberation of women takes place.</p>
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<p>In the history of restoration, when women spoke loudly, or when women had a voice, always there were complications. This is a result of the fall. So, during this restoration time of history, women have to be obedient and feel reserved. This is a virtue. That was the beginning of the fall, because Eve asserted herself. So to go backwards, she has to be unusually obedient.</p>
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<p>If there is any group who hates this course the most, you guessed it, it’s American women. But you must enforce this 100% and more. American women have a tremendous edge. If American women decide to follow this direction, everybody will follow. That’s true. Father isn’t criticizing these American women here today. You are the ones who can show the first example in history. You American women here have an internal content completely different than outside American women. You must be the banner bearers, the flag bearers. After being born again and resurrecting, a woman leads to all levels of liberation. Actually, Eve was the key to the fall. Therefore, it is dependent largely upon women to restore.</p>
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<p>In divorce, who is the cause? Women. Why? Because they are less tolerant. They express complaint faster than men. About 75% is the woman’s fault, because they pack up faster. That’s true. They don’t like it and they pack up. They thought it was an act giving them freedom, but the result was staggering. They not only destroyed their family, but destroyed the entire world because everyone followed their pattern.</p>
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<p>So this is an inevitable conclusion. In order to do this, who plays the key role? Women. Who becomes the key person to attain unity among the family, and all levels? Women. Women play the key role. The Divine Principle agrees: because women failed, they must now restore. Everything checks.</p>
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<p>Women fell and they lost God and True Parents too. Now it is up to her to restore God and the True Parents. She must love even the satanic world people, just like her own husband and just like her own father and mother. So, that movement is the movement of the Women’s Federation for World Peace. The women become one with their children and one with the husband, and thus the family is restored. Mothers play the key role. Become one with the True Parents’ family and inherit the tradition from that family. In outside families, the mother and children must get together and save the father. After you are blessed, you must become completely one with True Mother and connect with the True Parents’ family. When this happens, liberation takes place and heaven comes.</p>
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<p>Resurrection of the world’s women will lead to the liberation of all the world, not only women, but also men and the children. It is the responsibility of women who brought death to man and the children. Men represent God’s side, and children represent the whole world, the horizontal development. This is the main task of the Completed Testament era. We know clearly, this is what we must do in the Completed Testament era.</p>
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<p>So how about the outside world? Through the Unification Church blessed couples, the salvation pattern is clear now. Outside people don’t have a Messiah, so Father sends out the tribal messiahs whose main role is to educate them the same way Father educates us. No one will oppose this movement of Women’s Federation for World Peace. They have a clear public to appeal to. What can they say? They can say until now men operated the world and brought the world into such misery. Now it’s time for women to restore that with the coming Messiah. There is one Messiah as a man and 2.5 billion women in the world.</p>
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<p>It is relatively simple. This is all we have to do. So, the typical movement will be to teach women in such a way that they bring their children together, become one with the children, and then bring the husband back.</p>
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<p>We only need to do half. So, Women’s Federation will need to play only half the role, to bring the children together on a world-level. The tribal messiahs will connect that to the Messiah. Now this is done on a small scale, but then it will be a worldwide movement. Each family is working for re-creation.</p>
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<p>So the liberation will take place and in this women play the main role. Liberation affects all the family, but with the women leading the way, these things will take place. This is today’s mission. The Messiah comes; he establishes the typical family and we copy him. So how can the women of the world resurrect? They have to go back to Mother’s womb and Father’s bone marrow.</p>
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<p>The ones who were born after 1960 will be on God’s side. Why 1960? Because 1960 was the year when the True Parents’ marriage took place. After that all humankind needs to go back to the mother’s womb, pretending that they are not born, even though they are 30 or 40 years of age. What is taking place today should have taken place in 1945, but it didn’t happen. Father had to go through 40 years indemnity; now this is happening.</p>
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<p>Who plays the key role? Women. All men have to do is follow after the successful completion of the woman’s role. The world’s women must absolutely obey Father, and all men should follow you.</p>
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<p>How can we enter into heaven? Ignorance can never lead to heaven. First we must know clearly what happened. So this is why we are much, much closer to heaven now. All that remains is to do it.</p>
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<p>So, revival and liberation. Be born again, restore the family and bring liberation to all. This is the women’s era. Now the men must win salvation through the hands of women. What does that mean? There will be more and more good women in politics. The President of our country should be a woman also. That day must come soon. Women must do that and bring the victorious results to men. Not an individual President, it should be a family President. The criterion for eligibility for President will be the level of unity in the family, which establishes a good tradition. Everybody will know who has the best tradition, so elections will become automatic. The utmost traditional family will become the President. What about democracy? Well, the day of democracy is past. Democracy is transient.</p>
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<p>You must understand that Father’s recent speech centering on Father’s birthday is a summary of father’s history. We must familiarize ourselves with this speech thoroughly and not only teach this to ourselves, but teach all the people we come with whom we come into contact.</p>
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<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="2018-06-26T13:43:45+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/26/resurrection-and-liberation-of-the-worlds-women-part-i.html" rel="bookmark">June 26, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-26T13:43:45+01:00">June 26, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1993.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1993</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 31, 1993<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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<p>The resurrection of the women of the world will bring liberation to all humankind. Is it convenient or inconvenient to have multiple languages? (Inconvenient.) How can you surmount that? (Learn Korean.) Yes. We have to recognize the inconvenience, and the stronger we deny the present impasse the faster we will get to conveniency. Is there any better solution than that?</p>
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<p>We have to deny many things. The life that is not good must be denied. To resurrect means to be born again. We cannot be born again until we deny the old life. Then we can give birth to new women. That is the center of the Bible’s teaching: deny the sinful world. “To deny” is the main biblical teaching.</p>
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<p>Look at the world which Satan has invaded. He has connections and elements everywhere. These all must be denied before God can move in. If there had been no fall, up and down relations would not be changeable. They would be permanent. What is up must be up. What is down is down and must be down. Even if it revolves in an orderly way, what was up would stay up, it would not come down. In Father, for example, up is up and down is down. He may rotate on his central axis, but up always stays up. But if the head goes down and the feet up, that is not right; it is inverted. The right-hand side is always to the right, never to the left. The right side can come to the left by rotating 180¡. So in the process of change you have to turn around completely, 360¡. If you turn around 180¡ the front will be back. This is the essence of the fall: what was up is now down and what was down is now up.</p>
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<p>Because of the fall what was down went up, and history has been moving to bring it down. We can also see that what was down has been coming up. As what was wrongfully up goes down and what was wrongfully down goes up, there will be a transition point. That point must be crossed on all the levels, individual, family, tribe, nation, world and cosmos. The crossing occurred on a given level according to the stage of history.</p>
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<p>We can see that history is a succession of denials. To deny things leads to war. There has been one war after another. That is the reason for war in history. Until we reach the crossing point on the world level, war will continue. We who are living at this time are the result, the fruit, of historical development. All of us, all individuals, families and nations, must focus our attention on the world level at this time. Therefore, my mind and body is working to solve this transition, this crossing. Look at the individual “I”. We all have a mind and body. Our body has many strings attached to it. Many of us have undesirable habits. The mind, centering on religion, is bringing us to a greater awareness of ourselves. We have to harmonize ourselves and bring the good things out and throw away the bad. As does a body, a nation has many habits. We have to adopt what is good and throw away what is bad. In religions we also have to judge and choose the good. There is a lot of work to be done.</p>
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<p>The individual can see how he is living and must decide to move to a higher way of life. The family has to look at how it has been living and it too has to throw away bad habits and form good new ones. So in order to liquidate chong sang – these bad habits – the whole world will try to throw away the bad and adopt the good. When the universal day of liquidation comes, the whole world will try to solve its problems. It will work on all levels and throughout the world. There is a lot of work.</p>
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<p>These are the last days of human history. This ideology and thought, which is the main essence of all religious teachings, is trying to capture the individual and influence him or her in good ways. The individual and all the families of the world must go through the crossing point according to the time of history. The individual age will allow the individual to change; the family age will allow the family to change. Even though the time and level are different, they all cross the same transition point.</p>
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<p>The direction history takes is a straight line. What does Father mean by saying history has gone in a straight line? What has caused that? The conscience is the cause of that. The conscience has taught filial piety and love of parents. Only love working with the conscience can harmonize the relationships of up and down, right and left, front and back. It is the conscience which has kept this line straight.</p>
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<p>The fall resulted in two directions based upon two loves. When we see two different directions and powers, we should recognize that it is the result of the fall. Do you realize that? (Yes). It is extremely complicated. Man is always changing direction, due to the influences he receives from these two powers. Although there were many possibilities, if God exists, God must have one idea for a perfect man and for a perfect family. In order better to understand God’s formula we must know: did God have the world in mind? Should the individual have to adapt to the world or the world to the individual? He had the world in mind first, and the individual must adapt to the world. God had in mind one perfect individual who would represent the perfect standard.</p>
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<p>Consider the fall itself. Man and woman committed the fall. The woman’s individualistic thinking and the man’s individualistic thinking caused the fall. One must follow the other, but today both man and woman want to lead, never yielding to each other. Neither your mind nor body wants to yield to the other. The individual is like that, the family is like that, each nation makes the same claims and so it leads inevitably to war. That has been the course of history. Today, at the time of world transition, this is taking place on the world level. The communist and democratic sides have been fighting. We see that the communist world has fallen, so should everyone follow America now? That is the question.</p>
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<p>Everything is in a relationship of subject and object. How do we re-establish a correct order on all levels around one central point? Starting from the individual, the world is made up of men and women. Women should be on one side and men on the other. After everything is in proper position it should turn around. But which is the center of rotation, men or women? In order to maintain order naturally, an individual cannot insist on turning around himself. He has to turn around a center. There is only one correct position, and he has to find this right position and remain there eternally. That means we have to find an individual who takes that position. That man represents all men: I am a man who represents all men in the whole world and cosmos. He should also think: I represent all the women of the world. This is true for all women too: each should represent all women of the world.</p>
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<p>The pair system is very important. Even if we are in the upper position we must keep the lower position in mind. If we are on the right side we must consider the left side. This is so that we can harmonize. This is an important concept: whatever position you have you must keep the other in mind. All creation lives for the sake of the other. So at the time you say up, first recognize down, then recognize up. When you say right, recognize left first and then right. And in circular motion too, one moves for the sake of the other. The down-person moves for the up-person. Without this you cannot have motion. If one individual does not have the other in mind it will lead to destruction.</p>
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<p>Everything we see, including motion, is the expression of the desire to serve the other. So the more we move, the greater we serve. Here we see the principle of God’s creation. We can also see Satan’s way which is different and says “Live for the sake of me.” Are women born for the sake of women? (No.) When we say woman, we already have a man in mind. Women are born absolutely for men. And men absolutely need women. Not only men and women, but everything in the whole universe works this way. Without this principle, the development of the universe is not possible. We see that it is possible; this is God’s creation. If in a family we see a grandfather saying, “Live for the sake of me,” there will be no harmony, only separation and destruction. But instead, if we live for the sake of the other, the more we move the greater the other becomes.</p>
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<p>We have many members here, but who is the real Unification Church member? That will be just one person. If Reverend Moon is the subject, who is the perfect object? If the object and the subject each demand to be treated best, there will be fighting and decline. However, the more they say, “I should live more for the sake of the other,” the greater the good that will come to the church. If each says “I will live more for the sake of the other,” they will rotate faster and grow. Is that true? (Yes.)</p>
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<p>Now consider the individualistic kingdom of America. No one thinks anything is wrong; they all think things are fine. But the universe spits at it, because it defies the principle. The universal fate is that those who claim, “You live for me,” will perish. The ones who live for others are protected by universal fate. That fate is connected to the entire cosmos and can see forever. Its sight is unlimited. When it sees one living for the other, it is good.</p>
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<p>When your mind and body unite and live for the other, that is good. It will grow larger and larger and connect to all the universe. Denying yourself is principle number one. This principle of living for the sake of others is cardinal. When you do that, you will feel good because universal fate will support you. When you roll with this you are dancing. But look at dancers today: are they dancing for the other or are they trying to pull others to themselves? If someone drinks a lot of wine in order to give money to another, that is good, but there is no such drunkard. They all drink for themselves. If there were a drunkard who drank so as to give money to others, there would be lines of people following him.</p>
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<p>Is that true? (Yes.) I don’t know, you know better than me.</p>
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<p>What a wonderful concept this is. Everywhere Reverend Moon goes, people will come to like him more and more, because he lives for others. But if someone tries to destroy him, they will be destroyed by universal fate. Do you like or love Rev. Moon? (Love.) Do you mean that? (Yes.) Does love mean taking or giving? This applies to God too. Everyone loves God. When you pray to God, does He try to take advantage of you? (No.) Because God is like that, He does not like a person who tries to take advantage of others. Look at America. God gave lots of blessing to America. If Americans live for others, God will love them. But if Americans live for themselves, universal fate will crush them, no matter how much they would like to prosper.</p>
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<p>Individualism is the worst disease, and that unfortunately is now with us. Women, do you consider a man’s appearance or his mind to be more important? (Mind.) How can you see his mind? How can we distinguish a good mind from a bad mind? Look for the mind that lives for the sake of the other. That is a good man. If you find such a man and marry him, no matter what he looks like, your future will be good. Isn’t that right? (Yes.) So wouldn’t the champion of the world’s women want to live for the sake of the world? She need not make up her face. There is no way to deny that living for the world is the best policy.</p>
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<p>What is a truthful woman? When a man loves a woman so much and a woman tries to pay him back even more, that is a truthful woman, and vice versa. What happens in the couple, both of whose partners cannot be outdone in loving the other? True love will grow. There is an infinite potential, which will bring infinite prosperity. Is it morning or evening? (Morning.) I think it is evening, but you know better. Jim, do you understand? (Yes.) If you are willing to work for your company for less, you will become the head. The American way is different; it is the opposite of this. In America people sue if they must work for less, but God does not have that concept in His mind. If God decided to sue then the whole of the human race would be wiped out. God’s mind absolutely denies the idea of lawsuits.</p>
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<p>After all the money that has been invested in the Washington Times, there are individuals there who are trying to sue. They are trying to cling to their high-paying positions. They want to bleed the Washington Times. That is satanic. If you had a lot of money would you want to offer it to God? (Yes.) This cannot be America. Father’s pocket is always empty, but whenever he comes to America he always wants to give. Do you want to help or to receive help? So who is winning? The world will say, “He must be losing, because he gives everything away.” But America must realize that they have to give back or else they will perish. God is the one who says to all who want to serve Him, “Don’t serve me, serve the world!” If America wants to prosper it must give more to the world. Is this a wrong and crazy idea? (No.) Don’t you feel good when listening? (Yes.) But then you say it’s not so good to do it. So we need a revolution. We must change our thinking from bad to good.</p>
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<p>In one hour the very principle of true prosperity has been shown to us. Everyone wants a peaceful world, but no one will get it without this principle. Is there anyone who does not want to be the center, the top person of the universe? No, everyone does. When the one appears who is the representative from the level of the individual to that of the universe, then the universe will be saved. Why? Because God exists and God is like that. Even if that is only invisible and only exists in the mind, it will come about, because God will create it for us. How wonderful. That gives endless prosperity. People may blame Father for this or that, but Father continues to give. So eventually Reverend Moon will be accepted. Reverend Moon goes deeper and deeper into the core position. You think that’s good, but your actions are not so good.</p>
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<p>Father has spoken one hour. Sermons are supposed to be 40 minutes long, and already this one is over one hour long and Father hasn’t even gotten to the topic of women. Father spoke 14 hours the day before yesterday, so Father doesn’t feel himself. We have to meet tomorrow, and if Father stops now more people will come tomorrow. Father has not even removed the underbrush; he has to do that before he can till the soil.</p>
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<p>Even if Father spent hundreds of hours he cannot get to his topic. So let’s finish for today. Tomorrow the men can stay home and all the women can come. (No.) If you say no, one of you can come and speak. We have already agreed that all American men want to be number one, so one of you come and speak.</p>
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<p>Americans say, “We are number one, you must follow us.” But America is spreading AIDS all over; is that good or bad? Bad. So we now hear “Yankee go home!” They are being kicked out by the world.</p>
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<p>To be in the correct position we must always be responsible to represent the entire universe. God will praise you. There is no one except God who is living like that. Even if a small child appeared thinking that, God would treasure him. But history has never seen such a person. Even toward America, which is going against God and ignoring its responsibility, God looks and says “I must save and re-educate these people.” So even Americans thus can love God, and can go and love other countries.</p>
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<p>The awesome conclusion is that each person wants to become the best. To do that, each must think, “I represent the entire world and live for the sake of the world.” If you think that, you think that you represent the past, present and future. Such a man loves women the best, and can come to the conclusion that there is no woman who does not love him. All women will want to marry that man. In order for you to have that kind of husband, you must be that kind of woman. In that way you can be the best. When you learn about this, you say to God, “I will do not only that but better.” If you are anxious to do better than God, you can climb on top of God and God will say, “That feels good.” Frankly, none of you wants to be outdone by Father, do you? (No.)</p>
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<p>Here is Reverend Moon, who says, “Go and save all women.” Then one small woman responds and works like crazy and gets many women and is educating them. Will Father stop her? No, he will tell her she is better than him. If one small member of the family says, “I have to bring God here,” and goes out and does that, then everyone will bow down to her. They may ask her how she did it. She will say, “I learned from Father to live for the sake of the world.” God will be astonished and His ears will open. God will follow her anywhere, even to hell. If you do more than what Father is encouraging you to do, Father will fall in love with you. She is a lovable person. We are all capable of being like that. How wonderful that concept is. Do you understand that you must become the center, focal point of the universe? (Yes.)</p>
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<p>So let us finish here and continue tomorrow, the first day of February. The interpreter should be the happiest person. This title is very important, especially for women. Leave the title on the board. Let us pray.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 28, 1993<br />
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<p>When we began the new year Father declared the motto as <i>New Family and Fatherland Unification</i>. This is different from Unification of the Fatherland. You know that Father declared that 1993 is the beginning of the Completed Testament era. This is terminology that you do not hear anywhere else except in the Unification Church. Is that correct? Yes. Father has assembled the Seminary graduates today and tomorrow for a conference. All those Seminary graduates please stand up. Still many didn’t come. Mr. Kim, where are they? Father understood that there were 800. Why are there only 200.</p>
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<p>You who graduated from UTS. Did you do the right thing? Yes. Why did you go to UTS. The reason why a UTS graduate is important is because the heavenly Kingdom needs leaders to lead the people and nation. Take NATO’s army. Without leaders it has no meaning. The Unification Church is a Heavenly army.</p>
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<p>In the human body we have red and white blood cells. The white blood cells are the army of the body. They protect your body from infection. All the members of the Unification Church are like policemen. This protects our movement from alien intrusion and from foreign elements. Especially the UTS graduates, you are leaders. The members are like the red cells. The UTS graduates are like the white cells. One is defense, one is offensive. Any nation, including the United States, when your armed forces are dwindling and morality is declining. Corruption is pervading. The nation goes down because no one cares, protects, or defends the country. By the same token the body and the Unification Church is the same. We must be strong or else we will dwindle.</p>
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<p>Right now the great issue is homosexuality in the army. Why not let them have it? That is what Clinton is saying. This is where the white cells come in and fight to win the battle. White cells are like army officers and armed forces. They are sacrificing their own life to fight for the sake of the country. If the white cells in the bunkers, in the fox holes, are involved in sexual abuse and perverted sex, then the army is bound to go down. Think about it. If you are fighting on the front line you do not have time for love. It’s the same thing, homosexuality in the army ranks is wrong.</p>
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<p>One thing alone dramatically demonstrates where this nation is standing. Where the national leaders are going. Where they are trying to put the armed forces. This is the time for U I S graduates. The white cells are not just for our movement, but for the nation. They must stand up to fight and win. You have no idea how much fighting Father went through to create the UTS To set the tradition and move on.</p>
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<p>Before 1990 Father gave the entire membership of the school scholarships in order to give you hope and an opportunity to study. Many Unification Church members around the world sacrificed their time and energy for the sake of your success, for your education. You are deeply indebted to them. Many women in the past went a miserable way of life without having any hope, in darkness for you. You are indebted to them.</p>
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<p>They did not sacrifice just for you, but for the country, world, humanity and God’s providence. They put their efforts for you to become a leader of the UTS. I would like you to understand that Father called UTS members to come to this particular celebration I want to reassure you that Father looks at you as the leaders of the Unification Church, top guns of our membership, and the white cells of the body. You shall be truly elite, those who are standing not in just your cause, but in a public cause, a heavenly cause. Make yourself a sacrifice for the greater accomplishment and greater victory of our movement, Father, Mother, and Heaven.</p>
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<p>In 1975 Father sent all the elite members to the world, but Father spared some members to send them to U IS for the sake of the future. Your position is awesome and fearful in a way. Before you there are so many models. Great champions and heroes who went out to the world in your place and did the most incredible, miraculous job and brought the victory to Father and the Movement. Your mission is awesome and fearful You are the central leadership of our movement and directly come under True Parents. You take orders from True Parents. You fulfill it, and report directly back to True Parents. You are a special contingency, belonging to True Parents. Do you follow? Yes! Those who understood Father, Father’s message raise your hands. Sit down.</p>
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<p>We all know human history has been a fallen history. It was not intended that way, but the human ancestors fell. The fall brought all of humanity and its destiny to the satanic side. Therefore, ever since the human race has been living under the consequences the fall of man. There are some basic and fundamental questions all men and women have. Fundamental questions that need answers. Why were human beings born? Why are there men and women? These are the fundamental questions. In the human race there are men and women. Why is it divided into men and women? History has shown that women have been oppressed and persecuted. There has been a desperate effort by women throughout history to liberate themselves to be equal with men. Maybe there is some slight distinction. American women are slightly different. But, generally speaking, the women of the world are thinking and blaming themselves. Blaming their parents for being born as a girt There are not too many women satisfied being born as women. Here in the United States, there are many laws and rights for women. Can you win over men? Or not quite yet? What about two to one. Two women and one man. Generally speaking it is a truism that most women ask why wasn’t I born as a man.</p>
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<p>Also generally speaking, in history the tragic side has been the side of women . Statistically speaking, in most cases, the victims are women. Most criminal assaults are generally men assaulting women. What percent? Over 90 %. Women’s heart has always had a certain grudge or reservation, or certain dissatisfaction with their position. There is a certain regret. Women generally live with regret. The question always comes, if there is God why didn’t he resolve such a question instantly, automatically, a long, long time ago? Why is the human race suffering until now, that still inequality and unfairness prevail? Many people come to the conclusion that if there is a good God, an all mighty God, He would have completely wiped out all the problems. Not only between man and women, but so many fundamental problems. There is such a problem pervading our society. So many of you conclude there is no God.</p>
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<p>Is God able to solve the problem or not? If He is able, when would he do it? On the other hand, if God is perfect is there a perfect man or woman on this earth? No one is perfect, therefore, no one can come under the direct control of God.</p>
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<p>Why did such imperfection occur? Because of the Fall. What was the Fall? The fall of man is the depravation of your creative value. Men and women. You are a purposeful creation and have a creative value. Satan is completely demolishing it. Wiping it out. So women are you born for women? No. Who then? For man and man for the sake of women.</p>
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<p>Then why, is the creation such that man is there for the sake of woman, and women is there for the sake of man. Why is that? Why is there this kind of creation in the first place? In one word it is for the sake of love. Women is there to fulfill the purpose of love for man, and man to fulfill the purpose of love for women. The fulfillment of this love is the goal behind the scheme. This is the creative design. To fulfill love.</p>
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<p>Centered upon yourself there is no perfection, no fulfillment because that it is not the way it was designed. Do you follow? Yes. Adam and Eve brought the fall of man. The selfcentered Adam. The selfcentered Eve. That was what the fall was all about. The fundamental error was committed. Men and women were born for the sake of love, but it could not be fulfilled, so they moved 180 degrees in the opposite direction. The fall of man instead of living for others, ended with man living for himself and herself. Exactly opposite to the originally created design.</p>
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<p>We see in the Bible the fall came through the eating of the fruit. But, that particular act is nothing. It could not bring about the awful consequences of the fall. Men and women instead of giving love to fulfill the other side, they try to pull love and energy towards themselves so that “I” can indulge. 180 degrees opposite from God’s design and live for himself. This 180 degree movement brought the fall of man. Centering upon what? Centering upon the activity of love, the reproductive organ. Sexual relationships. This is where the most destructive action occurred. Centering upon himself for himself, there is no way that the universe will run God is an investor. God has invested every ounce of himself for the sake of creation, This is God’s principle to give, to create. Give life, give creation. Everybody is trying to take it. Take it for their own sake. It not only goes against the basic rule and law of God, but eventually it leads to self destruction. Only true love is altruistic and takes you to heaven. On the other hand, self-centered love brings you towards hell.</p>
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<p>For restoration you must indemnify the past. In the Old Testament era the law of indemnity was obvious. In the Old Testament era there was the concept of equal indemnity. An eye for an eye, a hand for a hand. Restoration is for the sake of recreation.</p>
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<p>By recreating you can restore. To recreate we first recreate the environment. Secondly, we recreate the object and thirdly we create a reciprocal relationship. A subject and object relationship.</p>
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<p>The entire universe is created by the pair system. Everything is made as subject and object. As you enter into the church you immediately become object to Father, the subject. You enter into give and take. The unity of the subject and object can happen only one way. This one way parallels the creative way of God. This one way focuses on true love. The Unification Church is the training ground of true love. Father is in the absolute center and you revolve around him.</p>
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<p>When you are united as subject and object you look for a higher relationship to have give and take with There is a double layer to all human relationships. Physical and spiritual. Horizontal and vertical. Where the vertical and horizontal lines cross, you will find four 90 degree angles. Why 90 degrees? Because True Love travels the shortest distance. Where they cross there must be a 90 degree angle. Only if there is True Love is the angle 90 degrees. Perverted or fallen love never achieves this 90 degree angle. Your conscience was born from your vertical parents. Your body from your horizontal parents. Therefore, your conscience is the closest mind to heaven within yourself.</p>
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<p>When your vertical and horizontal self unite, then you create a perfect man. From this scale you can measure and evaluate everything in the universe. Your eyes are horizontal, your nose and mouth is vertical. Where your food goes down is vertical. You have the vertical and horizontal lines in your own body. If someone’s’ face is not level, it is an impression of yourself. How you appear is very important. The reproductive organ is also vertically situated in the body. That shows it’s connected to heaven, vertically. Man’s body is both vertical and horizontal and represents the universe. Life originates in men. Women, no matter how great, do not have the seed of life, of children. s that true? Yes.</p>
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<p>Father represents absolute good and perfection. If he goes to any evil area, such as a gambling casino, Father when going in there immediately knows how to digest it. Father shows the quality that is better than that world’s object, then interaction can occur. This is called to digest evil.</p>
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<p>You are living in the satanic world, but when you were confronted by the absolute good you changed, you digested it. That’s why you are here.</p>
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<p>You were not born here. You converted yourself here. So you have a power of converting evil into goodness. People want more and more good, but ultimate goodness only comes from True Love. The three great ministers are here. Father is asking them, what do you think Is God so almighty and powerful that He has to come under True Love? Does He have to comply himself under the law of True Love? Is True Love above God or below? Even God comes under complete obedience to True Love. That Is where God is. Even God has to follow absolute True Love. For example when God created men and women, God said to man and woman you have to be united absolutely centered upon True Love. Then if the children ask, He will say I am obedient to True Love. The children will then obey him. Otherwise they will make there own law. They will not respect the parent. Then there will be no oneness. No one unified, universal law.</p>
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<p>Therefore, unification is the base for joy freedom, happiness and peace. Joy means, freedom, happiness and peace. Everything based upon unification. Do you understand? Otherwise nothing can settle. Unification is the base of all. Father knows this so our church is named after unification. Everything has balance with unification. Everything works harmoniously with unification. Men and women are balanced with unification. The most important thing is not power, knowledge or money, it is True Love. True Love has the power to focus the five senses.</p>
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<p>Young teenagers when they open up and meet the opposite sex, an incredible energy comes. An incredible force comes which blinds them to other things. If you have a sphere, it is the most harmonious shape, if you push it will stretch out to infinity.</p>
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<p>If two lovers, a husband and a wife, meet after many years of separation. They hug each other and squeeze hard. They shoot up into the sky. True Love comes and covers the entire area. There is no limit. Centering upon True Love you have to live as husband and wife. Man for the sake of women, and women for the sake of man, for the sake of love. Those that do not need love raise your hands.</p>
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<p>Grandparents, parents and children all live for love. Men and women must unite into one. When women get married you don’t look so much at their face or ears, but at their love organ If he doesn’t have one, you will put him into the trash can. That’s absolutely true. Even the fallen world will do that. The love organ is the love palace, life palace and palace of blood lineage. It is the most important place.</p>
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<p>God wants to secure those three palaces. When God conquers those three palaces, then this world will be heaven. The dominion of Satan has come into those precious palaces. The most precious thing in heaven became the most scorned and dirtiest place in the world. The fallen satanic element brought the fallen lineage, life and love into the world. In that place all of fallen humanity has been multiplied. The most tragic consequence of the fall is that we are victims of satanic love, life and lineage. Satan became an adulterer and took the virgin and created his own children. Satan is the love enemy of God. All great ministers teach but they do not know this fundamental teaching.</p>
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<p>Dr. Grant, during the fall Adam and Eve were kicked out. Did they have children before or after the fall? (After). How many years later did they have their children? The question is, after they were kicked out, did God follow them and bless them because they were lonely? Or did they just marry themselves. Satan married them. God had no control of the land outside of the Garden. Satan married them and they had Satan’s children. Creating satanic love, life and lineage. That was not what God planned. God wanted them to have their own children inside the Garden. Therefore, God’s ideal remains to be fulfill. So, no matter what happens in the satanic world, God’s ideal of a True Love, life and lineage in the Garden still remains unfulfilled. Therefore, we have to restore it back.</p>
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<p>The mother took two children to the satanic world, so God has to restore the Mother and the two children, Cain and Abel, back. We have to restore these three people.</p>
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<p>The subject and object should be restored and united back with the mother. Subject and object means Cain and Abel. Plus is Abel, minus is Cain. They must unite and go to find their mother. Those three are the lost elements. Mother and a plus and minus. United into one, these three elements become a big giant minus united with perfected Adam . A giant plus, creating a giant unity. Satan has always created divisions and disharmony. Heaven and hell are separated in you. The right side is God’s side and the left side is Satan’s side. One is God’s way, the other is Satan’s way. Thinking about yourself takes you to hell. Thinking of others takes you to heaven. The war between your mind and body is worse than the World Wars I, II and III. The only way to win this war is to come to Rev. Moon’s teachings.</p>
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<p>Was God created perfect, or does He have to grow? God has a growth process. What Father means is that God because He create for the sake of love, as man emerges, God experiences love through man. For God love is everything. God is the subject of love and He needs an object of love. If you had not fallen then you would be the son and daughter of God and would give birth to the children of God. There would be no religion, no savior, or churches. The bible states that God is in Jesus and Jesus is in the father.</p>
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<p>You are born for the sake of love. True Love. True Love is absolutely one. What about American’s love or Satan’s love? Is it one? Father will now explain the Will of God and Satan. Satan has brought the entire world to his side, and he now wants to permanently keep his prey. God on the other hand wants to permanently take Satan’s possessions back to Heaven. These are 180 degrees different. Go in this direction and you will go to heaven. The opposite, to hell. This world consists of mind. This world consists of body. In the last days the world is divided into two blocks, the conscientious block and the opposite. In terms of ideology or philosophy, this is secular, atheistic humanism and communism The God centered ideology is centered upon the good religions of the world and the very devout religious people. The communistic, atheistic world, is centered upon material and has corruption and decadence. God’s world denies material and is theistic. The other is atheistic.</p>
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<p>At the end of WW II all was divided into two. How could we make it into one. The fallen world itself was helpless. The only solution is for the world to have the Messiah. The Messiah comes with the power, method and truth to firstly unite mind and body. Then, unite family clan, tribe, nation and world. The Messiah is to convert this world of false love, life and lineage into a world of true love, life and lineage. This is the central formula of the restoration of mankind. Mankind is helpless without the Messiah. The Messiah cannot come on the clouds, but must be born as a man of flesh. Amen. This is the formula of the Messiah.</p>
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<p>In yourself you have a plus and minus, your mind and body. But, because of the fall your body became plus and fights with the mind. So someone has to come and break up the satanic division. Unless someone comes and does this you cannot have a good life or marriage.</p>
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<p>Many saints have come and given many good things, but now Rev. Moon and the Unification Church teaches the core truth. Individual perfection is not there. How can we expect the family, tribe, national perfection? Is that logical? No way. Your body is the most fearful monster. Even more fearful than world wars I, II and III. We must conquer this division on the earth, otherwise you cannot go to heaven.</p>
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<p>How do you practice True Love? By loving your enemy. In the Garden of Eden, the Archangel was not a part of the unity of Adam and Eve. However, if the Archangel had been obedient to Adam, then when Adam and Eve entered into heaven, the Archangel automatically deserved the same heaven. The Archangel must receive God’s love, which is Adam’s love, then he’s entitled to enter into heaven together. This is the Divine Principle. So the Archangel must love God’s children in order to enter heaven. God’s children must also love the Archangel in order to enter heaven. So Satan is always the final judge of whether you are a heavenly citizen or not. Satan is always at the heavenly gate. .When you come he will ask, “Did you love me as originally God intended Adam and Eve to love me? Before the fall I was Archangel and you were supposed to love me in that position. Unless you loved me and practiced that love with me you are not entering into heaven.” Therefore love your enemy has the most profound sense here. You liberate yourself by loving the fallen archangel as if he had not fallen.</p>
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<p>For Rev. Moon my enemy is the United States and the Christian world. The entire Christian world and the free world is my enemy. I have to love them with True Love. God’s method is always to be beaten and then gain the victory. The Unification Church history of development has followed that principle. The entire world has come against me. I do not hate those people who come against me. When the Messiah comes and has to take the entire world, it’s natural that the entire world comes against me. On whose side is God? The satanic world or with Rev. Moon? Father came here not for revenge but to save and to love. Father went to the USSR not to destroy but to love. Father went to Kim IL Sung, the most evil man, not for revenge, but to love. At the gates of heaven Satan will bow down to him because he is the model.</p>
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<p>Father came to America and created the AFC and the ACC and many other organizations. They are American. Father is foreign. Father came to love America, but they come to meet Father through these projects. They will realize the true meaning of these projects and what Father is saying. You should be loving America more than Father does. Be more sacrificial than Father. Otherwise, to whom can I inherit these missions. But many come to the Unification Church movement to exploit and take advantage. The subject and object must unite. For the sake of the United States. Instead of having Father in the forefront, it’s Americans that should stand in the forefront representing Father. Let Americans take responsibility. Let Americans become the central figure. This ~s the reason Rev. Moon Is retreating back Americans must move forward.</p>
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<p>George Bush, I am sorry. I had a recommendation for George Bush. Father was the one to have George Bush elected four years ago. But there were certain mandates. Certain reciprocal responsibilities which he did not listen to. What happened? He’s finished. In the republican establishment, the only hope is for them to unite with Father. I have great hope for America. However, if America is not going to heed Father’s wishes, then Father has an alternative. The former Soviet Union. All those former communist countries. They will be my object. I will work through them. Ultimately one way or another Father’s wishes will be accomplished. Father came to the white world to save it. Why did Father spend money that was not earned in this county? To educate Americans and to educate the UTS graduates. This is another manifestation of loving the enemy. Since American Christian churches have come against Father so adamantly, Father created the Unification Church to replace the Christian world in America. Father invested considerable resources to save America. So now not only this world, but the communist world, the eastern European block, China and N. Korea will all come under Father’s wings.</p>
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<p>What is the Victory of our True Parents? It is the liquidation of the satanic world. God’s strategy has always been to crease a chosen people. In the Old Testament era God worked for 4000 years to restore the lineage of man. In Jacob’s era a particular dispensation occurred. The fall occurred with God, Adam and Eve. Eve deceived God, her father, and Adam her husband and went to Satan. This created Satan, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. God has worked to recreate the perfected Adam God works from the bottom with Abel. All the relationships within this family are enemy relationships. Their minds and bodies are enemies. Cain and Abel should unite and then unite with their Mother. The chosen nation is divided into two. The Israel nation represents Cain, and Judaism represents Abel The two brothers should unite and go to their Mother. This is the providential picture at the time of Jesus. Cain and Abel should unite with their Mother and go to the Father.</p>
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<p>This was enacted with Jacob. Jacob united with his mother and subjugated Cain. Satan was separated. Cain andAbel united completely. Eve during the fall deceived God, her father and Adam, her son. Rebecca, in Eve’s position, deceived her husband and elder son and united with Jacob. After 21 years Jacob was able to unite with Esau (Cain) and Satan was expelled. However this particular act had to be repeated at the time of Tamara because Jacob restored the fall only at age 40.</p>
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<p>Tamara deceived her Father and his son to conceive a child. So here we see restoration taking place. Tamara has been accused of an immoral crime. As a prostitute she deceived her Father and conceived. This is unthinkable, but God blessed her. Why? Because she was fulfilling this providential course. When the twins were born, the elder stuck out his hand, but then the younger pulled him back and came out first. The younger restored the elder in the womb.</p>
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<p>Jesus’ ancestors were from the tribe of Judah because these things were restored in the lineage. 2000 years later, the virgin Mary was born in the nation of Israel. Mary is in Tamara’s and Rebecca’s position. Here she deceived her Father and her fiancée to conceive. Thus the process of conceiving Jesus took place. So then Satan has no power to claim Jesus. Jesus was completely out of Satan’s lineage. This is why Jesus is called God’s only begotten son. The lineage is so important. In order to cleanse the lineage, God went through a 4000 year process. In the wild olive tree forest, the true olive tree, Jesus, was born. So Jesus can engraft all the wild olive trees and convert them all into the true olive trees.</p>
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<p>This was the way salvation was supposed to be completed. But because of the crucifixion physical salvation could not come, only spiritual salvation. When the Lord of the Second Advent comes he will bring both</p>
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<p>Jesus was supposed to be married and elevate himself to the position of True Parent. Then, mankind would have had the True Parents. Even after the crucifixion, the spirit of Jesus conquered the Roman empire. Then, it conquered England and the United States. However, if Jesus had been alive, there would be no racial conflict. All we would have needed would have been Jesus and his lineage. We would not have needed Christianity or the Pope. We would be the living sons of God. But because of the crucifixion the New Testament era began. However the NewTestament did not have a body, only the spirit. In the Old Testament era God had a nation, but in the New Testament era God has no nation because Jesus’ body was lost.</p>
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<p>For the last 2000 years history has been very convoluted, up and down for 1900 years. Then World War II came. Great Britain, the mother, America, Abel and France, Cain opposed Japan, Germany and Italy. The satanic side was the axis powers. The heavenly side the allied powers. After WW II the entire Christian world was united into one. England was the mother. As an island it longs for a masculine continent. England gave birth to America. By defeating the satanic side the heavenly powers on a world wide scale united Cain, Abel and their mother. Upon this victorious foundation there will be the coming of the Second Advent. This is the reason for the Messiah to appear. Even though they had united, they did not have a new love, life and lineage. Only the True Parents have a new love, life and lineage. What is the Messiah? He comes as the True Parent with the power to convert satanic love to true love, satanic life to true life, and satanic lineage to true lineage. Who is that? Father.</p>
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<p>We see exact parallels between the time of Jesus and the time of the Second Advent. Look at the tune of Jesus, everyone was expecting a miracle. It would have been easy to accept him, but he was born in a stable. God’ son, the King of Kings was born in a stable. Was that God’s will. No! Could anyone at that time, who knew Jesus was illegitimate, believe he was the Messiah?</p>
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<p>Could you at Jesus’ time have believed in Jesus. No. John the Baptist could not. The same thing with Rev. Moon. Can you believe in me? Dr. Grant? Dr. Sills? Because of the opposition of Jesus history has been prolonged, and the messianic fulfillment has been prolonged for 2000 years, the Jewish nation has been completely demolished and suffered all over the world. The body of Jesus was destroyed, but Barabbas was saved. By doing so, the entire 12 tribes of Judaism were destroyed and they lost their nation. Why? Barabbas’ body was saved, so the physical power took over the entire Israel nation. After 700 years of struggle they became a homeless people throughout the world. For 700 years God gave them the opportunity to repent and come to Jesus. If they had, God would not have allowed the birth of Islam. Even today the dews do not accept Jesus. Why do the chosen people have to dwindle? They themselves say that 6 million Jews were killed to pay indemnity.</p>
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<p>Until the True Parents come no one can give the forgiveness. This is their opportunity for the Israel nation and the Jewish people.</p>
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<p>What happened at the time of the Second Advent? They repeated the crime. God’s plan was to have the three nations unite with the Messiah. The Christian culture is the brides culture. Cain and Abel and Eve unite and wait for the Messiah. But because of the rejection of the Second Advent at the end of WW II, the entire victory of World War II was given to Satan. Rev. Moon was cast out into the wilderness and the entire satanic world rejected him. They turned 180 degrees away. The 4000 years work of Jewish history went to the wind with the failure to accept Jesus. Similarly, the entire 2000 year history of Christianity went with the wind. The only hope is the Messiah. God could only hope on him for the new establishment of the foundation. So God hoped for a new foundation for him. Is God standing with the Christian world or with Rev. Moon? All of the Christian and religious world don’t understand this concept. Rev. Moon and God were chased out to the wilderness. What a miserable situation. What can we do. We must go the entire restoration course again. The Christian world and the entire free world united against me.</p>
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<p>In America we have to connect again the Unification Church to the Christian world. We need to make that victorious foundation. Carter, we cut off his neck. Is that true? So with that foundation we went to the communist world. We see their decline. Who made that? Rev. Moon. Father has begun with a new foundation, even with high school students. Father in 40 years created a new foundation to replace Christianity. So 4000 years history was lost. But Father cannot live 4000 years or even 400 years. God gave permission to Father to indemnify the entire history in 40 years. Father went back to the beginning of the Old Testament era and started the long march. Father has to restore everything that was lost in 40 years. Father’s mission is unification. All divisions that occurred because of the crucifixion must be unified. The left hand thief, right hand thief and Barabbas. After the 40 year history Father realigns the nations. Japan as the Eve, and the United States as the Abel, are given another chance.</p>
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<p>The United States is an important element because it is a complete representation of the Old Testament and New Testament era. If Father abandons the United States, he is abandoning the entire history of God. Korea is the Adam nation. All that Satan has done Father will restore. Germany was selected as Cain. In 1975. When Father sent out the missionaries, he selected one from Japan, one America and one German. Because Japan and Germany were selected by Father this is the reason that unprecedented economic recovery came to them. We must consummate this providence, otherwise the new era will not dawn.</p>
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<p>Father is pushing for the Unification of the World. He created the Religious Federation for World Peace.</p>
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<p>At Jesus’ time Jesus died, but Father has to fulfill this without dying. The Religious Federation for World Peace and the Federation for World Peace bring unity for the mind and body. Father is trying on a worldwide scale to bring mind and body into one. Of this 40 year period Father spent 20 years in the United States. This 20 years represents the New Testament era of 2000 years. Father has restored the 2000 years in 20 years. Father has physically gone over every step and restored every step.</p>
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<p>In 1945 at the end of World War II if Father had been accepted, within seven years the entire restoration would have been over. However he was not accepted. So for 40 years Father restored all this, which brings us to 1992</p>
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<p>Mother has followed behind Father for 40 years. However once this 40 years was over, Mother became equal to Father and now stands side by side. So seven years ago Father expecting the age of women, created the women’s Federation of Asia. In 1992 Mother took it over and created the Women’s Federation For World Peace. The Korean women are the elders. All women will unite with the Korean elder sisters. Firstly, all Korean women must unite with Mother. Then the Japanese, American, European, Russian and Oceanic Mother has restored the bride’s position and given liberation to women worldwide. Therefore all restoration has been done. Since World War II Father has restored all back and gives one more opportunity for worldwide unification. Jesus lost his body in Asia Minor, therefore to restore his body, the new culture must be born in Asia. An Asian era is dawning. A new culture is to be born in Asia. However, western women will not be neglected. Father came to the western world as a bridge to give them the same opportunity.</p>
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<p>Therefore the mission of True Parents and the Unification Church is to bring unity. All over the world we see many divisions. North and South Korea, in the United States there are many divisions. Father and the Unification church must bring unity and education. The first, second and third Israel’s must be united. Korean unification shall be Father’s utmost goal from now on. In Korea we have two parents. In the North, Kim I1 Sung is the parent. In the south Rev. Moon is the True Parent. Who will follow who? Kim n Sung will follow Father. We see Kim I1 Sung’s path is becoming narrower day by day, whereas Father’s is expanding.</p>
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<p>The individual must become one. The family must unite into one. Grandparents, parents and children must unite. By what? Not power, knowledge or money. Only True Love can unite. The right wing and left wing must become one. The religious world must unite into one. Only by the power of True Love. This is the formula and path that everyone must go. Will you serve your grandparent and parents in your own home? Yes. A divided family was a result of the fall So, at this time we must unite the family into one. Behind Father and Mother’s family, the Unification Church is following. Behind them are the two worlds.</p>
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<p>Father went over all these obstacles to unite with God, a big super plus. So then you will embrace with God and have a homecoming with God. Now there are no barriers, only free passage. Once your family is united with the True Parents’ family, then your goal is complete. To do this father has set up the Tribal Messiah. Jesus was alone, lonely, persecuted and crucified, but Father and Mother are united and standing on the earth. With that victorious foundation they can send out thousands of thousands of Tribal Messiahs. Tribal Messiahship represents these branches. Without the Tribal Messiahs Father’s family becomes very thin. With the Tribal Messiahs it becomes very prosperous. By participating in our True Parents’ dispensation, you become a part of our True Parents’ Tree of Life. Every victory has been won by 1992. All has been done. The total victory has been won Al you have to do is engraft Into this tree as a Tribal Messiah.</p>
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<p>The Tribal Messiah’s responsibilities are:</p>
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<p>The amazing thing is to liberate your ancestors. You can bring them back to the state before the fall Everyone wishes to be buried in their hometown. The most important thing is to restore them. In the past Father has taught you to leave your family, to separate yourself from Satan. You are the only people to understand this incredible heavenly secret revealed by Father today. How proud you are. Be bold and strong. So the time of liberation has come. Yes or no? (Yes.) So all you UTS graduates, are you living just for your meals or for the liberation of all of mankind? Be a victor. Do you think God loves Rev. Moon or not? (Yes. )</p>
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<p>If there is an idea many can accomplish it. But Rev. Moon had no idea. Father discovered the Principle and fulfilled it. Father now wants to give it to you. Why? Because Father is the parent and you are the children. Father wants you to be true children. Is that easy or difficult? (Difficult). Are you happy or not? (Happy.) This is why today’s sermon is called Victorious True Parents.</p>
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<p>This year’s slogan is the New Family and the Fatherland Unification. New family is the entire True Parents’ family and the unification is unification of the world. We must follow Father and imitate Father’s family. Perfection of Adam, family, clan and tribe, national, universal and the liberation of God.</p>
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<p>Father has declared the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships. You have heard this sermon I’m sure. This is the original road of Adam’s heart (heart capacity) as a child, brother/ sister, spouse and parent. The three kings represent king of the family, nation and world. You must taste living in the royal family and taste the royal family’s love to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Today, in the west we see the heart core of Satan’s way. Free sex and homosexuality is not allowed by God, no drugs or alcohol. This incredible story you have heard today has been planned and fulfilled by Father over many decades and culminates in 1992 by Mother’s victory. Mother has done in seven months what took God seven thousand years. She went to all the world and declared the True Parents. What Mother has done is to restore the bride realm of the free world and restored all women. This gives another opportunity to the world so Cain and Abel must unite with Mother. Both men and women, particularly women must absolutely observe a strict moral life. Women have to repent.</p>
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<li>You almost rejected Father again. This was narrowly avoided.</li>
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<p>Women have rejected your husband three times. Father is speaking historically Now is the time to restore all these things through Mother fulfilling her responsibility. In order to inherit Mother’s victory you must unite with her completely. Since 1960 True Parents were blessed. Anyone born after that can be regarded as the Second Generation. Even though you were born in the sinful world. You have one advantage, you did not completely unite with the satanic way. Therefore, Father and Mother regard all children who were born after 1960 as being much closer to True Parents who can more easily be restored. Father for 70 years of his life restored Adam. Satan was crushed and has no power. Born after 1960 is like a sinless child marrying on their own and living in the world. Therefore, it is slightly different. Also the victory of World War II had many victories. So even though the world has not completely accepted True Parents, from God’s point of view, from that particular era on, the reign of True Parents began. So, you come under the reign of True Parents. You inherited the benefits of the victory of the World War II. So 47 year old or younger, those born after 1945, Father also considers them as the Second Generation. The complete testament era is primarily a movement of Second Generation because. You people have a special privilege, such as those in Israel who put the blood above their doors had been spared. So 47 years old or younger have that type of situation. So you can be spared from the judgment.</p>
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<p>Now the individual and family witnessing period is over. We must witness to our tribes. You are to unite completely with Mother and inherit her great victory. Jesus has 120 disciples. By the same token you are going to have your tribal messiahship and spread the word to the 120 members of your tribe When you become bold and strong declare Father’s name as the True Parents. Take 30 Divine Principle books and read it to all of your tribe. Not teaching, but reading to them. Showing video tapes also. Centering on Father’s and Mother’s birthday today, those who pledge to accomplish your tribal messiah responsibility raise your hands, yes Father and Mother.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 28, 1993<br />
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Bamboo Room, World Mission Center, New York<br />
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<p>There are so many races, so many divisions here on earth. God intended to create only one family of man. No organization in the original world of God was greater than one family. Today the greatest problems of our world are the divisions between races and nations, the boundaries separating different cultures. For God’s providence today, these are the biggest problems. Who created such divisions? Satan did it. This world is suffering from confusion, division, and lack of direction. As a result, the human race is gradually moving straight toward hell everyday.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, in contrast to this division, God’s providence has been to unite the divided world and divided races into the one original family of man. I would like for you to know that the job ahead of us is to finish the fight between God and Satan. This struggle has to be completed.</p>
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<p>The will of Satan is to destroy the providence of God, or God’s work here on earth. Therefore, we have to create a new strategy which will overcome the satanic strategy to destroy God’s will. . . . Since Satan already created the satanic world, when someone is trying to create the heavenly world, you will see that the entire world will come against that person. That is what the Unification Church is all about. From the very beginning, the Unification Church was faced with the most incredible opposition from the satanic ranks, because they knew that the Unification Church was the embodiment of the dispensation of God. For that reason, in the mind of Satan, victory meant the destruction of the Unification Church. From day one of the creation of this great religion, persecution and opposition were continuous.</p>
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<p>By the outcome of World War II, the providence for the subjugation of Cain by Abel was fulfilled on the world scale, beyond the national or racial scale. Since the end of that war, the Cain and Abel providence has been clearly manifested on the world level. If the Christian world, which won a great victory in World War II, had united with Father’s ideology at that time, we would not have to be going through this prolonged dispensational work today. The seed of the fall, which was sown in the Garden of Eden through Adam and Eve, and which bore fruit in the conflict between Cain and Abel, should have been restored by the worldwide dispensation.</p>
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<p>God had been using England as the central country for His will during World War II. The United States, a Protestant nation which was born of England, was in the position of the Abel son. The lineup between the nations in the Cain and Abel sons’ positions was a very important, final dispensational manifestation of God. If there had been acceptance of the True Parents and the Unification Church after World War II, heaven and True Father and the True Family could have been united as the restored, perfected family of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Then all the work of Satan would have been demolished. There would have been no room for Satan to flourish on the face of the earth. However, that was not accomplished.</p>
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<p>Look at the history of Jesus’ life two thousand years ago. He was born as the Messiah. The hope and aspiration of the Jewish people of those days was to receive their Messiah, and Jesus came as the Messiah, but nobody recognized him because he was born in such a humble way. Furthermore, he was known as an illegitimate child. His family and relatives persecuted him because of the circumstances surrounding his birth. Also, he was never educated. He did the humble, manual work of a carpenter. The people of that day never expected that their Messiah would come in such a manner and that it would be difficult to accept him.</p>
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<p>God’s will at that time was for the king of Israel as well as the high priest of Judaism to accept Jesus as the King of Kings. The history of the chosen nation of Israel was nothing but a training period, a rehearsal, so to speak, for the acceptance of the coming Messiah. This centered upon the holy temple. The temple-centered way of life and customs pervaded the entire Jewish nation and that was supposed to have prepared the people to accept the Messiah when he came.</p>
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<p>Jesus came as the only-begotten Son of God, but the world did not accept him and instead relegated him to the worst, lowest position. The fallen world considered him to be satanic, like a devil. As I have stated, acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah was not an easy thing to do at that time. For that reason, God sent a forerunner for Jesus, John the Baptist, who was supposed to lead people to Jesus through his testimony, to enable the people to accept Jesus. However, even John the Baptist failed. Once he failed, there was no hope for Jesus to be accepted. So this 33-year-old young single man was going around the Sea of Galilee and speaking to the fishermen. That was a very miserable manifestation of the Messianic crusade.</p>
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<p>Jesus was accused as a criminal, as one who wanted to destroy society, and he was an outcast. Finally his enemies found a reason strong enough to get him crucified. The nation of Israel was in the position of Cain, while the religion of Judaism was Abel. But Cain and Abel are not sufficient in God’s dispensation. Someone must appear in the mother’s position. The unity of Cain and Abel would create the environment for the mother’s position, which was absolutely necessary. This is almost like plus and minus. Abel is like plus, Cain is like minus. Upon the unity of plus and minus, the mother can appear.</p>
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<p>The dispensational will has always been salvation, or recreation. Recreation goes through the same Divine Principle. Therefore, the united Cain and Abel must enter into unity with the mother, and together they could return to the father. This is the ultimate step established by heaven. This step was supposed to be completed in the Old Testament era, but because of the crucifixion of Jesus, this was not fulfilled. Therefore, the Second Coming became necessary and the same formula had to be accomplished on the world scale. The same formula which failed in the Old Testament era had to be accomplished on the world scale.</p>
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<p>The history of Christianity for 2,000 years has been the New Testament era. This has been only a spiritual crusade. There has been no physical nation to stand on, no physical salvation possible. The world has had to repeat certain dispensational cycles or patterns. That pattern was born at the time of the crucifixion, when the thieves were hanging on the left and right of Jesus, and the thief Barabbas escaped death. The world has lined up today on the right and the left. The thief on the right side is represented by the Christian world, while the thief on the left is represented by the satanic world, and then Barabbas is represented by the religious sphere of Islam. Also, the concept of left-wing and right-wing ideologies was born at the time of the Crucifixion.</p>
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<p>Today, the world is divided both spiritually and physically into Cain and Abel camps. On the spiritual level, God has been working through the Abel camp, the Christian world, while Satan has been working through the Cain camp, or the Islamic world. The right-wing ideology is Abel, while the left-wing ideology is Cain. This is the line-up inherited from the crucifixion of Jesus. The Messiah’s return came on the foundation of the victory of the Allied forces in World War II. When the Messiah comes again, he will have to go through the same formula which Jesus should have gone through but couldn’t. The only difference between now and then is that it was on the national level at Jesus’ time, and the Second Coming will be on the international, world level.</p>
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<p>The Second Coming of the Messiah was to have fulfilled all these processes in only seven years’ time between 1945 – 1952. That means the liquidation of all satanic elements, the unity between Cain and Abel, would all have been done on the world level. Those were the two most important aspects: a seven-year time period, and establishment of a true family unit on the earth for the first time. Imagine if the victorious Allied nations had accepted Father as the Messiah of the Second Coming and had bowed down before him. Think about that-it was the will of God.</p>
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<p>The second coming is no easier than the first one because the Bible never stated in even one line that the Messiah would return in the flesh. So the Christians have been awaiting the Second Advent to take place on the clouds of heaven. This is equal in difficulty to the time of the first coming of the Messiah. In these adverse conditions, I have made my way forward and established this foundation. Certainly it has not been an easy victory.</p>
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<p>The unity of Christianity, including the different denominations and branches such as Catholicism and Protestantism, can be accomplished once they recognize the coming of the Messiah. Likewise, other world religions can be united on that foundation of unity between Christianity and the Messiah. However, the victorious Allied nations did not come and bow down to the True Father. Instead, they rejected him just as Jesus was rejected. Therefore, the victorious foundation of World War II was completely turned over to the satanic camp. Instead of accepting the advent of True Parents, they rejected them. This was done not only by the free world and established Christianity, but also by the entire world and world religions. So the rejection of the Second Coming of the Messiah was total and complete. At one point, Satan was totally victorious. He had won his victory over the entire world, except for one person: Reverend Moon. If Satan could have found a way to liquidate him, Satan’s victory would have been permanent. Permanent.</p>
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<p>The entire world united to oppose one man. But that one man was not an ordinary man. Within him lay the seed for the perfection of the individual, the perfection of the family, perfection of the race, perfection of the nation, perfection of the world and cosmos. The fulfillment of the complete liberation of God lay within that one man. Upon this one man, True Father, the entire perfection is resting, so when he moves he can be a leader of the family, the race, nation, world and cosmos. All of history moves according to the direction in which he moves. Without knowing this fact, we are gathered together today for no good reason.</p>
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<p>Following this one man, the Messiah, and the True Parents, we shall accomplish the same perfection, so that the family can be perfected through this one man, the tribe can accomplish perfection through this one man, the nation and world and cosmos. Therefore, the new heaven on earth shall be a reality, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth shall truly be a reality through this one man. Therefore, this one man is the center of the universe, the center of all perfection. But instead of accepting the good news, the good way of perfection, the entire world united to go against Father, and Father became the one who was cast out into the wilderness, and even down into hell. The entire world looked down upon Father as a demonic person, an evil man. All kinds of bad things were attributed to my name. Where would God be in such a situation? God would go after Reverend Moon because God needs only one man. God does not need Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, all those religions.</p>
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<p>Father has been completely cast out by Satan and the satanic realm, truly into the wilderness as well as into the dungeons of hell. However, there was one more opportunity for Father. Even though the United States, Great Britain and France were completely handed over to Satan, there was one more chance that the Messiah could utilize, one more way for him to pick up his own Adam nation, his own Eve and archangel nations, and create a counterattack against the satanic elements.</p>
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<p>One way was that of John the Baptist, who was given the job of forerunner for the Messiah 2,000 years ago. His mission is to restore the nation and race, and prepare them for the Messiah. Father had to assume the John the Baptist role first, before the Messiah’s role, and had to create that foundation first. Then I could stand upon it as the Messiah. This is the strategy I have followed. I stood entirely alone for the restoration of the 4,000 year Old Testament era which was the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The rule in that era was “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” but that rule would not bring any good fruit, it totally failed. So Father installed a new law of paying indemnity. Instead of living for 4,000 or 400 years, which is impossible, I had to pay the indemnity within 40 years’ time and indemnify all the wrongdoing of the past 4,000. So within the span of 40 years, I was able to restore all the failures of the Old Testament and New Testament eras.</p>
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<p>When Jesus was crucified, there was a thief on the right and a thief on the left. When Father was cast out in the wilderness, it was almost like being crucified, even though I was not physically killed. But in the eyes of Satan, I was cast into complete defeat. Therefore, I had to deal with the same pattern as that of Jesus’ crucifixion and bring back the right thief and left thief on the world level, and they had to come together to support Father. That was done in the 40 year period. Therefore, Father was in the position of restoring the Allied, predominantly Christian nations and working with them to bring them back to the righteous positions.</p>
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<p>The time of the Second Coming has been the re-establishment of the events at the time of the crucifixion, particularly the line-up of the right thief, left thief and Barabbas. On the world level, religion and ideology has divided into three different parts, Christianity, communism, and Islam. Father has to bring all these three into unity so that they each accept Father. Father started the dispensation from the John the Baptist position and brought these three elements together, in order to have a foundation on which to stand.</p>
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<p>Since I lost everything, I had to start over again from scratch. This is what I have accomplished within 40 years, and in particular during the past 20 years. Since I came to this country in 1972, I have been able to break down all the barriers, winning each step and coming back to the center. I could not be killed by Satan, but had to remain physically alive and continue winning the victory step by step, so that my ministry could claim the total victory. Then I could establish the Adam nation, Eve nation, and archangel nation upon which God could fulfill His dispensation.</p>
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<p>(Long passage here in Korean which is not translated.)</p>
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<p>Father came to the United States to work with the American people, the government, and U.S. Christianity. We were able to work on so many down-to-earth issues and to inspire the Reagan administration to achieve victories which ultimately brought down the empire of communism. Upon that victory Father could go on and the consummation of all the dispensational ruler were accomplished. Christianity failed its mission, so the Unification Church was established.</p>
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<p>Father worked with the two Reagan administrations and the one Bush administration, and now Clinton has come into office. This is almost like a self-test, to see whether the United States can rise above Clinton and unite ideologically with Father. If so, then this nation can have hope. If the Clinton administration fails to unite with Father, then it will go down the drain. When Clinton and his policies come into being, the first opposition must come from Christianity. But Christianity has lost its center and its hope. For that reason, they have lost their power, and that is why Clinton was allowed to win the election. It was the failure of Christianity. This nation which is supposed to be Christian has been turned into almost a model nation for Satan, losing everything precious. People are losing their own identity, losing brotherhood, losing their own parents, and losing God. This nation has really become a playground for Satan.</p>
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<p>During these 40 years of Father’s laying the victorious foundation, the new era of the Mother has emerged. Mother’s era was begun in 1992, April 10, at the great rally for the foundation for the Women’s Federation for World Peace. That was preceded by True Parents’ Blessing for many Islamic members. That set the condition to bring unity to the entire world. The established Korean families, American families, European families, and Islamic families came together to be Blessed, and the Blessed family was established before the foundation of the world level women’s federation. Even people from the communist world were represented. That means even the communists can accept True Parents’ family and family system. Upon this foundation, Mother can step forward. Truly what Mother did in 1992 was nothing short of a miracle.</p>
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<p>Mother’s victory in 1992 was absolutely phenomenal, starting out from Korea, which is in the elder sister’s position to the rest of the women of the world. Mother went to the entire nation, almost like a hurricane occurring in Korea, then she moved on to Japan and the United States, then to Europe and Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. All those nations were almost like prisons. Mother is liberating the prison. Australia and New Zealand were used as prison colonies in the past, and Mother and Father went there in order to liberate those countries. In the year of 1992, Mother was working to bring the people of the entire world into the bosom of the True Parents. Mother was physically bringing people. Communist nations such as the People’s Republic of China opened their arms to Mother. When the PRC and Russia become united into one, Korea’s sovereignty will be assured. Kim Il Sung is in the position of satanic messiah, holding his position for more than 40 years, the longest surviving ruler in the world. His time is up now, however, because of the victory of Father and Mother.</p>
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<p>Now the remainder of the mission is the Unification of the Fatherland, and Father is mobilizing all the primary, superpower nations. Upon their cooperation, the unity of the homeland can be accomplished. This is what Father is now working on in 1993. When Father spoke to President George Bush, he made an important recommendation about things that needed to be done by his administration. But Mr. Bush did not follow those instructions. What happened to him? He was defeated, as you know. The Clinton administration is almost a repetition of the Carter administration. Christianity was supposed to be the central force opposing such an administration from coming in, but as I said, Christianity has lost its center. It has no leadership, no vision or spirit, no core. For that reason, Christianity failed and this allowed for Clinton to come in. Therefore, Christianity here in the United States and in the rest of the world has failed its mission thoroughly, so the world has only one way to follow: the way of the Unification Church. Only the Unification Church can show the world vision and hope for the future.</p>
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<p>In Washington, the well-known former senator Paul Laxalt was once a Republican candidate . I asked Bo Hi Pak to go and meet with him, and Senator Laxalt sent greetings to me and Mother on our birthdays today. And at the same time, he said, “Today, America is crumbling fast. With Clinton, this nation is crumbling even faster. There is only one hope-that Reverend Moon’s crusades can win out, and not only upset Clinton but be the engine moving this nation in the other direction. This is the only hope.” Senator Laxalt was saying that he would assist Father in order to advance God’s work and Providence here in this country. Especially, he said, he would like to mobilize his dear friends, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, to lend their support. He volunteered to help with introductions in that direction. Those people who have been very prominent in Father’s dispensational path, such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, now George Bush, all these people shall be mobilized for the final stage of God’s dispensational work.</p>
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<p>Further, Father and Mother have set a strong enough foundation in China, so that you can see here the United States, the former Soviet Union, China, centering upon Korea and Japan-all these countries are now in Father’s bosom, under Father’s wing. For that reason, from now on the great Providential will shall be accomplished during this year of 1993. (An infant cries out and Father talks back. Laughter.)</p>
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<p>Upon the worldwide victory of our True Parents, Father declared the incredible dispensational will for tribal messiahship, and at the same time, the homecoming providence. This is the final chapter horizontally of the Unification providence. Now the Second Advent can descend upon the earth vertically, and this will create the horizontal base. True Father is the victorious Second Advent completing Jesus’ mission, on the earth. Tribal messiahship is the representative position. In other words, the restoration of the rejection of Jesus is the purpose of the tribal messiahship. If that is accomplished, then there is not much more to be done. That is the grand finale of God’s dispensation. So the only mission that remains is the tribal messiahship.</p>
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<p>You know already the purpose of tribal messiahship, where we are heading and what needs to be done. As we move forward, the satanic world is retreating. They have to retreat; there is no other choice. When I speak about this year’s slogan – the Unification of the Fatherland – I am not speaking about only the unification of the Korean peninsula. It is a much greater scope, the unification of the entire world, the one harmonious world which God intended. That is the unification which I am speaking about. And that unification must be centered upon true love. So the entire message of 1993 was the message of true love. The Unification race has been born-that means you, the Blessed families of the Unification Church. And the unification is now physical. North and South shall be our fatherland, no question about it. However, that will be only the center of the world wide unification. That is what God is ultimately aiming for.</p>
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<p>The final mission of the Unification Church is completion of tribal messiahship, which is centered upon three missions. First, the restoration of your ancestors. Second, you must find your hometown. Thirdly, you will liberate God, so that God shall be with you all the time. There will be no barriers between you and God. You will be with Father, God will be with you, and you will be with God. That is the purpose of our ultimate mission, the tribal messiahship. The tribal messiahship is bringing your dead father and mother, those in spirit world, into the perfected Adam’s position. This is a new and incredible concept that we can bring even our dead ancestors into perfection. That is what the power of the tribal messiah is all about. Therefore, in order to restore the world races in a quicker way, Father held the Blessing of the 30,000 couples and those who had studied the Principle for as little as a one week seminar could be included in that Blessing. In three years, when we have another Blessing for 360,000 couples, this world will be entirely united. That means “Mission Accomplished.”</p>
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<p>Jesus lost all his disciples. What you are supposed to do is become a tribal messiah and restore all the disciples lost by Jesus. From that point on, you are opening up a new era and that is called the Completed Testament Era. Therefore, from now on Father’s goal is to move on and Bless 360,000 couples within the next three years. Moving on even further than that, Father will bless 3.6 million youths, not just couples. Father is not going to touch those married couples any more, but will only deal with young men and women who are unmarried. Actually from this standpoint, you must realize that the free world is far from the realization of Father’s will. The movement toward God’s will is happening far more rapidly in the former communist countries. We can observe what is happening in Russia, the Ukraine and Byelorussia. In all those countries, including even China and North Korea, we can see that there will be young people who will line up much faster with Father and comprise the 3.6 million youths to be blessed by Father.</p>
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<p>The fastest way is to become a missionary to Russia and to restore all those youths, those spiritually-hungry young men and women. Tens of millions of people are awaiting the touch of your hands. This is the reason Father is bringing all the missionaries to Russia. This is no time for assistance to come from Japan alone, but also it should be coming from the western world. Japan, however, shall be helping create Cain and Abel unity of the Korean peninsula, that is North and South unification.</p>
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<p>The primary goal and direction of Father has changed. No longer is our emphasis the United States. The United States must stand up and support other countries like Russia. Unless the United States does that much, you will be abandoned by God. (Father speaks in Korean. Translation given in summary:) Basically what Father is explaining is that the satanic world is going in the direction of total decadence. Look at the rampant homosexuality, lesbianism, drug addiction, crime, teen pregnancy. All these incredible things are occurring and making the entire society corrupt and completely rotten. Father is saying that we must simply go in the exactly opposite way, 180 degrees in the other direction. That is the basic rule of Father’s principle. From now on, whatever Reverend Moon does, he is going 180 degrees different from the current world. That is also what you should do to follow Father. This is absolutely true not only in the United States but also in Korea, Japan and all the western nations. So be bold and strong and do not fear. (Applause.) Thank you.</p>
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<p>On this day of True Parents’ Birthday 1993, we are having an extraordinary celebration, with a special dispensational and historical meaning. Our mission will continue up to the year 2000, and that year is right in front of us. From the year 2000, we will move on with added vigor on the foundation of victory. Also, Father is going to put emphasis on the media. Therefore, we want to see emphasis on The Washington Times and the media in Korea, as well as other places. The media is going to be an important, central theme for Father’s dispensation for this year. You have to know how to deal with the media and how to digest the media, as well as utilize the media. We are working on the national scale of restoration.</p>
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<p>All that I am saying is that your mission is to fulfill tribal messiahship. That is absolutely everything that needs to be done. Completion of that will mean that you have accomplished your mission and your purpose of being. Father is like the trunk. The center of the tree is that trunk, all the way from the root to the buds. The tribal messiahship is like the branches. A victory will show numerous healthy branches. That is the work of tribal messiahship. We will create the biggest tree, one that has never tasted any experience of the fall or any fallen experiences. A completely unfallen tree will be created. That is the tree of life. Those who pledge that you will do that family-level tribal messiahship, raise your hands and say, “Yes, Father.” God bless you.</p>
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